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A02807 An expostulation or complaynte agaynste the blasphemyes of a franticke papyst of Hamshyre. Co[m]piled by Iohan Bale Bale, John, 1495-1563. 1552 (1552) STC 1294; ESTC S114384 18,692 48

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frenesie came sodenly vpon him In y t heat wherof he most shamefully reuyled a seruaūt of that house calling hym heretyke aud knaue because he had begonne to studie a parte in suche a Comedie as myghtely rebuked the abhomynacyons and fowle fylthie occupienges of the Bishopp of Rome Moreouer he requyred hym in hys own stought name to do a lewde massage whych was to call the compiler of that Comedie both heretike and knaue concludynge that it was a boke of most perniciouse heresie That boke was imprynted about .vi. yeares a go and hath bene abroad euer sens to be both seane and iudged of men what it cōtayneth And thys is the name therof A Comedie concerning iii. lawes of nature Moyses Christ. etc Therin is it largely declared how y t faythe lesse Antichrist of Rome with his clergye hath bene a blemysher darkener confounder and poysener of all wholsom lawes And that wyth ydolatricall Sodometrie he hath defyled nature by ambytyouse Auarice he hath made Gods commaundemēts of non effecte and with hypocrytycall doctryne peruerted Christes moste holye Gospell Thys is wele knowne to al men How commeth than an heresye thus to report or wryte By lyke this fonde fellaw hath learned of Lanfrancus and fryre Walden that he is only an heretyke whych in doctryne dyssenteth from the synagoge of Rome Or els of fryre Guido in hys boke De heresibus that he is a most perniciouse heretyke whych sayth that the Romysh pope is not heade of the christen churche neyther maye make lawes for the christyanyte But he neuer yet marked the wurdes of Athanasius that they are the most wycked sorte of heretykes whyche persecuteth Christes true seruauntes Other argumentes are there els to proue thys wycked fellawe a natural child of that father mother so a most spyghtfull Papyst In the tyme that stought Steuen Gardyner was Byshopp of Wynchestre and made hauocke of Christes poore stocke no mā was so madde as thys madde fellawe to searche and to seke to accuse to reuyle to shame and to brynge menne in daunger of deathe for their Christen beleues sake No where was anye sessyons wythin Hamshire but he was alwayes there agaynst them conducted by y t prestes pratynge and scoldynge stuttinge and stam berynge with frothe yssuynge out on both sydes of hys mouthe for anger The supersticyouse Nonnes of Wynchestre dysobeyenge both the Byshopp and hys chaunceller concernynge their apparell and vtterly contempning the preachinges that are now had their daily resortes to him and became as flickering culuers about hys house The preachers of Gods wurde there were nothynge els wyth hym as he fat on the ale bēches but heretykes knaues vagaboūdes traiters apostataes runnegates w t bloud and soule that he wold laye hys dagger on their faces No mā knoweth this to be more true then I do vpon whome he not only bestowed these vncomelye names and that a great sort of tymes but also in y t opē streate at Wynchestre cōming sodenly out of an house of purpose vpon me he sette hys one hande vpon my Bearde and bosome and hys other hande sometyme on hys Dagger and sometyme bent it ouer my heade as thoughe he wolde haue buffetted me on the face wyth suche madde exclamacions as I neuer hearde of man of Bedlem besydes the vnreasonable spoyle that he had made afore that of my house Yet neuer in my life ded I offende hym to my knowledge neyther in my dede nor my wurde Not thus yet satled in all thys ragynge furye he procured the clarke of my parrish of bishops Stoke a man y t knoweth not his A. B. C. .ii. more as vnlearned and popish as he was to indyghte me at Wynchestre sessions for not hallowing the funte at the baptyme of a Childe wyth candel lyghte salt oyle creame and waxe droppinges as in the popysh tyme notwythstandyng the kynges inhybycion concernynge all suche papystycall beggeryes He caused them to report there to the rediculouse wondermēt of all men learned that I should haue sayd than that the wurd of God was hallowed ynough alredy But that Gods wurd at any tyme should be prophane and nede hallowyng or els that it hath bene hallowed it is their blasphemouse and beastly opynion and not myne I thynke a more folysh vnlearned a sentence was neuer vttered of any man Se how depely the Lord hath permytted these papystes to spew fourth their owne rydyculouse shame Yet was it not so doltish and brutish but it toke place there and was wele allowed They that could do nothynge in matters of truthe for the kyng at the sessyons afore coulde in the popes secrete quarell at that sessions for falshehode fynde me wurthy an indightment wurkmanly made it out And it wanted no circūstaunce that myght be deuysed to aggrauat the matter For there was I called an obstynate persone a sedycyouse fellowe a trobler of thys whole realme a prophaner of of the sacramentes a deprauer of the kynges boke a slaunderer of hys procedinges an abhominable example gyuer a contēpner of the kynge and hys crowne Al the papystes of England had neuer at that bench so muche layed agaynst thē And all for pretermyttynge y t one poynte of olde papistrie If thys conueyaunce be not sūwhat wurth I report me Well he hath made his boast that for doynge of suche feates he can lacke no lyuyng Twētie prestes within Hāshire he saithe wyll rather giue me vp their personages and profyghtes vpon a small pensyon than I shulde be without a dwellinge house And he y t shall seke hym at thys day shall fynde him tabernacled in one of their personages what though he hath protested by othe that he wyll be no longer a papyst Thus haue I set out thys frantyck papyst in hys owne lyuely colours agreynge to hys most maliciouse frutes to make him knowne to others and to cause hys other companyons to be a shamed of hys lewde lunitick waies If he be not a papist which with poluted mouth in defence of papistrie blasphemeth the kynges Maiestie his honourable counsell the preachers of gods wurd signified by Gods name Gods tabernacle and thē that dwell in heauē who is a wicked papist If he be not a false prophet that euometeth such .iii. filthy frogges at ones as this busy babler hath done here in one blasphemouse sētence who is a false prophet If he be not a malignaunt mēbre of Antichrist that so malicyously and madlye defendeth hys noughtye quarell wyth pratlynges and scoldynges stuttynges and stamberynges supportynge supersticiouse Noōnes and other Idolaters in theyr open Idolatries conteptuouslye reuylynge the preachers wyth dagger in hande or fyst on theyr faces besides indightmentes I wold fayne knowe who were a member of Antichist Thau shall it be no slaundre to thys frātyck fellow to be called a papyst a false prophete
cuniurynges calkynges and coblynges brawlynges and bablinges massinges and mutterynges Images and Idolles pardons and purgatory with the deuil and all of hys other sorceryes whych these graceles papistes cōtynually gapeth for yet ones agayne as the hongry hownde for the carreine the ful fed sowe for her puddel But as Baldad the Suhyte sayd vnto pacyent Iob. The hypocrites hope shall come to nought Hys confydence shall be destroyed for he trusteth in a spyders webbe Iob. viii The sober abydynge of the ryghtouse saith Salomou shal turn him to much gladnes but y e hope of y t vngodly shal perysh pro x. The thirde or last part of that most wycked sentence whych thys malygnaunt papyst with blasphemouse mouthe hath vttered is thys that when the kynge cometh to age he will hang vp an hūdred of such here tyke knaues meanynge the true preachers of our tyme. As wele in reproche of men godly obseruynge the Gospell as in contempt of y e true ministers of Gods wurd haue thys furyouse enemye sonne of Beli aloute vometed that poyson whyche hathe longe tyme lyen boylynge in hys papystycall stomack Neyther hath he abashed in y e heate of that frenesye and forgetfulnesse of reason to abuse the christen modestie of our godly and innocent kynge in iudgyng him acompanyon herafter with the most cruel tyrauntes of the worlde Antiochus Herode Caiphas Nero Domycyane Traiane hys bloudthurstie father of Rome whych in their wycked tymes malycyously murthered vp the true witnesses of God And thus are they whych dwell in heauen most spightfully of this brutish babler blasphemed as is towched in the texte of S. Iohan. Apoca. xiii In manye places of the holy scripture is the congregatyon of the faythfull called heauen or the kyngedome of heauen chefely in the prophecyes and y e parables of Christe for so muche as God is inuysybly the inhabytour ouersear and gouernour therof Math. xiii et xxv Who then can denye the true preachers whych are the dystributers of Gods mysteryes to be dwellers in the same Saynt Paul is not all behind in boasting him self to be one of them which also was a preacher Our cōuersaciō sayth he wher so euer we remain is in heauē frō whens we loke for y e sauyour Phil. iii If ye be rysen agayne with Christe seke the thinges whych are aboue wher he sytteth on y e right hād of god Set your affectyō on thynges y t are in heauē not on tryfles whych are here on y e earthe Col iii. These are they which in the houshold of god are y e profitable buylders the fyshers of men the feaders of the flock the salte of the earth the light of the world the clowdes full of moysture the starres lanternes and candelstyckes y t stewardes searchers and releuers the kepers of the vyneyearde planters tyllers sowers and repers of the Lordes haruest yea the helpers of Christe vpholders of his church All these names offyces do the holy ghost giue them and a great sort more in the scriptures reportynge them also wurthie of double honour whan they labour in the wurde i. Timoth .v. In sprete and veryte teach thei our heauenly father to be wurshipped Ioh iiii and not in the beggerlye shaddowes of mennes tradycyons They haue the holye angels for their fellowe seruauntes and brethreue for hauynge the noble testimonye of Iesu in their mouthes Apoc. xix These are no heretyke knaues than neyther yet wurthie to be hanged as thys Popysh scismatyck do both iudge them and wishe them in the hastie sprete of his whote stomacked mother So hath he them blasphemed y t dwelle in heauen whych is the cōgregaciō of god If they were hanged for teachynge the truthe of God and impugnyng falfe relygyon they shulde haue the same rewarde for wele doynge that their maistre Iesus Christe had afore them For he for that verytees sake was most spyghtfully shamefully and contemptuously hanged vp betwyn ii theues in the cōmen place of their executyons as though he had bene a greate malefactour so whote was the malyce of the holye clergie than against him Diuerse of hys Apostles for maynteynyuge his doctryne come to the same hygh promocyon of hangynge specyally Peter Andrew Bartylmew Philyp and Simon as the historyanes of them hath written because they shulde seme no better then was Christ their maister Amonge their disciples the nombre so excedeth of them that were hanged for y e testimony of Iesu that it wold axe to much tyme to rehearce them And this vyle kinde of hangynge was no dishonoure to them How shulde it now then become a dyshonour to these in the same iust quarel As the cause made that contēptuouse death in thē gloryouse so shulde it also do now in these men in the syght of the Lorde his electes Psal. Cxv But thys syghte is not gyuen to suche reprobate vessels as is thys furiouse papist whose malice hath vtterli made him blynd Sap. ii Yea so frantyckly and beastly blyude that he shameth not to attrybute vnto our most godly and vertuouse kynge that kynde of tyranny whych is of al other the most wycked blasphemouse But far other is the gentyll nature of our religiouse Iosias ▪ whych hath already ouerthrowne the hyll aulters brokē in peces the Idolles destroyed the relygyouse buggery restored the boke of the Lorde set vp hys true wurshppyynges and kept suche a passouer to y t Lorde as neuer was afore iiii Reg. xxiii et ii Paral xxxiiii Of God is he appoynted to turne y e people agayne to take away al the abhominaciōs of the vngodly Ec. xlix Breuely to conclude the matter These iii. blasphemyes whych thys malycyouse papyst in one wycked sentence here vttered are those .iii. vnclene spretes y e like frogges came out of the monthe of y e false Prophet Apoca xvi And they are not all vnlyke to the wylde fyre smoke brymstone whych the terryble horses or fat pampered vp locustes of Antichrist e●●me●ed Apo. ix for fearce noyfull and stynkynge are they yea furyouse erronyouse and full of infamye accordynge to the sygnifycatyons of wylde fyre smoke and brymstone Not only hath it spronge of the doctryne of deuyls so blasphemously to abuse the maiestie and power of a kinge the estate of his honourable coūsell and the godly offyce of hys preachers in iudgynge them chyldyshe inconstaunte and heretycall but also it hath rysen of errour in the hipocresie of y t Romysh Bishop Whan the iust man Simeon both beheld wurshypped the maiestie of Gods sonne in y e little babe Iesu he called not him a poore chylde but the sauer of the worlde y e syght of the gētyles the glory of Israel Luc ii A faythfull true subiect wyll reuerētly respect in a kyng not what he is of nature but rather what