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A19267	An admonition to the people of England vvherein are ansvvered, not onely the slaunderous vntruethes, reprochfully vttered by Martin the libeller, but also many other crimes by some of his broode, obiected generally against all bishops, and the chiefe of the cleargie, purposely to deface and discredite the present state of the Church. Seene and allowed by authoritie.	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1589 (1589)	STC 5682; ESTC S118522	145,211	254

the Gospel in those parts Namely we haue had B. Cranmer Ridley Latimer Couerdale Hooper diuers other vvhich were no Bishops as M. Bradford M. Sanders M. Rogers M. Philpot D. Haddon c. Most of vvhich as they haue left good proofe of their learning in vvriting so did they confirme the same vvith their blood in the ende The like I may iustly say of them vvhome God hath sent to restore his Trueth since the beginning of her Maiesties reigne hovvsoeuer it pleaseth the Broode of the Martinists to deface them as Bishoppe Coxe Pilkington Grindall Sands Horne Iewell c. vvhich haue good testimonie of their learning giuen them by as graue learned and zealous men as any haue liued in this age among vvhome for certaine yeeres they liued A nomber of other haue proceeded out of both our Vniuersities vvhich though Martin Momus will say the contrary deserue singular commēdation for their learning and haue declared the same to the vvorlde in ansvvering and confuting the opprobrious writings of the common Aduersaries In vvhich their ansvveres without enuie and displeasure be it spoken there appeareth as sufficient learning as doeth in the most workes at this time published by the vvriters of forreine Countreies If Englishmen at this time so greatly dispraysed vvere giuen vvith like paynes to set foorth the exercises of their studie and learning as in other places they doe they vvoulde dravve as good commendation of learning to their Countrey as most other Churches doe To vvhich nomber of ours I adde also some of thē vvhom certaine occasions haue caried away to the misliking of the present state of this Church vvhich I knowe haue receiued of God singular good giftes which I pray earnestly they may vse to his glory and the procuring the vnity peace of the Church vvhich our Hastie Diuines of M. M. his brood seeke to breake and disturbe This testimonie I thought my selfe bounde in conscience to yeelde to that Church of my naturall Countrey in vvhich and by vvhich through the mercie of our gracious God I am that I am The godly I trust vvill interprete all to the best the residue I looke not to please The B. of Winchester is further charged in this maner He said that men might find fault if they were disposed to quarrell aswel with the Scriptures as with the booke of common prayer Who could heare this comparison without trembling Let the Libellers whatsoeuer they are remēber Os quodmentitur occidit animam At that time in S. Mary Oueries church in a large discourse he did answere the obiections that many make at this day against the booke of common praier towarde the end vttered these words If it could be without blasphemie they might picke as many as great quarrels against the holy scriptures thēselues For euen the best writings are subiect to the slanderous malice of wicked men This assertion was found fault with all by a Iesuite or Massing priest at that time in the Marshalsey therfore the B. the next Sunday following expounded his meaning and at large shevved that that might be done which beforetime was done by a great number and that he was not so far beside himselfe as to compare the booke of common prayer vvith the holy scriptures in dignity trueth or maiestie He leaueth such blasphemous dealing to the Papists the Family of Loue some other Sectaries but he compared them in this as it is before saide that the Scriptures themselues vvere subiect also to slaunderous and deprauing tongues and yet not therfore to be reiected wherof he recited sundry examples Celsus that heathenish Epicure against whom Origen writeth in his booke called Verax doth powre out many railing slaunderous reproches not onely against the holy Scriptures but also against the course of Christian Religion as that they receiued their religion doctrine of the barbarous Iewes that is out of the bookes of Moses and the Prophets The like did Porphyrius an other Philosopher and in his bookes reprooued the Scriptures in many places for hee wrote thirtie bookes against Christian religion That scoffing sophister Libanius and his scholler Iulian the Apostata vsed the like blasphemies against the Christian faith and the Scriptures out of which it was prooued as appeareth in sundrie auncient Writers Who knoweth not that some Heretikes reiected the most part of the olde Testament as false and fabulous The Valentiniane Heretike sayeth Tertullian Quaedam legis Prophetarum improbat quaedam probat id est Omnia improbat dum quaedam reprobat The Marcionists receiue onely the Gospell of Matthewe the other they reiect And likewise they admitte but two Epistles of Saint Paul that is to Timothie and Titus and as Hierome sayeth to Philemon Tatian also depraueth the Scriptures reiecteth the Actes of the Apostles and picketh sundrie other quarrels against them There was neuer any Heretike but that to giue countenance to his opinion hee would seeme to ground it vpon the Scriptures And what is that but wickedly to father lies vpon the Scriptures And for this cause you know the Papists thinke it no sure ground to rest vpon the scriptures onely affirming blasphemously that the Scriptures are darke vnperfect and doubtfull because they may bee wrested cuery way like a nose of waxe or like a leaden Rule Wherefore Christian charitie and modestie woulde not thus maliciously and slanderously wrest and wring the words of the Bishop tending to a good and godly meaning Of like trueth it is that he burtheneth the Bishop of Winchester to affirme that it was heresie to say The preaching of the worde was the onely ordinarie way to saluation which he neuer thought or spake either thē or at any other time of his life But in handling of that controuersie Penrie spake things so strangely obscurely that he seemed to attribute that effect to the preaching of the word only not otherwise vsed by reading And being vrged with that question by occasion of reading the Scriptures in Churches his answere was such as hee euidently shewed himselfe to meane that that effect of saluatiō could not be wrought by hearing the worde of God read with some other wordes giuing suspition of worse matter And then indeede the B. rose not out of his place as these honest men doe carpe nor spake in such cholerike maner as they pretend but quietly said My Lord this is not farre from heresie What were the words that Penry vsed especially moued the B. to speake hee doeth not at this time remember but sure he is they were as far from that which is laide downe in the Libel as falshoode can be from truth I wonder that mē which professe God yea or that beleeue there is a God can with open mouth so boldely powre foorth such heapes of vntrueths Detractor abominabilis est Deo The counsell of the Prophet is good He that would gladly see good dayes let him refraine his tongue from euill and

to mislike Othervvise hee defieth all Martinistes in Englande and doeth appeale vnto the vvhole State of the learned and obedient Clergie for his innocencie therein Touching master Euans c. That of Euans concerning the Vicarage of Warwike is maliciously reported Hee reiected him for lacke of conformitie to the orders of the Church If hee haue done him any vvrong thereby the lavve is open hee might haue had his remedie That honourable person mentioned by the Libeller I am sure accepted of his answer And I knowe that according to his honourable disposition he thinketh himselfe greatly abused by the libeller in this point But vvhat careth such a corner-creeper what he saith of any man be he neuer so honourable The rest of that tale is vntrue not worth answering And if the relator there of durst appeare and shevv himselfe Martin could not bee long vnknovven If any of his men at any time reported that hee should say hee vvould not bee beholding to neuer a noble man in this land c. he shevveth himselfe to be of the Libellers conditions that is a common lyar For hee neuer spake the wordes to any man neither doeth hee vse that familiaritie vvith his men But the Libeller careth not vvhat he speaketh either of him or of his men so that he may fill vp his libell with vntrue slaunders That vvhich follovveth of the Archbishops words to the knight that he was the second person of the land c. is of the same kinde The knight I am sure is liuing let him be examined of that matter True it is that there was a good knight with him an old friend of his about such a sute but that he euer spake any such wordes vnto him as the Libeller vvoulde make the vvorlde beleeue is most false the Knight liueth and can testifie the same But the Libeller thinketh all men to be as proude and malapert as himselfe and other of his faction are whose pride the world seeth and it is vntolerable He was neuer D. Perns boy nor vnder him at any time but as fellow of the house where he vvas master Neither did he euer cary his or any other mans cloake bagge Although if he had so done it had bin no disgrace to him Better mens sonnes then the Libeller is haue caried cloakebags But the levvde man is not ashamed to lye in those things that are open to euery mans eyes such is his malice and impudencie How Dauisons Catechisme was allowed or how long in perusing I knovv not some paultry pamphlet belike it is like to that busie and vnlearned Scot now termed to be the author there of D. Wood is better able to iudge of such matters then either Dauison or any Martinist that dare be knovven Touching the Apocrypha c. He gaue commandement in deede meaneth to see it obserued For who euer separated this Apocrypha from the rest of the Bible from the beginning of Christianity to this day Or vvhat church in the vvorld refourmed or other doth yeat at this present And shal vve suffer this singularity in the church of England to the aduauntage of the aduersary offence of the godly contrary to al the vvorld besides I knovve there is great difference betvvene the one and the other yet all learned men haue from the beginning giuen to the Apocrypha authoritie next to the Canonicall Scriptures And therfore such giddy heads as seeke to deface them are to be bridled A foule shame it is not to be suffered that such speeches should be vttered against those bookes as by some hath bene enough to cause ignorant people to discredite the vvhole Bible Touching Doctor Sparke c. Their Honors that were thē present can wil I am sure answere for the bishops to this vntrueth They made report to diuers in publike place and some to the highest of that cōference after an other sort to another end thē the Libeller doth That seely Obiection God knoweth was soone answered in few words viz. That the trāslation read in our Churches was in that point according to the Septuagint correspondent to the Analogie of faith For if the word be vnderstood of the Israelites then is it true to say that they were not obedient to his cōmandement but if of the signes wonders that Moses and Aaron did before Pharao or of Moses and Aaron themselues then is it on the other side true that they were obedient to his commandement This might haue satisfied any learned and peaceable Diuine pacified their immoderate contention against the booke of common praier This was then and is now the answere to that friuolous obiection and this is the Nonplus that the Libeller vaunteth of More modestie might haue become both D. Sparke the reporter euen conscientia suae imbecillitatis in that conference Touching Patrike c. He neuer made Patrike Minister neither intended to make him neither was hee of his acquaintance at all in Worcester It is vvel knowen that the Archbishop hath not ordeined moe then onely tvvo Ministers since his comming to this Archbishoprike And therefore this Calumniation must be placed vvith the former Thus is this godlesse Libeller ansvvered in few words touching such matters wherewith he chargeth the most reuerend father the Archbishop of Cant. whereby the world may perceiue with what spirit he is possessed The wise man saith that destruction shall suddenly come vpon the backebiter and calumniator The Psalmist saith The Lorde will destroy lying lips and the tongue which speaketh proude things and that death shall suddenly come vpon them and hell shall receiue them S. Ambrose saith that Detractors are scarcely to bee accounted Christians And Cyprian saith Non qui audit sed qui facit conuitium miser est Not he that is railed at but he that raileth is the wretched man The wicked Iewes when they could not otherwise answere Christ called him Samaritan and said he had a deuill shortly after tooke vp stones and cast at him So the Anabaptists within our memory after slanderous and opprobrious calumniations against the godly Preachers and magistrates then liuing fell to blowes and open violence The Libeller in this booke hath perfourmed the one and threatned the other This haue I layd downe word by word as I receiued the same from my Lorde of London who desireth to haue the matter heard by indifferent Iudges and will shewe the Suggestions to be very vntrue ANd as to Martins lewde exclamation against the B. of London cōcerning the cloth thought to be stollen frō the Dyars this is the trueth of the case that vpon notice giuē to the said B. that such like cloth was wayued within his Manor of Fulham and left in a ditch there and no owner knowen hee presently hoping to take them that brought it thither or at the least to saue the same from purloyning or miscarying appoynted the same to be watched diuers nights and in the