r. coarctatus p 9. Bonium r. Boiorum ib. 9 exoriâ—ntur r. exuruntur ib. y Laudec r Pan dect p. 10. c oculus tuuis r. oculus tuus p. 12 in the text infest r. infect p. 13. q â—urent r. curabant p. 16 u confitentum r. confitentium p. 17 y languiudi rlam guidi ib â— Pardus r. Paradinuâ— p. 18 â— 2. in the text vs we r. that we ib. l 16. foâ—â—e r some ib s Christus r. Christi p. 20 siu-siu r. sin-sin ib. i que accepit ostendit r. qâ—ae accepit ostendunt p 22. g alma r. la alma p. 23. b Apostoli vxorem r Apostoli vxorati p. 24 r Syluan r. Sylua p. 26. x In in miuoribus r In minoribus p. 27 l 15. Franciscanus â— Francischinus ib. b habâ— at r habeanâ— p. 28. Wernâ—riuâ— r. Wernerus Ib c Paâ—dr r Pâ—ndect Ib k Cytizensi p. 31. â—â—n 16 serue r deserue p 32. por eppo r. por ello â— 33. plâ—ruque r plerumque p. 34. g Iesue r â—osue p 36 â— 26 Sherifeâ— r Sherife p. 38. l. 33 proposinoÌ„ r. propositions p. 4. l. 11. quaerit r. quad p. 44 l â—â— Tâ—eire r. True p. 46 â— 3. harend r. â—azend p 47 l. 2â— if Iurie r. it â—ur â— 51. â— Argironae r. Angyrâ—â—ae Ib Nâ—gedon r Hvgedon p 58 â—3 Cacologus r Cacologâ—â—â— Ib l. 20 Not of their Theologus but of their Cacologus r Not of their Theologues b â—â— of their Cacologues p 59. g sentiat r. sentiant p. 62. Nutius r. mâ—tâ—uâ— p 67 b mâ—niae r. neniae p 7â— l 14. sharos r. shooes ib. l. 16 and allowing besides r and all know besides ib. l 19. common â—urâ—â—o r common burrâ—aâ—â—â— 77 sultaries r surtaâ—ies p 86 d â—â—â—ciâ—uis r. specialius p. 99 Lvâ—â—â—throâ—â—â—s r Lycanthropia ib q modo is muneret donegare r. modo is â—â—m â—â—â— deâ— gaâ—â— ib. x megabâ— r negabit p. 100 â—oemine r. foemineo p 102 k Sâ—naedâ—â— r. Cynâ—dis ib â— vneimuâ— r. venâ—mus p 104 exclaime â— proclaâ—â—â—â— â—â—â— â— Bâ—â—â—â—ulaeuis r 〈◊〉 p 105. l. 4 stoneâ— â— stoues â—â—â— 12. sorely r. w li â—â— â— â—â—â—â— cautionâ— r dedi cauâ—â—â—nem b s 〈◊〉 â— insaniae ib. t â—asâ—â—â—â—â—asu p. 106. l. and that r and â—f that 107 l 9 â—â—vâ—â— r â—â—y p â—08 l. 4. can 〈◊〉 â—audaces p â—â—9 â— sâ—mniaria r sâ—â—â—â—a p â—â— Monasteâ—â—um r. Monasteriâ— p. 113. a ab otium r. ob otium p. 116. Thâ—ca r. Theâ—a The Sixt Article Of the sufficiencie of the Holy Scripture for Saluation HOLIE Scripture containeth all things necessary for saluation so that whatsoeuer is not read therein nor may be proued thereby is not to bee required of any man that it should bee beleeued as an Article of faith or be thought requisite or necessary to saluation In the name of the holy Scripture wee do vnderstand those Canonicall bookes of the olde and new Testament of whose authority was neuer any doubt in the Church Of the names and number of the Canonicall Bookes GENESIS EXODVS LEVITICVS NVMBERS DEVTERONOMY IOSVA IVDGES RVTH 1. booke of SAMVEL 2. booke of SAMVEL The 1. booke of KINGS The 2. booke of KINGS 1. booke of CHRONICLES 2. booke of CHRONICLES The 1. booke of ESDRAS The 2. booke of ESDRAS The booke of ESTHER The booke of IOB The PSALMES The PROVERBES ECCLESIASTES or the Preacher CANTICLES or Song of SALOMON 4. Prophets the greater 12. Prophets the lesser And the other bookes as Hierom saith the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners but yet doth it not apply themto stablish any Doctrine such as are these following The third booke of ESDRAS The fourth booke of ESDRAS The booke of TOBIAS The booke of IVDITH The rest of the booke of ESTHER The booke of WISEDOME IESV the sonne of SYRACH BARVCH the Prophet The song of the three Children The Storie of SVSANNA Of BELL and the DRAGON The prayer of MANASSES The first booke of MACCHABEES The second booke of MACCHABEES All the Bookes of the New Testament as they are commonly receiued we do receiue and accompt them for Cauonicall This Sixt Article maintained and explained by the more moderate and learneder sort of Papists from whom I haue taken these Propositions following 1 THat they make the same Canon with vs. 2 Exhort vs to the diligent study of this sacred Word 3 Shew the manifold vse and profit that we may reape thereby 4 Its perspicuity 5 Its necessity to saluation 6 The vnprofitable and vnnecessary vse of all other bookes 7 Its commonnesse to be read of all 8 Lastly its contempt and reformation Whence by way of Corollarie I will entreate briefely 1 Of its translation into the vulgar 2 Of the Latine Edition 3 Of the Septuagint 4 Of the Hebrew Canon shewing that it ought to be the Canon and rule of all other Translations The First Proposition That they make the same Canon with vs. FIrst Leonâ—ius commonly called Aduocatus is a sure Aduocate for vs in this point making the same Canon almost with vs and informing vs That in his time it was not onely his but the Churches opinion Irmilius in his learned Dialogue betweene the Master and the Scholler proceeds further and yeelds the same reason that we doe because the Hebrewes difference them after the same sort according vnto the testimony of S. Hierome and others But there is a cautè lege or Caueat put in against them both Maledicta glossa quae corrumpit Textum Scripturae libris non Canonici Caute lege nam perperam quosdam libros à Canone ss Scripturarum euellit Secondly Boston of Bury the painefull but vniudicious Monke treating of Apocrypha bookes out of Isidore and Iuo makes the selfe same Canon with vs and that for the same reason and with the same limitation Shewing besides who were the supposed Authors of those Apocrypha bookes Lastly the History of Bell and the Dragon is challenged by our quick-sighted Erasmus for an Apocrypha story The like censure Spondanus passeth vpon the Booke of Tobie and Erasmus vpon Iudith and the Macchabees ¶ The second Proposition That they exhort vs to the diligent study of the sacred Scriptures BY the complaint of diuerse writers both old and new the Scriptuees were too too much neglected shall I say or vtterly despised generally of their Monkes and Friars Preachers and others as more opportunely shall be shewed in the handling of the eight proposition and therefore the Spirit of God which bloweth where it listeth and illuminateth whom it pleaseth raised vp some in priuate some in publike to be notable instruments of his glory I will onely touch and away In the history of the Councell of Basiâ—e there is a whole Sermon to rouse their diligent attention to the hearing and heeding of Gods word Vatablus more powerfully and feelingly before his Bibles with the double translation and Scholiaes hath collected summed vp all
that time for ought we know consisting all of Papists being assembled in Conuocation decreed as followeth That for the examination determination and decision of this question sent vnto them to be discussed from the Kings Maiestie viz Whether the Bishop of Rome had any greater Iurisdiction collated vpon him from God in the holy Scripture in this Kingdome of England than any other forraine Bishop that there should be deputed thirtie Diuines Doctors and Bachelors of Diuinitie of that facultie to whose sentence assertion or determination or the greater part of them the common Seale of the Vniuersitie in the name thereof should be affixed prouided that the question should bee first disputed and then sent vp to his Maiestie And the 27. of Iune in the yeere of our Sauiour 1534. this Instrument following was made and sent vp sealed with the common Seale of the Vniuersitie The Instrument it selfe is in Latine in English thus TO all the sonnes of our Mother the Church to whom these present Letters shall come Iohn by the grace of God Chauncellor of the famous Vniuersitie of Oxon and the whole assembly of Doctors and Masters Regents and not Regents in the same greeting Whereas our most noble and mighty Prince and Lord Henrie the eighth by the grace of God of England and France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland vpon the continuall requests and complaints of his Subiects exhibited vnto him in Parliament against the intolerable exactions of forraine Iurisdictions and vpon diuers controuersies had and mooued about the Iurisdiction and power of the Bishop of Rome and for other diuers vrgent causes against the said Bishop then and there exponed and declared was sent vnto and humbly desired that he would prouide in time some fit remedie and satisfie the complaint of his deere Subiects Hee as a most prudent Salomon minding the good of his Subiects ouer whom God hath placed him and deepely pondering with himselfe how he might make good and wholesome Lawes for the gouernment of his Commonwealth and aboue all things taking care that nothing bee there resolued vpon against the holy Scripture which hee is and euer will bee ready to defend with hazard of his dearest blood out of his deepe wisdome and after great paines taken hereabouts hath transmitted and sent vnto his Vniuersitie of Oxon a certaine question to be disputed viz. Whether the Bishop of Rome hath any greater Iurisdiction granted to him from God in the holy Scripture to be exercised and vsed in this Kingdome then any other forraine Bishop and hath commanded vs that disputing the question after a diligent and mature deliberation and examination of the premisses we should certifie his Maiestie vnder the common Seale of our Vniuersitie what is the true meaning of the Scriptures in that behalfe according to our Iudgements and apprehensions Wee therefore the Chancellour Doctors and Masters aboue recited daily and often remembring and altogether weighing with our selues how good and godly a thing it is and congruous to our Profession be fitting our submissions obediences and charities to foreshew the way of truth and righteousnesse to as many as desire to tread in her stepps and with a good sure and quiet conscience to anchor themselues vpon Gods Word we could not but endeauour our selues with all the possible care that wee could deuise to satisfie so iust and reasonable a request so great a Prince who next vnder God is our most happy and supreame Moderatour and Gouernour Taking therefore the said question into our considerations with all humble deuotion and due reuerence as becommeth vs and assembling our Diuines together from all parts taking time enough and many dayes space to deliberate thereof diligently religiously and in the feare of God with zealous and vpright minds first searching and searching againe the Booke of God and the best Interpreters and Commenters thereupon disputing the said questions solemnely and publikely in our Schooles haue in the end vnanimously and with ioynt consent resolued vpon the Conclusion that is to say That the Bishop of Rome hath no greater Iurisdiction giuen vnto him in Scripture then any other Bishop in this Kingdome of England Which our assertion sentence or determination so vpon deliberation maturely and throughly discussed and according to the tenour of the Statutes and Ordinances of this our Vniuersitie concluded vpon publikely in the name of the whole Vniuersitie we doe pronounce and testifie to be sure certaine and consonant to the holy Scripture In witnesse whereof we haue caused these our Letters to be written sealed and ratified by the Seale of our Vniuersitie Yeuen in our Assembly-house the 27. of the moneth of Iune in the yeere of Christ 1534. This Instrument being brought into the Parliamenthouse an Act passed whereby the King was declared Supreame Head and Gouernour of the Church What exception was it taken or giuen The Parliament motioned some such matter to the King his Maiestie wisely referreth it to the Learned of his Vniuersitie the Vniuersitie to thirty Delegats the referrees returne their ioynt opinion to the King that the Pope had no more to doe here in England then any other forraine Bishop this their opinion was grounded on the Scripture the places of Scripture confirmed by the exposition of the best interpreters the Parliament vpon full knowledge of this banish all forraine Iurisdiction out of the Realme to the comfort of Gods Church and the reliefe of his distressed subiects which had so long been inthralled and groaned vnder this Baby lonish captiuitie What remaineth If this be not satisfactorie Ireferre you to the reading of three excellent pieces of this Argument which I forbeare to insert into this booke first because of prolixitie secondly because ere long you shall haue them all comprized in one volume The first is taken out of Guicciardine the second out of Machiauell the third out of Stephen Pasquier quarit Recerches The place in Guicciardine is shamefully expunged that of Machiauell with the whole booke and all his Workes forbidden onely Pasquier is improhibited and vnpurged But no thankes to the Inquisitors for feare lest our French men which are accounted lost men at Rome should bee vtterly lost from the Church of Rome if the Inquisitors went about to infringe their Pragmaticall Constitutions Of these three witnesses two of them are without exception Guicciardine and Pasquier the third is branded for an Atheist and as I dare not make any Apologies for him so many and so great Schollers hauing fastned this imputation vpon him so I cannot but say it is onely my coniecture that if Machiauell had not touched the Popes free-hold but suffered him to haue been a God vpon earth Machiauell had been no Atheist for this booke but might haue hoped rather to haue been a Cardinall but how deadly soeuer they hated him and interdicted his Workes at his death as it seemeth he left his Machiauelismes to bee disposed of by the Pope and his Cardinals which haue made
And first For their liues and manners what goodly Popes haue we IT is no matter in what order I ranke them as they liue in no order so I will take them as they first come to my hand And first because there is a common saying amongst vs As merry as Pope Ioane Was there not a Woman Pope amongst them Sigebert Bocace de claris mulieribus c. 99. Iohannes Baptista Egnatius l. 3 c. 4. Chronicon excerptum de diuerfis Chronicis Baptista Fulgosius l. 7. c. 3. Calius 2. Curio l. 14. c. 1. Crantz l. 2. Metrop Fr. Petrarcha Anselmus Rydd And to helpe to make vp a full Iurie Ran. Nygedon ad an 858. And lastly a booke of the Stations of the Church of Rome of great antiquitie remaining in our publike Librarie at Oxford there are many more witnesses yet remaining behind but because they are many and these onely not so much distinguished from the rest as cleane extinguished in your bookes I leaue them to be dressed for your daintie palats by one that is a very expert Cooke Sergius the third begat Iohn the twelfth on the body of Marozzia a common strumpet Luitprandus l. 3. c. 12. Here is a good succession of your Popes you were best pleade this Iohn the twelfth like father like sonne kept his fathers Whore and I know not whole troopes and squadrons of Whores and Queanes and for this very cause was turned out of his Popedome like a knaue as he was and lastly was taken with another mans wife in the very act of adultery and so slaine Hildebrand was hatefull both to God and men you may be sure not without good cause being Antichristed by so many good Writers and free speakers of those times but aboue all commend me to Iohn Auentine who was neither flatterer nor back-biter of any but with a full mouth inuayed sharpely as farre and no otherwise then the truth of the Historie required who hath set him forth in all his liuely colours and who dares take vp the Pensill after Apelles Anno Dom. 978. Gerbertâ—â— alias Syluester Poped it a great Pope and as great a Magician and Necromancer he worshipped the Deuill for riches sake and was promised by him that hee should not die till hee came into Hierusalem Hereupon hee promised himselfe many yeares and bade his soule take much ease for as for that Hierusalem that was aboue he meant neuer to goe to it and for that on earth it was beyond the Seas too farre for his Holinesse to goe but as secure as hee was of his life and happinesse as the Deuill would there was a Chappell called by that name which for the very name of a Chappell he had not of likelihoods visited often where hee ended his vnhappie dayes and after his death see the Iudgement of God his priuie members hands and feete and all the rest were piteously torne and cut off by his owne appointment and it is more then probable that as his body went not to the graue in any decent or Christian sort so his soule went not to Heauen notwithstanding he had the Keyes about him when hee died as Erasmus merrily once said But leauing him vnto his Lord to whom hee doth stand or fall because it shall not be said vnto me Who art thou that iudgest another man I onely note this by the way that it is no strange thing for a Pope to goe to Hell P. Damianus reports of a Bishop of Capua as farre as he remembreth that saw Benedict the Pope riding on a blacke Horse in those infernall Lakes Sixtus 4. was brought vp in the better and the worser Arts. Pope Zosimus was an Adulterer by confession of the Deuill Benedict the ninth got the Popedome by Simoniacall chaffering and marchandizing a small sinne a peccadillo Alexander the sixths vices or abominations rather were recorded in Guicciardine you haue practised to deface the foulenesse of his crimes from out the memory of man but as you haue your Indices so God and the truth haue their Vindices Iohn the 23. was an accursed blasphemer when hee chanced to fall downe on the ground Here I lye quoth he in the Deuils name Iohn the 13. is called a Monster of all vices As Benedict the ninth got the Popedome by Simonie so Iohn the eleuenth got it by meanes of a lewd Harlot it must needs thriue that is so well and truly gotten Leo the tenth his luxurie is knowne out of Iouius in his life Onuphrius hath described Iulius 2. his Houses and Gardens of pleasure but speaketh nothing of his trauels and paines in his Vicarship I haue read of Hadrian the sixth his Peacocks not kept without some Epicureisme and lost with great blasphemie Petrarches red Hat that was offered him if he would be but a Bawde to the Pope for his owne sister might cause the Papists to blush at their bawdy Popes if they had any grace in them Boniface the 8. whose famous sentence it was that if hee lead millions of soules into Hell no man could taxe him for it or say blacke to his eye gaue good tokens of his repentance for vpon Ashwednesday when after the vsuall ceremonies with great solemnitie his Holinesse was to throw ashes vpon their heads he cast it into ones eyes that was of the contrary faction saying in mockerie or blasphemy rather in stead of these words Remember man that thou art ashes and to ashes thou shalt goe Remember Sirra that thou art one of the Gibellines and with the Gibellines thou shalt perish Much more may be said out of Stella that shineth like a bright Starre in those darker Ages and hath most liuely represented vnto vs the liues of their impure vnholy Fathers the Popes But as I began with Pope Ioane so I end my discourse with Pope Eugenius the fourth who whether hee were man or woman God or Deuill I know not but hee made hauock of all things neither fearing God nor regarding man putting all things as it were into a combustion But let their liues be as bad as may be and worse they cannot be yet as long as their doctrine is sound and their teaching good wee may and ought to adhere vnto them it may bee they are impeccable and inerrable by the speciall prouidence of God and assistance of his grace possessing that Chaire that hath that promise but because both Nic-Eymericus in his dayes a famous Inquisitor and Franciscus Pegua his Commentatour do determine this question and resolue vs that the Pope may be accused of heresie and proceeded or informed against by an Inquisitor or any other ordinarie man but his competent Iudges are none but a Generall Councell or a Consistorie of Cardinals the selfe-same doctrine that was preached in the Councell of Constance and Basill we will now see by their leaues what Schismes
Idolatry by worshipping of Idols or images Wee Christians should incurre the same crime and endure the like censure Worshipping of images hath beene occasion of much mischiefe in the Christian Churches and therefore to bee left Doe not you your selfe thinke there is much knauerie in some to make the images to weepe or swette What a iest is it to beleeue or to make the simple people beleeue that the diuell cannot abide the image of Saint Michael or the signe of the Crosse I am halfe ashamed to see the indeuotion and superstition of your vulgar people how they post vnto your images and happy is hee that can come soonest to hang some piece of gold or siluer about the images necke or to cloth it with some rich garment or other or leaue it in some place of the Church where it may be seene What say you to apparrell of cloth of siluer or of gold The images haue no sence in them and is God delighted with gold or precious stones Diamond Saphirs or Smaragds Thus doe the rich giue and ouer-giue and study or vie who shall giue most when the tradesman offers but a candle or the country peazant but an egge or two and if it be to shew that he is no Hugaenot or Lutheran What say the Papists to the worshipping of bawdie and beastly images or prodigious and vgly ones Wicelius complanineth of the one and Gregorius Gyraldus of the other I now come to the last Proposition of all The sixth Proposition It is very much impugned by the Papists themselues of the better sort PApists of the better sort are against the adoration of Images I will reckon them vp ordine regrado reâ—rogrado as they come promiscuously First Ant. de Dominis Secondly Polyd. Virgil Thirdly Vatablus and Rob. Stephanus Fourthly Desid Heraldus Fifthly Papyrius Massonius and sundry others if I list either to be tedious or vaine-glorious but I conclude with Saint Iohns exhortation My little children beware of Idols Against the Inuocation of Saints THis controuersie of the Inuocation of Saints to goe at large may be reduced vnto two propositions wherunto the best of the Papists haue willingly subscribed The Propositions are these First God alone is to be worshipped adored inuocated Secondly The Saints neither may can nor will be inuocated of vs but with impietie and no profit The first Proposition God alone is and ought to be worshipped adored and called vpon GOd alone is to bee worshipped inuocated trusted vnto hoped in all our trust and confidence must bee placed in him we must pray vnto none but to him serue none but him no creature is venerable but the increated nature What dependance vpon any other What profit I conclude therefore with Erasmus It is the safest course for all men vpon all their incident occasions to go streight vnto him others perhaps would but cannot God is both able and willing And thus this first Proposition standeth like a Rocke immoueable against all the assaults and batteries of our Aduersaries The second Proposition Saints neither will nor can be inuocated of vs. FIrst it may bee doubted who are Saints not all that are called or catalogued or canonized for Saints many whose seules frie in Hell there is no certaintie of their cononizations But imagine there be some true Saints and true Miracles whereby they are discouered to bee true Saints yet sith Almighty God is the beginning and fountaine of good and Saints at the most but a kind of conduits or pipes to conueigh the same vnto vs Oh let vs not be so pious to Men or Angels that we prooue impious towards God worship the Lord and him onely serue is the common voyce both of Men and Angels Will a man that is wise beg and sue to the seruant when he may haue free accesse to the Master of the house Such preposterous worshipping of Saints such confiding and trusting to any deriuatitious sanctitie is not able to open vnto vs when we knocke at Heauen gates The wisest and sobrest amongst the Papists leaue it as one of Gods secrets either our knowledge of the Saints or the Saints knowledge of vs and expectnothing more then the pious imitation of their vertuous deeds which all of them commend vnto vs as the most acceptable seruice both vnto them and to God they would not haue vs to confide or repose our trusts either in Christs Humanitie or his Mothers Virginitie nor in any hee or shee-Saint in Heauen It was a hard constitution that was obtruded vnto them by the Church against a plaine Text of Scripture Cursed bee he that putteth his trust in Man and the Christian Religion had thriued farre better amongst vs if wee had not giuen so much vnto inuocation of Saints and so little vnto the seruice of God The 25. Article Penance is no Sacrament PEnance is one of the seuen Sacraments say the Papists it is no Sacrament saith the Church of England It is easier to say what it is not then what it is But I will not greatly stand with them for a Sacrament vpon hope of better agreement in other matters of greater consequence take it strictly it is no Sacrament they haue better eyes then I if they can see more Sacraments then two in the Gospell take it largely it may passe well enough for a Sacrament such a one as it is and to gratifie the Papists if the number of seuen be so gratefull vnto them I will helpe them vnto seuen times seuen Sacraments vpon reasonable conditions out of Saint Austen It is called metanoea or resipiscentia in Latin and as I take it repentance in English but this word repentance or resipiscentia is so dreadfull a word to the Church of Rome that there is Hue and Cry made after it and hauing apprehended it they haue condemned it to perpetuall silence it must neuer be mentioned againe they haue purged it out of their bookes I would to God they were as well purged out of this Kingdome I will quote a few Authors and places that you may measure the rest by these few quotations They diuide it into three parts into Confession Contrition and Satisfaction how wisely we shall see hereafter Their penance consisteth in outward affliction of the body and maceration of the flesh our repentance is inward and spirituall in the grace and faith of Christ Wee know but one Name that can saue vs their penances may be commuted or redeemed with money ours onely by the blood of Christ To conclude it consisteth not in payning the body or afflicting the soule A man may weare haire-cloth and be neuer a whit the more either attrite or contrite for I haue learned to make no diuision of these two termes your Schooles doe
bread of the Lord is sweate bread and this their auarice ioyned with much sacriledge and both shadowed with some pretences of pietie which improoue the sinne and make it be the greater in deed the lesser it is in seeming this siane which as one writeth doth much binder the conuersion of the poore Indians hardning them in their owne sinnes to see the Christians embrace and fellow riches so greedily is either not inquired after or being inquired after is not censured or punished 3. They are incredible Leachers noted with this vice more then any they carry the very markes about them They are Souldiers but serue not the God of Hoasts but sight vnder Pluto Bacchus and Venus colours Clergie men and Ecclesiasticall persons vncleannesse and pollutions are notorious and open to all the World and a by-word in euery mans mouth they cannot content themselues with one kind but they exercise all kinds of lewdnesse and libidinousnesse one woman will not satisfie their vnruly appetites they must haue many Sweet-hearts a great many of Lemans and Concubines if Neuizanus report be true yea they are ready to take m mens wiues from them they glory in their shame in their Tauernes how many n Wenches they haue lyen withall how many Virgins they haue deflowred they haue no other song but this prophane one o Let vs make our selues merry with wine and then there shall bee no Meadow but wee will sport our selues in one kind or other But perhaps it may be said Flesh is fraile and men may offend but if they doe sec how we will punish them whether they bee adulterers or fornicators There was one that durst exclaime it that in his time there was no punishment of Adulterie and therefore lesse hope was there of censuring lighter sinnes if greater sinnes escape without your punishment What reason haue we to thinke that you should punish the lesser And in truth as one of your owne side hath told me as great a Scholler and as wise a man as any the Church of Rome sent forth these many dayes the greatest Hill of Ollaria which I suppose to be a great one would not yeeld vs stories enough if the Leuiticall Law should take hold of all your secret and open knowne and vnknowne Adulteries But that the World may know how seuere censors you are of this fault hearken to a Storie or two in this kind and I will end this Discourse There was a good fellow in the world a Priest I meane that had a woman in a cellar with him which he loued full sorely his Prelate hearing of this commeth vpon them on the sudden lockes the dores and shuts them in many dayes and many nights causing them to bee watched and supplied with all manner of necessaries and in the end the poore Priest had so ouer-laboured and spent himselfe that he was taken with a giddinesse in his head so that he neuer after durst come in her company any more Beleeue it who list If they had said he had neuer been well after this and no more I would haue beleeued them I haue two Stories behind which I will shut vp in one word they both loued Wenches well the one was sent purposely to the Court of Rome the s other sued here in England both of set purpose to make them forget their old loues now could my Author haue shewed mee that there had bin no Stewes in Rome at that time nor Brothel-houses in London I would haue in part beleeued his report of both but transeat cum caeteris erroribus I proceed from the Daughter to the Mother from the cauâ—e to the effect you know and Neuizanus hath told vs that Venter genitalia are neere of kind I will not English this for shame 4. They are very riotous in fare meere Belly-godâ— and Epicures If either you had patience or I had leasure â— could insist vpon this point as long as vpon the former it shall suffice therefore to shew you that he that serues God Bacchus is no great enemie to the Lady Venus and hee that is pâ—tator a drunkard may be scortator a whoremaster before he be aware they are termes almost conuertible per luxam otium ventri viuunt I say no more 5. They are Prodigals and spendthrifts and that they spent were their owne or not mispeâ—t vpon wicked purposes and lewd lâ—uswiues the fault might be lessened though not cleane taken away but misereremini mei â—ay the Church say Pittie pittie my goods are mispent spent vpon Harlots and Queanes thus saith your great Antiquary Laur. Schraderus in his books of Monuments especially of Italy 6. Ambitious no men more neither sought they their Benefices to doe good with them but propter quaestum to make a gaine of them or a â—adder for their ambitious thoughts to mount vp and this â—adder because it should carry them vp higher hath many rounds their desire was not so much to profit their inferiours as to sit amongst their superiours in high place and dignitie in great honour and worship and this was the true cause why Benefices were so chopt and changed bought and sold as if the Church were an Horse-faire 7. They are egregious Simoniasts but of this nothing hauing launced this soare before in the Chapter of Rome and I doubt it is not healed yet 8. They are as proud as Lucifer This vice is common to them with their Bishops and Prelates also they must haue their stately Houses magnificent Halles gallant Horses to speake nothing of their Queanes and Concubines but it may bee their Prelates will challenge this as proper vnto themselues 9. They are braue Courtiers This vice is noted in them by diuers good and approoued Writers as Guil. de S. Amore diuers Manuscripts and others branding them with the name of wandring Planets Court-slaues they pronounce a heauy doome against them that shame will be their end and a worse punishment if they take not the better heed Mistake them not they meane not Kings and Princes Chaplaines that necessarily must attend vpon them nor such as repaire vnto the Court vpon good occasion but frequentantes Curiam such as are neuerwell but when they are there or any where so they may be from their charges 10. They are stout Souldiers I meane not onely in their feild beddes and in the Lady Venus payre as I haue largely demonstrated vnto you before but Souldiers in their habit or as another hath it for their greedinesse they may be called Clergiâ—men but for their habits Souldiers Doubtlesse Saint Bernard was the Author of this complaint they forget themselues â—rma milittae nostrae sunt spiritualis Our weapons are spirituall And as a merry fellow told an Archbishop that was both a Duke and an Archbishop and stood in defence of his temporall Dominion more then was fitting It
their sundry lusts in sundry kinds They promise and vow continencie but there be that vow the contrary I will not reckon vp their lothsome and filthy diseases which they get out of Amatus Lusitanus or any other for very shame let this suffice for the present 5. Their Riots and excesse in fare You may reade of their Epicureisme and delicacie in fare in Hugo de Folio he hath a set Chapter for it of their stately and sumptuous banquets in Erasmus and therefore we may iudge whether men had not reason to caâ— them Hogges fat Hogges as it were out of the stie that swinishly cared for nothing but for their bellies and their tailes with reuerence of the Reader be this spoken 6. Their Sloth and Idlenesse They leade a pretty kind of idle life that slept or idled out their times it was no maruell that so many men and women went thick and threefold to their Monasteries and Nunneries Io. de Puente he that lately intituled the King of Spaine his Master to the Seigneurie of the whole world thinkes no man worthy to write a lying Storie such as his is vnlesse he come out of a Monasterie or a Cell True for if they onely should write which are the only or especiall liers of the world should we not haue goodly Stories out of their Forge But some are of the contrary mind that they and only they haue been the cause that we haue lost so many good pieces of Antiquitie so many famous Histories by their meere negligence and indiligence 7. Their Discord and dissentions They are called Fratres that is Friars but Fratrum quoque gratia rara est they agree like Cat and Dogge either amongst themselues or towards others I would to God this were not too true and that there were any Monasterie free from this infection Peace as Ariosto saith may be written and painted in their Cloysters and Walles but doubtlesse it is not practized in their liues and conuersations 8. Their Pride is somewhat Lucifer-like it cannot well goe higher they are called Minorites some of them but they may be all called Maiorites 9. Their Wandring vp and downe They can neither truly containe for as I shewed you their Cloysters are but so many baudy houses nor are their Cloysters able to containe them they must be running vp and downe with little Pictures or Tablets of the Apostles which the simple people are made to kisse and giue them money Polydor Virgil in the place quoted in the Margent hath so liuely represented this fault vnto our considerations that I am in a manner constrained to referre you to his learned Writings that desire to be better informed hereabouts 10. Their begging They begge that are fitter to giue and liue idly that are fitter to be set aworke Doth any man deny this It shall be prooued Monkes aswell as other men must liue by the sweat of their browes and labour of their hands Not to worke if a man can and haue an able body is to steale But you will say perhaps this precept is not generall it concernes not Monkes Yes Monkes aswell as other men Guil. de S. Amore hath inferred this doctrine throughout all his booke against the begging Friers but his booke against beggers must be enforced it selfe to begge or else it is neuer like to see light for ought that I know I reade of many Monkes that were Fishers and relieued themselues and others by that honest Trade and I can tell you also of one that was a Smith and exercised the Trade in his Monasterie belike it was hee that made the Tongs that Saint Dunstane vsed when he tooke the Deuill by the nose the Storie is worth the reading in our old Chronicles if a man haue so much faith as to beleeue it But to returne to our begging Friers which take the habite of poore Monkes vpon them for riches sake and so as one notes very well by professing themselues poore they make themselues rich they haue stately houses and are called beggers Vtinam hoc esset mendicare He that should begge with them should not loose by them but of this enough 11. Their pride in Apparrell is one of the twelue abuses noted by Hugo de Folio and he setteth it downe in Folio yee may beleeue him for he knew it too well 12. Their Courting is noted by the same Author who hath taken much paines to reforme them if it were possible and to reduce them to their prime-order It was wont to be said A Monke out of his Cell was like a Fish out of the water But in his time and in all times a man may find some of these Frogges not only at Pharaohs Court that is in the Palaces of Kings and Princes but in the Court of Rome trading with his Holinesse about making and marring of Marriages about vnlawfull Diuorces and Dispensations and I know not what I will not speake of their vnnaturalnesse to Parents which they practise if they doe not teach nor of their children which they doe steale I haue shewed you an expresse Statute of our Vniuersitie of Oxford against it these bee supernumerarious faults but to conclude there is no sinne but they haue a tincture of it and yet like counterfeits they would be like God without sinne as he is know all things as he doth are in all places they are P. Rebuffus words some of them too sharpe to be Englished and ioyned with a little prophanenesse to my seeming which may well become a Popish Writer Of Miracles I Had here thought to haue concluded but that a fit and iust occasion is giuen me by a late accident that fell out here in Oxford to speake somewhat although not much of this point of Miracles the patration of them is made a speciall note of their Church in diuers bookes that were lately scattered in the night about our Colledges and Halles and in the Cities and fields bookes that we haue heard of long since whereof some of them are throughly refuted because I say the euill one that hath sowed these Tares amongst our good Wheate while the good Householder slept as his manner is confides belikes in his cause and triumphs vpon this point more then any other I will therefore take so much paines as to insist vpon this point a little I will not take vpon mee to answer all it needeth not let one or two serue for all the rest The Author of my Lord of Londons supposed Legacie makes this his sixth motiue That true Miracles haue been wrought for proofe of the Catholike religion but not any for Protestancy and hee reckons vp diuers most stupendious Miracles in the primitiue Age and later times in this World and the New I meane both the Indies and he concludeth with this Epiphonema O misery and feeblenes of Nouelisme in doctrine which is
parts though it were before knowne in other parts of the world especially in Bohemia that Luther himselfe wished both for doctrine and discipline his might bee the same per omnia I say in all this men purposed but God disposed of all for the singular good of his Church Sixtly and lastly what shall I speake of the more then miraculous preseruation of the late Queene and our late King and of both King Queene Prince and State from infinite and eminent dangers both from fire and water in the Spanish inuasion from water in the Gunpowder treason from fire God make vs euer more and more thankfull for these our more then miraculous deliuerances and so I end both the whole booke and my answer to Musket and his companions about miracles Deo soli sit gloria The Conclusion of the whole Booke with certaine needfull Aduertisements to the Christian Reader for the better vnderstanding of the same CHristian Reader whether Protestant or Papist it mattreth not and whether you reade approue it or reade and refuse it it is all one there belongs subscription to the one and a full demonstration of mine errours to the other and then as I haue ready thankes for the one so I haue as ready my peccaui for the other In the meane time now I haue put a full period to my booke and eased both my selfe and thee of much fastidiousnesse in reading I thinke it fit to say something and not much for the clearing of my intentions and your vnderstandings First for the testimonies cited and recited in this booke they are taken partly out of bookes printed partly out of bookes vnprinted Secondly the bookes printed are partly and for the greatest part of bookes purged partly out of bookes vnpurged whereof there be but very few and whether purged or vnpurged the Authors all of them are putatiue and supposed Papists bred and brought vp in the bosome of the Catholique Romane Church though they belong vnto the Catholique Church as shall bee farther shewed in my Alphabet of Authors and Prints in the latter end of the booke Of these Authors that are vnpurged I haue been very sparing when I could haue brought whole squadrons of Popish Writers that doe warre on our side and fight vnder our colours I haue singled out but three amongst the rest the first is Geo. Wicelius the second the Author of the Councell of Trent the third and last is Ant de Dominis all which I alleage the more willingly because all these three were either peace-makers or reformers of those Additaments or superadditaments that time or ignorance or that euill one hath brought in step by step into the Church of Rome which was vnquestionably the Church of God and its faith praised throughout all Nations and is at this present time a kind of putrid member of the same The first of these is Geo. Wicelius a famous preacher in his time of Mentz who was a true peace-maker the first after Martin Luther whose Motto was Beati Pacifici and yet a sore enemie to him and all Sectaries habemus confitentem reum If Luther had not hee and his accomplices would haue reformed the Church in a peaceable â—anner and in a lawfull Councell and not otherwise in most things differenced or controuerted betweene vs and the Papists He first banisheth the Schoolemen and their nicities and foole-questions thinking them to be the only troublers of the State and quiet of the Church 2. Secondly in place of them hee bringeth in the Scripture which he placeth in her Throne as the Queene and Mistresse of all other subordinate testimonies giuing her the precedencie both in and out of Councell and making her and her onely the supreme Iudge of all Controuersies 3. He admits of no Traditions doctrinall but such as are well warranted by the Word of God Ceremonials he alloweth vpon the selfe-same conditions that wee doe if they be not too gaudy or too many significatiue and mysterious and well expounded to the people for the ornament not of the essence of the Church without putting any trust or confidence in them a fault too common in those dayes and noted by Cassander his Scholler many dayes and yeares after and as yet vnreformed in their Romane Church 4. He is peremptorie for the Translation of the Bible into the vulgar Languages of each Country for singing of Psalmes and Hymmes in a knowne tongue and for Catechizing of the people 5. He inuayeth against their numberlesse Feasts abused Vigils and imposed Fasts the rigour of the one and the number of the others he thought fit to be abated and in stead thereof that Sermons should be brought into the Church if need were two a day 6. For their Sermons he would not haue them to be of a tale of a tub or out of lying Legends the principall fault of those times but out of the pure Word of God 7. He flatly contradicteth their adoration of Images 8. Their inuocation of Saints 9. He speaketh against their confidence of Purgatorie their questuarie ostentation of Reliques gainefull Funerals and Diâ—â—ges and wisheth that the largenesse of the Popes Indulgences were contracted and the Treasure of the Church better imployed 10. Farther he saith thaâ— their holy Masse is both often and many wayes abused that it hath de decorosos abusus is shamefully abused by their priuate Altars and priuate Masses too much by themselues vpon hope of gaine too little with the people administred Hee inueyeth against their murmurings and whisperings in their Liturgies and wisheth their halfe-Communions had either not been taken away or being taken away were restored againe in a Councell by publike authoritie and not otherwise 11. He would haue a Councell called for reformation of the Church in it Head and members but his request is the same with the Lutherans in the Councell of Trent that the Emperour should assemble it the Word of God preside in it and that it should be called in Idonea Ciuitate in a fit place and the Pope to haue notice of it 12. Priests Marriage though he like not well as preferring single life of Priests before it yet he knoweth no Canon of the Church or tye of Vowes to restraine them from marriage warrantable enough by the Word of God and practise of some Churches but howsoeuer he vtterly disauoweth their Concubinarie Priests their notorious Adulteries Incests and Fornications especially of the younger sent yea hee is of the mind that Priests Wiues and Children should haue some competencie of meanes allowed them for their liuelood and maintenance 13. What shall I say of their â—lergie is not hee zealous for a Reformation that spent his spirits almost and time wholly in vrging it both in Pope Cardinals Bishops Priests and Monkes offendors more or lesse in what kind and of what sort soeuer The number of idle Monkes he would haue abated and reduced to their primitiue orders the Priests not tâ—â—â—â—ue at so high a rate the Bishops and Cardinals
to their office and functions to assist the Pope in doing good and preaching the Gospell or visiting the sick or suruaying their Diocesses Lastly 〈…〉 Pope to whom he poore Wicelius deceiued by a counterfcite Epistle of Anaclâ—tus erring the errour of the Pontifician by misinterpreting the words of our â—uiour Thou art Peter giueth a kind of Supremacie but not in that latitude that now it is taken hee summoneth to appeare before the Tribunall Seate of God if he did not his best to reforme the corruptions of the Clergy in generall not exempting his Holines as some flatterers and pick-thankes did and the foule abuses of the Court of Rome which were spread abroad throughout all the World in bookes printed to the shame of that See and iust reproofe of his Holinesse and hee did verily thinke in his conscience that if they did not the sooner begin to reforme the Sectaries by Colloquies or Councels not by fire and sword ere long be they would loose all Germanie that began then to dance after Martins Luthers Pipe and greedily to imbrace his doctrine for the very filthinesse and abominable or innominable sinnes of their Clergie 14. Lastly what shall I speake of their Holy water qua nihil immundius that was vnholy their Thurification that was to be reiected because the sent thereof was not pleasing in Gods nostrils abuse of Confession Baptisme Excommunication which were too too much abused You see our Wicelius was a true reformer of the Church a moderate Papist at the least and no dissembler of the faults of his age of the Church doubtles in time he might if he had not bin too much awed by their great ones to whom as became a peaceable man he shewed all manner of outward obedience I say he might haue prooued an other Martin Luther though moued with a cleane coÌ„trary spirit so powerful is the Spirit of God to change our purposes and alter our nature when and as it pleaseth the Diuine prouidence Concerning Ant. de Dom I know not well what to say but to cry out Digitus Dei God had a finger in disposing of his comming ouer and suffering him to fall that other might rise and to write so directly against the Church of Rome as to my seeming for the most points no man hath done better though himselfe were neuer in the right hauing a good head but a corrupt and equluocating heart from the beginning which well became him that was tutored by and brought vp vnder the Iesuites Now albeit his conuersion were most fained and his Apostacie most certaine and true whatsoeuer he proposed to himselfe the heart is a Closet wherein none may enter but God God so disposed of both for his glorie that his person should relapse from our Religion and himselfe returne with the Dog to his old vomit and his elegant and substantiall bookes though they be mute should speake and proclaime to all the World the vnauoideable truth of our Religion now publikely professed and established in the Church of England Thus doth the diuine prouidence bring light out of darknesse and make good effects spring from the roote of euill causes as better shall appeare when we come to giue you my obseruations about the bookes that are purged I will onely touch vpon the Author of the Historie of the Councell of Trent whom because Ant. de Dominis whom I cannot call Ant. de Dommo because hee serued more Masters called Pietro Soare I will also call him by that name doth so farre shew to euery one-eyed Reader that the Councell of Trent though it were called against and condemned Martin Luther and his Religion yet if the Councell had been free and their voyces decisiue without the Pope though the Italian Bishops were three to one in number and there had been no foule play in calculating the voyces still I say leauing the Clokebag behind the Councell of Trent might haue turned Lutheran and sate at Witenberge aswell as there for their propositions and reasons which as D. Stapleton saith may be fallible and deceitfull but the conclusion is that which they did and we must look after if we will suffer our selues to be hoodwinckt and as very fooles as they I am not ignorant that there be some in the world moderate Papists that haue taken as iust and as great exception as we doe or can vnto the Councell of Trent and I would not haue the Christian Reader ignorant of this that I haue intreated of this largely in another set Treatise which if it shall be thought worthy by the Church of England to whom I doe yeeld and owe all submission may haue the happinesse with some other Treatises of mine to see the light Of the bookes printed vnpurged so much by way of caueat for the printed purge Copies take gentle Reader these few notes into thy Christian consideration 1. That I propose not to my selfe any exact handling of the Controuersies questioned betweene vs and the Papists per viam Thomae as they say by way of opposition or obiections and answeres out of Scripture Councels Fathers midled aged first aged and all aged Writers before Martin Luther my weake and wearied legges at this time will not suffer me to expatiate so farre yet my studies I confesse and naturall disposition to rip vp and vnfold the controuersies and vnriuit them out of the secrets of true Antiquitie driue that way my purpose is if God will to giue you a taste onely of that fruit which may be expected out of their sundry Indices Expurgatorij if they be well and narrowly sought after and looked into I haue but seuen or eight of them some that fell into my hands by casualty at the surprizall of the Towne of Cadiz others by the prouidence of God and great care and industrie of the Founder of our great Librarie Sir Thom. Bodley the Pâ—olomey of our â—ges and wonderfull preseruer of bookes I haue by my selfe and my friends amassed and shouelled together some thirtie Quire of Paper of Catholike restitutions and restored some one or two hundred seuerall Authors and out of them I haue gathered this small Introduction or Manuduction vnto Diuinitie sorted according vnto the especiall Articles of Religion controuerted at this day betweene vs and the Papists deliuered in as plaine and familiar manner as I could possibly deuise for the capacitie of the vulgar Protestant or Papist 2. I haue not taken all that may be taken or gathered out of the Articles that the booke might not rise to too great a bulke I haue neither collected all that is contained in the seuerall Indices but a third or fourth part only nor all that is contained in my said collections but the most pertinent and proper places 3. Neither is it to be vnderstood that all that are recorded by them for Papists are indeed Papists but supposed ones as Laeuinus Lemnius Io. Spondanus c. whose testimonies are sparingly miscited by mee in following the common errour
of the Pontificians which reckon them in the second Classis of Authors prohibited which is the note of Papists bookes forbidden but whether they be or bee not the question is prooued without their testimonies which you may take or follow at pleasure 4. By those Authors that are vnquestionably theirs by them expunged by me vsed it appeareth euidently that the Church of Rome in point of Doctrine had need of reformation when they did so often and so many of them call for it before Martin Luther pressing and expressing it in their learned Writings which were printed at Rome Venice Madrill Paris and other Popish places 5. That their bookes were many of them examined before they came vnto the Presse and accordingly corrected in many places and afterwards printed permisses superiorum with these very notes which wee present vnto you 6. These Aduersaries of ours and Writers of theirs who write and speake many things in our behalfe forced by truth not inuited by charitie though their authoritie of it selfe were of small account yet they are to be esteemed and good reckoning is to be made of them when they speake in fauour of vs because their owne consciences freely and vncoactâ—dly induce them in such matters of weight to depose against themselues and against the oath of their owne confederacie and so rest condemned by their owne Records and guiltie of errour in themselues and iniquitie against God I. N. in his Preface to his learned Workes could any man if he had been hired haue spoken more properly and pertinently to our purpose I commend his iudgement and shall like it the better whilest I know him knowne him I haue and ere long we shall be better acquainted 7. The testimonie of these Writers by mee alleaged which vncoacted and forced by truth doe pleade for our Religion are pertinent and to the purpose for else what need had you to raze the Records and as it were to embezell their Writings 8. To say as some doe that our Mother the Church may correct her disobedient children and reduce them into the right way of truth when they reclaime or swarue from the truth may perhaps be true prouided that it bee knowne which is the true Church secondly that it haue a certaine infallible and inerrable rule whereby all doctrine must be squared and lastly that the Author bee sent for by himselfe or his friends his errour shewed and reasons conuicted But for the first you haue no Church if you haue lay the Pope aside whom you would faine make your inerrable Dictator and tell me where it is and who it is and wee shall haue some hope of agreement in this point Secondly as you haue no Church so you haue no certaine Rule to proceed by your doctrine is yet to seek your Religion to be made except transubstantiation your doctrine against Priests Marriage some few points more that are in some sort in some Councels concluded shew all points of your doctrine your additaments determined before the Councel of Trent you shal haue them for me As for the Councell of Trents determination it neither maketh our religion schismatical or heretical nor yours truly Catholike and Orthodoxe Lastly that which you practise vpon your owne Writers by way of expurgatioÌ„ is not done with their priritie but altogether against their wils and consents 9. It will not auaile the Papists to say that they purge not the words of the Text in any Romish-Catholike Author but some scattred Annotations in the Margent or Indices of some Writers I reply that the Indices and Margents speake nothing different from the text and whether the Text be not thorowly expunged and some whole sentences pages yea sixtie in follio together blotted out I referre my selfe to any indifferent Popish Arbiter to arbitrate and sentence this controuersie betweene vs for being reduced vnto a Controuersie of fact euery Lay Gentleman if his eyes be matches becommeth a fit Iudge of these Controuersies your owne Smith truly saith it and I beleeue it But you cry out still Shew vs the bookes printed accordingly as Auentinus Cranzius Ferus Espencaeus or Stella Let me see whether the sentences you speake of or those that you haue produced in this very booke be omitted or no I answere This obiection hath a good varnish or glasse set vpon it but glasse is brittle and varnish will not long hold to say the truth your men speak they know not what in defence of their Indices you haue their toungs and they haue your eares to pawne and which is more your soules and consciences What you heare your spirituall Gouernours say you beleeue assuredly what so you beleeue you are ready to depose if need be against your consciences For example If one of your spirituall fathers should tell you that the house at the Blacke-Friers fell vpon a Puritane Preacher and his Psalming Auditorie to bring Gods Iudgements vpon them would you not beleeue him Doubtlesse he is a Iesuite ergo impeccable or a Father of the Societie and therfore to be beleeued chiefely in ordine ad Deum Or what if another of the same Societie should bring you a booke of my Lord of Londons Legacy a Legacy without a Will or a Will but neuer prooued how gladly would you reade and receiue hugge and embrace it as the words of a dying Saul so lately so miraculously conuerted to the Romane Faith Yet Preston that is said to be his conuerter denieth it saith plainly in Peters word but with more truth I know not the man his eldest son that was with him his Chaplains seruants that were about him know no such things Let other meÌ„ coniecture what they will of this rumour if I might freely deliuer vnto you my conceite this false report was hatched first in the Spanish Embassadours house by him is was rumoured abroad beyond the Seas and by him and his it was bruted here in England I haue my reasons to thinke it and thinke it againe for that about the same time there was a booke either going to the presse or newly printed wherein it was auouched that his most sacred and pious Maiestic was deposed by the Puritantes But I do but lightly passe ouer this as beeing a matter of State wherein it is not fit for Ministers to enterdeale I willingly forbeare But this story that followeth I cannot choose but relate it it lyeth aspersions on the late King scandalizeth the State pardon my iust indignation and true zeale that prickes me forward and maketh me for the good of the Kingdome and State to venture a chiding Thus then it is there is one D. B. Cleremond that hath made bold more bold then wise to make a most lewde and spightfull Commentarie vpon his Maiesties Lawes and Proclamations against Recusants vpon occasion of that about the powder raitours hee is bold not to deny the fact for then he must haue renounced his eyes or discredited the