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A15103	An ansvveare vnto certaine crabbed questions pretending a reall presence of Christ in the Sacramente: latelie propounded by some secret papist, to the great troubling of the consciences of the simple, together with a discouerie of the Jesuiticall opinion of justification, guilefully vttered by Sherwyne at the time of his execution. Gathered and set foorth by Peter Whyte, very necessary & profitable for this dangerous time.	White, Peter, Vicar of Eaton Socon.	1582 (1582)	STC 25401; ESTC S114005	62,353	289

gainsaie this erronious and newe doctrine And on the cōtrarie part the Bishops Cardinals Monks and Friars vvith all the rest of the clergie as the ministers of Antichrist did by tirannie general Councels false diuelishe miracles cause the Church to receiue this opinion of real presence vvhich before that time vvas strange and vnknowen THE OBIECTION ON the other side if in the first sixe hundred yeeres the Christians had belieued as the Lutherans Protestantes Swinglians now do he that had first begon to haue taughte the real presence of Christes bodie bloud under the formes of bread wine must at that time haue bin noted and reputed for an heretike he must haue bin conuinced by some general or prouincial Councell kept either in the East Church or in the West the Preachers and Doctors of that age shuld hans written against him THE ANSVVERE THe diuersitie of these names deuised by the Papists with a number mo besedes as Caluinistes Hugonites Prescisians and vvhat not bring no new articles of faith or diuersitie of opinions into the vvorld or be deuided in substaunce of Religion Martin Luther onelie excepted in one poynt but holde and teache the auncient and Catholike faith deliured by Christ and his apostles in the canonicall bookes of th' olde the new Testament wherin they continuallie heare the voice of the true shepheard and sauiour Christ Apoc. 9. 18. Es●● 16. and vvhereby they knowe the Romish church to be the sinagogue of antichrist therfore being warned by the scripture they flee from it as from the bottomles pit of darknes and denne of vncleane beasts from whence these fiue hundred yeeres there hath flowed vnmeasurable stormes of Sectaries aswel disagreing in substance of religion worship as in name and profession as appeareth by the Premonstatenses Augustinians Dunstinians Benets Bonames Monkes blacke white Barnardines Franciscanes Benedictes Augustine friars Crossed friars blackfriars white friars some beggers some lyers in steede of preachers some Mionres some obstinate with Hermites Ankors both men women with Nunnes of all sortes and last of all the secte of Iebusites and all these I saye with an infinite number besides who do differ in sect habite worship of God or dishonouring of God rather and substance of religion But if there be anie difference at anie time among vs it is onelie about suche remainders of Poperie as the misbegottē bastards of Antichrist haue left among vs. In dede as the deare children and seruantes of God Galla. 2 Peter and Paule did sharplie contende about the reliques of Iudaisme euen so at this day some contention nowe and then ariseth among the preachers of the Gospell about some remnantes of poperie which for our great vnworthines God hath yet left amōg vs as he did leaue a remnāt of Cananites Iudicum●● Hethites Iebusites to trie the children of Israel withal The myserie of iniquitie as the Apostle said did worke euen from the beginning with increase of loy tering laborers and decaie of faithfull pastors Cyprian saide in his time De delunia tontatioue dom Pinl p. 2. 2. Timi 3. Rarus hodie Phinies qui perfoderat impudicos rarus Moses qui occider at sacrilegos rarus Samuel rarus Iob rarus Noe flens cum Apostolo dico inmicos crucis Christi qui terrena sapiunt magistratus quorum deus venter est qui in hijs quae dicere nefas est elegantur gloriant At this day Phinies that may thrust through the shamelesse is seldome found Moses to slea the idolaters is rare Iob Aaron and Noe be verie thinne I saie vvith th'apostle vveeping the enimies of the crosse of Christ that sauer earthlie thinges teachers vvhose bellie is their God impudentlie reioyce glorie in those thinges vvhich once to name is vvicked venerunt periculosa tempora quae praedixit apostolus Math. 24. 2 Thess 2. Iohn 4. Apoc. 6. 9. the daungerous times vvhiche the Apostle foreshewed are come Yet before the generall Apostasie whiche our Sauiour Christ foretolde th'apostle S. Paule prophesied of and is so euidentlie described in the Reuelation did come there coulde no herisie no sooner arise but that the vvatchefull pastors did by and by note the autor therof by vvriting and afterwardes through the helpe of godlie Emperours in Councels both generall and nationall condemne such herisies vvith their authors as well apeareth by ecclesiastical histories For although the mysterie of iniquitie did euen in th'apostles time worke in the hands of Antichristes ministers yet throght the diligence of good pastors it vvas mightilie vvithstood but after the departure of these faithfull pastors through the negligence of such as afterward sought their owne ease vvith promotion and great dignities and falling fast aslepe with pleasure and securitie the enuious man found fit time oportunitie for the better sowing of his cokle darnel Apoc. 6. so that the ministery of the gospel decaied the truth was gretly darkned the church of God vvas not only vvith many corruptions superstitions defaced but became a pray vnto ra uening wolues which vtterly ouerthrewe the first beawty therof and chased banished and put to flight the true ministerie of the Gospel of Christ Matth. 7. 2. Thess 2. Whereby the man of sinne inuaded the temple of God sitting therein as though he had bin God After this I saie the noting and vvithstanding of heresie vvaxed much colder and for a time the churche or sanctuarie vvas troden vnder foote and the true members of Christes Church driuen into the vvildernes Apoc. 12. 13. vvher God did prouide a place for the same For after a thousand yeres ended Satan being for a time letten forth of the bottomlesse pit the man of sinne inuaded the Church of God as wel appeareth in the Reuelation Apoc. 6.20 whereunto agreeth manie writers of that age Arnolph in conci Lio Rauensi anno 1015. Arnolphus the Bishop of Aurelianense saide openlie of the Bishop of Rome Quid hunc in sublimi solio residentem veste purpurion aureo radiantem quid hunc inquam esse censetis Nimirum si charitate destitudtur solaque scientia inflatur extollitur Antechristus est in templo dei sedens sese ostentans quasi sit Deus What do you iudge of him that sitteth in so high a throne clothed in purple and shining vvith golde Apoc. 19. vvhat I praie you do you thinke of him truelie beeing voide of loue and puft vp vvith knowledge he is verie Antichriste sitting inthe téple of God bosting of him self as though he were God Eberchardus allo the archbishop of Salisburg said opély in the Coucel of Reginoburg Sub Pont. In concilio Reginol●●rg an 12. ●0 tempore Fr●●er ●● secuade Max. titulo pastoris pelle lupū seuerissimū nisi coeci sumus sentimus vnder the name of th chiefe or greatest Bishop except vve be blinde Math. 7. vve feele the most cruel vvolfe in the clothing or

Mardocheus serued Ammon and his posterity Finally as the Lord commaundeth the strumpet of Babilon to be serued ●poc 18. So shall they with peace and safetie raigne to the glory of God and comfort of his Church which they can neuer possibly doe so long as these Antichristian members doe abuse their clememcie and mercy as hetherto they to their great imboldening haue done Therefore of them Olim quod Vulpes oegroto cauto Leoni Respondet referam qua me vestigia terrent omnia te aduorsum spectantia nulla retrorsum As the wilie Fox aunswered the sicke Lion Well I say the steps of all men that trusteth thē maketh me afraid we see many noble personages destroyed by thē from their holy Caue returneth none in their felowship is nought but bloud and destruction We still therefore crie with the holy Ghost Tollite Vulpeculas Demoliuntur enim vineam Domini Out with the very Cubbs for they destroy the Lordes vineyard Fourthly as it were an other Hyrostratus by burning Diana her Temple or an other Curtius for a yeres pleasure with great pride and oftentation to leape desperatly into the Gulfe to win a vaine reporte or same emong the foolish people or as it were an other desperate Monke newe returned from hell shreuen and houseled to poyson King Iohn a most Noble and valiant Prince to the end he might through so vile and wicked a fact be accoūted amōg the popes Canonized saints doe these wicked and desperate Hipocrites attempt with losse both of body and soule to murther christiā princes godly magistrats to be Regestred in the Popes Martyrologe to haue Graines Beades Medalles blessed plenary pardons giuen in their names These Hypocrites herein follow the steps of the desperate Iewes that wickedly and wilfully cast away themselues to saue the tēple which God would destroy Iosephus de bello Iudeico We may not therfore be deceiued with this desperate hipocrisie of theirs For hereof we haue infinite examples as of the Circumcilians in S. Augustines time of Thomas Becket Thomas More Iohn Fisher Fekton and such like Tertul. August whose desperate deathes may not commend them vnto vs for Martyres For not the death but the cause maketh a Martyre Last of all as these Iesuits the last brood of Antichrist doe with like hipocrisie seeme to forme their speeches vnto the Phrases of the Scripture and to vse the sentences of the holy scriptures to couer hide from the simple the vgly and Monstrous face of filthy popery that thereby they might with lesse suspition cure againe in the heartes of the people the deadly wounde of the beast which otherwise to doe the Diuell well seeth is vtterly impossible Thus Alberius Pighius Eruius Andradius the late Courcell of Trident and thus the late executed Iesuites attempted to perfourme But among the residue Raph Sherwin one of the foure executed at Tiburne for treason on Friday the first of December playeth this pageant most guilefully to the deceauing of a greate number then and there present 1581. and purchased by his deepe desperate Hipocrisse a commendation aboue the rest as though there had bin wrought in him before his death some fast of Christ and true religion But all was subtiltie an hipocriticall hipocrisse to leade the people from the detestation of his popery to a liking or a more tollerable iudgement thereof If Raph Sherwin good reader had meat according to the good fourme of words by him then vttered then woulde hee vtterly haue cōdemned mans merites inuocation of Saintes with the residue of his popety to that point belonging contrary to the persō of Christe and free iustificatiō by his death This hee did not But contrariwise saieth he I die a good Catholique that is to wit an arrogant and an obstinate papist These last wordes of his gentle reader namely I die a Catholique doe well declare his meaning nothing to agree with his good forme of words by him first vttered Therefore one Master Edward Fleetewood a godly learned Preacher and I thought good by conference with Some of his fellowes yet remaining in the Tower to learne out by them his meaning in the good forme of wordes by him at his death vttred therby either to sift out the bottom of their Iesuitical practize or to giue occation vnto his fellows by his worses to repent and embrace the trueth and hauing cōferēce with Iames Bosgraue Iohn Hart Henrie Orton wee found their meaning in these good wordes vttered by Sherwin to be nothing lesse then to attribate our whole iustification wholly and onely vnto Christ as the good forme of his wordes did pretēd but partly vnto Christe partly vnto them selues as in the discouery more plainely will appeare which thing all papistes haue heretofore done Sherwin therefore meant not and the rest of the Iesuites intend not to retract any thing from the grossenes of Poperie but guilefully and subrilly to vpholde the whole The Lorde of his great mercy speedily treade downe Sathan vnder our feete for the better ouerthrowe of this wicked king dome the full restoring of the beautie of Christes Church and comfort of his deare Children So be it Faultes in the First booke For Elegantur Legantur For gloriant gloriantur fol. 23 For purputea purpure● For aurea aureo For tui in fol. 25 For presed se presens For so let let fol. 32 For the dayes of Abraham he did in the dayes of Abraham fol 40. For Nicholas the second Leo the ninth and Nicolas the second fol. 40. For he had they had For his theirs For whosoeuer who euer fol. 41. Faultes in the Second Booke For wherein the exact rule of the Law Read wherein the righteousnes of man is compared wyth the exact rule of the Law fol. 2. For applicatum Read explicatum fol. 5. For your clamorous Read our clamorous fol. 11. For tempored Read tempered fol. 12. For credamor Read credamus fol. 16. For cum creditis Read per cum creditis fol. 17. For qui Read cui fol. 33. For their Read the. For leud tent Read leud entent fol. 37 For penerall Read generall For then deuils Read then the deuils fol. 38. For hec loquitur Read hic loquitur fol. 38. Sherwins confession I Acknowledge that in me and of me there is nothing but sinne and abhomination and J trust onelie to be saued by the death and blood shedding of Iesus Christ The discouerie of this Confession FIrst for the better vnderstāding of their sudtilitie wee must remēber that of iustificatiō before God they make three differences The first wherein the righteousnes of man is compared with the righteousnes that is in God Albertus Pighius de fide iuscifi Concil Trident sess 6. And thus they confesse that no creature is righteous before God compared with his righteousnes The seconde wherein the exact rule of the lawe that is absolute perfect And mans righteousnes compared vnto this they confesse

plaine testimouies of Scriptures according to the true analogie and meaninge of the same And first touching their three fold righteousnes or iustice before god the Scripture knoweth no such diuision The Scriptures lay foorth vnto vs two kindes of righteousnes before God one that is of the law of God which lawe first ingrauen in man his heart before his fall after written in Tables of stone by the finger of God and opened at large by the holy Ghost in the bookes of Moises the Prophetes and Psalmes and most cleerelie in the bookes of the newe Testament conteineth in it the absolute and perfect righteousnes that whosoeuer fulfilleth the same shall liue therein and be iudged righteous before God and this law being the perfecte image of Gods iustice and the absolute rule of mans life receiueth no qualification Deut. 30. Luke 1.10 Leuit. 18. Rom. 3.8 Galat. 3. Iob. 15 Iohn 1. Mat. 15. Rom. 7.8 Galat. 3. Psalm 19. Mat. 5. nor in no parte doth condiscend vnto our infirmitie but requireth an absolute and perfect obediēce and a conformitie vnto the same for that it findeth this in none Christ onlie excepted it condēneth all absolutelie shuttinge them vnder sin vnto condemnation and iustifyeth none eyther in whole or in parte Heauen and earth shall perish but not so muche as a title of this law shall diminish For as God cannot be altered so the Law which is the rule of his iustice and the true image of himselfe can in no part be temperod unto our infirmitie if it can then let some of the Sorbonical Iesuites or Iesuiticall Sorbonistes lay it down by the testimonie of the Scripturrs Et erit mihi magnus Apollo The other righteousnes before God is in Christ only Quē proposuit Deus propitiatorem per fidem whome God hath made our propitiation through faith Nmo 3. Eum qui non nouerat peccatum pro nobis peceatum fecit vt nos iustitia Dei efficeremur in ipso Him that knew no sin 2. Cor. 5. did God make a sacrifice for sin for vs that we might be made the righteousnes of God in Christ 1. Cor. and God hath made him vnto vs wisdome righteousnes and sāctification and redemption Secondarilie therfore where they attribute this rihhteousnes only vnto Christ as the worker and offerer thereof keepe thapplication thereof vnto thēselues they take from God the best part of his office and are found lyars against God For Christ doth not ouely worke it for vs in all thinges belonging vnto himselfe but the Father doth also bestow it vpon vs inuesting vs by a liuely faith into the righteousnes of his sonne otherwise wee should gaine no more by Christ then we doe by the Law For the Lawe both conteyneth and offereth perfect righteousnes vnto vs Rom. 7.9 but it worketh it not and that for no lack that is in it selfe but is in vs For thus wee should make God and Christ in the worke of our redemption no better then a Phisition and much worse then a kinde Nurse or louinge Mother A skilfull Phisition doth in deede prouide necessary medicine for the patient but the receite thereof he leaueth vnto himselfe A good Nurse or mother will not only prouide meat for the childe but they also in what they can bring the childe to the receiuing thereof Ierim 23.32 But now the Father and the Son by the holy Ghost worke together in this woorke of our iustification Ezec. 11.16 Esay 44.45 Iohn 5.6.10.14.15.17 Mat. 16. Pater meus vsque adhuc operatur ego operor The Father worketh as yet and I also worke no man commeth vnto mee excepte my Father draw him And of his greate loue towardes vs he hath geuen his Sonne to die for vs so doeth hee geue vs the meanes whereby wee doe receiue him with his benefites which saint Paule doth euidently declare His wordes are these Ephes 2. Deus qui diues est in misericordia c. God that is rich in mercy through his great loue wherewith he loued vs and whē we were dead through sin he hath also quickned vs together through christ by whose grace ye are saued for by grace are yee saued through faith that not of your selues It is the gif●e of God not of workes least any man shoulde glory Iohn 6. For wee are his worke-manship created in Christ Iesus vnto good workes which God hath prepared for vs to walke in Here is the greate riches of Gods loue and his grace the efficient cause of iustification Mat. 3. Christ the merite respect Esay 53. Faith the meane and instrument betweene Christ and vs and withall the gift of god from which instrumēt or meanes our desertes and al works whatsoeuer are excluded in the apprehension of this iustification Tittus 2. and worke ordeyned of god doe follow our iustificatiō to be our exercises Loe good Reader what may or can bee sayde plainer In this worde of iustification is there nothing foūd of oures The whole worke is Gods we are no agentes herein but workmanship wrought of God only so that the whole worke belongeth vnto God nothing therin vnto our selues Therefore these Sorboniticall Iesuites are herin many wais found liers against god and his trueth Thirdly this faith whereby we apprehend our iustification in Christ is neyther of our selues or any habit of our minds reason or will nor yet formed by workes whereby together with workes we should be iustifyed but is the free gifte of God depending vpon our election geuen vs in Christ Iesu at the hearinge of the worde through the working of the holy ghost and doth only or alone without workes iustifie vs in Christ and bringeth forth such works as the worde requyreth being the fruites of our iustification to the glorie of God the profite of our brethren and witnessing our iustification both inwardlye in our conscience and outwardly before men shal euidently appeare First that faith is the worke and gifte of God in vs appeareth by the wordes of our Sauiour Christ Iosm 6. Mat. 16 Ephe. 6. Hoc est opus Dei vt credatis in illum quem misit ille This is the worke of God that ye beleue in him whom he hath sent Nemo venit ad me Philip. 1 nisi fuerit ei datum a patre meo No man commeth to me except it shal be geuen him of my father And S. Paul saith Iohes 2. Gratia saluati estis per Fidem hoc non ex vobis dei enim donum est Ye are saued by grace through faith and that not of youre selues for this faith is the gifte of God And againe Rom. 12. Sicut Deus vnicuique dimisit mensuram Fidei Euen as God hath deuided vnto euerie one the measure of faith And Augustine vpō the sixt of Iohn saith August super Iohan. cap. 6. trast 17. Credere datur nobis quid enim habes quod non accepisti