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The apology of Iohan Bale agaynste a ranke papyst anuswering both hym and hys doctours, that neyther their vowes nor yet their priesthode areof the Gospell, but of Antichrist. Anno Do. M.CCCCC.L. A brefe exposycyon also upo[n] the .xxx chaptre of Numerii, which was the first occasion of thys present varyaunce. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.
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Bale, John, 1495-1563.
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full manerly ye axe me leaue so to do whyche I graunte with good wyll ThaÌ„ fall ye to a nughty strayning of this gnatte Your doubte firste of all is of Samuel ye saye consyderynge that neyther hys father nor soune were prestes Thys reason is to slendre to hold ye styl in that doubte vnlesse ye wyll doubte of purpose For Melchisedech was the preste of the hyghest Gen. xiiii and yet we fynde not that hys father was a preste neyther yet hys sonne after hym But thys dare I boldelye affirme that both Samuel was a prest and Helchana his father after hym And after y â— death of Heli not onlye he succeded in the seignourye or pryncypalyte ouer the Israelytes but also in the hyghe presthode Marke hys authoryte i. Reg. iii. hys intercessyon sacryfyce for the people i. Reg. vii whyche all pertayned to hys presthode Thys confirmeth Da uid Psal. xcviii Moses et Aaron in sacerdo tibus eius et Samuel inter eos qui iâ—nuocant nomen eius Iâ—uocabant dominum et ipse exaudiebat eos Moyses and Aaron amonge hys prestes Samuel among suche as call vpon hys name They called vpon y e lorde and he hearde them The lyke is written also Hier. xv Si steterint Moses et Samuel coram me non est anima mea ad popu lum istuÌ„ Though y t great prestes Moyses Samuel stode afore me to make intercessyoÌ„ yet haue I no harte to this people For the prestes were they which ded that office Iohel ii S. Augustyne writeth thus in xii lib. coÌ„tra faustuÌ„ ca. xxxiii NoÌ„ne ab ipso reguÌ„ ex ordio coÌ„mutatuÌ„ est sacerdo tiuÌ„ in SamueleÌ„ reprobato Heli et regnuÌ„ in dauid reprobato Saule Is not the presthode from the verye begynnyng of kynges changed to Samuel Heli beyng reiected and the kyngedom gyueÌ„ to Dauid Saul beyng dysalowed Bede hath also the iyke super primo Regum et Roman vii Moreouer IohaÌ„ Carion sayth in the seconde boke of hys Chronycles Incertitudinem imperii indigne ferens populus postulauit a Samuele summo sacerdote regem certum designari qui preesset regno The people grudgyng at the incer taynte of their empyre requyred of Samuel the hygh preste that a kynge myghte be certaynly appoynted to gouerne them Petrus Equilimus in sanctoruÌ„ Catalogo sheweth the same And for hys father Conradus Pellicanus sayth vpon the first chaptre of the firste boke of kynges Pater Samuelis sacerdos erat mater prophetissa The father of Samuel was a preste and hys mother a prophe tysse It is also in the Byble texte i. Reg. i. quod Helcana immolauit I pray you what call ye that Lo sir thys is ynough to proue Samuel a preste and to dyscharge youre great doubte Yet for so muche as ye reason further ye shall haue further answere Ye saye Samuel can not be proued a preste bycause he came not out of the stocke of AaroÌ„ Thys declareth in yow a blocky she ignoraunce and as though ye had sene nothyng Iosephus in the first boke and the. xv chaptre of his Antiquytees sayth that Helcana Samuels father was vir Leuita a man of the stocke of Leui. Althamerus writeth also in sylua Byblicorum nominuÌ„ that the seyd Helcana was genere Leuites a Leuyte by hys byrthe Pellicanus cometh after and he confirmeth it with this sentence vpoÌ„ the. xcix Psalme as he nombreth theÌ„ Erat sane Samuelex genere Leui per Cahat ex quo Aaron et Moyses nati sunt Certaynely sayeth he or without questyon Samuel was of the stocke of Leui by Cahat of whome spronge fourth Aaron and Moyses And he sendeth vs ther to the pedigrew of the Leuites i. Pa ralip. vi where as it is regestred at large Yet are ye not contented but Samuel must styll be no preste bycause hys mother offered hym vp to serue in the temple Whiche she neded not to haue done ye saye if he had bene a preste borue O brutysh bussarde ac stoliduÌ„ caput Thys is a reasoÌ„ as though Gods fauer and syngular grace had bene bounde vndre lawe as in that age synnefull men were Thys phantasy of yours S Hierome with youre other olde doctours haue dyscharged Pellicanus comprehendynge their myndes in thys only sentence Preter legem erat infantem Leuiticum offerre doceretur mino Sed quia myraculose promissus et ge nitus diceretur susceptus est ab Hely et velut peculiare Deo munus oblatum diligentius curanduÌ„ It was aboue the law to offer the lorde a chylde of Leuyes stocke But bycause that Samuel shulde be famed abroad to haue bene promysed and borne by myracle he was receyued of Heli the hygh preste and offered as a peculyar gyfte to God to be more dylygently loked to The Byble ma keth mencyon of Leuytes Aaronytes but not of prestes borne as ye do call them For prestes borne are no babes but great lubber knaues as I haue both heard and seane I remembre ones at Cambridge a good fellowe complayned to doctor Edmondes thaÌ„ vycechauÌ„celler y t his wyfe was delyuered y t night afore of a great gray frier And at LondoÌ„ in an inne within Smithfeld Ione Swepestake was deliuered of the limitour of Ware Whiche swepte cleane away his clocke cowle purse petycote botes hatte horse all leauynge hym in bedde al naked I heard it also at ThornedoÌ„ in Southfolke by them that founde oute the game that the sexteÌ„s wyfe there was delyuered of the parrysh preste at eleuen a clocke in the nyght I haue redde of Paulus tertius y e last bishopp of Rome y t his owne dere daughter at dynerse tymes delyuered hym besydes manye other wonders â–ª Some tyme these mysteryes were hyddeÌ„ by the terrour of walkyng spretes but now they are knowne wale ynough I coulde noÌ„bre ye out a great sort of your vn chast masse mongers y t haue thus bene delyuered of late yeares yet they wyl haue no wyues of their own so holy a thing is whoredome in youre whoryshe churche Now come we to Zorobabel whyche coulde be no preste say yow bycause he was de tribu Iuda If that rule shulde stande than must ye also deny Christes presthode whych was de tribu Iuda both by Mathew and Lukes Gospell and by all the other scriptures I am the boldar to confesse Zorobabel a preste bycause the prophete Aggeus by the expresse mouth of god vseth him as a fygur or former exaÌ„ple of Christ. Agge ii the same is coÌ„firmed Eccl. xlix For y t whych zorobabel ded in reparing y e teÌ„ple aultre made by handes ii Esd. iii. Iesus Christ perfourmed in y e teÌ„ple aultre without handes Heb. ix Et zach iiii Manus zorobabel fundaueruÌ„t domuÌ„ istaÌ„ et manus eius perficient eaÌ„ The handes of zorobabel haue layde the foundacyon of thys house and hys handes that is to