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A68860	A worke entytled of ye olde god [and] the newe of the olde faythe [and] the newe, of the olde doctryne and ye newe, or orygynall begynnynge of idolatrye. Reade most gentel reader, for many [and] diuers causes this moost goodly boke ...; Vom alten und neuen Gott, Glauben und Lere. English	Vadianus, Joachim, 1484-1551.; Turner, William, d. 1568.	1534 (1534)	STC 25127; ESTC S119507	75,361	274

ryghtfull and naturall kynge hylderyke when they dyd caste awaye all clokes and vysures and boldely with open face dyd embrace and take vnto them selues great power but yet with feare in the begynnyng that is to wyte / of makynge kynges wherof they had made pactions with princes / laste of all because all thynges went forward luckely they dyd also adourne theym selues with most goodly cytyes and prouyncies connyngly and peacybly obteynynge Rome for theyr owne selues whiche shold be as it were the myrrour of the christen faythe in whiche all the whole worlde might see learne the very christen and euangelyke lyfe as they do write them selues in the syxte of the decretalles in the sxyte tytle the fyrst boke the xvij chapytre / Nūquid And by theyr owne propre power which they had takē vnto them selues they promouted Charles vnto themperourshyp of Rome / by suche feates they haue so crepte into possessyons and domynyon allways vndre the semblaunce and coloure of holynes and vndre the cloke of saynt Peters name that now they are lordes of all the worlde The pope is cōpared likened to an yuie tre And here cometh to my remembraūce a propre symylyrude In lyke maner as the Iuye tree doeth in the fyrste begynnynge / it is a tendre twygge rysynge out of the grounde and crepynge lowe on the grounde but by lytle and lytle it ioynethe it self to the rote of a stronge and a very hyghe tree as a fyrre tree or suche an other whiche fealeth nothynge at all so slender and so weake a sprygge for in the wynter tyme it getteth and receyueth dyuers and many iniuryes as in sufferynge otherwhyles the falle of the bowes and of the leaues Neuertheles althoughe it dothe in suche wyse suffre yet dothe it contynually growe vp vntyll it haue fastened it selfe within the barke of the tre that it maye cleaue alwayes more fast vntyll besyde the barke it do growe fast also to the body substaunce of the tre / then is it no lenger in daunger to be hurte with wyndes Then contynuethe he to goo forth on myghtely wyndynge hym selfe aboute the tre and when he is ones cropen vp so hyghe that he maye get holde of the braunches then doeth he shedde and depart hym selfe vnto the way of the braunches of the tree embrasing them euery one in suche wyse that the tree hath miche worke to growe In cōclusion there do breake out so many braunches of the Iuye so many leaues so many beryes and that so thycke and so great a nombre of them that the verie ryght tree it selfe is straungled and choked / and so that excellent and noble tree doeth peryshe and dye vpon whiche the stynkynge Iuye doeth growe to suche bygnes that it is a tree of it selfe and doeth occupy the place of the former great tree Compare now the narratiō that we haue made what thȳkest thou did it not come euen so to passe in olde tyme as it doeth euen yet also dayly an example herof fetche in the xcvj dystinctiō thrughe out all the chapiters of it But Adryan afterwardes the pope when he dyd perceyue hym selfe to be vnequall in power to desyderyus kynge of Italye he raysed vp agaynst hym Charles the great which cōmyng with a greate hoste agaynst desyderius toke the sayd desyderiꝰ prisoner and commaunded the pope with an hundreth and iiiij bysshops and abbottes for to assemble to a counseyll at rome The aucto … e of theꝓ … to 〈◊〉 pope in whiche the pope Adryan with the whole coūseyll dyd offre vnto themperour all his posteryte for euer all his auctoryte and powere for thenherytaūce and ordynation of the Romane see So that all the archebysshops thorough oute all londes sholde take theyr investiture as they call it of themperour and that none shold be consecrated without it vnder payne of excomunycation and gyuyng to the deuyll whiche same thynge Leo the pope nexte elected after Adryane dyd also whiche in an open coūcell assembled in the chirche of saynt Sauyour did bothe his owne selfe and all the counsayll a forsaid with hym cōfirme vnto Otho the fyrste of the germaines that was emꝓour of Rome that the same shold ēdure cōtynue for euermore / as it is redde in the lxiij distinctiō Adrianꝰ also in synodo This motiō they made to Charles that they myght haue one of the senatorie stock a defēder agaynste the kynge of Italye whō Pipin Charles had depriued of his kīgdom gyuȳg it to the pope of rom which sate ī pesible possessiō / after that he had submited hym selfe all his clergye vnto themꝑour lyuynge then in securite wtout ony feare or drede he did at the last ī ꝓcesse of tyme take al the goodes of the whole ꝓuince of Thuscia by p̄scriptiō ī to his possessiō The olde serpēt knewe his nest well therfore willynge to bring forthe some newe thing in the worlde he conueyed hym selfe in to his owne counterfeyte newe god Charles the great deceased in the .xlvij. yere of his own reygne which was the yere of our lord viij C.xv. after whom succeded Lewes his sonne the pope Adryan the fyrste of that name lyke wyse dyed whiche with the counceyll hadde gyuen the afore rehersed lybertye vnto Charles / herken nowe an hystorye The great Iuye which as I sayd before was growne vp hadde felte hurte in the election of the newe pope they dyd create cōsecrate pope Stephen the .iiij. neyther callynge to counseyll thembassadours of themperour neyther so moche as speakynge one worde of the mater to themperour lewes But after that it was noysed that themperour was displeased and angrye for that the pope with the hole counseill were shortly foūde false and vntrue brekers of theyr owne iudgement and sentences and yet they do now a daies saye that it is impossyble that a coūseyll sholde erre or lye then Stephen fledde to gylefull excepcyon framyng letters which sholde witnes the contrarye In the begynnīge he dyd cōfesse it to be true that to thelection of the new pope afore that he were chosen there oughte to assemble the bysshops prestes and the senatoures the people of Rome and he dissembled the name of themperour and of his embassadours but after that the pope was elected chosen that then themꝑours ambassadours were to be called in whose presence he shoulde be cōsecrated and not before Consydre the wycked craft of the pope The eleccyon belonged to them with out any knowlege gyuen to themperour the consecration of the pope belonged to them only themperours ambassadours muste stond by and loke on at the tyme of the cōsecration But where was the coūseill of Adrian lefte in the mean season The pope by hym selfe alone dyd infrynge the sayd coūsell and yet dyd not the pope alone neither decree nor make nor giue that liberty to themperour But the pope inuented a crafte a subtyll exception as the

lechery and bodely luste / of counterfeyte and fayned relygion / the deuyl hym selfe also whiche beynge agayne adredde and stondynge in feare of hym selfe to take hurte to be ouercome dothe coueyte desyere the olde wycked and vngracyous peace the quyete and peaceable seate of his power ini hypocrisye dothe loke aboute by Embassadours / and by pertyes by his frendes for ayde and soccourre wherfore the hydde and secrete treasures are nowe opened shewed / that is to saye where as aboue certeyne hundreth yeres a goo kynges prynces lordes cytyes ryche men euen vntyll this daye haue gyuen lyberall gyftes to the honourynge and worshyppynge of god as chyrstes Monasteries / benefices / prouynces / castelles / vyllages / tythes / lybertyes / suche other thynges wenynge that thereby highe reuerence doth come to god / which goods of the chyrche are nowe graūted to the sonnes of kynges prynces for this entent and purpose that they also shold be of those partes and sydes / and the same goodes also are gyuen in the stede of stypende and wages vnto the pestylent and myscheuous flyees and locustes of Aegypte for by this meane as they beleue they shall close vp agayne the feareful swerd in his sheth or scaberde and shall obteyne and get our olde peace / but the glyttrynge bryghtnes of the fyery swerde hathe so perced entred in to the eyes of many mens hertes that stryfe is spronge rysen well neare in all the erthe the sone rysynge agaynst his father / and the doughter agaynste her mother / all the hole house beynge in a styrre grete vnquietnes euery one in others top / throughe dyscorde and debate Besydes this the colleges of the men of the chyrche the partes of the religious persones which are excellently learned and wyse holdynge theyr peace as yf they were dumbe and theyr speche taken frome them the symple and vnlearned comynalte do enserch the depe merueilous mysteries of god and speaketh theym after dyuers wayes to and fro wherof is rysen a ꝓuerbe amonge many men I take perte with the olde god the olde faythe and the olde doctryne / I wyll beleue as my father and mother myne auncesters haue beleued / and eyther of the partes wyll accuse the other of errour and iustyfye theym selues and shewe the ryght / all the whiche thinges haue constrayned me to gyue knowlege brefly what is eyther the olde god or the newe and by the course of holy scriptures and of histories to gyue comen instructyon in all suche maner questyons and contrauersyes or stryues / by the mean of whiche instruccion euery man beinge not of a stubberne nature of obstynate maners myght the soner waxe wise amēde / that no man shold bynde hym selfe to contencions and false vnderstondynge of the manyfolde honourynge and worshippynge of god as a vayne a corrupte and hurtfull thynge of no value an obscure darke thynge and that we myght folow streight dyrectly the scrypture of god that accordynge to it as to a rule we shold direct our selues all our dedes / and that we sholde searche out the curnell or inner meate of the scryptures / betakynge the chaffe and the huskes therof to the wynde Nowe in this booke is shewed the verye orygynall fountayne sprynge / out of the whiche dyde yssue our banyshement in to this vale of wretchednes and mysery and how that blyndnes and the malygnyte of synne in vs dyd begyn and sprynge of the incredulite and vnbelefe of our fyrste father Adam out of whiche as out of the rote all Idolatrie hathe growen and spronge vp Cōsequently in this boke is also shewed rehersed by the hystoryes the veray begynnynge of all maner superstycion in the worshyppyng of false goddes / and whereby Lucyfer / Belus / Pallas / Iuno / Venus / Saturnus / Iupiter / purchased gate to them selues the names of goddes and goddesses Then afterwardes is shewed the blyndnes of the Iewes after the Natyuyte of Christe impiete of philosophers and the peruerse corrupte vnderstondynge and mysconstruynge of the scriptures vsed of herytykes Laste of all is shewed how throughe the sleyghte and deceyte of the deuylles that prowde creature whiche we doo now call the pope hathe ben exalted and aduaunced aboue god euen diuyne honours beynge decreed to the same pope by the most pestylēt host of flatterers which fyghte vnder hym as theyr captayne / frome the whiche pope as frome the hed of abused power auctoryte the pope is hedde the multytude of errors haue descended in to all the bodi of the whole worlde Christ beynge well nere soo put oute of place and brought out of mynde that he is in maner more vnknowē to vs then ony straunger And in the Chyrche of Rome moche after the fashone that was in the olde tyme vnder the feendes are vsed diuers ceremonyes straūge marueylous worshyppyng of god whiche knowethe none ende of varyete and sundrye fashons / which thynge is open for euery man to se It sheweth also how Rome doth cōfyrme / dothe condempne / dothe iudge all thȳges / so that a man maye not wtout good cause call it in to tryall and Iudgemente / whether he that nowe reygneth at Rome / be Antychryst / or els we ought to loke for some other Antychryste hereafter to come seynge that this man in all poyntes that is to wyte bothe in his doctryne and also in his lyuynge / is farre disagreynge in maner clene contrary to the doctryne and lyfe of Christe whiche bothe hȳ selfe also his apostles dyd neyther teache so / neyther yet dyd haue ony suche thynges in vse but dyd forbede and also dyd curse suche maner doctrine and suche rytes or ceremonyes The fyrst boke THat there was a deꝑting and deuysion made euen frome the begynnyng of the worlde forthe with as sone as reasonable cratures receiued lyfe the nature of aungelles do euydentlye declare / for parte of them dyd folowe god and parte of them dyde departe and fall away from god makyng a newe god to theym selues that is to wyte lucifer / man in earth for of Adā forthw t brake forth Abell Cayne two sundrye dyuers ways ī to which al theyr posterite haue entred do euē yet walke in they so shall walke euen to the world ende dyd serche out hygh actes / now if we do rede the olde historyes In the boke of Genesis and thoroughe out the Bible as manetho amōge the Aegeptions / Berosꝰ the histo of the chaldeis / Mochꝰ Estiꝰ of the syryās / Hisiodꝰ Iosephꝰ of the Iewes / and Tytus lyuiꝰ of the Romaynes then do we fynde most sure and vndoubted also most true tokens that all men of all tymes haue ben bothe in other thinges but most specyally in the honourynge worshyppynge of god maruailously disagreing stifly contrarye one to another / in so moche that