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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68512	A warning agaynst the dangerous practises of papistes and specially the parteners of the late rebellion. Gathered out of the common feare and speche of good subiectes. Sene and allowed.	Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 18685.7; ESTC S113364	44,769	112

Flaunders with the soonest God knoweth what they send thether and with what reciprocation they requite suche newes againe how they had newes of the late horrible murder ere it were done as if they had ben accessaries before the fact how they write letters at home directed to them selues how with these prety letters while they be fresh bléeding that is so scarcely drie that the ink blotteth with their great countenaunces with their taking vpon them wonderous intelligence and great insightes in secretes of Princes as if they were Kinges cousines and with their offringes of wagers and such other braggeries they deface as men say all that can be brought or reported neuer so truly of any good successe to the Queene or her frendes And other sort there is like kestrelles or troutes they euer flye agaynst the wynde or swimme agaynst the streame in quéene Maryes time great Gospellers now great Papistes men that would euer séeme wyser than the present world and wold faine be noted to sée some singular thing when for the most part themselues are the most vayne and singular fooles that liue No gouernement pleaseth them as they be content with no world so are they mete to liue in none But let them beware the sinne against the holy ghost it is a perilous thing God graunt them to see the horror of it so farre as it may auayle to their tymely repentance before that mere apostasie bring them into it There is feared to be an other suttle sort that are in déede of no religion and yet at sundry tymes and places to some secretly to some openly to some one where to some an other much like the deuided counselles in Edwarde the fifthes tyme would séeme of all religions These be most enclined to papistry eyther because God will not vouchsafe that such dissemblers féele true religion or that they be rancke papistes in déede howsoeuer they abuse men wyth other shew for purposes or which I rathest thinke for that they are persuaded that the Popish faction eyther for multitude for welth for foreine alliances or for hatred to the Quéene and her gouernement which they perhaps would wishe to be ouerthrowen as all perfect papistes would or for other respectes is more commodious for their desire and ambition or for the toyes in their heades to rise to vātage in an other world Such belike haue a good mynde to the aduise that Lentulus wrote to Catiline Auxilium petas ab omnibus etiam ab infimis séeke helpe of all sortes yea euen of the meanest they make much of al sides Such can I compare to notable pyrates that wil euer haue within boorde men of all nations and flagges of all Princes and countryes If he méete with Englishmen stronger than himselfe out goeth a flagge of England and Englishmen aboue hatches that he may passe in peace likewise he doth with the Frenchman Scot Flemming Spanyarde or other and many tymes he doth this not to much to passe peaceably himselfe as that he may the more vnprouidedly set vpon hym whom he desireth to spoyle So happeneth it sometymes that such a counterfait papist as my Lorde of Westmerland and other finding the plain shew of papistry not so commodious profitable or safe for hym by reason of many occurrentes that may happe to haue ouertaken hym till he were ready for his purpose hangeth out a flagge of Christianitie dealeth with the Bible other good bookes as the decayed knight did to whom Bishop Cranmer vpō a good hope gaue fifty pound yearely pension to cherishe his towardnesse he setteth hys men of that nation aboue hatches he deceaueth good men that be not filij huius seculi no children of this world those he abuseth with protestations and God wote with the same fayth that teacheth to kéepe no faith while in the meane tyme for all this of their certayne purpose of pyracie of their prouision preparation and furniture of their former deuises nothing is chaunged their other company though vnder hatches yet still be ready till the opportunitie of mischiefe biddes them start vp sodenly like the children of the earth that rose by miracle of the serpentes téeth that Cadmus had sowen These be watchers and reach euer to an other world they prouide for succeding of tymes to come imagining what day shall follow the dreadfull night They woulde be looked vnto by the present day light before the night come These to speake plainly be they if any such be as of such mind al perfect papistes be that are weary of her maiesties gouernment fal to deuising by planting a hope of strange titels to vndermyne her maiesties estate such as hang vpon the hope of Rome after her decesse which hope they know can not haue effect while her highnesse lyueth and reigneth to whome almighty God graunt to lyue reigne while the world lasteth in person or in succession of her owne most royall body Of this sort was Gardiner that abused K. Henry with a false flagge of religion when he made hys booke of true obedience Of this sort was Boner when he fauned vpon the L. Cromwell made a notable preface to Gardiners booke Of this sort was Tonstall and the rest that wrote against the Pope Pole and all papistry Of this sort are all those Catilines companions Papistes that beare a glosing shew of obedience and waite for a tyme to vtter their malice till they droppe away into Manlius campe or tary with Lentulus Cethegus Ceparius and the rest to murder the Consul Cicero or set the Citie I meane the Realme on fire An other leud sort eyther depraue whatsoeuer the Quéenes Maiestie and her most honorable Counsell doth for the safegarde and commoditie of the realme or of things which they can not deface they transferre the praise to other being desirous as it were by false flattery to créepe into ambitions bosome to raise vp a faction against her highnesse as if her Maiestie do any popular or beneficiall act to the commonaltie by and by they imagine some one or other whom they would make an Absolon whether he will or no to embesell the peoples loue seyng full well but not caring at all how they burden with great suspicious those whom they lode with false praises perhaps draw into vniust harmes those whom they claw with vntrue flatterie Howbeit I trust all men of credit and greatnesse haue taken héede and will beware that wrongfull praises and imputations raise not their mynde to a wrong way of climing for surely such popularities and hanginges by the vayne ayre are not auancementes but precipitations But such is the corne pouder of treason wherewith these popish rumor spreaders hartes be double charged that it must nedes breake forth and commonly to his destruction or great danger of singeing that ministreth the fire An other sort exercise their rayling tonges which by great vse at tables and other places they haue made very slippery voluble