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A03269	An answere to a popish ryme, lately scattered abroad in the west parts, and much relyed vpon by some simply-seduced. By Samuel Hieron, minister of the word of God, at Modbury in Deuon	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.; Marlorat, Augustin, 1506-1562. Catholike and ecclesiasticall exposition of the holy gospell after S. Marke and Luke.	1604 (1604)	STC 13388; ESTC S119038	35,551	44

yeeres 1164. 1165. 1166. The Waldēses which held in many poynts against the Pope were in anno 1167. after increasing in diuers places Almaris a Bishop burnt in Paris for holding against Transsubstantiation Images Altars and praying to Saints 1206. Many in Sueuia did preach the Pope to be an heretike in the yeres 1236. 1237. 1238. Grosted Bishop of Lincolne wrote against the Pope anno 1246. Arnold de noua villa against Masses Sacrifices for the dead taught that the Popes beliefe was the deuils beliefe anno 1259. All Histories are ful of the like examples These few may serue for a taste to satisfie an indifferent Reader and to stop their mouthes who say none were heard of of our Religion and Church till Luther But now the Lord hath let vs sée Your Antichrists deformity That all men might him fully know Before his finall ouerthrow Our Pastor chiefe f 1. Pet. 5.4 in heauen did sit And so doth stil sayth holy Writte g Acts 4.21 On earth a Vniuersall Priest None dare be call'd but Antichrist h Gregory the great a Bishop of Rome sayd that whoso calleth himselfe or desireth to bee called Vniuersall Bishop is the Forerunner of Antichrist Epist ad Eulogium lib. 7. He that our Church and Keyes had sought By tokens in the Scripture tought Our Church and Keyes he might haue found Euen when the world was most vnsound Building of Churches nothing makes For that which héere thou vndertakes For then commend Demetrius Who builded Shrines at Ephesus i Acts 19.24 Well may the Heathen people boast Of Piramées and Churches cost In houses made God doth not dwell As holy Scripture doeth vs tell k Act. 7.48 Yet neyther all the Churches here Erected by the Papists were Nor are by vs abolished Places where God is worshipped If priuate men haue euill done For it blame not Religion Those men which do Church-spoyling loue Our Fayth and Church doth not approoue Those Celles and Dennes of Idlenes And Nurseryes of wickednesse Vpon good causes were displac'd As Baals Temples were defac'd l 2. Kings 10. * Touching Luthers Mariage A Lawlesse vow m It is wel called a Lawlesse Vow because it is of a thing which is not in mans power If it be said that by fasting prayer it may be performed continency obtayned I answere the giftes of God are twofold Some cōmon to all Beleeuers as Faith c Some peculiar to some onely as this of Continency Now if by fasting and Praier we labour for the first sort we shal in some measure receiue them but we haue not the like assurance for the gifts of the latter sort because it may be the Lord is pleased otherwise to dispose Now to make such a Vow is a sinne but to persist in it is a double euill of single life Luther well brake and tooke a Wife Better the pure and Spot-lesse Bed n Koite amiantos Heb. 13.4 Then by vncleane lustes to be led o 1. Cor. 7.9 Better the marryed Chastity p Papists doe oppose mariage chastity but Paul bids yong women to be chaste subiect to their Husbands Tit. 2.4.5 Then violent Virginity They ought not single to remaine Who are not gifted to containe q 1. Cor. 7.9 Wedlocke it selfe can not defile It hath an Honourable Stile r Heb. 13.4 God doth it not to each man giue Without the marriage bonds to liue s Math. 19.11 And it is allowed to a Bishop to be the Husband of one wife 1. Tim. 3.2 The forced vowes of Singlenes Haue brought foorth beastly Filthines Thou maist behold in History The fruits of Monkish Lechery t There were 6000. infants heads found in Pope Gregory his mote as appeareth by the letter of Voluntianus Bishop of Carthage or as some thinke of Huldericus Bishop of Augusta to Pope Nicholas against the forbidding of Priests mariage Thy poysoned Tongue doth further reach The noble Saxon to impeach Because to Truth he did encline Thou callest him a Libertine When God was pleas'd to let him sée How Christ his Death hath made vs frée Then did he déeme it slauery To beare the Romish tyranny Though Antichrist did Rome possesse ‡ Who kept the Scriptures You kept the Scriptures I confesse And in that long Apostacy Those Bookes were in your custody So I a Pirate false haue knowne To kéepe the goods were not his owne And in the Ship to rule and raigne When the right Owner hath bene slaine So did the Iewish Synagogue Safely kéepe Moses Decalogue And th' other Bookes u Viz. the Prophets Psalmes for so is the old Testamēt diuided Moses the Prophets and Psalmes Luke 24.44 when cruelly They did Christ Iesus crucify § Touching the calling of Ministers The Pastors which did first restore The Trueth which lay long hyd before Thereto were called lawfully And euen by your Authority You did them Priests and Doctors make And they from you this charge did take w In their admittance That they the Truth should soundly preach And in the same the people teach Hereto you caused them to sweare That to the Fayth they should adheare And neuer should errours endure That were against the Doctrine pure That whereunto you did them call Full well they haue performed all Trueth they haue sought to propagate And Heresyes to ruinate As we account your Baptisme true And neuer do the same renue So may you make a lawfull Priest Yet be not the pure Church of Christ We know that now you wiser bée And sweare your Priests to Popery x In their othes and admissions they put in this clause The Catholike and Apostolike Church of Rome which in elder times was not vsed And binde them to maintayne the state Of your thrée-Crowned Potentate Sée now O Papist thou recant Th' art answered by a Protestant I counsell thée if thou be wise No new euasions to deuise Thy tale of Ethelbert of Kent Is but a slender Argument y It is also answered before It sails not whence the Fayth was brought Or who it first amongst vs tought Let vs into the Scripture looke z Isay 8.20 And duely search a Iohn 5.39 Acts 17.11 that holy Booke Thence shal we know which Church to leaue b We haue found Christ in the Scriptures there wee must also finde the Church Aug. de Pastoribus And vnto which alone to cleaue These swelling wordes c 2. Pet. 2 18. of Vnity Succession and Antiquity Are but poore groundlesse fantasyes To blind the simple peoples eyes Though that an Angell thou shouldst sée Let him sayth Paul accursed bée d Gal. 1. ● If from the Scripture he doth erre Account him not Gods Minister If one arise and wonders show Séeking the Trueth to ouerthrow Though that might séeme a motiue strong Yet vnto him death doeth belong e Deut. 13.1 2 5. If thréescore Byshops here and thrée Haue bene with vs successiuely It eyther prooues our Church is true Or els that marke makes nought for you That Fayth for which Peter was slayne Our English Church doth still retayne We heare the voyce f Iohn 10.27 of Christ Iesu Who is the Sonne of God most true FINIS