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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01175	The restorer of the French estate discouering the true causes of these vvarres in France & other countries, and deliuering the right course of restoring peace and quiet to all Christendome: wherein are handled these principall questions touching religion, policie, and iustice: whether it be lawfull to sweare, and keepe promise to heretikes, to force mens consciences for religion sake, to liue with, and dwell nigh heretikes, to breake the order of succession to the Crowne bycause of religion, or no. Who be schismatikes; and of the chiefe poincts of religion. How we are to iudge of the schisme in Christendome at this day. Lastly, the conclusion conteining notable admonitions to the clergie, nobles, magistrates, people, and King of France. Translated out of French. Ecclesiæ & reipub. D.	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 11289; ESTC S102588	139,883	174

brethren saith he ye see your calling how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weake things of the world to confound the mighty things and vile things of the world and things that are despised hath God chosen and things which are not to bring to nought things that are that no flesh should reioyce in his presence According hereunto the ordinary reproch of the persecutors to Christians was that they had none except the poore except women children simple men without cunning knowledge which made profession of the Gospell it is written Iohn 7. how the Pharisees said to the officers that durst not lay hold on Iesus doeth any of the Rulers or of the Pharisees beleue in him but this people which know not the law are cursed The profane histories of the Greekes and Romains are full of such reproches and tawnts against the Christians Now on th'otherside if we consider the word of God the whole Bible in it selfe setting apart the darknings or inlightnings which come from aboue and accompany Gods calling and election it will appeare that wee may read nothing more plaine or easie to be conceiued of the vulgar sort then the Bible is The holy history conteined in most part of of the Old testament is set downe in very popular common termes and so is the law the Prophets are somewhat hard to vnderstand but they are difficult to none saue those that think by their high wittes to find out their difficulties for the Prophesie is like a garden that bringeth foorth fruits for all maner of stomachs the fruites thereof are easie enough to be digested of them that are content with the first and natural sence of the letter grosser witted men wemen and children can vse it so far forth as to reape profit of it but withall it hath meditations most deepe most high excelling all other learning by degrees for the sharper sort of wits and such as feele themselues aduaunced to the like contemplations As for the Gospell and Epistles of th'Apostles nothing is more easie nor more apt of it selfe to be conceiued if some things hard to be vnderstood be in th'Epistles of S. Paul it is hard to none but to them that wrest the same and all other Scriptures 2. Pet. 3. as S. Peter affirmeth It is certaine that the holy Scripture inlightneth it selfe stoupeth low before the lowly soule darkneth it selfe and mounteth aloft out of sight before the lofty and presumptuous soule it is certaine that it frameth it selfe to our beginnings and proceedings in knowledge it soreth vpward and waxeth subtill in such measure as our wits are cleered each one findeth there his repast and the more he feedeth the greater is his appetite Finally hauing first of all called on the holy Ghost as our dutie is let vs with patience and humilitie vse ordinary reading of the Bible from the beginning to th' end and not by gobbets here a snatch and there a snatch with no good courage and rather for pastime or search of doubts and controuersies therein then to instruct stablish our minds and then euery of vs great small learned ignorant rich poore men wemen children shall iudge that no booke is more easie to vnderstand then the Bible And in deede the history the law the Prophets the Gospell th'Epistles are no other then speaches sermons familiar letters and aduertisements of Iesus Christ of the Prophets Apostles to the people of their times to persons of all sorts most commonly to the common sort onely thus did our Sauiour preach in villages and fields in wildernesses on the sea shore and within the temple thus did the Prophets proclaime their message on house-tops in streets in the temple thus did th'Apostles preach from village to village from vp-landtowne to vplandtowne from Citie to Citie indifferently to all The Gospell is nothing els but an historie and report in writing of all these preachings it is the speach of Iesus Christ and his Apostles set downe with the pen on parchmine or paper Now that which the holy Ghost hath iudged easie enough for the people to be pronounced to them by liuely voyce we may not with reason iudge it ouer-hard for the people to be published to them by writing for further stay may be made on the wordes written which abide and as it were tarry for the later thought of the reader then on the wordes vttered with the liuely voyce which slide away and tary not nor yet returne The Iewes haue euer had vnlesse captiuitie letted them the Bible in their most vsuall language and writing they neuer refused to make euery one partakers of the Bible euen to childreÌ„ of fiue yeare old at eightteen yere old they had read the law through-out and had perused leafe by leaf the Commentaries of their Rabins or Doctors the Greekes haue had the New TestameÌ„t in their mother tong and the Latins in theirs and likewise the Syrians in summe all Christen nations haue had it ech in their most common maner of speach writing So that they offer iniurie to the common-common-people of Fraunce to esteeme them vncapable of reading those bookes which th'Israelits imparted to their childreÌ„ of fiue years old they offer iniurie to all French-men vnlatined to esteeme them more rude and blockish then Syrians Greekes Latins and other peoples nay which is worse they offer iniurie to God to shut vs his booke to hold his word as it were in ward keepe his secret close Tob. 12. it is good saith th'Angell to Tobie to keepe close the kings secret but it is honorable to reuele the workes of God Againe if the Gospell or glad tidings ought not to haue bene geuen and declared to ech people after their seuerall maner of speach and vnderstanding if the Gospell should haue bene declared but in one tongue to what and then were those manifold tongues giuen to th'Apostles But mark how the Pope hath withholden the keyes of knowledge and hidden theÌ„ marke how he hath hidden the way of truth marke how the Pope hath drawen againe the veile ouer the face of peoples to lead them blindfold as him lust marke how he hath exalted the mountaines of ignorance and superstition which Iesus Christ had made low Isay 40. hath made the wayes crooked which our Lord Iesus had made streight hath locked vp the gate of saluation which our Sauiour had opened marke how the Pope hath destroyed the hearing of the truth folowing that which was foreshewed of Antichrist 2. Tim. 4. This is that superstition of tongue which hath fauoured and greatly furthered the Pope to conceiue and bring forth his lyes to bring them vp bring theÌ„ in credit to father theÌ„ on the auctoritie which belongeth onely to the veritie We must beleeue that

if it had bene in the Popes power to cause all the bookes of Gods word to be burned he had done it without doubt vpon the selfe same reason that moued the Senate of Rome to burne certeine Greeke books found within the tumbe of Numa Pompilius for the Senate feared least these bookes treating of true wisedome would haue disclosed th' abuses of their Religion and crakt the credit which the Romain people gaue to it and thereby shrewdly disioint their state euen so it stood the Pope in hand to feare lest the making of the holy Scripture manifest and common should pull down and bring to naught his doctrine his auctoritie and state and and this is the true cause why he can abide in no wise but striues with might and mayn against publishing of the holy Scripture Then let the bookes be lest open in our coÌ„mon language let them be written that all persons without exception may see search theÌ„ as the Prophets foretold should be in the time vnder Christ let vs vtter and show the Lords secret abroad let vs further th' accomplishment of the Prophesie of Ieremie cited by S. Paul Ierem. 31. Heb. 8. that in the time vnder Christ all shall know the Lord from the least to the greatest Isay and that of Isay saying all th' earth shal be filled with the knowledge of the Lord. Now againe Whether we ought to pray and prayse God in a tongue which we vnderstand not the Pope willeth that Priestes Chanons Munkes and other officers of the Church shall do their Church seruices in the Latin tongue shall say and sing Masse Laudes and Praiers in the Latin tongue euen in a strange tongue which most Frenchmen vnderstand not But the Scripture willeth the contrarie 1. Cor. 14. The Apostle saith that they which speake in the Church in a strange tongue and vnknowen are barbarians to them whom they speake to that they speake in the ayer that they are vnprofitable that they ought to holde their peace if the trumpet saith he geue an vncertaine sound who shall prepare himselfe to battaile So likewise you by the tongue except ye vtter words that haue signification how shall it be vnderstoode what is spoken If I pray saith th'Apostle in a strange tongue my spirite prayeth but mine vnderstanding is without fruict What is it then I will pray with the spirite but I will pray with th'understanding also els when thou blessest with the spirite how shall he that occupieth the roome of th'unlearned say Amen at thy geuing of thanks seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest for thou verily geuest thanks well but the other is not edified These words are so carefully spoken that no doubt is left but that we ought to pray and praise God in the Church onely in a tongue which all doo vnderstand We finde in Saint Marke and Saint Iames Mar. 11. that prayer without faith is vnfruictfull and sinne before God and elsewhere Iac. 1. that there can be no faith without knowledge they then that pray in Latine not vnderstanding what they pray pray without faith for they pray without knowledge Rom. 10. and thus their prayer is vnfruictfull yea it is sinnefull Let vs not vnaduisedly forgo the fruict which prayer affoordeth them that vse it as they ought let vs not marre this meane nor misuse this duety so necessary to a Christian and let vs pray and praise God in our knowen and common tongue with spirite vnderstanding and faith The Pope forbiddeth marriage to persons innumerable Whether marriage ought to be forbidden to Priests Clergymen and other religious persons men and women and to them namely that serue at the altar as also to them that enter into any religious order there is no coÌ„maundement of God so straightly kept as this countermaund of the Pope is The holy Scripture permitteth marriage to all men and womeÌ„ and namely to Sacrificers Leuites to priests and Bishops We finde it written that to marry is no sinne that marriage is honourable among all After S. 1 Cor. 7. Paul had commended virginitie to wit chastitie which ye terme Celibat Heb. 13. or single life he presently addeth 1. Cor. 7. and this I speake for your owne commoditie not to tangle you in a snare but that ye followe that which is honest In the same Chapter he biddeth all persons to marry that cannot absteine for saith he it is better to marry theÌ„ to burne And againe to take away all scruple he warranteth euery man that if he marry he sinneth not and euery virgin that if she marry she sinneth not 1 Tim. 5. And in another place he passeth further not permitting but bidding young widowes to marrie that they geue no occasion to the aduersarie to speake euil It is knowen how great cleannesse was required in Priests Leuits in the olde Testament and chiefly in the high Priest God permitted them to marry neuerthelesse and for their marriage ordeyned certaine lawes â—euit 21. The Leuites saith God shall not take to wife an whore or one polluted neither shall they marry a woman diuorced from her husband and elswhere the high Priest shall take to wife a virgine and shall not take a widow neither one diuorced neither a whore nor one polluted but hee shall take to wife a virgine of his people In the new Testament is written 1. Tim. 3. that a Bishop must be vnreproueable the husbande of one wife one that can rule his owne house honestly hauing children vnder obedience with all honestie for if any cannot rule his owne house how shall he care for the Church of God These later wordes doo plainly confute them that durst wrest the former to wit the husband of one wife as if the Apostle had meant the Bishop must be Bishop of one Church in which glosse is no colour but euidently corrupteth the text is contrary to their owne practise for the place conteyneth a rehearsall of qualities whereby a man meete to be a Bishop may be discerned from one vnmeete and among the rest this is put as principall namely his care and discretion to gouerne wel his wife family and children for saith th'Apostle if he cannot rule his owne house well how shall he care for the Church of God It is also contrary to their own practise For if it be true as their glosse importeth that a Bishop must be Bishop of one Church then are they not Apostolike Bishops that will be Bishops of many Churches much lesse the Pope that will be Bishop of all Churches better it were then for them to cast away their glose then change their practise Moreouer S. Paul admonisheth Titus his disciple to ordeine Priestes or Elders in euery Citie as he appointed him and then he addeth if any be vnreprouable the husband of one wife hauing faithfull children which are not slaundered of riot neither are disobedient for a Bishop must be vnreproueable As

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