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A03768	A most excellent treatise of the begynnyng of heresyes in oure tyme, compyled by the Reuerend Father in God Stanislaus Hosius Byshop of Wormes in Prussia. To the moste renomed Prynce Lorde Sigismund myghtie Kyng of Poole, greate Duke of Luten and Russia, Lorde and heyre of all Prussia, Masouia, Samogitia &c. Translated out of Laten in to Englyshe by Richard Shacklock M. of Arte, and student of the ciuil lawes, and intituled by hym: The hatchet of heresies; De origine haeresium nostri temporis. English	Hozjusz, Stanisław, 1504-1579.; Shacklock, Richard.	1565 (1565)	STC 13888; ESTC S113605	100,065	244

commaundeth them which be not baptized to kepe this lawe and in an other place afterwarde this sentence of free wyll hath no inconuenience in it it is the true meanyng both of other Ecclesiastical wryters and Synodes also of S. Augustyne hym selffe nether dothe it bryng good myndes to desperation nether dothe it discourage them from doyng they re indeuoure but it aduaunceth the helpe of the holy ghoste and sharpneth the care and the diligēce of oure wyll I defye the dotyng dreames of the Maniches which denyed that oure wyll dyd any thing at all thoughe it were holpē of the holy ghoste as thoughe there were no difference betwene a paynted poste and oure wyll He wryteth also that three causes of a good action do mete to gether the worde of God the holy ghost and man his wyll assenting and not resisting the worde of God For it may resist as Saule resisted of his owne accorde but when the mynde obeyeth and yeldeth then doth it not gyue place to mistrust but by the helpe of the holy ghoste it indeuoureth it selffe to cōsent in this indeuouryng oure wyll standeth not by ydely lokyng on And agayne with in a few wordes after I haue sene many not of the Epicures sect which when they were in heauynes for theire syn disputed thus with themselues howe sholde I hope that I am receaued agayne in to God hys fauoure seing I perceaue not a nue lyght nue vertues to be powred in to me More ouer if my free wyll dothe nothing at all in the meane whyle tyll I fele that regeneration which you speake of to be wrought in me I wyll gyue my selffe vp to desperation and other synfull affections This imagination of the Maniches is an horrible lye If this opinion of Melancthō be true why was one not long agone expulsed out of Trinitie Colledge in Cambrige and wrytten in the Regestre booke for a semipelagian and mennes myndes are to be dissuaded from this erroure to be taught that oure free wyll worketh and endeuoureth Pharao Saul resisted God not compelled but wyllingly frely nether was Dauid conuerted as if so be a stone sholde be turned in to a figg but free wyll dyd some thing in Dauid when he heard the rebuke and the promisse then willinglye and frely he confessed his syn and his wyll dyd some thing when he comforted hym selffe with these wordes Oure Lorde hath taken away thy syn And agayne a fewe wordes after For so muche as God hys promisse is generall to all men in God be no contradictorye wylles of necessitye there is some cause of diuersitie in vs why Saul is reiected and Dauid accepted that is as muche to saye there muste nedes be some vnlyke action in bothe of them And in the chapter afore going which is of the cause of syn of casualtie he sayth thus This is a godly and a true saying to be holdē fast with bothe handes or rather to be prynted in oure hart the God is not a cause of syn and that he wolde not haue syn committed that he inforceth not oure wylles to syn or that he approueth syn But the causes of syn be the wyll of the Dyuell and the wyll of man who myght abuse his wyll and turne hym selffe from God whiche thinges he dothe there intreate vpon more at large Melancthō declareth playnelye that he had bene a Maniche By the which euery man may see howe Philip Melancthō recanteth what so euer he wrote of free wyll in his common places condemning also with his owne his Master Luthers opynion as wycked and agreing with the Manichees heresie which thing he also dothe in mo wordes in hys Epitome of morall Philosophy which he dyd sette furthe at Straesbroughe in the yeare of oure Lorde 1538. where he lykewyse rebuketh those busye braines which styrr vp many stryffes aboute free wyll the folishe ymaginations of Valla who taketh away all libertie from oure wyll because God ruleth gouerneth all thinges More ouer in his later commentaries vpon the epistle of Saint Paule to the Romanes he caused those thynges to be scraped oute which he wrote when he was one and twenty yeare olde that euell workes were as wel the proper workes of God as the adultery of Dauid and that the trayterdome of Iudas was as well the proper worke of God as the vocation of Paule Also expounding that place God gaue them vp to the lustes of theire owne hartes God saythe he nether willeth nether alloweth nether worketh syn And because the same Philipp was the autor of the confession of Augusta thys also forsoke Luthers opinion concerning the article of free wyll the which for all that he helde so styffly to the end of his lyffe that he offred hym selffe rather to dye then that he wold reuoke it In the which what greate confidence he dyd put he playnelye declared bothe in the beginning as a lyttell before I haue shewed and in the end of that boke which he dyd wryte agaynst Erasmꝭ For allmoste at the end he thus speaketh vnto him In this I highely cōmend you that you olone aboue all other haue sett vpon the matter it selffe that is the cheife poynte and grounde of all oure cōtrouersie and that you haue not weried me with by questions of the papacie pardones purgatory and suche other tryfles rather thē causes in the which other haue hetherto bayted and hunted me all in vayne You therefore and none other haue espyed the pythe of the matter and haue lept lustely at my throte Therefore Philipp with his fellowes which be of the confession of Augusta durst sequester hym selffe from hys master Luther in openly disagreing from hym aboute that which is the cheife hinging of all matters in cōtrouersye In doing of which thyng what dyd he ells but condemne him of wyckednes and heresie The doctrine of Luth. is founded vpon the denying of free wille And in very dede the cheife fondation on which the whole buylding of Luthers learnyng is stayed is the opiniō of free wil which can not synck or fall downe but euen at the same tyme all those thinges must decaye and come to ruine whiche he dyd wryte especially of iustification and of other thinges thereto belongyng Caluin as yet defendeth the opinion of Luther in this behalffe Pericope a circūcision or paring of and standeth styfflye in it And Brentius dothe seme not vtterly to disproue it in his fyrst pericope which he dyd wryte agaynst the Reuerend learned mā named Petrus a Soto I haue sene also a booke of a certayne Frenshe man in the which he sharpely handleth his M. Melancthon for that he swarueth from his M. Luther in suche a weyghtye matter In the which boke he also layeth to hys charge that he croweth lyke one of Caluine his cockrells Nowe then we haue six heades of thys Lutheran monster of the which the six is a heade in dede For it concerneth the cheife ground of religion

deathe eod pag. 1. Luther wolde haue his scollers called Gospellers fol. 9. pag. 1. Luthers doctrine why it may not be allowed eod pag. 2. Luther more cruell then the souldiars which dyd put Chryst to deathe fol. 10. pag. 2. Luther the author of Sectes eod pag. 2. Luther moste gredye of glory fol. 11. pag. ● Luther a sore ennimye to Image breakers eod pag. 2. Luther beguyled of Bucer becam a Sacramentarie fol. 13. pag. 1. Luther full of disdayne and arrogancye fol. 16. pag. 1. Luther his verdict of the Zuingliās and the Sacramentaries and marke howe he proueth them him selffe heretykes fol. 21. pag. 1. Luther being not able to answer the Anabaptistes by Scripture flyeth to the traditions of the Apostles fol. 29. pag. 1. Louaines article defended fol. 43. pag. 1. Luther his addition to S. Paule his worde reiected of the deuynes of Lipsia fol. 59. pag. 1. Luther made wyndowes for sathanisme fol. 61. pag. 2. Luther denyeth free wyll fol. 65. pag. 1. Luther howe much he estemed the bokes of Melancthon fol. 67. pag. 1. MEnno Phrisius an Anabaptist his bolde bragge of the surenes of his doctrine fol. 28. pag. 2. Munster a citie Reade there a notable history howe the Catholykes were dryuen oute by the Lutherans and the Lutherans by the Anabaptistes fol. 30. pag. 1. Martirdome is not gotten oute of the Churche fol. 44. pag. 1. Martirs be not made by the lykelyhode of the punishment but of the cause fol. 47. pag. 2. Melancthon how arrogantly at the fyrst he denyed free wyll fol. 65. pag. 1. Melancthon confirmeth free wyll in his latter bokes fol. 67. pag. 2. ONe erroure draweth many other after it fol. 6. pag. 2. Osiander a Lutheran ill handled of the Confessionistes fol. 71. pag. 2. Osiander his doctrine allowed in one Vniuersitie and condemned in an other fol. 72. pag. 1. Osiander his disdayne agaynst Melancthon fol. 73. pag. 2. Poole preserued from heresye throughe the wonderfull watchefulnes of their Byshopes and Godly deuotiō of theyr Kynges fol. 3. pag. 1. Persecution sometyme is necessary a difference betwene the persecution of good men and euell fol. 47. pag. 1. Petrus a Soto why he wrote against the Confession made by Brentius fol. 77. pag. 1. Petrus a Soto his order in wryting fol. 78. pag. 1. Petrus a Soto his prayse fol. 80. pag. 1. Paule the Apostle what manner of seruant he was fol. 84. pag. 2. Petre the Apostle what manner of seruaunt he was fol. 85. pag. 1. Specyall fayth makyng no doubt of the forgyuenes of synnes reproued and the obiections makyng for it soluted 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Suenckfeldius hys heresye that we ought to haue no scriptures fol. 49. pag. 1. Suenckfeld vouched dyuerse scriptures for his propose fol. 51. pag. 1. Suenckfeldius fynished the Ghospel which Sathan began by Luther fol. 51. pag. 2. Suenckfeldians mo then Lutherans or Zuinglians fol. 53. pag. 1. Suenckfeldians maruaylously holy to see to eod pag. 1. Seruetus condemned and put to deathe by meanes of Caluine fol. 56. pag. 2. Stanislaus a Martyr for rebukyng of the Emperoure fol. 91. pag. 1. Thomas Muncer of an Anabaptist dyed a penitent catholyke fol. 32. pag. 1. Tymmanus a Lutheran theacheth that heretykes arre to be punished fol. 56. pag. 2. The constancie and godlynes of the Kyng of Pole fol. 63. pag. 1. The othe which all commencers at Wittenberge must take fol. 72. pag. 2. Tuentye opinions of the Confessionistes concernyng iustifycation fol. 74. pag. 1. Vladislaus and Vitoldus Kynges of Pole refused to reigne ouer heretykes fol. 3. pag. 1. Who it is which deuideth Iesus fol. 10. pag. 1. What verdict the sacramentaries gyue vpon the Lutherans fol. 21. pag. 1. What the Catholykes thynk of outwarde ceremonies fol. 60 pag. 1. What manner of seruauntes the Byshopps and Popes of olde tyme were fol. 86. pag. 1. Z. Zeale in matters of religion is to be considered what manner of zeale it is fol. 21. pag. 1. ¶ Faultes escaped in some copies   fol. pag. lin Which althoughe reade which euen as 32. 1. 17. Orde reade order 10. ● 26. Plyet reade plyeth 24. ● 4. esontrary reade contrary 25. 2. 17. An admonition to the fault fynder If mo faultes in this boke thou fynd Yet think not the correctoure blynde If Argos here hym selffe had bene He sholde perchaūce not all haue sene Al wordes awry mend without stryffe And wordes amēded redresse thy lyffe Rychard Shacklock