vnder his Father and Grand-father and for their affections declining to Idolatrie and not truly esteeming the blessings in Iosiah their king powred vpon them the Lord threatneth to bring euill vpon that place and the Inhabitants thereof Which he did by suffering Iosiah to be slaine by the souldiours of the king of Egypt and within few yeares after his death selling his owne people into the hands of the idolatrous Babilonians For as darknesse naturally followeth light and night the day so do great punishments accompanie rare blessings when they are not duely esteemed as they ought Blessed was Ierusalem by the testimonie of the Lords owne mouth when he said My beloued had a Vineyard in a very fruitfull hill and he hedged it gathered out the stones of it and he planted it with the best plants and built a Tower in the middest thereof and made a wine-presse therein But when he looked for grapes and it brought forth wild-grapes the Lord threatned from the height of this blessed estate to cast them into the gulfe of miserie to take away the hedge from his Vineyard that it might be eaten vp and breake downe the wall thereof that it might be troden downe c. The Lord hath not therefore been lesse beneficiall to vs in placing so gracious an head vpon the bodie of this Realme because you and some such as your selfe are doe yet remaine to God ingrate and to your Prince and Countrey vnnaturall Onely I beseech God that whereas by his appointment the Oliue is yet ouer vs with her fatnes and the Figge with her sweetnes and the Vine with her fruitfulries that amongst many other sinnes of our land for our vngratefull contempt of so great a blessing a Bramble be not set ouer vs which is good for nothing but to burne and consume vs and so much concerning my supposed contradiction Now Sir N. D. it is your pleasure to heare my manner of speech in these words If I should take vpon me to enter into the enumeration of all the benefits and blessings that from the Almightie haue beene powred vpon this little Iland of England c. And hauing thus vnperfectly repeated them you passe the ouer with this sleight exception saying That in mentioning our little Iland I must take Scotland with me else I erre in Cosmographie as though England were not deuided in gouernment from Scotland though both rest vpon one continent and as though your selfe did not tearme this Realme an Iland euen where you do distinguish it from Scotland Therefore Nodum in scirpo quaeris and to this shift you are put very often for want of matter But if seemeth that Scotland was named here by you chiefly to make way for your purpose to giue a glaunce at battels murders destruction of Countries Prouinces Townes Cities Houses and particular men that haue beene in Scotland within these fortie yeares as though Scotland had neuer tasted these or any of these before and then you come in with Ireland wherein you seeme to bewaile the death of the noble Desmons whose treasons yet liue by succession in one of the same name who it is said wrote â— treason full letter stuffed with most intolerable opprobries and slaunders against her Maiestie and the state to the King of Spaine And this I hope is no great proofe of your sonâ—dnes to Queen or State France and Flaunders follow to fill vp the number But had you any respect of truth or care of modestie you would neuer haue made the true Religion wee professe the cause of murders tumults and garboyles which teacheth dutifull obedience and condemneth all mutinies seditions and rebellions You should do well to haue told vs who murdered the King the Lord Iames the Lord Russell in Scotland In France who murdered the Prince of Conde after he was taken prisoner which I thinke the law of Armes will not well beare Likewise who they were that laidâ— bloudy hands vpon the Admiral Chattilion being first shot in with a Pistoll with three bullets in the streetes and afterwards slaine in his chamber And so of Marlâ—ret slaine in his garden and of the famous learned man Ramus who hauing paid monie to ransome his life was beyond all humanitâ—e most cruelly quelled And generally who were the Authors not onely of the bloudie massacre in Paris but also of the like vprores in other Cities and quarters of the Realme principally at Lyons Orleans Roan Tolouse in which Cities within the space of one moneth there are numbred at the least thirtie thousand godly Protestants to be slaine your holy father at Rome to shew with what spirit he is led and with what meanes he sticketh to maintaine his Religion which otherwise would fall to the ground so soone as he heard of this bloudie tragedie maketh great ioy with his Cardinals with their procession with their gunshot and singing Te Deum Yea in honour of that Act proclayming a Iubile with great indulgence and solemnitie For Flaunders tell vs who murdered the noble Prince of Orange against whom it was proclaimed that who soeuer could bring him aliue or dead or slaie him should haue fiue and twentie thousand crownes You shall finde that such a Catholike-faith as yours is hath still sought to maintaine it selfe by such Catholike means as these are treasons tumults seditions secret murders and such like As for our true Christian Religion it is so cause of tumults garboyles and murders as Christes birth was of the murther of the poore infants in which neither Christ nor the infants ought offended the madnes was in Herod and all Ierusalem to be for this cause in an vprore In a word it is Herods Religion which seeketh to murther Christ and the Christes and annoynted of the Lord. I proceed to your aduertisement for a better direction to mens iudgements that all blessings of a Common-wealth may be reduced to two heades the one spirituall belonging to the soule and conscience the other temporall concerning the bodie and weale publike and that the Lord hath richly blessed this land since her Maiesties Raigne I doubt not to proue to all that haue iudgement and indifferency following your owne methode And first there hath beene in England since this happie alteration change from popish superstition to Christian veritie One God worshipped in spirit and truth one faith one belief one forme of seruice in praier and praises to God one number of Sacraments which are onely two by the word of God one head of the Church which is Christ the Lord as the holy Ghost testifieth by the Apostle Him hath God appointed to be the head of the Church And his substitute annointed appointed ouer vs is our Soueraigne and Queene who is to commaund and be obeyed in Christ and for Christ in all causes aswell ecclesiasticall as ciuill and not your proud vsurping Priest at Rome and if you can like to looke vpon the harmonie of confessions you shall find all the
durst protect felons and murtherers against the King and Iustice of the land neither reuerencing King nor obeying his lawes passed ouer without licence to the King of France Further being adiudged to prison by the King for refusing to giue accounts of great summes of money receiued by him and Reignold Earle of Cornewall and Robert Earle of Leicester being sent to him to tell him of the iudgement set downe against him this meeke Martyr and holy Saint was so farre from the obedience of a subiect that he told the earle of Leicester in these words That how much more precious the soule is then the bodie so much more ought he to obey Becket then his terreine King So notorious and euident was the rebellious opposition of this Popish Prelate against his lawfull Prince that he was openly by the king and his Nobles called Traitor in that he refused to giue earthly honour to his King as he had sworne to do and therefore they generally agreed that he was wel worthy to be handled as a periured Traitor and rebell and therefore most impudent is this Ward-worders assertion that neyther the King nor his Officers did charge him with treason If you please to adde hereunto the arbitrement of this controuersie put into the French kings handes with king Henries large offer and Beckets proud refusall there is no man I hope that knoweth what it is to be an obedient subiect but will condemne him for a rebellious Traitour The kings offer in that arbitrement was this There haue been saith he Kings of England before me both of greater and lesse puissance then I am likewise there haue been many Bishoppes of Canturburie both great and holy men what the greatest and most holy of all his predecessours before him hath done to the least of my predecessors before me let him doe the same to me and I am content Which offer though it were in it selfe and so deemed by all that stood by not onely reasonable but more then reasonable so that they all cried with one voice the king hath debased himselfe enough to the Bishop yet the rebellious spirit of this Archbishop would not yeelde vnto it nor accept peace with his King vpon so fauourable a condition What a Giant-like pride traiterous presumption is this to refuse to yeelde so much obedience to his Prince and Soueraigne as the greatest and holiest of his place haue alwaies yeelded to the meanest kinges of this land what needeth any further proofe of Beckets treason Yet if you will you may remember the letter of Maud the Empresse to him Wherin she chargeth him that in as much as in him lay he went about to disinherit the king to depriue him of his crown and if the Empresse might be thought to speake partially on the King her sonnes behalfe yet the two Cardinals sent by the Pope to heare all this controuersie out of question will not condemne him without iust cause And yet in a letter sent from them to the Pope they do condemne him of exciting stirring vp forraine Potentates to make warre against his naturall liege Lord the words of which letter were these William and Otho Cardinals of the Church of Rome to Alexander the Pope c. comming to the land of the king of England we found the controuersie betwixt him and the Archbishop of Canterburie more sharpe and vehement then we would for the King and the greater part about him said that the Archbishop had stirred vp the French King grieuouslie against him as also the Earle of Flaunders his kinsman who was verie louing and kind to him before he made his open aduersarie readie to wage warre against him as is by diuers euidences most certain c. Now for a subiect to stirre vp forraine States to make warre vpon his Soueraigne and countrie was at all times high treason but that Becket did so by the Cardinals confession was by diuers euidences most certaine therefore Becket not now his enemies but his breâ—hren the sonnes of his owne mother being Iudges was a traitor Who then but such a one as hath sold himselfe to all impudencie and shamelesse gainsaying the truth would seeke to couer Beckets rebellions by the facts of Iohn Baptist Ambrose Hillarie of Athanasius Chrysostome which haue as much agreement with the cause of Becket as hath light with darkenes good with euill sweet with sower concerning whose Saint-being I will say nothing sith my purpose is not to search what he is with God after his death but what he was towards his Prince in his life neither am I priuie to his repentance which might be secret at the last gaspe or to Gods iudgements into which I presume not to presse Yet you may remember that long since it was a generall Prouerbe of your Pope-made Saints That many are worshipped for Saints in heauen whose soules are burning in Hell and that in particular concerning Becket great doubt was moued as is by writers alleadged out of Caesarius the Monke whose words are these Quaestio Parisijs inter magistros ventilata fuit vtrum damnatus an saluatus esset ille Thomas c. There was a question debated amongst the masters at Paris whether Thomas Becket was saued or damned To this question answereth Roger a Norman that he was worthie death and damnation because he was so obstinate against Gods minister the king Peter Cantar a Parisien disputed on the contrarie that his miracles were great signes and tokens of saluation and of great holines in him c. Which argument this Encounterer likewise vrgeth But behold what strength is in it For one of these we shall find to be true that either they seemed only and were no miracles indeed such as many by the craft and conueiance of idle Monks haue been shewed to the people as namely those miracles of the Dominicke Friers in their hot contentions with the Franciscans about the conception of our Ladie who thinking by sleight to worke in the peoples heads that which by open preaching they durst not now attempt deuised a certaine Image of the Virgin so artificially wrought that the Friers by priuie gynnes made it to stirre to make gestures to lament to complaine to weepe to grone and to giue answeres to them that asked c. vntill the Franciscans seeing by this meanes their credits to decay and all the almes to be conueyed to the Dominickes boxe and not being vnacquainted with such cousening practises espied their iugling and discouered their feined fraudulent miracles For which cause foure of the chiefest actors in this iugling miracle were burned at Bernâ— Or secondly if they were not counterfeite but done in deed they were not wrought by God but by the power of Sathan to draw men from Christ to Antichrist Of these the Apostle foretelleth vs that whensoeuer it commeth to passe it might not trouble vs That the comming
his preface he pleaseth to see and examine how I goe forward in my tale as he tearmeth it which I hope to the equall reader shall appeare no fable 〈◊〉 a iust charge my words which he setteth downâ— aâ—â— theâ—e Vnto which clouds mists and darknes was added and wherewith was mixed all bloodie and sauage crueltie against those that desired knowledge and were any may 〈◊〉 by Gods grace with a glimmering at small insight into true Religion for though it were but onely a desireth reade vpon the booke of God either olde or new Testament then Hereticke was his title heresie was his â—ault and for this was he called before the Romish Cleargie to receiue their censure and such neuer departed from their cloathes till they had branded them to the slaughter To which after many scoffes he saith That he is sorrie the writer of that booke calleth himselfe Knight to whom in law of Chiualrie a man should not giue the lye but with obligation to defend it in the fielde Whereunto I brieflie reply for this time that if this masked companion will put off his vizzard and shew his face that I may know who speaketh to me I will through the assistance of my God not onely lay before him his shameles reprochfull slaunders against my Soueraigne and her gouernment and words of disgrace to my selfe but also make him such further answere as fitteth his demerits and my place in the meane time I list not to fight with a shadow nor to howte at the Owle that flieth by night To come to the matter out of this one period this artificiall Vulcan forgeth two vntruths properly called lyes as he saith which he imputeth to me the first that I say To reade on the booke of God was held to be part of an heretike The second That for this cause onely men were called before the Romish Cleargie in England and branded to the slaughter But soft Sir you shall finde it harder to conuince me of one lye then to charge me with many for both in making and giuing lyes you haue a singular gift and rare dexteritie For concerning the first the people were not only forbid to reade or heare read the Scriptures translated by such as the Romanists call Heretikes but the Papists are witnesses against themselues that they forbid the reading of the Scriptures translated by their owne Catholikes vnles the Bishop or Inquisitour with aduise of their parish Priest or confessour giue them speciall licence thereunto in writing and was it not obiected to Iohn Lambert as an hereticall opinion that heads and rulers are bound by necessitie of saluation to giue the holy Scriptures to the people in the mother language Doe not your Rhemists in the preface of their translation of the new Testament say they doe not publish it vpon erronious opinion of necessitie that the Scriptures should bee alwaies in our mother tongue or that they ought or were ordeined by God to bee read indifferently of all Now if to thinke the Scriptures may be read indifferently of all be in your iudgement an hereticall opinion then for men so to read them is in your iudgement an hereticall action whereof I would wee had not so many proofes But in any of the three learned tongues Hebrew Greeke and Latine saith the Encounterer none was euer debaâ—red to reade them this Sir is but a flourish to face out the matter and a coppie of your countenance to make as though you were willing Scripture should be read of all onely that you feared hereticall translations Where as first of laymen and women not one of a thousand vnderstand either of those three tongues secondly yourselues in those times sent not abroad any vulgar translations of your owne refining which the people without danger of hereticall corruption might reade and thirdly what your iudgement is concerning the vsing of such as you doe send forth is partly shewed alreadie you should deale plainely and confesse that whatsoeuer you say for a glosse your opinion is that not onely those few laye men which vnderstand any of those three learned tongues should forbeare reading the Scriptures but euen many men of your Cleargie profession An Italian Bishop tolde Espencaeus a great Diuine of Paris that his Countrimen were terrified from reading the Scriptures least so they should become hereticks Espencaeus then demaunded What studie then doe your Countrimen professe The Bishop answered The studie of both the lawes Ciuill and Canon but principally of the Canon law Doe some Bishops amongst you iudge the reading of the Scriptures so dangerous that they abstaine from it for feare to be made heretickes and yet will you face vs out with permitting laye men to reade them in Hebrew Greeke or Latine Let Sorbon it selfe be witnes how your Cleargie men were wont to be exercised in the reading of the Scriptures For amongst the many conflicts which Robertus Stephanus had with diuers of these learned Sorbonists about the newe Testament printed by Collinaeus when he asked some of them in what place of the new Testament it was written they would answere they had read in Ierome or in the decrees but what the new Testament was they could not tell and againe another great Clerke of that Colledge was wont about that time verie often to say I wonder that these young men alleage to vs the new Testament by this day I had spent more then fiftie yeeres ere I could tell what the new Testament was What should I stand further eyther to prooue that ye account it heresie for lay men indifferently to read the Scriptures which all men know ye doe or to disproue the grossenes of your opinion in so forbidding the reading of the Scriptures which out of the Scriptures themselues and sundrie testimonies of godly Fathers as also examples of ancient times translating the Scriptures into vulgar tongues is by sundrie euidently proued ye ought not to doe To passe therefore to the second supposed vntruth which you set downe to be this that for this cause onely men were called before the Romish Clergie in England and branded to the slaughter To iustifying whereof before I proceed giue me leaue to tell you that this word onely by you thrust into my words is one lye of your coyning though not the onely one lye for what though to some of their charges were laid other like articles Doth that make that this was not accounted a point of an heretike to read the scriptures in English and that for this men were called before your Clergie As for example Thomas Moore a poore and simple man of the age of 24. yeeres was at Leicester in the yeare 1566. accnsed coudemned and burned onely because he said his maker was in Heauen and not in the Pix no other thing being laid to his charge If at his iudgement some other articles had been obiected to him would it not haue been true for all that that to say his maker was in
in Pharaoh to kill him How was Dauid preserued from Saule or the Prophets from Ierobâ—â—â— or the Israelites from Hamâ—â—s malice Peter from Herods crueltie or our Sauiour Christ for a time from the conspiracie of the chiefe Iewes For in all these there was will ioyned with outward power for a time and yet the things desired not effected Cicero his argument holdeth where there is nothing supposed to hinder and where the will is fully bent to doe a thing but in all Soueraigntie and inclination of the will it holdeth not because there may want strength and continuance of the partie and the will may not be throughly setled as that of the Iewes they would faine haue put Christ to death but they feared the people God no doubt did strangely keepe Queene Marie from consenting to the bloodie practise of the Romish Cleargie against her Sister and though some of the Cleargie did seeke her death yet it might bee hindered by others and their desires by some considerations so crossed that though they did desire her death yet they could not effect it for which the Lord of Heauen onely is to be praised But what a shameles forehead hath this Encounterer who against so manifest a truth so plainely and sensiblie to bee proued doth not blush to denie that her Maiesties life was at that day earnestlie and maliciouslie sought after Why was shâ—e so hastelie sent for when shee was sicke to bee brought vp to the Court either aliue or dead presently vpon Wyats rising why was she falsly accused and burdened with Wyats insurrection yea so far that he was brought against truth and conscience to accuse her Why was she committed to the Tower to be a close prisoner Why did she say Tanquam ouis when she remoued from the Tower to Woodstocke Why was she in many feares and so often enforced to bewaile her estate and to pray to the mightie God to preserue her Was there not a report that there was a warrant out for her execution and did not M. Bridges Lieutenant of the Tower go in haste to Queene Marie and so by certifying her preuent the bloodie execution When the sword of iustice could not by any meanes be drawne forth against her what extreame dealings were vsed and what secret conspiracies plotted for the bringing of her to an vntimely death and the shedding of her innocent bloud I spare to write more in so plaine a matter that reuerent learned man Master Foxe hath at large in his Monuments of the Church set downe the miraculous preseruation of her Maiestie at that time from extreame calamitie and danger of life which who so readeth shall with inward compassion and watrie eyes rather lament her pitifull estate then with a hard heart and shameles face deny so manifest a truth as this Encounterer doth As for the causes which he alleageth did concurre to the preseruation of her Highnes it is not denied but that some of those by him alleaged and many others which in probable reason might be imagined might well concurre for the working of her Maiesties securitie at that time but that any of thofe was so potent and mightie as of necessitie to make her safe from daunger or that they or any other can bee certainely alleaged to be necessarie causes and procurers of her deliuerance with all his wit and insight into matters of State of which he seemeth much to brag he will neuer be able to shew Certaine it is that her Maiestie when she was in that trouble and daunger vsed these words when shee protested her innocencie at her landing at the Tower Before thee O God I speake it hauing none other friends but thee alone and as certaine it is that neither wise States-man nor any other can definitelie say of these or any other supposed causes in these respects or for these causes chiefly shee was preserued what though shee were gracious amiable and vertuous and much fauoured of the Spanish King who in policie it may be did by that meanes seeke to win the peoples hearts vnto him must it needs follow hereupon that therefore her innocent behauiour could not bee called into question nor her bloud shed by any wicked conspiracie The King of Spaine was farre from her in her greatest trouble and neither you nor any other can say that hee pleaded her cause or stoode openly for her freedome at any time If hee sent the Duke of Feria to visite her or secretly did speake for her to Queene Marie as Master Foxe seemeth to confesse he did that which was seemely and honorable in a King and that which her place and innocencie iustly deserued As for the generall hope which you say most men had of her Maiesties being a Catholike if it had been either so vniuersally conceiued as you imagine or by such outward tokens had appeared as you haue set downe how can it be true that she was presumed by many to be inclined to a different Religion from yours as you a little before in this Encounter doe confesse If shee had been deuoted so earnestly to Popish Religion why needed commaundement to be giuen that shee should haue Masse within her house within two daies after her committing to the Tower and how happened it that her men were so vnskilfull to helpe the Priest that the first day there could be no Masse for want of a Clerke and the next day one of her yeomen at Kyrieleson made a stop and set the Priest being not able or not willing to proceede any further Her sound affection to true Religion was the cause of all her trouble and danger in her Sisters daies and her willing and ioyfull embracing of the true Christian faith and of God his true worship and seruice hath so sufficiently been witnessed euer since the beginning of her Raigne that no man of common sense or Christian charitie hath the least cause to suspect that her heart should bee vnsound in the present profession of God his true Religion and Gospell The last cause which you alleage to concurre to the preseruation of her Maiestie is but a thing imagined by you seeing the matter of depriuing her Maiestie of life neuer came to any such stately consultation as you your selfe in handling this point doe plainelie graunt and seeing also that in such a case they could haue found out other meanes for preuenting such a potent pretender whatsoeuer you say of the Spaniards affection to the Queene of Scots at that time I am sure all England had like to haue tasted by so lamentable an experience that this Lady of Scotland was so affected by Spaine and sundrie of our English Espagniolized traitours as if through Gods goodnes shee had not been cut-off in time hardly could our Soueraigne haue escaped with life long being almost daily in daunger whilest that Scottish Queene liued through the practise of Rome Spaine and our home Traytors Thus notwithstanding all your flourishes and deuises your potent causes are too
weake to weaken my speech the gracious worke of God in preseruing her Maiestie at that time appearing to euery Christian and indifferent iudgement no lesse miraculous and strange then I haue affirmed God is the onely proper maker of miracles I onely acknowledge his worke in deliuering this my Soueraigne from daunger with thankfulnes without either flatterie of any person or ambitions seeking after honour though you very maliciously and scornefullie do charge me with both but by that time that veine of your carriage in this your rayling Pamphlet be throughly scanned and conceiued neither your tongue nor pen will proue any great slaunder I will shut vp this point with a speech of Master Iohn Hales vsed in his oration to her Maiestie at her first entrance to her raigne which seemeth 〈…〉 fying of my sayings his words are these He that sitteth on high and laugheth at their madnes would not suffer that the malicious purposes and most cruell deuised Iniustice should haue successe He did take vpon him the protection of you he onely hath been your Iehosheba that preserued you from this wicked Athalia he onely was the Iehoiada that destroyed this cruell Athalia he onely hath made you Queene of this realme in stead this mischieuous Marana No earthly creature can claime any peece of thanks therefore no mans face no mans counsaile no mans aide hath been the cause thereof The second thing you finde fault with in this your Encounter is my affirming that when our Soueraigne was fullie possessed of her royall seat then Sathan began to rage and his ministers to fret and chafe these my words you terme to be wicked calumniations and tales of a tubbe to entertaine fooles and ignorant people but with how little truth and honestie and with what abundance of malice and folly that which followeth shall I doubt not make apparant to the indifferent reader You aske how it could be that the Papists did freat and chafe seeing they as the greatest number and chiefest persons did freelie and willingly place her crowne her annoint her take her oath for preseruing the lawes of the Realme and sweare fidelitie to her againe To which question I returne the like for answere how could it be that Haman commaunded to honour Mardocheus in the sight of the people should fret and chafe at his aduancement when as he was the man that arrayed Mardocheus with royall apparrell brought him on horsebacke through the streete and proclaimed before him Thus shall it be done to the man whom the King will honour This is no tale of a tubbe as this carping companion would perswade but a truth out of Gods booke whereby we may see that some do yeeld vnto that outwardlie in shew which in their hearts they yeeld not vnto and at which afterwards they fret chafe And could it otherwise be but that they must fret and chafe when as before her raigne in her sisters time one Ferrar that was defended by Storie and Bonner said that he hoped that she and they that hoped she should haue the Crowne should hop headlesse or be fired with faggots before she should come to the Crowne and also after her aduancement to the Crowne the Bishops and Clergie maisters as they shewed themselues in the conference at Westminster and in the Parliament assembled verie disobedient stubborne and malicious wherupon some of them were committed to prison so they had a consultation to haue excommunicated her as your worshipfull Cardinall Allen affirmeth in his 52. page of his answere to English Iustice and as your Rishton saith the Archbishop of Yorke whose dutie it was to haue crowned her Cardinall Poole being dead refused to doe it and so did all the Bishops except one and he almost the lowest But I will proceed to peruse the examination of some particulars of the hostilitie by me alleadged willing the Reader by the way to consider deeply of your graue aduise which vpon my vsing the words Sacred and Annoynted as honourable and rightly appertaining to her Maiestie you offer to be aduisedly thought of as tending to the commendation of annointing Priestes and Princes and concluding stronglie the great honour that her Maiestie had by Catholikes at her first entrance What must it needs follow that annointed must be taken for annointing with oile or must her Maiestie needs be beholding to the Clergie for that she is called the Lords annointed I had well hoped that your quoting in the margent diuers places of Scripture for confirmation of the ceremony of annointing Priests and Princes had been a better Bible-clerke then so foulie to be mistaken in the 105. Psalme which place hath been alleadged for Priuiledge of the Popish Clergie from the sword of Iustice notwithstanding their filthie life The Patriarches Abraham Isaac and Iacob are called annointed and yet were neuer annointed with oile In Esay 45. Cyrus is called the Lords annointed and yet a heathen Prince our Sauiour Iesus is called annointed and yet it is not read that euer he was annointed with outward oile Princes are called the Lords annointed chieflie because God hath put them apart and consecrated them to serue him in place of gouernment because they are indued with wisedome courage strength and feare of the Lord and because they should be profitable to the people gentle and mercifull the truth is more respected then the outward ceremonie in the word annointed Priestes Kings and Prophets before Christes time were annointed with visible oile I confesse not for such cause as you imagine that Princes are but to shew that they were appoynted of God consecrated and furnished with gifts from him as also to be types and figures of Christ who vnder the law was represented by these three offices estates or orders of men The ceremonie is not now of necessitie to continue Christ without outward annointing was called by Simeon the annointed of the Lord. So that hir Maiestie may be tearmed honorablie and deseruedlie the Lords annointed and yet neither your superstitious and Iewish ceremony of greazing your popish Priests commended thereby nor her Maiestie made much beholding to your Clergie for that honour The first particular of hostilities which you take vpon you to disprooue is my speech of your darling Doctor Storie whom because I call a bloudsucker as Dauid calleth his persecutors Saul Doeg and others bloudie men you charge me to be light-witted and foule mouthed you may take your pleasure Sir N.D. at me stil as you haue done but you know the reward of such as contemptuouslie reproach others with follie or maliciouslie doe raile and speake euil of them vndeseruedly You tell vs there are three things in my speech of Doctor Story to be considered the words I charge him with my interpretation of them and the iudgement he receiued in all which if you can either conuince me of vntruth or iustlie condemn me for vncharitably censuring the speech and his person we will beleeue you another
time in your proud boasting The words you say were neuer sufficiently proued to haue been spoken by him neither by sufficient witnesses nor by his owne confession and because the words could not serue to any purpose but to his owne ruine he being known to be wise and no foole you would haue it beleeued that he spake them not at all This is but a simple defence Sir Encounterer of your stout champion seeing the words were spoken in the hearing of so many witnesses both of your side and ours in the Parliament house and seeing that the speech being generally testified by them that heard him at that time it was neuer either by himselfe denied or by others that were present controlled If Doctor Storie had been so wise as you would perswade he was he would neuer haue vsed such impudent words such shamelesse talke such vnconscionable and cruell speeches without anie pittie of such as he had persecuted most cruellie as it is certainelie reported he did also at that time As for the interpretation which you call a bloudie commentarie it was not deuised to draw bloud nor to presse him downe seeing he long since receiued his iust iudgement it doth onely descrie his bloudie and disloyall heart which caused his tongue to vtter such furious and bloudie speeches You would faine haue Doctor Storie not to meane the Queene by the roote but either heresie it selfe or the infected Nobilitie and Gentrie But alas Sir N.D. your fained glosses are so farre from drawing his words to another sense that they rather confirme the same much like to Pilates superscription which being set vp to shew the cause of Christs condemnation did yet notwithstanding proclaime his innocencie and conuince them of crueltie for doe not you a little before confesse that these words could serue to no other purpose but to his owne ruine and doe not you here acknowledge that the Nobilitie and Gentrie seasoned with true Religion which you in the madnes of your idle braine call heresie were but inferiour roots both which things doe proue that his words which were these They meaning the Commssioners and Counsellors in Queene Maries time laboured onely about the young and little sprigs and twigs while they should haue stricken at the roote and cleane haue rooted it out cannot be meant of any other but of the Prince and chiefe roote from whom by the great goodnes of God the generall and open profession of Christian Religion hath againe sprung vp in this our land and with whom it doth continue yet still notwithstanding that Bacon Cicill Knowles and all those that you named are dead and gone The words must needs aime at a person and not an heresie at one and not at many at a chiefe and not at anie inferiour howsoeuer this glosing and cunning Encounterer would perswade vs of our Queenes affection to Poperie or denie that true Religion was willinglie and ioyfullie without compulsion and constraint from others established and maintained by her Rishton one of your Masters speaking of her before she was crowned saith Animum in eare suum statim patefecit c. 1. she presentlie shewed her mind in Religion both by silencing Catholike preachers as he calleth them as also by suffering all those that had liued in exile for Religion to returne home and by charging a certaine Bishop readie to celebrate before her that he should not eleuate the consecrate host For which respects as he confesseth the Archbishop of Yorke and the rest refused to crowne her The iudgement which Doctor Storie receiued by the Iustice of our land was most iust not being iudged to death for these words as you craftily yet verie foolishlie and falsely haue set downe but for that he denied her Maiesties Supremacie in the land and Soueraigntie ouer him and pleaded himselfe to be no subiect to the Queene but to the king of Spaine And this is it that your Martyr-maker Doctor Saunders seemeth to insinuate in his title added to Doctor Storie shewing that he suffered for the Primacie of your Bishop of Rome but obserue the blasphemie of this Pope-holy Encounterer against Christ and his heinous accusation out of a trecherous heart against the Magistrates and Iustice of our land in comparing such a traitour as Storie was with our Sauiour Christ and our Iudges with Pilate Leaue your blind zeale Sir Romanist which carrieth you so violently to such impieties and begin at length to imbrace true Religion with vs in the feare of God and in all loyaltie and dutie reuerence and commend the true Iustice of your Countrie Whatsoeuer your Catholikes doe imagine Storie to be worthie of hauing made him a Martyr who indeed was a traitour howsoeuer your selfe blinded with partiality heresy cannot find out any trespasse of moment committed by him though he denied our Prince to be his Soueraigne and Queene yet to euerie Christian and in different reader his iudgement will appeare to be iust and his offence no lesse then treason Doctor Saunders indeed hath made him a Martyr in his booke of the visible Monarchie of the Church and it may be you haue a purpose to canonize him for a Saint if there might be found a Suriu◠that by his Legions or Legend of lies would faine vnto him a better life some strange miracles but it being true that the cause not the punishmēt doth make a Martyr and that some things had in great estimatiō with mē may be abominable in Gods sight your traiterous Story shal be no better a Martir then the Martirs of Montanus Marcion Nouatus heresies of whom Eusebius maketh mentiō And so leauing your traiterous Doctor let vs come to the second hostilitie wherwith you find fault that is the Bull of Pius Quintus with the excommunication of her Maiestie concerning which Bul it moueth your patiēce greatly that euery where in schooles sermons books places of Iustice this fact of your Pope should be produced as a sound witnes and testimony of the vnsound and disloyall hearts of such of your catholikes as approue your Popes dealing therein by which you would enforce that matter wanted wherwith to charge your traitors at their arraignment for there was alwaies many and sufficient proofes wee need not seeke farre for matter to conuict you of most grosse impieties and cursed practises you haue herein yeelded vs too great an haruest to labour in and our hearts desire hath euer been that we might trulie speak better things of you We charge none to be guiltie of the fact but such as approue it or shew thēselues too forward to yeeld obediēce vnto it yet sir N.D. I think you could hardly resolue this doubt how a papist acknowledging your Popes authoritie and iustifying his proceeding therein may acknowledge her Maiestie to be his true and rightful Queene For in the title to that Bul you know the Queene is called a pretended Queene by the Bull she is deposed her
Subiects are absolued froÌ„ their oath of fealtie allegeance and those that obay her are accursed What though all Catholiks are not priuie to your Popes reasons informations may it not be concluded necessarily notwithstaÌ„ding that that such as acknowledge the Popes supreme authoritie ouer Prices and hold it for a maxime that in a definitiue sentence he cannot erre are enemies to Queene Elizabeth the State I know in deed some as Master Hart may deny that the Pope hath any thing to doe with disposing of kingdomes deposing of Princes and so the Bull may not any waie concerne them but I doubt there be but a few that will affirme the Popes supremacy in teÌ„poral things to be vsurped But because you post ouer this matter to other treatises esteeming of me in matter of dispute as Goliah did of Dauid whoÌ„ he scorned I wil also referre the ChristiaÌ„ reader to such learned treatises as are extaÌ„t for this Pandora her box descrying the hurtful and vnholsome euils that lye in the bowels of the seditious Bull. And because in this place before you consider further of this Bull you take exceptions against a proposition of mine which you terme ridiculous to proceede from deepe ignorance and a base breast I will a little fortifie my saying and make it apparant to the indifferent reader either your grosse mistaking or wilfull and malicious peruerting of my said speech as for your Lucyfer-like pride it is more then apparant alreadie my words are these As though it were in the power of any one mortall childe of man to dispose of Kingdomes to depose Princes or to dispense with subiects for not onely disobeying but rebelling against their lawfull Soueraignes c. Is this such a ridiculous proposition Sir Encounterer or doe these words either make temporall Kingdomes matters of Godhead and immortalitie or necessarily conclude that wicked Princes such as Nero and Caligula must bee obeyed in all things with which flourishes and false gloses you seeke to discredite my sayings Your malice did master your reason and your will did ouerrun your wit in this your lewde construction That which I said I may lawfullie still vphold that Princes are not depriuable by any mortall man neither can any man dispense with subiects for refusing to yeeld that obedience which the Lorde requireth them to yeeld The Prophet Daniel acknowledgeth that it is God that hath this power to take away Kings and to set vp Kings and to giue the kingdome to whom hee will and saieth that the Lord ordereth the States and Princes of the world at his pleasure Marie the blessed Virgine reserueth this honor wholie to God He putteth down the mightie from their seate and exalteth the base reade ouer the bookes of Kings none euer disposed of kingdomes but the Lorde of Lordes neither were any throwne from their thrones but by the Lords speciall appointment as in the deiection of Ieroboam Baasa Elah Achab and Ioram is apparant There was neuer any King of Israel or Iudah remoued from the Crowne by any Priest or Prophet though all the Kings of Israel were open Idolaters as also the most part of the Kings of Iudah euen fourteene of them But it may be you thinke because the Prophets denounced Gods iudgements annointed some to be Kings and some others by speciall commandement and authority did execute Gods iudgements as Iehu vpon Ioram and Achabs children that therefore my proposition is infringed which cannot be Sir Encounterer for it was done by Gods speciall appointment as Iudge and superiour ouer Princes and not by their owne motions or in their owne name No Priest no Prophet no Apostle no Bishop euer had authoritie to depose Princes Hee that saith By mee Kings raigne doth challenge this power to himselfe and it is plaine blasphemie to giue it to any other Saint Augustine expressely resolueth that Kings neede not to feare to lose their Kingdomes or that their Kingdome shall bee taken from them as wretched Herod feared and therefore out of all question there is no such authoritie giuen to any mortall child of man to depose Princes But although I thus confidently and vpon good grounde doe pleade against the Popes vsurped authoritie yet I am neither so seruily sottish or so superstitiouslie conscienced as either to adore earthlie Princes or to denie that any Prince established may be touched or disobeyed in any matter for as I haue learned to giue to Caesar that which is Caesars and to God that which is Gods worshipping the Lord onlie with Religious worship so I know vsurpers may be suppressed by rightfull inheritance as Athalia by Iehoiada and in our land Richard the third by Henrie the seuenth and to our Princes wee must yeeld such obedience as the Lorde alloweth obeying them in the Lord chusing rather with the Disciples to obey God then man when man commaundeth wicked and vnlawfull things And so leauing you Sir Pope-Idolater to your palpable flatterie and to please and defend your Nero and Caligula as a more fit fellow to flatter seriouslie and to adore such saints then my selfe I stand as becommeth me in loyaltie for my Christian and religious Soueraigne and so will doe by Gods grace whilest I liue to my last breath Your three points which you would haue to bee considered vpon my speech of the Bull come next to be handled by which you would gladlie proue that not the malignitie of the Pope and Papists against our Prince brought forth this roring Bull but some dealings of ours and that the Popish Recusants are not to be accused for it or inforced by meanes thereof to change their olde beleefe about the Popes authoritie The first point to be considered is that the Bull of Pius Quintus camâ—â—â—rth in the thirteenth yeare of her Maiesties raigne and not before as by our owne Chronicles you say appeareth Let it bee so Sir N.D. though the Bull was set vp in the thirteenth yeare of her Raigne and dated 1567. 5. Calend. Martij what conclude you hereupon Must it therefore needes follow that the Bull proceeded not from any malignitie of the Pope and Papists but of some other cause as out of mine owne words you would seeme to proue Your argument is verie weake your conclusion cannot bee inforced vpon such slender premisses The malignitie of the Papists is most apparant by their consulting to excommunicate her Maiestie as before I shewed out of Cardinall Allyn by Doctor Stories words by informations giuen against her which you confesse whereupon the Pope in his Bull chargeth her with many things most vntruely and falselie The hatred of the Pope is most euident calling her a pretended Queene and an vsurper euen in the title and beginning of the Bull. And though the Bull was not published till the 12. yeare being yet concluded vpon about two yeares before as the date sheweth yet both the Pope and his adherents might as well fret
to free my countrie from all vsurpers they to fill their countrie with forraine gouernment I to preserue vnto vs the sincere truth of Gods Gospell they to thrust vpon vs a false worship by Poperie and superstition And this shall suffice to shield and deliuer me from being harmed or grieued by your slaunders and for all your malice to me I am sorie you should carrie so vilde and villanous a mind as not to be vexed to see your Soueraign so dispitefully and disloyally dealt withall But I haue now so good cause to guesse the vnsoundnes of your heart to my Soueraigne by this your wrangling and wicked ward-Ward-word as I cannot expect or hope for anie good fruit of a loyall heart towardes her Maiestie from you And to confirme me and all true Subiectes in this opinion you close vp this your last Encounter with a doubt whether Lopus euer ment to kill our deare Soraigne and why you should doubt I see not but because it was not done and with a deniall that your Catholike King should be priuie thereunto and yet all the Agents in it doe plainely confesse so by the first whereof you lewdlie labour to taxe the seat of our Soueraignes Iustice and by the second you abuse her Maiestie and her people and by both you offer to discredit the honourable testimonie in print of the proofes and proceedings by examinations before the Lords of her Maiesties Councell In which you may finde how Lopus was first solicited by Andrada from Mendoza the King of Spaines Embassadour in France to poyson her Maiestie Secondly by the same Andrada he was solicited by a token from Christophero de Moro one of the Kings priuie Councell Thirdly by one Roderoquo Marques a Portugale vnto whom Lopus did vndertake to doe the abominable fact for which he was profered and promised fiftie thousands crownes which I hope cannot be taken to be the gift of anie Subiect fourthly for this purpose Lopus sent Andrada ouer to Callis to conferre with Counte Fuentes about this practise and caused Stephano Ferrera de Gomo another Portugale to write letters to Stephano Iberra the Kings Secretary at Bruxels to assure him Fuentes that the detestable fact should be performed if the 50000. crownes were paid which letter Lopus himselfe sent by one Gomes Dauila a Portugale But Andrada not being thought fit to follow so great a cause Ferrera was chosen to manage it by whom the Doctor did againe assure the performance of this villanie and then there were bils of exchaunge for the mony deliuered by the Counte Fuentes the one from Gonzalo Gomez to Pedro de Carreras the other from Gomez to Iohn Pallacios And if through the merciful prouidence of almightie God these had not been lingered and that in the meane time by the diligence and carefulnes of one of the Lords of her Maiesties priuie Councell the matter had not been discouered the villanie had been attempted and acted and so brought out of doubt as this Espaniolized champiō seemeth to haue wished to the vnauoydable hazard of ruine in mans iudgement to our Countrie and State So haue you here vpon honorable credence plainely proued that Lopus should haue been the Actor of this villanie that Andrada Ferrera Gomez Dauila and Manuell Lewes all Portugales were Agents and Messengers to him about it that Mendoza your Kings Embassador in France Christofero de Moro Count Fuentes and Secretarie Iberra all Councellors to your King were Directors to these Agents and Messengers and how farre your King himselfe did direct herein let the booke tell you And therefore haue you no cause to doubt of Lopus his bloudie meaning in this bloudie busines To returne to your selfe Sir I make no doubt but you desire to be beleeued in all that you haue scattered in your Libell and not least in this last part for if you could creepe into the secret bosomes of our English Nation and winne credit to be beleeued that all that you say is Gospell you might then hope of some likelihood to preuaile in your shameles sute for toleration or alteration in Religion tendered to the Lords in your Remission immediatly following But as it is well knowne to them all that we haue been much blessed of God by her Maiesties gouernment although you inuert all out of your popish and traiterous affection into cursings so I doubt not but they all see and will acknowledge that the true worship of God erected and established amongst vs by her Maiestie is the verie assured and principall ground-worke of all our blessings Religion and pietie must be our safetie and so long as wee keepe God by imbracing his truth without halting so long shall God keepe this land safe from all malice of all our enemies whatsoeuer Therefore farre shall it be from them so much as to lend an eare to so impudent and euill affected a Sutor as you shew your selfe to be in daring with shameles face to slaunder and scorne our Religion to depraue our seat of Iustice to harten disobedience to excuse traitors to darken and sometimes to defend the malice of your two Monarches of Rome and Spaine against our Soueraigne Queene contrariwise when her iust commendation was set out for being God his good instrument of many great blessings brought vnto vs you maliciouslie turne them as I said before into cursings when to the praise of almightie God mention is made of her wonderfull and happy deliuerances both in the time of Queene Marie and in her owne time you doe in derision call the first a miracle of Milne-wheeles and the second you shameleslie seeme to perswade they were things rather feared by vs then intended to her When I vrge Stories traiterous and bloudie words against her you cunningly seeke to turne his meaning to other persons and purposes When I condemne Cardinall Allin and Bishop Gardiners proude and pernitious dealing towards her you fall into extraordinarie high commendations of them as if the trumpet of their praises for so dealing had been worthie to bee blowne ouer all the world when I say that we should keepe these three things safe in our breast first our Conscience to God secondly our Loue to our Countrey thirdly our Loyaltie to our Prince you earnestlie labour to proue that wee are not bound alwaies to loue our Countrey and to beare Loyaltie to our Prince but that for Religions sake wee must hate them and warre against them and when I lay downe the many and manifold wrongs most vnchristianlie and vnkindly offered to her Maiestie by Rome and Spaine you bend your whole force to couer all and to proue wrongs offered by her Maiestie and our Nation to them such is your speciall loue to these your two Monarches and to all treasons and Traytors plotted and encouraged by them and so little and key-colde is your loue and dutie to her Maiestie to whom you owe all loue and obedience But this is the fruite of Pius Quintus his Bull the perill
learning is not verie great or their cause is bad Iohn Hus. Martin Luthers offer to dispute at Wormes He goeth to the same end to Augusta Simon Grinaeus at Spire Colloquie of Poissy Particular absurdities of Poperie Heresie with the Papists to reade the Scriptures in vulgar tongueâ— An obiection answered D. Rayn de Idol eccl Ro. lib. 1. cap. 1. The Sorbonists oth For reading of the Scriptures in vulgar tongues men were called before the Biâ—shops Act. Mon. ex Regist. Lin. Act. mon. aeâ— testim D. Outredi Ibidem pa. 863. A godly Booke seller in France 1. Mach. 1. Ignorance with Papists the mother of Deuotion Doctor Fulke Scripture forbidden to be read Iohn 5. Coloss. 3. Chrisost. in epist. ad Coloss. â—om 9. Fides implicita Ignorance a fruitfull Mother for the Papists Act. Monu pag. 139. Deuotion separated from knowledge in many of the Popish Cleargie 1. Tim. 4. D. Rayn de Eccl. Rom. lib. 2. cap. 5. 1 Conscientia 2 Scientia 3 Entia Publike praier or deuotion in an vnknowne tongue Hossius de sacro vernacule legendo Art 3. pa. 75. See the 27. article betwixt B. Iewel and Harding How the Papists allow lay men to meddle with matters of Religion To meddle with Scriptures is to examine by Scriptures the doctrine taught Act. 17. 1. Iohn 4. Chrysost. in 2. Cor. hom 13. Papists forbid Lay men thus to meddle with Scriptures and why Paraleip Abb. vrsperg pa. 448 In lex Expurg cuâ— vt si Ber. c About Thomas Becket The ground of Beckets quarrels with his King Becket goeth inta France against the kings will Beckets words to the Earle of Leicester The King and Nobles adiudge Beckets a traitor The controuersie between Becket and the King put into the French Kings hands The Kings officer Proud Beckets refusall The letter of the Empresse Two Cardinals censures of Becket About Beckets sainting Ex. Auentino Disputation about Becket at Paris Argument of miracles Popish miracles threefold 1 Onely in shew Act. Mon. pag. 733. Ex Pencero Munst. Caâ—ione aliis 2 Wrought by Sathan 2. Thess. 2. Math. 24. Deut. 13. 3 Falsely deuised Beckets miracles Act. Mon. pa. 204. Miracles not rare amongst the Papists D. Rain ex breuiario Rom. ex vita Thâ— â—ius operi Romae editis prefixa D. Rain ex seuerinâ— Large talke betweene Hiacinthus and an image of Alablaster The Pope will be obeyed commanding either disloyaltie or blasphemie Blasphemy by the Pope commanded Portiforium ad vsum Sarum in festo S. Tho. Caenâ—uar Disloyaltie by the Pope commaunded About Pardons and Indulgences Indulgences grounded neither vpon Scripture nor vpon ancient Fathers Councels condemne the abuses of the Popes pardons Ex Chemnicio de Indulgentijs The complainâ— of the Germaine Princes Tecelius Pardous for sinnes to be committed Parry Caines spirit Absolution Simon a Monke Iacobus Clemens The conclusion Iustification by faith Esay 30. Iob. 1. This bloudie mate falsely chargeth me with bloud-thirstines â— Sam. 18. Aug. in Psal. 37 Her Maiesties marueilous deliuerance in Queene Maries time Her Maiesties deliuerance and Dauids compared Her Maiestie vniustly troubled in Queen Maries daies A ridiculous argument Causes concurring to her Maiesties preseruation M. Hales Oration The fretting of the Papists against her Maiestie now being Queene Hester 6. About annointing Psal. 150. Luke 2. About D. Storie Psal. 5. 59. Stories words The interpretatioÌ„ of them Stories iudgement Martyrium Ioan Stor Angl. pro ecc Rom. primat The Bull of Pius Quintus Master Iuel Bullenger Whether any man may depose Kings Dan. 2. and 4. Luke 1. 1. King 14. 1. King 19. Prou. 8. August in Psalm 47. 1 2 Rom. 13. Valentinian Theodosius Sigebert in Anno 1088. Aug. contraliterai Petil. lib. â— ca. 92. Psal 140. Iere. 10. Iudges 5. Traterous practises of some Papists Fond amplifications of punishments inflicted on papists A vaine colour Protestants not to be compared with Papists in rebellion 2 King 11. Lib. conform in initio About the two Earles insurrection Francis Throgmorton and Charles Paget About the late Earle of Northumberland and the Earle of Arundel The substance of the Encounterers conclusion Bishop Gardiner and Cardinall Allen compared Bishop Gardiner A short view of Gardiners milde nature Gardiners hard dealing with Marbeck Heresie for lay men to meddle with the Scripture Gardiners argument to proue an heretike Doctor Tailor Gardiners milde Rhetorike Master Philpot Boner vnwilling to meddle with Master Philpot Boners speech concerning Gardiners being dead Gardiners ioy for Bishop Ridley master Latimers death with God his suddaine stroke vpon him Gardiners desire of reuenge against the Duches of Suffolke Boners description of Gardiner About Gardiners seeking Queene Elizabeths life A weake Apologie The misterie of his tale of a misterious bracelet Gardiner confesseth the wrong imprisonment of Ladie Elizabeth D. Weston Gardiner vnwilling to haue the Ladie Elizabeth cleered The bringing in of the Spaniard Gardiners booke de vera obedientia with Boners proface Gardiners Sermon in Queene Maries time vpon Rom. 13. The A.B.C. to the Pope and his Clergie in Hen. 4. time Gardiner put out of King Henries Will. King Henrie the eyght not minded to reconcile himselfe to the Pope as Gardiner saith but quite contrarie About King Henries diuorce from his first wife with Gard. iudgement of it Cardinall Allen. Allens iudgement of Pius Quintus Bull. Parsons and Campions faculties Saunders Rebellion in Ireland A similitude alleadged for Allens defence examined 1 The Pope no way our father 2 Your elder brethren yeeld not due reuerence to the Queene their mother 3 Your yonger brethren are the elders agents against the Queene Paines practise against her Maiestie Heskets treason Treason against the Queene made a point of the popish faith and religion Allen perswadeth it to be honorable to kill the Queene Parrey resolued by Allens booke to kill the Queene The grouud of this Encounter The Pope will not disclaime his title of vsurped Supremacie The Pope will be no Protestant but may be an heretike Marcellinus Honorius Liberius Stephanus Iohan. 22. The Iesuites The Sorbonists iudgement of the Iesuites Iesuites practises Parrie hartened by Iulio Palmio a Iesuite Yorke and Williams set on by Holte a Iesuite Patricke Cullen Sauage perswaded by D. Guifford Posseuine Wal-poole France iudged the Iesuites The chiefe vow of Iesuits Sacriledge to vow simple obedience to man The scope of their vow The conclusion Te rayling of N.D. Iames. 3. An outward ciuill conuersation Ciuill honesty to be found amongst Infidels Turkes True faith not without good workes Dissimulation taught by Papistes 1 2 3 Dissimulation of some Papists manifested The threefold accusation examined 2 The hurt Recusants do Forcing to do against Conscience Moderate punishment for Religion lawfull Comparison tweene our punishment of Recusants those of former times The Papistes hands deepe in this transgression 2 The hurt Recusants would doe Barbarous railing against Henrie Earle of HuntingdoÌ„ 3 Dissimulation in sundrie Papists Cardinall Allen inciteth to Rebellion Dispensation of Gregorie 13 to Parsons and Campion 3 All Recusants not charged with dissimulatioÌ„ or rebellious mindes â—â—e Papists 〈◊〉 â—at the 〈◊〉 de 〈…〉 1 2 3 4 5 6 The truth of my position iustified Rebellion cunningly broached Abraham and Lot Ieremie Iere 9. Ieroboam Iehu Athanasius Obedience in temporall Princes This is N.D. his spirituall conceite as you may reade in his booke pag. 83. The translation of S. Peters words freed froÌ„ corruption The Popes Crowne may not be touched Archprelate How Christ and his Apostles were Priests and Archprelates 1 Christ gaue no Superiority to Peter Luke 22. 2 Peter neuer challenged anie such Act. 15. 3 The Apostles acknowledge no superioritie in Peter The Popes spirituall supremacie without good warrant The Popes temporall Supremacie His temporall Supremacie neuer acknowledged The Popes intollerable pride The Pope a bloudie monster The Popes bloudie humour against the Queene What iudgement is to be had of this Encounterer Whether the Pope be Antichrist How farre England standeth beholding to Rome 1 2 Elutherius acknowledge the Kings Gods Vicar in his owne kingdome 3 1. Thes. 1. The cause of libertie of speech vsed against Spaine The Encounterers iniurious rayling Of the Spanish Nation Not all Spaniards charged Experiments of the Spaniards pride crueltie c. N.D. maliciously slaundereth his natiue countrie No cause to except against our free speech of Spaniards The person of the discouerer considered The Taxes Papists the only contemners of princes Reuel 52. About Lopus His sute to the Lords The conclusion
Churches of Christendome where the Gospel and truth of Christ Iesus is embraced to be of the same iudgement and in this blessed vnitie grounded vpon veritie the Lord for euer keepe vs. And how scornefully soeuer you tearme this to be our Parliament Religion be it knowne to you that the reuerent assemblie of States and Commons in Parliament haue cause to praise God for their ioyning to present such lawes and for her Maiesties consenting to establish such lawes as tende to so holy a purpose as to hem in the ignorant that they may frequent the holy assemblies to learne to professe and obey the truth and to restraine the headstrong humors of Papistes and Atheists who are forward to runne astray from God and all godlines As for your tricke of cunning often grated vpon with a desire to disioyne our affections by calling some Puritanes other Protestants this malicious purpose of yours I hope the Lord of might mercy will turne to the good of his Church and I trust it will please him by his grace to direct the hearts of our Church-men to see how needfull it is for them to ioyne heart and hand together to defend the doctrine of faith which they all hold against the calumniations and slaunders wherewith you and men of your sort seeke to load the truth of our profession and to crosse the cunning and most dangerous plots laid also to mingle at the least our blessed and most holy profession with a toleration of cursed Poperie if not to alter all to Poperie to the rooting out of Gods true Religion wholly from amongst vs. And howsoeuer some dissent hath appeared about the toleration or abrogation of some things yet I doubt not it doth shall wel appeare that the dissention is not such as this turbulēt spirited fellow would faine haue it and that all sides will manifest to the whole world that howsoeuer they may in these outward things dissentire yet it shal be concordi discordia and so much for your cunningly deuised distinction of Puritane and Parliament Religion not without a setled and grounded malice to both But Sir your vaunt of a generall vnitie before alteration of Religion amongst vs if I had leasure to sift it would proue more boldly then truly vttered for how worshipped you one God when you serued so many Idols Or how glorified you the Creator when you gaue his glorie vnto creatures not onely to his true Saints as to the blessed virgin whom you call the Queene of Heauen as God is King of Heauen and one of your greatest pillars affirmeth as Doctor Raynolds alleadgeth him that the King of kings hath giuen halfe his kingdome to this Queene and of the chiefest treasures of this kingdome namely Iustice and Mercy hath reserued Iustice to himselfe but his mercie he hath granted to her but euen vnto vile base and dumbe creatures as when they pray for their crosse of mettall that as by Christ his crosse the world was deliuered from the guilt of sinne so by the merit of this crosse of mettall they that offer it may be freed from all the sinnes they haue committed and to the crosse they pray crauing that of a dumbe creature which the Creator onely can giue that is God blessed for euer O Crux aue spes vnica Hoc passionis tempore Auge pijs iustitiam Reisque dona veniam All hayle O Crosse our onely hope In this time of the passion In faithfull people grace increase And grant of sinne remission If Lactantius should iudge of your Religion he would scarce allow you to worship God at all who denieth that creatures may be worshipped with him yeelding this reason Si honos idem alijs tribuitur ipse omninò non colitur cuius Reltgio est illum esse vnum ac solum Deam credere If the same honour be giuen to others he is not worshipped at all whose Religion is to beleeue that he is one and the onely God The best that probablie may be made of your worshipping is that it is like the Religion that the Gentiles learned which were brought from Assiria to inhabite the Cities of Samaria who worshipped the Lord and Idols together Likewise of your owne faith and beliefe might be shewed how vaine a presumption it is when as you are so miserablie rent in sunder into so innumerable diuersities and sects of Friers and Munkes putting holines in diuers institutions of life some being white some blacke some wearing linnen some wollen some going shod some bare-foote with infinite diuersities more which are by learned men handled It shall be sufficient for me onely to remember you of the stirre betwixt the Franciscans and Dominicke Friers about the conception of the blessed Virgin the Franciscans or gray Friers affirming that she was neuer Subiect one moment in her conception to originall sinne the Dominicke or blacke Friers teaching that she was conceiued in sinne as are all the children of Adam which controuersie occupied all schooles and vniuersities almost throughout the whole Christian world which was at the length doughtelie decided by Pope Sixtus the fourth quite contrarie to that Word which shall iudge all at the last day Of your one head your vaunt is the like which being the Pope how can you haue one head vnles you reiect Christ If you meane one visible and ministeriall head how can that be when as Christ hath promised to be with vs to the end of the world And in the Reuelation Iohn saw him walking in the middest of the seuen golden Candlesticks if he be thus alwaies present with his Church by his spirite to guide the whole and euery member thereof how shall any presume to take vpon him to be a ministeriall head of the Church because Christ is not visiblie present Againe how haue you had one visible head when there hath been so many Antipopes So often Such tumults and schismes about the Papacie Which though your men would deriue vpon the Emperours intermedling with the election though very falsely yet as a learned man proueth of thirtie schismes in the Church of Rome so many as no Church can boast of besides the worst and the longest hath been since that time that the election was deuolued onely to the Cardinals euen the 29. which lasted for the space of 50 yeares first with two Popes at one time and then with three c. So that to cease any further to examine your assertions who intend onely a defence of mine owne by you carped at and traduced your great brag of vnitie in your Religion the like whereof you deeme is not amongst vs to be found is in deede nothing but meere vanitie But to returne from whence I digressed Secondly by the establishment of true Christian Religion amongst vs this great blessing we haue obtained that the Scripture and word of God which is the incorruptible seede whereby we are begotten to God the sincere milke that