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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08023	A notable discourse of the happinesse of this our age, and of the ingratitude of men to God for his benefites: written in Latine by that godly learned man Iohn Riuius, and now Englished for the comfort, and commoditie of the vnlearned, by W.W. student..; De seculi nostri felicitate, et hominum erga Dei beneficia ingratitudine, liber. English	Rivius, Johann, 1500-1553.	1578 (1578)	STC 21064.5; ESTC S94909	108,359	160

doctrine comprehended verie briefly in fewe woordes the verie same which is taught amongst vs Whereby you may easily learne what hath bene amended in Ecclesiasticall doctrine Now wee will proceede to declare what hath bene either chaunged or quite taken away in Ceremonies but first we will speake somewhat of the Pope or Bishop of Rome All men well nigh heretofore did beleeue as their Creede that the Pope was by Gods lawe head of the Church But wee after the iudgement of S. Paule doe affirme that Christe alone is the head of the Church For the place out of the Epistle to the Ephesians and of the Colossians is well knowen Wee denie not this that the Bishop of Rome may by the generall consent of the other Bishops bee appointed as it were a certeine superintendent or ouerseer of the Churches and a president of the Christian common weale that hee may both bee and also seeme to be as it were a Censour of mens manners a maister of Ecclesiasticall discipline if so bee hee woulde vse his authoritie graunted not to get any Lordship or souereigntie ouer others but to the profit of the Church not to bring in superstition but to establish true religion and if hee woulde throughly doe the duetie belonging to the function taken in hand finally if hee woulde bee bounde to certeine lawes of gouernement neither would permit as he hath done heretofore that his owne lust and licence should stand for a lawe Our men verely hitherto haue made warre onely with the Popes kingdome and with the Romish ruledome and with that power which would aduance it selfe both aboue the Scripture and the Church and almost aboue God him selfe neither seeme they to graunte vnto any mortall man whatsoeuer as long as they can helpe it to be able to doe more than the woorde of God and the Church Otherwise I knowe full well they will not refuse the authoritie of the Bishop of Rome if hee will take paines to see that Christian Religon bee instaured that superstitions bee taken away that the Churches bee reformed that the manners of all estates bee corrected and amended And if that authoritie of the Bishop which at the beginning was graunted for the better preseruation of Christianitie of consent in doctrine had not bene turned into domination or rather tyrannie our men truely would neuer haue bene persuaded to haue violated cast off and to haue banished as it were out of the Church that authoritie Therefore no other man but the Bishop of Rome him selfe is the cause why that Apostolicall seate as they call it hath bene so despised neither can the Bishop accuse any man for that matter more iustly than him selfe For who can thinke it tollerable that hee should call him selfe The vniuersall and Oicomenicall Bishop who hath the right to ordeine and to confirme to displace and remoue from their office all the Bishops and Pastours in the whole world that hee doth arrogate vnto him self the authoritie of making lawes concerning the seruice and woorship of God concerning the chaunging of the Sacraments concerning Ecclesiasticall doctrine that hee doth thinke his owne decrees to be equall with Gods lawes so that all mens consciences are necessarily bounde to the obseruing of them if they will see to their owne saluation that hee doth sit in the Temple of God as God as S. Paule saith of Antichrist and that hee doth take vnto him the right of chaunging the doctrine of Christ and the woorshippes appointed by God that hee doth suffer him selfe to bee iudged of no man and that hee doth preferre his owne authoritie before the iudgement of Councelles and of the whole Christian Church that hee doth not suffer Ecclesiasticall controuersies to bee decided rightly and orderly and that in Synodes hee doth not suffer any thing to be iudged and concluded against his sentence that hee challengeth vnto him selfe the authoritie to translate from one to an other both kingdomes and Empires that hee sticketh hard to this how that by Gods lawe hee is Lord of all the kingdomes of the worlde finally that hee boasteth how that hee is the Emperours lawfull successour when the Empire is vacant and that hee doth confirme this howe that it is necessarie to saluation to beleeue it But let vs come now to Ceremonies In baptising infantes wee had rather vse our owne vulgar tongue than the Latine because verie few vnderstand this but all vnderstand the other that is both the Godfathers and Godmothers which are brought thither and adhibited as witnesses at the baptisme of the childe and also the rest of the congregation if any bee present and lastly the Priest him selfe which doth baptise the childe Now it is verie profitable and necessarie that all shoulde vnderstand that language wherein the childe is baptised namely to this end both that the Godfathers may knowe what they doe professe and promise to God in the childes name and also that the rest which stand aboute may not bee ignorant what matter is in hande how serious how diuine and how full of mysteries it is finally that the Prieste may bee occupied in that holie mysterie with greater attention of minde that he may thereby bee excited to a more exquisite diligence and that hee may bee forced the better to doe his duetie for shame of all those which are present vnderstanding now what is done Iustinian the Emperour maketh for vs in his Nouellis Constitutionibus de capitibus Ecclesiasticorum sumptuum whose woordes I doe omitte lest I should bee longer than needed As concerning that vngodlie rite and custome of baptising belles and of hallowing water with salte brought into the Church by superstitious men wee thought good in any wise to reteine it no longer Concerning Penance and Confession if the abuses which haue crept in bee taken away wee both thinke and teach verie highly of it For wee doe clearely and plainely testifie that there can bee no way any true faith in a man without repentance that is but in him who is truely sorrowfull and greatly greeued for his sinnes but in him which repenteth seriously and from his hearte and which feeleth the wrathe of God against his sinnes but in him which purposing now to liue godly doth call to God for mercie doth goe vnto the Minister of the Church and confessing his sinnes doth desire absolution of him Wee verely doe nothing regarde that their carefull curious and scrupulous enumeration or reckoning vp of their seuerall sinnes with all the cirumstances perteining to it as what was done with what minde with whome at what time howe long where howe often wherefore howe much howe farre foorth with what reason and other such like this wee reiect as both full of superstition and also euerie way vnprofitable and as it were a certeine snare or rather a butcherie and crosse of miserable consciences Neither doe wee approue or allow those manifolde errours concerning

Â¶ A NOTABLE discourse of the happinesse of this our age and of the ingratitude of men to God for his benefites Written in Latine by that godly learned man Iohn Riuius and now newly Englished for the comfort and commoditie of the vnlearned by W. W. Student Iohn 17. 3. This is life euerlasting that men knowe thee to be the onely verie God and whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ Horat. Interdum vulgus rectum videt est vbi peccat Imprinted at London for Tobie Cooke and Philippe Eede 1578. To the Right Honorable M. Doctour Wilson one of the principall Secretaries to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie and of her Highnesse most honorable priuie Counsell W. W. wisheth increase of all godlinesse in this present life and in the life to come eternall happinesse in heauen THE wonderfull varietie and diuersitie of opinions and iudgements amongst the Philosophers concerning mans summum bonum or chiefest happinesse in this life is not vnknowne to your Honour and other learned men how that some said it did consist onely in vertue othersome in beautie othersome in honour othersome in wealth othersome and that no small summe in pleasure and some in a certeine mixture or medlie of all these It were needlesse to reckon vp in this place all their idle fansies fond dreames about this one point Howbeit I would certifie the simpler sort of this thing how that all of them erred and wandered in bywayes how that euerie seuerall sect and familie of Philosophers shot farre wide of the marke For as S. Paule testifieth They became vaine in their thoughtes and their foolish heart was full of darknesse When they professed themselues to be wise they beecame fooles We Christians that haue bene trained vp in Christes schole haue learned a better profession of our Maister and Sauiour Iesus Christ We know and are taught so to say that God maketh the wisedome of the world foolishnesse We are instructed and so we stedfastly beleeue that the onely true felicitie of this our life and the true happinesse of this our age standeth in the publishing and preaching of Christes Gospell which is to the Iewes a stumbling blocke to the Graecians foolishnesse and to the Papistes new learning but in deede the power of God to the saluation and the wisedome of God to the instruction of as many as are called both of the Iewes Graecians and Papistes This glorious Gospell of our God was first preached here on earth by our Redeemer and Sauiour Christ himselfe then after his ascension it was carried into all partes of the worlde by the Apostles and their successours with such successe that Christes spirituall kingdome was by the scepter of his worde enlarged farre and wide Which thing the deadly enimie of mankind Sathan greatly enuying knowing that the flourishing state of Christes kingdome would be the decaie and downefall of his laboured by all meanes possible to beare downe his scepter and scepter bearers by force and violence which thing he after a sorte brought to passe by raising vp the ten bloudie persecutions against the Christians vnder the ten Tyrantes or Emperours of Rome But the Diuell seeing that this his former policie would not preuaile seeing that the Christians the more they were tormented for their faith the more they grewe and multiplied deuised to deale no more by violence and bloudshed but chaunging himselfe into an Angel of light sought meanes how in time of peace he might withdrawe men by little and little from the true Religion of Christ to the counterfeit and hypocriticall religion of Antichrist This craftie counsell and pestilent practise pleased the subtile Serpent well which wrought this effect that it eclipsed and diminished the fulnesse beautifull light of Christes kingdome which was onely mainteined by the sworde of the spirit that is to say by the worde of god And because he might the more easily leade the people out of the way of trueth his purpose was wholy hitherto bent to ouerwhelme the candle vnder the bushell to darken the light of the Gospell which he brought accordingly to passe by corrupting and infecting the Priesthood with the glorious pompe and vanities of the worlde with the wanton delightes and vaine pleasures of this present life Then euen then he set Antichrist of Rome in his royall seate as his vicar and lieftenant generall there to rule and reigne as God of this world in the children of vnbeliefe bewitching them with strong delusions that they shoulde beleeue lies that all they might be damned which beleeued not the trueth but had pleasure in vnrighteousnesse This is that man of sinne by which is ment not one particular man but a succession of men as by the beare in Daniel is not ment onely one King of the Persians but a succession of Kinges this I say is that man of sinne and that aduersarie that exalteth himselfe aboue all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he doth sit as God in the Temple of God shewing himselfe that he is god This is that wicked man whose comming is by the effectuall working of Sathan with all power and signes and lying woonders and in all deceiueablenesse of vnrighteousnesse among them that perishe because they receiued not the loue of the trueth that they might be saued By this meanes Sathan lulled as it were the worlde a sleepe for the space of these seuen hundred yeeres last past Now some man will maruell much how the Pope should growe to such an vnbridled authoritie as he hath gotten Surely we can assigne no other cause but this such was the will of God and such was the depth of his secrete iudgement for the contempt of his Gospell Was it not I pray you reuealed to S. Iohn that the purple whoore of Babylon shoulde make all the Kinges and Princes of the earth and the inhabitantes thereof to drinke of the golden cuppe of wine full of the abhominations and filthinesse of her fornication The verie beginning and foundation of Antichristes kingdome was laied euen in the Apostles time For S. Paule writ to the Thessalonians that the mysterie of iniquitie began then to woorke but it was then hindered by the brightnesse and puritie of doctrine receiued in the Primatiue Church Afterwardes it grewe vp by degrees and specially by three steppes First by the great errors of the heretikes in the East Church which Chrysostome doth call the armies of Antichrist Secondly by the lamentable contention and emulation amongst the Christian Bishoppes in the Orientall partes Thirdly by the superstitious deuotion for I will not call it liberall donation of Princes and Emperours For after that the wicked parricide Phocas Emperour of Constantinople had geuen the Primasie or name of vniuersall Bishop vnto Boniface the third the Popes authoritie or rather tyrannie increased excedingly Then they sought not onely to be Lordes within themselues but also to be aboue all higher powers yea aboue the

Ecclesiasticall matters and of the holy Ghost that he reacheth foorth his feete for most noble Princes to kisse that he canonizeth for Saintes dead men whom he thinketh will be profitable to him last of all that he breaketh leagues that he breaketh the faith and religion of an oth that he giueth leaue for men to doe against the commaundementes of GOD and that he permitteth subiectes to forsake their allegeance and to cast off all obedience and loyaltie to their lawfull Prince and what one man I pray you can rehearse all his doings of whiche there is neither end nor measure For I let passe pretermit many thinges which were to be added of the negligence of the Pope in caring for the Christian common wealth for he boasteth that he is set ouer it by God as cheefe President whose charge is to see that it take no harme in correcting and amending corrupt doctrine in abolishing wicked worships in assembling Synodes calling Councels in amending the corrupt manners of all states finally in gouerning guiding other matters affaires perteining to his office function Yea I thought good to passe ouer in silence those thinges which all the world almost crieth out vpon namely that the Pope forbiddeth many thinges which either are no where prohibited by Gods lawe or plainly permitted by the same that he requireth his owne lawe to be of more account than Gods commaundements that he prouideth euerie where rather for his owne gaine than either for Gods glorie or the saluation of Christian people that by his indulgencies pardons he both augmeÌ„teth the libertie impunitie of sinning also cutteth away all occasions causes of amendment of life finally that he neither careth to see his own canons obserued nor endeuoreth to represse that infinit vnmeasurable riotte and excesse of the Cardinals of Rome Hitherto you haue heard of the Bishop of Rome whome the Papistes account to bee our supreame Bishop most holie Lorde Some salute him with the title appellation of Prince Father of mankind othersome vouchsafe to giue him the name and honour of a terrene or earthlie God. Now let vs come to Baptisme which sith that it was instituted ordeined by Christ him selfe for mans sake namely that they which are borne by nature the children of wrath may through a certeine new regeneration by the Spirit beecome the sonnes of grace and that by Baptisme they might be purged froÌ„ the spottes of sinne which they brought with theÌ„ into the world when they were borne this vse the Papistes in former ages maruellously defiled For they were not afraid to baptise sacring belles other belles with great ceremonies yea almost obseruing the same rites whiche were vsed in baptising infantes For neither exorcisme nor vnction is left out they haue godfathers they haue names giuen them and all the rest of the thinges which were woont to be vsed in the true Baptisme are practised very deuoutly or rather superstitiously not without greate reproche mockage and despite of the true Baptisme especially seeing here as in baptising of childreÌ„ euerie hedg Priest Curate will not serue but onely the Bishop of the Diocesse namely to this end that there may bee more authoritie in the stage play whilest that such a christening is full of pompe And because Baptisme was ordeined of Christ to be the lauer of regeneration the washing away of our sinnes the Papistes were woont to consecrate with superstitious rites for they had no commaundement of Christ concerning that matter water with salt by which either those that entered into the Church as I said before or those whiche went out thence might sprinkle them selues to wash away the spottes and blottes of their daily sinnes and those light offences and faultes of theirs which custome nowe also lasteth in places of Poperie Now what great abuse was there heretofore of confirmatioÌ„ as they call it For wheras in it there ought to be had a diligent inquirie of doctrine a professioÌ„ of faith as a chefe principal thing to be required in bishoping the Papists leauing neglecting these send the children away after that they haue signed them in the foreheads with the holy Chrisme to vse Petrus Lombardus wordes geuen them a boxe on the eare So if you respect the true vse of confirmation it hath no place at all amongst the Papistes and the thing it selfe being quite taken away there remaineth onely the name and a certeine shadowe of an old auncient custome There were also many intollerable abuses in penance confession as for example that hard to scrupulous a reckoning vp of all our sinnes reseruing of certeine cases that appendix in absolution of the merites of Saintes Romish indulgencies humane satisfaction for sinnes and if there bee any such like In the Supper of the Lorde the cheefest abuse was of Masses especially that manifold number and great varietie of them as for trauellers wayfaring men for sailers seafaringmeÌ„ for women trauelling in childbed item the Masse of the crowne of thorne the Masse of the three nailes the Masse of Christs vncircumcision what were they not woont to flee for reliefe vnto Masses as many as desired wished to haue a prosperous ioyfull euent to all things which they enterprised went about which sought a remedie for their diseases which would gladly escape shun all imminent euils daungers Yea moreouer Masses were thought to be profitable to deliuer the dead froÌ„ the fire of Purgatorie For the matter was now come to that passe that that Sacrament which was instituted and ordeined to excite stirre vp liue men to the remembrance of Christs death was almost wholy translated to the dead I doe omitte the superstitious reseruation of the Lordes bread and the pompe in which the same is carried about and shewed both in publike processions and also in solemne vewinges of the field in the Rogation weeke I doe furthermore omit let passe that taking away of one parte of the Sacrament from the people flatte contrarie to the institution and ordinance of Christ But let vs come to matters of greater weight and importance and first and formost to the promises concerning Christ to come in the former age no man had any rememberance or certeine knowledge of that promise which is the first both in time order Such cloudes of ignorance errour did so miserably darken the whole world And yet there are some also at this day which thinke that we doe wrest that place of Genesis in which is conteined the first promise to the vauntage and commoditie of our owne cause when as in deede the most auncient Doctours of the Christian Church make with vs as Irenaeus who not once or twice but often testifieth that the seede of the woman is that which Marie brought foorth into the world to wit our Sauiour So doth

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