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A07486	Luthers predecessours: or an ansvvere to the question of the Papists: Where was your church before Luther?	Bedford, Thomas, d. 1653.	1624 (1624)	STC 1787; ESTC S114052	16,219	32

William Swinderby a worthy defender of the faith with Wickliffe was accused to the Bishop of Lincolne of certaine Articles both vntruely collected and cruelly exhibited against him by the Friers by their vehemency was vrged to reuoke afterward he remoouing into the Diocesse of Hereford was there also molested and troubled vnder Iohn Tresnant Bishop of Hereford vpon the same Articles the which Articles as they were giuen in by the Friers and how answered by Swinderby in his protestation hangeth vpon record and out of the Registers in the same old English in which it was written is by M. Fox transcribed into his History of the Church By the reading of which protestation wee may note a notable piece of knauery in his accusers viz. not to deliuer his assertions faithfully as he did deliuer them but as they supposed to make him most odious in the defence of them and by that we may well guesse that these points in Wickliffe which seeme rough and harsh met with such vnhandsome workmen The processe against this Swinderby his declaration vpon certaine conclusions touching the Sacrament of the Altar Confession Indulgences and touching Antichrist his appeale to the King his letter to the Parliament doe sufficiently confirme his worth and sufficiency in the cause 1391. Walter Brute a man of sufficient learning though no Priest was conuented before the Bishop of Worcester and accused of the same Articles with Swinderbies admirable it is to reade his storie especially in it his learned declarations concerning Antichrist the Popes vsurped power the power of the Keyes free iustification by faith onely auricular confession absolution the matter of the Sacrament Transubstantiation Idolatry Exorcising priestly blessing buying and selling of prayers and other Romish dregs the lawfull vse of an oath in which hee also prooueth that the City of Rome is Babylon What could hee haue done more in our cause had he liued since Luther Out of his declarations may be taken a sufficient Commentary and Exposition of those Articles which as they are ascribed vnto Wickliffe seeme something harsh Furthermore the Bull of Pope Boniface the 9. dated the 15. Kal. Oct. in the 6. yeere of his Popedome directed to King Richard the 2. and to the Bishop of Hereford doth confesse that these Christians whom the common people called Lollards did daily grow and increase and preuaile against their Diocesans for which cause the Pope stirreth vp the King against them who therupon directed forth a commission to the Bishops to proceed with greater authority against William Swinderby Stephen Bell Walter Brute and others of the same opinions By which meanes the growth of the Gospell was nipped and a little kept in but afterward it brake forth with more effectualnesse as may appeare by the booke of conclusions exhibited to the Parliament holden at London in the 18. of Richard the 2. 1395. Touching the abuses of the Church Popish priest-hood single life of Priests the fained miracle of Transubstantiation Exorcismes and Priestly blessings Masses for the dead Pilgrimages and oblations to Reliques and Images Confession Nunnes and Widdowes vowing single life in all which a reformation was desired in the said Bill the copy whereof is to bee seene in Archiuis Regijs so also the Kings dealing with certaine of his Lords as namely Richard Sturie Lewis Clifford Tho. Latimer Io. Mountacute c. whom he did sharpely rebuke and threaten terribly for that he heard them to be fauourers of that side Adde to this the complaints of the Bishops against the Londoners occasioned by another brawle but certainely the maine matter was because the Londoners were fauourers of Wickliffes doctrine as in the story of S. Albons is to be seene vpon which occasion the King remoued the Courts and Termes to be kept at Yorke to the great decay of the City which happened An. 1393. All these things laid together doe plainely and demonstratiuely tell vs that there was more then one or two knowne to be infected else what need such adoo with Letters Epistles Bulls Mandates Commissions to roote out the proceeding of a few No doubt therefore but there were many worthy witnesses and confessors of the truth of the Gospell 1400. After the deposing of Richard 2. when Henrie 4. had gotten the Crowne the next yeere hee called a Parliament in which one W. Sawtree a good man and faithfull Priest inflamed with the zeale of true Religion required he might be heard for the commodity of the whole Realme But the matter being smelt out by the Bishops they obtained that it might be referred to the Conuocation before whom being conuented examined of diuers Articles of Religion agreeable to Wickliffes doctrine for that hee stood constantly in the defence of the truth was by them condemned degraded and lastly burned And this was the first Martyr that suffered for Religion since the renuing of it by Wickliffe for howsoeuer the Bishops had obtained the Statute de comburendo in the daies of Rich. 2. yet in all his time none suffered death for that cause But when Henry 4. came to the Crowne hee willing to keepe in with the Clergy which in those daies was a strong faction put the Statute in execution first vpon this Sawtree and after him followed many moe some whereof are recorded but certainely the names of many are lost and forgotten See the words of the Statute made in the second yeere of Henry the fourth mentioning a good company of such Preachers whom that age called hereticall 1407. The storie of William Thorpe is famous written by his owne hand contayning his accusation and examination before Archbishop Arundell his answere his commendation of VVickliffe and defence of his doctrine he taught against the Sacrament of the Altar Masse Images Pilgrimages pride of Priest confession c. A constant Professour hee was of the Truth and questionlesse continued to the end howsoeuer his end is vnknowne in all likely-hoode he dyed in prison The like end befell to Iohn Ashton another of Wickliffes followers who for the same Doctrine of the Sacrament was condemned by the Bishops and because he would not recant was committed to perpetuall prison wherein the good man continued vntill his death Somewhat before Thorps trouble happened the trouble of Iohn Puruey who as Waldensis writeth was the Library of the Lollards and a glosse vpon Wickliffe This Puruey together with Harford a Doct. of Diuinity were grieuously tormented and punished in the Castle of Saltwood at length recanted at Pauls Crosse afterward againe hee was imprisoned vnder Archbishop Chichely in the yeere 1421. his Articles which he taught were touching transubstantiation confession Power of the keyes vowes of chastity the charge of Priests he said that Innocent the third and the 600. Bishops and all the rest of the Clergy which in the Councell of Lateran determined the doctrine of transubstantiation and confession were fooles and blockheads seducers of the people Heretickes and blasphemers he wrote diuers bookes as touching the Sacrament of