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A14155	Tvvo learned sermons The one, of the mischieuous subtiltie, and barbarous crueltie, the other of the false doctrines, and refined hæresis of the romish synagogue. / Preached, the one at Paules Crosse the 5. of Nouember, 1608. The other at the Spittle the 17. of Aprill. 1609. In the first, are examined diuers passages of that lewde English libell, written by a prophane fugitiue, against the Apologie for the Oath of Allegeance. In the seconde, are answered many of the arguments published by Rob. Chambers priest, concerning popish miracles; and dedicated (forsooth) to the Kings most excellent Maiestie. By Robert Tynley, Doctor of Diuinitie, and Archdeacon of Ely.	Tynley, Robert, 1561 or 2-1616.	1609 (1609)	STC 24472; ESTC S118816	62,579	82

as by their practise is euident but as Hierom writeth in the like case fraudem facere Ad Rusticum to circumuent vs. So farre are they from that Dooue-like simplicitie to which the Lord Iesus and from whome they would deriue their name exhorteth his Disciples Math. 10. verse 16. There are that haue branded them with this marke Iesuits Catac li. 3. fol. 156. There is not in the world any beast more subtill then is the Iesuite not the Fox which Chrysostome in his 19 Sermon describeth thus Vulpis calliditate Potens inuentrix doli fraudis artifex simulationis magistra simplicitatis vacua Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur plenastrophis Change the name you may render it thus the Iesuite is a beast powerfull in craft an inuentor of guile the artizen of deceite maister of fauning deuoid of simplicitie and full of wily subtiltie For whereunto tendeth it that one Iesuite must bee called by so many names Proceedins against he late Traitors as Garnet that moste treacherous Prouinciall Wallye alias Darcie alias Roberts alias Farmer alias Philips Is it not that going masked vnder so may names as vnder so many visards hee may the more securely lay his snares to entrap vs what is their drift in transforming thēselues into as many shapes as they meete with obiects now a Courtiour then a Cittizen heere a countrie Gentleman there a coūtrie Swaine sometimes a Seruingmā a swaggerer Pot-companion another while a Priest in a word euerie man for euerie bodie a quilibit for a quolibet a Polipus for all orders and degrees Is it not that by this meanes they may come within men of all sorts insinuate themselues into their companies creepe into their bosoms prie into their hearts that so they may more easily beguile them vnawares But of all their Wiles I commend vnto you the Aequiuocating Sibboleth Iudg. 1.2.6 the verie forge of lying and deceit which bewraieth them by their speech to bee no other then false faining Ephraemites By this they affirme and deny sweare and forsweare and all with a breath they are Priests and they are no Priests that is to tell you they say Masse and they say not Masse that is in Pauls Quier or in Westminster Quier When they talke with our Magistrates they speake as to the Walles for men with them are no men and all by vertue of this mixt proposition their Gorgons head a point in Logicke which Aristotle neuer taught and the ancient schooles knew it not wherby they goe beyond the course of nature making things meerely contradictorie to subsist Let mee trouble your patience with one instance which shall bee worthy your obseruation When a Recusant shall sweare for example in taking the Oath of Allegeance according to the expresse words of the Oath and according to the plaine and common sense and vnderstanding of the same words without any Aequiuocation or mentall euasion or secret reseruation whatsoeuer Could it be imagined that any shifting or cauelling wit should bee able to finde a starting hole in the same to winde himselfe out of it yet beholde an English Catholike as hee nameth himselfe but indeede the verie fierie match of this state and kingdome in a letter written to a friend of his hath as hee would beare others in hand found a meanes to auoid the force of this Oath by Aequiuocating as namely where it is said That the Pope hath no Authoritie to depose our King Pet. 18.19 nor to dispose of his Kingdomes so forward what concerneth the Pope true saith he Without iust cause or directly hee cannot or in some such like sense When as the deponent sweareth directly against all and euerie such mentall euasion and secret reseruation whatsoeuer and that hartily and wittingly and truely or else let him refuse the Oath and not sweare at all Heere is the verie quintessence of this cogging Artt he recusant taketh the Oth according to the expresse words not so saith our English Catholike but hee must Aequiuocate the Recusant followeth the plaine and ordinarie sense and meaning of the words our English Catholike teacheth him to keepe somewhat in his minde by secret reseruation the Recusant abiureth and sweareth against all mentall euasion our English Catholike instructeth him to make escape by his mixt proposition expressing a part of his minde by word of mouth and reseruing an other part in his heart Whether this bee to make shipwracke of Faith and a good conscience malitiously and of set purpose by open and manifest periurie let any man iudge which doth not wilfully shut his eyes against the noone-light and being past feeling is by Gods iustice giuen ouer to a reprobate sense Ye see the foulers of our times their nets their sleights their wiles wherein they goe beyond the Foxes in subtiltie in hunting after their prey What remaineth but that wee humbly desire our vigilant Magistrates to whome the charge of the Lords vineyard is committed to take these Foxes both great and small for what doe they else but spoile and destroy our vines which God hath placed amongst vs in this fruitfull soile And that wee our selues setting their snares before our eyes carefully shunne and auoide them which else will bring vs to perdition both of body and soule And this of the subtiltie of the aduersaries of our Church 2 The second circumstance and propertie whereby the Prophet describeth them is their crueltie in renting and tearing Christ his flocke and swallowing them vp quicke as cruell beasts doe their prey It is not a new face of the Church or proper to those daies and seasons onely which our Sauiour setteth foorth to our view Stel. in Luc. Mat. 10.16 Behold I send you as sheepe in the middest of Wolues For in that our Sauiour speaketh in a time neither past nor yet future to come but in the present I send you he thereby giueth vs to vnderstand that the dangers which are imminēt to his sheepe conuersing amongst wolues are alwaies present with them there beeing no season wherin they are free from their rage and crueltie whether wee call to mind the times past or consider what now is or heereafter shall ensue In hoc seculo in his diebus malis in this world of wickednesse saith the Godly Father Saint Augustine in these euill daies De Ciuit. dei li. 18. cap. 18 wherin sinne hath got the vpper hand the Church as a stranger and Pilgrime holdeth on her course sustained by Gods holy spirit not onely euer since Christ and his Apostles conuersed heere vpon the earth but euen from the time of Abell the righteous whose blood his cruell brother Caine spilt vpon the earth So ancient is the crueltie of these Wolues and rauenous beasts preying vpon Christ his Flocke and so continuing from time to time as their rage and rauenous appetite hath edged them forward By the furie of these Wolues the holy Prophets were consumed from Abel vnto Zacharias

Religion if forreine occasions should be offered vs againe as in former times they haue beene by forraine warres wee should not know how to trust the one the other Heere is plaine dealing indeede you heare him now speake plainely laying aside his vsuall manner of cogging and Aequiuocating and is there not iudge ye great cause that libertie of their conscience Religion which threatneth such dangers both to Prince and Countrie should be as common amongst vs in this Kingdome as the vse of the aire breathing is common to all or rather is there not great neede that the Statutes concerning obstinate Recusants were put more duely in execution and not lie sheathed so much as they doe in the scabbard that all loyall subiects were sealed like the Seruants of God in their foreheads making open profession by their Oath of their dutifull allegeance towards their Soueraigne Reuel 7.3 which in a cause so conformable to Gods will and command so behooufull to church and common-wealth so neerely touching Gods glorie the peace safetie and honour both of Prince and People whosoeuer should refuse I wish his legs so fettered though not with giues of yron and his armes so weakned though not by drawing one drop of blood that these Serpents might not bee able to sting when they most desired nor these Wolues to prey vpon vs when they most longed Thus yee haue the roote from whence spring these bitter fruits of subtiltie and crueltie in the Aduersaries of the church their wrath kindled not vpon a light friuolous occasion but burning with the zeale of Religion though a zeale not according to knowledge and religion without due feare of God and reuerence of man There remaine yet two points vnhandled the one of the deliuerance of the Church from her enemies the other of the duetie of praise thanks-giuing to be performed for this deliuerance which the time beeing so ready to preuent me and my voice failing I will fould vp in a word by way of application to our selues whome as God hath made examples of his mightie power no nation vnder heauen more in deliuering vs out of the hands of all our enemies both from the Snares of secret treacheries and from the open violence of their intended cruelties so there is no people in the world more obliged to the duetie of praise and thankes-giuing to the Lord. I will not now stand to repeate vnto you our former deliuerance that mirabilis Annus the yere 88. so long before spoken of for the wondrous effects which it was expected it should produce it suffiseth that it was wonderful to vs when standing as it were still wee saw the saluation of the Lord fighting his and our battailes against these his and our enemies and chasing them vntill he had made almost a finall end of them whom the Pope had blessed with the name of inuincible Neither will I call to your mindes the manifold dangers and treacheries so oft plotted against our late gratious Souereigne and in her life against ours with which our most noble King that now raigneth hath beene as freshly assaulted sithence his entrance into his Throane and Kingdome of all which we may say with the blessed Apostle From them all the Lord hath deliuered vs. 2. Tim. 3.11 Consider but this day the birth-day as I may tearme it of our Country in which both Prince and people came as it were anew into the world deliuered from the dreadfull Powder-vault the very belly of hell and confusion C. 2.10 as Ionah sometime did from the belly of the Whale How desperate and bloody was the attempt How secretly was the snare laid to entrap vs vnawares When euery man sung to his neighbor nothing but Peace Peace how neere were we brought to the pits brinke I say not as Ionah did Yet 40. daies but yet not so much as one day C. 3.4 and we should haue beene destroied when being ready to sinke God stretched forth his hand vnto vs as sometimes he did to Peter and tooke vs as a brand out of the fire Matth. 14.31 Zechar. 3.2 Surely heere was neither want of malice will or subtiltie in the Aduersarie in spreading the net that it preuailed not nor force of wisdome or deepe insight in any that preuented it the heart of our most wise and prudent King how large soeuer it bee as the waters which couer the sea yet was it at this time extraordinarily inspired from aboue when out of a cloud of darke speeches by the finger of God he noted and pointed at the treacherie And therefore more properly may we take vp this saiing then euer did Israel Tremel Iun. who spake it but in a trope and figure If the Lord had not beene on our side may we of England say if the Lord had not beene on our side when men rose vp against vs they had then swallowed vs vp quicke when their wrath was kindled against vs. But praised be the Lord who gaue vs not ouer for a prey vnto their teeth Our soule is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the Fowlers when our enemies fell into the pit of destruction which they had digged for vs. Wherefore let the praises of God bee alwaies sounding in our mouths both of Prince and people old and yong men and maidens women and children let vs all in our places and callings age and sexes praise the name of the Lord which is only to be exalted not wisdome strength or worthinesse in our selues And let others put their trust in horses and Chariots in the multitude of their hosts in the strength of their ships in the Popes cursings and blessings but let vs alwaies thinke and say with our Prophet in the conclusion of this Psalme Our helpe is in the name of the Lord. To which most glorious name be rendred all praise honour and glory might and Maiestie this day and for euer Amen FINIS A SERMON PREACHED AT THE SPITTLE MATTH C. 7. V. 15.16 Beware of false Prophets which come to you in sheepes cloathing but inwardly they are rauening Wolues Ye shall know them by their fruits c. AMong the manifold dangers amidst which the Arke of Gods Church is tossed vp and downe by the slie impostures of her enemies as by so many stormes and surges the perils by false Prophets and seducing Teachers are such as if with diligent heed and attention they be not auoided as the Syrtes and Rockes of the Sea we are in danger euery houre to make shipwracke before we can so much as see the hauen wherein our soules long so earnestly to be at rest The greater is the vigilancie of Gods watchfull eie ouer his sillie flocke neuer slumbering nor sleeping Psal 121.4 but as a carefull father warning vs before hand of them Beware of false Prophets and as a painfull master diligently instructing vs how we may know and auoid them Yee shall know them by their fruits saith our