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A08197	The oration and sermon made at Rome by commaundement of the foure cardinalles, and the Dominican inquisitour, vpon paine of death. By Iohn Nichols, latelie the Popes scholler. Which sermon and oration was presented before the Pope and his cardinalles in his Consistorie, the xxvij. day of Maie. 1578. and remaineth there registred. Now by him brought into the English tongue, for the great comfort and commoditie of all faithfull Christians. Heerin also is aunswered an infamous libell, maliciouslie written and cast abroad, against the saide Iohn Nichols, with a sufficient discharge of himselfe from all the Papists lying reports, and his owne life both largelie and amplie discouered.	Nicholls, John, 1555-1584?	1581 (1581)	STC 18535; ESTC S105660	86,257	238

Father in heauen Iohn 6.56.57 And againe Faith is the ladder that reacheth vp to heauen and by which euen nowe we remayne and sitte in the heauenly places with Christ Ephe. 2.6 Faith is the hand by which we take holde of Christe in whome is performed all the promises of God to his elect 2. Cor. 1.20 Faith is that weapō by which we ouercome the world the end wherof is the saluatiō of our soules Faith is a cleare and effectual persuasion wrought not in the bodily eares but in the eares of the heart not by men but by the holy ghost wherby we are made certaine and sure to be the sonnes of God Faith as it is written in the. 8. Cha. to the Rom. is a firme cōstant and perseuering trust in the boūtifulnes of God Faith is a lyght which lyfteth vp rauisheth aboue all sensible things and beyond that any man is not able to make discourse to comprehende the breadth length height and depth of those things which are to vs incomprehensible with naturall eyes Faith is a cleere eye of the mind wherewith pearcing through the heauens we doo see the diuine secretes of God Faith is a quickening cleere and fiery lyght which purgeth our heartes and delyuereth vs from the darke and inextricable Laborinthes of the vaine shadowes of this worlde by which we guide our blinde reason and are lyfted vp to an high estate so that by the taste of heauenly thinges we despise humane thinges Roma 4. Faith maketh vs to conceiue Christe spirituallie and by force of the spirite to be borne againe with lyfting vs vp vnto God it maketh vs put of the olde Adam and his concupiscences and to put on Christe with his vertues and to become of vngodlie iust temples of God and his chyldren brothers and members of Christe Faith iustifieth pacifieth the minde and conscience maketh merie causeth to reioyce and in such sort that we glory euen in shame This faith is such that it reneweth vs regenerateth vs quickeneth maketh noble enritcheth saueth sanctifieth preserueth defendeth and obteyneth that which it demaundeth Faith knitteth vs to God maketh vs his heyres and Children the brothers of Christe and his members yea it maketh vs diuine and happy Faith is that which in Abell made him offer Sacrifices acceptable to God In Noe caused him to frame the Arke for the sauegarde of the worlde Made Sara to conceyue and that Abraham offred his owne sonne to God Caused Moses to worke so many woonders in Egipt and in the wyldernesse Faith made the Prophets to speake loosed the tongue of Zacharias and saued men in daunger made Simeon not to feare death also made Paule to wishe for it This in the Saintes caused them ouercomming the world that they haue wrought woonderfull thinges through looue But what néede I speake any more Faith is a vertue so noble excellent and woorthy that howe much the more a man considereth of it so much the more wyll it discouer the perfection Therefore he which hath tasted it wyll neuer be satisfied with speaking in prayse thereof Whereas those which neuer haue felt nor tried it in them selues can as much speake thereof as one that is blinde can discerne of coullours yea if those speake of it as those which be carnall and brutishe they doo not vnderstand it nor knowe the excellencie thereof He that hath this liuely Faith wherof the scripture in sundry places speaketh and so highlie commendeth with so many tytles before specified he is sure to be iustified he is sure to be saued This faith made Abraham righteous Gen. 15.6 By this faith the iust lyueth Haba 2.4 This faith made the woman whole to whome Iesus sayde Confide filia fides tua saluam te fecit Daughter be of good comfort thy faith hath made thee whole 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be not afrayde Saith Luke in the ●● Chapt. 48. verse Beleeue onely And he sayde to the woman H 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thy Fayth hath saued thee goe in peace To him giue all the Prophetes witnesse That through his name all that beleeue in him shall receyue remission of sinnes Actes 10.43 And put no difference betwéene vs and them after that by fayth hee had purified theyr heartes There is no dyfference For all haue sinned Sayth Saint Paule Roma 3.23 and are depriued of the glorie of GOD and are iustified freelie by his grace through the redemption that is in Christe Iesus Therefore wée conclude that a man is iustified by Faith without the workes of the Lawe but to him that worketh not but beléeueth in him that iustifieth the vngodlye his Faith is coumpted for ryghteousnesse wée béeing iustified by Faith wée haue peace towards God through Iesus Christe Knowe that a man is not iustifyed by the workes of the Lawe but by the Fayth of Iesus Christe Euen as I saye we haue beleeued in Iesus Christe that we might be iustified by the faith of Iesus Christe and not by the workes of the Lawe Because that by the workes of the Lawe no flesh shall be iustified Gala. 2.16 Againe if righteousnesse be by the law then Christe dyed without a cause And that no man is iustified by the lawe in the sight of God it is euident For the iust shall liue by faith Gala. 3. By grace are ye saued through faith Sayth Paule to the Ephe. 2.8 and that not of your selues it is the gifte of God The scripture hath included all vnder sinne that the promise by the faith of Iesus Christe should be giuen to them that beléeue Origene writeth in his thirde Booke and third Chapter to the Romaines that Saint Paule by these wordes A rbitramur enim iustificari hominem absque operibus legis We suppose therfore that man is iustified by faith without the workes of the lawe Affyrmeth that the iustification Solae fidei Of faith onely is sufficient so that any man beléeuing onely can be iustified although no manner of worke hath béene fulfilled or done by him And if we require an example who was iustified Sola fide By faith onely without workes I suppose that the same Théefe dooth suffise who when he was crucified with Christe did crye vnto him frō the Crosse Lord Iesu remember me when thou commest into thy kingdome Neither any good worke of his is described or set foorth vnto vs in the Gospels but for Hāc solā fidē This faith onely Iesus sayde vnto him Verelie I saye vnto thee this daye shalt thou be with mee in Paradise This Théefe then was iustified by faith with out the workes of the lawe For the Lord dyd not vpon this requyre what he had wrought before neyther dyd he looke what worke he should doo after he did beléeue but béeing ready to enter into Paradise he tooke him for his waighting-man béeing iustified by that confession onely Hesichius in his fowrth Booke and first Chapter vpon Leuiticus saith That the grace of God is giuen onely of mercie and fauour and is embraced

and purpose is not in writing this booke to gape for popular applause and to hunt after prayse but to signifie to the world what I haue bene and what I haue doone I haue been a member of the Romishe Church as it is well knowne to many who bothe knewe me and were conuersant with me at Roome And at my first comming to that Babilonicall Cittie I was suspected to haue bene an Hereticke for so tearme they Christian Catholiques wherefore by the meanes of an English man named Salomon Aldred sometime a dweller in Birchen lane in London who was maried and had bene in my company in France I was brought by Doctor Morice prouider of the English Hospitall at Roome for his owne discharge to the house of the Romishe Inquisition Where béeing examined in matters touching Religion I confessed what I had bene in tyme past an enimie to theyr Religion When as by the processe of my wordes the Dominican Inquisitour had intelligence of my former state He commaunded Doctor Morice to bring me before him the day following which was the .xxvi. day of Aprill in the yeere of our Lord. 1578. So the morning after I came vnto him with Doctor Morice then the sentence of the fowre Cardinalles which are appertayning to that office was this that I should write what I could with frée lybertie of spéeche and pardon graunted against the Pope and against his Religion Béeing thus commaunded as I would auoide the Popes indignation and displeasure to write what I could against his swelling tytle and presumptuous name of supremacie I spared neyther him neyther yet his vnstable Religion as héerafter in the Sermon made at the cōmaūdement of the fowre Cardinals and this Dominican it shall appéere Which Sermon Oration were brought before the Pope and the rest of the Cardinals béeing then in the Consistorie Whē the Pope vnderstoode howe that I had bene reconciled to his Church before the time I came to Roome he pardoned my trespasse and gaue me a Signatura not forgetting to giue me thankes and professing fréendship he willed a Letter to be written to the Rector of the English Seminarie that he should ascribe me to the number of the rest And the Letters béeing deliuered and read both of him and Cardinall Morone Protector of the English house I was admitted the .xxviii. day of May to the Societie of the English Students For so much as the Religion of the Papists is grounded vpon lyes so can they doo nothing else but lie and report vntruelie Wheras a Masse-monger who writeth that he did not only knowe me but also lyued with me falsely reporteth in his Lybell set out against me That I was recommended from Cardinall Paleote of Bolonia to Doctor Lewes that by his meanes I might finde some releefe at the Popes handes this reporte is as true as nowe I am in Wales As touching Doctor Lewes there was not so much as one word spoken much lesse a Letter written vnto him But this is the onely fruite of theyr Religion to speake more then trueth is to slaunder him wrongfully that dooth degenerate from them to hate him vndeseruedlie that findeth out theyr treachery maliciously to backbite him that hath forsaken the dregges of their idolatrie For that I haue with an vnfayned heart renoūced the Romish faith what slaunderous reportes the Papistes haue had of me in what hatred they haue me how maliciouslie they speake of me God knoweth from whome no secrete is hyd and so doo I acknowledging my selfe cléere and frée from those crimes wherewith I am vniustly accused these theyr malicious and slaunderous reproches I haue procured against me for telling the trueth And for the breach of the fowrth decrée of Pope Leo which was no crime in déede for that the decrée is vnlawfull Should I excuse the murther by this Pope committed as the murthers of Sampson Should I commend the deuillishe practises and cruell attempts of this Pope Gregorie to haue the lyues of the true Christians in the lowe Countries abreuiated theyr countrie spoyled theyr houses burnt theyr Cattell slaine theyr Daughters rauished theyr Sonnes murthred euen in the sight of theyr Fathers and the Parentes eyther made slaues or else constrayned before the due course of nature to yéelde vp the ghost Of all this calamitie iniurie and murther the Pope is the onely cause and author This I knowe to be true this I am able to auouch this I am not afraide to write Should I prayse your Pope béeing an adulterer or should I cloake his faulte as the adulterie of Iacob Should I thinke your Pope to be a holie Virgin hauing two Bastardes the one made a Cardinall the other a Marquesse the one a ruler of his Castle Santo Angelo the other Grand mon Signior of his abyding Pallace Should I coullour his robberies as the robbing of the Egiptians what robberies hath he done in the Churches of Italie to mayntaine the English Seminaries bothe at Roome and at Rheimes in Fraunce he hath compelled the most part of all Abbottes and Priours and other Ecclesiasticall men to disburse him about a twelue month past a summe of money Because I haue spoken truely bothe by your Pope and by you Papistes therefore you maliciouslie slaunder me but in the Booke of Pilgrimage I wyll blaze out your armes and so discouer your treacheries the lyues of your Monkes and Iesuites among whome I haue lyued shall be knowen to all England the hypocrisie of your Cardinalles and Bysshoppes with whome I haue bene conuersant no man there is but shall knowe The Sodomiticall life of your Prelats repeate Monkes Theatines Iesuites Cardinals and Byshops and others I will sound out with the larum bell The discention of your Colledge the emulation of the Englishe Studentes the orders of the house theyr manner of lyuing theyr canckred hatred towardes theyr natiue Soyle all these thinges recited in the Booke of Pilgrimage shall be truely and not maliciouslie handeled for the greater detestation of your forged and fayned Religion sproong vp from couetousnesse and ambition I wyll haue an especiall care to the wordes which I shall write least that in misreporting ought of you rashly I incurre deseruedly the displeasure of almighty God and may not be frée of infamy and the hatred of such as haue been trauellers who knew them selues many things to be true which I intend to bring to light iustly I should procure I would thou Papist hadst the same minde not to haue excéeded the bondes and lymittes of trueth because they thought to bring my name to discredit by theyr vntrueths they thought it good to scatter abroade theyr lying Lybels to the ende that some who are weake of beléefe and others which are inclyning to Papistrie might reiect my writing and make no accoumpt of my sayinges howe false theyr Lybel was you may reade as followeth The first vntrueth is this that where as be vntruely reporteth That I was brought vp in Poperie and therein continewed vntyll for pouertie