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A68918	An excellent new commedie intitutled, The conflict of conscience contayninge a most lamentable example of the dolefull desperation of a miserable worldlinge, termed by the name of Philologus, who forsooke the trueth of Gods gospel for feare of the losse of lyfe & worldly goods / compiled by Nathaniell Woodes, minister in Norwich ...; Conflict of conscience	Woodes, Nathaniel, fl. 1580.	1581 (1581)	STC 25966.5; ESTC S111762	42,953	72

demaund According to my conscience Goddes worde being my warrand Cardinall To begin therfore orderly how saist thou Philologus Haue I authoritie to call the me before Or to be short I will obiect it thus Whether hath the Pope which is Peters successor Then all other Bishops preheminence more If not then it follow that neither he Nor I which am his Legate to accompts may call thee Philologus The question is perillous for me to determine Chéefely when the party is Iudge in the cause Yet if the wholl course of Scripture ye examine And wil be tryed by Gods holy lawes Small help shall you finde to defend the same cause But the contrary may be proued manifestly As I in short wordes will proue to you breefely The surest ground wheron your Pope doth stand Is of Peters being at Roome a strong imagination And the same Peter you do vnderstand Of all the Disciples had the gubernation Surmising both without good approbation Vnlesse you will by the name of Babylon From whence Peter wrote is vnderstanded Roome As indéed diuers of your writers haue affirmed Reciting Ieromy Austine Primasius and Ambrose Who by their seuerall writinges haue confirmed That Rome is new Babylon I may it not glose But it were better for you they were dumbe I suppose For they labour to proue Roome by that acception The whore of Babilon spoke of in the Reuelation But graunt that Peter in Roome setled was Yet that he was cheefe it remayns you to proue For in my Iudgement it is a playne case That if any amongst them to rule it did behooue He should be chéefe whom Christ most did loue To whom he bequethed his mother most déere To whom in reuelation Christ did also appéere I meane Iohn Euangelist by birth Coosin germaine To our Sauiour Christ as storyes do vs tell From whose succession if that you should clayme Superioritie you should mend your cause well For then of some likelyhood of truth it should smell Where none so often as Peeter was reproued Nor from stedfast fayth so often tymes remooued But graunt all were true herein you do fayne Marke one proper lesson of a Greeke Oratour As a good childe of his fathers welth is inheritour So of his fathers vertues he must be possessour Now Peter folows Christ and al worldly goods forsakes But the Pope leaueth Christ himselfe to glory takes And to be short Christ himselfe refused to be a Kinge And the seruant aboue the Master may not be Which being both true it is a strange thing How the Pope can receiue this pompe and dignitie And yet professe himselfe Christes seruant to be Christ wil be no King the Pope wil be more The Pope is Christes Master not his seruant therefore Cardinall Ah thou arrant Heretike I will thée remember I am glad I know so much as I doo I haue wayed thy resons and haue found them so slender That I thinke them not worthy to be answeared How say you Master Hipocrisy HIP. I also thinke so But let him go forwarde and vtter his conscience And we will awhile longer here him with patience Cardinall Say on thou Heretike of the holy Sacrament Of the body and bloud of Christ what is thine opinion Philologus I haue not yet finished my former argument Cardinall Say on as I bid thée thou art a stoute Minion Philologus I shall then gladly it is a signe of vnion The which should remaine vs Christians among That one should loue another all our life long For as the bread is of many Cornells compounded And the Wine from the Iuce of many Graps do discend So we which into Christ our Rocke are ingrounded As into one Temple should cease to contend Least by our contention the Church we offend This was not the least cause among many more Which are now omitted that this Sacrament was geuen for The chéefest cause why this Sacrament was ordained Was the infirmitie of our outwarde man Whereas Saluation to all men was proclaymed That with true fayth apprehend the same can By the death of Iesus Christ that immaculate Lambe That the same might the rather of all men be beleued To the word to ad a Sacramēt it Christ nothing greued And as we the sooner beléeue that thing true For the tryall whereof more witnesses we finde So by the meanes of the Sacrament many grue Beléeuing creatures where before they were blynde For our sences some sauour of our fayth now do finde Because in the Sacrament there is this Analogy That Christ féedes our soules as the bread doth our body Cardinall Ah thou foul Heretike is there bread in the Sacrament Where is Christes body then which he did vs giue Philologus I know to the faythfull receiuer it is there present But yet the bread remaineth stil I stedfastly beléeue Cardinall To here these his errors it doth me greatly gréeue But that we may shortly to some issue come In what sence sayd Christ Hoc est Corpus meum Philologus Euen in the same sence that he sayd before Vos estis sall terrae vos estis Lux mundi Ego sum ostium and a hundreth such more If tyme would permit to alleadge them seuerally But that I may the simple sorte edifie You aske me in what sence these wordes I verifye Where Christ of the bread sayd this is my body For answere herein I aske you this question Were Christes disciples into salt transformed When he sayd ye are the salt of the earth euery one Or when the light of the world he them affirmed Or himselfe to be a dore when he confirmed Or to be a Vine did his body then change If not then why now this to me séemeth strange Cardinall Why doest thou doubt of Christ his omnipotencye But what so he willeth doth so come to passe Philologus God kéepe me and all men from such a frencye As to thinke any thing Christes power to surpasse When his will to his power ioyned was But where his will wanteth his power is vneffectuall As Christ can be no lyer God cannot be mortall Set downe therefore some proofe of his will That he would be made bread and then I recant Cardinall This Caytif myne eares with winde he doth fill His wordes both trueth and reason doth want Christes word is his will this must thou néedes graunt Philologus He spake the word likewise when he said I am the dore Was his body transformed into tymber therefere Cardinall Nay if thou béest obstinate I will say no more Haue him hence to prison and kéepe him full sure I will make him set by my friendship more store But herest thou Zeale go first and procure Some kinde of new torment which he may not indure Tiranny I am here in redines to do your commaundement And will returne hither agayne incontinent Hypocrisie At thy returne bryng hether Sensuall Suggestion That if néede be he may vs assist Least that both I and Carefull prouision The zeale of Philologus may not fully

resist But he in his obstinacie doth styll persist To put him to death would accuse vs of Tirranny But if we could win him he should do vs much honesty Tyranny I heare you and wyll fulfill your wordes spedely Hypocrysie Exit Tyrran Good Maister Philologus I pittie your case To sée you so foolysh your selfe to vndoo I durst yet promys to purchase you grace If you would at length your errours forgoe Therfore I pray you be not your owne foe Philologus Call you those Errours whiche the Gospell defends I know not then whence true Doctrine descends Cardinall Nay Mayster Hypocrisie you spend tyme in vaine To reason with him he will not be remooued Auarice Had I so much to liue by as he hath certayne I would not loose that which I so well loued Cardinall He stands in his reputation he will not be reproued And that is the cause that he is so obstinate But I shall well enough thy corage abate Philologus I humbly beséeche you of Christian charitie You séeke not of purpose my bloud for to spill For if I haue displeased your authoritie In reasonable causes redresse it I will But in this respect I feare I should kill My soull for euer if against my conscience I should to the Popes lawes acknowledge Obedience Hypocrysie Ceace from those wordes if your safetie you loue As though no man had a soule more then you Suche nips perchance my Lords patience wyll mooue Then would you please him if that you wist how But if you wyll be ruled by my honestie I vow I will do the best herein that I can Because you séeme to be a good Gentleman Auarice Were it not better for you to lyue at ease And spend that merely whiche earst you haue got Then by your owne follie your selfe to disease And bring you to trouble whiche other men séeke not Hypocrisie In faith Philologus your zeale is too hote Whiche wyll not be quenched but with your hart blood If I were so zealous I would thinke my selfe wood Cardinall Tush it wyll not be he thinkes we do but iest Wherfore that some tryall of my minde he may haue That Carefull Prouision should goe I thinke best Into the towne and there assistance craue His House for to enter and his Goods for me saue Least when his wife know that they be confiscate Into other mens keepyng the same she doth dissipate Hypocrisie You speake very wisely in my simple Iudgement Therfore you were best to sende him away Cardinall Go too Carefull Prouision depart incontinent And fulfill the wordes whiche I to you say Auarice Of pardon herein I do your Lordshyp pray You doubt not I trust of my wyllyng minde Whiche herein most redy you alway shall finde For who is more redy by frawde to purloyne Other mens goodes then I am eche where But least some man at mée shoulde chaunce to faine And kill mée at once I greatly doo feare I had rather perswade him his folly to forbeare Cardinall Proue then if thou canst doo him any good He shall not say that we séeke his bloud Auarice Ah maister Philologus you sée your owne case That both life and goodes are in my Lords will Therefore you were best to sue for some grace And be content his wordes to fulfil If you neglect this hence straight way I wyll And all your goodes I will sure confiscate Then will you repent it when it is to late Philologus My case indéede I sée most miserable As was Susanna betwixt two euyls placed Either to consent to sinne most abhominable Or els in the worldes sight to be vtterly disgraced But as she her chastitie at that tune imbraced So will I now spirituall whoredom resist And kéepe mee a true Virgin to my louing spouse Christ Auarice Wilt thou then neglect the prouision of thy houshold Thou art therfore worsse then an Infydell is Philologus That you abuse Gods word to say I dare be bolde And the saying of Paule you interpret amisse Cardinall I neuer saw the like heretick that this is Away Carefull Prouision about your businesse Auarice Sith there is no remedie I am héere in redinesse Philologus Exit Aua. I beséeche your Lordship euen from the hart roote That you would vouchsafe for my contentation To approue vnto mée by Gods holy booke Some one of the questions of our disputation For I will heere you with hartes delectation Because I would gladly to your doctrine consent If that I could so my conscience content But my Conscience crieth out and bids me take heede To loue my lord God aboue all earthly gaine Wherby all this while I stande in great dread That if I should Gods statutes disdaine In wretched state then I should remaine Thus cryeth my Conscience to mée continually which if you can stay I will yéelde to you gladly Cardinall I can say nomore then I haue done already Thou heardest that I called the heretick and foole If thou wilt not consent to mée and that spéedily With a new maister thou shalt goe to schole Hypocrisie Thou hast no more wit I sée then this stoole Farre vnfit to dispute or reason with my Lorde He can subdue thée with fire sword quight with one word Tyranny Come follow apàce sensuall Suggestion Or els I will leaue you to come all alone Suggestion You go in hast you make expedition Nay if you runne so fast I wil none This litle iournay will make mée to grone I vse not to trouble my selfe in this wise And now to beginne I doo not aduise Tiranny Haue not I plyed mée which am come againe so soone And yet haue finished such sundry businesse I haue caused many pretie toyes to be done So that now I haue eche thing in readinesse Cardinall What maister Zeale you are praise worthy doubtlesse Art thoou prepared this gentleman to receiue He will reste a Fagot or els he me deceiue Tyranny In simple manner I will him entertaine Yet must he take it all in good parte And though his diet be small he may not disdaine Nor yet contemne the kindenes of my heart For though I lacke instruments to put him to smart Yet shall he abide in a hellish blacke dungeon As for blocks stocks irons I warrant him want none Hypocrisie Well farewel Philologus you heare of your lodging I would yet do you good if that I wist howe Cardinall Let him go Hypocrisie stand not all day dodging You haue don to much for him I make God avowe Hypocrisie Staye for Suggestion doth come yonder nowe Come on lasy Lubber you make but small haste Had you staied awhile lōger your cōming had ben waste Suggestion You know of my selfe I am not very quicke Because that my body I do so much tender For Sensuall Suggestion will quickely be sicke If that his owne ease he should not remember Thus one cause of my tariaunce to you I do render Another I had as I came by the waye Which did me the longer from your company