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A07040	Theses Martinianae that is, certaine demonstratiue conclusions, sette downe and collected (as it should seeme) by that famous and renowmed clarke, the reuerend Martin Marprelate the great: seruing as a manifest and sufficient confutation of al that euer the Colledge of Catercaps with their whole band of clergie-priests, haue, or canbring [sic] for the defence of their ambitious and antichristian prelacie. Published and set foorthe as an after-birth of the noble gentleman himselfe, by a prety stripling of his, Martin Iunior, and dedicated by him to his good neame and nuncka, Maister Iohn Kankerbury: hovv the yongman [sic] came by them, the reader shall vunderstande sufficiently in the epilogue. In the meane time, vvhosoeuer can bring mee acquainted vvith my father, Ile bee bounde hee shall not loose his labour.	Marprelate, Martin, pseud.; Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601, attributed name.; Penry, John, 1559-1593, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 17457; ESTC S112312	15,688	32

Church or man 5 That if Christ did not ordeine a Church-gouernement which at the pleasure of man can not be changed then hee is inferiour vnto Moses for the gouernment placed by him might no man to alter and thereto might no man adde any thing Heb. 3.2,3 6 That the Lorde in the Newe Testament did appoint as perfite and vnchangeable a forme of Church-gouernement in the offices and officets thereof as Moses did in the olde 7 That the Lorde neuer placed any offices in the Newe Testament but the offices of Apostles Prophets Euangelistes Pastors Doctours Elders and Deacons 8 That vnto the end of the worlde there were no other offices to bee placed in the Church but onely these 9 That none of these were and so no offices of a lawful Church-gouernement are to be remoued out of the Church by any but by the Lorde Christ himselfe who placed them because they are the members of his body in the placing or displacing whereof man hath no skill nor yet commission to deale 10 That the Lord for the causes seeming good to his owne wisedome whereof any further then hee hath set downe in his worde man is not to enquire hath remoued out of the church the offices of Apostles Prophets and Euangelists 11 That the want of these can bee no maime vnto the church seeing the Lorde by remoouing them thence sheweth that the body can haue no vse of them 12 That the church is nowe vnto the worldes end to haue none other offices in it but of pastors doctors elders and deacons 13 That the displacing or the want of these is a maime vnto the church And therefore 14 That the churches of God in Denmarke Saxony Tygurium c. wanting this gouernment by these offices are to be accompted maimed and vnperfect 15 That it is as good a reason yea and a farre better to say that learned men and valiant captaines must haue their eyes put out because Homer and Zisca were blinde as to auouch that the church of England may not bee gouerned by Pastors Doctors Elders and deacons because other good churches want this regiment 16 That to place others in the steade of these is both a maiming and a deforming of the church 17 That no magistrate may lawfully maime or deforme the body of Christ which is the Church And therefore 18 That no lawefull Church-gouernement is changeable at the pleasure of the magistrate 19 That the platforme of gouernement by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons was not deuised by man but by our Sauiour Christ himselfe the onely head and alone vniuersall Bishop of his church as it is set downe Rom. 12.4,5 Ephes 4.12 and 1. Cor. 12.8,28 God hath ordained saith the Apostle 20 That no inconuenience can possibly come vnto anie state by receiuing this gouernement 21 That the true stabilitie of al christian states and common-wealths consisteth in the sound execution of this church-gouernement by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons 22 That of necessitie all christian Magistrates are bound to receiue this gouernment by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons and to abolish al other church-gouernements 23 That a church gouernement being the ordinaunce of the magistrate or of the church is an vnlawfull church-gouernement 24 That it is meerely and vtterly vnlawfull for anie man church or state to ordeine anie church-gouernement or anie church officer saue that gouernement and those officers before named Because 25 That a church-gouernement consisting of any other officers but Pastors Doctors Elders Deacons is a gouernment of maimed and mishapen members Therefore 26 That our church-gouernement in England by lord archbishops and bishops is a gouernment of maimed vnnaturall and deformed members seruing for no vse in the church of God Therefore also 27 That no lord bishop is to be maintained in anie christian common wealth 28 That those kingdomes and states who defend any church-gouernement saue this of Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons are in danger of vtter destruction in as much as they defend the maime and deformitie of the church And therefore 29 That our lord archbishops and bishops in defending this their vngodly gouernment are not onelie traitours to God and his church but vtter enemies vnto her Maiestie and the State in as much as they enforce the Lord by these their sins to drawe the sworde against vs to our vtter ruine 30 That our lord archbishops bishops holde it lawfull for our magistrates to maime or deforme the church 31 That they holde Iesus Christ to haue left behinde him an vnperfite and a maimed church wanting some of her members 32 That they holde it lawful for the magistrate to abolish the true and naturall members of the body and to attempt the making of newe by his owne inuention 33 That they to wit archbishops and bishops are the maime of our church and like to bee the destruction of our common-wealth 34 That the warrant that the archbishops and bishops haue for their places can be no better then the warrant which the maintenaunce of the open and most monstrous whoredome in the Stewes had in times past amongest vs. For by the worde they are condemned to be the maime or deformitie of the church or both And as for the laws that maintaine them being the wound and sore of the church they are no more to be accounted of then the lawes mainteining the Stewes 35 That the places of lord bishops are neither warranted by the word of God nor by anie lawfull humane constitutions 36 That the gouernement of the church of England by lord archbishops and bishops is not a church gouernement set downe in the worde or which can be defended to be Gods ordinance 37 That the gouernement of lord archbishops and bishops is vnlawefull notwithstanding it bee mainteined and in force by humane lawes and ordinances 38 That the humane lawes mainteining them are wicked and vngodly and to be abrogated of al christian magistrates 39 That to be a lord bishop then is simplie vnlawefull in it selfe that is in respect of the office though the man susteining the same should not abuse it as our prelates do 40 To be a lord bishop in it selfe simplie besides the abuse consisteth of two monstrous parts wherof neither ought to be in him that professeth himselfe a minister 41 The first is to beare an inequall and a lordlie superioritie ouer his brethren in the ministery and the rest of the church of God vnder his iurisdiction 42 The second is the ioyning of the ciuill Magistracie vnto the Ministerie That both these partes are condemned by the written word of God Luke 22.25 1. Pet. 5.1,2 Mat. 20.25 Marke 10.42 1. Cor. 8.10 Luke 12.14 2. Tim. 2.4 and Iohn 18.36 compared with Matth. 10.25 Luke 16.13 43 That the hierarchie of bishops in their superioritie ouer their brethren and their ciuill offices hath beene gainesaide and withstoode by the visible church of God successiuelie and without intermission for these almost 500. yeeres last past 44 That

the church of England men ought not to appeare in their courtes seeing their proceedings are so directly against the trueth as now they are manifested to be seeing the doctrine of the church warranteth them no such calling 84 That according to the doctrine of the churche of England that a man being excommunicated by them ought not to seeke any absolution at their hands 85 That according vnto the doctrine of the church of Englande euery minister is bounde to preach the Gospell notwithstanding the inhibition of the bishops 86 That according vnto the doctrine of the church of England a man being once made a minister is not to be kept backe from preaching by the inhibition of any creature 87 That according vnto the doctrine of our church our prelates notably profane the censure of the church by sending them out against those who are not offendours against God for money matters and other trifles c. 88 That according vnto the doctrine of the church of England it is great tyrannie in them to summon and cite poore men as they doe to come before them for hearing the word or speaking against their hierarchie 89 That it is tyrannie by the doctrine of the church of England and the badge of Antichrists disciples for our prelates to breake vp into mens consciences to compell them by othes to testifie against themselues 90 That by the doctrine of the church of England our prelates learned this abomination of Pilate Matth. 26.93 91 That according vnto the doctrine of the church of England none ought to be in the ministerie but such as are able to preach 92 That according vnto the doctrine of the church of England Nonresidents and pluralities of benefices are most intollerable in the sight of God and man 93 That all true subiects haue better warrant to denie the superioritie of bishoppes then the bishops haue to impose themselues vpō the church 94 That her Maiesties true subiects in oppugning the state of L. bishops haue the warrant of the word of God the warrant of our laws and statutes the doctrine of the church of England the consent of the church of God for the space of aboue 400. yeeres and her Maiesties priuiledge 95 That the bishops haue nothing for their defence but the corruption receiued into our church contrary vnto the word cōtrary vnto our statutes contrary vnto her Maiesties priuiledge contrarie vnto the doctrine of our church 96 That our bishoppes in this controuersie for their hierarchie haue not me poore man for their onelie aduersarie but our sauiour Christ his Apostles and holy Martires our lawes and statutes her Maiesties priuiledges and the doctrine of our church hath long agoe condemned them for traitors vnto God vnto his word his church and vnto our lawes and priuiledges 97 That Maister Thomas Cartwright together with all those learned men and my selfe also that haue written against the state of the Clargy could do no lesse then we haue done except wee woulde betray the trueth of God the lawes of this lande and the doctrine of our church 98 That our magistrates in mainteining both the doctrine of our church and also the hierarchie of our bishops mainteine twoo contrarie factions vnder their gouernement which their wisedomes knowe to be dangerous 99 That this faction is likely to continue vntill eyther of the parties giue ouer 100 That those who defend the doctrine of our church in oppugning of our bishops neyther can nor wil giue ouer the cause in as much as it is confirmed by the word professed in our church allowed by our statutes and mainteined by her Maiesties priuiledge 101 That the bishops will not giue ouer in any likelihoode to die for it as long as the state will mainteine them 102 That the continuance of these contrarie factions is likely in a while to become very daungerous vnto our state as their wisedomes who are magistrates doe well know and perceiue 103 That their wisedomes then are bounde euen for the quieting of our outward state to putte downe eyther the doctrine of our Church or the corruption viz. our bishoppes and their proceedings 104 That they cannot without the endaungering of themselues vnder the wrath of God and the odious and most monstrous sinne of ineuitable Apostacie from the trueth put downe and abolish the doctrine of our church 105 That they can not any longer mainteine the corruptions of our church namely archbishops and bishops without the shamefull contradiction of our doctrine and the discontentednes of their subiects 106 That all Ministers are bound by subscription by vertue of the statute that requireth their subscription vnto the doctrine of faith and sacraments in the church of Englande to disauowe the hierarchie of bishops 107 That it were well that all these ministers who are vrged to subscribe would require a resolution in this poynt before they yeelde their subscription 108 That Doctour Bancroft in affirming her Maiestie to be a pettie pope in his Sermon preached at Paules the ninth of Februarie 1588. preached treason against her Maiesties royall crowne and dignitie Pag. 68. lin 19 109 That the sayde Bancroft is a traytor in affirming her Maiestie to vsurpe that authoritie within her dominions in causes ecclesiasticall which the pope vsurped in times past 110 That our bishoppes in suffering the sayde Sermon to be published in print conteining the former points of treason are accessary vnto Bancrofts treason That our prelates Heere the father lefte his writings vnperfite and thus perfitely beginnes the sonne Martin Iuniors Epilogue To the worshipfull his very good neame Maister Iohn Canturburie AFter my harty commendations vnto your VVorshippe good nunckle Canturbury trusting that you vvith the rest of the Cater-caps are as neere your ouerthrovve as Jyour poore nephevv am from vvishing the prosperitie of your Antichristian callings The cause of my vvriting vnto you at this instant is to let you vnderstand first that I vvas somevvhat merry at the making heereof being indeed sory together vvith others of my brethren that vvee cannot heare from our good father Maister Martin Marprelate that good learned discoursing brother of yours but especially grieued that vve see not the vtter subuersion of that vnhappy and pestilent gouernement of L. Bishops at the helme vvhereof ye sitte like a Pilate or a Caiphas rather Moreouer I do you to vveete that you shal receiue by this bearer certaine vnperfect vvritings of my fathers praying your prelacie if you can send mee or any of my brethren any vvord of him that you vvould returne vs an ansvvere vvith speede MAny flim flam tales goe abroad of him but of certaintie nothing can be heard in as much as he keepeth him selfe secrete from all his sonnes Some thinke that hee is euen nowe employed in your businesse and I thinke so too my reason is quoth Robert Some because it was for your sakes and good that hee first fell a studying the Arte of Pistle making Others giue out that in the seruice

THESIS MARTINIANAE That is CERTAINE DEMONSTRATIVE Conclusions sette downe and collected as it should seeme by that famous and renowmed Clarke the reuerend Martin Marprelate the great seruing as a manifest and sufficient confutation of al that euer the Colledge of Cater-caps with their whole band of Clergie-priests haue or can bring for the defence of their ambitious and Antichristian Prelacie PVBLISHED AND SET FOORTH as an after-birth of the noble Gentleman himselfe by a prety stripling of his MARTIN IVNIOR and dedicated by him to his good neame and nuncka Maister Iohn Kankerbury Hovv the yong man came by them the Reader shall vnderstande sufficiently in the Epilogue In the meane time vvhosoeuer can bring mee acquainted vvith my father I le bee bounde hee shall not loose his labour Printed by the assignes of Martin Iunior without any priuiledge of the Cater-caps Martin Iunior sonne vnto the renowmed and worthy Martin Marprelate the Great to the Reader THou shalt receiue good Reader before I set downe vnto thee anie thing of mine owne certeyne of those thinges of my fathers dooings which I found among his vnperfect papers I haue not changed any thing in them detracted any thing from them nor added vnto them aught of mine owne but as I found them so I haue deliuered them vnto thee Mine owne meaning thou shalt vnderstand at the latter ende in my Epilogue to my nunckle Canturburie This small thing that followeth before his Theses is also his owne I haue set downe the speach as I founde it though vnperfect One thing I am sory for that the speach pretendeth the old man to be something discouraged in his courses THESES MARTINIANAE I See my doings and my course misliked of many both the good and the bad though also I haue fauourers of both sortes The Bishops and their traine though they stumble at the cause yet especially mislike my maner of writing Those whom foolishly men call Puritanes like of the matter I haue handled but the forme they cannot brooke So that herein I haue them both for mine aduersaries But nowe what if I should take the course in certeine Theses or conclusions without inueighing against either person or cause might I not then hope my doings woulde be altogether approoued of the one and not so greatly scorned at by the other Surely otherwise they should doe me great iniurie and shewe that they are those who delight neither in heate nor colde and so make me as weary in seeking howe to fitte them as the Bishops are in labouring how to find me The Bishops I feare are past my cure and it may be I was vnwise in taking that charge vpon me if that which I haue already done can do them any good or any wise further the cause which I loue I shall be glad if not what hope is there of amending them this way The best is I know how to mend my selfe For good leaue haue I to giue ouer my desparate cure and with this my farewell vnto them I wish them a better Surgeon Yet ere I leaue them I do heere offer vnto the view of the world some part of their monstrous corruptions in defence whereof for their liues dare not they in any learned meeting or assembly dispute with with me or attempt to ouerthrowe mine assertions by modest writings handled any thing scholerlike that is by good and sounde syllogismes which haue both their Maior and Minor confirmed by the worde I woulde once see them enter into either of these courses for as yet they haue beene farre from both Fire and fagot bands and blowes railing and reuiling are and haue bene hitherto their common weapons as for slandering lying it is the greatest piece of their holy profession And these with their bare assertiōs their wretched cleuing to popish absurdities are in a maner the onely proofes and tried maximes they offer vnto the Church in this age And so if a man woulde be confuted I must needes say my Lord of Winchester hath long agoe sufficiently and dexterely performed it I am not of opinion saith he that vna semper debet esse oeconomia Ecclesiae That the gouernement of the Church shoulde alwayes and in all places bee one and the same especially by a company of Elders Lo sir what say you to this here is inough I trowe for any mans satisfaction that bishop Couper is not of opinion Yea but our Sauior Christ his Apostles holy Martirs are of opinion that the gouernment of the church should alwayes and in all places be one especially by a company of Elders As for my Lord of Winchesters opinion wee haue little or nothing to doe with that nor no great matter which side it leane to whether with or against the trueth For if his bishopricke and vnruly iurisdiction were no more noysome and hurtfull to the Church of God then his learning and opinion is hurtfull to the cause of Discipline he might sitte long enough vndistempered in his chaire for vs the good olde manne might cough his fill and be quiet hauing his faithfull promise and booke-oth as we haue also Iohn a Bridges and Bancrofts that by arguments hee will neuer hurt vs. For they must thinke that it is not such drie blowes as this I am not of opinion c. that will satisfie the learned and answeare the demonstrations that are brought on the contrarie side If then they haue indeede any purpose at all to quiet the contentions of our Church let them bring vnto vs not these bables of their owne VVe are not of opinion c. but some sound warrant from the word that Christ and his Apostles vvere not of opinion with vs in the pointes wherein wee truelie charge them to haue erred otherwise their 812. their 1401. THESES MARTINIANAE That is The vnanswerable Conclusions of MARTIN wherein are plainely set downe many straunge and vnknowen things if hereafter they may be prooued against the Bishops Compiled by Martin the Great found and published by Martin Iunior for the benefite of posteritie if his fathers should be slaine 1 THat al the officers of a true lawful church gouernement in regarde of their offices are members of the visible bodie of Christ which is the Church Rom. 12.4,5 c. 1. Cor. 12.8,28 2 That none but Christ alone is to ordeine the members of his bodie to wit of the Church Because 3 That the Lorde in his worde hath left the church perfect in all her members which he shold nor haue done if he had not ordeined all the officers namely the members thereof and so hee should leaue the building of his church vnperfect and so it must continue for who wil presume to finish that which hee hath left vndone in the building of his Church 4 That to ordeine a perfect and an vnchangeable gouernement of the Church is a part of Christes prerogatiue royall and therfore cannot without the great derogation of the Sonne of God bee claimed by any

this cause of ouerthrowing the state of lorde bishops and bringing in the equalitie of Ministers is no new cause but that which hath bin manie yeeres agoe helde and maintained euen in the fire by the holie martires of Christ Iesus 45 That this wicked gouernement of bishops was an especiall point gainesaid by the seruants of God in the time of King Henrie the eight and Q. Marie and in the withstanding whereof they died the holie martires of Christ Iesus 46 That none euer defended this hierarchie of bishops to be lawfull but Papists or such as were infected with popish errors 47 That we haue not expelled and banished euerie part of poperie as long ae we maintaine L. bishops and their seates 48 That the offices of lord archbishops and bishops together with other their corruptions are condemned by the doctrine of the church of England 49 That the doctrine of the church of England condemning the places of lord bishops is approoued by the statutes of this kingdome and her Maiesties royall prerogatiue 50 That to be a lord bishop is directlie against the statute 13. Elizab. rightlie vnderstoode and flatlie condemned by her Maiesties royall priuiledge 51 That al her Maiesties louing subiects Ministers especiallie are bound by statute and haue the alowance of the doctrine of the church of England published with her Maiesties prerogatiue not to acknowledge yea to disauow and withstand the places and callings of lord bishops 52 That the doctrine of the church of England in the dayes of King Henrie the eight was the doctrine which the blessed martires of Christ Iesus M. Tindall M. D. Barnes and M. Fryth taught them and deliuered vnto vs. 53 That this doctrine of theirs is now to be accoūted the doctrine of the church of Englande in as much as being the doctrine of Christ his Apostles it is published in print by Master Fox and that by her Maiestiies priuiledge 54 That this their doctrine is mainteined by statute vnder the name of the doctrine of the faith and sacraments 55 That the doctrine which according to the word is published by Maister Fox in the booke of Martyres seeing it is cum priuilegio is also to bee accompted the doctrine of faith and sacramentes in the church of England and so is approoued by statute 56 That vpon these former groundes wee may safely holde these conclusions following and are thereby allowed by statute and her Maiesties prerogatiue 57 That by the doctrine of the church of England it is not possible that naturally there can be anie good lord bishop Master Tindalls practise for prelates pag. 374. 58 That by the doctrine of the church of England a bishoprike is a superfluous honour and a lewd libertie ibid. 59 That by the doctrine of the church of England our bishops are none of the Lordes annoynting but seruants of the beast 60 That by the doctrine of the church of England our lord bishops are none of Christs bishops but the Ministers of Antichrist 61 That by the doctrine of the church of Englande our bishops and their gouernement are no part of Christs kingdome but are of the kingdome of this world 62 That by the doctrine of the church of England lord bishops are a part of that body wherof Antichrist is the head 63 That by the doctrine of the church of England the places of archbishops and bishops are the seates of Antichrist 64 That by the doctrine of the church of England a bishop can haue no other lawfull authoritie but onelie to preach the word 65 That by the doctrine of the church of England the desire of a bishopricke or anie other honor in a minister is a note of a false Prophet 66 That according to the doctrine of the churche of Englande all our bishops and their chapleines are false prophets 67 That the doctrine of the church of England concerning the ciuill offices of our Prelates is That all ciuil rule and dominion is by the word of God flatlie forbidden vnto the Cleargie 68 That according to the doctrine of the churche of England the ministerie and the magistracie cannot by the ordinance of God bee both in one person 69 That by the doctrine of the church of England the ioyning together of the ministerie in one person doeth put euerie kingdome out of order 70 That for a lord bishoppe to bee of the priuie counsell in a kingdome according to the doctrine of the church of England is as profitable vnto the Realme as the woolfe is to the lambes 71 That bishoppes ought to haue no prisons wherein to punish transgressors Marke this good Reader 72 That according to the church of Englande all Ministers be of equall authoritie 73 That according to the doctrine of the churche of England those Doctors who are dayly alleadged by our bishops in the defence of their superioritie ouer their brethren to wit Cyprian Ierom Augustine Chrysostome knewe of no authoritie that one bishop shoulde haue aboue another neither thought or once dreamed that euer anie such thing should be 74 That according to the doctrine of the churche of England a bishoppe and an elder or a minister note out in the word of God the one and the selfe same person and church-officer the contrary whereof is popery 75 That by the doctrine of the church of England it is popery to translate the worde Presbyteros into Priest and so to call the ministers of the Gospell Priests 76 That according to the doctrine of the churche of Englande D. Bancroft in his Sermon at Paules the 28. of Ianuary 1588. mainteined a popish errour in auouching that in the dayes of Cyprian there was a difference betwene a bishop and a priest or minister 77 That according to the doctrine of the churche of England Iohn Cant. is a mainteiner of a popish errour in terming the ministers of the Gospel by the name of priests 78 That according to the doctrine of the churche of England our prelates haue no authoritie to make ministers or to proceede to anie ecclesiasticall censure 79 That by the doctrine of the church of Englande to haue a bishops licence to preach is the very marke of the beast Antichrist 80 That by the doctrine of the church of England the godly ministers ought to ordeine those that would enter into that function without anie leaue of the Prelats not so much as once to suffer them to take anie approbation of the Prelats 81 That according to the doctrine of the churche of England there ought to be no other maner of ecclesiasticall censure but that which is noted Matth. 18.15,17 which is to proceede from a priuat admonition to one or two witnesses thence to the church that is not to one but vnto the gouernours of the church together with the whole congregation 82 That according to the doctrine of our churche the citations processes excommunications c. of the Prelates are neyther to be obeyed nor regarded 83 That according vnto the doctrine of