other vpon the wordes of a statute must not the wordes of the statute iudge and determine the controuersye Ryche No mary the iudges of the lawe maye determine the meaning therof London He hath brought as good example against him self as caÌ„ be And here the bishop thought he had good haÌ„d fast against me and therfore enlarged it with many wordes to the iudgemeÌ„t of the churche The lordes He hath ouerthrowen him selfe by his owne argument Phil. My lordes it semeth to your honores that you haue great aduauntage of me by the example I brought in to expresse my cause but yf it be pondered throughly it maketh holly with me and nothing against me as my lorde of London hath preteÌ„ded For I wil aske of my lorde Ryche here whom I knowe to haue good knowledge in the lawes and statutes of this realme Albeit a iudge may decerne the meaning of a statute agreable to the wordes whether the same may iudge a meaning coÌ„trary to the expresse wordes or no Ryce He can not so do phil Euen so saye I that no man ought to iudge the worde of God to haue a meanyng contrarye to the expresse wordes therof as this false churche of Rome dothe in many thinges And with this the lordes semed to be satisfyed made no further replicacion herin Ryche I maruel theÌ„ why you do deny the expresse wordes of Christ in the sacrament sayeng this is my body yet you wil not sticke to saye it is not his body Is not God omnipotent And is not he hable aswel by his omnipoteÌ„cy to make it his body as he was to make man fleshe of a pece of claye did not he saye this is my body which shal be betrayed for you and was not his verye body betrayed for vs therfore it must nedes be his bodye London My lorde Ryche you haue said wonderful wel and lernedly But you myght haue begon with him before also in the sixt of IohnÌ„ where Christ promised to gyue his body in the sacrament of the altare sayeng panis quem â—go dabo caro mea est The breade which I wil gyue is my fleshe Howe can you answere to that Phil. If it please you to gyue me leaue to answere fyrst my lorde Ryche I wil also answere the obiection Ryche Answere my lorde of London first and after come to me phil My lorde of London may be sone answered that the sayeng of S. IohnÌ„ is that the humanitie of Christ which he toke on him for the redemption of man is the bread of lyfe wherby our bodyes and soules be susteyned to eternal lyfe of the which the sacramentall bread is a lyuely representacion and an effectuall cohabitatioÌ„ to al suche as beleue on his passion and as Christ sayeth in the same syxte of IohnÌ„ I am the bread that came from heauen but yet he is not material neither natural breade Lykewyse the bread is his fleshe not natural or substanciall but by signification and by grace in a sacrament And nowe to my lorde Ryches argument I do not deny the expresse wordes of Christ in the sacrament this is my bodye But I denye that they are naturally and corporally to be taken but sacramentally and spiritually according to the expresse declaracion of Christ sayeng that the wordes of the sacrament which the Capernaites toke carnally as the Papistes nowe do ought to be taken spiritually and not carnally as they falsely ymagine not wayeng what interpretacion Christ hathe made in this behalfe Neither folowe the institution of Christ nether the vse of the Apostles and of the primatiue churche who neuer taught neither declared no such carnal maner of preseÌ„ce as is nowe exacted of vs violently with out any grounde of scripture or antiquitie who vsed to put out of the church al suche as dyd not receaue the sacrament with the rest also to burne that which was left after the receyuyng as by the Canon of the Apostles and by the decre of the counsel of Antioche London No that is not so they were only Cathecumeni which went out of the churche at the celebration of the coÌ„munion and none other Phil. It was not only of suche as were Nouices in fayth but al others that did not receyue London What saye you to the omnipotency of God is not he hable to performe that which he spake as my lord Ryche hath very wel sayd I tel thee that God by his omnipotency maye make hym selfe to be this carpet yf he will Phil. As concerning the omnipotency of God I saye that God is hable to do as the prophet Dauid fayeth what so euer he willeth But he willeth nothing that is not agreable to his worde as that is blasphemy which my lorde of LoÌ„don hath spoken that God may become a carpet For as I haue learned of auncient wryters Non potest Deus facere quae suÌ„t naturae suae contraria That is God can not do that which is contrary to his nature as it is contrary to the nature of God to be a carpet A carpet is a creature God is the creator and the creator can not be the creature wherfore onles you can declare by the worde that Christ is otherwyse present with vs then spiritually and sacramentally by grace as he hath taught vs you pretende the omnipotency of God in vayne London Why will you not saye that Christ is really present in the sacrament or do you denye it Phil. I denye not that Christ is really in the sacrament to the receauer therof according to Christes institution London What meane you by really present Phil. I meane by really present present in dede London Is God really present euerywhere phil He is so London Howe proue you that phil The prophet Esay sayeth that God filleth all places and where so euer be two or thre gathered together in Christes name there is he in the middest of them London What his humanitie Phil. No my Lorde I meane the Deitie according to that you demaunded Ryche My lorde of LondoÌ„ I pray you let maister doctor Chedsey reason with him and let vs see how he can answer him for I tel thee he is a learned man in dede one that I do credit before a great many of you whose doctrine the Quenes maiestie and the hole realme dothe wel alowe therfore heare him London My lordes I praye you wil it please you to drinke You haue talked a great whyle and muche talke is thrustye I wyl leaue maister doctor and him reasoning together a whyle with your leaue wyl come to you by and by agayne They went as I suppose to make rowme for more drinke after the lordes had dronke Riche My lorde Ryche sayd to the lordes I praye you let the poore man drinke for he is thristy And with that he called for a cup of drynke and gaue it me and I dranke before them all God requite it him for I was athirst in dede Afterwardes doctor Chadsey began in this wyse
my lord that your grace do reade him any mo places for he estemeth them not Phil. I esteme thē in as muche as they be of force as your lordship dothe heare me deny no doctors you bring but require the true applicacion of them according to the writers meaning as by his owne wordes I do proue Yorke I wil reade him the place and so make an ende After he had red the sentence he said that by fowre speciall pointes here S. Austine proueth the catholike church The first is by the consēt of al nations the secōd by the Apostolike sea the thryd by vniuersalitie the fourthe by this word catholike Chichest That is a notable place in dede and please your grace philpot I pray you my lord of what church doth S. Austine write the same of Rome or not ▪ Yorke Yea he writeth it of the churche of Rome philpot I wil lay with your lordship as muche as I can make it is not so And let the boke be sene Bathe What arte thou hable to laye that hast nothing Yorke Dothe he not make mention here of the Apostolike sea wherby he meaneth Rome Phil. That is very straytly interpreted my lorde as though the Apostolike sea had ben no where els but at Rome But let it be Rome and yet shal you neuer verifye the same onles all the other cōdicions do go ther with as S. Austine dothe procede withall wherof none except the Apostolike sea can nowe be verifyed of the churche of Rome For the faythe which that sea nowe maintayneth hath not the consent of all nations nether euer had besydes that it can not haue the name of catholyke bycause it diffreth from the catholike churches which the Apostles planted almost in all thinges Yorke Naye he goeth about here to proue the catholike churche by vniuersalitie And howe can you shewe your churche to be vniuersall fyftye or an hundred yeres ago phil That is not material neither any thing against S. Austyne For my churche wherof I am were to be counted vniuersall though it were but in .x. persons bicause it agreeth with the same that the Apostles vniuersally did plāte Yorke I perceyue you are an obstinate man in your opinion and will not be taught Wherfore it is but lost labore to talke with you any lenger you are a member to be cut of Chichest I haue heard of you before howe you troubled the good bishop of Winchester before and nowe I see in you that I haue heard Phil. I trust you see no euill in me by this I desire of you a sure ground to build my fayth on and if you shewe me none I pray you speake not yll of him that meaneth well Chichest Thou arte an impudent felow as I haue commoned with all Phil. That is spokē vncharytably my lord to blaspheme him whom you can not iustly reproue Chichest Why you are not God blasphemy is counted a rebuke to God-ward and not to man phil Yes it may be aswel verified of an infamy layed to man speaking in Goddes cause as you nowe do laye vnto me for speaking frely the truthe afore God to mayntayne your vayne religion you are voyde of all good grounde I perceyue you are blinde guydes and leaders of the blind and therfore as I am bound to tel you verye hypocrites tyrānously persecuting the truthe which otherwise by iust order you are hable to do by no meanes Your owne doctors and testimonyes which you bring be euidentlye against you and yet you wil not see the truthe Chichest Haue we this thanke for our good will comming to instructe thee phil My lordes you must beare with me synce I speake in Christes cause and bicause his glory is defaced and his people cruelly and wrongfully slain by you bicause they will not consent to the dishonour of God to hypocrisie with you Yf I told you not your fault it should be required at my handes in the day of iudgement therfore knowe you ye hipocrites in dede that it is the spirite of God that telleth you your synne and not I. I passe not I thanke God of al your crueltie God forgeue it you and gyue you grace to repent And so they departed The same day at night before supper the bishop sent for me into his chappel in the presence of Archdeacon Harpesfild doctor Chadsey in the presence of other his Chaplayns and his seruauntes MAster Philpot I haue by sundry meanes gone about to do you good and I maruail you do so litle considre it By my truthe I can not tell what to say to you Tel me directly whether you wil be a conformable man or no and wher vpon you chifly stand Phil. I haue told your lordship often tymes playne ynough where on I stand chiefly requiring a sure probatiō of the churche wherunto you cal me Harpel S. Austine writing against the Donatistes declareth foure special notes to knowe the church by the cōsent of many nations the faith of the sacraments confirmed by antiquitie succession of bishops vniuersalitie London I pray you master Archdeacō fett the booke hither it is a notable place let him se it And the boke was brought and the bishop red it demaunding howe I could answere the same Phil. My lord I like S. Austins foure points for the tryal of the catholik churche wherof I am For it can abide euery point therof together which yours can not doo Harpes Haue not we succession of bishops in the sea and church of Rome wherfor then do you deny our churche to be the catholike churche Phil. S Austine doth not put succession of bishops only to be sufficient but he addeth the vse of the sacramentes according to antiquitie and doctrine vniuersally taught and receyued of most nations from the beginning of the primatiue church the which your churche is far from But my churche can auouche all these better then yours therfore by S. Austins iudgement which you here bring myne is the catholike churche and not yours Harpes Chad. It is but foly my lord for you to reason with him for he is irrecuperable Phil. That is a good shift for you to runne vnto when you be confounded in your owne sayenges and haue nothing els to say you are euidently deceyued and yet will not see it when it is layd to your face Here ende as many of Iohn̄ Philpots examinacions as came to the printors handes and assone as the rest may be come by thou shalt haue it good reader by the will of God In the meane tyme refreshe thy selfe with this praising God for the perseueraunce of this cōstaūt learned martir and praye hartly for the rest of Christes poore afflicted church Geue God the glorye Iesus is God with vs. An Apologie of Iohan Philpot written for spitting vpon an Arrian with an inuectiue against the Arrians the very natural chyldren of Antichrist with an admonition to all that be faythfull in Christ to beware of them and of other late sprong heresies as of
I am contēt For I am vnder your feete to be troden on as you list God forgyue it you yet am I no heretike neyther you nor any other shal be able to proue that I holde any iote agaynst the worde of God otherwyse then a christian man ought Storie The worde of God forsoth the worde of God Yt is but a follye to reason with these heretiks for they ar incurable and desperat But as I maye reasō with the not that I haue any hope to wynne thee whom will thou apoynt to be iudge of the worde wherto thou standest phil Verely the worde it selfe Storie Do you not see the ignorauncie of this beastly heretike he willeth the word to be Iudge of the worde cā the word speake Phil. Yf I can not proue that which I haue sayd by good auctoritie I wil be cōtent to be coūted an heretike an ygnorāt persō further what you please Storie Let vs heare what wyse auctoritie thou canst bring in phil It is the sayng of Christ in S. Iohn verbū quod locutus sum iudicabit in nouissimo dic The worde which I haue spoken sayth Christ shall Iudge in the last daye Yf the worde shal iudge in the last daye muche more it ought to Iudge our doinges nowe And I am sure I haue my Iudge on my side who shall absolue iustifie me in an other world howsoeuer now it shall please you by auctoritie vnrighteouslye to Iudge of me and others sure I am in an other worlde to Iudge you Storie What you purpose to be a stinking martyr and to syt in Iudgemēt with Christ at the last daye to Iudge the twelue trybes of Israel Phil. Yea syr I doubt not therof hauing the promise of Christ yf I die for righteousnes sake which you haue begon to persecute in me Storie I told you it is but vayne to argue with this heretike he is drowned in his heresies wtout al learning Phil. Syr I haue brought you for that I haue sayd good auctoritie out of Goddes booke to the which you answere nothing but goo about stil to gyue raylīg iudgemēt agaynst me wtout any cause Storie I wil com to you by by when the iudge in westminster halle geueth sentence doth the worde gyue sentence or the iudge tel me phil Ciuil maters be subiect to ciuil mē and they haue autoritie by the worde to be iudge of them But the word of God is not subiecte to mans iudgement but ought to iudge al the wysedome thoughtes and doynges of men And therfore your cōparison disproueth nothing that I haue sayd neither answereth any whyt therto Storie Wilt thou not alowe the interpretacion of the churche vpon the scripture Phil. Yes yf it be according to the word of the true churche and this I saye to you as I haue sayd heretofore that yf ye can proue the churche of Rome wherof ye are to be the true catholyke churche which I ought to folowe I wylbe as ready to yelde therto as long as it can be so proued as you may desire me Storie What a felowe is this he wil beleue nothing but he list him selfe Are we not in possession of the church haue not your forfathers these many hundreth yeres taken this churche for the catholyke churche wherof we are now And yf we had none other profe but this it were sufficient For prescription of tyme maketh a good tytle in the law Phil. You do wel M. doctor to alledge prescription of many yeares That al is nothing but a lye for it is al that you haue to shewe for your selues But you must vnderstande Ex diuinis nulla occurrit praescriptio that prescriptiō hath no place in maters belonging to God as I am hable to shewe by the testimonye of many doctors Storie Wel syr you are lyke to go after your fathers Latimer the Sophister Now Story ye shewe your selfe in your Colours Rydley who had nothyng to alledge for hym selfe but that he had learned his heresie of Cranmer where I came to him with a poore bacheler of art he trēbled as though he had had the palsey as these heretikes haue alwayes some token of feare wherby a man maye knowe them as you may se this mans eyes do tremble in his head But I despatched them And I tel thee that there hath ben yet neuer a one burnt but I haue spoken with him haue ben a cause of his despatche Phil. You haue the more to answere for M. doctor as you shal fele it in an other worlde how moche so euer you do now triumphe of your procedinges Storie I tel thee I wil neuer be cōfessed therof And bicause I cannot now tarye to speake with my lorde I pray you one of you tel my lorde that my cōmyng was to signifye to his lordship that he must out of hande ryd this heretike awaye And goyng away he sayd vnto me I certifye the that thou maist thanke none other man for it but me Phil. I thanke you therfore with al myne hart and God forgeue it you Storie What doest thou thanke me yf I had thee in my study half an houre I thinke I should make you syng an other song Phil. No maister doctor I stande vp on to sure a grounde to be ouerthrowen by you nowe And thus they departed al awaye from me one after an other vntyl I was left al alone And afterwards with my keper goyng to my colehouse as I went I met with my lorde of London who spake vnto me gently as he hath hitherto in wordes sayeng London Philpot yf ther be any pleasure I maye shewe you in my house I pray you require it you shal haue it phil My lorde the pleasure that I will require of your lordship is to hasten my iudgemēt which is cōmitted vnto you and so dispatsche me forth of this miserable worlde vnto my eternal rest And for all his fayre speache I can not attayne hytherto this forthnight space neyther fyer nor candle neyther yet good lodgyng But it is good for a man to be brought lowe in this world and to be counted amongest the vylest that he may in tyme of rewarde receyue exaltacion and glorie Therfore praysed be God that hath humbled me and gyuen me grace with gladnes to be content therwith all Let all that loue the truth saye Amen The fyfth tragedye The sixt examinacion of Iohn Phylpot had before the right honorable lordes lord Chamberleyne to the kinges maiestie the Vicount Hereforde commonly called lord Ferrers my lord Ryche my lord saynt Iohns the lord wyndsore the lord Shandoys Sir Iohn of brydges Lieutenaunt of the tower and two other mo whose names I know not with the bishop of London D. Chedsey the syxt daye of Nouēbre Anno Dn̄i 1555. phil BEfore that I was called before the lordes and whyles they were in sitting downe the bishop of London came asyde to me and whystred in myne care willīg me to vse my selfe
at knowlege therof procede to depriuacion Phil. Master doctour you knowe that the common lawe is otherwyse And besydes this the statutes of this realme be otherwyse which geueth this benefyte to euery persone though he be an heretyke to enioye his lyuyng vntyl he be put to death for the same Cooke No ther thou arte deceyued Phil. Vpon the lyuyng I passe not But the vniust dealyng greueth me that I should be thus troubled for my conscience contrary to al lawe Cholm Why wyll you not agree that the Quenes maiestie maye cause you to be examined of your fayth Phil. Aske you of master D. Cooke and he wyll tel you that the temporal magistrates haue nothyng to doo with maters of fayth for determinacion therof And S. Ambrose sayth Diuina imperatoriae maiestati non sunt subiecta That the thinges of God are not subiect to the power and authoritie of princes Cooke No may not the temporal power commit you to be examined of your fayth to the bishop That is an other mater Phil. Yea syr I denie not that but you will not graunt that the same maye examine any of theyr owne authoritie Cooke A sure solucion Let hym be had away Phil. Your mastership ê“mised me the last tyme I was before you I should see your commission by what autoritie you do cal me and whether I by the same be bouÌ„de to answere to so muche as you demaunde Roper Let hym see the commission The scribe What thaÌ„ he exhybited it to master Roper and was about to opeÌ„ the same Cooke No what wil you do he shal not see yt Phil. Than do you me wrong to call me and vexe me not shewing your autoritie in this behalfe Cooke Yf we do you wrong coÌ„playne on vs and in the meane whyle thou shalt lye in the lollardes tower Phil. Syr I am a poore geÌ„telmaÌ„ therfore I trust of your gentlenes you will not coÌ„mitte me to so vyle and strayte a place being founde no haynous trespacer Cooke Thou art no gentilman Phil. Yeas that I am Cooke An heretyke is no gentilman for he is a gentelmaÌ„ that hath gentil condicions Phil. The offeÌ„ce can not take away the state of a gentilman as long as he lyueth although he were a traytour But I meane not to boast of my geÌ„tlemanship but wil put it vnder my foote synce you do no more esteme it Storie What wil you suffer this heretyke to prate with you al this daye Cooke He sayth he is a gentilman Storie A gentilman ê™ A he is a vyle heretike knaue Naye he wil not take your name from you For an heretyke ys no gentilman Let the Keper of lollardes tower comme in and haue hym awaye The Keper Here syr Storie Take this man with you to the lollardes tower or els to the bishops Cole howse Phil. Syr yf I were a dogge you could not appoint me a worse and more vyle place But I must be coÌ„tent with what so euer iniurie you do offer me God gyue you a more merciful hart you are verye cruel vpon one that hath neuer offended you I praye you master cholmeley shewe me some freÌ„dship that I be not caried to so vyle a place And he called me asyde and said Cholm I am not skylfull of theyr doyng neyther of theyr lawes I caÌ„ not tel what they meane I would I could do you good Phil. I am content to go whither you will haue me Ther was neuer man more cruelly haÌ„dled than I am at your haÌ„des that without any iust cause knowen should thus be intreated Storie Shal we suffer this heretyke thus to reproue vs haue hym hence Phil. God forgyue you and gyue you more merciful hartes shew you more mercy in the tyme of nede Et quod facis fac citius So quickly that you haue in hande Storie Do you not heare howe he maketh vs Iudases Phil. That is after your owne vnderstaÌ„ding After thys I with .iiij. other moo were brought to the kepers howse where we supped in pater noster rowe and after supper I was called vp to a chaÌ„ber by the archdeacon of Londons seruaunt and that in his masters name he offred me a bedd for that night To whome I gaue thankes sayeÌ„g that yt should be a greffe to me to lye wel one night the next worse Wherfore I would begynne as I am like to continue to take suche part as my felowes doo And with that we were brought through paternoster rowe to my lord of Londons colehowse Vnto the which is ioyned a lytle blind howse with a great payre of stockes apoynted both for hand and foote But thankes be to God we haue not played of those orgaynes yet although som befor vs had tried them And ther we founde a Minister of Estsex a maried priest a maÌ„ of godly zeale with one other pore man And this minister at my comming desyred to speake with me and did greatly lament hys owne infirmitie for that through extremitie of imprisonment he was constrayned by wryting to yeld to the bishop of London Wherupon he was once set at libertie And afterward felt suche a hel in his coÌ„science that he could scarce refrayne from destroyeng hymselfe and neuer could be at quiet vntyl he had gone to the bishopes regester desyring to see hys byl agayne the which as sone as he had receyued he tare yt in peaces And afterward he was as Ioyful as any man might be Of the which when my lorde of LondoÌ„ had vnderstanding he sent for hym and fell vpon hym like a lyon and like a manly bishop buffeted him wel and plucte awaye a great pece of his beard But now thankes be to God he is as Ioyful vnder the crosse as any of vs and verye sorye of his former infirmitie I write thys because I would all men to take heede howe they doo contrary to theyr conscience which is to fal into the paynes of hell Here an ende The maner of my calling fyrst before the bishop of LoÌ„don the secoÌ„d night of my imprisonment in his cole house THe Bishop sent vnto me master IohnÌ„son hys Regester with a messe of meate and a good pott of drynke breade sayeng that my lorde had no knowladge erst of my beyng here for that which he was sorye Therfore he had seÌ„t me my felowes that meat knowing whether I would receyue the same I thanke god for my lordes charitie that it pleased hym to remember pore prisoners desyring almighty God to encreace the same in hym and in all others And therfore I woulde not refuse his beneficence and therwith toke the same vnto my brethern praysing God for his prouidence towards hys afflicted flocke that he stereth our aduersaries vp to helpe the same in theyr necessitie IohnÌ„son My lorde would know the cause of your sendyng hyther for he knoweth nothyng therof and wondreth that he should be troubled with prisoners of other dioceses then hys owne And I declared vnto hym the hole
cause After the which he sayed my lords wyll was that I should haue anye frēdshyp that I wold desyre and so departed Within a litle after one of my lords gentlemē commeth for me And I was brought into hys presence wheare he sate at a table alone with thre or fower of hys chaplaynes wayting vpon hym and hys regester London Master Phylpot you are welcome giue me your hand phil With that because he so gentlye put furth hys hand I to rendre curtesye for curtesye kyssed my hande and gaue hym the same London I am ryght sorye for your trouble And I promise you before yt was within these two howres I knewe not of your beīg here I praie you tel me what was the cause of your sending hyther for I promise you I know nothyng therof as yet neyther I would you should not thynke that I was the cause therof And I maruayl that other men will trouble me with theyr maters But I must be obedient to my betters And ywis men speake otherwyse of me than I deserue phil I shewed hym the summe of the matter that yt was for the disputacion in the conuocasion howse for the which I was agaynst alryght molested London I maruayl that you should be troubled therfore yf ther wer none other cause but thys But parauenture you haue mayntayned the same synce And some of your frēdes of late haue asked whether you do stād to the same and you haue sayd yea and for this you might be cōmitted to prison phil And yt shall please your lordship I am burdened non otherwyse than I haue told you by the commissioners who haue sent me hither bycause I wil not recant the same London A man may speake in the parliament house though yt be a place of fre speche as he may be imprisoned for As in case he speake wordes of hygh treason against the Kyng or Quene And so it might be that you spake otherwyse then it became you of the church of Christ Phil. I spake nothing which were out of the articles which were called in question and agreed vpon to be disputed by the holl house by the Quenes permission and her counsell London Why maye we dispute of our fayth Phil. Yea that we maye London Naye I trowe not by the lawe Phil. In dede by the cyuile lawe I knowe it is not lawful but by Goddes lawe we maye reason therof for S. Peter sayeth be ye ready to rendre accompt vnto all men of that hope which is in you that demaunde you of the same London In dede S. Peter sayeth so Why then I aske of you what your iudgement is of the sacrament of the altar Phil. My lorde S. Ambrose sayeth that the disputacion of fayth ought to be in the congregation in the hearing of the people And that I am not boūde to rendre accompt therof to euery man priuatly onles it be to edifie But nowe I can not shewe you my mynde but I must runne vpon the pikes in daunger of my lyfe therfore Wherfore as the said doctour sayd vnto Valentiniane them perour so saye I to your lordship Tolle legem fet certamen Take away the lawe and I shall reason with you And yet yf I come in open iudgemēt where I am bounde by the lawe to answere I trust I shal vtter my conscience as frely as any that hath come before you London I perceyue you are learned I would haue suche as you are about me but you must come and be of the churche for ther is but one Churche Phil. God forbyd I should be out of the churche I am sure I am within the same for I knowe as I am taught by the scripture that there is but one catholyke churche Vna columba vna sponsa vna dilecta One doue one spouse one beloued congregacion out of the which ther is no saluacion London Howe chaunceth it then that you go out of the same and walke not with vs Phil. My lorde I am sure I am with in the boundes of the churche wherupon she is buylded which is the worde of God London What age are you of Phil. I am foure and fourtie London You are not now of the same fayth your Godfathers and Godmothers promised for you in the whiche you were baptised Phil. Yes that I thanke God I am For I was baptised into the faythe of Christ which I now holde London How can that be ther is but one fayth Phil. I am assured of that by S. Paul sayeng that ther is but one God one fayth and one baptisme of the which I am London You were .xx. yere ago of an other faythe then you be nowe Phil. In dede my lorde to tell you plaine I was then nullu fidei of no fayth a neuter a wycked lyuer neyther hote nor colde London Why do you not thynke that we haue nowe the true fayth Phil. I desire your lordship to holde me excused for answering at this tyme. I am sure that Goddes worde throughly with the primatiue churche and all the aunciēt wryters do agre with this faith I am of London Wel I promise you I meane you nomore hurte thā to myne owne person I will not therfore burthen you with your conscience as now I maruayle that you are so mery in prison as you be synging and reioysing as the Prophete sayeth Exultanies in rebus pessimis reioysing in your naughtines Me thinke you do not wel herin you should rather lament and be sory Phil. My lorde the myrth that we make is but in singing certayne Psalmes according as we are commaunded by S. Paule wyllyng vs to be mery in the Lorde synging together in Hymnes Psalmes and I trust your lordship can not be displeased with that London We maye saye vnto you My lorde is we louersene in the gospel as Christ sayd in the gospel Tibijs cecinimus vobis non planxistis And ther my lorde stumbled and could not bring furth the texte and required his chaplaynes to helpe and put him in remēbraunce of the texte better but they were mūme phil And I recited out the texte vnto hym which made nothing to his purpose onlesse he would haue vs to mourne because they yf they laugh syng styll sorowfull thinges vnto vs threatning fagottes and fyre We are my lorde in a darke cōfortles place and therfore it behoueth vs to be mery lest as Salomon sayeth sorowfulnes eat vp our heart Therfore I trust your lordship wil not be āgry for our singing of Psalmes sence S. Paule sayth yf any man be of an vpryght mynde let him syng And we therfore to testifie that we are of an vpright minde to God though we be in miserie do syng London I wil trouble you no further as nowe Yf I can do you any good I wil be glad to do it for you God be with you good master Philpot gyue you good nyght Haue him to the cellar let him drinke a cuppe of wyne Thus I
departed by my lordes regester I was brought to his cellar dore where I dranke a good cuppe of wine my lordes chaplain master Cosyn folowed me taking acquaintauÌ„ce sayeng that I was welcome wished that I would not be singular Phil. I am wel taught the contrarie by SalomoÌ„ sayeng Vae soli Wo be vnto him that is alone After that I was caried to my lordes cole house againe where I with my sixe felowes do rowse together in the strawe as chearfully we thanke God as other do in their beddes of downe Thus for the thyrde fitte The examinacioÌ„ of maister Iohn Phylpot had in the archdeacons house of LoÌ„don the 〈◊〉 day of October before the bishops of LoÌ„don Bathe worcester and Glocester MAster Phylpot yt hath pleased my lordes to take paynes hereto daye to dyne with my pore archdeacon Naye your cousyn ArchediacoÌ„ and you bothe bastardes and .ij. priestes sonnes and in the dinner tyme it chaunced vs to haue communication of you And you were pitied here of many that knewe you in the new college in Oxford And I also do pytie your case because you seme vnto me by the talke I had with you the other night to be learned And therfore nowe I haue sent for you to com before them that yt might not be sayd herafter that I had so many learned byshopes at my house and yet would not vouchesafe them to talke with you And at my request I thaÌ„ke theÌ„ they are coÌ„tented so to do Now therfore vtter your mynde frely you shal with al fauour be satisfied I am sorye to see you lye in so euel a case as you do and would fayne you should do better as you maye yf you lust Bath My lordes here haue not sent for you to fawne vpoÌ„ you but for charities sake to exhort you to coÌ„me in to the right catholike waye of the churche worcest Before he beginneth to speake yt is best that he calleth to God for grace and to praye that yt myght please God to open hys hart that he maye conceyue the truth phil With that I fell downe vpon my knees before them and made my prayer on this maner Almyghtie God which art the geuer of al wisdome and vnderstanding I beseche the of thyne infinite goodnes and mercy in Iesus Christ to gyue me most vile sinner in thy sight the spirite of wisdome to speake and make answere in thy cause that it maie be to the contentacion of the hearers before whom I stand And also to my better vnderstanding yf I be deceiued in any thing London Nay my lorde of Worcester you did not well to exhorte hym to make any prayer For this is the thing they haue a singular pride in that they can ofteÌ„ make their vayne prayers in the which they glorie moche For in this point they are moche like to certayne arraÌ„t heretikes of whom Plinie maketh mentioÌ„ that dyd dayly syng â—n eâ—uâ—anoâ— hymnos prayse vnto God before the dawnyng of the daye phil My lord God make me and all you here pÌ„sent suche heretykes as those were that soÌ„g those mornyng hymnes for they were ryght Christians with whom the tyraÌ„nes of the world weare offended for theyr well doing Bath Procede to that he hath to saye he hath prayed I caÌ„ not tell for what London Saye on master Phylpot my lordes wyll gladly heare you Phil. I haue my lordes beÌ„ this twelue moneth and an halfe in prison without any iust cause that I knowe and my liuing taken from me without any law ful ordre And nowe brought contrary to ryght from myn owne territorie and ordinarie into an other mans iurisdiction I know not whie Wherfore if your lordships can burden me with any euill done I stand here before you to purge me of the same And if none suche thing may be iustlye layed to my charge I desyre to be released of this wrongfull trouble London Ther is none here goeth about to trouble you but to do you good yf we can For I promise you ye weare sent hither to me without my knowledge Therfore speake your conscience without any feare Phil. My lord I haue learned to answere in matters of religion in Ecclesia legittime vocatus In the congregacion being ther to lawfully called but nowe I am not lawfully called neyther ys here a iust congregacion wher I owght to answere London In dede this maÌ„ tolde me the last tyme I spake with him that he was a lawer And would not vtter his conscience in maters of faith onlesse yt were in the heariÌ„g of the people wher he might speake to vayne glorie Phil. My Lorde I said not I was a lawer neither do I arrogate to my selfe that name although I was once a nouice in the same wher I learned some thyng for myne owne defence when I am callyd in Iudgement to answere to any cause and wherby I haue ben taught not to put my selfe further indaunger then I nede and so farre am I a lawer and no farther Bath Yf you wil not answere to my lordes request you seme to be a wilfull man in your opinion Phil. My lord of LondoÌ„ is not mine ordinarie before whome I am bounde to answere in this behalfe as master D. Cole which is a lawier can wel tel you by the lawe And I haue not offended my lord of London wherfore he should call me London Yes I haue to laye to your charge that you haue offended in my diocese by speaking agaynst the blessed sacrament of the altar and therfore I may call you and procede agaynst you to punishe you by the lawe Phil. I haue not offended in your diocese for that which I spake of the sacrament was in Paules churche in the coÌ„uocation house which as I vnderstaÌ„d is a peculiar Iurisdiction belonging to the deane of Paules and therfore is counted of your lordshipes diocese but not in your diocese London Is not paules churche in my diocese Well I wot it cost me a good deale of mony by the yere the leading therof Phil. That maye be yet be exempted from your lordships iurisdiccion And albeit I had so offended in the place of your diocese yet I ought by the lawe to be sent to myne Ordinarie yf I require it and not to be punished by you that are not myne ordinarie And already as I haue tolde you I haue ben conuented of myne Ordinarie for this cause which you go about to enquire of me London How saye you M. doctor Colle maye not I procede against hym by the lawe for that he hath done in my diocese Colle Yea further him to the fyre Me thinketh M. Philpot nedeth not to stande so muche with your lordship in that point as he dothe sythen you seke not to hynder him but to further hym Therfore I thynke it best that he go to the matter that is layde agaynst hym of the conuocacion and make no longer delaye Phil. I would willynglye shewe my mynde of
the B. calling for .ij. chaires placed by him sayeng M. sherif I would you should vnderstaÌ„d how I do ê“cede against this man M. sherif you shal hear what articles this maÌ„ doth maiÌ„taine And so he red a rablemeÌ„t of fayned articles that I should denye baptisme to be necessarie to them the were borne of christiaÌ„ persoÌ„s That I denied fasting praier al other good dedes And that I maintained only bare faith to be sufficient to saluacioÌ„ what so euer a man dyd besydes And I maintained God to be the author of al synne and wyckednes be fayne to imagine these blasphemous lyes against me you might as wel haue sayd I had killed your father the scriptures say that God will destroy all them that speake lyes And is not your lordship ashamed to say before this worshipfull gentyll man who is vnknowen vnto me that I mayntayne these abominable blasphemies which you haue rehearsed which yf I did mayntayne I were wel worthy to be counted an heretike and to be burned an hundred tymes yf it were possible London I doo obiect them vnto thee to hear what thou wilt say in them howe thou canst purge thy selfe of them phil Then it was not iustly sayd in the beginning of your lordship that I did mayntayne them synce almost I hold none of al those articles you haue red in forme as they are written London How sayst thou wilt thou answere to them or no Phil. I will fyrst knowe you to be myn ordinarie and that you maye lawfully charge me with suche thinges than afterward being lawfully called in iudgement I wil shew my mind fully therof and not otherwise London well then I will make thy fellowes to be wytnes agaynst theÌ„ wher are they come Keper They be here my lord London Com hyther syrs hold them a boke you shal sweare by the coÌ„tentes of that boke that you shall al maner of affections layd aparte say the truthe of al such articles as you shal be demauÌ„ded of concerning this man here present which is a very naughty man take you hede of him that he doth not deceyue you as I am afraid he doth you muche hurte and strengthe you in your errours Prisoners My lord we wil not swere excepte we know wherto we can not accuse him of no euil we haue ben but a whil acquaynted with him phil I wonder your lordship knowing the lawe wil go about contrary to the same to haue infamous persons to be witnesses for your lordship doth take them to be heretikes and by the lawe an heretike can not be a witnes London Yes one heretike agaynst an other may be witnes well ynough And master sherife I wil make one of them to be witnes against an other Phil. You haue the lawe in your owne hande and you wil do what you list My prison felowes No my lorde London No wil I wil make you sweare whither you wil or no. I wene they be Anabaptistes maister sherife they thynke it not lawful to swere before a iudge phil We thinke it lawfull to swere for a man iudicially called as we are not nowe but in a blynde comer London Why then seyng you wil not sweare against your felowe you shal sweare for your selfes and I do here in the presence of M. sheryf obiect the same articles vnto you as I haue don vnto him and do require you vnder the payne of excommunication to answere particulerly vnto euery one of theÌ„ when you shal be examined as you shal be by by examined after by my regester som of my chaplaines My lord Prisoners we will not accuse our selues If any man can lay any thing against vs we are here redy to make answere therto otherwyse we pray your lordship not to burden vs for some of vs are here before you we knowe no iust cause why London M. sherif I wil trouble you no lenger with these frowarde men And so he rose vp and was goyng awaye talkyng with maister sheryf Phil. Maister sheryf I pray you record howe my lorde procedeth against vs in corners without al order of lawe hauiÌ„g no iust cause to laye against vs And after this were all coÌ„maunded to be had awaye And I was commaunded to be put in the stockes where I sat froÌ„ mornyng vntyl nyght the keper at nyght vpon fauour let me out The sondaye after the Bishop came into the colehouse at nyght with the keper and viewed the house sayeÌ„g that he was neuer here afore wherby a maÌ„ may gesse how he hath kept Goddes coÌ„maundement in visiting the prisoners seing he was neuer with them that haue bene so nigh his nose And he caÌ„ not then for any good zeale but to viewe the place and thought it to good for me and therfore after supper betwene eyght and nyne he sent for me sayeng London SYr I haue great displeasure of the Quene and the counsel for keping you so long and for lettyng you haue so muche lybertie And besydes that you be yonder and strengthen the other prisoners in their errours as I haue layd wayt for your doynges and am certifyed of you wel ynough I wil sequester you therfore from them you shal hurt no mo as you haue done And I wil out of haÌ„de dispatche you as I am coÌ„maunded onles you wil be a conformable man Phil. My lorde you haue my body in your custody you may transporte it whither it please you I am content And I would you would make as quicke expedition in my iudgement as you saye I long therfore and as for conformitie I am ready to yeld to al truthe yf any can bryng better then I. London Why you wil beleue no man but your selfe what so euer they saye phil My belefe must notheng vpoÌ„ meÌ„s sayenges wtout sure auctoritie of Goddes worde the which yf any body caÌ„ shew me I wil be pliaÌ„t to yt. Otherwise I caÌ„ not go froÌ„ my certain fayth to an vncertaine Lon. Haue you theÌ„ the truth only Phil. My lorde I wil speake my mynde fully vnto you vpon no malice I bear you before God You haue not the truth neither are you of the church of God But you persecute both the truthe the true church of God for that which cause you caÌ„ not prosper long You see God doth not prosper your doinges according to your exspectation he hath of late shewed his iuste iudgemeÌ„t against one of your greatest doers who by reporte dyed myserably Gardiner I enuye not your authoritie you are in You that haue learning should knowe best how to rule And seyng God hath restored you to your dignitie lyuing agayne vse the same to goddes glorie to the setting forth of his true religioÌ„ other wise it wil not coÌ„tinue do what you caÌ„ London With this sayeÌ„g he was apaused and sayd at lenght that good man was punished for suche as thou arte Where is the keper come let him haue him to
you maye the soner proue it for I doubt moche therof Cosins Why I wil proue it It is the signe of a holy thing Ergo it is a sacrament Phil. I deny your antecedent Cosins What wil you so then ther is no reasoning with you Thus master Cosins gaue ouer in the playn fylde for wāt of farther profe And thā the morow masse chaplaī begā to speake for his occupaciō with the M. harpesfild came out frō my lord with S. Austīs epistles saiēg Harpesfild My lord hath sent you here S. Austin to loke vpon And I pray you loke what he sayth in a certen epistle which he writeth I wil reade ouer the hole Here may you heare the celebracion of the masse and howe he reproueth them that wēt a hawkīg and hunting before the celebracion of the same that on the sabbat holy daies phil I perceiue the contentes of this epistle And I see nothing herein agaīst me nether nothing that maketh for the profe of your sacrament of the Masse Harpsfild No doth he not make mētiō of the masse and the celebraciō therof What can be spoken more playne Phil. S. Austin meaneth of the celebracion of the communion and of the true yse of the sacrament of the body bloud of Christ and not of your priuat masse which you of late yeares haue erected in the steade therof For this word Masse hath ben an olde terme attributed to the communion euen from the primatiue church And I pray you tel me what Missa doth signifie I thinke not many that say masse can well tel Cosins No can that is marueil Phil. Then tell yf you can But master Cosins and my morow masse chaplayn were dūme loking vpō master Harpesfeld for help and at lenght he spake Harpesfild You thinke it cometh of the Hebrue word Massahe as though none were seen in Hebrew but you Phil. I haue not gone so long to scole to deriue the significaciō of missa which is a latin worde out of Hebreu But I haue lerned to interprete Greke words by Greke and Latin by Latin and Hebreu by Hebreu I take the communion to be called missa a Mittendo of suche thinges as at the celebracion of the communion was sent by such as were of habilitie to the relefe of the poore wher the ryche brought after theyr deuotion and habilitie and required the minister in the celebraciō of the communion to pray vnto God for them and to accepte their common almes whyche they at suche tymes dyd send for the helpe of their poore brethern and systers And for this cause was it called Missa as learned men do withes At the which celebracion of the masse all that were present dyd communicate vnder bothe kindes according to Christes institucion as they dyd in S. Austines tyme. But onles you can shewe that your masse is vsed as that was you shall neuer by the name of masse which S. Austine attributed to the true vse of the cōmunion proue your priuat masse to be a sacrament onles you can proue the same vse nowe to be in your masse as was then which is cleane contrary Harpsfild What deny you the Masse to be a sacrament for shame speake it not Phil. I will not be ashamed to deny it yf you can not proue it Harpsfild Why it is a sacrifice which is more then a sacrament Phil. You may make of it as muche as you list but yet shal you neuer make it a sacrifice as you ymagine therof But fyrst it must be a sacramēt for of the sacrament you deduce your sacrifice Harps Why doth not Christ say this is my body and doth not the priest pronounce the same that Christ did phil The pronunciatyon is not only ynough onles the wordes be therwith all applied to the vse as Christ spake thē to For though you speake the wordes of baptisme ouer water neuer so many tymes yet ther is no baptisme onles ther be a christian person to be baptised Harpsfeld Nay that is not like for Hoc est corpus meum is an indicatiue proposicion shewing a working of God in the substance of orcad and wine Phil. It is not only an indicatyue propositiō but also imperatiue or cōmaūding For he that sayd Hoc est corpus meum sayd also accipite māducate take ye eat ye And except the former parte of the instituciō of Christes sacrament be accomplished according to the commaundement the later parte this is my body can haue no veryficacion take it which way you will and howe you will Morow Masse chaplain Why than you wil make the sacrament to stand in the receyuing that receauing maketh it a sacrament Phil. I do not say that the receyuing maketh it the sacrament only but I saye that a cōmen receyuing must nedes be concurrent with the true sacrament as a necessary member without the which it cannot be a sacramēt bicause Christ hathe made this a principall part of the sacrament take ye eat ye which you do not in your masse according to Christes institution Wherfore it can be no sacrament for that it wanteth of Christes institucion Cosins We do not forbid none to come to it But as many as list may be partakers with vs at the masse yf they require it Phil Nay that they shal not though they require it You will minister but one kind vnto them which is not after Christes instituciō Besides that you ought before you goo to masse to exhorte all that be present to make a sacrifice of thankes geuing for Christes passion with you and to exhort them to be partakers with you according to Christes commaundement sayeng vnto all that be present take ye eate ye And likewise by preaching shewe forthe the Lordes death which you do not Cosins What and if all thinges be done euen as you would haue it And whiles the minister is about to ministre the sacrament before any haue receaued it ther rise a soden hurly burly that the cōmunicantes be compelled to go awaye is it not a sacrament for al that none hath cōmunicated besyde the priest phil In this case where al thinges are appointed to be done accordīg to Goddes worde yf incydēt necessitie had not let I can not saye but it is a sacrament and that he which hath receaued hath receaued the true sacrament After this the morow Masse priest made this apishe reason Morow masse Priest Yf the sacramēt of the masse be no sacrament onles all do receaue it bycause Christ sayd take ye eate ye thē the sacramēt of baptisme is no sacramēt wher ther is but one baptised Bycause Christ said to his Apostles go preache the Gospel to all creatures baptisyng al nations in the name of the father c. phil Baptising al nacions in that sayeng of Christ is a cōmaundement to the Apostles to baptise al sortes of mē and to exclude none that do beleue be he gētil or Iewe not meaning al at once for that were
impossible And there is many examples that baptisme may be singularly ministred to one person as we haue exāple in Christ baptised of Iohn̄ and in the Eunuche baptised of Philip with many mo suche lyke But so haue you not of the sacramēt of the body and bloud of Christ but cōtrary wyse by the expresse wordes of S. Paule you are cōmaunded to vse it in a cōmunion and participation of many together the xi to the Corin. Quoties conuenitis ad mandu candum alius alium expectate As ofte as you come together to eate meaning the Lordes supper tary one for an other And also the minister in the celebration of the sacrament speaketh vnto al that be present in Christes behalfe to cōmunicate with him sayeng take ye and eat ye Wherfore as many as be present not cōmunicate do breake goddes commaundemēt in not receauyng the same and the minister is no iust minister that dothe not distribute the sacrament as Christ dyd to al that are presēt where Goddes worde is transgressed there is not Christ present and consequently is no sacrament Harpsfelde What would you haue it no sacrament without it be a cōmunion phil I make it not so but Goddes expresse worde teacheth me so yea also all the auncient wryters As S. Chrisostōe wryting vpon the epistle to the Ephesians sayeth that the oblatiō is in vayne where as none doth communicat with the priest If by his iudgement the action of the priest alone is in vayne where is no communion howe can that be a sacramēt which he calleth a vayne oblatiō a vayne standing at the altare Cosins You are such an other felow as I haue not heard that will not haue the masse to be a sacrament you are no man for me to reason with all Come let vs goo poyntyng to the morow masse chaplayn we wil leaue you master archdiacon and him together And so they went away Afterward the archdiacon fell into earnest persuasions with me sayeng harpsfild Master Philpot you and I haue ben of old acquayntance a long tyme we were scolefelowes both in wynchester and in Oxforde many yeares wherfore I must wyshe you as well to do as my selfe and I praye you so thinke of me Phil. I thanke you for your good will towardes me but yf you be deceaued as I am sure you are I shall desyre you not to wyshe me deceaued with you For afore God I tell you playnely you are highly deceaued and mayntayne false religion and be not those men you take your selfes for And yf you do not repent leaue of your persecuting of christes trueth you wil go to the dyuell for it Therfore consyder it in tyme I gyue you warnyng for in the day of iudgement ells I shal be a wytnes agaynst you that I told you this here talkyng together Harpesfild Fye that is but your owne vayne syngular opinion I perceaue you are styll now that man you were in Oxforde Phil. I trust you can reporte no notorius euill that euer you knew by me there Harpsfeld I can saye no euill of your conuersacion but I knew you to be a studious man Mary if you remembre when we met in disputacion in paruis you wold not lyghtly gyue ouer and for that cause I speake that I haue sayd Phil. Master Harpesfeld you knowe in the scoles at Oxforde when we were yong men we dyd stryue moche vpon vayn glory and vpon contention more than for the trueth But nowe our yeares and our ryper learnyng teache vs to fal to a truthe which must be our portion for euer And yf I was then in my tyme of ignoraunce earnest in myne owne cause I ought now to be earnest in my maister Christes cause in his truth I know now that nothing done vpon vayne glorie and singularitie can please God haue it neuer so goodly a shewe Wherfore I praye you iudge not so of me nowe Harpfi What wil you thinke your selfe better learned then all the learned men in this realme Phil. My fayth hengeth not vpō the learned of the worlde but vpon the learned after Goddes worde Harpf. Wel I wil talke with you nomore as nowe but pray to god to opē your harte Phil. I pray God open both our hartes to do more his wil then we haue done in tymes past Harpf. Ho keper take him away with you Phil. I pray you M. Harpsfeld tel me what this pronowne Hoc doth demonstrate and shewe in this indicatiue proposition as you cal it Hoc est corpus meum This is my body Harpf. It dothe demonstrate the substaunce of bread which by the wordes spoken by the priest by the omnipotency of God is turned into the substaunce of Christes very body Phil. Is the substaunce of the bread as you saye turned into Christes bodye Harpf. Yea that it is phil Why then Christes body receaueth dayly a great increase of many thousād peces of bread into his bodye And that is his body become nowe which was not before and by this you would seme to make that ther is an alteracion in Christes glorifyed body which is a wicked thing to thinke Harpf. Then he fet about agayne and remembring better him selfe and seyng the inconuenience of his first assertion of the transubstantiacion of the bread into Christes bodye he sayd that the substaunce of bread after the wordes spoken by the priest was euacuated or vanished away by the omnipotency of God Phil. This is an other song thē you said fyrst And here you maye see howe contrary you ar to your selues For in dede your scole mē do holde that the verye substaunce of bread is really turned into the substaunce of Christes body And nowe you perceauing of late the inconuenience which is obiected agaīst you in the opinion of late you ar dryuē to imagin a new shyfte and say the substance of bread is euacuated contrary to that your churche hath fyrst beleued and taught O what contrarietie is ther among you and all to deface the syncere truth Harpesfild Is not God omnipotent cannot he do as he hath sayd Phil. But his omnipotency will not do as you say contrary to his word and to his honour it is not Goddes honour to include bodely in a pece of bread and of necessitie to tye him therto It is not Goddes honour for you to make a pece of bread God mā which you se before your face doth putrifie after a certen tyme. Is not Goddes omnipotency as hable to geue his body with the sacramental bread as to make so many turninges away of the bread as you doo And that directly against the scripture which calleth it bread many tymes after the cōsecraciō Are you not ashamed to make so many alteracions of the lordes holy institucion as you do And to take away the substanticall parts of the sacrament as take ye eate ye drinke ye all of this So ye this in remembraūce of me and to place in their steades heare ye
same neyther submit their iudgemeÌ„t to be tryed in the causes which they brable for by the Godly learned pastours therof but arrogauntlie depraue them and take vpon them selfe to be teachers before they haue learned affirming they can not tell what and speaking euil of that which they knowe not proude they are and puffed vp in the imaginacions of their owne hartes blinde senses and iudge them selues best of all other bycause they can make a pale face of ypocrysye to the worlde cast a glas of desembling water before the eyes of the simple people as these Arrians do But praised be God his word is lyuelie and mightye and beateth theÌ„ al downe like an yron rod an earthen pot in peaces yet they ar so hard harted far froÌ„ grace that they wil not yeld to the manifest truth wheÌ„ they haue naught iustlie to replie besydes couÌ„terfaited wordes There ys no pyth in theÌ„ ful of coÌ„teÌ„tion backbiting these brauliÌ„g heretikes ar vnder a pÌ„teÌ„ce of fayned holines whoÌ„ our saueour Christ aptly coÌ„pared to painted sepulchres which be nothing els wtin Math. 23. but ful of rotteÌ„ bones For wheras trew faith is not in the vnitie of Christes churche there is nothing but abhominable in the sight of God for God Psal 67. as the Prophete sayeth maketh his people to dwell after one maner in one house But with al maner of sectes can these peruerse generation awaye with al more thaÌ„ with the vnitie of Christes pure catholike churche to the which in no wyse they will agree albeit the same is the piller stablishment of truthe as S. Paule wryteth to Timothe 1. Tim. 3. I neuer sawe neither hearde before of suche a syght of gydie and fantastical heades who delite only in singularitie whom I do muche pitie bycause they take so muche paynes to go to the deuil Arrogaunt singularitie and enuious contention be ready pathes leading to the same in the which they walke manfully Stil thei haue the scriptures in their mouth and crye the scripture the scripture but it commeth lyke a beggers clooke out of their mouthes ful of patches al out of facion and when they be by the worde ryghtly alledged ouerthrowen that they haue not with reason what to replye yet will they neuer be confounded But either departe in furie or elles stoppe their eares at the sayeng of the wyse charmers lyke deafe serpentes or els fal to scolding which is their surest diuinitie they fight with all And yf perchaunce any of them be soberer than other their aunswer is I praye you let vs alone our conscieÌ„s is satisfyed you labour but in vayne to go about to turne vs. Thus in selfe loue blyndnes and vayne hipocrisie these heretikes coÌ„tinue be they neuer so charitably or learnedly informed And where they haue nothing to laye against their louing informers than they ymagine most spitfully and falsly to declare whose children they are blasphemies spreadyng the same abrode bothe by them selues by their adherentes against the syncere professours of the Gospel that we make God the author of synne and that we saye let men do what they wil it is not material yf they be predestinate and that we maintaine al carnal libertie dyse cardes dronkennesse and other inordinate thinges and gayne with this I among other am most slauÌ„derously charged and defamed by these outragious heretikes to whome I haue gone about to my power to do good as God is my witnes but I haue receaued the rewarde of a Prophete at their haÌ„des although I am not worthy to be counted vnder that glorious name which is shame rebuke slaunder sleyng of my good fame They are lyke Sathan their graund syer in this poinct Ioh. 8. who was a lyer and a maÌ„ queller froÌ„ the beginning These presciptuous heretikes do dayly declare their colde charitie which procedeth out of their colde faith God forgyue it them and inflame them with a better spirit I protest before God his angelles that I neuer ment neyther sayde any of these infamies wherof I am besyed of them with many other good meÌ„ Onely bycause I hold affirme beyng manifestly instructed by goddes word that the electe of God cannot finally perishe therfore they haue pyked out of their owne malicious nayles the former parte of these blasphemyes and bycause at an other tyme I dyd reproue them of their temerarious rashe iudgement for condempning of men vsyng thinges indifferent as shoting boulyng hawking with such lyke ê“uyng by the scripture that al men in a temperancy might vse them in their dewe tymes shewyng that honest pastyme was no synne which these contencious sysmatikes do improue wherupon they do maliciously descaÌ„t as is before meÌ„cioned And whether I haue deserued to haue this reproche for tellyng them the truthe which they can not abyde let al men iudge that be of an vpright iudgemeÌ„t Might not these hipocrites be ashamed of their bridleles blasphemous tounges yf the deuil had not rubbed awaye all shame froÌ„ their fore heades S. Iames sayeth Iames. â— that yf any persone which would seme to be a gospeller refrayne not his tounge his religion is in vayne O what a meany of vayne caterpillers be there whiche corrupt the swete and holsom flowers of the Gospel to the shame therof as moche as it lyeth in them It had ben better for them neuer to haue knowen the Gospel than by their prowde freewill knowlage to go aboute to subuert the same I would they would be taught by the churche of Christ where they ought to be and become syncere confessours or elles leaue bogging of heresies to their owne damnacioÌ„ and deceauing of many The heretikes clout vp the scriptures without vnderstanding and fal to their owne occupacion euery man according to his owne callyng and learne to eate with the swet of their owne browes their bread to helpe others as goddes word coÌ„mauÌ„deth theÌ„ not to lye in corners lyke huÌ„bledories eating vp the hony of the bees do nothing els but murmure and sting at the veritie and at all faithful labourers in the lordes vynyarde Thus by the waye I thought it good to admonishe you of other heretikes besydes the ArriaÌ„s who be haÌ„d maidens vnto them do dayly make an entraunce for theÌ„ to encrease who belong to one kingdome of darknes although the one be not so high in degree as the other Blynde guydes they are Mat. 15. and leaders of the blynde and as many as folowe them do fal into the ditch for as it is sayd of SalomoÌ„ ther is a waye that semeth to a maÌ„ right Prou. 14. yet the ende therof tendeth to destruccion Direct therfore your steppes with the churche of Christ in the wayes of the gospel and in brotherly vnitie and accompt it as the synne of witchcraft to make diuision from the same And God of his mercy eyther turne their hartes shortly or els confounde