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A12496	A playne declaration made at Oxforde the 24. daye of July, by mayster Richarde Smyth, Doctor of diuinite, vpon hys Retractation made [and] published at Paules crosse in London, in the yeare of our lorde God, D.D.xlvii. the xv. daye of May	Smith, Richard, 1500-1563.; Smith, Richard, 1500-1563. Godly and faythfull retractation. aut	1547 (1547)	STC 22824; ESTC S104734	11,143	44

of thinges where I dyd say that there are dyuerse thynges not expressed in the scripture which we are boūde to beleue egally with those thynges which arr written in Scripture in the nomber o● which I dyd cōfusely indiscretely for an example bring some of the afore rehersed and other many As cōcernyng many things in my booke put and the more nomber there by me reconed and named I affirme and say to be false and in no wyse trew but very daungerous and vniust onerous to the consciences of christen men and too be trew only in those Doctrines which necessaryly may be gathered consequently doo folow too the wordes and sentences in Scripture so that in effect they may be iustly counted to be in scripture though the very fourme of woordes be not there Of the which in my Booke is very few yet some I dyd reherse as Baptismus puerorū Descensus Christi ad inseros Virginitas Marie Trinitas personarum Processio Spiritus sancti and a few other And bicause I wold declare the trew acception dignitie and auctoritie of scripture too be distincte diuerse of higher surer more stable and firme order and credence then the other vnwritten Tradicions Assertions wandring in thobseruation of many yeres the churches canons and Decrees ordinaunces and traditions left by succession Here I do declare set furth confesse affirme and asserte my trew stedfast opinion belefe and fayth in these thynges propounded vttred vnto me as concernyng scripture written and other Traditions vnwritten and not declared in the said holy Scripture 1 Thaucto●…ite of scri●ture The scripture of tholde and new Testament written by thinspiratiō of the Holy ghost concernyng our belefe is too be beleued accepted taken as an vndoubted truthe not to be altered refourmed or chaunged by any man nor to be minished nor abrogate by any custome but vnder perell of dampnation to be beleued and vnder the same daunger to be followed hauyng auctoritie geuē vnto it by almightie god taught enspired by the holy ghost dependyng of no mans auctoritie nor violable or defesible by any power otherwise then vnder the perell daūger of eternall damnatiō Suche thynges as in the Actes 2 Thinges ī scr●ptur● for a tim● commau●ded of the Apostles or any other place of Scripture as for a tyme was taught and setfurthe for an introduction of the weake in the fayth not to remayne for euer as fayth incresed was abrogate none otherwise than it was thauctors mynde and intente they shuld those that concerned eatyng drinkyng coueryng or discoueryng of heades or such other externe rites and ceremonyes rather concernyng an ordre among men outwardly to be for a tyme obserued than an eternall law to rule and gouerne the soule Suche thynges as sometyme be 3 Thinges ●ecessary●y gatheed of scri●ture called traditions not expressely and by wordes found in holy scripture but which may necessarily and well be gathered of holy scripture are to be beleued and followed in somuche as farr as they may truly be gathered of the scripture or consequently doo follow the wourdes and intentes of the same Traditiōs pretended to be made 4 Thynges ● beleife ●ot neces●arily ga●hered of ●cripture of thappostles by some authors ascribed to theym as concernyng thinges to be beleued not found in scripture directly nor necessarily directly consecutyng followyng to scripture laufully with out perell of dampnation may be doubted of also denyed and refused by the superior powers suche as haue Auctoritie in the church There be many thinges ascribed 5 ●●●●ed f●●●ed dic●ous doc●r●n● to thappostles called traditions deduced from the tyme of thappostles read in the name of olde Authors and set furth vnder the pretensed title of their name which be feyned forged nothing trew full of superstition and vntrewth feyned by theym which wold magnify their owne power and auctoritie as is the Epistles of Clemens Anacletus Euaristus and Fabianus other which arr set furth by the bysshop of Rome and his complices which be forged feyned and of none auctoritie nor to be beleued but coūterfeyted by theym who with the color of a●●tiquitie wolde magnify that v●●●ped power of the bysshop of Rome Traditions of 〈…〉 ●●●ther Thinges ●●ncernīg ●…aners ●ot neces●…rely ga●hered or ●cripture they be in deed or 〈…〉 so aunciēt that they 〈…〉 ●sed frō the begyn●●● 〈…〉 the tyme of 〈…〉 haue ben appoynted 〈…〉 of later dayes by 〈…〉 bysshop of Rome 〈…〉 by generall 〈…〉 superioritie of one 〈…〉 ●●●…ther Watching 〈…〉 Sensynges 〈…〉 and all other suche Rites Ceremonyes and comen Orders to be vsed in the church of God doth not ●ynd but where they be receyued and by disuse maye be abrogate or by contrary law made in any countrey by thauctority of the superior powers may be clene taken away other Rites Canons Traditions Ceremonyes brought in for them with out any daūger of synne or grudge 〈…〉 And with any suche 〈…〉 the kynges 〈…〉 may either 〈…〉 cause or of his 〈…〉 any cause 〈…〉 man frō be●●… 〈…〉 〈…〉 with whom 〈…〉 haue dispensed 〈◊〉 all 〈…〉 free from them 〈◊〉 vse his said lybertie with 〈…〉 synne or scruple of 〈…〉 either to the kynges maiestie which gaue lybertie or to him whiche hath obteyned the 〈…〉 ●●●pensacion None otherwyse than in any other acte statute or proclamation made by humane polycie the kynges maiestye and the hygh powers may Whan contrary wyse that that is Goddes law and commaunded by scripture alwaies to be obserued no man can dispence with if nor gyue any man libertie to breake it vnder daunger of synne corruption of conscience This is my full firme and stable bele●e as touchynge the scripture written Traditions vnwritten what thyng soeuer I or any other heretofore haue preached taught written or endyted to the contrary of these my assertions belefe now declared vnto you or if any man hereafter which God forbyd shuld preach teach or set furth any thing which is not consonaunt agreyng to these aforesayd articles and assercions beleue good hearers and know you iurely that it is a false vntrew deuellysh doctrine and vngodlye vsurpation vpon the holly Scripture contrary too the trew pure and Catholicall doctrine of Christes churche In the which ●aythe and beleef conteyned in the sayd vi Assertions I doo entende good hearers with the grace of almighty God to lyue by Christ and all my hope is also too dye therin if need shal be And whensoeuer God shall call me therunto his grace assistyng I shal be redy AND now concernyng another booke whiche I made of the Sacrifice of the Masse where the moast chief and principall article of our fayth and moast directly perteynyng too the redemption of our synnes and to our saluation is That our sauyor Christ Iesu by his moast precious death and effusion of his moast precious blood vpon the crosse dyd

A PLAYNE Declaration made at Oxforde the 24. daye of Iuly by Mayster Richarde Smyth Doctor of diuinite vpon hys Retractation made published at Paules crosse in London In the yeare of oure Lorde God M. D. xlvij the xv daye of May. ❧ Londini Anno Domini M. D. XLVII Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum A playne Declaration made at Oxforde the 24. daye of Iuly by Mayster Richard Smyth Doctor of diuinitye vpon hys Retractation made published at Paules crosse in London the xv daye of Maye Anno Domini M. D. xlvij SAlomon saieth Dominus proteget gradiētes simpliciter God wil defende them that walke playnely At my fyrst retorne frō Lōdon immediatly after my Sermon whiche I made last at Pawles Crosse accordynge to my bounden deuty promys I sholde haue chiefely moste princypally declared and set furth plainely and fully here in Oxforde all that my Retractation wyche I red and professed openly at Paules crosse But in this behalf I vtterly deceaued my selfe For I did omytt and let passe my moste weighte matter bycause I intendid to set furth thre thinges at once The one was too shewe that the Declaration of al my doynges as towchyng my bokes was but a Retractation and not a Recantation The second was the earnest answering vnto suche as I harde saye had conceauid by mystakynge of my Retractation that I shulde denie and condempne the sacrament of thalter wherein ys present the very body blode of Christ and the sacrament of Baptisme The laboringe in theis two thingꝭ withdrewe and troubled me verye muche that I coulde not earnestly trauayle in settynge forth of my retractation accordyng to my dutye For as touchyng the first where as I sayde I made a retractation and not a recantacion it was but an excuse of my doynges For as moche is commenly signified and ment by Retractation as by recantacion And because that all men for the most parte whiche herde me so say do gather and take hereof as I am credibly infourmed that I dyd sticke styll and stand to mine old doctrine in all thinges And that the retractacion sent abrode in my name was either none of myne or elles that I was cōpelled and forced to agre vnto it I am verye sorye that they so dyd mistake me But I am moste sorye of all that I for my parte thorough my darke vtteraunce shulde geue them occasion so to thinke Wherfore at this tyme I purpose to rede vnto you my retraction whiche I declared at Paulis crosse vnto the whiche I agreed and consented frely and wyllyngly without any maner of force or compulsion And to th entent you shall well perceyue that this is my doctrine and my belefe I shal to my power both now and at al tymes hereafter whē occasion shal serue set forth mayntayne and defende the same And here I shall moost ernestly requyre you and in our sauiour Christ beseche you nother to mistake me on the one syde nother to be offended or greued with me on the other syde For in this my retractation I do not deny the holy sacrament of the aulter nor the Sacrament of baptisme nor finally any other thinge comprised in the body of holy scripture as necessarie matter of our belief And where as syns the tyme that I declared my retractatiō at Pawlis crosse I wrote and sente abrode sondry letters for myne excuse and made also as it were a glose and an exposition of my sayd retractacion whereby I myghte seme rather to trauayle for to preserue myne estimation then clerely and syncerely to set furth the doctrine whiche I in my retractation wyllynglye dyd professe In this and in al other my writinges readynges and teachinges what so euer I haue written read or taught heretofore this that I now teache I knowe to be true For that I haue groundely tried serched the same We haue a saieng Amicus Socrates amicus Plato magis amica VERITAS He is my frende and he is my frend but the truth is moste my frende Truthe is to be in braced truth is to be defēded truth is my profession Nother my fame nor estimation of my selfe nother frendshyp of my dere frendes nor any other thinges shall make me ashamed of truth I remembre what the Lord of truth doth say He that is ashamed of me before men I shal be ashamed of hym before my father which is in heauen Nowe therfore I wyll reade vnto you my Retractation THe holy Prophet Dauid good christen audiēce saith right truly Omnis homo mendax That is to wytt Euery man is a Lyer of his owne corrupted nature The which thing how trew it is theldest best Writers in the Christen Church doo euidently declare because they all haue erred in their bookes Wherfore the great Clerke saynt Austen in an Epistle writen to Marcella writeth of himself Vos qui me multum diligitis si talem me asseritis vtnunquam in scriptis errasse me dic●tis frustra laboratis nec bonam causam suscepistis facile meipso iudice superamini quoniā non placet mihi cum a chariss●●is meis talis existimor qualis non sum That is to say Yee that loue me muche if ye said that I am such that ye affirme that I neuer erred in my writyngs or Bokes ye labor in vayne ye haue not taken in hand a good cause ye are easely ouercome I my selfe being Iudge For it pleaseth not me whan I am estemed suche a man of my moast deare frendes as I am not Here we se that this blessed father saynt Austen was not ashamed to confesse his error in writing which thing he dyd not by woordes only but also in a certayne Booke wherin he wrote very many things in which he confesseth that he was deceyued This Booke is called in Latyn Liber Retractationum And in Englysh a Booke of Retractations or Reuocations of such thinges whiche he wrote amysse erred in Shall I now be ashamed to acknoledge my self to haue ben deceyued in my Booke of Traditions Am I worthy to be resembled or compared to this noble aunciente Doctor of Christes church Wyl ye not beleue S. Austen in other poyntes of our Religiō because he erred also confessed his error in dyuerse and sundry thynges of his bokes To be short who of all the Writers of bokes erred not S Ambros S Hierome Chrisostome Hilary Ciprian Origen Tertulian and all the other Doctors of the church were deceyued in some poyntes of their Bookes as learned men do well know Why therfore may nott I erre or why shulde I be ashamed too confesse myne Error and too reuoke it Ought not euery good mā and woman too be esory for my fall in this my Booke and too reioyce with me acknowledging the trewth in this matier of mans Traditiōs Preceptes Ordinaunces Rites Ceremonies Who seeth not that I haue a iust cause to excuse my wekenesse and fault and aske of you mercy which I trust I haue outayned