anye true christian to poure out a foūtaine of teares to bewayle the calamitie thereof Whose ruyne is exceded so farre that it withdraweth mannes expectaciō to loke for amendement vnles God of his great mercy supernaturally do worke the restitucion aswell of the common wealth politike as also of the true and catholike fayth charitie and good liuyng Agamemnon might now double his exclamaciō in these dayes as Seneca reporteth which is Good life lawe good ordre godlines fayth are nowe decayed Therfore calling to my remembraūce this our carefull case I mused with my selfe what might be the cause thereof and sodaynly occurred to my remembraunce the comfortable promyses of God the father made to the obseruers of his lawes and commaundementes And likewyse I considered hys intollerable threateninges to y ◠breakers of the same Then comparing the wretchednes of our lyues to the sinceritie of his holy preceptes I fynde a marueylous difference Good life was neuer in such cōtempte malice at no tyme bare suche rule the godly neuer more dispysed finally God neuer more dishonoured nor his catholike fayth at any tyme had in so lytle regarde especially of such as moste arrogantly chalenge to thēselfes the name of true christians who in very deede are of all christianitie moste barren To whome the wordes of Christ may be wel applyed where he sayeth If I had not come vnto thē they shuld haue had no synne in them but nowe their synne doth remayne Whiche woordes are verely verified in those false christians which not onely in faith do erre but also moste obstinatly seme to defende the same In whome errour is turned to heresye and of weake and fraile mē are become obstinate heretikes It is by nature geuen to menne in somme thynges to erre but to persiste therein it is againste nature For sayth Tully we be al drawē and ledde to aspire vnto knowledge wherin to passe other we thinke it a goodly matter but to slyde to erre to be ignorant to be deceiued wee counte it euil dishonest Therfore sayth he one thyng is to bee auoyded therein which is that we take not thynges wee knowe not as thoughe wee knewe them and rashely assent to them Wherfore deliberation and aduisement is to bee required in suche causes Nowe then it is the office and duetie of mā to apply his will to the grace of God by whō truth is reueled in tyme wherevnto he ought to consent but to resist his synne doth remaine which is the sinne of Infidelitie a synne doubtles whiche most displeaseth God as appeareth by his plagues executed by his wrath vpon all sortes of infideles But nowe to drawe neare vnto the purpose whiche chiefly is to displaye the factious opinions of suche which not only do erre but also cōtinue in errour and seke with to the and nayle to defendethe same For whose infidelitie God at this daye doeth so sore plague the worlde chiefly this realme whiche for vertue good liuing sake hath bene worthely nominated Decus mundi y ◠floure of the worlde Nowe forasmuche as I know that thei which cōmonly do erre beyng reproued therefore wyll immediately make as thoughe they were ignorant what heresie is sometyme wyll demaunde what heresye is or who is an heretyke To whome if answere be made according to the diffinition of lerned men It is any false or wrong opinion whiche any man choseth to him selfe to defende against the catholike fayth of the vniuersall church Truth in dede say they But what meaneth the catholike church Then answere is made It is that congregacion whiche wholy dothe agre in one vnitie of fayth and ministracion of sacramentes Whiche answer when they likwise affirme Then procede they to know whether it be knowen or vnknowen and so furth Doubtlesse the catholike church is so knowen to y ◠worlde that neither heretike nor other miscreant can pleate ignoraunce to learne that truth whiche leadeth to saluation For the Churche is like vnto a castle stāding vpō an hyll whiche cannot be hyd Whiche hyll is cut out of the harde rocke and exalted so high that is replenisheth y ◠yerth as the prophete Daniel sayth It is resēbled also by the psalmist to a tabernacle placed in the sonne so shyning throughout the world that it can by no cloude or tēpest be obscured It is also as Paule sayth the foundation and pyller of truth and can not be deceyued thoughe her aduersaries allege the contrary Full well doth the late moste famous mā Lodouicus Viues say I doo and wyll stande sayth he to the true iudgement of the churche although I sawe to the contrary a moste manifest reason I may be deceyued as I am diuers times but the church in those thynges whiche tende to religion can not bee deceyued Therfore the churche beyng soo manifestly knowen as it cannot be hidden so replenished and garnished with truth as it is the very foundation and piller of truth with what face or countenaunce can the aduersaries therof stande in contencion therewith Unlesse they be infected w t Circes cuppes or els by her enchantmētes transformed into the shape of swyne But nowe these swinishe aduersaries will obiecte saiyng Syr those which you name heretikes we will proue to bee the true congregaciō And this is their profe We allege preache vtter ▪ or talke of nothing but scripture whiche can not deceiue vs whereby we are the true churche and not you which cal your selfes catholikes Whiche reason semeth to them so infallible that it cannot be auoyded But forasmuch as the knowledge of all truth ouerthrow◠of heresie dependeth vpon the thaucthoritie of the church both for the knowledge of the scriptures and also for the exposition of the same I purpose breifly to say somewhat therin The head of the churche is Christ who by the Apostles was preached to all nations of whō also his doctrine was receiued at least of so many as were conuerted to the fayth The conuerters of whom were the Apostles which in the beginnyng were the mysticall bodye of Christ their head who then beyng the Churche exalted their voyces in suche sorte as it penetrated the whole yearth their wordes extended to the endes of the worlde The succession of whiche Apostles haue continued from tyme to tyme in vnitie of the same fayth Whiche fayth is left vnto the Churche as permanent for euer therby to strēgthen the weake and to confounde the proude to establishe the electe to ouerthrowe all misbeleuers sectes hereticall whiche sectes not onely abuse the open places of that liuely worde but also do falsly expounde the darke mistical places therof as S. Peter wytnesseth of s Paules Epistles But if these ▪ good felowes wyll nedes be of Christes churche as arrogantly thei presume by their owne cōfession They must haue one vnitie of doctrine as y ◠churche hath whiche
disgracyng him with all vile wordes and histories of his lyfe paste that possiblye hee could deuise he semed euen openly before the kyng to make a coÌ„batte with his spirit For as Plinye sayeth they that speake euel of dead menne seme to contende and fyghte with their spirites So this Prophete then to proue that his stoute diyng made not his quarell good had the wordes ensuing O say thei the maÌ„ died very boldly he would not haue done so had he not been in a iuste quarell This is no good argumente my frendes a man semeth not to feare death therfore his cause is good This is a deceiuable argument he wente to death boldely ergo he standeth in a iuste quarel The Anabaptistes that were burnt here in Englande in diuerâ— townes as I haue hearde of credible men I sawe theÌ„ not my selfe weÌ„t to their death euen intrepride as ye will saye without any feare in the world cherefully wel let them go There were in the olde doctors tymes another kynde of poysoned heretikes that were called Donatistes And these heretikes went to their executioÌ„ as though they shold haue gone to some â—oly recreation or banquet to some belly chere or to a plaie And will you argue then he goeth to his death boldly or cherefully ergo he dieth in a iust cause Nay that sequele foloweth no more theÌ„ this A maÌ„ semes to be afrayd of death ergo he dieth euill And yet our sauiour Christe was afrayde of death himself TheÌ„ he afterwards warneth his audience not to iudge those which are in authorite but to praie for them It becommeth not saith he to iudge great magistrates nor condempne their doynges Vnles their dedes be openly and apparantly wicked Charitie requireth the same for charitie iudgeth no maÌ„ but well of euery body c. Thus Latymer proueth that stoute diyng is no sure token of a good quarell and proueth it a false surmyse if anye doo beleue the cause of death to be true because of sturdines in the tyme of the same Also to proue that it is not the death that maketh a martir but the cause The cronicles make mencion of one Iohn Oldecastell a knyght a valiaunt man although he were wicked who with one Roger Acton togethers with him fauouriug Wickleffes opinioÌ„s coÌ„spired against the kynges maiestie then Henry the fyft onely to sette forwardes their conceiued opinions with a desperate company assembled thynkyng to obtayne the cytie of London from the kyng But beyng preuented he was takeÌ„ and put into the towre of London The sayd Acton also who within a whyle after was worthely put to death but Olde castell escaped pryson not withstandyng within a shorte space he was taken agayne then hanged drawen and quartered But he weÌ„t to his death so stoutly as though he had nothyng deserued to dye But if heresie and treason be no iust causes then he dyed wrongfully as in the cronycles more at large appereth If the stoutnes of death be a iust cause to proue a martyr then many whiche haue denyed Christe to be equall with the father which was the Arrians opynion were martyrs Then Ioane Butcher is a martir TheÌ„ the Flemyng whiche was burnt in Smythfielde in the tyme of kyng Edward is a martyr who lyued in such continencie and holynes of lyfe that before his goyng to meate he woulde fall prostrate vpon the grounde geue thankes to God the father hys dyete was so moderate that in two dayes space he vsed but one meale at the tyme of his death he was so frollicke that he fared muche lyke our martyrs in embracyng the redes kyssyng the poaste syngyng and suche other toyes In lyke sorte the grosse martyr Ioane Butcher handled the matter And where as one Skorie then preached before the people in tyme of her death she reuyled and spytted at hym makyng the sygne of the gallowes towardes him boldly affirming that all they that were not of her opinion shuld be dampned Yea she was so bold to say that a. M. in LondoÌ„ were of her sect Such the like was y â— charitie of Anne Askewe so ofte by Bale lykened to Blandina that true martyr of Christes churche in his furious boke which he wrote of her death a noble pece of worke mete for such a champion to be thauthor The sayde Anne Askewe was of suche charitie that when pardon was offered she defied them all reuyling the offerers therof with suche opprobrious names that are not worthy rehersall makyng the lyke sygnes too the preacher at her death as her pue fellowe systcr in Christ Ioane Butcher dyd at Skorie aforesayde These arrogant and presumptuous martirs in the time of their deathes doo lytle esteme the woordes of sayncte Paule sayinge If I had the spirite of prophecie and knew al misteries and all maner of cunnyng Also if I had all fayth in so muche as I could traÌ„slate and cary awaye mouÌ„taynes yet were I nothyng if I lacked charitie Moreouer if I dyd distribute all my goodes in fedyng the poore people and although I gaue my body to bee burned hauing no charitie it nothynge auayleth me Thus yf they estemed the Godly exhortacioÌ„s of holy scriptures they wold not so vncharitably vse theÌ„selfes especiallye at the extremitie of death But the deuel whose martyrs they bee dothe alwayes instructe his darlinges to followe hys ragyng steppes True are the wordes of the wyseman saying A sturdy harte shall susteine damage and he that loueth peril therin shal perish Therfore sturdynes and selfe loue is the onely cause of the martirdomes of our martyrs wherof do spryng innumerable faultes as Cicero saith When men puffed vp with stoutenes of opinion be shamefully inuolued in folish error Doutles a great faulte it is and coÌ„trary to ciuile life so to be addicted to self loue and arrogaÌ„cie as to thinke our selues to bee so learned that no perswasioÌ„ or terror can beate the mynde from that folly A pitifull case it is to see not only the learned which for waÌ„te of grace do fall but also blynde bayarde who although he be vtterly blind and dull yet his corage is suche that he careth not to leape ouer hedge and dytche I meane the symple ignoraunt whiche only for wante of knowledge do erre and yet haue such audacitie that they care not to spend their liues in their folly And for that these blynde bayardes doo so stycke in their opinions to death it is woÌ„dered at of many not of learned or godly men but of braynesicke foles which like fethers wyll be caried about with euery blast of newe doctrine At the deathes of whiche you shall see more people in Smythfeilde flockyng together on heapes in one daye then you shall see at a good sermon or exhortacion made by some learned man in a whole weke Their glorie is suche vpon these glorious martyrs And why is this because their myndes are geuen wholy to
The displaying of the Protestantes sondry their practises with a description of diuers their abuses of late frequented Newly imprinted agayne and augmented with a table in the ende of all suche matter as is specially contained within this volume Made by Myles Huggarde seruant to the Quenes maiestie Anno. 1556. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum GO on good booke God graunt that thâ—â— Suche frutefull fauour fynde From readers eies and hearers hartes To banyshe errors blynde And as thy trothe by trade and time Is tried endles trewe So trust thy playn apparant profe Shall endles troth renewe Though wresting wittes or taunting tonges Wyll seke the to deface To fawting foles or spitefull sprites Gyue neither eare nor place For as offence to none is ment So if offence do groo The faute is theirs the fruite is thyne Sythe troth doth force it so The maker myndes to mende eche mys That talke and tyme hath bred Of heresies and errors great That fansies late hath fed Whiche so with witte and wyll haue wrought As wronge hath wrested right From frutefull faieth to fruteles wordes And quenched vertue quyght Belefe is brought to talke of tongue Religion rackt amis Open praier lyplabour cald Fasting folyshe fondnes Prelacy is popishe pompe Vertuous vowes are vaine Ceremonies curious toyes Priesthod popery plaine Thus vice of vertue beareth brute True faieth is fled awey Presuming pryde possesseth place And fansy conscience key No man beleued in his skill Eche wight so wise doth seame As bothe vnskild and eake vnlearnde All learning yet will deame O endles error of selfloue Of ignoraunce the roote Confounder of all faieth and grace And bale in stede of boote O wilfull wretched wyll That workest endles woo O arrogance and heresy That wrestest scripture soo O hedles heapes of feruent sprites Why heat you so in hart By ending flamme to endles fyer Both soules and bodies part What ouerwening spirite Doth puffe you in suche pryde To thinke your selues more godly wyse Then all the worlde besyde What titles and what termes you vse It maketh moste men smyle Howe droncken in the lorde you are How closely you begyle You systers and you brethren both â–ª Thus eche to others saieth The lorde be praysde when fylthy lust Ye vse with feling faieth â–ª And what is founde in all your deades But fruites of lyberty Wynde and wordes wilfull workes A mase of mysery Though in this booke sharpe sense and wordes May seme to some appeare Remember that longe festred sores Sharpe corses doo requere â–ª And you that reade nowe reade to learne Come not with myndes prepard To fynde out fautes or fansy fede â–ª Let all delites be bard Thus wyshing well for whiche I wryte This booke then written thus For good mens gayne for ill mens grief Anâ— truth for to dysâ—us â–ª FINIS ¶ To the moste excellent and moste vertuous ladye and our woste gracious soueraigne Mary by the grace of God Quene of England Spaigne both Sicilies FrauÌ„ce Hierusalem and Irelande Defendour of the faithe Archeduchesse of Austria Duchesse of Millaine Burgundie and Braband Countesse of Haspurge Flaunders and Tyrole Your Maiesties moste faiethfull louinge and obedient seruauÌ„t Myles Huggarde wissheth all grace long peace quiet raygne from God the father the sonne and the holy Ghoste HAuing called too my remembrance my most drede soueraign the manyfolde miseries which by the iuste plague of God dothe nowe raigne amonge vs thoccasâ—ons whereof thoughe euerye man may trulye thinke his owne sinnes to deserue as they doo in dede yet other special causes there be which prouoketh Goddes vengeaunce to light vpon vs as cheifly infidelitie wherby God is most hainously dishonored for the whiche wee are most iustlye punished and also our rebellious murmuring against our regalerulers appointed of God to raigne ouer vs to whome we owe our due allegiauÌ„ce The punishmeÌ„tes of which offeÌ„ces beside al other vices whiche dothe abondauntlye flowe amonge vs at this daye God hathe most greuouslye executed in the olde time to the terroure of all traitours and riotous rebelles As namely for rebellion and mâ—rmuring against the magistrates Chorâ— Dathan and Abyron with manye hundrethes mo may be examples Whose terrible punishemntes the worlde dothe nowe litle regarde nether fearing God nor man And also where Christ cursed two great and notable cities for infidelitee whiche was Chorazin and Bethsaida giuinge them ouer to their own vanities for their faiethles behauoure This curse alsoo is cleane forgot amoÌ„ge vs which appeareth by the infidelitee nowe raininge But god hath not forgot to plague vs for it yet mercifullye and not to our desertes â–ª This I saie most noble Queene hath moued me with the assistence of my freÌ„de to make this litle worke moore profitable in matter then pleasaunte in stile for lacke of eloquence this moued me I saie as I can to displaie and opeÌ„ the horrible inormities of the protestantes Whose murmuringe against their magistrates may well match the rebelious Israelites in their infidelitee the cursed cities of Iurye condemned by the mouth of Christ Whiche ennormities to remoue so much as lieth in me by the helpe of Goddes grace though not in those whiche are peruerse in opinion yet I trust those that be wauering shal heare iuste cause to discredit them and to abhorre their detestable factions and also constant catholikes better confirmed in faieth and good liuinge Whiche thing to that ende being finished my dutie being considered in this behalfe I am thus bold to trouble your highnesse with this liâ—le volume which beyng before this tyme imprinted althouh not in suche perfection as the same is at this present hauyng called sith the first edicion the ayde of my frende and therfore thought it more mete the dedication vnto your maiestie moste humbly besechyng the same to pardon this my rude enterprise praying our LORDE GOD in whose handes are the heartes of all kynges longe to preserue the kinges maiestie And graunt vnto his highnes a safe retourne to bothe your noble heartes desires and comforte of both your maiesties realmes and also preserue your grace in long prosperitie to the discomfiture of all youre highnes enemies Amen Your hyghnes faiethfull and obedient seruaunt Myles Huggarde ¶ The prologue to the reader IT is commoÌ„ly seen that they which with preceptes and rules doo directe others and seme therein to excell because thei suppose thei can not be corrected do eyther much good ouer whome they haue the gouernement or els to y e same thei coÌ„ferre great damage they themselues not escapinge without infamy In lyke maner our late elders and ministers for so they termed themselues if with the holsome erudition of Goddes vndouted truthe and with the admouicioÌ„s and perswasions of the gospel they had applied the same to the correction of lyfe and amendement of the conuersation of them ouer whome they toke vpon theÌ„ the charge no doubte they had doone muche good too the common welthe and to the reformacion of mans
such other holy and blessed sainctes are not nowe ashamed to reserue to theim selues the vyle bones of these blasphemous martyrs who neyther in puritie of lyfe or constancie in death were worthye the names of Christians Thus these protestantes contrarie to their owne doctrine striue with their owne shadowes They in their bookes and talke contempne reliques yet vsynge the same after thyr owne fancies they are contented to allowe theÌ„ Who cannot playe Democritus part continually too laughe at their folly or who can forbeare to saye Ocaecas hominum meÌ„tes o pectora caeca For what is blyndnes if this be none Moreouer when Rogers their pseudmartyr protomartyr I woulde saye was burnt in Smythfield were there not diuers marchaunt men and others which seing certayne pigions flying ouer the fire that haunted to a house harde adioyninge beyng amased with the smoke forsooke their nestes and flew ouer the fixe were not ashamed boldely to affirme that the same was the holy ghoste in the lykenes of a doue This thynge is sufficiently knowen by experience to them which were there present Then by the lyke argument they might haue sayde the crowes which the same time houered ouer the fyre were deuels But what blasphemy is this such opinionatiue fooles to beleue or credite suche fansies The Heathen poetes neuer deuysed more toyes vpon Iupiter Iuno Diana Actaeon Io or suche other counterfaites then the madbraynes of the protestantes haue inuented tales vpon these Ethnikes Whose lying lippes are so sugred with false reportes that y â— brethe therof is marueylous delectable to a great many of the same generation yea it is supposed that a great numbre be founde as hyrelinges to maintayne that arte which amonges the simple wander as pylgrymes too publyshe their hidde misteries much lyke Sinon who with his disguised habite and proporcion of body togethers with his vnhappy oracion begyled the poore Troianes But al wyse men whiche can beware of other mennes harmes no doubte wyll take heede of the loytering adders which hide theÌ„selues in the grasse And as for other whiche passe for no admonicion I feare me without God of his mercy spare them will verefie the prouerbe Sero sâ—â—iuâ—t â—br â—â—â—es and so will repent with hadde I wist as the vnhappy Troianes did But yet these ouerthwart neighbours thynkyng too caste another bone for the catholikes to gnawe vpon hyt them home as they thynke with this obiection Oh say thei what a beggerly religioÌ„ is theirs which hath no man valiauntly to sticke to the death in the defence therof For a good shepehearde wyll geue his owne lyfe for his shepe Therefore it appereth our religion is founde whiche hath had soo manye shepeheardes that hath bestowed their lyues in the defence of the verite But here they begynne too tryumphe like vnto a pestileÌ„t heretike in the primatiue churche called Montanus who affirmed that he was the holy ghoste And when he and his adherentes were conuicted of heresie thei boasted as our men do nowe that they had many men whiche spent their liues in theyr opinioÌ„ and that that was an infallible argument that they had the spirite of God Unto whome it was aunswered that that case was not alwayes true For certen other heretikes there were which boasted of their false martyrs as the Marcionites which denied Christe and other a great numbre And because they saye that in this Realme there were none which were coÌ„tent to geue their liues for the defeÌ„ce of their faith the matter is so apparantly knoweÌ„ to be false as the yong infante can by report of his own parentes saye the contrary But what shall I nede to reherse the moste godly and no lesse learned whiche haue bene contented too haue not only ben depryued their nobilite and great possessioÌ„s but also to yelde their neckes too the stroke of the axe and sworde for the defence of the libertie of christes churche Whose fames are so registred in the volume of immortalite that no coÌ„tinuance of time nor inconstancie of fortune can wipe them out of memory What shall I nede to remembre Albanê° the fyrst martyr in this realme which with moste vile tormentes was persecuted of Dioclesian theÌ„peroure in the yeare of our lorde 286. for the faieth of the Gospell and the verite of the church that one Fortunatus wrytynge of the prayse of virgins saythe AlbanuÌ„ egregium foecuÌ„d a Britannia profert Britane of abundance and pleÌ„ty moste able Procreated Albane that martyr honorable Whiche worthy man was buried at a place then called VVarlingacester now called of his own name sainct Albons Where was exerted a notable monument or abbey for perpetuall memory of this worthy man Many other at that time likewise suffred for the cause of the churche What shal I stande here vpoÌ„ the prayse of that godly man sainct Thomas sometimes archebysshop of Cantorbury vnto whome I wil attribute none other praise then Polydorê° Virgilius other chrono graphers do Who called hym vir summa integritate atque prudentia a man of muche holynes and wysdome Who after he hadde bene in exile more then .vii. yeares banysshed by Henry the secoÌ„d into FrauÌ„ce not for ambicion as the malicious headdes of the protestantes conceiue but onely for admonyshing the kyng for misusing the liberties of the churche for peruerting godly orders for il wicked liuing for exterminating the spirituall promocions vpon noughty vses These were the causes why this man was banyshed not here rehersed for zeale but spoken for truthe not gathered without authoritie but reported vpon the wordes of chronicles the faythfull arbiters of thynges alredy past This maÌ„ I say to thintent the thinges aforesayde should not decaye had rather to haue geuen his life not of malice to withstand the king vnto whom he bare moste obedieÌ„ce but for the zeale he had to gods churche the chambre of the pore But as now there wanteth none if tyme serued whiche would not stycke too doo mischiefe euen so then their wanted not vnhappie harebraynes to rydde this godly man of his lyfe Who within a whyle after as a iuste rewarde for their cruell facte in a moste miserable maner as the history declareth ended their lyfes The deathe of whiche godly manne was not onely a cause of greate repentaunce to the king himself but the people vniuersally moste deuoutly be wailed his death saying VVe the people and flocke of Christ haue lost our good and godly shepeharde Thus this godlye man of the godly people theÌ„ was had in gret admiratioÌ„ although it pleaseth the gallantes of our time to saye otherwyse What shall I stande here vpoÌ„ the death of Iohn Fyssher semetyme Byshop of Rochester a man of notable learning innocencie of lyfe or the death of the second Cicero syr Thomas More a man endewed with heauenlye eloquence Qui demum ambo maluerunt de Vita quam de Ro pâ—ntificis autoritatis
doctours argued of theirs The oldedoctors would committe the same to the censure and iudgement of the churche But the newe doctours woulde preferre theyr woorkes vpon theyr owne iudgementes Pride the mother of heresie begatte these her chyldren to resist their predecessors But god from time to time hath resisted the proude and hath endewed the meke with his grace The prophet Esaye saieth Woe be vnto you which seme wyse in your owne eies and prudent before your selues Therefore God requireth suche to be ministers interpreters of his worde which are humble and meke Suche I saye whiche wyll mistruste theyr owne wittes and crye with the prophete Dauid Giue me vnder standing O lord and I wyl serche thy lawe to thintente I may learne thy commaundementes Doubtles the showers of that heauenlye wysedome haue not their discourse vpon hyghe mouÌ„taynes but into the lowe valleys Therfore they that wyll be partakers of the true vnderstanding of goddes misteries ought not to contempne the godly expositions of the auncient fathers but with all humilitie to submit themselfes as scholars glad too learne willing to embrace such holsome doctrine as is taught in the churche of God And not to play the partes of vnthriftie and proude scholars as the moste part of our hereticall preachers were who went about to correct their maisters but with attentife eares to heare reade peruse and then to receiue as God shall put in minde CVrsed speakers also in vsing their tongues after a most vile sort not only agaist y â— church the spouse of Christe but also against our princes the Kyng and Quenes maiesties and other magistrates appointed by God too the rule and gouernemeÌ„t of this realme And howe abhominablie they haue from tyme to tyme yll sayd of the kynges maiestie reuerence and shame constrayneth silence vnto whome they oughte to beare al obedience considering it hath pleased the Quenes maiestie to ioyne her selfe with hym in marriage being as nowe one body so that any iniurie or slauÌ„der doone or spoken against hys grace thesame is doone to them both I can not chose but wonder to consider what cause shuld prouoke them to malice his persone What vice haue thei harde wherin his grace is speciallye noted â–ª Unles temperaÌ„ce sobrietie and deuocion be counted for vices What ill proportioÌ„ of body or deformitie of vysage vnlesse they wil seme to correcte nature â–ª Wel fieth the note of any special vice or lacke of natures dutie hathe not moued them what should be the cause then With what vertue are they offended Not with temperance I am sure for that is a decent qualitie in a king and as Tully sayeth It is the ornament of mannes lyfe and the appeasemeÌ„t of the passions of the mynde Nor with sobrietie I dare saye for that garnisheth all other qualities And if deuocion be the cause of offences they muste or oughte to be angrye with themselfes For what man is there that lyueth but he hath a certeÌ„ zeale or sparcle of feare towardes the power diuine Then the kinges maiestie being a vertuous prince of himselfe a noble personage let vs cease of all sclaunder if not for his owne sake yet for the Queenes maiesties sake his true and laufull wyfe and our vertuous and godlye soueraygne But as the protestauntes haue vttered their vncharitable stomakes vpon the temporall magistrates so haue thei vsed the like vpon the spiritual But these are they mencioned in sainte Iude whiche despyse Rulers speake yll of those whiche are in authoritie Yet Michael tharchaungell sayeth he when he stroue against the deuel about the body of Moyses durst not geue a railing sentence but sayde our lorde rebuke the. A wonder it is to se these cursed speakers triumphe vpon their knowledge of the scriptures and yet haue no power to followe the same I praye God they may be lesse bablers and make both theÌ„ and all meÌ„ better followers For we se manifestlye the plagues of God imminent for misusing his grace blaspheming his name Yet many especially the proteuÌ„aÌ„tes haue no grace to impute it to impietie of lyfe But they obiecte the sayde plagues of God to the cause of religion as though their owne synnes were free and vnworthye punyshement and as though the catholike religioÌ„ now vsed were a thinge of late inuented whiche religion hathe continued firme and stedfast sithe the raigne of kynge Ethelbert who was conuerted to embrace christianitie by saint Augustine in the yere of our Lorde after the computation of Beda D. lxxx vi tyll within these .xxi. yeres And also long before the time of Ethelbert the faith of Christ was yet receiued by one Lucius kynge of this realme who sent Ambassadours to Rome too Pope Eleutherius that it might please him to sende some of his learned men to preache the name of Christe and too minister Baptisme Who moste willingly accoÌ„plyshed the kinges desire in the yeare of our lorde a hundred fiftie syxe Soo that it appereth the religion nowe restored by the Quenes maiestie is not of newe inuencion but of great antiquitie And so longe as this Realme was in vnitie thereof vndiuided it continued in inspeakeable welth and prosperitie in marueylous loue and amitie in true dealing and honest simplicitie and in al kinde of god lines and pietie But since it fell from vnitie of religioÌ„ it hath fallen from the grace of God into al kyndes of wickednes skarcitie falshode deceyt and other abhominable vices and from the accustomed valiaunce in feates of armes into effeminate myndes coÌ„taminated with horrible leâ—herie The experieÌ„ce of which vices piteously we dayly fele as a iust rewarde of GOD for breache of the vnitie of his religion DIsobedient to fathers mothers whiche vice our lord knoweth is vniuersally frequented For what childe for the most parte doth honour his parentes according to his dutie What reuereÌ„ce doth he vse towardes theÌ„ whiche of their owne fleshe and bloud hath brought him forth in to the world A dere collope it is â—hat is cut from the owne fleshe yet that degenerate collope I meane the childe vnnaturally resisteth disobeieth the parentes But hereof the parentes maye thanke them selues whiche for wante of good education nosel them vp with wantonnes suffring the raynes of youthe to bee let go and vnbridled not considering the heate of youth too be prone and redy to al vices as He rodiane sayeth The myndes of youth from good and honest discipline are prone and apt to vanitie pleasures The auncient trade of this Realme in education of youthe before the late tyme replenyshed with all myschief was to yoke the same with the feare of God in teachyng the same to vse prayer mornyng and euening to be reuereÌ„t in the church at their first enteraunce into the same too make the sygne of the crosse in their foreheades too make beysaunce to the magistrates to discouer their heades when they mete with men
â–ª 118 True reliques contempned fol. 6â— A Tyler and his opinion fol. 18 V. VNthankefull fol. 95 Virgins of the cytie of Separta fo 79 The vnitie of the churche fo 20. 21. 126 Vnitie the badge of the churche fol. â—0 VV. WEakenes of women fol. 76 Women euer learnyng and neuer able to attayne vnto the truthe fol 74 Women promoters of heresie fol. 75 Whether it be the cause or the death that maketh a martyr fol. 44 What tyme the temporall â—worde begin to serue the ghospell fol. 60 Wyues of certen men called Miâ—i fo 79 Wyat and his practise fol. 7â— Wyat and his treason â–ª fol. 102 Wordes of the ignoraunt people vpon the heretikes passing to death fol. 43 Wordes of father Peyloe a freer of Grene wiche touchyng the partie that dyd hurte hym fol. 101 Y. YAcob and â—ance of Straâ—â—orough folâ—o 116 Z. Zwynglins and his opinion fol. 16 FINIS Imprâ—nted at London by Robert Caly within the precinâ—t of the late dessolued house of the graye Freers nowe conuerted to an Hospitall called Christes Hospitall MENSE IV LII Annâ— 1556. Plato lib. 2. De Re Pub. Herodotus in Cliâ— Libro primâ— â–ª Seneca in Agamemnone Act. 2. The â—â—â— causes of our miseriâ— Ioan. 9. et 15. Obstinacie of opinions is the cause of errour Officiorum lib primo Infidelitie The definicion of heresie The catholike churche what it is Howe to knowe the catholike churche Matth. v. Daniel ii Psal xviii â— Tim. iii. Lib. i. de veritate fidei Homeri odyss libro decimo The heretikes obiections The answere of the catholikes Psal xviii ii Peter iii. Aeneido 6. Virgi anâ—id 8. Lucianus in deoruÌ„ dialog Cicero officiorum lib. 2. This monster was a iust token manifested by God to geue meÌ„ aduertisement to take hede ofsuch false prophetes whiche vnder the godly habites of religious men should seke the subuersion of his churche â—ib 13. histor sui temporis A rebersall of sundryâ— sectes deuised by dyuers heretikes As this good minister loued good ale so he had .iii. ale knights to stande in defence of his opinion called Good alâ— Newe ale â— Rastale Iohn .iii. Vnitie the badge or coâ—â—izance of Christes churche Marc. ix Lu. x. xxiiii Iohn 14. â—1 â— Cor. xii i. Tim. iiii The words of the protestantes In all thinges the protestaÌ„tes sekemeanes to discredit the church Odyss 12. Libertie a pleasaÌ„t harmony to theÌ„ that are coÌ„teÌ„ted to embrace it as the protestantes are This place of s Paule was wonte to be paynted vpoÌ„ the walles of churches to begyle the simple But when thou readest this place waye it wel in the minde theÌ„ giue seÌ„tâ—ce Mariage is not discommendid of y e church but it is magnefied for out of the .vii. Iewels thereof â— Tim. v. Nu. 6. 30. Eccle. v. Iohn ii Poinettes doctrine No doctrin can be ill if it serue for the practise of the hotte protestaÌ„ces who rather then they would lyue chaste wold say theâ—cold not chose but burne i. Cor. vii A question A place of Chrisostom to proue that yong wydowes did vowe The church forbiddeth no meates as the folly of the protestantes doth imagine Act. iiii Sundrye sectes of heretikes that verefied S. Paules prophecie â—ere â—osen gerâ—aines to the protestantes â—uido de hâ— resibus 〈…〉 e profitable abstinence is Leui â–ª lx Numeri vi Matth. xv Roma xiii Gala. v. â— Reg. vii Macha iii. Daniel â— iii. Reg. xiâ— â–ª Iudith .ix. Hester â–ª â—â—iâ— Epist 18. Iosephus â—â—lli Iudâ—â—ci lib. 2. cap. 7. Tâ—â—pertiâ—â— historia Cicero Tusculan quest lib. â— Abstinence of the Persians â—obi iiii The churche in all thinges kepeth an ordre Officiorum Libro i. In definitionibus ecclesiast dâ—gmatum Cap. 66. Gene. ix i. Timo. iiii Roma xiiii Maâ—c xv Gene. iii. Pleasaunt sermons Eras Apotheg libro 8. Plutarch in Sylla Aeneid Virgi Ephe. v. Remedies to auoyde synne Math. iii. Math. ix Math. vi Prayer and almesdedes The catholike church perswadeth austerite of lyfe Math. vii The shepish apparell of the protestaÌ„tes The protestantes consciences A stuÌ„bling stocke very muche vsed in y e mouth of Gospellers The protestaÌ„tes with one trueth do seme to confounde another Heb. xâ— â–ª â—â—â—ot in his booke called the Gouernor A pretie example A discoure touchynge the burning of heretikes and of the fonde imaginatioÌ„s of many coÌ„cernynge the same The HetheÌ„ coulde not abide the despisers of their religion Iustinus librâ— quinto De factis dictis Socratis Deu. xiiii Deu. xviii â–ª ii Thes iii Roma â—vii The maner of our heretikes Gala. iiii ii Cor. x. Gala. v. The fonde woordes of the simple rude people exclamed to the heretikes passing to death Augustinus super Ioannem â–ª Act. xix Whether it be the cause or the death that maketh a martyr Latimers coÌ„bâ—t with syr Thomas Seamers spirit In his .iiii. sermon Polidorus Libro 2 2. Olde castel in a booke that Bale maketh of his death is canoâ—â—zed for a martir A FleÌ„ming of the heresie of y e ArriaÌ„s burnt in Smythfielde Toys vsed of our martyrs Ioane Butcher otherwyse called Ioane of Kent Anne Askewe Officiorum Libro primo Blynde Bayarde Laertins in â—us vita Specialâ— poynces to be required in a martyr Eusebius lib. â— â–ª Cap. â— Act. xxiii Exod xxiâ— Philip. iii. Matth. xxii Paule wasory for hiâ— taunt but the protestaÌ„tes reioyse in theire The constaÌ„cie wher in our martyrs triuÌ„ph De natura deo â—um lib. i. The gouernor y e third boke A true martyr A merueilous resistaÌ„ce of the spirite against the fleshe and a good lesson for our maried votaries Ignatius Policarpus Iustinus In what causes men ought cheifly to spende their lyues A notable death to die for the causes of the kyng and Quenes maiesties Inslinus lib .ii. Actes v. Math. â—v â— Tim. â— Tit. iii. Contra Crescomum gram libro 4. cap. 4. The cauâ—â— why heretikes wernot punyshed in the 〈…〉 tiâ—e â—hu 〈…〉 At what tyme the sword begaÌ„ to serue the Gospell â—◠〈…〉 aâ—◠〈…〉 〈…〉 Epistola ad Galath cap. 1. The bones of our martirs of some preserued for reliques De â—octibus attiâ—is lib. x. cap. xviii True reliques contempned Rogers burnt in Smithfield the fond imaginations of diuers in the tyme of his death Virgil aeneiâ— Sâ—â—urâ—do Loyteryng Adders Another obiection of y e protestaÌ„tes Eusâ—â—ius â—â— â— â–ª â—edaecclesiast historiae gentis AngloriÌ„s lib. 1. Capit. seprâ—mo Saint Thomas of CaÌ„torbury Polydori Virg. Angl. hist li. 13 Charion cromcor lib. 3. quart monar terâ—iae aetatis Georg. Liuius Anno do â–ª â—â—â—â— The lamentatioÌ„ of the people vpoÌ„ the death of s Thomas Iohn Fiswer the bisshop of Rochester Sir Thomas More Polidor lib. 27. The poore monkes of the Charterhouse The abbottes of Rending Colchester and others Wyâ—t the Kentish rebell ii Tim. iii. Math. â— Selfe loue and yelding â—o the flesh Q. Curtius librâ— â— A notable example of Alexander touchinge the brydelinge of his own lustes Titus