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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14108	A plaine discouerie of ten English lepers, verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and common wealth setting before our eies the iniquitie of these latter dayes, and inducing vs to a due consideration of our selues. Published by Thomas Timme minister.	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1592 (1592)	STC 24418; ESTC S118801	68,904	98

altaria sacra coronae ignis thura preces coelum est venale Deusque That is Amongst vs in Rome churches priests altars masses crownes fire incense praier and heauen are set to sale yea God himselfe among vs may be had for money Of this Thomas Becket our countri-man made wofull complaint at what time for his wilfull disobedience and treason cōmitted against the king he had fled for aid and succor to Rome and saw that nothing would be wrought there without money and enforced with sorrow for the same he wrote thus to the Bishop of Menze Mater Roma facta est meretrix prostituta est pro mercede Rome our mother is become a harlot and for money and meed laieth herselfe to sale The detestable Simonie practised in the Church of Rome in the daies of Pope Gregorie the ninth was the cause why the Greeke church vtterly brake from the Romans I would to God it might make a perfect separation for euer betwene them and vs vntill such time as it shall please God to make them see their abhomination and so repent them and conuert In the meane time beware of those scorpions locusts which are come out of the bottomlesse smoking pit Apoc. 9. who although they haue the faces of men and wander vp and downe secretly in this realme in a disguised maner like ruffians with feathers and all ornaments of light coloured apparel like to the fashion of courtiers or otherwise as they thinke best for their securitie and safety yet I say againe take heed of them because they haue stings in their tailes For though they haue a glorious name of pretended holines calling themselues Iesuites yet do they intise all maner of persons with whō they dare aduenture to speake not onely to be reconciled to the Pope and church of Rome but also to induce thē by vowes othes to renounce their obedience to the Q. maiestie to denie her to be their souereigne thēselues to be discharged of their allegeance to repute al magistrats vnder her to be vnlawful in cōscience not to be obeied And where they get footing entrāce there they deliuer their cōsecrated tokens relicks as Agnus deis grana benedicta medellas crosses beads such like trash proceed further bearing the ignorāt people in hand the for mony by the Popes indulgēce they shal haue pardō for al their sins past By which exchange they draw vnto thēselues no smal aduātage But of such ignorāt foolish buiers this may be verified Quid dedit aurū fuit quod perdidit anima fuit That which he gaue was gold but the which he lost was his soule And to the bad marchāts which sel such deceitful trash it may as truly be said Quod accepit aurum fuit quod dedit lepra fuit That which hee tooke was golde but that which hee gaue was a leprosie Therfore in shunning of these men or rather monsters men shal not onely shunne a leprosie but also deliuer themselues from those vglie and vncleane spirites whereof Saint Iohn speaketh which are come out of the mouth of the Dragon Apo. 16.13 and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet For they are the spirits of diuels working myracles to go vnto the kings of the earth and of the whole worlde to gather them to the battell Such is their affected malice to attempt and their infected means to obtaine their conquest and our fall There are also another sort of Simonia call lepers such as be patrones of benefices who hauing power to appoint a godly learned and discreete pastor to the congregation and Church whereof they ought in deed to be patrons that is to say carefull and prouident fathers yet neuertheles seeking after their owne priuate gaine rather then the gaining of mens soules do contrarie to the law of God and man sell their benefices and donations for money And so refusing to admit those which be worthie but preferring those which be vnworthie they call to the inheritance of Gods sanctuarie Schismatiques seditious persons Atheists ignorant and vnlearned Asses flatterers and sometime their owne kinsmen and familiars how vnmeete soeuer They esteeme the person of a man and receiue gifts And thus so much is in them they make the house of God a house of marchandize and a den of theeues So that as he who being in Rome did seeke for Rome euen so may we among these kind of men which such patrons bring in seeke long inough and not find a good pastor but rather those theeues whereof our Sauiour Christ speaketh Iohn 10. which come not in by the doore but at the window There haue beene the more of these pettie theeues by the meanes of these great theeues For our vsuall prouerbe is not so common as true that if there were no receiuers there would be no theeues Socrates being asked on a time why he laughed answering he sayde I see great theeues lead small theeues to the gallowes which are more worthie to be hanged themselues then them for saith he the small robberies are punished but the great are caried in triumphes Euen so those great theeues which rob the purse of a poore minister for that which should freely be giuen vnto him which rob the Church also of a learned and good pastor for filthie lucre and which is woorst of all which rob God of his honor and seruice by bringing into the sheepefolde sometimes a Woolfe and a theefe those are the theeues would bee more neerly looked vnto then commonly they be For as Chrisostom sayth He that is not ashamed to say Quid mihi dabis vt tibi iustitiam faciam What wilt thou giue me to do thee iustice Is it not all one as if he should say Quid vis mihi dare vt deum vendam What wilt thou giue me to sell God vnto thee If these men do not wash and cleanse their hands in time from this leprosie by true repentance and amendment it wil not onely make a feareful separation betwene God them but wil also in this world bring at the last a consumption of their whole substāce For albeit as S. Ambrose in his pastoral saith that euill beginnings haue a preposterous end as Iacob by supplantation attained to a blessing the corne sowed with a leprous hand is reaped cleane a faire child may be begotten and borne betwene two adulterers and the monie gotten by Simonie may haue a good issue when it is bestowed vpon the good of the poore yet saith hee this is no defence for Simoniacks God will not be pleased with such a sacrifice as is gotten by robberie and deceite As this concerneth the Patrone so let the Minister take heede that seeketh to come in at the window like a theefe that he bee not defiled with this leprosie But let them remember this sentence of Saint Augustine Diligendus est pastor tollerandus est Mercenarius cauendus est latro