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A68860	A worke entytled of ye olde god [and] the newe of the olde faythe [and] the newe, of the olde doctryne and ye newe, or orygynall begynnynge of idolatrye. Reade most gentel reader, for many [and] diuers causes this moost goodly boke ...; Vom alten und neuen Gott, Glauben und Lere. English	Vadianus, Joachim, 1484-1551.; Turner, William, d. 1568.	1534 (1534)	STC 25127; ESTC S119507	75,361	274

our lorde fyue hundred lxxx Gregory the fyrste Gregoriꝰ Magnus the fyrst of that name was made the bysshop of Rome the fyrst emperour also then beinge of the Grekes / one Maurice a Capadociane At that tyme the ryches of the bysshop of Rome beinge wel encreased the olde serpent brought forth his hoke agayne / styrryng mouyng entysing Maurice that he shulde deadely pursue Gregorie that all the other bysshops also shulde be in great contempt But whan themperour continued and hylde on stylle to hate holye Gregorie the prouidence of god graunted vengeaunce to be taken vpon hym that is to wyte that he was takē of Focas whiche beheding Maurice dyd afterwardes hold the empier him selfe This Gregory the fyrst was the last bysshoppe of Rome that dyd folowe the steppes of the martyres and apostles in lyuynge and doctrine And albe it that from the reigne of Constantine the bisshops of Rome had dayly encreased more more in riches and had not any lenger all of thē ordered and ledde al theyr lyfe so straightly perfectly accordyng to the rule of the gospell as they had don afore that tyme but declynede fell downe by lytle and lytle from the gospell to ceremonies makynge and publishinge one lawe after another yet had they but tollerably chaūged thē selues vntyll the tyme of Gregory after whom they dyd vtterly close and shytte vp the gospel boke breakyng in by salutations into the courtes of princes opēly / as folowethe The fyfthe degre of idolatrye In the yere of oure lord CCCCC iij Focas a man borne of a lowe stocke and degre but a valiant man of armes and a doughtie warrier was fyrst in seruice with the capitayne gouernour of Rome and afterwardes beinge elected chosen Emperour in the tentes was a cruel tyrant In the seconde yere of his reigne deceassed out of the worlde the holy father Gregorie which is accompted and rekened one of the .iiij. doctours of the churche But than the olde dragon dyd garnyshe his hoke with a bright bayte by this crafte The laufull emperour was residēt had his seate in Constātinople But yet neuertheles he hadde chosen and taken to hym selfe a ꝓtener and felowe whiche shulde occupye gouerne the kyngdome and Empier of the west parte as Rome Italye / Fraūce / Germanie thēperour of the westpart then beinge slayen as we haue sayde before dryuen out so that Rome was set out to rauyne and robbery vnto euery man the nations dyd ransake away whatsoeuer thinges they myght In the meane season ryches grewe and encreased to the byshop of Rome but not regions or peoples / but as it happeneth other whyles in treasures of money Therfore than began the spirite of the gospell to kele and waxe faynt in hym bicause that the bysshope of Constantinople dyd preferre hym selfe afore the bysshoppe of Rome to whom forthwith the olde serpent did proferre and reche forthe a bayte which he had prepared and made redy before for the same purpose Boniface the thyrde the bysshop then was Bonyface the thyrd of that name wiht this maner colour / what wylt thou alwayes lye styll in misery in cōtempte Rome is the hed citye of all the worlde it is a foule shame and rebuke to the that thou thy selfe art not also called the hed bysshop of all other whiche name sholde moche more ryghtfully agree belonge to the then to the patryarche of cōstantynople The domynyon and empyer of Rome is chaunged and thou thy selfe art not in so lowe a condycyon and estate or degre among themperours / as thy predycessours haue ben The hoke of this pryde togyther with the bayte dyd Bonifatiꝰ vtterly swalowe in fleynge to the frendship of the emperour Foeas to whom he made instāte request and prayer for the preuelege that the bisshop of Rome shuld be the highest of all other bysshoppes / that is to say that he shulde be pope or father of fathers / and that the chyrche of Rome shulde be hed chirche of al other / which thynge albeit that it was longe and moche adoo Howe the name of pope fyrste beganne ere it wolde be graūted yet for all that thrughe importune request and prayer he opteyned and brought it to passe at the last that Focas dyd cōsent to the sayd pryuylege But this thinge do the Popes now a dayes wysely dyssymule and speake no worde of it at all cryenge out the the pope is the greatest of all bisshopps and the chirche of Rome hedde aboue all other churches and that by the ordenāce of god immediatly as they do say in the xxij distinction omnes .c. why or for what cause then was the donation of Constantine forged by whiche the bysshopryche of Rome shulde be aboue all other bysshopryches / and raigne ouer them al as they haue it in theyr decrees in the xc.vi distinction Constantinus c. The Romanistes do saye euen what soeuer they lyst of theyr own priuileges and do put into their lawe what so euer thyng smyteth into theyr braynes and cometh in to theyr mynde but yet no man durst be so bold to say against their lawe onles he wyll be contented to be called bi that terrible name of an heretyke as it is decreed in the .x. and .xij. distinctions and also in the distinction Sic omnes et cete This bayte of glorie as I haue sayde dyd Boniface the pope deuoure and swalowe in But whether this thynge be cōformable and agreeynge to the gospell of God lette other men iudge and this same hoke dyd also catche and drawe al the bysshoppes that haue succeded the sayde Bonyface so that it is made a lawe yea more ouer a deuyne lawe vnder payne of commyttynge deadely sinne / who so euer shuld haue other opiniō or shuld thynke other wyse of the primacye or preemynence of the bysshop of Rome Here begā the name of most holy father the pope and hereof came the name of the most holy father the pope / and so they fondly framed the scripture tu es Petrus c. thou art Peter to the priuileges of the emperours / and of bothe these they made them selues a diuyne lawe Oh what a strōge and myghtye Idole and a newe god dyd then sprynge vppe and begynne For this name hadde neuer any bysshoppe of Rome afore that tyme. But when the fyar of contempte and pouertye was quenched and put out / thā dyd ryches and slouthfull ydelnes brynge forthe suche maner frutes as we do se remaynynge stylle euen at these dayes Bonifaciꝰ euen then forthwith vsurped the tytle of Pope wrytynge hym selfe Bonyface the thyrde of that name greattyste bisshop and he gathered a counsell at Rome of the other bisshops and preestes / in whiche counsell he decreed that from that tyme forward the pope beinge elected of the prestes the people shuld be of the same strēght and auctoritie and of as great reputation as if he had ben

he dyd by fraude depose the laufull natural kynge from his seate whom they fayn to haue ben vnprofytable to the realme what maner of folkes be they also in that he did assoyle and lose the othes holely made the faith true allegeance ꝓmymysed what more ꝑfecte ioye pleasure thynkeste thou coulde haue happened vnto the olde serpent than this mater broughte luckely to passe Howe be it the Pope hath a colour of this power and auctorite in the holy canon law in the .xxvij. distinction Omnes c. The firste new god Lucyfer was of good conforte and courage vpō the settyng vp of the temple of the newe god in comparyson of whiche temple that sumptuous and gorgyous temple of Diana was in a maner nothynge but he wolde also receyue and beare aweye the frutes trybute of his labour for thempier of Rome was plucked vp bi the rotes clene destroied the citie of Rome was become the Popes seate / whiche reioysedde greatly was proude in spirite that he was comē into the place of so great an emperour he toke agayne Astulphe kyng of Lumbardie which did warre against the pope and dyd sore vexe hym for that he dyd so by lytle lytle take awaye of the lordshyps lyenge nere vnto the citie of Rome with the iniurye of the pope wherfore Stephen the pope did desyre Pipine of ayde and helpe and that he wold defēde his goods and the prouince from the kynge Astulphe so Pipine dyd on his harneys went to Rome with the Pope whiche was comen his owne selfe vnto hym for succour dyd dryue out Astulphe from Rome At whiche tyme Pipine did graunte vnto Stephen Rauēna and certeyn other cities as a gyfte In the meane season How the pope came by the cityes of Italye whā Pipine was thus ordeined and made kynge of Fraunce by the power of the Pope / and the fauour of the people ther reygned at Constantinople Leo the fourth Romane / and as moche as Fraūce grewe and encreased so moche dyd the reigne of Rome / and of thēperours minyshe and decaye all obedience at Rome / being clene extincte / no lawful Emperour gouernynge Rome where as in olde tyme of aunciēt custum there had ben lordes and rulears Now the pope had foūde mayntenaunce of his power in Pipine whiche gaue frely vnto hym accordynge to his owne lustes and pleasure cities / prouinces / and nations in al Italy For what cause I do reherse these hystories thou shalt anon perceiue / for they are profytable and necessary / but the thou mayste gette out the very treuthe what the pope is After these thynges don which we haue rehersed in the yere of our lord .vij. C.lxxxi Leo beyng deade at Constantynople there succeded hym Constātyne his son / and Pipine also the king of Fraunce died / leuing behynd hym alyue his two sonnes Charles / and Cherlemaine Charles beinge kyng of Fraūce came to Rome and was very louingly receyued of pope Adrian whose two sonnes that is to wete Pipine / and Ludowyke / he dyd his owne selfe make and anoynt kynges / the one that is to wyte / Pipine of Italie the olde kyng taken and banysshed and the other that is to wyte Ludowike of Aquitania / the comen people was taught to say that Charles was of the senatorie stocke gouernour of Rome This Charles Pipine had subdued vnto theyr owne dominiō all Rhenus euen vnto Antwerp / Saxonie / Durenne / Colayen c. Bauarie / Normādy / Britaygne / Austria Vngaria In the yere of our lorde .vij. C.xcix the popes lyuing quietly in good peace no man daryng openly to vexe or troble them for feare of the kynges of Fraunce whiche were the only refuege of the popes in whom the popes did put all their hoope and trust How the kyngdome of Fraunce came from the pope and whiche had gyuen to the same roiall gyftes of regions and people In the meane season Constantyne the sonne of Leo themꝑour dysceassed without any heyre after whome his mother Hyrena reygned by the space of fyue hole yeres / then came the tyme in whiche it was or deyned by desteny that the kynges of Fraunce sholde / clymbe vp to hygher honours The pope of rome after Adryane was Leo the thyrde / to whome the Romayns had done I wote not what contumelye and dyspleasure which he takynge verie heuely fled vnto his wont remedy charles the kyng of fraunce declarynge vnto hym with lamentable wordes his calamities and besechynge him of helpe Charles then gatherynge a great armye incontynent went forthe ryght fyetsly agaynste the Romaynes Oh howe greate a reioysynge and gladnes was this to the olde serpente and reuenged the pope gaylye of his aduersaryes / for whiche cause he was of Leo the pope crowned kynge of Romaines all the people crieng Charles the great emperour So this was the fyrste kinge of Fraunce that euer was made emperour of Rome In the yere of our lorde eyght hundreth and one But from that time forwarde the emꝑours of Constantynople had no lenger the name of the romane emꝑour but were content with theyr owne tytle medlynge nothynge at all with Rome / whiche was the cause that moeued me to reherse this hystorie / for thou hast herd how the people by lytle and lytle forsoke holy scrypture An epilogatiō or recapitulatiō of all the thīges a foresayde the gospell the steppes of the olde bysshops falling frō pouerty / contēpte heuynes lowe vyle state / torning him selfe vtterlye vnto the cōtrary thinges Thē afterward how he gate the preuylege of the emperour Focas that he myght name hym selfe the highest of all bysshoppes pope and his chyrche of Rome the cheefe and heed chyrch of all other Forthermore howe they gaue dylygence and laboured that theyr pryuyleges sholde be approued confyrmed of Iustinian themperour gatherynge also in the meane seasone many other preuyleges by flateryng / by subtil craftes deceites for trewe christen men suche as were the first bisshops of Rome had no nede of suche pryuyleges and lybertyes / neyther dyd they ones coueyte desyre any suche / wherfore accordyng to theyr deseruynge they receyue the croune of glorye of etnal god but these mē dyd wynde them selues in to the courtes of prynces kinges being chosē called otherwhiles to be of theyr counsayles as the vse maner is euen now a daies also dyspatchyng bryngynge to an ende their maters alwaies well and honestly to syght apparaunce In conclusyon they desyred ayde helpe of the kynges and prȳces agaynst theyr aduersaries enemyes and dyd suffre also that they sholde be slayne albeit that they dyd greately abhorre and hate to beare the name of the effusion of theyr blode At lenght they dyd cōfederate theim selues with prynces and began to take coūsayle with theym as it chaūsed with Pypyne the admynystratoure and orderer of the realme agaynst the

lechery and bodely luste / of counterfeyte and fayned relygion / the deuyl hym selfe also whiche beynge agayne adredde and stondynge in feare of hym selfe to take hurte to be ouercome dothe coueyte desyere the olde wycked and vngracyous peace the quyete and peaceable seate of his power ini hypocrisye dothe loke aboute by Embassadours / and by pertyes by his frendes for ayde and soccourre wherfore the hydde and secrete treasures are nowe opened shewed / that is to saye where as aboue certeyne hundreth yeres a goo kynges prynces lordes cytyes ryche men euen vntyll this daye haue gyuen lyberall gyftes to the honourynge and worshyppynge of god as chyrstes Monasteries / benefices / prouynces / castelles / vyllages / tythes / lybertyes / suche other thynges wenynge that thereby highe reuerence doth come to god / which goods of the chyrche are nowe graūted to the sonnes of kynges prynces for this entent and purpose that they also shold be of those partes and sydes / and the same goodes also are gyuen in the stede of stypende and wages vnto the pestylent and myscheuous flyees and locustes of Aegypte for by this meane as they beleue they shall close vp agayne the feareful swerd in his sheth or scaberde and shall obteyne and get our olde peace / but the glyttrynge bryghtnes of the fyery swerde hathe so perced entred in to the eyes of many mens hertes that stryfe is spronge rysen well neare in all the erthe the sone rysynge agaynst his father / and the doughter agaynste her mother / all the hole house beynge in a styrre grete vnquietnes euery one in others top / throughe dyscorde and debate Besydes this the colleges of the men of the chyrche the partes of the religious persones which are excellently learned and wyse holdynge theyr peace as yf they were dumbe and theyr speche taken frome them the symple and vnlearned comynalte do enserch the depe merueilous mysteries of god and speaketh theym after dyuers wayes to and fro wherof is rysen a ꝓuerbe amonge many men I take perte with the olde god the olde faythe and the olde doctryne / I wyll beleue as my father and mother myne auncesters haue beleued / and eyther of the partes wyll accuse the other of errour and iustyfye theym selues and shewe the ryght / all the whiche thinges haue constrayned me to gyue knowlege brefly what is eyther the olde god or the newe and by the course of holy scriptures and of histories to gyue comen instructyon in all suche maner questyons and contrauersyes or stryues / by the mean of whiche instruccion euery man beinge not of a stubberne nature of obstynate maners myght the soner waxe wise amēde / that no man shold bynde hym selfe to contencions and false vnderstondynge of the manyfolde honourynge and worshippynge of god as a vayne a corrupte and hurtfull thynge of no value an obscure darke thynge and that we myght folow streight dyrectly the scrypture of god that accordynge to it as to a rule we shold direct our selues all our dedes / and that we sholde searche out the curnell or inner meate of the scryptures / betakynge the chaffe and the huskes therof to the wynde Nowe in this booke is shewed the verye orygynall fountayne sprynge / out of the whiche dyde yssue our banyshement in to this vale of wretchednes and mysery and how that blyndnes and the malygnyte of synne in vs dyd begyn and sprynge of the incredulite and vnbelefe of our fyrste father Adam out of whiche as out of the rote all Idolatrie hathe growen and spronge vp Cōsequently in this boke is also shewed rehersed by the hystoryes the veray begynnynge of all maner superstycion in the worshyppyng of false goddes / and whereby Lucyfer / Belus / Pallas / Iuno / Venus / Saturnus / Iupiter / purchased gate to them selues the names of goddes and goddesses Then afterwardes is shewed the blyndnes of the Iewes after the Natyuyte of Christe impiete of philosophers and the peruerse corrupte vnderstondynge and mysconstruynge of the scriptures vsed of herytykes Laste of all is shewed how throughe the sleyghte and deceyte of the deuylles that prowde creature whiche we doo now call the pope hathe ben exalted and aduaunced aboue god euen diuyne honours beynge decreed to the same pope by the most pestylēt host of flatterers which fyghte vnder hym as theyr captayne / frome the whiche pope as frome the hed of abused power auctoryte the pope is hedde the multytude of errors haue descended in to all the bodi of the whole worlde Christ beynge well nere soo put oute of place and brought out of mynde that he is in maner more vnknowē to vs then ony straunger And in the Chyrche of Rome moche after the fashone that was in the olde tyme vnder the feendes are vsed diuers ceremonyes straūge marueylous worshyppyng of god whiche knowethe none ende of varyete and sundrye fashons / which thynge is open for euery man to se It sheweth also how Rome doth cōfyrme / dothe condempne / dothe iudge all thȳges / so that a man maye not wtout good cause call it in to tryall and Iudgemente / whether he that nowe reygneth at Rome / be Antychryst / or els we ought to loke for some other Antychryste hereafter to come seynge that this man in all poyntes that is to wyte bothe in his doctryne and also in his lyuynge / is farre disagreynge in maner clene contrary to the doctryne and lyfe of Christe whiche bothe hȳ selfe also his apostles dyd neyther teache so / neyther yet dyd haue ony suche thynges in vse but dyd forbede and also dyd curse suche maner doctrine and suche rytes or ceremonyes The fyrst boke THat there was a deꝑting and deuysion made euen frome the begynnyng of the worlde forthe with as sone as reasonable cratures receiued lyfe the nature of aungelles do euydentlye declare / for parte of them dyd folowe god and parte of them dyde departe and fall away from god makyng a newe god to theym selues that is to wyte lucifer / man in earth for of Adā forthw t brake forth Abell Cayne two sundrye dyuers ways ī to which al theyr posterite haue entred do euē yet walke in they so shall walke euen to the world ende dyd serche out hygh actes / now if we do rede the olde historyes In the boke of Genesis and thoroughe out the Bible as manetho amōge the Aegeptions / Berosꝰ the histo of the chaldeis / Mochꝰ Estiꝰ of the syryās / Hisiodꝰ Iosephꝰ of the Iewes / and Tytus lyuiꝰ of the Romaynes then do we fynde most sure and vndoubted also most true tokens that all men of all tymes haue ben bothe in other thinges but most specyally in the honourynge worshyppynge of god maruailously disagreing stifly contrarye one to another / in so moche that