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A68918	An excellent new commedie intitutled, The conflict of conscience contayninge a most lamentable example of the dolefull desperation of a miserable worldlinge, termed by the name of Philologus, who forsooke the trueth of Gods gospel for feare of the losse of lyfe & worldly goods / compiled by Nathaniell Woodes, minister in Norwich ...; Conflict of conscience	Woodes, Nathaniel, fl. 1580.	1581 (1581)	STC 25966.5; ESTC S111762	42,953	72

dignitie So that in terris Deus sum saith he In earth I am a God with sinnes for to dispence And for rewardes I will forgiue eche manet of offence I saide to Eue tush tush thou shalt not die But rather shalt as God know euerie thing My sonne likewise to maintaine Idolatrie Saith tush what hurt can carued Idols bring Dispise this law of God the heauenly King And set them in the Churche for men thereon to looke An Idoll doth much good it is a laymans booke Nemroth that Tyrant fearing Gods hande By mee was perswaded to builde vp high Babell Whereby he presumed Gods wrath to withstande So hath my Boy deuised very well Many prety toyes to kéepe mens soule from hell Liue they neuer so euill héere and wickedly As Masses trentalles Pardons and Scala coeli I egged on Pharao of Egypt the King The Israelites to kill so soone as they were borne My darling likewise doeth the selfe same thing And therefore cause Kinges and Princes to be sworne That with might and maine they shal kéepe vs his horn And shall destroy with fire Are and sworde Such as against him shall speake but one worde And euen as I was some what to slow So that not withstanding the Isralites did augment So for lack of murthering Gods people doo grow And dayly increase at this time present Which my sonne shall feele incontinent Yet an other practise this euill to withstand He learned of mee which now he takes in hand For when as Moses I might not destroy Because that he was of the Lord appointed To bring the people from thraldome to ioy I did not cease whilst I had inuented An other meanes to haue him preuented By accompting himselfe the sonne of Pharao To make him loth Egipt to forgoe The same aduise I also attempted Against the sonne of God when he was incarnate Hoping there by to haue him relented And for promotion sake himselfe to prostrate Before my féete when I did demonstrate The whole worlde vnto him and all the glory As it is recorded in Matheus Historye So hath the Pope who is my darlyng deare My eldest boy in whom I doo delight Least he should fall which thing he greatly feare Out of his Seat of honor pompe and might Hath got to him on his behalfe to fight Two Champions stout of which the one is Auarice The other is called Tyrrannicall practise For as I saide although I claime by right The kingdome of this earthly world so rounde And in my stead to rule with force and might I haue assigned the Pope whose match I no wher found His hart with loue to mée so much abounde Yet diuers men of late of mallice most vnkinde Do study to displace my son some way warde meanes to find Wherfore I maruell much what cause of let there is That hetherto they haue not their office put in vre I will go sée for why I feare that somwhat is amis If not to raunge abroad the worlde I will them straight procure But néedes they must haue one to help mens harts for to allure Vnto their traine who that should bée I cannot yet espie No méeter match I can finde out then is Hypocrisie Who can full well in time and place dissemble eithers parte No man shall easely perceiue with which side he tooth beare But when once fauour he hath got and credit in mans hart He will not slack in mine affaires I doe him nothing feare But time doth runne too fast away for me to tarie heere For none will be enamoured of my shape I doe know I will therfore myne impes send out from hell their shapes to show Exit Acte fyrst Sceane 2 MATHETES PHILOLOGVS MY mynde doeth thirst deare friende Philologus Of former talke to make a finall ende And where before we gan for to discus The cause why God doth such afflictions sende Into his Church you would some more time spende In the same cause that thereby you might learne Betwixt the wrath and ioue of God a right for to discerne Philologus With right good will to your request heerin I doo consent As well because as I perceiue you take therein delight As also for because it is most chiefely pertinent Vnto mine office to instruct and teache eche Christian wight True godlynesse and shew to them the path that leadeth right Vnto Gods kingdome where we shall inherite our saluation Geuen vnto vs from God by Christ our true propitiation But that a better ordered course heerein we may obserue And may directly to the first apply that which insue To speake that hath bene saide before I wel a time reserue And so procéede from whence we left by course and order due Vnto the ende At first therfore you did lament and rue The miserie of these our daies and great calamytie Which those sustaine who dare gainsay the Romish Hypocrisie Mathetes I haue iust cause as hath eche Christian hart To waile and weepe to shed out teares of bloud When as I call to minde the torments and the smart Which those haue borne who honest be and good For nought els but because their errors they withstood Yet ioyed I much to see how paciently They boare the crose of Christ with constancie Philologus So many of vs as into one bodye bée Incorporate wherof Christ is the liuely heade As members of our bodies which wée sée With ioyntes of loue together bee conioyned And must néedes suffer vnlesse that they be dead Some part of griefe in mynde which other féele In bodie though not so much by a great deale Wherfore by this it is most apparent That those two into one bodie are not vnyted Of the which the one doth suffer the other doth torment And in the woundes of his Brother is delighted Now which is Christes bodie may easely be decided For the Lambe is deuonred of the Wolfe alway Not the Wolfe of the Lambe as Chrisostom doth say Agayne of vnrighteous Cayne murthered was Abell By whom the Church of God was figured Isaac lykewise was persecuted of Ismaell As in the Booke of Genesis is mencioned Israell of Pharao was also terrifyed Dauid the Sainct was afflicted by his Sonne And put from his kingdome I meane by Absolon Elias the Thesbit for feare of Iezabell Did fly to Horeb and hid him in a Caue Micheas the Prophet as the Story dooth tell Did hardly his lyfe from Baalles Priests saue Ieremy of that sawce tasted haue So did Esay Daniell and the Children thrée And thousandes more which in stories we may sée Mathetes In the new Testament we may also réede That our Sauiour Christ euen in his Infancy Of Herod the King might stand in great dread Who sought to destroy him such was his insolency Afterward of the Pharises he did with constancy Suffer shamefull death his Apostles also For testimonie of the trueth did their crosses vnder go Philologus Iames vnder Herod was headed with the Sworde The rest of the Apostles did suffer much turmoyle Good Paul

demaund According to my conscience Goddes worde being my warrand Cardinall To begin therfore orderly how saist thou Philologus Haue I authoritie to call the me before Or to be short I will obiect it thus Whether hath the Pope which is Peters successor Then all other Bishops preheminence more If not then it follow that neither he Nor I which am his Legate to accompts may call thee Philologus The question is perillous for me to determine Chéefely when the party is Iudge in the cause Yet if the wholl course of Scripture ye examine And wil be tryed by Gods holy lawes Small help shall you finde to defend the same cause But the contrary may be proued manifestly As I in short wordes will proue to you breefely The surest ground wheron your Pope doth stand Is of Peters being at Roome a strong imagination And the same Peter you do vnderstand Of all the Disciples had the gubernation Surmising both without good approbation Vnlesse you will by the name of Babylon From whence Peter wrote is vnderstanded Roome As indéed diuers of your writers haue affirmed Reciting Ieromy Austine Primasius and Ambrose Who by their seuerall writinges haue confirmed That Rome is new Babylon I may it not glose But it were better for you they were dumbe I suppose For they labour to proue Roome by that acception The whore of Babilon spoke of in the Reuelation But graunt that Peter in Roome setled was Yet that he was cheefe it remayns you to proue For in my Iudgement it is a playne case That if any amongst them to rule it did behooue He should be chéefe whom Christ most did loue To whom he bequethed his mother most déere To whom in reuelation Christ did also appéere I meane Iohn Euangelist by birth Coosin germaine To our Sauiour Christ as storyes do vs tell From whose succession if that you should clayme Superioritie you should mend your cause well For then of some likelyhood of truth it should smell Where none so often as Peeter was reproued Nor from stedfast fayth so often tymes remooued But graunt all were true herein you do fayne Marke one proper lesson of a Greeke Oratour As a good childe of his fathers welth is inheritour So of his fathers vertues he must be possessour Now Peter folows Christ and al worldly goods forsakes But the Pope leaueth Christ himselfe to glory takes And to be short Christ himselfe refused to be a Kinge And the seruant aboue the Master may not be Which being both true it is a strange thing How the Pope can receiue this pompe and dignitie And yet professe himselfe Christes seruant to be Christ wil be no King the Pope wil be more The Pope is Christes Master not his seruant therefore Cardinall Ah thou arrant Heretike I will thée remember I am glad I know so much as I doo I haue wayed thy resons and haue found them so slender That I thinke them not worthy to be answeared How say you Master Hipocrisy HIP. I also thinke so But let him go forwarde and vtter his conscience And we will awhile longer here him with patience Cardinall Say on thou Heretike of the holy Sacrament Of the body and bloud of Christ what is thine opinion Philologus I haue not yet finished my former argument Cardinall Say on as I bid thée thou art a stoute Minion Philologus I shall then gladly it is a signe of vnion The which should remaine vs Christians among That one should loue another all our life long For as the bread is of many Cornells compounded And the Wine from the Iuce of many Graps do discend So we which into Christ our Rocke are ingrounded As into one Temple should cease to contend Least by our contention the Church we offend This was not the least cause among many more Which are now omitted that this Sacrament was geuen for The chéefest cause why this Sacrament was ordained Was the infirmitie of our outwarde man Whereas Saluation to all men was proclaymed That with true fayth apprehend the same can By the death of Iesus Christ that immaculate Lambe That the same might the rather of all men be beleued To the word to ad a Sacramēt it Christ nothing greued And as we the sooner beléeue that thing true For the tryall whereof more witnesses we finde So by the meanes of the Sacrament many grue Beléeuing creatures where before they were blynde For our sences some sauour of our fayth now do finde Because in the Sacrament there is this Analogy That Christ féedes our soules as the bread doth our body Cardinall Ah thou foul Heretike is there bread in the Sacrament Where is Christes body then which he did vs giue Philologus I know to the faythfull receiuer it is there present But yet the bread remaineth stil I stedfastly beléeue Cardinall To here these his errors it doth me greatly gréeue But that we may shortly to some issue come In what sence sayd Christ Hoc est Corpus meum Philologus Euen in the same sence that he sayd before Vos estis sall terrae vos estis Lux mundi Ego sum ostium and a hundreth such more If tyme would permit to alleadge them seuerally But that I may the simple sorte edifie You aske me in what sence these wordes I verifye Where Christ of the bread sayd this is my body For answere herein I aske you this question Were Christes disciples into salt transformed When he sayd ye are the salt of the earth euery one Or when the light of the world he them affirmed Or himselfe to be a dore when he confirmed Or to be a Vine did his body then change If not then why now this to me séemeth strange Cardinall Why doest thou doubt of Christ his omnipotencye But what so he willeth doth so come to passe Philologus God kéepe me and all men from such a frencye As to thinke any thing Christes power to surpasse When his will to his power ioyned was But where his will wanteth his power is vneffectuall As Christ can be no lyer God cannot be mortall Set downe therefore some proofe of his will That he would be made bread and then I recant Cardinall This Caytif myne eares with winde he doth fill His wordes both trueth and reason doth want Christes word is his will this must thou néedes graunt Philologus He spake the word likewise when he said I am the dore Was his body transformed into tymber therefere Cardinall Nay if thou béest obstinate I will say no more Haue him hence to prison and kéepe him full sure I will make him set by my friendship more store But herest thou Zeale go first and procure Some kinde of new torment which he may not indure Tiranny I am here in redines to do your commaundement And will returne hither agayne incontinent Hypocrisie At thy returne bryng hether Sensuall Suggestion That if néede be he may vs assist Least that both I and Carefull prouision The zeale of Philologus may not fully