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A72940	A declaration of the recantation of Iohn Nichols (for the space almost of two yeeres the Popes scholer in the English Seminarie or Colledge at Rome) which desireth to be reconciled and receiued as a member into the true Church of Christ in England.	Nicholls, John, 1555-1584?	1581 (1581)	STC 18533; STC 18533.5; ESTC S113205	57,669	199

if we beleeue not at all the traditions of men but the Scripture manifestly doeth Esay 29.13 Matth. 15.3 Colos 2.8 forbid vs to beleue them If you can find one only text of the scripture that willeth and commandeth vs to beleeue in the Romane church as hauing prerogatiue ouer all churches the world throughout I will be on your side to the death But no such place I am certain you can shewe in the whole Bible that the Romane church is the holy Catholique Church which all men of what countrey soeuer they be must acknowledge to be chiefest It is not sufficient to claime succession of place it behoueth vs rather to haue regard to the succession of doctrine Bernard in Concil Rem Bernard sayth Quid prodest si canonice eligantur non canonice viuant What auaileth it if they be chosē in order liue out of order So sayeth Saint Augustine contra Donatistas August lib. 6. 1. q. 3. Vocatur canes Ipsum characterem multi lupi lupis imprimunt The outward marke or right of a Bishoppe many giue to wolues and be wolues them selues Therefore the auncient father Ireneus giueth vs this good counsell Eis qui sunt in ecclesia praesbyteris obedire oportet qui successionem habent ab Apostolis qui cum episcopatus successione charisma veritatis certum secundum beneplacitum patris acceperunt It becommeth vs to obey those Priestes in the church which haue their succession from the Apostles and together with the succession of the Byshoprickes according to the good wil of God the Father haue receiued the vndoubted gyft of the trueth Saint Cyprian being likewise charged for dissenting from his predecessours answereth thus Cyprian lib. 2. Epist 3. Si quis de antecessoribus meis non hoc obseruauit tenuit quod nos dominus exemplo magisterio suo docuit potest simplicitati eius venia concedi nobis vero ignosci non potest qui nunc a Domino admoniti instructi sumus If any of my predecessours haue not obserued and kept the same that our Lord hath taught vs both by his example and commandement his simplicitie may be pardoned but we if we doe the like can hope for no pardon being now admonished instructed of our Lorde Compare the vse order of our churches my brethrē with the Primitiue church of God and you shall easely see the right of our succession S. Cyprian sayeth ad Pompeium contra Epistolam Stephani Si canalis aquae quae copiosè priùs largiter profluebat subitò deficiat nonne ad fontem pergitur c. Hoc nunc facere oportet Dei sacerdotes praecepta diuina seruantes vt in aliquo si mutauerit vacillauerit veritas ad originem Dominicam Euangelicam atque Apostolicam traditionem reuertamur inde surgat actus nostri ratio vnde ordo origo surrexit If the pipes of the conduyte which before ranne with aboundance happen to faile doe wee not vse to search to the head c. The Priestes of God keeping Gods commandements must doe the same that if the trueth haue faynted or fayled in any point wee returne to the very originall of our Lorde and to the tradition of the Gospel of the Apostles that from thence wee maye take the discretion of our doings from whence the order it selfe and originall first began Thus much touching succession of place Now I exhorte you brotherly to be reconciled to the true church of God I meane the Church of England wherein you finde not so many idolaters Necromancers heretikes adulterers Sodomites churchrobbers periured persons mankillers Runnagates mōsters Sicophants Clawbacks slaundering tongues scribes and pharises as you may easely finde in the church of Rome Boast not of the succession of your Pope S. Paul sayth Rom. 10.17 Faith cōmeth not by succession but by hearing and hearing commeth not of legacie or inheritance frō Bishop to Bishop but of the worde of God They are not alwayes godly that succeede the godly Manasses succeeded Ezechias and Ieroboam succeeded Dauid the Prophet By succession the Turke this day possesseth and holdeth the foure great patriarchal Sees of the church Constantinople Alexandria Antioch and Hierusalem Dan. 9.25 Matt. 24.15 Mar. 13.14 Luk. 21.20 By succession Desolation shal sit in the holy place and Antichrist shall preasse into the roome of Christ Thus much welbeloued brethren touching succession of place Now I will speake a litle in confutation of your forged myracles wherewith you seeke to oppugne the true church of Christ and defende your wicked church of Antichrist polluted with all maner of detestable idolatrie and cursed superstition There are two maner of myracles Miracles the one true the other false Myracles are counted false when either they be not that which they seeme to bee or if they be they are not supernatural but are done by vertue of nature and that the Angels either good or bad three maner of waies may bring to passe For sometime the force of nature which they best knowe they accommodate to the matter of which coniunction with efficient causes folowe the effects and that suddenly which effectes are of the beholders thought to bee myracles The deuils knowe that frogs wormes or serpents bee ingendred of putrefacted and rotten things so that there be put heate in certain degrees in consideration whereof seeing that it is not a hard thing for them to do these things which by nature maye bee wrought it is the easier to deceiue the weake of beliefe And by this meanes S. August de Trin. lib. 3. Augustine thought as he writeth in his third booke of Trinity Pharaos Magicians sometime to haue done the same Moreouer the coniunctions of the spirits of bloud and of humors do much disquiet mens bodies from whence proceede the sights or visiōs of things which are in those things conserued in the same motion before they come into the phantasie or imaginatiō and by the same reason and order wherewith the spirit is troubled it ioyneth them together which thing appeareth in such as be Phrentique Wee are not bound of necessitie to beleeue all such myracles whatsoeuer without exception Alexander of Hales sayeth Par. 4. quaest 53. Mem. 4. ar 3. solut 2. In sacramento apparet caro interdum humana procuratione interdum operatione diabolica In the Sacrament it selfe there appeareth flesh sometyme by the conueyance of men sometime by the woorking of the deuill Likewise saith Nicholaus Lyra Lyr. in 14. Dan. Aliquando in ecclesia fit maxima deceptio populi in miraculis factis a Sacerdotibus vel eis adhaerentibus propter lucrum Sometime euen in the church the people are shamefully deceiued with feigned miracles wrought either by the Priestes or els by their companions for lucres sake Miracles be not euermore vndouted proofes of true doctrine therfore Saint Augustine saith vnto the Manichees Miracula non facitis Aug. lib. 13. quae si

enim est quod vana sit huiusmodi cogitatio diabolicae deceptionis inuentum We thinke it not conuenient to paynt the images of saintes with materiall or earthly colours for it is euident that it is a vayne imagination the procurement of the deceytfulnes of the deuil To like purpose writeth Epiphanius Estote memores dilecti filii nec in ecclesias imagines inferatis neque in Sanctorū coemiteriis eas statuatis sed perpetuò circumferte Deum in cordibus vestris Quin etiam neque in domo communi tolerentur Non enim fas est Christianum per oculos suspensum teneri sed per occupationem mentis My deare childrē be ye mindful that you bring no images into the churches that you erect vp none at the burials of the Saints but euermore cary God in your heartes nay suffer no images to be Marke wel no not in your priuate houses For it is not lawfull to leade a Christian man by his eyes but rather by the studie or exercise of his minde For this cause Epiphanius sayth The superstition of images is vnfit for the church of Christ It is a worlde to see how welfauouredly and howe towardly touching religiō these men agree with the fathers of whom they vse to vaunt They bee your owne good and yet you see how they speake against your images If time should permit I were able to recite many such places out of the fathers in confutation of your worshipping such vaine images You doe not onely allowe images to be had in churches but also you cause them to be deuoutly and reuerently honoured and that with the same honour that is due to God himselfe One of the Bishops of the council of Nice sayth Venerandas imagines recipio adoro id perpetuò docebo I receiue and worship the reuerēt images this wil I teach Another saith Sacras imagines perfectè adoro Qui verò secus confitētur eos anathematizo I do perfectly adore the holy images and I accurse all them that hold the contrary Another saith Non sunt duae adorationes sed vna ipsius imaginis primi exemplaris cuius est imago There be not two kynds of adoration but one which is as well due to the image as to the paterne of the image Saint Augustine sayth Sic omninò errare meruerunt August de consensu Euangel lib. 2. cap. 20. qui Christum Apostolos eius non in sanctis codicibus sed in pictis parietibus quaesierunt nec mirum si a pingentibus fingentes decepti sunt So were they worthy to bee deceiued that sought Christ and his Apostles not in the bookes of holy Scripture but in paynted walles Neither may one maruaile if the feyners by Paynters were deceiued In Epist Ioan Episcop Hier. The old father Epiphanius sayth It is a horrible wickednes and a sinne not to be suffered for any man to set vp any picture in the church of the christians yea though it were the picture of Christ himselfe yet you store all your Temples and eche corner of them with paynted and carued images as though without them religion were nothing worth Thus good brethrē you see both scriptures fathers against you Forsake then your worshipping of images Nowe will I speake a litle after what maner they worship images at Rome I haue seene and so haue you that on euery altar in Rome there are set vp either Idols or images In S. Peters church they haue the image of S. Peter in brasse holding out his finger to blesse them as they passe by before the which image the people fall downe and make their prayers vnto it kisse his foote and touch it with their Beades I would aske you once again why they paynt God the Father and God the holy Ghost Euen because lay men when they see God to haue a body shoulde thinke God the father God the holy Ghost to be men as we be Their priests in Italie for the most parte are altogether vnlearned I demanded of some of these Italian priestes in the Italian tongue whether God the father and God the holy Ghost had bodies They answered Yea. Wel then seeing their priests are ignorant in these thinges you may perswade your selues that the simple countreymen are likewise ignorant Father Pais reader of scholasticall diuinitie at Rome in the Romane colledge beeing demanded of Doctor Allen whether it was as lawfull to worship the thing that represented as well as the thing that was represented by the Image This graue learned Father answered it was lawfull to worship the tymber whereof the Image was made If this be not idolatrie that a mā should worship that thing which is more fit for the fire or for some other purpose then to be worshipped thē there is no idolatrie worthy to be named at al. Thus much briefly touching images God giue you a heart to conceiue the trueth You worship the pillar vpon the which the cock crew whē Peter denyed his master Christe Why do you thus What doe you make the cocke a saint The Romanes haue made them a cratch or manger representing the oxe the asse also the byrth of Christ to the which workmanshippe of man they fal down and worship Can you shewe me a reason why you shoulde kneele before these stones or why you shoulde kisse them and touch them with your beades What haue you canonized the oxe and the asse Saints doe you saye in your Letanies Sancte bos Sancte Asine orate pro nobis Saint oxe and Saint Asse pray for vs Why do ye worship the thirty pence which Iudas tooke to betray his master Christ What doe you count the thirty pence holy Reliques for that Iudas had them or for that they came from the chief priests What do you make Iudas the traytour a Saint or the chiefe priests of the Scribes and Pharises holy mē The reliques of Saints are worshipped as bones c. they fall downe likewise on their knees before them they crye vnto them they touch the boxe with their beades they see not the bones being wrapped in silke and put in a boxe or in the altar in boards or in Christal The beades touch not the bones but the outward boxe The priest may beguyle the people putting in the boxe the bones of a dead horse or the head of a foxe in stead of the Saints bones for the people seeth not what is in the boxe or wrapped in silkes Why doe the poore men for their asses bring offrings to stations as candels torches and such like And why do the poore Romanes bring their asses to Churches cause the priestes to say a fewe prayers ouer them and sprinkle holy water vpō thē Belike they thinke to get a roome or place in heauen for them s to ryde vpon Asses in heauen or else to get indulgences of the Pope for their asses In deede they are as the Prophet Dauid sayth sicut