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A01219	An oration against the vnlawfull insurrections of the protestantes of our time, vnder pretence to refourme religion Made and pronounced in Latin, in the Schole of Artes at Louaine, the .xiij. of December. Anno. 1565. By Peter Frarin of Andwerp, M. of Arte, and Bacheler of both lawes. And now translated [by John Fowler] into English, with the aduise of the author.; Oratio Petri Frarini quod male reformandae religionis nomine arma sumpserunt sectarii nostri temporis habita. English	Frarinus, Petrus.; Fowler, John, 1537-1579.	1566 (1566)	STC 11333; ESTC S112684	57,035	182

with poyntes of Doctrine they haue none other way to answere and make their party good but to turne their tale chainge their tune and report that the wrytinges of the Catholikes are seditious and tende to the disquieting and disturbaunce of the Common weale that the authors thereof are vnnaturall and disordered subiectes and so by suche false informations labour to procure the meanes to stay and let to come into the Realme suche Bookes as detecte their Vntruthe Falshode and Heresies and are most profitable for all good Christians and true Subiectes to reade in these daungerous daies If they practise the like againste this little discourse made againste Commotions for Religion they shall declare plainly and make the worlde vnderstande that they are not true Subiects to the Queenes Maiestie nor yet faithfull to the Nobilitie nor frindefull to the Cōmons of their owne natiue Countrie For here is nothing but a Detection of false and wicked Treasons againste Princes and Rulers and as it were a holesome Triacle for Magistrates and faithfull Subiectes against the contagious infection and daūgerous pestilence of rebellion Fare well Gentle reader and with the manners and behauioure thou seest in our Ministers at home compare and laye together these Straunge doinges of their Fellowes and Companions abrode in other Countries So shalt thou perceiue they are of one sprite and stampe and according to the Counsell of Christ the sonne of God know them by their workes as y e tree is knowen by his frute and by that meanes learne to auoid them and beware of them From Andwerp Maij. 9. Anno. 1566. Ihon Fouler Againste the vnlawfull insurrections of the Protestantes of our time vnder pretēse to refourme Religion TWo principall thinges in euerie Cōmon weale haue at all tymes bene especially esteemed and taken for the chief both which now in this our age throughout al Christendom the desperat boldnes of certaine most wicked persons hath disturbed I meane Religion and Peace The question of God allmightie his true Religiō prophaned I leaue to those men to handle to whose custodie and credite the holy Mysteries of Christian Religion are by the diuine Authoritie of Gods ordinance committed whose learning wit and eloquence may further muche the defense of so weighty a mater whose Profession Authoritie and vertue ought to be alwaies emploied about such Godlie affaires The other argument that is of Peace broken by Seditions of Publike and good Order troubled of Magistrates vnder pretense of refourmation contemned of God and mans law offended and transgressed y t cause and lamētable matter I had also at this time gladly omitted leauing it to the handling of the eloquente and wise that are practysed in Publike affaires grounded in knowlege of the lawes and weightie Policies of Princes had it not bene that I was at this present first moued to take the ruefull Discours thereof in hand by the earnest request of such to whome lightelie without iust excuse I may deny nothing then lead as it were thereto by hope and regard of your most courteouse gentellnes and patience right worshipfull Audience and finally drawen and driuen to speake by force of the hatred I bare to so vile and villanouse a mater least perhaps as by mine so by all other mens silence so hainouse a thing should haue escaped quite vnspoken of For in very deed when I considered weighed the matter w t my self mine opinion told me thus That this right worthy Seat wherin I now stand was wōt alwaies to be the place opē only to most eloquent Oratours occupied most commōlie by most graue and auncient Doctors whose accustomed maner hath bene to bring hither and to poure into your most learned cares nothing but such stuf as was inuented by great wit framed w t much diligence archeiued finished with grauitie iudgement arte and eloquence And as for me were it so y t I had al other thinges requisite to such a one that worthely might attempt this publike exercise and entrie of cōmendation in matters of learning yet to saie the verie truthe I thought myne age scarse ripe enough for the graue rome of this so worshipfull a Place And withal besides these defectes this also did put me in verie great feare least as somtymes Demosthenes y t cheife Pere of al Greke eloquēce framing hym self to speake in y e presence of Philip king of the Macedons happened in the very beginning of his Oration to stay to lack vtterance wordes being astonied with the Royall Maiesty of so great a personage so in like sort I addressing my selfe to talke in this so great an assēble of most learned Audiēce shuld haue peraduēture the very same or y t like chaūce fortune But this needelesse doubt and feare proceding of the fainte bashfull shamefastnesse of youth was at length somewhat dissolued by the comfortable exhortations of my frendes and is now at last quite remoued and put away by the most chearefull sight of this your gentle presence and pleasant countenances wherewith I fele sensibly my self to be maruelously now refreshed prouoked as it were to speake boldly with good courage For who wold be afraid to speak of Seditions in the presence of suche quiet persons Against treasons before moste faithful Subiects Who would doubt in the hearing of Officers and Magistrates to talke against tumultes robbing stealing cōspiracies cutting of throtes spoiling of Countreis burning of Cities sacking of Churches wicked sacrilege most impiouse contempt of thinges appertaining to God finally against the very bane and pestilence of all commendable alliaunce and vnitie of Common weales the vtter ruine and destruction of all Ciuill Policy and good Order For what one mā of you all right honorable worshipfull wold gladly or willingly allow and beare suche so hainous enormities in any Realme or Country I wil therfore go forward in my matter speake yea now hauing gathered courage by y e assured hope of your gentle patience I wil say boldly that the Protestantes of our time haue not done well in putting them selues in armes vnder colour of refourming Religion y t they haue done therein against all law right and equitie not without intolerable iniury damage and wrong in euery respect to y e Publike estate of Christendome In this poynt consisteth y e whole weight and cōtrouersy of the question y t was yesterday according to the custome of this schole proponed to be the argumēt of my talke at this time I will first open and declare vnto you y t there was no cause or iust occasion why these men shuld rise make insurrection Then that they toke weapon in hand without any authority cōtrary to law in despite of al Magistrates and Rulers Last and finallie y t they vsed thēselues to cruelly handled their swerd to bloudily to the greatest damage hyndrance losse that euer was felt in Christendome With these limites and boundes I make as it

were a trauerse and close my self within a circle out of the cumpasse whereof the discourse and order of my talke shall not straie that by these meanes both I out of infinite matter that offreth it self in the hādling of this cause may haue certen special pointes marked and chosen wherof I may treat and also you euen now before hand may forsee beare in mynd in hearing what things your learned eares are lyke to be emploied during myne Oration I deny vtterlie y t there was any good or reasonable cause whie the founders brokers of this new Gospel shuld be driuen or prouoked to put them selues in armes against the Catholikes This is y e first poynt wherof I promised to speake Whiles in few wordes I declare proue this vnto you I humblie request you w t diligent attention to mark and geue ear It behoueth alwayes y t there be very great causes proued why before chainge of lawes shuld be in any common weale procured in very deed it ought to be a maruelouse occasion the greatest cause of all causes whie the innouation of Religion being alway y e very backebone of al Realmes both Christian and Heathen shuld be attempted But that either this or that should be don by force and armes by warre rebellion by fier swerd by murder and bloudshed of the good and faithfull Subiectes there can neuer any reason or sufficiente cause be alleged or brought why and wherefore I remēber amōg many other notable lawes wherwith in times past the Lorrenses ruled their cōmon weale it was with great policy and wisdom ordained y t if any mā wold go about to procure ani thainge in the publike affaires of y t estate he shuld stand vp in a high place there hence speake his minde frely to the people being then there assēbled about him but yet with this condition that all the while he spake he should haue a rope tied with a riding knot loose inough about his neck the which rope should be so lōg that the other end therof might lie on the ground betwene their feete that hard his discourse deuise to this effect that if in y t end of his tale y e people wer perswaded that it was for their cōmon cōmodity and profit to make that chainge and innouation as he had said then he shoulde come downe without any harme and be dimissed with muche commendation and fauor els the Audience out of hād might pull the rope and reuenge with present death the rash attempt and seditious enterprise of such a one as wythout good cause bestowed his busy braine about chainges and alterations If it had pleased the Princes and Rulers of y e world in this our time to haue established and practised this lawe we should haue no nede now to sighe at the sight of so miserable a confusion disorder and troublous ruffling of all things We should not haue sene of late and yet see this so lamētable an estate of the world so many Warres Tumultes Slaughters Ruines so many Churches suppressed so many Townes ouerturned finally we should not now rue so many wicked Sacrileges cōmitted in prophaning of Gods Mysteries sacred things appertaining to his Honor and Seruice But alas it was free without any feare of the rope for these authors and fosterers of Sectes frankly and boldly to perswade with the people and bestowe their wordes as they liste And would God they had staied there and had disbursed nothing but vernished woordes they wente further from Woordes to Woundes and Blowes They hadde the Word in their mouthes the Sword in their handes their Word sounded peace theyr Sword coyned war their peace serued for a guylful cloke to couer crafte and deceyt their war was employed to execute violence crueltie and murder Was there none other meanes to plant that bluddy Gospell but to attēpt Reformatiō in y e state of y e Churche by ciuil warres insurrections and Rebellion Put vp thy sword in the sheth saied Christ to S. Peter Oute with thy sword for the Gospell sayeth the new Gospeller There was a Companie of desperat wicked personnes y t ran lyke mad men vp and down the streates of Paris with glistering naked swordes in theyr handes and cried out the Gospel the Gospell when they meant nothing els but to bring a sort of cursed Sectes and wicked Heresies into the Realme It was not I assure you honorable worshipfull it was not the Gospel they brought except they hold it for a Gospel to cut in pecies to sacke spoile and quite to ouerthrow w t blowes naked sword all y e y e Euangelistes buylded w e y e Word It was not Gods quarell at all that bloudy bickering was neuer taken in hand for Gods sake And in this behalf I call to wittnes euen the self same man that was our most earnest fierce aduersarie in this question who was y e occasion of al our calāmitie and was the Author and maker of this lamentable Tragedie In this matter I say I call thee frier Luther to witnes For out of whose mouth I pray thee fell y t worthie saieng in the noble assemble of y e learned and honorable at Lipsia Neither was this matter euer begonne for Gods quarell nother shalbe ended for Gods sake O noble sentence and worthie in deed to come out of his mouth that would be called y e heauenly Prophere y e third Elias y e fifth Euāgeliste Was this matter say you neuer begonne for Gods sake I beleue it wel What was then y e cause I pray you good syr y t ye made so cruel so long so deadlie warre against y e Christians y t ye sticked not to trouble al Christendome w t ciuil barayle w t insurrectiōs vprores w t tumultes seditiō rebellion y t ye could find in your hartes to fight against your own parētes your own childrē against your Rulers magistrates yea against y e church of christ War ought neuer to be made without most waighty occasion For it is y t part of a wise mā to try all meanes waies rather thē to lay hād on his weapon but y t mē shuld fight at home in their own coūtrie against their own felows their own neighbors their own parēts there is no reson nor cause y t euer cā be foūd for it or surely if any be it is this that it be don by Cōmission lawful authority for Gods honor for Gods sake only for none other respect you sir Luther do flatly and yet most truly deny that these your doinges were for any suche reipect at all If I were able to say nothing in this matter but this y t thou thy self saiest for me yet out of doubt by y t verdict iugemēt of al honest wise indifferēt men I should preuail in this cause and proue al your sect to be seditious rash cruel wicked

selues who were the worst in al y e packe and then hardely to lay to other mennes charge what ye could Or was this your purpose to compell men to receiue your Gospell and to poure it into their mouthes spite of their teethe So did neuer Christ plant his Religion but so Mahumet stablished his cursed sect Ye labored in vaine when ye trauailed to bring the world to your Religion by Villany railing and dubble Cannons as easily as the Apostles did win men to the Gospell of Christ by their good liuing preaching and miracles How be it in dede it was neither Religion nor Gospel nor Gods quarell that ye ment to further euen he him self who not for Gods sake but formalice against the Pope begā this whole Tragedy is a currant witnesse in this poynt and hath constantly so deposed Was it to restore the Christen Faithe being as ye thoughte well nighe worne out that ye made so great sturre Your labor was needlesse for the Churche of God the Seat and sure Piller of Truth hath allwaies without force and battail most Reuerently and charely kepte the Faith that was from the beginning cōmitted to her Custody This Christ obtained of his Father this shall the Heauenly Comforter the holye Ghoste perfourm for euer How thē good sirs Was this wel done so to turmoile and tosse the quiet state and publike affaires of cōmon weales to make a mixture and confusion of whot and cold high and low to trouble and turne vp and downe all thinges appertaining to God man so lightly so rashly so wickedly without any iust occasion without any sufficient cause without any good reason Men that professed Christianity haue sought cruelly and outragiously a longe time against Christen men haue sought their liues and goods haue bereaued thē of house and home of Church and Chappell welthy and rich Cities are impouerished sacked spoiled Church Vestries are voided rifled robbed And now if a man call them to accomptes aske the cause of al these their tragical cruel doings he shal haue a short answer w t mum budget except they will peraduēture allege this y t the lofty Ambitiō y e gredy Auarice the desperat boldnes of certen w●tō lose friers haue ministred iust occasiō of so horrible wicked hainous battel Now I come most gētle Audiēce to y e secōd parte of this matter to y e poynt wherin I promised to make discourse of their cōspiracies and treasons to the end ye may plainly perceiue y t our Aduersaries were not only w tout cause offēded rashli moued to bēd their minds to fight but that also they toke weapon in hand and bad battaile traiterously and that as they attempted warre without iustice right so they proclaimed and pursued the same without Authoritye and Commission to omit nothing that should help to fil vp the measure of their so great and execrable wickednesse It is great pitye in verye deede it is muche to be pitied that Christen Princes doe make warre one against another so often yea and that God wot for light occasion or wel nighe for none occasion at all Desire of raigne and soueraigntie light displeasure taken vpon a word spoken Glory Hastinesse Emulation of Rulers haue bread vs many times long and cruell battaile so that a man mighte wel now sing as the Poet Horace did When Kinges and Rulers kepe ill rule The people paies for all Their ouersightes the Commons sighes And feeles their wanton fall The time shall come Oh I tremble when I speake it the time shall come in deede when it shall repent them to late that by their lightnesse and raish panges so much and so manie mens blood hath bene shed Yet to say the truthe in suche warres most commonlie the souldiours are excused for that theyr part is rather to obey fulfil and accomplisshe their lawful Princes and Capitains commaundement then deliberate dispute and reason of the equitie of the cause wherefore they fight But in this domesticall insurrection in this mostruous Tumulte and Sedition that hath bene sturred vp these many yeres vnder pretense of refourmation in maters of Religion wherein nor Capitaine nor Magistrate nor Prince nor Emperour biddeth any man strike Where without anie Lieutenant general knight Martial or deputie Captaine all the whole hoste is but an assemble of priuate men of common souldiours or rather of rouers cutthrotes and moste cruell murderers who is voide of hainous offense what one is free from maliciouse treason Who of all this companie is able to say that he is in his conscience giltlesse innocent and vnspotted Priuate men that had no Authoritie ●t all bad battaill them selues of theyr owne headdes and styckte not without theyr Kynge and Soueraigne his commandement to bringe and receaue into the Realme forayners straingers hyred souldioures and enemies I wyll aske them nowe no more what iuste Quarell what reasonable Cause they had to muster and to proclayme warre Be it that the Cause was moste iuste and sufficiente because theyr pleasure was so But this I aske them what lawefull Power what lawe what Statute what Right what Custome or common Example of Antiquitie what Authoritie and Commission they had so to doe Whereas they are but mere Priuate men and Subiectes called to no Office nor Authoritie at all nor placed in anye roome or Dignitie in the Common weale yet they dare be so bolde as to Muster to Campe to pytche a Fylde they take vppon them to mynister Iustice and right right Rather may I cal it moste vnmercifull wronge they wyll needes be Rulers yea and rule al Rulers and the whole roste them selues alone If a man might be so bold as to aske you nowe right Honorable Gospellinge Capytaines as the Renoumed Prince and moste Reuerende Father my Lorde Cardinall of Lorraine a fewe yeres agoe asked the Ministers of that Deformed Churche in the Honorable Assemble at Poissie wherehence came you Who sent you By what Authoritie doe ye all these thinges either ye shoulde be domme without any thing to saye as they were then A longe whyle Or lye impudentlye as your accustomed manner is Or be driuen plainlye to confesse and graunte that ye are but priuate Subiectes of no Iurisdiction of no Place or Degree called to no Office or power to meddle with the Publyke Affaires of Christendome Finally that for all these your strainge maruelouse and monsterouse Mysteries which ye professe and practice moste impudently and desperately takinge vppon you to redresse the state of all Christendome and to Reforme matters of Religion ye haue no Authoritye at all neither ordinarie power in earth nor extraordinarie Commission from heauen For ye shal neuer be able to proue either this by Miracles or that by letters Patentes As for Martine Luther or rather Luder but that for shame he chaunged that filthie name of his borne at Islibium in Saxonie and begotten of

al France whiles he went about to quenche the flame to parte y ● strife to appeace y ● sedition of his contreie was traiterouslie cruellie murdred by the meanes counsel and vnmercifull conspiracie of that vile Caytif Beza the inuenter coyner of al these michiefes seruante bondslaue of al bawdie luste fylthie concupiscence and all detestable sinne and vice I feare me leaste I seeme to passe y e limites cōpasse of y e time apointed for me to speake by y ● custome of this Schole to abuse your gentel patience suffrance right worshipfull if I trauaille anie further with longer discourse to long talk to declare rippe vp y ● endlesse and infinite desperatnes crueltie madnes of these harishe Ministers traiterouse Refourmers and brutishe Heretikes To be shorte your wisdomes I doubt not doe plainlie now perceaue that this theyr warre for Religion againste God and all true Religion hath been made nother iustelie nother orderlie nother to anie good effect or furtherance of Refourmation Ye see now as clere as the bright shining sonne that the Protestātes of our time ranne raisshelie together and toke weapon in ●hand without anie iuste cause reasonable occasion or sufficient quarell that they badde and proclaimed warre againste theyr countrey against theyr Souueraignes againste y ● Catholike Churche of Christe without anie commission power or Authoritie y t they fought that battaille to fearcelie to vnmercifullie and to cruellie to the exceding great iniurie harme and wrong of all good men to the incredible hindrance and dammage of all Christendome and suche l●sse as can neuer be repayred Ye know now these new Gospellers the wicked Captaines of these moste traiterouse and dangerouse insurrections ye vnderstand what maner of men they be how vprightlye how honestlie they liue and behaue themselues in the Churche of God and what they meane what they go about what they attempt What saye you then by them what p●nisshement thinke you haue suche bloudsuckers suche cruell butchers deserued to suffer what estimation what degree what state among Christen men iudge you suche verlets to be worthy of whome neither shame could withdraw from dishonestie neither feare keepe of frome dāger nother reason reuoke from madnes nor Religion stop from Sacriledge nor pitie staie from killing and murdering of theyr own neighbours At the firste for a messe of potage certaine loose friers and fained dissemblers of Monasticall profession fell out at debate betwene themselues afterward they were pricked dryuen and drawen by auarice ambition and wanton iuste of wicked libertie and pleasure to strike vp a larme and to bid battaille and at length they fought in open field againste theyr own contremen neighbours and followes againste y e Magistrates Kings and Emperours against the Bishops againste the Churche againste the Christian Religion againste all good men against the Sayntes of heauen finally againste God allmightie himself as the Gyātes did of whome y e Poetes in theyr fables make mention meaning in deed such desperat raging wicked caytiffes rebelles miscreants as these were The false traitors desperat cutthrotes brought into the Churche of Christe a cursed kind of Religion framed caste made of wicked whoredomes bawdie bitcherie of innocent bloud and murder of true subiectes of all maner of troublesome and seditious mischiefe discord and all loosenes and libertie to embrace and f●llow vice sinne They haue called in holpen maintained the enemies of Christendome Forayners Tyrans Turkes They haue geuen to the Turke and added to his dominion and Empire manie Noble and goodlie countreies prouincies of Christendome They haue lead an infinite nūber of Christen soules to eternall damnation throwen them down hedlong to the deepe pit of euerlasting fire and betaken them to the tyrannie and furie of the vglie finds and horrible diuelles of hell They made the holie fonte stones the couers of theyr iakes yea the durtie Helhowndes Oh abhominable acte were not ashamed to laye the excrementes of theyr vile and wicked bealies euen in the verie sacred fonte and place where Christen men were wonte to receaue theyr Baptisme There were slayen in Germanie with in three monethes space by the wicked occasion and faulte of these Refourmers an hundred and thirtie thousande men and in Fraunce aboue a hundred thousand among whome I recken not the infinite number of suche as died of the plague there in y e meane time of whome the greatest parte were these Cu●throtes themselues speciallie they of Lyons who as it is reported did poison the welles common waters of theyr Citie for a traiterouse and wicked intent So that by the iuste iudgement of God it is brought to passe that there scars remaineth now aliue vppon the earthe y ● fourthe parte of those who for a great number being but beardlesse yong men and moste of them witlesse altogether desperat and destitute of y ● feare of God attempted to doe suche so strainge and villainouse deedes I will not staie now to make an accōpte and iuste reckening of al those that throughe this cursed Refourmatiō were caried to miserable captiuitie vnder the Turke or were slayen in the field in defense of Christendome againste him and these his adherents and yet this I am bold to saie that if ye hard the euen tale iuste accompte of them ye wold more wonder at it pitie it then ye doe now at the rehearsall of this maruelouse nūber slayen and murdred in Fraunce and Germanie They haue turned all lawes out of y ● countrey and sent all right and equitie into bannishement deuotion true Religion Chaste lyuing can wel nighe now abyde sa●e in no place the Profession of Chastitie is suspected hated and despised eueriewhere Al things are besette and turmoyled with madnes rage murder fire and sword The desperate crie of furiouse heretikes doth make all the world ring the streates runne of bloud the walles of Chapelles and Churches are sprinkled dawbed with the gore blood and braine of Christen men Al Europe being weakened with the cruel warre long seditions of heretikes cracks and shakes and is euen now readie to fall quite to the ground And now when al this is done after al these mischeifs and Tragical offenses y t these mad Bedlems cursed Caines haue committed they blame the Catholiks and lay crueltie to theyr charge that haue suffred all these iniuries losses dāmages and murders at theyr handes There came furth in printe of late to the sight of the world a verie fond foolishe peuyshe litle boke out of Englande writen againste the tyrannie of the Papistes for so it liketh them in scorne to call the Catholikes In these and suche like dangers of tumultes and insurrections of subiectes right learned Audience in these verie same snares and trappes of treason and cōspiracie we also ourselues haue liued stood nowe a long time We nourrish in our owne lappes