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A02947	Yet a course at the Romyshe foxe A dysclosynge or openynge of the Manne of synne, co[n]tayned in the late declaratyon of the Popes olde faythe made by Edmonde Boner bysshopp of London. wherby wyllyam Tolwyn was than newlye professed at paules crosse openlye into Antichristes Romyshe relygyon agayne by a newe solempne othe of obedyence, notwythsta[n]dynge the othe made to hys prynce afore to the contrarye. An alphabetycall dyrectorye or table also in the ende thereof ... Compyled by Iohan Harryson.	Bale, John, 1495-1563.; Seton, Alexander, d. 1542. Declaracion made at Poules Crosse in the cytye of London.	1543 (1543)	STC 1309; ESTC S100631	110,140	234

deathe Truthe yt ys that before the fall of Adam mannys wyll was fre Sens hath yt not bene fre but in bodylye thynges as to eate drynke and slepe or to do all maner of wyckednesse Now are we not able of that wyll ones to thynke a good thought All ys now synne in vs that ys not of faythe Neyther of the wyll of the fleshe nor yet of mannys wyll become we now Gods chyldren but of an onlye beleue in hys name and that ys hys gyft also Stoyckes and epycures maye that fre wyll make vs but no true chyldren of God It fareth by the braggers of thys fre wyll as by hym which boasteth that sumtyme he had a fayre howse where as now ys neyther rose nor wall A tyttle yt hath that soche a thynge ther was but yt ys nothynge lesse in effect Fayne wolde yowr scole doctours with ther vnsauerye sophystrye make sum what of yt yf they coudebrynge yt so to passe Somtyme with the pelagyanes ye garnyshe yt with the excellent gyftes of nature And whan that wyll not serue with the subtyle manychees ye preuent yt with a grace least the first entraunce of synne schuld be imputed vnto yt besydes that ye borowe of the Iouynyanystes Iacobytanes priscyllyanystes predestynates and other heretyques more Fynallye with the anabaptystes ye graūt it in owr powr to fulfyll the cōmaundementes of god Thus are ye all one in opinion with heretyques olde and newe and yet ye pretende to be cōdempners of thē If God be the worker of all good thinges as he reporteth himselfe in Esaye If he worketh all in all accordynge to hys owne pleasure If all goodnesse cometh frō the father of lyght If we can not speake a ryght but in hys sprete If non can come to the father but by christ If we be saued onlye by the eleccyon of hys grace what can owr fre wyll do Canne we meryte grace with synne or deserue to be ryghtoused by folye O blynde beastes block heades ād hypocrites lerne ones to be wyse and godlye and to referre more vnto god and lesse to your selues 6 Ye saye yf we allowe not thys fredome in mannys wyll we make god the auctour of synne Yowr argument is as yow are vnlerned fantastycall and doltyshe Thys wyse reason of yowrs came first frō Pelagius the first fynder out and mayntener of your fre wyll as wytnesseth saynt Austin i hypognostico Loo sayth he to the pelagyanes bycause your best be loue or fre wyll whō ye haue so moche commended hath conceyued lewdenesse engendred synne ād brought forth deathe ye constytute god the author of synne Ye call both hym and hys apostle a tēpter of yll menne bycause after your opynion he hath created the thinges that prouoketh them to euyll and so causeth them to peryshe But saynt Iames cleareth thys saynge That manne is tempted drawne and allured of hys owne concupiscence which is now hādefast to your fre will The gentyles sayth chrisostome vndyscretelye noteth christ a destroyer of the peple for that he called them with so moche gentylnesse and not brought them in by compulsyon Vvhat are these els but the frutes of mennys wysdome and blasphemouse fantasyes The scriptur sayth that God commaunded Semei to curse Dauid He reserueth the wycked vnto an euyll daye He maketh the waster to destroye He promiseth to be a lyenge sprete in the mouthe of all false prophetes He hath geuen menne vp to ther hartes desyre to worke vncomlye thynges Good and yll lyfe and deathe cōmeth all of the lorde Is there anye plage sayth Amos or my shappe in a cyte that is not of the lordesdoynge with soche other more And schall we saye for these that he is the author of synne No God is not in case as is manne that he can lye or do anye other wyckednesse That is sin ne in manne is eternall ryghtousnesse in hym as wytnesseth all the sentencyoners in amaner I maruele therfor what my lorde wyll stande to whā neyther the scripturs nor yet hys owne doctours can serue hym Lete neuer the pott earthe in the handes of the potter reasō what vessel he will make hym least he be brokē in hys anger for serchynge so hygh thinges He that mekeneth hymselfe schall fynde grace Sure we are that non can peryshe which fayth fullye obeyeth hys callynge For he is of infinite mercye If any be lost for not obey enge it the faute is thers and not hys The manne of synne ¶ 1 And more ouer ageynst good vvorkes 2 specyallye 3 fastīge prayer almes dede 4 ageynst auriculer cōfessyon 5 ageynst the vovve of chastyte 6 ād for the mariage ofprestes Hys dysclosynge DEd not I tel ye afore we schuld not nede to seke farre to proue yow a lyar for your owne confessyō wolde do it ye saye these bokes are ageynst good workes and ye declare here what good workes ye meane Specyally fastynge ye saye prayer and almes dede I maruelé ye are not ashamed to be so double of your wordes A fore ye sayd there was in the sachell a boke of prayer made by Luther and here now ye saye they are ageynst prayer Of prayer ād ageinst prayer is not all one by anye godlye mannys iudgement But fyrst lete vs go to good workes If it be a good worke to abhorre vnfaythfulnesse to detest Idols to shurne hypocresye to repent wyckednesse to resort to christ to seke hys glorye alone to obeye christen rewlers of lone to lyue after Gods cōmaundemētes to praye without supersticion to brynge vp yow the in vertu with soche other like thā are yow a most wycked blasphemer For all they are in these bokes most ernestlye desyred Marrye in dede the good workes that myght make to the fyllynge of your spirituall purses are not there greatlye cared for and that is the cause of yowr great anger 2 As moche care yow for true fastynge whych is to cease from synne and to do the workes of mercye as doth the deuyll of hell Vvhan delyuer yow the oppressed Vvhan dysolue yow vngolye promises whan hūger yow for the ryght ousnesse of God Abstynēce from meates maketh vs not Gods seruauntes For than were the deuyll most holye which neuer eateth nor drynketh The fastynge that ye call vpon doth Christ name hypocresye and saint paule the doctrine of deuyls Mōtanus a peruerse heretyque was the fyrst that made the lawes of compulsyon in fastynge whom yow styll occupye to thys present daye Ageynst whom at the same tyme wrote Melciades Appolonius and Serapion with other notable fathers and therfor ye had nede to condēpne ther bokes also The cause now whye ye take soche peynes in thys matter ys to holde vp yf it may be your lēt made by pope The olespherꝰ your ēbrynge dayes ordayned of pope Calixtusthe first your fryday fast cōfermed by pope leo the fort as wytnesseth master Eckius

selfe bokes Sure I am that Iohan fryth made no boke without a name Eyther yt had the tyttle of a dyspu●acyon ageynst purgatorye or of an answere vnto mores epystle or of the examynacyon of hys artycles or of an exhortacyō to the folowers of Christes gospell or of a myrrour to knowe owr selues by or of a bulwarke ageynst rastell or els concernynge the sacrament of the bodye and blood of Christ yfyt were hys And as touchynge the reuelacyō of antichrist though he ded translate yt out of a foren tonge into Englyshe with an antithesis annexed vnto yt yet was yt not of hys makynge But trulye yf I myght vtter my cōceyt I wold saye that thys boke of frythes were hys disputacyon of purgatorye by cause yt ys here vnnamed In dede by the goynge downe therof my lordes kychyn ys not the warmer nor yet hys purse the wayghtyer and therfor yt must nedes be heresye 3 Thorpe and oldecastell are the names of .ij. dyuerse menne and not of one seuerall boke and therfor though my lorde hath pervsed the bagge yet hath he not dyscretelye pervsed the bokes For a monstruouse thynge yt were .ij. menne to beo●e boke vnlesse he coude brynge yt in by some straunge fygure of the canon lawe whych now adayes worketh manye newe myracles The boke of master Vvyllyam thorpes examynacyon comprehendeth onlye these artycles That Images schuld in no case be worshyped That mē schuld not go to them on pylgrymage That prestes haue no iust tytle to tythes by the gospell That yt ys not law full to swe are by anye creature And that the sacrament of Christes bodye ys no accydent without a materyall substaunce as fryre Thomas hath fantasyed 4. The other small treatyse called the examynacyon of ser Iohā oldecastell the lorde Cobhā and worthye warryour of Iesus Christ contayneth onlye these artycles That bysshopes hath made lawes for ther couetousnesse whom no Christen menne ought to folowe That no prest ought by goddes lawe to sytt vpon anye mannys deathe That sens venym was shedde into the churche they neuer folowed Christ That the pope in hys lawes and lyuynge ys vnto Christ an aduersarye That the churche of Rome ys the nest of antichrist whose tayle are monkes and fryres That the sacrament of the aulter ys Chrystes bodye and bread after Christes and Paules doctryne That mānys saluacyon came in by Christ ād not by the crosse he dyed on nor yet by anye other dead thynge That God oft tymes curseth where as bysshoppes doth blesse And that an ignorāt prest lyuynge wyckedly ought to heare no mānys confessyon In the condempnacyon of these artycles ye also condempne manye godly thynges that owr gracyouse prince hath done by the auctoryte of gods worde so forgetfull are ye of yourselfe in your dronken generacyon Nothynge ys lyke to be allowed at your handes I se well that maketh ageist your glytterīge regne of blasphemye Styll are ye of the same selfe burnynge zele and stomake that Tho mas Beckett Vvyllyam Cortenaye Tho mas Arundell Harrye Spenser and soche other terryble termagauntes of yowr spy rytualte were in the quarell os yowr holye churche A wonderfull thynge ys yt that ye neuer repent yowr myschefes nor yet recant yowr errours superstycyons and blasphemyes But euermore persecute and murther for the vpholdynge of thē playenge styll the same partes that other cayphases hath done before yow Not on lye are ye contented to beholde the cruell actes of yowr popyshe predecessours but also ye must conferme them a freshe by a newe conclempnacy on of the popes enemyes to the great slaunder of yowr prynce least ye schuld lose yowr part in the vengeaunce promysed for the shedynge of innocentes blood Lett menne dylygēt lye serche those ● treatyses ād they schall easelye perseyue what a faythfull part ye haue played here in condempnynge in a maner all thynges that he hath made lawfull by the scripturs 5 The boke of the olde God and the newe was compyled so farre as I can re membre by one Hermannus a germane more than xx years a go And onlye yt toucheth the pryde couetousnesse and tyrannye of the bysshopp of Rome the Idotrye of hys churche and the hypocrysye of hys sectes Moche do I maruele wheri that boke schuld offende yow but that I knowe your hart by your frutes Thys ys the fyrst tyme that god ys named in thys secō de processe of my lordes declaracyon and yt ys in the tyttle of thys heresye boke els had yt gone by at thys tyme and therfor thanke the boke for yt and not hym 6 The commentarye whych the vertu ouse lerned manne master Lancelot Rydleye made vpon saynt Paules epystle to the Ephesyanes for the true erudycyon of hys Christen bretherne hath my lorde he re also cōdempned for heresye But what the cause ys I can not tell Vnlesse yt be for auauncynge the gospell as the thynge wherby we are made ryghtouse without eyther decre or ceremonye Or els for admony shynge vs to be ware of mennys tradycyons and doctrines least we schuld by them trust in anye other thynge than in Christ ād least we schuld for ther glytterynge gawdes refuse the spyrituall armou re ageynst the deuyll and hys members whom Paule hath there prescrybed vnto vs. So charytable ys my lorde to Chrystes congregacyon that nothynge cometh frō hym to ther edysyége neyther ● preachyn ges nor yet in wrytynges but all in condempnacyons of both to ther destruccyō Here ys thys latter boke called rydlyes cō mentaryes as though they were manye vpon thys one epystle beynge but one by cause he wyll be true in nothynge ¶ The manne of synne ¶ 1 Denatorius vpon Timothe 2 v vyna●iu● of Gods prouydence 3 The cathecysme of Melanchton 4 The cathecysme of Dr●anus 5 The cathecisme of pacimontanus 6 The cathecysme of Sarce●us Hys dysclosynge MOche a do haue we styll with these bokes Not yet ys my lordes mynde satysfyed with them but more of ther names must be blowen abrode to proue Tolwyn a ranke heretyque Now cometh forth Thomas venatorius whych with great grace lernynge and eloquence hath wrytten an excellent worke vpon the .ii. epystles of saynt Paule to Timothe Thys boke maye not come a brode to be tryed by the scrypturs and most auctentyue doctours but yt must in a bagge be cōdempned at Paules crosse for heresye non artycles named And what ys the cause thynke yow For yt sheweth the ryght offyce of a Christen bysshopp how he schuld teathe and gouerne whych my lorde cā not awaye with It commaūdeth to resyst false preachers whom my lorde doth daylye maiteyne It describeth soche wycked pre lates as teacheth the doctryne of deuyls with lyes ● hypocresye forbyddynge mar ryage and meates of whose nombre hys lordshypp ys one It exhorteth all spirituall gydes of the peple to be vertuouse and

yt was made by Martyn Luther the capytall enemye of antichristes bysshoppes and partlye for that my lorde ys therin so lyuelye sett out in hys pontyfycall colours Yet wondre I ageyne that he schuld condempne that pycture whych he beareth out so lyuelye in the syght of the worlde Parauenture he ys well contented to playe the proude pagent but he wolde not haue the scripturs to busye to tell hym therof Nothynge taketh thys treatyse from a ryght christen bysshopp though yt toucheth the tyrauntes of Sodome and the gloryouse glottons of Babylon Therfor lett thē wexe furyouse frātyk and madde at ther spirytuall pleasure full lyttle careth Martyn for that thonderynge or earthquake of thers 3 The godlye confessyon of faythe whych the noble princes of germanye mekelye offred to the emproure for the churches reformacyon whom my lorde calleth here the confessyon in Englyshe full wyselye with the lerned Apologye of Phylypp Melāchton hath he also blotted with the blacke tyttle of heresye Ryghtlye compareth Christ soche shamelesle hypocrytes to rauenynge dogges and swyne cruellye tearynge hys truthe and treadynge vnder ther fylthye fete the precyouse pearle therof Full lyttle knoweth thys blynde bysye busharde what he doth condempne in these godlye bokes here rehersed He dāpneth dyuerse verytees of God as our iustyfycacyō i Christ the puttynge downe of the pope the confutynge of the anabaptystes the true obedyence to princes the abolyshynge of superstycyōs with manye godlye thynges that our kynge hath done ageynst the false kyngedome of antychrist Vvhat godlye wyse manne cā iudge otherwyse of hym whan he condēpneth all that ys in them contayned with out respect Certayne I ā that these are the pryncypall poyntes therin decysed 4 Vvhat the postylles are vpō the epysteles and gospels whych foloweth cōsequentlye vnder the same condempnacyō I can not tell vnlesse they be Rychard tauerners Vvhom he compyled together of a good godlye mynde that yowr asseheaded prestes whych can do no soche thynges schuld not be all Idell but shewe some godlye instruccyons to the peple By thys furyouse acte therfor maye all mēne se that ye mynde no maner of godlynesse to the dere flocke of Christ but all destruccyon and myschefe In the chamber of thys poore manne whom ye thus proclame for an heretyque founde ye dyuerse bokes of papystrye and treason to your price were they so narrowlye loked vpō as these are But them left ye there behynde vntouched as matters necessarye to the vpholdynge of your holye churche Lett Tol wyn haue so manye of them as he wyll and he schall neuer be blamed but be your owne whyght sōne Ye passe not a whytt how moche treasō be a brode for by that alwayes hath your ruffelynge relygyon had mayntenaunce Onlye ys yt heresye as ye call yt that moueth your spretes For by that ys decayed yowr vayne glorye Ye force not though a hondred thousande of those bokes were abrode that myght teache menne to be dysobedyent to God in the matters of faythe and vnto your prynce in the causes of ther true allegeaunce The enchyridion of Eckius that impudent proctour of antichrist offendeth yow nothynge at all Yet cōtayneth yt all doctryne of deuylyshnesse as the popes auctoryte power and prymacye hys coūsels cōstytucyons and customes hys confirmacyons orders and vnccyons hys worshyppynge of Images rodes and rellyques hys excommunycacyons interdyccyons and cursynges hys purgatorye pardons and pylgrimages hys immunytees pluralitees and tot quo●●es with the deuyll ād all of soche fylthynesse Euerye where ys thys boke sought and enquyred for ī cyte markett and feyer Euerye ser Iohan must haue yt that can rede to make hym therwith a Christen curate a good ghostlye father and a catholyck member of holye churche Verye fewe popyshe prestes with in my lordes dyocese are at thyssame houre with out yt eyther in ther chambers sleues or bosoms For yt ys a most precyouse treasure to hym that wyll heare confessyons and kepe a cure well to antychristes behoue That embrase the gentyll menne of the popes lyuerye and marke that culle they that kysse they that drawe they to them as a worke of most holye wholsom catholyck doctryne No lesse myght harrye pep well in Paules churche yearde haue out of Michael Hillenius howse in Anwerpe at one tyme than ā whole complete prynte at the holye request of stokyslaye In a short space were they dyspached and a newe prynte in hāde soche tyme as he also commaunded Barlowes dyaloges to be preached of the curates through out all hys dyocese I knowe yt the better for that he at the same tyme suspended me from preachynge in estsexe bycause I wold not leaue the gospell and be sworne to the obseruacyon of hys iniunccyons I haue knowne in my tyme more than vi dyuerse pryntes of thys erronyouse and deuylyshe boke whych ys a manyfest token that the vtteraunce therof hath not bene small Dyuerse of them hath besydes thys hys dronken dysputacyons ageynst heretyques hys apostolyck crede hys crysopassus of dyuyne predestynacyon hys aurycular confessyō hys boke offre wyll hys primacye of Peter to pope Leo the tent and hys postylles of papystrye Manye other dyrtye dyuynes haue they els of the same pharyseycall leuen to maynteyne the same selfe doctrine As Thomas of Aquyne Bonauenture Vvalden Prierias Catharinns Clychtoueus Radinus Empser Cocleus Lathomus Scatzger Herbron Hochstrate Natalis Beda Tregarius Pelargus Hofmester Alphonsus de Castro Iohan Fysher and Thomas More with canonystes and Romystes the deuyll and all But at these can my lorde wynke in hope of I saye no more Vvhether these wayes be ryght or naye lete menne of godlye and rype dyscressyon iudge The manne of synne ¶ 1 A boke of prayer made by Luther 2 The dore of holye scripture 3 The postylles of Coruinus 4 Tvvo olde vvritten bokes the one for scolers 5 and the other taken out of frythes bokes Hys dysclosynge NOt yet haue we done with these bokes but styll are they a foule blott in my lordes eyes Now cometh a boke of prayer made by Martyn Luther yet nothynge ys seane but the bagge Anon my lorde wyll saye that heretyques despyse good workes and write ageynst fastynge ād prayer But lete hym be ware least thys boke ꝓue hym a lowde lyar in the face of all the worlde In that small treatyse yf yt be hys ys nothynge els contayned but the lordes prayer the commaundementes and crede It ys moche maruele to me yf they are now become heresye and legenda aurea with sancta Maria ora pro nobis out of your ordynarye pye and portas becometh ageyne so wholsom lernynge But parauenture yt ys for Luthers names sake If the whole doctrine of the trynyte came in that name yt schuld sure into the sachell without lokynge on and be condempned for heresye Ye yf God came hymfelfe vnder hys tyttle he