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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04328	An apologie for Iohn Wickliffe shewing his conformitie with the now Church of England; with answere to such slaunderous obiections, as haue beene lately vrged against him by Father Parsons, the apologists, and others. Collected chiefly out of diuerse works of his in written hand, by Gods especiall providence remaining in the publike library at Oxford, of the honorable foundation of Sr. Thomas Bodley Knight: by Thomas James keeper of the same.	James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.; Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.	1608 (1608)	STC 14445; ESTC S108215	68,345	90

this stout Champion reverend Doctor worthie preacher of Gods word Iohn VVickliffe whose very a Vetus Hypocrita Angeius Sathanae Antichristi prae ābulus non nominandus Io. Wickli● vel potius Wickebeleefe haereticus Wals. p. 256. Organū diabolicū hostis Ecclesiae confusio vulgi haereticorum Idolum Hypocritatum speculum Schismatis incētor odij seminator incendij fabrīcator lb. Pag. 266. o linguā●emper mendacem male dicam blasphemā Wald. To. I. pag. 177. ¶ Ps. 64. 5. name is therfore become hateful vnto the Adversarie his parson contēptible and his doctrine the only marke or but at which those ¶ Ps. 64. 5. qui sagittāt in occulto which lie priuily lurki●●g in co●ners do especially aime shooting there arrowes bitter words euē lewd lying Pamphlets some challēging him of Blasphemie towards God some of Treason towards the king others of monstrous b Of Manicheisme Donatisme Pelagianisme c. see Walden Act. Cap. 25. lb. Verl 7. heresies in Religion all of sondry errours and grosse absurdities knowing therefore that howsoeuer iure soli the Court of Rome maie yet iure poli Gods law doth not condemne any man before his cause be heard I haue thought it most conuenient and sit to bring him forth before you Christian Readers as before so many * Festusses Agrippaes to the end that you maie know the truth of those things wherof he is accused And albeit our Romanists haue as euilly intreated him as euer the Jewes did * Paul laying many and grievous complaints against him yet I doubt not but you when you shall as it becommeth men of profoūd iudgment good discretion permitte him to answere for him selfe as Act. 26. 1. Act. 25. 7. Agrippa did Paul wil either finde there complaints with Festus such as they sh●l Act. 25. 8. never bee able to proue viz that hee hath nether offended against the law of God neither against the Temple nor against Cesar and finallie pronounce this sentence of absolution with K. Agrippa Act. 26. 31. This mā hath done nothing worthy of death nor of bondes The order and method which I wil God willing obserue shal bee first to shew his conformitie with the now Church of England in the chiefest points cōtroversed thence to descend vnto questiōs not altogether so material and last of al to answere al such obiections as haue beene mooued by our late Popish writers Whose proofes because they are of two sorts drawn either frō c From Foxe Stow Osiander Melancthon Lu●her c. Protestantes which for want of due information or from d The Apologists Father Parsons Papists which of ill wil ' which never spake good of anie man ' haue vttered anie thing preiudicial either vnto his doctrine or to his person I wil indeuour as much as in me lieth the truth wil permit to informe the one and reforme the other The proofes which I shal alleadge shal be cleere euident apparent authentical for they shal be produced out of his own words and works as they are extant in sundry good Manuscripts in our so renowned publike Librarie as thēselues may see or cause to bee seene by others for therefore to iustifie my proceedings against them knowing there sundrie malignant e See the Treatise tending to mitigation writtē by P. R. with the answere thereto oppositions against vs I haue quoted in the margent the very wordes of the Auctor either in f As the Author himselfe wrot them Latin or in English noting both Bookes and Pages And for a final Conclusion I make this protestation his writings shal not be defended by mee farther then they are agreeable with the Articles of our Religion and I exhort you as manie as shal happen to read this Apologie as S. Paul did the I. Thes● Cap. 5. vers 21. The ssalon●ans on●nia probate quod bonū est tenete Examine all things hold fast that which is good AN APOLOGIE FOR IOHN VVickliffe shewing his conformity with the now church of England both in Doctrine Discipline TO proceed thē according vnto the first part of our general diuisiō J doubt not but it wil easily be acknowledged of al hands that the greatest Controuersies betweene the Papists and vs maie be reduced into these fewe heads They concerne 1 The Scripture 2 Traditions 3 The Pope 4 The Church 5 Iustification 6 Merits 7 The blessed Sacrament of the Lords supper For the rest which concerne the other Sacraments or other pointes of doctrine that are collateral they shal be handled with the principal questions or else in the second place apart by themselues according to our former diuision The I. Chap. Of the Scripture THe questions to be moued about the Scripture are no lesse infinite then the Scripture it selfe but the greatest points controuersed betweene vs and the Papists resteth in these 4. About the number Sufficiencie Interpretation or Communication of the Scripture or bookes Canonical Sect. 1. The first questiō about the number of the bookes Canonical Article 6. TO the 1. point Io. VVickliffe fully agreeing with the 6. Article of the Church of England and S. Hierōs doctrine maketh but f Satis est pro sua militia habere 22. libros de veteri Testamento-Authēticos Wiekliff● de ver Scrip. Pag. 110. 22. books Canonical excluding the rest which are as he rightly tearmeth them bookes Apocrypha so called as he writeth g Non quia oportet illis discredere tanquam fa sis sed quia non oportet Ecclesiam militantem illis libris credere explicatè tanquam authenticis ld lb. not because they are to be discredited of falshood but because the Church militant should not beleeue them explicatè as if they were authenticall h Stultum et vanum circa veritatem aut passiones Scripturae Apocryphae nimis contendere cum habemus plenè Scripturas sensibilitèr nobis authenticas ld lb. he thinketh it to sa●or of folly vaine curiositie for a man to striue about the truth or proper passions of these bookes Apocrypha where there are so manie books besides which are verie sensibly and plainly authentical Now if you happen to a●ke VVickliffe how he knoweth these bookes to be losse authentical then the former The differences betwixt the books Canonical Apocrypha he wil informe shew you that the best meanes of discerning books Canonical from the Apocrypha bookes are 1. i Aucto●izatio corum in Nouo testamento Wickleff de Ve●r Scrip. pag 95. pag. 109 To looke into the newe Testament and to see what books of the old Testament are therein cited authenticated by the holy Ghost 2. If that wil not serue for k Credo quod Ecclesia discre tè examinan● quemcunque librum quoad totam suam sententiam dicià Spiritu Sancto in alia Scriptura lo. pag. 96. the Church of God discreetly examining any booke to consider whether the like