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A16459	A defence of the olde, and true profession of Christianitie against the new, and counterfaite secte of Iesuites, or fellowship of Iesus: Written in Latine by P. Boquine a Frenchman, borne in Borges, & Professor of Diuinitie, in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge: Translated into Englishe by T. G. Whereby maye bee perceiued, howe falslye the Iesuites vsurpe the name of Iesus, and how farre off they are, from the thing signified thereby, and what their profession, and purpose is in truth: otherwise then they beare the worlde in hande.; Assertio veteris ac veri Christianismi adversus novum et fictum Iesuitismum seu Societatem Iesu. English	Boquin, Pierre, d. 1582.; T. G., fl. 1581.	1581 (1581)	STC 3371; ESTC S116194	81,465	194

and ruinous kingdome For he perceiuing that as the Apostle Paule hath foreshewed Christ hath begonne to consume it with the breath of his mouth and abolishe it with the brightnes of his comming that is the preaching of his glorious Gospell and seeing moreouer the world to growe to a disliking and contempt of the ignoraunce sluggishnes and lewdnes of their other orders taken from men as Dominicke Benedict Fraunces and suche like hath sent abroade into Christendome this newe Secte hypocritically adorned with the name of Iesus furnished with more shew of learning holines godlines thē their other Popish fraterternities to the entent that Iesus Christ may be the sooner betrayed while these holy Iesuites giue him a Iudas salutation and kisse And because he standeth in good hope that these be the men by whom he shall recouer agayne that so large a circuit of ground which hee hath loste and Christe by his Gospell hath gotten in Germany Fraunce Englande Scotlande Denmarke Swethlande and other countries in Christendome he maketh great account of them and chiefly fauoureth cherisheth encourageth and aduaunceth them bestowing vpon them to the mayntenaunce and increase of their nurceries and Seminarie houses great Abbasies lands liuings sumptuous buyldings in Italy Fraunce and some partes of Germany Furthermore he vseth this speciall policie to cause them by al meanes priuily to allure and entice the youth of the Vniuersities and countries where the Gospell is preached to depart from the places where they are vnto these their Seminary houses to the ende that being there for a time nouseled and trayned vp vntill they be hardened in hypocrisie obstinacie and malice agaynst the trueth and poysoned with the pestilent errors of the Romish Antichrist they may be sent out as newe false Apostles into their owne countries or els thither where it is thought they may do most harme Whenn they folow their forefaithers the Scribes and Pharises the like hypocrites who as Christ sayth compassed the sea and land to make one proselite or of their profession and when he is made make him two folde more the childe of hell then they them selues And therfore that heauy woe which Christ pronounced agaynst the Pharisees must needes if they repent not light vpon these Iesuites whose wicked example as in diuers other things so in this they doe embrace The consideration of these spirituall practises of Satan in this newe supplye of false Prophets of Antichrist wherewith he oppugneth our fayth besides the outwarde forces and worldly policies and enterprises which he ioyneth therewithall as also the pestilent seedes of Arrianisme Anabaptisme Libertinisme the Familie of Loue Epicurisme and Atheisme which he hath euery where sowen I feare me while the Shepheards of Israell were a sleepe ought to awaken al the professors of the Gospell and to make vs to looke about vs and to stande continually as it were vpon watch and ward especially those whom the Lorde hath appoynted to be watchmen ouerseers of his people Nowe the waye to withstande these strong temptations of Satan and his ministers is to sticke faste vnto Christ the foundation of our fayth deliuered vnto vs by the Gospell of trueth and as he giueth vs warning as good Eagles to flee to the carkase and therevpon to rest and perseuere vnto the ende stopping our eares at the voyce of all false prophets and lying spirites which goe about to withdrawe vs from the same and acknowledging onely as the good sheepe of Christ his voyce beeing our true and onely head shepheard speaking vnto vs in his holy worde And to the intente our countreymen which as yet are not so wel acquaynted with the name professiō doctrine and purposes of these Iesuites and therefore are the sooner to be deceiued thereby may be the better armed and prouided agaynst them I haue thought good to translate this little Treatise into our mother tong written in Latine by a learned and godly man beeing publike professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge who as wel for that he remayned in that place neare vnto the whiche they haue buylded some of their ●eastes as also for that he had diligently read some of their bookes had good cause to knowe them The methode and order which he vseth and the matter therein conteined I trust is such as can not mislike the godly and I had rather the same should be gathered by the reading therof then by my report Only this I will say that I thinke it to be very necessarie and profitable for this present time and occasion wherein we are newly and freshly assaulted by these Antichristian Champions albeit with the olde and rousty weapons somewhat scowred and burnished but of the same edge and force that the other were of They maye be perhaps terrible to those which only looke vpon the brightnes thereof but not to them which haue more regard to the sharpnes strength of the same as in the late combate with them by triall it was founde As for the causes which haue moued me to dedicate this small labour vnto your Honour they are two The one because the Author making his choyse hath offered the same vnto a most godly Earle and therefore hath moued me to tender the same to a personage of no lesse honor and godlynes that it may come into the hands of men with the better acceptation and liking Secondly for the priuate duetie and thankfulnes which I owe vnto your Honor in respect of that courtesie and good will your Honour hath extended as vnto all other of my calling so also vnto me And because I was not able to do that which other haue done of their owne abilitie in this matter I haue rather then I would doe nothing borowed of an other to supplye my want Howsoeuer it be my good will hath not wanted This onely is my desire at the Lords hands that as I hope your Honour will not refuse this so simple a duetie of my parte so the fruite and benefite thereof may come vnto many The Lorde encrease his singuler giftes and blessings in your Honour to his glory From London the thirde of Nouember 1581. Your Honours in the Lorde most humble to commaund T. G. To the Honourable and noble Earle Lewys a Seyn Earle in Witgenstein and Lorde in Homburge chiefe Gouernour of the Palsgraue his Court Peter Boquine sendeth greeting in the Lord. I Am persuaded with some of my friendes often exhortations noble Earle to suffer to bee published suche thinges as I haue thought vpon touching the newe order of Monks which Italy an other Affricke in this kinde hath lately brought into Christendome For sithens I hard both of the title wherewith this newe army of Satan bewtifieth it selfe as also the suttletie with which it insinuateth it selfe to the worlde many thoughtes entred into my minde as well of the continuall hatred of this enemy against Christ as of his craft and power

euerlasting and this life is in his sonne He that hath the sonne hath life he that hath not the sonne hath not life Christ also himselfe hath so depainted and expressed it in that proper allegorie of the vine and the braunch that euerye man may easelye perceyue it And hetherunto doth plainlye belong that the Apostles call him in some places the sauiour of the world Now this title in Gréeke as it very well agreeth with the Hebrue name name whereof I haue spoken before so is it so great if we beléeue Cicero a fitte witnesse herein that it cannot be vttered and expressed with one latine worde For it noteth him that bringeth health or saluation Neither forceth it that this title is geuen somtime to the father and is also yeelded vnto men as to the Iudges of the old people and the ministers of Gods word Rom. 11. and 1. Tim. 4. For that which draweth nothing eyther from the office or honour of Christ but rather streyneth that which hath beene sayde hereof For it is manyfest that the Father as the chiefest fountayne of saluation from whom all saluation floweth vnto the Sonne and is as it were committed vnto him of verye good right is called a Sauiour But as touching men this honour is for no other cause geuen vnto them then for that they are chosen and appoynted by our Sauiour Christ that he might distribute and poure abroade vpon others by them as his in strumentes that power of sauing which he hath of his own and resting in himself which thing the author of the Epistle to the Heb. 2 Chap. séemeth vnto me verye fitly to haue noted and layd downe in naming him the Prince of our saluation Now that which this wryter vsing a manner of spéech which the Hebrues are acquainted with doth signifie as it were with one word We reade that Peter Act. 5 ver 31. did part in two when he had mainteyned this cause before the high Priestes of the Iewes Him hath God lifte vp with his right hand to be a Prince and Sauiour and so foorth By these most sure groundes for to alleadge any more it is néedelesse I thinke that doth sufficiently appear which I purposed to declare that without the felowship of Christ there remayneth no hope of saluation vnto any man Wherby it is euidently proued that they are vtterly deceiued and erre very farre which séeke elswhere or otherwise saluation Wherefore I neyther must neyther will reprooue this new order of Friers if they speak in earnest and beléeue that they see●e saluation in Iesu and bee willinge to draw it thence as from a continuall welspring but I accounte it a very vnreasonable thing for a man to goe about to drawe all that to himselfe alone and to challenge it as his owne which is common with him to al mē of what state and condition soeuer they be and therewithall that they are fowly deceyued if they thinke it cannot be had without that kinde of life which they haue newly deuysed vnto them selues Lastly I take them to be very far deceyued in this that they take another way to obteyne saluation of Iesus then he himselfe hath layd downe and declared CAP. VII That to the intent true felowship be had with Iesus the way that he hath declared is to be followed IT is the part of a trustye and wise Phisition not only to shew the sick person a fitte and wholesome medicine but also diligently to delyuer the maner and how to receaue the same especially if he perceiue he hath to doe with one that is vnskilfull and ignorant of Phisicke For as it is an easie matter herein to misse so it is well knowen to be very dangerous and dayly experience prooueth the same Therfore the holy Ghost to the intent he might performe the parte of a true teacher and most faithfull Phisition vnto the elect and sufficiently prouide for their saluation vnderstandinge well how great not only the vanitie but also the blindnes of mannes mind is especially in seking and prouiding for their own saluation thought it not sufficient to set foorth and poynte out a true sure and necessarye medicine but also thought good to declare plainly and largely how the same is to be vsed Wherfore it behoueth al those that are in déede desirous of their own saluation to resolue with themselues that not only the remedy against sin which the heauenly Father doth offer in Christ is to be unbraced of them ●●t that therewithall they must in euery poynt folow the way to receyue the same which he hath layde downe For they are very much deceiued and altogether erre which imagine other wayes and meanes or being deuysed of others séeme they neuer so plausible and playne accepte of the same Certainlye they tyre themselues in vayne which runne out of the way and as he sayd it is better to haste in the way then to runne space out of the way for it is so farre of that they should euer come vnto the true ende that in steade of saluation they procure to themselues grieuous destruction The holie Ghost doeth most plainly teach and that not in one place that the father is knowne of no man and that no man commeth vnto him but by the teaching and leading of the sonne who not without cause calleth him selfe as the life and trueth so the way also thereunto For so the same spirit teacheth that no mar comineth or is receiued into the fellowship or communion of the sonne but by the motion and leading of the Father God is faithfull saieth Paule to the Corinthians by whom you are called into the fellowship of his sonne Iesus Christ our Lorde Herehence it appeareth that there is no comming to this fellowship for any man but by the Fathers calling And it is not méete that any should be called but hée that heareth his voice and foloweth it that is to say that heareth him speaking and obeyeth his counsell and goeth after him being guided as it were by his hand Which thing Iohn doeth plainly shewe in the beginning of his Epistle teaching that he declareth to the Church that which he had séene and heard that they might haue fellowship not onely amonge themselues but also with the Father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ The voyce therefore of the Gospell is the way whereby we haue enterance vnto this holie and healthfull fellowship By it the Father calleth those whom he hath giuen vnto his Sonne before the foundation of the world was laid and bringeth and assembleth them vnto their shepheard And that voyce of the Father soundinge clearely from heauen conteineth the effect of the heauenly voice This is my welbeloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased heare him By these fewe wordes but verie significant hee noteth both the end and sheweth the way For the end or scope vnto the which wée must leauell as it were with both

are thereby signified By the iudgemente of this learned and holy man we vnderstande that it becōmeth not the godly to speake as they luste and carnally to conceaue of matters of religion but that religiously and reuerently they vse a certaine manner of wordes Before Saint Augustine his time wee reade that Ieremy a good writer did woorthely reproue in the Valentinian heretickes the libertie of such kinde of woordes For the holy Ghost would haue vs so framed that we should neyther thinke neither say any thinge but by his direction The history of the holye Scriptures setteth foorth vnto vs many examples of a mind so framed and ordered vnto godlines that it will take in hand all thinges religiously but that cometh néerest to my purpose which Moyses writeth in many places of the holye endeueur the godlye had in geuinge names vnto men euen from the beginning There it is to be séene by the reasons which are ioyned almost to euery name that they attempted nethinge no not in that matter whiche may séeme to be of no great waighte vpon fleshly affection but that they did al things hauing the feare of God to guide them and his holy Spirite to teache them which thinge I woulde haue well marked leaste any man shoulde lightlye estéeme thereof and thinke it nothing materiall vnto godlines Yea and the selfe same wryter as do also other witnesseth that God himselfe hath either geuen or chaunged the names of some whome he had made choyse of for greate matters And the same to haue béene done also of Christe the historye of the Gospell doth diligentlye and that not without cause rehearse Uerely he that is touched with the feare of God will neuer suffer himselfe to be perswaded that those thynges are eyther nothynge worth or triflinge whiche are so earnestlye repeated by the holye writers Neyther let any man saye that thys was onely done in some fewe men For we reade the same to haue bene vsed in all orders and degrées of men which God by his wise counsaile hath chosen and appoynted both to teach and to rule others and to establishe comely and orderly gouernemente in his churche then which nothinge can be imagined either more profitable or more honest and herehence is it that he woulde haue some both to bée and to bée called Apostels to speaks nothinge of the manner of the olde people some Euangelistes some Prophetes Bishops Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons Which titles it is wel knowne to be neither idlely neither rashly either deuised or geuen For they that sée not the reason of their offices and functions to be conceiued therein are woorthy to sée nothinge For they to whome those offices are committed are plainely admonished what theyr duetye is or what they owe vnto other and what other should looke for at their handes what accompt they oughte to make of them That all these things are cōprehended in one worde it is cleare so that whosoeuer knoweth what these wordes meaneth doth also easelye vnderstande the same Neither shall it be amisse in my iudgement to knowe in these titles some steppes of Gods wisedome suche as appeare in the visible signes of the Sacraments which to haue bene most wisely chosen out and ordeyned all that are of sound iudgement do confes For they know which are rightly instructed in these misteries that God by these signes as it were visible wordes as Sainte Augustine is wonte to call thē doth speake vnto those that haue their eyes to sée and by these meanes doth teache them that are willinge to be taughte Like as then these sacramentall signes hath euerye one their significations apte and agréeable to the institution of God so by these titles they that are chosen and placed in those functions are put in mind of their dueties Wherefore euen as in the sacraments they that vnderstand not what the signes meane doe receaue them to their destruction as prophaners thereof so they that vsurpe the titles of these orders and adorne themselues therewithall and yet performe not the things signifyed thereby doubtles they shall be iustly punished in their due time of God the reuenger of so greate wickednesse as vniust vsurpers of holy thinges And let thess iolly fellowes tell me I pray you which no lesse fondlye or rather unpudently then boldly do faine and take to themselues names at theyr pleasure if any man in a well ordered common wealth should take vpon him any name belonginge to the chéefe Magistrate as of a kinge or such like or should vse the title appertayning to any other dignitie should not he vnlesse hee were holden of all men for a foole be sayd to haue vsurped the magistracie and bée proclaymed giltie of high treason Now if in ciuile dealinge man doth thus offend and therefore cannot escape vnpunished may the same bée done lawfully in the church of Christe Surely religion is defaced as much also in the very names and wordes And to adde this by the waye those that haue bene estéemed wysest amonge the profane Philosophers haue written that it is not for euery man to geue names vnto things and that he hath bene holden for most wise that first inuented names and applyed them vnto things whose opinion is manifestly warranted in that Moyses in Gen. 2. cap. the 19. verse sheweth that Adam being made vnto the image of God appointed names by the commaundement of God for euery liuing thing Yea and there are some that write that it skilleth much and is very behoufefull for the commō wealth what name euerie one man be called by who so list to way these things which I would briefly point at not stande vpon wil resolue I trust that it is not the part of a godly or wise man to faine at his luste and openly to vse either the name or the surname which agréeth not vnto anye thinge CAP. II. That the name of Iesus and tytle of Christ were geuen by the commaundement of the Father vnto the Sonne of God manifefled in fleshe AS Christ did not take vpon him as witnesseth the Author of the Epistle vnto the Hebrues Ca. 5. the office of a Byshoppe so it is manifest by the history of the Gospell that he tooke not vpon himselfe neithere the name of Iesus neither the title of Christ but that he was honored therwith by the decree and expresse commaundement of his euerlasting Father As for the name of Iesu both Mathew and Luke are euident witnesses that it was geuen him by the Angeles appointment and least it might séeme vnto any man either a thinge comminge by chaunce either not of purpose in flat words a most iust cause was therewithall ioyned by the heauenly messenger He shall saue saith he his people from their sinnes that is to saye the thinge it selfe shall answere this name least any man should thinke it to be a vaine imagination I wil not at this time dispute eyther of the originall

fallen downe in the church restore againe things corrupted amend thinges amisse doe not only deceiue the expectation of all good and godlye men but also doe marre agayne the things that began to be amended and to heape errors vpon errors yea and by all shifts and drifts labor to make the diseases incurable wherunto medicines were prouided with greate hope of recoueringe of health They that before these men tooke vpō them the defence of popish errors were stayed with some shame that they durste not stubbornly maintain the grossest and such as were flatly contrarie to the Doctrine of Christ and they confessed willinglye that many thinges creapte into the church whilest the shepheardes were a sléepe which needed reformation as plainlye witnesseth certaine orations openlye made and pronounced in the Counsell of Trent both in the Popes own name and other catholike Princes which being also put in Printe remayne at this day in mennes handes But there is nothing so grosse so rotten so filthy so fonde and wicked in the popish puddle and sinck which sauoureth not well vnto those purgers and reformers They allow vphold and defende all thinges be they neuer so foolish and vnreasonable This can the reading of the bookes set foorth by them most certainly declare Neuertheles I will alledge one example to perswade thē of the truth herof which either haue not so much leisure to take that paynes or are not disposed to lose time in turning ouer these filthines It is wel knowen almost vnto al mē that Ariacletus the bishop of Rome being bewitched with the opinion of his soueraintie or as they call it popish supremacy when hee perceyued that it stoode vpon weake foundations toke vpō him to make Christ the founder and author thereof which to bring to passe hee would vse a metamorphosis or transformation not vnlike that wherby he turneth bred into the body of Christ For of a stoane he thought to make flesh that is did translate the hebrue word Cephas a head He was laughed to scorne of all those that take no delight in such foolery and are not so light of credite y t they would receaue euery thing without examination and tryall When Antonius Contius the polisher of the popish canons and one of the chiefest flatterers of the Romish Antichrist lighted vpon the 22. Distinction and met with the place of the Epistle of Anacletus he feared being otherwise a bolde and shamelesse man as Runnagates are wonte to be to allowe of that interpretation which to be vnsauery his very conscience forced him to confes but cunningly indeauored to slippe away from the place where hee coulde take no holde First he confessed that that Etymologe was laught at by some then by and by he secretelye reprooueth it bringing the true interpretation out of Hierom. But on the other side fearing least he should offend his gods as some are wonte to say that is purchase no thankes of them whose good will and fauor he endeuoureth by all meanes to procure immediately he doth after a sorte excuse Anacletus and almost discharge hym bringing foorth an example of like errour in Optatus the Affricane a man otherwise both godly and learned Within these bowndes did this most earneste mayntener of Popish errors hold himselfe But Turrianus a great man amongest the companies of Iesus and a follower or rather a flatteer of cardinall Hosius did not stick to leape ouer the barres listes He excuseth not Anacletus after a sorte and indifferently but doth plainly commende and defende him as a skilfull and diligent man as a follower of the Prophets and Apostles and the learned auncientes So much preuayleth with these men the smoke of the Popes courte and his fatte morsels that they doe quickly shake of out of their conscience all the feare of God and driue from their face all shame and blushing while they turne black into white Whosoeuer therfore doe thinke that in these new companions of Iesu who as they are themselues seduced so endeuour what they can to peruert others there remayneth any sparcle or ●rum of true faith it must needes be either that they are not acquaynted with their disposition and manners either that they are them selues scarce sounde in faith CAP. X. That the second steppe to keepe fellowship with Iesu is a life worthie the name of Christ THat Christ is after two maner of wayes in the holie scriptures described and set foorth vnto all the godly we doe reade it well noted and for good cause written by many godly and learned expounders of the same For they teach first that he is the Authour and giuer of remission of sinnes righteousnes life saluation to those that beléeue in him And they witnesse the same to be so proper and peculiar vnto him that no péece or part thereof may be turned ouer vnto any other without great wrong and manifest sacriledge against him Secondly they describe him as a moste singular example and paterne of a godly and holie life ordered and framed vnto the most straight or exact rule of the lawe of God which as by his wordes hée taught and prescribed so did he by his déedes expresse and laye foorth to bee followed of all those that desire as wel to bee as to bee called his schollers whereof there is a plaine testimonye the 13. Chap. of Iohn For this heauenly maister was nothing like those whom Paule setteth foorth the seconde of Timothie 3. chapter Which cary a shewe of godlines but deny the power thereof of which sort were they also whom he doeth liuely paint out Rom. 2. chap. He hath therefore both deliuered in word and expressed in his deedes a true forme of godlines that all that couet to haue any place in his schoole houshold might vnderstande that it is required of them as well to professe the same with their mouth as to perfourme it in worke For this being comprised vnder the name of loue he haue said to be the proper marke of his profession and schooling whereby his true Disciples are discerned from counterfaite Io. 13. chapter As likewise he hath willed that Wolues and false Prophetes should be knowne by their fruites Math. 7 vers 16. To be short it is euident that Christ would haue our obedience ioyned with our fayth in him which is the head and summe of all the seruice whiche hée would haue done vnto him Yea and the Apostle in some places sheweth that fayth it selfe is comprised vnder the name of obedience Moreouer he witnesseth that God is denied as well in déedes as words Euen as he teacheth the doctrine to be commended with the example of holy life The Apostles therefore being the best expounders of the minde words of Christ Like as they doe alwayes teach that we should beléeue and trust in him the Authour of our righteousnes and saluation So they doe

noone For God and the world are of such contrary desires one to y e other that Iames doubteth not to say that the friendshippe of the world is enimity with God and that whosoeuer desireth the friendship of the world is made an enemie vnto God Whosoeuer therfore is not an aduersary vnto the world and hath not bidden battel vnto it and doth not declare the same rather in deede then in word is not to be counted y e friend much les y e felow of God For Christ also hath sufficiently shewed that no man can be addicted to them both and loue them both Paule allegeth no other reason why Demas forsooke him but that hee had imbraced this present world Furthermore Iohn in his first Epistle and second chapter hath liuelye paynted out the nature of the world and what his lustes are wherein also he confirmeth the former sentence of Iames. Whatsoeuer saith he is in the world the luste of the flesh the luste of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father Now it is to bee considered amongest whom these affections doe raigne and these markes appeare If there be any that dare denye that they are chiefly to be séene in the courtes of the Bishops of Rome of Cardinals and of Bishoppes I will not doubt to affirme that hee is touched with no féeling of conscience and with no shame For who vnlesse he be marueylously shameles wil deny that their palaces or houses more stately then kinges are schooles of all kinde of pleasures Who knoweth not that they and their reteyners doe liue in excessiue ryot and do fare most delycately and dayntely Truely that olde prouerbe a Prelates feast did neuer so well agree vnto any as vnto these men I speake nothing of the monstrous outrages which are done in secreate those that are openly done do suffice and giue euident testimony thereof If it hath bene heretofore truly and worthily saide let him depart from the courte that mindeth to bée godly howe much more truely and rightly I pray you may it be saide of these men whosoeuer desireth to haue fellowship with Christ and friendship with God Let him beware flée and abhorre these companies and fellowships For he that goeth about to ioyne the one of these with the other he thinketh and doeth as wisely as if he should endeuour to make fire and water agrée together If these newe fellowes are so desirous of the Apostolicall temperance continence and abstinence as they professe them selues in their apparell iesture wordes and writinges howe commeth it to passe that they couet so much to nestle thēselues so neare the Popes kitchins It is maruel that they auoid not smoke which is noysome to students of learning the sauor of rosted meat which is wont to be vnpleasaunt vnto those which are fasting They that in déede hate wickednesse doe diligently remoue from them all those thinges whiche entise men therunto and doe diligently cut of all occasions thereof Yea theire eares can scarce abide their names And many not without cause doe thinke that this cause especially brought foorth the olde solitarie lyfe For those goings aside from the multitude and company of men do séeme to haue tended to that purpose as the monumentes of antiquitie touching the same do plainly declare But these vpstart fellowes of whom it is reported that they meane to raise vp the godlye antiquitie beinge as it were buried take a cleane contrary way from it To the intent they might flée from the worlde they séeke the verie marowe and fatte of the worlde to the intent they might auoyde filthinesse they cast them selues into the gutter Turrianus wryteth that he was before he tooke vpon him the profession of the secte of the Iesuites in the world and so he would conclude that he is now out of the worlde following I thinke them which cast themselues into hote burninge coales least they should be burnte or which for feare of rayne least they should be wet doe dreanch themselues in a ryuer Furthermore they that are desirous of godlynes from the hart indeuour to goe before others and prouoke thē by their example to vertue doe euen auoyde all occasiōs which might cause men to suspect the contrarye of them Now who would not beleue much more suspecte that those which follow the sauour of the kitchen be rather geuen vnto voluptuousnes then to temperance and albeit they fayne themselues to be abstinent yet that they do liue ryoteously For it is not said for nought if thou dwell by a lame man thou shalt learne to be lame But these men wil say that their purpose and end is to cure the diseases of y e church and that they doe follow cunning and wise Phisitions which doe verie well thinke that it ought to be the chiefest endeuour to take away the causes of the diseases for as much as they perceiue the Bishops of Rome and Prelates to be the fountaines of all those euils wherewith the church is greatly pressed and well neare oppressed as all men likewise doe confesse that therefore they haue most iust cause to beginne amongest them their cure These thinges are well saide but their déeds must answere their sayings Verely they are but vaine bragges whether they holde their peace or say any thing to the contrarie For it is no wise mans part as one well saieth to beléeue more those thinges which thou hearest then which thou seest Neyther are there more sure testimonies of our intentes and willes then the effectes thereof Therefore we do then especially beléeue and confesse that the causes of diseases are cured when wée sée the diseases to be assuaged and diminished But now what signes and tokens of this assuaging of the diseases doe there appeare vnto vs or what can these newe Phisitions shewe vs whom haue they of so many naughtie and leaude persons brought vnto a better trade or a sounder minde Errours and naughtines amongst them are not only not diminished but more and more increased In some of these gouernours of their church superstition together with ignorance of heuenly doctrine groweth daily more stronger in other some the contempt of true religion waxeth greater in most part either Atheisme or Epicurisme doe openly raigne Their maners are verie corrupte all discipline yea that which the Popes themselues haue inuented and deuised is quite decayed And what shoulde I bring any witnesses hereof séeing the thing it selfe soundeth it out Who knoweth not that that moste gréeuous complainte which is in the Prophet Ose the 4. Chapter was neuer more iustly eyther spoken or heard of then at this daye to witte There is no trueth no mercy and no knowledge of God in the lande by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and whoring they breake out and blood toucheth blood for these thinges are done without controlement and these wounds are séene both euerie where and especially amongst

more and more the face of true religion deformed many wayes by their predecessors to establish superstition and Idolatrie and that according to the maner of this Iuggler vnder the color of reformation buylding vp But it is well that this enemie did somewhat lately thinke of the mustering of this supply of souldiers For the lighte of the Gospell hath nowe spread his beames so farre and wide that it is no easie matter for them to extinguishe it the truth hath taken suche deepe rootes in the minds of many that it is an hard matter to pluck it out Notwithstanding it is to be lamented that in y e meane while the eyes of many vnwary and ignorant men or to speake more flatlye with Paule suche as are children in vnderstanding and foolish are so bewitched and deseled with these mens charms and doting tales that they entertaine heare haue in admiration and folow these obscure vpstarts as if they were Angels sent from heauen But suche is the disposition of many that according to the saying of Christ they loue darknes more then light and had rather follow blinde guides then those that can sée clearely briefly that preferre cruell wolues before faythfull shepheards and had rather buy their destruction dearely then receyue saluation fréely offered Truely it is a wonderfull and a pityfull thing that these vagrant and wandring persons thrusting vpon men vnder the pretence of the traditions of the Apostles moste absurde things and most contrary to the true and auncient forme of godlines shoulde be harkened vnto and embraced and in the meane time those things should be let passe with closed eyes and stopped eares which Luke in the historie of the Actes of the Apostles hath as faythfully deliuered as he wrote the history of Christ to wit the Gospel concerning the infanc●e of the Catholike and true Apostolike Church and the first ordeining and founding therof Who can doubt vnlesse he be vtterly a godles person that as Luke is the onely writer so the holy Chest is the onely author of both the bookes Neither is there any doubt but that this spirite the gouernor and guider of the Church of Christ would haue that maner and forme committed to writing to be deliuered and leaft to the posteritie to the intent it mighte haue continually a paterne to looke vnto and folowe Verely Erasmus thought very conueniently and truely that it was meete that Christians should with greater desire couet to vnderstande the originall and beginning of their owne people that after they haue knowen by what meanes it hath growen vp they might perceiue that religion beeing decayed was by the selfe same to be restored For albeit that historie of the Actes of the Apostles be very shorte neuerthelesse there wanteth nothing that belongeth to the right buylding of the Church Here a man may see what was the Apostles doctrine fayth discipline and good gouernment and what ought the Christian and Catholike to be By these beginninges and foundations a man may surely knowe what afterwarde hath bene fitly and rightly buylded vp and added and what otherwise By this rule who so hath but a meane iudgement maye quickly perceiue what ought to be receiued and borne with in religion and shall discerne with litle adoe things that are right and true from those that be counterfaite and false And namely he shall verye easilye finde out the hypocrisie and deceitfulnes of this diuelishe felowshippe● both in the name that it hath newly inuented vnto it selfe as in the very thing likewise which it falsly chalengeth vnto it selfe For what is more meete and contienient then that they which beleeue in Christ and professe themselues to be of his schole and housholde should receiue and holde their name of him and should be called Christians what also is more iust then that they which professe them selues to be his disciples should kéepe and folow his doctrine And as by their name they witnesse the affinitie coniunction and fellowshippe they haue with him so likewise that they shewe foorth and as it were seale vp al these things by their life and déedes Therefore we must t●yne vnto the name the thing that agreeth therevnto least that our life denie that which the worde or name doeth affirme and at length beeing shut out from his fellowship we be cast into vtter darknes with all hypocrites If so be we loue the thing that is Christian godlines and religion there is no cause why we should be eyther a shamed or weary of the name which professeth it But as touching these newe companions where as Iesus is the same that Christ and they signifie playnely that they are ashamed of the name of a Christian and it is manifest that they are destitute of the thing which ought to be ioyned with the profession of the name there is no cause why they should call them selues Iesuites and saye that they haue fellowshippe with Iesu but if they wil say the trueth that is desire to expresse by their name the thing that is proper vnto them they may cal them selues both most truly aptly in stéede of Iesuites Gehezites FINIS Matth. 12. vers 37. By thy wordes thou shalt be iustified and by thy wordes thou shalt be condemned 1. Cor. 3. 11. Eph. 2. 20. Math. 16. 18. Io. 14. 6. Rom. 15. 4. Math. 7. 24. 25. Io. 8. 44. Io. 8. 44. Deut. 13. Math. 7. 15. 2. Cor. 11. 14. 15. Gal. 1. 8. 9. 1. Io. 4. 1. Apo. 12. 12. Math. 24. 4. 5. 11. 23. 24. 25. 26. Mar. 13. 21. Luke 17. 23. 1. Tim. 4. 1. 2. 3. 2. Tim. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 2. Pet. 2. 1. 2. 3. ●nd 4. 18. 2. Thes 2. 3. 4. 8. 9. 10. 11. Antichrist The liuely description of the kingdome of Antichrist 1. Cor. 1. 23. Iewes Gentiles Heretikes Antichrist and his doctrine Concil Florent dist 22. 22. Sacrosancta Concil Triden 1. decret Sess 4. Lind. li. 1. ca. 4. Bonifac. 8. Extra vnam sanctam Trid. Concil sess 7. ca. 1. Cath. Rom. Antichrist a more deadly enemy to Christ and his kingdome then all other 1. Io. 2. 18. 22. 23 1. Io. 4. 2. 3. The means vsed by Antichrist to set vp his kingdome 2. Thes 2. Apo. 17. 1. 2. 3. 4 2. Thes 2. 8. Mat. 26. 49. The Iesuits giue Iesus a Iudas salutation and kisse The Iesuites the Popes chiefe hope Our Vniuersities of Oxforde and Cambrige haue had to muche experience thereof Mat. 23. 15. Math. 13. 24. The waye to auoyde Satans his ministers temptations assaltes Mat. 24. 13. 28. Io. 10. The consideration of Satans continuall hatred and craft against the Church profitable to the godly Luk. 1. 4. Act. 1. 3. The Church of Christ like a ship in the sea The Church of Christ euer assaulted by satan Satan raiseth enemies out of the Church against the Church Christ for good cause exhorteth vs to watchfulnes especially the shephcards of the flocke The