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A03619	An apologye made by the reuerende father and constante martyr of Christe Iohn Hooper late bishop of Gloceter and Worceter againste the vntrue and sclaunderous report that he should be a maintainer and encorager of suche as cursed the Quenes highnes that then was, Quene Marye. Wherein thou shalte see this godlye mannes innocency and modest behauioure: and the falsehode and subtyltye of the aduersaryes of Gods truth	Hooper, John, d. 1555.; Bull, Henry, d. 1575?	1562 (1562)	STC 13742; ESTC S122036	17,261	56

and the other partye of the other hyll Also when the incestious man was excōmunicated S. Paul alone did not excommunicate him but Saynt Pauls consente and also the whole churche with him Extraordinary excommunications that then the holye men vsed whiche our bishops at this day neither haue power to do nor know what they be be not in vse As Saint Paule alone by Gods power made blinde the witche Elimas And Peter alone by the same power kylled Ananias and saphira his wife The bishops can but strike and excommunicate with the worde of God If that serue not thei shoulde commend the matter to God and medle no further But nowe the bishops haue learned Gods worde and preache and teache fables and lies and who so wyl not beleue them in suche wickednes they strike them with losse of goodes landes liberties frendes wyfe and children yea with imprisonmente swearde fire coarde and suche like And to make all appeare wel they strike true men with the false slaunder of treasonne But such is Goddes iuste punishemente for oure synnes most iustelye happened vnto vs. When we amend oure lyues he wyll withdrawe hys scourge Thus maist thou see gentle reader that suche cursinge as theese vngodlye papistes slaunder me wyth all is bothe againste my knowledge and my doyinges And as I knowe I shoulde not curse any man euen so I knowe I should praye for all men and for mine ennemies also diligentlye and Chirstianly for geuyng them as much as lyeth in me here and before God prayinge him to send them more grace and louing charity But here I woulde men shoulde note and marke that as they be forbydde to curse the magistrates so be they forbyd to saye allowe or commend anye thinge they shall do that is not agreeable with the woorde of God For the scripture doth not only curse such as make wicked lawes but also holdeth them accursed what so euer they be that call good euyll and euyl good And althoughe God doeth require me to obey the magistrate yet he forbyddeth me to flatter the magistrate eyther styre him vp so do euyll or so commend the euyll when it is done For we know not onely euyll doers shall be damned but also such as consente to euyll doinge And this olde sayinge is true the consenters and docrs shall haue like paine Now these be the bees and stinging waspes that make the bishops so sore too rage and startle They haue taken the worde of God from the people out of all churches in this realm that nothinge maye bee sayed in the vulgare tonge which is cleane contrarye to the woorde of God and expressely against the same as sainte Paule sayeth But they saye saynte Paul ther speaketh but of preaching alone whiche shoulde be in the vulgare tonge But I saye and wyll iustifie it that they saye vntruely in so sayinge for the texte plainly and expresselye maketh as well mension of praier said or song as of preaching I wyll pray in my spirit and in mine vnderstrndinge saith sainte Paul c. And so do the olde fathers altogether say as I say Read Iohn Chrisostom and S Ambrose vpon thesame place Further they haue banished the holye supper of the Lorde and call the table wher the communion was vsed an oyster borde and the breade appointed to that vse oyster bread and yet those thinges bothe by name and effecte be conteined commaunded vs moste plainely by the expresse word of god And for y e supper of the Lorde they haue brought in priuate masses of their owne or elles of their wicked predecessours inuētion whyche is clene cōtrary to y e word of god let the boke of the Apostles and euan gelistes be iudge And who so euer wyll compare the masse as they vse it with the supper of the Lorde shal see them as wel agree as Christ and the wicked Phariseis agreed Nowe because men can not condescende vnto these wicked things and call that holy whiche is dampnable and that good which is euil Therfore be lies slaunders and false matters picked fayned against them But if they wil saye good is euyll and euyll good the deuyll God and God the deuyll then shall men haue peace with them and not before As I am sorye with all my harte that anye manne for troubles should curse hys persecutors except he haue more speciall testimony of Gods spirite that he doth well then I haue so I like wise I doe lamente that those menne that be cursed who they be I knowe not do not examine them selues and search their own consciences whether iustlye God stirreth the people to hate them or no as Dauid did beinge a lauful king and also a good king When Semei called him bloud sucker and murtherer with manye foule words he entred into y t iudgement of his owne conscyence and felt that the Lorde hadde stirred the same wicked man vp beinge his own subiecte to curse Whereby he learned good kinge to lamente and beware of the sinne that made him thus to be cursed Alas what manne or woman liuinge is there that one wayes or other hathe not deserued to be cursed both of God and man But these carnall and fleshly bishops neuer consyder that whiche is principallye to be taken hede of in euery plage that god sendeth which is the sinne in the person plaged When the scourge of God so commeth it were best for euery man too say to him selfe good Lord although I haue not deserued thus to be spokē of one way yet an other way I haue for none is pure and innocent in thy sighte Let euery manne remoue by grace the cause of cursings and other troubles whych be the very messengers of God and his scourges and then God wyll remoue the effectes whiche be the troubles them selues If the party cursed by manne be innocente he maye reioyce to be euyll spoken of for iustice sake and assure hym selfe that God wyll blesse that man curseth If he be gilty the curse is as a preacher sente vnto him from God to admonishe him of his sinnes And as for the person that curseth if Gods spirite beare not recorde with his spirit that he did it for Gods sake and the hatred he did beare onely to sinne and styrred thereunto by the spirite of God as the prophetes and Apostels were he hath greate cause to lament For the curse that he wold to others shall lyght vpon him selfe And suche offendours had most nede of coumforte to call them againe to God and to the order of charitye for that we be bounde to do as the scripture of God doeth teache Not too coumforte them or ayde them as my false accusers saye of mee as traytoures in treason but as creatures made vntoo the symilytude of God fallen in too synne The whiche similytude and dignity of God in man shoulde not be abhorred nor detested for anye cryme that manne commytteth but rather pittyed and

of Bonners Epistell intoo the same booke of Culbert Tonstalles sermons and Doctoure Sampsons oration made onelye aduisedly purposely and deliberately against the Quene and the pope and be openly in all mens handes aswell with in the realme as withoute But such be the inscrutable iudgementes of God that her highnesse should punysh her poore true and louing subiects that neuer offended her and also make false trayterous bishops Iudges of truer men then they be them selues Doubtlesse if euer I had written or spoken the tenth parte of treasonne that her owne bishops bokes do contayne I knowe theyr charitye is so burning and seruent that the crowes and byrdes of the ayre shoulde haue eaten my fleshe before this daye Yet I am not sorye but doubtelesse I speake and write frome the bottome of my harte before God very glad to se mercy shewed vnto offenders But I speake it to this ende that I verely suppose as the Quene doth forgeue offenders so wold she not wittingly punish me and other true men that al wayes haue done her good and no harme For she is by the lawes of God as much bound to be indifferent and fauourable to true men as true men be bound to geue her obedience And be it spoken withoute all pride and malice I defye him whatsoeuer he be the magistrates beinge honoured that dare open his mouth to the contrarye But alas sauinge I wold not offend the law of my liuing God that cōmaundeth me to obey al magistrates and lawes which disagree not from his holy worde it were for me a more easye death to be hanged like a traytoure then burned like an heretyke But seinge death must ensue the true religion and faith of Iesus Christe I wyll not appoint God what deathe he shall take me oute of this lyfe by I am in Christe wholy and throughly at a pointe wyth the worlde I praye dailye and wyll pray for my persecutors euē as for myself But their tirāny and death that they will kyll me with all I contemp●●e passe nothing of I am no better then my master Christ was in his seru●ce if I dy therfore by his grace whether it be by fyer or sworde or halter it is all one to me and the rather death commethe the better shall it be welcome For the soner shall my soule rest wyth Abraham Isaac and Iacob in my heauenly fathers kingedome Whereof in Christe I am assured to bee a ryghte heire ordayned to the same of mercye by hym before the worlde was made The phariseis did not laye onely heresye to Christes charge and in dede the manner of his deathe vppon the crosse was not appointed for heresye amonges the Iewes but rather stoned too deathe There was neuer a pair of stocks in the town that Ieremye the prophet scoured not but still his accusers the false priestes made theyr acusations in bothe states aswell in heresye as in treason leaste the kinge shuld not punish the poore preacher for preachinge but let him go So Christes accusers the holye bishops and preastes when they perceaued that Pilate sauoured the innocenie cause of Christe and sayd he found nothing that they layd against him worthy of death they made him poore man eate that wordes iudge as he was and told hym if hee let Christ liue and woulde not proceade to condemne him he was not the emperoures frende This hath bene alwayes the pleadinge of the Satanycal cleargy euen sithens that wicked see of Rome falsely chalenged supremacye euen to put the princes and iudges of the earth in the headde that all true preachinge of Gods word againste theyr wickednes superstition and ydolatry was treason But all kinges Quenes and magistrates ciuile shall at the daye of their death aunswer with eternall dampnation of their soules for the sheading of all innocent bloud wythin their realms and offices God doeth not bydde the kyng and Quene commit matters of religion to the bishops neither doeth he wyl them to geue byshops power to condempne when they lust and so afterwards commit such as thei haue condempned to the secular powers but doeth commaunde all princes to be learned them selues to hear them and to iudge them selues such doubtsull and weighty causes by the word of God It is bothe againste Goddes lawes and mans that the bishoppes and cleargy should be iudges ouer any subiecte within this realme For it is no part of their office They can do no more but preach Goddes word and minister Gods sacramentes and excommunicate such as Gods lawes do pronounce worthye to be excommunicated Who wold geue a sword in to a madde mans hand There be not liuinge more malicious cruell craste dyuelishe nor tyrannicall tyrauntes more mercilesse then the bishops and cleagye vnder that wycked bishop of Rome as the cromcles and the histories of the bishops liues do plainly record And no meruayle for as the bishop of Wincher sayeth in his bake of true obedience where so euer the Pope hathe supremacye there Christ is dishonoured and the kinges suffer wronge Yea he sayeth more let his boke be iudge that ther can be no truthe where as the bishop of Rome is chiefe heade And therefore he saieth that no prince canne or may geue y e pope any such autority For a king canne no more geue that parte of his office that toucheth the gouernaunce of the one parte of hys people whiche is the cleargye for matters of relygion to the bishoppes of Rome then a wyfe maye geeue the vse of her bodye frome her husbande too an other manne Yet as Saynte Iohn sayeth the princes of the earthe shall be made so droncken with the cuppe of that whore of Babylon that they wyll deliuer their power to the beaste but yet Saynte Iohn sayeth playnelye althoughe the kinges doe geue too the beaste againste Goddes lawes theyr kyngedomes yet bee they none of the beastes But nowe the byshoppe of Wynchester and the reast of hys fellowes againste theyr othes theyr sermons theyr preachinges their bokes yea their own knowledge and conscience fall vnder that wicked and false pretensed power agayne and do make him the headde of Christes churche whom they al be not able to proue to be anye member of Christes churche Graunte it wer as true as it is false that Christ hadde geuen suche supremacye to Saint Peter who they say was bishop of Rome although I neuer knewe man yet able to proue it and his successoures yet no manne shoulde obey the thinges done by the Pope For the word of God is plain that he is an excommunicate person in that he teacheth doctryne besydes and contrary to the worde of of God As Saint Paule sayth plainly And how farre both the doctrine and the vse of the sacraments vnder the tiranye of the bishop of Rome be from the word of God it shal appear plainly to all the estates of this realme if my Lorde Cardinall of his charitye wyll accomplish the reasonable and gentyll requestes that I