vnder his Father and Grand-father and for their affections declining to Idolatrie and not truly esteeming the blessings in Iosiah their king powred vpon them the Lord threatneth to bring euill vpon that place and the Inhabitants thereof Which he did by suffering Iosiah to be slaine by the souldiours of the king of Egypt and within few yeares after his death selling his owne people into the hands of the idolatrous Babilonians For as darknesse naturally followeth light and night the day so do great punishments accompanie rare blessings when they are not duely esteemed as they ought Blessed was Ierusalem by the testimonie of the Lords owne mouth when he said My beloued had a Vineyard in a very fruitfull hill and he hedged it gathered out the stones of it and he planted it with the best plants and built a Tower in the middest thereof and made a wine-presse therein But when he looked for grapes and it brought forth wild-grapes the Lord threatned from the height of this blessed estate to cast them into the gulfe of miserie to take away the hedge from his Vineyard that it might be eaten vp and breake downe the wall thereof that it might be troden downe c. The Lord hath not therefore been lesse beneficiall to vs in placing so gracious an head vpon the bodie of this Realme because you and some such as your selfe are doe yet remaine to God ingrate and to your Prince and Countrey vnnaturall Onely I beseech God that whereas by his appointment the Oliue is yet ouer vs with her fatnes and the Figge with her sweetnes and the Vine with her fruitfulries that amongst many other sinnes of our land for our vngratefull contempt of so great a blessing a Bramble be not set ouer vs which is good for nothing but to burne and consume vs and so much concerning my supposed contradiction Now Sir N. D. it is your pleasure to heare my manner of speech in these words If I should take vpon me to enter into the enumeration of all the benefits and blessings that from the Almightie haue beene powred vpon this little Iland of England c. And hauing thus vnperfectly repeated them you passe the ouer with this sleight exception saying That in mentioning our little Iland I must take Scotland with me else I erre in Cosmographie as though England were not deuided in gouernment from Scotland though both rest vpon one continent and as though your selfe did not tearme this Realme an Iland euen where you do distinguish it from Scotland Therefore Nodum in scirpo quaeris and to this shift you are put very often for want of matter But if seemeth that Scotland was named here by you chiefly to make way for your purpose to giue a glaunce at battels murders destruction of Countries Prouinces Townes Cities Houses and particular men that haue beene in Scotland within these fortie yeares as though Scotland had neuer tasted these or any of these before and then you come in with Ireland wherein you seeme to bewaile the death of the noble Desmons whose treasons yet liue by succession in one of the same name who it is said wrote â— treason full letter stuffed with most intolerable opprobries and slaunders against her Maiestie and the state to the King of Spaine And this I hope is no great proofe of your sonâ—dnes to Queen or State France and Flaunders follow to fill vp the number But had you any respect of truth or care of modestie you would neuer haue made the true Religion wee professe the cause of murders tumults and garboyles which teacheth dutifull obedience and condemneth all mutinies seditions and rebellions You should do well to haue told vs who murdered the King the Lord Iames the Lord Russell in Scotland In France who murdered the Prince of Conde after he was taken prisoner which I thinke the law of Armes will not well beare Likewise who they were that laidâ— bloudy hands vpon the Admiral Chattilion being first shot in with a Pistoll with three bullets in the streetes and afterwards slaine in his chamber And so of Marlâ—ret slaine in his garden and of the famous learned man Ramus who hauing paid monie to ransome his life was beyond all humanitâ—e most cruelly quelled And generally who were the Authors not onely of the bloudie massacre in Paris but also of the like vprores in other Cities and quarters of the Realme principally at Lyons Orleans Roan Tolouse in which Cities within the space of one moneth there are numbred at the least thirtie thousand godly Protestants to be slaine your holy father at Rome to shew with what spirit he is led and with what meanes he sticketh to maintaine his Religion which otherwise would fall to the ground so soone as he heard of this bloudie tragedie maketh great ioy with his Cardinals with their procession with their gunshot and singing Te Deum Yea in honour of that Act proclayming a Iubile with great indulgence and solemnitie For Flaunders tell vs who murdered the noble Prince of Orange against whom it was proclaimed that who soeuer could bring him aliue or dead or slaie him should haue fiue and twentie thousand crownes You shall finde that such a Catholike-faith as yours is hath still sought to maintaine it selfe by such Catholike means as these are treasons tumults seditions secret murders and such like As for our true Christian Religion it is so cause of tumults garboyles and murders as Christes birth was of the murther of the poore infants in which neither Christ nor the infants ought offended the madnes was in Herod and all Ierusalem to be for this cause in an vprore In a word it is Herods Religion which seeketh to murther Christ and the Christes and annoynted of the Lord. I proceed to your aduertisement for a better direction to mens iudgements that all blessings of a Common-wealth may be reduced to two heades the one spirituall belonging to the soule and conscience the other temporall concerning the bodie and weale publike and that the Lord hath richly blessed this land since her Maiesties Raigne I doubt not to proue to all that haue iudgement and indifferency following your owne methode And first there hath beene in England since this happie alteration change from popish superstition to Christian veritie One God worshipped in spirit and truth one faith one belief one forme of seruice in praier and praises to God one number of Sacraments which are onely two by the word of God one head of the Church which is Christ the Lord as the holy Ghost testifieth by the Apostle Him hath God appointed to be the head of the Church And his substitute annointed appointed ouer vs is our Soueraigne and Queene who is to commaund and be obeyed in Christ and for Christ in all causes aswell ecclesiasticall as ciuill and not your proud vsurping Priest at Rome and if you can like to looke vpon the harmonie of confessions you shall find all the
to giue ouer their olde impudent proposition That ignorance of the Scriptures is the mother of Popish deuotion For what meant the so strict forbidding to laye men the reading of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue but that their deuotion should not growe of the knowledge but of the ignorance of the Scriptures flat contrarie to our Sauiours commandement giuen to the vnlearned multitude of the Iewes Search the Scriptures for in them you thinke to haue eternall life and they are they that testifie of me where the reason annexed to the Commandement sheweth to whom the Commaundement appertaineth euen to as many as it concerneth to seeke after eternall life and to know Iesus Christ and him crucified which is the laytie no lesse then the Cleargie contrarie also to the Apostles exhortation to the Colossians being laye men Let the word of Christ dwell plenteously in you Whereupon Chrisostome noteth Audite seculares omnes comparate vobis biblia animae Pharmaca c. Heare you secular or laye men euery one get vnto you Bibles the Phisicke of your Soule if you will nothing else at the least get you Testaments the epistles of Paul the Gospels the Actes to be daily and diligent instructors to you In a word contrarie to the spirite of the same Apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrewes who reproueth them that they were like vnto Children and vnexpert in the word of righteousnes whereas they ought to haue their wits exercised therein But ignorance of the Scriptures better pleaseth you in the people and shall leade them to such deuotion as maketh more for your aduantage Hence hath growne your deuice of fides Implicita a faith wrapped and folded vnder the obedience of the Church namely that it is sufficient though they knowe not distinctly what they ought to beleeue but obediently submit their vnderstanding to the Church beleeuing as the Church beleeueth though what the Church beleeueth they knowe not This Carbonaria fides is highly commended by Cardinall Hossius who farther teacheth the simple laye man that he should thinke it went very well with him if he could say by heart the Lords praier the Articles of beliefe and the ten Commaundements though he knew not the meaning of the words As for other knowledge if any asked him a question hee should answere that hee did beleeue the Catholike Church And this ignorance of the Scriptures as a fruitfull mother hath brought forth many a blinde daughter of gainfull deuotion to your kitchin what greater deuotion was either then esteemed to be or indeed what acte more for your aduantage then the building of Monasteries and Nunneries and the endowing them with great lands and reuenues And this deuoute daughter mother Ignorance of the Scriptures brought forth which as for the most part they were builded by Kings and great States vpon some great murder either by wane in the field or priuately committed at home so the cause was as in stories may be seene Pro remedio animae meae pro remissione redemptione peccatorum meorum c. For the reliefe of my soule for the redemption and forgiuenes of my sinnes c. Which blasphemous derogation to the death and passion of Christ Iesus the knowledge of the Scriptures would haue quicklie discouered Yea how Deuotion hath been separated from knowledge not in your laye people alone but in your Priests too whilest deuotion hath been so tyed to their daily saying of their Maâ—tins and euensong which without deadly sinne they may not leaue vnsayd whiles in the meane time they vtterly cast aside the Apostles commaundement Giue attendance to reading exhortation and doctrine in the answer of Iohn Lambert to the 25. Article to him obiected may partly appeare I will onely adde this one testimonie that by the confession of some of your owne coate which haue made any conscience of their carriageâ— may appeare how carefullie your deuoutest Fryers haue been to couple knowledge with their imagined deuotion Franciscus Sampson generall of the order of the Friers Franciscans reprouing both their ignorance and carelesnes hath these words Pratres mei dilectissimi à primordio nostrae Religionis floruit conscientia c. My beloued brethren in the beginning of our Religion there flourished conscience but our beauty by little little sliding away the first sillable was taken away and there remained Scientia science or knowledge but now our sinnes so deseruing the first sillable is againe taken away and we remaine Pura entia stipites statuae meere things which haue a being euen very stockes and blockes To adde further proofe in a case so manifest were to light a candle at noone day yet this I will adde ex abundanti If publike praier in the Church and congregation of the faithfull be a chiefe and principall part of Deuotion made you not Ignorance the mother of their Deuotion when as ye would not allow their publike praiers in a tongue that the people vnderstoode Yea your Cardinall Hossius vseth this reason to proue that the Church seruice should be in the Latine tongue rather then the vulgar because saith he since some vsed the vulgar and knowne tongue in Church seruice Deuotion hath not onely not been increased but diminished And our Countrey man but the Popes Champion D. Stapleton in an English booke that he writeth against Bishop Iuel confidently affirmeth that Deuotion is not furthered but hindered by a tongue that is vnderstoode In a word D. Cole Deane of Paules and one chosen not onely to maintaine the Papists assertions against the Protestants in the disputation at Westminster but appointed by the Bishops and other his Colleagues to be the mouth for them all whose speech in the end they all being asked did auow to be the mind and saying of them all euen he in that honorable assemblie of the Councell and Nobles and frequent concourse of the Commons did with great vehemencie maintaine this proposition in these words I say Ignorance is the mother of Deuotion And so Sir Encounterer you must be forced to take it both for a maxime minime though minimè tibi placet to confesse a truth The second fayned position wherewith it pleaseth this deepe Clerke to charge me is because I say your Syde holdeth that it is not for lay men to meddle in matters of Religion c. And for this after your olde railing fashion you charge me with subtiltie and impudencie my subtiltie you say I shew in this word meddle which may either signifie that lay men must not determine or define of matters of Religion or else not to meddle or care for Religion at all And surely Sir though I may giue you good leaue to take it in which fence you will for in the former sence you will not deny but that euen Princes are restrained to doe any thing in causes of Religion within their own dominions without
in Pharaoh to kill him How was Dauid preserued from Saule or the Prophets from Ierobâ—â—â— or the Israelites from Hamâ—â—s malice Peter from Herods crueltie or our Sauiour Christ for a time from the conspiracie of the chiefe Iewes For in all these there was will ioyned with outward power for a time and yet the things desired not effected Cicero his argument holdeth where there is nothing supposed to hinder and where the will is fully bent to doe a thing but in all Soueraigntie and inclination of the will it holdeth not because there may want strength and continuance of the partie and the will may not be throughly setled as that of the Iewes they would faine haue put Christ to death but they feared the people God no doubt did strangely keepe Queene Marie from consenting to the bloodie practise of the Romish Cleargie against her Sister and though some of the Cleargie did seeke her death yet it might bee hindered by others and their desires by some considerations so crossed that though they did desire her death yet they could not effect it for which the Lord of Heauen onely is to be praised But what a shameles forehead hath this Encounterer who against so manifest a truth so plainely and sensiblie to bee proued doth not blush to denie that her Maiesties life was at that day earnestlie and maliciouslie sought after Why was shâ—e so hastelie sent for when shee was sicke to bee brought vp to the Court either aliue or dead presently vpon Wyats rising why was she falsly accused and burdened with Wyats insurrection yea so far that he was brought against truth and conscience to accuse her Why was she committed to the Tower to be a close prisoner Why did she say Tanquam ouis when she remoued from the Tower to Woodstocke Why was she in many feares and so often enforced to bewaile her estate and to pray to the mightie God to preserue her Was there not a report that there was a warrant out for her execution and did not M. Bridges Lieutenant of the Tower go in haste to Queene Marie and so by certifying her preuent the bloodie execution When the sword of iustice could not by any meanes be drawne forth against her what extreame dealings were vsed and what secret conspiracies plotted for the bringing of her to an vntimely death and the shedding of her innocent bloud I spare to write more in so plaine a matter that reuerent learned man Master Foxe hath at large in his Monuments of the Church set downe the miraculous preseruation of her Maiestie at that time from extreame calamitie and danger of life which who so readeth shall with inward compassion and watrie eyes rather lament her pitifull estate then with a hard heart and shameles face deny so manifest a truth as this Encounterer doth As for the causes which he alleageth did concurre to the preseruation of her Highnes it is not denied but that some of those by him alleaged and many others which in probable reason might be imagined might well concurre for the working of her Maiesties securitie at that time but that any of thofe was so potent and mightie as of necessitie to make her safe from daunger or that they or any other can bee certainely alleaged to be necessarie causes and procurers of her deliuerance with all his wit and insight into matters of State of which he seemeth much to brag he will neuer be able to shew Certaine it is that her Maiestie when she was in that trouble and daunger vsed these words when shee protested her innocencie at her landing at the Tower Before thee O God I speake it hauing none other friends but thee alone and as certaine it is that neither wise States-man nor any other can definitelie say of these or any other supposed causes in these respects or for these causes chiefly shee was preserued what though shee were gracious amiable and vertuous and much fauoured of the Spanish King who in policie it may be did by that meanes seeke to win the peoples hearts vnto him must it needs follow hereupon that therefore her innocent behauiour could not bee called into question nor her bloud shed by any wicked conspiracie The King of Spaine was farre from her in her greatest trouble and neither you nor any other can say that hee pleaded her cause or stoode openly for her freedome at any time If hee sent the Duke of Feria to visite her or secretly did speake for her to Queene Marie as Master Foxe seemeth to confesse he did that which was seemely and honorable in a King and that which her place and innocencie iustly deserued As for the generall hope which you say most men had of her Maiesties being a Catholike if it had been either so vniuersally conceiued as you imagine or by such outward tokens had appeared as you haue set downe how can it be true that she was presumed by many to be inclined to a different Religion from yours as you a little before in this Encounter doe confesse If shee had been deuoted so earnestly to Popish Religion why needed commaundement to be giuen that shee should haue Masse within her house within two daies after her committing to the Tower and how happened it that her men were so vnskilfull to helpe the Priest that the first day there could be no Masse for want of a Clerke and the next day one of her yeomen at Kyrieleson made a stop and set the Priest being not able or not willing to proceede any further Her sound affection to true Religion was the cause of all her trouble and danger in her Sisters daies and her willing and ioyfull embracing of the true Christian faith and of God his true worship and seruice hath so sufficiently been witnessed euer since the beginning of her Raigne that no man of common sense or Christian charitie hath the least cause to suspect that her heart should bee vnsound in the present profession of God his true Religion and Gospell The last cause which you alleage to concurre to the preseruation of her Maiestie is but a thing imagined by you seeing the matter of depriuing her Maiestie of life neuer came to any such stately consultation as you your selfe in handling this point doe plainelie graunt and seeing also that in such a case they could haue found out other meanes for preuenting such a potent pretender whatsoeuer you say of the Spaniards affection to the Queene of Scots at that time I am sure all England had like to haue tasted by so lamentable an experience that this Lady of Scotland was so affected by Spaine and sundrie of our English Espagniolized traitours as if through Gods goodnes shee had not been cut-off in time hardly could our Soueraigne haue escaped with life long being almost daily in daunger whilest that Scottish Queene liued through the practise of Rome Spaine and our home Traytors Thus notwithstanding all your flourishes and deuises your potent causes are too
which in that letter of Boners to the Lord Cromwell are to be found And this I hope is sufficient to cleare me from malignitie and sycophancie for calling so vnworthie a man a bloudie monster After this flourish to make shew in generall of the Bishops milde mature whereof by these fewe particulars the reader may more soundly iudge this his Proctor proceedeth to cleere him of seeking her Maiesties life in the raigne of her sister but it seemeth his conscience gaue him a secret checke when he set pen to paper about this defence For how weake an Apologie doth make for so haynous an accusation the lines are few in which he wrappeth vp the handling of this weightie case and the reasons as weake as water that he alleadgeth for the Bishops clearing It was so farre off from Gardiners condition and nature saith this forward Proctor that he dareth say I doe him apparent and wilfull wrong What Sir if for malice he might be compared to the diuell as Boner witnesseth what could be more agreeable to his nature then to seeke the bloud of so gracious and innocent a Ladie And seemeth not trow ye his case to be verie good which so wooddie yea so hot and fierie a Patrone seekes to maintaine with so slender and cold a defence as I dare say he doth him apparunt and wilfull wrong But he addeth she was an obiect rather of loue and compassion then of enuie and hatred But what loue could proceede from him that was of an hard heart and cancred malicious stomacke what compassion could he shewe whose verie bowels were cruell As for the misterious bracelet of which this brabler talketh in which all the secrecie of Wyats conspiracie was said to lie hidden which Gardiner farther pierced then any other but neuer vsed or vrged the knowledge gotten thereof to the Ladies perill I answere that the misterie of this Shemeis treacherie against that innocent Ladie his now Soueraigne may hereby appeare to all men who to grace his client with the commendation of a deepe politike to pearse further into the misterie of that conspiracie then anie other and of a tender harted man in not vsing nor vrging his knowledge gotten thereof to the Ladies perill layeth the highest disgrace vpon his Soueraigne that can be imagined as if she had been secretly confederate with Wyat in his rebellion against her sister and that this Eagle-eyed Bishop had spied so much in a misterious bracelet but of pure good will did neuer vrge it to her perill Whereas for euer finding any suspition against her through so manie hard and earnest siftings his owne mouth is a witnesse against him who kneeling downe to her Grace after long triall had of her loyaltie and integritie said Then hath your Grace the aduantage of me and other of the Lords for your long and wrong Imprisonment As for his concealing of any thing that hee might finde against her or desire to free her from daunger who knoweth not how farre both hee and the rest of the Clergie were from any such inclination For when Wyat at his death cleered the Ladie Elizabeth Doctor Weston cried Beleeue him not good People c. Which being related to Sir Thomas White then Lord Maior he was moued at the bloudie humour of this Popish Doctor and said of him with indignation In sooth I neuer tooke him but for a knaue But was your Bishop more mildlie affected then the Doctor Nay hee was so vnwilling to haue her cleered as hee chafed exceedinglie at a poore Apprentise in London for saying that Wyat had cleered her and the Lord Courtney and caused the Lord Maior to bring this poore youth to the Starre Chamber where hee vttered a speech vpon that occasion and pronounced the innocent Ladie guiltie and commaunded the Apprentise should be punished And if Master Bridges then Lieutenant of the Tower had not as is reported most honestly aduentured to Queene Marie to informe her of a warrant that was out for the execution of this her worthie Sister the innocent Ladie had lost her life poore England had been depriued of so gracious a Soueraigne and the light of our Candlesticke had been put out But blessed bee the Lorde who gaue not the Soule of his Turtle Doue to the beasts nor his darling to the power of the dogges With this for good fellowship may walke hand in hand his plea for the Bishops freedome concerning the bringing in of the Spaniard of which I affirme that Gardiner and his complices neuer rested vntill they had brought in the Spaniard and matched him with Queene Marie by which they betraied God her and the whole Realme from which this Proctor first would cleare him by imagining in him a partiall affection to the Earle of Deuonshire whom he would haue married to the Queene But it were strange that in a man of Gardiners place there should bee so great ficklenes and mutabilitie that in so short a space so great loue should bee turned into such extreame hatred a little before in his loue he would haue made him as you say as a King by matching him to Queene Marie within a while after he would haue made him worse then a caitife and to suffer as a Traitour accusing him earnestlie in the Starre Chamber when as Wyat had cleered him Secondlie hee demaundeth if this had been so as hee saith it was not why did they betraie therein both God their Queene and their Countrie To which his demaunde I briefelie answere God was betraied because his true Religion was exiled which Queene Marie before her obtaining the Crowne promised to the Suffolke men to maintaine and in steede thereof Idolatrie was established The Queene they betraied because they matched her to an vnhusband-like husband who estranged both his affection and companie from her which was thought to be a great cause of the shortning of her daies for when the cause of her often sighing a little before her death was asked of her selfe she confessed this to bee one though not the onelie cause that she could not enioie the companie of her husband The Realme they betraied because they sought to make it subiect to a stranger though yet blessed bee God doe all they what they could or the Queene herselfe they could neuer set the Crowne of England vpon King Phillips head And that the temporall inconueniences by that match were not more fullie felt God is to bee praised who gaue him here so short an aboade Further by this match they bringing in the Pope and resigning the Supremacie to him did wrong to the Crowne for by the Lawe of God the King in his owne Realme is chiefe gouernour both in causes Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill the Pope contrariwise will not onelie be aboue the King in all causes Ecclesiasticall but also in some Ciuill challenging all Bishops and Cleargie men for his subiects exempting them in things Ciuill from the Kings authoritie whereby he robbeth the
King of a great part of his Subiects and in the Realme doth gleane out another Realme to himselfe yea challengeth to haue power to depose the Prince Againe the auncient Lawes of the Realme were hereby made to stand for cyphers the Lawes of the Realme will haue a Priest for debt to bee sued before a temporall Iudge but the Popes Lawe commeth and crieth the contrarie Patrones by the Lawes of the Realme should giue Benefices but the Popes Lawe setteth them besides All the dangerous consequences threatned to this Realme by that match it is not my purpose to set downe I will onelie adde a fewe verses made long since concerning that marriage by which the Reader may partlie see what is to be iudged of it Regi non Regi nupsit non nupserat Angla est Non Angla est grauida est non grauida est grauius est Parturit atque parit sic vos voluistis ouantes Nil tamen illa parit sic voluit dominus Duxerat ad paucos menses mox deserit idem Sponsa est mox vidua est sic voluit Dominus Irrita frustrentur semper sic vota malorum Perniciem patriae qui voluere suae A King she matcht yet not a King scant doe her married call English she is not English yet great not with childe at all She breedes and beareth in her wombe as ye triumph and braue Yet brings no childe into the world euen so the Lord would haue Philip a few moneths married her then leaues her with great speede A wife she is a widow straight the Lord had so decreed Euen so confounded be th' attempts of wicked Papists all Which of their natiue Countrie seele the ruine and the fall Now I come to the great fume and chafe of this hot Encounterer for that I say the Recusants cannot professe more loue and loyaltie to the Queene that now is then did Gardiner Boner and Tunstal to her noble Father and Brother which they did confirme by Printed bookes for Gardiner in his booke de vera obedientia c. where like a graue States-man and another Nestor hee takes vpon him to taxe mee either with ignorance in the matters of our owne Realme or with forwardnes to tell vntruthes His allegations are two the first that Gardiners booke de vera obedientia was written for feare of the Kings violent proceeding or not being well instructed perhaps in the controuersie of the Supremacie and that shaken with the frailtie of humane infirmitie hee shrunke with Saint Peter But he may remember that first Gardiner with sundrie others did take a voluntarie and solemne oath against the Pope as by the copie thereof yet extant may appeare wherein he sweareth purely of his owne voluntarie accord and absolutelie in the word of a Bishop c. Then he stayeth not heare but writeth his booke de vera obedientia for the Kings and against the Popes Supremacie which hee professeth to doe with long and mature deliberation and Boner in his preface before that booke perswadeth the reader to esteeme Gardiners censure and authoritie to be of more weightie credence in as much as the matter was not rashlie and at all aduentures but with iudgement and wisedome examined and discussed saying that a man may rightly call him Fabius that with his aduised taking of leasure restored the matter The second allegation is that for King Edwards Raigne it is a flat fable and fiction that I tell of Bishop Gardiners following the sway also of that time Gentle Sir Encounterer did not Gardiner againe in the Raigne of King Edward take a solemne oath against the Popes vsurped authoritie and subscribed to the Kings lawfull Supremacie 〈◊〉 in causes Ecclesiasticall within his owne Realme Yea did he not before King Edward flatlie preach against the Popes Supremacie as also against Images Ceremonies Munkeries Chauntries c. Therefore doe no more blasphemouslie compare Saint Peterâ— fall to Gardiners dissimillationâ— Saint Peter denied vpon the suddenâ— and within few houres 〈◊〉 Gardiner sware solemnly preached publikelie and wrote vpon long and aduised 〈◊〉 and so continued many yeares till 〈…〉 authoritie 〈◊〉 another course Concerning his sermon made at Paules Crosse vpon this text surgereâ— It is time for vs now to arise from 〈◊〉 I shall neede little to answere because it 〈◊〉 concerneth my former booke but how firâ—â—e soeuer your wisdomâ— thinketh that the time since King Henrie shaking of the Popes tirannie might be compared to a sleepe and the resuming of the Pope withall his wares to be an awaking yet what more like might then Poperie and the liuing 〈◊〉 vnto a sleepeâ—â— For as darkenes coâ—ereth all things in the night and men cannot walke safelie for want of light so Ignorance preuaileth in Popâ—â—â—e and the people are misled therein so that they cannot see which way they ought to walke because they are not permitted to exercise themselues in the Word which is a lanterne to our feete and a light vnto our steps and as in sleepe the hungrie man dreameth that he careth but when he awaketh his soule is emptie so in Poperâ—e the people being fed with mens traditions thinke themselues in good plight but when they are truelie wakened as Ionah by Gods spirite they perceiue that they were hunger-starued for want of the true foode of their soule the word of God In stead of all which large comparison of those times of King Henrie and King Edward to a sleepe and commending the Bishops wisdome for the choice of so fit a text I will set by way of opposition another euigilate or caueat to awake made to the Pope and his Clergie long before the profounde Sermon of this youâ—â— Bishop euen in the time of Henrie the fourth called the A.B.C. AWake ye ghostlie persons awake awake Both Priest Pope Bishop and Cardinall Consider wiselie what waies that ye take Daungerouslie being like to haue a fall Euery where the mischiefe of you all Farre and neere breaketh out very fast God will needes be reuenged at the last How long haue ye the world captiued In sore bondage of mens traditions Kings and Emperours you haue depriued Lewdly vsurping their chiefe possessions Much miserie you make in all Regions Now your fraudes be almost at the last cast Of God sure to be reuenged at last Poore people to oppresse you haue no shame Quaking for feare of your bloudie tyrannie Rightfull Iustice you haue put out of frame Seeking the lust of your God the Bellie Therefore â—â—dâ—re you holdlie ceâ—tifie Very little though you be thereof agast Yet God will be reuenged at the last But to looke backe a little vpon this famous Sermon in the long narratioÌ„ that you set down by occasion of this Sermon I must examine some few points wherin either this Proctor belieth the Bishop or the Bishop the King And first if it be true that he affirmeth that King Henrie the eight appointed Gardiner to be one of the sixteene Counsellors in his
testament to gouerne his Sonne and the Realme how happened it that Sir Anthonie Browne was so earnest and importunate a sutor to the King to haue Gardiner put into his Will againe when he was put out And why did the King bid him holde his peace and trouble him therewith no more For if hee were in he would trouble them all and if hee moued him any more for Gardiner he would also put him out Is not this an argument that the King reposed great trust in Gardiner for the gouernment of his Sonne and the Realme Another thing you say Gardiner vttered in his Sermon that King Henrie in his latter time was inclined to reconcile himselfe to the Pope But I would the Bishop had had more wit to speake truth and lesse skill in lying for it is apparant that not long before the Kings death hee with his owne mouth answered the Ambassadour of Frederick Duke of Saxonie that if the quarrell of the Duke his master were nothing else against the Emperour but for Religion he should stand to it stronglie and hee would take his part Nay more then this as the worthie Archbishop of Canterburie Doctor Cranmer a man farre more inward with the King then Gardiner was doth testifie the King but little before his death resolued talking with the Archbishop and French Embassadour that he and the King of France within one halfe yeere would not onely change the Masse in both the Realmes to a Communion as it is now vsed but vtterly to haue banished the Bishop of Rome his vsurped authority Yea they were so throughly and firmely resolued in that behalf that they minded also to exhort the Emperour to doe the like in Flaunders and other his Countries and Seigniories or else to breake off from him A third thing in this discourse you alleadge that Bishop Gardiner was wont to say of King Henrie that after he left to loue that person which by Gods law and mans law he was bound to loue aboue all others to wit his first wife and Queene he neuer loued anie person heartilie and constantlie after Whereunto I shortly answere that concerning his often changes of his wiues putting som to death and others away I will not take vpon me to answere at all But to Gardiners report I answere that this his mutabilitie proceeded not hereof because he ceased to loue the first but because he first loued where he should not namely his owne brothers wife against the voice of God and nature as crouching and glosing Gardiner who flattered with the issue of this vnlawfull match not in word onely but in publike writing professed to the whole world vtterly condemning the former mariage with his brothers wife and approuing iustifying the second with Queene Anne In his booke De vera obedientia he writeth of that point to this purpose And amongst these Sith there is commaundement that a man shall not marrie his brother's wife what could the King excellent Maiestie 〈◊〉 otherwise then he did by the consent of the people and iudgement of his Church that is be diuorced from vnlawfull marriage and vse lawfull and permitted â—â—â—â—â—â—tion and obeying as 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 conformablie 〈◊〉 commaundement cast off her whom neither law nor right permitted him to haue and take him to chast and lawfull marriage Wherein although the sentence of Gods word whereto all things ought â—â—sâ—oupe might suffice yet his Maiestie was contented to haue the assisting consents of the most notable graue men and the censures of the most famous Vniuersities of the whole world and all to the intent that men should see he did both that he might ought to do vprightly seeing the best learned most worthy men haue subcribed to it shewing therein such obedieÌ„ce as Gods word requireth of euerie good and godly man so as it may be said that both he obeyed God and obeied him truly c. Hitherto Gardiners words Who reading this discourse of Gardiner concerning the kings first vnlawful his second lawful mariage would euer haue suspected such mutability in the man so suddainely to turne the Cat as the Prouerbe is in the panne approuing that which before he openlie condemned and condemning that which before he publikely approued or who noting this his inconstancie and not this onely but the other of condemning and abiuring the Popes Supremacie and earnest maintaining of it againe will not thinke him a verie Proteus which can change himselfe into all shapes serue all times sooth all Princes affections with â—it aio negat nego And so I leaue your wauering Bishoppe and come to your constant Cardinall About whom you professe to be verie briefe but if you had not spoken in his defence at all you had shewed yet some loue of truth and hate of treason for as wicked Sheba blew the trumpet of sedition against Dauid so hath this your Cardinall done against her Maiestie In my former booke I charge him that though he seemeth to wish that Doctor Saunders and Doctor Bristow had spared to speake so much in defence of Puis Quintus his Bull against her Maiestie yet he both affirmeth that these two learned men of great zeale and excellencie had their speciall reasons to doe so And in another treatise Viz. his defence of Sir William Stanlies act in giuing ouer Deuentre to the King of Spaine he doth as fully approue the Bull as anie of the other which though I condemne as good cause I should being a point of so high treason as that the Queene being by the Pope deposed is no longer Queene noâ— to bee obeyed yet you answere for him smoothly that he must needs be of like iudgement with Saunders and the rest and that he might speake his mind plainely being in the place and dignitie that he was when occasion should be offered Which in other words is as much to say as your Cardinall must needs be of the iudgement that the Queene was no longer Queene after the Bull published neither might her Subiectes obey her But yet it was good pollicie to speake sparingly of that point and for the Papistes to yeeld for a time outward obedience to auoide the daunger of the law till a fit time might come either by open force or secret treason to put the Bull in execution And so much doe the faculties granted by Gregorie the thirteenth to Parsons and Campion import which is further warranted by Saunders going after into Ireland with Italian and Spanish forces to haue depriued her Maiesty of that kingdome which fact as you cannot deny so will you not shew to detest in a subiect against his Prince because it was for your Pope For a further defence yet of your Cardinall you alleadge the example of childrens sorrow to see their parents at iarre that the yonges sort are fitter to weepe and mourne then to determine the controuersies and that the elder sort may speake more freely and interpose their iudgements
also but euer with due reuerence to both parents c. All which by way of similitude you apply to our Queene as a mother and your Pope as a father and to your Saundrs Allen Bristow Stapleton c. as elder brethren and to the Priestes and lay men in England as yonger brethren c. which similitude consisteth of nothing but dissimilitudes For first the Pope is no way our father and therfore our obedience reuerence loue not to be deuided betwixt the Queene and him as the childrens betwixt the father and mother the Queene is our mother both nourishing vs as a tender parent in things temporall as also in taking care for the Church of Christ in this land in things spiritual according to the Lords promise by the Prophet to his Church Kings shall be thy nursing fathers and Queenes thy nurses So did Iehosaphat Ezechias Iosias amongest the Iewes Constantine Iustinian Charles the great with other like Princes amongst the Christians commaund and make lawes in causes ecclesiasticall and acknowledged no vniuersal father-hood of your Pope I wish he did discharge the dutie of a true spirituall father within his owne Diocesse and Bishopricke but it is an hard testimonie that Laurentius Valla giueth him Papas dici nomine Patres re Parricidas that the Popes are called fathers in name but in deed they are Parricides Againe if the elder brethren interpose their iudgement betwixt their Parents by your own confession it must euer be with due reuerence to both partes this reuerence your elder brethren haue not shewed towards the Queene too good a mother for so vngracious Impes whom they not onely call heretike pretended Queene vsurper c. but haue by all meanes sought the murthering of her sacred person Thirdly the yonger children you say must holde their peace and mourne for the contentions but not intermeddle But Sir your elder brethren whom you allow to speake are farre enough from reach they may safely define what they will against the Queene and cast abroad their iudgements in railing bookes to yonger brethren to settle in them a consent therto Which being done they must yet make shew not to intermeddle to the end they may the better auoide perill to their persons secretly hearten the people against her Maiestie Take an instance hereof from one of your yonger brethren one Paine a Priest who walked no lesse closely for his safetie then he was directed nor lesse cunningly to corrupt the peoples hearts then he was commanded who from his owne mouth discouered to one Eliot a bloudy platforme laid to destroy her iestie and diuers of her Honorable Councell with armed men the effecting whereof stayed onely the comming ouer of certaine Priests which were expected in the meane time through Gods goodnes this horrible treason was discouered and preuented And Paine being asked how they durst practise or attempt any such mischieuous action his answere was that to kill the Queene or to vse anie crueltie against her or any that would take her part was no offence to God and that they might doe it as lawfully as to a brute beast and to approue himselfe a fit messenger to be sent on such a bloudie errant he affirmed that himselfe would be one of the first that should execute the same here is one of your yonger brothers whom all the world must confesse to be a fit son for such a father as your Pope is Besides this your Cardinall Allen Doctor Worthington and others as elder brethren sent Richard Hesketh a Gentleman of Lancashire and a younger brother to induce the Lord Strange late Earle of Derbie to make a suddaine rebellion in England and to take vpon him the title of the Crowne assuring him from them and others of treasure and forraine forces to maintaine the same which treason the Honorable Earle dutifully detected Hesketh himselfe confessed and bitterly cursed his elder brethren to make him a yonger brother to aduenture the danger of the treason that they as elder brethren doe teach and deuise farre enough from reach Is this the weeping of your yonger brethren without intermedling are these the teares then are they of a right Crocodiles brood which seemeth to weeepe but it is to this end that they may sooner kill and destroy Nay further then this these elder brethren commend to their yongers treason against her Maiestie for a point of their faith namely that if the Pope say the worde none of the Papistes ought to obey her Maiestie nor to account her Queene of England for in the cases of conscience as Doctor Bilson now Bishop of Winchester noteth wherewith the Iesuites that came into England were furnished to the 55. Article when they be asked whether the Bull of Pius Quintus that was giuen out or any Bul that the Bishop of Rome can hereafter giue out all Catholikes be bound to yeeld obedience faith and loyaltie to Queene Elizabeth as to their lawfull Prince and Soueraigne the resolution is he that demaundeth this question asketh in effect whether the Pope might doe it or no to which demaund what a Catholike should answere it is playner then I need here to explicate If therefore a Catholike be asked do you beleeue that the Bishop of Rome may depriue Queen Elizabeth of her crown he must answer not regarding any danger of death I beleeue he may for this questiō is a point of faith and requireth a confessiō of our faith Do not these elder brethrē think you dutifully put in their iudgements between these two imagined Parēts the Queen the Pope when they teach their yonger brethrē treason against the Queen for an article point of their faith To ende with this Cardinall who thanks be to God ended his life before he could attaine the expected end of his traiterous dessignments doth he not perswade that it is not onely lawfull but honorable to murther Princes for Religion for saith hee There is no warre in the world so iust or honorable be it ciuill or forraine as that which is waged for Religion Now if it be true that ciuill warre which is the warre of Subiects against the Prince be iust and honourable then is it an honourable act for Subiectes to kill the Prince for the ende proposed in warre is victorie and the way to victorie is bloudshed and slaughter not so much of the people who are not impugned but for partaking with the Prince as of the Prince himselfe whom you seeke to depose and place an other in his steed And this doctrine of your Cardinals Parrie himselfe confesseth vnder his owne hand writing did throughly resolue confirme and strengthen him in his diuellish purpose to kill the Queene Doctor Allens booke saith he was sent me out of France it redoubled my former conceipts euerie word in it was a warrant to a prepared mind It taught that Kings may be excommunicated depriued and violently handled It proueth that all warre
to free my countrie from all vsurpers they to fill their countrie with forraine gouernment I to preserue vnto vs the sincere truth of Gods Gospell they to thrust vpon vs a false worship by Poperie and superstition And this shall suffice to shield and deliuer me from being harmed or grieued by your slaunders and for all your malice to me I am sorie you should carrie so vilde and villanous a mind as not to be vexed to see your Soueraign so dispitefully and disloyally dealt withall But I haue now so good cause to guesse the vnsoundnes of your heart to my Soueraigne by this your wrangling and wicked Ward-word as I cannot expect or hope for anie good fruit of a loyall heart towardes her Maiestie from you And to confirme me and all true Subiectes in this opinion you close vp this your last Encounter with a doubt whether Lopus euer ment to kill our deare Soraigne and why you should doubt I see not but because it was not done and with a deniall that your Catholike King should be priuie thereunto and yet all the Agents in it doe plainely confesse so by the first whereof you lewdlie labour to taxe the seat of our Soueraignes Iustice and by the second you abuse her Maiestie and her people and by both you offer to discredit the honourable testimonie in print of the proofes and proceedings by examinations before the Lords of her Maiesties Councell In which you may finde how Lopus was first solicited by Andrada from Mendoza the King of Spaines Embassadour in France to poyson her Maiestie Secondly by the same Andrada he was solicited by a token from Christophero de Moro one of the Kings priuie Councell Thirdly by one Roderoquo Marques a Portugale vnto whom Lopus did vndertake to doe the abominable fact for which he was profered and promised fiftie thousands crownes which I hope cannot be taken to be the gift of anie Subiect fourthly for this purpose Lopus sent Andrada ouer to Callis to conferre with Counte Fuentes about this practise and caused Stephano Ferrera de Gomo another Portugale to write letters to Stephano Iberra the Kings Secretary at Bruxels to assure him Fuentes that the detestable fact should be performed if the 50000. crownes were paid which letter Lopus himselfe sent by one Gomes Dauila a Portugale But Andrada not being thought fit to follow so great a cause Ferrera was chosen to manage it by whom the Doctor did againe assure the performance of this villanie and then there were bils of exchaunge for the mony deliuered by the Counte Fuentes the one from Gonzalo Gomez to Pedro de Carreras the other from Gomez to Iohn Pallacios And if through the merciful prouidence of almightie God these had not been lingered and that in the meane time by the diligence and carefulnes of one of the Lords of her Maiesties priuie Councell the matter had not been discouered the villanie had been attempted and acted and so brought out of doubt as this Espaniolized champiō seemeth to haue wished to the vnauoydable hazard of ruine in mans iudgement to our Countrie and State So haue you here vpon honorable credence plainely proued that Lopus should haue been the Actor of this villanie that Andrada Ferrera Gomez Dauila and Manuell Lewes all Portugales were Agents and Messengers to him about it that Mendoza your Kings Embassador in France Christofero de Moro Count Fuentes and Secretarie Iberra all Councellors to your King were Directors to these Agents and Messengers and how farre your King himselfe did direct herein let the booke tell you And therefore haue you no cause to doubt of Lopus his bloudie meaning in this bloudie busines To returne to your selfe Sir I make no doubt but you desire to be beleeued in all that you haue scattered in your Libell and not least in this last part for if you could creepe into the secret bosomes of our English Nation and winne credit to be beleeued that all that you say is Gospell you might then hope of some likelihood to preuaile in your shameles sute for toleration or alteration in Religion tendered to the Lords in your Remission immediatly following But as it is well knowne to them all that we haue been much blessed of God by her Maiesties gouernment although you inuert all out of your popish and traiterous affection into cursings so I doubt not but they all see and will acknowledge that the true worship of God erected and established amongst vs by her Maiestie is the verie assured and principall ground-worke of all our blessings Religion and pietie must be our safetie and so long as wee keepe God by imbracing his truth without halting so long shall God keepe this land safe from all malice of all our enemies whatsoeuer Therefore farre shall it be from them so much as to lend an eare to so impudent and euill affected a Sutor as you shew your selfe to be in daring with shameles face to slaunder and scorne our Religion to depraue our seat of Iustice to harten disobedience to excuse traitors to darken and sometimes to defend the malice of your two Monarches of Rome and Spaine against our Soueraigne Queene contrariwise when her iust commendation was set out for being God his good instrument of many great blessings brought vnto vs you maliciouslie turne them as I said before into cursings when to the praise of almightie God mention is made of her wonderfull and happy deliuerances both in the time of Queene Marie and in her owne time you doe in derision call the first a miracle of Milne-wheeles and the second you shameleslie seeme to perswade they were things rather feared by vs then intended to her When I vrge Stories traiterous and bloudie words against her you cunningly seeke to turne his meaning to other persons and purposes When I condemne Cardinall Allin and Bishop Gardiners proude and pernitious dealing towards her you fall into extraordinarie high commendations of them as if the trumpet of their praises for so dealing had been worthie to bee blowne ouer all the world when I say that we should keepe these three things safe in our breast first our Conscience to God secondly our Loue to our Countrey thirdly our Loyaltie to our Prince you earnestlie labour to proue that wee are not bound alwaies to loue our Countrey and to beare Loyaltie to our Prince but that for Religions sake wee must hate them and warre against them and when I lay downe the many and manifold wrongs most vnchristianlie and vnkindly offered to her Maiestie by Rome and Spaine you bend your whole force to couer all and to proue wrongs offered by her Maiestie and our Nation to them such is your speciall loue to these your two Monarches and to all treasons and Traytors plotted and encouraged by them and so little and key-colde is your loue and dutie to her Maiestie to whom you owe all loue and obedience But this is the fruite of Pius Quintus his Bull the perill
wise they became fooles Arnobius sometimes an heathen afterwards a Christian saith of his former state Venerabar O caecitas nuper simulachra modò ex fornacibus prompta in incudibus Deos malleis fabricatos c. I worshipped of late O blindnes Images newly taken out of the fornace Gods forged on the Anuiles and framed with hammers so truly may it be said of the Papists they worshippe O blindnes Images newly taken out of the fornace crucifixes forged on the Anuiles and framed with hammers and to blocks and stocks without sense as if there were some power present in them they kneele they pray they craue grace of them Your vaunt of the peerles and vnmatchable learning on your side doth neither ouerthrow mine assertion if it were true and yet all men know it to be vaine and childish boasting Our ministers as you say dare not open their mouthes if they should appeare with you in schooles or matters of learning yea they scarce vnderstand the verie ordinarie termes of the learned sciences which you professe not onely our students and young men but our Doctors of Diuinitie yea our publike readers as some of you boast and crake as you can stoutly do no men better doe scarce vnderstand your course of Diuinitie what it meaneth Is it not thinke you a clowdie and Owle-like Diuinitie that is couered with such mistes of subtilties and sophistications as that professed deuines men richly furnished with deepe knowledge of tongues and artes are scarce able to vnderstand the ordinarie termes I will say more for you which in my conscience I am perswaded is true that if Peter and Paule those blessed Apostles were now aliue and should come into your schooles to heare your Lectures of scholasticall Diuinitie and the rest together with your other exercises and disputations they would maruel and be astonished at your strange Diuinity which they vnderstand not say as the Apostle speaketh of those which heare praiers preaching in an vnknown tongue that you are out of your wits surely they would neuer acknowledge it to be consonant to that diuinity which they in their diuine Epistles commend to the Church of Christ. For it is true that a learned man hath written that of two distinct good things Diuinitie and Philosophie your schoolemen haue made a third bad compound being neither sound Diuinitie nor pure Philosophie But Sir I haue granted onely by way of supposition that which in truth is not to be granted that your men are so superiour to ours in learning that a few of yours are able to hold at schoole all our sun-shine Clergie at this day as you please to terme them for terme of life and after A proud assertion without any shadow of proofe at all for reproofe whereof I will take a short view eyther of the depth of your learning or goodnes of your cause Iohn Hus commeth voluntarily to the Councell of Constance there to tender a reason of his Doctrine and to defend publikely his assertions How learnedly doe these graue Fathers refute him they clap him fast in prison load him with chaines and fetters not onely not being conuicted but not so much as heard yea though he came vnder the Emperors protection and had his safe conduct the Pope himselfe hauing likewise consented vnto it Martin Luther goeth to Wormes by disputation to defend his Doctrine aud though his friends perswaded that he should not expose himselfe to so manifest perill because the Papists had oftentimes broken their promise yet so assured he was of the goodnesse of his cause that he neither feared the learning nor might of his aduersaries though neuer so many but he answered his friends that he would enter that Citie in the name of the Lord Iesus though he knew there were as many diuels set against him as there were tiles vpon al the houses of the Citie Afterwards before the Emperor himselfe and the whole states of the Empyre he maintaineth his doctrine answereth the aduersaries and with the Emperors fauour departeth in safetie though full sore against the minds and wils of sundrie Papists Againe vnder safe conduct he goeth to Augusta there to render a reason of his assertions to Cardinall Caietan who on the Popes behalfe and at his commaundement proposeth three things to Luther First that he should be better aduised reuoke his errors secondly he should promise hereafter not to publish or repeate them thirdly he should abstaine from all things which might trouble the Church Luther standeth to iustifie his assertions offereth there and else where to defend them sendeth in writing a defence to the Cardinall iustifying his opinions by the Scriptures In a word the Cardinal would not heare Scripture but willeth him to come no more in his presence vnlesse he would recant yet staied he there fiue daies after expecting whether the Cardinall would call him to any further disputation whereof when he heard nothing in all that space he departed At the assemblie at Spire when Simon Grinaeus heard Faber Bishop of Vienna vtter sundrie absurd errors in his Sermon he goeth friendly to him and telleth him he was sory that a man of such learning and authoritie should openly maintaine such errours as were both contumelious against God and might be refuted by the manifest testimonies of the Scriptures and as he would further haue proceeded to the refuting of his errors Faber breaketh off his talke faineth as though he had been sent for by the King and had now no leasure to reason with him in the matter but maketh shew that he was desirous of acquaintance and longer talke with Grinaeus and to that end prayeth him the next morning to come to his Chamber Now what was the sequele of the disputation or conference appointed by this learned Bishop The Bishop complaineth to the King the Serieants were sent to apprehend Grinaeus and carrie him to prison whereof he being warned a little before by a reuerent aged man was by his friends immediatly conueyed ouer the Rhene and so escaped who if he had been taken as the Serieants were to search the house for him almost assoone as he was out of doores what would further haue ensued of this pretended conference is not hard to gesse To be short you may not forget in what a pittifull taking your Cardinall of Lorrayne was in the Colloquie of Poissy when he wished that either our side had been dumbe that day or all they deafe and these few examples either proue your vaunt of your learning to be so farre greater then our side to be but friuolous and vaine which you can hardly yeeld vnto or at the least our cause to be better then yours which we rather challenge The truth of the generall proposition concerning the darkenes of those times being thus opened I shall the lesse need to insist vpon the particular absurdities wherewith this fellow faith they are vniustly charged For
durst protect felons and murtherers against the King and Iustice of the land neither reuerencing King nor obeying his lawes passed ouer without licence to the King of France Further being adiudged to prison by the King for refusing to giue accounts of great summes of money receiued by him and Reignold Earle of Cornewall and Robert Earle of Leicester being sent to him to tell him of the iudgement set downe against him this meeke Martyr and holy Saint was so farre from the obedience of a subiect that he told the earle of Leicester in these words That how much more precious the soule is then the bodie so much more ought he to obey Becket then his terreine King So notorious and euident was the rebellious opposition of this Popish Prelate against his lawfull Prince that he was openly by the king and his Nobles called Traitor in that he refused to giue earthly honour to his King as he had sworne to do and therefore they generally agreed that he was wel worthy to be handled as a periured Traitor and rebell and therefore most impudent is this Ward-worders assertion that neyther the King nor his Officers did charge him with treason If you please to adde hereunto the arbitrement of this controuersie put into the French kings handes with king Henries large offer and Beckets proud refusall there is no man I hope that knoweth what it is to be an obedient subiect but will condemne him for a rebellious Traitour The kings offer in that arbitrement was this There haue been saith he Kings of England before me both of greater and lesse puissance then I am likewise there haue been many Bishoppes of Canturburie both great and holy men what the greatest and most holy of all his predecessours before him hath done to the least of my predecessors before me let him doe the same to me and I am content Which offer though it were in it selfe and so deemed by all that stood by not onely reasonable but more then reasonable so that they all cried with one voice the king hath debased himselfe enough to the Bishop yet the rebellious spirit of this Archbishop would not yeelde vnto it nor accept peace with his King vpon so fauourable a condition What a Giant-like pride traiterous presumption is this to refuse to yeelde so much obedience to his Prince and Soueraigne as the greatest and holiest of his place haue alwaies yeelded to the meanest kinges of this land what needeth any further proofe of Beckets treason Yet if you will you may remember the letter of Maud the Empresse to him Wherin she chargeth him that in as much as in him lay he went about to disinherit the king to depriue him of his crown and if the Empresse might be thought to speake partially on the King her sonnes behalfe yet the two Cardinals sent by the Pope to heare all this controuersie out of question will not condemne him without iust cause And yet in a letter sent from them to the Pope they do condemne him of exciting stirring vp forraine Potentates to make warre against his naturall liege Lord the words of which letter were these William and Otho Cardinals of the Church of Rome to Alexander the Pope c. comming to the land of the king of England we found the controuersie betwixt him and the Archbishop of Canterburie more sharpe and vehement then we would for the King and the greater part about him said that the Archbishop had stirred vp the French King grieuouslie against him as also the Earle of Flaunders his kinsman who was verie louing and kind to him before he made his open aduersarie readie to wage warre against him as is by diuers euidences most certain c. Now for a subiect to stirre vp forraine States to make warre vpon his Soueraigne and countrie was at all times high treason but that Becket did so by the Cardinals confession was by diuers euidences most certaine therefore Becket not now his enemies but his breâ—hren the sonnes of his owne mother being Iudges was a traitor Who then but such a one as hath sold himselfe to all impudencie and shamelesse gainsaying the truth would seeke to couer Beckets rebellions by the facts of Iohn Baptist Ambrose Hillarie of Athanasius Chrysostome which haue as much agreement with the cause of Becket as hath light with darkenes good with euill sweet with sower concerning whose Saint-being I will say nothing sith my purpose is not to search what he is with God after his death but what he was towards his Prince in his life neither am I priuie to his repentance which might be secret at the last gaspe or to Gods iudgements into which I presume not to presse Yet you may remember that long since it was a generall Prouerbe of your Pope-made Saints That many are worshipped for Saints in heauen whose soules are burning in Hell and that in particular concerning Becket great doubt was moued as is by writers alleadged out of Caesarius the Monke whose words are these Quaestio Parisijs inter magistros ventilata fuit vtrum damnatus an saluatus esset ille Thomas c. There was a question debated amongst the masters at Paris whether Thomas Becket was saued or damned To this question answereth Roger a Norman that he was worthie death and damnation because he was so obstinate against Gods minister the king Peter Cantar a Parisien disputed on the contrarie that his miracles were great signes and tokens of saluation and of great holines in him c. Which argument this Encounterer likewise vrgeth But behold what strength is in it For one of these we shall find to be true that either they seemed only and were no miracles indeed such as many by the craft and conueiance of idle Monks haue been shewed to the people as namely those miracles of the Dominicke Friers in their hot contentions with the Franciscans about the conception of our Ladie who thinking by sleight to worke in the peoples heads that which by open preaching they durst not now attempt deuised a certaine Image of the Virgin so artificially wrought that the Friers by priuie gynnes made it to stirre to make gestures to lament to complaine to weepe to grone and to giue answeres to them that asked c. vntill the Franciscans seeing by this meanes their credits to decay and all the almes to be conueyed to the Dominickes boxe and not being vnacquainted with such cousening practises espied their iugling and discouered their feined fraudulent miracles For which cause foure of the chiefest actors in this iugling miracle were burned at Bernâ— Or secondly if they were not counterfeite but done in deed they were not wrought by God but by the power of Sathan to draw men from Christ to Antichrist Of these the Apostle foretelleth vs that whensoeuer it commeth to passe it might not trouble vs That the comming
and storme at her enioying of the Crowne as at her Christian and Religious gouernment Buls are not hastelie procured your Pope must be sued vnto and false informations must be giuen and it might be as they had vaine hopes for a time to feede themselues with so those hopes fayling the fittest season for publishing of the Bull was thought to be when others were prepared to raise rebellion The second point is a matter of as deepe consideration as the former wherein hee telleth vs by enumeration of diuers hard vsages offered by her Maiestie and the Protestants against the Pope and Popish Catholicks that it must needs be that not malignitie of the Pope and his adherents against her but diuers iniuries and cruelties offered inforced the publication of the Bull. I will not vouchsafe to make an Apologie for defence of those things which you Sir Encounterer recken vp as wrongs and iniuries offered to your Pope and Pope-worshippers this onely I say for answere that as her Maiestie hath done nothing in the reformation of Religion in requiring an oath of her people for acknowledgement of her authoritie in inforcing her Subiects to the true seruice of God in punishing offenders and obstinate persons and such like proceedings but that which God commaunded her and the godlie zealous Princes haue done before her so it doth not necessarilie follow that notwithstanding all those things haue been done in godlie zeale and louing care for the saluation of the soules of her people therefore you are free from malignitie your faultines wherein I haue euidentlie proued before though in your deepe and cunning flatterie you would gladlie denie it you fawne vpon her Maiestie and yet accuse her most falselie of breach of promise in altering Religion you seeme to free her from a desire to publish Gods Gospell and yet affirme that your Pope had great cause to proceede against her Other Princes as Edward the first Richard the second Henrie the fourth haue made lawes against the Bishop of Rome his authoritie and vsurped iurisdiction and yet haue not tasted so much of his malice which sheweth the malignitie of your Pope and his adherents against her Maiestie As for your Poperie and superstition rooted out of this land it was not of so long continuance as you boast for but little before William the Conqueror Kings were Gods Vicars for gouerning his Church Ecclesiasticall liuings were bestowed by the Princes they made Ecclesiasticall lawes Priests were married and your Transubstantiation was not then knowne You blasphemouslie scoffe at the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and ye glorie in the dissention betweene vs and the Lutherans but as the Lord is of will and power to mocke mockers so can hee make the infirmitie of his seruants worke to his glorie and their good I passe ouer many things willinglie in this your Rhetoricall flourishing contenting my selfe to haue shewed the non sequitur of your allegation The third point which you would haue considered is that it was an acte of iurisdiction from an Ecclesiasticall superiour as also an auncient kinde of proceeding against Princes in our land as well as in other places without any trouble to the people for the same and therefore you would not haue your Catholikes to be charged with it or troubled for it For answere thereunto this I affirme that as wee acknowledge not your Popes superioritie or Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction ouer vs he playing the vsurping Tirant in censuring our Prince so we neither yeelde that this his proude and malicious cursing and excommunication of Princes hath been of long continuance or that those his adherents who iustifie his proceedings are to bee freed from blame We acknowledge that Princes the annointed of the Lord are the higher powers ordained to execute Iustice and Iudgement ouer the good and euill We knowe no other Superiour in nations and kingdomes next and immediatelie vnder God but such as the Apostle Peter willeth vs to be subiect vnto when he saith Submit your selues vnto all manner ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be vnto the King as to the Superiour c. he speaketh of one not of many superiours where a Monarchie is established The time was when your Bishop of Rome was far from hauing a superioritie euen in Rome and his dominions for both Charles the great and Otho the great had right soueraigntie and royaltie of the Countries giuen to your Popes with acknowledgement to bee their Soueraigne Lordes in regarde of which they yeelded tributes and other seruices vnto them as also in former times the Emperours had their Lieutenants and deputies in Rome euen to Gregorie the seuenths time and your Popes obtained not the Soueraigntie which now they challenge till it was almost 1200. yeares after Christ in the daies of Alexander the third and Innocentius the third both Bishops of Rome Your vsuall engine of excommunication and depriuing of Princes of their Crownes is likewise far short of that antiquitie by which you would seeme to mitigate the rigour and crueltie thereof For as there was neuer any Romane King or Emperor excommunicated and depriued of his kingdom by any Bishop of Rome before Henry the fourth Emperour of Rome who was excommunicated cursed by Gregory the seuenth the brand of hel who being a Necromancer a periured person and a most wicked man confessed at his death to a Cardinall that he was set on by the Diuell to raise vp discord and warres in Christendome so in England from the conquest vnto King Henrie the eight there was no Prince of this land deposed by your pope but onely King Iohn It is a noueltie Sir N.D. and not a matter of antiquitie as Sigebert telleth you to teach that people owe no subiection to euill kings c. As for that you say that Subiects heretofore in our land haue not beene troubled or forced to alter their beliefe concerning the Popes power notwithstanding his cursing and depriuing of Princes is more then you know and it maketh no great matter whether it were so or no seeing that your vse of excommunication hath not been so frequent in our land and your dealings were neuer so treacherous and desperate as they haue been of late Our English Nation did neuer at any time since the first receiuing of the faith vnto this day acknowledge the vsurped power of your Pope to depose Princes much lesse hath it been anie matter of our faith your Pope Nicholas and Boniface the eight may put in transubstantiation to be an Article of our beliefe and make your popes supremacie of the necessitie of saluation but wee haue learned to ground our faith vpon the Scriptures of God which teacheth no such absurd and diuellish points The lawes of our land haue heretofore in King Richard the seconds time and Edward the thirds time made it treason to bring in any excommunication from Rome to impugne the lawes of the Realme for benefices and patronages to compasse or imagine the
death of the King to leuie warre against the Prince or to be adherent and fauourers of the Kings enemies all which lawes doe verie neerly concerne such amongst you as vouch the Popes wicked claime to depose Princes and are perswaders aiders and comforters of inuasion and rebellion Your affections wee deale not with but with your confessions wee punish you not for your faith but for your works What punishment did the lawes of our Realme in the first twentie yeeres of her Maiesties raigne inflict vpon anie Recusant for his recusancie but either imprisonment or amercement If your aduentures had not been most audacious and your attempts most dangerous being as men perplexed and enraged to see her Maiestie liue and gouerne in so long happines you might haue been stil vsed with as much mercie and clemencie as it is possible for a Christian Prince to offer to vnrulie and vndutifull subiectsâ— Princes for their safetie and repressing of rebellions may temper their lawes with seuerity and make that treason which to some seemeth a matter of Religion as wee see in Augustines time it was treason to say that Emperours perished for persecuting which yet Petilian and his companie thought they might say trulie and zealously You desire a reconciliation betweene your Pope and our Prince longing to see the daie when you might againe imbrue your handes in the bloud of Gods Saints but as wee know there can be no agreement betweene light and darknes so wee doubt not but the powerfull and mightie God will continue our Prince all her daies to be a true defender of the faith and will preserue his poore flocke from the sauage crueltie and bloudines of woluish tirants and Romish Prelates Our sinnes indeed doe hasten vpon vs the seueritie of Gods iustice but our hope is that the God of heauen will for his mercies sake be fauourable vnto his Sion and continue his truth and true worship amongst vs wherein standeth our chiefest happines our praier shall be to the Lord as Dauids was Let not the vngodly haue his desire ô Lord let not his mischieuous imaginatioÌ„s prosper least they be too proud It may be the Lord himselfe will correct vs in mercie as he hath done manie times alreadie and not deliuer vs into the handes of our enemies to be punished by them It may be the mother of Sisera shall looke out at the window and crie out at the casement Why is his Chariot so long in comming Why tarry the wheeles of his Chariot So let thine enemies O Lord the enemies of thine annointed perish but let them that loue thee and thy truth continue as the Sunne when he riseth in his might as Oliue plants in the house of God that flourish for euer Amen The third and last hostilitie against which in this Encounter you take exception is the rebellion and traiterous practises of diuers of your Catholikes against our gracious Soueraigne where with I charge them which though you labour with all your skill and cunning to excuse will appeare to be no lesse impious and hainons in them nor lesse daungerous to Prince and Countrie then I haue affirmed Your colours and cloakes wherewith you would gladlie couer and hide the rebellious hearts and seditious minds of sundrie your Romish Catholikes are speciallie these the onely actuall rising of two Earles as you say the great pressures wherewith you haue beene burdened being the common griefe of all Common-wealthes and cause that they are troubled with commotions and rebellions the admirable patience of Papistes and Catholikes the practises of Protestants at home and abroad and lastly the light and small offence of such as are charged to haue been rebels and traitors to her Maiestie all which being throughly considered will appeare either most false â—â— too slender â—o coueâ— such treacherous hearts and rebellious practises And to giue the reader a taste thereof although I will not long insist vpon them hath there been but one actuall rising of your Catholikes in fortie yeeres and haue not the wicked counsels of Romish traitours burst out more then once into open hostilitie what say you to the rebellion in Ireland vnder Doctor Saunders their chiefe encourager what of the alienating mouing of the people by your open Masses in Laâ—kashire and else where what of your other attempts with armes so neere the quicke procured by your Iesuiticall Masses of reconcilement what of the canonizing of the Northren Rebels for Martyrs and proclaiming such warres to be godly iust and honorable Lastly what is to be thought of your resoluing directing and encouraging Babington Parrey Somerfield and sundrie others that with violent hands sought to abridge our Soueraignes life Are not these open hostilities and open and actuall proofes that there is in you a resolution to doe anie thing that you can for the ouerthrow of the present State vnder which through Gods mercie we happily and blessedlie liue That we had but one commotion in this Realme we may thanke our good God and not you and your Catholikes who haue done your best by procuring inuasion from abroad and ripening rebellion at home to multiplie that one to many but that the mightie hand of God did alwaies disioynt your deuises praised be his name for it You complaine of the bloudie listes of Lawes rigorous execution and incredible molestations amplifying the correction which is here laid on you for your good with words of the highest and hotest degree but looke backe Sir Auditor to your owne accounts and view with shame enough both your cruell and bloudie persecution with fire and sword as also the mildnes of her Maiesties Regiment whose twentie yeeres together pressed you with no heauier burthens then the penaltie of a shilling by the weeke or some restraint of libertie your Marian persecution yeelded in foure yeeres more effusion of Christian bloud by hanging heading burning and prisoning then euer was heard of in anie Princes raigne in this land before or I hope will euer hereafter It is no new thing with you and your adherents by outcries tragicall exclamations and most slaunderous vntruthes to seeke to blemish her Maiesties milde gouernment and the iust execution of Iustice amongest vs there is a God that knoweth all and will iudge betweene vs how light a matter soeuer you take it to be to rayle vpon his annointed and to vilifie and reuile the reuerent Iudges and wholesome lawes of the land by the odious names of Atheists and bloudie lawes The third colour wherewith you would dasell our eies in beholding your traiterous practises is no lesse vaine and foolish then the other two before are slanderous and false for what though it be incident to all Common-wealthes to be troubled with commotions shall it therefore not follow that your rebellious and seditious practises moued onely for the maintenance of the Romish primacie and saith doe manifest the dangerousnes of your doctrine and treacherie of your hearts against
the State of Christian Princes you cannot defend your selues by so sleight a reason Those troubles that were in King Henrie and King Edwards raigne proceeding chiefely not from your onely suffering with groaning as you say but from the treacherous disloyall hearts of Papists who were the chiefest actors therein doe conuict you of such crimes as I haue charged you with And euen these rebellions so often attempted in the latter end of King Henrie the eight and the raigne of King Edward the sixth doe testifie of your admirable patience and loyaltie I maruaile with what face you can commend your Catholikes and compare them with Protestantes for loyaltie and willing subiection to Princes when with your owne penne you shew your forwardnes in euerie Princes raigne to rebell and yet cannot trulie charge vs with any one rebellious practise in the maintenance of true Religion As our doctrine is farre different from yours in the honouring of Magistrates so are our behauiours loyall and obedient what doctrine did euer attribute so much to publike authoritie of Magistrates as doe the Protestants or who euer attributed lesse to Magistrates or deposed moe Princes then you Papistes you may crie with Athalia treason treason but wise men know who be the traitours indeed You would faine perswade your reader that in Queene Maries time we shewed our disposition and forwardnes to rebell and to this purpose you compare her short bloudie raigne with the long and peaceable gouernment of our gracious Soueraigne But as both Wyat and the rest were carried by other perswasions then the maintenance of true religion to deale so rashly and vnsoundly as they did so there is no reason that some priuate actions and opinions generally condemned by our doctrine should preiudice all Protestants You haue great cause to complaine of our rebellions when you can recken vp but one poore insurrection and that vpon other grounds then religion and such a one as was suppressed without the spoile or hurt of anie of the Queenes side But you that blush not to affirme that our chiefe Protestants in Queene Maries time were not troubled when our soueraigne that now is was then much vexed and that none were then forced to renounce their olde Religion when scarce anie suspected of true Religion could be suffered to liue quietlie though they shewed publikely no dislike of Popish Idolatrie no maruaile though you slaunderously doe charge vs with rebellious disposition As for your commotions and reuels you say haue been made in other countries by those of the Religion I leaue both you and them to their Apologies in print wherein you shall finde that none of them did holde that eyther Pope or other might depose Princes or dispence with Subiectes for their obedience to their lawfull Soueraignes And because it pleaseth you to disport your selfe after your gybing manner with me Sir Francis and your not Saint Francis let me in earnest tell you that Sir Francis would not for all his worth that you could proue him to carrie so turbulent seditious and traiterous a mind against Queene and Countrie as this your Ward-word sheweth you to doe and so well instructed is he in the doctrine of the Gospell which teacheth obedience as if his dearest friend in affection or the neerest of kinne to him in bloud should lift vp an hand of disloyaltie against his Soueraigne they are neither friends nor kinsfolkes to him and hee professeth himselfe a mortall enemie to them And for your blasphemous Saint Francis seeing it delighteth you to name him let me call to your remembrance what you may finde in the booke of conformities of him in which he is made another Iesus in type and figure and is matched with Christ from point to point and his miracles with Christes miracles of whom it is there also written that he repented him for deuising of his habite because God had reuealed to him that out of his order Antichrist and his sect should come and so Sir Francis leaueth you to honour your Saint Francis at your pleasure as a fit Saint for you to adore in your Pope-holie worship Your last colour and excuse for defence of your Rebels and Traitors is as simple as the rest you would gladlie perswade vs that the two Earles did but defend themselues when there was no force they needed to feare if they had feared God and continued to liue like good subiects and had not disloyallie intruded themselues not onely to controule but to correct the godlie gouernment of the Queene and State But they were set on by the Bull of Pius Quintus and Doctor Mortons peswasion seeking by force to set free the Catholikes and to restore Catholike Religion Doctor Saunders confesseth no lesse They fled presently you say without blowes or bloud shed but that might be thought the badnes of their cause and the feare that God did strike into their hearts at the sight or hearing of the Queenes Armie and not for want of desire to proceede further but as I lament their fall so I wish from my heart they had neuer been so misled As for the two next Traytors by you mentioned Francis Throgmorton and Charles Paget whom you labour likewise to excuse the first receiued his iust censure by the course of Iustice and that is a iust proofe to all honest men of his treasons yet seeing you seeke so shameleslie and vnhonestlie to extenuate his fault I heartilie praie the reader to way your owne confession against him You say he had the description of certaine Portes found in his Chamber that hee had some intelligence with the Queene of Scots with Barnardin Mendoza the King of Spaines Ambassadour Why Sir Encounterer haue you forgotten that Mendoza in steede of performing the honorable parts of a well accepted Ambassadour did most treacherouslie seeke to betraie both the Queene and State by practising all that he could to set vp the Queene of Scots and doe you not remember that it was high time to cut off this Scottish Queene who ceased not dailie to practise the death of our deere Soueraigne and doe you thinke there could bee any good meaning in Throgmorton to collect Plots and descriptions of our Portes hauing intelligence with the Queene of Scots and Mendoza and an Inuasion being plotted and purposed against vs from Spaine And if nothing else had been proued against him can the height of your wit and iudgement in State matters whereof you so much glorie cleare him from being a Traitor But it is well known to the Honorable of our land and those whom they employed to examine him that his owne confession conuinceth him of more then it pleaseth you to set downe and by this all the world may see and perceiue your disloyall and dishonest meaning both to Queene and State in thus colouring treasons and defending Traitors But you will needes free Charles Paget also another traitour and whose fault you say was nothing but that
learning is not verie great or their cause is bad Iohn Hus. Martin Luthers offer to dispute at Wormes He goeth to the same end to Augusta Simon Grinaeus at Spire Colloquie of Poissy Particular absurdities of Poperie Heresie with the Papists to reade the Scriptures in vulgar tongueâ— An obiection answered D. Rayn de Idol eccl Ro. lib. 1. cap. 1. The Sorbonists oth For reading of the Scriptures in vulgar tongues men were called before the Biâ—shops Act. Mon. ex Regist. Lin. Act. mon. aeâ— testim D. Outredi Ibidem pa. 863. A godly Booke seller in France 1. Mach. 1. Ignorance with Papists the mother of Deuotion Doctor Fulke Scripture forbidden to be read Iohn 5. Coloss. 3. Chrisost. in epist. ad Coloss. â—om 9. Fides implicita Ignorance a fruitfull Mother for the Papists Act. Monu pag. 139. Deuotion separated from knowledge in many of the Popish Cleargie 1. Tim. 4. D. Rayn de Eccl. Rom. lib. 2. cap. 5. 1 Conscientia 2 Scientia 3 Entia Publike praier or deuotion in an vnknowne tongue Hossius de sacro vernacule legendo Art 3. pa. 75. See the 27. article betwixt B. Iewel and Harding How the Papists allow lay men to meddle with matters of Religion To meddle with Scriptures is to examine by Scriptures the doctrine taught Act. 17. 1. Iohn 4. Chrysost. in 2. Cor. hom 13. Papists forbid Lay men thus to meddle with Scriptures and why Paraleip Abb. vrsperg pa. 448 In lex Expurg cuâ— vt si Ber. c About Thomas Becket The ground of Beckets quarrels with his King Becket goeth inta France against the kings will Beckets words to the Earle of Leicester The King and Nobles adiudge Beckets a traitor The controuersie between Becket and the King put into the French Kings hands The Kings officer Proud Beckets refusall The letter of the Empresse Two Cardinals censures of Becket About Beckets sainting Ex. Auentino Disputation about Becket at Paris Argument of miracles Popish miracles threefold 1 Onely in shew Act. Mon. pag. 733. Ex Pencero Munst. Caâ—ione aliis 2 Wrought by Sathan 2. Thess. 2. Math. 24. Deut. 13. 3 Falsely deuised Beckets miracles Act. Mon. pa. 204. Miracles not rare amongst the Papists D. Rain ex breuiario Rom. ex vita Thâ— â—ius operi Romae editis prefixa D. Rain ex seuerinâ— Large talke betweene Hiacinthus and an image of Alablaster The Pope will be obeyed commanding either disloyaltie or blasphemie Blasphemy by the Pope commanded Portiforium ad vsum Sarum in festo S. Tho. Caenâ—uar Disloyaltie by the Pope commaunded About Pardons and Indulgences Indulgences grounded neither vpon Scripture nor vpon ancient Fathers Councels condemne the abuses of the Popes pardons Ex Chemnicio de Indulgentijs The complainâ— of the Germaine Princes Tecelius Pardous for sinnes to be committed Parry Caines spirit Absolution Simon a Monke Iacobus Clemens The conclusion Iustification by faith Esay 30. Iob. 1. This bloudie mate falsely chargeth me with bloud-thirstines â— Sam. 18. Aug. in Psal. 37 Her Maiesties marueilous deliuerance in Queene Maries time Her Maiesties deliuerance and Dauids compared Her Maiestie vniustly troubled in Queen Maries daies A ridiculous argument Causes concurring to her Maiesties preseruation M. Hales Oration The fretting of the Papists against her Maiestie now being Queene Hester 6. About annointing Psal. 150. Luke 2. About D. Storie Psal. 5. 59. Stories words The interpretatioÌ„ of them Stories iudgement Martyrium Ioan Stor Angl. pro ecc Rom. primat The Bull of Pius Quintus Master Iuel Bullenger Whether any man may depose Kings Dan. 2. and 4. Luke 1. 1. King 14. 1. King 19. Prou. 8. August in Psalm 47. 1 2 Rom. 13. Valentinian Theodosius Sigebert in Anno 1088. Aug. contraliterai Petil. lib. â— ca. 92. Psal 140. Iere. 10. Iudges 5. Traterous practises of some Papists Fond amplifications of punishments inflicted on papists A vaine colour Protestants not to be compared with Papists in rebellion 2 King 11. Lib. conform in initio About the two Earles insurrection Francis Throgmorton and Charles Paget About the late Earle of Northumberland and the Earle of Arundel The substance of the Encounterers conclusion Bishop Gardiner and Cardinall Allen compared Bishop Gardiner A short view of Gardiners milde nature Gardiners hard dealing with Marbeck Heresie for lay men to meddle with the Scripture Gardiners argument to proue an heretike Doctor Tailor Gardiners milde Rhetorike Master Philpot Boner vnwilling to meddle with Master Philpot Boners speech concerning Gardiners being dead Gardiners ioy for Bishop Ridley master Latimers death with God his suddaine stroke vpon him Gardiners desire of reuenge against the Duches of Suffolke Boners description of Gardiner About Gardiners seeking Queene Elizabeths life A weake Apologie The misterie of his tale of a misterious bracelet Gardiner confesseth the wrong imprisonment of Ladie Elizabeth D. Weston Gardiner vnwilling to haue the Ladie Elizabeth cleered The bringing in of the Spaniard Gardiners booke de vera obedientia with Boners proface Gardiners Sermon in Queene Maries time vpon Rom. 13. The A.B.C. to the Pope and his Clergie in Hen. 4. time Gardiner put out of King Henries Will. King Henrie the eyght not minded to reconcile himselfe to the Pope as Gardiner saith but quite contrarie About King Henries diuorce from his first wife with Gard. iudgement of it Cardinall Allen. Allens iudgement of Pius Quintus Bull. Parsons and Campions faculties Saunders Rebellion in Ireland A similitude alleadged for Allens defence examined 1 The Pope no way our father 2 Your elder brethren yeeld not due reuerence to the Queene their mother 3 Your yonger brethren are the elders agents against the Queene Paines practise against her Maiestie Heskets treason Treason against the Queene made a point of the popish faith and religion Allen perswadeth it to be honorable to kill the Queene Parrey resolued by Allens booke to kill the Queene The grouud of this Encounter The Pope will not disclaime his title of vsurped Supremacie The Pope will be no Protestant but may be an heretike Marcellinus Honorius Liberius Stephanus Iohan. 22. The Iesuites The Sorbonists iudgement of the Iesuites Iesuites practises Parrie hartened by Iulio Palmio a Iesuite Yorke and Williams set on by Holte a Iesuite Patricke Cullen Sauage perswaded by D. Guifford Posseuine Wal-poole France iudged the Iesuites The chiefe vow of Iesuits Sacriledge to vow simple obedience to man The scope of their vow The conclusion Te rayling of N.D. Iames. 3. An outward ciuill conuersation Ciuill honesty to be found amongst Infidels Turkes True faith not without good workes Dissimulation taught by Papistes 1 2 3 Dissimulation of some Papists manifested The threefold accusation examined 2 The hurt Recusants do Forcing to do against Conscience Moderate punishment for Religion lawfull Comparison tweene our punishment of Recusants those of former times The Papistes hands deepe in this transgression 2 The hurt Recusants would doe Barbarous railing against Henrie Earle of HuntingdoÌ„ 3 Dissimulation in sundrie Papists Cardinall Allen inciteth to Rebellion Dispensation of Gregorie 13 to Parsons and Campion 3 All Recusants not charged with dissimulatioÌ„ or rebellious mindes â—â—e Papists 〈◊〉 â—at the 〈◊〉 de 〈…〉 1 2 3 4 5 6 The truth of my position iustified Rebellion cunningly broached Abraham and Lot Ieremie Iere 9. Ieroboam Iehu Athanasius Obedience in temporall Princes This is N.D. his spirituall conceite as you may reade in his booke pag. 83. The translation of S. Peters words freed froÌ„ corruption The Popes Crowne may not be touched Archprelate How Christ and his Apostles were Priests and Archprelates 1 Christ gaue no Superiority to Peter Luke 22. 2 Peter neuer challenged anie such Act. 15. 3 The Apostles acknowledge no superioritie in Peter The Popes spirituall supremacie without good warrant The Popes temporall Supremacie His temporall Supremacie neuer acknowledged The Popes intollerable pride The Pope a bloudie monster The Popes bloudie humour against the Queene What iudgement is to be had of this Encounterer Whether the Pope be Antichrist How farre England standeth beholding to Rome 1 2 Elutherius acknowledge the Kings Gods Vicar in his owne kingdome 3 1. Thes. 1. The cause of libertie of speech vsed against Spaine The Encounterers iniurious rayling Of the Spanish Nation Not all Spaniards charged Experiments of the Spaniards pride crueltie c. N.D. maliciously slaundereth his natiue countrie No cause to except against our free speech of Spaniards The person of the discouerer considered The Taxes Papists the only contemners of princes Reuel 52. About Lopus His sute to the Lords The conclusion