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A04701
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A present consolation for the sufferers of persecucion for ryghtwysenes
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Joye, George, d. 1553.
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1544
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STC 14828; ESTC S103802
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haue so vniuste so euill the most vngodly cause defendinge the most open errours and manifeste idollatrye and so false a popisshe religion And euen there owne consciences telle them selues their cause to be so vniuste and so manifestly wyked their doctryne faith so false that they be bothe asshamed and affrayd there of and dirste neuer teche nor preche it opâ— ly onlesse thei were sewer of the seculare swerde to defende it and them selues to For thei be afraid to iustifye their owne bokes with their owne tytles aÌ„d names But our doctryne and the confession of our faith be not afraid to staÌ„d forth in the face of emprowrs kinges and princes of the worlde yea and is offred to be loked vpon and iudged of all the hole worlde our doctryne fereth not the light al beit prince ceasers and all the worlde stande with naked swerdes agenst it to slaye the professours therof so farre of be they to defende it Owr doctryne and faithe desyereth to be tâ—yed and examined at the trwe twiche stone of the holy scriptures But the doctryne and faithe of owr antichristen aduersaryes refuse are a fraid of the scriptures and flye vnto longe customes popishe fathers canoÌ„ lawes coun sels of popes and so persecution of vs to deuelisshe doctours and when all these will not serue then flye they to the seclare policye of the realme and vnto their princes swerde and actis af parlements therby to be holpen and defended But all the prophetis of god constantly affirme it and ernestly threatenthe theis their weake reedis and roten staues to be now shortely all to broken When the emprowr and the godly lerned withe the nobles of Germany did sit laste at Auspurgh consultinge and enquiring of the religion and faithe Meu did ernestly desper our aduersaries to geue vs forthe the accompte rekeninge and confession of their faithe and religion in wrytinge but thei coulde not gette it thei dirste not wryte it thei were asahamed or afraid to let their faith come into lyght orels thei coulde not wryte it A goodly godly faithe I warant you that so miserably feared and was asshamed to be sene in wrytinge of so many noble and lerned men But they be to wyse to suffer siche a grosse carnall shameles religion aÌ„d so weake and incoustant a faithsesse faynt faith to come into wrytinge And therfore thei there desyered instantly to dispute with vs with fagots fyer and swerde aÌ„d euen a certayn blody cardinall offred him selfe to wryte vs an answer with our owne blode Oh blodye beastes abhorred aÌ„d detested of god casten vp into a reprobate mynde worthy to be perpetually daÌ„pned This was all their importune labour and blody dryfte at that cownsell and hathe ben euer sence to devolue peaceable assem bles for the reformacion of the chrysteÌ„ religion vnto bloudye bataiâ—es And nowe this daye haue thei thorow Satan Paul the thirde Pope of Rome with his blody bisshops brought their blody purpose to passe in that thei coÌ„federed withe the Tur ke had leifer the Turke to inuade ouerrune al Chrystendom then the gospell of Chryst shulde haue any fre course in any one of their dicions and dioceses This is lo their deuilisshe dryft when thei cannot defende their false religion and faithe by no worde of god It wolde haue abhorred any chrysten man to haue sene the synfull and viciouse conuersacion of these papisti ke prelates with their patrones in that towne at that counsell howe openly thei kept their whores howe lordely thei loked howe dronken thei went euery night to bed how beastly thei banketted vomited aÌ„d spewed out their swete sinfull surfettes And yet wolde the belly bawdy be astis there stoutely and gloriously dispute of fastinge of chastite of temperancye aÌ„l of sobriete to fulfill the schriptures sayinge In the laste dayes there shall come vpon you perellouse tymes for there shal be men all for their owne lustes louinge theÌ„selues couetuouse puâ—t vp with pryde mischeuouse bitterly cursinge false of their promise vniustly vexinge good meÌ„ lecherouse glotenouse dronkerdes arrogant the louers of their owne lustes rather then of god Hauinge a shew of godly religion but the verye trwe religion it self thei haue vtterlye abâ—yed aÌ„d renownced it And these men auoyde estiewe beware of and thruste theÌ„ out of thy syght The. iiij consolacion Owr aduersaries vnderstande not this great aÌ„d godly cause Nether shall nor may thei at any tyme defende it with any ferme argumeÌ„ts ANd nowyet for our more counfort let vs coÌ„syder how weake are owr aduersaries eueÌ„ thei that be yet called the most prudeÌ„t and wold be sene the highe lerned misshapeÌ„ or bisshapen bissho pis What thing haue thei I praye you to fraye vs haue they any wysedoÌ„ But craftynes subtyle serpeÌ„tyne fraudes apparent sophistical reasons without scripture malice and mischeif thei haue to micheâ—buâ— as for any godly vnderstandinge good lerninge and trwe wysedome they haue â—on at all They wryte preache and speke so childysshe so fonde so inconstant impertinent and repugnant things in so â—aighâ—y a cause and wreste the scriptures so violently to stablisshe their errours and recyte them so folisshely â–ª that the very bâ—â—es in the grammer stoles and the ploughe men shomakers wyues spinninge at their rockis ieste one them and laughe them worthely to skorne so that the prophecye of Isaye is nowe well verifyed vpon them wysedom shall perisshe in the wyse and the vnderstandinge of the prudent shall be put out their wysedom and koninge shal be reiected of god and come all to naught So that it is asked of them into their owne shame and confusion of Paul Where is nowe your wyse man where be nowe your writers for your pope and his religion Where are your disputers for your faithe haue not god made theÌ„ all folis Thei consult miche and oft togither thei imagyne enforce aÌ„d tempte to proue many and diuerse wais thei conspire thei coniure aÌ„d cluster vpon heapes they wryte they sende thei runne to eche other Thei haue their secrete conuenticles open conuoâ—aâ—ious conciliables and counsels thei furnesshe vpholde their popisshe preistes scholes aÌ„d vniuersities Thei hyerd Rochester syr Thomas More promoted Eccius Emser Cocleus Piggius Latomus with lyke drafe aÌ„d dregges to wryte ageynst vs their lyinge fonde bokis full of threatis mockis tauntis reuylings But of their blodye counsells to destroye the parties of Germanye whiche haue receyued the gospell I will not nowe speke therof But what I praye ye haue they goten by all these cruell meanes The gospell standeth and shall stande neuerthelesse and will be spred into all the worlde accordinge to gods ordinance which no enforcements no counsels of men nor powr may let it nor tarye it although these papists wolde breake their beastly bellis therfore At Auspurgh and at Batisbone their drift was to haue vtterly extinguysshed the gospell and what successe had their wyked enforcements Uerely in