Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03908	A sermon preached in West-chester the viii. of October, 1586 Before the iudges and certain recusantes: wherein the conditions of al heretiques, but especiallie of stubborn and peruerting Papists, are discouered, & the duty of al magistrats concerning such persons, applied & opened by Edward Hutchins, Master of Artes, & Fellowe of Brasennose Colledge.	Hutchins, Edward, 1558?-1629.	1586 (1586)	STC 14017; ESTC S116561	13,987	32

Foxes vpon you which day as they hope for so if it should com which yet god forbid as he hath forbiddeÌ„ these many years of his goodnes infinit mercy yet then you would wish though too late you had taken the Fox It were best therefore for al magistrats to be wise in time least peril bring repentance when it wil be too late and therefore diligeÌ„tly to enquire for foxes namely for papists to let them haue neither liberty nor life where the vine of Christ maie stand in danger of wasting by them For that is the cause why this precept is giuen Oh but there is smal loue in your lips wil catholickes say nothing but cruelty in your mouth wil others say to whoÌ„ I answere that so shal obiect that out of my last part that ther is smal charity in them whosoeuer they are that would haue the fox spared where there is danger least the vine by the fox be wasted For they that haue no loue to the vine may pitty the Fox in very deede there is none that wisheth the freedome of the fox but he that wisheth daÌ„ger to the vine But herein I need not to answer much I appeal to you al whether euer the vine of Christ were in greater peril of wasting than now it is why but because the Fox hath bin too long suffered hath not by mercy patience bin wonne but waxed worse as experience too too late hath made lameÌ„table trial Whereas if the fox had bin takeÌ„ in time his might malice had quite been cut off and the vine of Christ had been in better safetie but for this onelie thus I saie You knowe and see all what mischiefe hath come to the world what daunger to the vyne because the Fox hath not beene taken from time to time and therefore hereafter for the Lords cause delaie you no time but see that you take them Let the vine of Christ be deare vnto you and spare not the Fox least you lose the vine Oh spare vs not Papists for what are they but Foxes for this is the charity that this my Text craueth of you this is the charitie that yee owe to the vine and if any spare the Fox to the daunger of the vine that is no charitie but crueltie and iustice wil be sharpe to punish it in the daie of iudgement when all men shal haue no iudge but God who is charity Who will bee sure to smite home if the Fox bee not catcht that goeth about to wast his vine but suffered to worke his spite vpon the vine And surely sith our aduersaries are so eger to choake the wheat of God that they the tares to hew downe his greene trees that they the drie stickes to corrupt his sweete dough that they the leauen to slaughter his Lambes that they the butchers to wast his vines that they the Foxes of Sathan the God of this world may rule raigne once againe with their bel of Rome in the church of Christ and bring in steede of knowledge ignorance in steed of light darknes in steede of truth vntrue tradition in steed of Antichrist the diuel and al to the vtter miserie of your estate that now is blessed and happie sith they slacke no occasions to bring this about but euerie daie and euery way doe gape and grone for the last daie of this your comfortable condition in Christ our blessed Sauiour as of al others so among al and aboue al of you Right worshipful and others of your calling I craue to your power a contrarie care for the Lords wheat that the tare doe not hurt it for his sweete dough that the leauen of Rome doe not sowre it for his Lambes that the bloodsuckers of sathan for his vine that the Fox doe not wast it For to appeale to the consciences of you al if they fight thus for darknes oh what ought you to doe for the light if they striue thus for ignorance oh what ought you to do for knowledge If they doe thus for heresie oh for the Lords sake doe you no lesse for the truth and eternal veritie of Iesus Christ if they for Antichrist fight you for Christ oh defend his vine and suffer not the Fox to wast it Oh saue the vine from Papistes for what are they but Foxes But how shal you saue it you wil perhaps saie I haue answered and adde permit them not free take care to enquire and catch and when they are taken take care to keepe them from comming neere the vine You haue authoritie to doe it God and vnder him and for him our gratious Queene hath giuen you power to doe it and if you shal vse it as dutie in these our daungerous daies doth earnestlie beg it the Fox I grant may curse you but the vine of Christ shal haue cause to blesse you for it Al which I doe not say or vrge Right worshipful so much to charge you with a dutie vnknowen as charitablie to remember you of your dutie which I know you doe know For I doubt not but you know that God hath called you Gods and that you ought therefore among men and for men to bee Gods that you ought therefore to be lights enimies to darcknes and al the seruantes of sathan the God of darknes in a woorde friends to the vine but foes to the Fox foes then to our vine foes foes to Papists for what are they but Foxes Nay I hope that you haue a speciall regarde of the vine and withal a good wil to worry the Fox Onely therefore I am here to intreat you and that in the blood of Christ and bowels of his mercy that this your godly care may increase for the vine of Christ doth craue it and if you remember neuer so little these our daies of danger the subtil and the rauenous Fox himselfe of himselfe doeth force it Although I might remember you that these words which sound that way are the words not of anie lesse man then of Salomon in the person of Christ the true Salomon who hath chosen to himself of al women but one virgine of all birdes but one Doue of all Doues but one Turtle of all trees but the vine that is his church whereof he hath such an especial care that as he hath charged al men so among aboue al other such as are of your high calling to bee protectours of the same to catch the Fox and little Fox that hee doe not wast it to catch the Popish Foxes that go about to wast it In fine this is the charge that Christ heere giueth Christ who gaue his life for his Church his vine Christ who shal iudge all so that if either loue to his Church or feare of iudgement may preuaile you are bound to doe to your best in this behalfe Oh but some wil say it were wisdome for you to speak somewhat for the Fox or els the time may come when the Fox will

time by the Scripture not onely teare their weapons but withal discouer their cause to the world to their vtter discredit in a word when thus they see that they can no sooner bid battle but that we assoon do foil them theÌ„ what do they but fal froÌ„ argumeÌ„ts which should perswade to slaunderous reporting lying not only against the persons of men but also for their sakes against the manifest trueth professed by theÌ„ For euidence whereof at this instant not to trouble your worships with infinit instance I am content only to name their late censure later defence wherein they fayling in iustifieng of their diuinitie nothing lesse thaÌ„ diuine haue fallen froÌ„ reason to vnreasonable outrage against the good name and zeale of godly men Howbeit for this point I need not to say much For where there are too manie stiffe papists at large and diuers in many places in prison or rather in their paradise if any man come to them of zeale and good will to worke some good among them if to that purpose he offer a dispute and desire a conference either of preiudice to the cause they yeeld not thereunto or if they doe yet when they are brought to a non plus and can say no more what do they but fal to railing raging what doe they but apply their hartes to wish euil their tongues to speak worse of God and his religion We are by by without any premise concluded to be heretiques no catholiques new fellowes no auncients of Luther not of Peter of Caluin not of Christ no lesse than reprobates so that where they cannot match vs in reasoning they fall to vnreasonable rayling and all their apologie and final but yet reasonles resolution is this that they are catholiques and we heretiques Howbeit here by the way a retentiue is ministred against al this their manner of dealing for sith al heretiques and amoÌ„g al other papists were neuer more pursued by the force of trueth it is no maruel if with the Foxe they bee most faultie and filthy in their wordes against vs and our religion Iust like Foxes most vncleane when they are most chased Whereas if wee would let them alone and take them for religious rabbins condemne our catholique verity for vncatholique heresie and take esteeme their catholique heresies for Apostolique verities bend our knees to their Lord God the Pope and his deuotion as we doe to God the only good religion then should we be their white sonnes and heare nothing but wel from them and among them But where we bow to God and not to Baal and tread their popes triple-crowne indeede trouble-crowne in the dust take Christ alone for our catholique head and no traditions of Rome but his worde for our ful and alone direction whether to beleeue or liue thereof it is that neither our profession nor we for the same can heare any thing but euil of them Thus they proue themselues to be most vncleane like the Foxe when hee is hardly followed And therefore what shall I say to end this point of the metaphor but desire you to pray good God therefore purge them or els purge the land of theÌ„ for what are they but Foxes Foxes and that not onlie because they are vncleane but also crafty subtile like Foxes For the Foxe is a crafty beast and he hath his holes and he wil hide himselfe and it shall be hard to driue him from one but that hee will finde refuge for the time in an other and yet at length the good hunter takes him Right so fales it out with hereticks but specially with papists for they are crafty and subtile spirits when we doe most persecute and presse them with the trueth yet they haue their shews starting holes they haue their distinctions their shiftes if one serue not yet will they coyne some other colorably for the time to credit their vntrueth whereby it comes to passe by the way to mention a lameÌ„table matter that for want of good hunters this their sophistry and Foxly diuinity snareth many simple soules in many places But to come to the proofe of this point of the metaphor Thus they commend to the worlde their good workes vnder the name of merit their merites vnder the name of grace their penance vnder the name of a sacrament their worship of saints vnder the name of Gods honour their masse vnder the name of Christes sacrifice their praiers for the departed vnder colour of charity their vowed singlenes vnder the name of chastity their vnsatisfieng satisfactions vnder the name of godlines dutie Thus they commend to the worlde their mistrust of gods mercy vnder the name of godlie feare their ignorantnes in scriptures vnder the name of Christian simplenes their pilgrimages vnder the name of deuotion Thus they commend till it come to lust vnder the name of infirmitie and yet profitable yea a mean meritorious more therefore than expedient their very stews vnder the name of euil yet needful conuenient yea rebellion vnder the name of catholique obedience murder vnder the name of merit Thus they pretend for their purgatory gods iustice for their possiblenes to fulfil the law impossible gods mercifulnes for their abominable transubstantiation the almighties mightinesse In a worde thus they commend their sensings their shriuings their offerings their purifiengs their ignorant praying their superstitious adoring their kissing of the paxe such like lies toyes and vanities vnder the name of catholique and ancient customes Thus they play the crafty Foxes and seeke to set a good colour vpon their doctrine most openly false and hereticall vpon their practises most detestable perilous and tyrannicall And though this were sufficient to demonstrate this point yet to shew more to the proofe of the same If we alleadge against their praiers to the departed a principle of diuinity that there is one mediator betwene God and man the man Christ Iesus they play the Foxes and run to their holes they shift off the matter and saye there is one mediator but not one only wherunto when we answere that the particle one in that place is not only a particle of affirmation but of exclusion as it is in the first place Christ being our one and only mediatour in whose name as there is one one only God to whom we may pray they play the foxes run to their holes they distinguish that indeed ther is one and one only mediator of redemption that is Christ but yet there are manie mediators of intercession whereas yet the scripture speakes there of both applies and appropriates both to Christ and they for their partes make the saintes not onely petitioners but redeemers meriters that not only of temporal but of eternal things that not only for themselues but also for others So likewise where we alleadge against their Popes supremacie a principle of Scripture that Christ is the alone foundatioÌ„ of

his temple they run to their hole and play the Foxes they distinguish that there is but one principal head of the Church that is Christ but there is another ministerial vicarial that must be their Pope wheras yet the headship of the Church is proper to Christ their pope by his title in this case if Pope Gregory were not deceiued if the pope cannot erre indeed is not either top or toe of the Church So likewise where against their iustifieng of lust for no sin we alleadge a principle of scripture that euery transgression of the law is sin withal the prohibition of the law thou shalt not lust they run to their hole play the Foxes that the apostle speaks there of lust with not without consent whereas yet the Apostle speakes in general of al lust it were great folly once to dreame that euer the Apostle doubted whether lust ioined with consent were sin or not Thus to conclude if any man please to run ouer their summaries questionaries their old schoolemen or new men nay to leaue al if to this purpose a man remeÌ„ber run ouer Maister Campian that came into the laÌ„d with a florishing antecedeÌ„t with bidding of battell with a crack catholique shew for al his fellow Foxes of Rome of Rhemes yet where he was not only neerly assaied but easily pressed with truth what did he but play the poor Fox he came into the laÌ„d for waÌ„t of souÌ„d diuinity with foolish sophistry what lesse can I cal it in proofe and trial with ridiculous and childish distinctions and those were his holes and in them he thought to haue kept himselfe safe or at least close to the credit of his crack and to the deceiuing of the simple for the time till treason had made the craftie conclusion but al was too little and God be thanked he proued himselfe that way the seeliest Fox that euer came among vs. But to end this point of the metaphor I onely wish this that al meÌ„ beware the craft of heretiques but especially of papists of seminaries Iesuites who of al others play the Foxes most kindlie And therefore for a caueat as for their olde subtil and yet ouerbold crackes that they are of the olde stamp that they are catholiques that they are the Church that their Church cannot erre that they only haue the right sense of Gods woord that they onely wish the good state of the lande the saluacion of your soules her maiesties fauour and safetie nothing lesse God saue her from them al wel indeede all il as you all know too too well to al that wish wel to Sion take heed of them for these the like bee but holes wherein the Popes Foxes seeke to colour out their cause and to couer their faithles creed as demonstration hath bin made and that oft to the world and therefore to end this part of the metaphor what shal I saie but once againe pray good God therefore amend them or els make an ende of them for what are they but Foxes Foxes that not only because they are vncleane and craftie like Foxes but also crafty and subtil to deuoure and destroy For so doth it fal out with al heretiques and specially with papists They come in sheepes clothing with faire titles tales they wil appear like Angels of light they talk of virginity merit abstinence hospitality al perfection not onely of duty but of supererogatioÌ„ they tel the world that no world was good but when they raigned that then all things were plentiful men charitable faithful and what not none liue wel but they saie they they fast they pray night and day they go long pilgrimages they punish their bodies and doe great penance but whereunto tendes al this but to deceiue these be nothing els but the false florish of a Pharisee the Foxes sophistry to beguile the simple for asmuch as they are nothing lesse then that they would seem to be they are no lesse then Foxes For to make the verie best of them what are they but as naught as naught can make them what are they but Foxes in shew gold in truth copper in shew flowres in proof weeds in shew sheep indeed rauenous Foxes oh what are they but Foxes for what doe they seeke but euery waie and euerie day to deuoure the bodies and souls of Christians for what doe their persuasions to their religion most openly heretical what doe their conspiracies now as you know and maie lament all the verie comfort and onelie hope of them most openly diabolicall say anie lesse for to appeale to you al what is it religion catholique or deuilish to saue or to slaie the soules of men to command men vnder the paine of an eternal curse to beleeue that a mortal man the man of Rome a prelate in title in trueth the pilate of the woorld is head of the church that he cannot er indeed to plurify the godhead to make man a god what religion is it that accounteth mariage in their incontinent votaries as bad if not worse then double adulterie lust without consent no sinne good workes the merit of heauen what religion is it that saith worship images wher God saith do not but worship me only Worship in ignorance where God saith do not but worship me only in spirit and verity Lastly what religion is it or how can it bee good that calleth Gods word darke though light the matter of strife though the woord of peace imperfect without tradition though the rule of al perfection yea the sense of the word only gods word and their sense the only true sense which yet is most apparantly false Though this were sufficient to proue this point which I might amplify more at large yet to adde a litle more for this is not al nor almost anie thing to the largenes of the matter nay alas what shal I saie of them are not papists cockle doe they not seek to destroy the corne are they not thornes doe they not seeke to pricke and teare the rose are they not dogs do they not seek to deuoure the darling are they not Foxes doe they not seeke to wast the vine of Iesu Christ among vs nay to appeale to you al oh where had our corne beene how not choked oh where had our rose been how not rented oh where had the darling of Christ been how not deuoured oh where had his vine been how not wasted if papists had obteined their perillous practises of old or of late among vs oh then once againe to appeale to you al what are they but cockle what lesse then the corne what are they but thornes what lesse then the rose what are they but dogs what lesse then the darling what are they but Foxes what lesse then the vineyarde of Christ our Sauiour shal I say al Right worshipfull and dearly beloued prooue al by that that you know may lament all happie could

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