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A01219	An oration against the vnlawfull insurrections of the protestantes of our time, vnder pretence to refourme religion Made and pronounced in Latin, in the Schole of Artes at Louaine, the .xiij. of December. Anno. 1565. By Peter Frarin of Andwerp, M. of Arte, and Bacheler of both lawes. And now translated [by John Fowler] into English, with the aduise of the author.; Oratio Petri Frarini quod male reformandae religionis nomine arma sumpserunt sectarii nostri temporis habita. English	Frarinus, Petrus.; Fowler, John, 1537-1579.	1566 (1566)	STC 11333; ESTC S112684	57,035	182

a Sprite Incubus as the common reporte goeth who is your chiefe Apostell and Patriarche We knowe him verie well what he was whence he came and what authoritie he had When he was a yonge man he studied the ciuill law and afterward when for his recreation he walked in the field nigh the Vniuersitie of Erforde he was strykē down to y t grounde with a sudden thunderclap and lighting and his companion that walked then with him was with y ● blow quite slaine before his face whereat he was so astonied and put in such feare that he determined with him self to forsake the world to enter into Religion so out of hande made him selfe an Augustine Friere At the laste he was made Doctour in Diuinitie with shame inough for he came to that degree with the money that was bequethed to an other man whome with the help of his Prior he beguiled What other estate or degree he had in the common weale or Apostleship in the Church of God beside this we could neuer yet learne by any meanes But in deede he braggeth verie often that he is wel assured that his doctrine and conclusions are from heauen and that he was sent from heauen to the Germans to be their first Apostle that should preache them the Gospell for before his dayes he sayed that they neuer had any true Religion or Christen doctrine In few words he maketh more accompte of him selfe then of S. Augustine and all other holie and auncient Fathers of Christes Churche This bragginge Thraso telleth manie strainge matters of him selfe more maruelouse then true This is more like to be true as he reporteth of him selfe that he had manie times familiar conference and talke with the Diuell Yea and his Actes doings during his raigne written and faithfully regestred by Cocleus other of his neighbours men of great learninge and credite do most manifestly declare and proue that from y e diuel also his familiar frend Prince of this world he receaued authoritie and commission to punissh all good and honest men and to gainesay and withstand the holy Masse Ihon Caluine borne at Nouiodunum in Picardie a man banished frō his countreie for his wicked behauioure and whiles he liued in his countreie the veriest vnthrifte and naughtiest verlet of al his companions first hydde him selfe at Basile then beganne to shew his head at Straseburge and preache to the Renegates and Apostles there At last came to Geneua and put out the Deputie of the Citie expelled the Bisshope and all the Cleargie that were honeste and Catholike with all the vertuouse and substantiall Citysens and so wanne Authoritie and beganne to raigne there like a Conquerer by the lawe of treason and force of armes What neede I here againe bring you in mind of that Epicure Beza the Burgonion a Licentiate in law who taketh so muche Poeticall licence that in his bawdie and fylthie Epigrammes he passeth farre the wanton Pagan Poetes Martiall and Tibullus What shall I speake of Bernardinus Ochinus y ● Italiane who laboreth to plante the beastly Doctrine of Polygamie that is that more then one wife at once may ioyne w t a mā in y e state of lawful matrimony willing therefore and perswadinge men to be Manywiuers as the Turkes are What shall I tell you of Peter Martyr the Renegate Moncke or of Bernarde Rotman an vnlearned Asse that beganne to professe learninge and by color of only Scripture whiche he vnderstode not expelled the Catholikes out of the Citie of Munster Or of Ihon of Leid y t tailor y t furiouse captaine of the mad Anabaptistes who within a yeare after got y ● vpper hand of Rotman draue out y ● Lutherans brought in y t Anabaptistes begā to raigne in y ● very same Cit hauing won cōquered y ● field by y ● same crafte pretēse of scripture only as Rotmā did before so gaue him a fall in his own turn serued him w t his own sance or of Osiander that Holie Man commonlye called the seconde Enoch a Goddes name or of Carolostadius that rude maried Archedeacon of Wittemberge who became afterwarde for mere foly a mad and vnskilful plowghman to the wonder and laughinge game of all that coūtry Or of Illyricus Musculus Farellus Virettus Or of Bucer Morot and Malot the ringleaders and teachers of all mischefe good God what a rable haue we here what a noble ranke of vertuous graue renoumed Fathers is here such as I assure you no honest and discreete householder woulde euer suffer by his good will to tarie within his doores Such Champions are they that professe them selues to be the Aduersaries and enemies of the Catholike Churche these be y e captains that stand against the Bisshopes of Christes Church y ● kinges of Christendome and Rulers of cōmon Weales Such are the Oratoures and Preachers that vse to declaime to raile to thunder againste the blood Shrines of Martyres against the Catholyke and vniuersal Religion of the Christians against the mystical and holy Sacramentes of the Churche Yea and sticke not like madde dogges to barcke and baye against y ● very blessed and pretiouse body of our Lord Iesus Christ These yea such fellowes as these be are they who nowe these manie yeres vsurpe a Lordly authoritie ouer vs whome we are compelled to take for our masters who take vppon them to controlle the doinges and maners of all the whole world And yet can we learn by no meanes wherehence came this so Imperiall a soueraigntie or who gaue them so greate and princely Authoritie except we say they had it of Satan and y ● they be the very vndouted prophets and Forerunners of Antichrist The Bysshoppes and Prelates of Christes Church doe excommunicate thē out their flocke and seperate them from the mystical Society felloship and Communion of all Christian men The Christen Princes and Rulers of the worlde do bannissh them do take them for outlawes and both by proclamations and force of armes trauaile with much care and diligence to defende and saue themselues and theyr louing Subiectes from them God allmightie the Omnipotent Lord and Ruler of heauen and earth neuer signifyed to the worlde by any miracle Signe or seely token that we shoulde take suche as these are for hys Commissioners or Deputies excepte a man will saye that this is a Miracle y ● these fellowes oftentymes whyles in the presence of the People they faine that they are able in the Vertue of the Gospel they preache to restore the dead to lyfe doe make the liue stark dead ●…s a certaine Preacher did one Mathias in Polonia and the like is crediblie reported of Ihon Caluine at Geneua Howe then ▪ What shal we take them to be In fewe wordes they are theeues that come in by the Windowe they are Murderers Traytours Heretykes Satans Ministers For why theyr doeinges declare no lesse They doe the Commons wronge

can make sufficient amendes for it For he toke away the sacred Relyques of the blessed Archebysshoppe of Tours the body and asshes of S. Martyne the Greate Confessor that had bene kepte there with greate reuerence so many hundred yeres notwithstandinge the often warre and cruell persecutions of diuerse enemies both heathen and Christian And when he had taken them out of the Shrine he burnte them with fyere and then gathered vp the holy and blessed asshes and threwe them into the ●yuer of Loyer that runneth thereby With the lyke impietye and furiuose rage at Lyons the bodie of S. Ireneus sometyme Bysshoppe there one that liued very nigh the Apostles tyme at Poictiers the bodie of S. Hylarie Bysshoppe also there were pulled out of theyr Graues defiled Prophaned burnte with fyre and then caste into the Riuers O wonderfull Impietye and madnes of raginge Heretikes O beastly and more then Barbarouse rudenes and crueltie What Tyranne euer in anye Lande was so fierce and cruell that woulde persecute teare and mangle all good men not only in theyr lyfe tyme but also after they were departed out of thys world and buried in theyr graues These cruell Graueroo●ers that labor to brynge a newe Religion into Christendome can not abyde that good men shoulde lyue any where on the earth nor yet suffer them to reaste vnder the earth in theyr graues after theyr decease They couer with Sylke and decke with veluettes theyr owne fylthye bodies and theyr Womens moste vyle and stynkinge carcasses whiche without the greate mercy of God shallbe one daye the stuffe and matter of Helfyre and carrayne for death and damnation to feede on And wyll they not suffer the blessed bodies and ▪ boues of Sayntes that shallbe in the end placed in Heauen with theyr blessed soules whiche are there before in peace and reast and ioye with Christe to be in the meane tyme closed in lead or couered with stone or layed vnder earth and claye It is happy they can not plucke theyr holy Soules out of heauen to as they doe al theyr endeuor to destroy and vtterly rydde theyr bodies out of the earth For if they could gette them thence set themselues in theyr places it appereth here by this good wil of theirs in y e one what they would doe in the other and that is no more but euen to follow their Grand Capitaine Lucifer For as he would haue done to God himself when he sayed in his harte he would clyme aboue al y e starres of God and be Gods owne fellowe and syt faste by his syde euen so by al likelihod these men would doe to Gods fryndes and seruantes that is robbe them of all glory and of theyr places both in heauen earth if it lay in theyr power so to doe But though God geue them alitle leaue on theyr bodies whiche is all that they or the the diuell hath any power vpon For the Serpent feedeth on the earth and crepeth on his belie and can do no more yet Sanctorum Animae in manu Dei sunt nō tanger illos tormentum malitiae The Soules of Saintes are in Gods owne hand and reast and raigne with him that all the malice of y ● diuelles in hell or theyr seruantes in earth cannot once touche nor come nere them what euer they doe in the meane tyme to theyr bodies I cannot let passe but rehearse and note here vnto you surely a notable Hystorie out of Eusebius of the persecutiōs of the very self same places in Fraunce by which it may be thought in cōferring the one with the other that these men nowe be of the same feruēt and hot zeale as themselues terme it of the same mynde opinion in these lyke actes of theyrs as y e cursed Paynyms were then toward the Christen folke whome they persequuted and put most cruelly to death For they not content with all the terrible tourmentes paynfull deathes Martyrdomes executed vpon them would not somuch as suffer theyr bodies to be buried but threw them to dogges and kept straight watche day and night y ● noman should take them away but that y ● dogges should deuoure them in deede And if the beastes or the fyre leaste any part of theyr bodies not confumed they toke the bones and asshes and the duste and all together threwe into y e Riuer thinking thereby to ouercome and conquere God himselfe that neyther he shoulde be able to gather theyr asshes together and make theyr bodies aliue againe as they were before nor they haue any hope of Resurrection out of theyr graues being out of all hope of graue or any kynd of buriall at all This doth Eusebius wryte reporte out of the very letters and Autentyke wyttenesse of the Christen folke Martyrs there at that tyme. And if we shal cōpare together those myscreantes then with these our mysseshapen Christians nowe I cannot see wherein they any thing differ from them but well may I sone see that in some pointes these matche them go beyonde them to For the persons and holy Sayntes of God against whome all this crueltie and extremitie of malice is shewed be all one of the same Catholike fayth and Religion and much about the same age and tyme far within syxe hundred yeres after Christe And what els is the cause that our newe Gospellers doo so persecute spette at and abhorre theyr bones and ashes nowe but for the hate they haue both to them and theyr Catholique Religion if they durst so playnly for shame cōfesse it as by y e diuelles persuasion they doo in theyr hartes beleue it The Paynyms would not only themselues not burie the dead bodies of the Sayntes but dyd also most cruelly forbyd and most straightly watche that none other mā nor Christen nor heathen moued with pitie should steale them away and burie them What els meane these Captaine Protestants nowe but y ● neyther they nor any good Christē man in deede shall see any such holy bodies reuerently buried and layed in graue The heathen Infidelles cruelly kylled the Christians as theyr mortal enemies and threwe theyr bodies to beastes to deuoure These worse than Infidelles take vp the bodies that haue so long lyen styl spoyle the graues and Sepulchres and prophane all together most impiously The Infidelles to wreake theyr present āger forbyd burial to their enemies being newly ●layen theyr blood yet warme and the tormentors wrath yet fressh and fierce these fell persecutors denie them buriall yea most violently spoyle them of theyr graues which they had quietly kepte and possessed so many hundred yeares Whome if they take for theyr fryndes why order they so cruelly and if for theyr enemies why haue they not forgot all yre and malice after so lōg tyme of so many hundred yeares The mysbeleuing Paynyms thought that the Christen men ran wyllingly to suffer all kynde of torment and death for Christes sake because of the

hope they had to lyue and ryse againe and enioy a better lyfe croune of euerlasting glorie And that therefore they desyred so muche to be honestly buried that theyr flesh and bodies might lye together and so the more easyly be reysed vp and made againe by the power of God And to the end that God might not come by theyr flesh and synowes and bones nor they haue any hope at all of Resurrection and thereby also be dryuen from theyr constant and patient suffring for Christes sake they sought the meanes not only not to burie them but also that God should not any where fynde and come by theyr flesh and bones asshes againe but toke all and gaue it to beastes to deuoure and to the fyre to consume and then what the beastes fyre had leafte they threw earth and asshes and al togegether into the Riuer to be vtterly dispersed and neuer to be recouered and got together againe Whether Beza his fellowes in theyr like dede of burning the Reliques and holy bodies of Sayntes and throwing theyr bones and asshes into the Riuer haue also the lyke mynde and opinion of Gods power and Resurrection I committe to the secrete iudgement of God who most certaynly both seeth theyr thoughtes and the most priuie corners secretes of theyr hartes and shall reyse vp his holy Sayntes Martyrs bodies to immortal lyfe and glory where euer y e cruell Infidell or impiouse Heretike scatter and flyng them abrode in y e wyde world But in the meane tyme well may we as Christen men dyd then in those grea persecutions when they could by no meanes be suffred to bury y e dead bodies lament to see heare of this Heathen Myscreant maner this more then Turkysh crueltie of suche as would be not only counted true Christiās but also pretend stoutly take vpon them to be Refourmers of the Catholike fayth Wel may we rue and be sory to see this daye Well maye I nowe and worthely crye out and make exclamation O most mercyfull lord O euerlasting God of heauen and earth what a wycked and Barbarous Religion or rather Irreligion what a strange and rude Reformation or rather Deformation is this that pursueth with famine fyre and sworde all good men euery where and allwayes yea after they are departed this lyfe that encreaseth gathereth force and is strengthened with turmoyling and troubling all Common weales and good Order with robbing spoylinge theyr owne contreemen and neighboures with contemning and prophaning all holie and Spirituall things with breaking vp and violating of Sepulchres Schrines and Graues with kylling murdering all faythfull Subiectes with dasshing and huddeling all the affayres good orders of the whole worlde together w t blasphemies madnes furie rage crueltie butcherie far passing the Turkes Tyrannie What els shall we coniecture deeme to haue been the marke and end intente and pourposes of suche Refourmers as these be if it were not to abolishe roote out quite all Christian Religion out of the world they haue omitted no kinde of crueltie that could be deuised they haue slayne and murdred the honorable and worshippull the substantiall and vertuouse subiectes they haue spared noe state nor age The rage and furor of these sauage Barbarouse wretches hath extended it self and waxen fearce and cruell againste children women and old men who were so weak that they were not able nor to hurte other nor yet to defend and saue themselues There was a companie of honest mēs Children who for feare of these madbraines passing by ranne to hyde themselues into a Churche the villaines did set a fire and burned both the Churche the chyldren together and when some of y e poore infantes lept out of y e fire to saue their liues these cruel broilers vnmerciful murdrers far exceding the tyrannie of the wicked Herode flong the seelie innocentes aliue into the fire againe They had no care nor regard at all of honestie shame or chastitie They stripped an honest mayed stark naked as euer she was borne in the middes of the streate at Orleans And when she stood so openlie among them y e bawdie ribaudes Sardanapalus souldiours feeled and groped her shamefullye filthylie and againste all the lawes of nature to serche forsooth if she had hidden anie money aboue the rate of the proclamation to carie priuilie out of the town about her The traytor by Angiers which kept a castle againste his Souueraigne lord and master the King and toke a Noble woman and hāged her in a basket by a rope ouer the Castle wall for a bullwarke against y e force shorte of the Kings artillarie and battering pieces did suerlie a more cruell and vnmercifull acte but yet not so durtie filthye and bawdie as this fowle deed which nature abhorreth Theyr full po●rpose and intent was to pille robbe and spoile all they could get to leaue nothing vntouched Gabastone the master of y ● watche or rather the master of misserule at Paris seemed plainlie to confesse and proteste that this was their mening at what time he was in the companie of these Sacrilegiouse Refourmers at the spoiling of S. Medardes Churche there in the firste beginning of the trouble and rode on his horse into the quiere before the highe Aulter and there gabbled and cried to his mates in his barbarouse Gascoigne Frenche Pilla tout Pilla tout that is spoile all spoile all Is there anie thing I pray you more fearce more cruell more horrible that men should need to feare at the Turkes handes if he had been in place then that we haue seen to our greate greife smarte and dammage attempted and committed by these vile Pages and Pedlers of this newe Gospell Truelie I beleue Soliman y e great Turke himself would neuer haue suffred Virgines and professed Nunnes to be so filthylie defloured and forced by rape the Priestes and seruantes of God to be so villanouslye and spitefullye handeled all holye thinges consecrate to Gods seruice and honoure to be so wickedlie defiled and profaned finallie the verie blessed and pretiouse bodie of our lord and master Christe himself to be with suche furiouse and outragiouse impietie caste on the grownd trod vnder foote hurled into the fire and into the water and so desperatlie to be prickt with theyr swerdes and caried vppon the toppes of theyr speares Verylie thus I thinke and thus my mynd geues me right worshipfull and learned that except that onelye Noble man the right honorable Duke of Guyse had withstood theyr furiouse attempts and defeated theyr moste cruel assaultes and desperate enterprises that most Noble parte of Christendome the whole cōmon weale and Realme of France had been vtterlie vndone and loste And that notable vertuouse mā a personne moste famouse for passing manhod exceading vertue peerlesse knowledge cōmendaciō for warfarre feates of armes the father defender of his countreye the glasse bright shining light of