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A06632	A letter of Sr. Humfrey Linde, to a lady of great worth, much afflicted for Syr Humfreys sake, hearing him ill spoke of, for not answering the Whetstone, and the Spectacles, that were written against his Via tuta And also for that he is greatly taxed for lying and corrupting of many authours. In which letter he doth cleare himselfe.	Floyd, John, 1572-1649.; Lynde, Humphrey, Sir.	1634 (1634)	STC 17093; ESTC S100654	14,875	50

A LETTER OF S. r HVMFREY LINDE To a Lady of great Worth much afflicted for Syr Humfreys sake hearing him ill spoken of for not answering the Whetstone and the Spectacles that were written agaynst his Via tuta AND Also for that he is greatly taxed for lying and corrupting of many Authours In which Letter he doth cleare himselfe Printed Anno M.DC.XXXIIII MADAME The affliction you endure for my sake is a sharpe Arrow shot eueÌ„ to my hart and is not thence to be remoued vntill your griefe be remoued by this my Letter which I know to you who are so zealous a louer of the Word and hater of the Pope will giue aboundant satisfaction As for the Church-going Papists therefore and some other that are not of the purer sort of the reformed Church who as you say do dash you in the teeth with my lyes 150. and odd in my first Booke called Via tuta and the Lord knowes how many in my second called Via deuia so that when you would sound forth my euerlasting praises they stop your pure Mouth with my infinite numbers of corruptions shiftes Foxian Iewellian and Mortonian falsifications crying out that I haue had too printed Bookes sent me one called the Spectacles to see my way the other the Whetstone the iust reward of my desert for lying so egregiously with many other papers of like nature displaying my vntruthes Know deare Lady that a Brother or Sister that spring from the pure bowels of the reformed Church as your Honour and I doe must suffer much more then this by that vile deformed and Antichristian Crew the Wicked But now to the matter This only I request at your Honours hands that if you know any should be desirous before my printed Bookes come forth to receaue any further satisfaction then this my Letter to your Ladishippe will giue them they may be sent on the Lords name either to my owne House or to the Wine-Office where I and many of our learned and zealous brethren meete often about a further reformation of Religion desiring that not so much as a ragge of Popery may remayne in the House of the Lord neither Bells nor Organs Rochets or Myters square Caps or Surplisses Crosse or Image for I am assured a true Brother or Sister had rather see Antichrist himselfe then any of these nay we trust in the Lord to put the Word Catholicke out of the Creed as well as out of Tombe-stones and in place therof to say I belieue in the Reformed Church And though our enemyes shew that Lying is one of the Markes of our Church and that I for the glory of it haue told ouer againe all the lyes of M. Bell Fox Iewell White Morton and others in a new fashion yet all this notwithstanding I hope to giue any reasonable man full satisfaction For put case there hath beene now and then a slip or two and that out of the aboundance of my zeale I haue sometimes ouerlashed or stretched a point for the loue of the Ghospell I hope this will be no such Capitall Crime amongst the pure little Flocke who know right well what latitude may be vsed for the splendor of the Ghospell what our Elders and Fore-fathers in this kind haue done no learned knight can be ignorant What therfore I haue done was not without authority yea herein I haue tracked the very footsteps of the most famous D. Luther and the pure preacher of the word D. Caluin These were the lights sent from heauen it self to driue away the darke clouds of papistry These were they who made their doctrine odious to the world And wot you how why thus Those reuerend Fathers of our Church affirmed how Papists bragged of being able to keep Gods Commaundements without Gods grace how they put their trust in their owne Merits and not in Christs how they adored Bread Statues Images and Idols Now the Papists ashamed denyed it stoutly Againe those Reuerend Fathers affirmed it boldly so conuinced them What is not our affirmation a sufficient refutation of their deniall Sure I am this manner of arguinge hath beene allowed of this fourescore yeares in our Churches and pulpits When D. Luther tom de matrim f. 119. began to teach from aboue no doubt that this in Genesis Multiply and increase was not a Precept only but more then a Precept and that it was not within the power of a man to be without a woman And agayne that if the wife would not yield she should be sent packing marry Hesther put away Vasthi that if the husband were impotent the wife might marry another or with his consent lye secretly with his brother or some other man What did the Papists Oh it vexed them to heare of reformatioÌ„ they vrged Scripture too Matt. 5. where it is said that Whosoeuer dismisseth his wife vnles for fornication and marieth another committeth adultery But alas they haue not the spirit of interpreting Scriptures their old Fathers Grandsires were blinded and therfore according to his Tenet well sayth D. Luther Be it that the Church Augustine other Doctors Peter Apollo yea an Angell froÌ„ heauen teach otherwise yet is my doctrine such as setteth forth Gods only glory Nay he had authority from heauen to reprehend the Apostles themselues and to put in and out what he pleased of the holy Word of the Lord for so he himselfe affirmeth in his booke agaynst King Henry the 8. I am certayne sayth he I have my doctrine from heauen and yet marke the humility of the man it is not myne sayth he but Christes And therefore you see how afterwards King Henry obeyed him and his doctrine which he would neuer haue done had it not beene from God or had it not beene most pure and holy doctrine and therfore you may read how zealous King Henry became how purely and chastly he liued being conuerted from Popery Agayne D. Luther added to the Text Rom. 3. this word alone Man is iustifyed by fayth alone And this not without both authority from God as before you haue heard out of his owne mouth and no doubt do firmly belieue but also with great reason to wit to vexe the old Papists O this doth silence them this makes theÌ„ chafe and sweat Let them cry we falsify the Scripture I will study no further answere for them then this of D. Luthers which is neuer to be answered A Papist and an Asse are all one thinge So I will haue it so I commaund it my will must stand for a reason And good reason for thy Will was the Lords will and the Lords will was thy Will So in the 2. of Peter he hath thrust out good Workes as not beseeming these holy times when a liuely fayth excludeth all good Workes all counsels of Pouerty Chastity and Obedience Giue me fayth and let the Papists goe with their good Works and Restitutions whither they will I le none This doctrine we exactly follow and protest

fault because he citeth Authours that the whole world esteemeth lyers as Mornay Plessis who is conuinced of 4000. lyes a goodly company a man no doubt of great zeale and of a braue Spirit for being vrged with these vntruths before the King of France his stomake was so full that he cast it vp euen in the Papists faces and in the very presence of the King of France Henry the IV. this I say was a true Romane a braue Spirit and the spirit of his Ancestours shined in him Heere my Papist intreates me to read Parsons three Conuersions for that I may learne to lye out of M. Foxe Mornay Plessis both whom are painted forth in their owne true colours But I scorne to read Parsons or to learne to lye of any man neither Parson nor Minister shall teach me to lye And heer also the wonderfull Papist falles into a wonder at me for wrangling about the Cup seeing my owne Rabbins haue depriued me both of Cup Sacrament meat and drinke too He is angry likewise because I cite not the place in the CouÌ„cell but for that I haue my reasons He denyeth that there is any such thing in the Councell but only in the 13. Session there are these wordes Though Christ did institute the Venerable Sacrament after supper and administred the same in both kinds to his disciples yet the laudable authority of sacred Canons and approued Customs of the Church hath practised and doth still practise that the Sacrament ought not to be consecrated after supper nor be receyued of the faithfull but fasting And so cals to me for a Decree as though I were bound to cite places at his pleasure and like a malepert Iacke he saith that in this point we may be termed the giddy builders of Babilon so great is our dissention about the Eucharist And for the Communion in both kindes or one kind it was left to the iudgement of the Church and that life eternall is promised for eating one kind and so Christ himselfe gaue it He sayth he will not stand to cite places of Scripture seeing that I belieue neuer a word in the Scripture and that he were better deale with an Infidell then with an obstinate hereticke And that I with all my Diuinity cannot distinguish betweene a Diuine Institution a Diuine Precept for though he instituted it in both kindes yet he commanded it not to be receaued in both kinds for many things are instituted yet not commanded as Matrimony c. Lastly if I loathed wine as he heares I do not he doth not doubt to get me a dispensatioÌ„ to wash downe the supper of the Lord with a Cup of good March beere or Ale For my vntruth in this matter I must looke vpon Vrbanus Regius a learned man of our owne who confesseth that the SacrameÌ„t of one kind was ordained in the first Councell of Ephesus 1000. yeares before the Synod of Constance for the extinguishing the Nestorian heresy who held the body to be without the bloud in one kind the bloud to be without the body in another kind but the Knight saith he holdeth it in neyther kind and therfore but kindly dealt withall to haue his kind lying shewed to the whole Congregation of his learned Brethren that may giue him better counsell The VII Charge Because I affirme in my 7. Section that the heretickes Angelici were the first founders of praying to Saints I cite for this Aug. lib. de haeres who the Papistes say doth not so much as name Saints in that place by me cited and that it is a plaine iugling trick to bring Augustin against that doctrine which the world knoweth he practised as it is seene in his Meditations cap. 40. S. Michael S. Gabriel S. Raphael supplicate for me Now say they these Angelici held that Angels were to be adored as Gods or that they thought Angels made the world or that they boasted that they liued Angelicall lyues and therefore placed themselues in the Order of Angels from hence they had their name from hence S. Augustine numbers them among Heretikes say the Papists they number the Knight amongst them for his Via tuta this is because I haue layd out their wicked doctrine but I promise to make them more odious if I can For the Collyridians S. Aug. repreheÌ„ds them for honouring the blessed Virgin as a Goddesse not for honoring her as Catholiks do so out of his authority bids me learne the difference betweene Idolatry and honouring the friends and Saints of God The VIII Charge Because I deriue their doctrine of Merit works of superogation from the Cathari this say they is as true as the rest for they boasted of their purity as I Puritans do that the Cathari I agree in 16. Points they denyed PennaÌ„ce as the Knight doth although Scripture threaten death eternall to those that do not peÌ„nance yet they Knight wil none Nouatianus the Captaine of the Cathari made his followers take a soleÌ„ne oath that they would neuer returne to the Pope who theÌ„ was Cornelius so hath the Knight sworne to hate the Pope c. which I deny not and I loue the Cathari the better for their zeale Now for the Merit they say there is no mention of it but of their hypocrisy for their doctrine of good Works they send me to learne for that there are many things belonging to make a good worke meritoâ—ious in the sight of God I haue bin often taught they say therfore they will not stand to repeate my lesson to me agayne but send me to their learned Authours Neyther will I spend tyme to learne their doctrine which I hate so I do all their good Works vowing neuer to do any while I liue for their sakes for in this I am of D. Luthers mind to be opposite to the Pope in all things The IX Charge Because I say the restraint of their Priests marriage was the heresy of Tatian the Maniches for which I cite haeres 46. they Papists say that Tatians heresy was for denyall of marriages and comparing them with fornication neyther would he receiue any into his Sect that was marryed there is not one sillable of the marriage of Priests that all the Papists condemne this for heresy holding marriage a Sacrament That of the Maniches was another most abhominable Heresy for they vsing matrimoniall acts yet most sinnefully shunned Conception So Aug. haeres 46. so coÌ„clude I am a most true dealing Knight which is more praise then I deserue The Papist in a letter to me noted also Nine Falsifications of Bellarmine in my Via tuta and might haue done many more but that it was troblesome to him I desired him not to trouble himselfe with making these but it is no matter for I hope to shew that I haue cited Bellarmine truly to teach the Papists to be wary how they write bookes against a Knight for shortly I will put forth a Booke that shall vtterly disgrace both Pope and Papists and this the sooner if I shall heare that your Lap. is satisfyed by this Letter thereby also to answer for me to those scoffing Neutralists And so Right Honourable desiring euer to be esteemed one of your Seruants and one I hope that shal be ready in this kind against all Papists to do you Knights Seruice I rest Your Honours Seruant euer ready to dye in your quarrell for the truth of the pure Word H. Linde FINIS

of the Glosse contayne only an obiection vpon that clause of the Canon concerning paying of money to an excommunicated person the obiection is made by the Authour of the Glosse in these wordes What will you say if I sweare to pay one money afterwards he is excommunicated am I bound to pay it or no Afterwards he argues the question on both sides and then concludes that the Debtour ought to pay the money though the other cannot demaund it Now the ingenious Bishop to make the Papistes doctrine odious leaueth out both the first wordes that shew it is an obiection and the last to wit that such a one is bound to pay it which is the solution and very wittily he makes the sentence go thus If I haue sworne to pay any one money that is excommunicated I am not bound to pay it This was artificially done Agayne he relateth that D. Boucher holdeth that a King may be killed by a priuate maÌ„ when D. Boucher holdeth absolutly the contrary This is to make the world belieue the Truth and make them say that which they doe not which is an honest good and profitable policy In his Preamble pag. 90. he hath so zealous a hatred agaynst the Pope that he affirmeth with great ioye that Adrian the English Pope was choked with a fly citeth Nauclerus for it who only doth mention it as a fable and refutes it Though Parsons haue proued Equiuocation in some cases to be lawfull both out of Scripture euen by Christ himselfe Io. 2. Chap. 5. and S. Paul to the Hebrewes saying Melchisedech had neyther Father nor Mother Toby the 5. that the Angell that appeared calling himselfe the sonne of great Ananias his name was Azarias These they say were no lyes c. So Schoole Diuines out of Augustine in Psal 5. that albeyt a lye be vnlawfull yet to conceale a truth it may be lawfull So many are brought by Parsons in his Mitigation as to saue the life of a Priest But what of all this the simple people neuer come to read this Booke of Parsons or others of that side and for the learned it stands theÌ„ vpon to concurre togeather by all meanes to beat downe Papistry and therfore the Bishop cryed out not one iote of Scripture no one exaÌ„ple of antiquity no one reasoÌ„ in the naturall wit of man no one Authour Greeke or Latin do make for Equiuocation as the Papists teach it So he alledgeth Azor a Iesuit in his Preamble pag. 84. and 85. to condemne all vse of Equiuocation and that by fiue rules but he leaueth out foure of the sayd fiue rules as directly agaynst him allowing in some cases Equiuocation In the same manner he bringeth another Iesuit Emanuel SÃ Now to bring their owne Authors against them is both witty learned Bellarmine hath not escaped him and you may see eueÌ„ by Parsons owne works the Mitigation the Sober Reckoning how rare a man Bishop Morton is But I will end heer with this that you may see how the Papists are vexed with this right worthy and true dealing Bishop For after great labour to shew hundreds of lyes and corruptions as they say then forsooth they dare presume to condemne him of ignorance euen in Logicke shewing that his Syllogisme is neyther true in matter or forme but hath sixe termes and concludes no more then he which proueth the learned Bishop to be an Asse if you will belieue the Papists Euery Man is a liuing creature Euery Oxe is a foure-footed beast Ergo euery Asse hath two loÌ„g eares Now if this worthy and learned Doctour be thus abused by the wicked Crew what must I expect If he that stileth himselfe A Minister of simple Truth in his Preamble yet presently after as they would shew corrupteth Polidor Virgill if this man be taxed what will they doe to me his scholler who haue imitated him others as M. Perkins Fulke Bel Sutcliffe Iewel others of my owne ranke as Sir Edward Cooke Hoby Hastings Plessis Mornay who all with them are notorious lyers But for all this it behoueth a Knight to take courage not to be daunted and neuer to yield that there is the least corruption in any of our Writings for to confesse a fault is rather Vility then Humility in our Religion And therefore with the greatest magnanimity of spirit will I begin to defend my selfe relying vpon these a foresayd Authours that euer did noble knight They taxe me with many lyes but wil you know the cause The truth is they are galled to see my workes my self so highly esteemed for them as I am indeed I do glorify my selfe and the Lord for it Now therefore with sword and shield to defend my honour they are much troubled with my 7. Section because in it I shew their pedigree from old Heretickes and therefore I haue tould 9. or 10. lyes say they Now what is the first I pray you Against their Masse forsooth And who would not labour to beate it downe seeing the very Diuell himselfe hateth it so much that he taught D. Luther to write agaynst it But now to my Charges First Charge I sayd Vitalian the Pope that liued in the yeare 666. brought in the Latin seruice They not enduring this tell me to my face that Gregory the great who liued in the yeare 590. there being 11. Popes between him Vitalian sent the Latin seruice hither by Augustine the Monke to make the matter more cleere they bring Cyprian in his Sermon vpon the Lords Prayer to affirme the same preface of the Masse to be sayd in Latin that is now sayd And Augustine in his second book of ChristiaÌ„ Doctrine ca. 13. in his booke de bono perseuerantiae cap. 3. affirmeth that in the Masse after Habemus ad Dominum presently the Priest answereth Gratias agamus Domino Deo nostro and then followes Dignum iustumest Thus they bring their old Masse Priests against me for their owne Masse Would any man haue made so simple an answere Then they will conuince me with Iohn Stow a good honest simple fellow that in his Chronicle saith that the English seruice began first in K. Edward the sixt his dayes Now why should not I answere with al my learned Ancestours What is Cyprian What is Augustine Were they not men What haue we to doe with them when they are against vs WheÌ„ they are for vs we haue reason to vrge them agaynst the Papists because they honour them and relye vpon them but not we for we protest to relye only vpon the Word of God according to our owne interpretations For we be more then assured that the Lord will not suffer vs the predestinate to erre Now it pleaseth me that I may with D. Luther Caluin Fulke D Humfrey and all other of the reformed Church reiect the Fathers not caring for a thousand Augustins CypriaÌ„s c. And thus I answere for the Latin seruice desiring them to keep the

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