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A14350	The common places of the most famous and renowmed diuine Doctor Peter Martyr diuided into foure principall parts: with a large addition of manie theologicall and necessarie discourses, some neuer extant before. Translated and partlie gathered by Anthonie Marten, one of the sewers of hir Maiesties most honourable chamber.; Loci communes. English	Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562.; Simmler, Josias, 1530-1576.; Marten, Anthony, d. 1597.	1583 (1583)	STC 24669; ESTC S117880	3,788,596	1,858

furthering some vtilitie of ours I iudge might both be restored retained Who séeth not that the Apostles for quietnesse sake and for the better liuing together with the beléeuers commanded the Gentils to abstaine from strangled and from bloud These things vndoubtedlie were of Aarons Priesthood Acts. 15. 20 if you will haue all thinges generallie to bee comprehended which were in the lawe Also no man is ignorant that tythes are instituted at this day in infinite places for to maintaine the ministers of the Church That Psalmes and Hymnes should be sung in the holie congregation ye cannot easilie finde by the Scripture of the new Testament which most manifestlie appeareth was doone in the olde I passe ouer that Ambrose while he interpreteth the 14. Verse 26. Chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians most manifestlie saieth that the custome of prophesying taught there by Paul being taken from the synagogues was deriued vnto our Churches Further if I should somewhat diligently search and examine which the time will not suffer I might finde manie thinges which our Churche hath borrowed of the decrées of Moses yea and that from the first times And not to omitte this wee haue feast dayes in remembrance of the Lordes resurrection of the natiuitie of Whitsuntide Feast of the Natiuitie Resurrection c. and of the death of Christ Shoulde all these thinges be abolished because they be steppes of the olde lawe By all these thinges I thinke you sée that all the thinges belonging to Aarons priesthood are not to be abrogated as nothing of them may be retayned or vsed And say not vnto mee that there will bee straightway opened a windowe vnto all abuses vnto holie water censing and other infinite thinges of like sort for the aduersaries will aunswere that there must be appointed a measure in those thinges which they renue and retaine that the congregation of the faithful be not burthened with this kinde of thinges nor any woorshippe or effect of religion placed therein as wee sée to be doone in holie water or censing Morouer we must beware that Christian religion be not put in hazarde that although in some respect they be restored yet that there be no such store made of them as though they should bée necessarie to obtaine saluation But so ought we to suffer such thinges as when they shall appeare to profite but a litle they may bee layde a side euen as I haue testified what I thinke should be doone at this day as touching this diuersitie of garmentes For this in verie déede I would to haue beene laide aside but when it happened not according to my minde I thought it méete to suffer the same till better times should be graunted I would to God that the Churches which be in Germanie with this one losse might redéeme their auncient libertie although I wish by all meanes that no superfluous thing should be obtruded vnto them But nowe let vs weigh the other argument whereby the vse of these garmentes séemed not lawefull because they were inuented by the tyrannie of the Pope Héere doe not I perceiue howe it can be firmelie prooued that we may vse nothing that is accustomed to be doone in poperie Howe farre 〈◊〉 we may vse things that were vsed in the Popes Church Doubtlesse we must take héede that we presse not the church of Christ with too much bondage so as it may not be lawefull to vse anie thing that belonged to the Pope Certainely our forefathers receiued the temples of Idolles and conuerted them into holie houses wherein Christ should be worshipped and the reuenewes consecrated to the Goddes of the Gentils to playes of the Theater and to the vestall virgins they tooke to maintaine the ministers of the Church whereas these thinges did first serue not onelie Antichrist but the deuill himselfe Yea and the verses of the Poetes which were dedicated vnto the Muses and vnto diuerse Goddes or vnto fables to be doone in the Theater for pacifying of Goddes when they be commodious and excellent and true the Ecclesiasticall writers vse them and that by the example of the Apostle who disdained not to cite Menander Aratus and Epimenides and that euen in the holie scripture which hee deliuered and those words which otherwise were prophane hee made agréeable to the diuine seruice vnlesse perhappes you will say that his wordes described in the holy scriptures serue lesse to the woorshipping of God than the visible wordes vsed in the sacramentes Who moreouer vnderstandeth not that wine was consecrated vnto Bacchus bread vnto Ceres water vnto Neptune the Oliue vnto Minerua learning vnto Mercurie song vnto the Muses or to Apollo and verie manie other thinges of this sort you may find in Tertullian in his booke De Coronamilitis where he treateth in a manner of the selfe same argument all which thinges neuerthelesse wee feare not to vse at our owne will aswell in holie as in prophane vses though they were dedicated vnto deuilles or Idolles Nor straightway doe I graunt that these diuersities of garmentes had their originall of the Pope séeing wée reade in the Ecclesiasticall historie that Iohn the Apostle at Ephesus ware an ornament called Petalum or a pontificall plate Petalus seu Lamina And of Cyprian the Martyr Pontius the Deacon testifieth that when he was within a while to suffer death he gaue his * Birrus an ornament that Byshops vsed Birrum vnto the executioners his garment of dalmatia vnto the deacons and stoode in his linnen garmentes Moreouer Chrysosome maketh mention of the white garments of ministers of the Church And the olde writers testifie that the Christians when they came vnto Christ chaunged their garmentes and in stéede of a gowne put on a cloke For which when they were mocked of the Ethnickes Tertullian wrote a verie learned booke intytuled De Pallio of the cloke Neither doe I thinke you to be ignoraunt that vnto those which were entered vnto Baptisme was giuen a white garment Wherefore it appeareth that before the tyrannie of the Pope beganne there was some diuersities of garmentes in the Church But admitte that these thinges were inuented by the Pope yet doe I not perswade my selfe that the impiety of the popedome is such that whatsoeuer it toucheth it doth altogether defile and pollute it whereby godlie men may not be allowed to put it to a holie vse Nowe doe I thinke you vnderstande what my iudgement is for the reuiuing or retayning of the Mosaicall or Papisticall Rites Wherefore nowe that we haue briefly noted the two chiefest points of your reasons I come vnto that which your selfe also confesseth that all mens inuentions must not straightwaie be condemned Otherwise it is a deuise of man that we communicate rather in the morning than in the after noone All mans inuentions must not be condemned Acts. 4. 37. And it was a deuise of man that the prices of thinges that were solde in the primitiue church were laide at

vnto his disciples Matt. 28 20. when he said I will be with you vntill the end of the world He addeth an other comfort namelie that they shall not all vtterlie perish in those trobles but that such as are predestinate vnto life shall escape that is they shall be written in the booke of God Lastlie he comforteth the church vnder this name that there shall be a resurrection of the dead And he saith that manie of the dead shall be raised vp neither doth he saie All because manie shall be found aliue at the comming of the Lord. Wherevpon Paule saith We shall not all die 1. Co. 15 51. but we shall be all changed Neither doth she word Manie betoken a certeine small number because as Ezechiel said There stood vp a mightie great host namelie of those bones restored vnto life againe And in the booke of the Apocalypse Apoc. 7 9. the companie of the saints is described to be great in number In this place Daniel treateth of the resurrection and that of the same which shall be vniuersall for he diuideth it into a resurrection of saluatition and of reproch And there is no doubt but that Christ alluded vnto the words of the prophet when he said in Iohn Iohn 5 28. They which be in their graues shall heare the voice of the sonne of God and shall come foorth they which haue doone well into the resurrection of life but they which haue doone euill into the resurrection of iudgement As to the felicitie of the saints to be looked for after resurrection he addeth that They which instruct others shall be verie glorious and he compareth them with the brightnesse of the celestiall Spheres And them which make manie righteous he compareth to the cleare light of the starres bicause they teach the promises especiallie of Messias wherevnto they giuing their assent are iustified For the power and vertue of making righteous must not be attributed vnto men séeing that is onelie the gift of God neither can it be giuen to men otherwise than as the ministers and instruments of the word of God And that which is first spoken of the firmament of heauen and of the brightnesse of the starres I thinke it to be all one for it is an vsuall thing in the holie scriptures to repeate in the latter member of anie verse that which had béen spoken in the former 48 This prophesie of Daniel although it be verie plaine and euident yet hath it béen subiect to the cauillations of Porphyrius The cauils of Porphyrius against the writings of Daniel no meane philosopher He being verie angrie with the christians confesseth that Daniel was a most excellent man but that the prophesies which be written vnder his name doo perteine nothing vnto him but that they were written by a forgerer which liued after the times of Antiochus and Machabeus And that in his booke he prophesied not of things to come but rather he contriued into riddles the things which were alreadie past And those things he saith which in this place are péeced to belong altogither to the time of Antiochus for the Iewes were verie cruellie vsed by him First he subdued to himselfe the citie of Ierusalem robbed the temple afterward he began to compell the Iewes to depart from the rites and customs of their countrie to forsake the iust worshipping of God he forbad circumcision he obtruded vnto them the eating of swines flesh against their wils he set vp in the temple of God the signe of Iupiter Olympus to be worshipped Which doone it came afterward into his mind to go against Persia where he attempted to rob a church that was most rich and furnished with verie manie gifts from thence had repulse with great shame For which cause he conceiued so great indignation as he beganne to be sicke in his mind and he deuising with himselfe to powre out all his wrath against the Iewes returned with great hast into Syria But he fell from his chariot and was so hurt with the crushing of his bodie as partlie thereby and partlie through his vehement trouble of mind and with the newes brought him of Lysias and other his capteins put to flight and ouerthrowen by the Israelites for at his going awaie he commanded that they should most gréeuouslie afflict the Iewes he died Then saith Porphyrius the Iewes which séemd to be dead were after a sort raised vp and are risen againe but yet so as they which had constantlie behaued themselues in preseruing of their countrie became religious famous and glorious but they which shamefullie had reuolted from true godlines became verie vile and full of reproch These be the doting follies yea rather the poisons that Porphyrius scattered in this place But of vs which professe Christ A confutation of the cauils of Porphyrius the first point of his interpretation may not be receiued namelie in that he affirmeth the booke not to be written by Daniel when as Christ not onelie made mention thereof but also cited words which we read in the same As touching the other point wherein he will that these things should haue relation vnto Antiochus Hierom demandeth how that the afflictions wherewith the Hebrues were vexed vnder that tyrant were more gréeuous than euer they were before Certeinlie in the time of Nabuchad-nezar the citie of Ierusalem was ouerthrowen the temple vtterlie raced and all the people led into captiuitie and therein kept vntill the seuentie yéere More gréeuous doubtlesse were these afflictions than the other which Antiochus brought vpon them The booke of the Machabeis doth after a sort mitigate this saieng 1. Mac. 9 27 where it is said that the euils of Antiochus were more gréeuous than had happened from that time wherein the Iewes were without a prophet Esdras called the prophet Malachie that is from Esdras which was the prophet Malachie Howbeit we must consider not what is written in the booke of Machabeis but that verie thing which is conteined in the volume of Daniel Furthermore we demand why the transgressors of the lawe are said to be raised from death after that king Antiochus was dead for so Porphyrius expoundeth it since that reuolters rather fell backe than rose againe For while the tyrant yet liued they were had in estimation they occupied the chiefe priesthoods and bishopriks and the Machabeis whom perhaps he vnderstandeth to haue become famous liued in excéeding great troubles and sorrows and were almost all vtterlie extinct Ibidem 18. Ibid. 12 48. Ibid. 16. 16. Iudas fell in battell Ionathas being a captiue was slaine and Simon was beheaded in a banket Certeinlie I doo not denie but that they were verie gréeuous things which happened vnder Antiochus but not so bitter and rigorous as are those things which the prophet sheweth shall come to passe vnder Antichrist whose types and figures went before who were not onelie Antiochus but also Demetrius and other princes of Graecia which both

renowmed Quéene is a schoole or a certain place of warfare of the Almercifull and Almightie God where he through sundrie laboursome exercises God exerciseth the godlie with diuerse afflictions sometimes by afflictions and sometimes by diuerse perils teacheth and instructeth them that be his I suppose that of Godly men it is iudged most certaine and vndoubted Yet for all this the heauenly father doth not so deale as he hath determined that those whom he leaueth shal perpetually be troubled with afflictions and bée pressed with euerlasting griefes but sometimes helpeth to ouercome euils and at such oportunitie as he hath determined with himselfe suffereth them to escape out of the flouds and whilepittes of daungers to the intent he may declare that it is he that leadeth them to the gates of death and bringeth them backe againe 1. Sam. 2. 6. while hee taketh care that in his adopted children may shine the image whom he naturally begate vnto himselfe before all eternitie Rom. 8. 28. For the same our first begotten brother Iesus Christ dyed first before hée should be raised vp by his owne and his fathers power Therefore it behooueth that we also which are appointed to be made like his image shoulde first die before we rise againe After this sort the Israelites were in a manner deade while they were pressed vnder the most gréeuous tyrannie of Pharao in Egypt but they being deliuered by Moses and Aaron were after a sort plucked away from death Moreouer they séemed againe to haue perished in the manifold daungers and sundrie mischances of the wast wildernesse who afterward reuiued by entering into the lande of Chanaan To conclude they being ledde into captiuitie were thought vtterly consumed who neuerthelesse returning after 70. yeares florished againe and were then restored vnto life The verie which thing O most mightie Quéene Elyzabeth séeing God hath doone vnto you he hath not departed from that his olde manner of custome but hath rather confirmed the same and made it more manifest For while his workes are executed in the meaner and baser sort of men they indéed appeare the lesse But on the otherside when they be shewed in men woemen of noblest and highest estate then are they made in a manner famous in the eye of al mē Wherfore since you most noble Quéene Elizabeth are aduanced to the kingdome not in verie déede by a gentle Quéene Elyzabeth easie and pleasāt way but for certain yeares now passed you haue appeared to be scarse a foote frō death For so great déepe haue bin the daungers as the ship of your life was now welnéere loonke you are preserued by the power of God not by the helpe of man are promoted as we nowe sée to the possession of that famous kingdome Wherefore by the mercie and goodnesse of the sonne of God in whom only you did put your trust you are reuiued by the good helpe of God do inioy the kingdome of your father and grandfather and that to the safetie of the Church of Christ and to the restitution of the common weale of England falling in decay Therefore fitlie doth that saying sounde in the mouthes of all Godlie men at this time which is most ioyfully pronounced in the Psalme Psal 118. 28. This is the Lords doing and it is marueilous in our eyes The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner I confesse indéede that these wordes appertaine vnto Christ But séeing Godly men are accounted for his members I iudge they may be applied vnto them also For that the other members of the bodie are both garnished and haue profite by the ornaments and honour of the head Ephe. 5. 27. Paul the Apostle of Christ doth aboundantly testifie which in verie déede must be specially vnderstood of those members which are so eminent in the Lords bodie as it pleased God that your maiestie should at length excellently appeare among his people Now this is so great a benefite of God as it cannot be shut vp in you onely but through your own selfe is deriued vnto a great number of the faithfull For so manie as either are borne subiects in the kingdome or wish well thereunto and which séeke nothing else but the glorie of Christ all these séeme to themselues to be raised together with you from death Amongst whom because I neither am nor wil be the last euen as I perceiued my selfe by these welcome newes to be made excéeding and marueilous ioyfull so I thought it méete that first of all we should giue thanks vnto our most mighty and mercifull God secondly that we shoulde reioyce on the behalfe of your maiestie and also of the Church and Realme of England Wherfore let vs praise God and the father of our Lorde Iesu Christ which hath visited his people being almost deade and hath opened the way which a long time was shut vp from preaching of the Gospel of the sonne of God Beholde nowe againe is the horne of saluation lifted vp in the kingdome of Englande whereby the chosen of God by the inuincible power of our Sauiour Iesus Christ are deliuered out of the hand of their enemies and doe most syncerelie woorship the blessed GOD according to the prescript rule of the holie Scriptures Glorie be nowe to GOD on high Peace in the Church and the good will of God towardes the people of England that by the guide and good gouernement of this godlie Quéene her subiects being adorned with righteousnesse and holinesse may walke alwaies and innocentlie before him and that hee will so lighten them from aboue as they which through the night that went before were againe fallen into darkenesse and into the shadowe welnéere of death now the daies of peace being sprung vp may walke their waies safelie without any offence And that this may be done most mightie Quéene it is in your hand next vnto God Neither doe I doubt but for your auncient faith sake your godlinesse and fauour of God which hath protected defended and gouerned you from your childehood vnto this daie you wil giue the due honour vnto God and to his worde God kéepe from your syncere and religious heart the blemish of an vngratefull minde which though in euery sort of man it be most fowle in you which by the benefite of Christ are in this place it would be altogether intollerable Howbeit I am whollie perswaded that your Maiestie is both of a readie minde and will to restore the Euangelicall Religion And albeit that you are sufficientlie prepared and learned of your selfe this to doe and that you haue no want of the holie counsels godlie exhortations of others which daily sound in your eares Yet haue I also thought good for the verie great bounden duety that I owe vnto your Maiestie with no lesse breuitie than modestie to put you in minde of some things which principallie belong hereunto Which thinges I humblie beséeche you may bee no otherwise