that God hath layde vpon them 〈◊〉 I cannot but maruayle at Howlets slyp mentioned before vvhere he acknowledgeth the prince to be Gods 〈◊〉 But slip I thinke it vvas not For he spake the trueth vvith his tong and lied in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he singeth or rather whopeth in the ears of our gratious Nightingale of obedience and readinesse in the papistes to laye dovvne their 〈◊〉 in her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet this vnhappie owl meaneth nothing lesse For it is to be thought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vvryte that they ioyne with 〈◊〉 Hauns 〈◊〉 this other day for his wicked treasons The Lord giue her highnesse more 〈◊〉 subiects to reioyce in or else it were like to be vvrong vvith her and vvith vs all as it shoulde quickly appeare I am afraid if their povver vvere to their hearts but God hueth and blessed be his name for that holy persuasion he hath giuen vs in his pro tection And though he glaueringly calleth her the 〈◊〉 of God yet the gentleman vvhom he extolleth for such rare modesty in the 42 leafe of his discourse calleth this Antichrist the pope Christes substitute without all warrant ground from him or his vvord These are such deadly enemies to God that malitiously they vvithstand that doctrine of faith and uation vvhich the eternall sonne of God taughte here vppon earth inseperably cleauing to that vile Idol of the Masse moste derogatory to his dignity For vvhereas hee is our only high and euerlasting byshop ordeined of God vvho hath not spared 〈◊〉 povvre out his life and bloud for our santisication by offering vp one 〈◊〉 sacrifice once for all These enemies make it vnsufficient vvithout effect and imperfect and pleade another righteousnesse to satisfy the vvrath of God They pester the earth vvith many Sacrificers and priests matching them vvith our sauiour Christ They make them Peeres and companions with him to offer vp sacrifices acceptable vnto him as vvell for the sinnes of the liuinge as the dead making the Apostles and 〈◊〉 lyers and yet they confesse vvith Dauid that Iesus Christ is an euerlasting Priest according to the order of Melchisedech VVherein they vvholly disaduantage them selues seeing they must be Priests eyther according to the order Aaron and Leui or according to thorder of Melchisedech The order of Aaron and Leui had an ende vvith the ceremoniall 〈◊〉 and sacrifices thereof And Christe vvas onely that high Priest vvho vvas euerlasting offered vp a perfect sacrifice stood not at the aulter but hauing offered vp his ovvne body beeing both the priest and Sacrifice offering not for his ovvne sinnes but for oures hath entred into Heauen and is set dovvne at the righte hande of the Father for euer hauing finished a perfect voorke of this Priesthood for our full satisfaction and attonement This vvhole crowde therefore The Pope Cardinals Friars Priestes Iesuites Massesayers and 〈◊〉 and all that delight in them consent vnto them they are horrible enemies of God 〈◊〉 Prophetes vvicked 〈◊〉 Apostataes VVolues false pastors Idolaters 〈◊〉 execrable 〈◊〉 murtherers of soules renouncers of Iesus Christ and his death and passion false vvitnesses traytors the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and robbers of Gods honor and most detestable For by this * sacrifice of Iesus Christ al outward and visible sacrifices of any other priesthood before or after are abolished and made of no effect except these sacrifices of * prayse thankesgiuing of almes conteining the spirituall worship of the kingly priesthod which are perpetuall amongst al Christians In deede we must haue a hie * Priest who muste bee holye innocente and without spotte vvho needed not to offer vp daylye sacrifices firste for his owne sinnes and after for the sinnes of the people but 〈◊〉 perfourmed this * in offering vp himself 〈◊〉 for al. He sayth once for 〈◊〉 because neither it 〈◊〉 the like should or could be reiterated And therfore he is called the * 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 thinges to come 〈◊〉 into the holy place by his ovvn blood once for all wher through was wrought euerlasting redemption 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of sinnes VVherfore vnlesse vve vvil renounce Iesus Christe vve haue no neede of such sacrifices * Behold I come to thende to doe thy vvill O God by the whiche vvill vve are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the offering vp of the body of Christ once for al. The holy ghost witnesseth that in this new couenant sealed and perfected in this one only Sacrifice of Christe that he vvil no more remember 〈◊〉 iniquities and vvhere there is remission of them there remaineth no more oblation for sinne The sacrifices of the olde 〈◊〉 by reason of their imperfection must be continued dayly renued but Christes offering ces of the old lavv by reason of their imperfection must be continued and daily renued but Christs offering vp himself finished a perfect worke his sacrifice vvas persect As for their sacrifices they are imperfect therfore they continue renew a sacri fice oblation derogatorie to that of Christs robing God of his glory the people of their greatest comfort in this vvorld They are suche enemies to God that they ouerthrovv the trueth of all religion and draw vs to execrable idolatry teaching vs vnder bread wine to worship vvhol Christ whō they affirm in a 〈◊〉 presence most grosly contrary to al the scriptures to be there present against the truth of a body notwithstāding his resurrectiō assension they say that such a transubstantiation is made as there remaineth no substance of breade vvine most contrary to the nature of a Sacrament though the accidents remain as they are enemies to him in these grosse monstruous doctrins so their 〈◊〉 hath another ende then the supper hath For in the supper the seruanes of Christ * make publique profession of their faith they heare the word preached they vvitnesse their faithfull persuasion 〈◊〉 of saluation keeping an actuall memory of the death and passion of Iesus Christ 〈◊〉 to remē brance his vvonderfull and vnspeakable loue vvho hath giuen his life shed his bloud freely for them and all eating of one breade and drinking of one cup are admonished of that brotherly loue and great vnity wherby they are knit together liue and die to Iesus Christ as one body in one and the same spirite vvhereas in the masse the knowledge of Christ is defaced the preaching of the gospell is reiected the time is altogether spent in mockinges and movvings turnings and remouinges from one place to another vvith an infinite number of fruitlesse superstitions and vvicked ceremonies vvorse then euer those were that vvere inuented by Numa Pompilius and dravvne from the Paganes I could vvish in my heart that some young scholler vvould take the paines to translate their Pontificall into English that al our countrimen might see their more then hethenish and mad customes and abhominations The making of their
Bernard Bruno Augustine Albert Frauncis Dominicke and such like and if they married they bestovved themselues most commonly as pleased themselues And novv so nevvfangled they are 〈◊〉 in their professions of Iesus they vvil be called 〈◊〉 or of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iesus as though the aunciente name of christians vvere not holy ynough to serue their turn vvherin they iumpe vvith such as vvill he of the Family of Loue 〈◊〉 to bee of the housholde of 〈◊〉 as to 〈◊〉 a name for their 〈◊〉 estate And though that 〈◊〉 vnlavvfull Chapiter of Trent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this nevve deuised order yer that it may 〈◊〉 an euident argument of the constancie of their Councelles it is against their ovvne Constitutions that ordered long before their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there 〈◊〉 be no more such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they found themselues pestred with For they vvere vveary of the infinite svvarm they had already and therefore one of their own Cardinalles 24. yeares before this blasphemous sect 〈◊〉 out of the bottomlesse pit hauing a charge committed vnto him to giue notice of things that vvere to bee reformed sayth playnly that if suche beggerly orders vvere suffered to encrease as they began it vvould ouerthrowe all And in this I hope he shall prooue a true Prophet And the name of Iesus beeing of his office this newe broode by taking it vpon them vvhat doe they else but auovv themselues members of Antichrist Of the price of mans bloud which ought to bee precisely kepte and preserued they haue no regard They poure it out as vvater the * earth crieth for vengeance for that shee hath drunke vp from their hands such aboundāce in al places filling the world ful of vvidows and pore Orphans They are so farre off from preseruing life vppon which God the author of life hath giuen such special charge that they vvill picke occasions and take the least forcibly to bereue men of them And this they vvill doe not to execute iustice but for hatred of righteousnesse and for professing the trueth without al coulor of iustice deuising al kind of torments least they should die to easily worse thē euer did Nero Dionisius Dioclesiā or the rest of such like tyrants They cōplayn of hard dealing but he that shal enter into their tragical stories see their practises in al countries their procedings and executions shall see plainly vvhose children they are by their bloudy murthers and mercilesse slaughters But as this is a note that 〈◊〉 and his members whose kingdom stands by bloud shal haue * feete 〈◊〉 to shed bloude so is it a note of Christ and his kingdome to be pursued of these to be killed and put to death 〈◊〉 vve lye before them as sheepe not before the sherers but as before butchers and yet open not our mouths and are led to the slaughter not for our euil and vnrighteousnes but because vve reproue them of sinne holde oute the glory of our Christ and renounce their false doctrine VVho knoweth not that they must needes confesse that they are vnable to keep this sixt commaundement if they did vnderstande that vvhiche Christ deliuereth Math. 5. that collorique passions and reprochful taunts vndeseruedly bestowed were branches of murther but 〈◊〉 Pharasaicall loose interpretations of the cōmandments of God both deceiued themselues and infected the vvorld vvith this contagion that man being able to fulfill the wil of god needeth not much to be beholding to Christ but of this I haue said afore As for adultery vvhere reigned it more then amongst those contemners of mariage where were the heads of 6000. children and their bones founde in a ponde and vnder alters in caues and drye trenches in their abhominable houses but amongst them VVere not al their Cloisters Abbeys and Nunneries very stewes and brothelhouses Despising Gods ordinance it vvas his iust iudgement to giue them vp as he did the Genriles not onelye to spiritual vvhoredom but to bodily that they should followe the lustes of their ovvne heartes and defile themselues one vvith another through most beastly filthines that their Colledges Abbeys Nunneries and religious houses should be infected 〈◊〉 with vnnaturall and vntimely murthers or vvith liuing bastards and dead bones or els that they should be filthy Gomorians and sodomites that * leauing the naturall vse they should commit vnspeakable vvickednes vvhich contrary to this commaundement they nonrished vvith all kinde of pleasant delightes idlenes pampering of the flesh in their greatest and most solemne fastes they made their choysest feasts with all kind of dainties finest 〈◊〉 drinking al kind of sweet wines that they might fully feed vpon the pride lust of the eye this is so cōmō in Rome as I haue partly sayde before and smelleth so strong throughout all Christendome that it hath turned many that are euen but naturall men who otherwise coulde haue fauoured their religion from them and beeinge wonne by the Gospell presently loue the trueth and a great number of others stumbling thereat haue falne to irreligion and flat Atheisme Herein also they shewe themselues most vnskilfull of that sinceritie Christ speaketh of when hee forbiddeth the raunging of the eye when by no meanes they vvill acknowledge concupiscence to be sinne and in respecte of their false doctrine are faine to denie the definition of sinne to vvit that sinne is the transgression of the lavve of God yet because it is reproued by Christ himselfe they are faine to yeeld a little that it is the 〈◊〉 of sinne and not sinne it selfe As for temporall things though they be of leaste accounte yet they steale them both from Princes and all sortes of people Neyther vvill their pretenced title of right helpe though it be confirmed by olde and vvorme 〈◊〉 prescription to ouervvay the commaundement of GOD vvho 〈◊〉 not haue one man to encroch vppon another mans possession and yet they haue made a spoile of all callings getting into their handes the 〈◊〉 of the whole worlde That they rob fatherlesse children and vvidowes vnder the 〈◊〉 of long prayer by their 〈◊〉 and trentals and suche paltrye robbing deuises yea that they maintein 〈◊〉 committed in time of 〈◊〉 it is more then apparant For bearing false witnesse the false papist vvill not sticke to belye the moste blamelesse Christians in the vvorlde and to charge them though with no colour vvith moste palpable vntruthes eyther to bring the trueth into hatred or them to the fire They will make no conscience falsly to accufe the notablest men most singuler instrumēts that euer haue bene in the church of God the dust of vvhose shoes they are not vvorthy to licke vp And herein they shevve themselues like their father the 〈◊〉 vvho vvas a lier from the beginning an accuser of the brethren malicious and ful of poyson
sonne of perdition aboue al that is called god or worshipped for God They allovv his dispensations againste God and his lavves and as for his sake such beastes they are they set them selues againste God So doe they not care in regarde of him and in respecte of that idoll the masse to betray their ovvne country Prince Parents kins folkes and friends to the veriest straungers and enemies in the world yea and to lay dovvne their ovvn liues Let any come forth deny this if they can with any coulor of truth Our country hath founde it too true and there is none that haue had any dealing in any place of 〈◊〉 vnder her Maiestie but can confirme it by particulars in their continuall practise not only for casting abroad their 〈◊〉 lil elles but also for sending into this realme their pestiferous and trayterous bookes and bulles against the Queenes maiesty her honourable councel state and peace that haue bene the very sparks and firebrands of rebellion vvould haue bene of further flame and greater destruction had not God in his greate mercye by the light of the gospell taught and instructed men how they should hold themselues in dutifull loyalty and true obedience Put of this a little more afterwards Such enemies to God they are as deuour pore widows houses vnder colour of long praiers sticke not to compasse sea land to bring men to theire false fayth or else to death as Alphonsus did by his own brother Ioh. 〈◊〉 * Blinde guides they are wicked fools tithers of mint Anise cumin omitting faith iudgement 〈◊〉 Hipocrites they are that make clean the outside of the cup platter but within they are full of rauen and * 〈◊〉 They are vvith the 〈◊〉 VVolues in sheepes clothing painted sepulchres outwardly glorious but within full of rotten and dead bones They beare a shew of Christianity and yet are full of 〈◊〉 and murther they * say if they had ben in their fathers daies they woulde not haue slaine the 〈◊〉 and apostles and yet marke vvhat they 〈◊〉 in all Countries against the christians Let Queen Maries time the continuall murthers and 〈◊〉 that haue 〈◊〉 in Fraunce Flaunders Spayne Scotland Ireland at home amongst our 〈◊〉 abroad wheresoeuer 〈◊〉 hath gotten in a foote beate witnesse Are not these therefore enemies to God Is not Antichrist the Pope of vvhome all this hellishe rovvt hold an enimy to God 〈◊〉 not his seat where he 〈◊〉 the doctrine he tea heth the maners that he 〈◊〉 quite contrary to Christe and playne marks of his Apostasie Is not Rome as Franciscus Petrarcha calleth it the whore of Babylon the mother 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 from vvhence all shame and 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 Doth not Peter in the first epistle vnder the name of Babylon name Rome by their ovvn confession and by Hieromes ovvne interpretation and as Campion him selfe graunteth And herefore as Iohn * describeth it it is that Romane vvhoore that sitteth in her Scarlet robe full of names of blaphemy the habitation of diuels the holde of all soule spirites the cage of all vncleane hatefull birds out of vvhose cup al the nations in the vvorlde haue drawne the draught of the vvine of the wrath of her vvhoredome Such enimies they are as through the * effectual wor king of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word of 〈◊〉 to whom God 〈◊〉 sent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they should beleeue lies and preferre the 〈◊〉 fables of a lying legend before the blessed byble receiuing as a iust recompēce the fruits of their 〈◊〉 rebellion to vvit ignorance blindnes a levvd vnderstanding and in the ende iust demnation Suche enimies they are as giue heede to spirites * of errour to the diuelish doctrine of such as spea false thinges through hipocrisie hauing their conciences branded vvith an hotte yron are * grieuous vvolues making no conscience to teare and deuour the flocke * concealers of Gods counsayles speakers of peruerse thinges and dravving disciples after them For they vvold haue al the vvorlde to follovv them vvithout any examination They shut vp the kingdome of heauen and vvill neither enter themselues nor suffer others to enter They are Hipocrites and Gomorrians in deede of the seede of Cain children of the diuel blasphemers bloudy persecuters They hedge in the Catholique Church like the Donatists into a little corner of the vvorld They crye they are the catholique church and yet vvould dravv vs to one that is more particu lar then many others of the Greek that vvere neuer ioyned and continued vvith them And none must be of their Catholique church but such forsooth as subscribe to their synagogue much like as if they should affirme that all Christendome vvere to bee included in Kent They confounde the humanitye of Christ making I can not tel hovv many thousand bodies turning the Godhead into the manhood the manhood into the Godhead agreeing vvith all the auncient heretiques that erred about his diuinity and humanity for vvith the Futichians Monothelits they make him to consist of tvvo natures but not to haue two natures neither tvvo vvilles or else they make him to haue a phantasticall body as Marcion Cerdon and Manes did to be in infinit places at once in heauen and in earth denying the trueth of the humanity as Valentinus they make him to haue a body of an ayrie insensible and inuisible substaunce as also Apelles did vvhereas his * ovvn vvord teacheth vs that vve should not beleeue him to be present in body except by our senses vve could perceiue a difference betvvixt him a spirite Such enemies they are as beleeue they cannot be saued vnlesse they bee subiecte to the Pope vnlesse they acknovvledge him to haue all authoritie in heauen earth hell purgatorie and vvheresoeuer Do not they herein plainly deny God from vvhom alone is all saluation as did Hebion Cerinthus Basilides Carpocares Photinus Artemon Paulus Samosetanus Ennomius AEtius Theodotinus vvhē they vndoubtedly beleeue that the Pope can forgiue sinne A grosser heresie then euer the * Scribes and Pharisees vvere infected vvith vvho deeminge Christ to bee onely man thought it extreeme blasphemic for him to take vpon him to forgiue sinne They are persvvaded that the Pope by his Benediction can make thinges more holy then cuer God made them in their creation that he can dispence vvith Christe Peter Paule Moses and all lavves both of God and man VVhosoeuer kisseth his shoe though hee vvere excommunicated yet for so doing he hath cleane remission a poena culpa both from the punishmente and faulte VVhat shall I saye they are suche enemies to God that they beleeue vndoubtedly that if a prieste or one in holy orders knovv an harlot carnally hee sanctifieth and blesseth her