wine to euery one neither is his holy Institution to bée broken Paule vnto them of Corinthus saith thus No alteration of Christs institution by the Apostles ergo much less ought you to chop change as you â—od That which I receiued I receiued of the Lorde and it was this that the same night Christ was betrayed he tooke bread and brake it in remembrance of him Then after supper he tooke the cup and saide it is the newe Testament in my bloude this doe as ofte as you do iâ—in remeÌ„braunce of me There followeth a Confirmation of the Institution with a reason cause thereof namely As often as you shall eate this bread 1. Cor. 11.24 and drinke this cup you shal shewe the Lordes death till he come Out of this place I gather these collections The first is a Christipersona from the person of Christ In good things we are not to gainsay the good doings of our predecessors and Cyprian â—o Iulianus saith that al allowed by the apostles al thinges set down by Christ and all customes confirmed by the spirite of God are to be kept ergo this of bread and wine must not be altered thus knitt together that which Christ did that same did Paul imitate and keepe in his Churche of Corinthus ergo wee ought not or any other nation else but keepe the same custome in breaking breade and giuing wine vnto all that come in our Church The seconde reason is this taken a persona Pauls from the person of Paul for Paul would do no other thing than that which was lawfull which also is to be done of vs but Paul vsed bread and wine indifferently to all without acception ergo wee also ought to doe the like The thirde reason is taken ab Ecclesia from the custome of the Church and the church of Corinthus was verie precise in obseruing the ordinances of Christ Paul wherefore seeing they in that Church had the sacramentes ministred in bothe kinds the church of England all other godly refourmed churches ought to do the like This without question was wel suâ—â—iciently knowen to the churches in the East West 〈◊〉 the space of many hundred yeares after Christ vntil the image of desolation was set vp the tyranny of the Pope fully established these such like deformities were not knowen De Consee dist 2. Can. Cum om ne Paragrapho illud Inhus a Pope writing to the bishops that were in Egypt sindeth great fault with them for not deliuering the bread the wine vnto the people wherof he yeldeth two reasons the first for that Christ commended to the Apostles both his body his bloud The second for that there was a commendation seuerall by it selfe left to all both of the bread of the wine that was in the cup. And Gelasius doth write to certein bishops sayth Anathematizariomnes qui accepto corpore Christi In decret abstineant a Calicis communione that is Those men are all accursed who taking the body of the Lord shal abstain from the receiuing of the cup. Now this was one of your Popes too for iâ— is euident that this beggerly slauish decision came in a loÌ„g time after our sauiour Christ therfore the greater is your condemnation as knowing that these are the deuises of men wil yet for all that cleaue vnto theÌ„ so stedfastly The Tripartite historie doeth make mention that S. Ambrose wrote to Theodosius the Emperor to this effect Lib. 9. cap. 30. O Imperator Princeps conseruorum c. that is O Emperor Prince of thy fellow seruants for there is only one God king lord creator of all with what eyes are you able to looke vpon the temple of the high God how will you lift vp your handes to heauen which drop downe continually with the bloud thou hast shed vniustly For I finde that at that time seuen thousande men were slaine euen good Christians by the coÌ„mandment of Theodosius at Thessalonica A worthie and rare example of a most learned and famous doctor and therfore Ambrose proceedeth in his Epistle to Theodosius thus How can you O Emperour receiue the holy body of Christ with such hands With what rashnes can you take the cup and put it to your mouth to tast of his moste precious bloud when as by the fury of your commaundement so much bloud hath beene shedde without a cause c. In this it is moste apparantly to be séne that in the time of Ambrose hoth the Emperorâ— his people vsed to receiue the communion in both kinds so that wee are to suspect you now more vehencently then we did before and wee may think that you are some grieuous deceitful Gibeonites come hither to espie what Iosuah and his people Israel doth and in the ende to make some conquest and to praye vppon vs for if you did reade and holde vppon the fathers of olde whome very glosingly you haue in your mouth to begyle the simplicitie of yong heads withall it could not be that you should so much differ from them as you doe For which of them all affirmeth as you do affirme or defendeth that you do defend or mainteineth that you mainteine or standeth so vndiscreetely in so manifest vntruethes as you do Search see all the whole Senate and good troope of famous learned men are against you Euen Fabianus your countriman and a Roman that liued vnder Gradianus and Philippus continued till the raigne of Decius as witnesseth Platina gaue in commaundement Vt quisque Christianus singulis annis ter Eucharistiam sumeret Sabellicus Volateran That is That euery one named a Christian shoulde euery yeare receiue the supper of the Lord without exception it is commaunded and as appeareth in the customes of the Church they did receiue it in both kinds of bread I meane and wine August Canone Qui manducant De Consec dist 2. Augustine sayeth thus They that eate and drinke Christe eate and drinke him vnto eternal life he that eateth him is refreshed he that drinketh him is quickened and liueth The glose in that place sayth thus Idest Dist 2. Can. si Quotiscunque in specie panis vini as much to saye as the wordes spoken by Augustine are to be vnderstoode in both the kindes both breade and wine Ambrose is of this same opinion in the deciding of this matter vppon the wordes of consecration Hilarius ibidem Can. Si non Hilarie is as plaine as he was graue in this point Si non sunt tanta peccata vt communicetur quis non se debet à medicina corporis sanguinis Domins separare That is If thy sinnes be not such but that thou maist communicate no man must presume to separate Christes body from his bloud Cyprian is very hoat with Cornelius the Pope and sayeth At verò nunc non infirmis In Epist 2. de Caena Dom. sed
¶ TWO GODLIE AND learned Sermons appointed and Preached before the Jesuites Seminaries and other aduersaries to the Gospell of Christ in the Tower of London In which were confuted to their faces the moste principall and cheefe poincts of their Romish and VVhoarish religion And all such Articles as they defend contrarie to the woord of God vvere layed open and ripped vp vnto them In Maye 7. and 21. Anno. 1581. By Iohn Keltridge Preacher of the vvorde of God in London Psal 119. verse 128. I esteeme all thy precepts most iust and hate all false wayes Prou. 4.14 Enter not into the vvay of the wicked and walke not in the vvay of euill men ¶ Imprinted at London by Richard Ihones dwelling without Newgate neere vnto Holburne Bridge TO THE RIGHT HONOrable Sir Fraunces Walsingham Knight principall Secretarie to the Queenes moste excellent Maiestie and of her Maiesties moste honorable priuie Councell c. AT such time right Honourable as I at the request of certaine my deere and welbeloued freendes had beene at her Maiesties Towre of London partlie to haue some talke with the Iesuites and other Seminaries deseruedly there imprisoned partlie to see if the Lorde would haue quickened them after great preaching and much conference with manie and verie learned men that came thether I did finde that the trauaile and study of theirs hath to this day taken so small effect as not onely the Iesuites are more and more stiffned in their errors But also they are become so sencelesse in feeling so blunt in attayning so wicked and malicious in resisting so disloy all and spitefull in hearing so sturdie and malaperte in withstanding openlie the teachers of the Gospell as the people are vpon the same dismayed zealous and godly men discouraged and all fortes of people moste pittifully distracted that either heere or see them at any time VVherefore may it please you to vnderstand that for diuers causes I haue giuen vnto your Honour this briefe and shorte Confutation of their Heresies First that their damnable and grosse errors though they may be seene of all may yet especially be knowne vnto you For I doo thinke that the reformation and order to bee taken for these Heretiques dooth lye in especiall on your shoulders and is required at Gods handes of the Lordes of her Maiesties moste Honourable priuie Councell Secondly that it may appeere whensoeuer these wicked men shal be called to an accompte that then they will not be able to denie or dissemble that which they affirme For the moste principall though not all their Articles are confuted in this booke Thirdely I am of opinion that esperiallye your Honour hath to discerne the spirits of these men in as much as you be in the number of those that in Roome togeather with many other of the nobles in this Realme were threatened to be burned by the Pope if he gat you either quicke or dead The laste and the cheefe cause is this As your Honour hath beene alwayes a fauourer of the Gospell and moste forwarde in Religion so I trust that God will now mooue you to haue a more care of his poore Church then euer you had It is not vnknowne how God hath looued this Realme sithence her Maiesties moste gratious and happie raigne among vs. The like rest with such quietnes the like peace with such blessednes the like comfort with such happines was neuer seene vnder any Nation and people as we haue had vnder her Maiestie Now at lengthe after so longe and prosperous and peaceable gouernment to put this Realme in feare and dread of that woonted Tirranie which Antichriste the Pope practised vpon vs. To stirre and mooue vp by way of alienation the mindes of men and the faithfull hartes of Englande to make vs remember the blood that was shed of olde time by the Pope to compell vs againe to sorrow ouer the bodies of our dead and ouer the Sainctes whose blood was shed and ouer the multitude of good men that were taken from vs There are in the steede and roome of those blodie Fathers risen and now in processe of time growne vp their bloodie and vnnaturall sonnes Among these some would haue hathed their hands in the harts of our people as Saunders in Ireland of late was purposed to do and it is not to be thought that he was there alone Some write against vs as though wee were Haereticques and accompt vs worthy to be put to death what would these men doo if they had vs in their handes Of which sort is Iohn Howlet and one Campion who bothe of them haue presented their mindes moste praesumptuously to the right Honourable the Lordes of her Maiesties priuie Councell some also haue spread abroade their damnable and seditious Doctrine thorowe out manie places in this Realme Such bee the Iesuites the Seminaries and other Schollers of the Pope that bee now in her Maiesties Towre of London Now all these are come hether and sente in of late dayes by the Pope to disturbe vs and rayse Tumults in this Common wealth And all these are the children of such Fathers as persecuted the Saints or they be home borne children brought vp in England being the wicked sonnes of wicked Parēts and they all haue beene maintained by that man of sinne Antichriste For all which thinges it cannot be gainsay de but that these practising Heretiques are most woorthy to haue the lawe of God in execution against them which he hath set downe for them in his Booke I doo well remember what our Fathers and Forefathers did Dauid at the hower of his death called to minde the iniquitie of a man of his that shed blood and when he lay on his death bed he sayd thus to his sonne Salomon 1. Reg. 2.5 Thou knowest what Ioab the sonne of Seruiah did to me and what he did to the two Captaines of the hoast of Israel vnto Abner the sonne of Ner and vnto Amasa the sonne of Iether whome he stone shed blood of battaile in peace Doo therefore according to thy Wisedome and let not his hearie haires goe downe to the graue in rest The same also sayde Dauid of the sonne of Gera the sonne of Iemini of Bahurim neither did he accoumpt him innocent It is well knowne what woorthy and warlike fellowes the Papists slewe and how they were cunning men at the Battailes of the Lord and as ready to resist and fight against Sathan in spirituall skirmishes as Abner or Amasa either euer were in defending their Citties for their maister Dauid It is necessarie therfore those good men should be remembred in as much as they were slaine so trayterouslie And now the rather are we all to thinke vpon that treason of olde as there are risen vp disloyall and wicked men to trouble vs Irreuerend disobedient persons to prouoke vs faithlesse and hollowe hearted Papists to disquiet vs foolish and erronious Iesuites to inueagle withdraw vs from the Lord. These are they haue
now also write I haue to lead me therunto these causes First my office and calling draweth me as beeing a Dispensar of the woord of God Secondly my dutie which is to winne all but especially you which are so farre off Thirdly that care which beyond measure I haue had is a prick and a spurre within me since the firste time I was with you at the Tower And which should prouoke me I haue a commaundement giuen me from the eternall God to preach in season and out of season in time and out of time whersoeuer I see the Church to stand in need Therfore I beeing espetially mooued aboue the rest you haue no farther to enquire after me As concerning the thinges I am to charge you withall they are many great importable and such as you can neuer answere They concerne the Lord the high God whose lawes you contemne They concerne the Church from which you are fled They concerne the trueth which you denye They concerne Religion which you abhorre They concerne Christianitie which you are farre from They concerne true Woorship which you repose in your Imageâ— They concerne Faith which you lay in Worâ—â—s They concerne perfecte and Christian adoration this you claspe vp in the bosome of the Pope They coÌ„cerne prayer which in steed of God you giue to men They concerne Christe whose institutions you chaunge They concerne the perfect seruice of the Lord which you infolde in the Masse They concerne our Meditation which you make but a sacrifice Propitiatorie by the woork of a Preest They concerne our attonement and reconciler Christe and him whome the heauens containeth you infolde in a Wafer cake They concerne the Gospell which you refuse you stick to the customes of your fathers And they concerne the woord of the Lord which you heare not but compelled which you slaun der beeing hardened which you contemne beeing blinded and which you spurn throwe away euen before our faces to our great greef and your confusion if you repent not All these many things more I am to charge you with hauing this purpose in my selfe That first you are to be loked vnto and if that you will not turne vnto the Lord our God and serue him after the manner that we his People Israell doo either we must shut you out of the Tents and dwelling places of the inheritaunce of our God or we must finde some way to pacifye the Lord withall For I am certainly perswaded that you haue been kept ouer long you and your fellowe Ammonites yea these twentie yeares haue you been pricks and thornes in our sides now you come out of your holes wherin younestled resisting openly the hoste of the Lord vnto their faces But this may not be suffered least your example of gathering sudâ— vpon the Sabaoth day be an occasion also that others shall violate and break the commaundements of God I warne you therfore in time and these Sermons of myne which I made vnto you haue I gathered together in a little volume that you may read them They contayne in them a breefe and short confutation of all such Heresies as you doo holde With this speech if you be not contented I wil then call back and reclaime it when as I perceiue and see thorow ly that you are amended More I cannot say more I may not say and more I dare not say as yet to you whom not I but aâ— Christian harts doo thinke to be instruments of Satan raysed vp for our sinnes as two edged Swoordes to rent and out in peeces the poore Church of England For mine owne parce I wil pray to the Lord our God for your amendement and I will begge that Discipline at his hands which you if you come not to him are woorthie to haue To whom I doo commit you that hath both life and death faluation and condemnation in his handes Yours in the Lord if you come vnto the Lord. Iohn Keltridge At London Iune 10. 1581. The first part of the Sermon wherein is largelie confuted sundrie grosse heresies which the Iesuites Seminaries and other the Popes Schollers doo holde preached at the Tower in their presence that the trueth might be known vnto them more apparantlie 7. Maij. 1581. IT is thus written right Honourable right VVoorshipfull and belooued in our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christe Deut. 6. v. 4. Heare O Israel the Lord our God is Lord onely and thou shalt looue the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soule and with all thy might And these words which I commaund thee this day shall be in thy heart THe looue that our Lord God bare to Israell his people though it be in many places of this booke shewed openly and declared plainlie to them Of all the bookes of Moses this of Deuteronomy for the blessing great benefiteâ— God shewed to his people is the most coÌ„fore table and heauenly booke Yet in more ample manner it was neuer set downe at any time to that Nation as in this the vnspeakable looue of the Lord their God who in daunger defending them in troubles deliuering them in extremities assisting them in slauerie and captiuiâ—e vpholding them by his mightie hand did not onely by Myracles she we his power or by his Prouision for them signifie his looue or by his outstretched arme manifest his care or by fighting with Kinges for their sakes driue all onlie an especiall reuerence into their hearts of his Maiestie But verie fatherlie in affection most loouingly in Mercie and tenderlte with long Patience did the Lord instructe and teach them by Moses and Aaron that they might know the Commaundements of the Lord and feare him Wherefore as at the first to cause them to remember him the Lord our God appeared in fire and lightning and in most terrible manner to beate a care and reuerent feare into their hearts So to â—omfore them againe was Moses sent with this 〈◊〉 and these Coâ—â—tâ—ndements as reâ—embraunces pledges of his looue that in the same they might acknowledge him and in trembling and feare obey him in knowledge increase their looue towards him and in reuereÌ„ce serue him all the dayes of their lyfe Now this booke is a recapitulation a bréefe summarie and short rehersall of all such Lawes Ordinaunces Statutes as the Lord had giuen to Israel and a Commemoration of all his sundrie notable and famous benefites as Israel and this People had receyned at the handes of God and therefore sayth Moses Heare O Israel the Lord thy God is Lord onely These woordes haue in them noted two principall thinges common bothe in the Lawe and in the Prophetes 1. First an exhortation In requesting and in praying them 2. Secondlie a Commaundement In willinge and in forcing them The Inuocation or calling on them to heare that which appertayneth to God declareth howe ready the Lord is to saue man The Lawe and constraint vsed by commaundement certifieth vs albeit we will not come vnto
Yea I will set foorth the prayses of such a man as feareth the Lord for it is a good thing to obey him and to haue a care and reuerence to his name and this feare and dreade this seruice belonging to his Maiestie is thriâ—folde in this place Therefore it eyther 1. Concerneth God alone not man 2. Concerneth God as well as man 3. Concerneth man onely not God The seruice due vnto the Lorde is seene in Circumstaunces 1. First that Israel his pople 2. Secondly heare or vnderstand 3. Thirdly such thinges as concerneth their God This seruice is seene in those Epithites and titles giuen vnto the Lord in this place whome you onely ferue 1. First he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Lord of all 2. Secondly he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 God seeing all 3. Thirdly he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 our God in deliuering all 4. Fourthly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 he is only one God there is no more among all The first name of Dignitie héere set downe as Augustine noteth Potentiam denotat She weth his power For God ruleth and gouerneth all And in the same he sate the FirmameÌ„t aâ—one that spreadeth it selfe as a Canapie and the earth beneath the is inustoouâ—able as be the Pillers of heauen and betwixt bothe the fire which burneth not by the power of his woord and the ayre which infecteth not for he restraineth the gates of death And the water which as in the house presumeth not to goe ouer the thresholdes and bankes that are limited The Lord it is indéede that lifteth vp and pluckesh 〈◊〉 shaâ—exaltath hâ—â—bleth that deliuereth casteth 〈…〉 pleasure he brought Israel thorow the red Sea 〈◊〉 his eniâ—â—ies as in a wall he brought in the Waters and drowâ—ed them but he led Israel his people on drie land The Countries of the Nations did the Lord giue vnto them to possesse returned with an angrie couÌ„tenante against the â—ings he spared not the Giâ—nit with his Chaâ—â—ots nor the Mike Countries with the walled Townes but brought in destructioÌ„ for their sinnes and gaue them the slaine as a portion for their vngodlinesse wherefore let all men praise the Lord and serue and obey him aboue all The second tytle giuen vnto the Lord is that he is called 〈…〉 which is as much â—s To see take a view and to to perse thorowe all things very narrowly For the eyes of the Lord are vpon all the earth he giueth strength to them the trust in him vnderstanding to them that walke vprightly he beholdeth the endes and coasts of the Sea and stilleth the raâ—ing of the tempeste 〈◊〉 in his fury he mounteth foorth on she â—â—â—ges of the winde and with the same he bringeth in all 〈◊〉 thinges to trouble sinners who like vnto our God whose eyes are vpon the iuste whose countenaunce is against all those that doo euill to roote them out 〈◊〉 â—he land he giueth and man receyueth he detayneth and man perisheth For the cup of his wrath is powred foorth vpon malefactors and as a man prepared to the battell so is the Lord girded to fight against the wicked For why all thinges are done by him he filleth the hungrie soule and replemisheth with meateÌ„ the néedy Creatures His woorkes are séene aboue and his wunders in the deapth Among the holie ones dooth the Lord raigne and filleth with his blessing euerie lyuing soule The haires of our head are numbred before him and the Sparoâ—e séeketh for meate in due season let euerie soule therefore feare the Lord and let nothing staye him to acknowledge his name for he is a God which séeth all things and nothing may be hidden from him at any time This vvord our then God also our God dooth exclude all forrain and straunge Gods and prooueth that the Lord all on ly is to be feared The thirde tytle and Epithite giuen vnto God is this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 our God euen the God of Iacob and the God of Israel which name of remâ—nthraunce no 〈◊〉 was put in and added in this place that Israel should neuer forgetts their Lord God that fought for them therefore is it sayde The Lord can God is Lord onely as being none other that fought for them but ouâ—ly he For in déede the Lord kept the promise that he made them and the â—athe which he swâ—re vnto their Fathers he wought them out of the house of bondage and redéemed them out of the straunge land For why God was iâ—yned to their séede and he would not forsake them for their Fathers sake the Lord gaue vnto them Ierusalem for their portion and the land of Mountaines for their rest he planted his Posteritie to the which 〈…〉 sworne and withdrewe not his woorde though they 〈◊〉 therefore is the Lord woorthy to be praysed and Israel must haue none other God then him alone that saued them The fowrth name and rythe giuen to God is this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Thy God is onely one For there is no 〈◊〉 then he he is the Lord of Hoases meyther will the Kord 〈◊〉 God giue his gloâ—ie to any other Ierâ—â—e of this word sayth Identitatem 〈…〉 alnatem notat 1 That is The 〈…〉 and vnitie of the same not the varietie or plurality of Gods is to be noted and considered heere For I doo finde that the most best learned haue gathered out of this place of Scripture bothe the Vnitie in the Trinitie and the Trinitie in the Vnitie which is to be worshipped For the word Lord in the first place may signifie the Lord God the first person which made all the worde God in the second place may represent Christe the worde of God that redéemed all And one onely Lord in the third place may be well the spirite of God who béeing equall with them bothe doo make but onely one true eternall euerliuing and glorious God Then you sée that I haue two things héere proportioned and drawns out vnto me wherof I must of necessitie speake 1. The first that Vnitie in Trinitie and Trinitie in Vnitie is to be worshipped 2. The second that all manner of Idoll worship and all seruice not agreeing to this commaundement in this place is to be abhorred The maner of theyr preaching in tyme of Popery was known wheÌ„ they handled nothing else but the defence of theyr filthy and Idolatrous Ceremonies as for doctrine of faith of maÌ„ners of life of religion or any other good vvholsome Article of our beleese they neuer dealt vvith any of them For the first point which is our Faith we ought to holde concerning the Trinitie I say this As you whereof I sée too many héere Schollers of the Pope are not able to escape without suspitioÌ„ of great Sacriledge for that diuers of your sect and your heresies with whome I doo confesse I haue reasoned haue béen of opinion that in the body of the Bible the olde Testament no man
a seruice which toucheth and concerneth God and a seruice which toucheth and concerneth man Whereinto if you or any other shall looke it wil be founde that this scruice which is appertinent vnto God and vnto man is also two folde Seruice of God and man â— The body and the minde goe togeather in the 〈◊〉 wooâ—ship of God Internall which is in spirite for as God is a spirite so also will he be woorshipped in spirite and truthe Externall which is outwarde in reuerence and dutie apparant euen to man Bothe these are required in this place and they be 〈◊〉 vnted togeather as without bâ—the of them the Lordâ— our God cannot bee truelie woorshipped Theresice I will not seueare or deuide the one from the other but I will â—ucke them as in a golden Chaine and make them Caepartuers and fellow companiorts in enerye good action Now this internall and this externall seruice of the Lorde are bothe séenâ— in diners circumstances of my Text as followeth True seruice is seene 1. First if you shal loone 2. Secondly the Lord your God 3. Thirdly with all your hart 4. Fourthly with all your soule 5. Fiftly with all your might 1. The first sheweth the readinesse that is in vs. 2. The second shutteth out all other woorship whatsoeuer 3. The third declareth that nothing should be precious vnto vs but the Lord. 4. The fourth taketh away all counterfeiting and all dissimulation 5. The fife openeth that no creature els may haue this seruice but onely the Lord our God The fall of maÌ„ being in perfection his vnstablenâ—◠〈◊〉 he is on earth his coâ—â—uptâ— mind in a◠〈◊〉 he doo the 〈◊〉 blyndnes and error in the lyght his grosnesse harde hart in beleef dyd requyre a pure and vndefiled lawe to brydle him I am not ignoraunt that euerie man in whome is the breath of life and vpon whome the Lord our God hath powred of his Spirite is in some part any in eueriâ— part faultie in this coâ—â—aundoment which naturall blinâ—nesse and Ignoraunce of ours sheweth the groat perfection 〈◊〉 heauenly integritie of the Lord and againe condempneth vs as guiltis in eneriâ— point 〈…〉 our handes at the barte continuallie as béeing on able to 〈◊〉 any lots of this same or to stand before God if he call vs to a reckoning For if that man were able to stand and would neuer fall from his 〈…〉 and his heart vnâ—â—â—â—ble 〈…〉 〈◊〉 be 〈…〉 in Israelit thon â—e 〈…〉 thinke â—ho 〈…〉 〈…〉 that 〈…〉 thing 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 that 〈…〉 We may 〈…〉 and no doubt the Lord our God hath so stra 〈…〉 vs to obserue these thinges prescribed euen to looue him and him our God and with all our heart and with an our soule and with all out stight 〈◊〉 sundrie waightie and great causes Causes why the Lorde hath giuen so straight a commauÌ„dement 1. First 〈◊〉 our owne â—â—â—etchednesse myseserie and death 2. Secondlie to be aâ—cused not excused before the Lord. 3. Thirdly to tremble and shake when we â—span 4. Fourthly that â—bndemâ—nation may appeare in vs knowing that we are not able to fulfill this 5. Firstly to make vs affrighted and to weaken out consciences seeing that we cannot lyue in â—â—â—â—bedience 6. Sixtly to keepe vs by discipline as vnder a lawe for euer 7. Seuenthly to teach vs the â—ntâ— and perfect workes of righteous nesse 8. Eightly to exclude all other Idoll woorshippe and to serue all onely the Lord our God Man thynking that he â—â—aÌ„deth dooth fall that he is in lyse is yet in death that he is stroÌ„g is vveake that he can doo all thynges dooth nothing aryght therefore hath he inward and secrete sinnes vvhich hee must tame and subdue as well as the outward vices subiect to the eyes of men And now to come more narrowlie to euerie one in this place thâ—gener all is it to he thaught that no man hath an euill eye vpon Abel vpon his brother is the heart of euerie man persen Dooth none despise Iacob Is there not one but 〈◊〉 a porsect Censar or shall we make accoumpt is there nener an 〈◊〉 person in this company not one 〈◊〉 you that hath worne the golden Earinges or hath not cast one stone against the house of God or ioyned them selues with Aaron to committe euyll Is the leauen of Egipt cleane forgotten or hath no man syt downe to eate and 〈◊〉 and rose vp againe to play Is the hearts of you all pire 〈◊〉 the Lord what not once at Samaria in all your life not once at Dan not once at Bethell no not â—ne â—ine or affectioned to Priapus Of a trueth it may hardâ—â— be so thought a man will not indge it and God knoweth it is otherwise Why man he is full of presumptious â—â—â—es why his offeringes be vncleane and the fat of the 〈◊〉 is taynâ—ed Many truct in Chariots and many trust in Horses and diuers say there is no helpe in our God and then which way can we be frée from his wrath The man that worketh no deceypt the man that hath not slaundered his neighbour the man that hath not put out his money to loane nor his coyne to Vsurie the man in whose loule there is no guile is not cannot may not be found I tell you to looue the Lord with all your soule with all your might with all your strength with all your heart to looue the Lord and to looue him onely is to fulfill the whole lawe and the Prophetes As the false Prophetes of Iesabell knewe the trueth in the dayes of nlyas the Prophet and as Amasiah dyd vvilfully resist Ieremie the Seribes Saduces Christe so doo the Iesuites and Papistes resist vs against theyr ewne consciences I doo professe and protest before you all yea before the Lord and before his Angels that I neuer enter into the conâ—â—â—eration of this but that I wonder howe it commeth to paste that the aduersaries of the grace of God the Papistes doo not burst and cleaue in sunder when they sée that honor that zeale that affection that loous that might that strength which is due to the Lord God so wickedly and so commonlie to be giuen to Creatures And now tell me you whose faces are faces of brasse you of the. Colledge of the Pope you his Seminaries you inuested into the order of the Iesuites howe you are able to aunswere and to reconcile your selues vnto the Lord God sayth Looue me you loue the Pope God sayth Looue me with all your heart but how heartilie how faithfully pray you to Saints God sayth Looue me with all thy soule yet you sell prayers vnto men and the Soules of men doo you giue from God for money God sayth Looue me with all thy might and you endeâ—â—â—r day and night to Idolatrie God sayth Heare me onely but you will not heare him at all and if you doo you are compelled vnto it Then in consideration that you haue so boldelie resisted the Trueth and
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And see if there be any honor or reuerence or adoratioÌ„ giuen to any other saue onelye to the Lord God then I conclude Ergo none ought to be giuen vnto the Pope The holy order of the Priesthood is not vnknowne vnto you yet if you could finde either in Aaron or in Eleazar or after that in Ely and his sonnes or els if you made any shewe at all of the honor that was giuen to Iehosuah in Zachary Cap. 6. the may séeme to be equiualeÌ„t or come néere vnto yours which you attribute to your Pope no doubt you would cauill perilousâ—ie and fight manfully for your Popedome Your Pope Os Porci that is a Hogge for his filthines of life and after that chaunged his name to Sergius did according to his former name vsurpe the name of God and Constantinus the fyrst was also the fyrste that kissed the Popes feete fell dovvne vnto him as vvitnesseth both Nauclerus Platina but for as much as there is no resemblaunce vnto that man of sinne made by any one in the old law you are lawlesse men that so vnlawfully will striue and impugne the lawe of the Lorde And concerning the Chayre and Cathedrall estate of Peter wherin you suppose him to haue set as Lord and chéefe of the Apostles I saye thus much vnto you if in the Scripture there be any such thing founde of Peter eyther that as Lord he ruled the rest or as Christes Vicegerant he tooke the office or as Vniuersall Bishop he gouerned at Rome or as Supreame head Peter commaunded all or that Peter left any Successour behinde him or that hee was honoured and reuerenced and called vpon as your Pope is I will yéelde subscribe vnto all your opinions But if you cannot prooue this you speake of the Pope will you yéelde to vs wyll you confesse a truthe and renounce your errors will you come to the Lorde and acknowledge your backsliding from the trueth This will I doo if any one of your side can finde the name of Pope or Supreame head or Lord of the Angelles or a Man that can not sinne or generall Bishoppe or successour of Peter or a holie Father or gouernour of the whole Church or any other of your Titles that you giue vnto him I say that againe finde them in any one place of the Bible olde or newe I will subscribe and become as one of you In contrarie manner if not then yéelde you vnto vs. How euer it be we can conuince you by the Scriptures therefore against the Pope héere is the second reason Against the Pope the second reason That which is not found in the Scriptures for the which you haue no warrant which derogateth from the Maiesty of God is not to be done The name of your Pope the tytles of your Cardinals the honor and worship you giue to the Pope and them taketh and derogateth from the maiestie of God Ergo. Your Pope is not to be worshipped as you worship him and that you doo and giue vnto him is not to be done This is not rare in Popes to cause blood shed and rayse Treâ—sons and tumults in coÌ„mon vvealths for by blood Engenius vvas elected vnder Ludouicus Prus Zacharie Pope in his tyme stoode against Caesar and gaue the kingdome of Fraunce to Pâ—pinus after Christe 755. Childericus the true heyre vvas shauen then thrust into a Monastarie by the Pope and thus would he deale with Englande if he could Where finde you that death and lyfe is in the Popes handes as you doo affirme that hée may dispence with any sinne as he dooth That he can redeeme Soules from out of hel and Purgatory as you imagine that he may giue lybertie to whordome frée accesse to Treasen without breache of lawe that he may send out his Bulles with frée release of all the sinnes men haue committed Thinke you that we may suffer these horrible blasphemies or that â—ee may snffer you that vpholde them what an other redéemer beside Christe what that a mortall man shall haue lyfe and death in his handes what that they shall be lybertie graunted to finne and frée accesse to all wickednesse what that any one may redame the soule of his Brother from hell or that a satisfaction maye bée made after his departure What Bulles Pardons Indulgencies or Masses for any Soule aliue or dead Why where what place by whome in what Prophet what Scripture haue you this in It is straunge it is vnknowen to vs Abraham neuer heard thereof Isaack and Iacob neuer knewe so much Daniel Enoch Iob these thrée righteous men neuer spake it they can saue but theyr owne soules in the day of the Lord. And shall we giue more vnto the Pope then we haue done vnto them It is the Lord that bindeth the golden chaine about the necke that giueth Siluer and Golde vnto féeble men The Lorde is cloathed with glorie and honour for it is he that couereth him selfe with lyght SaluatioÌ„ commeth of none but of the Lord lyfe of none but of the lyuing glorie froÌ„ none but from God that is glotious Ergo God onely not the Pope can haue any of these giuen vnto him and spreadeth the heauens as a Curtaine The Lord openeth his handes and filleth with good thinges and the gates of death are at his pleasure He sendeth his spirite and they are created and he â—arieth downe to the nethermost hell He spared not the Families of Core and the multitude of Rebelles were swallowed vp quicke He euen the Lord dooth binde Princes to his wyll and he teacheth his Auncientes wisedome he can holde their féete in the stockes and he can chayne them with chaynes of Iron The Lord can saue and defend his people the Lord can delyuer and lyft vp but farre be it from the sonnes of men and let not disobedient chyldren take it vpon them least he strike if he be angrie least his indignation doo aryse and we perishe And if any one will haue lyfe or the people of the Land looke for redemption let them come to the Lord of hoastes the God of I acob shall be their defence Cursed is he that trusteth in man and I wishe all those that feare the Lorde to saye Amen And now concerning my selfe for that I speake vnto you at this tyme rather then any other it is bothe because I would confirme the doctrine which my brethren haue Preached héeretofore and in part also for the hope I may doo some good among you I thinke this and thus of you you haue from your Infancie béen trained vp in blindnesse and error neither doo you vse to reade the scriptures If Papists prayed earnestly lyued soberly and hardned not theyr haits vvylfully but vvould submyt them selues to the Lord vvyllingly then vvould they not erre so grossely so much as to tranaile and ware old in the Doctors So that vpoÌ„ thrée causes which may well be taken away I easily perceyue
that you are hardned for the same poyson which you drunke in your first yéeres is a cause why you are broken out into the â—â—â—â—titude of your gréeuous sores at this present Then want of prayer to the Lord dooth againe putrifie you so sore within as busied and occupied in their inuocation to Saint Peter to Saint Thomas to the Virgin Marie others you haue not any leysure at all to call on God wherfore you doo not wel for those Personages are great Personages béeing troubled with a multitude of Suters they may not presently heare you neither can they preferre your prayers vnto God so soone Peraduenture also they be abroad or busied in some waightie affayres or else they haue some other request for some néerer fréend of theyrs and you most wayte yet longer Wherfore turne to the Lord and he will heare you indéede neither will he deferre saluation from day to day Lastly I am afraide that one of you infecteth an other therefore I doo wishe that you may be seuered asunder when the Tempter is gone It is euident that the Kings Keisars dyd vvithstand the Pope a long season tyll by maine might the Pope took in hand to staÌ„d in armes against them For Carolus in his tyme made an Edict against the Pope and cut off halfe his Crowne yet dyd the Pope swell and ryse more more but in blood the spirit of the Lord will walke more effectuallie And I for my part together with my brethren will pray for you continuallie that the Lord God would open your eyes that you may sée the trueth for vndoubtedlie your hearts are full of woormwood gall and I sée that bitternes is within you euen to death if the Lord God quicken you not Who euer sayd that that was proper to man which is to be giuen to God but you who euer affirmed that the Pope was Lord and God and King and Keisar saue all only you who hath giuen him power by which as of himselfe he standeth who hath giuen him honour by which through his might he striketh he cutteth off he saueth saue onely you who hath giuen him the keies of hell and heauen where he bindeth and he loseth saue all onely you who hath sayd he is God Vicegerant in earth by which he ordaineth and deposeth but onely you who hath made him equall with God and most like vnto the highest saue all onely you his Schollers his Disciples his Ministers and such as are and haue béene accoumpted Heretiques and are of the same profession as are you wherfore returne come away flie froÌ„ the whore of Roome Apoc. 17. O be not deceyued she hath poysoned all the Kings of the earth with the venome of her cup Stay a while pause and consider and you shall sée the dampnation of this great whore that sitteth vpon many waters With her haue the Kings of the earth committed fornication with her haue the Inhabitants of the earth béene made drunke for shée sitteth vpon a scarlet coloured Beast A Beast is Roome called for the eruell sauadge vnnaturall beastly qualities found with in her as appeareth in Daniel Dan. 7.7 Sitting in Scarlet for that the was red and inglutted with the blood of the Saintes The outragious pride of this vvhore of Roome the Pope is séene In that at this day he hath vpoÌ„ his Pallace a Piller of stone that is valued at 20000. Crownes Hee hath his roose seeled vvith golde couer His hanginges are of precious stone lyke glasse And yeerely hath he comming in out of the common stewes an Annuall reuenew vvhich is his tribute of 20000. pounds from amoÌ„g the vvhores common vvomen of Roome so that he is the vvhore that sitteth in the golden chayte Then hauing names full of blasphemy for is there any one now or was there any euer héeretofore that had the same blasphemous titles as hath the Pope Then hauing vâ— heads which are seuen hylles on which Roome did stand and was built and so sometimes had seuen Kinges within her The whore is said to haue ten hornes many kingdoms vnder her Then she is arayed in Purple and Scarlet For the glorie of your Popedome staÌ„deth in outward Pompe and we know that no Prince in the world is more ritchly attired then is that monster at Roome Then she hath a cup of abhominations in her hand And not without cause in as much as all Heresies false doctrine and Superstitions of the late Churches haue come from her Then in the forehead is there a Misterie written Babilon the great the mother of whordome A Mysterie in déede for none can comprehend this secrete but the Elect None can tell you that this Roome is that whore but such as God hath touched None can open this plainly to the world saue onely those to whome God hath giuen it And therefore if your hearts were not hardned if in hearing you dyd not heare or in séeing you sawe not and were not blinded or if the Lord had not shut vp your vnderstanding for your wilfulnesse it could not be possible but in this lyght and beautie of our time of the trueth you should vnderstand and conuert be saued and deferre not off from day to day for the longer you stay the more fierce God is the longer you prolong the more seuere he is This day if you heare his voyce harden not your harts I tell you that the wicked man dooth moste prowdely kéepe his countenaunce and will not be chauÌ„ged the heart of the godly man melteth when he heareth of the Lord Rom. 2.5 wherefore take you héede that according to your hardnesse of heart and your impenitent soules which will not repent you heape vp vengeance against the day of vengeance against the day of wrathe the reuealing of the iust iudgement of God For wherfore should you stand thus in defence of the Pope wherefore should you hazard your selues for a mortall man wherefore stande you against the truthe is it for the you are ignoraunt you may sée Is it because you haue learned so Our Fathers are to be followed no farther then you follow the Lordet Reade Origen in Esech Hom. 7. reade Augu. vpon Iohn Tract 49. cap. 11 you shall haue another lesson the Lord God shall be your maister Is it because you feare man why the Lord our God is greater stande to him what haue your Fathers beléetâ—ed so then be you other men you shall not beare theyr iniquities what haue you learned this from them of olde why what then They erred go you vprightlie they sinned against theyr God prouoke you him not they liued in miserable dayes and sawe little you haue the lawe in your mouthe and it is open to all they desired and could not haue it you may haue and will not take it They had the Gospell kept from them by the Tiranny of the man of sinne that brused and stamped vnder his féete the Saints of
stonie they that dwell there as Epiphanius witnesseth doo woorship Moses for the miracles that hee did and pray vnto him as vnto God And at the Oke and grous Mambre where the Angels appeared to Abraham they that dwell in Phâ—nitia and Arabia and in the farthest coastes of Palestine they doo giue the same homage the other doo Lib. 2. cap. 4. vnto the dead as Sozomenus witnesseth Now whether you will dâ—â— as the Gentilles doo or be like Christians whether as God commaundeth or as they will you whether as the woorde and Scriptures allow off or as man hath inuented that make you choyse of This I knowe that the Saintes of God haue refused woorship offered them being aliue and I am sure they neuer asked that of you when they were dead And this one thing I note where as the Letany in which are so many Orate pro nobis a Commemoration of the Saincts that shoulde praye for vs was fyrste instituted by Mamercus Bishop of Vienna in Fraunce Sidonius in Epist ad Mamercum vpon these occasions First an Earthquake which then happened then a great Fier which at that time burned then the gréeuous assaultings of wilde Beasts which in those Countries mustered and in the same no mention made that I reade of of any praying to those that are dead your late superstitious Prelates haue put in Orate pro nobis 1 A number of the Saintes of God that must praye for vs. Lib. de Cura pro moâ—tuis Cap. 16. Therefore saythe Augustine Nonum est et supersticiosum quod pro mortuis caeperunt orare 1 It is bothe new and a supersticious thinge in that they haue vsed of late to pray for the dead And vndoubtedly if it could be prooued out of the Scripture your owne men would haue gaggeled and thrust out theyr throates more a great deale with better proofe then nowe they are able to make thereof And albeit Moses was a man for lyfe famous for Myracles wondered at Deut. 34.6 for talking with the Lord and for the family aritie God vsed with him most highlie estéemed of all Iude. 9. yet not one in Israel is found to haue prayed to him béeing dead and his Graue and his Sepulchre is vnknowen to this day AbrahaÌ„ Isaack Iacob Dauid Samuel no nor any one of the Prophets Nor Christ nor his Aposties nor the Church for many yeeres nor the godly did euer inuocate the name of Saints Ergo also we ought not Though Elyas parted the water with his Mantell though at the graue of Elyzeus a dead man was raysed from death to life yet was there neither adoration nor immcatioÌ„ made to these by the Saintes of God nor yet any Reliques of theirs as a memoriall of such thinges done by them Wherfore you doo the Lord great dishonour vs great iniury that wyll come hether as Roauers and Maisterles men to teach vs when in deede we haue no Teachers but the Lord and his Prophetes and séeke instruction at his handes not at yours I am not ignoraunt of that blockishe and doltishe reason you haue vsed concerning Marie the Virgin the mother of Christe neyther is it vnknowne to me how you and your Colleages The sacriledge committed in this Booke is not to be named haue vsurped and much abused the Lord God in your Sodomiticall brutish and Heathenish booke called the Rosarie The Lord no doubt will be reuenged vpon you and the Lord will aske it at your handes One argument I will aunswer of yours concerning the Virgin Marie who as for the looue wherewith God looued her she was blessed so you for your false Adoration and Worshippe giuen vnto her are accursed Rosarie You say first of all O holy mother of our Lord c. Pray vnto thy sonne for vs c. Your owne men are of this opinion that the wordes vsed by the Angell in Luke Luke 1.27 wheras Gabriel saluteth Marie are wordes of Adoration Prayer they are not a bare salutation as we holde I doo find that in Egipt there vvas one to name Marie in the tyme of Valens and Valentinianus vvho vvas first an arrant struÌ„pet and after that was canonized for a Saincte novv of that Marie the stories are full but for 400. yeares af-after Christ there vvas no kinde of vvorship giuen to the Virgin Marie but the Popes brought in all their filthines of late yeeres of their vvorshipping the Mother of Christ Wherefore your first Idoll worship and your second superstitious and vaine iuuocation is all onely grounded vpon this place that the Angell is thought to pray to Marie To you I first aunswere thus Reade the Septuagints and the best Translations in Greeke there shall you finde that the wordes vsed there are no such wordes as your blinde Popishe Idolatrous ignoraunt and vnskilfull Abby lowbies taught the people Your old TranflatioÌ„ is Hayle Mary full of grace c. The Gréeke importeth not so much For the woord is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is reioyce which worde is of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as much as grace fauour so that the word the Septuagints vse is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is thou that hast fouÌ„d fauor and grace in the sight of God then this is not a prayer according to your doltish custome that men must pray and say thrée or foure or more Aue Mariaes but it is a salutatioÌ„ of the Angell by which Gabriell declareth the good will of the Lord showen vnto her and his acceptation and fauor which aboue other he hath loued her withall Now also sée how you erre and are deceyued For why was Marie belooued rather then other what for her owne sake onely or for her righteousnes or because there was no blemish found with in her or because she deserued it or because she was vnspotted and without sin or because as most holy she was worthy of greater Benefits O foolish and slowe to vnderstand the Scripture and what is written It became you to search and learne truly the meaning of this place and not to cleaue to your owne opinions wherefore marke the Scripture vnderstand and see and learne and conuert 1 First God saith by the Angell that Marie is freely belooued that is of his meere mercie did he it she deserued it not 2. Secondly the Lorde was with her for God is with all his elect 3. Thirdlye she is chosen before the rest for God did thinke well of her as of one a Vessell of election rather then any other 4. Fourthly shee was in fauour and found it shee had it not of her selfe 5. Fiftely belooued in that shee conceyued and bare our Sauiour Christ and belooued for him the belooued of all not for her owne sake 6. Sixte lie belooued and blessed in that he whom shee bare was the Sauiour of the worlde not that shee saued anie Basil to Iulitta vvylleth vs to pray to God
bosome Psalm 79.13 and to powre out of his wrath as vpon the nations and vpon those kingdomes that know not his name yea let all the enemies of the Lorde perish let none prosper that loue not the Lorde our God â—â—d 5.31 As in the day of ouerthrow so let the vnrighteous men perishe I hope the Lord will raise vp in his furie and lift vp himselfe in the coastes of his enemies Then shal your iniquities be as the inâ—quities of Galgall Hos 9.15 For those the Lord loueth not because of the malitiousnesse of their inuentions And as for vs we wil not cease to speake against you and against Rome and against all the enymies of God both day and night for the thinges that you commit are execrable thinges Nothing that you doe pleaseth the Lorde for you haue not one iot of his lawe in your lippes but all that you haue is of man God saith heare my wordes you heare the wordes of a straunger and of the Pope God saith doe that I command you you doe as man commandeth you God saith remember me for euer you forget him in all the thinges that you doe and you vse other ordinances and other lawes then you hane commaundement for You thinke I doe you iniurie no I séeke to reclaime you you say I deale hardly with you nay not so I will deale frankely with you These inâ—entiâ—â— of men 〈…〉 successâ—â—el 〈◊〉 Pope to Poâ—â—â— till their veâ—â—mous 〈◊〉 poison 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 are so 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 mes that 〈◊〉 can inueâ—â— nâ— more For if you can prooue either that your owne order of Iesuites which some of you professe or that your Hermites your Anchorists your Nunnes your Friers your Monkes your Chanons haue so much as any color or shew in the booke of God I am contented to like of them If you can finde but the name of any one of them all there or their customes or their rites or their traditions wee will thinke you haue proâ—ited maruellously I am sure that your fathers coulde not And as for you because I am to frame my speach as to men present not absent I haue déeply straitly to charge you What presumptioÌ„ was it for you to come to vs Wee sought you not What arrogancie to teach vs We are not destitute of such as can instruct What was it because you woulde sowe your damnable errors heere Paul Floren of Cesaâ—s schoole a â—â—â—te in Vienna hath opened and this much more as you did of late amongest the Iaponians a people that might haue béene conuerted nowe they are infected by you that might haue séene the light nowe they are blinded thorowe you that were forwarde nowe they goe backewarde by meanes of you that would haue known Christ aright now are farre from him thorowe you For with the Iaponians whome you haue mocked there are Iamambuxae knightes of the Vallies for high personages in their spiritualtie they committe horrible thinges amongest them there bee Tundi in stead of your Bishoppes and they sell mens soules for monie These are all one with the massing Priest that did all for the penie there bée Boulit in steade of Monkes they make shipwracke of the men of that countrie they with their fellowes take menie to be paide when they are deade in an other worlde there be Idols Amida and Zaca which the men of that countrie worshippe as they were taught by you Thinke you that it is vnknowne to vs are we ignorant of your dealinges Simon Magus Carpocrates Saturninus Basilides were the first heretikes that vsed charmed drinkes associating accompaning of spirits al which the Iaponians had of the Iesuites No I tell you no For we are certified euen of the horrible and detestable sacrifices which were taught the Iaponians who doe offer dayly vnto spirites and for that they shoulde not hurt the standers by your Colleges taught them to giue them of the fruite Crizam which in banquet wise they set before them And come you hither and haue you hope to preuaile héere with vs and as Apostles as Apostataes I should say come you hither into Englande to confirme that your Copemats haue spread abroaâ—e there Why you are beguiled you haue no hope you can not preuayle For our children laugh at you when they heare or sée you our yong men condemne you for they can indge of you our fathers and graue Seniors controll you for they sée into you olde and young young and olde cryâ— out and spurne againste you there is not one onely some reprobate heere or there or one Sanders or some Harding or a runnagate out of his Countrie excepted that holde with you But if GOD giue you eyes and grace this you may sée That this honourable and great assemblie haue all their eyes set vppon you and they would be right glad if happily the spirit of the Lord would rest vppon you at this present and chaunge you that you might become newe men We pray for all that God 〈◊〉 turne all if hee please We pray against all â—o many as are wicked and hardened least they shold infect all for so wee are coÌ„manded And you sée what harme wee wishe you wée labor to alter you wee labor to conuert you wee labor to labor to perswade you wée labor to teache you And as many of my fellowe bretheren and learned men haue béene here So am I come to say something vnto you that at the least whether it bée to life or to death the worde of the Lorde may haue his course wherefore I will nowe come to particular pointes which you defende wherein if you stande not as you haue done hetherto peruersely I hope in the Lord to doe good if not let the will of the LORD bee done Articles of our faith must depend on the scriptures â—hen if 〈◊〉 will 〈…〉 leeue 〈…〉 they 〈…〉 〈◊〉 refeâ—â—e the 〈◊〉 the scriptures else 〈◊〉 not wee to credit them In this place GOD sayth thus My wordes which I commaunde thee this day shall bee in thy hearte Tell mée then séeing the wordes of GOD are onely to bée looked vnto what worde what commaundement what scripture or what place you can prooue it in That your Masse is lawfull or that it is a propitiatorie sacrifice for the quicke and the deade What worde haue you to prooue that Christ is really corporally fleshe bloode and bone in the Sacrament What worde haue you for your administration of the Supper of the LORD in one kinde What word haue you the you should refuse to come to heare the word of the LORD which you will not hears but by compulsion If I can prooue that all these your assertions for which you suffer and are in bondes bee vntrue vnlawefull most false will you then yéelde and relent For my parte I doe ensure you that if all the learned Papistes in the worlde coulde from the firste originall and springe of these
is the newe Testament in my bloode This figure did the fathers we often times and the scholemen too Lactanâ—â—â—â— called the churche the temple of God Hylarie calleth it the house of Gods Ambrose calleth it the mother of al that liue Epiphanius saith it is via Regia the high kinges high waye Ierome saith it is the Arke of Noe and so doe they also speake of the supper of the Lord Nazianzen calleth it the supper of the Lorde a thankes giuing and againe a Table Ambrose calleth it a spirituall restoratiue and Dionisius calleth it a societie a communion a congregation an assembly so that if the Papistes and Iesuites did not willingly erre they might see the trueth In which wordes is a deuble Metonymie a double figure First the vessel is taken for that which was contained in the vessell as the cuppe for the wine which was within the cuppe Then the wine is called the couenant or Testament where as 〈…〉 the thing it is it can bée but the signe of the Testament 〈◊〉 rather of the bloode of Christe whereby the Testamente was made And thus doe I thinke of the body of Christ for it was spoken by the same figure representing the bodie and the bloode of Iesus Christ Nowe for that you may knowe both my faith and what I thinke hereof I will make open protestation of that certaine and vndoubted veritie which I beléeue as also so farre as in me lyeth confirme and establish the weake consciences of those that are here At the supper of the Lorde you shall consider two thinges 1. The person of God 2. The person of man In the person of God 1 The institutor which is Christ 2 The cause of his institution which is the remembrance of his death In the institution of these thinges 1 The externall signes 1 Bread for his bodie for his death 2 Wine for his blood shedding most precious sacrifice 3 The word for the remembraunce of both 2 The internal meaning And then shall you see all his spirituall graces most heauenly benefites Which are these most excellent 1 Faith if we beleeue 2 Assurance of life if we continue 3 Saluation if we receiue these mysteries truely 4 In Christes blood shedding our blood is not shedd 5 In his offering God the father is pacified 6 By his death hath hee ouercome the power of death and hee giueth the spirite which worketh vnto life to all those that receiue him worthily Secondly we haue here to coÌ„sider maÌ„ and it is to be done two waies 1 In his own person 2 In the persoÌ„ of his neighbor If in his owne person then let him consider 1 The time Hee is warned to flye sinne and though at all time hee bee put in minde thereof yet nowe aboue all times and though neuer vntimely yet it is the best time to remember it 2 The place it is holy for wee come before God 3 The persons and they are these 1 God the father 2 God the Sonne 3 God the holy Ghost These are al there these are naturally there these are in power ther they are not really there these are in grace there they are not in state there these are in gouernmeÌ„t of spirite truth there they will not be mocked at your handes 4 The vse of this the supper of the Lord. The vse is this 1 That we stand in faith conforme our selues to the death of Christ 2 That we examine our selues and come with a loathing of sinne meaning to sinne no more 3 That you be assured that whatsoeuer hath been done before time is pardoned Then here commeth in the last thing to be considered which is The person of thy neighbour for there be two sortes at the table 1 Thou thy selfe 2 And others For thy selfe call to minde 1 What thou wast 2 What thou art 3 What thou shalt be 1 Without God and borne in sinne 2 Made a newe man strengthned in Iesus Christ 3 An heir with God copartner with him if thou liue therafter For others remember 1 To laye aside all malice with hawtines 2 To laye aside all enuye with bitternesse 3 To lay aside all reuenge with greedinesse Then haue you fulfilled all Nowe for my owne parte I do protest simply before the Lord my God The Lord did foresee that these blasphemouâ— heretikes woulde rise vp therefore hath God giuen to vs many examples to approue that which here he spake so that Papists Iesuits cannot be excused for euer that if I had but any warrant at al in the scriptures to satistie me in this point I wold condescend willingly vnto your opinions But séeing the whole body of the Bible is against you and we haue the Lord wholy on our side what reason is there that I should credit you And as for you if you were not blinded if you were not deceiued if you were not most wonderfully drowned in your errours you might easily see the truth of this matter If God alone had vsed this figure in this place if it had béen founde no where else if the scripture would not haue permitted it if the lawe and the Prophets did not testifie it if reason and God him self did not condescend vnto it then you might haue perswaded vs but seeing that the Lord our God hath not bene against our opinions but hath euen by his owne mouth iustified all that we haue spoken what cause what reason what moueth you to coutende Search and sée looke into the booke of God if 〈◊〉 very same figure be not vsed in many thinges as it is in this one thing of his bodye The worde of God is compared to leauen that leaueneth the whole lumpe Matth. 13.33 Isay 49.2 Ephe. 6.17 Apoc. 19.15 Ier. 5.14 Ier. 23.29 Ezec. 3.3 Esa 55.10 Deut. 32.2 Matt. 13.19 the word is called a sworde the worde is called Musterde séede the worde of God is called fire the worde of God is a hammer the word of God is bony the worde of God is as snowe the worde of God is as raine the worde of God is the seede sowen yet for all this the worde of the Lord leaueneth not the worde of the Lorde striketh not the worde of the Lorde groweth not the worde of the Lorde burneth not the worde of the Lord killeth not the worde of the Lord sweeteneth not the worde of the Lorde snoweth not the worde of the Lorde rayneth not the worde of the Lorde powreth not downe materially grossely earthly and really as the wordes portende and so I say of the body of Christe you haue it not carnally you haue it not fleshly you haue it not verily flesh blood and bone in the sacrament The same maner of speach also in the scripture concerning Christ is found euery where Christ was the rocke that gushed out water 1. Cor. 10.1 yet Christ was not in the rocke and Augustine and Origen are of the same opinion that the rocke signified Christ
the comparison For as much as maÌ„ is not to liue here for euer he hath to learne the way to liue eternally In that Christ doth and perfourmeth that vnto the soule which the breade doth vnto the bodie by materiall breade life is preserued by the spirituall foode Christ saluation is attained by the corporall breade the bodie is nourished by the spirituall meate man is helped by the first we are strengthened bodily by the second we are raysed vp eternally by the first we are maintained to strength mightily by the second relieued by the spirite effectually The one is to kéepe vs here The other is to liue with God the one is for a season in this life the other for euer with the Lord So that this we knowe as bread is to be taken that we may continue so is not Christ to be forsaken least we perish 2 Secondly the comparison holdeth betwixt Christ and the breade For that breade profiteth vs not if it be not vnited to our owne nature if it be not as good nourishment receiued wherevpon we feede to our comfort No more is Christ vnited vnto vs if by faith we beléeue not that he is incarnate or by hope trust not that he hath giuen vs life or by assurance persuade not our selues that he can deliuer vs or by certaine and vndoubted confidence be not made his members vnto glorie 3 Thirdly as without breade man dyeth There is none that feareth god but he is rauâ—shed and taken vp to God as it were when he pondereth and coÌ„sidereth those spiritual and internall coÌ„solations which he attaineth by feeding and staying on Iesus Christ so without Christ man falleth as without bread we continue not so without Christ we prosper not It is farre a more liuely and pretious foode of the soule Iesus Christ whome we speake of then is that of the bodie to which he is compared for with this men haue dispensed withall for a season And Elias and Moses did fast a long time without the breade of the bodie notwithstanding as they could not continue but for a time no more may we be long without Christ 4 Fourthly It is an excellent admonition that we haue in that Christe is compared to breade For as breade of all other is most common and most necessarie whereon we stay So is Christ the most rediest in need the most liueliest in force the most strongest in power the most playnest in trueth the most desirous to saue the most valiaunt in death the most bent against Sathan and most readie and most prone to defend from destruction all such as call vpon him There is yet one member and parcell â—ehinde into the which we must looke also And it is this Howe this breade is receiued by vs August in Sext. cap. Ioh. Our sauiour Christ sheweth directly how Iohn the 6. He that beleeueth in me hath eternall life And againe He that commeth to me shall not hunger Therefore Augustine vpon those wordes of Christ rehearsed Spirituall eating of Christ what it is saith Quâ—d paras dentes ventrem crede manducasti That is Wherefore preparest thou thy teeth and thy bellie beleeue and thou hast eaten And who séeth not that this spoken is vnderstoode of the sillie creature the poore afflicted soule the hungrie conscience thirsting and gaping after the kingdome of heauen and therevpon it is that Paule speaketh so confidently to the Romanes Rom. â— Who shall separate vs from the loue of God shall affliction shall anguish shall persecution shall hunger shall nakednesse shall trouble shall the sworde c No saith Paul But in all these we ouercome by him which hath loued vs So that I conclude that on Christe Iesus we féede vnto life In Christe we are immouable we stande by him In Christ we liue for he liueth in vs In Christ we dwell who also dwelleth with vs In Christ we are fed with the bread of life and in Christ do we eate vnto saluation glory if we dâ— it as he willeth vs through faith Séeing we are ariued and nowe haue fully performed the was promised it is required of vs to go further to sée if we may find any other thing worthy either to be spoken of or to confute Not the a man shall thinke it so hard a thing to say any thing against you But bicause the stepping ouer the threshold and casting his eyes into the first elements entrance of your religion he shal scarse tell which way to betake him nor what to speake first all things among you are so corrupted If you looke into that order that I haue taken in speaking to you it shall appeare the this consequently followeth to be handled Whether or no you haue done well A flat alienation of Christ his institution in annibilating the word of the Lord propounding vnto vs your preposterous doctrine of the commixture and mingling the wine water together at the sacrament As for the first institution of our sauiour Christ if but a childe should looke in to it though he could not coÌ„fute you yet he wold chide w e you for your altering the which in so holy reuerend maner Christ ordained Alexander Pope as appeareth in his Decretals De Conc. dis 2. c. in sacramentoâ—um Cap. 5. inacted that bread and wine mixed with water should be offered vp at the sacrifice Your generall Councel held at Carthage saith thus Nihâ—laliud offeratur Conc. Carth. 3. De Conc dis 2. cap. c. vt in sacramentis quà m quod Dominus dicit hoc est panis vinum aqua mixtum the is Let no other thing be offered then that which God hath coÌ„maunded which is to say bread and wine mixt with water It is a wonder to sée how these men are blinded for in their decrée they goe against them selues and the written veritie In that they say they will do no more then God willed they did well if they would haue performed it in that they say that his institution was with wine water it is a manifest vntruth there is no mention made of any water at the supper that was vpon the table not in al the Euangelists In the also they cal the supper of the lord a sacrifice in that do they offend to for Christ neuer spake that word of his supper nor his Apostles who were with him but as other your vntruthes so is this brought in of your owne inuention whom we may not beléeue bicause you were many but we will beléeue a few if they speake the truth For a scripture saith Thou shalt not followe a multitude in doing the is euil I am not vnmindful of your councel of Affrike Conc. Afric tertium that decréed the self same But of al other your argument the is made by another general Councel where there is a reason giuen of this thing shal answere for it selfe how they haue ahused the supper of the Lorde
haue practised and taken counsell against the Lord against Christ against his annointed but Achitophell with you and you with him you with Absolon Absolon with you shall be ouerthrowne bothe alike and haue one ende you your interprises fall as they did that Adonias did You you shal he ouerthrowne with Hamon you you with your Ioacim and Ioacim with you and you all ioyned together shall not be able to stand against one Ieremie wherfore returne repent amend and conuert and come vnto the Lorde and be saued Leu. 5.4 The soule that hath sworne and hath spoken the worde that he will doe euill yet if hée repent and be sory the lawe dyd admit him to bée reconciled againe vnto the Lorde There was no man that had offended Deut. 4.29 no man that had trespassed but if hée sought the Lorde his God with all his hart and returned hée was receiued was there euer any in Israell but when they had transgressed and serued straunge Gods Gods of siluer and Gods of stone and offended the Lorde after the maner of the nations that for all that were cast off 1. Reg. 8.33 and dispised of the Lord if they came home O then harken vnto his worde harden not your hartes the Lord wyll accept of you as of Israell learne to doo well séeke his statutes looke into the law of the Lorde sée if it be not an vndefiled law yea it is a law wherin is no imperfectioÌ„ no vanity no leasing no deceipt It is a law that suffereth no manner of Image Exo. 20.23 Exo. 34.1.7 which you onely stand vpon It is a lawe that admitteth you not to eate of the sacrifices of the nations nor of the fornications of the Gentiles all which you depende vpon it is a law that willeth you to runne from ydoles and from the abhominations of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat that made Israell to sinne but you are all one with hym and runne a whoreing from the Lorde The worde of God 2. Reg 20.30 is most pure nothing like vnto it O therefore runne from the inuentions of men For why Dagon may not stand before the Arke Psa 18.33 1. Sam. 5.3 2. Par. 32.19 he shall fall flat vpon his face The Lorde dooth not regarde the workes of mens hands and the inuentions of their hartes bée farre from him The Lorde is hiest aboue all the world like vnto him there is none before hym was none and after him there shall be none such as is our god his name is an vndefiled name and it cannot be giuen to any other Then deferre not to come vnto the Lorde for Kinges haue not bene ashamed of hym Princes haue yéelded vnto his lore and the Kinges of the earth haue bene subiect to his commaundement The whole worlde hath relented to his voyce and commaundemente and all Nations haue subscribed to his hestes who is like vnto our God that sitteth in his throne aboue and what man may be compared vnto him His power and his righteousnesse is in the highest places Psal 35.11 his rules and his commaundements his wonders and his noble Actes within the clowdes Psa 77.13 Psa 83.1 Psa 89.9 None is lyke vnto him and none may be compared vnto our God Then harken you that are héere I require you agayne to harken yet it is in vayne I speake vnto the winde and I cast foorth my spéeches as into the ayre my talke is to disobedient Children and my wordes are powred foorth in vayne I sée you mooued as men are moued in wrath and you gather you together as the Adder doth stopping his eare charm the Charmer neuer so conningly you doo euill you generation of the wicked and your pride is looked vppon from heauen there is one sitteth aboue laugheth you to scorne and hée hath you already in derision Though you repine at him yet canne you not avoide his handes though you grin and mock yet wyl he hamper you your disobedience wyll hée punishe and your wicked cogitations will hee bringe to naught your haughtie mindes will he bringe downe and your dead lookes wyll hee chaunge I tell you there is a fire gone out alreadye and if it kindle but a litle yea happy shall you bée if you come vnto him For my owne part I hope it not for your partes you intende it not For my selfe I thinke it not for you you determin it not For that which I thinke I doo ensure you I perceiue it not for this time not I but all present sée it not how you are moued wée all sée how you are pricked we all iudge how you wil frame your selues herafter that the Lord knoweth but none of 〈◊〉 Concerning these therfore that are héere whom I perceiue you all are moued at let nothing trouble you right honorable and welbeloued in the Lorde they are as God wyl haue them you bee as God hath thought good for you they shall when God will returne vnto him I must therfore say Lib. 4. dialogorum as Gregorius saieth of such as were hardened in his time Sionti subeâ—dem igne aurum rutilat palea fumat ita sub eodem igne electus purgatur pecâ—ator crematur 1 As vnder the same fire Golde glistereth chaffe smoketh so in the same furnace the electe is purged the offender is burned As the king Iosuah said so must I say who speakinge of the Princes that were destroyed sayde thus It came of the Lord to harden their harts that they should come against Israell in battell Iosh 11.20 to the intent that they shoulde destroye them vtterly And so is it héere either you are come amonge vs that you may sée your selues and repent or els you bée sent of the Lorde that you may harden your hartes and haue a more gréeuous downefall At this let no man wonder For the fiery piller was a light to the Isralites Exo. 13.21 Exo. 14.22 Exo. 19.3 Exo. 16.20 but it was death and destruction to the Egiptians All passed throw the red sea and were baptised in the Clowde and in the Sea by Moses yet all sawe not the Land of promise Mounte Sinai burned and was death to the Isralites but Moses passed throw by the fire and went vp to the Lorde and was not hurt Num. 11.33 The Manna was Angels finde and nourished many it scrawled full of wormes to other and the Quayles nourished and were good meate yet diuers of them died with the meate in their mouthes So likewise is it in the worde of the Lord to some it is saluation to others it is condempnation The Heauens are pleasant and alike to all yet rayned they downe Haylestones vppon the Amorites Iosh 10.11 Cense and Sacrifice were good for all that Nadab and Abihu were consumed with fire from Heauen as they did Sacrifyâ—e Many were stonge with fierie Serpents and dyed but the godâ—ye and righteous men were healed when they looked on the same All that came to Iordan dyd not passe ouer Leu. 10.3 Num. 21.9 2 Reg. 2.8 2. Reg. 5.14 yet the Prophet Elias had no sooner touched it with his Mantell but hée went ouer on drie lande Many bathed in the riuer onely Naaman the Syrian was â—lonsed of his leprosie and by the worde of the Lorde the godly 〈…〉 the wicked are hardened the godly haue lyfe the reprobate are in death I doo remember the Toâ—er of Silâ—â— defended many but the 18 were killed for it fell vpon them and the Angell came downe into the water of Beehesda at certaine times and stirred the water for all that diuers went away Crepâ—â—s as they came 〈…〉 and were not holpen There were many Lopers in the dayes of Christ 〈◊〉 very fewe the ix Leapers were all only they you read of cleansed Great multitudes touched the hâ—m of Christes garments but the woman a Straunger was healed of hir fluxe of blooud Diuers sat in the seate of Moses all only Casphas gaue right sentence that one should die for the people In lyke maner many heare as you doe but God openeth and giueth vnderstandinge And so I conclude with Paule Rom. 9.18 of whom the Lorde our god wyll of hym hath hee mercie and whom hee wyll hee hardeneth And as for you the Lord if it be his wyll and pleasure open your eyes If not his wyll and purpose bee fulfylled FINIS ⧠Faultes escaped in Printing For the first part Page 7. line 9. reade he set page 7. line 22. reade to possesse and pa. 10 line 2. reade and howe page 11. lin 35. reade with power with right page 16. line 25. reade since Christes page 26. line 27. reade force page 29. line 9. reade There is page 36. line 16 reade must page 4â— line 29. reade slaine by them page 43. line 31. reade Apollyon For the second part Page 7. line 15. reade Euen the same commaundement page 11. line 22. reade They all yéelded to that page 13. line 15. reade The Lorde wyll ryse vp in his furie page 13. 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his mother nor his auncestors nor his death are writteÌ„ of and such a one is the sonne of God to wit an euerlasting Priest As he is God most wonderfully without a mother be gotten before all worldes And as he is man without father wonderfully conceiued of the holy ghost Now as the comparison standeth thus so also is there no comparison at all of Christ with the sacrifising Priestes of Leuie but with the Priesthoode of Melchisedech wherevpon I conclude thus Melchisedech was a figure of such a priesthood in Christ as is not terrestriall but heauenly but Christ offered daily in your sacrifice of the Masse is not heauenly but terrestriall Ergo Christe is not and can not be daily offered vp for vs in your Masse being heauenly and with his father It followeth in the same place Heb. 7.25 that the priesthood of Christ is such a one as may not passe from one to an other Now yours passeth from priest to priest euery day wherfore yours is not like vnto Christes Moreouer he that is a high Priest for vs must haue these properties in him First such a one as of him self is able to saue Secondly such a one The things requited of the high priest are not found in yours Ergo yours are no priestes as by whom we may come to God Thirdly one that euer liueth and one that maketh intercession for vs. Then he must be holy then he must be harmlesse then he must be vndefiled then he must be separated from sinners last of al made higher than the heauens and that néedeth not daily to haue a sacrifice offered vp Now that I may conclude and shut vp this piece also I say that all these thinges are neither found in your Priestes nor in your sacrificers therefore all your sacrifices at your Masse and else where are not lawfull The fourth thing to be enquired of in your Masse is this That if it be no sacrifice yet whether or no it be a worke sufficient to iustifie or that a man may be saued by the same yea or no I answere that your Masse is no worke of iustification that is able to iustifie for so you vnderstand it I proue it thus and you if you will learne shall knowe it thus namely Actes 4.12 Actes 15.11 Ephe. 2.5 Heb. 7.25 Ioel 2.32 We haue not two wayes or two meanes vnto saluation but one only way and meane vnto saluation Nowe Christ is the way the dore and the life and by him only haue we a meane and passage to his father therfore by the worke of the Masse excluded and without Christ you can not haue any way or entrance vnto saluation This we knowe the if your Masse were sufficient to saluation then it was first a vaine thing for God the father to haue sent his sonne Grosse errours arising out of the Papistes doctrine séeing he also might haue found out a sacrifice of Masse here in the earth sufficieÌ„t for vs Secondly what cause was there Christ should dye for our sinnes séeing the you haue found out another ordinary way vnto life Thirdly wherfore should Christ be made a sacrifice for vs if you your selues can make a sacrifice sufficient For which causes you teach as euery one may sée very damnable doctrine there is no standing for you against God Can this be or hath it euer bene Psal 5â— or will it be proued which you affirme Why Psal 18.3 what saith the Scriptures The Scripture saith that saluation is of God Psal 27.1 of him onely of the Lord of the almightie of the highest Esa 27.3 of him that is aboue and of none other Ergo not of the Masse Esa 43.3 But you say you are iustified by the sacrifice of the Masse Iames 4.12 and not saued well then if so then I pray you aunswere the Lorde Rom. 3.24 in whose name and fears I reason thus We are iustified by grace in the redemption of Christe Ergo not by the Masse Rom. 4.6 and by the worke therein We are iustified by acceptation in the meere mercie of GOD Ergo not by your worke in the Masse And you are iustified if you will be iustified Esa 53.11 and helped if you will be helped and deliuered if you wil be deliuered in the righteousnesse of Christe who hath borne your iniquities Papistes confated Ergo not by any worke of yours in the Masse And I knowe and I am assured that euerie one that shall be saued Philip. 3.9 hath not righteousnesse by sacrifices which were for a time but onely by faith in Iesus Christ through God Ergo not in your beggerly oblations can there be any worke sufficient to saluation Augustine to Bonifacius saith thus Cerium habemus quia Christus resurgens ex mortuis tam non moritur mors illâ— vltra non dominabitur c. i. We know for a trueth saith Augugustine that Christ being risen from the dead nowe dyeth no more death shall not reigne ouer him and in that place proueth he neither any sacrifice to be auaylable for vs but Christes and that he was made a sacrifice for vs but all only once for all In Heb. cap. 9. Theophilactus is of this opinion Sic Christus semel oblatus est A quonam ille oblatus est a seipso non a quouis alio hominum Qui etsi Pontifex sit hostia tamen ipse oblatio that is as saith Theophilact Goe to then Christe is once for all offered tell me of whome was he offered Of him selfe not of any other was he once offered And although Christ be a high Priest yet was he made an offering and an oblation for vs Ciryll vpon Iohn the Euangelist Lib. 5. cap. 17. saith thus Paule taketh not away the second or the thirde remission of offences of men But Paule denyeth that Iesus Christ which was a sacrifice and an oblation for vs shal nowe any more be offered vp vpon the Crosse For once was Christe offered and not for euer shall he be any more offered vp hereafter Now then what hope can you haue miserable creatures in your workes by the Masse in as much as Christe onely died for you Christe onely offered for you Christe onely sacrificed for you and your worke meritorious in the Masse was not so much as euer hearde of The Authour of our iustification is set downe by Saint Chrysostome thus The The second man came froÌ„ heauen Ser. 6. de proditoâ—â— the second man came without finne The seconde man came all onely vnlike to vs in iniquitie The seconde man came that did owe nothing either to death or sinne The seconde man came to bee made free among those that were deade Lib. 3. in Com. lib. Reg. that death by death might bee conquered Eucherius saith thus Apertio regni coelestis per incarnationem Domini saluatoris nostri nobis donata est that is The way to the kingdome of heauen
is giuen all onely vnto vs by the incarnation of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christe Isychius saith Lib. 1. in cap. 4. Lon. The onely worke and the effecte of the crosse of Christ is the remission of our sinnes Maximus saith verie well for this Christusommbus natus est sed fidelibus dat salutem i. Homil. 4. de Chr. Christe in deede was borne for all but hee giueth eternall life to them onely that beleeue And Prosper hath a proper verse where he speaketh of faith and of loue that man shoulde haue to God Quo fiat iustus sitque beatus home that is 〈…〉 By faith alone and loue of God we iust and happie seeme Then séeing we can neither finde in the scriptures nor in the fathers nor in the schoolemen that your masse is able to iustifie you for your partes must séeke some other way to helpe I for my part will leaue you to the Lorde whome I wishe you to séeke vnto more then you haue done But wee will examine this scripture God saith these wordes which I commaunde thee this day shall bee in thy heart It is apparant I am sure The worde of God is high yet comprehended it is largâ— yet learned it is deepe yet attayned it is darke yet opened to the faithful it is a rule for al it is enough sufficient vnto all it is all in all and without this is ther nothing to deliuer or to aue any one maÌ„ that the Lorde God doeth comprebende in this remmandement all the lawes and commandements set downe by Moses For in the wordes of God which here generally are but touched onely bee all the wordes of the Lorde vnderstood Then if the law bee so straite the charge so great the ordinance so firme and the certaintie thereof so sure as may be none more strong more ample or higher or déper or larger or broader then is this I can not but maruell greatly howe in what manner by what meanes what color what shew what proofe you can haue for your damnable and grosse opinions which you holde contrarie to this prescript worde of God Among them all for sacriledge most offending for derogation to his maiestie most greiuing God is this which you hold of transubstantiation whereof you haue no grounde but you haue the shew and color of some foundation that is laide weakely by the men of your side And now it is straung to be considered Christ is the bread ergo hee is in it really ergo bodily it doth not followe read Ambrose de Sacra lib. 4. cap. 4. Ierom. in Isa cap. 62. Hilary de Trin. li. 8. and Athanas Apol 2. There is but one counterfeiting color with which you ouerlay that reason worke of yours It is this Christ saide take eate this is my bodie ergo say you Christ is really and bodily fleshe and bloode in the Sacrament The boye that learned Seton but the last wéeke will finde the falt of this argument but we will examine the wordes and let your childish toyes be as they bee Christ saith take eate this is my bodie c. Then sée se what you doe looke vnto it and examine your selues in the same For if that bread giuen was the verie naturall bodie and naturall blood of Christ you shal sée that you be neuer able to defende it wherefore consider those wordes spoken in the interrogations and circumstances which afforde them selues willingly to be pondered of all that shall reade them 1 First If the Iesuites say Christ is here really then these heresies do arise theron if they say Christ is in the bread spiritually they are against theÌ„selues If that Christ is not there at all then are they Ophits and Nazarites that deny Christes institution If they say he is in the bread after a heauenly manner then is he not after 'a bodily manner who spake those wordes you say Christ and that two naturall bodies one at the table the other in the bread that was deliuered 2 Secondly when spake Christ these wordes at the meat eating now the bread say you was Christes substantiated body Then Christ did eate Christ Christ eate his owne naturall bodie 3 Thirdly to whome spake Christe those wordes To his disciples he spake them and saide take eate and that bread after the words of consecratioÌ„ was that very body of Christ Then also there were twelue Christes twelue naturall bodies and Christ him selfe sitting at the table made the thirteenth 4 Fourthly If they say he is there in his omnipotencie then also they haue ly ed Christ is not there in his humanitie therefore take heede that the Lorde iudge you not what time was this spoken before Christes death Christ spake the words take eat you inuert the words and say that the thing was done which yet was to bee done you take the time as past and gone which yet is not come you say his bodie was giuen which yet was not crucified you say his blood was shed and his side was not yet persed And you say the bread was his verie bodie the wine his bloode and Christe was not yet offered vp for man 5 Fifthly what be the wordes spoken These take eate this is my bodie Christ saith take this and eate it is my body You say take eate it is a conuerted bodie Christ saith it is my bodie you say it is a transubstantiated body Christ saith it is my body you say it is his naturall bodie Christ saith take eate in a remembrance of mee you say take eate I am very man you shall eate me Christ saith as oft as you shall do it remember my death til I come you say he is not to be remeÌ„bred but to be receiued not to be thought vpon looked vpon not to be absent but to be present not to be abut to bee way but to be there not to bee gone but to be knowne in the bread carnally and bodily fleshly and really as Christ was borne of his mother Marie The verie cause of all these your erronious and blasphemous opinions I take to be all only this Ignorance and want of reading the word aright are the causes of all hereâ—â—es That you are men ignorant brabblers and no readers of the scripture otherwise you could not be deceiued For read the wordes before read the wordes which follow and you shall find the the words of Christ are to be otherwise taken then you take them For they are spoken by a trope by a figure by a Metonymie As in the same Chapter Christ saith to his disciples Luke 22.8 Go and prepare me the Passouer The lambe is called the Passouer yet was it not the Passouer but a figure signe of the Passouer Luke 22.20 Also Christ saith This cup is that new Testament in my bloode which is shed for you First I note the Christ saith not this wine is my blood Or this cup is my blood But Christ saith this cup