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A19566	A confutatio[n] of vnwritte[n] verities both bi the holye scriptures and moste auncient autors, and also probable arguments, and pithy reasons, with plaine aunswers to al (or at the least) to the moste part and strongest argumentes, which the aduersaries of gods truth, either haue, or can bryng forth for the profe and defence of the same vnwritten vanities, verities as they would haue them called: made up by Thomas Cranmer ... translated and set forth, by E.P. The contentes whereof, thou shalte find in the next side folowinge.	Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556.; E. P., fl. 1556.	1556 (1556)	STC 5996; ESTC S109030	77,248	224

be taken as olde wyues fables the wordes of liars and fraye bugges of children neyther canne the soule beyng departed from the body walke in this earth For the soules of the righteous are in the hand of god and the soules of synners ar streight after their death caried awai Which is manifest by Lazarus and the ryche man The lord saieth also in another place this day shal they fetche away thy soule The soule therfore after it be departed from the body cannot wāder here amongest vs. It may be proued by maniscripturs that the souls of the ryghteous cannot wander here after their death For Steuen sayd Lorde receiue my spirite And Paule desyered to be losed from the bodye and to be wyth CHRISTE Of the Patriarkes also the Scripture sayth he was laid vp wyth his fathers he dyed in a good age And that the soules of sinners canne not tarye here with vs harken to the ryche manne what he sayeth consyder what he asketh and obtayneth not But yf mens soules myghte bee conuersaunte here he woulde haue come as he desyered and haue certified his brethren of the tormentes in hell Of the whiche place of Scripture it is manyfeste that after the departynge from the bodye the soules are caryed into a certayne place from whence they cannot returne at their pleasure but loke for that terrible day of Iudgement HIerome in the .8 Ca. of Ieremy If you doubt of any thīg sayeth the prophete knowe that it is written that those nations whiche the lord shal scatter before thy face shal harken to dreames and sothsayers but the Lord thy god hath cōmaunded thee not so to doe but if you wil know thynges that be doubtful geue yourselues rather to the testimonies of the law the scriptures But if your congregacion wil not searche the worde of the lorde they shall not haue the lyghte of the trueth but shal wander in darkenesse of errors You ought to knowe thys that euery nacyon asketh counsell at theyr owne gods and enquireth of the deade for the health of the quicke but god hath geuen you the law for youre helpe so that you may say the soothsaying of the heathen which deceiue their worshippers is not lyke ours whyche is spoken oute of the lawe without any coste SAīct Augustine also saith that the spirite of Samuel which the woman sorcerer raysed to Saul was not the soule of Samuel but the deuil which appeared in Samuels likenes for to deceiue Saul this doeth he proue both by euydente scriptures and stronge reasons ¶ Neyther are miracles able to proue our fayth ¶ The .vi. Chapter EXodus .7 8. The wise men and inchaunters of Pharao turned their roddes into serpentes and the waters of Egipt into bloode and made all the whole lande to swarme with frogges through their sorceries DEuteronum .13 If there aryse among you a Prophete or a dreamer of dreames and geue thee a signe or a wōder and that signe or wonder which he hath sayed come to passe and then saye let vs got after straunge goddes which thou hast not knowen and let vs serue them Harken not vnto the wordes of that Prophet or dreamer of dreames For the lord thy god tempteth thee to wete whether ye loue the lorde your God wyth all youre hartes and all youre soules IEremye .23 Beholde here am I ▪ sayeth the LORDE agaynste those Prophetes that dare prophesye lyes and deceyue my people wyth their vanities and miracles ▪ whom I neuer sent nor cōmaunded MAth .7 Many shal saye to me in those dayes LORDE haue we not prophesyed in thy name haue we not caste oute deuils in thy name and then it shall bee answered them I neuer knewe you departe from me you children of iniquite MAth .12 An euyll and froward generacyon saketh a sygne and there shall no sygne bee geuen to them but the signe of Ionas the Prophete MAthewe .24 There shall a rise false CHRISTES and false Prophetes and shal shewe greate miracles and wonders in so muche that if it were possyble euen the verye electe shoulde bee disceaued but take you hede beeholde I haue shewed you al thynges before THessa .2 The commyng of that wicked one meanīg Antichrist shalbe after the working of S●than with all lyenge power signes and wonders and wyth al disceit of vnrighteousnesse of them that shall peryshe beecause they receaued not the loue of the trueth that they myght be saued And therefore God shal sende them stronge delusyōs that they myght beleue lyes that all they myght be damned which beleued not the truth but had pleasure in vnrighteousnes ACtes .8 Simon Magus an in chaunter by his wonders bewitched the Samaritans ACtes .13 Elimas the sorcerer had of long tyme deceyued the Antiochians Read the stories IRene lib .1 Telleth of a certen Iugler called Marke whiche in the sacrament of thankes geuing wonderfully deceaued the simple people For he so chaunged the coloure of wyne that it appeared vtterly to be bludde and a litel wine so increased through his Iugling that the chalyce was fylled and ranne ouer By this Iugling it is playne inough that those myracles that be alledged of many men for the real presence in the sacrament of the alter doe not confyrme their error but be very delusions of the deuyl or of his iuglyng ministers CHrysostome in his .4 9. Homilie vpō the .24 of Math. Afore time it was knowē which wer true Christen men and which false by miracles but how were the false knowen Because they could not worke such or lyke miracles as true Christē men did but they wroughte vaine thinges making men to wonder but bringing no profit at al. But the Christians did miracles which not onelye brought wonders but also profyte by these they were knowen whyche were true Christians and whyche false But now workyng of miracles is vtterly taken awaye Yea coūterfet miracles are rather founde amonge them that be false Chrystians as Peter declareth in Clement Antichriste shal haue full power geuen him to worke great miracles THe same in his first oracyon agaynste the Iewes vpō thys place of Deutero .13 If there a rise among you a Prophete or a dreamer of dreames c. That that he saith sayeth Chrysostome is thys if any Prophete saye I can rayse a dead mā and geue syghte to a blinde man obey me let vs worship deuils let vs do sacrifice to Idols moreouer if a man speake thus that he can geue the blīd his syghte rayse the dead● yea though he doe these thynges beleue him not for the Lord trieng thee suffereth him to doe them not that he knewe not thy mynd but to geue thee occasyon of tryall whether thou loue God in dede THe same in Iohn Cap. 2. In the ende of the .22 Homilie Ther be some doubtles now a daies that aske why men worke no miracles now If thou be faithful as thou oughtest to be if thou loue Christ as he shoulde be loued thou nedest

birth declarynge both her ●inred and place where she was borne Vpon whiche confession she was cōmitted to a nōnery called Sopwel there to ta●y vntil messengers which they streight way sente furth myght returne and testifie the trueth And so she dayly and holyly visited saynct Albans shrine But the night before the returne of the messengers she was conueyed awaye and neuer hearde of nor seen after And the messengers declared to be lies al that euer she had said for there was neuer none borne lame nor of her name where she sayed she was borne A straunge thinge it is to heare of the wonderful traunces visions of mistres A●ne Wētworth of Suffolk whiche tolde many men the secretes of their hertes which they thoughte no man could haue tolde but god only she cut stomagers in peces made them whole againe caused diuerse men that spake agaynst her delusiōs to goe star●e mad Al which thynges were proued and openly by her confessed to be done by necromancy the desceit of the deuill But yet Elizabeth Barton telled the holy mayde of Cou●top streat in kēt passed al other in deuelish deuises For she could when she life faine her selfe to be in atraunce disfigure her face draw her mouth awrye toward the one eare faynynge that she was thus tormented of Sathan for the synnes of the people deliuered from his power by our blessed lady of Courtop streat and by her led into heauen hell and purgatory and there saw all the ioyes and paynes of those places and toke vpō her to prophesy of thīgs to come and of the kyngs death This instrumente of the deuill drewe into her confederacie both of heresy and treason holy monkes of the Charter house obstinate they woulde be called obseruaunt Friers of Grenwich nice Nōnes of Sion blacke monkes bothe of coules and condicions of Christes churche and sainct Austyns of Canterbury Knightes Squiers learned men Priestes and many other of which sort whether they wer blīded by her or els of their own mere malice and ypocrisie dissembled the matter some by d●e profe made against them were iustlye condemned both of heresy and treason and suffered wyth the saict Elizabeth Bartō accordyng to their demerites some acknowledginge their own offence wer delyuered by the kynges pardon This wicked woman caused a letter to be made by a monke of Sainct Austins of Canterbury in golden letters feining the same to be deliuered to her by an Angel frō heauen This mōster was conuented both beefore William Warhā Archebishop of Cāterbury and Thomas Wolsey Cardinall and Archebishop of Yorke Who eyther because that generacion of the cleargy hath alway defended idolatrye and supersticion or beecause she knewe to much of their incontinency and other wickednes of liuing for she threatned them with eternall dānacyon except thei repented and amēded their liues they clearly discharged her wythout finding of any fault in her at al. But when the matter came to be examined by Thomas Craumer Archebishop of Canterbury and Thomas Cromwel then master of the rolles they so handeled the matter that they foūde out the whole nest of that conspiracy wherin was disclosed the whole nomber of those confederates their bokes of heresye and treason the authors wryters of the same and of the letter feyned to be sent frō heauē Al whose detestable factes as well of idolatry heresy and also of treason wer so wittely and learnedly by Goddes worde conuinced at canterburye by Doctor Hethe now chaunceler of Englande she being present and openly confessing the same and also by another lerned mā at Pauls crosse that the most part of them whiche were beefore by her seduced did then vtterlye abhorre her shameles and abominable factes what a crafty poynt of legerdemaine was plaid about the beginning of king Edwardes reigne by a Pryest which being at masse pricked his own finger and caused it to drop vpon the ost perswading the people that the oste bled of it selfe by the miraculoꝰ workyng of god for to make the worlde beleue the body of Chryst to be as really and naturally in the sacramēt as he was born of the virgin Mari his mother For the which hein●us fact proued against him and also by him confessed he did open penaūce at Pauls crosse I wyll rehearce one sermon made in Quene Maryes beginning by a momysh Mōke so leaue of their vayn wicked lyes A new vpstert precher being sōe time a mōke of Chrysts church in Cātorbury stept into the pulpit in saynct Paules church saying that the very body of christ is realli naturally in the sacramente of the aulter yea by gods body is it quoth he because that nether oth nor periury can proue a good argumēt he proued the same by three notable miracles The first of an horse refusing to eat wafers so lōg as their cakye god was amōg thē the. 2. by the deuil speaking in the likenes of an horse being cōiured of a Prieste by gods body to tel what he was and the 3. a maide of Northgate parish in Cāterburi who he said in pretēce to wipe her mouth kept the ost in her hādkercher And whē she cāe hōe she put the sāe īto a pot close couerd spitted ī an other pot and after a few dayes she loking in the one pot founde a lytle young prety babe about a shaftmond long and the other potte was full of gored bloud Here is goodly pulpit matters to proue new articles of our fayth For if the Priestes that tolde the stories of the 2. horses or the maid that sayd that the bread was turned into a litle childe or the monke that preached these shameful blasphemys or the deuill himselfe who is father of lies could lye speakyng in the horse or in any of them then doe all these foresaid miracles proue nothinge his purpose But O mercyfull God in what a miserable state were we thine afflicted mēbers if it wer true which they say being both enemyes to thee and to vs also for thy truethes sake For we shold not onli suffer extreme miseries as losse of our goods good names the cōpany of our dere frēds in our natiue country but also burne as heretikes in this world if we came in their cruell handlyng also burne eternally in the vnquencheable fire of hell if their cruell curses myght take effect Wherefore we yelde thee most harty thākes O father of al mercies and to thy sonne Iesus Chryst our sauiour whiche haste promysed for hys sake and in his name thy kyngdome of heauen to al them which suffer persecucion for thy righteousnesse sake How shal we then knowe true visiōs of Angels from false true apparitiōs and miracles from counterfayte but by the scripture of god which is the rule and true measure where wyth we must try all thynges as S. Iohn sayeth beeleue not euerye spirite but proue them whether they be of God For manye false