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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

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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
Dauyd in whose dayes open Idolatrye was not alowed and practysed by the consente of the kinges Bishoppes hyegh priestes Scrybes Pharises Which of the Prophetes did not the open visible churche persecute Where was the visible churche in the tyme of Elias Were not al that were knowne and thought to be of the churche worshyppers of Baal in somuch that Elias thought there had bene left aliue of gods true churche but himselfe only And yet not wythstandynge God had preserued hys churche knowne but onely to hymselfe for he knoweth who ar his Who smote Micheas the true Prophete of God but the chefe Priest and Bishoppe Zedechias And he with foure hūdred Pryestes more of his own minde and religion disceaued Achab and promysed him victory ouer the Assirians although God had made them no such promyse but rather had pomted the contrarye as it came to passe Vho commaunded Ieremy to be beaten for his true prophesyeng but Phashur the Archebishop Who perswaded wyth the kinge that Ieremy the true Prophete of God was a sedicious felowe and wente about to discorage the people in Ierusalem that they shoulde not resyste Nabuchodonozor kyng of Babylon but the priestes Yea and when the kynge deliuered him out of prison who but these holy men of the Churche procured hym to be caste agayne into a depe doungyō where they would haue famyshed hym if God had not put in the kynges harte to take hym out and deliuer him These be the fruites and practyses of the vysyble and seene Churche whyche if it bee true that the papistes say cānot erre But what so euer they saye it forceth not for we knowe what the spiritualty as they cal thēselfes haue beē since the beginning the verye expressed image wherof is set forth and declared in the Machabies as they that reade the story shal perceaue it wel inough by Alcinus Simō Iason and Menelaus Now let vs come to the new testamēt and see what the visible and knowen churche was vnder it Who was the true churche or how was it knowen to the people in Christes time The hiegh Priestes Bishoppes Scribes Pharises and Saduces whiche appeared outwardly and boasted themselues to bee the churche of god were in dede as Christ called thē ser pētes the generacions of vipers hipocrites children of hell painted tombes perse cuters of true religion and murtherers of the prophetes yea of himselfe and his Apostles men that shut vp the kingdome of heauen so that neyther they would enter therein themselues nor suffer the poore simple that were desierous to knowe the trueth to enter but excommunycated and thrust them out of the churche as men caste awaye as heretikes and forsaken of God whosoeuer beleued on Chryste Who commaunded the Apostles that they should preach no more in Christs name Who caused Steuen to be stoned And Iames to be throwne of the pinacle who gaue auctoritie to Paul to bind and bring before them al that professed Chryst Who commaunded him to be buffeted Who accused him beefore Festus and Agrippa Who stired the Gentils against hym in al coūtries where he wente to preache but the churche If you wil then nedes Iudge the outwarde visible churche that sitteth in Moses chayer though they doe not as the chayre requyreth to be the true churche of god I pray you then tel me who caused Constantinus the Emperor to banyshe Athanasius Who exiled Chrisostome and many other moe godly and well learned Bishops slew a great nōber of godly wel learned me but the Priestes by seducīg the Empris Eudoria who put out the eyes of Constantyne the forth Emperour caused him to be slain because he pulled the Images out of the church being worshipped cōtrari to gods holi wil cōmaūdemēt but his owne mother by the counsel of the Pope the Byshoppes being then taken for the Churche Who deposed Henry the fourth Emperour causing hys owne sonne to rebell against him Who deposed Childeri●us the french kyng assoiling his subiects from theyr obedyence to hym made Pipine kynge in hys steade but the Pope and hys Churche men Let vs come to oure own realme and speake of thinges done in our own memory Who procured kyng Henry the eyghte in the beginning of his reigne to war agaynst the frenche kinge where beesides the murther cōmytted adultery was lerned theft sacrilege practised lying swearing yea and for sweringe with all other kindes of vyces vsed whych be the very fruites of war but the cleargy For the pope thē being in warre with the French king to make his part good the stronger procured the Bishops of the church of Englād beyng the Popes deare darlynges chefe of the kinges counsel to entytle the kyng to his right of the realme crown of Fraūce to encourage the young kyng thereto the Pope accursed the kyng of Fraūce al his aiders succurrers Then free pardons flue abroade as thycke as butter flyes in sommer but so free that the realme therby and the sayd warres was robbed of a grate deale of our treasure and in maner halfe vndone There was ful remission a pena culpa preached at paules crosse almost in eueri sermō through al England promisīg that whoso euer died in the Popes quarel his soule should be in heauen before his bones wer colde After whē the same kinge Henrye had iustlye by the aucthoryte of GODES worde and the ful consent both of the parliament and conuocacion abolyshed the vsurped power of the Bishop of Rome then the Pope enterdyted the whole Realme and sent Cardinal Poole from prince to prince to excite and moue them if he coulde haue broughte it to passe to make open warre against the king and the realm as it appeareth in a Sermō preached by Tonstall nowe Bishoppe of Durham and set out in prynte openly Which sermon al other tel truthes openinge the abuses and tirannye of the Bishop of Rome are now put to silence Who were the workers of all these mischeues who these .iii. yeres paste hath persecuted prisoned and burned so many learned and Godlye men onely for their true faythes sake grounded vpon gods most holy worde men worthy to bee cōpared with the olde martirs of the primitiue church as well for the constancye of theyr fayth as also for pacience and charity shewed at their deathes but the churche as they call thēselues who by their cruel tiranny hath enforced so many notable members of Christ leauinge wife children kinsfolke Landes and goodes either to flye into straunge realmes or els from town to town from Citie to Citie onelye beecause they woulde not drynke of the venemous cuppe of the whore of Babylon who hath wrought al these wickednesses but onelye the mitered prelates and their popishe priestes If we shal alow thē for the true church of god that appeare to bee the visible and outwarde churche consistyng of the ordinarye
that innumerable other bishops of our cōgregaciō doe a lowe this doctrine that we kepe or be cause in churches of our cōpaniōs it is preached or els because that throughe the whole world in those holy places wher our cōgregaciōs resorte so many wōders ether of hearings or of healynges be done so that bodyes of martirs being hid so many years whyche if they wil aske thei may learne of many were shewed to Ambroser or that at those bodyes a certaine mā beeing many yeres blynd wel knowen to the whole citie of Miliane receiued hys eyes his sight or because he beyng in a dreame dyd ●ee or he beeyng rapt in spirite did heare eyther that he ●old not goe to the part of the Donatistes or that he should depart from theyr opinion What so euer suche thynges be done in the catholike churche the church is not therfore proued catholik because these be dōe in it The lord Iesꝰ himself whē he was risē frō death offred his own body to be see with the eies hādled with the hāds of his Apostles lest thei shold thē thīke thēselfes to be deceiued he rather iudged that thei ought to be stablyshed by the witnesses of the law prophets psalmes shewīng those thinges to be fulfilled in him that wer spokē so lōg before so he set forth his churche biddinge repentaunce and forgeuenes of synnes to be preached in his name through al nacions beginnīg at Ierusalē That these thynges bee wrytten in the lawe and Prophetes himselfe witnesseth thys is set out by worde of mouth These are the doctrines these are the stayes of our cause we reade wrytten in the Actes of the Apostles of sōe faithfull men that they searched the scripturs whether they were so What Scryptures I pray you but the Canonicall of the lawe the Prophetes to these are ioined the gospels the Apostles Epistles the Actes of the Apostles and the Apocalypsis of Sayncte Iohn Searche all these bryng foorth some plaine thing wherbi you may declare that the churche hath remayned only in Affricke or that thys whyche the Lorde sayeth shall come to passe This gospell shalbe preached to al the world for a testimonye to all nacyons shalbe verified of Affricke But brynge out some what that nedeth none interpreter you may not be conuinced that the thynges which is spoken of another matter you goe about to wreste to your purpose CHrysostome of the contricion of the hart Christ promised not that he woulde rewarde at the latter day them that worke sygnes wonders but them that kepe his cōmaundementes saieng come you blessed childrē of my father receaue that kingdome whyche was prepared for you from the beginning of the world He said not because you did miracles but because I was hongrye c. he shal also cal them blessed not that wroght miracles but the humble and meke in hart LIril in Iohn lib. 7. Cap. 13. To worke miracles maketh not a man one whit more holy s●īge that it is also common to euyll men abiectes as the Lorde hymselfe also witnesseth mani shal sai to me in that day c. And contrary wyse workyng of no miracles hindereth not a mans holynes For Iohn wrought neyther signe nor miracle and yet was thys no derogacion to his holines For among the children of wemen ther was none greater then he SAbellic vpon the lyfe of Celestine Almost fiue hundreth yeares after Chryst the deuil taking vpon him the person of Moyses shewed himself visibly in the sight of the Iewes that dwelt at Candie promisinge that he woulde brynge them agayne into the land of promyse where Ierusalem stādeth dry foted the waters standyng on eyther syde in maner of a wall as when the children of Israell were brought out of the land of Egipt Many of the Iewes rashli geuing credite to these Iuglīgs and enterynge into the sea were ouerwhelmed with the waues thereof excepte a fewe the whyche at laste beeynge warned of their vanite became Christians ¶ Custome also is of no strēgth in thys case of prouing a religion ¶ The .vii. Chapter EXodi .23 Folowe not the multitude to doe euill LEuiticus .18 The Lorde cōmmaūdeth the Israelytes not to folowe the custome of the Egipcyans nor the Cananites Reade the chapter EZechyell .20 Walke not in the statutes of youre forefathers and keepe not their ordinaunces and defyle not youre selues wyth their Idols REgū .4 ca. 17. Vnto thys day they kepe their olde customes they feare not God nor do after hys customes ordynaunces and lawes THe same They dyd not hearken vnto the Lorde but dyd after their olde custome I Eremye .9 They folowed thē wickednes of their owne heartes and serued straunge godes as their fathers taught them TErtullian of virginite or prayses Custome for the most part taking his beginning eyther of ignoraunce or simplicite in processe of tyme waxeth strong by vse and so it is alledged agaynst the truth Whatsoeuer smelleth agaynste the trueth that is heresye yea though it be olde custome CIprian vnto Cicilie lib. 2. Epistola .3 There is no cause why deare brother that any manne should thynke the custome of some men oughte to be folowed If any mā haue thought that only water ought to be offered in the chalyce we muste fyrste aske whom they folowed and that Chryste only ought to bee hearde the father witnesseth from heauen saieng this is my wel beloued sonne heare hym Wherfore if only Chryste ought to be heard we ought not to regarde what any mā afore vs thought to be done but what Christ which is before did first neyther oughte we to folowe the custome of man but the trueth of god THe same to Iulian. of the baptising of heretykes in vaine do some men when they be ouercome with the truth alledge custome agaynste vs as though custome wer greater then the trueth Sainct Augustine hath the same THe same to Pompus agaynste Steuens epistle Custōe with out truth is an olde errour for the whiche cause lette vs leue custome and folowe the trueth CHrisostome vpon Genesis .29 Homilie .59 For if the coūsell be good and profitable yea though it be not custome kepe it but if it bee hurtful and noysome caste it awaye For if we wil be wise and care for our saluacion we may leaue of an euyll custome and bryng in a good custome and so shall we geue no small occasyō to thē that come after vs to chaunge the same haue the rewarde of those thyngs that be done of them IErome in his preface to Iob. Olde custome is of such force that vices whiche many men them selues cōfesse please them through it THe same the .9 Cap. Neither ar the errours of our fathers nor out elders to be folowed but the authorite of the Scriptures and the cōmaundementes of god that teacheth vs. AVgustine of one only Baptime lib. 2. Distinc .8 Cap. Vhen the trueth is once knowen let custome geue place to the trueth For
answere wittelye to the question propoūded affirmeth all the dayes to be lyke and not that Christ is crucified only on good fridai and riseth only on the sōday but that euery daye is the daye of the Lordes resurrectiō we eate his flesh alwaies But fastinges and comminges together wer ordeined of wise men for thē that geue thēselfes rather to the world then to God that cannot yea for thē that wil not come there at all there to make their sacrifice of praiers to god in the face of all the people Herby you may easely perceaue that the church hath not chaunged the speciall part of the sabboth whiche is to cease from vice and sinne but the cerimoniall part of the Sabboth only whiche was abrogate and taken away with other cerimonies of Moses law by Chryst at the full preachīg of the gospell In place whereof the churche hath ordayned the sonday for causes afore sayd ¶ The Papystes obiectyons with answers vnto them ¶ The .11 Chapter MOreouer they boast thēselfes of the certētie of their doctrīe and proue it to be true by the long continuance therof and luckye prosperite of their kyngdome and their aduersaries doctrine to be false by the persecucions plages myseries and afflictyons which they dayly suffer for their doctrines sake IF the trial of true religion shoulde rest vpon antiquite of tyme or vpō worldly prosperite thē should the gentyls and pagans haue a great aduauntage of vs Chrystians and their religion should be better then ours by the restimonies of our owne scriptures For idolatrye and wor●●ipping of false gods and their image●● was vsed long before the law of god writtē and geuen to Moses in which errors and idolatry the heathen continewe vnto thys day in great prosperite wealth vnder most victorious Emperours and Princes whereas the true churche of Chryst hath been most miserablie affllicted from tyme to time first vnder the Egiptiās after by the Philistines Cananites Pheresites c. then by the Babilonians Assirians Medes Persians Sirians and Romanes both subdued conquest and led awaye captyues And last of all by the turke and the pope the .ii. hornes of Antichrist the true church of christ hath been mostcruelly persecuted vnto death with prison famine water fier fagot and sworde these .vii. or viii yeares last past Which Turke Pope although they be mortall enemies the one to the other yet as Herode Pilate the Bishops Scribes Pharisees although they were vtter foes ech to other conspired agaīst iunocent Christ causeles condemning him to death on the crosse In lyke maner I say the Pope and the Turke do fully agree in this one poynt to persecute and murther Christ in hys faythfull members For as the sonne can not be withoute hys brightnesse nor the fier without his heat so cannot the true churche of God be long without the crosse of persecucyon as witnesseth S. Paule al they that wil liue godly in Iesus Chryste shal suffer persecucion And our sauiour Christ sayeth plainly that his kingdome is not of this world For if they persecute me sayeth he they shal also persecute you Chryste geueth not to his Apostles earthlye peace in this world but peace and quietnesse of conscience ioyned with persecucion For if the wicked persecuted Christ himselfe shal they not also persecute hys seruauntes And if they so handeled Christ being the liuely tre● what thinke you shall they doe to vs his withred braūches And as the true churche of Chryste can neuer be long wythout persecution in lyke maner can the false churche of Sathan and Antichriste neuer ceasse from persecutynge as it appeareth throughe oute the Historyes of the whole byble Of the tyrannye and crueltye of Antichrist in persecutyng of Chrystes true church prophesied Daniel lōg before speaking of the Empire and regiment of Rome The .4 beast saith he shalbe the .iiii. kyngdome whyche shal be greater then all other kyngdomes it shall deuoure treade downe and destroye all other landes he shal speake wordes agaynst the higheste of all ▪ he shal destroye the sainctes of the moste highest and thinke that he can chaūge tymes and lawes agayne he saieth of Antiochus which was a figure of Antichrist there shall aryse a king vn shamfast of face he shalbe wise in dark speakyng he shalbe mightie and strōg but not in his own strēgth he shal destroye aboue measure and all that he goeth aboute shall prosper in hys hande his hearte shall be proude he shal slaye the stronge and holy people and through his craftines falseheade shall prosper in his hande and manye one shall he put to death in his weal thynes he shall stande vp agaynst the Prince of Princes but he shalbe slain without hande Of the tyrannye and prosperous successe of antichrist in slaying of the sayuctes of god and the rewarde of them that bee slaine for the witnes of gods trueth speaketh also sainct Iohn in the .vi. Chapter of his Apocalips vnder the openyng of the iiii and .v. seales and in the .xvii. chapter he lyuely setteth foorth the Pope in his own colours vnder the person of the whore of Babilon being dronken with the bloud of saynctes pointyng as it were with his finger who thys whore of Babilon is and the place wher she shal reigne saying the woman whiche thou sawest is that greate citie which reigneth ouer the kyngs of the earth Now what other citie reigned at that tyme or at any tyme since vnder the Christian kings of the earth but only Rome Wherof it foloweth Rome to bee the seate of Antichrist and the Pope to be verye Antichrist himselfe I could proue the same by many other scriptures olde wryters strong reasons But for as muche as Rodulphe Gualter hath writtē herof a notable worke in Latē now of Laten translated into Englishe by I. O. I remit the reader to his boke wherin he may be fully satisfied herof Of the prosperite and securite that the false churche hath in worldlye pleasures vsynge the same with al gredines voluptuousnes of carnal lustes with the wicked deuices of tiranny against Christ and his true members wherwith the vngodly daily persecute and murther gods electe for his trueth wyth the rewarde also of them that suffer for the same truth sake it is most playnly wrytten in the ii and .iii. Chapters of the booke of wisdome By these scriptures now rehersed it appeareth most plainly that worldly prosperite of the Pope and his clargy proue not the trueth of their doctryne nor yet persecutyon of Goddes true preachers and other faythfull people argueth their doctrine to bee false But if thou wilt nedes knowe where the true churche of Chryst is where the false and not be deceyued herin take this for a plaine and ful answer that wheresoeuer the worde of god is truly preached without addiciō of mans doctrines and tradiciōs and the sacramentes duly ministred according to Christs institucion ther