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A01880 How superior powers oght to be obeyd of their subiects and wherin they may lawfully by Gods Worde be disobeyed and resisted. Wherin also is declared the cause of all this present miserie in England, and the onely way to remedy the same. By Christopher Goodman. Goodman, Christopher, 1520?-1603. 1558 (1558) STC 12020; ESTC S103263 98,447 240

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so muche as one man to stande vpon Christes parte with the Apostels but cōsented and agreed with one accorde that in the Name of Christe they shulde preache no more to the people Onelie this I woulde put you in remembrance of before we proceade anie further how vayne and vncertayne the doctrine of the blasphemous Papistes is whiche is grounded vpon no other foundation then vpon the auctoritie of their Churche their Councils and decrees of men And here in dare I make the papistes them selues iudges whither their Churche be of more auctoritie or antiquite then was the Churche of the Iewes whiche was the first of all ād auctorised by God immediatlie Or whither their Concils at the appoyntment of the Romishe Antichriste were more orderlie called and assembled then was this Concil holden at Ierusalem by the appoyntmēt of the Chief priest and Bishopp As for their Churche the Iewes had the manifeste worde and promesse of God· yea there was no other Churche then visible vpon the earthe besides that whiche the Apostels then began to buylde vpon the true coner-stone Iesus Christe where as the papistes haue not so muche as one worde or promesse to proue that they are as they impudentlie bragge the Churche of God but manie rather moste playnlie prouinge them to be the verie Synagoge of Satan and liuelie members of Antichriste Yf then this whiche seemed the true Churche of God ād auctorised by him so shamefullie erred maruel it is that the papisticall Synagoge and members of Satan shuld be founde establishers of the veritie which alwayes since they haue bene raysed vp from hell haue soght nothing but the vtter subuersion therof Nether can they defende them selues by anie auctoritie to assemble or by anie learninge or outwarde shewe of holynesse seīg in none of these poyntes they may be compared to this assemble wher of S. Luke maketh mētion For here was the highe Prieste Annas here was Caiaphas here were the temporal Magistrates the gouuerners of the Temple the Seniors of Ierusalem the learned Scribes and Pharisies And what coulde anie man wishe fore in the iudgment of man that there was not to make a lawfull Concil And yet thou seest the counclusion was agaynst the Lorde ād his anoynted Sōne Wilt thou then hope for anie better at the papistes assembles and Concils who in persecuting Christe continuallie and his holie worde shewe them selues open enemies to bothe Doest thou here beholde the Iewes whiche professed the true liuinge God without all apishe maumetrie and Idolls forbidden in their Lawe neuerthelesse malitiouslie to consulte agaynste their true Messias and will not yet cease to credit the papistes sayng That their Churches and Concils can not erre where as they dishonor the liuinge Lorde hauing their Temples replenished with all kinde of idolatrie yea when their owne consciences do condemne them that there was neuer the like impietie committed in all Israel as their filthie Concils haue taught and commended But thou wilt say perchaunce that there is no cōparison betwixt the Iewes playnelie denying Christ and the papistes whiche do confesse him and therupon wilt conclude that the papistical Concils may not so easilie erre as those whiche were holdē of the Iewes at Ierusalem againste the Apostels and their doctrine As concerninge their Concils I may not answere now for that were an infinite worke to repeate all their absurdities Yf any mā wolde but once reade them ouer he sholde nede no other persuasion to abhorre them and to cōfesse this my saying most true in all the Concils holden by the Romishe Antichriste But to cōpare them with the Iewes in denying of Christe thou shalt proue them more blasphemous For the Iewes after a sorte did cōfesse their Christ and Messias in wayting for him dayly to delyuer them and saue them from the miserie wherin they were and now are ād from al their enimies accordinge as God promised but when they wolde not acknolledge him whom their fathers did persecute and crucifie and whom the Apostels taught to be risen and ascended they playnlie denied Christe They beleued that he shulde be their Captayne and delyuerer but after an other sorte then by his deathe and passion and to an other ende then to suffer in this worlde the shame of the Crosse Euenso do the papistes confesse Christe but in effecte withe the Iewes deny him They confesse Christe whiche is come in the fleshe borne of the virgin Marie crucified for the synnes of the worlde c. Whiche all hitherunto is wel and agreethe with vs. But for as muche as they are not with him contented but wil haue an other Christe besides him they are manifest deniers of Christe For as writethe the Apostel There is but one God one Mediator betwixt God and man the man Iesus Christe whiche gaue him selfe to be the redemption for all Now when the papistes beleue not onlie in this Christe and Sauiour which came in the fleshe and was borne of the virgine but also in that Christe whom they imagine to come and to be in the worlde in the forme of bread and borne aboute with the handes of man not able to go him selfe when they beleue not onelie vpon Christe crucified and hanged vpon the Crosse but in the coniured Idoll hanging by a corde ouer the alter not onlie in Christe glorified vpon the right hande of the father who liuethe and reignethe for euer but in their rownde cake which they say is consecrated when with out sense and feeling it lieth closed in their box subiecte to mowleinge wormes and corruption reserued kept to be worshipped as their God but to their condemnation for euer More ouer when they haue other aduocates then Christe other sacrifices for synne other merites and means of saluation it helpethe them no more to proue that they are Christians thus impudentlie denying him and his office then it helpeth the Iewes in saying they beleue in the true Messias to come which is all readie come and reueled to the world Ye so muche the more is their condemnation for that vnder the Name of Christe whom they dare not deny they worke preuie treason agaynste him to subuerte the truethe of his Gospel and whole fruite of his death and passion which is our redemption from death and hope of euerlasting life purchased by that perfecte oblation which was offred once for all as a sufficient sacrifice for the synnes of the the whole worlde CHAP. III. ¶ What inconuenience had commē to the Churche of God if the Apostels had ob●yed the commandement of the Concil and what euills haue commen lately vpon England through the preaching of vnlawful obediēce and yelding to vngodly Rulers LEt vs leaue the vngodlie papistes with their wicked decrees and Concils as mē that passe the Iewes in all maner of wilful stubbernesse and cruel persecution of the trueth as the horrible slaghter of thousandes of martyrs which with in these
Father speakinge frō the heauens This is my dearely beloued Sonne in whom I am delited heare him whose fidelitie also no lesse passed the faithfullnesse of Moyses then did his honor and dignitie being the Sonne of God and promysed Sauiour doing nothing at all nor teaching any thing which his heuenly Father had not appoynted him to do and to teache Wherfore as the Iewes had the Lawe of God and his commandementes for a sufficient discharge agaynst all contrarie commandementes of what auctoritie so euer they were being no farther bownde to any creature thē the self same Lawes of God approued euenso all such as beare the Name of Christ and woulde be taken for the people of God thoghe they be of the basest ād loweste state of subiectes are no farther bownd to any Prince or superior power nor to their commandementes then the cōmandement of the chief kinge ād Lorde doth approue ād permitte nor then their promesse agayne to him doth require Nether may it be a sufficiēt discharge for thee to alleadge ignorāce because thou art a subiecte and therfore hast nothing to do to inquire of the doinges or to examyne the commandementes of thy superiors or Rulers but wilt say with the multitude If they commāde well thou art obedient if otherwise thou art excused in doing as thou art cōmanded and they onely haue to answer to God by whō thou art thus charged Desceaue not thy self deare brother For aswell art thou charged by Gods worde to knowe what they commande thee and not to do it except it be lawfull as they are charged by their office to will nothīg of thee which Gods worde approueth not For as they in commanding ād doing euill shall not escape Gods heauy wrathe and iudgmētes no more shalt thou being made an instrument of their impietie and vngodlynesse Therfore to be ignorant in these thinges althogh thou be a subiecte is to contemne the commandement of God and to neglecte thine owne saluation for as muche as God hath charged thee beinge one of his people with the same Lawes the Ceremonies except wherwithe he charged his people Israel before and willith thee no lesse to knowe his preceptes and to obeye them then he willed the Isralites Of them he required to haue his Lawes wrytē vpon their dores and postes to instructe their children in the same to talke of them sitting at home and when they walked in the waye when they went to bed and whē they shuld rise But to thee besides all this God hath sent a more shining light our Sauiour Iesus Christe which euery man may clerely beholde excepte he be wilfully blynde with the stubberne Iewes He is the light that shinethe in darknesse and lightneth euery man that commeth in to this worlde He hathe taken away the shaddoues ād Ceremōies of the Lawe that thou mayst clerely beholde the will of his Father He hath vncouered Moyses face to the-intent thou mayst fully consider the secrets of God For these are the dayes wherof the Prophet Ioel spake when all shulde be Prophets and see visiōs And it shal come to passe in the latter dayes saith God that I wil powre furth my Spirite vpō all fleshe ād your sonnes ād daughters shall prophecie your younge men shall see visions and your auntients shall dreame dreames And moreouer vpon my seruauntes and handemaydes in those dayes will I powre my Spirite and they shall prophecie Which prophecie S. Peter affirmeth to be fulfilled in the kingdome of Christe where all thinges are as playne and euident to all sortes of men and women which professe Christe vnfaynedly as before his tyme they were to the Prophets them selues or to such as God appeared vnto in dreames or visions And therfore if ignorance of Gods Lawes coulde not excuse the Iewes before Christes commyng which were contynualy subiecte to the punishment of God for their transgressions thoghe many thinges were obscure as in shadowes and figures how muche lesse cā it excuse any mā now in so great lyght of the Gospel Seing then thou knowest thy self bownd to obeye thy Lorde God aboue all others because of the inestimable benefits thou hast receaued of him in Christe Iesus and because he requireth the same of thee and thou hast also promised no lesse to him in thy baptisme and profession and last of all in that thou canest not pretende ignorance in such knowledge ▪ and shyninge brightnesse nor yet escape Gods vengeance which he with out respecte of persones wil powre indifferently vpon all transgressors be they superior powers or inferior subiectes It is thy parte then beīg a subiecte to learne this lesson of the Apostles whē so euer thou shuldest be constrayned by commandement or force of tyrantes to do euill That God must be obeyed before man Which vnto thee will be as sufficiēt a defence and buckler in all assaultes and daungers as it is to all other sortes of men in auctoritie and office as was before declared Art thow then being a subiecte commaūded to worshipp stockes and stones which this day to our shame are erected agayne in Englande Beholde thou hast Gods commandement for thy defence Thou shalt commit no idolatrie nor make to thy self any grauen image c. Art thou charged to be at the idolatrous Masse wherin Christe thy Lorde is blasphemed Beholde he hath geuen thee an other charge that is to celebrate his Supper according as he left in example sayng Do you this that is which ye se me do ād not which the powers of the worlde or the pestilēt papistes commande Also do it saith Christe in remembrance of me and not of your frindes alyue or departed as teache the Papistes For none of thē died for you More ouer do it to shewe forth the deathe of Christe til his coming as witnesseth the Apostle and not to make a new sacrifice for synne as the Papists blasphemously both teache and preache Art thou commanded by men to dishonour the Sabbathe day in worshipping of Sainctes and abstayning vpon their dayes and euens from thy lawfull busines Beholde God thy Lorde chargeth thee no further then onely with his daye of reste saying See thou keepe holie the Sabbath of the Lorde thy God and not of Peter Paule Marie Iames or Iohn Art thou commāded to sweare in the name of Marie and all the Saincts in heauen which is the papistical othe Beholde the Lorde saithe Thow shalt onely sweare in the Name of thy Lorde and God Art thou commanded not onely to take the Name of the Lorde in vayne but also to forswere thy self moste shamefully agaynst Gods glorious Maiestie and the honor of our Sauiour Christe as all they haue done which lately haue sworne to acknowledge Antichriste the bloudy butcher of Rome to be their head and gouernour Beholde The Lorde will not suffer his house vnpunished that taketh his Name in vayne muche lesse such periured and forsworen wretches