pag. 19. b. Peter Lombarde The Retractation of August There was no disagreement amoÌ„gest the Lutherans Coelest Anabap. Interem Math. 25. Osorius his ignoraunce in iudgement and triflyng about words Luce. 7. Cicero pro Mar. Coelio Osori fol. 24. August Epist 19 Osorius his vanitie také tardy Iero. ad Marcel in Epist. cuius initium est Mensur charit non habet Chrisost. in 1. in 3. Concione de Lazaro Of the suppression of Monkes Luce. 3 Luther vntruly charged with vprores in Germany George Duke of Saxone 1. Kyngs 18 Luke 18 Luther charged with the ouerthrow of the Hungarians most vntruly Tomorraeus Archb. of Tholosse Paulus Iouius in his 23 booke of Histories Osorius slauÌ„der touchyng the death of kyng Edward the sixt Of the ouerthrow of the Emperour Osor. slauÌ„derous lye touchyng the poysonyng of Queene Mary The death of Queene Mary The death of Cardinal Poole The foreine mariage of Queene Mary Osorius doth accuse Fraunce of highe treason Thraso The most miserable murthering of Henry the Scottish kyng Erasmus his commendable report of Luther The death of Luther which was most holy sinisterly depraued by the malicious slauÌ„derers In the Epistle to the Queene pag. 11. In myne aunswere pag. 8. Deut. 18. Math. 3. Iam. 4. Iohn 3. Deut. 4. Psal. 27 Psal. 25. Psal. 119 Exod. 3. Esai 53. Iaco. 1. Act. 20. Ad Galat. 1 Aristarchus was a great quareller Osorius a Proctour for monkes 1. Cor. 12. Ephes. 4. Act 10. and 11. Math. vlti Cicero in his booke of dueties Aristotle in his Ethickes Leuit. 21. Leuit. 19. 20.26 Deut. 27. Math. 28. Math. 5. 1. Cor. 7. Legenda Aurea Rom. 3. Rom 2. Iohn 4. Galat. 2.3 Osor. Fable of an hypocriticall Monckes Of the vowes of widowes 1. Cor. 7. Luke 19. Osorius fol. 37. Hoc tantum munus c. 1. Cor. 7. Gal. 2. Luthers Mariage reproued Gene. 1. Pope Gregory the 7. Hildebrand by name was the first that did establishe single lyfe by Decree Of Images The Images of Cherubins The brasen Serpent Exod. 20. Deut. 5. Ezechias Exod. 32. Sence in Hercul fur The Papistes are taken tardy in committyng manifest Idolatry Of the Images of the Crosse. 2. Tim. 3. Thomas of Canterbury Of Schoole Diuinitie The second CouÌ„cell of Nice Osori fol. 47. In myne answere to Osor. Epist. Luke 4. The last chap. of the Apocal. 1. Timo. Exod. 1â— Iohn 4. Hyperbole is called an excessiue vehemency of speach Whereunto the Apologie of Haddon had especiall regard Exod. 32. Rom. 9. Rom. 6. How we ought to esteeme of the Sacramentes Ex opere operat Rom. 4. Rom. 10. Sacraments are tokens of saluatioÌ„ but do not worke saluation 1. Cor. 1. ConfessioÌ„ Sacrament of the Altar Two Sacramentes Auâ—icular ConfessioÌ„ Heb. 9.10 Actes 2. Iames the last chap. Osorius Iames. 1. Psal. 22.30 Deut. 32. Mercenaâ—ie ConfessioÌ„ Iohn 1. Luke 17. 1. Cor. 4. Luce. 16. 1. Tim. vlt Ad Hebâ— vlt. Ezech. 33. Apoc. 21. Apoc. 3. Apoc. 1. Apoc. 5. Math. 28. Ad Cor. 4. Psal. 51. A true forme of Confession out of Dauid Publique CoÌ„fession Luce. 15. An example of priuate ConfessioÌ„ in the prodicall Sonne Heb. 4. Esay 11. 1. Tim. 3 The place of Esay wrongfully wrested by Osorius Luke 10. Esay 11. The place of Esay explaned Of the Sacrament of Euchariste Osori Tullyes couÌ„tersaite Cicero de natura Deoâ—um Actes 1. Hebr. 1. Osori Prolopopoâ—ia agaynst Peter Martyr The aunswere of Peter Martyr agaynst the Prolopopoâ—ia of Osorius 1. Cor. 11. 1. Cor. 11. 1. Cor. 10. Actes 1. Iohn 6. Iohn 6. Iohn 6. August de doct christi Tertullian What tyme TransubstaÌ„tiation was brought in first A shew of Osorius pride Cyprian Actes 2. Actes 20. The confutatioÌ„ of the Transubstantiation Pope Innocentius the thyrd 1. Cor. 14. Of vnknoweÌ„ and straunge tounges in Churches Ibidem Gallat 4. Phil. 3. Luke 11. Math. 33. Osori fol. 69. 1. Cor. 14. 1. Cor. 14. Luke 3. 1. Cor. 14. Iohn 21. Luce. 4. 2. Timo. 3. The knowledge of Scriptures ignoraunce accordyng tâ— Osoriuâ— Iohn 4. Iames. 1. Peter 1. Psal. 12.19 1. Peter 1. Of Christ being a king and a Byshop 1. Pet. 2. A kyngly power Rom. 13. 1. Tim. 2. To the Hebrues euery where A shewe of Osorius slaunderous speach The bookes of Osorius De Iustitia Cardinall Pooles iudgement of Osorius bookes of Iustitia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hee hath sayd Gregor lib. â— Epist. â—0 24. lib. 7. Epist 3â— lib. 4. Epist. 34. 38. 36. c. To be conueniently distaunt Dominari Rom. 14. A miserable distinction of Osorius How far in what causes kynges doe beane rule 1. Timo. 2. Peter 1.2 Ilâ—â—ne Illi False Latin in Osorius puttyng Illi for Illos Ofori rayling agaynst our Bishops of England 1. Timo. 3. Thersites a notable brauler Homer in Iliad Out of the bookes of the Kynges and Paralipom The courtes of Princes subiect to flatterers The Popes Parasites Kyng Henry the viij Sueto in the lyfe of Nero. Rom. 13. Rom. 13. Math. 17. â—uce 20. Wherein the office of a kyng consisteth Numb 16. Distinct. 22. Cap. Omnes Decrees ful of blasphemie The Popes power Martin Bucer Peter Martyr The Idoll of Rome The bookes of Osorius de Iustitia Tenne Cardinall Poole his iudgement of Osorius his bookes This worde Osor. signifieth bolde in the Portingall toung Ascham StaÌ„meryng of â—he touÌ„g turned vpoÌ„ Osorius necke Of the cause of Iustification Psal. 13. Psal. 50. Rom. 13. Rom. 11. Math. 11. Gallat 3. 1. Iohn 1. 1. Peter 1. Apoc. 1. 1. Cor. 1. Rom. 7. Rom. 8. Luke 5. Rom. 10. Rom. 8. Rom. 13. Plinius lib. 35. cap. 10. That is to say coÌ„myng out of the Sea The decease of M. Haddon Osoria melancholycke brauler The summe of all Osorius worke briefly coÌ„prehended in three wordes Exclamatâ—oÌ„ of Osorius agaynst Luther Osorius pag. 141. The doctrine of desperation whether is it more proper to the Papistes or to the Lutherans Iohn Eckius with others Henry second FreÌ„ch kyng his death The affiaunce and assurauÌ„ce of saluation wherein is it to be placed Two kyndâ— of desperation The ende and office of the law The lawe vnprofitable to saluation A wholesome kynde of trust and mistrust Osori pag. 141. The trust of saluatioÌ„ depeÌ„deth vpoÌ„ promise not vpoÌ„ the Law Ergo the more assured Promise made before the Law and without the law Galat. 3. The promise of saluation free and simple without condition Fayth onely howe it doth exclude and not exclude good workes Tertull. Actc. 24. Christian peace and affiaunce Rom. 5. Ephes. 3. Hebr. 4. Iohn 16. Galat. 4. Esay 35. Esay 61. Esay 52. Ierem. 23. 32. Ezech. 39. Rom. 4. The righteousnesse of the law and of fayth Leuit. 18. Psal. 142. The affiaunce of workes Barnard How farre the workes of the lawe come short to true righteousnesse Augustine Aug. Confes Lib. 9. Cap. â—3 Gregor in Iob. Cap. 9 Gregor Com. Cap 11. Barnardu Osorius Pag. 142. Phillipica August Epist 105. pag.
in discipline You accuse him also as a rayler agaynst Princes amongest whom you name the Emperour our famous Henry of worthy memory and George Duke of Saxone You do helye him in Caesar impudeÌ„tly for Luther did reuerence him most humbly In deéde he did mainteine the cause of the Gospell agaynst our kyng and somewhat sharpely confuted his Epistle written agaynst him at the first whom afterward beyng amended and reformed in doctrine hee embraced most louyngly and aduaunced with all kynde of honorable title LoÌ„g tyme he instructed George Duke of Saxone with most sweéte aduertisementes perswaded him called vpon hym with incessaunt prayers and Supplications But after the Duke had hard harted him selfe and waxed insolently obstinate in all thynges nor would make any ende of spoyling and turmoyling Gods people Lurther beholdyng the lamentable ruine of his Christian brethren round about him did bitterly inueighe agaynst that trayterous outrage of Duke George induced thereunto by the example of the holy Prophets agaynst the Princes of Iuda â— and of Iesu Christ our Sauior agaynst Herode the Tetrarche At the last you conclude That all Luthers preachyngs did tende to prouoke the people to sedition O shamelesse touÌ„g How would you delude vs if no man had read Luthers bookes but your selfe how would you abuse our age in heapyng lyes vpon lyes if we had no witnesse agaynst you when as Luther left behynde him as many pledges of Christian humilitie as he wrote bookes No man more constantly mainteined the authoritie of Magistrates no maÌ„ did more often inculcate more plentyfully preach more vehemently Imprinte more earnestly exact Christian obedience then he did His writyngs are extaunt liuely and florishyng and will with a whole searyng yron of detractioÌ„ marke you for a backbiter to your euerlasting reproch That was a great and manifest errour that I made but here ensueth a greater farre more horrible agaynst renowmed Princes notable common weales yea in matters of high treason by the which as by degreés this reuerend Prelase aduaunceth his shamelesse and execrable vanitie so much that all men may iudge him not onely to haue forgotten all truth and modestie but also vtterly abandoned the same This matter hee affirmeth to be most apparaunt that Lewes kyng of Hungarie and a great multitude of Christians were slayne in battell through the folly and wickednes of Luther and that hereof ensued the Conquest of Buda by the Turkishe Emperour O venemous toung to bee detested of all men that haue any loue of the truth or regard of humanitie Can you doubt or be ignoraunt of this most peruerse dissembler that this lamentable death of the king and the losse of Buda came by the onely outragious vnmeasurable rashnes of that cowled prelate Tomorraeus Archb. of Tholosse Which had so bewitched the people with hautie arrogaunt preachyng that they rushed out headlong with a small and weake handfull agaynst an huge hoste and inuincible power of Solyman in so much that after the Conquest Solyman him selfe could not keépe countaunce but smilingly scorned the insolencie of the Hungarians which had so vnaduisedly yelded into his hands their kyng to be slayne their kyngdome to be spoyled Is not this true do ye not know it perfectly Doth not Paulus Iouius your chief a counsell report this story parcell meale yea euery title therof was euer any man besides you so franticke as to charge Luther therewith The place it selfe doth conuince you wherein at that tyme scarse any Lutheran had set any footyng The tyme doth confute you for Luthers name was as yet scarsely knowen The circumstaunces of the History doe condemne you whiche doe cry out agaynst that Monkishe Archbyshop of Tholosse for that pityfull losse lamentable effusion of Christian bloud as I haue declared before out of Paulus Iouius But it is no maruell if hee can so franckely coyne a lye agaynst a Region so farre distant from vs when as hee spareth not to presse vpon vs Englishmen here in English with a most exectable lye For hee affirmeth that Edward the sixt our Royall kyng of famous memory was haynously poysoned in his Childhode O monstruous beast can you beyng a Portingall borne so impudently diffame our Region with the horrible crime without all likely or probable proofe now that sweÌ„tie yeares he spent and gone when as no sober or discreét English man did euer conceaue any such thought in his mynde The Phisitians reported that he dyed of a consumption The same was affirmed by the Groomes of his priuy Chamber whiche did keépe coÌ„tinuall watch with the sicke kyng All his subiectes did beleue it for a confessed truth Neither could your slaunderous Fable haue bene blowen abroad but amongest tattlyng women foolishe children and such malicious English loselles like vnto you nor yet could this rotten vnfauorie cauill haue had any discreét Authour had it not bene whispered into that Asse head of Osorius He coupleth hereunto Caesar who he saith was betrayed and destroyed by treason Truely Caesar did not onely pursue but also vanquishe the Germaines chasing them in Germanie with a great army of Spanish and Italian souldiours The which ouerthrow the Germaines shooke of as well as they might But the last warres raysed by Maurice what they purported and what successe they tooke I will passe ouer nor will blame in the dead whom I confesse a victorious Emperour when hee lyued He ioyneth Queene Mary a Princesse that raigned very lately and her also auoweth to haue bene destroyed with poyson Who euer beleéued or reported this but you railyng Scorpion All the English Nation and all other StrauÌ„gers that were then in England will manifestly reproue condemne this your malicious and shamelesse impudencie There raunged at that tyme a certeine outragious burnyng feauer which infected all the estates in the Realme and amoÌ„gest the rest shortned the liues of the richest and most honorable personages at what tyme Queéne Mary in many things most commendable after a few monethes dyed of the same disease In like maner Cardinall Poole an excellent learned maÌ„ beyng sicke of a quartan departed this world the same tyme. You demaunde of meâ—ery malaâ—ertly as if the matter were manifest and confessed whether I vnderstode any thyng of that conspiracie wherewith most wicked men practized the destruction of Queene Mary and Cardinall Poole Ueryly I do simply confesse that there was neuer any such matter spoken writteÌ„ fayned or surmised vnlesse by some such madde dogges as your selfe which hauyng els nothyng to snarle at do barcke and houle at the cloudes moone and starres and many tymes at their owne shadowes You tell vs a tale of some flying vapours and drousie dreames Osorius imagined in that rotten mazer of yours when you clatter out such matters whereof neither I or any man els euer heard or could heare one word except he might chaunceably light vpoÌ„ some Synon of Osorius trayning that could with most
reposed in them the Apostles meanyng was to aduertize them that they should ascribe true righteousnes to those outward Ceremonies shadowes and cleansinges What a iest is this as though the Iewes did settle their cōfidence in the Ceremonies onely and did not much more rather glory in their Race in their Parentage in their worshippyng and callyng vpon God in their Prophetes in Gods promises in the deédes and workes of holynes Furthermore whereas this Epistle was not written to the Iewes but to the Romaines what aunswere will Osorius make here Were the Romaines also instructed to the obseruation of those Ceremonies or did they rest so much vpon them that it behooued the Apostle of necessitie to forewarne them in his letters written vnto them But what better weapon shall I vse in this conflict agaynst Osorius then one taken out of his owne armory for thus he speaketh If the Apostle had first praysed the Iewes for their vertues and good deedes and afterwardes had sayd that those vertues and good deedes were of no valew towardes the purchasing of righteousnes and then at last had concluded that they could not haue bene Iustified through the workes of the lawe then the matter had bene cleare that Paule had not excluded the Ceremoniall law onely but the Morall law also frō righteousnes Marke well gentle Reader and note aduizedly what hee speaketh If Paul had first praysed the workes of the Iewes afterwardes had derogated Iustification from these workes c. Uery well and what if out of the same Nation I doe name some men whose singular integritie of lyfe and study of righteousnesse Paule could by no meanes reproue yea whose godly endeuour vpright dealyng procured them no droppe of righteousnes notwithstandyng what will this Sophister say then And first of all let vs behold the workes of that most holy Patriarche Abraham who for his inestimable godlynesse can neuer be condignely enough commended of any of vs. And yet will ye heare Osorius the testimonie of the Apostle touchyng the same Patriarche What shall we say sayth hee that our Father Abraham did finde accordyng to the flesh For if Abraham were Iustified through workes he hath wherein he may glory but not in the sight of God Rom. 4. What then did he not obteine of God to bee called righteous Yes veryly but let vs seé by what meanes not through workes sayth the Apostle but by the commendation of his fayth which onely maketh vs appeare worthy in the sight of God For Abraham beleued God and it was Imputed vnto him for righteousnesse It is manifest therefore that he was accoumpted righteous but by what meanes forsooth not simply nor in respect of his workes but by way of Imputation onely Now what soeuer commeth of Imputation proceédeth from meére mercy of him that Imputeth and is not geuen in reward after the proportion of duetie or of dette For no man Imputeth that to an other that is duely owyng vnto him Now let vs here the testimonies of the Scriptures cōcernyng that whiche was Imputed Not bycause hee did the thynges which he was commaunded albeit he did many thynges wonderfully well but bycause he beleued God this was sayd to be Imputed vnto him for righteousnesse And why was not righteousnesse imputed vnto him aswell in those respectes bycause he did sacrifice vnto God Bycause he forsooke his natiue countrey Bycause hee offred his onely sonne to be slayne Neither doth the Apostle ouerskippe or conceale those causes especially bycause that he which was the Parente of the Posteritie the same also should be the Authour of the doctrine For why this was written sayth Paule videl That it was Imputed vnto him for righteousnesse not for his sake onely but for vs also to whom it shall likewise bee Imputed that beleue in him which raysed our Lord Iesus from death to life c. Rome 4. And thus much concerning Abrahā who though alone may suffice in place of all others so that we neéde none other example yet let vs ioyne to this holy Patriarche as holy a Kyng Dauid with Abraham both beyng deare vnto God both equally endued with like excellent ornamētes of godlynesse and vertue Whereof the one as he had nothyng whereupon to glory before God so the other did so disclayme altogether from righteousnesse that he besought nothyng more carefully of God in his prayers Then that hee would not enter into Iudgement with his seruaunt And rendreth a Reason of his most earnest prayer Bycause all flesh shall not be Iustified in thy sight And what other thyng is meant by this then that which Paule affirmeth in the selfe same wordes almost That no man is Iustified by the workes of the law Goe to then And where are now those wonderfull fruites of workes Where is that glorious shewe of righteousnesse Finally where shall Osorius him selfe appeare with all his cleannes good disposition temperaunce of mynde singular humanitie lenitie patience chastitie vnfayned charitie and with that absolute huge Chaos of bountyfull vertues so vnseparably vnited and linked together as it were chayned fast with yron ropes When as Dauid so great a Kyng and Prophet a most choyse vessell accordyng to Gods owne hart dare not presume to offer him selfe to Iudgement when as Iob a man commended of God for his singlenesse of hart and approued holynesse beyng asked a question of God durst not aunswere one word It will not be Impertinēt to the matter if we speake somewhat here of Paule him selfe Whose conuersation whiche he led vnblameable beyng as yet a Pharisie Tertullus him selfe could not charge with any fault The same beyng afterwardes engraffed into Christ liued in that vprightenesse of conscience that Osorius cā not iustly reprehende him as worthy of crime And yet all those so great and so many ornaments of holynesse did so nothyng auayle him to righteousnesse that hee him selfe accompted them for drosse Wherefore consider here with me Christian Reader a good felowshyp how much difference is betwixt Osorius and Paule where as the same workes whiche Osorius doth with so glorious pompe of eloquēt wordes garnishe so gorgiously Paule in playne termes doth compare thē to durtie drosse and filthy dounge whereby he may be found in Christ not to haue any his owne righteousnesse by the operatiō of the law but that onely righteousnesse grounded vpon fayth which is through the fayth of Christ. c. Cornelius of whom mention is made in the Actes of the Apostles was a holy man and feared God together which his whole houshold dealyng much almes to the poore and makyng continuall intercessions to almighty God This was a great and glorious commendation truely of excellent godlynesse which no sensible mā would say ought to be referred to the Ceremoniall law but to the Morall law rather And yet the selfe same Cornelius beyng neuer so notable for his commendable bertues vnlesse by the aduertizement of the Aungell had sent for Peter
this condition that the Consuls should not be first admitted to beare rule before they should prostrate them selues at the popes feéte and sweare faythfully to become bonnaire and buxome to the Pope and the Church of Rome Blond 6. booke In the yeare 1182. albeit the first begynnyng and entring of Lucius 3. into the Popedome was somewhat cleare from sedition yet within a whiles after him selfe did minister cause of great Tumultes bycause he practized to roote out the honorable name of Consuls out of the Citie of Rome not much degenerating from Lucius was for his troublesome head called Turbulentus But bycause this place doth minister oportunitie to treate of sectes and schismes why do we protract any more tyme For if a sect be defined truly to be any opinion whatsoeuer oppugneth the naturall meanyng of the Gospell how great a champion of sectes may Pope Innocenâ—ius the 3. of that name be called I meane that Innocentius the most detestable enemy of the true Gospell aboue all other who in the yeare 1215. in the CouÌ„cell of Laterane sowed the feédes of all the broyles and troubles almost in the Church wherewith the whole Christian Nation is molested at this day Whenas first he established the heresie of Transubstantiation he yoaked Christians to auricular Confession commauÌ„ded that Remission of Sinnes should be receaued none otherwise but at the deliuerie of a Priest spoyled the lay people of the one part of the Sacrament was the first deuisor of this Tyrannicall persecution by fire namely of all such as durst but once quacke against that Catholicke Seé of Rome This is that Innocent Pope who was the very authour of all the bloudshed and calamities in the Church which hath doth consume the Protestaunts and Papistes at this day Not much vnlike vnto this monster were his next successors Honorius 3. Innocentius 4. Gregorius 9 most rebellious traytors agaynst the Emperour Fridericke the 2. in whose tyme the order of Friers Beggers was instituted Here also commeth to memory that in the tyme of this Pope Gregory 9. of whom I made mention before and through his occasion chiefly began the schismes and factions of the Guelfianes which mainteyned the authoritie of the Pope and the Gibellynes who sought the preseruation of the state Imperiall By whiche occasion how cruell and horrible warres were arered scarse calmed in an huÌ„dred yeares afterwardes the auncient Recordes and conference of Hystories whereof you vaunt a plentyfull knowledge can manifestly declare vnto you I come now to Celestine 5. which was Byshop but halfe a yeare in the yeare 1294. whom after the first moneth of his Popedome succeéded or rather rusht lyke a ruffler into that Seé Boniface 8. who kept this Celestine in prison Platin. AEmil But by what pollicie this Pope aspired to the Popedome I would desire Osorius to tell me in his next Letters if he write any after to our Queénes Maiestie For if this Boniface did cast that Celestine into prison as he sayd not of any malice but of purpose to take away occasioÌ„ of mutine that might haue groweÌ„ by the confederates on the contrary parte touchyng the Popedome why did he not restoare him agayne then when the tumultes were pacified why did he craftely deuise his exile by a deuilish practise of the souÌ„de of certeine voyces imagined to be sent from heauen into the Chamber of the Pope Marius This Pope Boniface the botcher of the Decretalls was so maliciously enflamed against certeine Cardinalles of the houses of ColuÌ„ne Vrsine as many as remained fautors of the Gibelline factioÌ„ beyng him selfe the most factious of all others that he put to the sacke and razed to the hard earth all their mansions and Castells wheresoeuer he came This is that most holy and Angelicke Patriarch who beyng at Genua vpon an Ashewednesday threwe Ashes into the eyes of Porcherus Archbyshop of Genua without regard of reuerence either of the place of the tyme or the persons that were present speakyng after this maner Memento home quod Gibellinus es cum Sibillinis in Cinerem reuerteris That is to say Remember maÌ„ that thou art a Gibellyne and with the Sibyllines shalt returne agayne into dust At the length in the most cruell Itallian warres betwixt the Sicilians fauoryng the partes of the Arragones and Robert the Duke of Calabria whenas this pope would not seéke by his authoritie to pacifie the Timult though thereunto required sundry tymes very instantly beyng not loÌ„g after taken prisoner him selfe in an vproare and carried to Rome did pyne him selfe to death for sorrow and anguish of mynde What shall I speake of Innocentius 6. and of Gregory 11. whereof the one in the yeare 1352. did after an vnspeakeable maner of cruelty commit to flamyng fier one Iohn a Frier FraÌ„ciscane bycause he taught what would become of Antichrist and of the popes of Rome From the other diuers Cities of Italy reuolted in a seditions tumult as Volaterane recordeth what shall I say of all that other factious rable of popes succeeding in order who by meanes of certayne ciuill disturbances in the Citie of Rome forsooke the Citie and translated the Seé into Fraunce continued the Election of popes in the French Nation excludyng the Romaines 74. yeares After this maner the Court of Rome playeng as it were vpon a rollyng Stage albeit it chaunged their Seé now and then yet neuer founde any place of assured rest For it was scarse as yet returned agayne within the walles of Rome from her long and werysome exile but it was wellcomed home immediately with a new Tumult For in the yeare 1378. whenas Vrbanus 6. was by force enthronized in the Popedome by meanes of the Italians the French Cardinalles mislikyng the same did chuse an other one Robert Gilbonensis to witte Clement 7. which held his Seé likewise at Auinion The vnitie of the Romishe Seé by this meanes rent a sunder in that diuision and Schisme eche Pope did excoÌ„municate the other the variable people fauored both the popes This schisme coÌ„tinued by the space of 40. yeares Vrbanâ— to be aueÌ„ged of the Cardinalles the wronges susteined by the procuremeÌ„t of Iohn kyng of Sycile procureth woÌ„derfull vproares Charles kyng of HuÌ„gary raysed an army agaynst Ioane who fauored the clayme of Clement whom afterwardes Ludowicke duke of Angew deliuered The same pope furnished one Iohn Hachut an English man with munition men whoÌ„ Vrbanus the v. had made Generall of his Army before sent him with a bande of FloreÌ„tines to Naples agaynst the sayd Ioane of whom we made mention before and withall sounded the defiaunce agaynst Charles the Kyng of Naples bycause he would not make his nephew Prince of Campania At the length this Pope beyng straightly besieged by this Charles was priuely conueyed to Genua He kept 7. Cardinalles in fetters whereof fiue he drowned in the Riuer of Tiber beyng tumbled and knitte vp into sackes He ruled the
depose them that were Elected if they liked them not And hauing attempted this deuise sundry tymes in vayne at the last after the death of the Emperour Henry 3. they crept couertly into an occasion of colorable entraunce effectuall and plausible enough as they supposed whereunto they bente all their force endeuour imagination to the vttermost of their power Pope Benedict 1. slyly entryng into conference with some of the familiares of the foresayd Henry immediately vpon the death of Conrade his Father practized forthwith to dishinherite him from the Empire and withall to aduaunce in his place Peter Kyng of Hungary presentyng vnto him this precious Owch to set on his cappe Petra dedit Romam Petro tibi Papa coronam The Rocke gaue Rome vnto Peter and the Pope the Crowne vnto thee Henry the 3. beyng dead left behynd him a sonne named Hēry 4. a very babe tender of yeares Agaynst this young Prince was a conspiracie practized by certeine State of Saxony with whom conspired also many Byshops but chiefly aboue all the rest Gregory 7. pope of Rome The Emperour is conuented of heresie for lewdly disposing the goodes and possessions of the Church and geuyng Ecclesiasticall promotions to vnworthy personages This pretence was plausible enough The Emperour is cited to Rome to defende his cause and by the Pope adiudged to penaunce namely That renouncyng his Imperiall dignitie he should doe penaunce dayly by the space of one whole yeare at the Church doore as Peter Paule yea besides this also that barefooted and barelegged he should personally crooch and creépe to kisse the popes feéte whiles this pageaunt was playeng the meane while Rodolphe Duke of Saxon is suborned to inuade the Empire vnto whō the Diademe is sent with this Inscription Petra dedit Petro Petrus Diadema Rodolpho The Rocke gaue vnto Peter and Peter geueth the Diademe vnto Rodolph The young Emperour vnderstandyng the matter dispatcheth away into Germany Rodolphe beyng in fiue battels disconfited and put to flight whiles he laye a dyeng was presented with his right hand which he lost in the battel which when he beheld he spake to the Byshops that stoode about him after this maner This is the right hād wherewith I vowed my Fayth to the Emperour Now is the same hand become a witnes and testimony of my breach of fidelity and detestable treason against my Souereigne euen by your procurement prouocation chiefly After this when the other confederates of the same Saxon conspiracy whō the pope had inueigled to reuolt to witte Herman of Luxemburgh Ecbert Marques of Saxon Duke Otto with his sonnes Conrande and Henry the grosse Echarde sonne of Ecbert Vdo Geberde and others had suffered lyke punishmentes the Emperours good fortune alwayes preuailyng The pope surceased not his practize neuerthelesse whom sufficed not to teaze straūgers to treason vnlesse he had seduced the naturall Sonnes of the Emperour to witte Conrade the first and immediatly after his decease Henry his other Sonne agaynst the Father Wherepon ensued afterwardes horrible broyles and at the length the death of the Emperour also And yet that vnhappy conspiracy of Henry the Sonne ioyning with the Pope agaynst Henry the Father happened not happely on his side afterwardes For when Henry the Sonne did withstād the same inordinate Articles of the Byshops which his Father refused Lotharius is pricked forewardes agaynst him by new practizes of the pope euē the same Lotharius whō agaynst his Fathers will he had made Duke of Saxon before who mainteining the quarell of the pope after that he vanquished the army of Henry the 5. the Emperour now left destitute of frēdes and throughly weried out with the continuall trechery of the Byshops was constrayned to relent and yeld ouer his right The Emperours therfore beyng thus weakened and for the most part brought vnder subiectiō immediatly began to spryng vp the Absolute power and Monarchy of the pope about the yeare 1094. by the speciall practize of Hildebrand and Vrbane 2. which did forbyd that no man from thenceforth should receaue any Ecclesiasticall promotiō they call it Inuestiture of any Temporall Authoritie Whē they had accomplished this with effect they began to attempt an other matter much more waighty to witte that they to whom the Byshops did owe due obedience before should now become the popes Uassalles and stand at his courtesie For wheras the Byshops were so subiect to the Emperour hitherto that no Election of any pope could be holden legitimate if the Emperour had not ratified it And agayne whereas alwayes heretofore the lawfull authoritie of the Imperiall Succession was deriued from the Fathers to the Sonnes without any graunt allowaunce or confirmation of the pope These Sacred and holy Fathers outragiously boylyng with an inward charitable zeale to vnlade the Princes of that heauy burden of authoritie and to lay it vpon their owne shoulders what do they forsooth vnder colour of false surmise both horrible agaynst God and outragiously presumptuous agaynst men they pretende that this authoritie to erect and set vppe earthly Empires and kyngdomes and to dispose and trāspose them at their pleasure where when and to whō they listed was geuē cast vpon them frō aboue not by any terrene ordinaunce but euen by Christ him selfe and that it was now no more lawfull for any man to clymbe to the state Imperiall but at the will and lawfull Election of the Pope And hereof are many Decreés extaunt abroad shamefully forged by them and much more shamefully countenaunced and faced out The Maiestie of the Empire beyng thus brought in subiectiō and worne quite out of countenaunce the intollerable arrogancy of the Byshops grew to such outrage that not contented to haue pluckt out their owne neckes out of the colier of lawfull obedience drew also vnto them selues the Emperours interest lawfull authoritie in creatyng the Pope in enstallyng of Byshops in callyng of Councels in disposing Ecclesiasticall promotiōs finally in administryng all Ecclesiasticall matters and the Emperours them selues beyng thus made subiect vnto thē after a most execrable sort did moyle turmoyle oppresse enforcyng them not onely to sweare allegeaunce and obediēce vnto them but to prostrate them selues to kisse euen their stinkyng feéte also extollyng and magnifieng their owne absolute power and Monarchy in the meane space aboue all the kyngdomes of the earth gloriously vauntyng that the Imperiall Maiesty was seuēty tymes seuen tymes Inferiour and baser then the glory of the Popedome was alledging this similitude for a speciall Argument that as God sayd they had created two great lightes in the firmament and as the creation of heauen and earth had not two begynnynges but one begynnyng Euen so now was left nothyng for the Emperour no not in the lowest Sphere of the world wherein he might beare any preéminence but that the whole Chaos of all power generally seémed to be fast locke vp and ensealed within one
be forthwith accouÌ„ted false prophettes worthy to be slayne There be many thousand men and weomen which make many promises now theÌ„ nor doe alwayes accomplish theyr promises but do swarue ofteÌ„ fro their words break promise shall they be all accounted false Prophettes forthwith There was sometyme a Pope of Rome Iohn the xxij of that name who by his acquayntaunce with the Starres made great brags of a promised loÌ„g life who neuerthelesse dyed in the viij moneth of his Popedome Yet will you not reckon him for a false Prophette I suppose What shall we say to Pope Gregory the seuenth who hauing secretly suborned some persones to murder the Emperour himselfe in the meane time pearchyng in some pulpitte the morrow vpon Easter day did in his sermoÌ„ boldly protest before the people that if Henry the Emperour did not dye before the Feast of S. Peter next ensuing for that day had he appoynted for his Prophecy and for his treason also the people should neuer geue any more creditt vnto him nor acknowledge him for theyr Byshoppe but should driue him and banish him froÌ„ massing yea froÌ„ the Church also as a sacrilegious person But what chaunced afterwardes when as the Emperour by good fortune had escaped hys treason the Pope with a pretty shift hudled vppe the matter on this wise saying that when he spake of the death of the Emperor he did meane the death of his soule and not of his body There are diuers histories extaunt wherein may be founde that many Popes of Rome haue promised many and great matters to Emperours and Kynges very largelye and lowdely to witâ—e of the power of election of creating Byshoppes of the title of submission and many other thinges who did neuerthelesse so not accomplish that which they had ratified by publique promises and autenticke decreés as that through their treachery treason they brought all things to vtter confusion almost Pope Boniface 8. did promise to the Emperour Albert the kingdome of Fraunce by deposing of Phillippe yet did he not hold promise herein Gregory the 7. did with many large promises putt Rodolph in hope to attayne the Empyre agaynst Henry the 4. but his hope being frustrated he was not so good as his worde Pope Innocent 3. did promise to Ludowicke the French king the kyngdome of England vnder this condition that he shoulde driue King Iohn out of his kindome which notwithstanding was neyther the FreÌ„ch king able to do nor the Pope able to performe In matter so infinite what should I speake more What your selfe promised in your Baptisme Osorius what you promised also when you tooke orders of priesthoode and aâ—terwardes likewise vpon solemne protestation when you were enstalled a Byshoppe I thinke you remember What haue you performed all those promises what if some secret coÌ„tract be made betwixt you your Porting all spye here in EnglaÌ„d that whatsoeuer he may smell out either of our courtlye affayres what the Prince doth what her counsellers and courtyers do what is done in the coÌ„mon weale how English traytours with couert dissimulatioÌ„ doe persist firme in theyr oath to the Pope how the Lutheranes liue and bestow theyr tyme in what estimation the Masse is amongest Englishemen That of all these and such like he shall certify you faythfully by some true transcript and he in the meane space either huÌ„dred about some more profitable affayres do breake promise with you or do certify you vntruethes and abuse your worshippe with lyes and false reportes will you account him forthwith for a false Prophette worthy to be stoaned to death I do not thinke it And why so Because you will say that herein is great difference and oddes when as men we promise any matter to men in the person and fidelitie of men and when as we promise or foreprophecy in the name and person of God thinges to come to passe for in that one the breach of promise is deceit and lying in the other impiety and vngodlinesse in that first men onely are hurt in the other iniury is committed agaynst God And therefore if all these your accusations be bent agaynst these persons as agaynst false Prophettes Make it manifest then if you can where either Luther or any other of the abouenamed vndertaking at any tyme the person of a Prophette did prophecy of thinges that should come to passe by the appoyntment and purpose of God wherof the Lord neuer spake word If you can not Then doth not your argumeÌ„t which you haue strayned out of Moyses cleane agaynst Moyses will and altogether besides the Cusshian make any thing at all agaynst them Besides this commeth yet an other argument of the same stampe skrapte out of Ieremy agaynst those false Prophettes before contriued with no lesse subtlety then blazed abroad with vanity And the place which himselfe dayneth not to note is in the 23. chapter Marke therefore diligently with what wordes God hath taught to discerne betwixt false prophettes and true Prophets If they had persisted stedfast in my councell sayth he and had declared my wordes to my people they had surely turned my people away from their euill way and froÌ„ their wicked thoughts Out of these wordes of Ieremye Osorius writinge to the Queénes Maiesty doth frame an argument on this wise If after the arriuall of this new Gospell sayth he and this doctrine of new religion had also arriued together with the same shamefastesse integrity innocency and grauitye of lyfe and vprightnesse of manners if seuerity of life if graue behauiour and ciuility of manners and honesty had bene raysed vppe out of that darckenesse wherein it was long drowned c. I should waste much tyme to rehearse euery particuler sentence wherewith this trifling Rhetorician like an huckester of eloquence doth make a huge heape of wordes in a neédelesse long and tedious rehearsall of vertues and vyces wherein he might haue done much better in my iudgement if leauing this Childish copye of countenaunce and glorious mulplying of variety he had entred vpon the matter more brieflye playnly and more effectually The purport of his discourse was that he should haue coÌ„uinced Luther Melancthon and the professours of the same doctrine for false prophettes And to make this manifest he would vse an argument framed out of Ieremy by the signes notes and markes wh the prophet doth sette down in speciall wordes as I sayd before out of which wordes if he would haue argued he must neédes haue concluded after thys manner The Prophets which in the time of Ieremy did prophecye glad tidinges to the people if they had followed therein the councell of God they had called theÌ„ back to a Reformation of lyfe Luther doth preach to the people in the name of the Lord and yet reduceth them not to a better life Ergo Luther is a false Prophet If Osorius doe conclude his argument after this maner as he neédes must by the wordes of the Prophet
men not to the worshipping of the liuing God but to the inuocation of dead soules and adoration of Reliques not vnto fayth but vnto workes not vnto freé forgeuenesse but vnto Pardons not vnto grace but vnto workes not vnto the promises of God but to mens satisfactions not vnto heauen but vnto Purgatory which doth allure vs not to the spyrite but vnto the hungry letter to ceremonies to written Traditions and vnwritten verityes to the bare naked elemēts of this world to bodyly exercises which of theyr owne nature do prenayle litle or nothing at all If this be not the very naturall power and state of all your Religion almost confound me if you can but if you cannot with honesty denye it where is then that glorious bragg so often craked vpon of the first principles of your Traditions which how gaylye are liked and blazed abroad by you let other mē like as they list Surely I am of this opinion that there be no surer groundworkes of our Religion nor better layd then such as the Apostles and Prophettes haue established vnto the which if you will but call vs we will yelde gladly and ioyne with you But you doe meane some other principles and foūdations I suppose not such as were builded vpp by the Apostles and Prophets but such as haue bene inuented by Mounkes Fryers and Noonnes whose orders and institutions you iustify to be most holy and godly and haue determined with your selfe that all thinges which are swarued from thence ought to be called home agayne to the holynesse of these sacred orders howsoeuer some particuler Mounckes doe abuse theyr profession yet you do stoutly auerre that the first institutiō of the profession and foundation of their orders doth persist as at the first and ought not by any meanes be dissolued This is well But what if I be able to iustify the contrary to witt that the very first foundations of those Mounckeryes as they were erected by the first founders thereof be wicked damnable and to be detested of all christians Now I beseéch your syr Byshopp for the honor of your sacred Myter if any man doe direct you to any other redeémer then vnto Christ the sonne of God or will allure you to seéke for any other redemption then in the most precious blood of Iesus Christ Doe ye thinke such a fellow in any respect tolerable I do not beleue it Goe to then let vs take a view now of the originall causes and principles vpō the which were groūded the first foundations of Mounckeryes I will speake onely of our owne Mounckeries here in England as much as I know by experience When the first foundations of Mounckeries beganne to be erected in this Realme which was in the tyme of a certeyn Mounck called Austine whēas Ethelbert reigned king of kent in the yeare 605. We will declare euen out of his owne letters patentes the very cause that moued him chiefly to build an Abbay at Douer for the order of Benedictines And these be the very wordes of his owne charter I Ethelbert established in the kingdome of my father and enioying the crowne and dignity of my father by the permission of God in peacible tranquillity emōgest other churches that I haue builded by the persuatiō councell of our holy father Austen haue erected from the very foundation a Church to the most blessed Prince of the Apostles S. Peter and to S. Paule Doctour of the Gentiles and haue endeuoured to enriche the same with large Reuenewes and landes and haue caused there to be assembled Mounckes which do feare God Therefore entending to amplifie and to enlarge the same Church to the proportiō of a iust heighth being in perfect minde and sownde iudgement I haue geuen vnto the same church by the consent of Ealbalde my sonne and other my deare counsellors a Towne called Cistelett for the redemption of my soule in hope to attayne euerlasting reward for the same c. I do not accuse the well disposed king worthy of singuler prayse but I doe vtterlye condemne Austen the Mouncke that wicked counsellor and instrument of that doctrine Uerely if redemption of soules be purchased by buylding of Abbyes then dyed Christ in vayne and the promise is made voyde and of none effect finally what remayneth for vs by this reason but that weé haue as many redeémers as we haue Mouncks You haue heard of Ethelbert the father now harken likewise of Ealbalde hys Sonne I Ealbalde placed in my Fathers kyngdome followyng my Fathers steppes who of a valiaūt courage did build Churches of God at the earnest entreaty of Father Austen and enriched them with diuers dignities doe freély and willyngly geue and graunt a certein part of my kyngdome called Northburne to the behoofe of the Monckes of the Monastery of Peter Paule at Douer in the honour of almighty God and his holy Apostles and of S. Augustine for the Redemption of my Fathers soule myne owne soule and my predecessours soules c. I Ethelrede kyng of Mercia do graunt this Charter for the redemption of my soule and to be prayed for by the seruauntes of God the Moūckes of Malmesbury The same Charter was confirmed by kyng Berthewalde for the Saluation of his soule as his Letters Patētes do declare and for the Remission of the Sinnes that he hadd committed What shall I speake of the rest of Osricke kyng of Mercya of Oswy kyng of Northumberland of Whitrede Cissa kyng of Southsex Ethelrede Prince of Mercia Ina Renulphe Offa Alurede Athelstane Edgar William of Normandy Henry the first Stephen kyng Iohn and Edward by whom whereas many Monasteries haue bene erected euen from the first foundations and endowed with large possessions and reuenewes if we behold the originall Charters of the first founders we shall finde that they were erected for none other cause nor vnder any other Title but for the Redemptiō of soules for saluation of soules and to vse their owne wordes for the remedy and remission of sinnes For myne owne soule and all my predecessours soules for my fathers soule and mothers soule for the soule of my wife and all Christian soules for the Remission of sinnes for the prosperous estate of our kyngdome the subiectes of our Realme To the honour of the blessed Uirgine Mary for reward of eternall felicitie c. For all these titles are extaunt in the auncient Charters of the kinges grauntes After the same maner did Elfride wife to the Earle Ethelwolde builde an Abbay at Malmesbury for the death of her husband whereof she was her selfe a Procurour for the Remission of that wicked acte into the which afterwardes she made her selfe a perpetuall Recluse for euerlastyng penaūce Moreouer kyng Edgar which murthered the sayd Ethelwolde for the loue of his wife for satisfactiō of his offence and for the preseruation of his subiectes is reported to haue builded so many Abbayes as there be weékes in the yeare
you call them is this therefore by and by a good consequent that whatsoeuer blemish or reproche be in mens conuersations shal be forthwith imputed to the reproofe and reproche of doctrine Did holy Diuinitie teache you to argue on this wise or doth your Mistres Dame Slaunder rather teache you so to doe And thus much hitherto of your Epistle not much vnlyke hereunto are all the rest that follow in all your Inuectiues against Haddon which if any man will take the paynes to examine exactlye by the common rules and principles of Logick as he shall finde in them many wordes nothing to the purpose so shall he want two things chiefly and especially required in a deuine namely Trueth and Charitye Which two vertues the farther they be estraunged from your writinges so much the more causelesse was your choler agaynst Haddon for his good counsayle that he gaue you and his iudgement whereby he accompted you more lyke a Cobler then a foreman of the shopp vnapt and vnskilfull yet to cutt such large thonges out of other mens leather And yet meaning nothing lesse herewith then to dryue you frō touching the testament of Christ whether because he conceaued that the labor which he employed vpon this kinde of exercise was either very small or altogether fruitlesse but hauing regard rather to make manifest what the right consideration of that doctrine is and how much you were short yet of a true and perfect knowledge in the true doctrine of Diuinitye For if this be a true definition of Dyuinitye that it be a profession of Gods heauenly wisedome and trueth what one thing is more contrary and repugnaunt to Gods trueth then your opiniōs wherin you doe enterlace vntruethes for verityes newfanglenesse for auncientye mens traditions for true Dyuinitye None otherwise then as false Pedlers are wont to choppe and chaunge false deceitfull wares for good or as some our horse-coursers in England vse to bring into open fayres and markets outrydden Iades pampered vp in fleshe fayre braue and smoathe to the eye garnished with fine Saddle and trappers being otherwise full of windegalles stuft with glaunders yelowes and hundred horse euills vnprofitable and vnapt to hackney and to draw or to carry Sauing that this one difference is betwixt you and them whereas they by crafty dissimulation and artificiall Conueyaunce doe beguyle the simple and such as be without skill but you as you seéme vtter your wares not as of any sett purpose or skilfull craft but because you haue no better wares in stoare and withall seéme not willing to buye any better But I will presse you no further onely this one thing will I say If your industry had bene employed in the study of holy Scriptures as much as you would haue it seéme to be truely I must neédes accompt you a very vnciuill and vngentle person who couering your knowledge as it were vnder a Bushell will vouchsafe to expresse out of that sacred treasury of holy Scriptures so litle and out of auncient Doctors scarse one sentence through out all this your whole discourse But hereof enough It followeth now that I touch somewhat of the manaces and threatninges of Haddon with the force whereof he would make you dismayd as you say in these wordes wherewith you bring him selfe in place speakyng and threatning you in this wise If you be determined to make a shew of your skill to some of your owne faction by rushing so rudely vpon vs any more from henceforth I tell you before hand come heareafter better furnished then you be now Further where you declare that it will come to passe that if you happen to dye there will not want some that will breake of my force These be the wordes of Haddon as Osorius doth cyte them wherein I doe perceaue that he doth not conceaue so much as by any probable coniecture what the meaning of Haddon is For what doe these wordes emport els then to sturre you vpp and sett you on edge as it were by this frendly admonition to make you more earnestly bent to the reading of holy Scriptures that if you did determine with your selfe to offer any freshe skarmish in this kinde of conflict you might feéde your owne humour herein as you lifted but yet you should foreseé to be better prouided with more skilfull and more warrantable reasons yea much more defensible and armed as it were with armour of proofe for that you be perhappes to greéne a souldiour as yet not able to endure the force of this Combat with so slender prouision Well now what kynde of threatninges be these good Syr that may geaue you any cause of terror After this Haddon proceadeth because he would not haue you deceaue your selfe with this vayne perswasion as though there were not in England besides Haddon onely any other which in this defence of the Euangelicall veritye both would and could skilfully enough encounter with you by the helpe of Christ herein lykewise hys meaning was to geue you to vnderstand That you should finde here in England not one or two onely but very many not onely in our Churches and vniuersityes also but euen emongest the Courtyers which did farre excell him in learning and knowledge and were in all respectes comparable with you These be Haddons wordes wherein I seé a certein comparison made but no threatninges at all as yet Wherefore comfort your selfe Osorius there be no bugges here to make you affrayd And surely I can not choose but commend you for your naturall countrey courage which lyke a lusty Portingall Prelate will not be dasht out of countenaunce for any bygge lookes of any of all those men whom Haddon doth compare you withall And in deéde there is no reason why you should For why should Osorius be agast of seély English dwarfes or babish wretched Haddons And yet though you be without all feare of men it will not be the least commendation of your wisedome to feare the Lord your God Osorius and to stand in awe of hys threatnings For being so studious a Reader of holy Scripture you can not be ignoraunt of the plagues which the Lord doth threaten to the Enemies of his Gospell for how sharpely and greuously he will be auenged of such the dayly and continuall examples of his wrath may be good lessous and warnynges vnto you Lett the recordes of Historyes be perused if your memory comprehend it not what happened to the Emperour Sigismund and his whole forlorne houshold not long after the death and Martyrdome of Iohn Husse what chaunced also to Iulian the Cardinall and to themperour Albert sonne in law to Sigismund after the Tyranny executed agaynst the Bohemians what fortuned to Henry the 2. the French King what also to Francisce the 2. his Sonne lykewise also what happened to Charles the 9 his other Sonne after the great murther and slaughter in Fraunce Were not Syr Thomas Moore and Roffensis after they had burned Iohn
vnam Sanctam What kinde of obedieÌ„ce popes vse towardes Magistrates A conspiracie of Iohn 12. most abhominably practized against Otto the Emperour ContentioÌ„â— raysed betwixt the Emperours and the popes rehearsed out of Hystories A singuler president of the popes obedience towardes the lawfull Magistrate Conrade his brother HeÌ„ry the 5. teazed agaynst their own father through the popes faction Anselme agaynst HeÌ„ry 1. Kyng of England Henry 5. is enforced to yeld to the popes commauÌ„demeÌ„t 25. Quest. 1 violatores The popes of Rome do challenge a certeine heauenly power vpon earth Gratian his booke of Decretalls Ionocent 2. ouerthroweth the order of Senatours in Rome The cruelty of Alexander 3. agaynst the Emperour Fridericke Barbarossa The singuler insolency of Hadrian 4. in banishyng the dignitie of Consulshyp The troublesome seditions of HadriaÌ„ the pope Hadrian choaked with a flye 1159. The seditious tumults of AlexaÌ„der the pope agaynst Caesar his soueraigne Lord and Prince The vnspeakeable pride of a seditious pope A president of the popes pryde farre passing Tarquines pride Iudas â— Nazianzen Oration vpon the holy Penthecost The incredible fury and outrage of Innocent 3. of Honor. and Gregory 9. agrynst Frederick 2. Extimo Concil 49. Pag. 639. The filthy gaynes of the pope Innocent 4. doth sette vpon the same Frederick the Emperour Agaynst the Successours of Frederick do Vrbane 4. and Clement 4. kept warre The pope Clement doth conspire the death of Conrade Frydericke Nicholas 3. doth sowe the seedes of discention betwixt Charles King of Sycile and Peter Kyng of Arragon The seditiouse troubles of Boniface 8. agaynst Celestine agaynst the Family of Columne agaynst phillyppe the Frenche kyng and agaynst Albert the Emperour Clement 5. doth prescribe lawes to Emperours Ludouick the Emperour most shamefully abused by Clement 6. Charles 4. appoynted Emperour agaynst Ludouick the true Emperour by the procuremeÌ„t of Clement 6. The onely popes of Rome the common pestilence of Christianes and of all Europe How little the Romish obedience doth agree with the Rule of Paules obedience Chilpericke the French kyng Henry 2. kyng of England Iohn kyng of England Victor a Byshoppe Phillippe the French kyng Henry 6. the Emperour Wicked practize of Pius 2. agaynst the Emperour Out of Recordes of Germany Henry the 8. kyng of EnglaÌ„d excommunicated by pope Clement the 7. Pius the 5. keepeth a sturre agaynst Elizabeth Queene of England Osori pag. 170. B. The maner of Popishe obedieÌ„ce to their Princes The horrible crueltie of the Spanish Inquisitours against English Marchauntes The king of Spayne subiect to his owne subiectes Inquisitours How the Catholicks be obedient subiectes to their owne kynges Anselme Theobald Thom. Archb of cauÌ„terbury Byshop of Ely Stephen Langton Edmund Archb. of Caunt Iohn Peccham Rob. Wilkelse Gualter Archb. The froward coÌ„tumacy of Monckes agaynst their kyng Out of Mathewe Parisâ— vpon the lyfe of Henry 3. Math. Parisiensis The proude rebellion of the pope the Bishops agaynst the kyng A tenth of all moueables in EnglaÌ„d and in Scotland graunted to the pope Mathaeus Parisiensis The auncient lawes and ordinaunces of Emperours enfringed by Popes Dist. 63. Out of the Englishe Chronicles Osor. The Troumpetour of the Romishe Ierarchy Pag. 170. The picture of the crosse must be worshipped Images of Sainctes Sanctusâ—es Lord for the bloud of Thomas graunte our prayers to wend c. No Nation in the world hath any pictures or grauen Images in their Churches but Papistes onely Osorius doth defend pictures to be as Kalenders of remeÌ„braunce Osorius pag. 17. The monument of the Brasan Serpent and the bookes of SalomoÌ„ de curandis morbis abrogated by Ezechias for the abuse Osorius pag. 171. How the Fayth of the Catholickes is ioyned with hope and feare Confidence of workes by Osor. Fayth How feare ought to be ioined with the fayth of the gospell Of workes Osorius pag. 172. Of Ceremonyes and Sacraments Pag. 171. Of Confession Osori pag. 172. 1. Iohn â— Pag. 172. Plaut in Bacchid Luke 10. The Charecter of the priest The Character of the Beast in the Apocalips Math. 9. Luke 7. Mar. 5. Mar. 9. Luke 4. Chrisost. vpon the 51. Psalme Homel 2. Actes 15. Actes 26. Actes 10. The Reformation of Confession The Superstition of SatisfactioÌ„ A poena culpa Osori pag. 172. Osori pag. 173. FroÌ„ wheÌ„ce that so holy lyfe and so great chastitie of the papistes doth proceede The incredible force and efficacy of the Masse Osori pag. 173. Osorius reason to proue that the rude people should be restrayned froÌ„ readyng the Scriptures Vnknowne tounges in the Papists churches Osor. pag. 173. Smale care had of preaching the word in the popes churches The senteÌ„ce of Barnard To muche light or no light at all How light must bee quallified according to Barnard that there be not too much light nor to litle Psal. 19. Psal. No man ought to be forbidden from reading the Scriptures Ephes. 3. Ephes. 1. The cause is fouÌ„d out why the Byshoppes do fle so much the light of the scriptures What kinde of authority it is of the Popes and Byshoppes in the Popish church Osor. pag. 173. Out of the Trepartite history 9. Booke cap. 35. Si non caste tameÌ„ cauté How farre the lawfull authority of the church extendeth it selfe Luk. 10. Ioh. 20. The Ecclesiasticall dignitye wherein it consisteth There is one power of the church an other of this world Iohn 5. Of the Rites and state holy dayes of the Romish churche Osori pag. 174. How great occasion of idlenes and dronkennes the multitude of holy dayes do engender How blasphemous Idolatrous the songes of the Romish Churchebe Christemasse day Pag. 175. Ashewednesday Palmesonday Good Friday Easter EueÌ„ Easterday Ascention day Whitsonday All HolleÌ„day What thingeâ— be reproued in the papistes holy dayes ceremonies Esay â— Popish worshyppyng compared with the worshyppyng of the Iewes in the olde law The superstitioÌ„ of the people in their state holy dayes ceremonies ought to be reformed Osori pag. 175. Esay 58. Gala. 4. Osor. pag. 176. Principles of Osorius Religion How much commodity and necessity there is in outward ceremonies and signes in Osorius iudgement Sarcasmus a nipping skoffe An Aunswere to Osorius mocke The papists acquayntaunce with mortall fragility The vow of chastity What Ceremonies are necessary with the Christians Baptisme The Communion All Ceremonies are not to be coÌ„demned yet in the allowaunce of Ceremonies Reason and choyse must be â—â—dâ— Osorius spightfull â—nuectiue by a Rhetoricall figure wrest back vpon the Lutheranes Pag. â—77 Osor. pag. 178. Osor. pag. 179. Osorius bauld Rhetorick The confutation of Osorius inuectiue Luther Phillippe MelancthoÌ„ Martin Bucer Huldricke Zuinglius Iohn Caluiâ—e Luther vpoÌ„ the 15. Psalmes of Degrees How the Pope is afflicted by the Lutheranes Apoc. 1â— The authoritie of the Romish See can not agree with the authoritie of the Scriptures The complaint of Osori concernyng the ouerthrow of Monckeryes and Nunneries It was