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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03619	An apologye made by the reuerende father and constante martyr of Christe Iohn Hooper late bishop of Gloceter and Worceter againste the vntrue and sclaunderous report that he should be a maintainer and encorager of suche as cursed the Quenes highnes that then was, Quene Marye. Wherein thou shalte see this godlye mannes innocency and modest behauioure: and the falsehode and subtyltye of the aduersaryes of Gods truth	Hooper, John, d. 1555.; Bull, Henry, d. 1575?	1562 (1562)	STC 13742; ESTC S122036	17,261	56

of Bonners Epistell intoo the same booke of Culbert Tonstalles sermons and Doctoure Sampsons oration made onelye aduisedly purposely and deliberately against the Quene and the pope and be openly in all mens handes aswell with in the realme as withoute But such be the inscrutable iudgementes of God that her highnesse should punysh her poore true and louing subiects that neuer offended her and also make false trayterous bishops Iudges of truer men then they be them selues Doubtlesse if euer I had written or spoken the tenth parte of treasonne that her owne bishops bokes do contayne I knowe theyr charitye is so burning and seruent that the crowes and byrdes of the ayre shoulde haue eaten my fleshe before this daye Yet I am not sorye but doubtelesse I speake and write frome the bottome of my harte before God very glad to se mercy shewed vnto offenders But I speake it to this ende that I verely suppose as the Quene doth forgeue offenders so wold she not wittingly punish me and other true men that al wayes haue done her good and no harme For she is by the lawes of God as much bound to be indifferent and fauourable to true men as true men be bound to geue her obedience And be it spoken withoute all pride and malice I defye him whatsoeuer he be the magistrates beinge honoured that dare open his mouth to the contrarye But alas sauinge I wold not offend the law of my liuing God that cōmaundeth me to obey al magistrates and lawes which disagree not from his holy worde it were for me a more easye death to be hanged like a traytoure then burned like an heretyke But seinge death must ensue the true religion and faith of Iesus Christe I wyll not appoint God what deathe he shall take me oute of this lyfe by I am in Christe wholy and throughly at a pointe wyth the worlde I praye dailye and wyll pray for my persecutors euē as for myself But their tirāny and death that they will kyll me with all I contemp●●e passe nothing of I am no better then my master Christ was in his seru●ce if I dy therfore by his grace whether it be by fyer or sworde or halter it is all one to me and the rather death commethe the better shall it be welcome For the soner shall my soule rest wyth Abraham Isaac and Iacob in my heauenly fathers kingedome Whereof in Christe I am assured to bee a ryghte heire ordayned to the same of mercye by hym before the worlde was made The phariseis did not laye onely heresye to Christes charge and in dede the manner of his deathe vppon the crosse was not appointed for heresye amonges the Iewes but rather stoned too deathe There was neuer a pair of stocks in the town that Ieremye the prophet scoured not but still his accusers the false priestes made theyr acusations in bothe states aswell in heresye as in treason leaste the kinge shuld not punish the poore preacher for preachinge but let him go So Christes accusers the holye bishops and preastes when they perceaued that Pilate sauoured the innocenie cause of Christe and sayd he found nothing that they layd against him worthy of death they made him poore man eate that wordes iudge as he was and told hym if hee let Christ liue and woulde not proceade to condemne him he was not the emperoures frende This hath bene alwayes the pleadinge of the Satanycal cleargy euen sithens that wicked see of Rome falsely chalenged supremacye euen to put the princes and iudges of the earth in the headde that all true preachinge of Gods word againste theyr wickednes superstition and ydolatry was treason But all kinges Quenes and magistrates ciuile shall at the daye of their death aunswer with eternall dampnation of their soules for the sheading of all innocent bloud wythin their realms and offices God doeth not bydde the kyng and Quene commit matters of religion to the bishops neither doeth he wyl them to geue byshops power to condempne when they lust and so afterwards commit such as thei haue condempned to the secular powers but doeth commaunde all princes to be learned them selues to hear them and to iudge them selues such doubtsull and weighty causes by the word of God It is bothe againste Goddes lawes and mans that the bishoppes and cleargy should be iudges ouer any subiecte within this realme For it is no part of their office They can do no more but preach Goddes word and minister Gods sacramentes and excommunicate such as Gods lawes do pronounce worthye to be excommunicated Who wold geue a sword in to a madde mans hand There be not liuinge more malicious cruell craste dyuelishe nor tyrannicall tyrauntes more mercilesse then the bishops and cleagye vnder that wycked bishop of Rome as the cromcles and the histories of the bishops liues do plainly record And no meruayle for as the bishop of Wincher sayeth in his bake of true obedience where so euer the Pope hathe supremacye there Christ is dishonoured and the kinges suffer wronge Yea he sayeth more let his boke be iudge that ther can be no truthe where as the bishop of Rome is chiefe heade And therefore he saieth that no prince canne or may geue y e pope any such autority For a king canne no more geue that parte of his office that toucheth the gouernaunce of the one parte of hys people whiche is the cleargye for matters of relygion to the bishoppes of Rome then a wyfe maye geeue the vse of her bodye frome her husbande too an other manne Yet as Saynte Iohn sayeth the princes of the earthe shall be made so droncken with the cuppe of that whore of Babylon that they wyll deliuer their power to the beaste but yet Saynte Iohn sayeth playnelye althoughe the kinges doe geue too the beaste againste Goddes lawes theyr kyngedomes yet bee they none of the beastes But nowe the byshoppe of Wynchester and the reast of hys fellowes againste theyr othes theyr sermons theyr preachinges their bokes yea their own knowledge and conscience fall vnder that wicked and false pretensed power agayne and do make him the headde of Christes churche whom they al be not able to proue to be anye member of Christes churche Graunte it wer as true as it is false that Christ hadde geuen suche supremacye to Saint Peter who they say was bishop of Rome although I neuer knewe man yet able to proue it and his successoures yet no manne shoulde obey the thinges done by the Pope For the word of God is plain that he is an excommunicate person in that he teacheth doctryne besydes and contrary to the worde of of God As Saint Paule sayth plainly And how farre both the doctrine and the vse of the sacraments vnder the tiranye of the bishop of Rome be from the word of God it shal appear plainly to all the estates of this realme if my Lorde Cardinall of his charitye wyll accomplish the reasonable and gentyll requestes that I

comforted not leafte alone as the manner of the worlde is at this presente but diligentlye sought and laboured for as Christe dyd for the loste sheepe who did not onely seeke for it but also caryed it home vppon his owne shoulders when he had founde it Thus haue I spoken and witten gentle reader againste the papistes proceadinges as it is my bounden dewtye and all mennes elles that feare God For I am sworne by the terryble venerable holye and blessed name of God as I truste too be saued by the ryches treasure and meryties of Christes deathe nother dyrectelye nor indyrectelye too agree vntoo the wycked and pretensed supremacye of the Bishoppe of Rome but with all my wytte learning and other meanes resyst him This othe by Gods helpe I wyll not violate break let the wicked persured men that he the wicked popes adherentes saye what they wyll and do what God shall permitte them I feare not deathe nor passe of their cruell imprisonment which is more vile and cruell towards vs true men then euer it was against murtherers traytoures and theues But that is no now thing For there is no offence irremissible with the popishe bishops but to beleue trulye in Christ as his word teacheth Cipriane in a sermon de mortalitate hath these words eius est mortem timere qui ad Christum nolit ire he feareth death y t wold not go to christ But we desire and grone too be dissolued frō this wicked life and world if it please God How be it we wyll not gladlye prouoke enmitye nor yet suffer vnprofitable persecution but when the glorye of God shall perishe withoute the truth be testifyed I defye all tormentes and tormentours And let al good men and women reioyce also in Christe for doubtelesse the churche of Christ was first planted vnder the gospell by the deathe of Christ and his poore seruaunts and nowe it shall take no more harme by the persecution of the Satanicall papistes then golde taketh by the goldsmythes fornace There is no deathe canne come to the creature withoute Goddes good leaue and permission Therefore let vs reioyce that oure tyme draweth so nere to go from this ruinous and decayed cytye and tabernacle of oure bodyes for there is an euerlastynge mansion in heauen prepared for vs. And whyles we doo liue let vs pray to god for this our naturall countrey For where as before it was cursed but by wicked manne the Antichriste of Rome nowe is it cursed of God And where as before it was interdicted but by a false wretche that would be Christes vicare in earthe nowe is it interdicted by the maker and creatour of al the earth as the woord of God doeth shew vs and all the olde counsayles and doctoures Besydes that loke vppon the Bishops boke Winchesters oration doctour Sampsons oration the byshoppe of Duresmes sermon and the Bishop of Londons Epistle I praye thee gentle reader as soone as thou readest this treatise kepe it not close but make it open and spare not For it is not by sworde and fyre that the papystes canne feare vs frome the truth of Goddes word Grace and peace bee wyth thee Amen ¶ The copy of the letter wherby Master hooper was certyfyed of the takinge of a Godlye companye in bowe churcheyarde at prayer MY duty humbly remembred you heare I know of a godly company imprisoned whiche were taken vppon newe yeares nighte yet notwithstandinge for as muche perhaps as you knowe not perfectelye how nor wherefore you shall vnderstande that beinge vppon their knees in ending of praier wherin thei gaue god thankes prayed for the magistrates estates of the realm and required thinges necessary at his bountefull handes two of my Lorde chauncelours mē as I am informed came first into y t chamber wher they wer in bow churchyard immediatlye afterwards folowed M. shyryeffe with others who cōmaunded thē all to staye in y e king quenes magisties name wherunto thei humbly obeyd for they came not thether weapened to conspire or make any tumult but onely like Christians Christianlye to praye and too be instructed in the vulgare tounge by the readinge and hearinge of Gods woorde as theyr conscience did enforce them without the dyspleasure of God to do For as you well know there is nothing so greuouse too the paciente in this worlde as the gnawinge and byting worme of a troubled conscience beinge accused by Goddes lawe for the wylfull transgressing of the same as by experience we knowe by iudge Hales who contrarye to the knowledge of Gods woorde consented to the wicked traditions of the papists Which although in name they wold be of the holye church and preachers of the gospell of Christ yet in facte and deede do they dissente frome the same and mostedetest that godly societye as by the cruell handlinge of the Christians by the prelates at this presente it doeth euidentely appear Therefore I saye that they might without the offence of God quietly praye together as they be taught by his worde there assembled a Godly companye together to the number of xxx deuyded and sente to bothe the counters where at commaundement they yet remayne And with master Chambers master Monger and the rest in the counter at breadstreate I was yesterday who god be thanked be stronge and doo reioyce that for well doing they are imprysoned Not doubting but y e as god hath vouchsaued to accept them worthy to sustain imprisonmente for his sake so he wil strengthen thē rather to suffer death then to deny his truthe As the Lord knoweth who assist you with his holye spirite that vnto the end you may perceauer in his truthe vnto whose tuition in my pore prayer I humbly cōmend you 3. of Ianuary 1554. M. Chamber M. Monger M. Sh. and the rest in the counter do pray for you in Christ salute you mooste humbly ¶ The aunswer of Master hoopers letter vnto the former letter THe grace of God be with you amen I perceaue by your letter how that vpon new years daye at nighte there were taken a Godly company of Christians whilest they were prayinge I do reioyce in that men can be so well occupyed in this perilous time and flye vntoo God for remedye by prayer as well for their own lackes and necessityes as also charitablye to pray for them that persecute them So doeth the word of God commaund all men to praye charitablye for them that hate vs and not to reuile anye magistrate with woordes or too meane him euyll by force or violence They also maye reioyce that in well doynge they were taken too the prysonne Wherefore I haue thought it good to send them this lyttle wrytinge of cōsolatiou praying god to send them pacyence charitye and constancye in the truth of his most holi word Thus fare you well and praye too God too sende his true woorde into this realme againe amongest vs which the vngodlye bishops haue nowe banished 4. Ianuarye 1554. ¶ The coppye