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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

haue made vnto him I trust as gently he receiued my letters so he wyl graunt me and my fellowes that be in duraunce oure lawfull requests But this I do wryte good reader not to make discourse of any matter but only for the maiestye and honour of Gods word to declare mine innocency of treason or anye euyll wyll or malyce that I beare to the Quenes highnes or any superiour power Doubtles I thank our heauenlye father I haue reade to many times the word of life and marked it to well to fyghte agaynst or curse the magistrates I praye God to geue them vnderstandinge of hys holy truth wyth loue to followe it and the harme that I woulde to any man liuing happen to my selfe For the cōmauudement of God is that we should not only loue our frends but also our enemies And not only wish good and pray for our frends as dettours vnto God and them for the benefites we take at their hands but also praye for our ennemies lamentinge the tirannye and wickednes of synne that causeth them too hate and persecute whome God requireth to loue Yet doeth Saynte Iohn in his Epistel commaund the readers therof to beware they praye not for such as be subiecte to the synne whiche is to death But I suppose that in these late dayes wherein the spirite of iudgement and discreation or discerning of sins is not so abundantly in men as it was in his time no man shoulde withoute a speciall testimonye of the holye ghost particularlye or expresselye iudge that synne to be in anye man For the iudgementes of God who shall tourne from wickednesse or who shall fall from versue before this mortall life be ended be not reueyled nor knowen vntoo menne And yet in case I knewe as saint Iohn saieth a man that synned vnto death for whome by the commaundemente of God I shoulde not pray it foloweth not that I shoulde curse him for whom I may not pray And I reioyce y t the inscrutable iudge ment of god suffreth y e wicked to slaūder me with that euil that of al others I haue ben all my life time I thanke God least troubled and in daunger withall For I neuer cursed man nor beaste otherwyse then the woorde of God wylied me for the tyme whyles I preached hys word to rebuke syn I do remember that Saynte Augustine in his booke of Christes sermon in the mounte hathe manye Godlye sentences and sayinges in this matter But I mynde not to write a boke of it but only to speake the truth of my self agaynst wycked sklaunderers that care not so they maye hurte how they hurte nor so they kyll by what meanes they kyll In the psalmes and in the prophets he maruelous execrations of the wicked and speciallye agaynste suche as wyth the death of the Godlye god aboute to condempne the woorde of God and to oppresse it Christe also and his Apostels vsed maruelous execrations when he sayed woo be vnto the Chorozain wo be vnto thee Bethsaida c. Saint Paul wyshed them destroied that troubled the church of the Galathians Also he called the high priest painted wall to his face and Peter killed with a word Ananias and Saphira his wyfe Saint Paule strake blynde Elimas the witche Eliseus caused the wylde beare to teare and kyll the chyldren that mocked hym Elias caused syre from heauen to fal vpon the messengers of Ochosias the kinge These thinges declare that there were at all tymes cursings vsed and extreame punishment followed such as were by Gods commaundemente cursed and yet suche as did curse remayned styll in the fauour of God But these examples no priuate man may folow for these men were publike preachers of Goddes word whose office was by all meanes so to rebuke and condempne sinne as thes were instructed by the word of God And he that marketh the condicion of these persons shall perceaue that in euerye one of them was two persons thone publik that could speake no more pleasaunte nor gentlye to the sinful world then God bad them whiche was to pronounce them cursed and damned for their sinnes and iniqutye yet as priuate menne they wepte and sorowfullye lamented the miserye and losse of the same persons that they cursed as publik ministers Ieremye as a publike preacher threatned the destruction of his own countrey the captiuitye of his naturall prince and kinge and the seruitude and bondage of al his cuntremen yet as a priuate manne wept and cried out rather with floudes of tears then with droppes of weping So did Christ vpon Ierusalem Dauid vppon Saule and Absolon and Saint Paul vppon the Iewes and yet offended nothinge at all For althoughe God require of publike ministers to doe that appartamethe to their publike office in cursinge and threatning of his ire and displeasure yet he taketh not frome them his naturall affection to pitty and bewaile euen such as they knowe most iustly to be punished but yet so in measure that the affection of mercy and compassion murmure not against the wil iust iudgement of God Wherfore as it is forbydden a pryuate manne to reuenge by force his own wrong so it is forbydden hym too curse or execrate any personne magistrate or other Yea the publike personne that preacheth in this poynt hadde neede to be cyrcumspecte and too be ware he speake nothinge of affection but all for the correction of synne to the amendemente of synners as the Sayncts do aske vengeaunce in heauen sayinge when wylte thou reuenge oure bloud vppon them or the earthe where as it maye not bee thought that the Sayntes praye vncharitablye agaynst theyr neighboures that the worlde and the kyngedome of synne myghte make an ende in them And so doo all good menne praye nowe vppon the earthe that the kyngedome of God may come as it is in the Lords prayer But what doo theese vnGodlye papysies fynde faulte wyth cursynge when not onelye all hystoryes chronycles and recordes frome tyme too tyme euer sythens the pretensed and wycked authoritye of the Romyshe byshoppe doo testyfye besydes dayelye experience that they haue cursed kynges and realms of malyce pryde and indignation and for money haue blessed them agayne and so vsed kynges and realmes as their wicked lustes haue moued them as slaues and beastes contrarye to Gods expresse worde And dayelye it is seene in euerye consystorye courte that at the wyll and pleasure of a wycked manne that is the Byshoppes offycer the innocentes be cursed and vsed woorsse then dogges vntyll suche tyme as the offycers furye be pacified wyth Golde or syluer If they knewe Gods lawes ●● they doo not in deede they shoulde see and fynde that no ordynarye excommunication shoulde bee vsed by the Byshoppe alone but by the Bishoppe and all the whole paryshe So we reade in the olde lawe that when suche excommunications were vsed the whole congregation stode the one partye of the one hyll

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