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A10318	A directorie teaching the way to the truth in a briefe and plaine discourse against the heresies of this time Whereunto is added, a short treatise against adiaphorists, neuters, and such as say they may be saued in any sect or religion, and would make of many diuers sects one Church.	Radford, John, 1561-1630.	1605 (1605)	STC 20602; ESTC S115540	239,684	640

opinion be properly termed Heretikes Now lett vs see to which Church this marke Catholike is proper and agreeth and you shall find it to belong to no other but only to that church which Heretikes call the Popish or papistical church but she it is which they so scornefully miscall which is in deed the true Catholike church For our church and true Catholike faith and religion which they terme Papistry is common to all countries wheresoeuer heretikes be but yet Protestants or to speake more plainly heretikes be not in euery place where catholikes be as ●or example heretikes as Lutherans Caluinists or Protestants Puritans Anabaptists and the like sectaries deuided from the Catholike church be here openly in England Scotland Ireland Denmarke Switzerland Iseland partlie in Bohemeland yea in some corners of France Polony Hungary and in some prouinces free states rebells to their lawfull Princes in the inferior and higher Germany For in very few places else in all Europe saue these by me reckoned shall you find any hereticall estate To omitt then that all these countries many hundred years togither before they euer hard of these new heresies were al catholike yet at this day be they neuer so heretical you shall finde amongst thē some opē church of the catholiks such as stick not to profes their faith with losse of liberty goods liues as here in England though Gods church be opressed by heretiks with taxes impri sonments death more then any christians be in the world yea worse thā vnder that open professed enimie of Christ the Turke who permiteth Christians to liue with liberty of cōsciēce to haue their churches Masse opēly wheras you see how Catholiks here for their faith lose al their goods two partes of their lands cannot enioy that quietly neither but pilledwith euery apparitor purseuant cast in prison restrained of their liberty and susteining the like notable iniu stices disgraces knowne vnto you already to long to speake yet notwithstanding be they neuer so sore opressed beggered or consumed yet they liue after their death new arise in their places so that you wante not at euerye assises and sessions in euery shiere towne in England Catholikes that there be openly called vpon and ready to professe their faith besides many hundreds that lye this day in prison as in Yorke Hull Norwitch Wisbitch where be aboue thirty priests together most learned and reuerend men whereof some haue beene prisoners thirty yeares and aboue an hundred Priests or there-abouts haue beene within the same time hanged drawen quartered for the same cause though it is giuē out to the people it is for treason wherof they be most innocent as may appear by their milde death where they euer pray for conuersion of the Queene and Realme for recouery only whereof to the Catholike Faith Religion they be trained vp in virtue and learning in other countries and sent hither backe againe besides many lay men and weomen yong and olde of all degrees most noble personages and of interiour sort and condition haue and doe suffer to the open testimony of the world imprisonment and death for the Catholike cause So that you see here for example in England though neuer so poore and persecuted yet by Gods gratious mercy and prouidence be Catholikes and an open professant Catholike congregation The like might be saied of Scotland Ireland Germany and other countries that looke wheresoeuer heretikes be yet Catholikes be amongst them openly I say knowne to the world But yet the church of Christ is in farre more large noble worthy countries wher no heretike dare openly shew his head no nor at all or rarely be found as in the greatest countries of Europe the corpes of Christendome as in those most noble Countries In france god he blessed though the state publike be Catholicke yet both publikly and priuatly I graunt heretikes chiefly Italy Spaine Sicily and for the most part in the chiefe and famous cities of Fraunce Portugall and the like prouinces Kingdomes and dominions adioyning by North and South of those Countries where God be blessed the Catholike faith and Church hath free liberty vse for preaching Sacraments and ceremonies but very few heretikes or none to account in respect in the most of those mighty Regions that dare opēly avouch their absurd monstrous heresies which they deceaue the simple souls with al here in Englād other obscure corners of the world like lurking theeus that be ashamed to shew their faces before men In somuch that at the last generall councel of Christendome holden at Trent where the most of all the learned Bishopps and Doctors of Chistendome were gathered together to dispute and appease controuersies in religion the heretikes of this country and of all others in the world being sommoned to appeare and hauing free liberty giuen them to say what they could for themselues with sufficient securitie of their saufe conduct to and fro they like men of cancred and guilty consciences knowing the naughtines of their own cause durst not appeare nor shew their faces before the lawfull Iudge graue Senate and councell of Christendome but like subtill foxes in their dens kept thēselus at home so by the consent of all christendome were iustly condemned for obstinate Heretikes Ouer and besides al these coūtries abouenamed where you see by Gods grace the Catholike church is openly persecuted or free and in peace there be other countries in the world neuer heard of but of later yeares which now be of late with wonderfull :: For miracles vid● Osoriū d● Lusitanorū gestis Itē Maffeū maxi●e Epistolas Indicas Iaponicas ver bi gratia The Reu● rende Father Franc. Z●uier his body was found vncorrupte sweet and of an odoriferous sauour some months after his death I omit the report how he raysed a dead mā This holy Zauier first in our age preached Christ in Iaponia The Iaponians though they be as fa●re or rather farther distant from the Ro●anes thē the An●ipodes yet they be not properly Antipodes but in ●ome sort Antiesi or quasi Antiesi for that part of the world which is directly opposit●●o Rome is partly it seemeth Sea partly terra incognita miracles conuerted to Christs faith religion both in the East and West Indians insomuch as about 9. yeares past in the latter end of the time of Gregory the thirteene of blessed memory I my self saw there three young Princes come to Rome that came from the vttermost coasts of the earth out of a Country called Iaponia who bee Antipodes to the Romanes that is their feete contrary to theirs they were 3. yeares in comming and all to visit the bodies of the Apostles S. Peter and S. Paul to acknowledge their dutifull obedience to the Apostolike Sea and to worship Christ his Vicar here on earth they were as worthy receaued with great applause of all Christian states and Princes in Christendome

head singeth in those diuine Canticles Meliora sunt vbera tua super vino fragrantia vnguentis optimis The sweete milke of these two breasts of the Church be Gods word and the blessed Sacraments First haue not heretickes vvith their false corrupt interpretations and translations framing scriptures to their owne fantasies most wickedly peruerted the same but also haue quite pulled out and razed whole bookes and notable members thereof which most flatly condemne their damnable heresies and therefore they plainly deny those most sacred bookes of Scripture to be holy Scripture at al. As for the Sacraments though they confesse two yet in effect they deny al saying they be but bare signes conferring no grace at all though Baptisme they haue still but not without dānable heresies about the same in their opinions yet their communion bread is poyson which they crect and set vp against the true Altar sacrifice of God in his church which sacrifice of the Altar they blasphaemously cal an Idol treading those diuine misteries left for the foode of our soules by christs holy institutiō vnder their feete The rest of the Sacraments they vtterly deny contemne the sacred Virgins which the church as the deare darlings of Christ imbraceth in her bosome they prophane religious persons by vowes dedicated to God they deride their Oratories and sacred places they pull downe riotously consume bestowe their liuings the sacred Priests of God in great numbers for professing of their faith and execution of their function they most cruelly persecute and put to death This England can testefie that besides the consumption of many in prison of al sorts within this forty years hath had aboue an hundred Priests be sides women and lay persons some of them after long and most hard imprisonment rack and torment at length all of them most cruelly put to death hanged drawne and quartered the most of them aliue In the inferiour Germany but in France especially haue Priests there founde more fauour falling into the Hugonots handes surely no it will seeme to posterity almost incredible what the holy annoynted of God haue there suffered for the Catholicke faith some of them haue had their bowels drawne out quicke and that on spittes winding them out before their faces to their greater torments and lingring death from others they cut off their members and gaue them rosted to eate others they buried quicke leauing out their heads as pretty markes to bowle and play at with many moe exquisite torments by those most cruell Caluinists full of instinct and spirit of Beza exercised vpon the seruants of God and shall these bee accounted of one Catholicke Romane Church with vs whome Iewes Turkes Vandalles Gothes nor most barbarous Scythians coulde neuer more cruelly persecute Shall these I say inherit and be pertakers of the fruit of that vine-yard of Christ that with cursed Cham reueale their fathers nakednes as if there were any Pope Bishop Prelate Priest or religious person that shewed some infirmities as we be but men most scornfully odiously they set it out to the scandall of the infirme and reproach of the whole host of God his Church whose ordinances and lawes which all Christen men ought to obey otherwise they be heathēs publicans they breake whether it be in fasting prayer or any other good order that most spightfully for that it is commanded by the Church to giue a plaine instance hereof The old Lord Treasurer Cecill thought it in policie meete or at least mooued the matter that the late Gregoriā Calender should be receaued Elmer start vp and said though otherwise Superintendent of London it were requisite yet would he neuer consent to receaue it because it was ordayned by the Pope With more moderatiō the Treasurer replyed My Lo●if any thing good laudable be instituted by the Pope why may not we follow it Surely quoth he it is vnbishoply spoken but Iohn of London learned this lesson of his grandsire Luther to hate th● Pope in all things knowing that where the Popes laws may take force their heresie can haue no sway nor entrāce Insomuch that Luther being dead buried in hell though the Pope according to Christs promise shal liue gouerne the house of God to the worlds end yet to shew his blody mind of his followers thus haue I heard is it written of his Sepulchre Morstua ero O Papa c. See whether these be not fitte children and members for the Catholike Romane church the death of whose chiefe father and Pastor they imagine and intende to their vttermost power last breath yea if it were possible euen in their graues Shall any Protestant ministers thē be Pastors of Christs flocke whose true Pastors they so mortally hate whose sheepe they infect and deuoure indeed they shall haue their hire but with Chore Dathan Abiron and their complices whome hell deuoured swallowed vp for euer that for a lesse sclusme pride and disobedience then Protestantes daylie and now many yeeres haue vsed most obstinatly against the whole Church of God of whome they are no more meete to be members then those rebellious Ch●rites were to be of the host of Israell the army of the liuing GOD if we be so straitely commaunded in holy Scripture to fl●e the heretik not to salure or conuerse with him if Saint Paul did bidde auferte malum de medio vestri For feare of corrupting the rest if the excōmunicated the Corrinthian for a lesse fornication then heresie is and if the whole Church of God neere the Apostles time haue cut of lesse heretiks then these from her society yea for holding the same heresies that these heretiks of our times do these holding withall many worse besides will now then the same Church contrary to her selfe her Masters precept and Apostolike doctrine yea al sence reasō ingraffe such rotten members so virulent an pestiferous euery way in her body yea will Christ her spouse I say imbrace them in the lappe and bosome of his Church then surely will he admitt Turks and all and then wherefore was he incarnate suffred for vs on the crosse which blessed passion as the Turks deny so do Caluinists the effect thereof that in more blaspheamous sort then Turks Insomuch that I may safely affirme that protestant puritanes be further of from the true Church of God and haue lesse excuse to make of their Apostacie at the day of iudgement then the very Turks As for example the Turkes haue to shew almost a thowsand yeeres now for their antiquity continuance in great glory prosperity and victories especially now within these two hundred yeeres with the applause consent and following of many nations with great shew of almes hospitality long prayer fasting and other good deedes all which our heretiks want As for the Turkish opinions though in a grosse and carnall sort yet they beleeue there is one God all good iust creator of all thinges

not author Dissentionis fed pacis they would agree togither and with their first masters especially who many of them in the beginning since quite disclaime from our Church as quite decaied and come they now to vs with their foule feete when many of their fautors and all wise and honest men are weary of them Seauenthly such heretiks as can 7. admit any sect in their Church shew themselues to be of no conscience no feruour no faith no religion and bē the most daungerous persons in the world commonly the worst hardest to be reclaimed to good These be the persons God most abhorreth wishing they were either hot or cold Sed quaniam taepidus es because thou art luke warme saith he I wil euen spue thee out of my mouth signifying GOD can digest no such Neuter Nullifrdian sots in figure whereof it was forbidden in the law to haue a garment wouen of linnē wollen signifying that the mixture of contrary sects Christ cannot admit in his garment his spouse the Church which though it was well imbrodered whollie ouer declaring how his Church should be adorned glister with variety of all noble goldē vertues in euery state degree yet should they all tend to charity end in one signified by the same garment whole with out seame which the cruell souldiers yet deuided not then which heretiks be worse that rent teare with barbarous cruelty sundry heresyes asunder the misticall body and garment of Christ his Church and this to doe the better nowe in the latter end of the world and most dangerous dayes by subtilly creeping into her they vvoulde make of her as it vvere a linsey vvolsey medley garment for themselues a while to maske in till they might if it were posible rob spoyle her of al vertues and heauenly treasures of scriptures Saints sacramēts God all such drone bees that seek to their owne ruyne and of others to suck the sweete of other mens labours CHRIST IESVS will euer haue his watchmen to dryue back from his sacred inclosed garden whereinto none shall truly enter but the right in faith nor any enioy the fruits thereof euerlastingly but the righteous in hart for if the Church as I said hath iustly shurt out at all tymes before and since Christs tyme heretiks for lesse heresies then these of our dayes be by many degrees yea if God himself hath not spared iust reuēge of many of them in this life yea sometymes to the terror of others hath inflicted terrible sudden death for lesse sinnes then heresie yea spared not Angells in heauen for that vice proper to all hereticks which is pride then though he be long patient lett no heretik think he shall in the ende scape the heauy hand of God in token of whose heauy wrath and iust indignation for this sinne of heresie all good Christian Emperours Kinges Magistrates haue most seuerely punished it with fire to the terror of the wicked and preseruation of the good Lastly heretiks 8. Heretikes be most fit to bee linked in one Church with the Turk who haue pulled downe that most noble religious order of the Knights of the Rhodes ordayned to defend Christendome against the Turke to whom Protestantes now shewe al homage in most humble letters gift and other tokens of beneuolence yea cōplotting with him to the ruin of Catholick states princes as both by their letters intercepted euident actions ap●eereth that would be of one Church with Catholiks by what ioyntes sinnewes would they be knit to and with them surely they haue lest none for if they run as many of them haue done to the primitiue Church and the Apostles tyme they may indeede falsely and foolishly bragge of the head but then they must absurdly without body and other members ioyne their soule feete to their monstrous Chymerical head of that old dragon but not of Christ whose Church hath euer visibly continued shall do to the end of the world but if they will ioyne themselues with vs now that by Gods grace be Catholiks I see not one bond of faith Hope nor Charity left in them to make this cōnextion betweene vs they that haue rased out or defaced the whole Scriptures which by Gods grace we keepe to our defence they that cōtemne whole general councels where on we stand firmely they that nothing regard all holy Fathers which as watchmen in GODS house teach vs how to gouerne our selues they that take away Sacraments that ●oster and feede vs to life euerlasting they that abolish sacrifice whereby we are to worshippe God only they that blaspheame God the blessed T●inity on whome we are to beleeue they that take away Saints in heauen from praying for vs and the Church of GOD hee●e from all authority to guide and gouerne vs all which articles and diuerse others which they deny we stedfastly beleeue heere is no way left you see to conioyne vs in faith As for hope with vs in GOD they haue none left neither but in themselues only who they make iudges ouer themselues of their owne fancies Knowing without all doubt as they say they shall be saued before CHRIST come to iugement and so they be past hope As for Charity how can they agree with vs so quite contrary to them that can agree in no one point amongst themselues sauing that they in one point cōspire together yea all heretiks in the world that is to raile against and impugne the Pope our chiefe pastor vnder Christ the Bishop of Rome him the Lutherans him the Caluinists him Protestants him Anabaptists him Trinitaries him the family of loue cry out of with one vniforme consent crucifige but in other matters how many men so many opinions cōmonly raigne cursing one another like deuils whome they serue deriding and scoffing ech one another see but only the inuectiues of puritanes against protestants heere in England goe no further note how they be entertayned againe by Whitgift others and it wil giue some tast of the rest how they agree first amōgst themselues goeing about to thrust one another out of temporall possessions yea to cut one anothers throte As for their charity towardes vs it is no other then that of Iulian the Apostate towardes Christians of his tyme who spoyling them of their goods and many of their liues said hee did them a benefite because according to their Master CHRISTS promise they should receaue a hundred fold for thinges lost so heere in this life and after the Kingdome of heauen Such charity heretiks shew to vs that imprison vs spoile vs of goods and liuings consume many with a lingring persecution most terrible dispach others with violent death infame vs slaunder vs make vs odious to the state and Princes where we liue as traytors impouerish our widowes beggar o●r children infeeble corrupt our youth prophane our virgins robbe our churches kil murder our Preists be these in peace