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A09739	Ane answer made the fourth day of Septembre a thousand fyue hundreth syxtie [and] one, by maister Theodore de Besza minister of the holie Euangile, in the presence of the quene mother, the king and quene of Nauarre, the princes of the blood royall, and of the priuie counseil, vnto that whiche the cardinall of Lorraine had replied against that whiche was propounded in the first iourney of their talking together, by the said de Besza in the name of the reformed churches. Together with an other short answer made by the said de Besza the 26 day of the said moneth vnto certein articles of replie set forth by the said cardinall	Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; Baron, John.	1562 (1562)	STC 2000; ESTC S119255	24,857	90

❧ Ane answer made the fourth day of septembre a thousand fyue hundreth syxtie one by maister Theodore de Besza minister of the holie Euangile in the presence of the Quene mother the King and Quene of Nauarre the Princes of the blood royall and of the priuie counseil vnto that whiche the Cardinall of Lorraine had replied against that whiche was propounded in the first iourney of their talking together by the said de Besza in the name of the reformed Churches Together with an other short answer made by the said de Besza the 26 day of the said moneth vnto certein articles of replie set forth by the said Cardinall Imprinted at Edinburgh by Robert Lekprewik Cum priuilegio 1562. Iohn Baron to the reader w●he● grace mercie and peace c. WHen as thies two orations of that great learned and right godlie minister of gods worde Theoder De Besza were broght vnto me to be trāslated out of frenche into englishe gētle Reader for that of certen yeres before I knew y e man to be of so great knowledge and specially so greatly fearing God I was driuen with a great desyre to reade them and after that I had redde them with a more feruent desyre was I rapt whatsoeuer other busynes I had to do being layd asyde to trāslate them Not onely for that they flowed from suche a notable instrument of God but also specially because that in the name and by aduise and assent of so many excellent and godlie learned ministeres they were pronounced and that in suche a famouse and moste honorable audience The matters conteined in the same orations be maters of oure religion suche as at this present be in controuersie and therefore moste nedefull to be knowen vnto the faithfull of oure cuntrie the faithfull I mean that be but of simple knowledge yet be desyrous to learne Aswell because thereby they may by vertue of gods word establish their consciences in the treuth of these maters as also for that they may there summarelie haue in a redynes oute of y e holie Scriptures good and sufficient auctorities to defend them selues in the same against the malicious soldiors of Satan the Papistes and lykewise to confounde them with all their sophisticall and vnreasonable reasons whiche haue not onely of a long season moste craftely seduced many but also moste crewelly suppressed and destroied many of the faithfull with the name and auctoritie of the Churche whiche they moste wrongfully and iniuriously arrogated to them selues when as in very dede they were and be no thing els but the horrible and filthie Synagoge of y e deuill as by their stinking and detestable maners and theire blasphemous and moste pestilent doctrine whiche be their frutes may moste euidently appere vnto all them whiche haue any knowledge in y e worde of God For without any lawfull calling by diuerse vnlefull meanes boeth against Gods law and mans law haue they intruded them selues into the Churche of God and in stede of the liuely worde of God they haue taught their owne doctrine and dreames and the holy Sacramentes with their away taking that whiche the Lorde Iesus instituted and commanded and with their to putting many things whiche the Lorde Iesus neuer commanded they haue altogether altered and contamined So that in stede to haue God honored and the people of God edified taught strengthened and cōforted they haue dishonored and blasphemed the Maiestie of God and to their vtermoste discouraged and destroyed his people But the chief maters herein contened be thies The Churche and what it is the marcks of the true Churche what aucthoritie it haeth whether it may erre If it please thee gentle Reader with iudgement of a sincere heart to consider thies orations thou shalt finde the same boeth godlie and learnedly declared to the praise of God and edefieng of his faithfull people An answer made the twentie four day of Septembre a thousand fyue hundreth sixtie and one Being arriued at Poissy twelue ministers of the worde of God ī an hall where were present the Quene mother the King and Quene of Nauarre the princes of the blood royall and all the Lordes of Counsell and other Lordes of the one parte and on the other parte fyue Cardinalles with many busshops and Theologues of all sortes The Lorde Cardinall of Lorrane declared in few wordes that this assemblie was made to heare what that we had to say vnto that which he had propounded eight dayes before whervnto Theodore de Besza rising vp in the name of the said 12 ministers for all the frenche Churches reformed answered as followeth hauing an verie good audience and attention of all the assemblie Madame first calling vpon the name of oure Lorde God that it may please him to assist vs with his especiall grace in an mater of so great consequence that we may be vtterly voyde of all particuler opinions and passions and that their might be planted in to oure heartes in stede thereof a right knowledge of his veritie with an earnest desire to set it forth to the honnor of his holie name and to the auancement of youre maiestie and to the quietnes of all Christendome and namelie of this realme we shall brieflie answer vnto that whiche it haeth plesed the Lorde Cardinall to declare vnto vs vpon two pointes onelie of our confession which haeth bene three tymes presented vnto youre maiestie to wit vpon that whiche concerneth the Churche and the aucthoritie thereof and vpon the holy supper of oure Lorde Iesus Christe Trew it is that if we might haue had the fauore to haue made answer immediatlie when as we had a freshe remembrance of that that we had heard or els that we might haue had in oure handes the said oration to consider it we might haue answered more destinctly point by point and perhappes more properly But how soeuer it be we shall speak thereof that w c God will giue vnto vs so that men may vnderstād wherein we may alredie be accorded and likwyse the pointes wherein as yet we vary and be different whereof we humblie pray oure God that according to his great mercies it may please him to aggree vs. So now as touching y e first point of the Churche we shall treat it in thre partes The first what is the Churche The seconde what be the markes of it The third what is the authoritie thereof It is moste certen that this name of the Churche is taken and drawen oute of a greke worde whiche signifieth as muche as to call frome one place to an other But we find in the Scripture that there is two maner of callinges the one is ●oyned with the efficacie of the holy Spririt of the whiche is spoken in y e right chapitre of the Epistle to the Romains where it is said that God ●ustifieth them that he calleth the other althogh it be the self same outwardlie as the first is yet is it

receiued in the Churche euerywhere of all men But who may assure vs of these thre pointes Certenly no mā as I suppose For the diuersitie is infinite y t is founde in the bookes of the Ancients yea and that in the articles of the faith Furthermore if we must come vnto these wordes alwayes and of all at what tyme shall we begin except at the Apostolicall Churche And who shalbe the first in y e coūte but the Apostles of whom y e historie was faythfully written by Saint Luke that whiche may be knowen by theire owne writinges So therefore my Lordes to conclude forasmuche as all trueth cōmeth of God who haeth taken for his trushmen in that that concerneth oure saluation the Prophetes and Apostles we returne alwayes vnto this foundation of the Scriptures and yet will we receiue the aduise of coūcelles and of fathers but that shall be so farre as they cōfirme their sayinges by the euident witnessinges of the Scriptures the whiche as treulie sayeth Saint Augustine in his bookes of Christian doctrine be so tempered with the holy Spirit y t that whiche is darkly spoken in one place is moste clearelie spoken in an other place with diuers other meanes to vnderstand well the Scripture whiche be conteined in y e said bookes of Saint Augustine and of otheres whiche haue entreated of this mater And there remayneth as yet one difficultie to be resolued whiche lyeth in this that many haue thoght that the will of God touching all y t is requisit vnto oure saluation was not fully written by the Euangelistes Apostles But if this might take place I pray you my Lordes what a doore should there be opened to set forth all maner of dreames and rauinges that men list And in very dede we see that this haeth bene the passage by whiche Satā haeth entered in to waste the vine yarde of the Lorde and yet denye we not but y t before Moses tyme God gouerned his Churche by visions and reuelations and that the Apostles first planted the Churches with a liuelie voice before that their doctrine was written But where fore is it y t whiles men grew greater in malice and mo in nombre contrarie wyse their lyues growing shorter that the Lorde haeth willed that this doctrine should be enregistred in a cōmon language to be vnderstand of all Haeth this bene to encountre them that decore and deck their rauinges and dreames with y e tytle of traditions reuelations or of custome Now if this doctrine be not written but in part wherefore should this remedie serue then Surely Saint Iohn speaketh not so of the Scriptures where he sayeth that the thinges y t he haeth written be written to the end that in beleuing that Iesus is the Christe the Sonne of God ye might haue lyfe the whiche thing should be fals if there should be left out any doctrine necessarie vnto saluation Saint Paule also declarīg the vse of the Scripture where he wold teache all the ministers of the Churche of God in the personne of his faithfull disciple Timothee had not said that it maketh the man of God that is to say the ministers of the worde of God or in especiall if ye list euery faithfull man to be in all pointes perfyte if it had bene nedefull to haue added any thing that as yet was not written And yet we doubt not but alweys there might haue bene of the Apostles traditions vnwritten But what were they Perteining vnto ordre and to policie But because this name haeth bene abused a long tyme it behoueth to shew whiche be y e Apostolicall traditions the w c will not be hard to be done if two pointes be propounded whereby they may be iudged that is to say if they be cōformable to the doctrine and mete to edification for it is a thing moste assured that the Apostles neuer appointed any maner of doing that might be directly or vndirectly cōtrarie to the doctrine whiche they taught nor also that myght turne away men how litle soeuer it be frōe the spirituall seruice seing all their writinges beare witnes thereof When therefore this ruell shalbe kept then shall it be easie to discerne the doctrine frome the tradicions and the fals tradicions from y e right traditions And to this may be added that that whiche the Apostles them selues haue done in this behalf is not alweys perpetuall Not but that they are witnes w tout reproche but for this cause that according to the reule of charitie did they beare some thing with the infirmitie of the Iewes and so muste be iudged of that whiche they ordeyned of thinges strangled to eat no blood And of that whiche S. Paule haeth taught and practised in Timothee and on his personne the w c thinges now might haue no place except in following y e generall reule to cōmodate oure selues to oure neighboures in thinges indifferent suche thinges may also be gathered of other maner of doīges whiche they haue appropried vnto their tymes as where it is spoken of kissing to haue their head vncouered or bare in signe of authoritie the whiche at this day be contrarie maner of doinges or fashions amongest many nations amōgest whome it should be founde very strange y t men should kisse one an other or that one man should kysse an other mans wyfe as also at this tyme to speake beare headed is a signe of inferrior or low condition All these thinges therefore oght to be considered before y t we should grounde a doctrine as Apostolicall for to abuse the authoritie or custom of y e Apostles to trooble the Churches with lyke as we see that it haeth come to passe shortly after the tyme of the Apostles for the feast of Easter specially in their tyme touching them whiche abused the authoritie of the Churche of Ierusalem for to mingle the Iudaisme with the Christianisme accordīg as it is written in the historie of the Actes of the Apostles There was it ordeyned that no mans cōscience should he charged with any yoke How thē may we esteme that y e Apostles haue inuented so many and so many ceremōes vnto whiche afterwardes haeth bene attributed bothe remission of sinnes and merites seing y t they haue made suche an expresse protestation to the contrarie yea wolde not giue place vnto the Mosaicall ceremonies of whiche God him self was author It is a long tyme since that Saint Augustīe cōplayned hereof when he wrote to Ianuarius but there is no doubte if he had bene in the lyke tyme as ours is he wold haue bene more astonied at them In a somme therefor we do require that the Scripture whiche is cleare in this behalf may discerne betuixt the traditions that be good thē y t be euill betuixt them that be holie and them that be profaine betuixt them that be profitable and them that be noysome and betuixt them that be nedefull

them that are superfluouse These pointes being resolued it is easie to decyde this question if the Churche be aboue the Scripture the whiche semeth to me to be so foolish a question as if one asked whether the infant or childe were aboue his father the woman aboue her husband yea the man aboue God And in very dede the trew Churche will neuer striue against God in suche a quarrell nor none other but will escaip condemnation And it serueth to no purpose to say that the Churche was before the Scripture For althogh that so it be yet it is so that this worde that afterwardes haeth bene written is alweys more ancient seinge that by the same the Churche hath bene conceiued ingendred and nourished as it haeth bene said The saying of S. Augustine is alledged in this behalf I wold not beleue the Scripture if y e authoritie of the Churche moued me not thereunto But here must ye cōsider that Saint Augustine speaketh of him self as a Manicheen When therefore two parties will debate or stryue for the treuth of an instrument vnto whome shall they haue recourse but vnto nota●ies w c kepe the registre thereof And yet notwithstanding it can not be said that the register is founded vpone y e witnessinges of notaries the whiche should not faill to be trew althogh no man liuing bare witnes thereof Euen so muche hereof must we answer vnto them that think that the authoritie of the canonicall bookes is not founded vpon that whiche the Churche haeth determined thereof as if it were so that there were found determinations of Councelles altogether diuers in this pointe y t whiche may be more at large declared in a mutuall conference It shall suffice me to alledge besides y t whiche I haue before spoken one onely reason accompanyed with the authoritie of some of the ancientes that be well approued The reason is this that Iesus Christ him self haeth so muche honored y e doctrine of the Prophetes that he ratified and proued his doctrine by y e witnessing of them S. Paule suffered that they of Tessalonique should do the lyke as it is written in the 17 chaptre of y e Actes Saint Petre haeth expresly allowed this maner of doing Then must not they that say that they be the vicares of Iesus Christe and successors of Saint Petre and S. Paule refuse the lyke condition And further consider what S. Ierome sayeth in the 9 chaptre of his second booke vpone Ieromie y t men must nether follow the error of their fathers nor of their ancitors but the authoritie of the Scriptures And Saint Chrisostome vpone the 24 of Saint Mathew in the 49 homelie The same man sayeth he that wold knowe whiche is y e trew Churche of Iesus Christe how shall he know it in so great a confusion of suche semblance or liknes also why is it that in y e tyme then all the Christians oght to retire and draw them selues to the Scriptures Forasmuche as that after that tyme that heresie had obteined and occupyed the Churches there might be no certē probation had of the trew Christianitie nor other refuge vnto Christians willing to know the treuth of the faith but the holie Scriptures Lykewyse oure Lorde knowing so great confusion to come in the latter dayes cōmādeth that the Christians whiche be in the Christianitie w c wold haue a trew and firme fayth should haue none other refuge but to y e Scriptures or els if they regarded other thinges they should be offended and perishe not knowinge what were the trew Churche and by that meanes they should fall in to the abhomination of desolation y t whiche is set in the holy place of the Churche Saint Basill also in his moralles the 12 chaptre of the 9 somme writeth thus if all thing that is without faith is sinne as the Apostle saieth and faith is by hearing and hearing is of the worde of God all that is without the Scripture whiche is inspired of God is sinne Lykewyse the same author in his sermon of the confession of the faith If the Lorde be faythful in all his wordes and all his cōmandementes be sure for euer done in veritie and righteousnes It is manifestly to turne frō the faith and a cryme of pride to reiecte any thing of that that is written or to introduce any thing more that haeth not bene written seing that oure Lorde Iesus Christ haeth said my shepe heare my voice follow not a stranger but flie frō him because they knowe not his word Hitherto Madame I haue answered according to the measure of the knowledge that God haeth geuen vs vnto y e first point of the last oration of my Lordes the Prelates concerning the estate and authoritie of y e Churche of oure Lorde Where of as yet we are redy to vnderstād all that shalbe shewed vnto vs by the pure worde of God There resteth the article of the Supper the w c I will leaf of if it please youre Maiestie aswell because ye are to long holden and all the present assistance as also because of the desire that we haue that this conference should be begonne after a better ordre because all that in speaking sōmarelie of a mater y t hitherto haeth bene wrapped vp in so greate obscuritie it should be very hard but that many wordes shoulde escape how trew soeuer they were that shoulde offend the heartes of them that should heare them Neuerthelesse if it pleaseth youre Maiestie that we go forwarde we are redy to speak therof that whiche the Lorde will giue vs to vnderstand Submitting alweys oure selues vnto that whiche shalbe shewed by the holy Scriptures And make humble supplication vnto youre maiestie to be persuaded that next to y e glorie of God there is no thing that we seke with so greate desyre as the rest and quietnes of youre Maiestie of all this Realme ❧ Ane answer the xxvj day of septembre the yere a thousand fyue hundreth sixtie and one ▪ Being arriued at Poyssy twelue ministers of the worde of God with twelue deputies of Churches in an hall where was the Quene mother the King Quene of Nauarre the princes of the blood royall and all the Lordes of Councell and other Lordes of the one syde of the other part 5 Cardinalles w t many bus●hops and Theologiens of all sortes My Lorde Cardinall of Lorrain declared in few wordes that this assemble was made to heare what y e said ministers had to say vnto that whiche he had proponded two dayes befor whereat Theodore rase vp in the name of the said xij ministers for all the Churches of France that be reformed and answered as followeth Madame the last tyme y t it pleased you to giue vs audience we made declaratiō according to y e grace that oure Lord gaue vs of the article y t was propoūded touching the Churche the marckes and authoritie of