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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09137	The first parte of Pasquils apologie Wherin he renders a reason to his friendes of his long silence: and gallops the fielde with the Treatise of reformation lately written by a fugitiue, Iohn Penrie.	Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601, attributed name.	1590 (1590)	STC 19450; ESTC S121966	20,797	34

Reformer hath that the Bishoppes of the land should be throwne downe and the Iewes Synedrion set vp And why because from the be-beginning of the new Testament to the latter end of it there is not a word spoken of a Lord Archbishop nor a Lord Bishop Will he neuer leaue to play the lubber what a lazie lowtish kind of argument is this to reason ab authoritate negatiue it is condemned and hyssed out of all Schooles of learning had it beene a matter of saluation I could haue borne with him to heare him reason negatiuelie from the authoritie of holy scriptures and all Schooles of Phylosophers shoulde haue vailed the bonet vnto GOD the case standing as it dooth I cannot but draw my mouth awrie Not satis-fied wyth the slippe he hath giuen the Vniuersities and Lawes of learning he is as bolde with the Scriptures and schoole of Angels Bishops sayth he pollute the Church two wayes the one is by theyr dealing in ciuill matters the other by theyr superioritie ouer inferiour Ministers I might iustly scorne to looke vpon so foule a vomit were I not perswaded that the poyson beeing tasted before the drinke I must giue you will be the better welcom His proofes for these two points are these Math. 10. 24. 25. The Disciple is not aboue his Maister c. Which lesson our Sauiour giueth his disciples to encourage them to beare the persecution hatred nyppes taunting and euill speeches of the wicked according to the patterne he had giuen thē inferring vpon it that if they called the Maister of the house Belzebub much more they would doe so to the seruaunt and they must looke for the lyke intreatie You see there is no such matter as the Reformer would force vpon vs. But you may imagine what a terrible burning fitte he is in by his tossing and turning from place to place to recouer rest though it torment him much the more From the tenth of S. Mathew he thrustes himselfe into the 18. of S. Iohn v. 36. My kingdome saith our Sauiour is not of this world if it were my seruaunts woulde fight for me There was an accusation framed against our Sauiour to put him to death the maine poynt whereof was this that he affected the Scepter and sought innouation and change of the present state whereupon Pilats interrogatorie ministred vnto him was Art thou the king of the Iewes Christes aunswere vnto him cleeres him of it They might see by his proceedinges that he had no such pretence for then he would haue sought it by Armes and inuasion as they that hunt for kingdoms doe No brovles nor commotion beeing made by him or by his followers they might perceiue he was wrongfully accused to seeke any subuersion of the state Thys is Caluins iudgment vpon that place Had he founde it to make against mingling of Ecclesiasticall and ciuil authoritie in one person I dare auouch he wold haue bent the nose of this Canon vpon vs presentlie But when Christ saith there His kingdome is not of this world he takes it to be spoken in respect of the transitorinesse of worldly kingdoms that must passe ouer the stage with all theyr pompe and come to a winding vp at last when his kingdome shall haue no end They that abused thys place to prooue out of it that the cause of Religion ought not to be defended by sword though it be by sword inuaded had a little more tincture from hence to lay vppon theyr opinion than Penrie can haue yet both are from the meaning of the texte The other quotation of Iohn 6. v. 15. helps him as little as this Christes hyding himselfe out of the way when the people went about to make him king was because he came to suffer not to raigne and to shew them theyr error who thought it was in theyr power to make a king the setting vp of Princes pertaining not vnto them but vnto God To gather from thence that a Minister may not deale in ciuil causes is to reason as I heard an Ironmonger did in a Pulpit the last Summer Moses refused to be the sonne of Pharaohs daughter ergo a Minister may not meddle in ciuill causes Bounse thers a gunne gone off doe not the Bishops quake at thys ô that I could drawe him out of his hole to print me the poynts which he hath preached the spirite of the Prophets being subiect to the Prophets and his spirite and doctrine examined by the spirite and doctrine of the Church of England you should see me so clapper-claw him for it that he should haue no ioy to runne into Reformation before he be better learned The pearle of the word must not be weighed in those scales that men commonly vse to weigh their yron it is a nicer work Now me thinkes the Reformer should smell ere I goe any further that the rest of his reasons haue taken water and are rotten before they come to shore I see not one of his prooues that will abide the hammer they are so beaten to powder by the examples of the old and new Testament In the old you shall finde that Melchisedeck Aron Eli and Samuel were both Priests Iudges they both offered Sacrifices and sate vpon ciuill causes In the newe Testament Christ who refused to be made King of the Iewes tooke vpon him to ouerthrow the tables of the money changers and whipt the buiers and sellers out of the Temple Paule also requested Timothie as a Iudge to receiue no accusation against an Elder but vnder two or three witnesses Thys authoritie beeing receiued from the Prince vnder whom we liue and being exercised in the Church vnder her The B. of Sarisburie iudgeth to become Ecclesiasticall in that it serueth to the furtheraunce of the Church The matter hauing beene so well debated and resolued vpon by so reuerend learned men as with great studie and trauaile haue run the race before vs to teache vs that come after howe to vse our weapons I wonder how these seelie snayles creeping but yesterdaie out of shoppes and Grammer-schooles dare thrust out theyr feeble hornes against so tough and mighty aduersaries Moreouer it is very strange to consider howe many gashes the Faction haue giuen vnto themselues in denying this iurisdiction vnto our Ministerie and seeking it vnto theyr owne wherein they will haue some of theyr Elders to be gouerning and preaching Elders to handle the word and the sword together and whereas our Bishops receiue their authoritie from her Maiestie exercising it in her name and vnder her Tho. Cartwright would haue his authoritie to be aboue her in the ruling of the Church and her Maiestie to be fitted vnto him and to his Alder-men as the hangings to the house Looke what a pittifull Megrim it is that troubleth them in this poynt the like God wot maketh theyr braines to crow in the superioritie of Bishoppes aboue theyr bretheren Are all Ministers I beseech you of equall authoritie Howe then commaundeth Paule Titus and Timothie