of Iohns in Oxford he was a Priest in Queene Maries time and dyed in the latter time of Queene Elizabeth a prisoner in the Citie of Hereford If I should vndertake to capitulate or reakon all our renowned Confessors and Priests now laboring in England or detayned in prison or dead I should be ouer-long O Oxford Oxford thou that hast had so manie worthie men that haue fledde from the seate of Pestilence and nurse of schisme and heresie into forraine nations and countries and haue for their learning pietie and deuotion bene heighly aduanced abroad Consider also how many Martyrs haue dyed how manie Confessors how many Priests haue bene and are imprisoned at home for profession of Catholike Faith and Religion And thou vvhich should be the lanterne of the Land the Pillar of light the schoole of learning the mother of peace the nurse of pietie art now become the darke cloud of heresie the foggie mist of Aegypt the mayntaine of schisme the strength of Puritanisme and mistrisse of ignorance c. Wherefore this liitle Treatise is addressed vnto you Maisters and students of Oxford and you who are in purple robes as Senators and Sages of the land that you may vncase your selues cast off your viseards expel the rauening Wolfes And know your selues and acknowledge your errours schisme and heresie and returne to your mother Church benigna mater est she is a louing mother to receaue you Hell gates cannot preuaile against her she hath the holy Ghost to assist and direct her in all truth of doctrine and maners and good life You know the Arch-bishop of Spalata a learned Prelate as you all confesse Archbishop of Spalato he conuersed vvith your prime Prelate visited your Vniuersities enformed himselfe of your doctrine wayed your Church Congregation in his prudentiall ballence and found you minus habens to want wayt to be schismaticall he retyred himselfe with desire to returne home againe not for that he mislyked his entertaynement for he was highly esteemed of his Maiestie much honoured of your Prime Prelate welcomed by the Nobilitie he had large maintenance 800. or a thousand pounde reuenew per annum whereby hee might commaunde all the delicates delites and pleasures that the land could yeeld yet not satisfied in conscience nor content in minde labored to get licence of his Maiestie to returne which he obtained His departure or else was commanded by him to depart the Realme Why did he thus but reflecting vpon his estate being aged to prouide for death to forsake schisme to saue his soule I am credible imformed being vrged to declare his minde His censure of the Church of England what he thought concerning the Church of England he clearely answered that it was but a schismatical Church a part diuided from the bodie mysticall of Christ a congregation that had forsaken the mother Church of the world Consider and ruminate well you worthie students the sentence and censure of this learned Prelate Out of all doubt there is no saluation but in the true Church There is not the meanest among you if he doe but read the Annales of M. Iohn Stowe but he shall clearly vnderstand how when the schisme began in K Henrie 8. Schisme begon by K. HENRIE the 8. his time vvho after he had raigned 20 yeares in peace with the Church of Rome seeking a diuorce from his lawfull wife Q. Katherine which the mother Church of the world neither could nor would graunt or permit the King being much discontented desirous to obtayne his purpose beganne his schisme made himselfe head of the Church of England and by acte of Parlament vnited the title to his Emperiall Crowne a thing in auditum and neuer by any Christian Prince practised before vnlesse Iulian the Apostata attempted it After hee had thus diuided himselfe from the Church of Rome and established his authoritie of headshâ—pp he presently quarrelled with the Cardinal Bishops and Cleargie and conuicted them of a preminire He conuicted the Cardinal Cleargie of preminire so that they were forced to compounde with him for a hunder thousand pounds which some they payde euerie pennie and not content with this but by Parlament also confiscated all the landes and goodes of the religious in his Kingdome and so like a wilde bore depopulated and destroyed the Vineyard of our Lord. and ouerthrew ten thousand Churches and Chappels Ouerthrowed all the Religious houses which were erected buylded and maintained by his Predecessors and auncestors and by the deuotion of his Nobilitie and pietie of the people of this land And within some yeares after he spoyled the sepulchers and shrines of the Saints and what was gold and siluer and pretious stone Spoyled the sepulchers of Saints either by oblations offerings or other waies not fearing sacriledge a whitte he tooke without scruple And from one Chapple of S. Thomas of Canterburie were nine or ten waynes loaden awaie with the wealth of that one place Put downe al Pilgrimages He also put downe and robbed all the holy places of pilgrimages frequented and vsed by deuout people in former ages in this land And to omitte other of his good vvorkes in the 38 and last yeare of his raigne a thing vvorth the noting hauing had warres vvith France and peace being concluded it vvas proclaimed by Harralds vvith sound of trumpet the 13. of Iune being Whit sonday and the same day a general Procession commanded in vvhich vvere borne all the richest syluer Crosses in London of euerie Parish one and the Priestes in their richest Coapes This Precession came from Paules Church through Cheape and Cornehill vp to Leaden Hall and so vvent backe to Pauls againe This vvas the last shevv of rich Crosses and Coapes in London for shortly after all those Crosses and Coapes vvith other the Church plate vvere commaunded called for Robbed all Churches in LondoÌ„ and taken by the Kinges Officers into the Kinges Treasure and Wardrope and neuer seene aftervvard And so vvere cunningly all the Churches of London robbed on a daye This vvas one of the last good vvorkes this Church-robber did For in Ianuarie after he dyed an excommunicated person vvhich excommunication vvas published by Pope Paule the 3. thus beganne the schisme in England Then succeeded Edward the sixte a childe a boye of nine yeares of age vvho continued the schisme he had the title of supreame head immediatly in earth vnder God of the Church of England and Ierland He had two Vnckles the Sâ—imers by the mothers side the one L. Protector the other L. Admiral of England K. EDWARD established the schisme both infected in German heresie Presently the first yeare they beganne to alter the face of Catholike Religion which K. Henrie his Father left commanding the Rood the Crucifixe and all Images of Saints in Churches to be pulled downe forbidding beades holy vvater and other ceremonies repelling the statute of the sixe articles made by Henrie the eight
of her coÌ„fusion Stow an 20 Henrici 6. Thirdly concerning Peacoke the same (a) Stow an 36. Henr. 6. Stow will tell you that he was accused for denying certaine Articles of the Apostles Creede which he after at Paules Crosse abiured reuoked and renounced requiring all men in the name of God and as they tendred their saluations not to giue credite to his pernicious doctrines errours and heresies which by presuming on his owne naturall witt and preferring his owne iudgement in reading the Scripturs before the iudgement of his Holy Mother the Church hee had conceiued and written but that all such bookes and writings should be deliuered to the Archbishop or his Commissaries to be burnt as well deseruing the same They further name in this age Iohn Hus Richard Turmin and Machiauil The first of which three White vt supra Fox in Acts and Monum Illiricus l. 19. test p. 1916. an 1608. edit Matthew Hoe in tract duobus tract 1. de disp pag. 27. maintained all Wickliffes opinions and is iustly ranked by Mathew Hoe in the Catalogue of Heretikes and his opinions styled MONSTROVS MONSTERS Secondly concerning * Of this Protestant Martir Fox confesseth that he not onely escaped burning but had neuer so much as any sentence of death pronounced against him Turmin he was in the conspiracie with Sir Iohn Oldcastle as touching Machiauill al men know that he was a true Atheist And thus hauing exactly viewed the Catalogue of the Protestants pretended Ancastrie and found them to be no other then either confessed Papists knowne Schismatikes detested Heretikes Athists Magitians Thieues and Traitors I will conclude this chapter with this dilemma Either Luther and his cope-mates Caluin Zwinglius and the rest had knowne visible and eminent predecessors who professed the doctrines they now teach in all former ages or they had no predecessors If they had no predecessors as Luther himselfe and most learned Protestants confessed in the beginning of this chapter it must necessarily follow to say nothing of the calling of Protestant Ministers which must needs befroÌ„ the diuel because it was neither (a) Ordinarie that is from men of lawfull authority it could not be for neither at that time nor long before there had bene any knowne or visible ProtestaÌ„t Minister or Magistrate as they themselues confessed in the beginning of this chapter and as for Papists who then were onely visible as most Protestants acknowledge they neuer sent them to Preach those new doctrines neither will any Protestant indure to deriue any small authoritie from them We saith Fulke in his Retentiue p. 67. and in his answere to the false Catholike pag. 50. detest abhorre abiure and spit at your Antichristian and filthie Orders you are deceiued if you thinke that we hold our offices of Deacons Priests or Bishops for any other then meerely laicall The Papisticall ordinations saith Powell in his consideration of the Papists reasons pag. 71. 70. are meere Prophanations neither is there in the Papacie any Ecclesiastical calling So he and the like is affirmed by Beza apud Sarauium in defens tract p. es Bucanus in locis commun loco 42. ordinarie nor (b) Extraordinarie or immediately froÌ„ God it was neither by their own confessions and this for two reasons First because extraordinarie calling hath not bene in vse since the Apostles time nor must euer be expected till the end of the world as Luther in tom 5. Witt. in cap. 1. ad Galath p. 376. Musculus in locis commun p. 304. Lobecke in disput Theolog. p. 358. and Sarania in defens tract contra defens Beza p. 73. 35. 36. 37. contend Secondly because extraodinarie vocation was euer accompanied with miracles as the said Luther in locis communib classe 4. cap. 20. Epist ad Senatum Malhus apud Sleydan l. 3. an 25. Piscator in volum Theolog. Thes 1. loco 23. Polanus lib. 1. part Theolog. pag. 358. and other affirme Now that no Protestant euer wrought any miracle is manifest in it selfe neither will any of them challenge so much we neither work miracles neither doe we hold that the doctrine of truth is to be confirmed by Miracles So Sutcliffe in examin Kelis p. 8. and the like is affirmed by Fulke contra Remist test fol. 478. Erasmus apud Fitz Siomn in Britanniar Ministr and others extraordinary that is neither immediatly from God nor mediatly by men of lawful authoritie If 〈◊〉 say they had no predecessors it musâ— needes follow that the doctrines oâ— which the Protestant Church is founded were heretical and Antichristian and they them selues Nouellizers Heretikes and Sathanicall Ministers because the true * Esay cap. 2. vers 2. cap. 60. 61. 62. per totum And Psal 91. v. 4. Ephesians 4.11.12 Mat. 18. v. 15. cap. 24. v. 25.26 And Daniel 2. v. 44. And Osee cap. 2. v. 19 Athanasius in Orat. de Christi Chrysostom serm 26. de Pentecost Augustine epist 170. in Concione 2. in psal 5. See also the Protestants Apologie tract 2. c. 2. sect 8. Church of Christ according to expresse Scriptures consent of Catholike writers and confessions of best learned Protestants must be alwaies as a Cittie seated on the toppe of a hill knowne eminent and gloriously visible whose Sunne must neuer set nor her Moone lie hid whose gates must euer stand open and the like hauing in her Pastors and Ministers Preaching the word and administring the Sacraments and resisting all nouelties and false doctrines But if as Illiricus Fulke and D. White conâ—end Luther and his cymists had any Predecessors the chiefe of which were â—hose formerly mentioned to witte Schismatikes Heretikes Athiests Magitians Thieues and Traitours for as touching Papists they vtterly disclayme them neither will any Protestant indure to deriue his Pedegree or Mission from them of all others it cannot be denyed but that Protestants are infamous and detestable heretikes in being descended from such accursed infamous diuellish and detestable progenitors CHAPTER II. That all the chiefe doctrines and principles of Protestancie are old condemned heresies and that the most damned heresies that euer were hatched in any age haue bene cherished fostered and defended by the chiefe Doctors in the Protestant Church THat all the doctrines which Protestants at this day so eagerly maintaine against Roman Catholikes are old condemned Heresies and that the chiefe Apostles and Doctors of Protestancie haue reuiued and defended all the most detestable heresies that euer any former age begotte Iacobus Gualtier in lib. cui titulus Tabula Cronographica Ecclesiae catholicae à Christo nato vsque ad an 1614. edit an 1616. Clement 3. recog Irenaeus l. 1. c. 20. IAMES GVALTIER in his learned and elaborate Cronographicall tables out of the seuerall Catalogues of Heresies composed by S. Eiphanius Austine Philastrius Alphonsus a Costro Prateolus and other auncient and moderne writers hath proued at large Out of whom I will here instance in some few which seeme to
opposition which doth seeke to destroy Catholike faith Sorâ— no lesse then the Arrian heresie to destroy Christ and Christian faith â—or it is as manifest in Scripture that the Church â—annot erre against the ProtestaÌ„ts as it is true that Christ is God against the ArriaÌ„s For it s proued out Scripture that Christ vvas true God consubstantiall and coequal vvith his Father and no vvaye inferior as God but as man only so it is as manifest in scripture that Christ promised to be vvith his Church vnto the end of the vvorld and that hee vvould send the holy Ghost to his Apostles and consequently to their successors and that this Church should instruct and teach the people all truth both in doctrine maners and in good life And that S. Paule doth assure vs that the Church is columna firmamentum veritatis the Pillar and foundation of truth and from her vve haue receaued the scripture and the true meaning and sence thereof infalliblie vvithout errour Wherefore as the Arrian heresie sought to destroye Christ and Christian religion in denying the Godhead of Christ so Protestanisme in seeking to ouerthrovv the infaillabilitie of the Church indeauour to disable Catholike faith and religion And as the Arrians labored might and maine to infect the Roman Church and to make a Pope of their profession yet fayled in the purpose For Pope Foelix whom they promoted and preferred to the Papacie condemned them as heretikes defined against them and dyed a Martyr O prouidence of God yea they so afflicted the Church that the most part of the vvorld vvas ouer-clouded and darkned vvith this filthie cloud of ArriaÌ„ heresie yet praeualebit veritas truth preuaileth insomuch that novv in the hartes of Christian Catholike people nothing is more odious then this heresie of the ArriaÌ„s by Protestants condemned to the pit of hel So the Protestants haue labored omnibus vijs modis but not able to make a Protestant Pope yet to sovv this seede of Cockel and Darnel that the Church of Rome may erre that they haue infected and caused a great reuoult in these partes of Christendome that almost all Almanie and a great part of Germanie is ouercome vvith this seede of infection all England and Scotland gone A great reuoult in Christendome by Protestatisme Ireland strongly assalted all Holland reuolted from God Church and Prince Braband and the Lovv Countries made to stagger but God be thanked they haue ouercome A great part of France in tumultuous rebellion against their King although he vvould giue them libertie of their conscience yet they vvill not yeeld him devv Temporall gouernement and subiection The Swissards euen to the confines of Italie stand stubborne in their obedience to the church of Rome sed praeualebit veritas truth vvil preuaile and this heresie of ProtestaÌ„ts that the Church may erre vvill be as odious in future ages as Arianisme is novv If vve argue vvith the Protestants Protestant flye from antiquitie traditions and primatiue church to free the Church of Rome of imputation of error as manie great Schollers haue vvritten many learned Treatises concerning this poynt and doe prooue by antiquitie by practise of the Primatiue Church by Traditions from the Apostles concerning those differences in Religion controuerted betvvne the Protestants and the Catholikes they flye off and saye they are not demonstratiue arguments to conuince in matters of doctrine but only probable proofes If vve vrge them vvith the decrees of Popes From decrees of Popes they care not for them if vvith the doctrine of the Fathers and Saincts of the Primatiue Church as for example if vve alleadge S. Augustine that hee prayed for the soule of his Mother Monica departed that the Sacrifice of the Altar Prayers Almes From Doctors S. Ave. Oblations of the liuing may profite the dead that he vvrit a vvhole booke De cura pro mortuis augenda of the care to be had of the dead and that the vvhole Church did supplicat and pray for the soules departed they vvill ansvvere he vvas a particular man it vvas his errour and the errour of that time Aerius vvas condemned for an Heretike in apposing against the Church Epipha haer 65. Aug. hae 15. in the 4. age concerning Prayer and Sacrifice to be offered for the soules departed Caluins answere is Lib. 3. inst c. 5. § 10. that the auncient Fathers were destitute of warrant from God to authorize prayer for the dead Alleadge S. S. Hillar Hierome against Vigilantius a condemned Heretike for inuocation and veneration of Saints for reuerencing of holy Relickes for visiting and celebrating the memories of their sepulchers and burning of waxe tapers for obseruing the fasting dayes and vigils determined by the Church and Ecclesiasticall authoritie for profession of Virginitie and chastitie among Clergie men they answere â— Ambrose lib. 4. de sacr c. 4. it vvas his errour Bring Saint Ambrose for the Real presence of Christs bodie in the Sacrament saying that before Consecration it vvas bread but after Consecration his verie true bodie and blood it vvas his errour If vvee allow the example of S. S. Basil Basil and S. Benedictus for monasticall life they vvill vvith the SabelliaÌ„ heretikes coÌ„demne it for a crime and reprooue it for a meere impietie and say it vvas their errours and so of the rest of the ancient Fathers they were men and might erre Generall Councels Proceede vvith them to generall Counsels which doth represent the bodie of the Church and alleadge the foure first vvhich all the vvorld receaue and S. Gregorie highlie commended and the modeâ—â—e Protestants doe not dare to denie yet vvill the Puritans refuse them and the Protestants accept of them no farther then in their imagination they shall agree vvith them or serue their turnes And as for the foure last generall Counsels I vvill name the last first the venerable Councell of Trent the Councell of Florence of Constance and Lateran the Protestants absolutely auerce that they haue gone awrye and were deceaued in the principles of faith and Religion A newe â—urse and vvhy because they haue particularly censured and condemned them and defined their positions as hereticall So did the Arrians in like maner instance against the Counsell of Nyce for the same cause because it defined against them Wherefore in this Treatise vvee haue excogitated and thought vpon another course Only Scripture to Vncase the Protestants to laye open their contradictions to alleadge their ovvne authorities and writers to expresse the absurdities of their inferences and consequences to see vvhither they vvill runne then No doubt they vvill crye out The Scriptures the scriptures onely shall be our guyde our Iudge our gouernour our vvarrant in matters of controuersie Although vvee know that some contrauersies cannot be decided by expresse scripture according to the vvritten vvord but vvee must haue our varrant from Tradition and the Church which vve call the vnvvritten wordes
as for example the true number of the vvritten scriptures are these and no more the Baptisme of Children c. Yet vve accept of this condition of tryall and acknowledge the true scripture to be the vvord of God veritie it selfe wherein no falshood can be hidden the true tuchstone of trueth dedicated by the Holie Ghost vvritten by the Prophets Euangelists and Apostles of Christ therefore vvith all reuerence vvee reade it and S. Charles Boromeus did so reuerently esteeme of the sacred scriptures that vvhen he did seriously read them he did alvvaies read them vpon his knees and bare-headed a rare example of pietie Let vs vvillingly enter into the liste of this combate vvith Protestants or Puritants We know vvhat vvill be the ende of this for demanding of them before hand vvhether they vvill be tryed by the bare letter of the word or the true sence meaning of the word they wil answere by both If vvee aske hovv shall vvee knovv that vvee haue the true sence and meaning of the vvord they vvill ansvvere that they vvill make this plaine by conferring of place vvith place and that the spirit vvithin them doth tell them this is the Trueth and true sence and meaning If vvee replie vvee haue the spirit as vvell as you vee conferre place vvith place as vvell as you vvhere then vvill be the end of this controuersie We must beleeue them vpon the veritie of their spirit and the conference of places made by them or else no end so that their priuate spirite must end it or no end at all But to make an end at this time I vvould aduise the young students to take this notandum and caueat from me not to be credulous to the allegations of their doctors and Sages but to read diligently the authentike Authors least that be verified in you Si coecus coecum ducat in foeueam cadent Thus vvishing no vvorse vnto you Right vvorshipful Doctors Maisters and vvorthie students then to mine ovvne soule that is vnited in Religion peace in conscience and saluation in IESVS CHSIST I take my leaue from my chamber at Doway 17. of Ianuarie M.DC.XXIII THE VNCASING OF HERESIE OR THE ANATOMIE OF PROTESTANCIE CHAPTER I. That Luther Caluin Zuinglius and all other prime-doctors of Protestanisme were by their owne confessions baptized and brought vp in the now Roman Religion and onely by their apostacies gaue life and being to Protestancie And that Protestant Martyrologies Callendars and genealogicall tables consist either of confessed Papists knowne schismatikes detested heretikes wicked Atheists accursed Magitians sacrilegious thieues or notorious traitours SCIAT lector me fuisse aliquando monachum papistam insanissimum c. Luther praefat tom 1. tom 3. in psal 45. Let the Reader know that I was sometimes a Monke and a most madde Papist when I began this busines tom 5. in 1. Galath fol. 291. so drunke and drowned in Popish opinions that I was most ready to kill and slay all such as any way with-stood the same c. I purely adored the Pope So Luther And againe Idem in 1. Gal. pag. 25. tom 4. Ien. Lat. p. 26. tom 6. in cap. 11. Gene. fol. 129. tom 4. in cap. 43. Isay fol. 179. I certainely if any other before the light of the Gospel had a good conceipt and was very zealous for Popish lawes and the Traditions of the Fathers and in good earnest I vrged and defended them as necessarie to saluatioÌ„ Lastly I endeuored with all diligence to performe them macerating my bodie with fasting watching prayer and other exercises I while I was a Monke daily crucified Christ and with my false trust continually blasphemed him We haue bene holie Apostates for wee haue fallen from Antichrist and the Church of Sathan c. There was none of vs but were bloody fellowes if not in act yet in heart we haue blasphemed God Christ the Sacraments the gospel faith all good men the true worship of God and we haue taught quite contrarie We are iudged heretikes by the Pope because we haue diuided our selues from that Church in which we were borne and bredde Hetherto Luther touching himselfe and the rest of his fellowes Danaeus in like maner doth boast Danaeus resp ad Leonic edita anno 1518. Zwingl tom 1. Epist ad fratres f. 341 Melanct. tom 1. in cap. 7. Mat. f. 407 tom 2. ad Swenkfeld f. 200 OecolaÌ„p resp ad Perkeym p. 108 apud Hospin part 2. fol. 35. Brentius in apol pro conf Wittenb c. de eccl fol. 873. Caluin in confess fidei fol. 111. that his friend Osiander was a most wicked Franciscan Monke Neither doe Zwinglius Melancton or Oecolampadius seeme to take smal pride in such like confessions Pelican was a Minor and Bucer a Dominican saith Hospinian yea we were all of vs saith Brentius seduced fooles Idolaters and seruants of Antichrist We do not denie saith Caluin but that we were once of that number (e) Idem l. 4. confes c. 15. n. 16. baptized in the Papall kingdome (f) ibid. c. 6 n. 1. See also the Bishop of Elie resp ad Bellar. c. 1. Bulling tom 1. decad 5. ser 2. fol. 285. Muscul in locis communibus ca. de schismate Mourney l de ecclesia cap. 11. Perkins in cap. 4. ad Galath v. 26. Hooker lib. 4. of Ecclesiast pollic p. 181. Powel l. 1. de antichr c. 21. Morton 2. part of his apol l. 2. c. 10. Luther tom 7. in ser quid sit hom Christ praestand fol. 274. but we haue now departed from the Roman Church So Caluin And the same is acknowledged by Bullinger Musculus Plessie Mourney Perkins Hooker Powel MortoÌ„ the rest I was the first to whom God vouchsafed to reueile those doctrines which are now preached (g) Comment in 1. Cor. 1.15 f. â—34 col mens fol. 488. this praise they cannot take from vs that we were the first that brought light to the world Without our helpe no man had euer learned one word of the Gospel So the fore mentioned Luther Wotton in exam Iuris cler Rom. pag. 392. Luther might well saye that he was the first who in these times preached Christ especially in the principal points of the Gospell which is Iustification by faith in Christ and in this respect it is an honour to Luther that he was a sonne without a father and a scholler without a maister So Wotton Morgenster tract de eccles p. 145. It is ridiculous saith Morgensterne to thinke that anie before Luthers time held the true doctrine or that Luther receiued his doctrine from others and not others from him since all Christians know that all Churches before Luthers time were ouerwhelmed with more then Egyptian darknesse and that Luther was sent froÌ„ aboue to restore the true light If Luther had had any predecessors imbued with the true faith and religion there had bene no neede of a Lutheran reformation Milius
glorie that he is both a Priest a Bishop and a Pope Hetherto Martin Luther And the like is taught by other Protestants yea Gualterus affirmeth See Florimundus Raâ—mundus l. 7. de Origine haeres c. 7. n. 5. where he reciteth many stories to this purpose that in Prouince Strasbrug and infinite other places women haue bene ordinarily seene to Preach and that not many yeares since a woman among the Abbenacenses when a certaine Minister denyed to giue her the Communion went angerly home to her owne house and there laying a Napkin vpon a stoole set Bread and Wine thereon and with her owne handes ministred vnto her selfe the Lords supper Lastly in this same age Prodicus the father of the Adamites stands condemned of heresie by the * See Baron anno 120. n. 37 Luther in captiuit Babilon tom 2. Ien. lat fol. 247. 173. 275. Caluin l. 4. Inst c. 10 n. 1. See also l. 3. Instit c. 19. n. 2. 4. Doctors of that time for teaching that Christian people were not tyed in conscience to performe anie Lawe which doctrine is likewise maintained by Luther and Caluin and followed in practise by all sorts of Protestants It is certaine that neither Men nor Angels can impose any Lawes vpon Christian men vnlesse they be willing thereunto So Luther and the like is affirmed of Caluin Yea he dareth to say that humane Lawes how good or honest soeuer whether they be made by Church or Magistrate doe not bind in conscience (a) Lib. 4. Instit c. 20. n. 1. and that the promised libertie in the Gospel did acknowledge neither King nor Magistrate among men IN the third age Augustin contra Faustum Manich. lib. 20. c. 5. 6. 7. haer 40. the Manichaeans stand condemed by S. Austine for that they condemned Altars which is so currant a doctrine among Protestants that Mr. Smith in his Sermon vpon the Lords Supper boldly affirmeth that the word Alter hath bene kept in the Church by the diuel that men should beleeue the Eucharist to be a Sacrifice Againe the same Manichees * See Prateolus v. Manichaei heretically attributed all thinges to fate or ineuitable necessitie and affirmed that sinne could not be auoided which is a doctrine now generally maintained by all Protestant doctors especially those of the Caluinean sect b Caluin 1. 3. Instit c. 23. n. 9 reprobi euadere nequeunt peccandi necessitateÌ„ c. The Reprobats cannot auoid the necessitie of sinning especially when by ordinance of God such a necessitie of sinning is imposed vpon them So Caluin Yea there is nothing more familiar with him and his followers then to affirme c Idem li. 1. Inst l 18. n. 4. that man being iustly forced by God doth doe what is not lawful for him d Ibid. n. 1. that God caused ABSOLON to pollute by incestious Adulterie his fathers bed e Bucer in cap. 1. ad RoÌ„ p. 72. in cap. 9. p. 454. that God doth not only permit men to fall into errour by forsaking them but seduceth hardneth deliuereth into a reprobate sence and sendeth a powerfull errour to make men doe such a thing a Piscator de Predest pag. 105. 166. 167. cap. 1. that the most horred offences that euer were are done by Gods decree that sinnes through the force of that decree are altogether inauoidable IN the fourth age the Donatists stand conuicted of heresie by S. Austine for contending that the Baptisme of Christ and S. Iohn Baptist were al one August l. 2. contra lit Petil. c. 32. 34. Which is a doctrine generally defended by all Caluinian Protestants b Caluin l. 4. Instit c. 15. n. 8. 1. Willet in synop controu 14. q. 3. cont 12. q 7. Powel l. 2. de Antichristo c. 21. Optatus Meliuitan lib. 2. 6. contra Parmen See Sanders haer 91. the auncient Fathers were deceiued saith Caluin when they said that the Baptisme of IOHN was but a preparatiue to the Baptisme of Christ we saith D. Willet affirme that the Sacrament of IOHN and our Sauiour were al one yea saith Powel we Protestants hold it a blasphemie in the Papists for making a differance betweene IOHNS and Christs Baptisme Againe the same Donatists stande coÌ„demned by S. optatus Miliuitan for contemning holy Oyle and casting it on the ground as also for that they caused the Sacrament of the Eucharist to be cast to the dogges pulled downe Altars Which he calleth the seates of Christs body broke and sold Chalices rent and tore corporalls veiles bookes and other instruments appertaining to Gods seruice which was the ordinarie deportment of Caluin-Protestants in the beginning of their deformed reformation and in which they still perseuer as opportunitie offereth it selfe Againe the same Donatists stande condemned by S. Austine for teaching Agustine concione 2. in Psal 5 in Psal 18. in epist 16. ad Donatis lib. de vnitate Eccles c. 11. 13. Epiphan haer 68. 69. Theodoret lib. 4. haeret fab August haeret 46. that the Catholike Church was perished in all the world except in those places which Donatus liued Which also is a doctrine generally taught by all sortes of Protestants as was shewed in the former chapter Againe in the same age the Arians stand condemned of heresie by S. Epiphanius S. Theodoret and S. Augustine for maintaining that the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost were not of one nature substance or essence and refusing to admit the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or consubstantiall because it was not in the scripture in both which the chiefe Protestant Doctors shew themselues to be their true disciples and faithful followers as shall be shewed in the next chapter Againe the same Arians were * Athanasius ser 4. contra Arrianns Hilarie l. 9. de trinitate condemned for that they taught that the Sonne of God was ignorant of many things and that he learned as he grew in yeares which also is currant doctrine with Caluin and his Cymists a Caluin Harmon in Mat. c. 24 v. 36. har in Luke c. 2. v. 40. It is euident that ignorance was common to Christ with the Angels so Caluin yea he further saith that Christs soule was as subiect to ignorance as the soules of other men and that this was the only difference betweene vs and him that our necessities are of necessitie his voluntarie and that Christ in particular knew not the day of Iudgement nor what tree that was which he cursed And the like is taught by other Protestant Doctors as shall be shewed in the next chapter Againe the same Arrians are * See Alphonsus à Castro v. concili condemned of heresie for maintaining that a Councel howe lawfull so euer assembled and approued might erre Which also is a high-prized doctrine in the Protestant Synagogue you shall heare the wordes of their first Author and Euangelist a Luther in postil concione 1.
post dominic Trinit fol. 114. Witt. Lat art 115 500. tom 7. Witt. Ger. fol. 262. Among all the Councels I neuer saw any in which the Holie Ghost was found Councels are vncertaine neither must we trust vnto them for there was neuer any so incontaminate but either added or diminished from Gods word yea the councel of the Apostles albeit it was the first and most pure had some what mingled with it c. Epiphan haer 75. in acephal August haer 53. Nicâ—â— l. 9 c. 16. This abhominable opinion that councels haue the Holie Ghost is to be numbred among the greatest euils of christianitie So this Apostata Againe in the same age Eustachius and Aerius stand condemned by S. Epiphanius S. Augustine for maintaining that the prescript Fastes of the Church were not to bee obserued which is also a knowne currant doctrine among all sortes of Protestants yea it is common with the purer sort of them to make their greatest feasts vpon the greatest and solemnest fasting dayes of which none can be ignorant Againe the same Aerius stands condemned by the two fore said Fathers Epiphan haer 75. August haer 53. for teaching that the dead were not to bee prayed for nor Sacrifice to be offered for them which also is a Doctrine generallie taught by all Protestant Doctors yea in defence therof they dare pronounce with their maister Caluin Caluin l. 3. Instit c. 5 n. 10. that all the Fathers in praying and offering Sacrifice for the dead were foolishly deluded by the deceipts of Sathan that it was an argument of ill-consulted sedulitie in coÌ„siderate credulitie and peruerse emulation that the custome of praying for the dead was a profanation of the inuocation of God and that it was an errour yea and a grosse superstitious errour Againe in the same age Iulian the Apostata stands * See Sozomen l. 5. cap. 20. Euseb l. 7. c. 14. condemned for that he brake downe the Image of our Sauiour and caused his owne to be set vp in steed thereof as also for that he was a great enimie to the Holy Crosse the Crucifix and the signe of the Crosse and haue not the Caluinian Ministers abundantly reuied the memorie of this accursed Apostata haue they not throwne downe the Images of our Sauiour broaken downe Crosses and Crucifixes do they not hold the signe of the Crosse as superstition and in steed of the Images of Christ and our Sauiour do they not place in their priuate howses the pictures of their Apostata deformers or the Lasciuious Images of Venus and Adonis Iupiter and Ganimede and such like c Hieronimus contra HeluidiuÌ„ Againe in the same age Heluidius stands condemned by S. Hierome and the other Catholike Doctors for equalling the merit of marriage with the merit of virginitie Luther Sermon pe Matrimonio tom 5. Lat. Wit tom in Epist ad Wolsang fol. 505. See Caluin l. 4. Instit c. 12. n. 28. Harmon in Mat. 19.11.12 wihch heretical doctrine all the Doctors of Protestancie do also eagerly maintaine yea their father Luther dareth to write that single life is farre more base and vild then marriage that matrimonie is more then a precept that who so determineth to liue without a woman must put off the name of man and put on the nature of an angell or spirit that he must needs be a whoremaster that flyeth marriage and that it is more necessarie to lie with a woman then to eate drinke or sleepe Againe the same Iouinian stands condemned by S. Augustine for maintaining that these who were by Baptisme regenerated and receiued into grace could not loose that grace nor sinne at least to death which verie doctrine was reuiued by Luther Luther in captiuit Babilon tom 2. Lat. Wit fol. 78. Caluin l. 4. Inst c. 17. n. 2. Damman l. de Perseuerantia Sanctorum p. 145. Piscator in resp ad duplic Vostij p. 389. alij passim and is still eagerly defended by all Caluinian Protestants Thou seest how rich a Christian or Baptized man is who though he would cannot loose his saluation what sinnes soeuer he commit vnlesse he will cease to beleeue So Luther By our sinnes saith Caluin we can no more be damned then Christ himselfe we maintaine saith Damman that the iust man must of necessitie perseuer and that those who are truly faithful cannot fall from grace by any sinnes they that are once iustified remaine alway iustified So the Vniuersitie of Oxford in their late Vespers 10. Iulij nu 1619. resp Baites c. Iles and the like is affirmed by Piscator and all others IN the fift age Vigilantius stands condemned of heresie by S. Hieronimus contra Vigilantius Hierome for deriding the Catholike custome in setting vp waxe lights at the Tombes of martirs for impugning the single life of Preists for teaching that it was idolatrie to reuerence the sepulchers and holy relikes of Saintes and denying that Saints were to be inuocated or worshipped Then which Vigilantian heresies no doctrines are more plausible in the Protestant religion Hieronimus l. 3. contra Pelagianos The Pelagian in the same age are comdemned of Heresie by the foresaid father for boasting that they were sure of their iustice and might securely promise to them selues the kingdome of heauen whch is the verie doctrine of the Protestants at this day al the faithful ought to be certaine of their saluation Caluin in Antidot concil Trid. sess 6. c. 15. 13 10. l. 3 Instit c. 2. n. 16. 38. 39. 40 l. 4. c. 17. n. 2. saith Caluin yea saith he that man is not truly faithful who doth not confidently glorie that he is the heire of the kingdome of heauen since our sinnes can no more hurt vs then Christ him selfe nor we loose heamen more then he a Luther tom 4. Ien. Lat. in cap. 4. ad Galat. fol. 118. 122. in Colloq mensal Powel de Antichrist l. 2. c. 19. we thankes be to God can decree and iudge out of the word how God is affected towards vs we ought not to doubt that the spirit of God dwelleth in vs but certainly to determine that we are the temple of the holy ghost we ought firmely to beleeue that not only our office is pleasing vnto God but also our person and whatsoeuer we say do or thinke So Luther To which Mr. Powel addeth that it is blasphemie to say that euery man ought not to assure himselfe of his saluation The Nestorians in this same age stand * Augustine haer 89. Socrates l. 7. c. 32. condemned of heresie for teaching that Iesus Christ borne of the Virgin MARIE was not God but meere man Sanders haer 100. and after had the diuinitie ioyned vnto him for the merrit of his holy life and that not personally neither but only by a speciall prerogatiue c. In which blasphemous
heresie Luther Caluin far exceede him for though they seeme to acknowledge that Christ was perfect God and that his diuinitie was ioyned to his humanitie personally by an hypostaticall vnion yet they fasten ignorance and desperation on him and make him a sinner yea the greatest of sinners You shall heare them speake Omnes Prophetae c. all the Prophets foresaw this in spirit that Christ should be the greatest thiefe Luther in cap. 3. ad Galat. tom 5. Lat. Wit fol. 348. 349. the greatest adulterer the greatest man slayer the most Sacrilegious most blasphemous c. because being a sacrifice for the sinnes of the world he is no innocent person and without sinne he is not the Sonne of God borne of the Virgin but a sinner c. We ought to acknowledge that as Christ was inwrapped in our flesh blood so likewise in our sinnes malediction death and euils but you will happily say that it is absurd to call God a sinner and accursed I answere c Idem hom baptis tom 5 lat W fol. 3 349. that if thou wilt denie that he was a sinner deny also that he suffered for thee c. a all the sinnes of the world were so laide vpon Christs shoulders that he became the most grieuous and greatest sinner vpon earth Caluin in cap. 3. ad Galath in 1. ad Cor. c. 5. c. Since then he was so great a sinner he needed baptisme and it was very requisite that he should be baptised for the remission of his sinnes So Luther Christ in assuming mans nature was truly a sinner and guiltie of the curse of God a Idem l. 2. Inst c. 16. n. 10. it had bene to no purpose if Christ had onely died a corporall death b Ibid. n. 12. har in Mat. 27. v. 46. he indured in soule the torments of a damned a desperat man c Ibid. he was so vexed on all sides that being ouer-whelmed with desperation he ceased to call vpon God which was to renounce his owne saluation So Caluin and further addeth d L. 2. Inst c. 16. n. 12. in har in Mar. 14. 36. Luke 2.4 in Mat. 26.39 ad Rom. c. 9. v. 3. See after in the next chapter that Christ was touched with a vicious affection that in his prayers he held not a well proportioned course that hee in a manner wauered in his vowes that he forgot that he was sent hether on that condition to be our Redeemer yea that he refused and detracted as much as in him lay the office of a Redeemer that he feared the saluation of his owne soule and the like Lastly in this age Zenaias stands * Nicephorus l. 16. c. 27. Baron an 485. n. 16. condemned of heresie for the denying the worship of Images and the foresaid e Socrates l. 7. c. 32. Sand. haer 100. Nestorius for proudly contemning the writings of the Fathers and preferring himselfe and other his adhaerents before all antiquitie The first of which heresies is a principle in Protestancie and as touching the second I am verily perswaded that Nestorius came short of the Protestant Doctors I am a Luther contra regem Angl. tō 2. Witt. fol. 339. tom 6. Ger. Witt f. 483. assured that I haue my doctrine from heauen and therefore I wil not consent that either Man or Angel be iudge of my doctrine but by it I meane to iudge both Men and Angels b tom 1. Ger. Ien. in praefat lib. ad Ducen Georgiū no doctor since the Apostles time hath so plainely prooued and confirmed the chiefe articles of faith out of the word of God as I haue done c L. de seruo arbitrio contra Eras edit◠1. vide etiam tom 2. Witt. fol. 486. apud Breiarlio in apol Protestant tract 2. c. 2. sect 10 sub 9. wee will admit of no other authoritie but the Scriptures and those after our owne interpretation what we interpret was the minde of the holy Ghost but what others interpret how many or learned soeuer proceed from the diuel d In cap. 1. ad Galath tom 5. Witt. fol. 290. tom 7. Witt. fol. 483. say that the Church Austine or the other Doctors nay say that Peter or Apollo or an Angel of heauen teach the contrarie yet my doctrine is of that nature which will illustrate Gods glorie (e) Tom 4. Ien. Lat. in 2. Galath PETER prime of the Apostles did liue teach beyond the warrant of Scripture and therefore he did erre (f) In colloq men fol. 588. I am Isayas and and Philip Melancton is Ieremias a Idem in colloq mens fol. 932. 17. 478 tom 2. latt Wit fol. 500. 505. apud Fenardentium in theomach Caluinistica Basil was wholly a Monke and not worth a rush Cyprian was a weake diuine Chrysostome doth nothing but prate his bookes are a troublesome and inordinate packet Athanasius had nothing singular in him Hierome ought not to be numbred among the Church doctors for he was an heretike a man of no iudgement nor diligence he wrote manie things wickedly he was a very block head in vnderstanding the Scriptures obtruding Iewish blindnesse for historicall sence and his owne follies for allegories I know not among the Fathers to whom I am such an enemie for he writeth nothing but of fasting difference of meats and virginitie but as for faith and true religion there is not a word to be found in his writings Gregories sermons are not worth a farthing in his dialogues the diuel deceiued him c. Hetherto Luther touching himselfe and the fathers Caluin in epist 145. ad Marbachium neither doe his followers differ from him in iudgement Luther was an excellent seruant of God and a faithfull minister of the Church b l. 1. cōtra Pighi a singular Apostle of Christ by whose mouth God thundered c Epist 109. ad fratres Monstelgar from whose Church our Gospel did flow a man most excellently qualified c. So Caluin to which other Protestants ādde a Beza in lib. de paena haeret p. 94. 95. 148. apud Kāsen in praefat Catechisminoris Lutheri that he was the renewer of Christian Religion Gods singular seruant in whom who so seeth not the spirit of God seeth nothing b Melancton apud Kanfen vt sup that no age would euer produce such a man c Kansen in praefata praefatione that he was a blessed man in whom the Holy Ghost shined the Prophet of Germanie the light bringer and light-lender to all diuines the wonder of the world d Amsdorsius in praefatione 1. Tom. Lutheri that there was neuer any since the Apostles time who for spirit wisdome and vnderstanding might be compared with him e Alberas contra Carolasted l. 7. that he exceeded all the auntient Fathers as much as the Sunne surpasseth the Moone and that
THE VNCASING OF HERESIE OR THE ANATOMIE OF PROTESTANCIE Written and Composed by O. A. Cum Licentia Superiorum ANNO DC.XXIII To the Reader Christian Reader THough the diuell in no age euer wanted his emissaries and Antichrist agents who busilie laboureth in sowing tares death-bringing-darnel in the purest corne-fields of Gods Church like cunning Mountebankes left no wily inuention vntried which they supposed might any way serue to vent their adulterate theriaca bastardly balsamum yet he had neuer such hopes to store the vast caues of his infernal mansion with Christian soules as in this age of ours in which whole swarmes of Apostates and deceiuing Ministers are crept into the Church introducing according to the Apostles prophesie sundrie sects of perdition by setting abroach the infectious pestilent and long-since condemned dregges of heresie brewed by Simon Magus Cerinthus Cerdon Manichaeus Aerius Eustachius Vigilantius and other such subiects of Abaddon and after barrelled vp by Belzebub and carefully reserued in his chiefe sellar where though with long standing they were growne mustie and stincking yet by powring in the barme of libertie they haue made them flower againe and by hanging forth the Iuibush of Noueltie set out and garnished with Rhetoricall flowers haue drawne more customers then hells wiliest counsellor durst euer hope for For the better discouerie of all which infectious potions and vtter dismantling of such lewde Mountebankes which like Egiptian locusts couer the face of this some-time Angelike I le depopulating her once florishing vineyeardes and sweete-senting gardens I present thee with this ensuing Treatise in which thou shalt find plainly demonstrated That Luther Caluin Zwinglius and other Prime-doctors of Protestancie were by their owne confessions baptized and brought vp in the now Roman Catholike Religion and only by their apostacie gaue life and being to Protestancie and that the Protestant Martirologies Callendars and genialogical tables consist either of confessed Papists knowne Schismatikes detested heretikes wicked Atheists accursed Magitians Sacrilegious thieues or notorious Traitours That all the chiefe doctrines and principles of Protestancie are old condemned heresies and that the most damned heresies rhat euer were hatched in any age haue bene fostered cherished and defended by the chief doctors in the Protestant Church 3. That no Protestant especially of the Caluinean sect vvhich are commonly knovvne by the names of Protestants here in England of Puritants in Scotland of Caluinists in Sauoy of Sacramentaries in Heluetia of Hugonettes in France of Picardes in Bohemiah and of Gomorists Arminians Remonstrants Contraremonstrants in Holland and other partes of Germanie can be said if he follow the doctrines of his chiefe doctors to beleeue aright any one Article of the Apostles Creede 4 That the God of the Protestants according to their chiefe doctrines the famous confessions of some of the the same fraternitie is no other but a diuell of hell The due consideration of either of which heades or chapters vvill abundantly fuffice to perswade anie man that is carefull of his saluation and hath not made a couenant with death hel to fly the fellovvship of this heretical fraternitie hastē to the rock of that true Roman Catholike Church from vvhole top Luther Caluin other their Cymists by the incitements of the flesh the vvorld and the diuell casting them selues headlong fell into the sea of heresies in vvhich to be by death drenched is to eternally lost and certainely swallovved vp in the Charibdis of hells bottomlesse abisse THE CONTENCE of the first Chapter THAT Luther Caluin Zwinglius Bucer Osiander and all other prime Doctors of Protestancie vvere by their ovvne Confessions borne baptized and bred in the Roman Catholike Church and by their false beganne Protestancie that the said Luther by his ovvne and most other chiefe Protestants assertions vvas the first knovvne Protestant a sonne vvith out a father and a scholler vvithout a master That neither Illiricus Fulke FOXE or White in their pretended bedrowe of Protestant vvitnesses haue produced one true Protestant but haue shamefully stuffed their Catalogues vvith many knovvē and confessed Roman Catholikes infinite store of desperate heretikes and a multitude of infamous persons c. The contents of the second Chapter THat the chiefe doctrines principles of the Protestant Religion viz. That vve may be saued by faith onely that there is no free vvill to good that children may be saued vvithout baptisme that Christians enioy not the veritie of the olde figures that the Sacraments doe not conferre grace that the commandemenes are impossible to be kept that Christians are not tyed in conscience to performe the Lavvs of the church or com mon vveale that all thinges happen by ineuitable necessitie that Christs and S. Iohns baptisme vvere all one that the Church may be for some time inuisible that Altars holy oyle and the like are to be contemned that approoued generall councels may erre that the dead are not to be prayed for that Images are not to be set vp and vvorshipped that Matrimonie is of equall merit vvith Virginitie that Christ is not Realie in the Eucharist that the Saints can neither heare our prayers nor helpe vs that the Sea of Rome is the seate of pestilence that Indulgences are of no vvorth c. are old condemned heresies The contence of the third Chapter THat the chiefe Doctors of Protestancie teach a pluralitie of gods cannot vvell brooke the vvord Trinitie deny that Christ is God of God or that the Essence of the Father vvas communicated to him affirme that Christ vvas inferour to his Father as touching his diuinitie maintaine that Christ is his Fathers vicar or vicegerent as he is God that he had tvvo persons that he vvas subiect to ignorance and vicious affections that he is not omnipotent nor able to doe many things that he cannot be adored vvith out Idolatry because his humanity is ioyned to his Godhead that the blessed virgin remained not a Virgin in after her child-birth that she vvas subiect to the infirmities of other vvomen in child-bearing that Christs natiuitie and incarnation vvere no vvay meritorious that Christs diuine nature vvas crucified suffered and dead together vvith his humaine that his corporall death vvas nothing auaileable c. that Christ died not for all men but for some fevv that Christ descended not at all into hell that his soule lay together vvith his body in the graue that he freed not the Patriarkes and Prophets in his descent that he could not raise himselfe from the death by his ovvne povver that his Resurrection Ascention vvere no vvay miraculous c. that men neede not feare that their vvorkes shall come into iudgement that the holy ghost hath a distinct Essence from the Father and the Sonne that he is vnequal to the Father and the Sonne c. that the church may erre in fundamentall points that it vvas inuisible for a 1000. years together at lest c. that mens sins are neuer truly remitted no
not in baptisme c. The contence of the fourth Chapter THat God according to the Protestants expresse doctrines doth not onely permit but force men to sinne that some men by naked decree of God vvithout any desert of their ovvne are Predestinated to eternall damnation that hovvsoeuer God affirme that he vvould haue all men saued yet he neuer meant so that the most vvicked persons that euer vvere vvere of God appointed to be vvicked euen as they vvere that the diuel is but Gods agent or instruâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 doth but vvhat God commandeth him c. TO THE RIGHT worshipfull Doctors to the Worshipfull Maisters and to the worthie Students of the Vniuersitie of Oxford BEing admonished by a deare friend of myne that this Treatise was defectiue in that it wanted an Epistle Dedicatorie I considered with my selfe and resolued to recommend it vnto the Vniuersitie of Oxford in respect that it was penned by a Scholler and sometime a student of the said Vniuersitie And I my selfe in my youth sucked the breasts of that Nurse Often admiring the purple robes and decorum of the Doctors accounting of them as of the Senators and Sages of England But yet euer detesting schisme and heresie in my hart being by Gods prouidence and goodnes euen acunabulis from my cradle inclyned to Catholike faith and Religion Whereupon I left my natiue soyle and trauelled into forrayne Countries where often reflecting with astonishment that men of that outward grauitie eloquence and learning should be so ouer-shaddowed with so darke a cloude of error schisme and heresie and of so weake a iudgement as to thinke all the world to be ecclipsed and that the light of the Gospel could shine onely from Martin Luther and Peter Martir two Apostata Fryers or any such rabble Returning into my Countrie especially since his Maiesties happie raigne ouer Great Britaine I ioyed much to see as it were at our time the prime places of Prelacie occupyed by Oxford men as Canterburie by D. Abbot Yorke by D. The prime place of supremacie in EnglaÌ„d Tobie Matthew Winchester by D. Bilson Durrham by D Iames Rochester by D. Pukerig London by D. King an Eloquent Pulpit man who was vexed long vvith a grieuous painefull sickenesse of the stone Oftentimes afflictio dat intellectum There vvas a constant report that he desired a Priest before his death and to die a member of the Catholike-Roman Church If the report were true a memorable note of Gods grace and goodnes If not true the vvorst to himselfe wherefore my innated affection towardes your persons and the place vrgeth mee to dedicate this Treatise vnto you hoping that it may vvorke some good effect among you 2 Novv hauing named the vvorthie men of Oxford for their prime place for Prelacie I must not omitte the more vvorthie men for good life learning vvho left all vvorldly preferment entertayned banishment vndertooke voluntarie pouertie and forsooke all delights and pleasures of this land for their Religion and for the profession of the Catholike Roman faith The learned Doctors who left Oxford for religion and for the saluation of their soules And first I name VVilliam Allen Doctor of Diuinitie professor and reader of the Diuinitie lectur in the Vniuersitie of Doway the first Founder and President of the English Colledge at Doway vvho vvent vp to Rome and obtayned of Pope Gregorie the 13. the foundation of that Seminarie Cardinall ALLEN and exhibition for a certaine number of Schollers there to be maintained Aftervvard in Pope Syxtus quintus time he vvas called to Rome againe and there created Cardinal the 7. of August anno Dom. 1587. vvhen hee receaued his Cardinals Hatte the Pope pronounced these vvords Ego creoto Ducem principem socium regum Cardinalem Angliae fratrem meum A worthie title for so vvorthie a man Secondly I name D. Audoeu or Owen Lewes an Oxford man D. LEWES Archbishoppe of Cassana vvho vvas Reader of the Lavv lecture in the Vniuersitie of Doway for some yeares after sent for by the Metropolitan of Cambray and by him sent to Rome to negotiat important businesse of his vvhich happely being performed he remained there and vvas made Refâ—ndarie to the Pope Gregorie the 13. and Vicar general vnder the Ar h-bishop of Millan Carollus Boromeus the Sainct after elected and consecrated Bishop of Cassana and visitor general in Rome vnder Clement the 8. and in election to haue bene Cardinall if he had not bene preuented by death What should I name D. Harding D. Sanders D. D. HARDING and others Bristow D. Stapleton vvith other Oxford men all most famous for learning as their vvorkes written against the heresies of this age now extant doe declare Gregorie Martine William Reonals M. Rastall M. Marshial Licentiat in Diuinitie and manie others for breuities sake I doe ommitte worthie members of the Vniuersitie of Oxford Among the Fathers of the Societie Edmund Campion Robert Parsons a famous writer with others Reuerend Priestes I thinke I may say descending from the same Nurcerie aboue a hundred D. Barret D. Worthington both Oxford men and Presidents successiuely in the Colledge of Rhemes and Dowaye And now speaking of the gouernours of Colledges I cannot omitte to letaine and number in this rancke the now present President D. The President of Doway Kellison although not an Oxford man yet I know a well-willer to that Vniuersitie a mylde Moysies for his gouernment readie to giue content to all men a louer of learning a premoter of pietie a great writer Shall I omitte D. Cicile who was Almner and Confessor vnto the syster of Henrie the third K. of France D. CICEL and wife and Queene to Henrie the 4 D. Bagshow D. Bishoppe I cannot but admire and praise the prouidence and goodnesse of Almightie God in this time of persecutions to consider men who haue left their countrie accepted of banishment content with pouertie abrogated the world without al hope of preferment yet aduanced aboue all expectation Therefore looke at this present and cast your eyes vppon D. D. GIFFORD Peere of France Gifford in his youth a scholler of Oxford if I mistake not went ouer the seaes was a lumnus of the Colledge of Rome after became Reader of Diuinitie in the English Colledge of Rhemes and now promoted by Lewes the 13. King of France to be Arch-bishop of Rhemes Metropolitan and Peere of France for his learning for his pietie for his eazle against the Hugonettes of France an excellent Pulpit man who Preached before the King at Paris a whole Lent In Germanie we had D. Turner an Oxford man in the Vniuersitie of Ingolstad heighlie esteemed for his learning eloquence and Oratorie D. Spetheriâ— vvas Theologus to Cardinal Paleat D. ELIE Archbishop of Bolonia D Elie was reader in the Vniuersitie of Mossapoat in Lorayne manie yeares for his learning in the Law cannon ciuil famous his elder brother sometime was President of the colledge