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A19566	A confutatio[n] of vnwritte[n] verities both bi the holye scriptures and moste auncient autors, and also probable arguments, and pithy reasons, with plaine aunswers to al (or at the least) to the moste part and strongest argumentes, which the aduersaries of gods truth, either haue, or can bryng forth for the profe and defence of the same vnwritten vanities, verities as they would haue them called: made up by Thomas Cranmer ... translated and set forth, by E.P. The contentes whereof, thou shalte find in the next side folowinge.	Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556.; E. P., fl. 1556.	1556 (1556)	STC 5996; ESTC S109030	77,248	224

❧ A Confutatiō of vnwrittē verities both bi the holye scriptures and moste auncient autors and also probable arguments and pithy reasons with plaine aunswers to al or at the least to the moste part and strongest argumentes which the aduersaries of gods truth either haue or can bryng forth for the profe and defence of the same vnwritten vanities verities as they woulde haue them called made by Thomas Cranmer late Archebishop of Cantorburie Martyr of god and burned at Oxford for the defēce of the trewe doctrine of our sauiour Christ translated and set forth by E. P. ¶ The contentes whereof thou shalte finde in the next side folowinge The contentes FIrste the preface of the translator to hys contrye men and brethren of Englande Ca. i. That the word of god written and contained within the Cannon of the Bible is a trew sounde perfect and whole doctrine containinge in it selfe fullye all thynges nedefull for our saluacyon ii That the writinges of the olde fathers without the written woorde of God are not able to proue any doctryne in religion iii. That generall counsels haue no auctorytye to make newe Articles of our fayth iiii That nothyng can be proued by oracles of Angles touchyng religion v. That apparicions be vnsufficiente to that purpose vi Neyther at miracles able to proue the same vii Custome also is of no strength in this case viii Reasons against vnwritten verities ix Scriptures alleged by the papistes for vnwrittē verities with answeres to the same x. Doctors to the same purpose with their aunswers The papistes obiections with aunswers vnto them ¶ The Preface WHat Chrystyan harte dearelye beloued contremen and brethrē in oure sauyour Chryst can abstayne from depe sobbes and sorowefull syghinges What naturall and kinde harted man can forbeare weping so oftē as he calleth to rememberaunce the Lordes vyneyarde within the realme of Englande whiche he himselfe had of late so stronglye hedged walled and fenced rounde aboute by the princes of most famous memory King Henry the eighte and Edwarde the sixte and planted therin the pure vine of his owne blessed woorde by Godly preachers his gardeners to be so sodenly broken down destroied wasted and wrooted vp by the rootes by the wilde bore of the wood and the beastes of the field that is by the Romishe Bishoppe and hys bloodye ministers and now in the same vineiard to see planted take roote and prosper brambles bryars and hēlockes that is grosse ignoraūce naughtie doctrīe● false worshyppe of God and suche other kindes of moste stinkynge vile and filthye weedes Oh what a swete and pleasaunt grape of godly doctrine was thē gathered in England to the great comfort and reioysing of al thē that louinglye tasted thereof Then was gods word for that is the swete and pleasaūt grape that maketh glad the hart of man with great freedome preached earnestly embraced and with gredy hartes in all places receaued Then was Godes great glory maruelously auaunced Then the onely merytes of Chryste then trewe repentaunce for oure former synnes then trust in gods mercy through the death of our sauyoure Christe with a newe Christian life was truly published preached euery wher Then was ther the common praier rightlye vsed and the Sacramēts Baptisme I meane and the holi Communion in suche a tounge and language set forthe that all people myghte vnderstande them Then were they playnlye ministred without any iuglinge or sorcerie accordyng to Christes institucyon and the rule of hys holye worde Whiche worde at that time had the pryce bare the bell awaie throughe oute the whole lande With that were all pulpettes filled Churches garnished prīters shoppes furnyshed and euery mans house decked With gods word was euery mās mouth occupied of that wer al sōges enterludes and plaies made But alas so long till all was playde vnder the boorde But what was the cause of all this Truly none other thing but oure owne sinnes and wickednes For we were talkers onelye and not walkers lippe gospellers from the mouth outewarde and no farther We were euen suche as the prophet speaketh of saying thys people honoreth me with their lyppes but are farre from me with their hartes We coulde speake of gods word and talke gloryously therof but in oure hartes we were full of pryde malice enuye couetousnesse backebitynge riosing harlot hauntinge no whitte bettered at all then we were before vnder the Popes kingdom Nothing was in vs amended but only our tonges no nor they neither if I shall speake ryghtly and as the trueth was in dede For besydes oure communycacion of scrypture we vsed detraction of our neighboure filthy talke with many proud bragges of our selues We red not the scryptures neither harde them for any amendmente of oure owne wicked lyues but onely to make a bragge and a shewe thereof to checke and to taunte others yea and to spye small motes in other mens eies but nothing desyerous to see the greate beames in oure owne This I saye to talke and not to walke to say not to do was not onely amongest the vnlerned sort but also amongeste the greate clarkes and chefe preachers of gods worde Whiche thynge as I iudge was the only cause why god by his iust iudgemente suffered his electe and chosen vynclarde to be thus troden downe wroeted vp and myserably afflicted by thys bloodye Bore of Rome and the fa●te Bulles of Basan hys cruel officers Thys is the cause why God hath suffered thys greate Antichryste to disgrace the merites of Christes passion and in place thereof to sette vp mens merytes and in steade of hys sufficyent satisfaction vpon the crosse once for all to sette vp hys masses satisfactorye for the synnes both of the quicke and deade This is the cause that this mōsterous beast hath taught the inuocation of saincts and the same to be our medyators to God and satysfyers for oure sinnes Where as before in the forenamed vyneyarde was planted Chryste Iesus the trewe breade that came downe from heauen and that moste pure well of the water of life now after the wroo●ing of this mōsterous and rauenous Bore are vp spronge coniured bread coniured water to driue awaye euill spirites and to pourge oure sinnes Thys bloody Bore besides al mischeues that he hath done to the vineyarde yet ceaseth he not with faggotfier and all other cruell tormentes to constraine and compel men to worship Images the worke of mens handes to knele to them to reuerēce thē to bow them and with all maner of obe●saunce to honour them cleane contrary to gods commaundemente who saieth thou walte not make to thy selfe much lesse then to honoure reuerence and worshippe them any grauen Image nor the likenes of any thing that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beneth or in the water vnder the earth thou shalt not bowe down to them nor worshippe them But yet these shameles wretches be not abashed to saye

also as thou haste knowen the holy scriptures of a chylde which are able to make the learned vnto saluacion throughe the fayth which is in Chryste Iesu. For al scripture geuen by inspiracion of God is profitable to teache to improue to amende to instructe in righteousnesse that the man of god may be perfecte prepared to all good workes If any man speake let hym speake as the wordes of god If any man come vnto you and bryng not thys learning receaue hym not into your house neither bid him God spede For he that byddeth hym God spede is partaker of hys euyll dedes If any man shall adde vnto these thynges god shall adde vnto hym the plages that are wrytten in this booke And if any man shall minishe of the wordes of thys prophesye God shall take awaye his part out of the boke of lyfe and out of the holy citie and frō those thynges whiche are written in thys boke ¶ That the writinges of the olde fathers without the written woorde of god are not able to proue anye doctryne in religion ¶ The .ii. Chapter IReneus libro .ii. Cap. 46. To le●̄e to the scriptures of god whych is the certayne and vndouted trueth is to buylde a mans house vpō a suer and stronge rock But to leaue that and leaue to ani other doctrins what so euer they be is to builde a curious house vpon the ●hatteringe grauell whereof the ouerthrowe is easye IDem in Epistola .72 Happy is he that soweth vpon the wat●r● where the Oxe and the Asse treadeth that is vpon that people whych onely foloweth the doctrine of both the testamentes and not vpon the vayne tradycions of men TErtulliane in the prescryptiōs of heretykes pa. 95. It is not lawfull for vs to fauoure any doctryne at oure pleasure nor yet to chose what any manne hath brought in of his owne mynde We haue the Apostles of the Lorde for oure authors whyche dyd not electe anye thynge that they woulde brynge in of their owne heades but taught faythfullye to all nacyons that doctryne that they had receaued of Chryste Therefore althoughe an Aungell from heauen shoulde preache any other thynge lette vs holde hym accursed ANd a litle after he sayeth We nede to vse no curiositie after Iesus Chryste nor make further searche after the gospell for whē we beleue we desier to beleue no more For first we beleue this that there is nothyng els that we ought to beleue IDem of the fleshe of Chryst pa. 20. agaynst Apelles whyche saied that the Angels had a bodely substanc● which thei toke of the ●●●tres Tertallian answereth that there is no certenty in thys matter because the scripture declareth it not THe sae to Praxeas Let thys be a generall rule indifferently determyned before hande agaynst all heresyes that that is true what so euer is first that to bee forged what soeuer cōmeth after pa. 418. ORigen in his first homily vpon Ieremy Vle must nedes cal the holye scriptures to wytnes for our iudgements and exposicious with out these witnesses are worthye no credite IDem vpon Leuiticus in his fyfte homilye If the holy scripture doe not determine any thing we ought not to admitte any other wrytyng for the stablyshinge of our doctryne but as for the rest let vs leaue it to god THe same vpon the thirde chapter to the Romanes After these as his custome is meanynge by sainct Paul he doth confirme that he had sayd by the scriptures geuing also an example to the preachers of the churche that those thynges whyche they speake to the people should be armed and mayntained by the holi scriptures and not spoken oute of theyr own iudgements For if he being such and so great an Apostle thoughte not the aucthorite of hys owne wordes to be sufficiente excepte be teache those thynges which he saieth to be wrytten in the law and the prophets ho● much more ought we litle ones to take heade that when we teache we vtter not our own mindes but the sentences of the holy gost THe same vpon Mathew in his 26. homily no man ought for the stablyshing of doctryne to vse any bokes that be withoute the canonicall scriptures CIprian in the exposicion of the Crede after that he hath rehearsed the canonical bokes of the Bible he sayeth These be they whiche oure fathers haue included within the Canon out of the whyche our fathers woulde the doctryne of our fayth to be certaine neuertheles there be other bokes which of our elders were not called canonycall but Ecclesiastical as the boke of wisdōe the bokes of Sirach Tobie Iudyth Machabees and other All whyche bokes they would haue to be redde in th● churche but not alleged as of aucthoritie to confirme any article of our fayth Al other writinges thei called Ap●crypha whiche they would in no wyse to be redde in the churche AThanasius against the gentyles The holy Scriptures being in spired from god are sufficiente to all instruction of the trueth BAsilius in his boke of Ethikes of his short definitions the. 26. Euery worde and dede that maketh for the certentye and suertye of good men and the confusion of them that be euill must be confirmed by the testimony of Goddes scriptures And those thinges which either in our nature or in the custome and maner of our life are manifestly knowen must we vse to confirme those thynges which we doe and say THe same in his short definitiōs the first questiō Whether it bee lawful or expedient for a man to permit himselfe to do what he thinketh good without the testimonie of the holy scriptures ▪ 〈◊〉 aunswere Seyng that our sauiour sayth of the holy gost he shall not speake of hymselfe but what soeuer he hath heard that shall he speake And of himself he sayeth the sonne can dooe nothynge of himselfe And agayne I haue not spoken of my selfe but he whiche sent me gaue me commaundemente what I shoulde say and what I shold speake and I knowe that hys commaundemente is eternall lyfe therefore those thynges that I speake I speake as the father sayd vnto me who is he then that wil runne into suche madnesse that he dare once thynke onelye anye thyng of himselfe seeing that he hath nede of the holy ghoste for his ayde so that both in mynde word and worke he may be gided in the way of trueth and that he must nedes walke in darknes excepte he bee lightened with the sonne of righteousnes oure lorde Iesus Chryste whiche shineth vpon vs with hys cōmaundementes as with bright beames For the commaundement of the lorde is cleare and geueth lyght to the eyes For of those thinges that are done and commonly vsed among vs some are by gods commaūdement determined and playnlye set forth in the holyscriptures and some not expressed Of those that be expressed by the scriptures there is vtterlye no power geuen to any man what so euer

that we may deni them if they dissent frō the holy scripturs We may not think al that the old fathers did write to be true Al mens writings ought to be weyghed by the canonical scriptures He confesseth many errours in his owne bokes 〈◊〉 others also Beleue not his writings except thou be suer of them by the scriptures we ought not to esteme mans writinges further then thei agree with the scripturs but may refuse thē at our pleasures Vnderstande the word written for they that learn of it learne of god al things perteining to doctrine and good maners are in the worde written which is sufficiēte Note this holy fathers wordes and print them in your hartes for euer If preachers ought so then so ought all others for they al are prepared to come to one ende by one ordinary rule The scriptures only are sufficiēt for matter of saluaciō If any mā speak let him speake accordinge to the worde of god excepte he wil be called by these names here expressed We may not beleue the generall faith excepte the same agre with goddes worde the truth of our fayth is conteyned in the worde written Thei wer gathered in the spirite of pride and enuy and not in the spirit of mekenes and loue Note these words diligentlye and forget them not Counsails are not of such authorite that what so euer thei decree must be holdē for truth The scripture must trie all Marke thys Reade ye Papistes and be no longer ignorāte Coūsails may and doe erre oftimes Read the Psalme O what a court is this that in suspicion of heresye acquiteth no man and in cause of adultery condēneth no priest be his crime neuer so openlye knowen Cano. 7. Cano. 9. Can̄o 10. The counsel of nice Cano. 6. The coūcel of nice cano 20. The coūcell of Nice 6. The coūcell of Gāgrēse Ibidē 7. The coūsel of Neocesario The coūcel of Laodicia Ibidem Ibidem Mat. 23. The deuill deceueth man because he wādereth from the word written and is not cōtēt therewith Spirites worke no good but euill The deuils miracles ar● to worke mischief Thei hurt most of all when thei cease from hurtyng The deuils vexe both bodye ct soule to cause mē to seke to them for help and so to be worshipped as god Sathan worketh miracles by Images and hereof springeth the worshipping of Images The deuils speke in Imags as thogh thei wer gods thoughe deuils prophesi truly of thynges to come yet all is but dysceite to make mē to worship thē Sathan vnder pretence of dead mēs soules de ceaueth thē that lyue and leadeth them into Idolatrye Subtil Sathan sayneth himself to be Christ ct worshipped as god How shal we then knowe any certayne trueth by apparicions Thei that beleue visions often worship Sathan for Christ. Read the place Read the Chapter He laugheth theyr foolishnes to scorne the scripture ought to be beleued rather thē the testimonye of the dead for it is gods owne word and the other oft times the deuils The dead neuer returne after the death to tel their state that be dead The scripture is to ●e beleued aboue all thinges It is not the soule of the dead that saith I am such a mans soule but the devyl counterfeteth the dead to deceue the liuing for soules departed the bodie can not walke her on earth Mar. 13. By this example ye maye iudge of the popishe miracles True Christiās work miracls profitable to the seers but the wicked without profit at all God sufferth wicked men to worke miracles for the tryall of the faythfull The faithfull nede no miracles for signes are gyven to the vnbelevers .1 Corin .14 Al doctrine ought to be tryed by the canonicall in plaine sense and not by wordes that be darke doubtful or figuratyue Miracles shewed at the tombes of saintes proue no doctrine Visions seen eyther in dreame● or being awake cānot make any doctryne Men be heard at the tombes of heretikes and yet is not their doctrine true The deuill worketh miracles in the temples and Idols of the gētils although their religion be false an detestable Menne ought to prou● thēselfes to be the true churche by none other me●nes but by the scripturs only Neyther miracles nor agrement of Bishops in doctryne proue any thing in religion Not miracle workers but the commaundemente kepers ar called blessed of Chryste To work miracles maketh no man holy nor to worke no miracles hindereth his holynes Thys would be put amōg the appariciōs of the dead Sathan counterfetteth Moses Math. 18. Argumente Answere Math. 7. Acres 19. Math. 7. A replicacion Answere Math. 23. The. 2. argumēt The first answere The second answere the forth argumēt Math. 28 Answere The. 5. argumēt Iohn 16. Answere Iohn 14. Iohn 15. Luke 18. Math. 20 Math. 16 The. 6. argumēt Iohn 20. Answere 2. Thess. 2 argumēt Answer 2. Cor. 10 Actes 1● Argumente Ans●ere Vnderstande here as necessary to saluacion Argumente Answere Argumente Answere Argumente argumēt ●rgumēt Answere Answere argumēt Answere argumēt argumēt Answere Answere argumēt Answere Gene. 17 Math. 19. Luke 19. 1. Cor. 7. argumēt Esai 56. Esai 58. To lanuarye epist. 119. The bodely rest on the sabboth day is figuratiuely to be kepte To the perfite Ghristiā al dayes be lyke and eueri day is good friday eueri day is Easter day and we eat● hys fleshe alwayes argumēt Answere Christes bage Dani. 7. The mark to knowe antichrist by is to preuaill by persecucion againste gods elect saints Daniel 8. And the marke of the true churche is to be persecuted of Antichriste Read the places Read the Chapters argumēt Answere Iohn sleidane Elzabeth Barton O diuilishe illusion Reade more of herin her boke set forth in print and in Halles cronicle A letter forged as thoughe it had come frō heauen Bishops euer haue been bolsterers of idolatry A notable miracle Christe prouedre alli in the hoste by 2. horses the deuil sp●aking in one of them Which is Rome

and delyuered to vs all thynges also which we see and delyuer to our posterite whiche dooe appertayne to getting and maintaining of true relygion the scripture of god did not passe with silence AGayne to the brethren in the wildernes Reade the holy scripture wherin ye shal finde fulli what is to be folowed and what to be auoyded THe same of nature and grace lib. 1. Cap. 61. I owe my consente to the Canonicall scryptures wythout any refusal THe same vpon Iohn .49 treatyse Cap. 11. Not all thynges that the Lorde Iesus dyd are writtē as the same Euangelist witnesseth for the lord both did and saied many thinges that are not wrytten but thynges were chosen oute to bee written whiche semed sufficiente for the saluacion of the beleuers THe same againste Faustus the 23. lib. ca. 9. That whych Faustꝰ putteth forth vpō the byrth of mary that she had a certayne priest to her father of the tribe of Leuye named Ioachim because it is not canonicall it doeth not binde me THe same of Baptisme againste the Anabaptistes li. 2. cap. 6. Let vs not bryng deceytfull balances wherin we may weighe what we wil after our owne pleasure saying this is heuy this is light but lette vs bring the diuine balances of the holy scriptures as of the treasurs of the lord and in it let vs weigh what is heuy yea let vs not weigh but rather acknowledge the things that ar● weighed of the lord AGayne vpon Iohn the .46 treates Sitting vpō the chaier of Moses they teache the lawe of god therfore god teacheth by them But if they wil teach their own hear thē not do not after thē for truli such men searche their own but not these thinges which are of Iesus Chryste AGayne in the .3 lib of the Christen doctrine Cap. Vlt. Howe much lesse the aboundaunce of golde siluer and clothynge whyche that people brought with them for the of Egipt is in comparison of the riches whiche afterwarde they had at Hierusalem whiche aboue all other was shewed in kyng Salomon so let al knowledge which is in dede profytably gathered out of the bokes of the Gentils be such if it be compared to the knowledge of gods scripturs For what soeuer man learneth without them if it bee euil there it is condemned if it be profitable there it is foūd And seinge then euerye manne shall fynde all thynges there whiche he hath profytably learned other where much more aboundantly shal he find those thinges there whiche canne no where at all els be learned but onely in the meruelous dep●es and wonderfull humilite of those scriptures THe same in his boke of nature and Grace the 61. Cap. We may lawefully sometyme dissente from other learnynge but to the Catholyke learnyng euery man must geue place euery man must subscribe whether he be laye mannne Priest King or Emperour THe same in his .2 lib. of the Christian doctrīe the .9 Cap. After that he hath nombered the Canonicall bookes he sayeth thus In al these bokes they that feare god and are tamed through godlynes do search the wil of god The first note of which laboure and trauayle as we sayd is to knowe these bokes and if as yet we cā not vnderstande them yet lette vs by readyng get them in memory or not to bee altogether ignoraunt in them Further more those thinges whiche be plainly contayned therein whether they be preceptes of lyuyng or els of beleuinge are earnestly and diligentely to be searched whiche howe many the more euery man fyndeth so much the more is he apte in his vnderstandyng In these therfore whych are euydently contayned in the scripture are founde all thynges whyche contayne fayth maners of liuinge hope and loue THe same of the vnite of the church .3 cap. Let vs not hear I say thou sayest but lette vs heare thus sayeth the Lorde There are out of doubte the Lordes bokes to the aucthoritie whereof we both consent we both beleue we both serue Let vs search the church there let vs discusse our cause there AGaine in his seconde booke of Baptisme againste the Donatists the .3 Ca. Who is he that knoweth not that the scripture canonical is so contayned within his certaine bondes of the newe and olde testament and is so to bee preferred aboue al latter wrytynges of Byshops that a man mai not at al either doubt or dispute of it whether any thynge be true or right that he is suer is written in it but the leters of al other Bishops whiche are or shalbe hereafter written besides the Canonicall scryptures already confirmed may be reproued eyther by more graue aucthoritie of other Bishops or learned mē and by the wordes of euery man that is better sene in the matter AGaine in his seconde booke of the merites and forgeuenesse of synnes ca. Vlt. tom 7. Where disputacion is had of a doubtful matter if the certayne and cleare doctrīe of the scriptures of god do not help i● mans reason ought to staye it selfe no thing leanīg to eyther part For thogh I know not how to expresse eueri one of these thīgs yet I beleue suerli that the scriptures of god should be moste plaine herein if a man mighte not be ignoraunt herof wythout the losse of that saluacion that is promised hym AGaine in his boke of pastors He apoīted the hilles of Israell the authors of the scrypturs of god fede there that you maye fede safely What so euer you hear out of that lette it sauoure well to you what so euer is besyds that refuse it leste you wander into cloudes Get you to the hilles of the Scriptures there bee the pleasures of your hartes there is no noysōe hurtful or venemous thinges no inconuenyente thynges there be most plentifull pastures AGaine of Christian doctryne 2. lib. Cap. 9. In these thyngs that be plainly set furth in the scriptures are founde all thynges that contayne fayth and maners of liuing that is to wit hope and charite Then after a certaine familiarite had wyth the speche of the scripture of god we must goe to expounde and discus those thinges that be darke that to geue lyghte to darke speaches examples may be taken out of the more playne places and some testymonies of places beyng certayne maye take a way the doute of the vncertayne sentences AGaine of the Christian doctrīe the .3 lib. Cap. 26. Dark places are to be expounded by plainer places That is the surest way to expound one scripture by another AGayne to Vincente the Donatist Epistola .48 This kinde of learning speakynge of the olde wryters doinges is not to bee redde with necessitie of beliefe but with libertye of iudgemēt And after There that is in the holy scrypturs it is not lawfull to saye the author of this boke perceaued not the truth but eyther that the boke is false or the interpreter hath erred or thou vnderstādest it