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A17219	Questions of religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the aduersaries of the same: and aunswered by M. H. Bullinger of Zurick: reduced into .17. common places. Translated into Englishe by Iohn Coxe. 1572	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Coxe, John.	1572 (1572)	STC 4074; ESTC S113230	103,005	301

¶ Questions of Religion cast abroad in HELVETIA by the Aduersaries of the same and aunswered by M. H. Bullinger of ZVRICK reduced into 17. Common places Translated into Englishe by Iohn Coxe 1572. ¶ Imprinted at London by Henrie Bynneman for George Byshop To the right Reuerend father in God and my very good Lorde William by Gods prouidēce Bishop of Excester Iohn Cox Wisheth all grace and peace of conscience from God our heauenly father through Chryste Iesus our Lord nowe and for euer WHEN I HAD finished the translation of thys Booke right Reuerende father and being persvvaded by some of my godly freends to publishe the same in Printe for that it vvas a Booke not onely conteyning the vvhole summe of our Christian Religion but also ansvveres to all the obiections vvhich our aduersaries the Papistes may or can obiecte agaynst vs bearing any similitude or likelyhode of truthe and agayne also considering vvith my selfe that in these our dayes beeing the laste and therefore the moste perillous and daungerous dayes for so our sauiour Christ him selfe teacheth vs vvherin vve haue great neede to be furnished against the assaultes of the enimies of true Religion and vvaying vvith my selfe the godly minde of the author D. Henry Bullinger vvho vvrote the same in hys ovvne naturall tongue for the profite of his Countreymen as more largely appeareth in his ovvne preface vvhere he declareth vvhy he tooke this matter in hande a man of moste singular learning and vertuous liuing for vvhom all christendome is bound to magnifie the maiestie of god declaring his loue tovvards vs in sending such an excellent member to his Church vvho paynfully traueled not only in Lectures and Sermons euen in his olde and feble age but also vvrote many Bookes so that it can not vvell be discerned in vvhich of these tvvo exercises he did most excede in labor thought I could do God no better seruice and no greater pleasure to my Countreymen than to make them partakers of suche a precious perle as this For that it is a sure shield and strong furnished fortresse agaynst the carping tongs and clapping clacks of Mo●●● his race For such is the gret frovvardnesse obstinacie of some men that althoughe God of his mercy and clemencie hath repressed and beatē dovvne the frosen frostie and darke mountayns of Popish Cimmeria vvherby the clearenesse of his Gospell vvas kepte from vs and hath caused the most comfortable bright beames of his Gospell to shyne foorthe ouer vs yet they most vvickedly blyndfield them selues vvyth the thicke and foggie mystes of mans imaginations and so rebelling agaynst God their Creator chose rather stubbornely to abyde in their olde horrible darkenesse than vvillingly to embrace the comfortable lyghte of so mercyfull a god VVherefore I mused vvith my selfe to vvhome cheefly I might dedicate this treatise amongst many graue and vvise personages I foūd none so meete as your fatherhoode and that for tvvo causes The one for that it hath pleased god of his mercy to take avvay hence vnto him selfe that moste precious levvel and excellent ornament of his Church D. Jewell late Byshop of Sarisburie for vvhose death vvhat sighes and teares are amongest the godly I ceasse to declare partly for that I vvyll not augmente and renue your Fatherhoods conceiued sorrovves vvhich you haue planted vvithin your breste such vvas the great amitie loue and faythfull frendship betvveene you and for that partly the aboundaunce of mine ovvne teares forceth the same such are the vehement affections of mans nature to vvhome this Booke vvas dedicated by one Iosias Simlerus one of the chefe Ministers in the Church of Zuricke vvho turned the same out of Dutche into Latin vvherin the author vvrote it as I sayd before that as the Booke vvas a defence and fortresse to many so he lykevvyse mighte be a sheelde and defence vnto the same agaynst the brauling tongues of the barking enimyes the Papistes vvho are euer ready to spit foorthe the pestiferous humors of their malitious and vngodly stomacks as their tyrannous practises from tyme to tyme haue and doo moste manyfestly declare VVherfore righte reuerende father and my singular good Lorde sithe it hathe pleased God as I sayde before to take avvay from vs such an ornament and Ievvel for some good cause vnto him knovven I offer this his defence into your hands beeing no lesse vvorthy to take so good a matter in hande The other is your good Lordshyps accustomable fauour and good vvill continually bestovved on the cheefe of my freends vvhich forceth me to dedicate this vnto you therby to signifie that althoughe there vvanteth povver and habilitie bothe in them and me to requite any parte thereof yet suche is our bounden dueties tovvards your Lordshippe that neither blinde obliuion nor tyme vvith his crooked sithe shall be able to cut that reuerende affection and loue from our brestes vvhich vvee haue duetifully conceiued tovvards you VVherefore I moste humbly beseeche you to accepte this my trauell in good parte and as the onely token of him vvho prayeth dayly vnto the almightie God that he may encrese you vvith honor and so gouerne you vvith his holy spirite that as you haue begun so you may continue a most vigilant and paynfull pastor in Chrystes Churche to the comforte and encrease thereof the quiet and discharge of your ovvn conscience the defacing and ouerthrovving of the aduersaries of the same and the incoraging and prouoking of your godly Ministers and Preachers to folovv your steppes in paynfulnesse diligence loue humilitie and other moste excellēt vertues for the vvhich amongst all the godly you are moste vvorthely commended and that so finishing your lyfe vvith a long and an honorable age you may vvith Chryst Iesus our head and onely cheefe pastor possesse the crovvne of eternall glory for euer and euer Amen Your Lorpships moste humble at commaundement IOHN COXE To the right reuerend Father in God Iohn Iuel Bishop of Sarisburie Iosias Simlerus vvisheth health I Haue heard oftentimes many godly men greatly desire some wryting in the which ther might bréefely be confuted all the chéefe argumentes of the Popishe prelates For saide they there is muche written very copiously and learnedly against them but all mē haue not leisure to reade ouer so great and large woorkes And furthermore to those which trauell and by crueltie of the persecuters of oure religion are forced to read them priuily these great volumes are to them very incommodious bicause they cannot easily be caried about with them nor thrust or hidde in their bosome And remembring that a fewe yéeres agone the reuerend father in God Iohn Parkhurst did often times desire me that like as D. Bullinger my father in lawe whome for reuerence sake I name had bréefely set foorthe the chéefe poyntes of our religion and confirmed the same by testimonie of holy scripture intituling it the Summe of Christian Religion so I in like maner shuld gather togither al the arguments which the papists

are wōt to bring out of the scriptures against vs our doctrin And he encoraged me héerunto saying that this labor wold not be so tedious harde vnto me as profitable and grateful vnto many good men And it would be the lesse laboure for that many of oure countrymen hadde wrytten very largely in the same matter so as there remained nothing else vnto me but to bring them into some bréefe order And as touching the profite héereof he sayde it mighte well be perceiued for that héeretofore there was sette foorthe an Enchiridion of common places by Iohn Eckius a very stoute champion on the Popes behalfe which being studiously and earnestly read of many Papistes confirmed them in their erroures and therefore he had no doubte but if some like booke were set foorthe by vs many would willingly reade the same and thereby also take greate profite which thing he sayd mighte well be gathered bicause that little Bookes of all those chéefe poyntes mighte very easily be spredde abrode by the Printers and so be studiously read of all men Wherefore these many other things which he was wonte moste grauely and learnedly according to his custome to rehearse vnto me did easily persuade me that suche a booke would be very profitable and acceptable to many but that I shoulde attempte or enterprise to begin such a worke I cannot yet persuade my self not for that there wanteth good will bothe to gratifie my friend priuely as also openly to pleasure others but bicause I stoode in doubt how to finishe the same But when the yere last past there was put into Printe a little boke by the Reuerende father Doctor Henrie Bullinger in whiche he Aunswereth to certaine Articles or Questions wherewith the Inquisitors of B●●●ria as they say examine those whiche are suspected in Religion I thought with my selfe that the same would not only satisfie the minds of diuers godly men but also the speciall requeste of our● Parkhurst and therefore haue I turned the same into Latine that all menne might reade it For in this booke are all the chéefe argumentes of the Papistes and especially those with whome they are wont to pose and trouble the minds of the simple and vnlearned bréefely confuted and answered And whereas Phillip Melancthon of moste woorthy memorie father of all the learned men that hither vnto haue liued in Germanie wrote a Boke answering these Articles of Bauaria as the title of his boke doth testifie yet of 61. questions he only answered but. 18. peraduenture supposing that by the Answeres made vnto those the rest also might easily be confuted But D. Bullinger hauing regarde to profite the simple and vnlearned maketh answere orderly to eche one of these questions and therfore though he tooke this matter in hand after that great learned man D. Melancthon yet is it profitable bicause not only Melancthon did not answer to them all but also bicause in that his aunswere are some suche things which are not altogither alowed of the godly and chéefely those things which are written in the 22. Article touching Free vvill Of the which matter I wil nowe say nothing but he that readeth both the bookes and wayeth the argumentes may easily iudge This Booke doe I sende vnto thée most learned Jewel first bicause of the great friendship betwéene thée and oure Parkhurst that so by you I may satisfie his desire and request or else that at the least he may héerewith contente hym selfe vntil some better learned than I may take this his desired work in hād Furthermore my desire was that by this a publicke testimonie might be extant not onely of my duetie towardes you but also of your loue towardes me which I not onely perceiued when we were togither but also do perfectly vnderstand by your letters since sent vnto me And although the Popishe doctrine be throughe Goddes great mercy quite chased away from youre Countrey of Englande for the which all godly doe greatly reioyce yet I truste this my work shal not be vnprofitable to wéede out of the minds of the simple the dregs of that Doctrine so as thereby the pure doctrine of Christe may be the faster and better engrafted And in the exercise héereof you haue not onely many helpers to me vnknown but also those whome I right well know men of excellent learning and vertue true Bishops in Christ D. Iohn Parkhurst D. Eduin Sandes D. Robert Horne The reuerend father Iohn Bale D. Iohn Pilkinton D. Thomas Leuer D. Iohn Fox and D. Laurence Humfrey all whome I beséeche Christ to preserue From Zurich Idib August 1560. Henrie Bullinger to the Christian Reader THere are almost euery where throughe Germanie scattred abrode certayne Questions written or Printed and that to the ende the professoures of the gospel and especially such as amongst thē are vnlerned might by them be troubled broughte into doute and as it were quite driuen from the gospel as from a newe doubtfull false and corrupt doctrine For some of these Questions are so coloured with scriptures that at the first sight they seme to haue some shew of truth But they all shute to this marke that they may thruste in and plant not the true church of Christ and his doctrine but the churche of Rome her doctrine manners statutes and other abuses Whereby it comes to passe by the infirmitie of man and by reason of persecutions that many cōceiue an euil opinion and lothsomnesse of the gospel and that chiefely when they see there is no man to instructe them strengthen and comforte them Wherfore when by some I was requested to make some breefe and plaine answere to the said Questions and somewhat to open the matter that bothe they might perceiue how to vnderstande those places of scriptures as also see that oure relion grounded on the Gospell is not suche as they slaunder it to be I toke that matter in hande And applied my diligence to defend the true religion as indede it is the duetie of euerye good Christian to comfort the godly and suche as were afflicted and according to the talent giuen me of God for without his helpe all mans doing is but vayne I answered the .lxi. questions for so many came vnto my hands therfore whether there be more or lesse in other places I know not Wherfore I beseeche thee good Christian Reader to take this my trauell in good parte and follow the Counsell of S. Paule who byddeth thee to proue all thinges and to keepe that which is good And thus much more I say for their sakes that shall eyther reade or heare this Treatise that if they bee weeried wyth the contentions and strifes in Religion and the sharpe tauntes that oftentimes fall out in that cause I haue in this Booke cheefelye laboured to teache the matter moste briefly and playnly and that without all heate of contention to Gods glory and the profitable ●difying of the godly The Artycles or Common places which are touched in these lxj