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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01858	The vncasing of heresie, or, The anatomie of protestancie. Written and composed by O.A..	Almond, Oliver.	1623 (1623)	STC 12; ESTC S121925	83,475	142

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 headsh●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 Londō 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 S●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