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A02469	A sight of the Portugall pearle, that is, the aunsvvere of D. Haddon maister of the requests vnto our soueraigne lady Elizabeth by the grace of God quene of England Fraunce and Irelande, defendour of the faith. &c. against the epistle of Hieronimus Osorius a Portugall, entitled Pearle for a Prince. Translated out of lattyn into englishe by Abraham Hartwell, student in the kynges colledge in Cambridge; Gualtheri Haddoni pro reformatione Anglicana epistola apologetica ad Hier.Osorium, Lusitanum. English	Haddon, Walter, 1516-1572.; Hartwell, Abraham, b. ca. 1542.	1565 (1565)	STC 12598; ESTC S112464	36,621	136

holy holy decretalles whose abolishinge you think hath bene the vtter decay of godly feare within mennes heartes Certes I alwayes deemed that the feare of GOD had sprong by y e vertue of holy scriptures and not by the Romish decrees by whose Canons I heare say whole routes haue bene enriched but a sclēder sort trayned to dread God rightlye Wel to yelde you so muche that diuers of your Canons teache reasonable good and wholsome moral doctrine as I confesse they do what vaūtage you thereby we admit bothe decrees and decretals in our Ecclesiastical consistories and courtes and of neither sorte disanull anye poinct sauing thauthor and hym reiect we not as bishop of Rome but as King of Bishops and supreme hed of our church We yeld vnto no supreme hed within England but vnto the Quenes highnes and out of forrein monumentes we borrow whatsoeuer may serue for the enhauncing of godlines and vertue yea whēce soeuer it be Not knowing thys our custome you bewayle the ruine and decay of the decrees which so far forth as they varie not frō Gods worde stand with vs in full vertue and force You vpbrayde oure preachers as the very fountaines of vnbrideled and wanton libertye and father vpon them such a dissolute and wilfull kind of talk as the like neuer was in Epicurus or Diagoras Whom being thus disguised in new colors of your inuention you lout flout al at pleasure Cal to minde I besech you how your good master Cicero he y t lent you al your eloquence saith it is il dealing of iestes with god whether it bee in sporte or good sooth If verye nature did teache the gentilles thys then had you nede beinge a Christian to looke with both eyes what it is like a sycophant with scoffinge to tryumph agaynst Chryst. But to the purpose we are contente wyth Sainct Paule to build vpō that liberty wherin Christ hath planted vs. And this libertye of the spirite we qualifye in suche sorte that we make exception agaynste the libertye of the fleshe as S. Paule againe teacheth We beleue in y e gospell that euerlasting death is farre from them whych are graffed in Christe Iesus addinge also that foloweth in the same treatise whose walkinge is not after the fleshe but after the spirite I do not roue out of the very letter to take away al suspition of treachery or iuglinge S. Paul after lōg serious disputations concludeth y t we are iustified by faith without the workes of y e law Let vs subscribe herevnto and in no wyse let vs derogate from the gospell one iot mary this is to be learned out of the same leafe by a lyuely and charytable fayth These two thus linked together if we doe holde and maintaine as no doubte we do you ought not to diuorse them reply vppon a maisterles errour which hath no Patrone except it be your selfe It is no gentlemans practise that I may vse the termes of the Ciuill lawe to catche thone ende of a statute and there by to iudge the whole matter Mangle not our doctrine thus but repete it as it is Which done there shall ye see good worckes standing in their due reputation store or graue exhortacions vnto penitence and laste of all proue that for lacke of an aduersarye you haue made a verye wyse conflicte with your owne shadowe Forthe ye goe in your lycencyous stile horriblye cryinge out that through this dulnes nai madnes of our men all mannes reason is clogged and tied vp free wil hath no scope nor liberty and all mankinde made so bare and so blynd that there is lyttle dyfference betweene a man and a stone that they make god thauthour of sinn and bring al thinges to confusion and distemperaunce Finally that it argueth iniustice in god to take vengeaunce of thē whom he hym selfe hath depraued Suerelie I doe not commonly yelde to any pange But this once I must nedes be bolde with you You haue vttred not onely a dissardlye and vnskilful cauillation but blasphemous withall and suche one as the very stones wherof you talk if they coulde speake woulde not cast out agaynste our preachers Dippe your witt and vnderstandinge in a little scripture and reclaim your error God the father chose vs in Christ before the foundations of the worlde were laid that we might be hollie blameles in his sight You heare recyted out of the gospell this diuyne election which you in wordes so greuousely detest and you heare the time also Neither is that any necessary fruite of thelectiō to breake downe the pale vnto all lustes and abhomination as you scoffe most vnreuerently but to make vs appeare hollye and irreprehensible before the face of god by charitie as is worde by worde expressed in the gospell God it is that worketh in vs bothe y e good will and the worke of good wyll In fewe wordes hath S. Paule clogged and captyuated all our strength and power How now is there no difference betwene vs and stones or stockes O headde made of a blocke that so woulde gather S. Paule againe calleth vs ioynct workers with Chryste and commaundeth vs to labour about our owne sowles health in feare and tremblynge Howe can that bee wyll you saye sithe we leaue all in gods handes Learne howe in .iii. wordes I can do all things in Christ which doth fortifie me And S. Austine in other wordes compriseth the selfe same sentence very eloquentely God crowneth in vs his own workes Now sir. Marck ye well the holly and twise holly purpose of god surely fensed with the bulwarkes and rampiers of the Scripture And can ye yet conceiue how we make the prouydence of God not the mother of synn but the nurce of all obedience Let vs haue recourse vnto the very fountaynes whiche not withstandynge that they flowe w t streames as sweete as honny yet are your hart stringes so intoxicate that you haue sucked therout the blacke poyson of adders and vypers And that I may haue ineuitable processe against you I will recite the very worde of the gospell The chyldren being yet vnborn when they had done neyther good nor euyll that the purpose of god by electyon might stande not by reason of their workes but by grace of the caller it was saide the elder shal serue the younger as it is writtē Iacob haue I loued Esau haue I hated What sayes your wysdome vnto this Beholde once againe the purpose of god whiche is by election note the tyme that is the children being yet vnborn What shal we say in this case Is there any vnrightuousenes with god that doth S. Paule defye Hieronimus Ossorius will abyde by it God by his owne mouthe saide vnto Moises I wyll haue pitie vpon whosoeuer I take pytie and wyll haue compassion vpon whom so euer I take compassiō Wherunto S. Paule addeth that it is neyther in mannes will nor cunning but in the free mercy of God and this doth he stablish with

A sight of the Portugall Pearle that is THE AVNSVVERE OF D. Haddon Maister of the requests vnto our soueraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God quene of England Fraunce and Irelande defendour of the faith c. against the epistle of Hieronimus Osorius a Portugall entitled a Pearle for a Prince Translated out of lattyn into englishe by Abraham Hartwell Student in the kynges colledge in Cambridge Ad amicum P. Sextum A. H. QVod me Sexte rogasdū conor dicere ludū Paparūque puto fulmen inane putas Priscis papicolis plus an minus Anglolouani Deteriora ferant an meliora rogas Cum dico meliora negas ridesque papismo Qui meliore valet deteriore valet Tuque idem rides cum dico deteriora Tam spurcis peius deteriusque nihil Plus nonuis quamuis corradant omnia posse Nonuis cum rapiant omnia posse minus Ergo eadem scribunt pucris irrisa fabrisque Quaeque omnis passim nouit odit homo Cur eadem scribunt Latijque opprobria cultus Anglo ter mittunt proijcienda solo Cur modo pulsa recèns mittūt pellenda Latini Ac non omniloqui dogmata vana Petri Esurit externus praelus praelique magister Haec inquis lucri Sexte repertavia est To Mayster Shacklock BEfore I opē my mouth vnto you M. Shacklocke I may do ryghte well to aduertyse the godlye reader in anye wyse not to be ignoraunt of the occasiō by you ministred in your vnaduysed preface and Epistle vnto mayster D. Haddon that he may duely consyder your deseruinges and also the necessity of this mine aunswere Which I wolde willynglye so frame that I might kepe as much within the limites of modestye as you are wythout And that so much the more because I easely conceiue that which I willing lye and dutyfully conceyue how that these serious mattiers nay rather diuine and heauenlie misteryes oughte not by our lewdnesse thus to bee prophaned turned into Comicall brawles made quarrelles of contention singularity And yet lo these matters of weight this worde of power thys gospell of newenes of lyfe is made so gamesome a thynge that in steppeth Danus and Syrus to determine beetwene doctours I speake not now against the libertye of good profession in any estate or degree least it myght be saide I spake againste the knowen trueth Trueth and sooth it is that God may be is glorified by the riche pore high low yong olde But where are facings beyonde reason tauntes beside occasiō triumph without conquest rashe claymes of prerogatiue assurance of your owne doinges contēpt of other not onely meant but also blased in writing in worde vngodlye in dede vncharitable vnfruitefull vnto your selues vnpleasaunte vnto your owne deare frendes commonlye laughed at the Actor thoughe he sweare for him selfe shall vneth saue his honesty Wherefore let vs thinke it as it is a piece of duetye to speake within a compasse consideringe that if our owne name and fame be by any man rashlye impugned we accoumpt it vyolence we complayn that we are iniuried Namely if I should beginne with your beginning M. Shacklock and call you as you call your selfe a morter maker a durte dawber a carman or basketbearer I suppose you wolde thincke I doe you small worship yet of a bluntnes I can skarcelye take you otherwyse then you are Onely I meruayle who is mayster of the workes in Louayne that suffreth euery pratyng pioner and inferior labourer to vse his tongue for a pytcheforke and to bestowe such durty dealynges vpon men of renowmed learning and worthy authority But that you shall not thinke you haue cast anye man into an agonye I sende you word from Cambridge that nothing is so heauely taken as the whole is vnseemely in a man of your occupation A labourer quoth you not in al Erasmus de copia so fitte a title Euen so as you haue shewed your selfe for al the worlde is operarius taken in Tullie 1. de oratore There were in Tullyes time in tharte of Rhetorique certaine vpstartes which of that excellent science made nothinge but a vaine clatteringe became operarii that is not men of learning but plaine mechanicall or handcraft Orators lyplabourers When such artificers steppe in they geue men occasion to scowre olde rusty prouerbes such as these A sowe gaue a leape a popyniay pyped an asse braied a match made betwene an Egle and a Iackedawe a Sowrer aboue his latchet c. And this I speak not for your translation whiche had it not bene as it is hemde in with your vngentil and loueles additions might haue lesse displayed y e imbecillitie of your inuentiō Me thynks beinge both an Orator and a Poet you shoulde not haue bene ignorante that playne dunstable raysing is the sclenderest shyfte in all Rhetorique Thys your blynde boldenes with so worthy a man wythout all good proportion as I maye saye maketh manye men muse who appoynted you for a Captaine and withall putteth theym in mynde of the olde prouerbe Multitudo imperatorum Cariam perdidit While euery peasaunt matched him selfe with peeces the whole land of Caria went to wrecke And yet this is the vayne and preposterous practise of our maisters Louainers Vaine in that they thinke a mattier singulerly handled when it is well craked preposterous in defaminge those persons whose puissance they inespecially dread feare Turne your selfe vnto better mattier maister Shacklocke and as for Osorius hys nerte ishew doe not so preiudiciallye forspeake it least you lay to much vppō the mannes shoulders And if you loue to stick in comparisons looke ix degrees lower and there seeke you a playfellow As for your lauishing Epistles if you sente theym for a tast of your witte I will saye no more but they haue beene considered Onely of modesty sytte not an vncalled iudge betweene D. Haddon and Osorius not that you are vnworthye but for inclination To be shorte vnderstand I praye you that you are wyshed to goe too some mattier or if you haue none other faculty but that is already shewed to stay your selfe vntyll your muse be better schooled Surely syr to say none otherwise then your own catorcozins saye you haue taken neyther the best way nor the wysest And the moste mylde excuse that can bee made for you is that in this doynge you doe but sauor of the soyle fede y e naturall vaine of your aūcientes Louainers Whose people blīding plaies stratagēmes in sowyng of rumors defaming of the persons hastninge of prynted papers myghte not of reason so wel lyke them in that they are but crepitacula childrens toies But by goddes good grace they shall be seene one by one and such a vew is already taken of some of them that none nede bee deceyued no not the lyttle ones As for those your dartes in your Preface or rather presumptiōs of the Religion not yet reuealed vnto you such as these the smoke of ignoraūce in England great flames of heresyes burning

venemous ioice of a basterdlie Religion forgoeth the sounde fruite of heauenly meditation Let vs bind vp al with examples The former auncient churche of apostles and martirs had none of these your costly iewelles yet was there most whot zeale burnynge in their breastes In baser times of religiō by fote and foote in stepped peintrie and so died in the former loue of gods seruice y t was so kendled in mens harts At last rushed in the scholemens diuinitie by whole cartloades a birde of an other nest ouglie mishapen with superstition anon all places were stuffed with peinted stockes and idolls which being euery where risely worshipped the true spirituall honour of God was troden vnder foote Nowe powre out your Philosophie concerning the weakenes of oure capacitie extoll youre holy blockes vntil you sweate withal yet is this deepely groūded in the scriptures that the vndoubted knowledge of god is in his worde and sincere worshyppinge in spyrite As for your pyctures where the spyrite is present they neede not where that wanteth they auayle not It were a tedious matter for you to make of euery thyng a seuerall discourse and therefore with one breath you say that all holly seruice ceremonies and sacramentes ar by vs cleane sacked and destroyed What is it that I heare Is there lyuing any such broode of diuynes that spoyleth and destroyeth all holly seruice al ceremonies all sacramentes Either it is so orels muste this bee as it is in deed a shameful excesse in lying For forreine Churches I can gage nothinge but I haue a good opinion of them Of our orders in diuine affayres I wyll make you a briefe accōpt not suffring you eyther to be ignoraunt youre selfe or to bewytche other First bycause fayth commeth by hearing we send into al coastes of the Realme Preachers to edifye the people in their duties toward God and to enstructe them in the true worshipping of y e same Thē haue we an order of commō prayer collected out of Scriptures by Parliament for so we terme the consent of the three estates of our Realme authorised frō the whiche we suffer no man to wander forseing wyth all diligence two pointes fyrst the holy ghost to be obeyed warning that whosoeuer open his mouth in the congregacion speake the worde of God secondly that in al things be found an vnity wythout dyscorde The sacramentes we cause to be ministred very precisely after the prescript of holy writ and the liuely paterne of the former Churche wherin the Lorde Iesus Christe first in his own person instituted them with his Apostles And all these are propoūded in y e vulgare toung for that it is a brutish folly and plainly excepted in the testament in the presence of God to clatter out that wee vnderstande not our selues The geuing of orders hallowing of wedlock churching of childwiues visitynge of the feble and burying of the dead corses we execute with solemne and publike rites according to y e veritye in the Gospell whych we spice with ceremonies so far forth as al things may procede in order and decently within oure Churches as we are certainly aduertised out of the gospel Of y e times places dayes other circumstances we haue made no alteration neither in the whole body of religion innouated anye thing but y t eyther abhorred from all reason or was stayned wyth open impietie Thus haue I rypped vp vnto you the rites and manners of our Churche whych you see is cleane strypped neyther of holy seruice sacraments nor traditions but of eche sort hath reserued so muche that who so chargeth vs to bee voyde of all wantinge in dede no parcell requisite vnto the peculier anauncement of Gods honor shal shal offer vs vnreasonable iniury You saye we haue shyfted of the yoke of the imperial Bishop and you saye well It was to heauy and broosyng for either vs or our fathers before vs any lōger to susteine Neither acknowledge we any one high superintendent but only our lord Iesus Christ which honor the scriptures assigne vnto him alone And herein do we not part Christs coate as you gesse but wee touse and hale the Popes gaberdine neyther vnlocke we the doore vnto sedicion but stoppe the hyghe waye wherein vpon his lawlesse bulles of leade we rode stepe downe into perdicion You rake together many vnities and therof packe vp an argument that in any wise there must be in the Church one spiritual souereigne or hyghe regent What nedes that sith euen in the soundest age of the Church there was one God one fayth and yet notwithstanding had Peter one prouince Paul another and Iames another and diuers other had seuerall charge whereas the seuering of the persōs was no breach to the vnity in fayth In sequele of time diuerse prelates of Rome were holy Martirs put to death by heathen Princes vsurping no other crowne but the crowne of martirdome As for this extraordinary popish regalty they knew it not and S. Gregorye by name doth defie it Wherfore if the most floryshinge tyme of the Churche were voyde of thys your Monarchy we also may wesleaue if out nay we ought so to do not onely for the streight charge of y e scripture but also the suggestion of all good reason We cannot abide to haue the head so far distant from the body especially hauinge thys souereigne power for the which you labor so harde here at home in England that no nede it is to seke any abrode We haue the full authority of a regall power conteyning the whole vertue of king lye iurisdiction ouer the whole Realme But thys this is it that you cry away withall thys hath set you in such a glowinge that vnto Princes you impute sacrilege bicause they extend their authoritye ouer the Ecclesiasticall lawes dare auenture to touche things consecrate What I praye you M. Hieronimus come out of thys traunce fie vpon this impacience in a professed wyse man let in a littell breath chere vp your spirites you shall se al things in a cleare case The Quenes maiesty reygneth ouer all her subiectes of Englande And reason it is So haue the Frēchmen theyr French king and the Scottes their scottish souereigne Yea but she presseth in vnto church matters Not a whytte Al politike affayres ar gouerned by ciuill magistrates spiritual matters by bishops In spirituall exploites if any publike order be to be taken the diuines determine the same whose determination is by the Quenes Maiesty authorised Now what mislyke you vnder these ordinaunces did the kinges of Israel in those daies gouern the proper and peculier people of God Then ensued the gospel which also making in powers a distinction fyrst hoyseth vp the Regal estate and subdueth thervnto al other degrees by the mouth of Peter Paule whose names and titles by false vsurpaciō you deriue vnto thestablishing of your Romishe Seignory As for you you bidde battel not only in behalf of the Romish Scepter but also for the