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england_n	bishop_n	king_n	lord_n	10,819	5	3.9595	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07101	The loue of the soule Made by G.M.	Martin, Gregory, d. 1582.; Martin, Gregory, d. 1582. Treatyse of Christian peregrination. aut	1597 (1597)	STC 17504; ESTC S105435	10,171	54

Church is not Now marke good Sisters I pray you hartely whether your Church and your English religion hath bene alwaies in the world since Christ his time I will speake vnto you as before God and as I shall answere before him at the latter day and therfore I request you to marke well my wordes and to consider of them A whole thousand fiue hundred yeeres after Christ your English religion was not heard of in anie part of the worlde but I tolde you before that the true Church must continue for euer and appeare alwaies vnlesse you think CHRIST is false of his promise Whē began your religion them Forsooth about fiftie veeres agone by one Martin Luther in Germanie a Friar who as well for other vngodly respectes as also because hee would needes marrye and breake his vowe which he had made of chastitie beganne to preach against the Pope and against the Catholicke Church and because hee taught greate libertie as that Princes ought not to reuerence the Pope that all Priestes might marry that no man need to fast and such like he found many Disciples in Germany and hath vnto this day carnall and fleshly men that loue their own plesure more then the will of God and his holy Church But will you know what māner of man this was Forsooth being examined by learned mē concerninge his doctrine hee was so prest and so angred with the force of truth that he saide in a great rage This quarrell was neuer begun for Gods sake neither for his sake shall it be ended Will you know further that he wrote against the Pope for malice and not for conscience him selfe in his letter to ARgentmenses saith I neither can deny neither will I that if Carolstadius or any other man cold fiue yeres agon haue perswaded me that in the Sacramēt is nothing but bread and wine he might haue deserued of me great thanks for I laboured in that matter very carefully knowing right well that by that meanes I might much haue hindred the Popes autority Marke that this man wold gladly haue found some what against the blessed Sacramēt but a long time he could not till at length the Diuell had taught him to write against the Masse as him selfe witnesseth in his books de Missa angulari where he telleth what talke he and the Diuell had togither Much more could I tell you of this man but of this litle you may iudge whether you may aduēture to build your faith vpon this man who liued within these fiftie yeares and to forsake the ancient faith of all Christendome continued from Christ vntill this day for it is most certaine that from this man came your newe Religion into England but not immediatly at the first when hee began to preach Maiesties Father wrote a learned Book against Luther for the Pope Afterward he forsooke him not vpon religion or conscience but vpon displeasure for King Henry the eight wrote a learned booke verie earnestly against The Queens him which is commō to be seene but long after partlie when the King began to take displeasure against the Pope because he might not be married vnmaried as he list partlye especially when King Edward beeing in the beginning of his raigne but a very Childe was ouerruled by wicked Coūsellers to maintaine such a Religion as might best agree to their carnal appetite This was the beginning of your Religion the beginning I saye for as for King Henry he went nothing so far as they are now come but whereas for his pleasure he had put away the Popes authority for his profite had plucked downe Abbeies he let all other pointes in manner remaine as before for this repented before he died as it is knowne if not woe be to him that euer he was bornes for there in the nexte worlde good Sisters Kings Queenes come to their accountes as well as you and we poore folkes I could here tell you of many learned and vertuous men that were then put to death because they woulde not yeelde to the King in his vnlawfull dooinges knowing right well that it was all contrary to the law of God Amongst whō were these two the Bishop of Rochester the most vertuous and best learned of all the clargie as appeareth by his bookes And Sir Thomas Moore Lord Chauncel or of England a Lay-man who for his vertue wisedome and learning passed all temporal men that euer were in that realme as appeareth by his learned works written in the English tongue but nowe not suffred to be read because they teach the Catholick faith some man will tell you that they were beheaded for treason but beleeue him not vnlesse it be treason to obay God rather then Princes surelye other treason they committed none The .3 mark is vnitie One marke more I will shew you to discerne the true church that in fewe wordes but so plaine that your selfe will confesse it To know the Catholick Church this is a certaine and an vnfallible marke if it be in vnitie and concord if it haue an agreement consent of harts opinions that is to say if it haue but one faith religion For of the true Church it is said The whole multitude of beleuers had one hart one mind Act. 5. And saint Paul saith One God one faith one Baptisme Eph. 4. And againe God is not a God of dissentiō but of peace vnitie 1. Cor. 14. Looke now and consider the state of your Protestantes in England onely are they all of one religiō Haue you not among them some Lutherans some Caluinists some Puritanes all agreeing against the Pope and each disagreeing one from the other Doe not your Lutherans preach yea before the Queene not without greate thankes for their labour that the Body of Christ is really present in the Sacrament And doe not your Caluerusts preach cleane contrarie that there is only bread and wine And as for your Puritanes do not they preach and write so far contrary from the other two that they are now forbidden to preach cast into prison and put from all liuings Yea the communion booke it selfe doth it not now say clean contrary to that which it said in the latter end of King Henry his time Then you were expresly cōmanded to beleeue that vnder each kind of bread wine are contained the body and blood of Christ now it is a petty treason to say so I speake not heere of Denmarke of Geneua of other citties in Germany who are all Protestants and are differing among them selues and from you I haue onely declared how great diuersity and disagreing there is among your Protestants at home within one litle Iland which is so euident and so far from good Christianity that it may bee vnto you a verie certaine and sure token that the true faith can not be among them which hitherto can not agree in one faith each condemning the others opinion Thus dearly beloued