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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

silence mumming and on thother side what galling is to be seene of polluted consciences with what nippinge wordes are they wounded vnto the hart what percing sentences are there to stirre vp their slowe blouddes But I wyll leaue all vndone I haue profered a tast of the matter let him be iudge that wyll This to conclude I wyll be bolde to say that in one assemble at the holy Communion there are deeper syghes sobbes then in sixe hundreth of your riotous Massinges Wherfore it was labor more then neded out of the Prophet once againe to inculcate that no earthly man hath bene of gods counsel that no man hath seene or harde hym open his mouth But thys pryde is a birde of your owne bosome as I declared before you it is y t laboureth to be one of goddes pryuie councellours As for this controuersie whether telleth his tale out of goddes booke you or we the lykelyhood surely enclineth to vs warde which be cōtinually serching and tourning the scrptures Your champions waueringe with the wyndes vppon the wyde seas of glosses and interpretacions and totterynge as it were in a slyppery grounde walk in the wide deserts in great perill of loosing their way Well ones againe you make bold with Ieremy not permitting the reuerende prophet to rest First you alleage these words of his If they had walked in my wayes or had declared my wil vnto my people surely they had reuoked them frō theyr euyll waies and from their wicked ymaginatiōs Very wel Let vs begin with Ieremy who was a famous Prophete and no man wyll say the contrarye Did he scare all the Iewes from their vyces did he bowe theyr backes and winne them all vnto vertue wey and consider the whole time of his prophecienge and ponder wythal the mourneful gronings and wailing of his lamentaciōs with the forechosē people of god this man of god easely preuailed for my shepe here my voyce saith the gospel as for the residue they were hardened Dyd not Paule proue the like in the Romains the Corinthians Peter in the churches of Asia and our Sauyour Chryst in infynite numbers of the Iewes and namely in the Capernaites Wherfore let Ieremy goe and leaue youre trifling Paul planteth Apollo watreth but God geueth thencrease And as s. Paul witnesseth this shal be an infallyble rule God knoweth hys owne We must labour wyth all intent but what good gyfte so euer befalleth vs it commeth from aboue and descēdeth downe vnto vs from the father and god of light But you still folowe the chase inculcating the lewdnesse vnmeasurable of oure men that is you inculcate youre owne cankred charitye and that whyche hath done you so muche good seruice in this Epistle a singuler sprite of slaundering I say slaundering sythe the most part of our men walketh in most perfect wayes and associateth vnto the true worshypping of god many thousādes as much abhorreth that accursed conuersatiō of you pretended as thys your talk is void of all shame and modesty And if you wyl do that is chiefly to be done conferre w t the light of our gospell the palpable mistes of your times and consider what difference there is Youre last beneuolence is y t our whole cōfederacy swimmeth in sectes hath made vnlawfull conspiracies to pull in peces all due worshipping of God But notwythstandinge your cauil they are linked in perfect vnity whych if you doubt I betake you vnto thapologie set foorth in the face of all Christendome as an open and vndoubted pledge of our Religion disgrace it if you can But you can not for your lyfe nor any of all your complices and adherents howsoeuer within these few daies one good man hath made hys barkynge brags Our men God wotteth entend no ouerthrow of religiō beleuing certainly in thimmortalytie of our soules If there be any realme christiā not throughly persuaded therin turne your tale vnto them and if ye be not thus satysfied call to minde that oure men haue geuen earneste of their profession not alonely with their tongues and pens but wyth exyle nakednesse pyning yea wyth spēding their bloud life Which suerly they wold not haue done if the grim terrors of this present lyfe could haue foyled theym or crased their constancye in maineteining the knowen trueth But you say you haue made lōger discourse thē you minded Yea truly much longer then beseemed you especially in the hearīg of a most learned and prudent Pryncesse Whose subtilitye in iudgement might haue put you in some honest feare if you had considered y e ground of her good gifts Whose highnes continually is addict vnto the reading of scriptures the comparyng of the most approued expositors drawyng out of the opinions of y e best deuines whose grace hath atteyned an excellency in the tounges ioygned wyth readines and quicknes of reason all thys she so gouerneth with Princely wisdom as in a womā vneth is credible She gladly frequenteth publique sermons by continual reading hearing is so wel applied that her grace is no lesse able to instructe you then she nedeth your instructiō Were you euer in hope that such a princesse of al other most godly prudent might by your smooth tale be corrupted or with sugred words beguiled It is nothing so it is far otherwise they haue fowly abused this your kindnes whosoeuer sēt you in for an opē accuser especially vnto the queenes presens But now haue at your conclusiō wherin I thinke you wyll neuer conclude anye thing One flinge more you must haue at the fruits of our doctrine As for the persōs themselues those you require to be loked on and bi them must the religion be valued What fruites in Goddes name misseth youre church in vs that sinagoge of all other most fruitelesse But we refuse no chalēge your wil be done Compare England in what case it nowe is feeding on the sweete Mannah of Gods worde wyth that whych was so monstruous to behold before wyth ougly deformityes of humain tradicions Let vs serch the chronicles let vs discusse y e Chronographie of our times let the Quenes hyghnesse sit in iudgement and conferring both tymes geue sentence accordinglye This offer if you refuse then learne at my handes the present estate of Englande and here after seale vppe your eares at the vnhonest babling of our enemies A Princesse we haue of absolute power royal in al pointes incomparable Whose court is destitute of no ornament touchinge either the honor of thestate souereigne or the saulfegarde of the common wealth The Archbishops Bishops in their owne persons perfourme the offyce of preaching laye theyr owne handes vnto the gouernement of their Churches alway residēt in them No variance is ther among the nobility no breache of dutye in subiectes peace and tranquillitye through out the whole Realme In these things perchaunce you haue ben misenfourmed But your frēd Cicero putteth you in minde that euery man speaketh hys pleasure but

nedeles it is to credit euerye man These our fell frendes loue well to blowe out not that they knowe to bee true but that they wish to be true bicause our good successe and felicity is vnto them a grieuous eyesore Therfore syr cheare your selfe and set a parte thys sorrow so depely prynted in you brest for our sake Take hede you stryde not out of all pacience cast not your selfe down I say If all be well in Portugall care not for Englād But it is no meruail that you take these paines syth we are of alyaunce and kynred Surelye what knot of kinred so euer is betwene oure kingdome and yours we gladly embrace it and desier hartilye to be nearer cosins knit euen in an heauenlye league But I pray you sir if we be so deare friendes as you saye and I beleue you what toye of frendship is it thus vnto the very crowne to heape vs vp with accusatiōs How dare ye say that through vs men are diuorced frō that ryght auncient pure religion which was ratifyed by christs bloudeshed euer sence hath continued vntill these dayes and led aside vnto an other kinde of relygion both execrable and horrible Do you thinke as you say wythout doubte you doe not For in those auncient and flourishing times their was no Papacy or Popes holynes no leaden graces no purgatory martes no worshippīg of Images no gadding pilgrimages no sacrifyces for the quicke the dead in Masses nor any such trumpery These misshapes of religion what tyme they spronge who begat them you cannot but knowe but that you dissemble speake to please Therefore notwithstandinge the terrours that you thūder in the Quenes eares wyth commemorations of Gods maiestye the latter iudgement your long tale so inflammed with fierye wordes hath not thauthoritye that followeth truth and efficacye For why into a malicious harte entreth no wisdome As for your malice how sauage it is and hartbent it is euident not onelye in euery leafe of your libell but in one place beyonde shame wheras in pestilent wordes you denounce sedicion vprore you cry to weapons blow vp the bloudy trumpet to Ciuill warre You requyre of the Queenes highnes in post-hast to tumble downe the religiō by common consente erected and to make place for yours The way therunto you say is easye redy troden for that the greater number enclineth vnto you y t she shall purchase euerlasting renowne all the world will clap their handes for ioy This is your exhortation vnto the Queene a wicked witles exhortation What no remedy but forth w t must we throw from vs the heauenly doctryne of the gospell wherin sauing one six yeares tēpestuous rage we haue continued aboue xxx yeres wherin the Queenes grace hath led all her life wherein god hath geuen her a blisfull peasible reygne of fiue yeres which was by consent of all estates publyshed whereof haue ishued decrees and lawes of inestimable policy This inculpable state of religion y e true paterne of gods due honour on euery side so circumspectly fensed trenched by the Quenes maiestie shal one worde euen of one Portugall riue in peeces shal the epistle of Hieronimus Osorius breake the rancke of it were you euer in this hope your self or they that craued your helping hand beleue me you were vnwise when you setled your selfe vnto this enterprise they were not well prouided in wyt y t fyrst moued you to so high mattiers Write as manye thousande inuectiues as you please call to counsel al our aduersaries and yl willers whō as it seemes you haue learned by hart God wil preserue our Quene out of their mouthes euē that God that hathe before often times bene her deliuerer God wil strengthen her in the verity of the gospell euen god that geueth her hourely strēgth for the auauncemente of the testamente and laste will of his son our sauiour christ wil endew her with honour that shall neuer perishe As for thys your costly garded theatre wyth vaūting wordes piled vp as high as heauen neyther is it so precyous a pearle for a prince or so wel tuned a songe as to moue her to turne away from the truth euangelicall reuealed vnto her and hir kingedome and to sette vp newe stages for your Popishe brauery Therefore you doe like a naturall orator in the latter wing to place a whyning conclusion fetched frō the depth of your faculty wherin for the loue of all holynes and all halowed thinges you cry out and adiure our Quene to exterminate these newe Apostles and to retire vnto your mother church wherein you painte and set out the blessed beauye of vertues with all fine and farre fetched elegancy of speach and yet the more pity all is not worth one halfe peny Forsoth y t you tearme vpstert errour the Queene certeinelye knoweth it to be olde furrowfaced veritye and for the same offereth vppe in humble wyse her orysons prayers fullye mynded not to forsake it vntil death no not at the houre of death perfectlye knowing that she shall out of the holy gospell of our sauiour christ render streight accompt of her gouernment And you she deemeth but a smatterer in gods worde if these thinges bee straunge vnto you or if you will not knowe them a deepe dissembler which faulte was wont to bee farre from a Philosopher Wherfore in my mind good mayster Hierome you may do muche better in these religious matters to see what diuynes can doe and to take vppe your place againe amonge Philosophers oratours whose misteryes you haue better tasted of Your stile runneth in a good veine to all appearaunce nature hath done her part in you Hereunto is added arte whiche hath set forwarde the dexteritee of nature These good aydes of your studies emploied vpon your vsuall and acquaynted matters wonderful may be your commendation I haue sene your booke entituled of nobilitye fyne wyth the fynest God graunt you to reserue your self vnto such monumētes whiche breede none offence openlye but commoditie and profyte vniuersally Hereafter if you fall vnto bostinge and minde too geue freshe assaulte take it as a forewarninge to come better fensed What mortalitye so euer betyde me you shall fynde a number in Englande not alonelye in the churches and vniuersities but also in the Quenes maiestyes Courte farre surmountynge me in scyence and knoweledge with you in all thinges cōparable ❀ God be glorifyed in all thynges A fault escaped In C. leafe 8. page 2. line 9. for eloquentlye reade elegantly ¶ Imprinted at London by Wyllyam Seres dwelling at the west ende of Paules Church at the sygne of the Hedgehogge Loke maister Shaklockes preface vnto his translation Looke in m. Shacklockes preface his nedelesse auauncing of his own parti with the imbacyng of the contrary Vain bostynge rumors commonly sowen by Papysts emong the people As had Vlisses saylinge towarde Ithaca M. Shaklockes idle comparisō in his preface Proue your selfes by this rule Many fair wordes where indeede was the cōtrary Replying vppon a maisterles error In mouīg and remouing the Communion table The beginninge of a brainsicke verse of in Shacklockes of the buriall of b. Scot in Louain An other of Maister Shacklockes funerall verses lackīg nothing but witt mattier M. Dorman that for lacke of great fyndeth smale faultes in D. Haddons boke