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A07038	Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges, for it is worthy worke: or an epitome of the fyrste booke, of that right worshipfull volume, written against the puritanes, in the defence of the noble cleargie, by as worshipfull a prieste, Iohn Bridges, presbyter, priest or elder, doctor of Diuillitie, and Deane of Sarum Wherein the arguments of the puritans are wisely prevented, that when they come to answere M. Doctor, they must needes say some thing that hath bene spoken. Compiled for the behoofe and overthrow of the vnpreaching parsons, fyckers, and currats, that haue lernt their catechismes, and are past grace: by the reverend and worthie Martin Marprelat gentleman, and dedicated by a second epistle to the terrible priests. In this epitome, the foresaide fickers, [et]c. are very insufficiently furnished, with notable inabilitie of most vincible reasons, to answere the cauill of the puritanes. ...; Oh read over D. John Bridges. Epitome	Marprelate, Martin, pseud.; Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601, attributed name.; Penry, John, 1559-1593, attributed name.	1588 (1588)	STC 17454; ESTC S112311	32,960	52

continued in the Church vntil Antichrist brought in all kinde of false doctrine and confusion Naye who there masters mine quoth M. deane for these be his owne words take my reason with you you slander Antichrist For If your gouernment had continued in the Church vntil all kinde of false doctrine came in it had beene exercised without interruption vntill this day especially vntill the yeare 1587. wherein you made this booke For I doubt me whether all kinde of false doctrine hath bene yet sowen But your gouernement hath beene interrupted long since Therefore you slander Antichriste They slander him in deed Iohn O Sarum if they say that hee brought in all kinde of false doctrine And you haue neuer prooued proposition better in your life then you haue prooued this For any man that will read your book or Iohn Whit gifts wil say that Antichrist broght not in all kinde of false doctrine if he had your booke I am sure had not bene sold for 7. shillings as it is In the 78. page M. D. sheweth that the office of Archbishops and Lord bishops are in nature pastorall though in dignitie they are of another office and ministerie And what say you to that brethren Euen this say they In dignitie they are popes in office proud prelats and in ministerie plain dumb dogs for the most part This is proued hath bene prooued and will be prooued to the proudest of the Bishops teeth if they doe dispute with vs in these points I would wish you my puritan masters to keepe you wel while you are well It may bee you shall answer this saucines of yours to offer disputation to my lords grace before the high commissionrs Master D. hath confuted all the packe of you In the 82. page by a tale or 2. of a Foxe tayl another of the Asse loaden with spunges page 83. From the 90. page to the end of the book he goeth so readely to worke about the office of the ciuil magistrate that I maruel that men wil not say that he deserueth to be cased in a good moatley clockbagg for his labor In the 93. page he proueth that no man ought to direct the magistrate in any thing For saith he brethren I goe plainly simply to worke he that directeth he gouerneth Alas the day brother cloister master doe the puritans say in deed that the magistrate should be directed by any within his owne dominions Belike then if they shoulde finde a magistrat out of his way they would goe about to direct him woulde they And that in his owne dominions to Whie brother Bridges can this stand with the dutie of a good subiect Why He that directeth he gouerneth I perceiue it is time that such fellowes weare looked vnto We should neuer haue done with them I perceiue if wee should stil stand answering their absurde fansies By this time I hope they see their folly They haue beene sufficiently confuted or else let Andrewe ambo iudge betwene you he is an indifferent man From the 99. page vnto the 130. iust 31. pages at which game O the cardes D. Redman Archdecon of Canterbury is very good besides his rare skill in iuglinge to the end of this book they agree with you in any thing that lawfully belongeth to the office of the ciuil magistrate Howe say you now M. cuntry Parsons Fickers Are you not by this time able to withstande the cauells of the puritanes Doe you not see vpon what good grounde our Church gouernement and my I. of Canterburies chaier is bullt I would you did else And let the learned reader iudg whether other men cannot play the ignorant sots as well as you brother Bridges Tush Tushe I would not haue you claime all the skill in Barbarismes and Solecismes vnto your self Other men can behaue them selues with commendations that way as well as you thoughe in deed not so naturally I graunt Farwell sweete Doctor and make much of the courtier Martin Errata or faults escaped 1 Whersoeuer the prelats are called my Lords either in the epistle to the confocatiou house or in this Epitome take that for a fault Because they are none of M. Martins Lords neither shal any priest of them all be my Lord. For I tell thee true I think foul scorne they should be my Lords or the Lords of any of my sonnes 2 There is nothing spoken at all of that notable hypocrite Scambler Bishop of Norwich Take it for a great faulte but vnlesse he leaue his close dealing against the truth ile bestow a whole booke of him And let the rest of you hypocrits take heede of persecuting 3 But the greatest fault of all is that I coulde say against our vngodly priests but vnlesse they mend ise fullie amende this fault and I can doe it with a small warninge And I would deuise them not to persecute men for my worshipes booke as they doe 〈◊〉 brother dean ●hat you are ●uch a doer Deut. 22.21 1. king 8.29 2. chron 6.5 Nomb. 3.3 leuit 8.9 1. King 28.32 Leuit. 9.24 Nomb. 3.12.35 Leuit. 30.10 Ezek. 44. ● 2. Sam. 6.7 Nomb. 16.1.35 Ephes. 4.12 Acts. 20.17.28 ● 14.23.1 tim 5 17. titus 1.5 Rom. 12.8 Acts 6.6 rom 12.8 phil 1.1 1. tim 3.8 1. Tim. 5.22 3.10 rom 12.3 Titus 1.6.7 1. tim 3.8 5.11 Acts. 14.23 6.6 2. tim 1.6 Page 54. A very fit reason to prooue the mutabilitie of the Church gouernment Now good doctor send me the measure of thy head that I may prouide thee a good nightcap Page 55. The bishopp● woonted maner in this controuersie to runne from the consideration of those thinges that are morall vnto thinges indifferent 1. Cor. 14.40 page 55. The bishop of Londons booke Page 55. Page 56. Page 57. Your cōsequent is false master Deane 1. Peter 2.13 Ephes. 4.12 rom 12.8 1. cor 12.28 Another course at you brother London Page ●7 Luke 23.43 M. deane my friends is not so precise as hee think●● it necessary for them to haue a sermon vpon the Sabboth Page 18. John 〈◊〉 you must knows was a verie good with a twoe hand swerd in his youth Math. 28.19.20 Rom. 12. ● 1. cor 12 8.2● Net 15.6 Ephes. 4.12 Actes 6.6 ● ● 14.23 1. Cor. 23.1 tim 5.17 ●am 5.14 Titus 1.5 Heere is an inde corum persone in this speech I know for the D. should not giue me this warning but you knowe my purpose is to play the dunse after his example A horrible Par●●nd an vngodly ●onfer the Eng●ish with the latin copie Pag. 23. The Prelates haue time of rep●nta●●●s Note you prelates The Queene deceued by her churchemen Pag. 24. 〈◊〉 12. Spirituall men should not medl● wi●h poll●ces Mark this well you ●haha●● state men m Aduise to the bishope Bishope lands Will you be content Bishop it shalbe so now m In any case let there be one minister aboue the rest of his brethren m 1. Sam. 21. And I woulde mine Epistoma●●●● were in print there should you see that would not like you m Pag. 34. lin 15. Doth be meane Watson the pure ciuant trow you m Page 53. line 19 The parlament resisted King Henrie the 8. Women capable of the ministerie in regard of thei● sex by the bishop of Londons iudgment Page 110. 111. Yea wee haue such plentie of calues in England that wee haue calues to our Bishopes Page 112. line 27. You see that cousenadge is likelye within a while to be the steward of my brother Lichefields house In the Epistle ●o the terrible Priests But truely I thinke brothe● Bridges that Titus was neyther Archbishop nor Deane of Sarum The reason of Archbishop Titus is no popish reason Or so manie Simonical promotion● There is a book of this name which M. doctor made no they say For Antichrist against the gouernment of Christ. This is the D. reason in very deede Simply Ile be sworn thou gost simply to worke Docter Porn●

Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges for it is worthy worke Oranepitome of the fyrste Booke of that right worshipfull volume written against the Puritanes in the defence of the noble cleargie by as worshipfull a prieste Iohn Bridges Presbyter Priest or elder doctor of Diuillitie and Deane of Sarum Wherein the arguments of the puritans are wisely prevented that when they come to answere M. Doctor they must needes say some thing that hath bene spoken Compiled for the behoofe and overthrow of the vnpreaching Parsons Fyckers and Currats that haue lernt their Catechismes and are past grace By the reverend and worthie Martin Marprelat gentleman and dedicated by a second Epistle to the Terrible Priests In this Epitome the foresaide Fickers c. are very insufficiently furnished with notable inabilitie of most vincible reasons to answere the cauill of the puritanes And lest M. Doctor should thinke that no man can write without sence but his selfe the senceles titles of the seueral pages and the handling of the matter throughout the Epitome shewe plainely that beetleheaded ignoraunce must not liue and die with him alone Printed on the other hand of some of the Priests Martin Marprelate gentleman primate and Metropolitane of al the Martins in England To all the Cleargie masters wheresoeuer sayth as followeth WHy my cleargie masters is it euen so with your terriblenes May not a pore gentleman signifie his good will vnto you by a Letter but presently you must put your selues to the paines and charges of calling foure Bishops together Iohn Canterburie Iohn London Thomas Winchester William of Lincolne and posting ouer citie countrie for poore Martin Why his meaning in writing vnto you was not that you should take the paines to seeke for him Did you thinke that he did not know where he was himselfe Or did you thinke him to haue bene cleane lost that you sought so diligently for him I thanke you brethren I can be well though you do not send to knowe how I do My mind towards you you shal from time to time vnderstand by my pistles As now where you must know that I thinke not wel of your dealing with my worship and those that haue had of my bookes in their custodie Ile make you rue that dealing of your● vnlesse you leaue it I may do it for you haue broken the conditions of peace betweene vs. I can do it for you see how I am fauored of all estates the puritans onely excepted I haue bene entertayned at the Court Euerye man talkes of my worship Manye would gladly receiue my bookes if they coulde tell where to finde them I hope these Courtier● will one day see the cause tryed betweene mee and you I haue manie sonnes abroad that will sollicit my suite My desire is to haue the matter tryed whether your places ought to be tollerated in any Christian commonwealth I saye they ought not And I say Iohn Canterburie and all ought to be out of his place Euery Archbishop is a petty Pope so is euery Lord bishop You are all the pack of you eyther hirelings or wolues If you dare aunswere my reasons let me see it done Otherwise I trow my friends and sonnes will see you one day deposed The Puritans are angrie with me I meane the puritane preachers And why Because I am to open Because I iest I iested because I delt against a worshipful iester D. Bridges whose writings and sermons tend to no other ende then to make men laugh I did thinke that Martin shoulde not haue beene blamed of the puritans for telling the trueth openly For may I not say that Iohn of Canterbury is a pettie pope seing he is so You must then beare with my ingramnesse I am plaine I must neede call a Spade a Spade a Pope a Pope I speake not against him as he is a Councellor but as he is an Archbishop and so Pope of Lambeth What will the Puritane seeke to keepe out the Pope of Rome and maintaine the Pope at Lambeth Because you will do this I will tell the Bishope how they shall deale with you Let them say that the hottest of you hath made Martin and that the rest of you were consenting there vnto● and so go to our magistrates and say lo such and such of our puritane haue vnder the name of Martin written against your lawes and so call you in and put you to your othes whether yon made Martin or no. By this meanes M. Wiggington or such as will refuse to take an othe against the lawe of the land will presently be founde to haue made Martin by the bishops because he cannot be gotten to sweare that he made him not And here is a deuice to fynde a hole in the coat of some of you puritanes In life sort to fynde the Printer put euery man to his othe and fynd meanes that Schilders of Middleborough shalbe sworne to so that if any refuse to sweare then he may be thought to be the pri●●ter But bishops let your fatherhoods tel me one thing May you put men to their oth● against law Is there any law to force men to accuse themselues No. Therefore looke what this dealing wil procure at the length Euen a plain premunire vpon your backe for vrging an oth contrary to statute which is a piece of the forraine power bannished by statute For the rest that will needs haue my bookes and cannot keepe them close I care not how the bishops deale with such open fellowes And bishops I woulde I could make this year 1388. to be the woonderful year by remoouing you all out of England Martin hath tolde the trueth you cannot denie it that some of you do iniuriously detayne true mens goods as Iohn of London And some haue accounted the preaching of the word to be heresie as Iohn of Canterburie c. All of you are in an vnlawfull callng no better then a broode of pettie Popes It will be but Follie for you to persecute the Courtier Martin vntill you haue cleared your selues which you can neuer do of the crimes he hath layd to your charge Alas poore bishops you would faine be hidden in a net I perceiue I will grow to a point with you Haue but a free disputation with the puritans for the vnlawfulnes of your place and if you be not ouerthrowen● I wil come in and do vnto you what you thinke good for then I will say that you are no Popes There was the Demonstration of Discipline published together with mine Epistles which is a booke wherein you are challenged by the puritane to aduenture your Bishopprick● against their liues in disputation You haue gotten a good excuse to be deaff at that challenge vnder couler of seeking for Martin Your dealing therein is but to holde my dishe whilo I spill my pottage you defend your legges against Martine strokes while the puritans by their Demonstration crushe the very braine of your Bishopdomes Answere that booke and giue the puritan●

I say although he hath therein spoken against bishopps euen our bishops now liuing and so against himselfe as being nowe a B. yet that his booke is a carnall and vnlearned booke smelling altogether of earth without rime and without reason And that his speaking against bishops therein was but a snare to catch a bishopprick as it now appeareth The particular sentences marginall notes shalbe set downe and where I set anye note vpon your booke there shalbe an m. for difference sake added thervnto We will beginn with your owne wordes vnto the Bb. that is vnto your selfe and your brethren page 23. Oh they may thanke God say you that they haue this time to breathe them and bethinke them of their naughtie and hellishe crueltie and to call dayly and hourely for pardon and forgiuenes for let them thinke that if they be not punished in this life nor repent God accounteth their deedes so vile and their ●ults so haynous that no temporall paines be inough for such offences And therefore reserueth them to eternall damnation Oh howle and wayle you priests and prelates not for the danger you stand in of loosing your bishopricks and benefices your pride your pompe your dignities and honors your riches and welth But for that hel hath opened her mouth wide and gapeth to swalow you for the sheding of so much innocent blood for murdering so manie martyrs though this her true in our bishops yet let me in steede thereof say for imprisoning so many innocents and murthering the soules of so many in ignorance and spoiling Christs church of so manie glistering and glorious ornaments commended of all for their learning and discommended of none for their liuing Nowa lest anye man shoulde thinke that he writeth these things to popish bishops you are to know that he wrote them vnto such as were bishopps in the raigne of her maiestie vnto bishops prosessing the gospel in name but in deed deniyng the power thereof And in the next page line 10. he hath these words against those bishops and now against himselfe But Christ knowing the bounds of his office would not meddle with externe pollicies translating of realmes and depriuing of true inheritors Now whē he was desired to be arbiter betwixt two brethren he asked not how the plea stood but who made him an officer Diuines me thinkes should by this example not giue themselues too much the brydle and too large a scope to meddle with matters of pollicie as this is whervpon dependeth eyther the welfare or ilfare of the realme If these two offices I meane ecclesiasticall and ciuill be so iumbled together as it may be lawful for both parties to meddle in both functions here can be no quiet nor well ordered common wealth Thus the reader may see what a paterne of hypocrisie this wicked bishop since he wrote this book hath shewed himself to be in taking vpon hi● not onely that calling whiche in his owne iudgement is vnlawfull but also in ioyning those two offices together the coupling whereof he confesseth to bee ioyned as well with the most vile disorder as with the dangerous disquietnes of the common wealth And yet he hath not here left off speaking against bishops Therefore as before in the Epistle hath bin touched he dealeth more roundly with thē page 103 then before in these wordes Come off you bishops away with your superfluities yeeld vp your thousandes be content with your hundreths as they be in other reformed Churches where be as great learned men as you are Let your portion be pristlike not prince like Let the Queen haue the rest of your temporallities and other landes to maintaine these warres which you procured and your mistresse left her and with the rest to build and found schools throughout the realme that euery parrishe Church may haue his preacher euerie citie his superintendent to liue honestly and not pompously which will neuer bee vnlesse your lands be dispersed and bestowed vpon many whiche now feedeth and fatteth but one Remember that Abimelech when Dauid in his bannishment woulde haue diued with him kept such hospitallitie that he had no bread in his house to giue him out the shewe bread Where was all his superfluitie to keepe your pretenced hospitallitie For that is the cause you aleage why you must haue thousands as though you were commanded to keepe hospitallitie rather with a thousand then with a hundred I woulde out countriman Wicklieffes booke which he wrote De Ecclesia were in print and there should you see that your wrinches and cauillations be nothing worth Hitherto you see that this Balaam who hath I feare me receiued the wages of vnrighteousnes spoken in generall as well against the callings of bishops and their vsurping of ciuill offices as against their pride pompe superfluitie Must not he thinke you haue eyther a most scared or a most guiltie conscience that can finde of his heart to continue in that calling yea and in the abuse of that calling which his owne conscience if he woulde but awake it telleth him to be vnlawfull The Lord giue him repentance if he belongeth vnto him or speedely rid his Churche of such a scourge And may not all the former speeches be fitly applied vnto him Is without dout But the next he may be thought to haue written to himselfe which he hath set downe page 34. As if you shoulde saye my L. Lubber of London is a tyrant Ergo he is no Byshop I warraunt you though he graunted you the antecedent which he can hardly denie yet he woulde denie the consequent or els he would call for wiely Watson to helpe him Here brother London you haue crossed your selfe ouer the costard once in your dayes I thinke you would haue spent 3. of the best Elmes which you haue cut down in Fulham and 3. pence halfepenie besides that I had neuer met with your booke But vnlesse you and Iohn of Excetor with Thomas Winchester who haue beene in times past hypocrites as you haue bene leaue off to hinder the word and ver godly men I will make you to be noble and famous bishops for euer And might not a man wel iudge yon three to be the desperat Dicks which you brother London page 29. affirm to be good bishops in England For to allude vnto your owne words page 28.29 Whereas other bishops in the land for the most onely Iohn Canterburie excepted lest they should one day answere for their proceedings vnto her maiestie and gaine the euill will of the noble men and gentlemen that fauour the sinceritie of the gospell will not seeme to bee such dealers as you 3. are though they serue at an inche in their place to maintaine his graces pride and cruelty to stay the course of the gospell and to fetch in men with in the compasse of subscription yet are they those for the most part that will imprison none