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A02664 Tessaradelphus, or The four brothers The qualities of whom are contayned in this old riddle. Foure bretheren were bred at once without flesh, bloud, or bones. One with a beard, but two had none, the fourth had but halfe one. Collected and translated, by Thomas Harrab. Harrab, Thomas. 1616 (1616) STC 12797; ESTC S106009 25,718 40

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his hands together the rest sigh ioyning their hands but speaking no word Then they departe euery one to his worke They haue no other preaching nor other kinde of prayer They celebrate their Supper twice in the yeare and men and women sit at it pell mell inuiting one another to eate with great modesty They vse also great temperance in their houses for sitting downe at table they remayne almost a quarter of an houre with their hands ioyned against their mouth not speaking a word but doe meditate and pray by hart whilst they eate they haue an old Archimandrite which marketh them without speaking any word when they haue eaten they returne in great silence to their labours At worke you shall see thirty or forty together and neuer speake word one to another In all their doings they greatly obserue cleanlynesse and silence To be briefe they liue much like vnto well ordered religious persons They obserue no feast dayes they haue their Bible curtaild at their pleasure and are very skilfull in the Text expounding it most commonly after the Letter and their own braine They will not dispute nor reason of Religion There are other Anabaptists termed pure which say they are without sinne and therefore put out of our Lords prayer forgiue vs our sinnes and holde that Christians after baptisme cannot committe sinne There are besides these the free anabaptists which will not pay tribute nor obey Princes These affirme marriage to be spirituall and haue their woemen in common and say it is the motion of Gods spirit Feliciatus Capitonus recordeth howe one of these bretheren entring into his friendes howse tolde him that the holy spirit commaunded him to lie with his wife to which he accorded but afterwardes seing his daughter faire and young no said he to the wife the spirit saith I must lie with thy daughter the husband returning in the morning and finding him in bed with his daughter how now quoth he is the holie spirit a deceauer the same spirit commaundeth me to punish thee for it presently he stabbed him to death with his dagger many such tragedies haue bin seene amongst them issuing out of their doctrine There be many moe diuersities among them which here to recount would be ouer tedious let these suffice for this briefe treatise Behould the third brother with no beard at all CHAP. VII Of Anglianisme SEctes of Religion are diuersly tearmed some take their names of the authors as Arianisme of Arius Lutheranisme of Luther c. Some of the matter as Anabaptisme of repaptizing or not baptizing infants some of the country where it is or of the people thereof as Turcisme of the Turks Ethnicisme of the Heathens Anglianisme of England or of the English who professe the same Religion being not precisely in any country but in England and in Lands belonging to that Crowne Euery one knoweth howe from the christening of this people they were still of the Catholike Religion vntil King Henry the eight his latter dayes in which vpon displeasure taken against the Pope because he would not diuorce him from his wise Lady Katherine and permit him to marry Lady Anne Balleine he renounced the Pope and called himselfe head of the Church in his Dominions and supreame gouernour in Eeclesiasticall causes He was emboldened so to doe by Luthers reuolte which was in his time albeit Luther would alow of no visible headship neither did he regard Luther nor his doctrine He tooke vpon him this title first of all Kings christened yet did he not chaunge Religion but in few points but put downe Abbeis and Religious howses In the dayes of his sonne King Edward being a childe the Kingdome vvas gouerned by his vncle the Lord protector who to make himselfe great put downe Catholike Religion and brought in a religion composed by his preachers partly of Luthers and partly of Caluins Sect but the childe King dying within fewe yeares Catholike Religion was restored againe by Queene Marie who liued not long To her succeeded Ladie Elizabeth her sister who beginning her raigne in Nouember suffered the Catholike Religion vntill midsomes after because they had nothing yet framed to put in place thereof for shee would not allowe of her brothers Religion in all points nor of the Bible Shee could not endure the Caluinists nor shee had no liking of Luthers Religion Shee deemed with a french Hugonot of Gascony that Caluins Religion was too leane and the Catholike Religion too fatte because the one had many ceremonies the other none Shee would haue the Churches still to stand and the names of Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons Cannons Parsons Vicars Curates c. Shee appointed her Bishops and made them by her letters Patents and confirmed them in that calling by the authority of the Parliament The manner of their ordering is this The Prince nominateth them then an Archbishop with two more Bishops consecrateth them as they tearme it with prayers and imposition Their habit is something Priest like with a corner-cap and a rochet all the clergy mengoe ordinarily in blacke but the most part of them weare ruffes much like merchants but not altogether so large as for jerkins dublets breeches and such like many of the Ministers make them after the newest fashion taken vp as the lay men doe They be al married except very few which may marry also if they will Bishops Deanes Archedeacons yet the Archbishop of Canterbury the Metropolitan of England liueth vnmarried but that is voluntary and not by any bondage These Bishoppes make Deacons and Ministers with imposition of hands and with few other ceremonies The Bishops haue the same Bishopriks which were in Chtholike time and the same places and titles but not so large reuenues The Ministers haue parsonages vicarages and other benefices as in olde time but many of them are curtaild These clergy men are bound to no offices nor prayers more then the lay men be but if they haue benefices or cures they must reade their seruice in the Church or preach vpon sondaies and holidaies their Iniunctions appointe them to read somthing in the Church vpon wednesdaies fridaies and vpon vigils and euens in manner of an euensong but that custom is litle obserued and in few places as also their holydaies grow out of vse and are litle regarded They use churches which were in Gatholike time but nothing is left within them but a table for the Communion and a pulpit or seate to reade prayer in In place where the Crucifixe was behinde the high Aultar there are the Kings armes but no picture or image of Saint is seene therein no scarcely in the glasse windowes They haue a forme of prayer which they call diuine seruice consisting of a kind of general confession with a kinde of inuitatory three psalmes two chapters of the Bible some collects a kinde of litanies ten commaundements epistle and gospell a fewe collects againe and then the peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding But of this many