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A16171	A disproofe of D. Abbots counterproofe against D. Bishops reproofe of the defence of M. Perkins reformed Catholike. The first part. wherin the now Roman church is maintained to be true ancient catholike church, and is cleered from the vniust imputation of Donatisme. where is also briefly handled, whether euery Christian can be saued in his owne religion. By W. B.P. and D. in diuinity	Bishop, William, 1554?-1624.	1614 (1614)	STC 3094; ESTC S102326	229,019	434

Nunnes kings princes and Lords with all the world and all the deuils must approue this article that faith alone without any worke doth iustifie before god and they shall haue over and aboue the fire of hell on their heads and no thanks for their labour This is Martin Luthers inspiration by the holie spirit the true and holy Gospell behold the superlatiue pride of this pelting Apostate he and his spirit are to be preferd before all the world How scornfully and contumeliously he esteemed of kings and Emperors and how contemptuously they were to be dealt withall in his iudgement any man that will read his answere vnto king Henry the eight may see I say saith hee openly without a vizard that this Harry king of England doth plainly lie and with his lies resembleth rather a most light scoffer then a king c. this for a tast of his vnciuill and spitefull demeanor towards Monarches conformable to his doctrine of kings deliuered in these tearmes A wise king is a rare bird and more rare yet is an honest king they are cmmonlie the greatest fooles and the most wicked knaues on the earth wherfore the worst that can be is to be expected at their hāds litl● good specially in matters that belōg to god for they are gods Catchpoles and hangmen Luther de potesta te secui ad Ioh du●em sa●o Our god is a great Lord and therfore will haue noble illustrious and rich catchpoles and hangmen It is gods pleasure that we should call his hangmen our clement Lords c. This and a tumbrell more of like scurrility may be raked out of that rude renegats writings against the Maiesty of kings and Emperors with more contempt scorne and contumely out of him alone than out of all Catholike authors that haue writen this five hundred yeres sett togither so that none may bee compared to Protestants if they wil be sibbe to their sire for abusing kings and Emperors and for exalting themselues aboue them But let vs leaue Luthers pride and descend to the particulars of Donats presumption and see how it may bee applied to the pope Donate would not acknowledge a Carthagini se principatum ●enere credidit donatus the Emperors Soveraigne temporall power Optatus l. 3. co Parm. but out of his owne pride sought to withstand even the Emperors pious gifts of holy vestments to the church and of almes to the poore charging his party not to receiue any such gifts from the Emperors officers what like to this is there to bee found in any pope They acknowledg themselues to haue receiued of the Emperors courtesies most of all their b Miserat Imperator ornamenta domibus dei m●serat eleemosinam pauperibus d●natus literu praemisit ne id quod allatum ●uera● pauperibus d●spensaret●● temporalties and never yet was any one of them found that did not acknowledg the Emperor to bee supreme governor of his Empire in all temporall affaires although there haue been among them that thought Emperors might for some enormious faults deserue to be punished even by depriuation from that dignity Ibidem Donatus tooke himself to good to c Dat donatus solus secreto nescio quid agebat pray in company with others The pope daily not only praieth with others but also humbly confesseth his sins to others Donatus tooke himself to bee better then all other bishops yea did scarse vouch safe to bee called a Bishop d Raro est appellatus episcopus sed donatus cartha ginis The popes albeit higher in dignity then other Bishops yet in true humility esteeme themselues farr inferior to many of the common people The popes may iustly terrifie men with gods Iudgments and indignation if they presume to transgresse Gods or their superiors comaundements For god hath promised to blesse them whom his priests principally such as be in authoritie do blesse to hold thē for accursed whō they do deseruedly accurse Mary so to deliuer the matter as though the popes were cōmaūders ouer Gods sentences is as malicious as that which M. Abbot ioyneth with it is slanderous to wit that the popes take vpon them to dispence against the law of God and to disamill the institution of Christ But vntil M. Abbot do bring in some better proofe heerof then his owne bare words these points may bee scored vp in the rew of his former slanderous vntruthes And I would gladly know how M. Abbot can proue that the pope doth suffer himself to bee called by the name of God right worthily I warrant you and like himself a gloser forsooth vpon the Canon law neither speaking to the pope nor writing to him but in a by-treatise saith Our Lord God the pope Marke I pray you how hādsomly this hangeth togither One and he parhaps none of the wisest writeth such a thing in the latter end of a long glosse that many a pope neuer saw and some perhaps neuer heard of how then can that bee in any reasonable construction imputed to all popes It stands saies M. Abbot vncorrected in a glosse of his canon law in the edition of Paris printed 1601 with the priuiledg of Gregory the thirteene He should haue added thervnto who died fifteene yeeres before the date therof for Gregory the 13. died the tenth of Aprill 1585. Let that passe as a light ouersight this that foloweth is worse for if it stand still in that edition vncorrected why is not that the fault of the corrector rather then the popes who be not at leasure thēselues to survey ouer newe impressions But what if that word God be not to bee found at all in those copies of the canon law which are in the popes library as some right honest men who haue caused diligent search to bee made in the vaticane copies haue related and certifyed then no marvell though the popes did never correct that which never was to bee found in the true originals Sure I am that I my self haue seen three severall copies printed at Paris one of Anno 1517. another of 1536. the third of 1550 or therabout that had not that word God in them So that all M. Abbots great outcry so often repeated hangs vpon the ouersight of a poore corrector or at most depends vpon a diuerse reading which euery wiseman knowes to be a very sandy and weake foundation And who is ignorant that the word God may be attributed vnto creatures Exod. 7.1 though in a farre different sense Doth not God himself say to Moises I haue made thee the God of Pharao Our blessed Saviour out of that text of the old Testament Psal 81 6 Ioh. 10.35 I sayd you are gods doth proue that many others beside God may bee called Gods namelie princes and chiefe governors either ecclesiasticall or temporall hauing for this the testimony of God himself I need add none other Now to Donatus that so behaued himself in some things as if hee

them yet when the same were executed complayned of persecution and their church they tea●med the persecuted church that did not persecute And such on their side as were iustly punished for murders and other crimes they called their martirs and to their relikes they did great devotion Even the same course do the Papists take who by their wicked practises having giuen cause of making lawes against them do vpon the execution therof cry out of persecution and do call them Martirs that are put to death for such horrible treasons and do honor their relikes c. W. B. will not this proper resemblance bee much more truly verified in the protestants who hauing by their mutinous and seditious practises in many Christian countries provoked most Catholike Princes to enact severe lawes against them and being afterward for their open rebellions executed yet the protestāts without blushing do in print proclaime them for martirs thrust their names into their Calender In which kind M. Fox our doating countryman hath I thinke excelled all his fellowes As for devotion vnto their mad martirs relicts I reade not in any place quoted by M. Abbot that the Donatists vsed any that is but a florish of his Rhetorike to make them seeme somewhat more like vnto vs that do honor the reliks and memories of those holy personages that haue honored God by their noble Martirdomes traced vs out the true steps to eternall glory but therin they were for ought I can find no more devoute then bee the protestants who do litle esteeme the dead bones of their dreaming Saints and mad Martirs nay S. Austins words cited by him self do declare that the Donatists did not and that the Catholiks did worship the relicks of martirs these they be l. 2. co Petil. c. 71 you donatists be not blessed but you make blessed martirs with whose soules the heavens are replenished and the earth florisheth with the relicks of their bodies vos non colitis sed facitis quos colamus you do worship them but make them such as may be worshipped by vs. R. AB 11. ALbeit the Emperors to represse the enormious crimes of the Donatists Aug co lit Petil. l. 2. c. 92. made such lawes against them yet they would haue it thought that the Emperors did it not of their owne mind but through the instigation of the godly Bishops Even so do the Papists and namely M. Bishop though they know the Prince to haue iust cause to deale so severely with them yet doth hee impute his proceedings vnto the instigation and exasperation of his Ministers W. B. I Must needs confesse that I know no cause why his Maiestie in the first parlament of his raigne in England did confirme all those severe lawes with some additions which had been enacted against Catholikes in Queene Elizabeths daies for the same Catholikes had as much if not more trauailed to make his highnes true title vnto the Crowne of Englād knowen and his person acceptable then the protestants and did as willingly receiue him into the possession therof And albeit some few Catholikes did rashly ioyne with protestants to haue attempted the surprising of his royall person out of their hands whom they presumed to abuse his Maiesty verie much with false and malitious informations Yet that could hardly bee in my poore opinion any iust cause to confirme so many rigorous lawes against the whole body of Catholikes no more then to haue made the like against protestants who were principall sticklers in that desperate enterprise All which considered had I not reason writing in that time to remoue that imputation which seemed to touch his Maiesty and to impute it rather vnto the malice of some certaine crept to farre into his royall favour and knowen to bee maliciously bent against our religiō then to his highnes who as many haue reported did in the beginning often protest that hee would take no soule mony and that hee would like of no Catholike the worse for his religion so that otherwise hee found him loyall and faithfull Since the horrible plot of the Gunpowder though there bee more colour for those seuere lawes yet there is in my slender iudgmēt no iust cause for what equity or cōscience teacheth for the crimes of some fewe offenders to punish innumerable Innocents that never consented vnto them nor were any waie culpable of the same crime It is the vniforme consent of all the learned that paena sunt restringēdae non ampliādae Punishments are to bee restreyned and shortned and not to bee inlarged or lengthned To forgiue offēders is an honorable duty of Christians but to inflict punishment where there is no iust desert is not excusable even amōgst pagans Therfore it being the dutifull part of a subiect rather to excuse his soveraigne then to accuse him wee that hold our selues so well assured of his maiesties most clement naturall disposition fortifyed also with iust and even proceeding in civill affaires could not but lay the blame of those extreme courses vpō other more violent spirits were they temporall Lords or ministeriall I know not but sure I am that they haue shewed themselues towards men of our religion too too malitious and spitefull God Almighty pardon them and giue those of them that yet liue grace to amend those that bee dead would not haue vs to pray for their soules and therfore wee can do no more for them but to leaue them to Gods mercifull Iudgments R. AB 12. THe Donatists albeit they knew well that it was but a small part of the world that ioyned with them yet gloried to vse words as though they had had a church throughout all the world Even so the papists although they know the communion of the church of Rome to bee accepted of but in a small part of the world yet take pleasure to bable as if the Popes triple crowne were so wide as to compasse the whole earth W. B. AS the former resemblance was pared out of that which went next before it so hath this been thrice before touched The odd idle man that purposed to arriue vnto the full nūber of twelue is forced to mince them into mammocks and to make no bones to repeate the same thing in effect very often ouer all to retourne a full Iury of twelue that may bring in a verdict against himself either of Ignoramus or els a billa vera for a poore peece of Inuention to frame resemblances as common as the high way and for the most part such as may bee imputed to what sect soeuer you please but do indeed not more properly appertaine vnto any then vnto the protestāts themselues Thus farre to refute M. Abbots addition of triuiall and improper resemblances Now I come to confirme those points of comparison which I to requite him did propose I stood not vpon cōmon accidēts which lightly are incident vnto all kind of sects as M. Abbot hath done very trifflingly but at the first do set vpon