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A15298	Tvvo short treatises, against the orders of the begging friars, compiled by that famous doctour of the Church, and preacher of Gods word John Wickliffe, sometime fellow of Merton, and master of Ballioll Coll. in Oxford, and afterwards parson of Lutterworth in Lecestershire. Faithfully printed according to two ancient manuscript copies, extant, the one in Benet Colledge in Cambridge, the other remaining in the publike librarie at Oxford	Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.; James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.	1608 (1608)	STC 25589; ESTC S121923	41,431	74

TVVO SHORT TREATISES AGAINST THE Orders of the Begging Friars compiled by THAT FAMOVS DOCTOVR OF THE CHVRCH and Preacher of Gods word JOHN WICKLIFFE sometime fellow of Merton and Master of Ballioll Coll. in Oxford and afterwards Parson of Lutterworth in Lecestershire Faithfully Printed according to two ancient Manuscript Copies extant the one in Benet Colledge in Cambridge the other remaining in the Publike Librarie at Oxford Eccles. Chap. 44. vers 8. There are of them that haue left a name behinde them so that their praise shal be spoken of At Oxford Printed by Ioseph Barnes printer to the Vniversitie 1608. Faults escaped in the printing of these Treatises against the Friars PAg. 1. l. 10. seet read sett p. 2. l. 27. stil read skill p. 13. l. 31. lawfully read lawfull p. 17. l. 3. Famulororum read Famulorum p. 21. l. 14. if this read this p. 25 in the Title for oderrs read orders p. 29. l. 14. yea read the. p. 29. l 16. then read them pag. 33. l. 7 them read then p. 33. l. 20. needefull read meedfull p. 40. l. 18. last read least he p. 47 l. 16. so read tho p. 50. l. 27. si read is p. 50 l 29. bidden read binden p. 58. l. 16. sinfnll read sinfull TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE my singular good Lord Sr THOMAS FLEMYNGE Knight Lord Chiefe Iustice of England RIght Honorable my good Lord beeing tied vnto your Lordship with those bonds which to recount in particular were to exceed the bounds of an Epistle as first for my electiō into that famous Seminarie of good learning neere VVinchester secondly for my better promotion into that enermore iustly to be called New Colledg in Oxford two most honorable foundatiōs of one sole Founder VVilliam of VViccham lastly for my exceeding great hopes and farther incouragemēts in the Ministerie all which kind fauours as I acknowledg them to haue proceeded only or especially by your Lordships meanes so in a thankful remembrance thereof accept I beseech you these two small Treatises ensewing as pledges of my duty and the meere Interest of that Honor which is due vnto your Lordship and hath beene of a long time Iconfesse vnpayd but not vnremēbred wherfore hauing not as yet any thinge of mine owne store worthy the bestowing I haue borrowed these few lines from one that is rich in this kinde whose soule I trust is with God his fame with the world and his bones had rested in the graue had not the restlesse malice of his cruel adversaries herein exceeded by taking or rather raking them vp out of the graue after hee had quietly slept in the Lord for the space of 41. years committing them to the mercy of two merciles Elements Fire and Water And as if this crueltie had not s●…iced to aswage there bloud thirsty appetites Councell must be called vpon Councell Bishops Archbishops and lastly the Popes Sanctitie must be consulted about the vtter rooting out and abolishing of his name and doctrine from amongst the memorie of men herevpon letters are sent in all post haste from the Bishops vnto the Pope from the Pope to the king from the king to the Archbishop and from both king Pope and Archbishop vnto the Chancellour of Oxford and last of al to make the matter more sure the high Court of Parliament is summoned wherein his articles beeing before condemned must needs be published and recorded But man purposeth and God disposeth for behold that God which sitteth on high laughed thē to scorne frustrated their bloudie designements preserued his painful learned works to stop the mouths of lying Pamphleters which write that our Religion is nothing else but a newe and vpstart doctrine scarsly euer heard of before Luthers time the sharpnes of which obiection if there be any edg in it I haue rebated in another Treatise dedicated vnto an other verie Honorable Iudge of this land of your ●…ordships neere acquaintāce Iudiciā sit pene●… lectorem where I haue demonstrated most cleerely to the eie as they saie the fondnes and vanitie of Father Parsons our Pseudo-Catho like Apologists calumniations both against the parson of Wickliffe and doctrine of our Catho like Protestant Religiō accusing the one of foul heresies and monstrous absurdities and appealing the other of manifest newnes and new-fāglene●… I haue as I trust freed both from that vniust and slaunderous imputation in the iudgment of the indifferent reader for others that stand popishl●… indeed sottishlie affected in the Romish religion from whom a man shall not bee able to wring any other answere but this we know that we are in the right and you are in the wrong I am affraide I shall not be able to satisfie non si persuasero no not when I haue perswaded them But to let them passe to excuse my selfe vnto your Lordship why amongst so manie Scholastical Treatises by him written which are with vs extant I shoulde choose rather to publish these two small Bookes taken out of his popular discourses and those pēned as it should seeme not long after his first open manifestation of his mislike with their noted corruptions and abuses The motiues or inducements were these first because these Treatises are short and entire of them selues secondly because our Adversaries whose forheads are tenderer then other mens shame not to write and cite Wickliffe for one of the order of the Begging Friars adioining himselfe vnto that Sect approving there pouerty extolling there perfection which notorious vntruth is confuted in everie page passage almost of these Two Books lastly I haue chosen rather to publish somewhat of this argument in regard of your Lordships vtter detestation of all Iesuiticall Friars and Friarlike Iesuits For what is spoken of the one mutato nomine may wel be vnderstood of the other and what is intended against the Friars may truly be extended vnto the Iesuits they are so like in hypocrisie blasphemie treacheries treasons lyings and damnable Equiuocations And as Iohn VVickliffe prophecied of the Friars that in short time their great Monasteries their great sinnes so requiring it when the measure of their iniquities shoulde bee compleat and full would come to great confusion and desolation so of that other Sect is there a prophecie extant of a man very famously learned that in short time these counterfet Iesuits would be vnmasked their vizors pulled of from their faces and there knaueries and treacheries discovered vnto the whole world For my particular I neither wish nor prophecie there finall destruction only the downe-fall and ruine of that damned Sect is that which I professe I do aime at and to vse VVickliffs words to saue there persons destroy their errors Wherefore fearing lest too many of all sorts of men should bee bewitched with this Circean Sect I haue presumed to offer vp these few lines as it were so many warrants to bee signed by your Lordships hand and

Almightie sith they louen more worldlie mucke then vertues and the loue of Jesu Christ. Cap 47. Friars dead vnto the wordle but raised by Antichrist to pride Couetousnes and maintenance of sinn FRiars also shewen witnessen in themselues Antichrists miracles right as Lazar and other raised by Christ sheweden and witnesseden Christs miracles For as Lazar and other weren verilie dead and verilie raised by Christ to liue of kind grace so these Friars●…ainen ●…ainen them dead to pride of the world other sinnes but they beene raised by Antichristes doing to pride of States covetise and subtle maintaining or colouring of sinne For though men beene cursed avowterers extortioners and wrongful maintainers of falsenes and debates yet Friars wil colour these sinnes and vndertake for these sinful men if they wil giue them much dirt and maintaine there vaine sect cōmend it more then Christs owne religion And they beene quicke to striue pleet fight bodilie for worships states of this world and so they beene dead to meeknes charitie and good religion and beene raised to cursed life of sin and this is Antichrists miracle Cap. 48. Friars spiritual Sodomits FRiars also beene fowly envenimed with ghostlie sinne of Sodome so been more cursed then the bodilie Sodomits that weren sodainelie dead by hard vengeance of God for they done ghostlie leacherie by Gods worde when they preachen more there owne findings for worldly mucke then Christs Gospel for sauing of mens souls whē they leauen to preach the seed of Gods word leesen it by which mē shoulden by ghostly gendure be made Gods sons they done more sin then though they losten mans seed by which the bodie of man should be gendrid For the misvsing of the better vertue is more sin but the seed of Gods word is better then the seed of man therfore it is worse to mispend that then to miswast mans seede And Rob. Grosted declares this reas●…n wel against cruel Curats Cap. 49. Friars notable factors for the Pope herein England FRiars also beene most priuie subtil procurators of Simonie and soule winning and begging of benefices of indulgences and trauels pardons and vaine priniledges For men saien they wil get a great thing of the Pope or of Cardinals in England better cheape then other Procuratours and they been more wilie and more pleasantlie can flatter the Pope his Court and most priuely make Lords to maintaine the Pope and his in rob●…ing our lond of Treasure by his Pardons priviledges and the first fruits of benefices in our lond and Dimes Subsidies to warre on Christian men for stinking worldly Lordship that God has forbidden to him and al Priests and in false confession they stirren Lords much thereto needen to destroie the lond when they maintainen the Pope this false robbing Cap. 50. Friars most Perilous enemies to ho ly Church to al our land YEt Friars beene most perilous enemies to holy Church and al our lande for they letten Curates of there office and spenden commonly needlesse sixtie thowsand marke by yeare that they robben falsely of the poore people For if Curats didden there office in good life and trewe preaching as they beene holden vppon paine of damning in hel there were Clarks enowgh of Bishops Parsons and other Priests and in case over money to the people and yet not two hundred yeare agone there was no Friar then was our land more plenteous of Cattel and men and they were then stronger of complexion to labour thē now and then were Clarks enowgh And now beene manie thowsand of Friars in England and the old Curats stāden stil vnamended and among al sinne is more encreased and the people charged by sixtie thowsande marke by yeare and therefore it mowght needs faile and so Friars suffren Curats to liue in sinne so that they maie ●…obbe the people and liue in there lusts For if Curats done wel there office Friars weren superflue and our Land showld be discharged of manie thowsād marke and then the people showld better paie there rents to Lords and dimes and offerings to Curats and much flattering and nourishing of sinne showld be destroied and good life and peace and charitie showlden raine amonge Christian men and so when al the ground is sowght Friars saien thus indeed let old Curats waxe rotten in sinne and let them not doe there office by Gods lawe and we wil liue in lusts so long wast vainelie and needlesse sixtie thowsand marke by yeare of the poore Commons of the land so at the last make dissention betweene them there childer for dimes and offerings that we wil get priuilie to vs by hipocrisie and make dissention betweene Lords there Commons For we wil maintaine Lords to liue in there lusts extortions and other sinnes the Cōmons in couetise leacherie other deceits with false swearing and manie guiles And also the Curates in there damnation for leauing of there Ghostly office so be procuratours of the fiend for to drawe al men to hel thus they done indeed howeuer they faynen in hypocrisie of pleasing of words Of these fiftie Heresies and Errours manie moe if men wil seeke them wel out they maie knowe that Friars been cause beginning wel and maintaining of perturbation in Christiandome and of al evils of this wordle and these errours shullen neuer be amended til Friars be browght to freedome of the Gospel and cleane religion of Jesu Christ. God for his endlesse mercy and charitie make verie peace and charitie among Christian men bring al Priests to Christs cleane religion withouten errour of wrong by-lawes Amen An exposition of the hardest words Algats alwaies evermore notwithstanding forsooth Axing demande Apayed contented Appropred appropriated A oh Anentis towards Apertly openly Assoile absolue Blecked spotted defiled Beene be bin Berowgh liuing Beheast request commandement Brenne burne Brend burnt Backed put backe Bylawes Traditions Cowth could Cleaped called Calueren calues Certes truely Chargeous chargeable Childer children Carmes Friars Carmelits Couetise covetousnes Chaffering merchandising Convienalis belonging to there covent Caymes Cayns Dowyd endowed Dymes tenthes Dudden did Doutouse doubtful Doutie high deepe Distourblen trouble Dislany lauish Dome iudgement Ene one Eke also Ensampled declared by example Enhausen raise extoll Envenimed poisoned Fro from Forboden forbidde Fautors favourers Fiend Deevill Fore-don breake overthrow Forefending forbidding Fore doe vndoe breake Gendrure generation Hiled apparelled Healing apparelling Hylling apparell Hests commandements Heale health Haden holden Highen extoll Hiddenes secrecie Hien extolle Hied extolled praised Inanter peradventure Kinne kinde kinne Knights disciples followers Leuefull lawfull Lifelode living Lacked dispraised Leasings lies Meedefull helpefull Medefullie metitoriouslie Mawmetrie Mahometrie Idolatrie Mene. Michel much Meynes houses Manquellers murderers Meede helpe Needid constrained Ne nether Nowght nothing not Nere more altogither right so Needen to force Natheles nevertheles Novelries novelties O one Owen ought Pleete plead Pelure