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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01736	A short treatise against the Donatists of England, whome we call Brownists Wherein, by the answeres vnto certayne writings of theyrs, diuers of their heresies are noted, with sundry fantasticall opinions. By George Giffard, Minister of Gods holy Word in Maldon.	Gifford, George, d. 1620.	1590 (1590)	STC 11869; ESTC S114289	90,151	124

A SHORT TREATISE against the Donatists of England whome we call Brownists Wherein by the Answeres vnto certayne Writings of theyrs diuers of their heresies are noted with sundry fantasticall opinions By George Giffard Minister of Gods holy Word in Maldon NON SOLO PANE VIVET HOMO Luke 4 Verbum Dei manet in aeternum AT LONDON Printed for Toby Cooke dwelling at the Tygers head in Paules Churchyard 1590. To the right Honourable Sir VVilliam Cecill Knight of the Garter Baron of Burghley Lorde high Treasurer of England and Chancelor of the Vniuersitie of Cambridge Grace and peace I Am right Honourable to excuse my selfe in two thinges the one that I take vpon me to write against the Brownists seeing there be so many great learned mē in our land which doo refraine the other that I doo offer so slender a peece of woorke vnto your Honour Touching the former the truth is I haue beene vnwares drawne vnto it not purposing any such matter For more then two yeares past there were brought vnto me certaine articles which the Brownists doo call A breefe sum of their profession with diuers arguments against read prayer They were brought vnto me by a Scholemaister in Essex who of a godly minde did desire mee to write my iudgement of the same which when I refused hee vrged me with this that diuerse of the people about them were troubled and did hang in suspense and for their sakes he did require it I did graunt his request and when they had my writings they were carried to the cheefe men of that sect Not long after I receiued large replies where I perceiued that which before I did not so much as dreame of namely that they had made chalenge and looked to be encountred by the learnedest in the land They take it greeuously and reprehend me as hauing intercepted this businesse and taken it from the hands of the learned Heerevpon I stayed long purposing to giue them but shorte answer to their chiefe matters But when I sawe that aduantage was taken as if I had receiued matters vnanswerable and that Brownisme did begin to spred in manye places of the land I thought it not amisse seeing the burthen thus to haue light vpon me though I be not able to deale so sufficiently as such a matter requireth yet to publish to the world some of their heresies and frantike opinions which are to be gathered from their writings I haue not set downe the whole discourse of wordes which hath passed betweene them and me for it would be somewhat tedious But if any shall thinke I haue passed any reasons of theirs vnanswered or wrested their words from the true sence to gather heresies let them shew any particular and I wil be able to cleere my selfe And let men consider whether the Brownisme can be supported by any pillers but those heresies which I haue noted I meddle not with the controuersies of our Church but deale by way of admission I neuer receyued the names of any subscribed to the writings I receiued and for that cause I do name none And now for the other point why I presume to offer it vnto your honour God hath giuen your honour to be an auncient graue Counsellor and which many yeares haue borne and still doo beare a great part of the waight of this our common-wealth vnder her right excellent Maiestie and for that cause I iudge it meete your Honor should see such things as any way touch the generall estate I trust therefore that although it be not for the slendernesse worthy to be offred to so honorable a person yet it shall be accepted in some sort And touching your Honor as I do not doubt of it but it shal be so I wish pray to God that you may be one of those of whome it is written Psal 92. The righteous shall flourish like a palme tree and shall growe like a Cedar in Lebanon Being planted in the house of the Lord they shall flourish in the Courtes of our God they shall still bring forth fruite in their age they shall be fat and flourishing to declare that the Lorde my rock is righteous and that there is none iniquitie in him Your Honors in all duty to commaund George Gyffard The Preface to the gentle Reader IT is a thing of great wonder to behold how God preserueth his Church from drowning and destruction in these greeuous times The Deuill is so full of wrath knowing his time is but short Reuel 12. v. 12. that he raiseth vp such tempests whi●le windes with such lightning and thunders with such outragious surges and waues as if heauen and earth should bee mixed together His cheefe Vassals the tyrants and Heretikes doo wonderfully bestirre them to effect his curssed desires By the one sort hee dooth breath out terror and as it were spit fire By the other he spueth vp deadlye poison and casteth his poisoned dartes He is so subtill that he transformeth himselfe into the likenesse of an Angell of light and his Ministers come in faire cloakes For behold all sortes of Heretikes and Schismatikes and yee shall see fewe of them come in the Deuils liuerie The Papists shrowde themselues vnder the name and title of the Catholike Church These cry out the fathers the fathers the auncient Fathers These proclaime vs and all Churches which haue forsaken their fellowship and imbraced the Gospell to be Schismatikes and Heretiks These affirme that we haue no word of God no Sacraments nor Ministrie because we be cut off from them These preuaile mightelie among the blind superstitious people who greedely drinke vp all the poison abhominations which the Deuill hath spued vp into that faire golden cuppe in which they offer them Reuel 17. which is that they be Catholikes There is risen vp among vs a blinde sect opposite to these which is so furious that it commeth like a raging tempest from a contrary coast so that our ship is tossed betweene contrary waues For these cry alowd that our assemblies be Romish idolatrous antichristian Synagogs That we worship the beast receiue his marke and stand vnder his yoake And finally that we haue no Ministery no word of God nor Sacraments These pretend such feruencie of zeale against all false worship superstition and Idolatrie and such loue to the discipline of Christ and crie so lowd that a man would thinke he heard the voice of Elias of Haggeus and of that third Angel Reu. 14. Downe with the Preests of Baal come out from among them worship not the beast arise arise build the Temple and altar of the Lord. With this counterfet voice the Deuill seduceth many and troubleth all such as are weake and yet haue zeale against false worship trembling for feare of pollution with this sect onely haue I now to deale First therfore touching their name we terme them Brownists as being the Disciples Scholers of Browne There be indeed new masters sprong vp which seeke to carrie awaye