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An expostulation or complaynte agaynste the blasphemyes of a franticke papyst of Hamshyre. Co[m]piled by Iohan Bale
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Bale, John, 1495-1563.
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1552
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STC 1294; ESTC S114384
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not the chyldehode of youthe in him to be reproued For so might kynge Iosias haue bene reproued whych began to reigne in the .viii. yeare of hys age iiii Regum xxii and kynge Dauid discommended for being the yongest of his brethreÌ i. Reg xvii whose prayses are neuertheles habundaunt in the scriptures Ioas beyng but .vii. yeares old was a kyng also and for the tyme of his youth pleased God what though in hys age he ded otherwyse In England here kyng HeÌry the vi was but .viii. yeares old king HeÌry the third ix yeares olde and kynge Edwarde the third scarse xv yeares of age when they were crowned kynges yet was there neuer chronycle writer nor yet honest faythfull and obedient subiect that euer called them poore chyldren But with reuerence and honour euen from the first daye of their reignes toke them alwayes for whole and persyght kynges lyke as the sacred Bible holdeth of the afore named kinges Ioas godly Iosias in the .vii. and .viii yeares of their ages iiii Re. xi et ii Pa. xxxiiii What shuld this franctyck papyst here meane than so blasphemously to report our most noble wurthie kinge Edwarde y e .vi. in the xv yeare of hys age and v yeare of his reigne w tout al honour and reuereÌce but that he hath done on y e vnshamefast face of hys whorysh mother the monstruouse madame of Rome whych is full of the names of basphemye Apo. xvii Hym hath our eternal God most graciously gyueÌ vnto vs in the latter age of his noble father not without euydent miracle and wyll preserue hym no doubt to his owne glorye and welthe of thys realme in spyght of all hys popysh enemyes if we be not vnthaÌkefull Hys wurthie educacioÌ in liberall letters godly vertues hys naturall aptenesse in retaynyug the same pleÌteously declareth him to be no pore child but a manifest SalomoÌ in princely wisdoÌ Hys sober admonicions open exaÌples of godlines at this day sheweth him mindfully to prefer y t welth of his coÌmeÌs as wele gostly as bodyly aboue all foreÌ âª matters Marke what his maiestie hath done already in religioÌ in abolishing the most shameful idolatries of Antichrist besides his other actes for publyque affayres ye shal find at this day no christen prynce lyke to hym Now foloweth the secoÌd part of the blasphemouse seÌteÌce of this fraÌtick papist whiche is y t the actes put fourth now a dayes are vnknown to the kyng y t he wyl chaÌge them whan he cometh of age Thys not only toucheth y e kinges wurthie maiestie whiche is gods hygh minister in iudginge him chyldysh mutable inconstauÌt but also it pearceth hys most honorable couÌsel which are vnder him as was Ioseph in Aegipt y e staies of his people Ecc .xlix. as coÌsentinge to y e same So is Gods tabernacle by him blasphemed For if y t tabernacle of God be w t meane men as S IohaÌ sayth it is Apo xxi Moch more with the couÌcel of a christeÌ king which is gods high magestrate thei his assisteÌtes They y t despise y t rulers saith the Apostle Iude speake euil of theÌ which are in autoryte shal suffre y t vengauÌce of eternall fyre Whan Michael y t archangell stroue agaynst the deuyll disputed about the body of Moyses he durst geue no rayling seÌtence but sayd The Lord rebuke the But such as is here this pratlynge papyst speake euyll of those thynges whych they knowe not And what thynges they knowe naturally as beastes which are w tout reasoÌ they corrupt in theÌ selues Wo be vnto theÌ for they haue folowed y e way of Cain are vtterly giueÌ to y e errour of BalaaÌ for lucres sake and shal perish in the treason of Core If Christ be in the middes wheÌ .ii. or iii. pryuate men be collected in his name as he saith he is Mat. xviii much more amoÌge y e faithful couÌsel of so vertuouse Christen a king Who caÌ thaÌ deny them to be the tabernacle of God specially whaÌ they wyth all endeuer possyble haue sought and yet daily seketh clerly to baÌnysh out of thys christen realme the manyfolde abhomynacyons of Antichrist or idolatryes without nombre Which he by his smoky locustes y e moÌkes and shauen prestes hathe craftely planted here contynually from tyme to tyme euer sens the dayes of that wycked Emproure Phocas Who can denye them I saye yet ones agayne to be y t seyd tabernacle or chosen maÌsyon of God eyther that coÌgregacioÌ amonge whome he dwelleth by promesse Luke x et Ioan. xiiii Whan they so earnestly labour to place here in EnglaÌd the true relygyoÌ agayne aud to set vp hys true worshippinges as in the primatiue church of the faythfull Bryttayues fyrste planted by them ihat were hyther sente by Christes Apostles aud fashyoned after the perfight rules of the .vii. churches in Asia the filthy corrupcions of those Romysh Idolatours in the power of hys wurde taken from vs. If God doothe not dwell wyth them that thus dayly seketh hys glory wyth whome doth he dwell Than hath thys arrogaunt papyst wyth poluted mouthe blasphemed the tabernacle of God iu reportyng them nowe to make actes wythoute the kynges knowledge concernyng relygyon or els at thys day to buylde that hereafter they wyl breake And thys that enemy hathe done to brynge them in hate of the commen people as though not regardynge hys Maiestye they now went about not to establysh theÌ but deceyue them in the same Suche is the mad frenesy of so brutysh a beast But vnworthy are suche reprobate vessels of so godly Magistrates Of thys are we certayne sure so many as haue Gods knowledge roare those ragynge raylers what them lusteth to the contrarye wyth lyes after theyr leude lykynges that had it not bene in the feare of God theyr kinges true obedyence agaynst the wycked Antichrist they coulde neuer haue propounded so godly lawes And hauyng God presently assistent vnto theÌ as all they haue which seketh hys only glory they can not be so far to hys heauenly wyll contrariouse as their vyle report is in the quarel of that horrible monster No they are no suche wauerynge reedes as for a Christen commen welthe are thys yeare of one mynde and the nexte yeare wyll be of an other No truly it standeth not so wyth the vnchaungeable wysdome of Christes sprete wherin they haue earnestly wrought for tyme of the prosperouse raygne of our present Iosias Theyr fouÌdacioÌ haue they set vpoÌ so sure a rocke euen vpon Gods wurd that neither winde nor water stormy tempest nor wether can ouerthrowe it Math. vii Neyther shall the great gates of hell nor yet the stronge power of Sathan euer preuayle agaynste it Math xvi Neyther yet the deuyls vnholy vycar at Rome wyth all hys curssynges