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A08197	The oration and sermon made at Rome by commaundement of the foure cardinalles, and the Dominican inquisitour, vpon paine of death. By Iohn Nichols, latelie the Popes scholler. Which sermon and oration was presented before the Pope and his cardinalles in his Consistorie, the xxvij. day of Maie. 1578. and remaineth there registred. Now by him brought into the English tongue, for the great comfort and commoditie of all faithfull Christians. Heerin also is aunswered an infamous libell, maliciouslie written and cast abroad, against the saide Iohn Nichols, with a sufficient discharge of himselfe from all the Papists lying reports, and his owne life both largelie and amplie discouered.	Nicholls, John, 1555-1584?	1581 (1581)	STC 18535; ESTC S105660	86,257	238

as good towardnesse as Tom Collier thy fathers man And where as more impudentlie then an Asse thou writest That the most parte of my reportes touching your treacheries and malicious practises against the Queenes Maiestie and her honourable Councell is vntrue If I wrote any thing otherwise then the trueth was why dydst thou not make mention thereof that I might haue purged my selfe of infamie and vntrueth But I wrote no more then trueth gaue place but in the booke of Pilgrimage I wyll discouer God wylling more at large your treasonable attemptes against the Crowne and dignitie against her honourable Councell and against her common weale I haue spoken and doo speake and wyll speake nothing else but trueth of you But it is as harde a thing to heare trueth of you as it is for the Pope to giue his Miter away to poore beggers And finally where as thou concludest thy Lybell with these wordes That there shall neuer want vacabounds and runnagates for gaine If thou wylt haue these wordes to haue relation to thy selfe and to thy brothers who in déede are Vacabounds and runnagates from Tauerne to Tauerne from Towne to Towne from Shiere to Shiere Thou sayst well and truely and I goe not about to disprooue thy wordes but if thou meanest of me I am no runnagate I stay in one place and am not affrayde to shewe my face in the presence of you all if I could tell where to finde you But you are not farre vnlyke to the théeues who in the day tyme sléepe or lurke in Caues and in the night tyme raunge abroade I thinke you meete bothe together on the plaines of Salisburie the theefe he séeketh but the purse but you are not contented with the purse but seeke to bereaue a man of his body and soule We had more néede by a great deale if we haue respect to the safetie of our bodies and soules to take héede that we be not deceyued by the craftie iugling of these wandering Popish Préests Thus haue I aunswered to euerie particular Article contayned in the infamous Lybell against me written and I thought it good to containe the same in this Epistle written vnto you worshipfull Company for this cause onely For that they say That I attempted many most malicious thinges betweene the Prince of Orainge and the King of Spaine If you heare and vnderstand it of credible persons that I was such a fellowe as they report me to be I desire you as not compelled to make mention thereof in your Letters and conuay it to London I am sure and certaine that there is no man can auouch that I was such a fellowe as they make me to be I confesse my life hath béene wicked and lewde but neuer so wickedlie and lewdlic bent as the Papists doo report They say I am irreligious I am altogether giuen to vngodlinesse God hath forsaken me there is no hope of my saluation This is but theyr rashe iudgement God forgiue them I wishe them well to doo God graunt them a penitent heart and a tongue to speake trueth I am not the first that hath béene wrongfullie slaundered nor shall be the last There is a Popishe Préest héere in England that reported that he knewe him selfe bothe noble men worshipfull and Preachers héere in this Land to be of the householde of Atheisme But as I told so tell I againe that Papists can doo nothing else but lye and falselie report I leaue héere to trouble you any farther beeing otherwise occupied with waightier affayres then to obtaine fitte opportunitie and leasure to peruse this rude Letter of mine Pray that I may stand fast to the glorie of his name and the good example of others whose lyke conuersation I doo heartily wishe in the Lord. And so desiring your good prayers to Iesus Christe worshipfull Company to assist me with his grace that I may persenere in this his gratious calling to the end and in the end The Lord Iesus gouerne and guide you in true obedience of his glorious Gospell to the glorie of his name Amen Your fellow seruant in the Lord. Iohn Nichols ❧ The Oration made at Roome before the fowre Cardinalles of the Inquisition and the Dominican Inquisitour presented also before the Pope the .xxvii. day of May. 1578. YOu commaunded me most illustrious and most reuerend Cardinalles to write what I could against our holie Father the Pope and against the Catholique faith What your meaning is herein I knowe not if you seeke to knowe what learning I haue I confesse I haue none the time of my studies in the flourishing Vniuersities of England hath beene but short my maintenance in other common Schooles dured but for a small space of time wherfore neither in the Vniuersities neither yet abroade in the countrie could I reape any sound and vnconfused knowledge in good Letters therefore you may easilie be persuaded that if you require of me that which you would of a learned Scholer demaund my want of learning and rudenesse of inuention is such that I can not sufficiently whereas I gladly would accomplishe your request according to your minde If your desire be to vnderstand howe in times past liuing in blindnesse and errour Marke heere I counted the bright shining beames of Christ his Gospell blindnesse and the preaching thereof the preaching of errour I subuerted corrupted and prophaned as much as I could the doctrine of our holie mother the Church Scilicet If you are desirous to knowe wherein I haue offended our holie Father the Pope and wherin I haue more tashly thē wisely spoken against the catholique Religion to obey your cōmaundement I did what I could to put in writing such words as I vsed against him and his Religion and trusting to your woonted clemencie in forgiuing my trespasse I write as boldlie as if I were in England if I did not so your commaundement should not be accomplished Wherefore how so euer I speake be not greeued and turne not therefore your fatherly fauour from me the fault is not in me to write the thing commaunded I write what I spake whiles that I lyued in England and I spake as I was taught nowe I write that which I hate but spake then that which I lyked This is a newe metamorphesis of a Collier to become a Scholler of a plow-man a Preacher and of an heretique to become a catholique there are colliers that haue gon to schoole haue read there is but one God one Baptisme one faith in Iesus christ why are they not schollers There are plow-men that can teache theyr household to looue God aboue all things to loue one another as god loued vs and gaue his only begotten sonne to reconcile vs vnto him beeing his enimies transgressours of his holie law and commaundement and are they not Preachers Heretiques will become catholiques if they consider and examine the corrupt lyuing of babling Preachers their vsurping of Ecclesiasticall liuinges their ambition to higher degrees of

that not of your selues it is the gifte of God not workes least any mā should boast him selfe 2. Tim. 1.9 Qui saluos fecit nos vocauit vocatione sancta non secundum opera nostra sed secundum suum propositum gratiam quae dat a quidem est per Christum Iesum ante tempora aeterna Who hath saued vs and called vs with an holy calling not according to our workes but according to his own purpose and grace which was geuen to vs through Iesus Christ before the world was Titus 3.5 Non ex operibus quae sunt in iustitia quae faciebamus nos sed secundum suam misericordiam saluos nos fecit per lauacrum regenerationis ac renouationis Spiritus sancti That is Not by the workes of righteousnes which wee had done but according to his mercie he saued vs by the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the holy Ghost that we being iustified by his grace should be made heires according to the hope of eternal life 1. Iohn 4.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Herein is loue not that we loued God but that he loued vs and sent his Sonne to bee a recōciliation for our sins In the 9. ver We loue him because he loued vs first To the Reue. 21.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will geeue to him that is a thirst of the wel of the water of life freely Many other places of Scripture could I alleadge against mennes merites righteousnesse but these already alleadged may suffise any Christian man Now briefly will I see what the Doctors speake against this matter of Iustification by good works Origene in his 4. booke and 4. Chap. I doe scarcely beleeue that there can be any woorke that may of duetie require a reward Basill vpon the Psalme 32. Hee that trusteth not in his owne good deedes nor hopeth to be iustified by his woorkes hath the onely hope of his saluation in the mercies of God Hilarie vpon the 118. Psalme If wee faste once we thinke we haue satisfied If out of the barnes of our houshold stoare we geue somewhat to the poore we beleeue that wee haue fulfilled the measure of righteousnesse But the Prophet hopeth all of God and trusteth all of his mercie Hierome vpon the 64. Chapter of Esay If we beholde our owne merites we must be driuen to desperation Vpon the. 3. Cha. to the Ephesians In Christe Iesu our Lord in whome we haue boldnesse and lyberty to come and trust and affiance by the faith of him not through our righteousnes but through him in whose name our sinnes be forgiuen In his first booke against the Pellagians Our ryghteousnesse dooth not confist of our merites but of the grace and mercy of God Augustin in his 50. Booke of Homyles 14 Hom. Dyd not he giue that thou mightest fight a good fight if he him selfe dyd not giue what was it that thou sayst In an other place I laboured more then all they yet not I but the grace of God within me behold thou sayst I haue ended my course dyd he not also giue vnto thee that thou shouldest finish thy course If he gaue not vnto thee that thou shouldest finish thy course what is it that thou sayst In an other place It lyeth not in the willer nor in the runner but in God that sheweth mercy I haue kept the faith I acknowledge and allowe it I confesse and grant that thou hast kept the faith but except the Lord dooth keepe the Citty he watcheth in vaine that dooth keepe it Pardon me O Apostle I know nothing of thine owne but euyll Pardon vs O Apostle we say so because thou hast taught vs. Therefore when he crowneth thy merites he crowneth nothing but his owne gyfts Thus you haue heard déerely beloued what both scriptures and Doctors write against mens merites and righteousnesse Wherefore I pray you in the name of Christe to embrace the trueth THus was the Sermon ended at Roome in the yéere of our Lord. 1578. in the moneth of May which Sermō is registred only for this cause the if I should reuolt frō Papistry mine own writing which is registred should cōdemne me to the fire for pardō there were none Otherwise if they had not registred this Sermon I might haue forsaken Papistrie without any feare of burning I might haue repayred vnto them be reconciled to the Romishe Church againe But nowe if I were so wicked lewde by meanes of my Sermō registred at Roome the Pope him selfe could graunt me no pardon according to theyr owne lawes But without any faile I should be burnt as an Heretique for thus tearme they Christians But God defend me from theyr clawes strengthē me in his faith graunt me patience vnto the ende and in the ende God graunt me an heart to looue him and obey my Soueraigne Quéene Elizabeth During her life I hope the Papists shall not burne me God graunt her Grace many yéeres to raigne with much felicitie encrease of honour and ioy of health bothe of body and soule Pray well O England for her Maiestie for truely thou hast much néed thou knowest the cause as well as I wherfore the same I doo omit to write This booke is ended Momus holde thy peace for there was neuer Momus that euer thriued vnlesse he became a mome for his labor Men wyll say as they haue done before this tyme that this Booke was the labour of other men as they say the other was It is well knowne of twēty and not so few that I had the helpe of none in this book neyther in the first booke which was called my Recantation All the helpe I had was of God and my bookes as for other helpe had I none not so much as one sentence or clawse had I by other mens industrie to be written in my booke This haue I spoken not to win prayse or that I should séeme to be coumpted learned before I be But I thought it good so much to write to certifie the Readers howe falsely I am accused and slaundered and what vntruethes the Papists report of me I crane no more of them then they would of me in the lyke case to speake no more then trueth is And let them not spare to report that which is trueth so shall they as I thinke neyther displease God nor molest their owne conscience And before the any man ought to beléeue them in misreporting ought of me let them first trie examine theyr wordes whether they be true or false and as they haue prooued theyr wordes so let them beléeue Thus I haue ended to write any farther to God be prayse vnto me to accomplishe what to a Christian belongeth If you like this simple worke of mine expect for a better which I hope to God ere it be long shal be brought to lyght to the misliking of the Papists and to the discredite of theyr hypocriticall Religion and to the profite of the Christians and aduancement of

to the Pope and his Romish Sinagogue How father Minister a graue and learned Iesuite commended my dooings and sayd I was one of the best Oratours among all the whole rowt of Students And as for to speake Latin I taught that most part of them all to speake true Latin although they were farre from any Ciceronian phrase They haue such blockheads that studie Philosophie that in talke they vse an Accusatiue case in stéede of a Nominatiue and the Masculine in stéede of a Feminine gender and I wyll name them for your sakes Master Dodipol Oliuerius Master Douter Doctor I would say Mushe with twētie more they are not able to make a true construction betwixt the Nominatiue case and the Verbe the Substantiue and the Adiectiue the Relatiue and his Antecedent Yet for all that by meanes of theyr déepe Philosophie they thinke to ouer-crowe our Studentes héere in England They that studie Diuinitie when they are commaunded to make such an Exhortation as I haue done often in your Seminarie of mischéefe for I can not say of learning or yet of vertue I would I could they ascend vp to the Pulpit with a brazen face or a fooles vizarde but they descende with shame and with discommendation some haue I séene of your company iollie Champions went about to preach but were not able to prosecute theyr matter Wherfore they came downe from the Pulpitte and left halfe theyr Sermons vnsayde for that they had forgotten the residue of theyr Sermon eyther for that they quafte too much Wine or else that they had supt too much pottage Except two according to the report of Father Minister of whome I spake and who soone after Saint Peter ad Vincula his day dyed There was not one amongst thrée score that coulde preache as well as our common Taylors and Shoomakers in England In déede they excelled them in one point for that they obserued more guyle and deceipt in theyr preaching to intrap our Englishe men in the snares of idolatrie then men of Occupation in persuading the people to decline from papistrie And whereas verie impudentlie thou sayst I was a common game to the rest of the Studentes who made me often to mount on a stoole and to preach to them the Sermons which I had vttered in England Thine owne fellowes such as are taken denie the same to be true as they doo the rest of the chéefest pointes of thy infamous Lybell he that was my Chamber fellowe maye reporte this to be a lye as the rest of thy Articles If he report truely this is all that he or any other is able to auouch That béeing merelie disposed I once but neuer afterwardes stoode vpon a stoole as the Iesuits doo when they preach standing vpon bulks or else vpon stooles and demaunded of him who is nowe prisoner in the Towze to giue me what Theame he would and so be dyd and therevpon made a discourse Extempore Wherefore it is vntruth to report that I preached a Sermon vttered once before in England and to say that I dyd it oftner then once The lyke thing many of you haue done whose names I could recite but because the matter is of no more importance I wyll not name them at all Good man lyer I knowe not thy name for that thou hast not written it belike thou wert ashamed to name thy selfe least thou mightest be taken and thy treacheries espied Wheras thou sayst That I lingred behinde my fellowes at a Towne in Vmbria called Fuligne That is as true as the Pope hath made thee a Cardinal for I left them their bay Horse ouerladen with the Popes blessinges hauing a gréeuous disease and not able to goe in the plaine feeldes I forsooke your company And if so be that this sicknesse had not chaunced vnto me yet had I occasion offred me to forsake their company for they made me pay eleuen Iulyes for seuen and caused me to pay for their mans charges as well as they What charity you pelting wandering Massemongers haue I wyll declare There came this last Summer a Northren Scholer to Roome who could not be admitted to the Colledge but the Rector taking compassion on him wylled the fowre Préestes whereof I suspecte thee to be one who went in my company for thrée dayes space to giue this poore Scholer a Crowne a péece among whome also I gaue him a Crowne But howe vncharitably they vsed him in the iourney for thrée dayes you may reade as followeth They caused him all the way to leade theyr Horse by the brydle or to driue him forwardes yet would they not pay for the mans meate nor suffer him to ryde béeing verie sicke and scarse able to stande on his féete and payde more then a Stranger would haue paid vnto them The thirde day of our iourney it so befell when I departed from them that this youth was so faint that hée layd himselfe downe on the ground in the middle of the feeldes not able to mooue a foote farther When they sawe that he was able to leade theyr Horse no longer they forsooke him not bydding him farewell neyther giuing him so much as the value of one small pennie Behold what charitie Papistes haue behold theyr inhumanitie to theyr own countrey-man Héere in England they shewe such counterfeyt holinesse that a mā would scarse thinke that they would play the Varlettes they deceyue the people wounderfullie But if our Englishe men had béene so much conuersant among them as I haue béene and had tryed theyr manners as I haue done they would beware howe to giue credite to such hypocriticall fellowes But if our countrey men wyll bestowe the reading of the booke of Pilgrimage I wyll lyuelie paint foorth the crafte and subtiltie of our Englishe Studentes beyond the Seas I will describe the horrible abuses crept into the Churche of Roome which I haue séene with mine eyes and vnderstoode of many that were credible persons And whereas thou sayst That the first Sunday after my comming to the Tower I refused to repayre to the Church I graunt it so to be But whereas thou sayst The second Sunday following I pronounced this Recantation of mine which is nowe in print That is as true as a Catte bringeth foorth whelpes for Maister Lieuetenant and my Kéeper with many moe knowe that to be vntrue And whereas thou sayst That if I shall want preferment heere I wyll goe beyond the Seas againe Who wyll beléeue this to be true where as I haue béene once pardoned already for that I haue béene of the contrarie Religion all men knowe that the Popishe lawes are against them that reuolte twyse from theyr Religion If I returned vnto Roome againe or to the Popes dominions I should be condemned eyther to the fire or to the Gallies Wherfore I meane to abide in England hap well or hap yll England hath no fellowe better it is to liue in pouertie then to be whipped on the Seas and to be taught to rowe hauing therevnto