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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10684	An ansvvere to a Romish rime lately printed, and entituled, A proper new ballad wherein are contayned Catholike questions to the Protestant, the which ballad was put foorth without date or day, name of authour or printer, libell-like scattered and sent abroad, to withdraw the simple from the fayth of Christ, vnto the doctrine of Antichrist the pope of Rome / written by that Protestant Catholike, I.R.	Rhodes, John, fl. 1606.	1602 (1602)	STC 20959; ESTC S1295	13,979	42

so pure What is the chaffe vnto the wheat what is mans wit to wisdome great Your gold is brasse your siluer tinne your teaching drosse your deeds but sinne Remember what you taught and did before that your bad tricks were spi'd Remember persons time and place and so repent and call for grace Whereas you charge our liues for bad we grieue thereat we are not glad If you did rule it would be so and ten times worse full well I knowe This Realme is very populous and you like night-birds hinder vs. Christ said you know that in each land sinne it would get the vpper hand Let all men striue therefore say I against all sinne and Popery You liue at ease and as you will like Epicures your selues you fill Your belly is your God in deed your puffed cheekes your hands doe feede The best of all things in eche land by flights you got into your hand Thus did you fast thus did you prey on men and women night and day A thousand waies your gaines came in through Antichrist that man of sinne You would no wiues for that was ill but whoores and harlots at your will No woman must come in your sight vnless it were some Nun by night Your common Stewes you still maintaine for why they bring the Pope much gaine When Monasteries brake vp here then did your filthynesse appeare Thousands of Infants heads were found in ponds and priuies which you drownd Like dogges and foxes therefore you did lead your liues it is your due Like swine like wolues like sathans brood that neuer did Gods people good Like hypocrites in euery place you liued and doe without Gods grace You make poore people to beleeue that you can all their sinnes forgiue It were too long to make relation how you and yours deserue damnation But where you say that we doe write of this our faith which you despite That it was found and did appeare to be the trueth sixe hundred yeare We say that from Christ his Assension for our fayth was no such contention As Papists make now at this day nor in that space of yeeres we say But this our faith it euer stood euen since that Abel lost his blood On Gods sweet word we doe depend for it shall iudge vs in the end It is our wisdome and our ioy and mans traditions are a toy Though some things hard doe there appeare the rest we read in all the yeare And find that it sufficient is to guide all men to heauenly blisse What would you more but that you stand for Popish trash in euery land Now where you aske of Popery when it began and to sit hie I answere will to your demand both readily and out of hand It bred in the Apostles time and so increaste by many a signe Great strife then grew three hundred yeres as in Church stories it appeares For many things but chiefly one who should be supreme head alone All Bishops wrote against this thing no Emperour would euer bring Any one Bishop to the same till wicked Phocas time by name But he a wicked murtherer vnto this act was furtherer That none might checke him for that deede of killing father mother and seede Thus did proud Bishop Boniface third of that name set in highest place And now the other Bishops three that made vp foure of one degree Were first made vassall vnto Rome from whence all Popish trash doth come When Boniface was thus aloft he playd his part and wonders wrought And so did all of Rome beside vntill they grew to their full pride And were of late vnhorst agayne by Christian Kings that them disdayne The true Church was eclipsed then and had in scorne of carnall men The Prophecies fulfilled were of Daniel who prayd in feare And those in Reuelation which God did giue vnto S. Iohn A thousand yeeres this held out so that Christs true flock you could not know But by their persecution sharpe which they endur'd with willing heart Yet still Christ and his Gospell stood in persecution and in blood The Popes left off to preach and teach and after wordly things to reach In time they grew so fierce and fell that no good man with them could dwell They put down Kings and Princes hie abusing them to slauery And what they said or did was lawe thus euery one was kept in awe In all your Popes true faith did faile and hell it selfe did much preuaile The salt his sauor lost in them Christ was in trueth reiected then Yea all his death and glorious passion was turn'd into another fashion Each Pope a new toy did deuise to blind and bleare the peoples eyes Fooles Apes and Asses still they made of Gods poore people by this trade The second question that you make I answere will for each mans sake That cannot answere readily your Arguments and Sophistry Where was our Church you say that time where did the beauty of it shine Where did our chiefest Pastour sit who kept our keyes who rulde our ship You did vs shew you Churches built as you can shew those we haue spilt To these in order as they lye I will in few words now reply Where is the Sun the Moone the Stars when clouds darknes make them wars Doe they not shine still where they be vnder those clowdes Euen so did we Our chiefest Pastor he is Christ and he sits in the heauens highest He hath the keyes and guides our ship and laughs to scorne our little wit For Churches first we answere you by Churches of another hiewe How many Churches hath Christ built and you the blood of them haue spilt Of other Churches that you speake God in his iudgement doth them breake Euen as he did Hierusalem for killing of his Prophets then And as he did the hill Alters and Groues of all Idolaters You aske what are become alway of all that dyed to this day We are no Iudges in this case we leaue them to the Throne of grace Idolaters may aske you so of those that haue dyed long agoe What answere can you make therein but this that God for all their sinne May iustly damne them if he will or saue where he likes not to kill When Abram was with Cera he his father deare as children be And God cald Abraham away what should he not Gods call obay Or should he answere as you doe As my friends did I will doe too But you will say you be none such when yet you vse like things too much Try by the Scriptures well and see who comes neer'st Idoles you or we You aske how you might find vs out to answere things that were in doubt I say that euen as wolues by kinde the sheepe and lambes in field can finde So you did find vs to our cost or else how were our liues so lost