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A17725	Two godly and learned sermons, made by that famous and woorthy instrument in Gods church, M. Iohn Caluin. Which sermons were long since translated out of Latine into English, by M. Robert Horne late Byshop of Winchester, at what time he suffered exile from his country, for the testimony of a good conscience, as his apology in the beginning of the booke will witnes. And because these sermons haue long lyen hidden in silence, and many godly and religious persons, haue beene very desirous of them: at theyr earnest request they are nowe published by A.M.; Quatre sermons. English. Selections	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Horne, Robertc1519?-1580.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1584 (1584)	STC 4461; ESTC S110726	58,766	149

had the exposition therof by his owne holie ghost Then my good L. Chancelour who was alwaies sure at a néede perceiuing that I stood to this that I had offended no law to helpe at a pinch obiected yea thrée or fowre times for fayling a mater no lesse malicious then false And because nothing should be lefte out that might helpe foreward the mater this good olde father of Duresme who had plaide thrée partes before right well chargeth me with a matter not onely malicious false but so foolishe that I had much to doo to refraine my selfe from laughter I could not chuse but smile At the last my L. Chancelour after certaine talk had vnto me and mine answer made concluded that it was not only preaching wherwith I should be charged the which hee perceiued I sufficientlie defended by the Kings lawe in déede I had asked counsel of them that were learned in the lawes of the Realme but also matters touching the Quéenes highnesse which were the same wherwith he and the Bishop of Duresme had charged mee before as I learned by thrée or fowre of the Bishoppes owne seruauntes who had made no false report of theyr Maister before in my matters but as they wrote home to Duresme to theyr companions what thinges I should be charged with all and what should be my iudgement so afterward I found it true And therefore vpon the monday at after noone which was the thyrtie of October after it was tolde me by a fréend of mine dwelling in London who was familliar in the Bishoppes house and at that tyme frequented it the more to heare somwhat as touching me that he had learned and was crediblie enformed both that all my goodes at Duresme was seased on in the Quéenes graces name and that I my selfe should on the morrow be committed to the Tower both because I had contemned the Quéenes highnesse Letters and also for that I was a Scotte I saye after I heard these thinges considering how many godlie learned preachers were imprisoned and commaunded to theyr houses for religion without all doubt and yet an other pretence made perceyuing that abiding could not profit my selfe nor yet the congregatiō my departure might doo both I committed my selfe to the guiding of the Lord and went my waies not making any man priuy to my departure Meruaile not good brethren though after that I was entred into my iourney I were troubled with sundrie cares but chéefely with this least that I should now be apprehended by mine enimies and so giue them that they would haue béen glad of some honest colour wherefore they might haue séemed iustly to haue wrought on me theyr will For they that were not ashamed to inuent false and feyned accusations howe would they haue reioysed yea triumphed ouer me when they might haue laid to my charge flying the Quéens Realme and that not onely without her graces lycense but being cōuented before her highnesse honourable Counsell and commaunded to attend tyll they espied a time for me You may be assured a Lawiers wit wanting neither cunning nor yet good will and hauing full aucthoritie to say and doo what he lyst could easily haue amplified this crime and haue formed of a small Gnat a mighty Elephant But after that the Lord had deliuered me at the least for this time out of the mouth of the Lyon and saued me out of the handes of all mine enimies which hated me I beganne to study with my selfe and more dilligently consider to what end GOD had wrought thus my deliuerance which was not that I should nowe liue as one that had no regard of Gods glorie nor of mine owne duety But that as I was appointed to be a workman in his vineyard and a watchman ouer the house of Israel so I should now most earnestly hunt those wilde swine that destroyeth the Lordes vineyard gather togeather so much as in me lieth the Lordes shéepe that now are dispersed thorow out mountaines hylles and groues and to giue them warning of the feareful sword that hangeth ouer their heades Which thing I shall not cease to doo by the aide of Gods most holy spirit But for so much as I know right well the proud Papists whose mouthes are full of bitternes curssed spéech wil not cease yea out of theyr Pulpits with boasting and glorious words to carpe and flaunder me for my sodaine departure as though thereby they had vanquished ouercome Gods truth which I had set foorth and my kinsefolks and fréends will much lament my state taking this to vnkindnes that I would not make them priuie of my purpose thinking that they should haue turned my minde and also which moueth me most of all the weake flocke of Christ whome I had fed with the true doctrine of the Gospell maye by the subtill perswasions of the crafty hypocrites be brought in doubt of the veritie thereof as though I my selfe should haue forsaken it and therby be offended and be brought from God I say for these causes I thought it best to aunswer the malicious hypocrites whose mouthes although I could not stop yet at the least they should not hereafter say but that they were warned if that they would not cease to speake that they ought not they should heare that they would not héereby to satisfie my kinsefolke fréends who I knowe of fréendshippe and louing kindnesse looke vpon my matter with a wrong eye And also to admonishe the weake christian brethren both to beware of the leuen of the dissembling hypocrits who although they be cloathed in Lambs skins yet by theyr fruits they may know them to be rauening woolues and also to cōfirme themselues in that doctrine which I haue preached vnto them which also they haue receyued and not to be easilie caried away into any other contrarie although an Angell should come from heauen and preach it to them Who so will aduisedly behold the maners and conditions of the Scribes and Phariseis whilst Christe walked héere vppon earth what shifts and practises they vsed to maintaine their cloaked holines their dyrtie traditions and vaineglorious estimation therfore to deface Christe and to suppresse his holy word and also will with iudgemēt compare our popishe Prelates with the whole rablement of theyr chickens vnto them shal plainly see them so like in conditions practises and so liuely represent as it were the phisnamy of theyr old auncetours the Phariseis that he would saye and affirme that they were euen the selfe same risen from death to life againe Yea if bishop Caiphas were héere in his owne person he would for ioy burst out and say as Demea sayde by his sonne C●esipho Oh oh lachrymo gaudio laudo patrissat salnos sit spero est similis maiorum suorum For what was in the Phariseis of olde time wherin ours now do not excel them What pride what vainglorie hypocrisie trust in theyr owne righteousnes glory in theyr works of deuotion couetousnes

the clergie as high as euer they were aboue the Laity I haue good reasons that mooueth me also to thinke this to be true Whervnto I said that can neuer bee brought to passe For although the Noble men doo fauour their Religion yet will they neuer suffer them to clime so high againe Tush saith he they shall first of al helpe them to bring to passe at this Parliament that they would and then they will haue their heades off one after an other What said I they will neuer so doo for the Nobilitie fauoureth them Yea saith he and they fauour some of them againe But they looue none of them all so well but they looue thēselues better They sée that the whole youth of the Realme and especially of the Noble the worshipful are infected with this heresy new learning and they shall hereafter vndoo againe all that they now doo and then the latter end shall be worse then the beginning and therefore wyll they chop of the heads of the Fathers and thereby both their children are disenherited and shalbe able to doo no harme also they may in their place make Noble men of their owne kindred and fréends What saide I it were too much cruelty wherevnto he sayeth yea yea they thinke it is better an inconuenience then a mischéefe God deliuer the noble blood of England out of the daunger of these dissembling woolues But let the Noble men consider how many of their owne fréendes most déere dearlinges with whome they were ioyned in confederacie for the bishoppe of Rome wretched Winchester and deuillish dreaming Duresme haue brought to confusion and they shall haue sufficient warning how they may trust these bloody butchers If doctour Ridley were a liue the bishop of Duresmes chaplein and one hand he would vouch it to his face as he dyd y e last time that euer he spake to him that he careth not whose blood he shed to bring his purpose about And what would this vnsatiable bloodsoking hypocrit haue cared to haue wrought my destruction whome he tooke to be an enimie to his deuillish deuises He inuented all the waies he could to bring me to reuoke the trueth he caused two Noble men to charge me with preaching as he termed it heresie he himselfe accused me that I had infected his whole dioces with new learning but when that would not serue because I had doon nothing but that was confirmed by y e lawes of the Realme he was not ashamed to lay to my charge that I was not an Englishe man borne that I had exercised his office in his bisshopricke that I had brought in a wife of mine owne into that Church where neuer woman came before And then the L. Chauncelour chargeth me with contempt of the Quéenes highnes as though I should haue receiued thrée letters of cōmaundment to repayre and make mine appearaunce before the Councell and would appeare for none of them If both these butchers had béene so well knowne to King Henrie the eight for rancke traytours to the Crowne of England as they were in déede which nowe they shewe plainlie as I am well knowne to be a meere naturall English man they should neuer haue brought that noble Realme now in daunger to bee ouer runne and conquered with straungers the which thing men that be halfe blind may plainly see they goe about I neuer meddled with his office I was in daunger of much displeasure as the honorable Counsell did well knowe because I would not take vpon me his office And herein he vttereth his malitious hipocrisie and what an vnshamefast bawde hee hath béene is and wilbe to the Monkes of Duresme when he saith there came neuer woman within that house before my wife came there For he knoweth right well that the Churche of Duresme was replenished with maried Préestes For Bishoppe William by the helpe of Lanfrank Archbishop of Canterbury did obtaine lycence from Pope Hilderand to banishe the maried Préestes and to bring Monkes from Warmouth and Iarrow And also it is not vnknowen to him nor to his Chauncellour nor to any one of his officers that euery Monke of them al for the most part hath a Concubine in the towne who hath come and dooth come to their Church and Chamber and no fault found but that honest men of the towne and also of the Countrie are offended there with but dare say nothing for feare of the great bawde their Patrone Yea the Bishoppe and his Monkes knewe full well that I did knowe to much of their iugling and therefore it was time to rid mée out of the way But when Winchester came in also with his false accusation for I neuer receiued one letter nor token of commaundement from her highnes nor from her honourable Counsell but a letter the post deliuered me by the way as I was comming to London and layd it earnestly to my charge as though I had béene a stubborne rebel I perceiued they would serue me as they had doon others I meane to punish me for religion and pretend treason and subornate two or thrée false witnesses as they haue plenty in store to affirme that I had made some offēce to the Quéenes highnes as their great grandsires plaid with Christ saying that he did forbid the people to pay tribut vnto Caeser Wherfore I thought it best to deliuer my selfe out of their handes by forsaking my natiue Country séeing there was neither equity nor iust iustice to be looked for my doctrine was neuer so pure my hehauior neuer so vpright and I neuer so able to aunswere with trueth to that was obiected And therefore my fréends and kinsfolke haue no cause to be sorie for me For although I haue lost a great liuing all my goodes haue not one farthing lefte me am bannished my natiue Countrey shall vse no more the familiar company of my fréendes what haue I lost Nothing but shalbe a great gainer For if to saue these thinges a man loose his owne soule what hath he won And if the departure from these haue euerlasting lyfe to rewarde what dammage is there Our Sauiour Christe whose promise is much more sure and precious then the vncertaine and flattering glorie of the world hath made faithfull promise That whosoeuer forsaketh house brethren sisters father mother wife children liuelode for his name sake the same shall receiue an hundred folde and shall inherite euerlasting life As for liuing he that feedeth the sparrowes will not see me vnprouided for Godlines is great ritches when a man is cōtent with that he hath When we haue foode and rayment let vs be therewith content For this is a plaine case Wee brought nothing into the world nor we can carie nothing away We haue heere no dwelling place but we seeke a citie to come the heauenly Ierusalem where our sauiour Iesus Christe is For whose sake I count all thinges but losse and doo iudge them but doong that I may win