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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13565	The recantations as they were seuerallie pronounced by VVylliam Tedder and Anthony Tyrrell (sometime two seminarie priests of the English Colledge in Rome and nowe by the great mercie of almightie God conuerted, vnto the profession of the Gospell of Iesus Christ) at Paules Crosse, the day and yeere as is mentioned in their seuerall tytles of theyr recantations vvith an epistle dedicatorie vnto Her Maiestie and their seuerall præfaces vnto the reader, contayning the causes that mooued them to the same.	Tedder, William.; Tyrrell, Anthony, 1552-1610? Recantation or abjuration of Anthonie Tyrrell.	1588 (1588)	STC 23859.3; ESTC S4937	25,091	50

in maintaining the harlot of Babylon in vpholding the chaire of pestilence I meane the Church of Rome I haue fed my selfe with the swill and dregs of mens inuentions and traditions forsaking the fountaine and foode of Gods worde All this I haue doone but at the last béeing by hunger compelled I cryed out with that prodigall child saying Pater peccaui in caelum et coram te Luk. 15 iam non sum dignus vocari filius tuus Father I haue sinned against heauen and before thee I am not woorthy to bee called anie more thy Son This confession mooued his Father to compassion who louingly embraced him receiued him willinglie and cherished him tenderlie So I desire you not to refuse me though I come late home receiue me againe and haue cōpassion For our Sauiour Christ saith Matt. 5. Beati misericordes quoniam ipsi misericordiam consequentur Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercie And truely to haue compassion is a thing wherein a man dooth followe the example of almightie GOD for Christe himselfe doth say Luke 6 Estote misericordes sicut pater vester misericors est Be you mercifull as your Father is mercifull Receiue me I beséech you which was a fugitiue as one that repenteth as one that desireth rather to bee an abiect in Gods house Psal 84. then to dwell in the Tabernacles of sinners His name therefore who hath so mercifully called me be blessed for euermore But nowe I will come to the purpose that is to recant and renounce such errours as heeretofore I haue maintained desiring God that as it hath pleased his heauenly goodnes to giue me the grace to forsake them so it would also please him to giue me the gift of perseuerance to continue that I may no more fall into them againe You knowe it is the nature of the Serpent to kéepe his head whole though he put his body in danger for the defence of the same but if a man once bruse his head he can no longer endure against him but he must of necessitie die And I can no better cōpare the huge and weldie masse of Papistrie to anie thing then vnto a Serpent therefore in renouncing of it I will begin with the head The first Article of the Pope The Papists doo think and I did thinke the same that the Pope was Christ his Vicar and supreame head of the vniuersall Church héere vppon the earth militant This Article béeing mightily vpholden and stoutly defended they thinke none other of their Bulwarks can be shaken They thinke also that hee hath such a prerogatiue that he cannot erre whereof ryseth this presumption in deposing of Princes degradation of Bishops excomunication of all sortes of people without respect and of most light occasion Héereof hee presumeth to prescribe Lawes to the whole Church the which forsooth without his dyspensation must be inuiolable Sub pena excommunicationis And whosoeuer dooth breake them if it be Emperor King Quéene or what Prince soeuer he must be deposed such wickednes hath he practized against the Quéenes most excellent Maiestie to his vtter shame and confusion that the Prouerbe may bee fulfilled God sendeth a shrewde Cowe shorte hornes But his holines if it please you is not cōtented with this hee chalengeth to himselfe so great a prerogatiue that hee wyll make and deface Articles of the Fayth at his owne will and pleasure Gratian. Quia Dominus Deus noster Papa Héereof it ariseth that in that Synagogue scarce any of the Laye people can tel what they beléeue for béeing asked a reason of their faith they saie nothing els but thus beléeueth the Churche thus saith the Pope Whereas in deede the reason of our Faith should be taken from the word of God for as the Psalmist saith Omnis homo mendax Psal 116 Euery man is a lyer And therefore it shal suffise me that the Pope is a man and consequently a lyer and may not onelie erre but also hath already erred which if I desired not to be briefe I woulde prooue vnles by thys his supreame vsurped authority he be deified or made a God which thing to confesse is not onely impudencie but also intollerable blasphemie I therefore doe héere vtterly detest abiure and renounce him with all his excommunications interdictions suspentions degradations depositions irregularities and a thousand such like trifling thunderbolts I pronounce also his doctrine not to be according to the holy Scripture but contrarie vnto it and therefore I doo freely and ioyfullie recant it thanking GOD that it hath pleased his di●●ne Maiestie to deliuer mee from the slauery of that Tyrant desiring him also that I may not fall into his subiection againe 2 Of the Masse Next vnto this is their blasphemous doctrine of theyr Propitiatorie sacrifice which they cal the sacrifice of the Masse This Masse I once did deuoutlie thinke vpon hearde with great attention and with great reuerence I did celebrate onelie because I thought it was indeede a sacrifice propitiatorie both for the liuing and the deade when as the Scripture plainlie testifieth 1. Pet. 4. that Christus semel pro peccatis nostris mortuus est iustus pro iniustis vt nos offecret Deo mortificatos quidem carne viuificatos autem spiritu Christ once died for our sinnes the iust for them that were vniust that he might offer vs vp to God mortified in fleshe but quickned in spirite Hetherto also dooth all the Epistle to the Hebrewes tende It was also commaunded the High Priest in the olde Law that hee shoulde enter into Sancta Sanctorum but once in the yéere which similitude the Apostle in the same Epistle applyeth vnto the onely sacrifice which Christ offered for our sins vpon the Crosse The which because he hath once doone I think it vnlawful to haue any more propitiatorie Sacrifices then that one of our Sauiour Christ And therefore that which they call the propitiatory Sacrifice of the Masse I thinke it rather to be a derogatorie blasphemie to the passyon of Iesus Christ And for that cause I denie that either it is a Sacrifice or auailable for the lyuing much lesse for the dead I do also from henceforth vtterly denounce it to be wicked and an Idoll Transubstantiation 3 Of transubstantiation and reall presence a terme inuented in the Laterane Counsell vnder Pope Innocentius the thyrde of that name to establish an other error as grosse as it selfe that is to say The Reall presence of Christe his bodie in the Sacrament as they call it of the Altar is contrarie not onelie to Fayth but also to naturall reason For the holy Scripture teacheth vs that Christ is ascended into heauen Mar. 16. sitteth at the right hand of God And also that it was thought conuenient that heauen should containe him Act. 3. not according to his diuinitie which is incomprehensible but according to his humane nature which is circumscriptible or to bee contained in