Saint George they pray thus Hie nos saluet à peccatis vt in coelo cum beatis possimus qâ—iescere Let him saue vs from our sinnes that we may rest with the blessed in heauen And touching Saint Anne they say thus Deus qui beatam Annam matrem tuae genetricis fieri voluisti praesta quaesumus vt meritis vtriusque matris filiae regna caelestia consequamur O God thou which wouldest Saint Anne to become the mother of thy mother graunt we beseeche thee that by the merites of the mother and the daughter we may obtaine thy heauenly kingdome In thys you heare three Sauiours beside Christ and in like maner doe they acknowledge a thousande moe Secondly they say we haue remission of sinnes and saluation in parte by our owne Merites and good doynges For this writeth Gabriel Biel That the Passion of Christ may be the first and principall cause of attaining grace and opening the way to heauen Sed nunquam est totalis causa quia semper cum merito Christi concurrit aliquod meritum recipientis gratiam that is to say But it is neuer the whole cause for that euer there goeth with the merite of Christ some merite of him that receaueth grace What shall I say of Pardons of Pilgrimages of Purgatorie of holy Water and a number of other like Superstitions false errours by which not without blasphemie they matche transitorie things and vaine deuises of men with the most excellent price of our redemption the blood of Christ Iesu y e sonne of God our Sauiour exprefly contrarie to the holy ghost thus writing by Saint Peter Ye are not redeemed with transitorie things as with Golde or Siluer but with the blood of the immaculate Lambe Christ Iesus As touching the third cause of Christes IncarnatioÌ„ that he being our only high Priest according to the order of Melchizodech hath once for euer offered himself vpon the Crosse purchased for vs eternall redeÌ„ption they impugne it wyth y â— most horrible doctrine of the propiciatorie sacrifice daily offered in the Masse wherin they teach that mortall sinfull men in a state of Priesthood succeede Christ continually offer the very reall naturall body of Christ to God the father for the remission of dayly sinnes not only of theÌ„ that CoÌ„municate but of them that looke on receaue not yea and of them that be absent and procure the same to be made eyther for money or otherwise aswell for themselues as other which is directly contrarie to the doctrine of the holy Ghost in the Epistle to the Hebrewes Where at large he prooueth that neither the Priesthood of Christ can haue any successioÌ„ nor his sacrifice any repetitioÌ„ without euident note of imperfection As concerning the fourth cause of Christes Incarnation that he is the only Maister and teacher of his Church and hath reuealed vnto vs the perfecte wyll of God and true waye of Saluation so that nowe after hym wee shoulde receaue no doctrine but that is vttered by the voyce of our hygh Sheeparde in his holye worde Yes sayeth the Churche of Rome there bee many weyghtie matters of necessitie of saluation to bee beleeued which Christ in hys written worde hath not deliuered vnto vs and the same to bee receaued wyth lyke reuerence that the written worde of God is Last of all the fifte cause of Christes Incarnation that he came to be the onely Head Ruler Gouernour and Directour of his Churche the Patrones of the Churche of Rome manifestly denye saying that Christ is in deede the onely heade for saluation but not for gouernment because the Pope is the Ministeriall heade and gouernour and directour of the vniuersall Churche wherein they manifestly alter the nature of Christes kingdome For whereas the kingdome of Christ is not of this worlde but a spirituall kingdome wherein by the word of God and the power of his holy spirite hee ruleth and raygneth in the heartes of true Christians the Pope hath transferred it to an earthly kingdome and Empyre by which as the Vicar of Christ he challengeth a vniuersall gouernment not onely ouer the Ecclesiasticall state but also ouer all Princes and gouernours of the earth This opposition and contrarietie of the doctrines of the Churche of Rome to the doctrine of y â— Gospell if you diligently marke and obserue you shall euidently see in them the spirite of Antichrist althoughe not grossely and playnely yet vndirectly and colourablye denying Christ to haue come in fleshe What shall I saye that the doctrine of that Churche dothe not onely disgrace the office of Chryst in the worke of our redemption but hys person also by brynging hys humanitie and the trueth of hys bodye in doubte whyle they teache that the verye naturall bodie of Christ is really in all places or in tenne thousand places at once that is in euerye host consecrated through out the whole worlde And what Christian knoweth not that it is the propertie of of God alone and of no creature bee it neuer so holye to bee in manye places at once Finallye I adde that the Churche of Rome teacheth corruptlye as touching Originall Sinne freewill and the grace of GOD Faith and Justification good workes and the merites of them the vse of the Sacramentes and almost of all doctrines touching Christian Religion Therefore I trust you nowe perceyue both the partes of my second proposition euidently proued that is that we sincerely confesse and teache in all true sense that Christ is come in fleshe and they doe not therefore accordyng to the wordes of my Theame I say vnto you If we teach you the truth why doe you not beleeue vs If it be the onely right way of saluation why is it not fauourably receaued and embraced If it be the glad tidings of the Gospell sent by God vnto you why are the Messengers thereof disdayned and contemned People that doe feare God heare the worde of God with reuerence and not onely heare it with the eares but faithfully beleeue it in the hart and not onely beleeue it but constantly abyde in it not onely themselues to abyde in it but by all meanes they can to labour to drawe other to it and to represse all such as eyther reuolte from it themselues or seeke to disgrace or discredite it in others God is not more displeased with any thing than with the contempt of his word and Ministers Thus sayth the Lord by Ieremie in y t 6. chap. reprouing the obstinacie of his people Stand in the wayes and behold aske for the olde way which is the good way and walke therin and there you shall finde rest for your soules but they said we wil not walk therin Also I set watchmen ouer you which said take heede to the sounde of the Trumpet but they said we will not take heede But consider what God addeth immediatly Heare O earth saith he beholde I will cause a plague to come vpon
Redemption The Doctrine of the Apostles is that Christ is our onely Priest for euer according to the Order of Melchizadech that with once offering of himselfe hath for euer made perfecte them that bee sanctified But the Church of Roome telleth vs that Christe hath a state of Priesthoode succeeding him which must dayly and continually offer the very natural body and blood of Christe to God the Father for the remission of the sins of y e quick the dead The Doctrine of the Apostles is that Christe is the only Mayster and teacher of his church in his holy word hath deliuered vnto it al truth But the Church of Roome teacheth vs that Christ hath not deliuered vnto vs all truth but that there be many thinges necessarye to be beleeued which are not contained in the Scriptures herevpon doe they ground al their vnwritten verities and vayne tradicions of men saying that they are to bee receiued with the like Reuerence that the written worde of GOD is The Doctrine of the Apostles is that Christ is the onlye Heade of his Churche and the Ruler and gouernor of the same but the Church of Rome would perswade vs that the Pope his successors are the heads of the vniuersall church of Christ The doctrine of the Apostles is that Christ is the only Foundacion ground of his Church wherevpō it resteth and is stayed for S. Paule sayth that No man can lay any other foundacion then that is layd Christe Iesus But the church of Rome teacheth vs that S. Peter and his successours be the foundation of the Church and that Hell gates shall neuer preuayle against that church that is builded vpon that foundation This may you see very euidently how well the doctrine of the Church of Roome agreeth w t the doctrine of y e Apostles And therfore though they haue personall Succession neuer so muche yet because they haue not Succession of this true doctrine that may not iustly be taken for the right Churche of Christ Now if they will continue to aske of vs where oure Succession is We aunswere that wheresoeuer since the comming of Christ there hath bene any persons vpon the the face of the earth that haue confessed this sincere truth and doctrine We say that they are our predecessors we are their Successors and with them members of the true Church Therefore our church is not so new a Church as they would make it but as auncient as the Doctrine is which is the most auncient Doctrine y t euer was vpon the face of the earth But if this their personal Successiō be the greatest proofe of their Church What will they saye of the Grecians Who haue hadde Successyon of Bishops for as long continuaunce as they haue and yet did neuer acknowledge the Supremacy of Rome nor that it was the only Catholike church but a member of it only as others were Oh will they say The Grecyans were Scismatickes yea but they haue cōtinual succession of Bishops professing Christ And by what authority proue they that forsooth because they separate themselues from the Apostolicall Sea And is that sufficient Why if the Grecians are to bee counted Scismatyckes because they forsake the sea of Roome howe muche more is Roome it selfe to be counted no true Churche whiche hath swarued from Christe himselfe as before I haue declared both in Doctrine and in the right vse of the Sacramentes Wherefore their alleadging of the name and Title ot the Church is euen a lyke shyft as the Jewes vsed against Ieremie and the other Prophets of God in old tyme saying Templum Domini Templum Domini i. The Tēple of the Lord The Tēple of the Lord. Whereas the Lord did acknowledge nothing among them to bee his So do they now crie we are the catholique church We are the catholique Church and God hath promised that he will neuer forsake it but alwaye assiste it with his holye spirite and therefore hath it prospered so many yeares Or if the Churche of Roome be not the true Church there hath bene no church at all for certayn hundred yeares For where was your churche scene within these fourty yeares before Luther began What token was there of your Doctrine had christ no church at al yes truely had he God forbid that Christ at any time should not haue his true church But good people it is not alway necessarie that the churche of GOD should be Notable or flourishe in the outwarde face of the Worlde by continuall Successyon of Byshops GOD and the worlde bee contrary and therefore often times the Churche is more notable by contempte of the world and persecution then by great Number or Power Yea sometime they whiche in the outwarde shewe of the Worlde and by certayne externall Signes mighte seeme to bee the Church and haue taken vppon them the name of the Churche and people of GOD haue bene persecutors and to theire power the Oppressors of the true Churche of God as it appeareth towarde the Prophets towarde Christe himselfe and towarde his Apostles Wherefore though the heads and gouernors of the church with the assistance of the greater number doe forsake the true worde worshipping of God doe make new lawes repugnante to gods word do bring newe Rites ceremonies into the church and vtterly corrupt and deface the righte Sacramentes and true markes of the Churche yet GOD reserueth to himselfe his true churche sending from tyme to tyme Doctours and Teachers to lead them although the same bee not allowed by them that will bee counted the Ordinary gouernoures of the churche but esteeme them as Scismatiks as Heretiques as disturbers of the people of God So were the Prophetes vsed so was Christe himselfe and his Apostles serued by the Jewes that woulde be counted the true churche of of GOD. But this I wil declare vnto you by particuler Examples Noe had preached as some write sixe score yeares but to howe small effecte it did afterwarde appeare when that in the Deluge eyghte personnes onelye of his Familye were saued Consyder then what countenaunce the Churche of GOD had in the World before the Deluge when it consisted onlye in eighte Personnes and they not the best esteemed in the time of Abraham Isaac and the Patriarches In how few and small families were they dispersed vpon the face of the Earth in whome the dignitie of the Church consisted Achas King of Iuda Vria the high Bishop and the other Priests not resisting him shut vp the Temple of GOD and tooke away the Chayre so that vndoubtedly the ordinary Sacrifice and Teaching of Gods Lawe did cease and yet was there an holy and true Church in the Kingdome of Iuda where Esay and other good men did Teach but extraordinarily Vnder Manasses the true Doctrine and celebration of the Sacramentes ceased and so this Defection continued vntill it was refourmed by the good King Iosias yet
see y t not only the ecclesiastical state but also al the Realms of Christendom besyde by the ambition of these Bishops were brought to hatred dissention and horrible warres Neuer was there like canuassing stir for y t attaining of any principallity either one or other as hath bene for the sea of Rome as in part you nowe maye perceiue and I could farre more amplie declare vnto you but that I feare I should weary you with hearing as I am now with rehearsing examples to the profe of the same If any man thinke I speake of affection more then truth is let him examine the Histories and hee shall find I haue not sayde so muche by a great deale as iustly I may affirme But what was this onelye the Vice that reigned in that holye Sea of Roome no truelye their Pryde Crueltie Couetousnesse and vniust dealing was muche more horrible I will not offende the chaste eares of many with some other Vyces onelye I will touche a fewe Examples of these thinges I haue named Was not this thinke you vncharitable and cruell dealing amonge Prelates of the Church not only by violence and armes to depose their enemies but to cast them in prison to putte out their eyes to pul of their noses to famish theÌ„ to death to cut of their heads and fingers as they serued Constantinus the 2 Formosus the 1. Leo the 5. and diuers other Such Tyrantes were Stephane y e 6. Iohn the 13. Sergius the 3. John the 14. Boniface the 7. and a number moe Of John the 14. Platina writeth that when the Emperour had subdued an ennimie of the Bishops one Peter a notable man and committed the same vnto his hande to vse him as he thought good This charitable Bishoppe stript him starke naked and hung him vp a whole daye by the heare of the head Afterward hee sette him on an Asse with his face backwarde and the tayle of the Asse in hys hande and so led him through the Citie and they whipped him and cast him into banishment Calixt the second vsed like crueltie toward Gregorie that was chosen Bishoppe agaynst him and in like despight brought him into Rome on a Camels back w t his face toward the tayle as Carsellanus Platina Stella and Vincentius do write Mighte not these heades of the Church haue learned charitie and mercie of the PagaÌ„ Licurgus who as Plutarche writeth was contented gently to remitte and pardon him that in a seditious styrre had put out his eye Yea might not Caligula Nero and Phalaris himselfe haue the commendation of gentlenes seing the Prelates of Religion the heads of the Church and the Vicars of Christ doe passe them in crueltie But they vsed not this only among themselues or towarde meane ennimies but towarde Kinges Princes toward the head rulers of the earth those to whome by Gods lawe they ought most humble obedience I mean the moste worthy and noble Emperoures After there had bene hatred a long time betweene the Emperour Henrie the fourth and Pope Gregorie the seuenth that wicked Tyraunt as Benno sayth most vniustlye by sundrye meanes had wrought him muche trouble at the last the good Emperoure for sparing of Christian blood willing to yeelde and seeke meanes of Concorde in a colde and sharpe winter and moste daungerous passage came with his wife and Children to Carnusium where the Bishop was and there being wullwarde and bare footed came to the gates of the Cittie by the Bishops commaundment was kepte out three dayes in moste sharpe cold weather ere he coulde bee admitted and then at the intreatie of a Lady called Mathildis the fourth day after was let into the Cittie and had his Pardon but not before hee had sworne Obedience to the Sea of Rome and maynteynance of the same as Platina wryteth And yet all would not serue in the ende for the wicked Bishop did sette vp 3. Rebels agaynst him Rodulphe Harman Egberte all which by the iust iudgement of god came to foule end Rodulphe in battayle had his right arme cut of and thereof died crying out vpon the Bishoppes that had incited him Herman was slayne by a woman casting downe a greate stone from a Castle that he besteged Egberte flying into a Mille was taken and slayne Thus God preserued the good Emperour maugre the malitious hart of the cruell Bishop Of this Gregory the 7. Abbas Vrspergens in his Chronicle writeth thus Constat Hildebrandum non à Deo electum sed à se ipso fraude pecunia intrusum qui ecclesiasticum subuert it ordineÌ„ Christiani imperij turbauit regnum pacifico regi intendit morteÌ„ periuros defendit lites seuit discordias seminauit quicquid inter piè viuentes rectè stare videbatur concussit i. It is manifeste that HildebraÌ„d was not chosen of God but by himself intruded through deceit and money Who did ouerthrow ecclesiasticall order troubled the kingdome of the Christian Empire practised the death of the peaceable king defended periured persons planted strife sowed discord and ouerthrew all whatsoeuer semed to be well established among those that led a godly life How cruelly vniustly AlexaÌ„der the 3. vsed the Noble Emperour Friderike it is wonderful to read in Nauclerus Funcius By misfortune being takeÌ„ prisoner of the Venetians this Emperoure for safetie of his Lyfe was fayn to yeeld and came to Venice where the Bishop was but could not obtain pardon before he came to S. Markes church and did prostrate himself on the ground before the Bishop at which time with exceding pride he set his foote on the Emperours necke caused this Verse of the Psalter to be song Super aspidem Basiliscum ambulabis c. Thou shalt walke vpon the Lion the Adder the yong Lion and the Dragon shalt thou tread vnder thy feete That verse y t the spirit of god ment of our Sauiour christ this proud Antechrist turned to the aduancing of his own glory and repressing of Gods cheefe minister to whom he had giueÌ„ by lawful means y â— thefe gouernmeÌ„nt of y â— earth I neede not put you in mind that they admittted Kinges Emperours to go at their styrrapes as footemen So did Charles the great King Lewes of Fraunce and King Henrie of Englande both at one time Yea Adrian the fowerth blamed Friderike the Emperoure that comming on foote to meete him he did stay the styrrop on the wrong syde when hee lighted from his Horse And at another time impudentlye blamed the sâ—â—ne Emperoure because in the Tytle of his Letters that hee did sende hee didde sette his owne name before the Popes The time wil not suffer me to declare vnto you the intollerable pride and crueltie of Gregorie the 9. ClemeÌ„t the 6. The one of y t which after most despightful cruel iniuries wold not be recoÌ„ciled to Friderike the 2. before he had paide in way of penance one hundred and twenty thousand
6 The second Sheepes clothing where with Wolues doâ— vse to couer themselues Ro. 10. 15. Heb. 5. 4. Deut. 13. 1. Esay 56. 10. Jere. 23. 14. 15. Jer. 50. 6. Eze. 22. 26. Mal. 2. 8. Act. 20. 29. 1. Jo. 2. 19. 2. Thess 2. 4. Ordinary authoritie is no iust proofâ— of true doctrinâ— Jer. 7. 4. Jer. 18. 18. 3. Reg. 22. 24. Jer. 32. 3. Joh. 1â— 1. True prophers extraordinarily set vp by God to reproue the abusers of their ordinarie calling Esay 5â— 10. c. Vnder the cloathing of ordinarie caling the Wolfe is descried by his Claw of crueltie and sucking of blood The mercie of the Prefessoures of the Gospell Compared with the cruelty of the Churche of Roome The thyrde Sheepes Skinne wherein the Wolfe is wrapped The name of the church abused by the wolues The last cloathing wherin the wolues doe lurke False Miracles wrought by false prophets to deceaue gods people withall Exod. 7. 8. 9. Act. 13. 8. Deu. 13. 1. c. Mat. 7. 22. Mat. 24. 2â— 2. Thess 2. 9. c. Mat. 24. 25. 2. Thess 2. 11. Luc. 16. 29. â—â—y god â—â—â—â— not now shewe such â—â—acles as of â—ld he diâ— but â—latly â—eâ—â—raineth vs to the written word Mat. 12. 14. The end whereunto godly miracles do tend Mar. 16. 15. c. Act. 4. â—â— Mat. 7. 20. Verse 16. Ier. 23. 16. Verse 26. Gen. 2. 17. Gen. 3. 4. Mat. 4. 6. Psal 91. 11. 12. How false prophets are discerned by their fruits chefly by their doctrin 1. Ioh. 2. 22. 1. Ioh. 4. 1. c. Three points of doctrine by false teaching whereof thâ— teachers of the church of Rome are found to be false proâ—hâ—â—es The firste pointe conteining what knowledge of Christ we ought to haue how we must confesse him Iac. 2. 19. Mat. 16. 16. Christ onely is all in all vnto saluation Act. 4. 12. â— Ioh. 2. 22 False prophets are they that eyther â—â— flatt woords deny Iesus to be Christ or by indirect means do go about to teach it such are the teachers of the church of Rome Ioh. 14 6. The second poynt of doctrine by which falâ—â— prophets are discearned from true teachers Esa 55. 1. Joh. 7. 37. Mot. 11. 28 Act. 4. 12. Col. 1. 19. Col. 2. 3. c. Note 1. Joh. 1. 7. Jo. 1. 29. Col. 2. 9. Jo. 3. 14. Jo. 4. 14. Jo. 6. 51. Jo. 8. 12. Jo. 10. 11. Jo. 10. 9. Jo. 14. 6. Jo. 15. 1. Jo. 16. 7. The doctrine of the church of Rome concerning the office comming of christ in the fleash is contrarye to the doctrin of S. John therefore the teachers thereof are found to be false prophetes Blasphemus derogation to the merits of Christe Tho. de Venerab Sac. altar The third point oâ— doctrine to trye the teachers whether they be true or false prophets â— Ioh. 2. 24. 1. Ioh. 5. 4. How we are to apply the benefits of Christs comming in flesh euery man vnto him selfe Ioh. 3. 16. Ioh. 6. 40. Act. 10. 43 Ioh. 20. 31. Esay 42. 3. Mar. 9. 24 Luc. 17. 5. Mat. 17. 20 The Church of Rome impugueth the doctrine of apprehending applying the benefite of Christ his merits by fayth and therefore is seene to harbour false teachers Conclusion Mat. 7. 15. 1 Mat. 9. 38. Luc. 10. 2. 2 Ioh. 5. 39. Act. 17. 11. Aug. Eph. 6. 16 Mat. 4. 6. c. The corrupt lyues foule vices of the fathers of the church of Rome deâ—eâ—ted in way of answeare to those that obiect the preaching of the gospell to breede corrupt mannets in the heaâ—â—â—s of the same Gregorie i. pope condemneth the name of vniuersal Bishop Ambition in pope Boniface succeeding Gregorie nexte saue one The popes charitie shewed to his predecessor Nicromancy poyson stepps to tha popedome The popes treason against the Emperour The church of Rome a monster haning 3. heads at once The popes trie it by the eates who shalbe heade Christendome torne by popish Sâ—â—lines The popes whordome passed ouer The câ—ueâ—â—ie of popes taxed The popes pride touched Carnusium â—20000 The popes couetousnes noted Conclusion vpon al these histories of the popes proceedings Not the gospell but out corrupte nature is the cause why our fruites at these dais are no better The gospell euill spoken of because of such as â—â—lely professe and doe not liâ—â— after it Luc. 1. 73. The preachers of the gospel exhort to holy lyfe godlinesse as well in workes as profession Eph. 2. 10. Ma. 5. 48. 1. Pet. 1. 16. Luc. 1. 75. Leu. 11. 44. Eph. 5. 8. Eph. 2. 19. Phi. 3. 20. Mat. 5. 14. 1. Thes 5. 5. 1. Joh. 2. 9. c. Mat. 5. 16. 2. Tim. 4. 8. The preaching of the gospell not altogeather fruitlesse 3. Reg. 19. 18. Esai 55. 10 The godlinesse of the preachers of the gospel compared with that of the prelates of Rome What fruits haue folowed the preaching of the gospel Obiection that the Coâ—â—â—thes might vse â—â—â—ented What a Sacrament is God the only author of Sacraments Li. 4. de Sacramen Esay 29. 13 Leuit. 10. 1. 1 Thes 2. 13 Esay 1. 20. 40. 5. 59. 14. The wickednesse of the minister doth not derogate any thing from the effect of the Sacrament to the faythfull receauer CoÌ„tra PetilianuÌ„ Lib. 2 con Lit. Petil. The fayth of the receauer not the life of the ministrer doth helpe or â—â—â—der in the effecte of the Sacrament Sacraments consist of three partes â— The outward signes and what they signifie De coena Domini The absâ—â—â—â—tie of transubstanciaâ—ion The second parte wherof Sacraments doe consist is the spirituall or inward thing Whâ—â— the internall part of Sacramentes is Chrys hoÌ„ 7 â— ad Cor. Serm. ad Infant Sacramenâ—â— are seales whereby the letters patentes of ouâ— Saluation â—â— Christ are confirâ—â—â— vnto vs. The third parte wherin Sacraments consist is the worde of Christes institution and promise August Mat. 26. 28. Mar. 14. 24. Luc. 22. 20. Why Sacramentes were ordained Our infirmitie the first cause why Sacramentes were ordained Homil. in Math. 830. Lib. 3. quest Vet. noui The second cause why Sacraments were instituted is our â—â—â—rcise in the rememberance of Christs benefites Luc. 22. 19. 1. Cor. 11. 26. The thirde â—nd whereunto Sacraments were appointed â—oâ— 10. 9. The. 4. cause why Sacraments were ordained Eph. 4. 5. 1. Cor. 10. 17. August Ioh. 13. 35. The last caâ—â— why Sacramentes were appointed The faythful togeather with the outward signe receiue the inwarde thing Gen. 15. 9. What difference is to be obserued betwixt the Sacraments of the old Iews and the Sacraments of Christians The old Iewes vndes the lawe had the same hope of Saluation by Christ that we now haue Apoc. 13. 8 Eph. 1. 3. Gen. 3. 15. Gen. 26. 4. Ioh. 8. 56. Act. 3. 24. 1. Cor. 10. 3 A place imagined where the dead did â—est before the coming of Christe The difference that is betwixt the Jewes Sacraments oures consisteth
authoritie which preachers haue had the very same intertainmēt at their hands y ◠the ancient Prophets had of y ◠false prophets priests Princes of y ◠people We must not therfore beleue y t he is a true minister of god a deliuerer of sound Doctrine y t is furnished w t ordinary authority challengeth y ◠cōmendacion of successiō lawful calling for the wolues often times be couered w t that clothing And I wil note vnto you in this place one claw whereby you shall not lightly fayle to Discearne the greedy and greeuous Wolfe that is Tyranny crueltie and blood for the false Prophets are alwayes cruell and bloody Take Example of the olde false Prophets in the time of Esay Ieremie Micheas Zacharie and other and Christe himselfe doeth note that Marke in them in sundrye places of the Gospell Howe blooddye and cruell Eusebius and the other Arians and false Teachers were toward Athanasius other Godly catholike Bishops of that time the ecclesiasticall Histories doe largely declare might be layde down in this place if time would serue But neuer was shewed more notable examples herof thē in these oure dayes by the Popes their Prelates which to extinguish y ◠Gospell the true preachers professours therof haue bene Trompets to mooue Princes to war murder by sword fyre haue imbrued the whole earth with the blood of Gods saintes and blessed martirs But cōtrariwise the spirit of truth in the right preachers of God is alway charitable mild merciful so much as possible may be with the safety of the church of Christ detesting crueltie and blood Let example bee taken hereof by the practise of all the primatiue church for the space of sixe hundred yeares and of all the professoures of the gospell in these latter dayes in comparison of the contrarye part The third Lambes cloathing wherewith false prophets seeke to couer and hyde themselues is the goodlye name title of y e Holy Apostolical Catholique church wherewith they seeme gloriously to aduance set forward themselues as though that all their Doctrines Traditions deuises of new worship proceded not frō thēselues but were established by the perpetual consent of y ◠church and allowed by the sentence and interpretacion of the holy counsailes and ancient learned fathers Doctours and yet whē it shalbe rightly trulye examined it is nothing so In deede cōsent of y ◠church to true godly Preachers is not onely a goodlye and bewtifull Garment but a moste necessarie Ornament that men may not faigne and deuise Doctrines opinions and Phantasies of their owne heads but professe beleeue and teache the consent of the true Catholike Churche in that doctrine that was first planted in Paradice by God him selfe and after renewed and continued by the Patriarches and Prophetes and so published into the whole world by Christ himselfe and his Apostles The summe whereof is briefely contained in the articles of our faith teaching vs the vnestimable goodnesse of Almightie God towarde vs as well in making of the world as in redeeming mankinde by the Incarnation and deathe of hys Sonne c. This faith and beliefe ought to be established and conserued by the consent of the Catholike Churche from the beginnyng But it is of all Christian heartes to bee lamented that most wicked and rauening Wolues vnder this cloake of the Churches Consent do abuse the people of God bring into the Churche and maintaine straunge worshipping of God and what soeuer they haue newly deuised of themselues without iust warrant of the holy Scriptures and contrarie to the manifest doctrine of the Prophetes Apostles and auncient Fathers of the Primitiue Church And by the authoritie of this Title of the Church doe persecute and feare men from embracing the reformation of the Gospell and striue still by violence to keepe them in the blindnesse of ignoraunce and errour But for so much as I haue sufficiently and at large in another place spokē against this Lambes clothing and haue taught men how by certayne Tokens to espie the same I will not stande longer vpon it at this time but will referre the reader hereof to the seconde Sermon made vpon this Text the briefe some whereof was recited in this place The last Lambes clothing that I meane to note vnto you at this time is their Vaunting of myracles wonderous workes that haue bene done for the confirmation of their doctrines Ceremonies which they haue brought into the Church For as Christ by myracles did confirme the true doctrine of the Gospell so doe the Scriptures witnesse that wicked teachers members of Antichristes schoole shoulde vse the countenaunce of the same to leade men into errour For the Diuel doth often turne himselfe into an Angell of lyght and wyll seeme to imitate the diuine power of God That false Prophetes doe sometimes vse this clothing to commende themselues and their profession it is euident in many places of the Scriptures Iannes and lambres by this meanes resisted Moyses and did harden the heartes of Pharao and the Aegyptians against the messengers and people of God Simon Magus Elymas the Sorcerer by such straunge working seduced many Moyses giueth warning of such and wylleth the people of God to take heede of them saying If there arise among you a Prophete or a dreamer of dreames and giueth thee a signe or wonder and the signe or wonder that he hath tolde thee come to passe saying Let vs goe after other Gods c. Thou shalt not harken to the wordes of that Prophete for the Lord your God doth proue you to knowe whether you loue him with all your heart c. Christ himselfe sheweth that they be not all by and by true Prophetes and ryght teachers that haue power to worke Myracles Many will say vnto mee in that day Lorde Lorde haue not we in thy name prophesied haue we not cast out Diuells in thy name and by thy name haue done many great workes But it followeth Then I will professe vnto them I neuer knew you departe from mee all yee that worke iniquitie Here we see that with wickednesse and corrupt doctrine may be ioyned working of Myracles and straūge doyngs And agayne our Sauiour Prophesying of y e latter dayes sayeth Then if one saye vnto you beholde heere is Christ or there is Christ beleeue hym not for there shall aryse false Christes and false Prophetes and shall shewe great Signes and wonders in so muche that if it were possible the verie elect of God shoulde bee seduced Beholde I haue giuen you warning before And Saint Paule in lyke manner giuyng vs warning of Antichrist and his false Prophets sayth Whose comming is after the working of Sathan with all power signes and lying wonders and in all deceaueablenesse of vnrighteousnesse among them that perishe because they receiued not the loue of the truth
as well in the heade as in the members by mens slouthfulnesse was vtterly decayed And Platina in the lyfe of the same Byshop sayth Vbicum ipsis opibus lasciuiâ—e caepit Ecclesia nullo principe clericoruÌ„ flagitia coâ—rceÌ„te peccandi mox licentia nobis haec monstra ac portenta peperit a quibus ambitione largitione haec sedes occupata est After that the Church in their great wealth beganne to wax lasciuious and wanton no Prince no Magistrate repressing the enormities of the Clergie straight way this libertie of sinning brought forth these prodigious Monsters who through ambitioÌ„ and briberie possessed this seate and dignitie What stirre was among them at that time for the Bishoprike it may appeare by this that within 9. yeeres well neare were 9. Bishops Boniface the. 6. 25. dayes Stephan the. 6. one yeare Romanus 3. monethes Theodorus 20. dayes Iohn the 10. 2. yeeres Benedict y t 4. 3. yeres Leo the. 5. 40. dayes Christopher 7. moneths and at the length Sergius 7 yeeres The charitie of these Byshops was as notable as their integritie Stephan the 6. so deadly hated his predecessor Formosus that he abrogated all his actes tooke vp his body spoyled him of al Bishoplike ornaments cutting off his two forefingers caused him to be burâ—eâ— in a lay mans buriall Romanus that followed disanalled the doings of Stephan and confirmed all the Actes of Formosus Likewise did Iohn the 10. But Sergius that not loÌ„g after folowed caused the body of Formosus againe to be taken vp after it had bene 8. yeres buried and setting it in the Bishops Stall cut of his head three fingers of his right hand that Stephan had left cast his body into Tiber. This is witnessed by Platina in y â— lyfe of Sergius 3. in Luitprande de gestis Imp. lib. 3. cap. 12. I omit Iohn 11. Benedict the. 5. Iohn the. 14. and diuers other y t were about the same time But perhaps some will thinke that at other times there were all good Byshops I wil passe therfore to y â— time of Siluester the 2. his successors vnto Gregory the 7. after y â— yere of our Lord 1000. The most of which number for the space of 80 yeres came vnto the Bishoprick eyther by Nicromancie or by poysoning their predecessoures as Benno a Cardinall y t wrote Hildebrande called Gregorie the seuenth his life doth witnesse Which Creatise he that will reade shall finde such monstrous and wicked dealing as is not read of Hethens or Pagans in any prophane Histories Of Gilbert called Syluester the seconde and his Successours this he sayth Post infoeliceÌ„ obitum Gilberti certamen erat inter ipsius discipulos dum quisque anhelaret ad rapiendum Papatum sibi Sedit post â—um octauus decimus Iohannes quinto mense Veneno suffocatus dicitur a suis Huic successit nonus decimus Iohannes vix annum peregit cui successit Sergius sedit tribus annis i. After the vnfortunate death of Gilbert there was strife among his scollers so that euerye one of them greedilie laboured to get the Popedome to himselfe For after him sate Iohn the eighteene and in the fâ—â—t moneth it is reported hee was poisoned by his own companions After him sate Iohn 19. and hee liued scarse a yeare After Iohn succeded Sergius and sate three yeares Of Gregory the 7. he sayth that he by his meanes had poysoned sire or eyght to prepare the way for himselfe to be Bishop Of whose wicked dealing toward the Emperoure you shall heare more anone but this at this present I cannot omitte that he suborned one to stand in the roofe of the church directly ouer the place where the Emperour vsed to say his Prayers and from thence to caste downe a stone of great bignesse vpon the Emperour But God preserued his Magistrate and turned the plague vpon the worker of it for he that should haue cast downe the stone was borne downe with the weight thereof and brused to death By what ambition and bribery Iohn the 18. came to that Sea it is euident in Platina who for the same his other naughtie doinges calleth him Furem Latronem Theese and Robber Syluester the 3. by like meanes of bribery sorcery was made Bishop in whose life Platina sayth this Eò tuÌ„ poÌ„tificatus deuenerat vt qui plus largitione ambitione noÌ„ dico sanctitate vitae doctrina valeret is taÌ„tuÌ„modo dignitat is graduÌ„ bonis reiectis obtineret queÌ„ moreÌ„ vtinaÌ„ nostra teÌ„pora non retinuissent Sed hoc parum est peiora ni Deus auertat visuri sumus The Bishoprick then was at that point that he only which cold do most by bribery ambition I do not say in holines of life learning good men being cast of attained to the degre of dignitie whiche custome I woulde to God were not to be seene in our time But this is a small thing wee shall see worse dealings hereafter vnlesse God turne it away Otho Frisingensis Godfridus viterbiensis in this maner write of the tragicall stirre and trouble of those days While Benedict say they the 9 was bishop Syluester the 3 Gregory the 6. inuaded the same seate the 7 yeare of the reign of Henrie the 3 three Bishops occupied three seuerall seas in Rome whereof roâ—e an horrible scisme ech of them indeuoured that he might not bee inferior to other in sedition mischeiefe wickednes Benedict had his sea in y t palaice of Laterane the one of the other at S. Peters the other at S. Maryes the greater I am coÌ„pelled with multitude to let passe the notable stir betwene Cadolus Alexander y t 2. which in a full battaile fought out y t matter in a place by Rome called Prata Neronis w t diuers other more notable broiles theÌ„ y t. I wil passe to two notable scismes y â— were caused by y t ambitioÌ„ of Popes one about y â— yeare of our Lord 1159 coÌ„tinued well neare 20 yeares after y t other about y t yeare of our Lord 1378. coÌ„tinued 39 yeares afterward The former was betweene y t proude tyrant Alexander the 3 Victor Paschale Clement and Innocent y t successiuely were set vp against him The later betweene Vrbane the 6 Clement the 7. those that succeded each of them as I haue sayd by the space of 39. yeres at which time the church of Rome mighte well bee called a monster with two heads For the one of these Bishops had his Sea in Roome the other at Auignion in Fraunce and ech of these of their Adherents were accounted heads of the church Germany Hungary Englande and Pannonia helde with Vrbane and were called Vrbanists Fraunce Spaine and Cacelome followed Clement and were named ClemeÌ„tines the one of these blessed Bishops cursed banned the other calling him his adherents Heretikes schismatikes rebels This you
ownces of Gold so deare is the friendship of these holy fathers The other proposed to Lewes the Emperor such cōditions as no bondslaue-would haue bene contented to admit that is y t he should come vnto him within three dayes forsake the title of y t Empyre yeeld into his hands himself his wife his children and al his goods neuer to receiue any of them again but at his pleasure Looke Abbas Vrspergēs Hiero Marius you shall see those things so set forth as it would cause any reasonable hart to abhorr thē I should hold you to long if I shoulde at large sette forth theire vuiust dealing in altering and trausposing Kingdoms and continuall indeuour to make all princes subiect to them First as touching the Empire where the Emperour of Constantinople had alway his Deputie in Italie for the rule of the West part the Bishops of Roome by the ayde of the Frenche Kinges wreasted oute the Emperoures Deputies and tourned that whole power to themselues Afterward about the yeare of our Lorde 800. contrarye to all right Leo made Charles the greate his great Benefactour Emperoure of the weast and gaue occasyon of most deadly warres betweene the Emperoures of the East and of the Weast About y ◠yeare of our Lord 920 they again transferred the Empyre of the Weast from the French Kinges among whome it had a good time remayned vnto the Germaines where at this daye it yet continueth But they vsed not this onely in the Empyre but well neare in all the Principallities of Christendome Did not Zacharie most iniuriously without any reasonable pretence transferre the Kingdome of Fraunce from Childerike and the stocke of Clodouei wherein it had from the beginning continued vnto Pipine that had no right vnto it and without anye quarrel discharged the Frenche men of their othe of allegiance sworn to their King Childrike being then alyue Did not Adrian the first vnmercifully deliuer Bercha the widdow of Charlemaine her two sonnes heires of the Kingdome in captiuitie to Charles the yonger brother y t had no right vnto it only because hee woulde not displease Charles but winne him to be his friende as his Father Pipine had bene Howe they sette vp and pulled downe Emperoures at their pleasure howe they altered the Tytle and righte of the Kingdome of Arragon of Naples of Sicilie of Englande Hystories doe largely declare Whensoeuer they did for any quarrell excommunicate a realme their penaunce in absolution was euer to paye a great summe of money to the Sea of Rome to make the kingdome feodable vnto the Bishop wherein they sought to make all Realmes and Princes Vassals and slaues vnto them Which was so fully brought to passe in the time of Boniface the eyght that he openly vaunted that he had the full power of both Swordes and all Kinges to haue their principallitie at his handes and hee immediatelye of God and this doctrine hath bene taught euer since by the mainteiners of y ◠sea The time cutteth me of frō matter y ◠I haue to say in this point I will gather therefore to a cōclusion of this part Seing the Popes thēselues whom they count y ◠pillers of their religion y ◠heads of y ◠church y ◠Vicars of Christ that are lead as they saye by the Holye Ghost that cannot erre that haue knowledge of truth and interpretation of scripture in their harts seing I say they are found proued by their own histories to be in ambitiō so outragious in vniust and wicked dealing so horible in pride and crueltie so detestable I leaue their couetousnes for that time doth exclude me what shall we thinke of the inferiour sorte shall we thinke that they did their duety when the other nothing mynded it Such as the spring and Fountayne is suche is the Water of the Streame Such as the roote is such is the Tree branches Such as the maister is such are his Schollers Suche as the head is such are the members If the Spring be corrupt the Roote putrifyed the Mayster wicked the head greeuously diseased we must needes haue naughtye streames putrifyed Braunches miching Schollers and sicke members of the body The holyest of that sorte were men that were couered vnder the Lambe skinnes of Fasting praying and forsaking of the world and yet Vnder these Titles had they gotte them the riches of the world and their liues were so notable that in the common voyce of men there was no ill tale but a Freere or a Religious manne was at the one end of it Now as touching that the aduersaries obiect against vs loosenesse of manners and dissolute life and with eger spirites erie that since our doctrine hath begun in the worlde nothing hath increased but falshood craft deceipt periurie hatred malice strife contention sedition warre and murder lecherie wantonnesse vncleanenesse sectes diuisions and all mischiefe and trouble Oh dearely beloued this is a greeuous and heauy accusation that whereas by Gods singular benefite the doctrine of repentance remission of sinnes and newnesse of life is taught among vs more distinctly more truely and sincerely than euer it was before yet that godlynesse of lyfe and honest conuersation should not followe This surely should be an heauie corsie to our hartes if we be true Christians and in deede fauour the Gospel For although this sclaūderous accusation hath euer followed the Gospell euen in Christes owne tyme and at this daye God be praised is not so iust and true as our aduersaries would haue it seeme to be Yet wee must confesse before the face of God and his Angels and before all the Saintes and Creatures of God both in heauē and earth that the doctrine of the Gospell hath not brought forthe suche fruites of godlye conuersation as it shoulde haue done and that the blessed seede of his heauenly worde through the barraine grounde of our corrupt heartes hath not so prospered as our dueties require that it should haue done For in deede the most part we confesse remayne in deepe securitie ouer whelmed with the corruption of thys lyfe and pleasures of the world Neither can we denie that with manye this wholesome doctrine hath not onely not brought forth conuenient fruites but is vsed as a cloake of licentiousnesse and dissolute libertie and as a meanes to Spoyle the goods patrimonie of the Church which they seeke wholly to imploy to the pampering of their owne pleasures not to the furtherance of Gods seruice Wherfore in the feare of God I exhorte you that you will continually and earnestly call vpon him in your hartie prayers that by the grace of his holy spirit he will mollifie mens hartes and make them good grounde and beate into their remembraunce that whatsoeuer colour they cast vpon them selues by profession of the Gospell yet by the testimonie of their owne consciences they are conuinced within them selues and by their fruites declare vnto the worlde openlye that they are
from the face of the earth of his infinite goodnesse and wisedome he deuised the sonne of God the seconde person in Trinitie should descend from Heauen and take flesh of the blessed virgine that so being in one person both very God very man he might be a most fit Mediator to work recoÌ„ciliatioÌ„ betwene God and man The cause therefore why Christe came in flesh was to worke the saluation of mankinde For so saith S. Paule It is a sure saying worthie of all men to be beleeued that Christ came into the world to saue sinners And Christ himselfe sayth that he came to saue that which was lost The generall worke of our redemption hath certayne principall branches whiche are cheefe Articles of oure Fayth and groundes of all Christian religion Firste that he might be the reconciler and attonement maker betweene God and vs as S. Paule witnesseth 2. Cor. 5. All things are of God which reconciled vs vnto himself in Christ Iesus And immediately God was in Christ recoÌ„ciling the world to himselfe And to the Colosâ— It pleased him to reconcile all things vnto himselfe by Christ appeasing by the blood of his Crosse all thinges whiche are either in heauen or in earth God therefore appoynted him for euer to be our high Bishop our Mediator our Aduocate our Intercessor which should coÌ„tinualy appeare before the face of God for vs and make him fauourable to sinners that we might haue accesse to God by him by his intercession and merite obtayne mercy and grace in oure necessities these be the wordes of the scripture And hee is not onely our Mediatour and Aduocate but Our onelye Mediatour and Aduocate One God and one Mediatour of God and man the man Christ Iesus We haue an Aduocate with the father Iesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sinnes It is hee that ascended vp to heauen and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Vt interpellat pro nobis That he may bee an Intercessour for vs. The 2. cause of Christs comming into flesh is that he might be our redeemer from the tyrannye of the Deuill and the purchazer of remission of sinnes The Sonne of god appeared to this ende to dissolue the workes of the Deuill And agayne Yee are redeemed not with golde and siluer but with the blood of the immaculate Lambe Christ Iesus And agayne Beholde the LaÌ„be of god that taketh away the sinnes of the world And S. Paule In whome wee haue redemption and by his blood remission of our sinnes We must not onlye beleeue that he is our Redeemer but our Only Redeemer and the Only Purchazer of the full remission of our sinnes For Non est aliud nomen c. That is There is no other name vnder Heaué wherin we shold be saued but only by the name of Christ Iesus And S. Iohn The blood of christ hath washed vs froÌ„ al sinne And S. Paule He gaue himself for vs. that he might redeme vs froÌ„ all iniquitie The 3. cause of Christes incarnatioÌ„ y â— 2. office of his eternal Priesthood is to offer a ful perfit sacrifice to appease y â— wrath of God to satisfie his iustice y t not according to y â— order of Aaron which by imperfectioÌ„ did nede a Succession but according to y â— order of Melchizedek y â— for euer Thou art a Priest sayth God for euer according to the order of Melchizedek Therefore it cannot bee borne â—â— christian religion that Christ should haue any succession in Priesthood to sacrifyce after him For by one oblation he made perfect all that be sanctified And agayne Christ was once offered for the extinguishing of the sinnes of many And agayne Hauing offered one Sacrifice for sinne he sitteth perpetually at the right hand of God And sundry times else where the Epistle to the Hebrues affirmeth Christ Semel That is to say once to haue sacrificed himselfe The fourth cause of his Incarnation and the thyrde office of his eternall Priesthood is that he might be the only Prophet Maister Teacher and instructer of his people fully to open to them the knowledge of God and the true way of Saluation God sayth Moyses shall raise from among you a Prophet like vnto me him do you heare according to all thinges that he shall say vnto you And God the father himself at the baptizing of Christ did with the visible presence of the holy Ghost consecrate him Maister and teacher of his church which only was to be heard This is my dearely beloued Sonne in whome I am well pleased him doe you heare The same Consecration was confyrmed in the Mounte at the transfiguration of Christ And Esay the Prophet in the 55. chapter or rather God by Esay sayth I haue giuen him as a witnesse vnto people preceptorem Gentibus And a Maister and instructour of all nations And therefore Christ himselfe forbiddeth his Apostles to be called Maisters for sayth hee Ye haue but one Maister which is Christ The fyfte cause of Christ his comming in flesh is that he might be the Lorde of Lordes and King of Kinges the onlye head ruler gouernour and defender of his vniuersall Church ouer al the partes of the worlde according to the Prophecie of Dauid Psal 2. Yet haue I annoynted my King vpon my holy hill of Syon to whome for his inheritance he gaue all the Nations of y â— world and for his possession the vttermost bounds of the earth And the Angell at his Conception sayde He shall raigne in the house of Iacob for euer and there shall be none ende of his kingdome And Ephesians 1. He hath put all thinges vnder his feete and hath appointed him aboue al things head of his Church And Coloss 1. He is the head of his body the Church which is the beginning the first of them that rise from death Vt sit in omnibus primas tenens i. That in all thinges hee might haue the preheminence And Ephe. 5. The Husband is the head of the wife as Christ is head of the Church But the wife may haue no more heades but her husband vnlesse she will be a wedlock breakeâ— and so the Church can haue no other heade But Christ vnlesse she doe in the face of the whole world forsake hir owne Spouse who hath betrothed her to him alone He is the only Sonne whiche alone gouerneth the house of GOD his father In all these Branches I adde this worde Onely because Christ onelye is alone that that he is oure onely Mediatour our onely redeemer and purchazer of remission of Sinnes our onelye high Prieste to sacrifice for vs oure onlye Maister and Teacher that instrueteth vs our onely head and gouernour that guideth and defendeth vs. And herevnto I am mooued not onelye with expresse wordes of the scriptures but also with consideration
this people euen the fruite of their owne imaginations because they haue not taken heede vnto my wordes nor vnto my law but haue cast it of And in the last Chap. of the. 7. of the Chronicles it is thus written The Lord God of their fathers hath sent vnto them by his Messengers rising vp earely and sending for he had compassion on his people and of his habitation but they mocked the Messengers of God and misused his Prophetes vntill the wrath of the Lord rose against his people and till there was no remedie for he brought vpon them the King of the Chaldees who slewe their yong men with the sworde c. God of his great goodnes hath sundry times sent into this land his Messengers and Preachers of his Gospell and principally these twentie yeeres last past in which time the sounde of Gods holy worde hath continually roong in the eares of men yet was the loue of the Gospell neuer so colde as euen at this day nor the hartes of English men so ready to reuolt from it It is lamentable to vnderstande howe in all partes of the Realme those Papistes whiche before time appeared to be somewhat afrayde and sought by all meanes to hyde themselues doe now openly shew themselues and desire to be knowne to be as they are What their hope or expectation is the Lord knoweth but surely it is full time that hir Maiestie and hir most Honourable Counsell as they feare God and loue his truth doe speedily looke vnto it otherwise vndoubtedly the inconuenience will be greater than by authoritie will be easily stayde The care hereof I leaue to them whome God hath sette in place of Gouernement only I thought it my duetye being appoynted a watchman in the Church of God to sounde the Trumpet in this place and to giue warning that the bloud of them that perish be not required at my hande and withall moste humbly and hartilye praye vnto almighty God that with the grace of his holy spirite he will so direct strengthen the minds of them whose principall charge this is that that may be done which moste tendeth to the glory of God and maintenance of his truth and to the good state and preseruation of this our naturall Countrey Amen ¶ The speciall contentes of this Booke of Sermons reduced into a necessarie Table of Common places A. Acknowledge THe way to acknowledge God in man Folio 192. Meanes to make those acknowlege a God which do altogither deny him Folio 191 Whoso can not acknowledge God in him selfe can not be sayd to be a man Folio 193 Properties which can not but be known in God if we doe acknowledge him but only in his creatures Folio 193 Afflictions ¶ That afflictions doe no whitte discredit the power of the Gospell Folio 7 Howe the godlie doe stay them selues in afflictions so that they may not fal froÌ„ Christ c. Folio 200 Afflictions are layde vpon the righteous to trie them withall Folio 174. 175. 176. B. Baptisme ¶ Fruitful doctrines of the Protestantes concerning Baptisme Folio 30. 31 Papisticall vntruthes and abuses concerning Baptisme Folio 31 Benefite ¶ How we are to apply the benefit of the comming of Christ in the flesh euery man to himselfe Folio 92. 93 The Church of Rome impugneth the doctrine of applying the benefites of Christs merits by faith c. Folio 94. 95. 96 C. Calling ¶ Ordinarie authoritie or calling is no iust proofe of true Doctrine Folio 74 The Prophetes extraordinarily set vp by God to reprooue the abuses of their ordinarie calling Folio 75 Vnder the clothing of ordinarie calling the wolfe is descried and how Folio 76 Christ. ¶ Christ only is our aduocate and mediatour Folio 231 Christ only is our redeemer Folio 231 Christ only is our priest to sacrifize for vs which he hath done once for all Folio 232 Christ is our only instructour Folio 232 Christ is the only hed of the Church Folio 233 Why Christ of necessitie was to be both God and Man c. Folio 140 Why Christ shoulde necessarily bee man 140. Folio 141 Christ hath no partakers in any of his offices Folio 233 Suche as doe but a little close with the worlde are and stande in daunger of treason to Christ. Folio 200. 201 The Papists wil haue Christ to be a demi Sauiour Folio 237. 238. 239. c. Church ¶ Christe compareth the Church to husbandrie Folio 177 Why the Spirite of God compareth the Church to husbandrie Folio 178 The name of the Church abused by the Wolues Folio 77 The inuisible Church consisting of the elect Folio 20 Of the visible Church and the descriptioÌ„ of the same Folio 20 The Church of Christ is tyed to no place Fol. Folio 21 The number of the Church may be smal Fol. Folio 21 None are openly of the Church but such as are called thereto by Gods worde Fol. Folio 21 The corrupt liues and foule vices of the fathers of the Church of Rome detected c. Folio 98 Faith doth ingraffe vs into the Church Fol. Folio 21 The Church of Rome a Monster hauing three heads at once Folio 102 The Church of Rome hath not in it the tokens of the true Church Folio 23 What Church is most likely to haue false interpretations Folio 39 The markes of the Church Folio 22 23 The increase of the Church by Martyrdome shewed in a similitude Folio 182 Of dissolutenesse of life in the Churche of Rome c. Folio 47 The Papistes obiect the visible state of their Churche to proue it the true Church Folio 42 Gods true Churche may bee and yet not appeare generally visible Folio 43 That may seeme to vs the true Churche which is not Folio 43 Examples prouing a Churche and yet not visible c. Folio 43. 44. 45 The inuisible state of the Churche since the Apostles dothe not prooue the Church to be no true Church Folio 45 Comming ¶ What it is to denie Christes Comming in the flesh and that in two sorts Folio 235 Papistes and not Protestants denye Christes Comming in the fleshe and how Folio 235 The causes of Christes Comming in the flesh Folio 230 The generall and particular causes of Christes Comming in the flesh Folio 230 The faithfull Iewes did eate and drinke spiritually the Body and Bloud of Christ before hys reall Comming in the flesh c. â—35 A place ymagined where the dead did rest before the Comming of Christ Folio 132 Common weales All Common weales are not to be tyed to one forme of gouernement Folio 218 To be disturbers of Common weales c. is no new slander nor now first obiected against gods true ministers Folio 219 Contempt Considerations concerning Christ which maketh mans carnall reason to haue him in Contempt Folio 2 The more excellent that meÌ„ are in carnall reason onely the more is theys Contempt of Christ Folio 2 Contempt of Godlynesse of life can not stande with the acknowledging of a God Folio 191 The Contempt of