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A01219	An oration against the vnlawfull insurrections of the protestantes of our time, vnder pretence to refourme religion Made and pronounced in Latin, in the Schole of Artes at Louaine, the .xiij. of December. Anno. 1565. By Peter Frarin of Andwerp, M. of Arte, and Bacheler of both lawes. And now translated [by John Fowler] into English, with the aduise of the author.; Oratio Petri Frarini quod male reformandae religionis nomine arma sumpserunt sectarii nostri temporis habita. English	Frarinus, Petrus.; Fowler, John, 1537-1579.	1566 (1566)	STC 11333; ESTC S112684	57,035	182

traiterous against God man for y t without any iust occasiō ye haue so long so cruelly troubled the whole estate of Christendō But you say y ● faith was wel nigh quite quēched out of the Church It is a wonderous matter ye speake of Christ praied for S. Peter that his Faith shuld neuer faile And wil ye say he praid in vaine lost his labor and could not obtain his prayer that were iniury and reproche to the sonne of God The holye Ghost came downe from heauen into the Church here militant on earth to teache her al truth Hath he not taught her you blaspheme the holy Ghost so to say But goe to let it be graunted that as you imagine all maner of fonde absurd thinges so you thought in this poynte with no lesse madnesse that the Christian Faith was lost or at least that Christian Religion being nigh outworne and spēt before your happy daies needed to be restored by such excellent graue godly and wise men as you were replenished with all maner of knowledge vertue and heauenly giftes of the sprite To be short your purpose was ye say to refourme the Christian Faith Howe then When you could not therin preuail nor perswade the people that was somewhat stubburn and stiffenecked perhaps as you iudged did you thinke it the best way by and by with gonneshot and bytels to beat and driue the faith into their heades Who euer being in his right wit did thinke that any thing might be perswaded by force Men vse to perswade the minde and not the bodye but it is moste certaine that the minde as it maye be bent led and induced by reason so by stripes blowes buffets it can neuer be compelled and constrained But it was a carnal Religion y t these flesshly Gospellers brought and taught therefore they dyd what they could to driue it into mens braynes with strokes and to prick it into mens flessh with swordes dags and daggers It may be ye were muche offended w t the vitiouse maners and ill liuing of men now a dayes In good faith and so were we there is no honest Catholike man that euer was delighted therwith But yet when we saw that it was very hard fully to cleanse purge anie one familie or how shold frō all maner of synnes sores we thought it a matter of far greater difficultie importance to amend the faultes heale y e wondes of al the whole corps of Christēdom together therfore of necessity be cause we could not remedie y t desperat case by reason of the multitude we bore w t y t cōmon and vulgare Deceases and vices of al sortes of men the cure wherof was more past hope and did take them patientlye but yet surely not without great greif and sorow to see them open preaching cōtinuallie against them But you sowr Checkmasters most bitter Controllers of maners went about lyke Iudges sent from heauen or Physitions dropte owt of the skyes to cōdēne and cut of with sword burn with fire and gunpowder all at a pushe y e faultes and folies of the whole world together Yf ye had bene officers hauing Commissiō and authoritie so to doe yet your Iudgement and processe could not be excused herein from exceding crueltie and raishnes but where it appeareth ye were but flingbraynes light Iackstrawes hauing no authoritie at al y t toke vppō you without any examinatiō without processe of law without any sentence to condemne al Christendome to rack it to punish it and with most greuouse and painefull tormentes to teare and turne vpsyde down y e whole world what shall I call this but a bloudy Butcherie a haynous wickednes a dyuelish dealing an impietie neuer to be pardoned O but say you the Catholikes did lyue vitiously the Cleargie were out of order the Princes and Rulers ruled not as they should yea there were manie ceremonies in y e Churche y t we could not brook I assure you these be greuous weighty Inditementes Who laid them in I pray you Who but you the worst men naughtiest liuers y ● euer trode on earth What blames the theefe Verres his mate Or cutthrote falles with Miles at bate The third Elias him self did playnlye confesse that the manners of men were far more vitious vnder his Gospel then euer they wer before vnder y e Popedome He hath said it It is not lawful to gainsay y e same But if any of y e disciples dare deny that which this theyr great master Pythagoras sayde the beddes are yet warme wherin these gospellers lay with other mennes wiues the Townes and Cities smoke yet of the fire wherewith they burned houses the earth is moiste at this houre with the bloude of manye good subiectes whome they haue slaine theyr Purses do swel and are yet at this present puft vp with the goods they gathered and gaines they got by roberies Simonye and Extortion Shew forthe thy brasen face Martin Luther and saye if thou dare that thou art an honester and better man then the vertuous and graue Fathers and Prelates of the Catholike Churche I wyll out of hād bring in against thee the publike Edict that the most noble Charles the fift our late foueraigne Emperour of happy memory made againste thee at Wormes the witnesse of the greate and mightye Henry the eight King of England whose sacred Royall crowne be it spoken here with leaue thou like a sluttish slaue vauntest thou wouldst anoynt with durt and donge of thy dronken body The decree of the most renoumed Sigismund king of Pole and by these euidences I wil by and by conuince thee proue that thou art worthy to be caste of Rebellion Sedition Sacrilege Impiety Heresy Finally of all manner of wicked vices and hainous offences that can raigne in a man What canst thou lay against these witnesses who were at that time the noblest the best the worthiest of credite of all that liued in our daies Theese worthy Princes Proclamations and Publike Edictes sette oute againste thy Wickednesse and Naughtye behauioure are euery where in euery mans hande published in print to the vewe and sight of the whole world Come vp againe hither frō hell if thou canst Ihon Caluine tel truth seing al y e world knoweth y t thou diddest kepe y e space of fiue yeares together a Nunne who was a Renegate out of y e Nūnerie called Veilmur y t thou diddest paye two crownes a moneth for her borde in the towne out of y t poore mens boxe of Geneua vppon condition she should come euery day to make thy bedde and learne her lesson out of thy Gospell practize how to beare y e burden of wedlocke patiently and at last when she was great w t childe by thee and had now caried abowt y e burden of her bealie three or fower monethes that thou didst bestow vppon an Apostate Chanon dwelling at Losanna thereby

a Sprite Incubus as the common reporte goeth who is your chiefe Apostell and Patriarche We knowe him verie well what he was whence he came and what authoritie he had When he was a yonge man he studied the ciuill law and afterward when for his recreation he walked in the field nigh the Vniuersitie of Erforde he was strykē down to y t grounde with a sudden thunderclap and lighting and his companion that walked then with him was with y ● blow quite slaine before his face whereat he was so astonied and put in such feare that he determined with him self to forsake the world to enter into Religion so out of hande made him selfe an Augustine Friere At the laste he was made Doctour in Diuinitie with shame inough for he came to that degree with the money that was bequethed to an other man whome with the help of his Prior he beguiled What other estate or degree he had in the common weale or Apostleship in the Church of God beside this we could neuer yet learne by any meanes But in deede he braggeth verie often that he is wel assured that his doctrine and conclusions are from heauen and that he was sent from heauen to the Germans to be their first Apostle that should preache them the Gospell for before his dayes he sayed that they neuer had any true Religion or Christen doctrine In few words he maketh more accompte of him selfe then of S. Augustine and all other holie and auncient Fathers of Christes Churche This bragginge Thraso telleth manie strainge matters of him selfe more maruelouse then true This is more like to be true as he reporteth of him selfe that he had manie times familiar conference and talke with the Diuell Yea and his Actes doings during his raigne written and faithfully regestred by Cocleus other of his neighbours men of great learninge and credite do most manifestly declare and proue that from y e diuel also his familiar frend Prince of this world he receaued authoritie and commission to punissh all good and honest men and to gainesay and withstand the holy Masse Ihon Caluine borne at Nouiodunum in Picardie a man banished frō his countreie for his wicked behauioure and whiles he liued in his countreie the veriest vnthrifte and naughtiest verlet of al his companions first hydde him selfe at Basile then beganne to shew his head at Straseburge and preache to the Renegates and Apostles there At last came to Geneua and put out the Deputie of the Citie expelled the Bisshope and all the Cleargie that were honeste and Catholike with all the vertuouse and substantiall Citysens and so wanne Authoritie and beganne to raigne there like a Conquerer by the lawe of treason and force of armes What neede I here againe bring you in mind of that Epicure Beza the Burgonion a Licentiate in law who taketh so muche Poeticall licence that in his bawdie and fylthie Epigrammes he passeth farre the wanton Pagan Poetes Martiall and Tibullus What shall I speake of Bernardinus Ochinus y ● Italiane who laboreth to plante the beastly Doctrine of Polygamie that is that more then one wife at once may ioyne w t a mā in y e state of lawful matrimony willing therefore and perswadinge men to be Manywiuers as the Turkes are What shall I tell you of Peter Martyr the Renegate Moncke or of Bernarde Rotman an vnlearned Asse that beganne to professe learninge and by color of only Scripture whiche he vnderstode not expelled the Catholikes out of the Citie of Munster Or of Ihon of Leid y t tailor y t furiouse captaine of the mad Anabaptistes who within a yeare after got y ● vpper hand of Rotman draue out y ● Lutherans brought in y t Anabaptistes begā to raigne in y ● very same Cit hauing won cōquered y ● field by y ● same crafte pretēse of scripture only as Rotmā did before so gaue him a fall in his own turn serued him w t his own sance or of Osiander that Holie Man commonlye called the seconde Enoch a Goddes name or of Carolostadius that rude maried Archedeacon of Wittemberge who became afterwarde for mere foly a mad and vnskilful plowghman to the wonder and laughinge game of all that coūtry Or of Illyricus Musculus Farellus Virettus Or of Bucer Morot and Malot the ringleaders and teachers of all mischefe good God what a rable haue we here what a noble ranke of vertuous graue renoumed Fathers is here such as I assure you no honest and discreete householder woulde euer suffer by his good will to tarie within his doores Such Champions are they that professe them selues to be the Aduersaries and enemies of the Catholike Churche these be y e captains that stand against the Bisshopes of Christes Church y ● kinges of Christendome and Rulers of cōmon Weales Such are the Oratoures and Preachers that vse to declaime to raile to thunder againste the blood Shrines of Martyres against the Catholyke and vniuersal Religion of the Christians against the mystical and holy Sacramentes of the Churche Yea and sticke not like madde dogges to barcke and baye against y ● very blessed and pretiouse body of our Lord Iesus Christ These yea such fellowes as these be are they who nowe these manie yeres vsurpe a Lordly authoritie ouer vs whome we are compelled to take for our masters who take vppon them to controlle the doinges and maners of all the whole world And yet can we learn by no meanes wherehence came this so Imperiall a soueraigntie or who gaue them so greate and princely Authoritie except we say they had it of Satan and y ● they be the very vndouted prophets and Forerunners of Antichrist The Bysshoppes and Prelates of Christes Church doe excommunicate thē out their flocke and seperate them from the mystical Society felloship and Communion of all Christian men The Christen Princes and Rulers of the worlde do bannissh them do take them for outlawes and both by proclamations and force of armes trauaile with much care and diligence to defende and saue themselues and theyr louing Subiectes from them God allmightie the Omnipotent Lord and Ruler of heauen and earth neuer signifyed to the worlde by any miracle Signe or seely token that we shoulde take suche as these are for hys Commissioners or Deputies excepte a man will saye that this is a Miracle y ● these fellowes oftentymes whyles in the presence of the People they faine that they are able in the Vertue of the Gospel they preache to restore the dead to lyfe doe make the liue stark dead ●…s a certaine Preacher did one Mathias in Polonia and the like is crediblie reported of Ihon Caluine at Geneua Howe then ▪ What shal we take them to be In fewe wordes they are theeues that come in by the Windowe they are Murderers Traytours Heretykes Satans Ministers For why theyr doeinges declare no lesse They doe the Commons wronge

al France whiles he went about to quenche the flame to parte y ● strife to appeace y ● sedition of his contreie was traiterouslie cruellie murdred by the meanes counsel and vnmercifull conspiracie of that vile Caytif Beza the inuenter coyner of al these michiefes seruante bondslaue of al bawdie luste fylthie concupiscence and all detestable sinne and vice I feare me leaste I seeme to passe y e limites cōpasse of y e time apointed for me to speake by y ● custome of this Schole to abuse your gentel patience suffrance right worshipfull if I trauaille anie further with longer discourse to long talk to declare rippe vp y ● endlesse and infinite desperatnes crueltie madnes of these harishe Ministers traiterouse Refourmers and brutishe Heretikes To be shorte your wisdomes I doubt not doe plainlie now perceaue that this theyr warre for Religion againste God and all true Religion hath been made nother iustelie nother orderlie nother to anie good effect or furtherance of Refourmation Ye see now as clere as the bright shining sonne that the Protestātes of our time ranne raisshelie together and toke weapon in ●hand without anie iuste cause reasonable occasion or sufficient quarell that they badde and proclaimed warre againste theyr countrey against theyr Souueraignes againste y ● Catholike Churche of Christe without anie commission power or Authoritie y t they fought that battaille to fearcelie to vnmercifullie and to cruellie to the exceding great iniurie harme and wrong of all good men to the incredible hindrance and dammage of all Christendome and suche l●sse as can neuer be repayred Ye know now these new Gospellers the wicked Captaines of these moste traiterouse and dangerouse insurrections ye vnderstand what maner of men they be how vprightlye how honestlie they liue and behaue themselues in the Churche of God and what they meane what they go about what they attempt What saye you then by them what p●nisshement thinke you haue suche bloudsuckers suche cruell butchers deserued to suffer what estimation what degree what state among Christen men iudge you suche verlets to be worthy of whome neither shame could withdraw from dishonestie neither feare keepe of frome dāger nother reason reuoke from madnes nor Religion stop from Sacriledge nor pitie staie from killing and murdering of theyr own neighbours At the firste for a messe of potage certaine loose friers and fained dissemblers of Monasticall profession fell out at debate betwene themselues afterward they were pricked dryuen and drawen by auarice ambition and wanton iuste of wicked libertie and pleasure to strike vp a larme and to bid battaille and at length they fought in open field againste theyr own contremen neighbours and followes againste y e Magistrates Kings and Emperours against the Bishops againste the Churche againste the Christian Religion againste all good men against the Sayntes of heauen finally againste God allmightie himself as the Gyātes did of whome y e Poetes in theyr fables make mention meaning in deed such desperat raging wicked caytiffes rebelles miscreants as these were The false traitors desperat cutthrotes brought into the Churche of Christe a cursed kind of Religion framed caste made of wicked whoredomes bawdie bitcherie of innocent bloud and murder of true subiectes of all maner of troublesome and seditious mischiefe discord and all loosenes and libertie to embrace and f●llow vice sinne They haue called in holpen maintained the enemies of Christendome Forayners Tyrans Turkes They haue geuen to the Turke and added to his dominion and Empire manie Noble and goodlie countreies prouincies of Christendome They haue lead an infinite nūber of Christen soules to eternall damnation throwen them down hedlong to the deepe pit of euerlasting fire and betaken them to the tyrannie and furie of the vglie finds and horrible diuelles of hell They made the holie fonte stones the couers of theyr iakes yea the durtie Helhowndes Oh abhominable acte were not ashamed to laye the excrementes of theyr vile and wicked bealies euen in the verie sacred fonte and place where Christen men were wonte to receaue theyr Baptisme There were slayen in Germanie with in three monethes space by the wicked occasion and faulte of these Refourmers an hundred and thirtie thousande men and in Fraunce aboue a hundred thousand among whome I recken not the infinite number of suche as died of the plague there in y e meane time of whome the greatest parte were these Cu●throtes themselues speciallie they of Lyons who as it is reported did poison the welles common waters of theyr Citie for a traiterouse and wicked intent So that by the iuste iudgement of God it is brought to passe that there scars remaineth now aliue vppon the earthe y ● fourthe parte of those who for a great number being but beardlesse yong men and moste of them witlesse altogether desperat and destitute of y ● feare of God attempted to doe suche so strainge and villainouse deedes I will not staie now to make an accōpte and iuste reckening of al those that throughe this cursed Refourmatiō were caried to miserable captiuitie vnder the Turke or were slayen in the field in defense of Christendome againste him and these his adherents and yet this I am bold to saie that if ye hard the euen tale iuste accompte of them ye wold more wonder at it pitie it then ye doe now at the rehearsall of this maruelouse nūber slayen and murdred in Fraunce and Germanie They haue turned all lawes out of y ● countrey and sent all right and equitie into bannishement deuotion true Religion Chaste lyuing can wel nighe now abyde sa●e in no place the Profession of Chastitie is suspected hated and despised eueriewhere Al things are besette and turmoyled with madnes rage murder fire and sword The desperate crie of furiouse heretikes doth make all the world ring the streates runne of bloud the walles of Chapelles and Churches are sprinkled dawbed with the gore blood and braine of Christen men Al Europe being weakened with the cruel warre long seditions of heretikes cracks and shakes and is euen now readie to fall quite to the ground And now when al this is done after al these mischeifs and Tragical offenses y t these mad Bedlems cursed Caines haue committed they blame the Catholiks and lay crueltie to theyr charge that haue suffred all these iniuries losses dāmages and murders at theyr handes There came furth in printe of late to the sight of the world a verie fond foolishe peuyshe litle boke out of Englande writen againste the tyrannie of the Papistes for so it liketh them in scorne to call the Catholikes In these and suche like dangers of tumultes and insurrections of subiectes right learned Audience in these verie same snares and trappes of treason and cōspiracie we also ourselues haue liued stood nowe a long time We nourrish in our owne lappes