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A02616	The great bragge and challenge of M. Champion a Jesuite co[m]monlye called Edmunde Campion, latelye arriued in Englande, contayninge nyne articles here seuerallye laide downe, directed by him to the lordes of the Counsail, / co[n]futed & aunswered by Meredith Hanmer ...	Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.; Hanmer, Meredith, 1543-1604.	1581 (1581)	STC 12745; ESTC S3923	32,146	62

the Bishop had done his deuotion passed by the counterfeit dead man was stirred and hee was found dead in deede Deale not w t your countrey men in iest I feare mee in fayth you will be found dead in earnest Of Ecebolius y e Sophist of Constantinople it is written that in the time of Constantius he was hot in religion in the time of Iulian colde agayne in the dayes of Iouinian earnest And in these his changes he would prostrate him selfe at the church Porche saying me quasi salem insipidum pedibus conculcate treade vppon mee or trample mee vnderfoote as vnsauory Salt The Pope who is accepted amonge your professors as prince of Prelats head of the Church gods liuetenaunt on earth christs vicar generall wryteth him selfe the seruaunt of seruaunts Your docter Bonner sayd sometimes of him and as I hope your eyes wilbe opened to see the same Notvvithstanding the pope be a very rauening vvolfe in sheepes clothing yet he calleth him selfe the seruaunte of seruaunts In him is the saying of Irenaeus founde true Antichristus cum sit seruus tamen adorari vult vt deus Antichrist being but a seruant yet vvil be vvorshiped as god The aungel enfourmeth Vguentinus the monke in a vision of the Romish priestes saing In quibusdam videtur ceruicis inflexio sed nō deponitur in eis cordis erectio In certene religious personnes Douking or bovving of the necke is seene but in them the lifting vp of the heart is not laid dovvne Now sir do ye see your self Behold ye are againe in the clowds with your courage affiance assuraunce perfect knovvledge euidence impugnable against al protestantes lyuing such an other Champion was Golias the great bastard of the Philistins As ioly a Champion as ye are take heede ye ouermatch not your selfe There happely may meete you a simple curate who with the flinge of Dauids confidence the stone of gods word may pearce your Lyons pelt and ouerturne you with al the Bombast of your Romysh religion Ruffinus reporteth of the lyke brag made at y e coūcel of Nice by a subtil philosopher who set himselfe against all the bishops there where a seely poore Christian the symplest of all the number toke him in hand so that in the end this Bragger sayth the story ita obstupefactus virtute dictorum mutus ad omnia hoc solum potuit respondere ita sibi videri nec aliud verum esse quam quod dixerat vvas so astonied vvith the force of those thinges that vvere spoken he had not a vvord this onely could he ansvveare that it semed so vnto him and that there vvas no other trueth then the christian had spoken And now to consider of youre challenge I saye vnto you if there were no wyser then my selfe you should be disputed withall as longe as yee were able to turne your tounge in your mouth yf ye conforme your selfe otherwyse I am not to bolden you and become a ciuil subiecte and a student in any of the Uniuersityes within her maiesties Dominions as ye know the maner the Scholes are open set vp your questions appoint the day let euery thing be don in order yee shalbe disputed withall Or if vnto the wise and discrete this way seeme not best take your penne call your fyue senses and wittes togeather alleage what ye can ye shal be aunswered And whereas ye charge vs that vve fraye men in our pulpittes ouerrule them in our Kingdome of Grammarians and vnlearned eares we are no bugges the Pope with his pupilles is hee that frayeth men w t the terrour of the Lions pelt much like Xerxes king of Persia who hauīg brought ouer his huge army into Graecia sent his letters of defiance vnto the great mount Athos in Macedonia commaundinge him to stande still not to stirre a foote not to worke any displeasure ether to him or his army vpon payne of his high indignation For y e Pope wyth as good discretion sendeth out hys preceptes and princely summons to commaund Aungels Archaungels all the powers of heauē to goe to fetch to carry at hys will Antoninus Archbishop of Florence setteth forth the bugge where he wryteth Potestas papae maior est omni alia creata post potestatem christi aliquo modo extendens se ad coelestia terrestria infernalia vt de ●o possit illud verificari dictum de christo in psalmis omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius The popes povver is greater thē any other povver that god euer made after christ after a sort stretching it self to things in heauen earth and hell so that of him the vvords may bee verifyed vvhych the prophet Dauid spake of christ in the psalmes thou haste made all thinges subiecte vnder his feete Here is the bugge that fraieth and amazeth the harts of the simple by cursing with bell booke and candle The histories record that when Gregory the .7 had cursed the emperour Henry .3 the Princes of Almayne fearing the popes thunderbolt wente about to chose an other emperour and again whē he came to be reconcylde to the Pope not one of his nobility durst accompany him Moreouer when Calixtus .2 required Henry .5 to surrēder vnto the Pope and his successors the inuestyng of bishops the princes of Germany trembling at the Popes banning and cursyng perswade him to yelde I will not presently trouble the reader wyth the words and forme of y e Diuells pater noster and the Popes blacke sanctus But now God bee praysed the Asse may ●et vp and downe in the Lyons skinne with more ease and lesse terror for hee is stript of his counterfaite weede and now appeareth as hee is It pleaseth you lastly to terme our sway the kingdome of Grammarrians our auditorie vnlearned eares As for the teachers ioyne whē yee will you shall finde such as shal aunswere all the wandring Iesuites of your order not onely in humanity which yee call Gammar but in any the lyberall sciences or noble faculties with good skill and knowledge in the learned languages florishing at this day in y e famous Uniuersities of Oxenford and Cambridge Our auditors whom your predecessors in that your Romishe profession and companions haue heretofore termed Pigges swyne and now yee call vnlearned eares be it spoken to the glory of God and the comfort of their fellowe Brethren in Christe are so instructed in Gods worde and so trayned vp in Religion that many of them being but laye men ate able not onely to confirme their owne doctrine and fayth with sufficient proofes and allegations out of holy Scripture but also to confute your errors and superstition blanke in their language the greatest bragger of your Society The Iesuite ANd because it hath pleased God to enritch the Queene my soueraygne Lady with noble gifts of nature and princely education I doe verely trust that if her highnes would voutchsafe in her Royall person to heare and geue good

THE GREAT bragge and challenge of M. Champion a Iesuite cōmonlye called Edmunde Campion latelye arriued in Englande contayninge nyne articles here seuerallye laide downe directed by him to the Lordes of the Counsail cōfuted aunswered by Meredith Hanmer M. of Art and Student in Diuinitie INPRINTED at London in Fletstreate nere vnto Sayncte Dunstons Church by Thomas Marsh. 1581. TO THE RIGHT HONORABL SIR THOMAS Bromley Knight lorde Chaunceler of Englande VVilliam L. Burleigh and Lord Treasorer Rob ert Earle of Leicester Edward Earle of Lyncolne with the rest of her Maiestyes most honourable Counsayle continuaunce of healthe encrease of honoure and all Heauenlye wisedome WHereas Right Honorable there came lately into my hands an insolēt bragge or challēge contayning nyne poyntes or articles and subscribed by M. Champion a Iesuite and as he calleth himselfe a Priest of the Catholike faith latelye arriued here in Englande and the same directed vnto-your Honours by waye of humble sute and petition I thought it my duety vnder your Lordships fauoure and correction to peruse the same to scanne his drift and to answeare his bragges and challenge as farre forth as it concernes my degree and the common weale of the Clergie of England His petition is to your honours for fauoure his quarell is to the Clergie for Religion and his drift as farforth as yet it may bee perceiued is to seduce her Maiestyes louing and faythfull Subiectes with showe of Catholike Priesthood and profession Vnto your honours he directed the Challenge to be receiued and vnto your honours with all humility I send it answered submitting my selfe and the whole to your wisedomes fauorable interpretations It is no new deuise but an old practice of Satan thus to send forth his wicked spirites to sow tares among the wheat who wayting all opportunity not daring in the clere light and broad day to work his feats doth it by stelth and in the night season when men sleepe in the security of Sinne wherfore the Kinge ruleth the Priest prayeth the husbandman ploweth euery one in his calling is to serue the Lord and that in watchfulnes My selfe as the simplest togeather with my bretherne of the Clergie we I say ioyntlye are greatlye bound to render vnto God harty thankes and praises for the vertuous peaceable and prosperous raigne of our soueraygne Lady the Quenes maiesty in whose blessednes we are blessed in whose peace we enioy quietnes and of whose vertue and piety we are partakers Her temperall swerd aduaunceth the swerd of the Spirite which is the worde of God and the messengers therof are shielded vnder her shadow and countenaunce As Daniell sayed of his Lorde and Mayster the Kinge so say wee dayly and hourely of our Lady and Mistres the Queene O noble Queene liue for euer Secondlye wee blesse God for your honours and instantly craue the continuance of your health with the encrease of all heauenly knowledge in your calling to countenaunce vnder her Maiesty the preaching of Gods worde to commaund the buildinge of his church and to roote out those that goe aboute to destroy the vineyarde of the Lord. And presently touching the challenge of this bragging Champion in the name of my fellow laborers and brethren of the Clergie I refer the determination therof vnto your Lordships so that if you graunt it either priuately or publiquely he shall bee disputed withall His bragge is but bumbast their religion is in showe not in substance they haue wordes and not truth I will not presume to craue licence for him but hartely wish with the Apostle that they were cut of which molest vs and the quiet state of the Church of England Thirdly in brotherly loue I am to desire of her Maiesties louing subiects not lightly to credite such insolēt brags not vnaduisedly to receiue such wandrers from Rome but in the feare of God to beholde what is and hath bene sayd for the truth and to cleaue fast vnto the word of God And so I ceasse further to trouble your Lordships but with remembraunce of my humble duty I pray vnto the lord long to blesse preserue your Honors From London the second of Ianuarie 1580. Your L. most humble at commaundemēt Meredith Hanmer TO M. CHAMPION THE Challenger Meredith Hanmer the Answerer sendeth greetinge YOur scroles of lesse credite in myne opinion thē sybilles leaues lately flowen abrode fell vppon an hollowe Reede and sounded the contentes and secrecy thereof Rex Midas habet aures Asininas We know you well ynough and your profession better We see by your methode how yee handle your matter we gather by your Pilgrimage your profite in studye Stultus populus quaerit Romam I woulde wish yee dealte playnlye cast of the Popes pelte discouer the sonne of Semiramis who was a naturall I would heare not a Romanist but an Englishman speake Your person in brotherly loue I am to embrace but the dregges of idolatrye you dranke at Rome I vtterlye deteste Leaue of that whiche your owne friendes wil mislyke in you put on modestye come not to confute but to be confirmed and when ye haue sayd all confesse Nihil est iam dictum quod non sit dictum prius Proceede not in wilfulnes it is hard to kicke agaynst the pricke the trueth is great and it preuayleth if yee will struggle in the limetwigge of follye you wil be the further from flying if ye swim agaynst the streame yee shal but labor in vayne if yee play the Champion and thus challenge all the Protestantes yt passeth your strength yee must nedes fall you know ne Hercules contra duos and yet Champion agaynst all if it would please ye to construe these few liues togeather with myne answeare in the better parte I shall haue the better cause to like of you if otherwyse well I may take thoughte but it shal greue me not a Iote if yee haue licence to dispute ye shalbe disputed withall if yee write yee shalbe answeared If ye recant ye shal be ioyfully receiued VALE M. Hanmer the aunswerer vnto the Christian Reader THe meanes that Satan vseth to deceaue Gods people are infinite good christian Reader his illusions are stronge his chaine hath manye linkes and runneth to greate length hee transformeth himselfe to an Angell of Light and al to delude the simple christians His power is ouer the children of vnbeliefe his kingdome wide and his subiectes many An Aegyptian Sorcerer drevv after him as Luke writeth foure thousande Iewes as Iosephus saith thirty thousand Barchochebas calling himselfe a stare had as Eusebius writeth fiftye thousand follovvers There are heathens and infidels that cannot be numbred The number of Turkes and Saracens is in finite the Arrians deceaued thousandes and the Church of Rome at this day with the goldē cup of idolatry and abhomination maketh drunk the inhabitants of the earrh And whereas these Romanistes of a long time hauinge receaued honor reuerence good opiniō because of their holy orders now

beyng bewrayed and stripped of this pharisaicall shewe and counterfaite weede least theire kingdome should fall they haue found out a newe order and society commonly called of Iesuits as the last refuge and onely shift to vphold their ruinous walles Montanus with his prophetisses sent disciples to sowe his heresye throughout Asia and Phrygia Manes chose twelue Apostles and sent thē throughout Persia with the Easterne partes of the worlde The Family of Loue haue their prophets and disciples The Anabaptistes out of Munster the head citye of Westphalia sente abroade as Sleidan reporteth in the euening 28. Apostles And the Pope hath lately about 40. yeares past cōfirmed the sect of Iesuits sends thē abroad in the euening of the world with the Anabaptists in the night seasō with the enemy of God and man to sow tares among the wheat And to further the credite of this new found order they father the same vpon Iesus and cal themselues Iesuites hauing their originall of one Ignatius a maymed Souldioure as is declared at large in the answeare There were heretikes called Angelici who worshipped Angels others called Apostolici arrogating in greate pride that title vnto themselues others Humiliati croaching fryiers that pretended humility others called Iesuati and they the veriest varlets of all others of the familye of Loue and as they affirme deifyed in God The Carpocratian heretikes sayd they were like vnto Iesu and excelled the Apostles The Massilian heretikes called also Euchitae beyng corrected for their lewdnes called them selues Martyrianos yet saith Epiphanius for al their holines they worshipped the deuil wer called Sataniani If ye called any of thē Christ a Patriarch a Prophet or an Angel they said they were so But as touching this late order of Iesuits this society passeth all other sectes in Hypocrisie outward shew of holines In weede monkish frierish priestly and Pharisaicall in discipline austere much like the Heretikes Flagellefiers or Circumcellions or Baals priestes whipping and launcing themselues in wordes humble lowlye dowking and ready to kisse your fote but in hart prowde arrogant bragging and bosting as this Iesuit doth challenging the combat with countries and kingdomes I will at this present no more but warne thee Beware of false Prophets we are commaunded to be wise as Serpentes and simple as Doues Peruse the whole and trie the spirites geue the praise vnto God let the paynes be myne and the profite thyne owne Farewell M. Champion a Iesuite lately arriued here in England hath laide downe as followeth by way of chall●ng RIght Honorable wheras I haue come out of Germany and Boh●●me land being sent by my superiors and aduentured my selfe into this realme my deare countrey for the glory of God benefit of soules I thought it good litle inough in this busie watchfull and suspicious worke I should eyther sooner or later be intercepted and stopped of my course Wherfore prouiding for all doubte and incertenties which may soone come o● me when God shall happely deliuer my body into durence I suppose it needefull to put this writing in a redinesse desiring your L. to geeue it the reading and to knowe my cause Thus doing I trust I shall ease you of your labour for that whych otherwise you must haue sought by practise of Wit I doe nowe lay into your handes my playne confession And to thentent this whole matter may be conceaued in order so the better vnderstoode and remembred I make heereof nyne poyncts or articles directly truely and resolutely opening my full enterprice and purpose The aunswere IT should appeare by your preamble and entrance that your person were not lightly to bee regarded neyther your message to be reiected neither your trauell to be vncōsidered seeing that meane personages may not be acquainted with your arriuall neyther saluted in your style You begynne with Right honorable as one sent in Embassage from some great state not vouchsafing the presence of the meaner sort afore you haue accomplished your entent with y e superiors and yet withdraw your selfe that neyther the one nor thother shall vew your person but from hand to hand in hucker mucker receyue in scrowles and torne papers your drift and enterprise By your Preface I gather fiue thinges First to whom you direct these your scattered deuises to the ryghte honorable her Maiesties most noble Coūsailers the Pieres and state of y e Realme Weygh wyth your selfe afore yee presume further they are no Babes Secōdly I perceaue whēce ye come you traueled Germany passed through Bohoemia rested at Rome tooke counsell of your Prouost obeyed your Superior tooke your voyage northwarde and arriued in Englande In fewe words out of England yee went into England yee are come agayne you are welcome home Thirdly I gather your dryft purpose is as ye say to set forth Gods glory to winne erring wandring soules if you meane playnly none better welcome For the haruest is great and the labourers fevve Fourthly mee thinkes yee bewraye your selfe where you confesse this your enterprise to appertayne to a busy body the trauel to require vigilance and the worke to be suspicious mistrusting what will befall to your person the perill and daunger which hereby yee may incurre Fiftly not forgettinge y e slye conueyaunce of Rhetorical insinuations you would subtlely creepe into y e fauour of your Readers by protestīg an opē sh●w of plaine sincere vnfained ●e●●ing by promising to cōtriue into order method for ease memories sake y e principal poincts of your drift purpose This is y e sinne of your preface y e which I thought good thus to repeate y t yee may perceaue we finde you and y t the reader bee not ouer hastely carried away w t your fayre shewe and gloriouse florish Substance as yet I finde not longer to stay my pēne But in y e poincts following deliuered by your selfe in their seuerall numbers I purpose wyth Gods helpe mildly and brotherly to confer with you both being of one countrey fellow studentes sometime in the famous Uniuersity of Oxenford professor● as you woulde beare vs in hand of one fayth thoughe varyinge in forme and manner Fellow Laborers as you would make vs beleeue in the Uineyard of Christe Iesus planting vertue plucking vp vice graffing the penitent croppinge of the fruictlesse and withering branches drying wyth comfort the dropping eyes of the sorowful and watering with the dew of Gods word the dry consciences of the ignoraunt Whatsoeuer I lay downe take before hand my meaning that nothing be spoken neither cōstrued of you in the worse sense as derogating from your study blemishing of your person nor diminishinge of your credit but all in the Zeale of Gods cause in the defence of my Prynces proceedings in the quarell of my Countrey and in the loue of my deare brethren and that wyth as much modesty as lyeth in mee Let the spirites be tryed Helia●