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A09739	Ane answer made the fourth day of Septembre a thousand fyue hundreth syxtie [and] one, by maister Theodore de Besza minister of the holie Euangile, in the presence of the quene mother, the king and quene of Nauarre, the princes of the blood royall, and of the priuie counseil, vnto that whiche the cardinall of Lorraine had replied against that whiche was propounded in the first iourney of their talking together, by the said de Besza in the name of the reformed churches. Together with an other short answer made by the said de Besza the 26 day of the said moneth vnto certein articles of replie set forth by the said cardinall	Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; Baron, John.	1562 (1562)	STC 2000; ESTC S119255	24,857	90

them that are superfluouse These pointes being resolued it is easie to decyde this question if the Churche be aboue the Scripture the whiche semeth to me to be so foolish a question as if one asked whether the infant or childe were aboue his father the woman aboue her husband yea the man aboue God And in very dede the trew Churche will neuer striue against God in suche a quarrell nor none other but will escaip condemnation And it serueth to no purpose to say that the Churche was before the Scripture For althogh that so it be yet it is so that this worde that afterwardes haeth bene written is alweys more ancient seinge that by the same the Churche hath bene conceiued ingendred and nourished as it haeth bene said The saying of S. Augustine is alledged in this behalf I wold not beleue the Scripture if y e authoritie of the Churche moued me not thereunto But here must ye cōsider that Saint Augustine speaketh of him self as a Manicheen When therefore two parties will debate or stryue for the treuth of an instrument vnto whome shall they haue recourse but vnto nota●ies w c kepe the registre thereof And yet notwithstanding it can not be said that the register is founded vpone y e witnessinges of notaries the whiche should not faill to be trew althogh no man liuing bare witnes thereof Euen so muche hereof must we answer vnto them that think that the authoritie of the canonicall bookes is not founded vpon that whiche the Churche haeth determined thereof as if it were so that there were found determinations of Councelles altogether diuers in this pointe y t whiche may be more at large declared in a mutuall conference It shall suffice me to alledge besides y t whiche I haue before spoken one onely reason accompanyed with the authoritie of some of the ancientes that be well approued The reason is this that Iesus Christ him self haeth so muche honored y e doctrine of the Prophetes that he ratified and proued his doctrine by y e witnessing of them S. Paule suffered that they of Tessalonique should do the lyke as it is written in the 17 chaptre of y e Actes Saint Petre haeth expresly allowed this maner of doing Then must not they that say that they be the vicares of Iesus Christe and successors of Saint Petre and S. Paule refuse the lyke condition And further consider what S. Ierome sayeth in the 9 chaptre of his second booke vpone Ieromie y t men must nether follow the error of their fathers nor of their ancitors but the authoritie of the Scriptures And Saint Chrisostome vpone the 24 of Saint Mathew in the 49 homelie The same man sayeth he that wold knowe whiche is y e trew Churche of Iesus Christe how shall he know it in so great a confusion of suche semblance or liknes also why is it that in y e tyme then all the Christians oght to retire and draw them selues to the Scriptures Forasmuche as that after that tyme that heresie had obteined and occupyed the Churches there might be no certē probation had of the trew Christianitie nor other refuge vnto Christians willing to know the treuth of the faith but the holie Scriptures Lykewyse oure Lorde knowing so great confusion to come in the latter dayes cōmādeth that the Christians whiche be in the Christianitie w c wold haue a trew and firme fayth should haue none other refuge but to y e Scriptures or els if they regarded other thinges they should be offended and perishe not knowinge what were the trew Churche and by that meanes they should fall in to the abhomination of desolation y t whiche is set in the holy place of the Churche Saint Basill also in his moralles the 12 chaptre of the 9 somme writeth thus if all thing that is without faith is sinne as the Apostle saieth and faith is by hearing and hearing is of the worde of God all that is without the Scripture whiche is inspired of God is sinne Lykewyse the same author in his sermon of the confession of the faith If the Lorde be faythful in all his wordes and all his cōmandementes be sure for euer done in veritie and righteousnes It is manifestly to turne frō the faith and a cryme of pride to reiecte any thing of that that is written or to introduce any thing more that haeth not bene written seing that oure Lorde Iesus Christ haeth said my shepe heare my voice follow not a stranger but flie frō him because they knowe not his word Hitherto Madame I haue answered according to the measure of the knowledge that God haeth geuen vs vnto y e first point of the last oration of my Lordes the Prelates concerning the estate and authoritie of y e Churche of oure Lorde Where of as yet we are redy to vnderstād all that shalbe shewed vnto vs by the pure worde of God There resteth the article of the Supper the w c I will leaf of if it please youre Maiestie aswell because ye are to long holden and all the present assistance as also because of the desire that we haue that this conference should be begonne after a better ordre because all that in speaking sōmarelie of a mater y t hitherto haeth bene wrapped vp in so greate obscuritie it should be very hard but that many wordes shoulde escape how trew soeuer they were that shoulde offend the heartes of them that should heare them Neuerthelesse if it pleaseth youre Maiestie that we go forwarde we are redy to speak therof that whiche the Lorde will giue vs to vnderstand Submitting alweys oure selues vnto that whiche shalbe shewed by the holy Scriptures And make humble supplication vnto youre maiestie to be persuaded that next to y e glorie of God there is no thing that we seke with so greate desyre as the rest and quietnes of youre Maiestie of all this Realme ❧ Ane answer the xxvj day of septembre the yere a thousand fyue hundreth sixtie and one ▪ Being arriued at Poyssy twelue ministers of the worde of God with twelue deputies of Churches in an hall where was the Quene mother the King Quene of Nauarre the princes of the blood royall and all the Lordes of Councell and other Lordes of the one syde of the other part 5 Cardinalles w t many bus●hops and Theologiens of all sortes My Lorde Cardinall of Lorrain declared in few wordes that this assemble was made to heare what y e said ministers had to say vnto that whiche he had proponded two dayes befor whereat Theodore rase vp in the name of the said xij ministers for all the Churches of France that be reformed and answered as followeth Madame the last tyme y t it pleased you to giue vs audience we made declaratiō according to y e grace that oure Lord gaue vs of the article y t was propoūded touching the Churche the marckes and authoritie of

❧ Ane answer made the fourth day of septembre a thousand fyue hundreth syxtie one by maister Theodore de Besza minister of the holie Euangile in the presence of the Quene mother the King and Quene of Nauarre the Princes of the blood royall and of the priuie counseil vnto that whiche the Cardinall of Lorraine had replied against that whiche was propounded in the first iourney of their talking together by the said de Besza in the name of the reformed Churches Together with an other short answer made by the said de Besza the 26 day of the said moneth vnto certein articles of replie set forth by the said Cardinall Imprinted at Edinburgh by Robert Lekprewik Cum priuilegio 1562. Iohn Baron to the reader w●he● grace mercie and peace c. WHen as thies two orations of that great learned and right godlie minister of gods worde Theoder De Besza were broght vnto me to be trāslated out of frenche into englishe gētle Reader for that of certen yeres before I knew y e man to be of so great knowledge and specially so greatly fearing God I was driuen with a great desyre to reade them and after that I had redde them with a more feruent desyre was I rapt whatsoeuer other busynes I had to do being layd asyde to trāslate them Not onely for that they flowed from suche a notable instrument of God but also specially because that in the name and by aduise and assent of so many excellent and godlie learned ministeres they were pronounced and that in suche a famouse and moste honorable audience The matters conteined in the same orations be maters of oure religion suche as at this present be in controuersie and therefore moste nedefull to be knowen vnto the faithfull of oure cuntrie the faithfull I mean that be but of simple knowledge yet be desyrous to learne Aswell because thereby they may by vertue of gods word establish their consciences in the treuth of these maters as also for that they may there summarelie haue in a redynes oute of y e holie Scriptures good and sufficient auctorities to defend them selues in the same against the malicious soldiors of Satan the Papistes and lykewise to confounde them with all their sophisticall and vnreasonable reasons whiche haue not onely of a long season moste craftely seduced many but also moste crewelly suppressed and destroied many of the faithfull with the name and auctoritie of the Churche whiche they moste wrongfully and iniuriously arrogated to them selues when as in very dede they were and be no thing els but the horrible and filthie Synagoge of y e deuill as by their stinking and detestable maners and theire blasphemous and moste pestilent doctrine whiche be their frutes may moste euidently appere vnto all them whiche haue any knowledge in y e worde of God For without any lawfull calling by diuerse vnlefull meanes boeth against Gods law and mans law haue they intruded them selues into the Churche of God and in stede of the liuely worde of God they haue taught their owne doctrine and dreames and the holy Sacramentes with their away taking that whiche the Lorde Iesus instituted and commanded and with their to putting many things whiche the Lorde Iesus neuer commanded they haue altogether altered and contamined So that in stede to haue God honored and the people of God edified taught strengthened and cōforted they haue dishonored and blasphemed the Maiestie of God and to their vtermoste discouraged and destroyed his people But the chief maters herein contened be thies The Churche and what it is the marcks of the true Churche what aucthoritie it haeth whether it may erre If it please thee gentle Reader with iudgement of a sincere heart to consider thies orations thou shalt finde the same boeth godlie and learnedly declared to the praise of God and edefieng of his faithfull people An answer made the twentie four day of Septembre a thousand fyue hundreth sixtie and one Being arriued at Poissy twelue ministers of the worde of God ī an hall where were present the Quene mother the King and Quene of Nauarre the princes of the blood royall and all the Lordes of Counsell and other Lordes of the one parte and on the other parte fyue Cardinalles with many busshops and Theologues of all sortes The Lorde Cardinall of Lorrane declared in few wordes that this assemblie was made to heare what that we had to say vnto that which he had propounded eight dayes before whervnto Theodore de Besza rising vp in the name of the said 12 ministers for all the frenche Churches reformed answered as followeth hauing an verie good audience and attention of all the assemblie Madame first calling vpon the name of oure Lorde God that it may please him to assist vs with his especiall grace in an mater of so great consequence that we may be vtterly voyde of all particuler opinions and passions and that their might be planted in to oure heartes in stede thereof a right knowledge of his veritie with an earnest desire to set it forth to the honnor of his holie name and to the auancement of youre maiestie and to the quietnes of all Christendome and namelie of this realme we shall brieflie answer vnto that whiche it haeth plesed the Lorde Cardinall to declare vnto vs vpon two pointes onelie of our confession which haeth bene three tymes presented vnto youre maiestie to wit vpon that whiche concerneth the Churche and the aucthoritie thereof and vpon the holy supper of oure Lorde Iesus Christe Trew it is that if we might haue had the fauore to haue made answer immediatlie when as we had a freshe remembrance of that that we had heard or els that we might haue had in oure handes the said oration to consider it we might haue answered more destinctly point by point and perhappes more properly But how soeuer it be we shall speak thereof that w c God will giue vnto vs so that men may vnderstād wherein we may alredie be accorded and likwyse the pointes wherein as yet we vary and be different whereof we humblie pray oure God that according to his great mercies it may please him to aggree vs. So now as touching y e first point of the Churche we shall treat it in thre partes The first what is the Churche The seconde what be the markes of it The third what is the authoritie thereof It is moste certen that this name of the Churche is taken and drawen oute of a greke worde whiche signifieth as muche as to call frome one place to an other But we find in the Scripture that there is two maner of callinges the one is ●oyned with the efficacie of the holy Spririt of the whiche is spoken in y e right chapitre of the Epistle to the Romains where it is said that God ●ustifieth them that he calleth the other althogh it be the self same outwardlie as the first is yet is it

interteyneth from good to better or that he calleth of new vnto his knowledge For in some pointes the Lorde vsing his iust vengeance he semeth altogether to root vp till y t he leaue not one trase of y e Churche as it is come to pas in y e contrie of the Barbariens in the orient And in other cuntries he haeth left as yet some trace of y e Churche as we see in the Churches of Grecia and yet more nerer vnto vs. On the other part the Lorde betwene handes some tyme● out of this personall succession of pa●●tours as it chanced in Antioche i● the tyme of Samosatenus and in Alexandrie the tyme of the banishe●ment of Athanasius in many othe● Churches in the tyme that heresyes had there furious rage specially without seking thinges any furde● at this tyme there haeth bene interruption in the personalle succession of the Romishe seat at least in y e tyme that Honorius the first held the seat aboute the yere syx hundreth thre twentie was condemned for the execrable heresie of Eut●ches aboute the yere syx hundreth foure score And in the tyme of Pope Iohn the twentie and two was condemned for an heretike aboute the yere a thousand thre hundreth thirtie two Except they wold say that notable heretiques were the heades of the Churche besides this w c happened in the tyme of the she pope Iohā aboute the yere eight hundreth fiftie and foure and during so many schismes of contrary popes as be redde in histories By these reasons I conclude y t with out stayeng at any personall succession for to know the Churche well we must alweyes come to the purite of the doctrine and to the sincere administration of the Sacramentes In suche sort that they whiche oght to be compted the ryght successors of the Apostles the whiche being lawfully called build vpon their foūdatiō whether there be a ●ontinuall succession of persons or that that succession some tymes be interrupted yea euen of them y e first preached the Euangile in any place Lyke as contrarywyse they that preache not at all or that in stead of the doctrine of the Apostles preache their owne doctrine althogh they alledge a thousand predecessors following one an other they oght not to be hearde as pastors but to be fled from as wolues by the expres cōmandement of Iesus Christe and of his Apostles But some may say is this said because y t it is lefull to euery body to preache the Euangile and to minister the Sacramentes No surely for it behoueth y t euery thing be done by good ordre in the house of God as the Apostle sayeth Who be then the right pastors They whiche be lawfully called There resteth then to knowe what is lawfull vocation and to vnderstand this point we say that there is a maner of ordinarie vocation an other extraordinarie That is the ordinarie vocatiō in the whiche the ordre is kept that God haeth established in the Churche And in this ordre first of all there is examination of the doctrine of the lyfe then after there is lawfull election finaly there is imposition of hādes These may ye see in many places of the Scripture to be put and conioyned together as in the election of Saint Matthias and of the vij deacons in the Actes of the Apostles and also in that whiche is written in S. Paules Epistles vnto Timothee and to Tite This now is the ordanarie vocation whereby it may be easely cōsidered what is the extraordinarie vocation in the whiche notwithstanding y t one of these two thinges or two of them yea or all the three be wanting yet is it laufull by the authoritie of God That oure Lorde haeth often tymes vsed suche extraordinarie vocations it appereth through out the Scriptures For who laied hādes vpon Moses that he might consecrate Aaron And who anointed in the degre of a Prophete Isaie Daniel Amos and many others And whē came that to passe Then as they that had the ordre in their handes abused the same then say I it behoued that God should extraordinarely put hand to his work not for to bring cōfusion into his house but to correct them whiche vnder the shaddowe of ordinarie successiō had had ouerturned and peruerted all And that it is so I referre me to the writinges of the Prophetes w c specially speake against the priestes But if herein it be replied y t suche persons neuertheles haue had miraculously frome heauē an outward witnessing of their calling I answer that this is very trew in some but not in all except that ye will deuine that to be whiche in no wyse is euident by any witnes yea I can not well tell if there be many of the trew Prophetes of the rase of Aaron who haue hadde the imposition or laying on of handes after the ordinarie maner But if they will alledge that the fore said Prophetes were content to rebuke and to reproue without hauīg any thing to do with the sacrifices First of all I answer that that is not true euery where for Samuell w c was not of the rase of Aaron but onely of Chore did sacrifice ī Mispa as it is written in the first booke of Samuell in the vij chaptre And Elie the Galaadite did sacrifice in Carmell as it is written in the first booke of kinges y e eightene chaptre Secondly it is no meruell if the Prophetes ī that tyme stretched not oute their comissiōn extraordinarie so farre as to circumcise sacrifice seing that this charge was appointed heretably vnto the rase of Leuy the whiche thing at this day haeth no place Consider now my Lordes what we call the Churche and what we esteme of the marckes of it of the vocatiō of pastors of whiche things if ye will make applicatiō vnto oure Churches or vnto oure selues we hope with the help of God to shew so good tokens that none shall haue iust occasion to doubte thereof following the worde of God and that whiche thereof is truely written as we think in a treatise that is found amōgest y e workes of S. Augustine intituled a dialogue of 66 questions in the last question Now let vs come to speake of the authoritie of y e Churche It appereth by these thinges that we haue afore spoken that we do not derogate in any point the preciouse and hye titles the whiche the holy Goste attributeth vnto it But we say that it is so the body of oure Lorde that in a part it is in their pilgrimage awaiting for the full enioyeng of their head it is the house of God but that whiche is yet a buylding and groweth day by day and that it is gouerned by the Spirit of God but as yet fighting against the fleshe it is purified but in suche sorte as to be broght by litle and litle vnto this perfection of

beawtie where there shall be neyther spot nor wrinckle it knoweth God but it is in a parte When I speake thus I beleue y t ye know the Apostles owne wordes For to be brief I confesse that without y e Churche there is no saluatiō because there is no lyfe but in Iesus Christe Iesus Christe imployeth not his liuelie vertue no where els but amongest his membres the vnion and assemblie whereof is called the Churche But the question is to know whether that in this world the Churche may erre and whether it be aboue the Scripture or els altogether subiect vnto the same Hereunto do I answer that it is a thing without all doubte that the particuler membres of the Churche may erre and do erre daylie bothe in doctrine and maners according vnto that whiche S. Paule sayeth that we knowe in a parte and S. Iohn that if we say y t we haue no sinne we deceiue oure selues But if any body will except out of this nombre the ancient doctors he shall perdonne vs if we beleue him not For it were easie for vs to gather many witnesses of fautes y t be foūd in the greatest and moste ancient of them let this be spoken sauing the reuerence due vnto their godlines and learning But we will not stay oure selues so muche here for the honnor that we heare vnto them and y t not without good cause as also because if I haue well vnderstand the sayeng of my Lorde Cardinall that he is no more of that mynde then we to deceiue them without exception This is it that we vnderstand of the membres of the Churche in particularitie the imperfection whereof doeth not stoppe but y t the Churche is formed and made thereof For by litle and litle do they go forwarde aswell in the knowledge of God as in the amendment of life But if the membres of the Churche be generally considered as it is destributed in diuers diocess and prouinces shall we say that it may ●rre Again if I remembre well my Lorde Cardinall was lately of that 〈…〉 specially the particuler Churches prouinciall Councelles may erre and haue often erred and surely that is ratified by so long an experience that no man of iudgemēt as I suppose can doubte thereof There resteth therefore to cōsider the hole Churche in an vniuersalitie but in what sorte For cōsidering it in the estimation of an vniuersall Councell first of all there is no greate apperance to iudge that all the vertue that the holy Goste employeth vpon y e Churche is restreyned to an certen nombre of Prelats the whiche be not alweys y e most learned nor y e best yea althogh they represent the hole multitude that sēdeth them For how often tymes will it come to passe that a simple man shall haue more vnderstanding at an instant then the moste wyse of an hole company And therefore was it said by Gerson y t more credit oght to be giuen to one priuate faithfull man then to an hole Coūcell and to the Pope if he haue better authoritie or reason And namely in y e great Councell of Nece by whome was it stopped that the law of single lyfe whiche afterwarde haeth broght so great filthynes into the Churche was not then established By one Paphnutius onely as sayeth the historie And moreouer whē was there euer assembled a Councell so generall but that a greate parte not onely of the moste wyse and moste holie men but also of the Prelates haue remayned be hinde And who may than assure but that they that were absent some tymes had greater reuelation then they that were present And besydes all this my Lordes how long is it a go that there reigned so horrible a cōfusiō in y e Churche and principally in the great estates dignities of Prelates in such sorte that the greatest desolation of the house of God is in that parte where it oght to be moste entier and best decked At the least it is a long tyme past that the exemples hereof haue appered that y e good Busshops haue sobbed sighed so grieuously therefore so euidently that we heare them at this day And that whiche S. Barnard wryteth of this mater in his book of consideration and in the 33 sermon on the Canticles and also in the sermon of the conuersion of S. Paule is noles notoriouse thē true Allas Lorde sayeth he they whche be sene to loue the first and chief places ī thy Churche and their to haue y e superioritie be first in a redynes to persecute thee They haue take● the Ark of Sion they haue vio●lently possessed the Castell and by power haue set fyre on th● hole Citie Let this be spoken m● Lordes not to iniurie any body bi● to shew that the chief vocations i● the Churche being of so long a tym● so confused and misreuled that it i● impossible to conclude in any wys● that the vniuersall Councelles tha● haue bene now of a long tyme ga●thered together of a multitude so e●● qualified haue bene so guyded by 〈◊〉 holy Spirit that they coulde no● erre An ancient Priest of whome I wolde make no mention in this cōpany if it were not that they alledg● his example in this mater did prophesie well althogh he was no thing worth But we reade none otherwyse but he erred yea both y t he his company in condemning Iesus Christ for it was the holy Goste y t propheseid in this behalf and not he whiche knew not what he said nor what he spoke being moued w t a Spirit very contrarious that is to say a deuilish Spirit because of malice he concluded to sic a Iesus Christe the Sonne of God And further if a generall Councell haeth receiued this priuiledge that they can not erre in y e rewle of their doctrine nor in y e forme of their maners we demand what tyme was this priuiledge dated For there was neuer but one God one Faith and one Churche Now that there was error in the Churche in the tyme of the olde Testamēt the Prophetes openlye beare witnes and y e histories shew good proof thereof All y e wache men sayeth Esay 56 ▪ chaptre be blind they know no thing they are all domme dogges ▪ And Ierem 6 chaptre Frome the Prophet to the priest they work all vntrueth And to the intēt y t this might not be restreyned vnto the life of particuler persons it is said in the 14 chaptre of the same Prophet they prophesie fals thinges and a lieng vision And in Isay the 29 chaptre The wisdome of the wyse shall perishe the vnderstāding of y e prudent shall vanishe away God shall shut vp the eyes of the Prophetes and of y e principalles And in Ezechiell the 7 chaptre The law shall perishe frome the Priest And to say the trueth who condemned y e Prophetes as Ieremias