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A18440	An answeare for the time, vnto that foule, and wicked Defence of the censure, that was giuen vpon M. Charkes booke, and Meredith Hanmers Contayning a maintenance of the credite and persons of all those woorthie men: namely, of M. Luther, Caluin, Bucer, Beza, and the rest of those godlie ministers of Gods worde, whom he, with a shamelesse penne most slanderously hath sought to deface: finished sometime sithence: and now published for the stay of the Christian reader till Maister Charkes booke come foorth.	Charke, William, d. 1617.	1583 (1583)	STC 5008; ESTC S107734	216,784	212

heretike But a man may see whither enuie and rage will carry a man But if M. Caluine were greeued as hee had good cause hauyng knowne him in those heresies so long and God casting the heretike into the Magistrates handes there where hee had corrupted many as the sequele prooued why shoulde any man blame M. Caluine who like a good Pastour resisted the Woolfe and endeuoured to drawe his sheepe out of his mouthe That hee therefore shoulde purpose his deathe and that vppon a priuate quarrell for finding faulte with his Institutions And also shoulde accuse him of heresie alluring him to come to Geneua it is a most horrible and monstrous Sclaunder For if M. Caluine had had any such purpose or had but barely accused him he beeing in truth no heretike then had master Caluine beene disappointed But whosoeuer acccused him because hee was both founde an obstinate heretike and also was crept thyther to trouble the Church vnallured and vnsent for by any the Magistrates did their duetie to purge their citie to the terrour of others of such a monster This was not done by Caluine alone as the storie of his life declareth who vsed all good meanes to reclaime him and as appeareth by sundry his Epistles was a suiter to haue had his punshimente mitigated And therefore it is but a tale that he telleth of any such secrete Letter written to Virette that should shewe the purposing of his death for any such quarrell And of like trueth is that of Seruets speedie passing thorow the towne howsoeuer M. Caluine hauing intelligence that he was there and also hauing knowne him long before in Paris to bee 〈◊〉 with that heresie and 〈◊〉 to holde it and spreade it to the infection of the worlde caused processe to bee serued and the suite to bee followed against him till the Magistrates had giuen him his iust rewarde As for that hee further 〈◊〉 M. Caluine that he should cause him to bee burnt aliue and that with a softe fier for his greater tormente making him like his Pope and his adherentes who yet burnt men quick not for heresie indeede as this man was but 〈◊〉 the euerlasting trueth of God it is moste false and sclaunderous seeing nothing was doone here but by the Magistrates and by the consent of the common Councel who had authoritie in such matters Of like trueth also is that 〈◊〉 be saieth that M. Caluine had written a booke a little beefore that heretiques should not be put to death and that nowe he shewed the contrary by his practise whereupon also hee giueth that marginall note that heretiques hold not a doctrine longer then it serueth their turne that forsooth manye Protestauntes hereby were offended and as hee speaketh grieuously scandalized If euer Caluine wrote such a booke I am sure some must haue seene it and yet if hee had in his time beefore God gaue him a sincere knowledge and iudgement delyuered out any such thing yet this prooueth not but vpon better aduise and iudgement he might haue the same 〈◊〉 that all other writers haue to retract it And of this I amsure that by the occasion of the death of this monster both he and M. Beza set out worthy woorkes of that argumente to prooue the trueth of that doctrine to all posterities And if there were any that were offended herewith they were no true christians but some such heretiques as were fauourers to that cursed wretch and to his cause Indeede Arrians Anabaptistes and those heretiques of the 〈◊〉 lye of loue and such like can at no hande indure that doctrine because they woulde liue as they lyste and spread their heresies abroade to the destruction of others Furdermore whereas hee accuseth M. Caluine for his maners that he shouldbe teinted with intollerable ambition and pride and thereof taketh vpon him to set downe some examples as y t to make himself famous he should deuise diuers letters and other workes in prayse of himselfe and publishe them vnder the name of Galasius and others that he should sende them to Viret who acquainted with the stile shoulde espie the deuise hee beeing offended shoulde be pacified with an aunswere that it was neces sarie for the credite of their cause and that he woulde shortly doe as much for Viret For proofe whereof hee saith 〈◊〉 these letters were founde in the studie of Viret with fortie more at what tyme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 away from Lausanna and they were shewed to the Lords of Berne who could neuer afterwards abide Caluine for it c. For confutation of all this they that knew Caluine in his life time and were throughly acquainted with him did knowe him to bee the moste simple and humble man considering his great giftes that lyued in the woorlde whoe 〈◊〉 in all his writinges and in his expositions vpon the Scriptures without anye ostentation or subtill deuises whereof he could haue found out as great store as others yet did he refer al to the edifying of the people and to Gods onelye glory and that hee shoulde deuise letters and woorkes in his owne 〈◊〉 and publishe them vnder the name of another it is shamelesse and villanous well becomming 〈◊〉 Bolsecke an Apostate Fryar to deuise it and 〈◊〉 Robert Parsons a shamelesse Iesuite to credit and publishe 〈◊〉 For Galasius hee was a woorthy and learned 〈◊〉 then and nowe as I suppose lyuing and whose name coulde not bee so abused Indeede Galasius did gather some of 〈◊〉 Lectures as from his mouth or which being gathered by others hee might translate into the Latine tongue out of the French which might as was 〈◊〉 both bee reuised and also published by M. Caluin But what is this to prooue that it was done in his owne prayse Againe what should it haue 〈◊〉 to haue sent them if any such thing had beene to Virette alone when others also could haue iudged and discerned of Caluines stile hee writing not 〈◊〉 in a corner but much to the whol world Furder if Viret were offended and wrote so to Caluine and that these Letters with one and fortie more were founde 〈◊〉 Virets studie and that they were shewed to the Lordes of Berne and they could neuer abide him for it why is there not so much as one set downe And why did those Lords of Berne afterwardes by so manye honorable testimonies and entercourse of messages testifie their loue both to M. Caluine and also to that state and towne And againe where was the perfourmance of that promise to Viret and Farrel concerning the setting forth of 〈◊〉 prayse As for that he addeth concerning his breaking downe of Images and raizing the pictures of Christ and all Saintes in Geneua and causing his owne to be drawen and set in place and giuing them also to diuers Gentlemen and Gentlewomen to hange about their neckes it is as monstrous a lye as any of the rest It is true that when the Gospel was

shall not haue any quiet 〈◊〉 in our possession which you cal intrusiō because we entred not by your popes permissiō You wil forsooth cōtinue your claim title 〈◊〉 surely we tel you that we meane to maintaine our iust lawful right possessiō you shal haue hard getting it except you come with better euidēce It is not the rowt of your Iesuites nor of your new Annūcionists or Assūptionists that can so winne it of vs. And therfore I giue you 〈◊〉 that if you come not better appointed thē your father 〈◊〉 the rest haue done you are like to gaine no more then they haue done in your vniust claime heretofore so strong is truth against forgerie so mightie is the sincerity of Christ against y e heresie treasō of Antichrist But now you say the credite of our cause is crushed seeing we flie opēly and with furie moue the magistrate against you which yet you will beare with patiēce not be discomfited in the middest of al your afflictions to resist our falshood more then before Example of your good Cāpion the rest of his companions who died ioyfully protested their 〈◊〉 forgaue al frankly in the middest of al resisting our foule heresy and so became pure constant Martyrs of their Lorde and maister Iesus Christ c. Al this is but a stiffe bladder strowted out with wind For who tolde you that in our owne conceite the truth is crushed If we had flyen before you doth the credite of the truth stand vpon our standing If all we were fallen must the trueth therefore bee fallen No no though none of vs were able to defend that the truth shall defend it selfe It is an armour of proofe whereinto your counterfeite pelfe cannot once pearce or enter If we moue the magistrates against suche daungerous enimies we doe but our duetie You are Gods and the Queenes enimies vnder pretence of Religion you haue continually practised Treason you stil dishonour her amongest her enemies you clip her gouernement and holde that she is no Queene of yours nor of ours because she is an excommunicate person by the sentence of your Pope a forteigne priest whom you holde a God in earth that cannot erre and therefore dare not disauouch any his doinges For this cause you came ouer to reconcile her subiectes to the Sea of Rome to discharge them of loyaltie duetie towards her Think you not then that it is our parts to perswade thē to iustice to giue thē warning to take heed to looke about them seeing also by your bellowes both at home in englād abroad in Irelād the fire of rebeliō hath set on fire the highest beacons amongest vs her subiectes led vnder your captaines cōductors in armes against her highnes against their own natural countrey I say nothing of other nations but it shalbe found whē mē shal learne to iudge aright that the pope such as depend vpon him are the common traytors to all Christian Princes in Europe As for your patience proceeding not from faith it may welbe a Philosophical patience but it cannot be the patience of Christiās And yet what your patience hath bin your outcries stirres insolencies your vnquiet vnpacified minds can testifie The maner of the death of your new martirs shal witnes to al posterities that they die not with that ioy comfort assurance of truth that the childrē of God feele tast that maketh thē to sleepe sweetly resolutely where as yours die doubtingly therfore with feare horror But I leaue thē to him who knoweth his own But this is certaine an euil cōscience that is not resolute in faith which you teach to be presumption cannot haue that christian ioy patience that a faithful man doth feele As for protesting their innocency it was an aggrauating of their sin villany that being so notoriously conuicted by so many proofes euidence and testimonies they would not yet confesse their offence against God and her Maiestie As for their forgiuenesse whether it were franke or fainte that I thinke you cannot tell There was no cause why they should not forgiue all that had so offended all But they would not craue forgiuenes there where they had most trespassed and therefore they dyed not in perfect charitie And as for their detesting of our religion the more they detested it the more miserable and desperate was their estate and condition that setting themselues against the truth had not grace to confesse it but dyed as it were in the field against it Concerning the fighting of theyr blood against vs we feare not the force of it For being shed for treasō falshood truth cannot bee guiltie of it neither can it gaine any victorie against true religion It is not the death but the cause nor the shedding of blood but the cause of shedding it that is to be regarded If you wil stil poure foorth your blood for treason and in maintenance of an vsurped and forraine iurisdiction your blood shalbe vpon your owne heads we are cleare frō it your blood is no innocent blood to crie for any vengeance but it is the blood of Achab not of Abel blessed are the hands that are first vpon you It is the sworde of Gedeon and that sworde of the Lorde that Christian magistrates beare to execute his iudgementes against such vnnaturall wretches that rebel against God and seeke the destruction of their owne people And seeing yee account them so well bestowed especially Campion and Sherwin and all the rest I am of mind with you that they were best bestowed so in deede Idolaters Theeues murderers and traitours be neuer better bestowed then on the gallows and the Lorde in mercie that loueth Syon and forsaketh not his poore Church bee praysed for pursuing his enemies to the graue And he that in his iust iudgement hath thus found them out will finde you out also that you shall not goe downe to the graue in peace except you repente and turne to him which I pray God you may doe if it bee his blessed wil to your owne saluation and the comfort of many The two thinges which you speake of concerning master Charks person the one of his writing the other of his behauiour they shall bee considered in their proper place Master Charke craueth no further credite of the Church of God then he shalbe found to haue dealt faithfully and sincerely according to the worde of God Hee craueth no testimonie of you nor such as you are hee boasteth no further of his knowledge then is meete for a man of his profession that knoweth what soeuer he hath he hath receaued it by the meere dispensation fauour of God If he come short in any thing he refuseth not to bee taught As for his behauiour towards Campion when for sooth hee was within the reach of his ministeriall power by

had that same foule disease vpon him that he should haue stunke that no bodie could haue abidden him how could that be true that is written of him which yet was most true that he should be visited by so notable excellent personages For he was visited in the time of his sicknes not onlie by y e 4. Syndiques which are 4. chief lords magistrates of the towne to whō M. Cal. made a graue a notable exhortation that they should continue faithfull in that place wherein God had set thē but also by al the Ministers who according to the custome of that Church met at his house in token of that vnitie loue that was betweene thē tooke their repast together at a supper Among whō M. Caluin was brought forth sitting in his chaire to take of them as it were his last farewell in this life and notwithstanding that he were very sick yet he conceaued prayer himself as wel as he coulde cheered vp his guestes and before supper was ended withdrawing himselfe hee tolde them that a wall could not sunder them but that hee woulde bee ioyned with them in spirit After which time going to bed his sicknes grewe to be such as lying vpō his back he neuer rose againe till God had put an ende to all his miseries and receiued him into that euerlasting ioy whiche hee had from before the foundations of the worlde prepared for him Now therefore though Caluine had beene teinted and touched with as sore plagues and diseases as euer was 〈◊〉 and that in his ende the anguishe of his flesh had made him to speake as foolishly as euer Iob did if his bones had beene putrified and corrupted as Dauid confesseth his were he had had all the diseases in himself that many holy men haue cōplained to haue felt yet forasmuch as y e end of a mā simplie in it self is not enough for a mā to be iudged by God exercising his childrē as he seeth to be best for thē and seeing y e breastes bones of the wicked are as full of milke and marrow as the breastes and bones of the godly that neither outward prosperitie nor aduersitie in the ends either of the godly or of the wicked simply in thēselues are iust measures to measure y e fauor or displeasure of God by I cōclude y t thogh M. Caluine had had suche a disease yet hee dying in the Lorde and in the constant profession of his truth this growing vpon him by his great labours and studies taken against such helhoundes and enemies as you are I conclude that he dyed a glorious and an honourable death And besides the reasons before alleadged that he died not any such horrible death with any such discontentment and rage against God hereby it may bee prooued that hee was continually occupied in prayer in writing and ouerseeing sundrie bookes and writings that hee had in hand to finish that hee vttered many golden and excellent sentences made such a solemne and a godly wil died with such peace quietnes ha uing neither clogged himself with trāsitori things not being in loue with the world so as he yelded most willingly neither stirring hād nor foot as by the testimonie of them that were present is declared wheras Bolseck this heretike was both his enemie and also absent and therefore vnfit to giue any testimonie of him But nowe if a man shoulde turne ouer the leafe and looke to the life and death of Papists which as their doctrine is wicked and idolatious so their liues and their deaths are abhominable and hideous hee shoulde enter into such an argument as hee coulde not tell where to begin nor where to ende so copious and plentifull are examples of the iudgements of God vpon them And what peace and honour can bee in the death of them whose life and death is without God Diues in outwarde shewe and to the iudgement of the worlde dyed as a man blessed and Lazarus as a cursed man vpon whose liues and deaths yet if Bolseck and Parsons might haue sate as Iudges Diues shoulde haue been iustified and Lazarus condemned But those wicked ones whose doctrines and liues haue beene wicked and whose death therewithall haue beene marked with some notable iudgement of Gods wrath these indeede are examples vnto vs to make vs to feare So died Steeuen Gardiner a wicked and a wretched man very horriblie with his tongue swolne out of his mouth with such a hideous and fearefull countenance with suche stincke and dispaire as his owne side did loath him for it So likewise dyed Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Canturburie Cardinal Wolsey Latomus Francis Spira and diuers others Euen like as in the old time God brought strange iudgements vpon his enemies that were 〈◊〉 and mercilesse persecutors as vpon Antiochus Herode Iulian the Apostata Valerian Decius Maxentius and infinite others So also vpon men euen in our times whose liues were wicked hee made their deaths notorious and infamous by setting vpon them as it were visible signes of his wonderfull and vnsupportable iudgementes I referre the Reader for breuitie sake vnto a speciall booke written in the Frenche tongue wherein there are gathered together as into one summe the wonderfull iudgements of God that haue byn executed vpon wicked men declared both in their life in their death To which also may be added a speciall treatise which M. Foxe hath set downe in his booke of Actes and Monuments in the second part Nowe concerning the life of M. Beza and his maners which Parsons saith this worshipfull writer hath set downe during M. Beza his life and dedicated to the honorable Magistrates Councellours and other 〈◊〉 of the Citie of Geneua c. Although I shoulde not 〈◊〉 much to wearie myself seeing M. Beza is thanks be to God aliue both of sufficient age abilitie in Christ to answere for himself and may perhaps haue seene the booke if it bee deliuered there where it is dedicated yet because I know y t M. Beza will not file his handes vppon suche a shamelesse wretche and also because as Parsons in Englande so also another of the same fether in Scotlande haue been so eger to spread these sclaunders to the discredite of this reuerende and honorable person in Christe I haue thought it my dutie to examine his groundes and to weigh the circumstances of this as I haue done in 〈◊〉 life of M. Caluin First therefore where hee saith that hee hath doone it during his life that if it bee false hee may refute it this maketh no whit to the iustifiyng of his fact Hee that hath shewed himselfe suche a varlet against the truth and M. Caluin for it is it like beeing a bored and branded witnesse that hee will deale with any more 〈◊〉 towards M. Beza Shall wee thinke that his purpose is to finde out the truth or beeing confuted for falshood that hee