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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09618	The examinacion of the constaunt martir of Christ, Ioh[a]n Philpot arch diacon of Winchestre at sondry seasons in the tyme of his sore emprisonment, conuented and banted, as in these particular tragedies folowyng, it maye (not only to the christen instruction, but also to the mery recreacion of the indifferent reader) most manifestly appeare. Reade fyrst and than iudge.	Philpot, John, 1516-1555.	1556 (1556)	STC 19892; ESTC S100457	120,727	301

before the lordes of the Quenes maiesties councel prudentlye and to take hede what I sayde And thus he preteÌ„ded to gyue me couÌ„cel because he wysshed me to do well as I might nowe do yf I list And after the lordes other worshypfull gentelmen of the Quenes maiesties seruauntes were seit my lorde of London placed hymselfe at th end of the table and called me to hym And by the lordes I was placed at the vpperend agaynst hym where I kneling downe the lordes commaunded me to staÌ„d vp and after in this maner the bishop beganne to speake London Master Phylpot I haue hertofore both priuatlye my selfe and openlye before my lordes of the cleargye mo tymes then once cauled you to be talked withall to reforme you of your errours but I haue not fouÌ„d you yet so tractable as I would wysshe Wherfore now I haue desired these honorable lordes of the teÌ„poraltie of the Quenes Maiesties couÌ„cel who haue takeÌ„ paynes with me this daye I thaÌ„ke theÌ„ therfore to heare you what you caÌ„ saye that they maye be Iudges whether I haue sought all meanes to do you good or no. And I dare be bold to saye in their behalfe that yf you shew your selfe coÌ„formable to the Quenes maiesties proceadinges you shall finde as muche fauour for your deliuerauÌ„ce as you caÌ„ wisshe I speake not this to fawne vpon you but to bring you home into the churche Nowe let them heare what you haue to saye phil My lord I thaÌ„ke God of this daye that I haue suche an honorable audience to declare my minde before And I can not but commende your lordships equitie in this behalfe which agreeth with the ordre of the primatiue churche which was yf any body had beÌ„ suspected of heresie as I am nowe he should be called before the Archbishop or bishop of the diocese wher he was suspected in the preseÌ„s of others his felowships learned elders in the hearing of the laytie where after the iudgemeÌ„t of Goddes worde declared with the asseÌ„t of other bishops coÌ„sent of the people he was coÌ„deÌ„pned for an heretike or absolued And the secoÌ„d poynt of the good ordre I haue founde at your lordships handes already now haue the third fort of men at whose handes I trust to fynd more righteousnes in my cause then I haue fouÌ„de with my lordes of the clergie God grauÌ„t I may haue at last the iudgemeÌ„t of Goddes worde coÌ„cerning the same London Master Philpot I praye you er you go any further tell my lordes here plaiÌ„ly whether you were by me or by my procuremeÌ„t coÌ„mitted to prison or not And whether I haue shewed you any crueltie sytheÌ„ you haue ben committed to my prison phil Yf yt shall please your lordship to gyue me leaue to declare furth my mater I wil touche that afterward Riche Answere fyrst of all to my lordes two questioÌ„s theÌ„ furth procede to the mater Howe saye you were you imprisoned by my lorde or no caÌ„ you finde any faulte since with his cruell vsing of you phil I caÌ„ not laye to my lordes charge the cause of my imprisonment neither I maye saye that he hath vsed me cruellye But rather for my parte I might saye that I haue founde more gentlenes at his lordships handes then I did at mine owne ordinaries for the tyme I haue beÌ„ within his prison for that he hath called me thre or foure tymes to myne answere the which I was not twelue monethe and a halfe before Kyche Wel now go furth to your mater Phil. The materis that I am imprisoned for the disputacion had by me in the conuocacioÌ„ house agayne the sacrameÌ„t of the altar which mater was not moued principally by me but by the prolocutor with the consent of the Quenes maiestie and of the holl house And the house being a membre of the parliameÌ„t house ought to be a place of fre speche for al meÌ„ of the house by the auncient laudable custome of this realme Wherfore I thinke my selfe to haue sustayned hytherto greate iniurie for speaking my conscience frely in suche place as I might laufully do it And I desire your honorable lordships iudgemeÌ„ts which be of the pliameÌ„t house whether of right I ought to be empeched therfore sustain the losse of my liuiÌ„g as I haue done morouer of my life as it is sought Ryche You are deceyued herin for the conuocacion house is no part of the parliament house Phil. My lorde I haue alwayes vnderstanded the contrarie by suche as are more expert men in thinges of this real me then I. And agayne the title of euery acte leadeth me to thinke otherwise which alledgeth the agrement of the spiritualtie teÌ„poraltie assembled together Ryche Yea that is meÌ„t of the spirituall lordes of the vpper house wynsor In dede the conuocation house is called together by one wryt of the soÌ„mons of the parliament of an olde custome notwithstandyng that house is no parte of the parliament house phil My lordes I muste be contented to abyde your iudgementes in this behalfe Ryche We haue tolde you the truthe Mary yet we would not that you should be troubled for any thyng that there was spoken so that you hauyng spokeÌ„ amisse do declare nowe that you are sorye therfore London My lordes he hath spokeÌ„ there manifest heresie yea and there stoutly mayntayned the same against the blessed sacrament of the alter and with that he put of his cap that al the lordes myght reuerence and vayle their bonets at that ydol as they dyd And would not alowe the real presence of the bodye an blood of Christ in the same Yet my lordes God forbid that I should go about to shewe him extremitie For so doyng in case he wil repent and reuoke his wicked sayenges And in fayth yf he wyl so do with your lordships consent he shal be released by and by Mary yf he wyl not he shal loke for the extremitie of the lawe and that shortly Chamber My lorde of London speaketh reasonably vnto you take it whiles it is offred you Ryche How saye you wil you acknowlage the real presente of the blood and bodye of Christ as al the learned men of this realme do in the masse and as I do and wyl beleue as long as I lyue I do protest it Phil. My lorde I do acknowlege in the sacrament of the bodye bloud of Christ suche a presence as the worde of God dothe alowe and reache me Ryche That shal be none otherwyse then you lyst Lond. A sacrameÌ„t is the signe of a holy thyng So that ther is bothe the signe which is the accidens as the whitnes roundnes and shape of bread and theris also the thing it selfe as very Christ bothe God and man But these heretikes wil haue the sacrameÌ„tes to be but bare signes Howe say you declare vnto my lordes here whether you do alowe the thing it selfe in the sacrameÌ„t or no Phil. I do confesse

acceptable because they were not in al poiÌ„ts done according to Goddes worde Wherfore except blessing be made after the worde which is a dewe thankes geuyng for our redeÌ„ption in Christ and shewing forth of the Lordes death in suche wise as the congregacion may be edified and also a taking and eating after Christes commaundement as it is not in the masse This ys my body which is the latter parte of the sacrament hath neuer no place neither can be verefied For Christ coÌ„maunded aswell take ye and eate ye as this is my body Chadsey Christ sayd take eate this is my body and not take ye eat ye phil No did master doctor be not these the wordes of Christ accipite manducate do not these words in the plural noÌ„ber singnifie take ye eat ye not take thou eat thou as you would suppose Chadsey I graunt it is as you saye phil Lykewyse of consequency you master doctor must nedes deny which you haue sayd that these words this is my body being only spoken be sufficyent to make the body bloude of Chryste in the sacrameÌ„t as you haue vntruly sayd London Then came in the bishop agayne and sayde what is that you would haue master doctor deny phil My lord master doctor hath affirmed that these words this is my body spokeÌ„ by the priest only do make the sacrameÌ„t London In dede if master bryges should speake these wordes ouer the bread wyne they would be of none effect but if a priest speake them after a due maner they are effectuall and make a reall body Phil. Master S. hath sayd otherwise London I thinke you mystake him for he meaneth of the words duely pronounced Phil. Let him reuoke that he hath sayd theÌ„ must it nedes folowe that this is my body hath no place except blisse take eate duely go before And because the same do go before this is my body in your sacrameÌ„t of the masse it is not the sacrament of Christ neyther hath Christ present Chadsey If this is my body onelye do not make the sacrament no more do blysse take and eate Phil. I grauÌ„t that the one without tho ther can not make the sacrament And it can be no sacrament onles the hole action of Christ doth concurre together according to the fyrst institucion Chadley Why then you wil not haue it to be the body of Christ onles it be receyued phil No verely it is not the very body of Christ to none other but to suche as condignely receyue the same after his institucion London Is not a loafe a loafe being set on the table though no body eat therof phil It is not like my lorde For a lofe is a lofe before he be set at the table But so is not the sacrament a perfect sacrament before it be dewly ministred at the table of the lord London I pray you what is it in the meane while before it is receiued after the wordes of consecracioÌ„ spokeÌ„ answer me phil It is my lord the signe begon of a holy thing and yet no perfecte sacrament vntil it be receiued For in the sacrament there be two thinges to be coÌ„sidered the signe and the thing it selfe which is Christ and his hole passion it is that to none but to suche as worthily receyue the holy signes of bread wine according to Christes institucioÌ„ wynsor Ther were neuer none that denyed the wordes of Christ as you do did not he saye this is my body phil My lord I pray you be not disceyued we do not deny the wordes of Christ but we say these wordes be of none effect being spoken otherwyse than Christ did instuute them in his last supper for an example Christ bydde the church to baptyze in the name of the father the Sonne the holy Goost yf a priest saye those words ouer the water and there be no chyld to be baptised those words onely pronounced do not make baptysme And agayne baptysme is only baptysme to such as be baptized to none other standing by L. Chamber I pray you my lorde let me aske him one question what kind of presence in the sacrament duely ministred according to Christes ordinauÌ„ce do you allowe Phil. Than do I confesse the presence of Christe holly to be with all the frutes of his passyon vnto the worthy receyuer by the spirit of God and that Chryst is therby ioyned to him he to Chryst L. chamber I am answered London My lordes take no hede of him For he goeth about to disceyue you His similitude that he bryngeth in of baptisme is nothing lyke to the sacrament of the altare For yf I should saye to syr Iohn Bryges being with me at supper My lorde is better skilled in bely cheare than in Christes sacramentes and hauing a fatt capoÌ„ take eat this is a fat capon Although he eat not therof is it not a capon styll and lyke wyse of a pece of beefe or of a cup of wine yf I saye drinke this is a good cup of wine is it not so because he drinketh not therof Phil. My lord your similitudes be to grosse for so highe mysteries as we haue in hand as yf I were your equall I could more playnly declare and ther is muche more dissimilitude betwene common meates and drinkes than ther is betwene baptysme and the sacrameÌ„t of the body and bloud of Christ Lyke must be compared to like and spiritual thinges with spirituall not spiritual thinges with corporal thinges And meates drinkes be of their owne natures good or euil your wordes commeÌ„ding or discoÌ„meÌ„ding do but declare what they are But the sacramentes be to be coÌ„sidered according to the word which Christ spake of theÌ„ of the which take ye and eate ye be some of the chief concurrent to the making of the same without the which ther can be no sacramentes And therfore in Greke the sacrament of the body bloude of Christ is called Coenonia a coÌ„munion And lykewyse in the gospel Christ commaunded sayeng Diuidite inter vos diuide it among you Chadsey S Paul calleth it a communicacion Phil. That doth more expressely shewe that there must be a participaon of the sacrament togyther London My lordes I am sory I haue troubled you so long with this obstinate man with whom we can do no good I wil troble you no leÌ„ger now And with that the lords rose vp non of them sayeng any euil word vnto me halfe amased in my iudgement God worke it to good Thus endeth the syxt part of this tragedie the seueÌ„th loke for with Ioye The vij examinacioÌ„ of Iohn Philpot had the .xix. of Nouembre before the bishops of London and Rochester the chaunceler of Lychefeld D. Chadsey master Dee bacheler of diuinitie SYrra come hither How chauÌ„ce you come no soner is it wel done of you to make maister chaunceler and me to tary for you this houre wel sworne my lorde by the fayth of my body halfe an

that mater but I am sure it wylbe layd against me to my preiudice when I come to iudgement Colle Why then you may speake by protestacion phil But what shal my protestacion auayle in a cause of heresie as you cal it yf I speake otherwyse theÌ„ you wil haue me synce that which I spake in the conuocacion house beyng a place priuiledged can not now helpe me London But M. D. Colle maye I not procede agaynst hym for that offence he hath done in my diocese Colle You may cal him before you my lorde yf he be founde in your diocese Phil. But I haue by force ben brought out of myne owne diocese to my lordes require to be iudged of myne owne ordinarie And therfore I knowe M. D. wil not say of his knowledge that your lordship ought to procede agaynst me And here M.D. would saye nothyng worcest Do you not thynke to fynd before my lorde here as good equitie in your cause as before your owne ordinarie Phil. I can not blame my lorde of Londons equitie with whom I thanke his lordship I haue founde more gentlenes synce I came then of myne owne ordinarie I speake it for no flatterie this twelue moneth and thys halfe before who neuer would cal me to answere as his lordship hath done nowe twyse Sed nemo prohibetur vti iure suo But I ought not to be forstalled of my right And therfore I chalenge the same for diuerse other consideracions LondoÌ„ Now you can not say herafter but that ye haue ben gently coÌ„muned withall of my lordes here And yet you wylfull and obstinate in your errour and your owne opinions will not shewe any cause why you wil not come into the vnitie of the churche with vs. Phil. My lordes that I do not declare my mynde according to your expectacion is as I haue sayd because I can not speake without present daunger of my lyfe but rather then you should reporte me by this eyther obstinate or selfe willed without any iuste grouÌ„de whervpon I stande I wyl open vnto you somwhat of my mynde or rather the hole desyring your lordshippes which seme to be the pillers of the churche of Englande to satisfye me in the same And I wil referre al other causes in the which I dissent from you into one or two articles or rather to one which includeth them both in the which yf I can by the scriptures be satisfied at your mouthes I shall as willyngly agree to you as any other in al pointes London These heretikes com alwayes with their yffs as this maÌ„ doeth now sayng yf he caÌ„ be satisfied by the scriptures so that he will allwayes haue this exception I am not satisfied although the mater be neuer so playnly proued agaynst him No proofe but prailyng But wil you promise to be satisfied yf my lordes take summe paynes about you Phil. I saye my lorde I wil be satisfied by the scriptures in that I stande And I processe here before God his eternal sonne Iesus Christ my saueour and the holy gost hys angelles you here present that be Iudges of that I speake that I do not stand in any opinion of wilfulnes or singularitie but only vpon my conscience certaynly informed by Goddes worde from the which I dare not goo for feare of damnacion And this is the cause of myne earnestnes in this behalfe London I will trouble my lordes no longer seing that you wil not declare your mynd Phil. I am about so to do yf yt please your lordship to heare me speake Bath Gyue hym leaue my lorde to speake that he hath to saye Phil. My lordes it is not vnknoweÌ„ to you that the chyef cause why you do count me and suche as I am for heretikes because we be not at vnitie with your churche You saye you are of the true churche And we saye we are of the true churche You say that who is out of your churche is dampned And we thinke veryly on the other syde that yf we departe from the true church wheron we are graffed in Godes worde we should stande in the state of dampnacion Wherfore yf your lordships can bring any better auctorities for your churche than we can do for ours and proue by the scriptures that the church of Rome nowe of the which you are is the true catholike churche as in all your sermons writinges and argumeÌ„tes you do vpholde And that all christeÌ„ persons owght to be ruled by the same vnder payne of daÌ„pnation as you saye and that the same churche as you pretend haue auctoritie to entreprete the scriptures as it semeth her good and that all men are bounde to folowe suche interpretacions only I shal be as conformable to the same church as you maye desire me the which otherwyse I dare not Therfore I require you for Goddes sake to satisfie me in this Cole Yf you staÌ„d vpoÌ„ this point onlye you maye sone be satisfied you list Phil. It is the thing that I require And to this I haue sayd I wil stand referre al other controuersies I stande nowe agaynst you wyl put my hande therto yf you mistrust my worde London I praie you maister Philpot what fayth were you of .xx. yeares ago this man will haue euery yeare a new fayth Phil. My lord to tell you plain I thinke I was of no fayth for I was thaÌ„ a wicked lyuer and knewe not God thaÌ„ as I owght to do God forgyue me London No were that is not soo I am sure you were of some fayth Phil. My lord I haue declared you on my conscience what I than was and iudge of my selfe And what is that to the purpose of the thing I desire to be satisfied of you London Maister Archdeacon Colle I praye you say your mynd to hym Cole What will you saye yf I can proue that it was decreed by a vniuersall counsel in Athanasius tyme that al the christiane church should folowe the determinacion of the churche of Rome but I do not nowe remembre where phil If you master doctor can shewe me the same graunted to the sea of Rome by the auctoritie of the scripture I will gladlye herken therto But I thinke you be not hable to shewe any such thing for Athanasius was precident of Nicene counsell there was no suche thing decreed I am sure Cole Though it were not than yt might be at an other tyme. Phil. I desire to see the profe therof And vpon this maister Harpesfyld ChauÌ„celer to the bishop of London brought in a boke of Ireneus which certayne leaues turned in layd it before the bishops to helpe them in their perplexitie yf it might be the which after the bishops of Bath Glocester had reade together the bishop of Glocester gaue me the booke Glocest Take the booke master Philpot and loke vpon that place and ther may you see howe the churche of Rome is to be folowed of all men Phil. I toke the

waies and let his keper take him away Thus endeth the .vij. parte of this tragedie The next daye in the morning bytyme the bishop sent one of his men vnto me to call me vp vnto his chappel to heare masse The bishops maÌ„ MAister Philpot wher be you Phil. Who is that calleth me B. man My lordes wil is you should ryse and come to heare masse Wil you come o no â–ª phil My stomake is not very good this morning you may tell my lord I am sicke After this the keper was sent to bring me to my lorde The keper Master Philpot you must ryse and come to my lorde Phil. I am at your coÌ„maundemeÌ„t master keper as sone as I can and goyng out of the prisone he asked me sayeng The keper Wil you go to masse phil My stomake is to rawe to disgest suche rawe meates of fleshe bloud and bone this morning After this my keper presented me to the bishop in his hall London Master Philpot I charge you to answere to suche articles as my chaplayne master Dee and my regester haue from me to obiecte against you go and answere them phil My lord Omnia iudicia debent esse publica Aliudgementes ought to be publike Therfore yf your lordship hath any thing to charge me lawfully withall let me be in iudgement lawfully and openly called and I wil answere according to my dewtie otherwise in corners I wil not London Thou art a folishe knaue I see wel Inough Thou shalt answere whether thou wilt or no go thy waies with them I saye Phil. I may wel goo with them at your lordships pleasure but I wil make theÌ„ no further answere then I haue sayd already London No wilt thou knaue Haue him away and set him in the stockes what folishe knaue Phil. In dede my lorde you handle me with others lyke foles and we must be coÌ„tent to be made foles at your haÌ„des stockes and violence is your byshoplyke almose You go about by force in corners to oppresse be ashamed that your doinges should cum to lyght God shorteÌ„ your cruel kingdome for his mercyes sake And I was put by by into the stockes in an house alone seperate from my felowes God be praysed that he hath thought me worthy to suffer any thing for his names sake better it is to syt in the stocks of this world then to sytt in the stockes of a damnable conscience Marke here the proceding Ex officio The next daye after an houre before day the bishop sent for me agayne by the keper Keper MAster Philpot aryse you must come to my lord phil I wonder what my lord meaneth that he sendeth for me thus early I feare he will vse some vyoleÌ„ce towardes me wherfore I praye you make him this answere that yf he sende for me by an order of lawe I will come and answere otherwise synce I am not of his diocese neyther he is myne ordinarie I wil not without I be vyolently constrayned come vnto him Keper I will goo tell my lord what answere you make and so he went away to the bishop and immediatly returned with two of the bishops men sayeng that I must come whether I would or no. Phil. If by violence any of you wil enforce me to goo then must I goo other wise I wil not and therwith one of theÌ„ toke me with force by the arme and led me vp vnto the bishoppes galerye Lond. What thou arte afolyshe knaue in dede thou wilt not come without thou be fett Phil. I am brought in dede my lorde by violence vnto you and your crueltye is such that I am afrayd to come before you I would your lordship would geÌ„tlie procede agaynst me by the lawe London I am blamed of the lords the bishopes for that I haue not dispatched thee er this And in faith I made sute to my lorde cardinal to al the conuocacion house that they would hear ye. And my lorde of Lincolne stode vp sayd that thou wert a frantike felowe a man that would haue the last word And they all haue blamed me because I haue brought the so often before the lordes openly and they saye it is meat and drinke to you to speake in an audience you glorye so of your selfe Wherfore I am commaunded to take a farther order with thee And in good faythe yf thou wilte not relent I will make no farther delaye Mary yf thou wilt be conformable I wil yet forgeue thee all that is paste And shalt haue no hurte for any thing that is alreadye sayd or done Phil. My lorde I haue answered you al ready in this behalfe what I wil do And as for the reporte of maister whyte bishop of LincolnÌ„ I passe not who is knoweÌ„ to be myne enemy for that I beyng archdeacon dyd excoÌ„municate him for preaching naughty doctrine If Christ my master were called a madde maÌ„ it is no maruel though you count me fraÌ„tyke London Haddest not thou a pygge brought thee thother daye with a knyfe in it Wherfore was it I praye thee but to kyl thy selfe Or as it is told me mary and I am couÌ„celled to take hede of the to kyl me but I fear the not I trowe I am able to tread the vnder my fote do the best thou canst Phil. My lorde I can not denye that there was a knyfe in the prgges belye that was brought me But who put him in or for what purpose I knowe not onles it were bicause he that sent the meat thought I was without a knyfe so put him in But other thinges your lordship nedeth not to feare for I was neuer without a knyfe synce I came into prison And touching your owne person you should lyue long yf you should lyue vntyl I would go about to kyl you And I confesse by violence your lordship is hable to ouercoÌ„me me London I charge the answer to myne articles Hold him a boke Thou shalt sweare to answere truly to al such articles as I shal demaunde thee of Phil. I wil first knowe your lordship to be myne ordinarie before I sweare herin London What we shal haue an Anabaptist of thee which thinketh it not lawfull to sweare before a Iudge Phil. My lorde I am no Anabaptist I thinke it lawful to sweare before a coÌ„petent Iudge beyng lawfully required But I refuse to sweare in these causes before your lordship bicause you are not myne ordinarie London I am thyne ordinarie here do pronounce by sentence interrogatory that I am thyne ordinarie and that thou art of my dioces and here he bad cal in mo to beare witnes And I make thee taking one of his seruauÌ„tes by the arme to be my notary And nowe harkeÌ„ to my articles to the which wheÌ„ he had red them he monished me to make answer And said to the keper fet me his felowes I wil make theÌ„ to be witnes against him In the meane while cam in one of the sherifs of LoÌ„doÌ„ whoÌ„

the most enemies of the Gospell I Am amased and do tremble both in body and soule to hear at this daye certen men or rather not men but couered with mannes shape persons of a beastly vnder standing who after so many and manyfolde benefites and graces of our Lorde God and saueour Iesus Christ manyfested to the hole worlde and coÌ„firmed with so euideÌ„t testimonies of the Patriarches Prophetes and Apostles approued by woÌ„derous signes and vndoubted tokens Rom. 1. Hebr. 1. declared to be both God and Man by the spirite of sanctification the eternall sonne of God with power the very expresse ymage of the substaunce of the father and reuealed vnto vs in these later tymes in the fleshe borne of the sede of Dauid in the which he hath taught vs truely and maruelously finished the mysterie of our saluation and is asceÌ„ded in bodye into heauen froÌ„ whence his diuinitie abased him selfe for our glorie and sitteth in equall power at the ryght hande of the father in his euerlasting kingdome notwithstanding are not ashamed to robbe this eternal sonne of God our most merciful saueour of his infinite maiestie and to plucke him out of the glorious throne of his vnspeakable deitie O impietie of all others most detestable O infidelitie more terrible then the palpaple darkenes of Egipt O flaming fyrebrandes of hell as I may vse the termes of the Prophet Esay Esa 7. against suche apostatas was it not ynough for you to be greuous vnto men by so manifolde sectes heresies The Arrians haue manye heresies diuiding your selues froÌ„ Christes true catholike church as neuer hitherto hath ben hearde of any hereticall segregacion but will also be molest vnto my God the eternall sonne of God What hart maye beare suche blasphemye what eye maye quietly beholde suche an enemye of God What membre of Christ maye alowe in any wyse suche a membre of the deuil What Christian may haue felowship with suche ranke Antichristes Who hauyng the zeale of the glorie of God in his hart can not burst out in teares and lamentacions to heare the immortal glorie of the sonne of God trode vnder the fete by the vyle sede of the serpent whose heade by his eternal Godhead he hath beaten downe Gene. 3 and therfore now lyeth byting at his hele lurking in corners but he shal be crushed in peces vnto eternal woo after he hath spewed out al his venome for brighter is the glorie of our God and Christ than it maye be darkened by al the rowte of the prince of darkenes who dwelleth in the lyght which is vnaprocheable although these dead dogges do take vpon them with their corrupt sight to pearce and vlemishe the same to their owne blinding for euer Yf the good king Ezechias after he had heard the blasphemies that Rabsaces vttred against the liuing Lord tare his royal garmentes in peces in testimony of the sorowe he had coÌ„ceyued for the same shall we be stil at the blasphemous barkinges against our Lorde and shewe no token of indignacion for the zeale of his glorie Yf Paule and Barnabas perceyuing the people of Listris Act. 14. to take the honour of God and attributing the same to creatures rent their garmeÌ„tes in signification that we all shoulde declare by some outwarde meanes the lyke sorowe when we heare or see the lyke blasphemie howe maye we with patience abyde to heare the robberie of the maiestie of our Christes equalitie with God Phil. 2. who as saint Paule witnesseth thought it no robberie to be equal with God what faythful seruaunt can be content to heare his maister blasphemed And yf perchaunce he shewe any iuste angre therfore al honest men do beare with his doyng in that behalfe and can not you good christian brethren and systerne beare with me who for the iuste zeale of the glorie of my God and Christ beyng blasphemed by an arrogaunt ignoraunt and obstinatlye blinded Arrian makyng hym selfe equal with Christ sayeng the God was none otherwise in Christ thaÌ„ God was with him makyng him but a creature as he was hym selfe vaunting to be without synne as wel as Christ dyd spit on him The cause why I did spit Partly in declaracion of that sorowe which I had to heare suche a proude blasphemour of our saueour as also to signifie vnto other there present whom he went about to peruert that he was a person to be abhorred of al christians and not to be companied with al. Yf this my fact seme to some that iudge not al thinges according to the spirit of God vncharitablye Yet let them knowe that God who is charitie allowed the same Luke 12. For it is written in the Gospel that Christ came not to set vs at peace with men in the earth but at diuision and that is for his cause and truthe And who so euer wil not abide with Christes churche in the truthe we ought not to shewe the pointes of charitie vnto any suche Math. 12.18 but to take him as an heathen and a publicane Yf any man sayeth S. IohnÌ„ bring not vnto you this doctrine which I haue taught you saye not God spede 2. Ioh. 1. vnto him for who so sayeth God spede vnto suche a one is partaker of his euel doinges Consider you therfore that haue loue and felowship wit suche that the same dampnacion shal fal vpon you therfore as is dewe to wicked heretikes God wil haue vs to put a difference betwixt the cleane vncleane 2. Cor. 6. and to touche no vncleane persones but to go out from them And what is more vncleane than infidelitie who is a greater infidele thaÌ„ the Arrian who spoyleth his redemer of his honour and maketh him but a creature What felowship is there betwene light and darkenes what concord can ther be betwene Christ Belial Neuer was there more abominable Belials than this Arrians be The ignoraunt Belials worshipped the creatures for the creatour But these peruerse Arrians do worship Christ who is the creatour of al thiÌ„ges Gal. 1. Rom. 9. 1. Ioh. 5. by whom as S. Paule testifieth both in heauen and in earth al thinges visible and inuisible were made who is God blessed for euer and as S. IohnÌ„ witnesseth very God and lyfe euerlasting but as a creature lyke vnto themselues what christiaÌ„ tonge may cal him to be a good man that denyeth Christ to be the author and worker of al goodnes as the Arrian dothe Wo be vnto them sayeth the prophete that call euil good and good euel Iudge therfore vprightly ye children of men condempne not the iuste for the vnrighteous sake neyther by any meanes seme to allowe either in worde or dede the wicked who saye ther is no God Iohan. 5. for they that honour not the sonne honour not the father and he that hathe not the soÌ„ne hath not the father Iohan. 14 And yf we beleue in God we must also beleue in Christ for the

thinges visible inuisible do coÌ„sist haue their beyng and lyfe In the which beleue we were baptised by the institution of Christ in to the name of the father the sonne the holy Goost Mat. 28. And shal we now begin to stande in doubt of this most firme fayth the which froÌ„ the beginning hath ben coÌ„firmed besydes the vndoubted testimonies of the scriptures with the precious bloud of an infinit nomber of martirs and coÌ„fessours It is no maruaile thoughe these Arrians denye the holy goost to be God who refuse the testimonie that he made of him selfe in fiery tongues to the primatiue churche Act. 1. Math. 3. and before that in the likenes of a Doue at the baptisme of Christ They must nedes denye the spirite of truth who be led by the spirite of errour vnder the colour of Godlynes denyeng their true sanctifier instructour whom Christ euidently taught to be an other comfortor besydes him The holy goost is an other comforter besides Christ And therfore to th ende he should so be beleued appeared visibly as Christ dyd but as their corrupt faces bashe not to denye the eternall sonne of God so are they not ashamed to denye the holye Goost to be God The Arrians are past shame their forehead is lyke the forehead of an hore hardened with counterfaited hypocrisie styffnecked wretches they are that wyll not yeld to the truth though it be neuer so manyfestly layde before their face they haue sworne to runne after their master the deuil wtout staye to draw with theÌ„ as many as they can in the which they are very diligent The Lorde confounde them the Lorde conserue his electe from their dampnable poyson the Lorde open al christian eyes to beware of them The Lorde gyue al his churche an vniforme zeale minde to abhorre them to cast faith froÌ„ them You that be of the truth haue any zeal of God in you stere it vp bynde it against these enemyes of our lyuyng God which is the Father the Sonne the holy Goost to whome be al honour praise and glorie for euer Canst thou be angred with thy brother beyng lawfully called to be a mynister in Christes church and to be a teacher in the same for spitting at an obstinate aduersarie of Christ refusyng to obey the truthe and declare no maner of indignacion against the Arrian the thefe that robbeth thy God of his honour Doth the iniurie of the Arrian more offende thee than the defence of thy redemer please the Art thou not ashamed rather to take part with an Arrian than with a true christian Thou wouldest seme to haue charitie by bearing with the wicked and contrarie to al charitie thou backbitest thy brother for doyng that which thou shouldest rather do than to haue any familiaritie with thee Yf thou dwel within the churche of Christ what hast thou to do with them that be without Which go about nothing els but to buyld a new Babilon and to destroye al the Godly order of the Gospel I tel thee plaine that I am nothyng of that face but gyue God thankes that I heare euil for wel doyng Yf I should please meÌ„ I could not please God I maruaile that there should be so litle zeale in a true christian hart that it can seme to take the part of an ArriaÌ„ We can not scrue Christ and Baal how long wil meÌ„ halt on both sydes let your halting be healed Yf ye be vnfainedly of the truth abyde in the truthe let al your wyl be toward the ê“fessours of the truth in the vnitie of Christes church least you might appeare to be scatterers with heretiks rather thaÌ„ gatherers together with Christ Do ye not se what a rable of newe founde scaterers ther be such a sorte as neuer at ones hath beÌ„ heard of in one realme the one contrarye to the other The deuil hath shakeÌ„ out his bagge of heresies against the gospell So that the deuel myght seme to haue powred out al his poysons at ones against the gospel And wyl you that glorie of the truth go about by worde dede helpe to maintayne any suche in their headdy errours he that toucheth pitche can not chose but defyle his fyngers therwith Be not deceaued sayeth S. Paule for wicked talke corrupteth good maners 1. Cor. 14 Therfore watche ye righteously and synne not for many therbe that haue not the knowlage of God I speake it to your shame 2. Tim. 2. Saint Paule willeth vs to be more circuÌ„spect in talking or acquainting our selues with suche then men at this daye be to their incorragemeÌ„t strenghtnyng in their errour The wordes of an heretike as he sayeth in an other place eateth lyke a canker 2. Tim. 2 And therfore wrytyng vnto Tyte Tit. 3. he commaundeth al Christian persones to auoyde an heretike after once or twyse warnyng knowing that such a one is peruerted and synneth and is dampned by his owne iudgement And to the Thessalonians he also sayeth 2. Thes 3. we commaunde you in the name of our Lorde Iesus Christ that you wythdrawe your selfes froÌ„ euery brother that walketh inordinatly not according to the institutioÌ„ which they haue receaued of vs. There can be no felowship betwixt fayth and infidelitie he that is not with Christ is his enemy Luke 11. he that is an enemie to the vnitie and peace of Christes churche he maye not be coupled with vs. And Salomon rendreth a cause why Prou. 16. A peruerse man in his mouthe doth carye perdicion and in his lippes hydeth fyer Agayne he sayeth an euil man obeyeth the tounge of the vnrighteous Prou. 17 but the Iuste harketh not to lyeng lippes Also Ecclesiasticus warneth sayeng Eccle 28. Hedge thyne cares wyth thornes and do not heare a wycked tounge This haue I touched to gyue you warning howe to behaue your selues with the Arrians and other sismatikes and heretikes whome al godlie ordre and good learning displeaseth the which yf our Christian brethren and systerne did well way and folow there wolde not be so many stoute heretikes as there be I doubt that the heretikes be better prouided for than the poore faithfull afflicted flocke of Christ If you heare that ther is conteÌ„tion betwene vs and theÌ„ that be in prison maruaile not therfore neyther let your mindes be alienated from the truth any thing therby for as it is writteÌ„ it is necessary the heresies should be 1. Cor. 11. that the elect might be tryed Christ and Antichrist can neuer agree 1. Ioh. 2. And as S. Iohn saith Antichrist is come and there is nowe many Antichristes they ar gon out from vs such as were non of vs for if they had they wold haue coÌ„tinued with vs by thys sayeng of S. Iohn we maye wel trye and knowe all the rowte of Antichristes generacion suche they be as breake the vnitie of Christes church neither abide in the

them that they be not a shameful slauÌ„der to the gospel as already they haue begon to be to the great grief of al faithful hartes Nowe wil I turne to the Arrian agayne who transfygureth himselfe into an Angel of light as Sathan oftentymes dothe that he myght vnder the cloke of holynes more myghtely deceaue the simple folke The Arrians comer fait holines And verely he is a deuil incarnate he hath a name that he lyueth in dede is dead Iudge them not by their outwarde shewe wherin they extoll them selues wonderfully Apoc. 3. Iohan. 7. and dare simple mens eyes lyke larkes For our maister Christ prophecied of suche false hypocrites to come gyuyng vs warning to beware of suche as preteÌ„de the simplicitie of a shepe outwardly Mat. 7. and yet inwardly are rauenyng wolues deuouryng the soules and bodies of meÌ„ vnto perdition Act. 20. S. Paule departing from Ephesus sayd there shoulde ryse vp men speakyng peruerse thinges that they myght make scolars to ruÌ„ne after them S. Peter setteth me fourthe these Arrians lyuely in their colours 2. Pet. 2. and in maner pointeth at theÌ„ with his fingre there hath beÌ„ sayeth he false prophetes among the people as there shal be among you false teachers which priuely shal bryng in pernitious sectes yea denyers of the Lord who hath bought them procuryng to them selues swift destruction and many wil folowe their poysons by whoÌ„ the waye of truth shal be euil spokeÌ„ of c. who be suche Iudases vnto Christ as these Arrians which ceasse not to betraye him of his eternal deitie who slaunder more the truthe than these denyeng Iesus to be the God of truthe These be they of whome the Apostle Iude speaketh which transpose the grace of our God into wanton ymaginacioÌ„s of their owne braynes and deny God who is the only Lorde and our Lorde Iesus Christ My mynde therfore sayeth he is to put you in remembrauÌ„ce for asmuche as ye ones knowe this that the Lorde after that he had deliuered the people out of Egipt destroyed theÌ„ which beleued not The Angels also which kept not their fyrst estate but left their owne habitacion he hath reserued in euerlasting chaynes vnder darkenes vnto that iudgemeÌ„t of the great day c. EueÌ„ so shal the Lord destroy these vnbeleuing Arrians whom he did ones through baptisme delyuer froÌ„ the bondage of syn bycause they haue forsaken the deitie of Christ their original iustice coÌ„pared hym vnreuerently vngodly to them selues to whom eternal fyer belongeth which is prepared for the deuil for these ArriaÌ„s his chief angels Worse they are thaÌ„ the deuils which in the .8 chap. of S. Mathew did acknowlage him to be the eternal sonne of God in the actes of the Apostles they confessed Paule and Barnabas Act. 16. which were that seruauÌ„tes disciples of Christ to be the seruauÌ„tes of god most high The deuils in S. Iames do beleue treÌ„ble at the maiestie of Christ Iames. â— The Centurion in the .28 of S. Ma. acknowledged him verely to be the son of God But these helhoundes are offended at his eternall maiestie and would haue him no better than them selues by creation Is this your profession of Christ O you Antichristes doth your fayned holines tend to this ende to dishonour him that is most holiest and one God with the father and the holy Goost of al holynes O you painted hipocrites dothe your counterfaited loue and dissemblyng patiens go about to abase the eternal loue of God his beloued sonne O you haters of God put of your shameles visardes o you vnbeleuing Arrians put of your Angelical infidelitie walke as you be O you deceauers of the people you say ye se and yet be altogether blynded for he that seeth not Christ to be the euerlasting sonne of God seeth no lyght for he is the very lyght Iohan. 1 by whome al men be illyghtened Seke therfore of him your eye salue lest in your blyndnes ye stomble shortly to eternal darknes 1. Iohan. 1 O what huge blyndnes are they in which saye they haue no synne in theÌ„ as S. IohnÌ„ playnlye affirmeth that who so euer sayeth he hath no synne is a lyar And Dauid sayeth that al men be lyars Psal 116. Esay 67. The ê“phet Esay sayeth that our ryghteousnes is lyke the clothe of a monstruous womaÌ„ Shal we beleue lyars before the faythful seruauÌ„tes of God Yf they knowe not them selues is it any maruail though they knowe not God He that is vnfaythful in a lytle wil be also vnfaythfull in muche he that is not ashamed to belye himselfe it is no wonder though he be so bolde to belye an other better than him self Howe may a purblinded man behold the brightnes of the sunne who is so sore diseased as he that beyng verie sycke beleueth that he is hole Who knoweth not our fleshe as long as it is in this corruptible lyfe to be a loÌ„pe of synne Yea and who fealeth not the lawe of synne which is in our membres styll to stryue against the lawe of our mynde Rom. 7. 2. Cor. 12. S. Paule who was taken vp into the thirde heauen and sawe suche thinges as is not lawful for maÌ„ to speake of whose godly lyfe surmouÌ„teth the rable of these ArriaÌ„s and yet he durst not be so bolde as to compare in puritie with Christ neither to affirme that he was without synne but acknowlaged synne to be in his body and desyred that it might be taken froÌ„ him to whome it was not graunted but that it should remayne with hym for his spiritual exercise and by grace to ouercome the same that where synne haboundeth there grace should super abounde Why do ye clense the outwarde sydes of your stynkyng vessels O you impure glorifiers of your selues and se not the inward abominacion which is in you Ye saye ye be swete before the Lorde and beholde you stynke before the face of the hole worlde but specially before God and al his saintes for howe can God but abhorre al suche as do take away the swete sauour of his diuine nature froÌ„ his sonne and to attribute that excellency to them selues which is not in them Gen. 6. Hath not God himselfe witnessed of mans impuritie sayeng that al the thoughtes of man be only prone vnto euil Is not this inclination to euil which lurketh in our fleshe sinne and the natural corruption which we sucked from our fyrst pareÌ„tes learne to knowe thy selfe better than shalt thou iudge more vprightly of the soÌ„ne of God clense thyne inwarde filthynesse and synne by an humble and repentauÌ„t confession of thyne owne vnworthinesse and wickednes towardes thy redemer and than thyne outward shewe of holynes myght be somwhat worthe which nowe is double deuilishnes for want of true knowledge both of thy selfe of fayth to God Knowe thyne owne pouertie and miserie and come to thy saueour which is ryche with God and

light The Arrians lurke in corners and be coy to shew ther faith lest his doynges should be reê“ued By this ye may know that these Arrians with other heretikes are borne of that prince of darkenes who walke continually vnder cloudes with great difficultie will shew them selues onles it be to some simple personnes whom they thinke apt to be deceaued Therfore turne your eares froÌ„ them al ye that be vnlearned when they endeuour to depraue your faith with an other Christ and meanes of saluacioÌ„ thaÌ„ you haue heard before of And byd them fyrst shew their new founde saith to the elders and ministers of Christes trew church and afterwarde yf they allow the same as sound and pure you will gladlie harken vnto them otherwise not for no ê‘son ought to take vpoÌ„ him the office of a doctour except he be called thervnto by the ordinarie alowauÌ„ce of the church of God Rom. 10. as S. Paule testifieth how shal they preache except they be seÌ„t Marc. 4. Therfore Christ in S Mark biddeth al ê‘soÌ„nes take hede what they heare There are innumerable sorts of heresies entred into the world so that we may iustly gather these to be the euill daies that Christ spake of before Math. 24 in the which yf it were possible the very electes should be deceaued be ye therfore strong in your faith grouÌ„ded vpon the rocke vnmoueable what soeuer storme come vpon you or mystie winde blowe against you Many inordinat personnes of this tyme do runne Iere. 23. whom the Lord hath not sent as hieremie sayeth and saye the Lorde sayeth thus thus where as the Lorde neuer spake any suche thing as they of their phantastical brayne do ymagine and thorough ignorauÌ„cy do misconstre to deceyue others and themselues also Therfore the Lorde biddeth vs not to harken to their wordes Proue these wandering glittering spirites by this rule which I haue tolde you and than be you assured ye can not be deceaued though there aryse ten thousande more heresies thaÌ„ there be It maye trouble an inconstaunt mynde to se so many at once but he that knoweth the deuils diligence to deface Christes Gospel maye not wonder therat for he knoweth his tyme is but short and seeth the gospel so triumphe thorough the death of faythful martirs that he is wood therat therfore worketh his vttermost trusteth to make some stoute arrogaunt martirs for the stabishement increase of his kingdome that vnder the name of christ as he hath had in tymes past that the simple people might be brought in a mamering of their faith stande in doubte whome they myght beleue that therby he might more lyghtly seduce them into his snares Beholde I haue gyuen you warnyng that ye be not deceaued by these wanderyng starres and emptie cloudes which nowe a dayes are caried about with so vncertayne wyndes that a man can not tel where to fynde them neyther they themselues knowe from whence they came neither whither they would They wil entre into heauen by the wyndow and not by the dore and therfore lyke erraunt theues shal be cast out Beware of curiosite my dere brethren and systerne for she is an vnsatiable beast and the cause of muche infidelitie and wyckednes she is alwayes desirous of alteration to heare newes and can not be permanent on one sure grounde Dyna as it is wrytten in the Genesis beyng ful of curiositie Gene. 34. and desyrous to see the women of a straunge countrey was rauished lost her virginitie and was the destruction of Sichem Dauid was curious to behold the beautie of Bethzabe 2. Reg. 11. and became therby an adulterer a murtherer was the cause of many thousandes destruction 2. Reg. 24. by the curiouse nombring of his people Therfore of experieÌ„ce he geueth good counsel sayeng in the psalmes turne awaye thyne eyes that they se not vanitie Turne I saye awaye from these heretikes shewe not them a cheareful countenaunce lest they receyue an incouragement therby to wynne the vnto them and thou by curiositie be entangled thorough their hipocrisie and peruerse talke As many as abode in the Arke of Noe were not drowned by the flood of Noe. Euen so as many as abyde in the true church of Christ shall receyue no hurte by all the blustering and corrupt waters which the dragoÌ„ that persecuteth the church into wildernesse dothe in thapocalips cast out after her to the ende to drowne her therwith Apoca. 12 You that staÌ„de in doubt of any thyng by the suggestion of these newe founde heretikes runne to the pure catholike churche of Christ for your sure instructioÌ„ which praysed be God at this daye dothe gloriouslye appeare and shyne spyte of the gates of hell in all Germany and in the borders of Fraunce at Geneue and in the kyngdomes of Denmarke and Pole besydes that whiche of late ye haue sene in your owne countrey in Englande now by the wyl of God vnder affliction and persecution aswel for our synnes as for the trial of the people of God for as an auncient father S. Ciprian sayeth He that hath not the churche for his mother hathe not God for his father we haue but one mother sayeth Salomon in his Ballets Cant. 6. and she coueteth to gather vs vnder her winges lyke a louyng heÌ„ne her chekins and yf we abide there we are assured from al the rauening vermyne of heretikes and though there shal fal on euery syde of thee milliaÌ„s yet shall they not aproche nere vnto thee But yf after curiositie thou go out astraye some Kyte or other will snatche thee vp to the prince of the ayre from where thy fal wil be great Yf thou wilt be assured of the eternal kingdome of God be stable in thy faith flee from sectes and heresyes abyde in the vnitie of Christes spouse his true churche Remembre that in olde tyme it was forbydden the people of God to mary with any foreyn nacioÌ„ that was not of the house of Israel in significacioÌ„ that the church of God should neuer ioyne them selues with suche as be of a straunge religioÌ„ and of hereticall opinions contrary the catholike faith cursed is he saith Hieremie that dothe the worke of the lorde negligentlie and with drawith his swerd from blood Iere. 48. In the lawe he is commaunded to be stoned that goeth about to turne vs froÌ„ the lyuing Lord Gent. 13 and to moue vs to worship creatures for the creatour and that the same should cast the first stone at him whom he went about to peruert And what do these Arrians els go about but to wil vs to worshippe their new founde Christ whom they affirme to be but a creature in place of our true Christ the eternall sonne of God our creatour redemer and gouernour who is God to be praised honoured with the father and the holy goost world without ende The Prophet saith in the psalmes there must be no new God among Goddes people but if Christ shoulde be as they say but a made and appoincted God of the father as princes of the earthe be called Gods theÌ„ should he be a new God and so by the worde of God not to be taken of vs for God neyther to be worshipped or called vppon Iere. 17. for as the Prophet Ieremy testifieth cursed is the person which putteth his confidens in man and setteth fleshe to be his strenght These wicked Arrians are worse than the Iewes for they were offended with Christ whom they toke but for a creature for saieng he was the sonne of God But the Arrians blinder than the Iewes taking him for God would haue him to be onlye a creature lyke to them selfes in all poinctes and not very God of Goddes substaÌ„ce They make the Iewes more ryghteous than Christ and do iustifie them for crucifieng of him for the chieffe cause why they crucified him was as it doth appeare by S. Iohn bicause he made him selfe equall with God being but a maÌ„ as they toke him to be onely What ChristiaÌ„s eares do not glome at this great impiety who hauing any zeale of God wil not cry out ah deuil ah Lucefers brood ah Marathans cursed of God vntil his commiÌ„g wo be to the Arius the father of this wicked progeny woo be vnto you vile childerne folowers of his horrible impietie God of his mercy turne froÌ„ you suche as of ignorauncy simplicitie be deceaued but you that be arrogant vncurable in your blasphemy The lord for his glory sake and for example to others to beware of suche detestable impietie consume you with fyer froÌ„ heaueÌ„ as he did Chore Dathan and Abiron let the grounde oh lord open and let hem go downe alyue vnto hell let them be put out of the boke of lyfe and let them not be reckoned amoÌ„g the righteous let theÌ„ haue thy traitour Iudas rewarde let theÌ„ breake a sonder in the middest let their bowelles gushe out to their shame for euer let their guttes issue out behinde as Arrius guts did let them die in their owne dong with their father and be abhorred of al the world for euer let their porcion be with Zodome and Gomor let their stinking smoke be done out neuer let the iust reioyce when they shall see the reuengaunce of the glory of Christ let them praise him one God with the father the holy goost for euer and euer AMEN FINIS Vincit qui patitur

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