acceptable because they were not in al poīts done according to Goddes worde Wherfore except blessing be made after the worde which is a dewe thankes geuyng for our redēption 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 cōmaunded 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 nōber 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 sacramēt 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 spokē by the priest only do make the sacramēt 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 thē 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 sacramēt 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 graūt 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 consecraciō spokē 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 cōsidered 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 instituciō 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 ordinaūce 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 capō 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 sacramēt 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 commēding or discōmēding do but declare what they are But the sacramentes be to be cōsidered according to the word which Christ spake of thē 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 cōmunion 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 lēger 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 seuēth loke for with Ioye The vij examinaciō 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 chaūce 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
before the lordes of the Quenes maiesties councel prudentlye and to take hede what I sayde And thus he pretēded to gyue me coūcel 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 stād 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 foūd you yet so tractable as I would wysshe Wherfore now I haue desired these honorable lordes of the tēporaltie of the Quenes Maiesties coūcel who haue takē paynes with me this daye I thāke thē therfore to heare you what you cā 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 cōformable to the Quenes maiesties proceadinges you shall finde as muche fauour for your deliueraūce as you cā 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 thāke 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 bē 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 presēs of others his felowships learned elders in the hearing of the laytie where after the iudgemēt of Goddes worde declared with the assēt of other bishops cōsent of the people he was cōdēpned for an heretike or absolued And the secōd 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 foūde with my lordes of the clergie God graūt I may haue at last the iudgemēt of Goddes worde cōcerning the same London Master Philpot I praye you er you go any further tell my lordes here plaīly whether you were by me or by my procuremēt cōmitted to prison or not And whether I haue shewed you any crueltie sythē 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 questiōs thē furth procede to the mater Howe saye you were you imprisoned by my lorde or no cā you finde any faulte since with his cruell vsing of you phil I cā 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 bē 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 conuocaciō house agayne the sacramēt 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 parliamēt house ought to be a place of fre speche for al mē 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 iudgemēts which be of the pliamēt house whether of right I ought to be empeched therfore sustain the losse of my liuīg 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 tēporaltie assembled together Ryche Yea that is mēt of the spirituall lordes of the vpper house wynsor In dede the conuocation house is called together by one wryt of the sōmons 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 spokē amisse do declare nowe that you are sorye therfore London My lordes he hath spokē 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 sacramēt 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 sacramētes to be but bare signes Howe say you declare vnto my lordes here whether you do alowe the thing it selfe in the sacramēt or no Phil. I do confesse
departed by my lordes regester I was brought to his cellar dore where I dranke a good cuppe of wine my lordes chaplain master Cosyn folowed me taking acquaintauÌ„ce sayeng that I was welcome wished that I would not be singular Phil. I am wel taught the contrarie by SalomoÌ„ sayeng Vae soli Wo be vnto him that is alone After that I was caried to my lordes cole house againe where I with my sixe felowes do rowse together in the strawe as chearfully we thanke God as other do in their beddes of downe Thus for the thyrde fitte The examinacioÌ„ of maister Iohn Phylpot had in the archdeacons house of LoÌ„don the 〈◊〉 day of October before the bishops of LoÌ„don Bathe worcester and Glocester MAster Phylpot yt hath pleased my lordes to take paynes hereto daye to dyne with my pore archdeacon Naye your cousyn ArchediacoÌ„ and you bothe bastardes and .ij. priestes sonnes and in the dinner tyme it chaunced vs to haue communication of you And you were pitied here of many that knewe you in the new college in Oxford And I also do pytie your case because you seme vnto me by the talke I had with you the other night to be learned And therfore nowe I haue sent for you to com before them that yt might not be sayd herafter that I had so many learned byshopes at my house and yet would not vouchesafe them to talke with you And at my request I thaÌ„ke theÌ„ they are coÌ„tented so to do Now therfore vtter your mynde frely you shal with al fauour be satisfied I am sorye to see you lye in so euel a case as you do and would fayne you should do better as you maye yf you lust Bath My lordes here haue not sent for you to fawne vpoÌ„ you but for charities sake to exhort you to coÌ„me in to the right catholike waye of the churche worcest Before he beginneth to speake yt is best that he calleth to God for grace and to praye that yt myght please God to open hys hart that he maye conceyue the truth phil With that I fell downe vpon my knees before them and made my prayer on this maner Almyghtie God which art the geuer of al wisdome and vnderstanding I beseche the of thyne infinite goodnes and mercy in Iesus Christ to gyue me most vile sinner in thy sight the spirite of wisdome to speake and make answere in thy cause that it maie be to the contentacion of the hearers before whom I stand And also to my better vnderstanding yf I be deceiued in any thing London Nay my lorde of Worcester you did not well to exhorte hym to make any prayer For this is the thing they haue a singular pride in that they can ofteÌ„ make their vayne prayers in the which they glorie moche For in this point they are moche like to certayne arraÌ„t heretikes of whom Plinie maketh mentioÌ„ that dyd dayly syng â—n eâ—uâ—anoâ— hymnos prayse vnto God before the dawnyng of the daye phil My lord God make me and all you here pÌ„sent suche heretykes as those were that soÌ„g those mornyng hymnes for they were ryght Christians with whom the tyraÌ„nes of the world weare offended for theyr well doing Bath Procede to that he hath to saye he hath prayed I caÌ„ not tell for what London Saye on master Phylpot my lordes wyll gladly heare you Phil. I haue my lordes beÌ„ this twelue moneth and an halfe in prison without any iust cause that I knowe and my liuing taken from me without any law ful ordre And nowe brought contrary to ryght from myn owne territorie and ordinarie into an other mans iurisdiction I know not whie Wherfore if your lordships can burden me with any euill done I stand here before you to purge me of the same And if none suche thing may be iustlye layed to my charge I desyre to be released of this wrongfull trouble London Ther is none here goeth about to trouble you but to do you good yf we can For I promise you ye weare sent hither to me without my knowledge Therfore speake your conscience without any feare Phil. My lord I haue learned to answere in matters of religion in Ecclesia legittime vocatus In the congregacion being ther to lawfully called but nowe I am not lawfully called neyther ys here a iust congregacion wher I owght to answere London In dede this maÌ„ tolde me the last tyme I spake with him that he was a lawer And would not vtter his conscience in maters of faith onlesse yt were in the heariÌ„g of the people wher he might speake to vayne glorie Phil. My Lorde I said not I was a lawer neither do I arrogate to my selfe that name although I was once a nouice in the same wher I learned some thyng for myne owne defence when I am callyd in Iudgement to answere to any cause and wherby I haue ben taught not to put my selfe further indaunger then I nede and so farre am I a lawer and no farther Bath Yf you wil not answere to my lordes request you seme to be a wilfull man in your opinion Phil. My lord of LondoÌ„ is not mine ordinarie before whome I am bounde to answere in this behalfe as master D. Cole which is a lawier can wel tel you by the lawe And I haue not offended my lord of London wherfore he should call me London Yes I haue to laye to your charge that you haue offended in my diocese by speaking agaynst the blessed sacrament of the altar and therfore I may call you and procede agaynst you to punishe you by the lawe Phil. I haue not offended in your diocese for that which I spake of the sacrament was in Paules churche in the coÌ„uocation house which as I vnderstaÌ„d is a peculiar Iurisdiction belonging to the deane of Paules and therfore is counted of your lordshipes diocese but not in your diocese London Is not paules churche in my diocese Well I wot it cost me a good deale of mony by the yere the leading therof Phil. That maye be yet be exempted from your lordships iurisdiccion And albeit I had so offended in the place of your diocese yet I ought by the lawe to be sent to myne Ordinarie yf I require it and not to be punished by you that are not myne ordinarie And already as I haue tolde you I haue ben conuented of myne Ordinarie for this cause which you go about to enquire of me London How saye you M. doctor Colle maye not I procede against hym by the lawe for that he hath done in my diocese Colle Yea further him to the fyre Me thinketh M. Philpot nedeth not to stande so muche with your lordship in that point as he dothe sythen you seke not to hynder him but to further hym Therfore I thynke it best that he go to the matter that is layde agaynst hym of the conuocacion and make no longer delaye Phil. I would willynglye shewe my mynde of
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 mā 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 ▪ 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 cōmaundemēt 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 thē 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 cōtent to be made foles at your hādes 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 shortē 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 vyolēce 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 thē 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 gētlie 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 Lincoln̄ I passe not who is knowē to be myne enemy for that I beyng archdeacon dyd excōmunicate him for preaching naughty doctrine If Christ my master were called a madde mā it is no maruel though you count me frātyke 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 coūcelled 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 ouercōme 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 cōpetent 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 seruaūtes by the arme to be my notary And nowe harkē to my articles to the which whē he had red them he monished me to make answer And said to the keper fet me his felowes I wil make thē to be witnes against him In the meane while cam in one of the sherifs of Lōdō whō
vpper hande And in the Apocalyps you may se it was prophesied that the true church should be dryuen into corners and into wyldernes and suffer great persecution Morgan A are you seen in the Apocalyps ther is many strange thinges phil If I tell you the trueth which you are not hable to refel beleue it and daly not out so earnest maters Me thinke you are liker a scoffer in a play Morgan ryghtly painted out than a reasonable doctor to instruct a man you are bare arced and daunse naked in a net and yet you se not your owne nakednes Morgan What I pray you be not so quicke with me Let vs talke a lytle more coldly together phil I will talke with you as myldly as you can desyre if you wil speake learnedly and charytably But yf you goo about with tauntes to delude the truthe I will not hyde it from you Morgan Why will you not submit your iudgement to the learned men of this realme phil Bycause I see they can bring no good ground wher vpon I may with a good conscience settle my faythe more suerly then on that which I am now grounded by Goddes manifest word Morgan No do that is maruel that so many learned men should be deceaued phil It is no maruel by S. Paule for he sayth that not many wyse neither many learned after the world be called to the knowlage of the gospel Morgan Haue you thē alone the spirit of God and not we phil I say not that I alone haue the spirit of God but as many as abide in the true faith of Christ haue the spirit of God aswell as I. Morgan Howe know you that you haue the spirit of God Phil. By the fayth of Christ which is in me Morgan A by faith do you so I wene it be the spirit of the butterye which your felowes haue had that haue ben burned before you who were dronke the night before they went to theyr death I wene went dronken vnto it Phil. It appeareth by your communicacion that you are better acquainted with the spirit of the buttrye then with the spirite of God wherfore I must nowe tell the thou paynted wall and hypocryte in the name of the lyuing Lord whose truth I haue told the that God shal rayne fyer and brymstone vpon suche scorners of his word and blasphemers of his people as thou art Morgan What you rage now Phil. Thy folishe blasphemies haue compelled the spirite of God which is in me to speake that which I haue said vnto the thou enemy of all righteousnes Morgan Why do you iudge me so phil By thyne owne wicked wordes I iudge of the thou blind and blasphemous doctor for as it is written by thy wordes thou shalt be iustified and by thy wordes thou shalt be condempned I haue spoken on Goddes behalfe now haue I done with the. Morgan Why then I tell the Philpot that thou arte an heretyke and shalt be burnt for thy heresy afterwards goo to hell fyer phil I tell the thou hypocryte that I passe not this for thy fyer and fagots nether I thanke God my lord stand in feare of the same my faythe in christ shall ouercom them But the hell fyer which thou thretnest to me is thy porcyon and is prepared for thee oneles thou spedely repent and for such hypocrites as thou art Morgan What you speake vpō wyne thou hast typled well to day by lykelyhode phil So fayd the cursed generation to the Apostles being replenished with the holy gost and speaking the wonderous workes of God they sayd they were dronke whē they had nothing els to say as thou doest nowe Morgan Why I am hable to answere the ywis I trowe phil So it semeth with blasphemies lyes Morgan Nay euen with learning say what thou canst philpot That appeared well at my disputacion in the conuocation house where thou tokest vpon thee to answere those few argumentes I was permitted to make and yet wast not hable to answere one but in thyne answeres dyddest fomble and wonder that the hole house was ashamed of thee And thy fynall conclusion of all thyne answers was that thou couldest answere me yf I were in the scoles at Oxforde Morgan What dyd I so thou belyest me Phil. I do not belye the the boke of the report of the disputation beareth record therto and all that were present can tel yf they list thou saydest so And I tel thee playne thou arte not hable to answer the spirite of truthe which speaketh in me for the defence of Christes true religion I am hable by the myght ther of to dryue thee rounde about this galarie before me And yf it would please the Quenes maiestie and her counsell to heare thee me I would make thee for shame shrynke behynde the dore Morgan Yea would you so lo phil Thou hast the spirite of illusion sophisirie which is not hable to counteruayle the spirite of truthe Thou arte but an Asse in the true vnderstanding of thinges pertaynyng vnto God I cal the asse not in respecte of malice but in that thou kickest agaynst the truthe art voyde of all godly vnderstandyng not hable to answere to that thou bragest in Morgan Why haue I not answered thee in al thinges thou hast sayd vnto me I take them to recorde Phil. Aske of my felow whether I be a these Cosins Hearke he maketh vs al theues phil You knowe the phrase of that Prouerbe that like wil holde with lyke And I am sure you wil not iudge with me against him speake I neuer so true And in this sense I speake it the strongest answer that he hath made agaynst me is that you wil burne me Morgan Why we do not burne you it is the temporal mē that burne you and not we phil Thus you would as Pylate dyd washe your hādes of al your wicked doynges But I praye you inuocate seculare brachium Cal vpon the secular power to be executioners of your vnryghteous iudgementes And haue you not a rytle in your lawe De haeruicis comburendis for to burne heretikes Harpes I haue heard you both a good while reason together and I neuer heard so stoute an heretike as you are maister Philpot. Cosins Neither I in al my lyfe Phil. You are not hable to proue me an heretike by one iot of Goddes worde Harpes You haue the spirite of arrogācye I wil reason with you no more And so he was departing and M. Cosins also And with that the bishop and Christoforson came in agayne sayd London M. D. howe dothe this man and your agree Morg. My lorde I do aske him where his churche was fyfty yeares ago London Are you not halfe agreed as one man sayd ones to tway partes of whom the one was equally disagreyng from the other Crhisto My lorde it is but foly to reason with him any further your lordeship shal but lose tyme for he is incurable London Wel then let his keper haue hym
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