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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08206	The plea of the innocent wherein is auerred; that the ministers & people falslie termed puritanes, are iniuriouslie slaundered for enemies or troublers of the state. Published for the common good of the Church and common wealth of this realme of England as a countermure against all sycophantising papsts, statising priestes, neutralising atheistes, and satanising scorners of all godlinesse, trueth and honestie. Written: by Iosias Nichols, a faithfull minister of the Ghospell of Christ: and an humble seruant, of the English Church.	Nichols, Josias, 1555?-1639.	1602 (1602)	STC 18541; ESTC S101326	105,186	267

the true iustifying faith of Christ repentance towards God and also did euer and anon make plaine demonstration of the Queenes Maiesties lawfull authoritie and of the Popes most wicked and abhominable vsurpatiō without all questiō the chiefest enemies to our peace and to her Maiesties safetie would bee so diminished dispersed put downe that wee coulde not heare of so many practises and wicked treacheries as we doe and in euerie corner the people woulde cry out vpon them Ministers hated for doing good bewray them and scorne them And this is the cause that the Papistes Popish abetoures doe make so many grieuous accusations against vs and procure so many troublers all vnder colour of fauouring the Queenes proceedinges whith they hate that so the faith of Christ being but little hard of and her Maiesties supremacie but little spoken of both the glorie of Christ and our Queenes honour might bee forgotten and the deuill and Antichrist steale into the hartes of her M. poore seduced people I woulde it were considered how little her Maiesties authoritie and the iustification of Christ by a greate many hath bene taught these 17. or 18. yeares Therefore by iust plaine experience I may boldlie say that great benefit to the common wealth manie good things for her Maiesties safetie would come to pas by fauour shewed vnto these godly teachers faithfull Ministere of Iesus Christ But because perauenture some will say that heerein I proudlie praise our selues like Pharises despise others I doe heere humblie desire that all men would but indifferently way What hath ben our doeings and the labours of our ministrie and the fruite of the same and esteeming vs as baselie as they can doe only set before their eyes Gods glorie the good of this Realme and her Ma. happines Diligent preaching cause of verie great good let them but consider that where there is diligent preaching how wise how honest how iust the people be how dutifull to her Maiestie readie to all seruices how louing among them selues then shall hee easilie conclude that if these ceremonies subscription were abolished or the Ministers not tyed to them nor troubled for them what encrease there woule be of all faithfull labourers how all godlines and vertue would florish among vs lastly how happie how quiet how free from all danger the estate would bee 2. Leauing this therefore to the conscience of all honest men good subiectes who loue God our most gracious Queene I will now enter to speak a little of the great mischiefes and manifold euills which come by toleration or fauour shewed to the Papists These euills come vnder two heades either such as God afflicteth for bearing with or fauouring such persones God will punish fauourers of Papistes or such as they them selues doe bringe alwayes with them In the first kinde we are to consider whether the religion of Poperie bee within the compasse of those things which God hateth I finde in Israell two kinds of idolatrie one in Ahabs time the worshppping of Baall 1. King 18.23 Which beateth against the first commaundement which saieth thou shalt haue no other Gods but mee Another brought in by Hieroboam the Sonne of Nebat 1. King 123 wherefore he is said to make Israell to sinne this was the making of images to worshipe God by as the two calues in Dan and Bethell 28 and this beateth against the second commaundement which saieth thou shalt not make to thy self any grauen images Of the former kinde I woulde willinglie free the Papistes if they would not honour the Pope as God to binde where God openeth to open where God shuteth The Papista most grosse idolaters giuing power to forgiue sins to giue dispensation contrarie to Gods worde dwelling in their hartes as if hee were God if they did not worshippe the Sacrament as verie God and make the image of the Trinitie turning the glorie of the incorruptible God into the image of a corruptible man if they did not ascribe to the Virgin Marie to Peter Paule that which is proper to God alone But the latter kind is without out all expectation one and the same with the Papistes for they haue images to worship God by euen as Hieroboams calues Exoe 32. and as the children of Israell in the Wildernes Now if it be the voyce of God which saieth Confounded bee all they that serue grauen images Psal 97.7 and that glorie in idoles and againe I am the Lord this is my name my glorie will I not giue to another neither my praise to grauen images Esai 42.8 And if hee haue commaunded to put to death euerie man that intiseth to idolatrie and to spare neither brother Deut. 13. Son daughter wife nor the dearest friende and if any cietie be founde guiltie of this crime to put all the inhabitantes to the sweard with their cattell vtterly to rase the same and to make it in an heape for euer If God set such a marke vpon Hieroboam that hee did not only vtterly roote out his seed but also made his name a reproach to all generations as the author of Israels sinn If the children of Israell after they fell into this greate sinne of worshipping images did neuer prosper or be without ciuill or forren warrs till they were vtterly made desolate and if all the greatest plagues that euer Iudah had came principallie by this sinne then may wise men quicklie iudge howe good it will be for England to tolerate Papists Poperie which hath not only this most grieuous trespasse but also innumerable more of moste horrible blasphemies most intolerable both against God and against his Christ and also derogatorie to his holy spirit and testament And this is so well knowne to all the Queenes Christian subiectes and especiallie to the learned sorte and holy Ministers of the Ghospell that I neede not to dispute further of it But if we looke vpon that which they bring with them what is it Papists bring most horrible euills Euen the direct contradictorie learning vnto truth ouerthrowing all the religion faith and order of Gods worship doth abandon her Maiesties royalty supreame dignitie and such as will quickly bring low the verie state of the cōmon welth and ciuill power as Maister Trauers hath verie faithfullie and plainly declared all their religion Answ to the supplication to the Lords of the couns in their seuerall branches is euerie way an enemie and a meanes to turne vp side downe the whole state of the Queenes Maiesties most happie gouernement Moreouer it will bring great occasion of ciuill warre and bloodshed a thing which her M. alwaies abhorred which being once kindled inflamed it will trouble the wisest men in this Realme to quench suddainlie or hastelie For it is well knowne that there is an inueterate hatred betweene these two religions and the opposition is impossible to bee

trespasse in the excommunicate thing when this was doone secretlie by one man called Achan Ioshua 7. and if for that one mans fault the wrath of God was iustly kindled against all Israell so that they could not stande before their enemies Howe much more may we thinke The sinne of one man may defile the whole land that the sinnes of our land haue caused the Lords wrath against vs when we see so many of our worthie Fathers godlie Ministers to be greatly smitten by this ciuill diuision When Iob lost his goodes by diuers meanes his oxen taken by the Sabeans Iob. 1. his sheepe burnt by fier from heauen his camells caried away by the Chaldeans his sonns and daughters slaine by the falling of an house he cast his eyes vpon God saying The Lord giueth and the Lord taketh So if we could haue seen the hand of God and that thereby we had bene humbled I verilie think that this grieuous soare had not runne so long nor encreased so much as it hath Sometime the counsell of the Lord by such a thing is to trie the people Deut 13. whether they loue God with all their harts Ezech. 14. sometime when the people set vp idols in their hartes God sendeth them false Prophets to deceaue them and sometyme there must bee heresies in the Church 1. Cor. 11.19 The true causes of our Church troubles that they which be approued may be knowne Therefore there is a further thing to bee looked into then either the persons or the things which hath happened in our Church Who knoweth not how much blood of Gods Saintes was spilte in former ages and how many houses were guilty of blood And when did this land seriouslie and sincerelie humble it selfe and by open repentance make reconciliation for the same Nay rather how many thousandes repined at the happie raigne of her Maiestie for the casting out of the idolatrous and superstitious worshipp of God and for the establishing of the true seruice of his holy name and the libertie of the preaching of the Ghospell And who were they that picked quarrelles against the godlye learned Ministers and caused this diuision but the ignorant and malicious Papist Atheist and Libertines Therefore it is the iust iudgement of God that as we doe but slightlie regard the sinnes of our fore-fathers and contend mightelie for idolatrie and wickednes and light being offered wee loue darknesse more then light so God shoulde giue vs ouer to our owne foolishnes by withholding his blessing and peace among his Ministers For the wicked Papistes and vngodly sinners are glad and take pleasure in the troubles and reproaches of the ministrie Therefore in them is fulfilled that which is written As they regarded not to knowe God so God gaue them ouer too a reprobate minde Rom. 1 2● And may it not be iustlie said that because we haue not bene more zealous in Gods cause but haue made Mariages with Papistes and Atheistes and done manye other thinges after the course of this worlde shewing a verie cold loue vnto the Ghospell the Papistes and Atheistes haue bene made by this meanes a snare vnto vs a whip vnto our sides and thornes vnto our eies And I assuredly beleeue that had it not bene the wonderfull goodnesse and mercie of God to his poore afflicted Saintes his loue to his elect and that hee woulde make his annointed hande-maide Elizabeth our Queene a most gra●ious instrument of his saluation glorie in the midst of his church and glorifie him selfe in and by her in the eies of all nations we had felt more grieuous and palpable darknesse and cruell bitternes then wee haue done we had not now come halfe so farre in the knowledge and practise of his most blessed Ghospell idolatrie and superstition shoulde not haue bene so well purged out of this lande nor the pure doctrine of Christ soo rightlye taught Therefore we must thinke that our sinnes and vnthankfulnesse is the cause of our wantes and Gods righteous iudgementes haue brought these things to passe Euen as it came of the Lord 1. King 12. that Rehoboam followed the coūsell of the yong men that for the sinnes of the people idolatrie in Salomons daies the kingdome might be diuided Giue me heere a spirituall eie and behold with me Looke vpon the Bishops with a spirituall eie sorrow vvith me that the Lord our God for our sinnes shuld so hold the eies of the reuerend fathers on the one side that although in their iudgement they were perswaded that the thinges they vrged their brethren vnto were but verie trifles and there●ore not worthie that any one Parish shoulde bee so greatlye punished for them as to leese their faithfull learned and painfull Pastour yet did not onlie enforce the ceremonies vpon them but also not considering the difference of good mens iudgements about such things pressed vpon them to subscribe and for not yeelding to their mindes suspended depriued and imprisoned their learned and godly brethren and in the meane time preferred the triflyng ceremonies beefore the waightie worke of preaching So that as Maister Calfill sayeth Auns to the treatis of ●he crosse artic 5. The people of God be sometime oppressed with traditions and ceremonies and for outward solemnities the inwarde true seruice of God is neglected Let the spirituall eie iudge I say whether it was not a merueilous iudgement of God that they coulde not see all this this while any one thing amisse no not so much as the vnlearned ministrie or non-residencie but defende all and maintaine all to the vtmost And although they had euerie Parliament complaintes of all the Realme humble supplications diuers times made vnto them by their brethren and so many yeares experience of the inconueniencie if not of the vnlawfulnesse of these things that neither the peace of the Church nor the pittie of the congregations nor the loue of so many learned and godlye brethren coulde moue them but that euen nowe fortie three yeare they holde out not reforming any one point On the other side let the spirituall man iudge Looke vpon the Ministers with a spirituall eie what a iudgement of God it was vppon the godlie Ministers that they so fearcelie with so hard and bitter termes in their first admonitions and in manie phrases of their apologeticall writtings did incense and moue vnto wrath the reuerend Fathers that they esteemed them as wayward froward and peeuish persones ioynt enimies of the Church with Papistes and that when that most wicked and blasphemous libeller Martin did most scornfullie abuse manye worthie persons and thrust in him selfe by an vngodlie insinuation that there was no publike instrument on our side so farre as euer I could heare to shew our dislike but that both sides did wink and suffer most filthie and lewd calumniations and slaunders O how were our eies blinded that we saw not howe vncomelie these thinges were for vs and