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A02469	A sight of the Portugall pearle, that is, the aunsvvere of D. Haddon maister of the requests vnto our soueraigne lady Elizabeth by the grace of God quene of England Fraunce and Irelande, defendour of the faith. &c. against the epistle of Hieronimus Osorius a Portugall, entitled Pearle for a Prince. Translated out of lattyn into englishe by Abraham Hartwell, student in the kynges colledge in Cambridge; Gualtheri Haddoni pro reformatione Anglicana epistola apologetica ad Hier.Osorium, Lusitanum. English	Haddon, Walter, 1516-1572.; Hartwell, Abraham, b. ca. 1542.	1565 (1565)	STC 12598; ESTC S112464	36,621	136

the sacred scriptures whiche were in your churche so locked vp smoothered should be learned by harte both of weomen and children S. Basill employed all possible leysure vppon that good worke of learning and also teachinge the gospell And if the pampered Monckes of oure tyme had lyued in sainct Basiles order they had not ben once touched Athanasius his creede standeth in ful estimation betwene hym and our men no squarynge But I thincke I maye be boulde to kepe these our auncients in reuerence vntyll you brynge contrary euidence Of those auncient fathers of the churche seinge your selfe able to bringe nothinge but their naked names remembryng your self you passe ouer vnto the men of our age and leaping firste vpon Luther you teare the dead man in pieces firste callyng hym blinde hassard then a people pleaser last for your pleasure starck staring madde This man of god whom you so falselie charge with frenseie in open auditorie and in presence of Charles themperour exhibited a sober discrete soome of his faithe This franticke fellowe in spite of all the wyseste of your Churche stoode all salfe and haile the space of .xxx. yeere they notwithstanding all raginge and cauing for his deathe Erasmus giueth this lunatike man no base record of innocencie in these wordes Luthers doctrine many doe defame his life al men extol with one consent You say moreouer he was popular How expound ye that If you call hym popular that carketh careth for the peoples health then no man is more If you meane a prycker of rashe lightnes amonge the communaltie reade his booke wherein he controuleth and taunteth the vprores in Germanie leaue your slaundering And that men may not thincke you haue played this naughtie parte onely in Luther you recite other as though after you haue spoken the worde they were straighte way transformed out of pereles godly mē into most vyle vyllaines Emong other I wil name you two principall professours of the gospell Martine Bucer and Peter Martyr which of goddes good gyfte arryued in this Ilande Let all our cankerd enemies laye together their heades Let se what one thing euen malice it selfe can note in these reuerend graues amisse O golden couple of greyheadded fathers of most happye memorie of whose learninge right good witnes we haue euen the bookes by them compiled whose pure conuersation so many commende as euer happened into their company Wherfore if you be wise temper your tongue and stay your style and take heede of inconuenience Deeme not them so largely to be presumptuous persons vnaduysed and lofty sithe there is a nūber of theim well knowne then whom nothing can be foūd more milde sober and aduised Two I haue named the like testimony mighte I geue of whole hundrethes But the sobre conuersation of two persons bruted farre and nere maye plentifullye refell one particular mans rash and shameles cauillation Then againe you make transition vnto our mens doctrine mislykinge therein that they vrge nothing but scripture they call to counsaile nothing but the holy ghost reiectynge and abandoning all humaine authorytie who if they dyd as you saye they shoulde therin treade in the very steps of our sauiour Christe thapostels and olde fathers that were in the infancy of the church But it is farre otherwise They do sorte and chuse out the assertions of al approued interpretours of all ages as declare their bookes whiche are able vnto all the worlde to detecte this your falsehood You scoffe graciousely and in your own fansie prosecute an inuincible reason against such perfectnes of liuing as our men take vpon them selues which you say by their abhominatiō is hourely reproued Vntrue it is that they presume any iote beyonde manns strengthe and thother is an olde slaunderous cast to defame men not opening any one spot of theyr vncleannes Name it if you can what so euer it be worthy this your stormie and vehemēt replie If you can not leaue for shame so pestilently to tatle against the reputation of moste graue persons You require to haue it specifyed in what one pointe our men haue refourmed thestate of the church I neede not tell you ▪ you name enough your selfe sauing that we differ in meaning You laye vnto our charge that Nunnes Monkes cloystered to attende the seruice of God to continue in chastitie are now let out and fully licenced to all wyll that their palaices are openly cried to sale and howe lawes are come forth that vnto luste there be no let in Religion O hoorishe impudencie in lyeng and wyll lawles beyonde measure We graunte and that freelie that vpon aduertisement of our pastors we let fal vnto the ground those dennes of stincking poyson wherin were pestered vp young wenches and syllie boyes to suche ruine of vertue in theim as for shame I can not discouer What was there in those shamefull shoppes of synne but onely a pharisaicall length of seruyce in a straūge tongue as for other their misteries they most liuelily resembled vnto vs the droncken hollie daies of Bacchus Wherevppon God no doubte stirred vppe the mindes of our countrymen that these infynite routes swarmes shrowdynge in secrete corners of abhomination should be rowsed by their exhortations from slepe to worcke from vice to vertue from their horryble practyses of fornication vnto lawful wedlock Not that we enioin any cōstraint of maryage but plucking our consience out of the yoke of mannes traditions we restore the lybertie of y e gospel wherin the authoritie of Iesus christ hath planted vs by the warrant of his worde Of their howses there were bestowed to good and godlye vse of scholes vniuersities hospitals with the reste lawfull order was taken leste the swynishe generation shoulde once agayne tumble in their durtie dunghilles This was a worthy singular blessing of god wherby there is more abbridged of the hellishe tyranny of Sathan then by al your canons layinge them all together You weepe ouer the pluckinge downe of ymagerie and tableworke whiche monumentes once displaced you affirme that ther is nothing lefte to enflame our spirites vnto the contemplacion of heauenlye thinges We on thother syde remembring the grosse ignoraunce euen of late tymes sorely mistrust dotage in idolatrie agaynste the whiche there are playne textes yea the gospel geueth vs a watch worde concerning ymages Whiche were it not to be passed vpō yet among Christians ought the written worde of our lord Iesus Christ to beare great sway whiche pronounceth that God is a spirite and that they stand in the right way of praier that worship in spirite and trwethe and suche beadmen the Lord loueth This is the moste wholesome waye of praying if we consider eyther the originall or ende of it which needeth not thundersettinge of these outwarde ceremonial thinges so to clime vppe vnto the throne of God the father Nay while our outward Adam is to much occupied about these superficial stuffe the inward mā waxeth keiecold drincketh in the

venemous ioice of a basterdlie Religion forgoeth the sounde fruite of heauenly meditation Let vs bind vp al with examples The former auncient churche of apostles and martirs had none of these your costly iewelles yet was there most whot zeale burnynge in their breastes In baser times of religiō by fote and foote in stepped peintrie and so died in the former loue of gods seruice y t was so kendled in mens harts At last rushed in the scholemens diuinitie by whole cartloades a birde of an other nest ouglie mishapen with superstition anon all places were stuffed with peinted stockes and idolls which being euery where risely worshipped the true spirituall honour of God was troden vnder foote Nowe powre out your Philosophie concerning the weakenes of oure capacitie extoll youre holy blockes vntil you sweate withal yet is this deepely groūded in the scriptures that the vndoubted knowledge of god is in his worde and sincere worshyppinge in spyrite As for your pyctures where the spyrite is present they neede not where that wanteth they auayle not It were a tedious matter for you to make of euery thyng a seuerall discourse and therefore with one breath you say that all holly seruice ceremonies and sacramentes ar by vs cleane sacked and destroyed What is it that I heare Is there lyuing any such broode of diuynes that spoyleth and destroyeth all holly seruice al ceremonies all sacramentes Either it is so orels muste this bee as it is in deed a shameful excesse in lying For forreine Churches I can gage nothinge but I haue a good opinion of them Of our orders in diuine affayres I wyll make you a briefe accōpt not suffring you eyther to be ignoraunt youre selfe or to bewytche other First bycause fayth commeth by hearing we send into al coastes of the Realme Preachers to edifye the people in their duties toward God and to enstructe them in the true worshipping of y e same Thē haue we an order of commō prayer collected out of Scriptures by Parliament for so we terme the consent of the three estates of our Realme authorised frō the whiche we suffer no man to wander forseing wyth all diligence two pointes fyrst the holy ghost to be obeyed warning that whosoeuer open his mouth in the congregacion speake the worde of God secondly that in al things be found an vnity wythout dyscorde The sacramentes we cause to be ministred very precisely after the prescript of holy writ and the liuely paterne of the former Churche wherin the Lorde Iesus Christe first in his own person instituted them with his Apostles And all these are propoūded in y e vulgare toung for that it is a brutish folly and plainly excepted in the testament in the presence of God to clatter out that wee vnderstande not our selues The geuing of orders hallowing of wedlock churching of childwiues visitynge of the feble and burying of the dead corses we execute with solemne and publike rites according to y e veritye in the Gospell whych we spice with ceremonies so far forth as al things may procede in order and decently within oure Churches as we are certainly aduertised out of the gospel Of y e times places dayes other circumstances we haue made no alteration neither in the whole body of religion innouated anye thing but y t eyther abhorred from all reason or was stayned wyth open impietie Thus haue I rypped vp vnto you the rites and manners of our Churche whych you see is cleane strypped neyther of holy seruice sacraments nor traditions but of eche sort hath reserued so muche that who so chargeth vs to bee voyde of all wantinge in dede no parcell requisite vnto the peculier anauncement of Gods honor shal shal offer vs vnreasonable iniury You saye we haue shyfted of the yoke of the imperial Bishop and you saye well It was to heauy and broosyng for either vs or our fathers before vs any lōger to susteine Neither acknowledge we any one high superintendent but only our lord Iesus Christ which honor the scriptures assigne vnto him alone And herein do we not part Christs coate as you gesse but wee touse and hale the Popes gaberdine neyther vnlocke we the doore vnto sedicion but stoppe the hyghe waye wherein vpon his lawlesse bulles of leade we rode stepe downe into perdicion You rake together many vnities and therof packe vp an argument that in any wise there must be in the Church one spiritual souereigne or hyghe regent What nedes that sith euen in the soundest age of the Church there was one God one fayth and yet notwithstanding had Peter one prouince Paul another and Iames another and diuers other had seuerall charge whereas the seuering of the persōs was no breach to the vnity in fayth In sequele of time diuerse prelates of Rome were holy Martirs put to death by heathen Princes vsurping no other crowne but the crowne of martirdome As for this extraordinary popish regalty they knew it not and S. Gregorye by name doth defie it Wherfore if the most floryshinge tyme of the Churche were voyde of thys your Monarchy we also may wesleaue if out nay we ought so to do not onely for the streight charge of y e scripture but also the suggestion of all good reason We cannot abide to haue the head so far distant from the body especially hauinge thys souereigne power for the which you labor so harde here at home in England that no nede it is to seke any abrode We haue the full authority of a regall power conteyning the whole vertue of king lye iurisdiction ouer the whole Realme But thys this is it that you cry away withall thys hath set you in such a glowinge that vnto Princes you impute sacrilege bicause they extend their authoritye ouer the Ecclesiasticall lawes dare auenture to touche things consecrate What I praye you M. Hieronimus come out of thys traunce fie vpon this impacience in a professed wyse man let in a littell breath chere vp your spirites you shall se al things in a cleare case The Quenes maiesty reygneth ouer all her subiectes of Englande And reason it is So haue the Frēchmen theyr French king and the Scottes their scottish souereigne Yea but she presseth in vnto church matters Not a whytte Al politike affayres ar gouerned by ciuill magistrates spiritual matters by bishops In spirituall exploites if any publike order be to be taken the diuines determine the same whose determination is by the Quenes Maiesty authorised Now what mislyke you vnder these ordinaunces did the kinges of Israel in those daies gouern the proper and peculier people of God Then ensued the gospel which also making in powers a distinction fyrst hoyseth vp the Regal estate and subdueth thervnto al other degrees by the mouth of Peter Paule whose names and titles by false vsurpaciō you deriue vnto thestablishing of your Romishe Seignory As for you you bidde battel not only in behalf of the Romish Scepter but also for the