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A04873	The popish kingdome, or reigne of Antichrist, written in Latine verse by Thomas Naogeorgus, and englyshed by Barnabe Googe; Regnum papisticum. English	Naogeorg, Thomas, 1511-1563.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.; Naogeorg, Thomas, 1511-1563. Agriculturae sacrae libri quinque. Book 1-2. English. aut	1570 (1570)	STC 15011; ESTC S109280	147,386	198

That of the worde of God the sonnes might euermore remaine And men no l●nger looke to heare the voyce from starry raigne Nor can the eares of man abide the speach of God to heare As once the Hebrues made afrayde good witnesse well may beare Therefore he mortall doctors vnto mortall men did sende As Moyses Aaron and such men as euer did attende About the seruice of the Lorde and Moyses now in graue They read the people still the lawe and laboured them to saue As Prophets priestes Leuits eke who preacht and alwayes taught For to beware of wicked things and to eschue the naught And to conceyue assured hope in Christ the promised séede Whereby the hearts might healed be which griefe had causde to bléede This was the Prophets office than and this their order iust When Moyses here had yéelded vp his carkasse vnto dust Whose wrytings through the gift of God doe hitherto remaine The very doctrine of the holy ghost appearing plaine We must not weigh them as the worke of mortall men that die But take them as the bookes of God sent downe from heauens hie In like sort must the Gospell here of good men honorde bée For both with all the Prophets olde it iustly doth agrée And with the dreadfull voyce of God it hath confirmed béene Nor any thing repugnant here may any where be séene Therefore the Church did iustly giue the chiefe authoritie Vnto the holy bookes that in the Bible written lie Commaunding that they neuer be abusde by any wight But to remaine for euermore in good and perfite plight As knowing well hir husbandes voyce the ender here of strife And these the certaine instruments of euerlasting life Beside we must estéeme them more than all the Sibylles heare Or all the Oken groues that earst to Ioue were counted deare And thinke that vnto men these bookes sufficient light doth giue Whereby they well may know the will of God and how to liue So that we profite much herein in knowing that we neede Not ransacke other volumes great of fayth or hope to réede For miserablie doth he toyle and tosse his troubled minde That séekes his pleasure where it doth not lie or else is blinde Whosoeuer of pure and perfite golde hath founde the fruitfull vaine By which he may to Pelops welth or Craesus state attaine And passe the Arabians riches here and Hermus sandes that shines Will hardly hence be had away to digge in emptie mines And vainely pecke in euery rocke whereas no golde doth lie Where trauaile great must be indurde and nothing got therebie To these therefore let husbandmen their mindes and studie giue Here shall they finde what néedefull is to teach them how to liue No néede is here to vexe the minde with turning many bookes Nor for to gaze on barraine fielde with vaine and ydle lookes Here of the euerlasting worde the knowledge full doth lie That sonne of God and Iesus whome the worlde is saued bie The knowing of whom alonely brings vs to euerlasting blysse And reconciles vs to the father where we did amysse And makes vs heyres of heauen bright this is the treasure which Lay hidden in the ground so déepe and Iewell passing rich For which all worldly substance great is well bestowed here Looke where thou list thou shalt not finde it any other where Leaue searching of the Cesterns and the Fennes and filthie soyles And stinking pondes when as at home the fountaine freshly boyles Here draw of cleare Cristall streames here mayst thou drink thy fill If thirst of euerlasting life and vertue mooue thy will Giue all thy force and minde hereto and all thy wittes applie Moreouer this perswasion doth great profite herein bring When in the scriptures plaine appeares Gods will in euery thing What honor we must giue to him what worship him delightes What maners and what wayes are méete to frame the life arightes Least superstition in our mindes or wicked error spring And least we preach and blase abrode some lewde and hurtfull thing As if the things sufficed not that God himselfe hath tought Or that we thinke by our deuice might better things be wrought Who so beléeues that God hath hid no vertue here nor right Contents himselfe and doth obey the worde with all his might And faynes not any thing himselfe nor followes fancie vaine Nor any gloses blinde of men nor dreames of ydle braine As most men commonly doe vse this madnesse vexeth sore And is a plague that all the worlde doth trouble euermore Without the worde of God eche foole dare frame himselfe away Procuring eke companions to runne with him astray Whom at the first he doth perswade and after doth constraine T' obay his folly as a God that ouer all doth raigne Let not our husbandman be staynde with such vntowarde minde But know the waight of scriptures well where he may easily finde What best is to be done or left least that he wander wide Obaying more the voyce of man than his that all doth guide Thus boldned let him duely reade the scriptures euermore From top to toe and oft reherse that he hath read before And print it déepely in his minde layde vp in safetie there None otherwise than golde or pearles or such like precious gere From whence he largely may disburse to men as cause requires The maner how to please the Lorde and leaue their fonde desires And if perhaps he vnoerstand not all things perfitely Or reade some things that doe declare a great simplicitie Let him beware that tediousnesse nor lothsomnesse him take And force him so the sacred worde of God for to forsake In prophane wryters many things at first doe not appeare But hidden lie and doe deceyue the readers looking neare No maruell then if that the holy ghost declare not all In easie phrase but sometime teach with senses mysticall Accept the plaine and easie wordes and those that from thée flie With haste pursue and drawe them from the darknesse where they lie He blessed is that profiteth both with the hard and plaine And is not feared with the tone nor countes the other vaine But markes the order and the guise of Gods most holy spright And beares with that in euery case and takes his meaning right First shall he knowe the causes true and father of eche thing From whose commaundment and whose worde all kind of things doe spring Created of no substance here the stately framed skies The breathing ayre and weightie earth that in the middle lies The monstrous waues of raging seas that here and there doe flowe And what in sixe dayes worke was wrought for garnishing or showe The wondrous sort of creatures straunge in ayre in seas or landes That haue bene made committed to the powre of Adams handes By this he also well shall learne that in the worlde there is But one all onely Lorde and king whose powre almightie is Who doth of persons thrée consist coequall in degrée In nature Godhed

muse to sée their crooked minde And iudgement all inragde whereby agaynst both rule and kinde Of nature and agaynst the iust precepts of reasons lore And all the common ordnaunces that haue béene made therefore And eke agaynst the customes of all Nations that we know They doe commend adulterous life and mariage ouerthrow If some there be that alwayes prayse and like their lothsome trade Why should they not attempt whatsoeuer their lust doth thē perswade Thus in their filthie liues they doe continue to the ende And alter not nor any séekes their doings to amende They had rather all be torne and rent than leaue their woonted guise The Bishop also winckes for gaine nor hope of helpe he spies And more besides is Auarice a sicknesse generall Beginning first at head and so dispersed through them all They are themselues for to be solde whosoeuer is bent to buy And all things that they haue besides to sale doth open lye Giue money thou and straight the Gates of heauen open bée And eke as many soules drawne out of hell as pleaseth thée Giue money and from all thy faultes and sinnes thou shalt be frée And all made well and with their Bull it shall confirmed bée Giue money and for thine estate they pray continuallye And fast till as all ouergrowne in fatte they wallowing lye Giue money and their merites great to thée they streight will sell So that thou néedest take no care at all for liuing well Giue money and they giue thée leaue to marry at thy will In times vnlawfull and to hop about with Iacke and Gill. Giue money and they licence giue both egges and fleshe to eate As well on frydayes as in Lent and euery kinde of meate Giue money and thy childe shall soone receyue his christian vowe And after that be bishopped and noynted on the browe Giue money and thou shalt receyue of Christ the bodie true Euen as it hoong vpon the Crosse when as he suffred nue Giue money nose and eyes and eares shall then be noynted well And mouth and hand and foote and all annoynted sent to hell Giue money and thy Tombe amid the Church shall placed bée Or in the Quéere so that no raine or wet shall trouble thée Giue money then and store of Psalmes and Dirges shalt thou haue And eke with great lamenting shall thy corps be borne to graue Giue money and thou shalt be blest with store of Trentals soong And yearely in remembraunce had with Soule peales duely roong Giue money and vpon thy Tombe a princely hearse they set Still smo●t with Franckensence and all with holy water wet Giue money and of all thy vowes discharged shalt thou bée And eke with Gods commaundements they shall dispence for thée All things for money will they do yet neuer satisfide For diuers Masses are they féede yet one shall serue the tide Sometime a thousand vnderneath the Chalice do they lay Receyuing money for them all yet neuer a one they say Nor carefull of their guile they are the people they dispise And all the meanes they can to scrape vp golde they do deuise They diuers benifices get and serue the turne of none But onely set their minde on gaine and ydlenesse alone Both ginnes and traps and baytes and hookes they lay on euery side And present are at sicke mens willes some porcion to prouide Besides for tythes and offring pence they earnestly do call These are the things that common are vnto these members all Iudge now thy selfe if that they bée the Church of Christ that so They séeke to séeme and faine would haue themselues accounted tho Attempt they any kinde of thing that Christian rule doth teach Treade they the auncient fathers steps whereof so much they preach All things contrary shalt thou see their pompe and fonde aray Their Apish Cowles and straunge attire and beards cut quite away Their shauen crownes their mourning gownes their bedlem iesture mad Their Mitars their Cros●ars gilt square caps musick glad Their holy Chrisme contempt of lawes and life corrupted so And all the rest that ydlenesse inuented long ago As plagues to perfite godlinesse and toyes the worlde to daze That so the people still might haue something whereat to gaze Wherby the ground of superstition from these gay things might grow For seldome doth the common sort the truth from falsehoode know Nor trie the doctrine and the life by scriptures perfite light And rules of Prophets olde that were inspirde with holy spright The things that gorgeous are and gay as holy they estéeme And euer more do loth the things that plaine and simple séeme Hereby the Popes had easie way while as they onely sought To haue their doings of the people great and wondrous thought If they had sought the honor here and glory of Christ alone As best becomes his ministers and seruaunts euery one They simply would haue taught the flocke and vsde no colours vaine And liude according to the lawes of God and statutes plaine Now haue the people better skill of Popes decrées and lyes Than of his holy ordnaunces that framde the loftie skyes And will not way their owne estate and miserable case But stop their eares if any speake and turne away their face And rather altogither be deceyude and runne awrie And euerlastingly be damnd in hell for companie The popish Kingdome The thirde booke NOw must we here beholde their fayth and how the papacie beléeues bicause of fayth it woulde a Captaine counted be And of the Catholike Church alone of Christ to haue the fame And wondrously they boast and brag in bearing of this name Which Church if that it were in déede and doctrine as they say Great wickednesse it surely were from them to fall away But if it may be plainely prooude they trust no whit in Christ Nor worship God alone nor looke for succour of the hiest But as the Gentiles Idoles serue and worship them with care What kinde of Church it may be calde a childe may sone declare How much it alwayes shoulde be shoonde of such as Christ doe loue And onely séeke through him to please th' almightie Lorde aboue But first t' is méete for to declare the perfite fayth and right As hath before béene taught by men inspirde with holy spright One onely God we are wilde to haue and worship euermore To whose right hande we must commit our selues and all our store Abandoning all worldly care and confidence in man As he that cares for vs and guides and best of others can This whosoeuer doth both feares and him doth truly loue And puttes his onely confidence and trust in him aboue And vnto him alone doth flye in his aduersitie And calles to him being sure of helpe as best for him shall be We also must in Iesus Christ beléeue assuredlye His onely sonne who at his time came downe from heauens hye For our offences and reliefe made perfite man whereby He might redéeme vs all from

first the almightie father framde the worlde and mortall kinde In perfite state and yéelding fruite such as himselfe assignde Who wholy gaue themselues to him with all their force and might For first of all within their heartes he sowde a knowledge right And gaue them reason to discerne in euery kinde of thing That in the foming seas or ayre or on the earth doth spring Thus when the passing force of his almightie name did shine He plaste in man a dreadfull feare of his estate deuine Which least it caused fearefull flight or stirde vp deadly hate He ioynde a pleasant loue withall of his excelling state Whereby the feare and reurence of his mightie Maiestée With felowship of feruent loue might safely guided bée For with himselfe he framed man both Lorde of earth and seas And after death to liue with him in euerlasting ease Prouiding him to féede vpon the fruite of euery trée And pleasant hearbes that so he might his carefull mercy sée Who would not with his heart estéeme and loue with all his minde A Lorde so good and gracious and of so gentle kinde Yet least that cause of feare should want and fauour bréede disdaine And to much welth inflame his heart and prick his ydle braine He gaue him one commaundement to barre him of his will That is he should not taste the trée of knowing good or ill Except they would their life forgo and lose these giftes of grace Besides all this he planted in the déepest of their minde That vnto other creatures to of nature was assignde That they ne should with hate pursue their kinde nor ouerthrow But with a friendly faythfull heart eche other friendship show And giue aduice what best to doe and mischiefe how to let Such happie séedes in heart of man at first were déepely set By him that all thing here did frame and thus he left this fielde Of owne accorde his pleasant fruites and good encrease to yéelde But streight the Stygyan Prince that late from skies was hedlong throwne For prowd presūptuous mutenie trespas earst vnknowne Both hating God himselfe aboue and all his vertuous déedes Began to frowne and lowre on man and on these pleasant seedes Determining these plantes pluckt vp to sowe contrarie graine And taking on himselfe the shape and cloke of Serpent plaine Our father first he doth perswade to breake the sacred hest That so he might both ra●e and pluck due feare from out his brest And cease the loue and certaine hope of Gods assistance knowne Whereby the ground disordred might with wéedes be ouergrowne Ne faylde he of his purpose here for why the womans hart Consented streight to tast● the 〈◊〉 and gaue hir husband part As ground that long hath lien vntilde is filled e●ery where With humblockes thornes and thistles sharpe and other hurtfull gere So was the minde of man opprest with mischiefes fowle and great And harmefull things deseruing death had there abiding seat The knowledge of th' almightie Lorde with darkenesse was disgraste Our iudgement eke in worldly things with blindnesse great defaste Both feare and reuerence due to God were banished cleane away Loue colde and hope of helpe deuine did vtterly decay In place whereof sprang hate and flight contempt of God beside And nothing that was good or right the will corrupt applide If any good desire by chaunce of vertue mooues the minde The force doth streight begin to faile in slouthfull bodie blinde And sinne prouokes to greater crime not suffering them aright To runne their race but mooues agaynst the Lord both day and night Nor néedefull is it much to mooue for of his proper sway Like Lead he alwayes hedlong falles and runnes the hurtfull way Doest thou not sée how leauing God his honour here we giue To trifles vaine and wretched men that on the earth doe liue If that a king that may to day or else to morrow die Receyue vs into fauour great and giue vs honour hie Or if of glistring golde we haue abundaunce in our handes Or haue our bagges with siluer full to purchase Lordly landes Or Iewels great or precious stones or costly rich aray And friendes in number great about vs dwell and beare the sway Or store of lustie souldiors haue to encounter with the fo O Lord how then we looke aloft how stately then we go And thinke our selues in happie case and blest on euery side How fowly doth our filth appéere to him that all doth guide With most men for their God alone the belly here is thought And euery thing as it commaundes is eyther shund or sought Some place a lo●t on aulters hie the sharpnesse of their wit And some the bodyes force and as a God they worship it But no man laboureth so the will of God for to obay As all men doe for trifles vaine that fade and passe away Of Gods innumerable sort are found by feare and loue And in the meane time he dispisde that reignes and rules aboue What mischiefe can be found but doth from blinded ignorance spring Or what contempt of God to sweare is thought a decent thing With Gods most dreadfull name aboue both men and children play And diffrence none is made betwixt the lawes deuine and lay What God commaundeth to be shund or willeth to be wrought Is to the eares a torment great and dreadfull poyson thought Nor vnto him they seeke for ayde nor confidence they haue But rather séeke to stockes and stones than him that all doth saue No honor to their parents due at any time they pay A hell it is to feele the yoke or maister to obay The minde desires to runne at large and raunge at libertée The bloud doth boyle about the hearts of such as harmed bée And slaughters great attempted are and deadly battayles fought And at the wagging of a straw good lawes are set at nought Beside both vile and beastly loue in euerie place doth raigne That none can kéepe the holy rytes of sacred bed from staine The Harlots eke among themselues their bodyes doe defile Who can declare the shamefull theft and wayes for to beguile That commonly with youth doth spring deceyt doth most delight And swéete it séemes an others goodes to get against all right And looke what wants in doing wrong with force and wretched will Is recompenst with rayling mouth and spitefull language ill The téeth togither gnash and poyson fowle abroade do spit As well agaynst the vnworthie as such as deserued it Discention sowne and lyes abrode in eurye place do raigne And filthie talke and wordes vncleane are vsde of wretches vaine The simple man deceyued still with wordes that fayned bée And from the heart the flattring tongue doth alwayes disagrée As raging seas with boystrous windes do swell aloft and rore And driue the mountaynes of their waues against the rocken shore Euen so the wretched fiend of man both euery day and night Spewes out his filth and ioyes to offende the soueraigne Lord of light

powre and euerlasting dignitée Who doth regarde the déedes and actes that here on earth are done And suffers nothing in the worlde at random here to runne But holdes the helme of all himselfe and sterne doth onely guide Though diuers Ministers he hath for euery thing beside He well shall also vnderstande the great affection deare That God doth alwayes beare to man who made his subiectes heare Both birdes and beastes and skalie fishe that in the seas doe swim And gaue him from the skies a minde that most resembled him Nor left him when he wickedly vpon the ●●ende did waight But threatning Sathan and his traine to mercie tooke him straight Moreouer he shall learne from whence the spring of death and sinne And wretched ignorance of truth did in the worlde beginne And what great force of ours remaynes to deale in vertuous déedes And whence the safe assured hope of righteousnesse procéedes And whence remission of our sinnes Besides he plaine shall sée Examples store of Gods great wrath for such as wicked bée And eke againe the mercy great of God omnipotent Towards them that vertuous are and such as earnestly repent There plainely also shall he sée what things the law doth tell How it condemneth euery man and driueth downe to hell That sinne deserueth dreadfull death and eke the certaine way To please the euerlasting Lorde and him for to obay Moreouer that there are good sprites and aungels faire aboue Sent out from God for mans defence and for their great behoue As vnto them the wicked sprites are deadly enimies There shall he learne that soule of man with bodie neuer dies Nor that the bodie euermore shall kepe the stinking graue But sound and safe at th' ende of the worlde their olde estate shall haue And come to euerlasting life where of the Iudge seuere The fearefull sentence shall they sée and righteous iudgement here There shall the wicked sort receyue theyr iust deserued hire Cast downe into the smokie pitte of dreadfull flaming fire The good exalted to the ioyes of heauen shining bright Shall sée the face of God and liue in passing great delight And more he well shall vnderstande that will of God aboue What honor here he best estéemes and what he most doth loue What orders he accepteth here what dutie eke we owe Vnto the Magistrate the whole estate of mariage shall he knowe But of this worthie treasure●great why call I all to minde As if I would the surges tell of seas in raging winde Or number all the glistring starres that in the skies appeare And cast abrode their golden beames when as the night is cleare Or tell howe many thousand leaues in wooddie groues doe lie While as in Autumne Saturne throwes his frostie flakes from hie Or count the number of the eares that through the worlde are séene While as approching Haruest néere the corne forsakes his gréene There shall he finde whatsoeuer doth to husbandmen belong Wherewith to ouerthrow the foe and to instruct the yong Therefore let him at first the bookes of Moyses well applie And all the other Prophetes else in order héedilie And from the fountaynes draw the worde and fetch it from the spring That perfitely he know the minde of God in euery thing But chiefly in the scriptures written by the holy ghost These two the law and Gospell let him alwayes thinke on most Discerning well betwixt them both what doth to eche belong The propertie of euery one their force and vertue strong Least that he hap to deale therein as most men doe this day To make them both agrée in one that differ farre away The lawe destroyes condemnes worketh wrath and vengeance due And showth vs what we ought to doe and what we must eschue Augmenteth sinne and driues men downe into the pit of hell That doe not heare in euery poynt obserue and kéepe it well On the other side the Gospell doth bring euerlasting life And doth appease the wrath of God for sinne and ceaseth strife And thorow Christ forgiueth all that hath bene done amisse And drawth vs from the depth of hell and placeth vs in blisse In giuing ioyes that neuer endes ne shewes how we should liue So much as it the déedes of Christ to vs doth wholy giue And maketh righteous euery one and doth our sinnes deface Restoring vnto sauing health all such as séekes his grace Lo here thou séest a diffrence great that will no vnitée No more than fowle deformed death with life will here agrée Therefore herein our husbandman must seuer them aright Not mingling them togither thus as iust in egall plight Not making Moyses here of Christ or olde Licurgus sowre Nor yet ascribing that to Christ that longs to Moyses powre Let eche of them their office kéepe their time and eke their place Sometime t' is méete the stonie hearts with deadly lawe to chase And to declare the dreadfull plagues that no excuse remaine To wretched men that all their life in wickednesse doe traine A time againe when méete it is of nothing else to speake But graciousnesse and to relieue and comfort vp the weake With swéetenesse great of Iesus milde both necke and hands vnbound From dolefull chaynes of miserie that weyes them to the ground What can be worse than for to kill such as deserue to liue And vnto such as death deserue eternall life to giue Which thing doth alwayes come to passe when all things are not well Discerned as they ought to be and as I earst did tell And though the face of Moyses and our Sauiours countnance bright Must both be bare and open showde and furnisht out with light Yet most of all we ought the name of Christ to magnifie And séeke t' aduaunce aboue the rest his prayse and dignitie For he of euery other thing is finall ende and summe And all things both in heauen and earth by meanes of him are donne And euery thing committed here vnto his holy hande Wherein both health and righteousnesse and death and life doth stande With fauour grace and punishment and whatsoeuer doth lie Created heare vpon the earth or in the heauens hie He is the soueraigne king and guide of chosen people pure The happie priest chiefe head and Lorde and Sanctuarie sure The stedfast stone to cleaue vnto and strongest towre of might The glorious Bridegrome garnished most bewtifull in sight That with his owne most precious bloud did washe and purifie His spouse from euery spot and staine that might offend the eie The onely shepheard bread and light and chiefest maister here In fine the large and welthie horne where all things doth appere Him from the first beginning God did promise for to giue To Adam and his children all that after him should liue A gift that well should pacifie his iust conceyued yre And eke redéeme the damned soules from neuer ceassing fyre Thus taught the holy ghost abrode and Moyses did the same And all the Prophets after him did blase abrode