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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

no body here doth liue but bloud must néedes be there Nor bloud can any life possesse without the bodie here As if that Christ the maister of the worlde knew not of this But in his owne appoyntment shoulde for lacke of knowledge mis. And are not these same wondrous things and learnings passing great When Christ did neuer will the same nor hereof did intreate To this he patcheth merites to the Priestes deseruing hy And euery one that heares the Masse and euery stander by For nothing in the Papacie without desertes is donne Nor must be wrought sith for a rule it generally doth ronne That all our health dependeth of our workes and our good déedes No place hath fayth nor glorie giuen to Christ From whome procéedes Our happie state and blessed life nor onely to the grace Of God they haue respect that doth of mercy vs imbrace Who causeth Masse or doth it say doth merite wondrously The like doe they that doe it heare and marke attentiuely Who neyther heares nor vnderstandes a word thereof at all But standeth onely in the Church as painted on a wall With merites great rewarded is and all his sinnes thereby Forgiuen quite the hope whereof doth make him looke full hye Yea if the bell to sacring toule and farre from thence thou bée And cannot come but earnestly doe wish the same to sée A merite great you gotten haue thus playne it doth appere The supper serueth for desertes with papistes euery where Their trust is alwayes in the Masse to this they onely flye In euery thing that toucheth them and euery ieoperdye And is not this a goodly crewe they are perswaded still What daye they heare or sée a Masse to haue no kinde of ill Thus comes it here to passe that I did lately say and wright They put not all their trust in Christ but in their proper might And in their owne good workes as in their doings they expresse Being full of incredulitie and all vngodlinesse Masse opens heauen gates and doth deliuer men from hell Masse healeth all diseases and doth sicknesses expell Masse doth relieue the burdned minde and sinnes defaceth quight Masse pleaseth him that guides the skies and giues the heauens bright Masse pluckes the sinfull soules from out the Purgatorie fire Masse comforteth th' afflicted sort and makes them to aspire Masse washeth cleane the mind and makes the guiltie conscience cleere Masse doth obtaine the grace of God and kéepes his fauour heere Masse driueth wicked Deuils hence and ouerthrowes the féendes Masse bringeth Angels good from hie makes them faythfull fréendes Masse doth defende the trauayler from daunger and disease Masse doth preserue the sayling ship amid the raging seas Masse giueth store of corne and graine and helpeth husbandrée Masse blesseth euery such as seekes in welthie state to bée Masse gettes a man a pleasant wife and gettes the mayd hir mate Masse helpes the Captaine in the fielde and furthereth debate Masse also doth asswage the heate that in the heart doth raigne Masse doth defende the pleasant grapes and vineyards doth maintaine Masse helpes the hunter with his horne and makes the dog to runne Masse sendeth store of sport and game into their nettes to come Masse molifieth the angrie mindes and driueth rage away Masse brings the wofull Louers to their long desired day Masse doth destroy the witches works makes their charmings vaine Masse causeth good deliueraunce and helpes the womans paine Masse makes thy prayers to be heard and giueth thy request Masse driues away the gréedie Woolfe that doth the shéepe molest Masse makes the murraine for to ceasse and stocke to thriue apace Masse makes thy iourney prosper well whersoeuer thou turnst thy face Masse ouerthrowes thine enmies force and doth resist his might Masse driues out Robyn good fellow and bugs that walke by night Masse plague and hunger doth expell and ciuill mutenie Masse makes a man with quiet minde and conscience cléere to die Masse vseth many slouthfull knaues and lubbers for to féede Masse brings in dayly gaine as doth the Sowters arte at neede In Masse is all their trust strength all things through Masse are don In all their griefes and miseries to Masse they streightwayes ron Such force hath lewde perswasion here in teaching men awrie That our good workes are onely they that gaine the heauens hie By this so many aultars in the Churches vp did rise By this the number growes so great of Priestes to sacrifice From hence arose such shamefull swarmes of Monkes with great excesse Whom profite of this Masse doth kéepe in slouthfull ydlenesse For this same cause such mightie kings and famous Princes hie Ordayned Masses for their soules and Priestes continuallie With great reuenues yearely left and euerlasting fée An easie way to ioy if it with scriptures might agrée Streight after these the welthie men tooke vp this fansie vaine And built them Chappels euery one and Chaplaynes did retaine At home or in their parishe Church where Masse they dayly soong For sauegarde of their family and of their children yoong Both for their friendes aliue and such as long before did die And in the Purgatorie flames tormented sore doe lie Christ in his Supper giues himselfe to vs assuredly And all his vertuous déedes on vs bestowes and doth apply His merites and his hie desartes with vs he common makes His grace and mercies euery one extended for our sakes We this receyue and nothing giue nor can we giue againe But onely faythfull louing hearts and thankefull for his paine These men by meritorious workes and solemne chaunting chéere With Masses make him recompence and satisfie him heere Thus much the Pope peruerted hath the giftes of God deuine With dreames and fond deuice of man and cursed countermine That no where nowe appeares the hope of sinnes forgiuen quight By Christ and life obtayned here and Sathan put to flight To these two Sacraments that Christ himselfe appoynted héere They adde fiue others that more cause of merits may appéere Which though they neyther tokens bée of Gods assured loue Which they ne can being not confirmde with promise from aboue Yet dare he boldly promise here to such as take them right The grace and fauour of the Lorde and eke the holy spright He doth confirme the children yong without examining Or trayll of their fayth or of their woonted handling He teacheth that the holy ghost may be receyude and had At handes of euery Priest that is as well of good as bad Not putting difference betwixt Christes Legates truly sent And wicked Simon damned for his mischieuous intent With Creame their foreheads doth he mark the people laughing there And those whome thus he marked hath he striketh on the eare Then Godfather or Godmother is readie streight at hande To binde the noynted forehead like a wound with linnen bande Which he enforced is to weare eight dayes continuallie With pleasure great to euery one that kéepes him companie And after taken of againe his forehead washed

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