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A68090	An apology or defence for the Christians of Frau[n]ce which are of the eua[n]gelicall or reformed religion for the satisfiing of such as wil not liue in peace and concord with them. Whereby the purenes of the same religion in the chiefe poyntes that are in variance, is euidently shewed, not onely by the holy scriptures, and by reason: but also by the Popes owne canons. Written to the king of Nauarre and translated out of french into English by Sir Iherom Bowes Knight.; Apologie ou défense pour les chretiens de France de la religion reformée. English	Gentillet, Innocent, ca. 1535-ca. 1595.; Bowes, Jerome, Sir, d. 1616.	1579 (1579)	STC 11742; ESTC S103023	118,829	284

¶ An Apology or defence for the Christians of Fraūce which are of the Euāgelicall or reformed religion for the satisfiing of such as wil not liue in peace and concord with them Whereby the purenes of the same Religion in the chiefe poyntes that are in variance is euidently shewed not onely by the holy scriptures and by reason But also by the Popes owne Canons Written to the king of Nauarre and translated out of french into English by Sir Iherom Bowes Knight AT LONDON Printed by Iohn Day dwelling ouer Aldersgate And are to be sold at his Shop vnder the gate 1579. Cum Priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis ¶ To the right high noble Prince Henrye the second king of Nauarre Prince of Bearn Duke of Vandome and Albret Earle of Foyze Arminack Agenois Bigorie Marle c SYR it is not without cause nor without exaumple that I dare take vpon mee to dedycate vnto your highnes this litle Apologye which contayneth a defence of the reformed Religion and of the Professors of the same For in asmuch as your Maiestie hath euen from your youth vndertakē the defence therof with the hasard of your life gooddes for the same I could not more fitly preferre the iustification of so holy a cause to any than to your Highnes who haue alwayes maintayned the same not onely in words but also by deedes and that with most noble and Princely courage following the renowmed footsteps of the late Queen of Nauarre your mother whose godlynes curtesie and other heroicall vertues are consecrated for euer to most honorable eternitie And I haue beene led to take vpō me this defence to dedicate it to your Maiestie by the example of many good and godly men in the Primitiue church who in their times wrote diuers Apologies in defence of the Christians against the misreportes and illusions of the heathen and did put them vp to the Romayn Emperors that were in those dayes who notwithstanding that they were heathen Princes and ignorāt of the true Religion were moued by them to succor the Christians and to surcease the persecutions that were made against them Quadratus and Aristydes wrote Apologies in their times in defence of the Christians against the heathen and dedicated them to the Emperor Adrian who hauing reade them and perceiuing therby that the Christians worshipped the great God which gouerneth all the world and that in the exercising of their Religion they did not any thing that was preiudiciall to the lawes of the Romain Empire but rather prayed for the prosperitie of him and of his Empire sent a Proclamation to Fundanus the gouerner of Asia wherin he forbad the persecuting of thē any more as in respect of Religion and commaunded that the slaunderers of them should be sore punished And moreouer he caused diuers faire churches to be builded in many places without any Images pictures or portratures greatly allowing the doctrine of the Christians for that it forbiddeth the painting and portraying of God the worshipping of Images or the hauing of them in their churches Likewise Iustine the Philosopher wrote in his time two Apologies that are come to light in defence of the Christians against the false accusations of the heathen whereof he dedicateth the one to the Senate of Rome the other to the Emperor Antonine the godly who being moued therat made a generall law wherby he restrayned the heathen from their false blaming of the Christians for the earthquakes and other publike calamities willing them to impute them to their owne sinnes for he sayd that the Christians worshipped the great God more deuoutely than the heathen themselues worshipped the multitude of their Gods. And he prohibited all men aswell Magistrates as priuate persons to persecute the Christians any more or to slaunder them with accusations or false crimes commaunding them to obserue the foresayd proclamation of his father and Predecessor the Emperor Adrian in all pointes Also Melito the Bishop of Sardis wrot an Apologie in defence of the Christians against the Heathen which he dedicated to the Emperor Marke Antony the Philosopher who was moued therby to fauor the Christians and to cause the persecutions to cease which had bin made in the Prouinces of the Empire without his knowledge and commaundement by the Gouernors and other Magistrates which abused the mildnes and clemency of their Prince as a number doe in these dayes Yea and this good Emperor finding by experience that the Christians were the good and welbeloued seruants of the true God for he wan a great battell against the Marcomannes and Quades by the only prayers of a Legion of Christian Soldiars that were in his army not only forbad the persecuting of the Christians by open Proclamation but also gaue leaue to become Christians to as many as would willing and commaunding that all such as accused any man alonly in respect of Christian Religion shold be greeuously punished as cosoners and slanderers and that no Christian should be compelled to change his Religion Many others besides these as Tertulian and Appollinaris haue pleaded and mayntayned the same cause by setting forth Apologies which haue greatly auayled yea euen with the Heathen Emperors of their times who to say the truth as heathenish as they were haue treden out the way to the Princes of our dayes which beare the titles of Christians and Catholicks to shew them what vprightnes and modesty they ought to vse in the case of Religion Forasmuch therfore as our reformed religiō is blamed and outragiously defaced nowadayes by such as neither do nor wil vnderstand it I after the example of so many good persons haue set my hand to the pen to shew by this short defence that the same is not only grounded vpon Gods pure word and consequently agreeing with the Christen Religion of the primatiue Church but also that it is warranted by the very Canons of the Popes themselues and of the Church of Rome And I am sure that your maiestye being naturally enclined to the peace of Fraunce will not onely take more pleasure to heare the sound of these Canons than the sound of those which haue so often times terribly thundered to the destruction of this desolate kingdome of Fraunce but also be moued to maintaine the same Religion constantly more and more and to be a meane to the French king our soueraign Lord for the reliefe and quietnes of such as professe the same For if the heathen Emperors whom I haue named afore haue vouchsafed to releeue and fauor the Christians in their times without hauing any further knowledge of the Christian Religion than that it contayned not any thing contrary to the Ciuill Lawes how much more ought we to hope for the like at the handes of our most Christian king by your intercession specially seeing that our Religion thanks be to God contayneth not any doctrine which may not well beseeme good Christians and which tendeth not to the aduancing of kings and of their estates as

his maiestie may easely discerne if it may please him to heare our reasons or but only to looke vpon this litle Apologie And surely Sir we assure ourselues that you will alwayes continue to be a mean to his Maiestie euery day better than other for the maintenance and quyetnes of vs and our Religion because you were brought vp in it in your young time and haue made a good profession of it Besides this the famous examples of your noble ancestors which haue been euer renowmed for their godlynes doe direct you to the following of their footesteps For the Histories doe auow vnto vs that your Ancestors of the renowmed house of Burbon for I will not speake of those of late time whose remembrance being yet fresh in mens mindes and will continue honorable for euer among them that come after vs haue alwayes been had in honor for their great zeale towards the Christian Religiō and for their feruent loue to the mayntenance of the crown of Fraunce of the quyetnes of their countrey which are two principall points wherein godlynes shineth forth For first of all the great and dangerous voyages which your Ancestors haue made with men of warre into the East countreys and into Affrike against the Turkes Sarasyns for the great desire they had to aduance the Christian Religion as the two voyages of king Lewis the saint The two voyages of Lewes Duke of Burbon and the voyages of many other princes of their race doe yeald sufficient record of their Religious and godly disposition And although that in those dayes by reason of the great ignorance of languages and of good learning and consequently of the pure doctrine Religion was not so well vnderstoode nor so purely taught as it is nowadayes through the grace of god yet it is not to be douted but that if they had had a purer and cleerer vnderstanding therof they would haue been so much the more earnest and zealous in it And as touching loue and dutifulnes towards their countrey which is the second poynt wherin godlynes consisteth your sayd aūcestors haue geuen so good tryall therof by their contynuall imploying of themselues valyantly in the defence and inlarging of the Crown of Fraunce aswell against forrain enemies as against the disturbers of the publick peace that the house of Burbone hath alwayes iustly had this honorable reporte to haue been alwayes a florishing branch of the bloud Royall and a sure piller of the liberty and safety of the Realme As for example Iaques of Burbon Earl of March and Cōstable of Fraunce gaue good proofe of his loue towards the welfare of his countrey and towards the Crown of Fraunce in hazarding himselfe in many battailes against the English men then almost inuincible enemies of this Realme specially at the battel of Poytiers in the time of king Iohn and also in doing his indeuour with great good will to conclude the peace at Britany and to driue the Companions and Outlawes out of Fraūce which tooke their pleasure in spoyling the coūtrey and in maintayning of trouble in the Realme Also Lewis of Burbon the first Earl of Vādome for that Earldome fell vnto him by his mother made warre against the Englishmen in the time of king Charles the sixt not only in Fraunce but also euen in England and he was a curteous Prince and very profitable to his Countrey aswell in matters of war as of peace His sonne named Lewis also being then Lord great master of Fraunce was in many battailes where he fought valiantly specially at the battaile of Agincourt notwithstanding that he was taken prisoner by the Englishmen with many other great Princes and Lords of Fraunce Likewise he was one of those that toke most paines to make the peace at Arras in the time of king Charles the seuenth for the suppressing of the Ciuil wars which had indured so long time welnere to the vtter destruction of the Realme Iohn of Burbon Earle of Vandome and sonne of the sayd Lewis was also a virtuous Prince and a valyant warryor and aduentured himselfe in many a battaile specially at the siege of Fronsack in the Marches of Burdeloys where he was made knight for his valiant desertes and he was one of the Princes which tooke part with Lewis the Dolphin and with the Dukes of Burbon and Alaunson in setting themselues against the wicked and tirannicall dealings of certayne timeseruers and flatterers of king Charles the seuenth Fraunces of Burbon his sonne a good and stout prince went in the viage to Naples with king Charles the eighth and behaued himselfe nobly in matters both of peace and warre to the honor and profite of the Crowne of Fraunce and of his whole country But I should not soone make an end if I minded to recken vp all the excellent princes of your maiesties most renowmed house of Burbon and much les should I do it if I ment to take vpon me to rehearse their heroycall deedes and vertues which would require many great volumes But I thinke it inough for me to haue named some few of them that might serue for examples to princes and to all other men to speed themselues valiantly in the defence and mayntaynance of the peace of their countrye Which examples wil in my opinion be the better liked of your maiesty because they come not onely of your owne house which hath alwayes been most fruitfull in noble and vertuous princes but also of the Linial discēt of your progenytors For the late king of Nauare your father was the sonne of Charles of Burbon the first duke of Vandome who was sonne of the foresayd Fraunces Earle of Vandome who was sonne to the forenamed Iohn who was sonne to the foresayd Lewis Lord great master of Fraunce who was the sonne of the other Lewis the first Earle of Vandome who was the son of Iohn Earle of March who was the sonne of Iaques Earle of March and constable of Fraunce who was the sonne of Lewis first duke of Burbon surnamed the great duke who was the sonne of Robert of Fraunce Earle of Cleremount and Beawuoysin who was the Sonne of good king Lewis the saynt And so your Maiestie is the eleuenth in order descending in the right line from S. Lewis your great Ancestor whose vertues I hope that God will make to grow more and more in your Royall person making you to be a follower of his steps in that he was a good defender of the Christian Religion a louer of vpright iustice a natiue example of good manners a seuere correcter of partiall corrupt Iudges an vntreatable punisher of blasphemers Atheistes and vsurers and a zealous furtherer of all good reformation But now to come back agayn to my matter I hope that such of the Romain Religion as shall reade this my wryting shall haue no cause to finde fault with me or to say that I deale to roughly with them For hauing once simply and without any bitternesse set down my