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A19367	A supplication exhibited to the most mightie Prince Philip king of Spain &c. VVherin is contained the summe of our Christian religion, for theprofession whereof the Protestants in the lowe Countries of Flaunders, &c. doe suffer persecution, vvyth the meanes to acquiet and appease the troubles in those partes. There is annexed An epistle written to the ministers of Antwerpe, which are called of the confession of Auspurge, concerning the Supper of our sauiour Iesus Christ. VVritten in French and Latine, by Anthonie Corronus of Siuill, professor of Diuinitie.	Corro, Antonio del, 1527-1591.; Corro, Antonio del, 1527-1591. Epistle or godlie admonition, to the pastoures of the Flemish Church in Antwerp. aut	1577 (1577)	STC 5791; ESTC S116690	149,833	422

Maiestie and haue libertie to maintaine and retaine among them the Gospel of Christ though it coste them a greate parte yea theyr whole substance to purchase it than to stoupe and yéelde their necke to the heauy yoke of Idolatry and tiranny of the Papists But at this present partely for feare of war and persecution and partly of your highnesse displeasure they are content to bée quiet and to kéepe silence waiting a good time when your Maiesty woulde bée so gratious vnto them as to permitte them to serue God duely and in that sorte that he hymselfe hath in his holy word prescribed and appointed Wherfore moste dradde soueraigne at my firste commyng my chiefe desyre was to teache and to perswade the people to refraine from the dooing of suche like things as before my commyng had bin rashly lightly attempted by some to wit from the breakyng and plucking downe of Images the ouerturnyng of Altars and Churches and Monasteries as they call them For one thought it was very reasonable and conuenient for vs if we will serue and worshippe God and call vpon him as he hath appoynted vs to doe that is in spirite and in truth to permitte and suffer other also to liue somewhat after their owne liking and forasmuche as they are perswaded that they can not without offence to God reiect these superstitious and Iewish ceremonies to let them alone there wyth for a time and to take their fill thereof yelding for a season to their infirmities and ignorance and praying to god for them that it would please hym to lighten their vnderstandings with the shining beames of his glorious Gospel And after that by the good exāples of our modesty and our conuersation of life to moue to allure and to enflame them to embrace true religion and forsake their olde Idolatrye and false seruice of God. And bicause your Maiesty may briefly vnderstande the chiefe articles of oure religion wherein wée dissent from the Pope and his popelings I will kéepe the order well neare in declaring my minde concerning true religion that I haue heretofore obserued in the discourse which I haue made in detecting their errors and abuses the whiche declaration shall only containe that doctrine which I haue learned and takē out of the word of God and holy Writ and endeuoured myselfe accordingly to preache and sette foorth to your Maiesties subiects And for breuitie sake I will not debate nor amplify the proofes and reasons that I haue for the confirmation of our religion but wil briefly and summarily and by the waye as it were will lightly touch the arguments taken oute of the holy scripture that make for the proofe of our parte and the disproofe of our aduersaries Wherby it shall remaine as a testimony to our posteritie and appeare most manifestly that the inquisitours of Spaine haue vsed great iniustice and abused their commission in persecuting mée for an heretike and therewith also your Maiestye maye well perceiue what kinde of doctrine it is that I woulde haue preached vnto your subiects And bycause perhaps it would be too ●ong and too tedious to entreate of all the points particularly that are at this daye called into controuersie I will only handle fiue or sixe of the chiefe articles and moste necessary of the religion wée professe wherevppon all Christes religion wholy dependeth and is sustained and that your Maiesty may also more easyly iudge the oddes betwixt our doctrine and our aduersaries I will as briefly as is possible lay before you their proofes and argumēts takē out of their own works and speciallye oute of that booke whiche one Ruardus Taperus a diuine of Louane chiefe inquisitour for the lowe Country hathe in the name and behalfe of all the Diuines and Romishe Clergy dedicated vnto your highnesse the whyche séeing it is authorized by youre Maiesties priuiledge I truste all men of that part wil bée contented to take the proofes and confirmatiōs of the Romishe reilgion out of the booke as out of the storehouse of their diuinity For at this daye it is a very hard a difficulte matter to gather any certaine doctrine oute of the reste of popishe diuines consideryng they doe in so many poyntes dissent and disagrée among themselues one condemnyng an other in so muche that certaine famous Vniuersities haue especiallye noted and coted the errors of these men that were accompted the sure stakes and pillers of the Churche of Rome as for example Thomas Aquinas the Maister of the Sentences Durandus Scotus and suche other whom the Romish Clergy hath in greatest price and estimation Of the word of God the holy scripture and the authoritie therof the reading therof in the mother tong SEing that the Church as saith the holy Apostle is builded vppon the foundation of the apostles and prophets whyche is Iesus Christ that heauenly and euerlasting worde it is reasonable and conuenient that we also shoulde beginne the grounde of our confession and faithe of that worde of euerlasting lyfe wherevnto the Churche leaneth and wherein shée reposeth hir whole trust and ●fiaunce Firste and formoste therfore ●e confesse that the word of God which ●e Grecians call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was before all ●ings and from the beginning the whi●e both was with God and was and is ●od it selfe The same worde we con●sse was incarnate and conuersaunt ●nd continuing heere among vs a long ●me to the ende to reconcile mankinde 〈◊〉 his father and to preache vnto them ●hose name was called Iesus that ther●y might bée signified vnto vs that re●mption and euerlasting saluation was ●●rchased for vs by the benefit of hym ●he same surnamed Christe to signifie ●nto vs the anointing of the euerlasting ●riesthood of his kingdom that endureth ●r euer of his most certaine and true ●eaching And forasmuche as the same ●ernall and almightie God can neyther 〈◊〉 séene nor comprehended in the com●sse of mās vnderstanding he determi●ed and perordayned to distribute and ●stowe vppon men the treasures of hys ●isedome and grace by thys hys Legate and Ambassador sent from aboue Wher● vppon he is worthely termed the word o● God begotten of God from euerlasting and before the creation of Heauen an● earth This is the same Iesus that from the beginning spake vnto the Patria●ches and Prophetes imparting to them the will of his father being the very so● of God the shining brightnesse of his fathers glorye the expresse Image of hy● substaunce who vpholdeth and may●tayneth all thinges by this his most myghtye woorde and by the whych all thynges were erected bothe visibl● and inuisible And by thys worde beyn● the eternall and liuely worde we mean not any such thing as can be eyther set● down in paper or written with inke Fo● our meaning is that that word only m●● be written with inke whiche either pr●céeded foorth of hys owne mouth beyn● here in Earthe or out of the mouths 〈◊〉 some of hys ministers at hys wyll an●

to hell in place to draw them out of purgatorie and lastly as a full of their tirāny haue subdued and put vnder their féete the Monarchs Emperours Kings Princes and Magistrates of the earth forcing them to an humilitie vpon their féete they haue vsurped Seigniories and principalities by violence and effusion of mans bloude to t●● ende to make themselues princes and great Lords and theyr children neuews and allies hauyng attyred themselues gorgiously with stolne feathers like to Esops crow and where afore they were so simple that they hadde scarcely wherewith to fill their bellies nowe some of them are béecome Princes some Dukes Earles Marquesses others triumph at theyr pleasure deuouring the goodes of other men all whych is tollerable with them bycause that the Pope their father hath put them in possession of suche wealth iniustly vsurped And if anye one kindled wyth the grace of our Lorde be priuie to such abuses and goeth aboute to discouer them to the people incontinent the Popes their Parentes and Allies with open mouth doe call suche Preachers Heretikes Apostates banished Strangers and people vnworthye of reliefe in a Common state and will enter forthwyth into deuise and trauaile and that with all diligence to commit them eyther to the fyre and fagottes or otherwise to extirpe them quite from the earth bycause they feare that the preachers of truth discouering their pot of roses as the prouerbe saith and that the worlde vnderstanding their tirannies euery one will withdraw and take away his fether rightely belongyng to hym and so in the end the Crow will eftsoones become a crowe and this ioily fellowe dothe returne to his first beggerlye estate Herevnto I aunswere and saye good brethren that you haue greate reason and I woulde in GOD the stones had mouths to manifest suche abuses But yet there is necessarye to our side a sober obseruation of modestie in the words we vse to speake for my part I dout not at all that the diligence of the Popes Cardinals with their parēts and Allies is not rather to maintaine their vsurped estates than the glorie and zeale of God for if they had anye religion they would shew it in their life and cōuersation But alas all the worlde séeth that the greatest zealors and defendors of the Papists shewe almost no feare of God and the Popes thēselues deride with open throat our sauiour Christe according to the exāple of one that died not long since who hauing lefte behinde him many lordships to his children and nephews vsurped by tyranny saide in sorte of railing or madde scoffing that this fable of Iesus Christ had greatly profited many houses who of shifting roysters and disordered people were become possessoures of large reuenues Marke this blasphemie consider what religion this holy S. Peter and vicar of Christe hadde in his hart who notwithstanding vsed his tymes and occcasions so conueniētly as he forgat nothing that concerned his profite But my hope is in God that he will destroy that Babylon and the tyrant Nemroth that defendeth hir his parents and Allies who to preserue their vsurpations raise warre against the children of GOD and murder them Expecting deare brethren this horrible iudgement and moste assured punishement that wil fall vpon them let vs vse pacience in the wrong they offer vs If they call vs heretikes bicause we will not folowe the faith of their Popes but embrace that which Christe hath taught vs Let vs estéeme oure selues happie if they call vs Apostates bycause we bée come forth or rather the Lord hath wonderfully deliuered vs frō the Idolatries and superstitions of the Papistes Lette vs accompt our selues neuerthelesse happy for my part I protest afore the Lord that it is to mée a title and surname of glorie and dignitie to be called Apostate of the Pope and the Antichriste of Rome If they call vs banished from our countrey let vs rather reioyce than discomfort knowing that God hathe not banished vs from his grace neyther is it Christe that hath throwne vs out of hys spirituall kingdome but it is the inquisitours who woulde either haue banished or burned vs per effigiem in spending their rage vppon the strawe and papers bycause they coulde not execute it vpon the flesh and bones of the members of Iesus Christ Let vs giue thanks to god in that such banishments and persecutions procéede not to vs as being guiltie either of thefte murder or treason to our Prince and magistrate nor attainted of any other offence worthy of punishment but bicause we search the health of our soules in the simple and pure word of God. If they call vs straungers let vs remembre that the heauenly father which hath aduowed vs for his children is lord of Heauen and Earth And into what part so euer we shall go we be in the coūtrey of our father we be his proper inheritaunce as the Prophete sayeth in the Psalm 7. That the righteous shall dwel in the Earth and be lawfull possessors of the same Let vs comforte oure selues in this that neyther oure running oute of the countrey nor oure absence from the lande of oure birth hath béene moued by any vsurpation of the possessions or goodes of other but onely to giue place to persecutions Such fléeing awaye is not shamefull but rather honourable séeing we are companions of oure heade and redéemer Iesus Christe who from his childhood was a stranger in the countries of the Egiptians shewing the persecutions of Herode If our persecutours doe curse vs let vs blesse them if they search or séeke oure death let vs pray for their life And when ther shall come question to discouer their abuses tyrannies and extortions let vs vse it with sobrietie modestie and grauitie that it may appere euen to themselues that we are not led by any malice againste their persones but of a spirituall zeale to the glorie of God the aduauncement of the kingdome of Christ chiefe of the church and to the health of the soules of the poore and simple people beguyled and seduced euen vntill now by the preachers of dreames and fables who vnder the colour of Iesus Christe haue martired his church and being in déed very rauening Wolues doe name themselues pastors and sheepherdes of the troupe of god Lastely lette vs endeuor to liue in peace one with an other whether they be of the Romish religiō or reformed church praying always to the Lord that he will lighten vs in our ignoraunces whiche wée ought to shewe to euery one wyth all modestie and gentlenesse accordyng to the example of our mayster and Redéemer Iesus who hath not disdayned to receyue gently and teache myldly his very enimyes persecutyng hym dayely and making coniurations to take from him his life Let vs remember that being euē vpon the crosse pinched with the extreme pangs of death not mynding his owne paines he had remembrance of his enimies with prayer to his heauenly Father to pardon their offences let vs imitate