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A08899	A dialogue agaynst the tyrannye of the Papistes. Translated out of Latin into Englysse, by E.C.; Dialogus contra papistarum tyrannidem. English.	Haddon, Walter, 1516-1572, attributed name.; Seres, William, d. ca. 1579.; E. C., fl. 1562.	1562 (1562)	STC 19176; ESTC S120121	18,429	52

which thinge alone as in a most deepe tombe Sepulcher the hole sence and sauour of al our religiō euen as y ● would say the soule of all godlines lieth hid The time would fa●…le me if I should recite the residue of all the detestable abuses of the Popish kingdome al which thinges yet custome hath made so familier vnto the vnskilfull cōmon people that scarce Or not at all they can be pulled from them But euen in like maner as they whose eyes be heauye laden with sleepe are lothe to be raised and would not by their wils loke vp to the light euen so a great parte of Christes Churche hauing slumbred and slept as it were by the meanes of Popy seede in the domme dregges traditions of the Romish Ceremonies do as yet rout in darknes when as the cleare light of the Gospell is offred to them they lepe back in an anger yea and are ready to fight for the matter to rather thē they would be drawen out of those mistye caues dongeons And now that god y ● father of all mercye hath raysed vp in this our time a certayn godly deuout cōpany of christian people who hauing respect vnto y ● primatiue church i which christ himself lyued w t his Apostles desire to call home again y e pure worshipping of god foūded in the gospel vsed of aūcient tyme and now many yeares omitted this Romish hell hoūd fareth as he were wood whetting his teeth casting out his thicke smoky threatnings shaking his fire brandes yea kicking spurning on euery side y ● he might not be cōstruined to go out of his murk den and maugre his head beholde the newe light of the Gospell But god shal raise vp an Hercules who shal pull this Cacus fatted pampred with the bloud of innocentes out of his nest draw he neuer so farre backewarde striue he and struggle he neuer so muche vnlesse he spedelye whiche wee looke not for shall correct and amend him self Cecin There is very smal hope of his amendmēt hitherto shewed In so much as his adherentes at this present be very sore bent against the light of y ● gospel vsing such cruelty as we can not remember y ● like For afore this time they were of the basest sort whom they medled withall pullinge vppe here and there one for the moste parte Again they proceaded against those that were accused by a certayn ordinary cours●… of the Popes lawe Nowe whole townes yea whole cities and almoste whole kingdomes be cōdempned The field is the place of iudgemēt the iudge is the sword or the halter The lawes be y ● proud presumpteous cōmaundementes of the Popishe potestates nothing is done by law nothing is done by order thei procede only by violence Wherfore either their ti ranny must be out of hand repressed or elles the Gospell muste needes quaile H●…l Naye sure vnles we take the better hede y ● gospel wil be quite ouerthrowē al y ● professours therof vtterly perish For sith y e Deuil hath fastened so depely euen in the bottom and roote of the popishe mindes the hatred of true religiō y ● his ministers cā find in their hartes to beseage their own Cities to slay their own Citizins to woūd their own bowels to be cruell vppon their owne bloud to be short to bring in forrein power and aid to ouerthrow their own natiue Countrie what trowe you wil they do to other which teare their own in peces What outrages will they make in straunge landes who so spoile and waste their owne countrey Cecin What then is best to be done or what shalbe thende of these miseries Heluid we must referre thend to God who wil maintain his owne quarel himself and defend his owne seruauntes though al the world al the diuels in hel say ▪ nay to it In the mean time we must loke y ● we lay good foundations and must dili gently way these matters Let vs then before al things cal vpō god the father his Christ our sauiour Let vs lift vp our handes to heauen Innocent hands I meane not bloudy pure handes not corrupted lowly not proud meke not cruell from thence let vs craue ayde where the prayers of the iuste be alwaies auaylable Moreouer since that the kingdome of Antichrist doeth thus conspire againste the trothe of Christes religion let vs lykewise agree amongst our selues to defende the gospell not to prouoke but to resist not to bring iniurye in but to driue it awaye not to offend any other mans estate but to preserue our owne to preserue oure owne liues and the liues of our Wyues and children For both nature commaūdeth and all lawe both of God and manne permitteth to resist open violence Mattathias that famous and worthy Captain when Antiochus Souldiers fierslye inuaded him and profaned al holye thinges being required to tast swines fleshe he put on armour and that vpon the Sabboth day transgressinge one commaundement to the intent he might kepe the rest And the fathers example folowed his Sonne Iudas Machabeus Since the y ● most noble famely had rather dye then eat the flesh of Swine how feruently ought we to be bent to maintaine and defend the pure light of the Gospel wherin god the father with our sauiour Iesus Christe is so liuely portiered e●…pressed that we haue nothing els to quiet our consciences withal The holy ghost in the gospel aloweth wages to Souldiars and also geueth preceptes howe they should liue And if so be any war at al be lawful surely that is lawful wherein thou dost not assault an other mans life but defendest thine owne thou doest not spoile other mens goods but preseruest thine owne Thou doest not seke a kingdom or dominion but to serue god and thy conscyence wherein there is ment no reuenge but necessity obeied For war is not to be taken in hād or al lowed but when ther can be foūd none other remedy els especially against a lawful maiestrate whom y ● holy ghost hath apointed to be had in such estimatiō y ● he ought no waies to be touched or misused Wherefore my talk tendeth nothing to him but to y ● extraordinary vprores of y ● Popes warriers whose gre dye appetites if by any lawful meanes they could be pacified I would prefer a hard peace before a iust war But sinc●… thei haue no respect to god non to their brethrē citizins none to their own na tiue coūtry if seruing a forrein priest they wil without y ● wil of their prince euē against a law oppresse al ▪ w t tiranny if none can be in rest for them vnles he first becom wicked if we must nedes eyther be ouerthrowen troden vnder fote of our enemies or els setle our selues to defēd I se no cause why in so vnnatural so cruel so manifest a violēce al honest means are not left vnto vs to prouide