alteracion here to shewe himselfe copiouse in the latyne speche For most commonlye the papistes are full of â—ayne glorye But it is alwayes yll spede whan pryde goeth afore and shame cometh after But I thynke verelye this text folowynge was in his waye whan he made that change Ecce magnê° effectus sum precessâ—omnes sapientia c. Loke vpon me wele for I am a great wyse prelate I haue gote more wysdome than they which went afore me For soles manye tymes haue soche ymaginacioÌ„s of theemselues More mete were it both for Pantolabus and soche other to consydre by that chapter of Salomon that all which is vndre the sunne is but vanyte the worde of the lorde excepted And in so doynge he shuld wele perseyue that all which he and his generacion here maynteyneth is but fylthynesse dyrt and poyson nothynge furderynge the sowle of manne but destroyenge yt rather A mysterye 1 For vvithout doubte There is a rovvte 2 Of these same slepers And corner crepers 3 That vere a fayre face In euerye place 4 Multos enim supplantauit nequitia illorum Sap. 19. The openinge 1. in preson also after the death of Iames were glad to absent themselues for a tyme in diuerse howses to playe the corner crepers This therfore is non of youre seuen deadlye synnes 3 Nothynge agreeth this that foloweth here with that which went afore For he that is a sleper beareth no fayre face a brode so longe as he is a sleper Neyther is he seane in euerye place which is a corner crepet Wherfore these rhetorycall poesyes of Pantolabus semeth verye folyshe and wytlesse He shuld apere a moche better Poete wolde he ones leaue the companye of dame ignoraunce Trulye she is manye tymes to nygh his elbowe whan he setteth his penne to the boke Lyke as she is also with Doctor yncke pott otherwyse called Iohan Standyshe A fayre face hath youre holye mother y â— churche of Antichrist borne outwardlye in euery place with copes crosses ceremonyes and sensynges yet doth the scripturs call her a verye whore and the Synagoge of sathan And that fayre face of hers was first represented as a preuyall signe in him which was the first head of the Rome churche by the permissyon of Phocas the false emprour For his name at that tyme was Bonifaciê° which is as moche to saye as bona facies a good face or a glosynge pretence of counterfett holynesse The dowter of a mourthereâ— is that holye mother of yours therfore must she be geuen to murther of verye nature For Phocas trayterouslye slewe his master Mauricius which was the Emprour afore him so entered into his rowme In token that she shuld destroye the Empyre mayntayne her estate by murther 4 I thynke verelye that Pantolabê° will neuer be at other poynt but styll peruert the scripturs and sende vs to Hierico to seke them Soche a mockynge wretche harde I neuer of dayes of my lyfe yet neyther amonge Christianes nor Paganes infydels nor deuyls Here he taketh a spoyled text Multos enim supplantauit nequitia illorum And he appoynteth vs to seke yt in the .xix. chapter of Sapience where as yt is but the iii. chapter of Ecclesiasticus or of Iesus Syrach And there yt standeth thus Multos enim sâ—pplantaâ—it suspicio illorum in vanitate detinuit sensus illorum and are spoken vnto them which are to curyouse in the serche of Gods hydden secretes The medlynge with soche mysteryes sayth he hath begyled manye a manne and tangled their wyttes in vanyte If his syght had serued him wele he myght haue founde after in that chapter for a farder vnderstandynge of that text this clause also Synagoge superborum non erit sanitas c. To the Synagoge of the proude pampred vp porkelynges shall be left no helthe For the synne that is planted in them shall be roted out and yet shall yt not be perceyued of them But the hart of him which hath vnderstandynge shall perceyue thynges verye hygh The dilygent â—are will harken to wysdome and the hart that is wyse shall haue persyght intellygence The godlye prudent will absteyne from vyces and increase in the workes of ryghtuousnesse A mysterye 1 yet are they as frovvarde And as vnto vvarde 2 As the other vvere Of vvhom ye ded here 3 For vvithout doubt It vvill not out 4 That is bred by the bone ¶ The openynge 1. ALwayes is Pantolabê° one manne styll yet blasphemynge these poore innoceÌ„t sowles True is that Lorde of his worde and promes which tolde them afore hande that they shulde alwayes haue the worlde an aduersarye And that they shulde loke for non other frutes of gentylnesse therof but scornefull rebukes and slaunders In coÌ„fyrmacion of this Saynt Iohan sayth also in his reuelacion that as the true preachers hath at anye tyme fynyshed their faythfull testimonye or massage the beast that came out of the bottomlesse pyt which is the great bodye of Sathan or swarme of Antichristes broode shuld euermore make warre ageynst them and styll ouercome them as coÌ„cerninge the body their faythe remayninge alwayes inuincible Here doth Pantolabus which is a maliciouse membre of the same mad mustre report the true seruauntes of y â— lorde to be verie frowarde in opinion full vntowarde in faithe to his mynde They be leue not the newe articles which his holye churche hath taught of Saintes Images relliques ragges rotten rodes confessioÌ„s Masses suffrages diriges purgatorye processions pylgrimages and pardons withe soche other bâ—astlye beggeryes for their auauntage But euermore blessed be the eternal name of that lorde for so visytinge his poore people with knowlege from aboue which hath taught them to abhorre that fylthinesse wherin is nothinge els but dampnacion 2 As a naturall membre of the afore named bodye of Sathan doth Pantolabus shewe himselfe here For lyke as the seyd Sathan accused Iob before the lorde and hath bene euer sens an accuser of owr bretherne in his members so doth Pantalabus nowe accuse them also as one naturallye geueÌ„ vnto the same feate They are as frowarde sayth he ageynst holye churche and as vntowarde to do anye thinge to her commodite as the other sort that is to saye frith Lambert Barnes and soche other were afore of whom ye haue harde here in this worshypfull Genealogye Of them in dede we haue harde sufficientlye that they coude in no wyse awaye with the whoredome of your holye mother in her Idolatrouse ceremonies and sacrifices If these be now in the same selfe takinge also we haue cause moche to reioyce and to geue hygh thankes vnto God so to delyuer thier consciences from your Babilonishe burdenes It is a full manifest token that his persecuted churche is not yet all dead but that he styll lyueth in his trobled members according to his iust promes and shall do to the ende of the worlde For the churche that is his dere spouse is not gloriouslye painted out to the worlde withe golde syluer
holye churche also to fyll hell We rede of a watchynge deuyll whether he were a prest or no that can I not tell but he begate Marlyne the great Prophete of Wales of an holye nonne of saynt Peters in Carmalyn which was the dowter of the kynge of Demecia to conferme this blessed storye with all About a fourescore yeares after that was one Alwinus then bysshop also of Wynchestre accused of yll rule with Emme kyng Edwardes mother so commytted to the examynacyon of the clergye in the yeare of oure Lorde a thousande fyftye but through spirituall fauer he escaped it full well As wytnesseth Rhegino pruniensis whan Charles the seconde Emprour returned agayne into Almanye from his warres with the NormÌ„nes he founde Limphardus the bysshop of Versell which was his chefe councellour so famylyar with his wyfe or empresse Richarda that he coude do no lesse than laye aduouterye to his charge Remigius the bisshop of Dorcestre was depryued of his bisshoprycke by Pope Alexander the seconde bycause he was proued a prestes sonne Eyther had prestes wyues of their owne in those dayes or els there was some other good workemanshyp a brode As â—udaâ—icus y â— archebisshop of â—â—adeburge was daunsynge at mydnyght in a towne called Caâ—ua with her that he loued best he sodenlye fell dead and neuer recouered it in the yeare of oure Lorde a M.CCC.lxxxiii As that holye nonne laye a dyenge which brought forth at one byrthe Petrus Lombatdus the master of the senteÌ„ces Petrus Commestor the master of the hystories and Gracianus monachus the master of the Popes lawes or decrees and was admonisshed of her ghostlye father to be sorye for that aduoâ—trye for soth father quoth she I can not repent it consyderynge that holye churche hath receyued soche thre lyghtes thereof Iohan Eckius that impudeÌ„t warryour of anticrist and the onlye instructour of Englande in that article and certen other in the boke which he farelye made agaynst Martyne Luther grauÌ„teth himselfe not to be Amartiton oâ— a maÌ„ne all without synne He can not he sayth excuse himselfe but that he hath bene as other menne are which hath not obserued the chastyte of Hypolitus for yf he ded we knowe the coÌ„trarye yet will not that brent consciensed hypocrite afferme it to be lawfull for a prest to marye in the lorde so indurate is he to this houre Though Benedict the .xii. Pope graunted to Franciscus Petrarcha which was a Canon of Padua archedeacon of Parma to take one Laureta to wyfe retayninge styll his benefices yet wolde he not afferme it lawfull that prestes myght marrye but onelye by soch blynde dispensacioÌ„s for his owne carnall purpose For this was the chefe cause of his beneuolence towarde him Petrarcha had a fayre syster in Auinion in the howse of his brother Ghirarde whose felyship the holy father ded inwardlye couete workynge manye feate polycies for it He promised besydes this speciall prerogatiue vnto y â— seyd Petrarcha to make him a Cardinall and to geue him greate goodes in case he wolde bringe it to passe Vnto whom as a manne fearynge God Petrarcha made this answer The lorde of heuen forbydde sayth he that euer so fylthye a diademe shulde couer my head And with this he departed the Popis court and so fled into Italie recompensynge there shortlye after by wrytinge this vnworthye demaunde of the Pope as testifyeth Philelphus His impacable furye not yet qualyfyed this holye father by manyfolde gyftes and rewardes made Ghirarde his brother a mannefyt for his hande and so at the last abhominably corrupted the mayde For the which the seyde Ghirarde hauynge great remorse of conscience made himselfe a Charterose monke in Materne not farre from Marsilia to make all to the deuyll Petruo Ryarius a mynorite or graye fryre of Genua and prest cardinall of saynt Sixte in Rome procured of Pope Sixtus y â— fort his vncle by the helpe of his brother Hierome a dispensacyon for the whole how sholde of the cardinall of Saynt Lucie to haue the fre occupyenge of buggerye boyes for the .iii. hotter monthes of the yeare with this clause in the ende Fâ—at vt petitur O fylthynesse noâ— to be spoken but that their hypocresye requireth it in these latter dayes the vengeauÌ„ce of God most depelye hangynge ouer them Nomore am I now ashamed to open their abhominacions than they are yet styll with the dissemblynge tytle of their stynkinge chastyte to couer them The seyd religionsâ— cardinall Peter spent within the space of two yeares .ii. hondred thousande florence in most prodigiouse lecherye And dyed all rotted in that fylthynesse in the .xxviii. yeare of his age the yeare of oure lorde â— M CCCC lxxiiii Petrus Mendosa the cardinall of Valencia in Spayne was not onlye satisfyed with y â— quene vndre kyng Ferdinandus nose besydes other whores but he sent to the Pope for a lycence to occupye his owne sonne the marques of zanet What ruffâ—lynge Pope Iulius made with the cardinall of Nantes in Brytayne for two yonge laddes which the French quene Anne coÌ„mytted vnto him it wolde abhorre honeste eares to heare Pope Clement the .vii. was reported of some wryters to be a bastarde a manqueller a poâ—sener abawde a symonyake a Sodomyte a periure a rauysher a sorcerer a sacreleger a worker of all other myscheues as Wynchestre is now in Englande whose chast lyfe men maye coÌ„iecture by his chekes and ordre Oh that the earthe open not at soche wretchednesse I thinke in Sodome and Gomorre were neuer soche prodigiouse kyndes of fylthynesse as are yet in that spiritualte yet will they be styll a chast generacyon and holde marryage for synne The syster of Alexander farnesius which is now saynt Peters vycar yf he hath anye vndre the name of the .iii. Paule was at this narraw poynt with Pope Leo the .x. no longar to be his owne swete lemanne vnlesse he wold make her brother a cardinall after his wyfe was dead which was than but his scrybe and coÌ„ueyar In all hast possyble was this graunted and perfourmed he constitute bysshop of Hostyense These and soche other lyke examples of holye churche are the frutes of Pantolabus holye ghost that Luther hath bannysshed by his manyfolde heresyes And in the sted of them hath he brought in maryage whom Pantolabê° hath dyffyned to be synne here though it be the clere institucyon of God But parauenture Pantolabê° God is not the God that made marryage and therefore he dare do that wele ynough A mysterye 1 Next after him Is his chefe lym 2 One Melanchtonus Nequaquam bonus 3 Euanuerunâ— in cogitationibus sut◠〈◊〉 â— The openinge 1. IN this processe folowynge is Pantolabus compelled to playe Myhell make shyft No longar will his wittes serue him to coÌ„tinue forth his genealogie by anye maner waye of naturall propagacyon But now he boroweth a lymme of him an other lymme of him Now seketh he to fatche in that coÌ„mer in and
abbot of Redynge the abbot of Lolchestre and the prior of Lenton not farre from Nothyngham Besydes that was done at Walsyngham in Northfolke by syr Nycolas Mylam a Chanon George Gysborow fryre Peckoc and other more But all these captaynes were out of Pantolabus remembraunce at this tyme. 2 Onlye is poore Iohan Frith a captayne sounde out here to his purpose because he was to the Pope a capitall enemye Though Pantolabus be but a fole he knoweth what he wotteth wele ynough I warande you he hath no worse opinyon of all these former captaynes than hath the holye father of Rome That is to saye though they were byheaded hanged quartered yet dyed they full vertuouse menne as ded holye Thomas Beckett for the lybertees of holye churche By this maye ye se that yt is not all one to dye forholye churche and to dye for the Gospell For they that dye for holye churche are holye sayntes and martyrs where as they that dye for the Gospell are but heretyques and trayters But what this will apere in y â— latter iudgement that daye shall declare when no worldlye polycies will helpe This poore yonge manne Iohan Frith which is here coÌ„tempned for the veruytees sake maye chaunce at that daye as the membre with y â— head with Christ to iudge y â— truthes aduersaryes for folowynge him in the same persecucyon For an offyce yt is to a certen sort belongynge But sure I am that they are not those which lyue here voluptuouslye Than must yt nedes be they that suffre all wronges here in that verytees cause 3 The wyfe man sayth that they are those whom y â— worlde had sumtyme in dirisyon thynkynge their doctryne madde folyshnesse and their latter endes withoute honour yet are they rekened amonge the chyldren of God their porcyon is plentyfull amonge the holye sayntes Of this vnlerned hypocrite and braynelesse babler is Iohan Frith noted to be without pyth of lernynge wyte Where as the contrarye is knowne to his whole generacyon which neuer were yet able to confute his boke of purgatorye agenst Rastell More and Rochestre besydes his other workes The veryte hath yet victorye at his hande though he for a tyme be throwne vndre the aulter there callynge for a iust reuengement of that vnpytefull violence so cruellye here ministred vnto him What pythe of wytt and lernynge Pantolabus had whan he wrote this Genealogie yt is wele perseyued of them that hath redde yt yf they were not as he is all wytlesse and gracelesse Scarselye worth a nytt is the best verse therof to him that shall seke eyther wytt or lernynge But as the sayinge is draffe is good ynough for swyne and dyrtye puddynges for dogges As good as the best is this fylthye baggage for the Papistes which seketh nothynge els but errours and lyes in hypocrisye 4 In his allegacyon of scripture Pantolabus shulde seme neyther to be wytty nor lerned For in both his cappyes imprinted by Iohan Redman and Robert Wyer he noteth yt to be in the .xii. Psalme of Dauid and yt is not there but in the .xii. chapter of Salomons Prouerbes There is this text in dede Via stulti recta in oculis eius Loke what a fole taketh in hande that thynketh he onlye wele done A verye folyshe syght hath Pantolabus in Genealogies to take y â— father for y â— sonne Of a lykelyhode he dreamed that he was at Mattens whan he was at masse by takynge of Dauid for Salomon By the orderyng of his scripturs he semeth better lerned in his portas or Masse boke than in the sacred Byble No where had that text bene better bestowed than vpon his owne precyouse bodye yf he had seane himselfe ryghtlye For by his shadowe we maye trace out an ydyote moche more by his persone most of all by his doltyshe doctryne here ministred In the same chapter is this text also verte impios non erunt domus â—ustorum permanebit Turne ouer the wycked and they are nomore seane but the buyldynge of the ryghtouse shall neuer perishe Frith shall be coÌ„mended for his godlye wysdome whan Pantolabus shall be reputed a presumptuouse fole Abominable are deceytfull lyppes before the Lorde but they that labour for the truthe doth please him greatlye A mysterye 1 He dyd saye playne There ded not remayne 2 Ryaâ—â—ye present In the blessed sacrament 3 Os iusti pascitur imperitia Pro. 15. ¶ The openinge 1. ODyouse vnto Pantolabus is Iohan Frith aboue all other and that apereth by this Though he hath afore here accused Wyclef Husse Luther Melanchton Oecolampadius and zwinglius for heretyques yet hath he layde agaynste them non artycles of heresye But now in a great fume he layeth to Iohan Frithes charge the sacrameÌ„t of the aultre and that with no small circumstauÌ„ce Manye menne thynketh that this hote enterpryse of his is more for the losse that he and soche other hath sustayned in dyrge pens sowle grotes masse offerynges treÌ„tals monthmyndes yearmyndes and soche lyke than for anye other deâ—â—ryon That is the comberouse collyâ—k that pangeth him his generacyon daylye at the verye hart roâ—e that maketh them so malancholye madde and modye agaynst heretyques They are not coÌ„tented that Iohan Frith was so playne in his wrytynges concernynge that matter wherin all their commodyte and profyghtes lyeth enclosed Had he medled with anye other thynge els he had not so fore displeased them For yf that ones were taken awaye small substauÌ„ce wold remayne vnto them towardes their spirituall mayntenaunce in pryde whoredom slouthe ydelnesse glottonye buggerye and soch other beastlye frutes of their vnâ—cyons and shauynges 2 Wonderfullye haue they busyed themselues to holde vp that buyldynge of theirs That holye Masse or sacrifice for the quyeke and the dead patched togyther by so manye holye Popes with so manye ceremonyes dysgysynges syghtes instrumentes gyâ—nes legerdemaynes turnynges beckynges dreamynges dottynges mowynges gapynges breathynges with ho he haue at all cryenges crossynges doppynges dossynges blessynges breakynges deâ—owrynges syppynges rynsynges thombe lyckynges manye other toyes besydes All their wyttes labour disygence and stodye haue they with Demetrius occupyed to prepare stronge bulwerkes for this shryne of Dyana Afterthat their Pope had ones optayned of Phocas the false emprour to be head of y â— churche By the craftye practyses of the moÌ„kes Paschasiê° Berno Guido Humbertê° Gulmundus Algerus Rogerus Lanfrancus Ansâ—lmus and soche other was realyte adioyned to the sacrament Than were vnyuersytees founded euerye where by monkes also to vpholde that newe buylded butteras Than stode forth Peter the Lombarde or the Master of their sentences which was begotten bredde and borne of an holye whore a nonne I shulde saye vndre the sacred vowe of chastyte and he gaue vnto yt transubstanciacyon Than folowed transmutacyon transicyon and transaccidentacyon but not transsyguracyon yet to this daye Than ded Pope Innocent the .iii. of that name make yt Accidens sine subiecto Thomas of
For all youre crepynge and crowchyng to soche ydolouse shepeherdes is for that swete Ambicion whom youre hart so sore coueteth And as concernynge sedicions and scysmes Not one hath bene in Christendome notable these D.CCC. yeares but youre false generacion hath bene therin the chefe doers as all the Chronicles mencioneth What myschefe ye ded ones in the cyte of London in kynge Rychardes tyme the seconde abought an horse lofe it is shame yet to reherse besydes that ye haue wrought there in other quarters of Englande euer sens that tyme. 2 He that doth speake the thynge that is true and certayne without false colours of cauteles doth vtter it in wordes playne is moche better occupyed than euer were you yet For that which you haue taught in the churche and yet do styll teache daylye so but the verye doctryne of deuyls so vncertayne and vntrue as they are Nothynge els are youre histories of the Saintes but fables lyes and fantasyes taken out of Legenda aurea made by fryre Iames de voragine The promyses that ye make to the people concernynge youre Masses that some of them shuld be wholsom for the poxe somme for the pestylence somme for the ague somme for the headake somme for y â— fâ—wle euyll and soche other are false and abhominably practysed of you to deceyue the simple for moneye And lyke wyse youre frydaye fastynges ladyes psalters and rosaryes with bedes primers pyâ—turs candels holye waxe other wytcherye more Neuer are the swete promyses of the Gospell made playne vnto the people by you but darkened euermore with youre hypocrites gloses Neyther will ye entre into the kyngedome of God youreselues nor yet suffre anye other that wolde gladlye entre All youre stodye is to vpholde those mytred Mahometes the Bisshoppes to maynteyne you styll in the kyngedome of fleshlye ydelnesse And for that ye care not how manye Christen sowles ye murther 3 As connynge as ye make ye in fyndynge ye shewe youre selfe here but a false and a deceytfull sercher ye saye first to Barnes charge that he sowed sedicion This is no newe thynge in you but an olde vsed practyse in youre craftye generacion Of sedicion was Christ accused by the hyghe Prestes yet caused they Barrabas that was the sedicion worker and a murtherer also by their instaunt labour to be saued Paule was complayned of to the debyte Felix to be a commocion maker not without the false counsell of the Bisshoppe Ananias yet was he a manne most peceable and godlye Happye is Robert Barnes therfore with them so to be noted of the same selfe sort Playne are his wordes good manne in all the workes he hath made coÌ„cernynge obedieÌ„ce dewe both to God and to his prince In all his wrytynges can not I fynde one clause of disobedieÌ„ce to eyther of them Manifestlye declared he his obedience towardes God in that he for his truthes sake forsoke all worldlye estimacion that he myght â—ele haue had at the latter ende gaue his lyfe for it also And as touchynge the kynges mageste his large supplycacion vnto him directed is a sufficient wtynesse therof towardes him besydes y â— boke which he wrote vnto him in Latine coÌ„cernynge the lyues of the Romishe Popes But it will here after apete some other obedience that Pantolabê° complayneth of than eyther of these be 4 I perseyue by the circumstaunce of this matter that the holye obedieÌ„ce which Pantolabê° meaneth here that coude not be founde out of Barnes smelleth towardes Rome For it is a spirituall obedience belongynge onlye to his mother holye churche which is no congregacion of the lewde layte but of spirituall prelates as his holye father the Pope with all his college of carde makers arche byteshepes and byteshepes dockers presters and currates These are the hyghe powers that he speaketh of here after to whom he wolde haue vs so sore bounde to be obedient in peyne of deadlye synne because that his honorable mastershyp myght be loked vpon also as a ryght worshypfull curatâ— amonge them concernynge his tythes offerynges For it is an yll worlde whan the people will not knowe their dewtye to hâ—lye churche A great decaye is it to their holye mother that the cursynge sentence is gone This was the obedieÌ„ce that doctor Barnes coude neuer fynde in all the scripturs therfore meanes were sought out to haue him brent for an heretyque without examinacion of his articles Where as yf he had acknowledged this he had bene styll a lyue Thus playe these Romishe gentylmenne colle vndre the candelstick cloynige vndre craftye colours to clought vp their false kingedom of deuyllishnesse ageyne yf it may be The subtilte of the serpent is not yet all dead but lyeth styll lurkinge in their generacion to worke all myschefes 5 Scripturs haue we non of this wretched Papyst but eyther they are wrasted hacked maÌ„gled or els falselye alleged Vir Apostata iurgia seminat is here now brought in whiche wanteth no lessethan .xvii. wordes of the whole sentence to serue his false purpose And to amende the matter he noteth it the .vi. Chapter of Sapience where is it is not so but the .vi. Chapter of Salomons Prouerbes His concordaunce there deceyued him For that onlye he sought for this text and not the Byble And thê° lyâ—th the text there Homo apostata vir inuitlis graditur ore peruerso annuit oculis terit pede digito loquitur prauo corde machina turmalum et omni tempore iurgia seminat A dissemblynge persone a manne myndinge no goodnesse hath all these propyrteâ—â— with him He carryeth a deceitfull mouthe his eyes winketh wyles his fete traceth toyes he pointeth with his fingars he is alwayes Imageninge euill and in euery place coÌ„monlye he soweth discorde To this ende doth not Pantalabus bringe in this text here but onlye to proue Barnes an apostata for leauinge his fryres cote with y â— Popes obedience And in this hath he shewed himselfe here in his owne right colours a through Papyst in dede I will not saye a raÌ„ke traytour to approue my coniecture afore Easye is it to se what lyeth in the hartes of these pestilent poyseners of the people whaÌ„ the forsakinge of a pylde frytes cote is so wayghtye a matter with them yet styll The sequele of that Chapter ded not Pantolabê° marke for his owne amendement others For he found it not in his coÌ„cordaunce Sex sunt que odit Dominus et septimum detestatue anima eius Sex thinges are there which the lorde hateth and the seuenth he abhorreth without remedye A proude loke a dissemblinge tonge handes shedinge innocent blood an hart Imageninge euill fete that are swyft to do myschefe a false lyenge wytnesse and he that soweth discorde amonge bretherne In this clere myrrour he might haue seane himselfe in the hate of God and a great sort more of his cumpany A mysterye 1 To the commanndement Of the hygh povvers At anye hovvres 2 On payne
of synne But vvhat ded he vvynne 3 He vvas tyed at a poste And there ded roste 4 Onnis anima potestatibus subdita sit Rom. 8. ¶ The openinge .1 MAlice hath so blinded this imprudeÌ„t pratler that he seyth not the waye he goeth in And though he doth se it playne ynough yet doubteth he not the daungers therof And parauenture he nedeth nor neyther For the wynker of wyles and y â— seker out of subtyltees hath put him and his companye in assuraunce that though they slyde a lytle in the darke yet shall they catche no scathe For nought is it not that they daunse attendaunce plainge placebo with Reynarde the foxe At all tymes shall they be redye to geue warninge yf anye parell be towardes their whelpes Lete them do nothinge els in the meane season but se alwayes that the people obeye the commaundement of the high powers meaninge by theÌ„ the spiritual prelates And that they beleue as holye churche doth teache theÌ„ after the olde customes of their auÌ„cieÌ„t elders for these newe falshyoned wayes are nothinge worthe If any be busye with these newe bokes ageynst those hygh powers lete them cause their sworne satellites to indite them of heresye Come they ones that wayes vndretheir spirituall handes they shall fynde lesse ease of it than eyther thefe or murtherer Therfor it shall be mete at all houres seasons for him that will lyue in rest to be obedieÌ„t to these hygh powers though he shuld for their obedience vtterlye forsake God and obeye the deuyll For their obedience is non other 2 A farre diuerse obedience is this froÌ„ al other For it bideth vnto sinne as witnesseth also the great wyse clarke Iohan Standishe in his treatise of reporche ageiÌ„st Barnes And I beleue it wele for their lawes commaundementes and customes to whoÌ„ they wolde binde vs are nothinge els but fylthye Idolatrye sinne Agreinge with y â— sainge of Saint Paule That is not of the faithe which Christ hath taught is wickednesse and sinne I wote that of a craft they wyll saye here they meane the kiÌ„ge though they mynde nothinge lesse but vndre that coloure to establishe ageyne the decayed aâ—ctorite of their whorishe churche Whye shuld Pantolabus els call Barnes here craftelye an Apostata That clause was not all brought in for nought The manne ment sumwhat more thaÌ„ he durst wele vtter But where as he doth scornefullye axe this question what Barnes ded winne by so disobeinge the holye fathers I will answere it for him bycause he is now dead He hath wonne so moche as Christ promised him which set him a worke That is persecucion enprisonment and deathe And trulye that was a swete winninge for therwith hath he wonne also the lyfe euerlastinge Who so euer will saue his lyfe saith Christ shall lose it And he that shall lose his lyfe for my sake shall fynde it ageyne in the lyfe euerlasting Saint Paule sayed boldelye vnto the Philippyanes that deathe was vnto him a winninge And I knowe that the lyberall hande of the lorde is not yet abreuiated 3 Now steppeth forth Pantolabê° as bragge a bodye lowse and as one depelye lerned in y â— scole of scornefulnesse he soluteth his owne wyse questioÌ„ He declareth to the worlde what Barnes dâ—dâ— wynne for not obeienge holye churche as though menne were ignoraunt therof He telleth them with so moche spight as he can wele Imagine that Barnes was tyed to a poste in Smytfelde at London with .ii. companions more and that he there ded roste But he sayeth nothinge I trowe of the Popes .iii. sworne chaplaynes Powell Abell and fetherston his owne swete companions which were the some daye houre in the same selfe smithfelde both hanged and quartered for treason No that disobedience toucheth not Pantolabus I tolde yow afore that he wolde at the last declare vnto yow for all his craftye colours what obedieÌ„ce he ment O holy Rome holy Rome thu spirituall Sodome and Egipt moche beholden art thu to thy secrete louers in Englande so workemaÌ„ly to cloyne in thy cause As concerninge good Robert Barnes whose ende is thought without honour of y â— daintye babes of this worlde He is counted amonge the dere children of God and hath his porcion with the saintes Though he semeth lost to y â— vngodlye wise yet resteth he swetelye in the peace of the lorde As golde in the hote fyerye fornace tryeth he his electes and as a brent offeringe receyueth theÌ„ For soche matters passeth not after y e blinde iudgement of menne lyuinge here in waÌ„tonnesse 4 Alwayes is Pantolabus lyke him w c tempted Christ in the desart whose Apostleship he hath here deuoutlye taken vpoÌ„ him Styll vseth he his olde roberyes and legerdemaynes with the scripture Here geueth he vs a mangled texte of Saint Paule to the Romanes appointing vs the .viii. chapter instede of the. xiii If it be not honest playe and cleane conueyaunce I report me to yow Omnis anima potestatibus subditâ—sit sayth he in both his coppyes but sublimioribus is out there for seruinge his spirituall purpose Lete euerye sowle sayth he submit it selfe to the powrs but the hyghar powers he nameth not least he shuld haue mencioned the kynge myndinge nothingelesse For he is the hygher power and God is y â— hyghest of all Powers without hygher or hyghest are alwayes indifferent maye be iudgled with therfor he putteth them here for the Prelates of his churche But Saint Iohan sayth in the Apocalyps that their powers are of the Serpent which gaue his auctorite and seate to that beastlye Antichrist of theirs Whan Christ spake of worldlye powers he ernestlye charged his Apostles to obeye them but in no case to take them vpon them I wondre of the blyndenesse of Pantolabus that he perseyueth not what foloweth in the same Chapter Nemini debeatis quicquam nisi vt inuicem diligaâ—is Lete nothinge be donne amonge yow but in mutuall loue sayth Saint Paule Lete charite be the power that yow shall occupye for that fulfylleth the lawe If this power regned in Prelates and were so well taught of them as it is commaunded neyther shuld the hygh powers haue so moche a do in ponnyshinge theft whoredome and murther nor yet so many of their spirituall swarme be whoremongers murtherers robbers of the common people as they are A mysterye 1 On his ryght syde Vvas also tyed 2 A brother of his One garretyvvys 3 Vna enim cachena tenebrarum colligati erant Eccle. 17. ¶ The openinge 1. Excedinge hote and modye is this maÌ„ne styll in his matters and wyll not haue done with Barnes yet for a lyttle He now describeth his standinge in the fyre betwixt Garade and Hierom. But he telleth not which of his own generacion hinge that daye in the myddes of powell Abell fetherstoÌ„ No that pleased him not so wele as this For these were fryndes to his holy father of Rome where as they were enemies His
one scripture trulye applyed nor yet after anye honest sort declared But as a blinde sorgeon or dogge leche he hath turned it all into one blynde eyesalue to blynde menne all togither True is it in him that Saint Iohan ded saye Though the lyght doth shyne in the darkenesse yet wyll not the darkenesse receyue it Moche water cometh by the myl 〈◊〉 they saye that the myller taketh not in 3 Now coÌ„cludeth Pantolabus his lonâ—â— lowsye circumstaunce conceruinge Doctor Barnes and his companye shewinge vs hete that all they thre are burned And not a lyttle glad is he and his generation therof for so moche as they thre ded them so deadlye noyaunce by their preachinges It cost them no small stodye to bringe it to passe nor yet small diligence and labour to haue it so to their mynde But yet had they w t it a sowle displeasure for so moche as there were the same selfe daye houre .iii. mightye captaynes of their holy assemblye hanged and quartered for treason before the same selfe people Lyke as the deathes of these ii companyes were diuerse so were their opinions and causes The one sort dyed for Christ the other for the Pope For vphold â—ge of Antichrist was powell Abell and fetherston hanged For helpinge downe his kingedom was Barnes Garade and Hierome burned Fortunate are they which suffred for Christ for their rewarde is sayed forth in the scripturs and promises of the lorde For the other is there neyther scripture nor promise Though they were most greuouslye tormented before menne yet was their hope full of immortalyte which now they fele ineffect Their sowles are now in the haÌ„des of God and sure to suffre nomore tormeÌ„tes Though they semed before the vnwyse to dye yet are they nâ—w in a lyfe moche better As sunne beames shall they shyne in y â— daye appointed and iudge y â— nacions which are now vnfaithfull 4 Wele maye that spyghtfull spiritual tâ— be called the kyngedom of Antichrist or beasiâ—ye bodye of Sathan as the Apocasyps doth name it for their beastlye workinge I thinke the deuyll of hell coude not more vnreuerently and mockingly handle the sacred scripturs than this wreched fellawe doth For here he bringeth in a text Ipsi sibi grauiores tenebre which he hath both spoyled of wordes astered in senteÌ„ce and distroyed for the true vnderstandinge puttinge the nominatiue case for the ablatiue And bycause he wolde be behinde with vs in no point of falshede he hath sent vs to seke it in the .xvii. Chapter of Ecclesiastes and there is no Chapter so called in the whole Byble In dede in the .xvii. Chapter of Sapience I fynde this clause Ipsi ergo sibi erant grauiores tenebris yea they were worse vnto them selues sayth Sapience than anye other darkenesse possible This was at that tyme spoken for the Egipcianes and now it extendeth to yow Papystes folowinge them in the same selfe steppes of Idolatrye The cause whye ye do so daÌ„pnablye erre is that ye will not be reformed by the wysdoÌ„ of God as the beginninge of that Chapter specifyâ—th but ye take your owne wayes in all thinges Frequenter enim sayth he preoccupaÌ„t pessiniâ— redarguente consciencia Oft tymes do they those wicked thiÌ„ges that their conscience rebuketh them of Whan ye haue practised deceyt spoken lyes exercysed fylthynesse done the innocent to deathe with soche other feates your myndes are not alwayes in quiet In token wherof ye go oft to confession yet are your lyues seldon the better A mysterye 1 I feare me sore There vvyll come more 2 Vnto that ende Except they amende 3 Vix corriguntur impij Eccle. 1. ¶ The openinge 1. OVt of no small charite aryseth this feare of Pantolabus least anye more shuld come to the ende of Barnes or be brent in the fyre as he was yea so brotherlye he tendereth that matter and with so moche Christen loue that he wolde not greatlye care to be the first that shuld accuse a true Christen beleuer yf he knewe his faythe throughlye As moche pyâ—â— hath he in those matters as hath eyther the foxe vpoÌ„ the chyckens or the wolfe vpon the lambe I wolde that Pantolabus shuld take care for his olde showes yf he hath them and not for Christes dere members For they must entre heaueÌ„ by the strayght gote as he ded not by the brode waye which leadeth 〈◊〉 to destruccioÌ„ They must suffre hatred wroÌ„ge spyght vengeaunce yll reportes persecucions exyle curses lyes blasphemies enprisonmeÌ„tes â—hyrst hongre and deathe of their bodies for ryghtousnesse sake elâ— shall they not be lyke meÌ„bers to their head For his spouse is a churche that suffreth not the prâ—â—de gentyll womaÌ„ that mustreth with myters canapees copes crysmatoryes crosses cruettes and candelstyckes A compâ—nye of bretherne there are vnderneth the aulter as Saint IohaÌ„ reporteth which daylye calleth to y â— lorde to haue their blood reuenged of that gorgiouse apareled gentyl woman which is dronken with the excesse therof and their nombre must be fulfylled with soche poor sowles And tyll that be fynished there must daylye folowe more nâ— remedy 2 Moche doubt hath Pantolabê° for this ende But he had more nede to take care for himselfe least an halter be bewixt him and his ende For he hath so plentuouslye deserued it as hath anye other ranke Papist of that affinite yf this Iest of his be but indifferentlye wayed As for those good menne whom he heeâ— moste cruellye blasphemeth without lerninge though their deathes were not verye preciouse in his folyshe iudgemeÌ„t bycause he is ledde of a contrarye sprete yet were they right pleasaunt to their lorde God in whose kyngedom nowe they rest with Abraham Isaac and Iacob If they had dyed for fellonye murther whoredom or treason I wolde with Pantolabus haue iudged their deathes verye yll Se that non of you suffre sayth Saint Peter as an homicide thefe or yll doeâ— If anye manne suffre as a cristiane lete him not be ashamed therof but glofyâ—â—e God in that behalfe For w tstandinge the false kingedom of Antichrist in the beiytees quarell dyed they as it is euident to all ryght iudgementes and therfor their deathes are gloriouse The amendement which Pantolabus requireth here concerneth the obedience of that malygnaunt mustre of those mitred mahouÌ„des whoÌ„ he wolde in no wyse to decaye But lete him set his hart at rest for the lorde is almost at a point with that wretched wytcherye 3 VnplesauÌ„t euermore are the scripturs to Pantolabê° and that apereth wele by his monstruouse handelynge of them Here bringeth he in to coÌ„ferme his purpose a ragged patche out of the first chapter of Ecclesiastes otherwyse called the preacher but not as it is there spokeÌ„ For here it is Vix corriguntur impiâ— And there it is thus peruersâ— difficiâ—e corriguntur A verye harde thinge is it sayth he to make the croked strayght or the frowarde wele disposed Parauenture he hath made this
ayre Effuderunt sanguinem corum tanquam aquam What they are that haue y â— true beleuers in soche deadlye derysioÌ„ it were easye ynough to perseyue though we had nothinge els to proue it but this present Genealogye Neuer shall ye â—e that spiritualte of theirs persecute anye other thaÌ„ the louers of the truthe Wynchestre at this houre honteth nether for thefe nor murtherer aduouterer nor whore keper If he ded there shuld not so manye of them so boldelye diuell at the next dore to him But there shall not apere a reader of Christes gospell that he shall not haue by the sleue by and by He sâ—yth not Pantolabus here which is an heretyque in dede yf an heretyque be a peruerter of y â— scripturs for they are of an other veyne that he coueteth He shuld not els be his mothers owne darlynge HEre though I seme sumwhat to digrede yet shall it be no digressyon but a necessarye relaâ—yon consyderyng that Pantolabus hath so spyghtfullye accused matrymonye for synne Sumwhat shall it be nedefull to shewe here to the commendacyon of that godlye estate of lyuynge and to the vtter reproche and shame of the contempners therof by the scriptures chronicles To non other ende ded y â— Pope w t his prelates first inhybyt prestis their marryage but to apere therby an holy spirituall kyngdome deuyded from the prophane multitude to lyue in all voluptuousnesse deceyt Marke fyrst their vngodlye sprete by this The lorde coÌ„maunded not Dauid to put from him Bersabe after the death of Vrias for the aduouterye afore committed but both allowed her after for his wyfe also greatlye loued the seconde frute of her begotten which was Salomon The Rome churche as a congregacyon cleane contrarye to God in that coÌ„maunded their prestes first not onlye to forsake their most lawfull wyues but also to leaue their most dere chyldren as frutes of fornicacyon which cruelte we haue also felt in this age And thus hath holye wedlock bene vnto them euer sens a most pernycyouse poyson and stynkynge whoredome with buggerye a most suffren remedye of their naturall dyssease Soche hath bene their sathanycall tyrannye euer sens A great aduersarye to that holye office was Pope Nycolas the first in the yeare of oure lorde D. ccc.lxiiii tyll Huldrichus the good bishop of Augusâ—a in Germanye withstode his deuyllyshe hypocresye yet was a wyfe non impediment to holye â—aynt Nycolas longe afore that which was of a coÌ„mon cytezen made the archebisshop of Myrâ—hea and metropolytane of all the whole lande of Lycia Nomore was it to Ignaciê° Hermas Anâ—anus Pheleas Spiridion Valens Hilarius Polycrates Dionysius Corintheorum Tartulianus Cheremon Basilius senior Gregorius Nazianzenus Eupsichtê° Philogonius Vitalis Apollinaris Vrsinê° Pharo Burgundus Genebaudus Geroldus and a great sort more which had both wyuâ—s and chyldren yet they all were prestes and bisshoppes Moche better sayth Baptista Mantuanê° was their â—yfe in marryage than is now the lyfe of the spiritualte without it For a great consyderacyon sayth Pius the Seconde Pope otherwyse called Eneas Siluius was marriage first inhibited to prestes but for a moche greatter ought yt ageyne to be graunted them Saynt Peter y â— holye Apostle was not ashamed at Antiochia whan his wyfe was ledde vnto death to cal her by her name which was Eolam or in the latyne Perpetua after writers And to saye vnto her in the myddes of the multitude Swete wyfe remeÌ„bre thy Lorde Iesus Christ feare not theÌ„ which sleyth the bodye for they can do no harme to the sowle Onlye couetousnesse ambycion interdicted this marryage which hath geuen or casion to wonderfull mischeues as I haue declared at large in my answer for Tolwyn ageynst the Bysshop of London To whom I haue added these historyes folowynge vpon iust occasyons here geuen me bycause they are yet so good vnto marriage Pope Iohan the. viii was a woman was begotten with chylde by her owne dere chaplayne chamberlayne a Cardinall which God at that tyme wolde haue known to the worlde that their churche might apere as it was in dede all whorishe fylthye and beastlye lyke as the Apocalips hath described her yet was the worlde so blynde that it neuer perseyued it tyll nowe of late years Marozia caused her husbande Guido which was than Marques of Chuscia to strangle Pope Iohan the .ix. with a pyllowe and to slee his brother Peter that the bastarde which she had by Pope Sergiâ—s the thirde whan she was his concubyne myght be saynt Peters vycar after his father As he was sone after in dede and was called Pope Iohan the .x. Iohan the .xii. Pope begate of his whore Iohan the .xiii. Pope in short space after was stryken to death of the denyll as he was in doynge an other holye acte of bytcherye By the auctorite and commaundement of this holye vycar of sathan ded saynt Donstane here in Englande forbydde Prestes their wyues and had thervnto the assistence of kynge Edgare By the which occasyon Oswaldê° than bisshop of Worcestre expelled the canons out of their cathedrall churche and out of .vi. churches more of his dyocese and thrist in monkes there to supplye their romes onlye bycause they worlde not leaue their wyues for he his selfe had also bene a monke Eâ—helwoldus in lyke case the bisshop of Wynchestre ded the same selfe holye acte also at the same tyme in his dyocese for â—e arose also of y â— same generacyon The prestes not coÌ„tented w t so spyghtfull an â—niurye thought they wolde be euen with saynt Donstane for it as they were in dede For whan he shuld make his purgacyon before the kynge in y â— generall synode for soche matters as they had by that tyme bulted out he had moche a do to saue all thynges honest yet had he both the prelated and kynge vpon his syde For holye fathers wyll at a tyme be as wanton as other poore menne and smell after smockes for all their holynesse Holye Tomas Becket wold sumtyme for his pleasure make a iournaye of pylgrymage to the prymerose peerlesse of Stafforde as his holye lyfe mencyoneth He that shall narrowlye serche saynt Hieromes Epistles shall fynde him sumwhat famylyar with Marcella So shall he fynde Saynt Gregorye with Domicella and also saynt Bonifacius the archebisshop of Magunce with Tecla and Lieba .ii. Englysshe women of his owne cuntre natyue After the death of kynge Edgare this bredde moche trouble in Englande For the great menne of the realme put out y â— monkes by vyolence and restored agayne the Prestes with their wyues tyll soche tyme as a counsell was holden at Wynchestre Where as the prestes were agayne dyscharged by vertu of a voyce which came from a rode in the freyter wall here was propre packynge or els from the deuyll speakynge in him For in dede the deuyll loueth wele and first sought out that holye kynde of chastyte for to bewtyfye therwith the Popes