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A02616	The great bragge and challenge of M. Champion a Jesuite co[m]monlye called Edmunde Campion, latelye arriued in Englande, contayninge nyne articles here seuerallye laide downe, directed by him to the lordes of the Counsail, / co[n]futed & aunswered by Meredith Hanmer ...	Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.; Hanmer, Meredith, 1543-1604.	1581 (1581)	STC 12745; ESTC S3923	32,146	62

the Bishop had done his deuotion passed by the counterfeit dead man was stirred and hee was found dead in deede Deale not w t your countrey men in iest I feare mee in fayth you will be found dead in earnest Of Ecebolius y e Sophist of Constantinople it is written that in the time of Constantius he was hot in religion in the time of Iulian colde agayne in the dayes of Iouinian earnest And in these his changes he would prostrate him selfe at the church Porche saying me quasi salem insipidum pedibus conculcate treade vppon mee or trample mee vnderfoote as vnsauory Salt The Pope who is accepted amonge your professors as prince of Prelats head of the Church gods liuetenaunt on earth christs vicar generall wryteth him selfe the seruaunt of seruaunts Your docter Bonner sayd sometimes of him and as I hope your eyes wilbe opened to see the same Notvvithstanding the pope be a very rauening vvolfe in sheepes clothing yet he calleth him selfe the seruaunte of seruaunts In him is the saying of Irenaeus founde true Antichristus cum sit seruus tamen adorari vult vt deus Antichrist being but a seruant yet vvil be vvorshiped as god The aungel enfourmeth Vguentinus the monke in a vision of the Romish priestes saing In quibusdam videtur ceruicis inflexio sed nō deponitur in eis cordis erectio In certene religious personnes Douking or bovving of the necke is seene but in them the lifting vp of the heart is not laid dovvne Now sir do ye see your self Behold ye are againe in the clowds with your courage affiance assuraunce perfect knovvledge euidence impugnable against al protestantes lyuing such an other Champion was Golias the great bastard of the Philistins As ioly a Champion as ye are take heede ye ouermatch not your selfe There happely may meete you a simple curate who with the flinge of Dauids confidence the stone of gods word may pearce your Lyons pelt and ouerturne you with al the Bombast of your Romysh religion Ruffinus reporteth of the lyke brag made at y e coūcel of Nice by a subtil philosopher who set himselfe against all the bishops there where a seely poore Christian the symplest of all the number toke him in hand so that in the end this Bragger sayth the story ita obstupefactus virtute dictorum mutus ad omnia hoc solum potuit respondere ita sibi videri nec aliud verum esse quam quod dixerat vvas so astonied vvith the force of those thinges that vvere spoken he had not a vvord this onely could he ansvveare that it semed so vnto him and that there vvas no other trueth then the christian had spoken And now to consider of youre challenge I saye vnto you if there were no wyser then my selfe you should be disputed withall as longe as yee were able to turne your tounge in your mouth yf ye conforme your selfe otherwyse I am not to bolden you and become a ciuil subiecte and a student in any of the Uniuersityes within her maiesties Dominions as ye know the maner the Scholes are open set vp your questions appoint the day let euery thing be don in order yee shalbe disputed withall Or if vnto the wise and discrete this way seeme not best take your penne call your fyue senses and wittes togeather alleage what ye can ye shal be aunswered And whereas ye charge vs that vve fraye men in our pulpittes ouerrule them in our Kingdome of Grammarians and vnlearned eares we are no bugges the Pope with his pupilles is hee that frayeth men w t the terrour of the Lions pelt much like Xerxes king of Persia who hauīg brought ouer his huge army into Graecia sent his letters of defiance vnto the great mount Athos in Macedonia commaundinge him to stande still not to stirre a foote not to worke any displeasure ether to him or his army vpon payne of his high indignation For y e Pope wyth as good discretion sendeth out hys preceptes and princely summons to commaund Aungels Archaungels all the powers of heauē to goe to fetch to carry at hys will Antoninus Archbishop of Florence setteth forth the bugge where he wryteth Potestas papae maior est omni alia creata post potestatem christi aliquo modo extendens se ad coelestia terrestria infernalia vt de ●o possit illud verificari dictum de christo in psalmis omnia subiecisti sub pedibus eius The popes povver is greater thē any other povver that god euer made after christ after a sort stretching it self to things in heauen earth and hell so that of him the vvords may bee verifyed vvhych the prophet Dauid spake of christ in the psalmes thou haste made all thinges subiecte vnder his feete Here is the bugge that fraieth and amazeth the harts of the simple by cursing with bell booke and candle The histories record that when Gregory the .7 had cursed the emperour Henry .3 the Princes of Almayne fearing the popes thunderbolt wente about to chose an other emperour and again whē he came to be reconcylde to the Pope not one of his nobility durst accompany him Moreouer when Calixtus .2 required Henry .5 to surrēder vnto the Pope and his successors the inuestyng of bishops the princes of Germany trembling at the Popes banning and cursyng perswade him to yelde I will not presently trouble the reader wyth the words and forme of y e Diuells pater noster and the Popes blacke sanctus But now God bee praysed the Asse may ●et vp and downe in the Lyons skinne with more ease and lesse terror for hee is stript of his counterfaite weede and now appeareth as hee is It pleaseth you lastly to terme our sway the kingdome of Grammarrians our auditorie vnlearned eares As for the teachers ioyne whē yee will you shall finde such as shal aunswere all the wandring Iesuites of your order not onely in humanity which yee call Gammar but in any the lyberall sciences or noble faculties with good skill and knowledge in the learned languages florishing at this day in y e famous Uniuersities of Oxenford and Cambridge Our auditors whom your predecessors in that your Romishe profession and companions haue heretofore termed Pigges swyne and now yee call vnlearned eares be it spoken to the glory of God and the comfort of their fellowe Brethren in Christe are so instructed in Gods worde and so trayned vp in Religion that many of them being but laye men ate able not onely to confirme their owne doctrine and fayth with sufficient proofes and allegations out of holy Scripture but also to confute your errors and superstition blanke in their language the greatest bragger of your Society The Iesuite ANd because it hath pleased God to enritch the Queene my soueraygne Lady with noble gifts of nature and princely education I doe verely trust that if her highnes would voutchsafe in her Royall person to heare and geue good

viris siue mulieribus sub specie religionis loquentibus visiones sui capitis quia per tales ipse seductus He made a solempne protestation before all that vvere presēt that they should take heede of people vvere they men or vvere they vvomen that gaue forth the dreames visiōs of their ovvne brayne for by such he him selfe had bene deceaued Old father Gerson Chaunceler sometimes of Paris tryeth out agaynst the abuse of that corrupte tyme which receiued sectes and orders by dreames visions without warrant of gods word Frier Alphonsus is in a pelting chafe with such as geue credit to mens workes as if they were Oracles from aboue and geue them that honor which is due vnto the sacred scriptures Non enim iurauimus sayeth hee in verba hominis sed in verba dei VVe haue not vovved the truth of mans vvord but of gods vvord Thirdly in this vayne hope and confidence you repose in your fained order you trauel from countrey to countrey which is greatly to be lamented as ye report your selfe from Prage to Rome from Rome to England I am affraid lest the story of the wicked spyrit in the Gospell bee fulfilled in you where it is said VVhen the vncleane spyrit is gone out of a man hee vvalketh through d●y places seeking rest and findeth none Then saith hee I vvill turne agayne into my house from vvhence I vvēt out and vvhen he commeth he findeth it empty svvepte and garnished Then goeth he his vvay and taketh vnto him seuen other spirits vvorse then himself vvhē they are entred in they dvvell there the end of that man is vvorse then the beginning Ye haue wandred farre and nigh and passed through dry places as Chrysostome expoundeth homines aridos qui nondum pluuiam euangelicae doctrinae susceperunt in se dry men vvho as yet haue not receiued into their breasts the deavv of gods vvorde in the gospell You haue visited that Romish babylō that great citie vvhich beareth rule ouer the kings of the earth You haue beheld her seuen hils described in the reuelation I doubt not but you shaked hands with Antichrist and swore vnto hym obedyence saluo vestro ordine as the maner is vpō the sole of his foote What neede I repeat vnto you the abhominations which you haue seene reporte them your selfe tell the truth and shame the deuil Iohannes Sarisburiensis sayth In ecclesia Romana sedent Scribae et Pharisae The scribes and pharises sit in the church of Rome It is a very dry soyle for Nicolaus Lyra aboue two hundred and fifty yeres agoe sayd of that Seea Ab ecclesia Romana iam diu est quod recessit gratia It is longe sithence the grace of god is departed from the churche of Rome Cornelius bishop of Bitonto lamented that the clergie of Rome vvas fallen from christ to Antichriste Franciscus Petrarcha calleth Rome the vvhore of Babylon the mother of all Idolatry and Fornication and sayth further that all shame and reuerence is quite departed from thence That it is become a schole of error and a temple of heresy Iohannes Episcopus Chemēsis one of your own saith Ecce Roma nunc est vorago et mammon inferni vbi diabolus totius auaritiae capitaneus residet Behold Rome is now the gulfe and Mammon of the infernall lake Where the Deuell head and general or chieftaine of all auarice is resident Agayn Sedes bestiae id est ecclesiae peruersae est in curiae Romana The seate of the beast that is of the wicked church is in the court of Rome O miserable Rome saith a bishop of your owne Which in the time of our elders hast brought forth the lightes of worthy fathers but in our daies hast brought forth monstruous darknes shamefull and slaunderous to the time to come Petrus Bēbus sayth Romae est sentina pessimorū hominū totius orbis Rome is a sinke of most pestilent varlets and of the whole World Luther confesseth I would not for a great summe of Money but that I had seene Rome otherwise I shoulde haue stood in great feare least that I had misreported ought of them But what I saw that speake I and testify and cry out with Mantuan Viuere qui sancte cupitis discedite Romae Omnia cum liceant non licet esse bonum Fly Rome all yee that meane a life in holinesse to leade Though all yee may yet bard is this the godly way to treade Agayne Sanctus ager scurris venerabilis ara Cynaedis Seruit honorandae diuûm Ganymedibus Aedes The substaunce of these later verses is such y t with modesty they may not bee englished The shame I referre to the fauorers of the cause and the clokers of the filth What say you to these reportes The Wel of your religion is there the Pillers of your fayth are at Rome and your selfe made a Pilgrimage thither Wee are to take heede of poysoned Rayment and rotten Shepe least they infect the flocke and you also warely to tender your state least that accordinge to the Storye of the Euangelist the ende be vvorse with you then the beginninge The practise of such aduersaries and patrons of the Romishe sect is very pernicious Chrysostome wryteth Christianus si malus euaserit peior fit quam si fuisset gentilis A Christian if hee reuolt proueth vvorse then if hee vvere a Gentile or Heathen Therefore I am to warne my Brethren that they take heede of you Now I will heare you further The Iesuite MY charge is free to preach the Gospell to minister the Sacraments to instruct the simple to reforme sinners to confute errors and in briefe to trie all armoure spirituall agaynst foule vice and proude ignoraunce wherewith many of my deare Countreymen are abused The aunswere NOw ye publish your commission is your calling ordinarye or extraordinary extreame ordinary who made you a Preacher youre Prouost of Rome Are yea preacher of the Gospell I pray ye of what Gospel there haue bene many heretikes that reiected the true gospel that is of Iesus Christ and deliuered into the world the Gospels of Peter Thomas Mathias Andrevve and yet would they be counted preachers of the Gospell Helcesaitae had amonge them as they sayd a Gospell fallen from Heauen Sethiani had their Iobelaea the reuelation of Seth and Abraham Archōtici had their Symphoniam Cayni the heretikes of Cayn the murtherer worshipped Iudas the traitor as you do the Pope and alleaged hys Gospell The Ebionits had a gospell secundum Ebraeos and yours is secundum Romanos Let as many as feare God and syncerely embrace the gospell of Iesus Christ vnder the globe mantel or cope of heauen beare witnes and iudge betwene you and vs. you preach the popes supremacy canons of Coūcels decrees of fathers cōstitutions of men rites and ceremonies pardons and indulgences inuocation of Sainctes merits by workes pilgrimage purgatorie masses