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A03768	A most excellent treatise of the begynnyng of heresyes in oure tyme, compyled by the Reuerend Father in God Stanislaus Hosius Byshop of Wormes in Prussia. To the moste renomed Prynce Lorde Sigismund myghtie Kyng of Poole, greate Duke of Luten and Russia, Lorde and heyre of all Prussia, Masouia, Samogitia &c. Translated out of Laten in to Englyshe by Richard Shacklock M. of Arte, and student of the ciuil lawes, and intituled by hym: The hatchet of heresies; De origine haeresium nostri temporis. English	Hozjusz, Stanisław, 1504-1579.; Shacklock, Richard.	1565 (1565)	STC 13888; ESTC S113605	100,065	244

cōcerning his doctrine Among whō one Menno Phrisius who semeth to pass all the sorte of them in learning saythe in this wyse Certaynely o heauenly Father I can not be deceaued in this matter with thy worde I haue beleued and that haue I receaued by the holy Ghoste as the worde of truthe And with in fewe lynes after I knowe certaynely and surely that with this my doctryne which is the worde of God in the day of ryghtwise iudgement I shall iudge not onlye Lordes Princes not only the worlde but also the Aungelles them selues Thus dothe he magnifically make his vauntes of his doctrine as thoughe it were God hys worde with no lesse confidēce and corragiousnes then Luther dyd of hys doctryne Notwithstandyng Luther dyd as hottly inueyhe against this sect as he dyd agaynst the sect of the Sacramentaries and wryting a boke to two Plebanes as before I haue made mentiō among other sayinges he oseth these wordes Whereas the Anabaptistes saye that we fynde in no place of scripture that infantes either haue faythe or the they ought to be baptized we graunte in dede that it can not be proued by any scripture which saythe playnely and euidently in these or suche lyke wordes You ought to baptize younge children for they do beleue if any man be ernest with vs to shewe any suche text we must nedes gyue hym place Luther is fayne to flee for helpe to traditions agaynst the Anabaptistes and graunt hym the victorye for we fynde it not in the whole Byble But good reasonable Christians do demaunde no suche thinges of vs that is the fashion of brablers and obstinate persons to the intent that they may be accompted wyse But they for all they re Byble bablyng and crying for scripture alleadge for them selues no scripture which saythe you ought to baptize those which be of yeares of discretiō but not infantes and younge children By by after by the tradition of the Apostles allwayes obserued in the churche of God he teacheth that younge children are to be baptized all be it no scripture dothe gyue any suche commaundement And lyke as before in defending the Sacrament of the altar so now in mayntayning Christning of younge children he dothe cheifly leane vpon the authoritie of the churche which authoritie for all that he wyll not let vs laye in his way for feare of gyuing him a fall so oftē as he requireth scripture of vs for profe of any one thing be it that it hathe bene receaued and allouwed of the church neuer so many yeares The Anabaptistes wurse thē all other sectaries This therefore is the thyrde Ghospell much more pestilent then the other twayne For besyde that it taketh clene away the sacrifice of the Masse the ordre of Prestehode with the Lutherans and denieth the real presence of Christ in the Sacramēt of the Altar with the Zuinglians it hathe many other articles bothe blasphemouse also seditiouse For it forbyddeth the publyk ministery of God hys worde it defendeth that Christ toke not man hys nature vpon hym of the blyssed virgyn it reneweth the errour of the Chiliastars it despyseth rule and wyll not haue men subiect to laufull authoritie Therefore where so euer this sect taketh place it rayseth vp greate vprores and seditions Examples of thys we haue many cities in Germany especially the citie of Munster An example by the citie of Munster For as Henry Dorpius a Lutheran and he which translated hys history out of the Germane tongue in to Latten Ihon Sleidane a Zuinglian haue wrytten in they re Cronicles aboue foure and twentye yeares agone ther cam fyrst thether certayne preachers to declare vnto the people in stede of Christ hys Gospell the doctryn of Luther whome when the Catholyke Prestes thought in no wyse to be suffred Bernard Rothman with hys cōpanyons Heretykes manner to provoke catholykes to dispute before a laie iudge whome Philipp the Lantgraue of Hessia had sent to further advaunce Luthers learnyng dyd that which all heretykes vse to do that is chosyng appoynting oute certayne cheife learned men of the catholyke faythe they prouoked the Catholykes to ioyne with them in disputation that before a lay Magistrate whome they appoynted to be theyr iudge and before whome they promised to proue the doctryn which the Catholykes held to be false and erroniouse But whē the Catholyke Prestes refused to dispute with them they departed the citie after that they were forbydden to execute theyr office of preaching the worde of God After this departure of the Catholykes before a yeare was comē fully to an end the Anabaptistes lykewyse began in the same citie to sowe the seades of they re doctryn vnder the name of Christe hys Ghospell And whē they had prouoked one an other to set fote to fote in disputation but on the selffe same condition which before was offered to the Catholykes which was that nothing shold be alleaged but Canonicall scripture beholde Bernard Rothman the cheifest trumpetor in all that citie of Luthers Ghospell who makyng the lyke lawe a lyttell before had chalenged the Catholykes to come to disputation now wolde admitt no suche condition So it cam to passe that the Lutherans which not long before had thrust the Catholykes oute of the towne they themselues fearyng to mete or encounter in disputation with the Anabaptistes were shortly after by them banished the same towne No meruayle thoughe they were so handled For the Senators also were pulled downe from they re iudgement seates the churches were spoyled and burned and whosoeuer wolde not take parte with the Anabaptistes perforce was dryuen oute of the citie As for Bernard Rothmā Henry Roles Godfry Stralen sent oute of Hessia as they of Christians grewe to be Lutherans so of Lutherans they becam Anabaptistes and with tothe and nayle furthered the Ghospel of Anabaptistes shewing vs the experience howe true that is which is wrytten in the Scripture The wycked man when he cometh in to the depthe of syn careth not what he dothe For if any man do once forsake Christian Religion vnto what so euer sect he dothe afterwarde inclyne he makethe it but a pastyme to leape from one heresie to an other And this sect truly of the Anabaptistes Anabaptistes be deuided in to diuerse kyndes is diuided in to many sections For they agree not in the principall pointes of they re doctrine In certayne cities of Germany some dyd run aboute naked as thoughe they had a bumble be in theire breche exhortyng the people to repentaunce seking in the meane whyle busyly how they might fynde any opportunytie to set the people together by the eares Neither dyd thys heresie begyn yester day or the day before for it reygned also in saynt Augustyn his tyme. And as the moste parte of all other heresies be so was this in the begynnyng deuyded in to many other partes For some were called Donatistes other Rogatistes other Maximianistes other

intreatyng of so weyghtye and necessari an argument for all Christian men to knowe shold be better welcome to youre grace in oure owne contrye speche for profyt then in any fyner forren language for pleasure The which boke althoughe some men thynck that I myght more boldly haue dedicated to some other yet in my iudgement I knowe certaynely I can not exhibit it to any other more worthily then to your excellent Maiestie Our souereigne Lady of al other moste worthy to haue this boke dedicated to her grace For who is more worthy to haue bokes dedicated to them of veritie which is lykened to syncere and pure virginitie then youre grace a most cleare bryght and vnspotted virgin who is more mete to receaue that precyouse iuel which was presented to the wyse vertuouse and Catholyke Kyng of Poole then you one of the best learned graciouse victoriouse mercyfull Prynces vnder the Pole Therfore most excellent and pearles Pryncesse if I haue any thyng offended in boldnes by reason of dedicatyng this my lyttell laboure vnto your hyghnes your learnyng your wysdome your mercye and all other your Quenely qualities which make your grace as it were a marke for all learned men to direct theyr bokes to our gracyouse Quene a marke for all learned mēnes bokes to be directed to are the causes of myne offence But my trust is that nether I haue offended any good man in dedicatyng thys to your hyghenes nether that youre grace shall displease God in readyng it A true prayse of the reuerēd Father Hosius For who is the Auctour of this booke but Hosius who for his prudence in polityke affayres hathe of the myghtie kyng of Poland bene sent of long tyme in moste weyghtye and honorable Embassages who for hys diuine knowledge and incomparable learnyng was made president of the moste Catholyke and Christian Councell lately holdē at Trent who for his syncere and godly lyfe is worthily called Hosius which after the Greke Etymologie signifyeth holy Althoughe some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whose harte is rotten at the rote with rancor whose māner is to reproue good men with rayling whē they arre not able to doo it by reason laboure to drowne the dignitie of such a pearlesse Prelate of such a blessed Byshope of such a famouse father in saying that he will be ouercome with his Polonyshe pottes But no maruayle if Hosius be called a drōkard for euen so was hys Master Chryst before hym called a wyne bybber which is all one to say a quasser a tosse potte As for his boke that youre grace neade not to feare the displeasure of God in readyng it what is it ells but a true treatyse intytuled by the author hym selffe of the begynnyng of heresies in oure tyme and by me the translatour named the hatchet of heresies for so muche as to shewe the begynnyng of heresies The cause why this boke is named the hatchet of heresies is to bryng heresye vnto an end and to cut it downe none other wyse then an hatchet in man his hand layde to the roote of a plant sone supplāteth and ouerthroweth it Euen so truly most souereyne Ladye thys boke is the hatchet which supplanteth that euel plant which Sathā hath sowed in God his groūde what manner of plāt this hatchet heweth down whose roote is raylyng whose body is rebellion whose braunches be bloodshedde whose leaues be lyes whose frute be the aples of Atheisme that is to be of no Religion or to thynck that there is no God at all Wherefore moste humbly vpō my knees I desire your grace not only to reade this excellent treatise your selffe but also to be contented that my dearly beloued countrie men youre graces moste faythfull subiectes may do the same that they may receaue this souerayne salue of their soules withoute any harme of their bodyes that they may here gather the euerlasting treasures of theire myndes witoute any losse of their temporall possessions that they may here see that it is not the expresse worde of God which our Britānical Brētians teache but the pressed and wrested worde of God not the holy Scriptures but prophane scrapinges of dyuerse olde and nue heresies not the traditions of the Apostles but rather I desyre pardon of youre maiestie to speake reason somwhat rowghly the trayterouse additiōs of Apostates Finally that in reading of this notable boke they standyng as it were in the Castell of cōtemplation and seing howe heretykes marche malitiously on toward the other in the medowe of madnes The battayle of heretykes fight one with the other in the felde of al foly howe they one against the other bend the ordinaunce of all disorder cast the dartes of deadly displeasure shote with the crosse bowes of cursed speakyng and to be short leaue nothing vndone to vndoo one an other I say that youre faythfull subiectes my dearly beloued countrymen seing in this boke quietly all theire disquyetnes may lothe deuydyng discorde and returne to Catholyke concorde of Christ his holy Churche vnto whiche no doubt Christ returnyng to his Father sayd these wordes Pacem meam do vobis pacem meam relinquo vobis c. My peace I gyue you my peace I leaue vnto you whiche peace God graunt we may seke ernestly fynde spedily and holde stedfastly This I say moste humbly and ernestly desyring your grace beseching also that it wyll please youre hyghenes to take me as I am youre sure and sounde harted subiect in all seruice that I can I desyre God to be youre graces buckler in battayle youre pillar in peace youre leader in all the slyppery wayes of this lyff and your crowner in the blessed Kyngdome which is to come Amen You re graces faythfull and obedient subiect Richard Shacklock THE TRANSLATOVRE vpon the holy wryter Hosius Semely Susanna was iudged to dye By peruerse iudges which dyd her oppresse But godly Daniel her cause true dyd trye when contrary thynges he herd them confesse So sorrowfull Susan he dyd ryghtly redresse Her which seêmd synfull he proued to be sounde And them which seêmd godly full gylty he founde Euen so holy Hosius in oure dolefull dayes Seing the truthe to be troden with myght Of misshapt Ministers which with wyly wayes Laboure to rob the truthe of her ryght Ragyng and rayling and spyttyng theire spyte One at an other full farre from consent Here tryeth the truth against which thei be bent The truthe being tryde the truthe let vs holde Praying to God to gyue vs hys grace To hate all heretykes so blynde and so bolde which vnder fayr visardes do hide their fowle face And pray we deuoutly for our noble Quenes grace That the spryng of heresies to her being knowen She may roote vp the sedes which Sathā hath sowē TO THE MOSTE REDOVBTED AND MOSTE CHRISTIAN Prince his renomed Lorde Lorde Sigismund by the grace of God Kyng of Poole great Duke of Luten Lorde and Heyre of Russia Prussia Masouia Samogitia

that it was but a signe bare figure only The which contention so sone as it begā to be made hotte in cōtinuaunce of tyme it grewe to suche a greate flame that they tossed the fyar brandes of this controuersie one at an others heade aboute the space of fyften yeares because as Calvyn wryteth they coulde not abyde to heare one an other quietlye to speake they re myndes For sayth he althoughe they met once together to discusse thys matter yet they so helde one an other at the staffes end that they brake of and left the matter in as euell a pyckell as they founde it So that when they sholde haue come to some agrement they shronke backward more and more myndyng no thing elles then to mayntayne they re owne opynion and to comptroll and confute them whiche sayde the contrarye When Caluin spyed that Caluin taking vpon hym to be a iudge betwene the Lutherans the Zuingliās raysed vpp an heresie never heard of before he toke vpon him to be iudge betwene them bothe as Muncerus intermedled hym selffe betwene the Pope and Luther condemnyng as well Zuinglius and Oecolampadius hys opinyon as Luthers brought in a newe heresye neuer heard of before not only vnknowen to the auncient Fathers and Doctours but also straunge to the late vppstart dyuellishe proctoures the Sacramentaries For he taught that breade and wyne vsed in oure Lorde hys supper be nothing elles then an assuraunce and as it were a certayne seale confirmyng all the promisses made vnto vs in Christ and thys dyd he teache withoute the authoritie of the scriptures withoute the warrant of the holy fathers without the consent of hys owne fraternitie With which doing besyde offending of Luther he gat greate displeasure of the scole of Tigurine the whiche scole for so muche as it dothe reuercene Vlryke Zuinglius as the fyrst founder of they re doctryne coulde not abyde the Caluyne sholde fynde faulte with hym with out any warrāt of scripture forge a newe fangled opynion of the sacramēt Caluyn afterward glad and fayne to quenche this hott displeasure kyndled against hym dyd wryght an Epistle in which he labored to shewe that he dyd not swarue from Zuinglius and others his good masters of that scole in the doctryne of the supper of oure Lorde whereas in very dede he varyed greatly frō them Caluin cōvicted of a lye Yea he went aboute to beare the people in hand that all they which held and beleued the Confession of Ausbourch a citie of the Vandales dyd ioyne with hym in hys doctryne of oure Lorde hys supper Of the which thing seuen yeare before he set furthe a certayne booke intituled A sum of the confession of the sacramentes Called in Laten Augusta Vindelicorum in which he plyet it a pase to declare that the Confessionistes of Ausbourge do not once wrynckell but go smothely away with that opinion of the sacrament of oure Lordes supper which the Confessionistes of Tigure or Surk do teache among whome Caluin hym selffe is numbred Nowe for so muche as by the space of one yeare or twayne no mā did wryght agaynst that forsayde booke of Caluine many dyd gesse by thys long silence that Caluin hys councell was accepted and allowed and then began thys to be bruted abroade that the Confessionistes of Ausbourch of Lutherans were become Zuinglians Dyuerse of Luthers scollers stormed at thys that they sholde be reported to haue bene traytours to Luther lyke runagates to haue fled to Zuinglius syde for so muche as it was vnknowē to no man howe ernestly Luther dyd set against the opinion of Zuinglius concernyng the Sacrament of oure Lorde hys supper Therefore there stepped forth some which with contrary bokes confuted that fornamed boke of Caluine agaynst whome it is nowe more then .ij. yeares agone synce Caluin dyd wryte a booke intituled A defence of the sounde doctrine of the Sacramentes whiche the Ministers of the Tyguryn and Geneva Churche had comprehended before in a brefe forme of Confession contayninge a confutatyon of those reproches with the whiche vnlearned and euell tonged men do slaunder it not long after he also dyd set forthe an other defence agaynst the false accusations of Ioachim Westphalus whose bokes which he namely dyd wryght agaynst Caluin as yet I could neuer come to syght of yet for all that whylst I was wryting this worcke there happened to come in to my handes a lyttell boke of the sayde Ioachim Westphalus a Lutheran which boke hath this name A iuste defence against the lowde lyes of Ihon a Lasko which he telleth agaynst the Churches of Saxonie in his Epistle to the moste excellent Kyng of Poyle In a letter sent to the Senatoures of Franckforde he maketh twyse mentyon the whylst Luther lyued there were certayne at Frācforde vpō the ryver Meyne which taught Zuinglius his heresie that very craftily vnder thys cloke that they swarued nothing from the Churches of Saxonie of whome that they sholde take diligēt hede Luth. hym selffe dyd ernestly exhorte them by writyng But after that Luther was deade he saythe that they more boldly and more shawfully dyd set lyes a broche saying that in the Sacrament of oure Lorde hys supper they dyd agree with the Confessionistes of Ausbourgh when in dede as he sayth there is greate difference betwene the Confession of Ausbourgh and the doctryne of the Sacramentaries for so muche as the Confessionistes of Ausbourgh do teache that the breade is truly the body of Christ that the body bloode of Christ is truly distributed by the handes of the ministre and is receaued in this sacramēt with the mouthe of them which cōmunicate contrariwyse the Sacramentaries do teache that it is only a token or signifycation of Christ his body which is absent that the minister gyueth but bare breade and wyne and that the receauer taketh but bare breade wyne Wherefore he exhorteth the Magistrates of Franckford that they wyll be ruled by Luthers councell that they auoyde suche false teachers and banyshe them cleane oute of theyr citie A scabbed shepe sayth he is sequestred least it infect the whole flock Heretykes are to be handled punyshed seuerely A putrifyed member is cut of least it corrupt the resydue Leprouse men be shut oute of all companye least they poyson them which be hole howe much more ought those which be taynted with the spirituall leprosy of the sowle be abandoned and remoued farre least they spill infect the shepe of Christ The Apostle forbyddeth to receaue in to house those which bryng not with them Apostolyke doctryne least the receauers may be partakers of theyr euell doinges then howe shall they be intertayned in to Christian mennes company which bring a doctryn cleane contrary to the Apostolyke veritie The scripture dothe oftentymes prayse hospitalitie it cōmaundeth to vse mercifull and charitable dedes toward banished men and straungers but so that we hurt not oure fayth so that for doing good

deathe eod pag. 1. Luther wolde haue his scollers called Gospellers fol. 9. pag. 1. Luthers doctrine why it may not be allowed eod pag. 2. Luther more cruell then the souldiars which dyd put Chryst to deathe fol. 10. pag. 2. Luther the author of Sectes eod pag. 2. Luther moste gredye of glory fol. 11. pag. ● Luther a sore ennimye to Image breakers eod pag. 2. Luther beguyled of Bucer becam a Sacramentarie fol. 13. pag. 1. Luther full of disdayne and arrogancye fol. 16. pag. 1. Luther his verdict of the Zuingliās and the Sacramentaries and marke howe he proueth them him selffe heretykes fol. 21. pag. 1. Luther being not able to answer the Anabaptistes by Scripture flyeth to the traditions of the Apostles fol. 29. pag. 1. Louaines article defended fol. 43. pag. 1. Luther his addition to S. Paule his worde reiected of the deuynes of Lipsia fol. 59. pag. 1. Luther made wyndowes for sathanisme fol. 61. pag. 2. Luther denyeth free wyll fol. 65. pag. 1. Luther howe much he estemed the bokes of Melancthon fol. 67. pag. 1. MEnno Phrisius an Anabaptist his bolde bragge of the surenes of his doctrine fol. 28. pag. 2. Munster a citie Reade there a notable history howe the Catholykes were dryuen oute by the Lutherans and the Lutherans by the Anabaptistes fol. 30. pag. 1. Martirdome is not gotten oute of the Churche fol. 44. pag. 1. Martirs be not made by the lykelyhode of the punishment but of the cause fol. 47. pag. 2. Melancthon how arrogantly at the fyrst he denyed free wyll fol. 65. pag. 1. Melancthon confirmeth free wyll in his latter bokes fol. 67. pag. 2. ONe erroure draweth many other after it fol. 6. pag. 2. Osiander a Lutheran ill handled of the Confessionistes fol. 71. pag. 2. Osiander his doctrine allowed in one Vniuersitie and condemned in an other fol. 72. pag. 1. Osiander his disdayne agaynst Melancthon fol. 73. pag. 2. Poole preserued from heresye throughe the wonderfull watchefulnes of their Byshopes and Godly deuotiō of theyr Kynges fol. 3. pag. 1. Persecution sometyme is necessary a difference betwene the persecution of good men and euell fol. 47. pag. 1. Petrus a Soto why he wrote against the Confession made by Brentius fol. 77. pag. 1. Petrus a Soto his order in wryting fol. 78. pag. 1. Petrus a Soto his prayse fol. 80. pag. 1. Paule the Apostle what manner of seruant he was fol. 84. pag. 2. Petre the Apostle what manner of seruaunt he was fol. 85. pag. 1. Specyall fayth makyng no doubt of the forgyuenes of synnes reproued and the obiections makyng for it soluted 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Suenckfeldius hys heresye that we ought to haue no scriptures fol. 49. pag. 1. Suenckfeld vouched dyuerse scriptures for his propose fol. 51. pag. 1. Suenckfeldius fynished the Ghospel which Sathan began by Luther fol. 51. pag. 2. Suenckfeldians mo then Lutherans or Zuinglians fol. 53. pag. 1. Suenckfeldians maruaylously holy to see to eod pag. 1. Seruetus condemned and put to deathe by meanes of Caluine fol. 56. pag. 2. Stanislaus a Martyr for rebukyng of the Emperoure fol. 91. pag. 1. Thomas Muncer of an Anabaptist dyed a penitent catholyke fol. 32. pag. 1. Tymmanus a Lutheran theacheth that heretykes arre to be punished fol. 56. pag. 2. The constancie and godlynes of the Kyng of Pole fol. 63. pag. 1. The othe which all commencers at Wittenberge must take fol. 72. pag. 2. Tuentye opinions of the Confessionistes concernyng iustifycation fol. 74. pag. 1. Vladislaus and Vitoldus Kynges of Pole refused to reigne ouer heretykes fol. 3. pag. 1. Who it is which deuideth Iesus fol. 10. pag. 1. What verdict the sacramentaries gyue vpon the Lutherans fol. 21. pag. 1. What the Catholykes thynk of outwarde ceremonies fol. 60 pag. 1. What manner of seruauntes the Byshopps and Popes of olde tyme were fol. 86. pag. 1. Z. Zeale in matters of religion is to be considered what manner of zeale it is fol. 21. pag. 1. ¶ Faultes escaped in some copies   fol. pag. lin Which althoughe reade which euen as 32. 1. 17. Orde reade order 10. ● 26. Plyet reade plyeth 24. ● 4. esontrary reade contrary 25. 2. 17. An admonition to the fault fynder If mo faultes in this boke thou fynd Yet think not the correctoure blynde If Argos here hym selffe had bene He sholde perchaūce not all haue sene Al wordes awry mend without stryffe And wordes amēded redresse thy lyffe Rychard Shacklock