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

foure certaine pointes and that more to reueale the slender edification that their readers may hope for of such lessons than to encumber our selues with the confutation of such vanities Touching that which you say of our inheritance of the originall sin and frée will lost the worlde it selfe doth declare well inough at this daye that euery one hath gotten a good lumpe of the inheritance of the corruption of Adam and the originall sinne as they call it and your writings shewe that you haue had youre parte thereof And I beléeue as you say that men nowe a dayes haue not any Frée will séeing it maye be further beléeued that there be a great many that haue slender sense and well worse vnderstanding as being altogither ruled and caried ouer by their affections Touching the matter of the incarnation of the sonne of God and redemption of man I coulde well haue pardoned you the obmission of the subtill questions you vse therein searching curiously the house wherein Christe dwelleth Item what make we of ascension or the signification of this worde heauen or the righte hande of God so that you woulde teache vs the true meane to receyue Iesus Christ into our selues séeing it pleaseth him in respecte of his goodnesse to make his dwelling in the hearts of the faythful and regenerate Otherways of what vse is Iesus Christe to vs being so far from the hart of man as you make him B. 4. Touching youre place of iustifying fayth I vnderstande not your language where you say that only fayth by meane whereof we take as of a hande the benefite of Iesus Christe to obtaine iustification regeneratiō and health the whiche indéede is true but immediatly after you say that by the Sacramentes are imputed and applied to vs the iustice and merite of Iesus Christe B. 4. Item in the same doctrine of Iustification you say it is a moste harde question to know what is that true Iustice which makes vs iust and agréeable to god with atteinment of eternall life but I had rather that without so many argumentes confutations and subtilties you hadde shewed to the poore and ignorant people what is the christian iustice and by what meane shée is giuen to vs B. 5. In the tractate of good workes you saye that the workes which men oughte to call good are those whyche God demaundes in hys worde and that those which be regenerate and guided by the spirite of God are they whiche shewe the fruites of a good Trée I beléeue it well and conclude vpon your saying that who hath not zeale loue charitie who suffereth not all things with pacience taketh euery thing in the best part couereth the faults of his neighbor and laboureth not to put peace in place of dissention can not haue regeneration And touching the rest of your questions whether good workes concurre in iustification as a cause formall or efficient the simple people haue not to doe contenting themselues wyth this beliefe that regeneration and faith without good works is a méere hipocrisie thing dead and that it is necessary that our new obedience serue as witnesse of our reconciliation and iustification Nowe deare brethren as I am voide of intent herein eyther to examine or exaggerate the newnesse of youre confession and much lesse to confute it by argumentes so I will leaue to the consideration of the Reader youre excuse in cutting off the commandement of the liuing God vnder pretext of certaine gloses and distinctions vnworthy to be vttered for here we doe not dispute whether the commaundement not to make anye images of veneration be a commandement particular or an appendix of an other whether it be ceremoniall or morall but wée will here mayntaine that it is an audacitie moste cursed to cut off from the law of oure God any one worde séeing specially that that summe and content of cōmandement is so shorte and compēdious that it conteineth but ten commandemētes the which if god woulde haue abridged he knew better how to do it than wée and therfore such as vndertake to correct his stile and accuse him of prolixitie giue sufficient proofe of their abhominable temeritie But let vs nowe come to the principall poynte of your debate and auncient question the which vpon a brauery you séeme to renue vppon euery purpose and place without hauing respect to the gret slaunder of those that bée weake Firste you vtter the summe of your confession of the Supper in these wordes Credimus igitur Christo affirmante quòd corpus sanguis eius verè ac realiter in sacra Coena adsit deturque externo modo accipiendum cùm Pane vino non fide tantùm aut spiritualiter idque tam ab indignis quàm à dignis sumantur contraria docentes cum Augustana confessione consentiendo damnamus That is to saye Wée beléeue in Chryste who assureth vs that his body and bloud be truly and really in the sacred Supper and that it is gyuen vs in taking it outwardly wyth the bread and wine not only with faith and spirituallye the whyche body is eaten aswell of the vnworthy as of those that be worthy And those that shall teache the contrary wée sticking to the confession of Auspurge do condemne them Sée here my brethren youre goodlye entrie of the article of your supper whiche we may not improperly liken to that of the newe inquisitors who condemne anathematize excommunicate and call Heretikes and cut off from the communion of the Churche all those whiche receiue not their cōfession which me think you doe also as of purpose to maintayne yours of Auspurge as though it were a fifth Gospel or new article of the Créed What shall we say brethrē to these matters haue you no shame that men of good iudgement and vnderstandyng shoulde reade suche arrogant and rashe wordes Who are they that haue se● the authour of the confession of Auspurge or that of yours in such aucthoritie or degrée of the Churche that they may pronounce sentence of damnation agaynste suche as will not admitte theyr interpretation vppon a place or Texte of the Scripture What is hée of anye iudgement at all who will not feare to forsake the tyrannie of the Papistes to euer into an nther almoste of like condition Wée call the Pope Antichriste tyrant and butcher of mens consciences bycause that wythout libertie to heare men speake he cōdemneth and excommunicateth them and yet your doings are nothing inferior to his crueltie in pronouncing condemnation not onely agaynste your enimies but also againste suche as you receiue for youre brethren and companions in the worke of the Lorde and w●o no lesse for the duety of Christians than to take away the slaunder from the Churche of Christe doe searche by all theyr possible meanes to lyue in loue and friendshippe with you I coulde willingly say to the authour of youre confession as the Apostle sayth my brother my friend what art thou that condemns the seruants of another

concupiscences but if a man strike with the scabbarde it hurts not onely the stroke maketh a sounde and woūdeth not And truly if the course of our life wer in this wise and thus appointed it were nothing but a shadowe a counterfaite a vizarde of hipocrisie whiche happeneth not to the children of God who being indued with Gods holy spirite are able to iudge and estéeme all things and are themselues notwithstanding iudged of none For they haue the perfecte knowledge of Gods holye wyll depely imprinted in their minds the whiche the spirite of God hathe ingrauen in their heartes by the reading of his holy and sacred worde And hereof doe arise moste mightie Prince so sundry sectes of religion hereof growe daily innumerable questions and controuersies and herevpon do the ●nquisitours bende their force agaynste ●os as against heretikes and seducers of others wheras we on the contrary side are certainly perswaded that they walke in moste horrible darkenesse being enimies to the glorye of God and earnest promoters of their owne vayne glorye corrupters and deprauers of the word of God the which bicause they vnderstand not aright by the direction of his holy spirite they referre to their owne commoditie and aduauntage and make it serue their owne ambition and moste filthye abhominations What can be then more shamefull than to appoint suche iudges for the deciding and determination of the causes of Gods children whome so good a father hathe so well instructed in his precepts and commaundements that they haue not learned it according to the dead letter but in spirite and truth that and haue after a sorte put on Christe by whose Gospell they are assured that they are reconciled both to him and to his father It resteth nowe to compare the doctrine of the true children of God that are guided by his spirite with theirs who as they are very hipocrites indéede so do moste falsely affirme that they wholy depende vpon the aucthoritie of the holye scriptures such is their blindnesse and ignorance that hauing learned of the wisedome of the flesh as it were at the hands of a schoolemaister nothing but that whiche is worldly and carnall yet notwithstanding they brag of themselues moste arrogantlye and impudentlye that they haue the true knowledge and vnderstanding of scriptures the whyche they doe daily more and more corrupte depraue with their sophisticall gloses and philosophie or to speake more truly with their own dreames and fantasies Of the creation of man and of his estate in innocencie and fall into synne THe children of God and such as are taught by his spirite out of his word doe confesse that God in the beginning ●reated man of nothyng to hys owne Image and likenesse that hée shoulde bée ●ufre and vpright and zelous of his glorye In the whiche estate of originall iustice as they call it he continued vntill he of his owne accorde abusing that frée will whiche God had giuen him that hée mighte be perfecte in his kinde and nature did swarue and decline from God and being deceiued by the flattery of the Serpēt made himselfe thrall to that wicked and tempting spirite And this voluntarye transgressing of Gods holye lawe and wyll bothe broughte man into a moste miserable condicion and remoued him from the estate he was in in honour and defaced the image of God in him that is to saye made him vniust vnfaithfull an enimy and a rebel against God and spoiled him of the other graces and ornaments he had bestowed vpon him in his former estate Of originall synne and howe it is conueied throughout the whole posteritie of man. BVt this calamitie and misery rest●● not alonely in the firste man woman and there stayed but by reason tha● they were the séede and stocke whence issued all mankinde the blemishes an● corruptions of oure firste parents doe s● sticke in vs and from them are conueyed to al their posteritie that al the of spring and issue of Adam is no lesse defiled with his corruption and filthines than if they had bene both parties and guiltie to the offences committed by theyr fyrste parents And for this cause also is that called originall synne that is deriued and descended from our firste parents to all the posteritie both bycause it is oure owne and caste vppon vs as by discent and inheritaunce from oure auncestours and is the roote and originall of all other vices whether they be generall infirmities common to all men or proper and peculiar to singular persons The force and strength whereof is such and so greate ●at it maketh a man rude and ignorant 〈◊〉 the holye misteries of God voide of ●e heauenlye light resty and stiffe nec●●d against the will of God vnkind and ●nthankefull towardes a moste merci●ll and louing father and finally in the ●erformaunce and fulfillyng of hys will ●nd commaundement not onely weake ●nd féeble but as it were vnapt and vn●ble And to the ende we maye beholde the ●uely image and patern of that mā that ●eing borne of Adam is not regenerate ●n Christe sée howe Paule describeth ●uche a manner of man vnto vs Al saith hée bothe Iewes and Grecians are entangled in the snares and bonds of sinne there is not one iust man to be founde among them there is none that vnderstandeth any thing none séeketh after God all are gone astraye and giuen to iniquitye there is not one that embraceth righteousnesse Their throate is like an open sepulcher that deuoureth men aliue with their mouth they speake leasing and flatter with their tongue the● lippes are annointed wyth the poyson 〈◊〉 Adders Their talke is ful of cursing a●● bitternesse their féete moste swifte 〈◊〉 shead innocent bloud finally their wh●● life is moste miserable that care neyth● for godlynesse nor good religion Lo th● is the beste description that can be ma● of man and therefore no man may be 〈◊〉 bolde vnlesse he be altogither shameles● as once to whisper a worde of mans fr● will to good of workes preparatiue 〈◊〉 they terme them merits deserued ex congruo condigno and suche other sophistical and Dunsical deuises except he wy● altogither flatter and deceiue hymselfe and séeke to draw other into like destruction But to speake the same in more plain● termes without any curiositie wée say● that in man is the whole bodye of synn● as the very wordes of the Apostle are whyche like vnto a leafe of paper whervppon if neuer so little filthye and stinking oyle be dropped by little and little ●preadeth so into al parts that the whol●●d euery parte thereof is ouerspreade ●th the filthinesse of the same euen so ●e say that originall sinne is not a hurte ●●ime or griefe in any speciall parte in ●an but an vniuersall blindenesse or ●rkenesse in the witte and vnderstan●ng of man as touching the knowledge 〈◊〉 God and suche as bréedeth in man a ●aywardne●●e against the will of God ●nd an imbecilitie and weaknesse to per●urme those thyngs whyche

ends of them that persecuted the Churche Iohn 4. Ruardus Taperus VVhy Christ vvas called the vvorde Iohn 1. 1. Iohn 1. Heb. 1. Math 2. Heb. 7. Luke 2. Hebr. 9. Psalm 19. Rom. 1. Hebr. 11. Hovv diuersly God hath reuealed hymselfe The authority and credite of scripture vvhere it proceedeth The holye Scriptures are obscure to that vvilful and vnregenerate The firste degree in knovvlege of God. Psalm 1● The seconde degree Sapien 2. The hatefull speaches of the vngodly against the vngodly The thirde degree proper only to the electe The originall cause of the controuersies aboute religion Rom. 5. A description of mans corruption before his regeneration Rom. 3. Psalm 14. Psalm 53. Psal 5. 9 Psalm 140. Psalm 12. Psalm 39. Psalm 36. Esay 19 Prouer. 1. Psal 13. 35. Collos 2. The firste sort of sinners The firste imaginatiō o● vvickednesse is very sinne in it selfe The Popish distinctions of sinnes by degrees Rom. 4. Genes 3. Rom. 2. The vertue and efficacie of the lavve The figures of the olde testament shadovves of Christe Heb. 6.7.8 Arnobius in his third booke contra Gent. The firste builders of temples Iohn 1. Hebr. 1. Luke 1. Math. 1. Gene. 3.15.17 The originall of sects heresies Vide compend theolog lib. 6. cap. 4. Ruardi Tapart Pet. Lombar Sent. 4. Scotus in 4. sentent Tho. Aquin. in sent laus Ezechiel ● Psalme 51. ●●de com●nd theo●g lib. 6. ep 25. Ru●●d Tapart 〈◊〉 confess The fruites of Popishe confession Cap. omnia vtriusque sexus c. de sum Trinttate fide Cath. Extr. de poenitent remiss Sem potius m●nducantes Rom. 7. Genes 3. Exod. 20. The true order of confession Priuate cōfession Psalme 52. Esay 50. Open confession and voluntary Daniel 9. 1. Timoth. ● Confession in the face of the congregation Priuate reconciliatiō Publike penaunce for publicke offences Good intentes the cause of errours Cap. omnis vtriusque sexus c. Compend Theolog. lib. 6. cap. 29 Ruard Tapart art 6. de satisfactione The appl●cation of Monkes merits The occasion of establishing Purgatory Hebr. 7. Psalm 110. Esay 53. Confession of our ovvne misdeedes The beginning of the feare of God. The giftes and graces of the holy ghost Degres of regenera●● on Christian ●aith Luke 1. ●itus 2. Hovv v● be couple vvith Christe Iohn 17. Regener●tion and invvarde baptisme ●es 27. ●hryste Iudge to ●itte the ●ythfull Iohn 5. Free Iustification throughe faith Luke 7. Christes chardge vvhich he gyueth to the sinner that is co●uerted an● beleeueth ●ompend ●heolo ve●itatis lib. 6 ●ap 32 ●igh cōtr 2. hom 2.2 ● 12 Ru●r ●ap act 8 ●onc Tridēt ●ap 7. Luke 10● Deut. 24. Vide summā Theolog. Alexand de Ates art de Iustifie Rom. 5. VVhat Iustific●tion is The renouation of our vvill and vnderstanding Psalm 32. The doctrine of freevvill as the Papists teache it Our communion fellovvship vvith Christe Luke 1. Roma 8. Rom. 8. 2. Timoth. 9. Thom. Aqui. 1.2 q. 113. Ephes 3. 2. Cor. 13. Iohn 17. Ma● blind vvithout● the right o● the spirite The ●●rc● degrees of merites Merita d●gna De Congr●●o De Condig●o Math. 5. VVorks of supererogation VVorkes of mans deuice and inuention Esay 1. Roma 8. The coniunction of Christe and his members is spirituall Math. 28. The badge and token of our regeneration Rom. 8. The holy spirite in the mindes of the regenerate Esay 59. The encrease of faith The mortification of the fleshe Brotherly charitie Rom. 12. Galath 5. Coloss 3. Iohn 4. The vvise sentence of Salomon vppon the tvvo harlottes The Romish churche is no mother but a stepdame The care that the heathen princes had in deciding their subiects causes Deut. 17. For vvhat purpose kings vver anoynted The authoritie of the Magistrate proceedeth from god Rom. 13. Armour and vveapons vnnecessary instruments to remoue abuses epist. 73. The incōueniences that ensue vvhere religion is forced The armor of Christians against persecutiō by silence and hope Forced religiō hardly taketh depe roote In the hear● The vvay to vvinn● men to Christia● religion Act. 8. Hereto maye in a sorte be applied that of the Poet. Nitimur in vetitum semper cupimusque negat●●d est VVee striue for that vvee moste are forbidde Micheas alone preacheth the truthe againste 400. false Prophets 1. Reg. 22 Psalm 34. Flaunderrs a place of good entertainment A perillous matter to ●riue a multitude ●nto de●paire The clemency of Charles the ●ifte tovvards the Spaniards ●hat rebelled The petition of those of the lovv countries VVhether men of diuers religion maye be at peace one vvith another The Pope giueth entertainmet to Ievves levvishe ceremonies In the Pulpit ought not be preched other vvords thā of God to knovv and serue Christ Descriptiō of the false Prophetes and preachers of the Papistes Reade the Epistle of S. Iudas the Apostle A meane to accorde questions concerning the doctrine VVarre of learned mē most slaunderous VVhereof it cōmeth that the audience in the reformed church to be deformed in liuing M. Yllyrye The authoritie of Luther and other Doctours of the Gospel The vvisdome of S. Peter The zeale of S. Paule Galath 2. Reade the ●●utles of Melancthō to Luther but chiefly the second Reade th beginning of Sleidan historie VVhat supper the Protestants had in the beginning The marke of the Christians Io●n 13. Doctrine of the holy Supper of Christe The summe of the Doctrine 〈◊〉 Christe Christe is the Fruite of the Tree of life The true vnderstanding of the vvordes of Christe Iohn 6. Cause of the celebration and institution of the Supper Interpretation of the vvordes of Christe in the Supper The Spirit of God is not lincked to outvvarde ceremonies The receiuing of the sacraments serue nothing to suche as vvil not receiue Christe The vnderstāding of the vvordes of the holy supper Note the absurditie of the false interpretation of the vvordes of the supper Note the interpretatiō of these vvordes Comparisō betvveene the first and second Adam Meane to receyue Christ Election Vocation Penance The true preparatiō to knovve Christ is to knovv the necessitie vve haue of him The faithfull feele the presēce of Christ in their heart The life of a Christian shevveth that he hath Christ in him Sacrifice of thanks gyuing in the holy supper Confirmation and augmentation of Christ receyued in the supper The holye supper representes vnto vs a brotherly charity of one to an other The occasion of the vvriting of this Epistle Reade the Articles of the confessiō of faith of Yllyric the better to vnderstande the Articles folovving The opinion of Math. Y● lyricus his companions touching the Supper ●Vhat ●niunction ●etvvene ●hrist and ●eliall 〈◊〉 Cor. 6. Thei of the cōfession of Auspurge agree not amongest themselues vpon the vvordes of the supper Reade the booke named Antithese of the true fal● exposition of the tenth Article of the Cōfession of Auspurge the Authour of the same is Sybran Andreas Touching the dissention of M. Ylliricus vvith Philip Melancthon and those of the confessiō of Auspurge read the epistles of Melancthō in manye places but chiefly the Page 452. Also the Acts Synodals imprinted in the yere a thousande fyue hundred fiftie and nine Also the ansvvere giuen to the legate of Saxon by Philip Melancthon Seeke the confession K. 10. 11. A sharpe poynt of M. Yllyricus in his confession The preachers of the confessiō of Auspurge accuse the other ministers VVee ought so to preach and vvrite against the abuse of the Papists vvyth a Christian modestie The tirāny of the Papists vppon the spiritualtie tēporalitie The cause vvhy the papists and ●heir allies ●ake vvar against the Gospell The children pf God are neuer out of their ovvn countrey Iohn 3. Luke 7. 2. Cor. 4. Rom. 9. Eccle. 4. Iohn 13. Cor. 12. 13. 1. Tessa 4. ● Iohn 2. 3. ●●●uer 10. Verse 12. Ibidem 15. Verse 17. 18. ● Iohn Leuit. 22. Leui. 19. Math. 5. Rom. 12. Rom. 13. Iohn 13. Rom 9. Colos 3.