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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03769	Of the expresse vvorde of God A shorte, but a most excellent treatyse and very necessary for this tyme. Written in Latin, by the right reuerend, lerned, and vertuous father Stanislaus Hosius, Bishop of VVarmia, Cardinal of the Holy Apostolyke See of Rome, and of the presidents in the late general councel holden at Trent. Newly translated in to English.	Hozjusz, Stanisław, 1504-1579.; Stapleton, Thomas, 1535-1598, attributed name.	1567 (1567)	STC 13889; ESTC S116558	106,428	242

weyght Doo wee not heare MelancthoÌ„ complayne that where hee wrote the confession of Augspurg they now goo about to take from him the name and honour therof For the Illyricans doo gredely challenge that to them selues and labour to exclude from the same the MelaÌ„cthonists with their maister whom as in diuers other things they shewe to haue gone froÌ„ the mynd of his maister Luther so doo they lowdly charge him in the doctryn of the sacrament to haue ioyned him self to Caluin his lore Of which thing Caluin him self also dooth not a lytle glory Now yn that matter which they will haue to bee the summe of the Gospell which is os Iustification Lord how sore Melancthon and BreÌ„tius dissent the one from the other while Brentius defendeth Osianders opinion which the Melancthonistes thinke most execrable So amoÌ„g the disciples of Luther there is litle agreement of the principal doctrines of our religion wherof very contenciously they quarrell emong them selues and be as it were heretikes one to an other so as they neede not to be better blasoned then them selues blasone one an other VVherfore of right Luther must suffer by the lawe which him self gaue to others that there be no disputation allowed to the followers of his doctrine but that so sone as it apperith they be of that sort they bee presently coÌ„demned vnheard For it is no more trewe of the Zuinglians then of the Lutherans which is sayd by the disciples of Luther that they are to be restrayned not by writing but by the Mace and power of the magistrate especially synce neither these bringe almost any thing that was not more then a thousand yeres past condemned for heresie But wee may seeme to haue wandered somwhat from our purpose VVherfore let vs returne to the matter froÌ„ whence wee haue by occasion a litle declyned VVee haue shewyd you before that eueÌ„ at that tyme when that most auncient doctor Tertullian floorisshed heretikes vsed to vauÌ„t to talke and to holde foorth before them the scriptures and that Tertullian doth vtterly forbid all disputation with them or triall of the controuersies to be referred to the scriptures but would haue theÌ„ putt ouer to the tradition of the Churche But dooth not S. Cyprian allso complayne of the deceyts of the diuell who transfigureth him self as it were in to an aungell of light and suborneth his ministers leeke vnto the ministers of iustice teaching night for daye damnation for saluation desperation vnder the veyll of hoape infidellite vnder pretence of fayth and finally Antechrist vnder the name of Christ that while they falsly report thinges not all together vnleekly they may by their subteltie chase and driue awaye the very truth it self Nothing could be sayd more trewly then that which wee fynd to be written by Cyrill All heretikes gather the occasions of their errour owt of the scripture inspired by God corrupting those thinges by their owne malice which by the holy Ghost were well geuen and vttered and so kendling vpon their owne heddes an vnquenchable fier S. Augustin allso sayeth that heresies and peruers doctrine intangling and throwing downe headlong the sowles of men in to hâ—â—â— cometh of none other grownd but wheÌ„ thinges well written in the scriptures are not well vnderstanded and when that which is not well vnderstaÌ„ded is rashely and bouldly vtteryd for a truth And therfore S. Ambrose did thinke good in this sort to describe heretikes Heretikes sayth he are they which by the very wordes of the lawe do impugne the lawe for they adde vnto the wordes of the lawe their owne sence and vnderstanding that by the authorite of the lawe they may sett foorth the shrowdnes and malice of their owne mynd For wickedness knowing authorite to weygh muche worketh her snares vnder the name therof to the end that sythens an yll thing by it self can not be acceptable it may be commended to the world vnder the name of a good thing VVhen they which in the Councell of Carthage were by Agrippinus assembled sayd it was no trewe baptisme which was geuen by Schismatikes and heretikes did they not saye they so found it in the holy scriptures and seemed to coÌ„firme that their sentence by the expresse word of God This councell yet afterward by the auctoritte of the Churche was disanulled But let vs heare Vincentius Lirinensis talke of that matter So great excellency of witte sayth he was in those fathers suche flowing vaynes of eloquence suche a number of them that affirmed it so great leeklyhood of truthe in so many texts of the scripture but after a newe and yll sort vnderstanded that me thinke all their great agreement conspiring in one could neuer haue been ouerthrowen yf only the profession of nouelty which was the only cause of all that great styrre so much then mayntayned defended and extolled had not discredyted the whole matter They therfore were destitute not of textes and authoritees of scripture but of the trewe vnderstanding of them VVherfore S. Hilary doth very well warne vs. Remember sayth he that ther is no heretike but faulsly affirmeth that all the blasphemyes he vttereth are warrantyd by the auctoritee of scripture For hereof Marcion when he readeth the word of God vnderstandeth it not Hereof Photinus could not fynd by his doctrine Iesus Christ to be a man Herof Sabellius when he could not vnderstand this text My father and I be all one could not fynd God the father nor God the sonne Herof Montanus by his madde weemen went about to maynteyn a newe holy Ghost Herof Maniche and Marcion hated the lawe because they found it written the letter kylleth and the Prince of the world is the diuell They vtter all the scriptures without sence and pretend fayth withowt faith For the scriptures consist not in reading but in vnderstanding not in thwarting but in charitable consent and vnitee VVhom S. Hierom following in his booke against the Luciferians sayeth Let not heretikes flatter them selues if they seeme to fynd somwhat in some chapiters of the scripture which they thinke coÌ„firmeth their heresies since the diuell him self hath allso alleaged places owt of the scripture and the scriptures coÌ„sist not in reading but in vnderstaÌ„ding In leeke sort wryteth allso Athanasius of the ArriaÌ„s If sayth he meÌ„ reading some goodwordes of the holy scripture written in these fellowes bookes will therfore by and by take blasphemies for blessinges it will allso come to passe that wheÌ„ they see Iues of this our tyme diligeÌ„tly to read the lawe and the prophetes they will also with the Iues denye Christ Perhapps also hearing the Maniches vouche certayne places of the Gospells they will with them denye the lawe and the prophetes But if throwgh ignorauÌ„ce they do so boyll and babble let them learne out of the scriptures how the diuell him self the inuentour and deuiser of heresies for feare of

as we haue read talked vnto the heaueÌ„ly father in this sort Certainly I can not herin be deceiued Thy word o heauenly father haue I beleued that receyued I of the holy Ghost as the sure word of truth And a litle after I knowe assuredly sayd he that this my doctrine which is the word of God in the daye of vpright iudgemeÌ„t shall not only iudge lordes kinges and the whole world but allso the Angells them selues Doth not this honest man thinke him selfe as sure that his doctrine is the expresse woord of God as Luther or Caluin and yett for all that both his Luthers and Caluines are in deed the expresse worde of the diuell But whereto in the end cometh this geare Strawnge and wonderfull it is For lo whyle in this sort euery sect seeketh to vsurpe vnto it self alone the word of God and the true vnderstanding therof there is sprong vp a certayne newe kind of prophets which feare not eueÌ„ by the auctoritee of the scriptures to withdraw all auctoritee from the scriptures Lo wher to at last Sathan hath brought this reckening Forsooth to this that he hath draweÌ„ wretched men to that passe that looke what doctrine euery of theÌ„ hath by chaunce imbracyd the same should he firmly persuade him selfe to be the expresse worde of God and not suffer him self by any reasons to be drawen from it Now therfore this is apparant that neuer almost was ther any heretike which did not coÌ„firme his errour by the scripture and which affirmed not his opinion to be the very word of God The thing it self so she wyth this that farther demonstration needith not but yet the chief of all heretikes of this our age doth also testifie the same who writeth That the holy scripture hath now at the last obteynid this name to be caullyd the heretikes booke because all heresies deryue their course and origi nal spring froÌ„ thence But to what end is this will some man saye Doo you go about to extenuat the word of God and to withdrawe auctoritee from it Haue you browght vs foorth so many thinges to the end to shewe that who so euer vseth the testimony of the scripture is an heretike No God forbid that wee should so myche as thinke a thing so straunge and vnsitting for any Christian man No wee rather saye as S. Hillary whilom did Heresye is in the vnderstanding not in the scripture The sence not the text is blamed Nothing is more holy then the scripture nothing of more auctorite nothing next God more worthy of all honour But what thing caÌ„ be so holy which the enemie of man kind abuseth not to the destruction of man VVee must not thinke that God alwayes openeth their mowthes whoÌ„ wee heare talke of the word of God and alleage the words of the scripture The most learned Origen did well note to vs that not seldoÌ„ the diuel also openeth the mowth of syche as vtter the word of god who speaketh alye sayth he it is cer tayne the diuel openeth his mowth to vtter a lye But thow wilt saye how may he lye that bringeth foorth the testimony of the scriptures which no good man doubteth to haue proceded froÌ„ the holy Ghost the spirit of truth and from whom floweth all truthe Short and redy is the aunswer hereunto In the scriptures themselues which we knowe to haue ben inspired from God aboue ther can in deed be no lye But in the sence which man bringeth of whom it is written euery man is a lyar hee that will saye there can not be a lye what doth he ells but denye the saying of God and as it were charge the holy Ghost of Vntruth VVhat then will soome man saye yf euery man bee a lyar dooth it therfore followe that what so euer a man speaketh what so euer hee bryngeth owt of the holy scripture should therfore be a lye God forbidd I saye not so How shall I then knowe when hee vtteryth a lye This will the very Truth teache vs which can not lye For that sayeth whoo so euer vtteryth a lye vtteryth of his owne No man hath of his owne but synne and vntrouth But yf a maÌ„ haue any point of trouth or righteousnes that hath hee of God Hee therfore speakyth the truth which vtteryth not that is of him self but of God But thow wilt saye agayne Speakyth he not froÌ„ God which recyteth the very words of God and the testimonies of the scriptures Yow haue heard now not only once but often opened vnto yow by me that the diuel also alleageth testimonies of the scriptures and yet doth he not therfore speake the truth because he speaketh of his owne VVhat is this speaking of his owne It is when he bryngeth his owne sence of the scripture and not the sence and meaning of God For this is to bean heretike as before we taught out of S. Ambrose to buyld his owne sence vpon the wordes of the lawe and so by the wordes of the lawe to impugne the lawe But how shall I discerne when a man bryngeth his owne sence and when the true sence and meaning of God This will that notable doctour of the Church S. Augustine teache vs who in this sort speaketh vnto God Thy truthe lorde is neither myne nor his or his but common to vs all whom thow doost openly call to the communion therof terribly warning vs that we presume not to make the same priuat lest wee be depriued therof For who so euer doth challenge as proper to him self that which thow hast geeuen foorth to bee enioyed of all and will make that his owne peculiar which is common to all hee is throwen downe from that which is common to his owne that is to saye from truth to vntruth for hee that maketh a lye speaketh of his owne Doest thow now vnderstand whoo speaketh of his owne that is to saye whoo speaketh vntrought Truth thow seest is not his or his but is common to all All hath God caullyd publikely to the communion therof VVho so euer therfore maketh priuatt that is publyke whoo so euer challengith to him self and coÌ„tenciously will make his owne proper that which by charitee is commoÌ„ to all hee speakith of him self hee speakith an vntrouth For truth is not any wher ells but among all that is to saye in the Catholike or vniuersall Churche Therfore whoo so euer seekith owt any singular vnderstanding or inuenteth any strange and vnknowen expositions or bringeth to the world any newe and singuler opinions though hee shewe six hundreth testimonyes of the scriptures because hee vnderstaÌ„deth them not with that sence wich is receiued of the Catholike Churche but ioyneth therunto his owne proper and priuat exposition he speaketh of him self and therfore speaketh an vntrouth for the truth is not with any one but with all that is to saye in the Catholike Churche wherunto the light of sownd and true

beyng bewrayed by his strong ayer vsurpeth allso thies wordes of the scripture to the end that shrowded therin hee may deceyue the simple so infectyd with his poyson For so deceyued he Eue so allso lead he other heretikes into error and euen so dooth he now persuade Arrius that as it were vnder colour of talking leeke an aduersary against heresies he might the better deceyue him in foysting in his owne Chrysostom allso following Athanasius Open o Arrius sayth he the sepulchre of thy throte filled with dead wordes for thou hast not yet that liuyng and quickening word which thow seekest to frame to the mayntenauÌ„ce of thy reasons but he so soone as he is callyd maketh the entree of his talke with scriptures But thow that art the faythfull fear not when thow hearest him bring in scripture for euen the diuell him self when he came to Christ and tempted him bourded him with scripture saying If thow be the sonne of God throwe thy self downe for it is written he hath geuen commaundement to his Aungells that they shal keepe thee in all thy wayes and shall hould thee vp with their handes And it is well knowen that Arrius browght foorth fowrty places of the scripture to proue that the sonne was not of one substance with the father And what did he and his followers crake euer of but of the scriptures the Gospell and the expresse word of God To the scriptures he appealed and would not otherwyse be dealt with but only with the scriptures Maximinus when hee should enter in to disputation with S. Augustin prescribed this lawe vnto him that he should of necessite yeld to what so euer he should bring out of the scriptures For thus he sayth Those wordes which are takeÌ„ out of the scripture faull not to vs by chauÌ„ce synce the lord him self hath thus warned vs saying in vayne do they worship me teaching the preceptes and commaundements of men S. Augustin allso writeth euen the leeke of the Donatistes As the diuell sayth he against the very lawemaker browght owt the very wordes of the lawe so ye by the wordes of the lawe accuse the men ye knowe not and withstaÌ„d the promisses of God which are geuen by the very wordes of the lawe And a lytle after You speake sayth he the wordes of the lawe but against whom you speake them youe marke not No more did the diuell when he vtteryd the wordes of the lawe knowe him to whoÌ„ he spake them He would haue throwen downe our head which was ascending vpward but ye would contract to one lytle part the body of that head which is dispersed throwgh the whole earth In leeke sort also dealt Macedonius as may be gathered by the sermon which Gregorie Nazeanzen wrote of the holy Ghost And so played Nestorius for he thowght he was able by the expresse word of God to shewe that Mary the moother of Ihesu was deliuered but of a bare man because in the Canonicall scriptures shee was sometymes callyd the moother of Ihesu but neuer the mother of God Leekwyse Eutiches wheÌ„ he denyed ij natures to be in Christ seemed therin to leane to the expresse woord of God and asked of the Catholykes In what scripture those ij natures appeared I haue not learnyd owt of the holy scriptures any suche ii natures And of suche thinges must wee make searche only in the holy scriptures which are of more force then the doctrines and expositions of the fathers But what needyth in a manifest thing to vse moe wordes when nothing can be more truly sayd then is written by S. Augustine Errour could not spring cloked vnder the name of Christ but of the scriptures not well vnderstanded Neither dare the diuell attempt any other waye but by the diuine scriptures as wee reade in OrigeÌ„ VVho wheÌ„ he had brought foorth the diuell alleaging those wordes of the Psalme They shall hould the vp with their handes c. How comith it to passe Sathan sayth he that thow knowest thies thinges to be written hast thou read the prophetes or knowest thow the scriptures though thow hould thy peace I will answer for the thou hast read them not that by the reading of holy things thy self wouldest become better but that by the bare letter thow mightest kyll the freÌ„des therof Thow knowest that yf thowe shouldest speake out of any other bookes thow coul dest not deceyue neither could thy allegations haue any authoritee So did Marcion read the scriptures as did the diuel so Basilides so Valentinus that with the diuel they might saye vnto our sauiour it is writteÌ„ etc. Yf any tyme therefore thou here testimonyes browght owt of the scripture take hede thou do not by and by repose thy self on the speaker but coÌ„sider him well what he is of what mind and dispositioÌ„ lest happely he faine him self holy and be not so in dede and lest the woulse infectyd with the poyson of heresy lye shrowdyd vnder a shippes skin or lest the diuel speake scripture out of him This admonition of Origen is so depely to be layd vp in our mynd that at no tyme it go owt therof that when wee heare one bring foorth the scriptures or glory of the expresse word of God wee do not by and by beleaue euery suche kynd of sprite Be the Lutherans only they in this our age trowe yee which so confidently beate our eares with their continuall boasting of the word of God Doo not the Sacramentaries with as great or greater assurednes arrogat the same vnto themselues VVherunto doth Caluin appeale but vnto the scriptures when he hath to do with the Lutherans VVhat can he beare more vnpacyently then when both by the Christians and Lutherans he seeth obiected against him the auctoritee of the fathers and Councels VVhen the Magdeburgenses wrote wee are cooÌ„mawnded from God to heare the sonne of God Caluin ansvereth them in this sort Maliciously and wickedly doo they obiect to vs the auctoritee of Christ as though our mynd were one iote to declyne from his pure and syncere doctryne whoo haue allwayes shewyd our selues in very deed with no lesse reuerence to receiue what so euer hath issued out of the diuyne mowth of the lord then they yn wordes doo boast on their part Lett therfore the sonne of God be vnto vs without all coÌ„trouersy the chieff most perfytt and only maister in whose doctrine it may not bee laufull to alter one worde or sillable But the obedyeÌ„ce of the fayth dooth not lett but that wee may bee attentiue to the sownd vnderstanding of his wordes Loo as wicked and blasphemous as Caluin is yet may he indure nothing worse then to be charged that he geueth not eare to the sonne of God or declyneth any thing froÌ„ his pure and syncere doctrine But what Do the Anabaptistes with any lesse courage stande also vpon that poynt No truly For beholde howe one of them

owne doctrine that they frame to the wordes of the scripture their owne priuat sence And that they contend not with vs about the sence and mynd of the scripture but about their owne sence vnderstaÌ„diÌ„g therof which rather theÌ„ we would adore as the pure word of God against the coÌ„uioÌ„ sence and coÌ„sent of the whole church we are redy to do and suffer all thinges For wee are persuaded that so to do were right idolatry Synce therfore wee haue at large shewed why wee can not agree with the enemyes of the Gospell which by the wordes of the Gospell assault the same and contend with vs about their owne mynd and not the mynd of the scripture wee will brieffly discourse the cause why we can not so do First the most seuere commaundements of God forbid vs to geue eare or consent vnto them according to these wordes If any man preache vnto you any other Gospel then that which ye haue receyued let him be accursed If any man speake blasphemie against the holy Ghost it shall not be remitted vnto him Flee from idoles Seeing therfore these men be syche as preache vnto vs a Gospell which wee haue not receyued and syche as speake blasphemy against the holy Ghost and seeke to be adored of vs as certayne idolls wee obeying the commaundements of God are iustly feared froÌ„ consenting with them And lest any man thinke wee applye these scriptures to our owne proper sence we will in fewe shewe how the auncient catholyke fathers haue expouÌ„ded them to the end euery man may plainly perceiue that wee doo very truly vse them against these enemyes of the Gospell And first who is ther to whoÌ„ the name of Athanasius is not knoweÌ„ and wel thowght of VVho as S. Cyrill writeth adorned heauen it self with the workes he wrote as it were with a most fragrant oyntment This father therfore in his booke which he intituled of the incarnation of Christ as it is by Cyrill cited vseth these wordes VVho so euer besyde these thinges teacheth out of the holy scripture that there is one sonne of God and an other sonne borne of the virgin Mary and adopted for a sonne only in suche sorte as wee men be so that there be two sonnes etc. Or yf any maÌ„ saye that the fleshe of our lord came from aboue and not of the virgin Mary or the whole diuinitee to haue been coÌ„founded or chaunged into the fleshe or the deitie of our lord to be passible or that the fleshe of our lord as of man is not to be adored this man dooth the holy and Catholyke churche accurse following therin the holy Apostles saying If any man preache vnto you any other Gospel theÌ„ that which ye haue receiued let him be accursed Behould this good Father whose memory in the churche is holy and immortal sayth he is accursed of the catholyke churche who so euer should go about to teache yea though it were owt of the holy scriptures any of these poyntes But o holy father by what auctoritee thinkest thou that may be done yf he teache the same owt of the scriptures For sooth sayth he by the auctoritee of S. Pawll who sayd If any man preache vnto you any other Gospell then that which ye haue receiued let him be accursed A marueilous matter The same sentence which the heretikes of our age haue allwayes in their mowthe wherby they thinke as with a ramme of Iron to assault and ouerthrow the whole auctoritee of the fathers and couÌ„cells thou bringest foorth on the coÌ„trary syde To wyt yf any man shal goe about to saye yea though it be out of the scriptures the coÌ„trary of that which hath bene defyned in lawfull councells of the fathers especially generall and by them deliuered to vs from hand to haÌ„d thou thinkest him not only not to be harkened vnto but allso to be accursed and that wee must firmly remayne in that which wee haue receiued though a man bring neuer so many textes of scripture in apparence to the contrary Athanasius will not that the children should iudge of the decrees of the fathers He will not that syche thinges as hath once been tryed by the rule of the scriptures should agayne be caulled back to the same vnlesse they will shewe them selues not to be laufull children but the seed of the harlot and adulteresse which if they dare do let them crye tyll they be hoarse For it is writteÌ„ as the father of heretikes attempting Christ once did yet maketh he no doubt by the doctrine of S. Pawll to hould them accursed because they preache a contrary Gospell to that which they receiued But did holy Athanasius when he wrote thus teache vs to contemne and holde for nawght the expresse word of God No God forbid It was neuer any part of his thought but he would haue taken for the pure and expresse word of God that which the Catholikes and not which the heretikes browght foorth that sense I saye which the Catholikes not which the heretikes drewe foorth of the scriptures VVe fynd notably written by S. Hierome that the Gospell standeth not in the wordes of the scripture but in the sense not in the superficiall face or shewe but in the marye not in the leaues full of wordes but in the roote of reason You see now how the most earnest defender of the Catholyke and ryght faith produced these wordes of S. Pawl with whose only auctoritee namely synce he standeth in place of many we will for this tyme be content lest we seeme to long But yet agayne though perhapps wee maye herein doe otherwyse then becometh vs to the end the truth may the more plainly appere wee thinke it not amysse to bringe foorth euen an heretikes exposition of these wordes of S. Pawl and of that heretike whose mynd touching the sacrameÌ„t Melancthon is sayd to haue followed He therfore speaketh in this sort intreating vpon those very wordes of S. Pawll Note this worde of the Apostle Accepistis Ye haue receyued For styl the Apostle laboureth to this end that they should not hange as it were in the ayre vpon an vnknowen Gospell only by way of imagination but should hould for a certayne and sure definition therof that that was the true Gospell of Christ which was deliuered vnto them and which they had receyued He commaundeth therfore that they should be reputed for diuells which would presUme to bryng any other Gospell differing from his calling that another Gospell wherunto other meÌ„s inuentions are ioyned And surely this his sentence though he were an heretike we can not but in this poynt very well allowe For he will not haue any vnknowen Gospell receyued but that which hath been deliuered vnto vs and which we haue allready before receyued But nowe that which is of these men termed the Gospell and the expresse word of God came to light in manner but yesterday and was to our fathers

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