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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03908	A sermon preached in West-chester the viii. of October, 1586 Before the iudges and certain recusantes: wherein the conditions of al heretiques, but especiallie of stubborn and peruerting Papists, are discouered, & the duty of al magistrats concerning such persons, applied & opened by Edward Hutchins, Master of Artes, & Fellowe of Brasennose Colledge.	Hutchins, Edward, 1558?-1629.	1586 (1586)	STC 14017; ESTC S116561	13,987	32

his temple they run to their hole and play the Foxes they distinguish that there is but one principal head of the Church that is Christ but there is another ministerial vicarial that must be their Pope wheras yet the headship of the Church is proper to Christ their pope by his title in this case if Pope Gregory were not deceiued if the pope cannot erre indeed is not either top or toe of the Church So likewise where against their iustifieng of lust for no sin we alleadge a principle of scripture that euery transgression of the law is sin withal the prohibition of the law thou shalt not lust they run to their hole play the Foxes that the apostle speaks there of lust with not without consent whereas yet the Apostle speakes in general of al lust it were great folly once to dreame that euer the Apostle doubted whether lust ioined with consent were sin or not Thus to conclude if any man please to run ouer their summaries questionaries their old schoolemen or new men nay to leaue al if to this purpose a man remēber run ouer Maister Campian that came into the lād with a florishing antecedēt with bidding of battell with a crack catholique shew for al his fellow Foxes of Rome of Rhemes yet where he was not only neerly assaied but easily pressed with truth what did he but play the poor Fox he came into the lād for wāt of soūd diuinity with foolish sophistry what lesse can I cal it in proofe and trial with ridiculous and childish distinctions and those were his holes and in them he thought to haue kept himselfe safe or at least close to the credit of his crack and to the deceiuing of the simple for the time till treason had made the craftie conclusion but al was too little and God be thanked he proued himselfe that way the seeliest Fox that euer came among vs. But to end this point of the metaphor I onely wish this that al mē beware the craft of heretiques but especially of papists of seminaries Iesuites who of al others play the Foxes most kindlie And therefore for a caueat as for their olde subtil and yet ouerbold crackes that they are of the olde stamp that they are catholiques that they are the Church that their Church cannot erre that they only haue the right sense of Gods woord that they onely wish the good state of the lande the saluacion of your soules her maiesties fauour and safetie nothing lesse God saue her from them al wel indeede all il as you all know too too well to al that wish wel to Sion take heed of them for these the like bee but holes wherein the Popes Foxes seeke to colour out their cause and to couer their faithles creed as demonstration hath bin made and that oft to the world and therefore to end this part of the metaphor what shal I saie but once againe pray good God therefore amend them or els make an ende of them for what are they but Foxes Foxes that not only because they are vncleane and craftie like Foxes but also crafty and subtil to deuoure and destroy For so doth it fal out with al heretiques and specially with papists They come in sheepes clothing with faire titles tales they wil appear like Angels of light they talk of virginity merit abstinence hospitality al perfection not onely of duty but of supererogatiō they tel the world that no world was good but when they raigned that then all things were plentiful men charitable faithful and what not none liue wel but they saie they they fast they pray night and day they go long pilgrimages they punish their bodies and doe great penance but whereunto tendes al this but to deceiue these be nothing els but the false florish of a Pharisee the Foxes sophistry to beguile the simple for asmuch as they are nothing lesse then that they would seem to be they are no lesse then Foxes For to make the verie best of them what are they but as naught as naught can make them what are they but Foxes in shew gold in truth copper in shew flowres in proof weeds in shew sheep indeed rauenous Foxes oh what are they but Foxes for what doe they seeke but euery waie and euerie day to deuoure the bodies and souls of Christians for what doe their persuasions to their religion most openly heretical what doe their conspiracies now as you know and maie lament all the verie comfort and onelie hope of them most openly diabolicall say anie lesse for to appeale to you al what is it religion catholique or deuilish to saue or to slaie the soules of men to command men vnder the paine of an eternal curse to beleeue that a mortal man the man of Rome a prelate in title in trueth the pilate of the woorld is head of the church that he cannot er indeed to plurify the godhead to make man a god what religion is it that accounteth mariage in their incontinent votaries as bad if not worse then double adulterie lust without consent no sinne good workes the merit of heauen what religion is it that saith worship images wher God saith do not but worship me only Worship in ignorance where God saith do not but worship me only in spirit and verity Lastly what religion is it or how can it bee good that calleth Gods word darke though light the matter of strife though the woord of peace imperfect without tradition though the rule of al perfection yea the sense of the word only gods word and their sense the only true sense which yet is most apparantly false Though this were sufficient to proue this point which I might amplify more at large yet to adde a litle more for this is not al nor almost anie thing to the largenes of the matter nay alas what shal I saie of them are not papists cockle doe they not seek to destroy the corne are they not thornes doe they not seeke to pricke and teare the rose are they not dogs do they not seek to deuoure the darling are they not Foxes doe they not seeke to wast the vine of Iesu Christ among vs nay to appeale to you al oh where had our corne beene how not choked oh where had our rose been how not rented oh where had the darling of Christ been how not deuoured oh where had his vine been how not wasted if papists had obteined their perillous practises of old or of late among vs oh then once againe to appeale to you al what are they but cockle what lesse then the corne what are they but thornes what lesse then the rose what are they but dogs what lesse then the darling what are they but Foxes what lesse then the vineyarde of Christ our Sauiour shal I say al Right worshipfull and dearly beloued prooue al by that that you know may lament all happie could