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A13955	A godly and necessarye admonition of the decrees and canons of the Counsel of Trent, celebrated vnder Pius the fourth, Byshop of Rome, in the yeares of our Lord. M.D.LXII. and. M.D.LXIII. Wrytten for those godlye disposed persons sakes, whych looke for amendement of doctrine and ceremonies to bee made by generall counsels. Lately translated out of Latine.; Pia et necessaria admonitio de decretis et canonibus. English	Flacius Illyricus, Matthias, 1520-1575.; Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575, attributed name.	1564 (1564)	STC 24265; ESTC S118528	89,422	138

but beleueth in him which iustifyeth the wicked his fayth is imputed vnto righteousnesse And agayne Therefore we are iustifyed by fayth that the promes should be firme according to grace And Dauid sayth blessed is the mā vnto whō the Lord hath not imputed sinne And in an other place the same ●…postle sayeth By grace you are saued through fayth and that not of your selues for it is y ● gifte of God not by workes leaste any man should boaste But what nede we to bring forth many testimonies of y e scripture when as the Prophets do euery where teach that the whole consideration of our righteousnesse is to be sought for in the mercy of God applied by fayth for Christs sake In the knowledge of himselfe shall my righteous seruant iustifie many and he shall beare their iniquityes There is no other name vnder heauen geuen vnto men wherin we ought to be made safe This doctrine of Christ of the Prophetes and of the Apostles concerning the free remission of sinnes by faith for Christes sake in his only passiō and death and vtterly obteyned for vs by his obedience the Councell of Trent condemneth as erronious hereticall and deuilishe Wherfore howsoeuer they should graunt vnto vs all other thinges and should in all thinges come to our opinion yet can there be no agreement made betwene vs them so long as they perseuere in this their wicked opinion which as I haue sayd vtterly ouerthroweth the chife head and foundation of the doctrine of the Gospell No lesse impiety hath the 13. Canon wherein we are taught by reason of our infirmitie vnaptnes continually to doubt of the remission of sinnes before God But this opinion is repugnant to the manifeste testimonies of the Scripture and also to the definitiō and nature of fayth For to beleue is nothyng ells than fyrmely and assuredly to appoynte and not to doubt and with cōfidence to geue assent and by y ● meanes doubtyng is contrary vnto faith Wherfore whē we are bidden to beleue we are prohibited to doubt Repent sayth Christ and beleue the Gospell And of Abraham it is written And he was not weake in faith neyther cōsidered he his own body whiche was nowe dead c. But he doubted not at the promise of God thorough vnbelief but was made strōg in faith geuing the glory to God being fully assured that he whiche had promised was also able to do it And therfore it was imputed vnto him vnto righteousnesse I am assured sayth Paul y ● neither death nor lyfe c nor any other creature can seperate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. He writeth also vnto y e Ephe sians In whome we haue boldnesse and entrance with confidence thorough faith And Iames saith Let him aslte sayeth he with faith nothing doubting for he which doubteth is like vnto a waue of the sea whiche is moued and caried about of the wynde let not that man therfore thinke that he cā receaue any thing of the Lord. Also Let vs therefore go boldly vnto the throne of his grace y t we may obteine mercy find grace to helpe in tyme of nede These and like testimonies of the holy scripture teach that by no meanes we ought to put doubt or diffidence in the mercy of God towarde vs and of the obteynement of remissiō of our sinnes but we must firmely settle our selues without any doubting or distrust that thorough faith our sinnes are forgeuen vs by the free mercy of God for Christes sake But in that they adde hauing no regarde to our owne infirmitie or vnapt●… these holy fathers will not in dede haue vs to doubt of the promises of God whiche is most certaine and most firme and abideth alwayes in one sorte but if we looke vpon our owne infirmitie in graunting perseuering for this our infirmitie I say we must continually doubte so long as we liue here To this we aunswere y ● we must in dede haue a great regard to our infirmities and vnaptnesse and we must acknowledge diligently consider it for by it we are vnapt and vnworthy to receaue to be partaliers of the grace of 〈◊〉 as the Cēturion speaketh in the Gospel Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter vnder my roofe c. ●…nd Dauid sayth Haue mercy vpon me O God c. Also As thou Lord looke vpon our iniquities Lord who shalbe able to abide it Also I am a worme and no man ●…c And the Apostle sayeth I am not worthy to be called an Apostle bycause I haue persecuted the Churche of God Dauid also Lord enter not iudgement with thy seruaunt bycause no liuing mā shalbe iustified before thee And is not this to acknowledge his own infirmitie and vnaptnesse But the ende of this acknowledgyng is not a diffidēce or doubting of y ● will of God towarde vs but it rather ought to stirre vs vp that we vtterly dispairying in our owne strengthes shoulde with a sure and firme fayth without any doubting seke righteousnesse life and eternall life in our only Lord sauiour if there remayne any doubtyng in the flesh let vs say with him in the Gospel Lord helpe my vnbeliefe Wherfore the holy scripture teacheth that men ought so to be assured o●… y ● grace mercy of God towardes them that in the meane tyme they forget not their owne infirmitie study to make their electiō firme by good workes and not that by consideratiō of this their infirmitie they should doubt of the fauor of God towardes them For the takyng awaye of which doubt the Sacramentes were instituted by Christ by which the promyses of God are applied vnto euery man and theyr heartes are sealed by the spirit of Christ. Of Baptisme Peter writeth That Baptisme also maketh vs faste not the puttyng awaye of the filth of the fleshe but the taking to witnesse of a good cōscience with God by the resurrection of our Lorde Iesu●… Christ from the dead For euen as by takyng witnesse c●…uenantes are performed so God in Baptisme as it were takyng vs by the right hand confirmeth that he will be a mercifull God vnto vs in Christ that he wil forgeue our sinnes and receaue vs into grace For this cause also the Apostle sayth ye haue not receaued the spirite of bondage agayne in feare but ye haue receaued the spirite of the adoption of the sonnes of God by whom we crye Abba father For that spirite beareth witnesse to our spirite that we are the children of God Also Ye are scaled with the holy spirite of promise whiche is the pledge of our inheritaunce Wherefore it is both extreme impietie and also ignoraunce of holye Scriptures to bryng men into a continuall doubte bycause of their infirmitie wherewith also the nature of the sainctes is infected Whiche thyng this present Canon doth wherein all the doctrine of

❀ A godly and necessarye admonition of the Decrees and Canons of the Counsel of Trent celebrated vnder Pius the fourth Byshop of Rome in the yeares of our Lord. M. D. LXII and. M. D. LXIII Wrytten for those godlye disposed persons sakes whych looke for amendement of Doctrine and Ceremonies to bee made by generall Counsels Lately translated out of Latine Psalm xxvi Odi ecclesiam malignantium I haue hated the Congregations of the wycked Math. xv What soeuer my heauenlye father hath not planted shalbe plucked vp by the rootes ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Day dwellyng ouer Aldersgate beneath Saint Martins ¶ Cum gratia et priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis per septennium The. xix of February 1564. These bookes are to be sold at hys shop vnder the Gate ❧ The Preface to the Reader OUr Lorde and Sauioure Iesus Christ when he hadde confirmed the mindes of his Disciples agaynste the daungers of persecution whych they shoulde be in daunger of for the confession of the truth of his doctrine with a spirite thurstyng our saluation brake foorth into these woordes What profiteth it a man sayd he though he win al the world if he lose hys own soule Or what recompence shal a man geue for his soule And his meaning was to admonish not onely his Disciples but also al vs together with them how much the saluation of soules is to be made of which being deliuered from the bodye and once abiected from God can by no price or recompence he redemed agayne But then are they most of al endaungered when they straye from the true knowledge of God and his syncere woorshipping For God is lyfe and truth and therefore the death of the soule is to decline frō the rule of the wyl of God reuealed in Christ. But bicause the Lorde speaketh not vnto vs from heauen but hath vpō earth instituted the ministery of teaching whereby men are instructed of the wil of God we see that for that cause I say men are diuerslye affected For they which teach in the churche of God doo not euerye where professe one and the selfe same doctrine And when Christ sayde of true teachers He that heareth you heareth me And agayne If he shal not heare the church let hym bee vnto thee as an Ethnicke and a Publicane they excedinglye doubt vnto what congregation in so great a diuersitye of opinions they ought to soyne them selues For on the one syde they are holden by ordinary succession as they ca●… it and custome and consent of very long tyme in whose congregation yet neuerthelesse they see very many errours and no small abuses which they them selues vnderstand and iudge that they ought of necessity to be amended On the other side against humane traditions they heare the expresse woorde of God brought foorth and vrged but for asmuch as they fynde among those mē also occasion to be offended and chiefely bicause they thinke that the chaunging of doctrine and ceremonies pertaineth not vnto euery man but vnto the ordinarye power they can scarse tel which way to turne them selues They flye therefore vnto the authority of a Counsel as to an onely sanctuary whereby they iudge that dissension sprong in the Church may most commodiously be taken awaye Of which thyng when deliberation was had long tyme and often by the orders of the Empyre neither yet by any conditions whereby on eyther syde it was requyred it could be obtained the saluation of many men hath by the stay of so long tyme bene miserably endaungered And although such are iustly to be reproued whych neglecting the very sounding from heauen of the sonne of God Heare him haue a regarde vnto the authority of men for the consideration of our saluation is not so obscurelye taught but that euen the moste simplest in fayth may comprehende it yet I thinke not that this kinde of men is to bee abiected But rather in that part wherin we see that they ar sicke we must after the exāple of the Apostels to our power study to heale thē For that happeneth in this our time which we reade happened at Ierusalem on the day of Pentecost after the ascention of Christe into heauen For when the people saw and heard the Apostels with sundry tounges celebrate the wonderful things of God whom yet the Priestes Scrib●…s and Phariseis had a litle before condemned and persecuted they were vtterly at their wyts ende and in doubte whose doctrine they should embrace For Christ seemed no lesse to commend the doctrine of the Phariseis than the doctrine of the Apostels when he said Upon the chaire of Moses syt the Scribes and Phariseis that which they say doo ye What maruaile is it if the rude and vnlearned people were doubtfull For the Phariseis vnto whom they were so long tyme addicted in learning the woorshippyng of God taught one thing and the Apostels an other thing The selfe same thing vndoubtedlye wee see happeneth in this our age For with our Elders great hath bene the authority of the Church of Rome wherewith the eyes of many men are yet styl blinded But no lesse yea rather farre greater is the authority of the woord of God whereby are reproued errours and abuses which haue throughe the negligence and auarice of men crept into the Church A man that wyl ryd him selfe our of these difficulties ought not vtterly to be vnskilful in holy matters and so to be addicted vnto the Church that in the meane tyme he same not against the manifest wil of God expressed in the woord of the Gospel But there are two rockes betwene which godlye men must wyth great care and diligence sayle For some by reason of lightnes of mind without iudgement and true faith embrace euery maner of religion But other some to stubbornlye resist and wyll not once so muche as vauchsafe to know the doctrine set foorth bicause their minde is bent vnto an opinion which they defend for the truth Or bring ouercome with the pleasures of this worlde they haue no care of the truth nor saluation of their soules But there is none amongest them that are trulye godlye so rude to thinke that so great inconstancye of minde in the doctrine of religion or stubbornes in errors should be numbred among vertues but by the holy scriptures they are taught that either of them is to be auoyded For against inconstancy the Apostle speaketh Let vs not be as ●…ytile ones wauering neither let vs be caried about with euerye wynde of doctrine But against stubbornes in errour Iohn hath left in writing Proue the spirites whether they be of God Wherwith the selfe same Apostle agreeth Quench not saith he the spirite despise not prophecies But proue ye al thing that which is good hold But bicause it is a singular gift of God to proue spirites and as the Apostle saith prophecye that is the naturall interpretation of the holy scripture belongeth not to euery man Manye suppose that thys

of Priestes But what profyte I praye you redoundeth vnto the Churche of GOD whether the Byshoppes be resident here or in any other place when as they neither teache nor yet can teach the people of y e wil of God which thyng ●…et is the dewty and office of Byshoppes But they neglectyng that haue turned thys office into Princely gouernamentes and vnder the rytle and name of Byshops they inuade the kyngdomes of the worlde hauyng no regarde vnto soules whose saluation tey ought by teachyng diligently to prouide for 〈◊〉 ●…he when they are preseut they are more hurte than when they are absent Whiche thing the Byshops them selues vndersta●… better than my pen is able to expresse If they of the Papacy mynde in the Counsell earnesssly to prosecute the matter of Reformation why do they not wayghe the griefes proposed by the Orders of the Empyre vnto the Legate of Adrian the Bishop of Rome in the Imperiall assemblies at Norimberge in the yeare of our Lord. 1523. Unto whiche vnlesse they as it is mete aunswere who will beleue that they haue any regarde of thys thyng But whilest I exactely consider and waygh with my selfe all singular these things I can not hold my selfe but that I muste talke a fewe wordes with the Fathers of the Counsell Ye remember as I suppose the moste seuere admonition of the Lorde made by Malachy vnto the Priestes of the olde Testament And nowe sayth he vnto you is this commaundement Dye Priestes It ye will not heare nor consider in yput heart to geue glorye vnto my name sayeth the Lorde of holles I will send vpon you pouerty and will curse your blessynges and I will curse them bycause ye haue not considered it in your heart Beholde I will corrupte your seede and will cast vpon your faces the dongue of your solemne feast dayes and it shall cleaue faste vnto you And ye shall knows that I haue sent thys commaundement vnto you that my couenaunt myght stande whiche I made with Leuy sayeth the Lord of hostes I made a couenaunt of lyfe and peace with hym and I gaue hym feare and he feared me and was afrayed before my name The lawe of trueth was in hys mouth and there was no wickednesse fou●… in hys lyppes he walked with me in peace and equitye and dyd turne many one awaye from their synnes For the Priestes lyppes shoulde preserue knowledge and they shoulde se●…e the lawe at hys mouth for he is the Aungell of the Lorde of hostes But ye are gone out of the waye and haue caused many to be offended at the lawe ye haue broken the couenaunt of Leuy sayeth the Lorde of hostes Therefore haue I also made you to he dispysed and vyle before all people bycause ye kepte not my wayes but haue bene parciall in the lawe but the Lorde shall destroye both the master and the scholer out of the tabernacle of Iacob with hym that offreth an offring vnto the Lorde of hosses Knowe ye that thys admonition pertayneth vnto you vpon whome ye haue turned all the eyes of whole Christendome For euen as the Lorde made a league with the tribe of Leuy whose office was to kepe knowledge that beyng demaunded concernyng the will of GOD they shoulde aunswere and instructe the people of GOD So also woulde he haue the Byshoppes to be diligent kepers of the Apostolicall doctrine and to be successors vnto the Apostles not so much in seate as in doctrine But alas that thyng hath happened in our tymes and in the tymes of oure Elders which the Prophet complayned of concerning the priestes of hys tyme. For in steade of knowledge and the lawe of God are kept humane traditions whiche are repugnaunte vnto the lawe and will of God Ye haue departed from the way of the Lorde and haue bene an offence vnto many in the lawe of the Lord which haue embraced these doctrines Christ sayd vnto the man that was sicke of the palsey Haue confidence my sonne thy sunnes are forgeuen thee But contrarily ye Fathers of the Coūsell of Trent saye Doubt my sonne and appoynt not assuredly of the remission of thy synnes The Apostle sayth The holy ghost beareth witnesse vnto our spirite that we are the children of God Contrarily ye in your Counsel decree that we must perpetually doubt and y t we must haue more regarde vnto our own vnaptnesse and weakenesse then to thys testimony of the holy ghost Christ sayth concerning the cup of the supper Drinke ye al of this Ye contrarily say Let not all but the priestes onely drinke of the Cup. Iohn sayeth Christ is made a propitiation for the sinnes of the whole worlde And againe The bloud of Iesus Christ clenseth vs from al sinne Contrarily ye fathers of the Counsell say That not only the sacrifice of y e crosse but also the sacrifice of the masse is a propitiation for oure sinnes Also that not only the bloud of Christ but also the fire of Purgatorye clenseth vs from some sinnes Christ teacheth vs to call vpon God only Ye being gathered together in this Counsel teach cōmaund tocal vpō Saints also Christ concerning y e bread of y e supper saith Take ye eate ye Ye cōtrary ordayne y e it must be kept til to morow included and ear●…ed frō place to place Christ sayth That whiche entreth in through the mouth defileth not man The counsel sayth If any man at certaine times abstaine not from the eating of flesh let him be accursed S. Paul sayth Led a Bishop be y ● husband of one wife which hath obedient children The counsel sayth Let a Bishop haue neither wife nor children and let such as be ioyned in matrimony be put out and suspended from this so holy an office But who can recken vp all the thinges in whiche ye papistical priests haue departed from the law of the Lord This also was the cause why the Prophet sayde in thys place I haue made you to be despised vile to all people bicause ye haue not intended in your hart to geue glory to God Therfore also is your glory troden vnder foote as in an other place the Lorde of hostes speaketh vnto Eli the priest Whosoeuer shall glorifye me I will glorifye hym but they which contemne me shal be made vile To y ● end ye would establish the glory of the priestes ye violate and teare in peces the Testament and laste will of the Lorde●… namely y ● priestes should be had in honor and estimation let the lay men be spoyled with the vse of the cup as the Counsell of Constance hath decreed It greueth you very much that the glorye hon●…ure and estimation of priestesis euery where decayed which sometymes were moste highlye esteemed of Kynges and Princes and of the people of God Inipute this contempt vnto your selues your owne sinne is the cause thereof for that ye haue forsaken the law of the Lord and haue departed

of the whole world These testimonies of the holy Scripture of the olde and newe Testament doo manifestlye teache that besides the obedience of Christe made in the fleshe there is no other satisfaction for synnes and that they are fowlely deceaued which do put some part of satisfaction eyther in theyr owne passions or elles in their fained purgatorye To deuide in halfe the merite of the passion of Christ is vtterly to abolish his meryte for he is no halfe or vnperfect redemer but a perfect redemer with one oblatiō saieth the Epistle to the Hebrewes hath he for euer made perfect those which are sanctified Heb. x. But bycause they see that the expiation or satisfaction for synnes is by moste manifeste testimonyes of the scripture attributed onely vnto Christe they goe aboute to auoyde them by a vayne distinction when they teache that the synnes themselues are not expiated but that for the eternall payne dew vnto synnes the satisfaction of temporall payne is expiation made but in affyrmyng of these thynges they shewe in very deede that they are vtterly ignoraunt what remission of synnes is For what other thyng ells is remission of synne than that God fyrst receaueth vs into fauoure and forgeueth the faulte of synnes then also he remitteth the punyshemente whiche we haue deserued by our synnes Wherfore where there is not a full and perfecte remission of payne but that some satisfaction is requyred there also is not a full and perfecte remission of synnes I knowe the Councell of Trent can not vnloose thys knotte and if thys be manifest to be the doctrine of the holy Ghost then will fal away theyr satisfactions for synnes and the fyre of purgatorye shal easiy be quenched And although the Lord somtimes do some what more seuerely chastē those whose sinnes he remitteth according to hys will as he vnderstandeth to bee expediente for them yet is that by no meanes to be counted a satisfaction for y e payne of sinne but a healthfull discipline to kepe them in doing theyr dutie and to cause them to woorke theyr saluation in feare and trembling When we are iudged sayth the Apostle we are corrected of the Lorde least we should be condemned with the world He sayeth not that we are corrected to the ende we shoulde satisfye part of the iustice of God but to the entent we should not synne hereafter or flatter our selues in sinnes Also y t fayned fyre of Purgatorye is manifestly against this sentence of Christ wherin he sayth Uerely I say vnto you he whiche heareth my worde and beleueth in him which sent me hath eternal lyfe shal not come to iudgement but hath passed from death to life It is also contra ry vnto the most sweete consolation of the Apostle which is written vnto the Thessalonians where the death of the Godly is called a sleepe I will not sayth the Apostle that you shoulde be ignoraunte brethren of those whiche haue fallen on slepe c. But it might be called a wonderfull sleepe if it were ioyned with so greate a tormente of purgatory fyer Which the Sophisters affyrme differeth nothing from the infernall fyre but only in respecte of duraunce of time Whereof you shall heare what the Disciple sayth in his Sermon of soules whose words are these For if all the coales of the whole worlde being gathered together vpō one heape were on fyre and if a man shoulde stande in the middest of them he shoulde not susstaine so greate heate as the soules sustaine in purgatory Of thys fayned fyre of purgatory the holy prophetes and Apostles know nothing y e holy scripture is ignorant therof neyther knoweth it of any other fyre after thys life than of the infernal euerlasting fyre of the damned which shall neuer be quenched but al the misery of those y ● shal be saued endeth in this world wherein yet also is the beginning of eternall life And although y ● Byshops of Rome with their Cardinalles Byshoppes Sacrificers and monkes were man●… yeares ago admonished of all these pernitious errors ye●… se great is their stubborn●…es and security in defending of errors that in s●… manifest a lyght of the doctrine of y e Gospell they are bolde to obtrude them agayne vnto Christian people so muche are they bewitched by the spirite of lying that they shoulde not geue place vnto the truth of the heauenly doctrine whiche the Lord hath raysed vp againe in the latter times hath kindled the true lyght in the hartes of many I thought good to admonishe the godly reader of all these thinges before I tooke in hande to confute the rest of the decrees and Canons whiche were made vnder the Bishop of Rome Pius the fourth concerning the Sacramentes all which namely decrees and Canons seing they were allowed by the Counsell gathered together the laste yeare they whiche are but meanely instructed in the doctrine of pietie may most manifestly see y ● there is no good thing to be hoped for at their handes For what but euen briefly to repeate all things pietie or sounde doctrine canst thou looke for of them which acknowledge not the disease of the corrupt nature of man dare denye it to be sinne contrary to the Apostle Which denye that man is dead thorough sinne and doo attribute vnto him strengthes yet remayning wherby he may apply him selfe vnto grace Whiche also excuse workes of the Ethnikes and infidels from sinne Whiche are ignorant of the nature difference of the law and of the Gospell Which condemne the righteousnesse of faith which thorough the obedience of Christ resteth onely in the mercy of God Whiche teache a man continually to doubt of the grace and fauor of God Whiche dreame y ● the faythfull can fulfill the lawe of God Whiche besides the passion and death of Christ do teache vs to seeke other satisfactiō in this life in y e world to come What good thing I saye can a Christian Publique welth hope or loke for from suche fathers when as with their peruerse and vngodly decrees they do not o●…ely peruert the foundations and principall poyntes of Christian Religion but also as much as lieth in them vtterly ●…uerthrow them Where as there are fiue principall feast dayes wherein the benefites of the sonne of God are yearely celebrated in the Churche the feastes of the Natiuitie of Christ of hys Passion Resurrection and Ascencion into heauen also the feast of Whitsontyde Of all these feastes the Fathers of the Counsell of Trent haue left vs nothyng but the names and truth of the historye whiche is also in the deuilles vnto whiche fathers thou mayst most aptly apply this sayeng of Paul They professe that they know God but in dedes they deny hym when as they are abhominable and not harknyng to his worde and reprobate to all good workes For the power and fruite of the holye Natiuitie of Christe is to purge and make cleane our vnpure Natiuitie whiche were