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A15783	An epistle dedicated to an honourable person in the which are discouered a dozen bad spirits, who from the beginning haue much haunted & grieuously tormented the Protestant congregation, so that euery one may perceaue, if he be not tooto [sic] partiall, and ouermuch carryed away with affection, that such an assembly cannot be the true Church of God.	Wright, William, 1563-1639.	1622 (1622)	STC 26046.5; ESTC S3299	20,837	34

to the popish art p. 41. the faythfull person hauing receaued the remission of all his sinnes past present and future togeather we shall see such a floud gate opened to all kind of vice villany that I thinke the very great Diuell of hell would haue beene ashamed by himselfe to haue published either in print or in pulpit such a Libertine Position if it had not beene vnder the maske and vizard of a Minister called M. Wotton Of the spirit of Carnality I am very loth to speake any thing for feare of offending your chast modest ears but seing our Protestants are so familiar with this foule spirit the matter is of great importance to see them so drowned in this filth as they are which is so opposit to the pure spirit of God as one contrary can be to another Therfore I would desire your patience although you heare somewhat contrary your owne Noble Dispostion seing it cannot but redound to the great confusion of all our moderne Nouellists and to the great good of others And to begin They allow and proue Luth. tom 9. de Ma●rimonio fol. ●18 that Fornication Adultery and Poligamy is lawful Fornication is taught by D. Luther in calling the maid if the wife be stubborne and should refuse Adultery according to the example of Assuerus who married Hester and put away Vasthy who likewise saith that if the husband be impotent the wife may either marry another or with his consente secretly lye with his brother or some other man And indeed these new Reformers haue beene so frantick and mad with this spirit as to thinke it no lesse impossible for a man to liue chast then to fly ouer the mountane Caucasus For thus speakes D. Luther As Luth. in colloq Germ. cap de Matrimonio no man can liue saith he without meate or dr●nk so no man can abstaine from a woman c. and the cause is that we are conceiued in a woman and nourished there and borne of a woman fedde and bred of a woman and thereupon it followeth that we cannot by any meanes be separated from women And in the same book he goeth forward thus Zuinglius tom 1. fol. 115. Ochin dial l. 2. ●ial 21. p. 200. 204. Luth. de Bigam Epis prop. ●2 Idem in Genes 1. 1● Martyr in 1. Cor 7. S Hierome writeth many thinges of the tentations of the flesh Ah a small matter A woman in a mans house may remedy the disease Eustochium might easily haue helped or releiued Hierome in that case Thus saith he And could any shamelesse Ribauld speake more shamefully of Gods Seruants holy Saintes Zuinglius his fellow ministers of the Euāgelicall doctrine confesse that they did burne with lustfull desires of the flesh by meanes thereof were made insamous before the Congregations Ochinus Luther Peter Martyr and others playing the part of Iewes and Turkes allow plurality of wiues Beza was infamous for preferring Beza in sua Creof pag. ●8 Bolsec in vita Calu. Andebertus his boy before Candida his strūpet Caluin for his Sodomy at Noyon was branded on the shoulder with a hoat burning iron And this carnall Minister is not ashamed to tell your Honour that when I stile Luthers doctrine licentious and beastly for allowing in some case Fornication and Adultery I make of a Mole hill a Mountaine But to be breife the ministers themselues are Zecanorius lib. de corruptis moribus not contented with one wife as cōfesseth Syluester Zacanorius saying O good God what incredible ●hinges haue I seene c. And among many other enormities of Adulteries and Murthers he saith One of them he had killed his wife with poyson to vse other women being demaunded why he had committed so great a crime he answered that marriage in Lutheran ministers doth not extinguish wandring lusts although they giue such scope of diuorce in this matter of marriage as Libertine Luther saith that a man may haue ten or more wiues fled from him and yet all liuing But now go tell these carnall fleshly D. VVhite in his way to the true Church p. 395. Tyndall alleadged by Fox Act. mon. pag. 1337● Libertines that Fornication Adultery Incest Poligamy are most grieuous sinnes and that all such shall be accursed and cast downe into the eternall flames of hell fire prepared for the Diuell and his Angells presently they will answere out of M. Tindall who was as D. White writes a man sent from God to call his people out of Babylon that Christ hath ordained that there should be no sinne but Infidelity no Iustice but Fayth And so according to the doctrine forsooth of this man of God Fornication Adultery Incest Poligamy Sodomy Murder and such like are no sinnes at all and therfore not to be feared Out of Beza That Dauid by his murder and adultery did not loose the Holy Beza in Respons ad Act. colloq Montisbelg part altera pag. 7● Luth tom ● VVitt. serm de 4 Matrimon fol. 119. Ghost And out of D. Luther That sinne cannot withdraw them from Christ although they should commit fornication and murder a thousand tymes a day And indeed the satisfying of these beastly lusts in the prime Pillars and chiefe Protestant Reformers may be thought to haue beene one of the principall ends at which they aymed when they ran first out of their Cloisters and Monasteryes cast off their religious habits turned renagates from God Apostataes from their sacred and holy Orders and of vowed Priests became sacrilegious marryed Ministers from whome sprouted out this Parsons new trimmed vp Congregation of the which so much he braggeth Of their spirit of Blasphemy I haue spoken elswhere as of their tending to Atheisme and therefore now only I would haue your Honour to marke that these two spirits are not peculiar to some of the meanest among them but to such as are esteemed great Rabbins and Apostles of this Congregation especially if they be compared with this petty Minister Parson Estwicke For learned Eckhard tels vs that Eckhard in fasciculo Contro c. 7. quest 2. Caluin Beza Martyr Boquinus Renicherus others are become so impudent as they are not afraid to write that God is the first the chiefe the willing and decreeing yea the prouoking creating efficient and enforcing cause of sins Out of which doctrine some Reformers proue that all these Protestants turne God into the Diuell Moreouer D. Luther not without blasphemy would haue vs belieue that christ suffered Luth. in confess ma●ori de coe●a Domini lib. de Concuiis part 2. and dyed vpon the Crosse according to his Diuinity For if I belieue sayth he that only the humane nature of Christ suffered for me Christ is a base Sauiour not of any great price or valew yea he himselfe needeth a Sauiour Hence Zuinglius exclaimeth This can by Zuingl tom 2. in respons ad Luth. confess f. 458 469. 470. in resp ad Luth.