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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19456	The ladder of hell, or, The Protestants libertine doctrine being the broad way which leadeth the followers of it to their eternall ruine and destruction in hell / set foorth in prose and verse.	Covbridge, Cranmer.	1618 (1618)	STC 5879.5; ESTC S1685	5,617	18

Scripture which restraineth our freedome the quickening spirit of this Ladder which alloweth liberty of neglecting conscience The second is an old Tradition of the Papists in fauour of conscience which hath by long custome taken a deepe roote in vs. But the zealous Protestant who accounteth Papistry a great blindnesse will easily defie this among other Papisticall traditions The third is an inueterate opinion and feeling of conscience engrauen in the very nature and flesh of mans heart But we new spirited men do know old nature to be corrupted and that the flesh profiteth nothing Thus my deare Brethrē you may see what vses may be made of this admirable Ladder It remaineth that in a word I also declare why I make choice to dedicate it vnto you and to put it in print vnder your protection The reason is because the authors out of whom these sentences were collected were all zealous Protestants Secondly because none now adaies will as I suppose stedfastl● beleeue endeuor to practise according 〈◊〉 these points but only zealous Prote●●a●s Thirdly beause none but such zealous Protestāts who frame their liues according to this Ladder can well vnderstand how it is possible that this Ladder can be good or how it should deliuer one out of Hell and cōsequently why it should be stiled in that sense in which I stile it The Ladder of Hell It may be the Papist which first framed this Ladder wil play vpon vs with his text Woe vnto you that call euil good and good euill Isa 5. 20. But wee care not for his text for we can cry as lowd and say as fast Wo vnto him and although the world will witnesse that he hath better reason to vse this text against vs then we against him yet it sufficeth that our new Spirit doth beare witnes to our nullity of cōscience that we say true If the Papist take aduātage at my intitling my self Minist of the Word in Comberland saying that we Ministers comber the Land with these libertine doctrines I can reply tell him that it is he his Seminaries who comber our consciences with their contrary doctrines with putting scruples into our heads by adding to this Ladder certain sentences threatning hell and damnation to sinners for although we professe by our justifying Faith that we are sure to be saued and that we neede not feare to be damned yet I confesse when I seriously examine my guilty conscience and by searching find the holy Scriptures themselues to pronounce plainly eternall damnation to all ill liuers I cannot choose but be bodily afraid lest the Papist say true when he telleth vs that the Libertine doctrine taught by our new Gospellers set downe in this Ladder wil most certainly lead the followers of it to their eternall ruine and destruction in hell from which I beseech the Lord to deliuer vs all Amen Your deuoted seruant in the Lord CRANMER COVBRIDGE THE PROTESTANTS LADDER of libertie in Prose Easie it is Hell not to misse 1 GOD is the Author and enforcing cause of all finne 2 The ten Commandements are impossible to be kept 3 The ten Commandements belong not to Christains 4 Christ hath fulfilled the Law for vs. 5 We need take no paines for eternall life 6 Dauid committing murder and adulterie did not lose the holy Ghost 7 Whosoeuer beleeues God workes for him 8 Sinnes are not hurtfull to him that beleeues 9 We haue no freewill at all for it is titulus finere 10 Good works are not necessary to saluation 11 Good workes are hurtfull to saluation 12 To teach good workes is the doctrine of diuels 1● Let vs take heed of sinnes yea let vs take heed of good workes 14 All our best workes are mortall sins and meere iniquitie 15 We need not greeue or doe any satisfaction for our sinnes 16 A thousand fornications and murders a day cannot withdraw vs from Christ 17 If thy wife will not come let thy maid come 18 A woman is as necessary as meat and drinke 19 We may haue as many wiues as we list together 20 To fast and chastise our bodies is sanctitie for hogges and dogges 21 Purgatory is a delusion of the diuell 22 The diuels are but in hell 23 There is no sinne but infidelitie no iustice but Faith 24 No sins are imputed to the faithfull 25 Sinnes of the faithfull past and future are pardoned as soone as committed 26 The more wicked thou art the more neere to receiue grace 27 Wee haue as much right to heauen as Christ himselfe 28 And wee are all Saints and as holy as the Apostles were 29 Wee are certaine of our saluation 30 We cannot fall from ours vnlesse Christ fall from his A larger passage no man treads Then that which to perdition leads THE PROTESTANTS LADDER of libertie in Verse The gates are ●ide And open bide GOD is of all our sinnes the enforcing cause It is impossible to keepe his lawes The Tables two no rules for Christians bee Christ hath fulfill'd the Law and left vs free We need no paines take for eternall life Dauid Vrias kill'd defilde his wife Yet did not thereby lose the holy Ghost God for beleeuers worke they truely boast To the beleeuer no sinnes hurtfull are We haue no freewill t is a title bare There 's no necessitie of our good workes In them much hinderance to saluation lurkes The teaching of good workes is diuels lore Shunne sin but for good works eschew them more All our best workes are sinnes and errors soule For sinne neer satisfie nor grieue thy soule A thousand fornications on a day As oft to kill pulls not from Christ away If thy wife will not let thy mayde supply As meate and drinke a woman's necessary Wiues thou mayest take at once al that thou please To tame the flesh by fasts or want of ease Is sanctitie for hogges and dogges to vse With Purgatorie the Fiend doth fooles abuse Nor are those damn'd rebellious sprites in hell No sinne but want of Faith no doing well But to beleeue No sinnes the faithfull blot Committed straight they are pardon'd and forgot The most defil'd the readiest is for grace As Christ so wee haue right to see Gods face The Apostles equalls we are all and Saints Our certaintie of saluation neuer faints What euer soyleth ours Christs glory taints They spend their dayes in faring well And in a tri●e descend to hell THE BOOKES OF PROTEstants from whence the steppes of the Ladder are gathered 1 Caluin lib. 1. Iustitut cap. 18. sect 3. 4. Castalio is witnes l. de Praed con Caluin Ecker in fascic contr quaest 2. cap. 7. Paraeus apud Beca in 1. par c. 16. p. 182. Litt. Bern. dat Anno. 1555. 2 Caluin lib. 2. Instit cap. 7. sect 5. 3 Luther Serm. de Mois in coloq ●●ns Germ. fol. 152. 153. Melane in Loc. Com. edit 2. pag. 76. Eberus Salmath fecicles cruciger colloq Altemb Anno 1568. 4 Willet in Sinop Papis pag. 564. 5 Hoffman de Poenit. 6 Fulke in the Tower disput 7 Hoffman de Poenit. 8 Whitaker de Ecclesia pag. 301. 9 Luther Art 36. 10 Illiricus in Pref. ad Rom. 11 Amsdorfius quod bona opera sint perniciosa ad salut 12 Luther de Votis Monast 13 Luther in Piscatura Petri. 14 Caluin lib. 3. cap. 12. sect 4. 15 Caluin lib. 3. cap. 4. sect 38. 16 Luther Tom. 1. epist fol. 334. 17 Luther Ser. de Matrimon 18 Luther Ibidem 19 Luther Ibidem 20 Luther Tom. 5. Ger. fol. 324. 21 Luther Epist ad Wald. de Eucha 22 Luther ad cap. 9. Ionae 23 Luther in 5. par post German fol. 140. and Tindall alledged by Fox Actes pag. 1137. 24 Caluin lib. 3. Instit cap. 4. sect 28. 25 Wotton in his Answ to the Popish Art pag. 41. 26 Luther Ser. de Pisc Petri. 27 Zwinglius Tom. 1. fol. 288. 28 Luther Ser. de Cruce 29 Disput Ratisb pag. 463. 30 Swinglius Tom. 1 fol. 268. FINIS Caluin in c. 30. Isa Hermonia ad cap. 3. Mat. v. 12. I. Instit c. 25. n. 12. Luther in Postilla supra Euangel dom 1. aduentus a Luth. de abroganda missa priuata editione prima b I call it new foūd because I finde not in Scripture or in the ancient Fathers that a man is made iust by confidently beleeuing that hee is Iust but rather by humbly acknowledging ones selfe to be a sinner as appeareth in the Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican Luke 18. Gal 5. * Which whether it bee white or blacke Zuinglius himselfe could not tell Caluin Caluin Luther Willet Hofman Fulke Hofman Whittaker Luther Illiricus A●●●ders Luther Luther Caluin Luther Luther Luther Luther Luther Luther Luther Luther Tindall Caluin Wotton Luther Zuinglius Luther Caluin Zuinglius