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A07026	The bee hiue of the Romishe Church a com[m]entarie vpon the sixe principall pointes of Master Gentian Heruet, a Romish Catholike his booke, which is deuided into sixe partes, as in the argument doth appeare. And an epistle made by the authour of this booke vnto Franciscus Sonnius, late Bishop of Antwerpe. Translated out of Dutch into English, by George Gylpen the elder.; Byencorf der H. roomsche Kercke. English	Marnix van St. Aldegonde, Philips van, 1538-1598.; Stell, John, fl. 1580.; Gilpin, George, 1514?-1602.	1579 (1579)	STC 17445; ESTC S119818	327,751	730

commaunded the Cardinals to ride no more on horses nor Mules but vpon asses was by them hated had in contempt This craftie foxe did ordeine a man to feine him selfe an Angel of God who speaking through a gutter or pype which was bored through a wal did warne Coelestine by night as in a vision to giue vp his charge he being vnfit for the place and therefore to resigne it vnto some other more able for that function Insomuch as this Boniface by this subtill deuice obteined the Popedome mocking with God and his owne profession And immediatlie after this fearing least Coelestine might yet giue out him selfe for the right Pope did throwe him into prison and caused him there most miserablie to ende his life Further hee play● many iniurious vngodlie partes more for he dispossessed by meere force two Cardinals being of the stocke of the Columneses not onelie from their Cardinalships but also from their owne proper inheritances because they had reported that hee was not the right and lawfull Pope Also he did banish and curse Sara Columna with all the Columneses He refused to crowne the Emperour Albertus and setting the crowne vpon his owne head and girding the sword to his side said I am Emperour my selfe Yet notwithstanding after that the King of France did in his owne person crowne him to spite the Pope which king of Fraunce named Philip hee did likewise excommunicate and adiudged him to be dispossessed and deposed from his kingdome the same apperteining to the Emperour Albertus because hee denied the Pope for his Soueraigne Yet besides this in token of his godlinesse and to the ende eche one might knowe that hee deririded his owne religion It fortuned on a tyme in the Citie of Genes that hee had in handling the Archdeane named Prochetum vppon the first daye of Lent cōmonly called Ashwednesday And in place that he shoulde print the signe of the crosse on his forehead with hallowed ashes after the accustomed manner of the Romish Church and say Memento homo quia cinis es in cinerem reuerteris that is to say Remember O man that thou art ashes and to ashes thou shalt returne he tooke a handfull of asshes and threwe them into the good mans eyes and said in a great rage Memento homo quia Gibellinus es cum Gibellinis in cinerem reuerteris that is to say Remember O man that thou art a Gibelline for they were called Gibellines which tooke part with the Emperour and shalt bee consumed with the Gibellines to dust and therewithall did he bereaue him of his benefice But what shall I say further It doeth manifestlie appeare that he hath deserued a good place amongest the first quarters seeing he was at a general Coūcell holden in Paris accused and founde guiltie of three speciall faultes namelie of Murther Heresie and Simonie or briberie ▪ and for those causes dispossessed of his Popedome and shortlie after was taken as prisoner in the towne of Anagnia where hee was resident and from thence conueied to Rome in a prison called castra de S. Angel ▪ where through verie spite malice hee became raging madde in so much as hee did gnawe and deuoure his owne handes and so most miserablie like to a dogge ended his life howbeit it seemed that the Diuels did maruelouslie mourne for him for the same whole daye was heard in the prison where hee died such great and horrible thunderclappes terrible sturre that it seemed al the belles Priestes and Monkes in hell did sing his Requiem for he had bene vnspeakable holie forsomuch as hee was the first which did set forth the shoppe of Indulgencies pardons and first brought to light the yere of Iubile Therefore it is most meete that hee furnishe this thirde place of these eight first quarters The fourth place we may of dutie attribute to Iohn the 23. forsomuch as hee was a manifest and professed Heretike defending not onelie by woordes but also openlie that the soules die together with the bodies till the lat●er day of the resurrection And verelie at his election the holie spirit of the Cardinals was so zealously inflamed that two of the most principall were murdered yea he him selfe was inflamed with a burning zeale towardes our deare mother the holie Church and therefore did condemne the Emperour Lodowick of Beyren for an Heretike because he would not take the Emperiall crowne at the hands of the holie Pope of Rome yet was he him selfe afterwardes in a generall Councell found an heretike and by Nicholas the fift who possessed his place was figuratiuelie burnt like an heretike And further after his death were his opinions by his successour Benedict the 12. condemned for heresies Hee was also before by the Generall of the Gray friers named Michael of Saesena complained vppon and accused of an other heresie to wit that he would by force mainteine against all sufficient and true proofes of the Scripture That Christ and his Apostles had in this worlde borne temporall rule yet notwithstanding howesoeuer hee vsed the matter he reigned remained Pope For he made two Saintes namely Thomas of Erford Thomas of Aquin and ordeined that at night should be song Aue Maria therfore is he also worthily nūbred among the noble ringleaders of the spiritualtie in this first quarter For the sift in this quarter we may place Gregorie the 11. who reigned about the yere 1371. Seeing he lying at the point of death did make a most true cōfession declaring him self thereby not much better than an heretike for after he like an honest man had of meere malice banished cursed all the Florentines and with a mightie armie had sought their confusion and had raised the tenth pennie throughout al Germanie whereby hee had caused a great schisme to grow among the people At last death approching he sent for his Cardinals and other Prelates to come to him and holding the Sacrament in his hande coniured euerie one which were there present that they shoulde beware from dooing those or other such like thinges as hee had done forsomuch as hee in place of Gods woorde and following of good counsell had inclined to those whiche sought to preferre their owne false imaginations and feigned dreames and thereby had brought the Church to a perfect likelihoode of confusion and ruine by great debate and schisme like as i● did sufficientlie appeare after his death For immediatlie did arrise the horrible schisme which the Historiographers doe tearme The twentie and two Schisme which continued aboue fortie yeres After this followeth in the sixt place of the first quarter a worthie and an Ancient bearer vp of all vngodlie Heretikes and Epicures called Iohn the 24. who at the first brought to passe that Alexander the fift and Pope next before him by an approued and faithfull seruice of his Physicion named Daniel de Sancta Sophia was with a Romish figge pickt ouer the

soundeth not well for we do not al becom one bodie in substance as the holie Church will haue the bread become the verie body of Christ in substance But then the similitude which after that he introduceth or bringeth in is to farre out of the way For hee saieth That those which feede of the altar are partakers of the altar and that those that offer vp to idols are partakers with the diuell And so making a comparison of the table of the Lord and the table of the diuell as though the Priestes could not eate vp that bodie of Christ otherwise than as idolaters eate vp the diuels and as though these wordes Eate that bodie of Christ did signifie nothing else but this through the power of the holie Ghost to be made one bodie ioyntlie with the bodie of Christ as the vngodly idolaters by power of the wicked spirite are vnited with the diuell That is to heynous an heresie and therefore wee may not stande vpon this similitude for it soundeth di●ectlie against our Transubstantiation But when you will haue a substantiall similitude you must search and seeke it out of Scotus and Thomas de Aquino or Panormitanus and such like For they bring in for this purpose a goodlie similitude of a Tauerne or common Inne where they sell wine For as there is commonlie a potte a garlande or Iuie bush hanged out betokening that to be a Tauerne and the Tauerne doeth signifie that there is wine plentie So likewise you see here the outward accidentes of bread to witte the roundnesse and the whitenesse which doe signifie that vnder the same is conteined the verie bodie of Christ which is to bee resembled to the Tauerne And this bodie of Christ doeth further signifie the holie Church of Rome which is made one with the bodie of Christ which they call Mysticum corpus Christi that is to say The spiritual or mystical bodie of Christ and this is that sweete wine which the Priestes drinke in that Inne or Tauerne And after this they doe likewise bring for a similitude the water which in Cana of Galilie was plainlie turned into wine which similitude doeth so wonderfull well serue for this purpose as to set a fift wheele in a wagon But it is pitie that the Priestes haue not other fiue wordes whereby they might do that too For then should the similitude serue their turne much better if that they might when they woulde conuerte and turne the water into good wine for that they might therewith the better scoure and refresh their drie throtes when they are become verie hoarse with singing of their seruice And it is verie true that they doe what they can for that purpose for on Saturday being Easter eeuen they praye vnto God that hee will also do so much as to turne their Beere saying O Lord holie Father almightie and eternal God which hast made both heauen and earth wherein the water is conteined I pray thee and instantly beseech thee in the name of Iesus Christ thy onlie begotten Sonne that thou of thy goodnesse wilt blesse and make holie this Beere as thou diddest blesse the dinner of Abraham and Isaak and as thou diddest blesse the sixe pottes in Cana of Galilie which were chaunged from water into good wine euen so change for thy seruantes sake which do beleeue in the Catholike faith this substance of Beere into pleasantnesse and mirth thorough the same c. But alas what can all this helpe when it will not so come to passe For they haue not this cunning and therefore they must needes haue bene deceiued and so drinke vp the bloud vppon rawe fleshe For men may say all what they will and Paule yea Christ him selfe may bring forth what interpretation they list but the holy church will stande to the first wordes This is my bodie and vpon that will she liue and die The texte is plaine ynough for her shee hath no neede either of glosse or interpretation And therefore vnto all the interpretations which these Heretikes bring in whether it be out of the Scriptures or out of the auncient Fathers wee will answere This is my bodie and sticke as sure to that as the Cuckoe to her song The v. Chapter Treating of the great st●ife and difference which is a●mongst the Romishe Doctours concerning the words of the Sacrament and yet all they agree and stande fast touching the Transubstantiation Herein are likewise set forth some textes of Scripture whereby Transubstantiation is established IT is verie true that our Catholike Doctours and subtile maisters of Diuinitie can not euen they them selues finde anie good resolution of these words neither can make them serue the turne well touching their Transubstantiation but that there doeth alway fall great difficultie and disorder therin The bookes sticke out in euery side like a spindle in a bagge in so much that they snarre and iarre amongst themselues in this matter like dogges cattes yea Quot capita tot sensus How many heads so manie opinions And yet notwithstāding they all ioyntly crie together This is my bodie The text is cleare and needes no glosse yea they cleaue as close to Transubstantiation as claye to the cart wheele Although they can not tell which way to frame this plaine text For to begin withal they all flatly flie from that which was concluded in the foresaid Councell of Rome that is That the verie bodie of Christ shuld be Sensualiter that is to say Sensiblie and visiblie eaten and with the teeth chewed in morsels For to that they all affirme flatlie No and that it is a false lie notwithstanding it is set out in the Decrees verie substantially For say they the bodie of Christ can no more bee bitten eaten nor digested he can not now die nor suffer anie more nor bee broken in pieces he doth liue eternally Which is apparant by this token that yeerelie vpon Corpus Christi day our deare mother the holie church doeth in her vsuall Hymne or Sacramental Carroll sing these words folowing Sub diuersis speciebus Signis tantùm non rebus ▪ Latent res eximiae Caro cibus sanguis potus Manet homo Christus totus ▪ Sub vtraqué specie A sumente non concisus Non confractus nec diuisus ▪ Integer accipitur Sumit vnus sumunt mille Quantum isti tantum ille Nec sumptus absumitur c. That is to say Vnder signes most plaine to see Substance none which seeme to be Things lie hid most excellent The flesh is meate the bloud is wine ▪ A perfect Christ in either signe Remaineth of the Sacrament He is not dealt in morsels small Diuided cutte nor hurt at all But whole he is receiued A thousand taste a thousand eate And all alike feede of one meate He wastes not though digested Nowe see here thus do they deface their owne Councels and Decrees and make al the holie Fathers of the Councel of Rome liers After this

necessitie must followe that the Church hath a full and resolute power ouer the expresse worde of God aboue the cōmandement ordenāce of Iesus Christ and aboue all the scriptures of the Prophets Apostles But what neede is it I pray you to bring so many and diuerse ensamples one by one for the deference of this matter Sithence we see euidently that shee in all her deuotions Gods seruices and ceremonies doth alter the expresse wordes of the Scripture yea doeth openly and wilfully ouertread it euen as though it were done in spite and anger of the holy Scripture in the Bible For by the holy Scripture it is openly and vpon great paynes earnestly forbidden That in the seruing of God first no commandements traditions nor deuises of men shall bee vsed nor take anie place but to rest wholy and onely vpon the special commandements of God and to do thereafter Finally to turne neither to the right hand or to the left Secondarily not to make or haue anie Image or similitude ▪ carued or molten nor shall vse the shape or likenesse of anie such thereby to shewe or set forth the spirituall forme and incorporable maiestie of God by earthly things and dumbe and dead creatures Thirdely that no man shall vse anie witchcraft sorcerie or inchantment of anie creature to the intent to giue to the creatures that be senselesse and voyde of life anie might or worthinesse other then by nature is prescribed vnto them Which thing is likewise by all Councels and Synodes as well Iudiciall as Canonicall openly and straytelie forbidden Here agaynst notwithstanding hath it pleased our dearely beloued mother the holy Church of Rome to vse her full and inestimable authoritie and power and so without hauing anie respect at all to that which is aboue written hath to beginne withall sette vp a certaine kinde of seruing of God which is altogether contrarie to the good opinions traditions and ordinances of all men For besides that the blessed Masse is by diuerse Popes Cardinals and Bishops at sundrie times and in sundrie places raked vp in a huge heape with many peeces patches of mens deuises like to a beggers cloke sowed together besides so many traditions of idle heades which the holy Church of Rome hath receyued for a perfite seruing of God as fasting dayes yeares of grace differences and diuersities of dayes of meates of clothing consecrating of Churches of altars of candles pilgrimages Letanies Kyrieelesons Images Processions holy ashes holy Paceegges and flanes palmes and palme boughes Albes Copes Maniples Vestmēts Miters Staues fooles hoods Shelles and Belles Paxes licking of rotten bones carying of the Pixe about and praying to a lumpe of doaw fasting vpon certaine speciall dayes creeping vpon knees before a Crosse of wood buying of Bulles and pardons mumbling of Pater nosters and Aue Maries by tale vpon a paire of Beades before a dumbe image shauing of crowne and beard to giue blessing with two fingers and ten thousande more such prankes Yet aboue al this is by the holy Church as it were in spite of God and his word ordeyned That euery man being a good Catholike maye appoint and choose for himselfe a Saint and patrone erect a new image and specially build a new chappel and an altar set vp a newe and particular religion weare a peculiar or special kinde of garment assume and take a seuerall vse of meates and ceremonies finally and to conclude doe what soeuer his good meaning and intent persuadeth him vnto Secondarily it is so that our deare mother will not set vp any seruing of God but shee must of necessitie haue therevnto all sortes of ymages as well carued as painted and worship the same by kneeling and praying with burning of candles with kissing and licking with pilgrimages and other such like deuotions And in setting vp the sayde images in all high wayes in all streetes and in all corners euen as for an euident token and protestation that they neither do once thinke vpon Gods commandement set forth in the holy Scripture neither wil be subiect or bounde to the same Thirdly all her diuine seruice all her ceremonies and deuotions and all her holinesse is grounded in cōiuring of creatures and worshipping the same and in flat sorcerie and witchcraft in working whereof they speake vnto the dumbe creatures as though they had as much vnderstanding as the Priests themselues and so do abuse the blessed name of God and the textes of the holy Scripture openlye and without respect The water is by them exorcised or coniured by these wordes I coniure thee thou creature of water In the name of the father the sonne and the holy ghost to the ende thou become a chosen water to take away all the power of the diuell and that thou mayest driue awaye and confounde the diuell him selfe with all his wicked Angels c. The oyle and the balme are coniured and bewitched with much mumbling blowen vpon with many breathings with three times crying All haile holy oyle three times All haile holy annoyntment and three times All haile holy baulme And then it is kept for a most holy thing in a fine vessell therefore made and so caried along the streets by the Priests with great deuotion and prayer The salt is coniured in this maner I do coniure thee thou creature of salt by the liuing God by the true God by the holy God and by the same God which commanded Helias to cast thee into the water to take away the vnwholesomnesse of the water that thou mayest become an exorcised or coniured salt to the saluation of the faythfull and to worke the preseruation both of bodie and soule to all them which shall enioy thee and that all the subtiltie wilinesse and filthie intents of the Diuell and that all wicked spirites maye flee from that place where thou art scattered and cast abrode And then is this salt mingled with the foresayde water to be the right purger and sanctifier of the people wherethrough all the power and might of the diuell is withstood our daily sinnes therewith finely cleansed Nowe besides all this shee doeth exorcise and coniure certeine hearbes vpon certeine dayes to the health both of bodie and soule and to driue away all daungerous hurt all diuelish bewitching all pestilence vnwholsomnesse and corruption of the ayre Shee doeth coniure and exorcise the candles the waxe and the tallow to the qualifying and extinguishment of thunder and lightening Also she doth exorcise and coniure beads of wood of stone of corrall and of all other stuffe whereby they receyue great power against sinne the diuell and hel And which is more shee doeth not let these thinges be thus coniured by the Pope and Priests onely but the Pope may whensoeuer it shall please him giue the like power and authoritie to whom soeuer he will be it man or woman This may well appeare and be perceyued of all men by the example of