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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03619	An apologye made by the reuerende father and constante martyr of Christe Iohn Hooper late bishop of Gloceter and Worceter againste the vntrue and sclaunderous report that he should be a maintainer and encorager of suche as cursed the Quenes highnes that then was, Quene Marye. Wherein thou shalte see this godlye mannes innocency and modest behauioure: and the falsehode and subtyltye of the aduersaryes of Gods truth	Hooper, John, d. 1555.; Bull, Henry, d. 1575?	1562 (1562)	STC 13742; ESTC S122036	17,261	56

haue made vnto him I trust as gently he receiued my letters so he wyl graunt me and my fellowes that be in duraunce oure lawfull requests But this I do wryte good reader not to make discourse of any matter but only for the maiestye and honour of Gods word to declare mine innocency of treason or anye euyll wyll or malyce that I beare to the Quenes highnes or any superiour power Doubtles I thank our heauenlye father I haue reade to many times the word of life and marked it to well to fyghte agaynst or curse the magistrates I praye God to geue them vnderstandinge of hys holy truth wyth loue to followe it and the harme that I woulde to any man liuing happen to my selfe For the cōmauudement of God is that we should not only loue our frends but also our enemies And not only wish good and pray for our frends as dettours vnto God and them for the benefites we take at their hands but also praye for our ennemies lamentinge the tirannye and wickednes of synne that causeth them too hate and persecute whome God requireth to loue Yet doeth Saynte Iohn in his Epistel commaund the readers therof to beware they praye not for such as be subiecte to the synne whiche is to death But I suppose that in these late dayes wherein the spirite of iudgement and discreation or discerning of sins is not so abundantly in men as it was in his time no man shoulde withoute a speciall testimonye of the holye ghost particularlye or expresselye iudge that synne to be in anye man For the iudgementes of God who shall tourne from wickednesse or who shall fall from versue before this mortall life be ended be not reueyled nor knowen vntoo menne And yet in case I knewe as saint Iohn saieth a man that synned vnto death for whome by the commaundemente of God I shoulde not pray it foloweth not that I shoulde curse him for whom I may not pray And I reioyce y t the inscrutable iudge ment of god suffreth y e wicked to slaūder me with that euil that of al others I haue ben all my life time I thanke God least troubled and in daunger withall For I neuer cursed man nor beaste otherwyse then the woorde of God wylied me for the tyme whyles I preached hys word to rebuke syn I do remember that Saynte Augustine in his booke of Christes sermon in the mounte hathe manye Godlye sentences and sayinges in this matter But I mynde not to write a boke of it but only to speake the truth of my self agaynst wycked sklaunderers that care not so they maye hurte how they hurte nor so they kyll by what meanes they kyll In the psalmes and in the prophets he maruelous execrations of the wicked and speciallye agaynste suche as wyth the death of the Godlye god aboute to condempne the woorde of God and to oppresse it Christe also and his Apostels vsed maruelous execrations when he sayed woo be vnto the Chorozain wo be vnto thee Bethsaida c. Saint Paul wyshed them destroied that troubled the church of the Galathians Also he called the high priest painted wall to his face and Peter killed with a word Ananias and Saphira his wyfe Saint Paule strake blynde Elimas the witche Eliseus caused the wylde beare to teare and kyll the chyldren that mocked hym Elias caused syre from heauen to fal vpon the messengers of Ochosias the kinge These thinges declare that there were at all tymes cursings vsed and extreame punishment followed such as were by Gods commaundemente cursed and yet suche as did curse remayned styll in the fauour of God But these examples no priuate man may folow for these men were publike preachers of Goddes word whose office was by all meanes so to rebuke and condempne sinne as thes were instructed by the word of God And he that marketh the condicion of these persons shall perceaue that in euerye one of them was two persons thone publik that could speake no more pleasaunte nor gentlye to the sinful world then God bad them whiche was to pronounce them cursed and damned for their sinnes and iniqutye yet as priuate menne they wepte and sorowfullye lamented the miserye and losse of the same persons that they cursed as publik ministers Ieremye as a publike preacher threatned the destruction of his own countrey the captiuitye of his naturall prince and kinge and the seruitude and bondage of al his cuntremen yet as a priuate manne wept and cried out rather with floudes of tears then with droppes of weping So did Christ vpon Ierusalem Dauid vppon Saule and Absolon and Saint Paul vppon the Iewes and yet offended nothinge at all For althoughe God require of publike ministers to doe that appartamethe to their publike office in cursinge and threatning of his ire and displeasure yet he taketh not frome them his naturall affection to pitty and bewaile euen such as they knowe most iustly to be punished but yet so in measure that the affection of mercy and compassion murmure not against the wil iust iudgement of God Wherfore as it is forbydden a pryuate manne to reuenge by force his own wrong so it is forbydden hym too curse or execrate any personne magistrate or other Yea the publike personne that preacheth in this poynt hadde neede to be cyrcumspecte and too be ware he speake nothinge of affection but all for the correction of synne to the amendemente of synners as the Sayncts do aske vengeaunce in heauen sayinge when wylte thou reuenge oure bloud vppon them or the earthe where as it maye not bee thought that the Sayntes praye vncharitablye agaynst theyr neighboures that the worlde and the kyngedome of synne myghte make an ende in them And so doo all good menne praye nowe vppon the earthe that the kyngedome of God may come as it is in the Lords prayer But what doo theese vnGodlye papysies fynde faulte wyth cursynge when not onelye all hystoryes chronycles and recordes frome tyme too tyme euer sythens the pretensed and wycked authoritye of the Romyshe byshoppe doo testyfye besydes dayelye experience that they haue cursed kynges and realms of malyce pryde and indignation and for money haue blessed them agayne and so vsed kynges and realmes as their wicked lustes haue moued them as slaues and beastes contrarye to Gods expresse worde And dayelye it is seene in euerye consystorye courte that at the wyll and pleasure of a wycked manne that is the Byshoppes offycer the innocentes be cursed and vsed woorsse then dogges vntyll suche tyme as the offycers furye be pacified wyth Golde or syluer If they knewe Gods lawes ●● they doo not in deede they shoulde see and fynde that no ordynarye excommunication shoulde bee vsed by the Byshoppe alone but by the Bishoppe and all the whole paryshe So we reade in the olde lawe that when suche excommunications were vsed the whole congregation stode the one partye of the one hyll