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A09618	The examinacion of the constaunt martir of Christ, Ioh[a]n Philpot arch diacon of Winchestre at sondry seasons in the tyme of his sore emprisonment, conuented and banted, as in these particular tragedies folowyng, it maye (not only to the christen instruction, but also to the mery recreacion of the indifferent reader) most manifestly appeare. Reade fyrst and than iudge.	Philpot, John, 1516-1555.	1556 (1556)	STC 19892; ESTC S100457	120,727	301

father he be one And none in the spirite of God can deuide Christ frō the substaunce of God the father onles a natural sonne may be of an other substaūce than his father which nature dothe abhorre Who can abyde the eternall generacion of the sonne of God to be denied synce it is written of him his generacion who shal be able to declare Esa 53. Is ther any true christiā hart that grudged not at suche faythles blasphemours Can the eye eare tongue or the other senses of the body be cōtent to heare their creatour blasphemed not repyned should not the mouth declare the zeale of his maker by spittyng on him that depraueth his diuine maiestie which was is and shal be God for euer Apoc. 3. Yf God as it is mencioned in the Apocalipse wil spew ypocrites out of his mouthe suche as he neither hotte nor colde in his worde why maye not than a man of God spitte on hym that is worsse than an hipocrite enemye to the godhead manifested in the blessed Trinitie which wil in no wyse be persuaded to the cōtrarie Iohan. 2. Yf Christ with a whippe droue out the of temple suche as were prophaners therof ought not the seruaūt of God by some lyke outwarde significacion reproue the villanie of those as go about to take awaye the glorie of him that was the buylder of the tēple Yf there were as muche zeale in men of the truth as there is talkatiue knowlege they would neuer be offended with that which is done in the reproche and cōdemnacion of frowarde vngodlye men whome nothing can please but singularities and diuisions from the churche of Christ which ought to be the mother and mystres of vs al to leade vs Gala. 4. into al true knowledge of the worde of God and not ymagine by ignoraūce takyng the word of God dayly an other Gospel and an other Christ as euery sect dothe separating thē selues frō Christes spouse which is the same that is the accōplishement of truthe Ephe. 1. hitherto neuer knewe O insatiable curiositie O arrogaunt selfe loue the original of al these heresies O pestilent canker of thyne owne saluacion O Arrian the ryght inheritour to Lucifer Esay 14. that would exalte his seate and be lyke to the hyghest whose fal shal be lyke where the synne is equal Yf God dyd hyghly allowe the minister of Ephesus Apoca. 2. for that he could in no wise abyde such as said they were Apostles and were not indede howe maye any laye vncharitablenes vnto me which for the loue of my swete Christ do abhorre al phantastical Arrians in suche sorte as al men ought to do that loue the sonne of God vnfaynedly Yf Moses be cōmended by the scriptures Act. 8. for strykyng an Egiptian that dyd iniurie to one of the people of God howe may he iustly be blamed which dyd spit at him that doth suche iniurie and sacrilege to the sonne of God as to plucke him from his eternal and propre godhead was there euer creature so vnkynde was there euer man so temerarious to stryue against the glory of his glorifier was there euer heretike so bolde and impudent as the Arrian is that durst take frō the sōne of God the glorie which he had with the father frō the beginning Yf Christ be the beginning Apoca. 1. ending of all thing as he testifyeth him self to S. Iohn how may he be but a creature like vnto others who may dissemble such blasphemy that hath any sparke of the spirite of God who may heare with patience the right wayes of the Lorde peruerted by these deuilishe holi Arriās hold his peace A lyuely fayth is not dōme but is alwayes ready to resist the gainesayers as Dauid sayth I haue beleued therfore I haue spoken Speake than you that haue tonges to prayse confesse against these Arriās exalte your voice lyke a trompet that the simple people maye beware of their Pharisaical venome and be not deceaued as now many are vnwares of simplicitie Suffre them not to passe by you vnpointed at yea yf they be so stonte that they will not ceasse to speake against God our saueour and Christ as they are al newe baptised enemies therto refraine not to spit at suche inordidate swyne as are not ashamed to tread vnder their fete the precious godhead of our saueour Iesus Christ Our God is a gelous God and requireth vs to be zelous in his cause Yf we can not abyde our owne name to be euel spoken of without great indignacion shall we be quiet to heare the name of our God defaced and not declare any signe of wrath against thē It is writtē be angry and synne not A man than maye shewe tokens of angre in a cause which he ought to defende without breache of charitie The prophet Dauid sayeth shal I not hate them O Lorde that hate thee Psal 138. vpon thyne ennemyes shall I not be wrathful I wil hate them with a perfect hatred they are become myne enemyes Aaron bycause he was not more zelous in goddes cause whan he perceiued the people bent to ydolatry entred not into the lande of promyse God loueth not luke warme souidiars in the batel of fayth but suche as be earnest and violent shall inherite his kyngdome Therfore S. Paule biddeth vs to be feruent in spirit you that are to colde in these dayes of the cōntet of the gospel aswel against these arch heretiks as others wherof there be at these daies stered vp by the Deuill an infinite swarme to the ouerthrow of the gospell if it were possible I exhort you not to iudge that euil which God highlie commedeth But rather to pray that God will geue you the lyke zeale to withstande the enemies of the gospel neyther to haue any maner of felowship with these Antichristes whom the deuil hathe shitten out in these dayes to defyle the Gospel which go aboute to teache you any other doctrine The gospel pure in K. Edw. dayes than you haue receyued in kyng Edwardes dayes in the whiche praysed be God al the synceritie of the gospel was reuealed according to the pure vse of the primatiue church and as it is at this present of the trew catholike church allowed through the worlde The spirite of God the holye Goost the thirde persone in Trinitie whom these wicked Arrians do elude and mocke hath taught the church according to Christes promise al truth and shal we nowe receyue an other vaine spirite whome the holy fathers neuer knewe Trye the spirites of mē by goddes worde and by the interpretacion of the primatiue churche who had promyse of Christ to receyue by the cōming of the holy goost the true vnderstanding of al that he had spokē and taught after the which we haue ben truely taught to beleue three persones in one deitie God the father frō whom and God the sonne by whom God the holy Goost in whō al

the most enemies of the Gospell I Am amased and do tremble both in body and soule to hear at this daye certen men or rather not men but couered with mannes shape persons of a beastly vnder standing who after so many and manyfolde benefites and graces of our Lorde God and saueour Iesus Christ manyfested to the hole worlde and cōfirmed with so euidēt testimonies of the Patriarches Prophetes and Apostles approued by wōderous signes and vndoubted tokens Rom. 1. Hebr. 1. declared to be both God and Man by the spirite of sanctification the eternall sonne of God with power the very expresse ymage of the substaunce of the father and reuealed vnto vs in these later tymes in the fleshe borne of the sede of Dauid in the which he hath taught vs truely and maruelously finished the mysterie of our saluation and is ascēded in bodye into heauen frō whence his diuinitie abased him selfe for our glorie and sitteth in equall power at the ryght hande of the father in his euerlasting kingdome notwithstanding are not ashamed to robbe this eternal sonne of God our most merciful saueour of his infinite maiestie and to plucke him out of the glorious throne of his vnspeakable deitie O impietie of all others most detestable O infidelitie more terrible then the palpaple darkenes of Egipt O flaming fyrebrandes of hell as I may vse the termes of the Prophet Esay Esa 7. against suche apostatas was it not ynough for you to be greuous vnto men by so manifolde sectes heresies The Arrians haue manye heresies diuiding your selues frō Christes true catholike church as neuer hitherto hath ben hearde of any hereticall segregacion but will also be molest vnto my God the eternall sonne of God What hart maye beare suche blasphemye what eye maye quietly beholde suche an enemye of God What membre of Christ maye alowe in any wyse suche a membre of the deuil What Christian may haue felowship with suche ranke Antichristes Who hauyng the zeale of the glorie of God in his hart can not burst out in teares and lamentacions to heare the immortal glorie of the sonne of God trode vnder the fete by the vyle sede of the serpent whose heade by his eternal Godhead he hath beaten downe Gene. 3 and therfore now lyeth byting at his hele lurking in corners but he shal be crushed in peces vnto eternal woo after he hath spewed out al his venome for brighter is the glorie of our God and Christ than it maye be darkened by al the rowte of the prince of darkenes who dwelleth in the lyght which is vnaprocheable although these dead dogges do take vpon them with their corrupt sight to pearce and vlemishe the same to their owne blinding for euer Yf the good king Ezechias after he had heard the blasphemies that Rabsaces vttred against the liuing Lord tare his royal garmentes in peces in testimony of the sorowe he had cōceyued for the same shall we be stil at the blasphemous barkinges against our Lorde and shewe no token of indignacion for the zeale of his glorie Yf Paule and Barnabas perceyuing the people of Listris Act. 14. to take the honour of God and attributing the same to creatures rent their garmētes in signification that we all shoulde declare by some outwarde meanes the lyke sorowe when we heare or see the lyke blasphemie howe maye we with patience abyde to heare the robberie of the maiestie of our Christes equalitie with God Phil. 2. who as saint Paule witnesseth thought it no robberie to be equal with God what faythful seruaunt can be content to heare his maister blasphemed And yf perchaunce he shewe any iuste angre therfore al honest men do beare with his doyng in that behalfe and can not you good christian brethren and systerne beare with me who for the iuste zeale of the glorie of my God and Christ beyng blasphemed by an arrogaunt ignoraunt and obstinatlye blinded Arrian makyng hym selfe equal with Christ sayeng the God was none otherwise in Christ thā God was with him makyng him but a creature as he was hym selfe vaunting to be without synne as wel as Christ dyd spit on him The cause why I did spit Partly in declaracion of that sorowe which I had to heare suche a proude blasphemour of our saueour as also to signifie vnto other there present whom he went about to peruert that he was a person to be abhorred of al christians and not to be companied with al. Yf this my fact seme to some that iudge not al thinges according to the spirit of God vncharitablye Yet let them knowe that God who is charitie allowed the same Luke 12. For it is written in the Gospel that Christ came not to set vs at peace with men in the earth but at diuision and that is for his cause and truthe And who so euer wil not abide with Christes churche in the truthe we ought not to shewe the pointes of charitie vnto any suche Math. 12.18 but to take him as an heathen and a publicane Yf any man sayeth S. Iohn̄ bring not vnto you this doctrine which I haue taught you saye not God spede 2. Ioh. 1. vnto him for who so sayeth God spede vnto suche a one is partaker of his euel doinges Consider you therfore that haue loue and felowship wit suche that the same dampnacion shal fal vpon you therfore as is dewe to wicked heretikes God wil haue vs to put a difference betwixt the cleane vncleane 2. Cor. 6. and to touche no vncleane persones but to go out from them And what is more vncleane than infidelitie who is a greater infidele thā the Arrian who spoyleth his redemer of his honour and maketh him but a creature What felowship is there betwene light and darkenes what concord can ther be betwene Christ Belial Neuer was there more abominable Belials than this Arrians be The ignoraunt Belials worshipped the creatures for the creatour But these peruerse Arrians do worship Christ who is the creatour of al thīges Gal. 1. Rom. 9. 1. Ioh. 5. by whom as S. Paule testifieth both in heauen and in earth al thinges visible and inuisible were made who is God blessed for euer and as S. Iohn̄ witnesseth very God and lyfe euerlasting but as a creature lyke vnto themselues what christiā tonge may cal him to be a good man that denyeth Christ to be the author and worker of al goodnes as the Arrian dothe Wo be vnto them sayeth the prophete that call euil good and good euel Iudge therfore vprightly ye children of men condempne not the iuste for the vnrighteous sake neyther by any meanes seme to allowe either in worde or dede the wicked who saye ther is no God Iohan. 5. for they that honour not the sonne honour not the father and he that hathe not the sōne hath not the father Iohan. 14 And yf we beleue in God we must also beleue in Christ for the

thinges visible inuisible do cōsist haue their beyng and lyfe In the which beleue we were baptised by the institution of Christ in to the name of the father the sonne the holy Goost Mat. 28. And shal we now begin to stande in doubt of this most firme fayth the which frō the beginning hath ben cōfirmed besydes the vndoubted testimonies of the scriptures with the precious bloud of an infinit nomber of martirs and cōfessours It is no maruaile thoughe these Arrians denye the holy goost to be God who refuse the testimonie that he made of him selfe in fiery tongues to the primatiue churche Act. 1. Math. 3. and before that in the likenes of a Doue at the baptisme of Christ They must nedes denye the spirite of truth who be led by the spirite of errour vnder the colour of Godlynes denyeng their true sanctifier instructour whom Christ euidently taught to be an other comfortor besydes him The holy goost is an other comforter besides Christ And therfore to th ende he should so be beleued appeared visibly as Christ dyd but as their corrupt faces bashe not to denye the eternall sonne of God so are they not ashamed to denye the holye Goost to be God The Arrians are past shame their forehead is lyke the forehead of an hore hardened with counterfaited hypocrisie styffnecked wretches they are that wyll not yeld to the truth though it be neuer so manyfestly layde before their face they haue sworne to runne after their master the deuil wtout staye to draw with thē as many as they can in the which they are very diligent The Lorde confounde them the Lorde conserue his electe from their dampnable poyson the Lorde open al christian eyes to beware of them The Lorde gyue al his churche an vniforme zeale minde to abhorre them to cast faith frō them You that be of the truth haue any zeal of God in you stere it vp bynde it against these enemyes of our lyuyng God which is the Father the Sonne the holy Goost to whome be al honour praise and glorie for euer Canst thou be angred with thy brother beyng lawfully called to be a mynister in Christes church and to be a teacher in the same for spitting at an obstinate aduersarie of Christ refusyng to obey the truthe and declare no maner of indignacion against the Arrian the thefe that robbeth thy God of his honour Doth the iniurie of the Arrian more offende thee than the defence of thy redemer please the Art thou not ashamed rather to take part with an Arrian than with a true christian Thou wouldest seme to haue charitie by bearing with the wicked and contrarie to al charitie thou backbitest thy brother for doyng that which thou shouldest rather do than to haue any familiaritie with thee Yf thou dwel within the churche of Christ what hast thou to do with them that be without Which go about nothing els but to buyld a new Babilon and to destroye al the Godly order of the Gospel I tel thee plaine that I am nothyng of that face but gyue God thankes that I heare euil for wel doyng Yf I should please mē I could not please God I maruaile that there should be so litle zeale in a true christian hart that it can seme to take the part of an Arriā We can not scrue Christ and Baal how long wil mē halt on both sydes let your halting be healed Yf ye be vnfainedly of the truth abyde in the truthe let al your wyl be toward the ꝓfessours of the truth in the vnitie of Christes church least you might appeare to be scatterers with heretiks rather thā gatherers together with Christ Do ye not se what a rable of newe founde scaterers ther be such a sorte as neuer at ones hath bē heard of in one realme the one contrarye to the other The deuil hath shakē out his bagge of heresies against the gospell So that the deuel myght seme to haue powred out al his poysons at ones against the gospel And wyl you that glorie of the truth go about by worde dede helpe to maintayne any suche in their headdy errours he that toucheth pitche can not chose but defyle his fyngers therwith Be not deceaued sayeth S. Paule for wicked talke corrupteth good maners 1. Cor. 14 Therfore watche ye righteously and synne not for many therbe that haue not the knowlage of God I speake it to your shame 2. Tim. 2. Saint Paule willeth vs to be more circūspect in talking or acquainting our selues with suche then men at this daye be to their incorragemēt strenghtnyng in their errour The wordes of an heretike as he sayeth in an other place eateth lyke a canker 2. Tim. 2 And therfore wrytyng vnto Tyte Tit. 3. he commaundeth al Christian persones to auoyde an heretike after once or twyse warnyng knowing that such a one is peruerted and synneth and is dampned by his owne iudgement And to the Thessalonians he also sayeth 2. Thes 3. we commaunde you in the name of our Lorde Iesus Christ that you wythdrawe your selfes frō euery brother that walketh inordinatly not according to the institutiō which they haue receaued of vs. There can be no felowship betwixt fayth and infidelitie he that is not with Christ is his enemy Luke 11. he that is an enemie to the vnitie and peace of Christes churche he maye not be coupled with vs. And Salomon rendreth a cause why Prou. 16. A peruerse man in his mouthe doth carye perdicion and in his lippes hydeth fyer Agayne he sayeth an euil man obeyeth the tounge of the vnrighteous Prou. 17 but the Iuste harketh not to lyeng lippes Also Ecclesiasticus warneth sayeng Eccle 28. Hedge thyne cares wyth thornes and do not heare a wycked tounge This haue I touched to gyue you warning howe to behaue your selues with the Arrians and other sismatikes and heretikes whome al godlie ordre and good learning displeaseth the which yf our Christian brethren and systerne did well way and folow there wolde not be so many stoute heretikes as there be I doubt that the heretikes be better prouided for than the poore faithfull afflicted flocke of Christ If you heare that ther is contētion betwene vs and thē that be in prison maruaile not therfore neyther let your mindes be alienated from the truth any thing therby for as it is writtē it is necessary the heresies should be 1. Cor. 11. that the elect might be tryed Christ and Antichrist can neuer agree 1. Ioh. 2. And as S. Iohn saith Antichrist is come and there is nowe many Antichristes they ar gon out from vs such as were non of vs for if they had they wold haue cōtinued with vs by thys sayeng of S. Iohn we maye wel trye and knowe all the rowte of Antichristes generacion suche they be as breake the vnitie of Christes church neither abide in the