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spirit_n	holy_a	speak_v	word_n	18,876	5	4.5025	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13105	The theater of the Popes monarchie wherein is described as well the vncleane liues of that wicked generation, as also their Antichristian gouernment, and vsurped kingdome : togeather with their horrible superstition, and blasphemous religion, as it is now vsed at this present, where Antichrist the Pope & his members do beare rule / by Phillip Stubbes.	Stubbes, Phillip.	1585 (1585)	STC 23399.3; ESTC S2912	56,791	138

THE THEATER OF THE Popes Monarchie Wherein is described as well the vncleane Liues of that wicked generation as also their Antichristian gouernment and vsurped kingdome Togeather with their horrible Superstition and blasphemous religion as it is now vsed at this present where Antichrist the Pope his members do beare rule By Phillip Stubbes Imprinted at London by Thomas Dawson 1585. To the right Honorable Robert Lord Ritche his singular good Lorde and Moecenas Philippe Stubbes wisheth all prosperitie in this life with increase of Honour and eternall felicitie in the heauenly Hyerarchie by Iesus Christ. IN the Gospell after S. Matthewe right honorable and my very good Lorde oure Sauioure Christ teacheth vs most notably how to knowe and discerne false Prophetes from such as bee the true Pastours Ambassadours of Iesus Christ when he saith They shall come vnto you in sheepes clothing but inwardly they are rauening wolues you shal know thē by their fruites Then if the fruites of conuersation bee the ensignes the badges and cognizances to know false Prophets by as our sauiour sayth they are thē surely may we iudge nay certainly perswade our selues that the Papistes are those false Prophets Apostataes and seducers which the word of God speaketh of as in the further discourse of this booke shall manifestly appeare for not only do their works fruits conuince them heereof but also their false seditious erronious and heretical doctrine doth argue the same But they will easilye wipe away this blot and saye that we are those false Prophets of whom Christ speaketh of To whom I answeare let their workes and doctrine bee compared to ours and bothe peyzed in the equall ballance of Gods worde the onely touchstone to trie all controuersies by and then shall it easilye appeare whether they or wee are the false Prophetes Doe not they come vnto vs in sheeps cloathing I meane in suche habite as portendeth all kinde of austeritie humilitie and holinesse of life outwardlye as namelye in their Surplesses Copes Tippets forked Cappes Miters Hattes Crosiers Hoodes Cowles Tunicles Sandals Shirtes of hayre and a thousande other like playerlike garmentes yea and doe they not teache that all holinesse consisteth in these ragges Is not this to come in sheepes cloathing But they will obiect if thys bee so why doe you weare some of these garmentes I aunsweare wee haue some of them in deede but that is vppon sufferaunce and permission onely not vppon constrainte or necessitie as theirs are Besides ours is commaunded by a Christian Queene and therefore lawefull theirs by Antichriste and therefore vnlawfull Againe we vse them as things indifferent they as things of necessitie we repose no religion in them they relye holy vpon them And for theyr doctrine it is so erronious so corrupte so seditious nay so blasphemous and Sacrilegious that it would greeue a Christian manne to thinke of it As Prayer for the dead Iustification by good works Purgatorie Limbo Patrum Inherēt Rightuousnesse Inuocation to Saincts Transubstantiation Adoration of Images their seuen coūterfait Sacramentes extreeme vnctiō christening of Bels hallowing of churches churchyardes makinge of holy bread holy water Auricular confesion shrift penāce absolutiō masse mattēs diriges Lady Psalters tapers candles bedes censings ringings perfuminges legions of like trūperies which the word of God knoweth not of al which pointes of doctrin of theirs I wil intreat in a book by it self god willing very shortly wherin shal appeare whether they or we haue y e truth This is their godly doctrin which ther it com nerer to the word of God or ours let the world iudge And yet notwithstanding they set a faire face on it they stamp and stare beare the world in hand that theirs is the truth For say they our doctrine standeth vpon sure pillers antiquitie vniuersalitie generalitie the like Our doctrine is proued by discent of Bishops from time to time by consent of all nations and so foorth but your doctrine is newe and starte vppe the laste day c. But whether theirs or ours bee the newer it shall appeare in the discourse following First wee are able to proue that our doctrine is auncienter then theirs ye as auncient as God himselfe whose truth it is And first to begin with the diuine institution in Paradice wee reade that God the father gaue vnto Adam his word commandement to wit Thou shalt not eat● of the tree of knowledge of good and euil ingrauing and as it were imprinting this word commandement in the heart of Adam and in him in all his posteritie By the which lawe of conscience then liued almost 2000. yeeres without any other law or word written being guided directed by the holy Ghost in all their actions the 2000. yeares being ended men waxing dissolute licentious wicked y e Lorde as Theophilactus witnesseth disdayning to speake to them any longer by his spirit for that they became wicked gaue thē a Lawe for before they hadde no written Lawe God appearing to them I meane the fathers and Patryarches in visions in apparitions in dreames sometime in the forme of angels waifaring men sometime in one shape sometime in an other according as their weakenesse could beare written by the finger of God in two tables of stone which is the x. commaundements Then Moses at the commandement of God committing to writing the x. commandements with his other fiue books as he was taughte and directed by the suggestion of the spirit of God ruled the Israelites thereby The old testament being thus written by the seruant of God Moses his faithful prophets at the commandement of God continued in force til the cōming of Christ which was in effect 2000. yeeres after Thē our sauiour Iesus Christ cōming in the flesh gaue in commandement to his Euangelists Apostles and prophets to write the new testamēt which they by the direction of gods spirit did most happily perform These 2. testaments now the old the new God be thāked we haue Now let the papists disproue this if they can or if they haue any other Gospell let thē bring it forth They cānot deny but we haue the same word of god which God the father our sauiour Christe the holy ghost haue giuen to the woorlde this being graunted it must needs folow that our doctrine is true theirs most false Now let them deriue their antichristian doctrine lineally from suche antiquitie truth as this if they can but that they shall neuer bee able to do For their doctrine hath bin longer in patching then Solomons temple was in building Yea within these x or xii hundred yeeres there was not a scrap of their pesteferous doctrine coyned no the egg was not thē laid that hatched that poisoned Cocatrice Then the truth of gods word throgh the iniquitie of time beginning by little little to suffer eclipse at the last sprang vp such mountaines of heresies corruptiōs cast out of the bottomles