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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

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 aduesaryes of Gods truth ¶ Newelye set foorth and allowed accordinge to the order appoynted in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions Anno. 1562. ¶ To the Godly reader Henry Bull wysheth grace and peace with vnfayned fayeth and a good conscience in Christ Iesus our Lorde IT hath alwayes bene the practise of Sathan and his subtill souldiers the papistes euen the sworne aduersaries of Gods truth that when thei can not preuail against the same by tyrannye and tormentes they laboure to deface it by most impudente sclaunders and lyes the chiefest defence and staye of their kingedome as thou shalt see good reader in this treatise folowynge For when they coulde by no tiranny nor cruel handlinge dyscourage this man of God frome the constante confession of the truth they stirred vp most shamfull cursed lies against him that he should be a priuye maintayner of suche as cursed the Quene but to their owne perpetuall shame and ignomye For whilest they haue soughte by thys meane to bringe Gods eternall veritye in to contempte and too make it more odious to the worlde what els haue they done but dysclosed theyr owne wickednes and malice and geuen him occasion so to paint out their falsehode and lyinge spirite in their righte coloures by this pithye learned and worthy little pece of worke that all men may hereby clearly perceaue whose children they are and they them selues shall nede no other glasse to see how like their father thei looke the father of all falsehode and lyes And to the ende that this theyr wicked dealinge whiche haue thus proudly set them selues against God and agaynste his Christ in his poore members may be y e better knowen regestred to the worlde and the posterity to come to their shame and confusion and to the auauncing of gods glorye in the innocente sufferinge of his saintes thus torne and rente by tiranny tormentes lyes and sclaunders for his names sake beholde the prouidence of god who hath now brought this worke to lighte which otherwise by the negligence of some was like to pearishe And here haue I iust occasion to discommende those men whiche do defraude the congregation of such worthye monuments Greate was the care of this blessed man and other for the church of God and manye frutefull workes did they write in prison in bands in setters but fewe are come to lighte and shal we like carelesse and ingratfull people suffer these Godly laboures these painfull trauales thus to pearishe how desirous thei were to haue them published to wytnesse to the worlde that whiche they taughte and sealed with theyr bloud and to profyt their bretheren it appeareth by this authors earnest request to the readers of this treatise which is that they wyll not kepe it close to thē selues but as sone as thei haue red it set it abroad communicate it to other And that request whyche he make the concerning this treatise do I here generallye make in his name and others and in the behalfe of the churche of God for the rest of their workes to them in whose hands they remayne that they wyll not suffer them to be suppressed any longer for that is it whiche Sathan and the ennemies of the crosse of Christ do mooste desire but cause thē to be set abroad in printe to the cōmodity of many And trulye it mighte seeme to be a laboure no lesse cōmendable for the learned then profitable for the houshold of God to be as diligent in searchinge and setting foorth of suche worthye works as in penning and publishing of new So full are they of heauenlye doctryne so full of power of Gods spirite so full of comforte and consolation beinge wrytten as it were out of gods sanctuary wyth the fynger of God by menne euen then out of the world and in heauen alreadye that in dede thei are most worthy to be sought for as precious Iewelles and treasures For God knowethe what lacke we haue of such trumpettes to stirre vppe oure dull hartes in these daungerouse dayes wherein all states of menne haue turned this greate blessynge of God bestowed vppon vs I meane theese breathinge dayes and tyme of rest from antichristes tyrannye in to a securitye and are become like men rocked a sleepe And manye that semed to be zelous earnest and constant in the Lords quarell so long as theese captaynes were in the battayle and they them selues wyth in the sounde of the trumpette are now well cooled Praye wee therefore that the Lorde woulde warme them heate them enflame them agayne wyth the zeale of hys house that we maye haue manye suche valyaunte captaynes suche worthye prelates and sheepeheardes as thys was ouer theyr lambes watchful and carefull in preachynge dylygente and paynefull in zeale feruente harty and syncere and of lyke fortytude of spirit to helpe and maintayn the trauailinge saith of the gospell that we may enioy styll this fatherly blessing of our gratious God and escape the wrath to come and plagues at hande for our vnworthy receauinge againe of this greate benefite of his woorde and libertye of conscience Whhiche plagues we maye assuredlye loke for with double woo vnlesse by speedye repentaunce we seke to remoue the cause thereof God for hys Christes sake graunte vs hartelye earnestlye and effectuouselye so to do Amen ¶ An apologye agaynste the vntrue and sclaunderouse reports made against me Iohn Hooper late byshoppe of Worcetour and Gloceter that I shuld be a maintainer and encourager of such as cursed the Quenes Maiesties highnesse IT is the vse and fashion of all wicked and euyl desposed personnes gentle reader that whē one way wyll not serue too bringe their wickednesse to passe they assay proue as Terence sayth an other The whole congregation company of Godlye charitable people be not ignoraunte howe falsely and vncharitablye the papisticall cleargye hath for this yeare and halfe openly and priuelye by all meanes laboured to perswade not onely the common sort of people but also the magistrates to iudge and condempne me in theyr conscience for an heretyke By the which means thei haue much preuait led against me but yet not as much as they desyre and loke for Wherefore seynge plaine allegacion of pretensed and falselye surmised heresye as yet sheadeth not my bloude withoute the whyche that whoryshe and vnbrideled false supremacy of Rome was neuer satisfyed nowe because the princes and the magistrates may be their hangemen althoughe that wicked power of Antichriste as all cronicles and true historiographers do record wold haue no power aboue it equall with it nor none vnder it but

of Master hoopers letter delyuered in the counter at breadestreete THe grace fauour consolation and ayde of the holy ghoste be wyth you nowe and euer so be it Dearly beloued in the Lorde euer sythens your imprisonmente I haue bene maruelously moued with great affections and passions as well of myrth and gladnes as of heauynes and sorowe Of gladnesse in this that I perceaued how ye be bent and geuen to prayer and inuocation of Gods helpe in these darcke and wicked proceadinges of men agaynste Gods glorye I haue bene sorye to perceaue the malice and wickednesse of men to be so cruell diuelish and tirannycall too persecute the people of God for seruinge sayinge and hearinge of the holye psalmes and the word of eternall life These cruel doynges do declare that the papistes churche is more bloudy and tirannicall then euer was the swearde of the Ethnickes and gentyles When I hearde of youre takinge and what ye were doynge wherefore and by whome ye were taken I remembred howe the Christyans in the primityue churche were vsed by the crueltye of vnchrystenned heathens in the tyme of Traiane the Emperour about 77. years after Christs ascension in to heauen and howe the Christians were persequuted verye sore as thoughe they hadde bene traytoures and mouers of sedition Whereuppon the gentyll Emperour Traiane requyred to know the true cause of Christian mens trouble Agreate learned manne called Plinius wrote vntoo him and sayed it was because the Christians sayed certayn psalmes before day vnto one called Christ whom thei worshipped for God When Traiane the emperoure vnderstode it was for nothing but for conscyence and religion he caused by his commaundementes euery wher that no man shuld be persecuted for seruinge of God Lo a gentyle and heathen manne woulde not haue such as were of a contrarye religion punished for seruing of god but the Pope and his churche hathe caste you in to prison beinge taken euen doynge the worke of God and one of the excellentes workes that is required of Christian menne that is to wit whiles ye wer in prayer and not in suche wycked and superstytious prayers as the papistes vse but in the same prayer that Christe hath taughte you too praye And in hys name onelye ye gaue God thankes for that ye haue receaued and for his sake ye asked for suche thinges as ye wante O gladde waye yee be that euer ye were borne to be apprehended whilest ye were so vertuously occupied Blessed be they that suffer for ryghteousenesse sake For if God had suffered them that toke your bodies then too haue taken youre lyfe also nowe hadde ye bene folowinge the lambe in perpetuall ioyes away frome the companye and assemble of wycked men But the lorde woulde not haue you sodaynly so to depart but reserueth you gloriously too speake and maintaine his truths too the worlde Be ye not carefull what you shall saye for God wyll go oute and in with you and wyll be present in your hartes and in your mouthes to speake his wisedome althoughe it seeme folishenes to the worlde He that hathe begonne this good worke in you continue you in the same vnto the ende and praye vnto him that ye maye feare him onelye that hath power to hyll both bodye and soule and to cast them in to hell fire Be of good comforts all the heares of youre heades be numbred and there is not one of them can perishe excepte your heauenlye father suffer it to perishe Nowe ye be euen in the fielde and placed in the forefront of Christs battailes doubtelesse it is a singular fauoure of God and a speciall loue of him towardes you too geue you this forewarde and preheminence and a signe that he trusteth you before others of his people Wherfore deare brethren and sisters continuallye fighte this fighte of the Lord. youre cause is most iuste and Godly Ye stande for the true Christ who is after the fleshe in heauen and for his true religion and honoure which is amplye fullye sufficientely and aboundantelye conteined in the holye Testament sealed with Christs own bloude Howe muche be ye boundes to God to put you in truste with so holye and iuste a cause Remember what lokers vppon you haue to see and beholde you in youre fighte God and all his holye Aungelles who vs readye alway to take you vppe in to heauen if ye be slayne in this fight Also you haue standynge at youre backes all the multitude of the faithfull who shall take courage strengthe and desire to folowe suche noble and vallaunte Christians as you be Be not a fearde of your aduersaries for he that is in you is stronger then he that is in them Shryncke not althoughe it be payne too you Youre paines be not nowe so great as hearafter youre ioyes shall be Reade the ●oumfortable chapiters too the Romaines 8. 10. 15. Hebrues 11. 12. And vpon your knees thank god that euer ye wer accōpted worthy to suffer any thinge for his names sake Reade the second chapter of S. Lukes gospell and ther you shal see how the shepeheardes that watched vppon theyr shepe all night as sone as they heard that Christ was borne at Bethelem by and by they went to se him They did not reason nor debate with them selues who shuld kepe the wolf from the shepe in the meane time but dyd as they wer commaunded and committed their shepe vnto him whose pleasure they obeyed So let vs doo now we be called commit all other things vnto him that calleth vs. He wyl take hede that all things shal be well He will healpe the husband he wyll comfort the wife he will guide the seruauntes he wyll keepe the house he wyll preserue the goodes Yea rather then it should be vndone he wyll washe the dishes and rocke the cradell Cast therefore all youre care vpon god for he careth for you Besides thys you maye perceaue by youre imprisonmente that youre aduersaries weapons againste you be nothing but flesh bloud tirāny For if they were able they would maintayne their wicked religion by Gods word but for lacke of that they wold violentlye compell such as they can not by the holy scripture perswade● because the holye worde of God and all Christes doynges be cleane con●rarye vnto them I praye you praye for me and I wyll pray for you And althoughe we be a sunder after the world yet in Christ I trust for euer ioyninge in the spirite and so shall mete in the palace of the heauenlye ioyes after this short and transitory lyfe is ended Goddes peace be with you amen 4. of Ianuarye 1554. ¶ IMPRYNTED at London by Iohn Tisdale and Thomas Hacket and are to be sold at their shoppes in Lombarde strete Anno. 1561. Apo. 17. Deu. 17. Iosu. 1. Psal. 11. Mat. 5. 1 Ioa. 5. Mat. 11 Act. 23. Act. 5. Act. 13. 4. regu 2. 4. regu 1. Iere. 5. 6. Tren 1. 2. Mat. 23. 2. regu 18. Rom. 9. Rom. 12. 13. Apo. 6. Mat. 7. Deu. 21. 1. Cor. 5. Act. 13. Act. 5. Isa. 5. Rom. 2. 1. Cor. 14. Mat. 26. Mar. 14 Luc. 22. Mat. 5. Mal. 2. ● Pet. 5.