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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16980	Master Broughtons letters, especially his last pamphlet to and against the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, about Sheol and Hades, for the descent into Hell, answered in their kind		1599 (1599)	STC 3864; ESTC S116197	38,833	52

the Prophet speaketh Esay 3. 9. Exod. 22. In Moses law he that had slaine a Burgleyer by night had been guiltles but if the Sunne were vp when he smote him he was punished as a murtherer Had you not knowne him whom you thus haue smitten with your tongue but like Aiax in the Tragady whipt a ram for a man and lent your blowes at randon S●phocles the Ciuill law might once more haue pleaded for you Error in persona cui fit iniuria facit vt non oriatur actio iniuriarum And F●de iniur fam lib. your excuse might haue been either rash indiscretion or false information but your conscience grounded vpon long experience and certaine knowledge of the Archbishops great industrie from his youth not pregnancie alone his manifold knowledge not paines onely his sound iudgement not knowledge onely his effectuall preaching not iudgement onely his irreprehensible life not preaching onely his wise gouernment not vertues onely makes it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Philo speaketh and Philo doubleth thy sinne against thine owne head and findes thee guiltie not onely of malicious slaunder to reuile the innocent but of impudent and infamous libelling to dishonour the name and place of such a worthie and reuerend Father of whom if euer of any man it may be said as of Zachary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let not ●urip 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●b 31. malice be iudge he hath walked irreproueably before God and men and may pleade for himselfe against such as thou art as Iob against his exulcerating comforters Though mine aduersarie should write a booke against mee would I not take it vp and binde it as a crowne vnto me Hauing so often verified that in himselfe which Saint Augustine speaketh Qui volens detrahit famae meae nolens ●ugust ●●rip ●lut ●lly addit mercedi meae For as Telephus wound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was healed by the speare that hurt him and the st●oke intending death to Iason and Prometheus cured both so certaine it is that neuer any durst touch him with any crime either for gouernment or otherwise but either with an after repentance in themselues they were confounded or by his eminent integritie in all good mens opinion they were confuted their slanders working his glorie and their owne shame And yet this sacred Prelate this honorable Counsellor this graue Diuine to giue him no more titles then that which S. Basil calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this ●sil ●aut Men. ●mer Seruant of God tu tu as one of your owles speaketh in Plautus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he may say hast presumed to professe to write against Were it as Dem. said to Aeschi that Aeacus or Rhadamanthus some person of note of incomparable learning of high place of irreprehensible deportment the Reuerend Archbishop hauing we will suppose it giuen offence should haue confuted him it had been too much for any such without due reuerence to haue aduaunced a Rebutter against his Grace for the fathers we know howsoeuer their higher Prelates sometimes offended the Church with infecting opinions neuer profest to write against them but still superscribed their epistles and bookes To such and such Yet this Vide Bern. Aug. Hilari had been tolerable in any such person but for a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fantasticall genealogist a paradoxicall expositor a tragicall ape a forlorne Pharisee a running-headed fugitiue to bee thus publikely malepart in presuming to write against an Archbishop auering a trueth Apostolicall as the impudence is intolerable so I wonder how so many that haue fared so well by his Graces preferment can with patience indure or with silence brooke this insolent and shamelesse presumption but that it is knowne to proceede from an Archilochus leane and hidebound with hart-fretting enuie but as the Poet describes him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pindaru● fatting himselfe vp with contumelious scornes and reproches Not sparing the holy fathers of the Church the reuerend Beaupeeres of diuine knowledge but giuing Melchis p. ● some the bable as S. Austen by name * p. 49. lib. Sheol befooling the penner of the Creede not expounded to his fancie and in a short abstract calling all the Latin fathers the plague of Diuinitie But Epist ad reg who can looke for more reuerence at his hand toward the Ecclesiasticall fathers whose pride hath so caried him past all grace that he sticketh not to traduce euen in publike letters his owne naturall father so farre hauing been busied in Sems progenie that he is fallen into Chams opprobrie accusing Gen. 9. his father in more vile termes then I will expresse for an Aleknight and common drunkard for an whoremaster and a In ep ad Arch. Eras chil minion maintainer Turdus sibi malum for a raunger and a beggerly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 euen in the very same letters wherein it pleaseth the foule-mouthed varlet to intitle the most Reuerend Archbishop I tremble to write it Nebulo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ruina regni What saith Saint Iude Yet Michael the Archangell encountring Iude ver 9. 11. the deuill durst not blaspheme But such a tongue-murthering Cain an ambitious Balaamite still bawling for preferment cannot withhold but laboureth like a flie about the candle to perish in the gainsaying of Corah And therefore writing about the descent into Hell hath inflamed his owne tongue with the fire of hell that as by his genealogicall glosses he hath abused 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so by his gehennical cursings Iac. 3. he might set on fire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and kindle a dissention about the descention wherein there hath been so long consent Hominem malignum forsan te credant alij Ego esse miserum credo Martial cui placet nemo Other perchance will gesse thee to bee a malignant slaunderer but I rather take thee to bee a wretched skrat pinde with enuie whom none can please either fathers in Diuinitie or fathers by authoritie or parents naturall but as the Argyraspides answered some forward youths whose Plut. steps thou pasest so say I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 SECTIO 6. NOw if any man would know what ministred the fuell to this flagrant controuersie about hell to this publike challenge and open confutation nothing that the Archbishop hath either publikely preached or at any time printed in that cause But the briefe and the trueth is this Doctor Andrewes hauing in a Sermon vpon that article strongly out of Scripture and Fathers confirmed the descent according to the words you forsooth not worthie to bee ballanced with him for sound learning howsoeuer most impudently you tell the old L. Treasurer that he said knowing you to bee his Epist ad Thes better in studies that he would yeeld to you you I say quantulus quantulus presse into the pulpit not long after to refute his doctrine which had it been in charitie and zeale for