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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03908	A sermon preached in West-chester the viii. of October, 1586 Before the iudges and certain recusantes: wherein the conditions of al heretiques, but especiallie of stubborn and peruerting Papists, are discouered, & the duty of al magistrats concerning such persons, applied & opened by Edward Hutchins, Master of Artes, & Fellowe of Brasennose Colledge.	Hutchins, Edward, 1558?-1629.	1586 (1586)	STC 14017; ESTC S116561	13,987	32

TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL MASTER THOMAS EGERTON Esquire and sollicitour to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie grace and peace in Christ WHEREAS I was at Chester requested Right Worshipful to bestow som pains in the presence of certaine Recusantes though I knew my selfe least able of diuers there to discharge the matter yet vpon earnest intreaty I was at length ouer-intreated to supply the roome and to vndertake a sute so charitable Since which time it pleased some deare frinds to craue a copy of my labour which when they had obtained they did with earnest perswasion assay to moue me to cōmit the same to the presse Whereunto though at the first I was loth to yeeld yet at length I was ouercome and resolued to grant vnto them especially because I had therein discouered the shamefull subtil and malicious practises of our aduersaries the Papists the popes Foxes who in this our day breath daunger without delay spite the grapes of our Sauiours vine that hath these many yeares fructified euen now of gods mercy doth florish among vs. That so the Popes Foxes may be more throwly knowē being knowen more warily auoided or rather diligently sought and made fast least their libertie doe worke an vtter wast to our vine And forasmuch as the care of Christes vine hath craued or rather the malice of the Fox hath forced me to bestow this my small vnworthy trauell as I craue the Christian Reader to take al to the best so Right worshipful I am bould to request your acceptation of the same as some pledge of my thankfulnes to you Desiring the Lord God to blesse you against al the Foxes litle Foxes of Rome that seeke nothing but the destruction of our vine which God continue keepe to our comfort and his own glory Amen Your to command in Christ EDWARD HVTCHINS It is written in the Second Chapter of the Canticles xv verse Take vs the Foxes the litle Foxes which destroy the vines for our vines haue smale grapes IN the premises where Christ our Sauiour sawe the readines of the Church his spouse to look to her children thereupon gaue her great incouragement to followe and not to faile in her purpose to the end that shee might the better proceed in this her godly labour to the gaining and keeping of soules in these wordes hee calleth vpon her chiefe pillers to consider his vines how they florish and beare blossomes withall the Foxes and litle Foxes howe they are eger to wast them that so they might be taken preuented For better prosecution of which wordes I note two points First a metaphor 2. the matter the metaphor is double in the first heretiques are compared to Foxes in the second the godly are compared to vines Of the 2. hereafter Touching the 1. metaphor as generally in al so in this I note 1. the metaphor it selfe the title giuen to heretiques and secondly the reason touching the first therefore as heretiques are sometimes compared to canker because they doe corrupt and eate men sometimes to leauen because they doe soure them that are sweet in the faith of Christ sometimes to dogs because they haue not only mouthes to barke but also teeth to bite the godly sometimes to euil laborers because they doe labour vnder and for the diuel to sowe cockle to choake the Lords corne sometimes to rauenous woolues because howsoeuer they pretend themselues to bee sheepe yet their whole hart is how to deuoure the sheep so here they are compared to Foxes In which respect as I might at the first perswade you to beware their fretting because they are canker their souring because they are leauen their barkings and byting because they are dogs the mercilesse hart that is in them because they are reuenous woolues so my counsel might be and for this time shal be that you beware thē because they are Foxes But why are heretiques compared to Foxes ' Surely they are compared iustly to Foxes among al hereticks most truly do papistes deserue the name of Foxes of Foxes because they are vnclean like the Fox Foxes because they are subtil crafty like the Foxe Foxes because they are rauenous greedy to deuour like Foxes For as the Foxe is noted to be an vnclean beast most vnclean when he is most hunted right so doth it fal out with al hereticks specially with papistes who are vncleane alwaies euen as the vnclean spirit is the father that hath begot them the God that alwaies rules them And as they are vnclean alwaies so they are most vncleane when they are most pressed with the worde most chased And therefore when the Lordes Dogs doe not only find their feete but follow them not only barke after them but come so neere as to bite them when the godly pastors take especial care of christ his lambs to that purpose do not only spy out false and hereticall spirits but also defend the lambes of Christ that they may not pray vpon them when to this purpose their titles by them are proued vntrue their interest a nullest their claimes counterfeit their countenance but the false florish of a seducing spirit oh then what do they shew themselues to be but Foxes When they are thus hardlie followed and to their peril pursued oh what are they but in proofe and therefore but in truth titled Foxes Vncleane spirits alwaies but then most vncleane hauing nothing but a face for a fence and a mouth for a manner to slaunder and barke out the matter A point easie to bee proued by the practise of all heretickes that euer were and specially of papists but for this time wherein I am rather to wet my finger than to wash my whole hand onely to touch it So it fel out with the prophets when they put their trumpets to their mouths fought the Lordes battel against false Prophets then did the wicked most slaunderously charge them and defame them So likewise fell it out with the Apostles when their sound did sound to the vtmost and their voice was heard in most places when their bowe was at a ful bend and their arrowes did wound the mighty tame many the more they preached the trueth and discouered vntrueth the more they painted out persecuted false Prophets and idolatrous spirites the more were they abused their good name and heauenly doctrine slaundered as new not auncient as schismatical not catholicke as hereticall not true as diuelish not diuine as vtterly corrupt and no way tolerable And as it fell out with the Prophets and Apostles so hath it fallen out with vs in these our daies For where wee are troubled with many false Apostles who doe not only not consent to the open trueth but also set themselues openly against it and seek to withdraw others frō it when to that purpose they cast yet out their pamphlets paper weapons to winne the field of vs where yet we do from time to