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truth_n	bear_v	great_a	witness_n	2,192	5	7.5158	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11614	A briefe treatise agaynst certayne errors of the Romish Church Very plainly, notably, and pleasantly confuting the same by Scriptures and auncient writers. Compiled by Gregory Scot. 1570 Perused & licenced according to the Quenes Maiesties iniunction. 1574.	Scott, Gregory, 1532 or 3-1576.	1574 (1574)	STC 21855; ESTC S116867	21,066	64

¶ A briefe Treatise agaynst certayne errors of the Romish Church Very plainly notably and pleasantly confuting the same by Scriptures and auncient writers Compiled by Gregory Scot. 1570 Perused lisenced according to the Quenes Maiesties Iniunction 1574. ¶ Imprynted at London by Iohn Awdeley ¶ The Printer to the Christian Reader THough volumes great and learned workes Of famous men hereof be ryfe VVherby both Papistes Iewes and Turkes Haue deadly woundes for all their strife And though these sectes haue not such lyfe In these our daies as late they had Yet gentle Reader take in briefe This treatise gaynst these errors bad VVhich for the truth in playne discourse And pleasant verse by sence well tryde Of such as are learned and wyse I thought therefore not it to hyde But publish it to daunt the pryde Of them that styll wyll hold the same Gaynst God and truth and therein byde Regarding neither truth nor shame But chiefely for the symple sorte This is set forth in forme most playne In pleasant wyse and order shorte That they may viewe with lesser payne And in their mynde the same contayne As for the learned though they know These errors all and them refrayne For others skyll doth this allow The Author to me as vnknowne To thee good Reader I commende This worke out set and now forth blowne Shall shew forth that he dyd entende VVhich was I hope some folke to mende VVho wander in these errours yll Thy fauour then to him extende Accepting this as hys good wyll And prayse thou God for this his lyght VVhich in our dayes doth now so shine VVho opened hath the myndes and syght Of many learned for profyt thyne To God alone therefore resigne These prayses due and not to men Yet in thy praiers haue in mynde Their good estate and thanke God then But chiefely pray thou for those states By whose good meanes this light we ioy As namely Prince and Magistrates VVhich keepeth vs from all anoy The Pastors eke for them do pray And frame thy lyfe in vertues trace In humble wyse them loue and obay So shalt thou quyt their laborous case FINIS ¶ A briefe treatise against certaine errours of the Romish Church HOw is the faythful City chaungde from that it was before Where righteousnes sometime did syt now bloudshed raygneth more Rome once it had renowmed prayse for Truth therein dyd dwell A faythfull Citie once it was and others dyd excell But now vngodlynes doth raygne where fayth dyd then abound Their wicked and most lothsome liues throughout the world doth sound Rome is a cage of Birdes vncleane a sincke of filthy synne Few errours haue the Church infect that dyd not there begynne From thence they spred ouer the earth what place could once be found That frée was from infection in Europe none was found Wher canker once hath taken roote it créepeth ouer all Herein that wicked mother churche we may to witnes call Which once declining from the truth and from the perfect waye Hath euer synce mo errours bred and further gone astraye Of these errours my purpose is here brieflie to intreate But not of all for that were much the number is so greate I meane of such as you your selues by whom mayntaynd they bee Might sone perceiue so plain they are if eyes you had to sée This serueth for the ignorant whom you do most infecte The learned know your errours well and haue them all detecte Thrée witnesses confirme a truth yet mo that wytnes beare Thereby you are more guiltie found your errours more appeare The errours be so catholicke in your religion That order ther is none at all but great confusion Which is the cause that orderlesse herein I do obserue Althoughe to some it be offence lesse blame it doth deserue Therfore myne entrie wher to make my mynde is muche in doubt Suche heapes of errours do I see your Romish church throughout ¶ Against Images and Idolatrie BVt worshipping of images a grose and gréeuous sinne Because it is a custome old with it I wyll begynne In thinges against the law of God if that you do offend Then pleade you custome commonly your errours to defend But yet such custome here you haue you may put in your plée Why should it not take place it is of suche antiquitie Welnigh for age it rotten is your Idols shew the same The old heathen they vsde it long from thence this custome came But chiefely how they first beganne and since haue taken roote Although yet some were long before this briefly shall you note The Father mourning for the death of his beloued Sonne An image to remember him he wild to make anon In time this custome so preuaild incrreasing more and more That rytes and offerings were deuisde the Image to adore And tyrantes did by cruell law compell men so to do The beutye of the cunning worke did much intise therto Though Father onely for his Sonne this image did deuise Of small begynninges yet we sée great mischiefes may aryse But thoughe Idolatry among the Heathen thus did raigne Yet of long tyme in Christ his church no place it did obtayne Vntill next after Christ his death foure hundreth yeares were past No Image then was worshipped nor yet in churches plaste But when the Apostles of the Lord and their Disciples true Were taken hence and few were left their preachinges to renue The Church began then to decline true knowledge dyd decay Then Images crept in withall and lead them more astray But as I sayd these Idols came from Gentiles that did vse The Images of worthy men such as them selues did chuse Of whom some memory to kéepe by errour so deceiued They honoured their Images for benefites receiued These Heathen conuert vnto Christ lyke errour keeping styll They caused Images to make in signe of their good wyll Of Christ of Paul and other mo and kept them reuerentlye Thus first amongest the Christians began Idolatrye Nothing in scripture is forbid so muche as Images Yet to no synne more prone we be then to such wickednes But most vngodly is this worke wherby you would expresse The liuing God in outward forme of grauen Images Moyses giuing charge hereof this euyll did forsee Thou heardst the voice of God he saith no Image didst thou see Take héed therfore vnto thy soule alway remember this No Image make vnto thy selfe a damned thing it is The godhead is not lyke to gold nor lyke to siluer bright It is not lyke to wood or stone nor subiect to the sight Who hath sene God at any tyme the workeman did but gesse When lyke an old man he him made of bignes more or lesse Belyke his yeares they now decay who can be alwayes yong His old gray bearde doth séeme to shew he cannot sure lyue long The glorie of the immortall God whose shape was neuer sene To Images of