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A16459	A defence of the olde, and true profession of Christianitie against the new, and counterfaite secte of Iesuites, or fellowship of Iesus: Written in Latine by P. Boquine a Frenchman, borne in Borges, & Professor of Diuinitie, in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge: Translated into Englishe by T. G. Whereby maye bee perceiued, howe falslye the Iesuites vsurpe the name of Iesus, and how farre off they are, from the thing signified thereby, and what their profession, and purpose is in truth: otherwise then they beare the worlde in hande.; Assertio veteris ac veri Christianismi adversus novum et fictum Iesuitismum seu Societatem Iesu. English	Boquin, Pierre, d. 1582.; T. G., fl. 1581.	1581 (1581)	STC 3371; ESTC S116194	81,465	194

thereby doe conceiue most assured hope that they shall be heyres of the kingdome of God with Christ whom with great ioye of mind they looke for CAP. XIII That in the newe felowship of the Iesuits there appeareth no signe of the crosse of Christ I Doubte not but that these men whom I impugne will saye that they ackowledge like and embrace as most true whatsoeuer nowe hath bene sayd touching the bearing of the crosse of Christ but that it is so farre of that they make agaynst them that they make most for them So in most points of doctrine we agrée in words but we disagrée very much in vnderstanding and sense Wherefore we must haue a touche stone which may discerne the true sense from the false The doctrine therefore of the crosse of Christ is to be discussed in a few more words and this crosse is to be seuered from all other And they are to be discerned the one from the other chiefly by their causes For that saying of Cyprian that notable writer is no lesse true then common The cause and not the punishment maketh a Martyr Whiche also was vsed after of moste godly writers namely of Augustine agaynst the Donatistes which did falsly chalenge vnto them selues the name and prayse of the Martyrs of Christ vnto whome also Augustine doth very well obiect that Christ did not simply pronoūce them blessed which suffer persecution but therwithall did adde for me for righteousnes and the truthes sake and so foorth Moreouer Peter also doth most clearely disseuer them in his first Epistle the seconde Chapter verse 19. and the 4. Chapter verse 15. not only bringing in the true cause to wit the profession of the name of Christ but also forbidding the contrarie and remouing it away by an opposition what praise is it if when yee be buffeted for your faultes ye suffer it paciently whereunto likewise that seemeth to pertaine which Paule the first to the Corinthians the 13. Chapter writeth of him who being voyde of charitie doeth deliuer ouer his bodie to be burned But here chiefly standeth the doubt that our aduersaries doe chalendge to them selues the place and part of Augustine and ascribe vnto vs the part of the Donatistes and such like Neuertheles they that see not howe farre the doctrine and religion of Augustine doeth differ from the doctrine and religion of these vpstartes and which can not iudge howe vnlike our cause is to the Donatists it is maruell if they knowe howe and are able to discerne a coale from snow Wheresoeuer the name of Christ is there is y e crosse of Christ and where Christ is rightly knowne or rather acknowledged there it is to beléeued that the name of Christ is But it is euident that these men doe not know Christ and that they haue and doe worship a painted and phantasticall Idoll in the steade of the liuing and true Christ Then they only can be afflicted for righteousnes sake which follow true righteousnes which thing they only doe which hold the trueth and followe it as a light going before them And who they be which haue the trueth on their side the puritie of doctrine declareth which as it is the soule of the church as it were so is it a light to discerne and finde out darknesse the Rule which teacheth vs to trye straight thinges from crooked the touchstone also which seuereth true things from counterfait Furthermore what doctrine this newe faction doeth professe and followe and contrarily what we doe partly it hath bene shewed before and partly a litle after shalbe shewed for it is not vnknowne For they differ as much as mens inuentions do from Gods decrées that is as much as darknesse differeth from light Thus much touching the discerning the causes of affliction Nowe let vs entreate of the diuers and sundry kindes of the crosse of Christ least we should wrōgfully exclude any man from the same by the fleshly vnderstanding of man Cyprian a true Doctour and Pastor of the church and a most faithfull and constant Martyr of Christ hath lefte behinde him to the posteritie a learned and godly booke of two sortes of martyrdome the reading whereof I iudge most profitable for all men Out of it I will gather some flowers but chaunging the order which he kepte For in the first place I thinke beste that we consider of that kinde of Martyrdome which he calleth secrete and is common to all times For it belongeth also vnto all persons which do come vnto that age in which iudge ment is ripe and the discretion or discerning of good euill is gotten Neyther can there bee any place for that kinde of martyrdome which we may call outward and manifest neyther is it for all either persons either times vnles that first goe before Neroes Diocletians Decians or Maximians doe not alwayes rage as he saith neuertheles the Deuill neuer ceaseth to trouble them that are the professed souldiours of Christ They are neuer without an enemy which do loue Christ godlines and righteousnes For euen the most holiest doe carrye with them whether soeuer they goe a familiar enemy We must alwayes fight that battell which Paule liuely painteth out the 6. 7. and 8. Chapters to the Rom. The warre is continuall whereof he speaketh the 5. Chapter to the Galathians in the which the godly oftentimes receiue woundes sometimes also doe take the foyle So that they doe that which they woulde not Moreouer whither so euer they cōme that are desirous to defend and set foorth the trueth they light vpon the worlde which can not hearken therunto without repining and grudging Whosoeuer is not willing to forsake it and to depart from it as all those ought to be willing which will haue any felowship with Christ he must alwayes vndertake the combat with it he must alwayes looke for and beare the hatred reproches and assaultes thereof By these exercises they are easily knowne who are to vse the Apostles wordes louers of God rather then of pleasures Nowe of which part these new confederates are the tentes which they follow do manifestly bewray Besides the enemies which consist of flesh and blood they that haue felowship with Christ are alwayes besieged with the powers of darkenesse the rulers of this worlde and spirituall wickednesses whiche doe alwayes lye in waite for them with these enemies all the children of God doe continually wrastle and striue All that are of this number and band doe prepare sense and defende them selues with the weapons and armour which the Apostle noteth out and describeth the 6. to the Ephesians Hereby as by sure marks they that fight vnder the banner of Christ in this fielde are knowne They that drawe vnto themselues a crosse or deuise vnto them selues armour of their owne making haue no cause at all to say that they beare the crosse of Christ For that only is to be saide to be

in assaulting the Church For as he sheweth a singular wylines in his deuises So in the execution and performance thereof hee declareth a maruellous power wherewith he is endued the earnest meditation and consideration whereof I thinke to be a great helpe and furtherance vnto godlines VVherefore I suffered my selfe the rather to bee persuaded to communicate to the gentle readers for others I make no account of such things as came into my minde And whereas I see the custome of dedicating and inscribing vnto some man newe workes to haue bene receiued of all men and the same to be both ancient and not vngodly it may be perceiued by the onlie example of our Euangelist Luke who doubted not to dedicate his historie of the Gospell and the Actes of the Apostles to a man which in deed loued God godlines I thought good to follow him Now while I considered vnto whom I shoulde offer this my labour who might bee not so much a Patron as an indifferent iudge thereof you especially noble Earle for your singular godlines learning and curtesie ioyned with great wisedome came vnto my minde For I knowe your iudgement to be such and so sound that those which professe them selues to loue and fauour the trueth and godlines may safely and worthilie rest in him Therefore I trust you will accept the same according to your curtesie with the like minde I present it vnto you that is to say sincere and well meaning And so you shall haue me now alreadie sundry wayes indebted vnto you for your singular gentlenes hereafter most beholding vnto you At Heidelberge the Calendes of Ianuarie Anno. 1576. Your Honours most duetifull P. Boquine TO THE GENTLE REAder P. B. wisheth health in the Lorde THey that earnestly consider the state condition of the Churche of Christe vvhile it is a straunger in this world doe diligently marke the course and proceeding thereof doe easily perceiue howe truely and aptly it is commonly compared to a ship tossed with diuers windes in the midst of the troublesome sea and shaken with many tempestes following one the other how rightly also it is called of some the militant or warfaring Church For it is as it were an army which is alwayes in the field and is alwayes besieged of the enemy and is often times assaulted and continually set vpon with newe policies and attemptes For it neuer enioyeth sure peace no not so muche as safe truce but if there seeme to bee any the same is full of treachery For that perpetuall enemye of Christ is neuer quiet is neuer weary doth alwayes enuy his dignitie glorie and power and hee neuer ceaseth to lye in waite for the life and saluation of the godly and is neuer satisfied with their blood And although he may seeme sometime to abate and slake a litle of the fiercenes of his endeuour yet hee still remaineth one nothing ceasing his hatred and desire to worke mischiefe Therefore he raiseth vp euer nevv souldiors against the host of Christe and sendeth thē forth furnished with new weapons deceits And that which is more to be maruelled at this enemy and wonderfull practiser euen from the beginning hath craftily sought out of the verie bosome and as it were the verie bowels of the Church those by whome hee might vnder the pretence of truth and godlines trouble shake and labour to ouerthrow the kingdom of Christ to wit his church Which thing they that are readers of antiquitie and skilfull in the Church histories doe well knowe Yea and our age is full of plaine testimonies and examples thereof insomuch that there is nothing to bee wished but that we diligently consider of these thinges Neither ought any man to maruel that our best guide Christ doeth so often and so earnestlye exhorte his vnto continuall watchfulnes especially those whose duetie it is to watch and to haue charge ouer the saluation of the people Vnto the which care euen their Captaines continuall presence and defence ought to edge them and to sturre them vp For as he is neuer absent so he neuer either sleepeth or ceaseth beeing much more readier and abler to giue saluation promised vnto those that beleeue in him then the enemy is to bereaue them of the same Wherefore if any thing be wanting in this behalfe to them that fight vnder his banner the fault is altogether in them selues neither haue they to blame any thing but their owne either perfidiousnes either slouthfulnes Verely it were a shamefull thing and worthie grieuous punishment in this case to bee ouercome or yeld to the enemy For what can bee more blame woorthie then that there should bee more endeuour diligence paines taken in mainteining of falshood then in defending the trueth in establishing vngodlines thē in vpholding of godlines in procuring an others destruction then in preseruing our owne saluation Many examples we haue old and newe of the diligence and faithfulnes that as well all Christians as chiefly they that susteine the persons of teachers ought in this behalfe to render vnto Christ That some are ignorant of the old I easily doe beleeue but that any almost should not knowe the newe I can not bee persuaded For as yet they are well neare before euery mans eyes For who knoweth not at what time within this fewe yeres the light of the gospell by the exceeding goodnes o● God was restored vnto the world so soone as it began to appeare to cast foorth some small beames that therewithall came foorth certaine Ministers of Satan and Antichrist who as Owles and Battes accustomed to darknes laboured by all meanes force they could to let it that it shoulde not spread foorth his beames and to put cleane out the shining sparkles thereof But on the other side many notable men for godlines and learning kindled with the zeale of the glorie of Christ forced with the loue of the trueth and moued with the desire of their owne and other mens saluation withstoode stoutly and constantly their wicked attemptes and so brake with strength and courage their weapons bēt against them that mawgre the enemies though neuer so many mightie and eger that heauenly light issued out and spread foorth his beames both farre and wide as it is at this day to be seene Wherefore the faithfull seruantes of Christ following the zeale and industrie of the olde Iewes which the historie of Nehemiah doth set out to all posteritie to be folowed did so represle with the one hande the violence of them that set them selues against them that with the other they ceased not to build the Temple to wit to gather a church vnto Christ And God our best father did so assist fauour and blesle their continuall labours and inuincible constancie that the enemy might seeme to haue thought that his kingdome had bene ouerthrowne Wherefore as it commeth to passe in sodaine chaunces and extreame dangers hee hath sodenly

prouided a newe supply of aide whiche hee hath secretely brought into the chiefest tower of his kingdome For it was so shaken and battered that he perceiued it neare ouerthrowne But while we which haue succeeded into the places and seats of those holy men doe pitifully striue together Certaine spurnes and byters amongst vs raising vp new brawls troubles by the policie watchfulnes and industry of this newe aide the enemy hath so restored within these fewe yeares that same his tower that it may appeare that the whole crue of Antichrist stande in great hope shortly to recouer their former authoritie dignitie and power And I persuade my selfe that not only the authours fauourers and Patrons of this so great euill but all that giue occasion thereunto by what colour or pretence so euer they doe it shall at length bee punished of God the most iust iudge most vehement defendour and mainteiner of the kingdome of his Sonne And forasmuch as I am also persuaded that he will take an account of all those vnto whom he hath committed his talentes bee they neuer so small I thought my selfe not to be free from either faulte or punishment if I should through feare or idlenes refuse to bestowe that which I know is committed vnto me though it bee neuer so simple to put away the shame ioyned with manifest destructiō of the Church which I perceiue to be laide vpon Christ by this vpstart host of Satan For seeing these galants stand before our doores and builde vꝑ fortresses aduauncing their Capitaines engines into our Schooles and Churches neare about vs if wee shoulde any longer forbeare might we not worthily be thought willingly and wittingly to betray the cause of Christ and his church and to withholde in vnrighteousnes the trueth of God which wee heare and see to bee by these men turned into falshood But as concerning the first ofspring to wit the true father of this deuillishe broode which haue ●ayned vnto them selues and vsurped no lesse arrogantly then strangely a name from Iesu and in what place and time it first sprang vp although it be lately begotten yet I perceiue diuers reportes to be made neuertheles I thought not good to trauell in the searching out and examining thereof It is well knowne to be an inuention of man And if I must at once speake my minde hereof I will doe it in fewe words If the iudgement of that great Basile be true that parentes are knowen by the likenes appearing in their children if by duetie and obediéce vnto their parentes true and naturall children are wont to bee knowne from bastardes this newe impe can haue no other true parentes then the Romishe Antichrist and whore of Babylon For that is most plainly prooued both by the resemblaunce which is betweene them and the good will that the one beareth the other My purpose is at this time to withdrawe the visor from this monster counterfaited both by the name which it proudly chalengeth vnto itselfe as by the thing which that goodly title beareth the worlde in hand I will only touch the doctrine whiche these newe maisters mainteine so farre foorth as my purpose suffereth me or els craueth of me I vndertake not at this time purposely to refuse it knowing that it is all one with the Popishe doctrine which nowe alreadie is sufficiently confuted Some also of our men hath euen namely examined the same neither slenderly nor vnluckely I promise such modestie as the matter can beare To reproue errours and to rebuke vices the loue of trueth and vertue enforceth as for the desire to cauill much more to slander who so loueth godlines doeth hate detest and abhorre it I will deale faithfully I likewise craue of the readers that they bring with them to the reading hereof aloue and zeale of the trueth ioyned with godlines and desire of their owne saluation P. B. A DEFENCE OF THE old and true Christianitie agaynst the new and counterfaite secte of the ●esuites or felowship of Iesu CAP. I. That they do greatlye offende that take vppon them names in matters of religion whiche are not agreeable vnto them THe Holy Scripturs do plainelye teache and experience it self cuidētly proue that men sinne aswell in word and talke as in déede and fact Wherfore they that are of a sound iudgement will easely confesse that as manye as haue any care and loue of religion oughte to haue as great regard of woordes as thinges The same also perswadeth the affinitie and coniunction whiche is betweene woordes and the thinges whiche they signifie for it is certayne that the vse of wordes standeth in the signification thereof being so greate that in speech in the stead of thinges as he sayth we vse the names therof and for that cause those wordes in the iudgemente of the wise are counted best and fittest which expresse things so as they may be most plainelye vnderstoode and doe represente them to the hearers mind euē as a glasse doth lay before the eyes of the beholder the shape of the countenance which is before it Hereof it may easely be perceiued that it is the parte of a well meaninge and godlye minde to auoyde earnestlye not onely filthie and corrupt speeche but also doubtfull darke fond and such as breedeth offence yea and further that bringeth not grace vnto the hearers and ed●fieth not as the Apostle sayth For whereas no parte of our life oughte to be voyde of religion but our mind our hand and tounge shoulde be agreeable thereunto who so hath a religious mind will make choyse as well of wordes as of thinges and he will endeuour in good words seasoned with salt that I may againe speake with the Apostle and plaine to vtter that whiche hee doth well and rightly conceiue and to bee shorte because his minde so affected thinketh it a shamefull thinge as to erre and to be deceaued so to deceiue any man he will chiefly take héede that whatsoeuer belōgeth to religion be setfoorth of him with godly and religious wordes whereunto I hold it a most ready and sure way to vse the tounge of the holy Ghoste for so it liketh some to speake that is to vse the words which the Prophetes and Apostles the instrumentes of the holy Ghost haue vsed For who can doubt but that thys heauenlye master that hath reuealed these heauēly misteries vnto them hath therewithall deliuered wordes méete to open such great misteries and suche as are most fitte for the capacitie of men the hearers thereof Saint Augustine therefore most wisely in my iudgement hath thus written of this matter in his 10 tooke of the citie of God the 23. chap. The Philosophers sayth hee vse wordes at will and in thinges not hard to be vnderstoode they feare not to offende the eares of the godly But we must speake orderlye leaste the libertie of our wordes breede in vs an ill opinion concerninge thinges which

euerlasting and this life is in his sonne He that hath the sonne hath life he that hath not the sonne hath not life Christ also himselfe hath so depainted and expressed it in that proper allegorie of the vine and the braunch that euerye man may easelye perceyue it And hetherunto doth plainlye belong that the Apostles call him in some places the sauiour of the world Now this title in Gréeke as it very well agreeth with the Hebrue name name whereof I haue spoken before so is it so great if we beléeue Cicero a fitte witnesse herein that it cannot be vttered and expressed with one latine worde For it noteth him that bringeth health or saluation Neither forceth it that this title is geuen somtime to the father and is also yeelded vnto men as to the Iudges of the old people and the ministers of Gods word Rom. 11. and 1. Tim. 4. For that which draweth nothing eyther from the office or honour of Christ but rather streyneth that which hath beene sayde hereof For it is manyfest that the Father as the chiefest fountayne of saluation from whom all saluation floweth vnto the Sonne and is as it were committed vnto him of verye good right is called a Sauiour But as touching men this honour is for no other cause geuen vnto them then for that they are chosen and appoynted by our Sauiour Christ that he might distribute and poure abroade vpon others by them as his in strumentes that power of sauing which he hath of his own and resting in himself which thing the author of the Epistle to the Heb. 2 Chap. séemeth vnto me verye fitly to haue noted and layd downe in naming him the Prince of our saluation Now that which this wryter vsing a manner of spéech which the Hebrues are acquainted with doth signifie as it were with one word We reade that Peter Act. 5 ver 31. did part in two when he had mainteyned this cause before the high Priestes of the Iewes Him hath God lifte vp with his right hand to be a Prince and Sauiour and so foorth By these most sure groundes for to alleadge any more it is néedelesse I thinke that doth sufficiently appear which I purposed to declare that without the felowship of Christ there remayneth no hope of saluation vnto any man Wherby it is euidently proued that they are vtterly deceiued and erre very farre which séeke elswhere or otherwise saluation Wherefore I neyther must neyther will reprooue this new order of Friers if they speak in earnest and beléeue that they see●e saluation in Iesu and bee willinge to draw it thence as from a continuall welspring but I accounte it a very vnreasonable thing for a man to goe about to drawe all that to himselfe alone and to challenge it as his owne which is common with him to al mē of what state and condition soeuer they be and therewithall that they are fowly deceyued if they thinke it cannot be had without that kinde of life which they haue newly deuysed vnto them selues Lastly I take them to be very far deceyued in this that they take another way to obteyne saluation of Iesus then he himselfe hath layd downe and declared CAP. VII That to the intent true felowship be had with Iesus the way that he hath declared is to be followed IT is the part of a trustye and wise Phisition not only to shew the sick person a fitte and wholesome medicine but also diligently to delyuer the maner and how to receaue the same especially if he perceiue he hath to doe with one that is vnskilfull and ignorant of Phisicke For as it is an easie matter herein to misse so it is well knowen to be very dangerous and dayly experience prooueth the same Therfore the holy Ghost to the intent he might performe the parte of a true teacher and most faithfull Phisition vnto the elect and sufficiently prouide for their saluation vnderstandinge well how great not only the vanitie but also the blindnes of mannes mind is especially in seking and prouiding for their own saluation thought it not sufficient to set foorth and poynte out a true sure and necessarye medicine but also thought good to declare plainly and largely how the same is to be vsed Wherfore it behoueth al those that are in déede desirous of their own saluation to resolue with themselues that not only the remedy against sin which the heauenly Father doth offer in Christ is to be unbraced of them ●●t that therewithall they must in euery poynt folow the way to receyue the same which he hath layde downe For they are very much deceiued and altogether erre which imagine other wayes and meanes or being deuysed of others séeme they neuer so plausible and playne accepte of the same Certainlye they tyre themselues in vayne which runne out of the way and as he sayd it is better to haste in the way then to runne space out of the way for it is so farre of that they should euer come vnto the true ende that in steade of saluation they procure to themselues grieuous destruction The holie Ghost doeth most plainly teach and that not in one place that the father is knowne of no man and that no man commeth vnto him but by the teaching and leading of the sonne who not without cause calleth him selfe as the life and trueth so the way also thereunto For so the same spirit teacheth that no mar comineth or is receiued into the fellowship or communion of the sonne but by the motion and leading of the Father God is faithfull saieth Paule to the Corinthians by whom you are called into the fellowship of his sonne Iesus Christ our Lorde Herehence it appeareth that there is no comming to this fellowship for any man but by the Fathers calling And it is not méete that any should be called but hée that heareth his voice and foloweth it that is to say that heareth him speaking and obeyeth his counsell and goeth after him being guided as it were by his hand Which thing Iohn doeth plainly shewe in the beginning of his Epistle teaching that he declareth to the Church that which he had séene and heard that they might haue fellowship not onely amonge themselues but also with the Father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ The voyce therefore of the Gospell is the way whereby we haue enterance vnto this holie and healthfull fellowship By it the Father calleth those whom he hath giuen vnto his Sonne before the foundation of the world was laid and bringeth and assembleth them vnto their shepheard And that voyce of the Father soundinge clearely from heauen conteineth the effect of the heauenly voice This is my welbeloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased heare him By these fewe wordes but verie significant hee noteth both the end and sheweth the way For the end or scope vnto the which wée must leauell as it were with both

his which he layeth vpon our shoulders and whiche they shall neuer wante which make account to liue godly For the only sight of the wicked life of the vngodly doeth oftentimes bring vnto the godly a hard and bitter crosse as it befell sometime to Noe and Lot as Peter witnesseth the 2. Epistle and 2. Chapter Briefly the life of a godly Christian is a continuall combat in this our exile or banishment as Iob truely witnesseth who was greatly and long practized in this warfare Neyther doth Christ grant vnto those that are his souldiours any release or time of ease and giuing ouer but so long as they breath he woulde haue them not only to hope but also to sigh and grone Therefore then at length shall they haue fully ended the fight when they haue likewise ended their liues It is wel said also that the life of godly men is a continual repentance whiche if it be true neuer lacketh a crosse of Christ Now whereas these newe felowes do not know what true repentance and turning to God is as it is playn by their owne writings neither vnderstande by what meanes the mortification and burial of the olde man and quickening of the new is brought to passe they haue no cause why they should saye they beare the crosse of Christ and chalenge to them selues a place in his felowship Besides this kinde of Martyrdome which partemeth to all the godly and is chiefly wrought inwardly in the theatre of the minde onely there is an other which belongeth neither vnto all times neither all beleeuers but to them alone which endure tormēts euen vnto the death for the profession of the name of Iesu Christ and haue as it were sealed vp with their bloud amongst vnbeleeuers the Indenture of the Gospell as Cyprian speaketh whose captayne is the finisher and accomplisher of our fayth Christ as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrues the 12. chap. vers 2. doth very notably set him foorth to be followed of all the godly And they onely follow him whom there vnto he chooseth and calleth that is whom he vouchsafeth of that honour For to suffer reproches in this behalfe the Apostles by their example haue taught Acts 5. ver 41. to be reckoned a matter of great honour and gayne The same also haue they taughte in wordes especiallye Paul whose life apeareth to haue bin a continuall Martyrdome For he so caryed about both in his mind Christ crucified and so set him foorth and paynted him out with his talke and so expressed him in his life that he also caried about him in his fleshe his markes not paynted or fayned as the Franciscan Fryers Idoll but printed in all partes of his body as the which mused vpon and practised this onely thing since Iesus chose him to be of his felowship that he might fulfill the rest of the afflictions of Christ in his fleshe for his body sake whiche is the Church It is not in sooth the part of a godly wise man to drawe vnto him rashly the hatred of the world or without iuste occasion to enter into daunger vnder the pretence of trueth or religion but to reiect refuse it béeing offered of God it is the parte of a faynt harted and faythles man Wherefore although it be not necessary that al men should witnesse their profession of the Gospell by outward suffering and torments muche lesse seale it vp with the sheadding of their bloud neuerthelesse all those that will be accomted of the heauenly father and Iesu Christ for sonnes and brethren and not be throwen into vtter darknes and euerlasting fyre with faith breakers and hypocrites ought at least to seale the same with the preparation of their minds thereunto as some speake that is ought so to haue their mindes bent or setled that they be ready not onely to enter into daungers but also suffer death if the glory of Christ the saluation of the Church and cause of the trueth doth require the same Whether these newe companions of Iesu cary such mindes or no it is not harde to iudge by these thinges that they haue hithervnto done and yet doe For they that are always present with the sworne enimies of Christ and doe take secrete counsell with them doe encourage tyrants are to tormentors as it were bellowes to kindle flaming fyres against the sonnes of God the brethrē and members of Iesu Christ finally which apply all their intentes and purposes to that ende that they maye crucifie the true professors of Christ howe can they haue minds prepared and ready to beare the crosse CAP. XIIII That the Iesuites haue a great resemblaunce and likenes with these heretikes which are called Nazarites the enimies of the crosse of Christ IT is euidently knowen by the historie of the Actes of the Apostles that assoone as the light of the Gospel began to spread abrode his beames Satan raysed vp agaynst it diuers kindes of enimies which althoughe they were very vnlike one the other amongst them selues yet they did all conspire together in this that they hated Christian religion and laboured by all their deuises and endeuours eyther wholly to let eyther to hinder the course of the G 〈…〉 ll Amongst the Iewes there were especially the High Priests the Pharisees and the whole scomme of y ● Priesthode There were also amongst the people very many which were oftentimes stirred vp by those bellowes Amongst the Gentiles there were diuers kindes and states as those times did require of the which perhaps somewhat shal be spoken at an other time Now I will speake of a certayne kind which that perpetuall enimie of Christ and hys Church had set foorth by a speciall deuise and instructed with a peculiar subtiltie It was a kinde of men both very craftie and very pestilent the which as it did the more secretly vndermine the Church so did it hurt it more daungerously First it crept in subtilly to the duetie of teaching for it insinuated it selfe as it appeareth vnder the colour of spreading abroad the Gospell And for as muche as the name of Paule was very famous for his marueilous dexteritie in preaching the Gospell and his happy successe in publishing thereof whiche thing also gote him the hatred of very many these hypocrites thought best chiefly to set them selues agaynst him thinking that to be very profitable for their purposes and deuises For they thought that to be the readyest waye for them to come to glory and gayne which they onely regarded and whervnto they turned all their doctrine Therfore taking vpon them the person of Apostles they sought by all kinde of lyes trecheries to remoue Paule from his place and to thrust him from his seate that is to take away all authoritie from him and they troubled him wonderfully with diuers slaunders Nowe as they had taken vpō them to vexe and to

the beleeuers in Christ cannot but haue fellowship with him so the vnbeleeuers cannot haue any at all The Iesuites which teach that they may teach deuilish doctrine The deuilish defence of this doctrine by the Iesuites and Papists Io. 8. The Papists by their transubstantiation dreame of the receiuing of Christ with their mouth Christ not to be receaued by any outward and carnall way but by faith only The hart of a man the proper seate of faith Faith aymeth to Christ as the true and principall marke in the scripture What true faith is Mans wit cannot comprehend Christ Mat. 16. 1● Rom. 10. 17. 18 The word and faith vnseparable Iohn 1. 31. The word the rule of our faith The Canonical Scriptures only sufficient for faith to rest vpon Damasc in Pr●oem Lib. Christian faith what it is The Iesuites faith to be iudged by their Doctrine The Iesuites doctrine The Iesuites pretence of the truth the sooner to deceiue in their Cathechisme of Austria Prouerb 5. 7 The titles of the Iesuites bookes and the doctrine therin conteyned contrary The Iesuites make 6. wayes and more to purge sinnes not so much as naming Christ or faith in him Censura Colomensis What account the Iesuites make of the Scripture What the Iesuites faith is Rom. 14. 22 Iac●b 16 The Iesuites faith wauering and doutfull Mat. 17 Luke 4 Ephe. 1. Rom. 8 The faith of the godly certaine and stable Ausbrosan Luc. Cap. 2 The Iesuites robbe Christ of his office of redemption Galat. 3. The Iesuites pretence of reformation and their doinges contrary The Iesuites more impudent in the defence of popish errorr then other papists and the pope himselfe Orat in Concil Trident. 〈◊〉 Pope Anacletus impudent and ridiculous forcing of the scripture to prooue his supremacie Cephas Iohn 1. 42 Distinct 22. Contius the Popes flatterers shifte to helpe Pope Anacletus Turrianus The Iesuites impudent defe●ce of Anacletus The Iesuites in flattering the Pope shake of all feare of God and shame of the world Christ in the scriptures deliuered vnto vs after two sortes 1 Christ only ● Sauiour 2 Io. 13. 2. Tim. 3. Rom. 2. True loue a sure marke of the Discipler of Christ Io. 13. Math. 7. 16. Faith must be ioyned with obedience Tis. 1. 1. Thes. 4. 1. Cor. 1. 30. Rom. 6. 7. 8. Ca. The endeuour of holy life can not be separated from true faith Ti. 2. 14. The true beleeuers doe feele Christ working in them by his holie Spirite Gala. 2. Why the company of the godly are called the communion of Saintes 1. Thes 5. 23. The Iesuites no such men as they beare the world in hand The Iesuites in their dealing against the professours of the Gospel in the point of Iustification malicious and slaunderous What iustifiing faith the professours of the gospel teach Gal. 5. 6. 〈…〉 12. 33. Lyes and slaunders the notes of the enemies of truth and godlynes 1. Cor. 4. Iac 4. ver 3. The loue of the world y ● loue of god lines can not agree Math. 6. 2. Timoth. 4. ver 10. The lusts of the world do raine cheefly in the Poopes and his prelates courts Pontificalis cana The Iesuites in hauntinge the popes prelats courtes kitchinges shewe what hatred they beare to the worlde The verse occasions of eviles to be auoyded of the godly The Iesuites for sake not the worlde but imbrace it and run into the middest of it Turrianus the Iesuits vaine and ridiculous bragge of his forsakinge die world The Iesuites frequentinge the kitchinge geue men occasiō to suspecte that they loue belly chere and not temperance Obiection Answere How the Iesuits play the Phisitions in curing the diseases of the sicke popishe church ●se 4. ver 1. 2. Obiection Answer 2. Time ver 1. 2. 3. Act. 13. ver 46 The true cause of the Iesuites frequenting the palaces of popishe prelates 1. Reg. 12. Eze. 34. The Iesuits purposes bewrayed by their doings Ro 1. Not onely the doors but also the allowers and incoragers of wickednes giltie before God Prou. 17. ver 15 The Iesuites popish prelate● conspire both against Christ How truely the Iesuites take theire name of Iesus Likenes equalitie the cause of fri 〈…〉 dship concord as the contrarie of hatred discord similitude Rom. 8. ver 24. The members of Christ must be made like to him their head Hebr. 2. ● bil 3. ver 21 What the waye is to be made like vnto Christ Heb. 2. ver 10. Luk. 24. ver 25. The crosse the way to be like vnto Christ Math. 16. Mar. 8. Luc. 9. Christ exhorteth his to the patient bearing of the crosse 1. Pet. 2. ver 19. 21. Cap. 4. 13. Rom. 8. ver 17. They that looke to be partakers of euerlasting blessednes in the life to come with Christ must beare the crosse with him in this life 2. Timoth. 2. v. 11. 2. Tim. 3. ver 12. Act. 14. ver 22. The crosse can not be separated from Christian profession Heb. 12. ver 8. Cyprian The crosse of Christ is to be discerned from all other by the cause Augustine 1. Pet. 2. ver 19. 4. Ca. ver 15. 1. Cor. 13. Where the true crosse of Christ is to be found The Iesuites haue not true Christ but an Idoll of him Puritie of doctrine a signe of the trueth Cyprian Two sortes of martirdome inward and outward The inwarde martyrdome must go before the outward Rom. 6. ca. 7. cap. 8. cap. Gal. 5. The inwarde martyrdome conflicte in the godly continuall 2. Tim. 3. verse 4. Ephes 6. The godly neuer want their spirituall combats with Satan What is the true crosse of Christ and what not 2. Pet. 2. Iob. Dum spirant non modo sperare sed etiam suspirare eos vult The godly must alwayes in this life beare the crosse of Christ The life of the godly a continual repētance The Iesuites ignorant of true rapentance and mortification The outward martyrdome what Cyprian Instrumentum Euangelicum Heb. 12. ver 2. Act. 5. ver 41. This martyrdome for Christ glorious Paules life such a continuall martyrdome Fryer Frauncis fained to haue woundes as Christ by the Franciscan Fryers Colos 1. ver 24. The godly ought euer to be willing to suffer this martyrdome when iust occasion is offered The Iesuites haue not this willingnes to suffer this martyrdome for Christ The Nazareans described and their practises agaynst Paule The Nazareans tooke vppon them to be Apostles Paules constancie and boldnes in the defence of the Gospel agaynst them Paule in these paynteth out al false teachers to the posteritie for euer The Iesuites worse then the Nazareans Satans later deuises worse thē his former The image of true teachers set foorth in Paule of false teachers in the Nazareans Tit. 1. ver 16. Cyprian Mens doctrine to be iudged by their life not by their tong The tong doth sooner deceiue then the life Mat. 7. ver 15. Math. 7. ver 15. The ende and scope of mens doctrine a sure token thereof 1. Tim. 1. 6. 2. Tim. 2. The end of the true teachers doctrin to seke the wil of God of the false to seeke their own lustes 1. Cor. 14. Chrysost ho. 35. The Iesuits not like Paule but the Nazareans in their doctrin The Iesuits deface God and his glory in sanctifying and deifying men The Iesuits deface Christes grace by mans merites and workes The Masse iniurious to the grace of Christ Iewish heathenish ceremonies broght into the Church of Christ by the Papists and Iesuites doctrine The Iesuits doctrine more c●●rupt then the Nazareans The Iesuits in the ambitious maner of their teaching like the Nazareans The Iesuites counterfait holines and hypocrisie to win credite at the first Ioseph●ll A●● Iuda 11. ca. 8. The Iesuites do vse the policie of all false worshippers of God The Iesuites pleasers of men The Iesuites slaunderers and backbiters of godly and learned men Hicrome The Iesuites chop change and corrupt the worde of God to get the fauor of men Antipodes The ende of the Iesuits doctrine A Franciscane Fryers hypocrisie to climbe to the Popedome The Iesuits sodayne aspiring to high roomes great liuings shew what their ende is The Iesuites f●rre vnlike the Apostles of Christ The Iesuites farre more forward in aduancing themselues then the old tolerable later intolerable monkes The Iesuits the Popes their fathers dearlings in respect of the monkes their brethren The Iesuites couetous Mat. 8. ver 20. The Iesuites ambitious and seeke a tyrannie ouer the Church The Iesuites holde cruell courts of inquisition Mat. 27. ver 32. Anti Iesuses Antichristes the Iesuites true titles Against comp 〈…〉 t of dissent 〈…〉 in the C 〈…〉 e. Similitude Dissentions no iust cause why men doe not come to the trueth Io● 19. A great cause of dissentions that men are not desirous to speak the truth in Gods worde where it is to be found The Iesuites newly sprong vp bost falsely of antiquitie in their doctrine against vs. The Iesuits forbid that which Christ hath cōmaunded and commaund that which he hath forbidden The Iesuites stirred vp by Satan and why The Iesuites seduce child●sh foolish men 1. Cor. 14. ver 20 Gala. 3. ver 1. Ioh. 3. The lamentable blindnes of those that are sedu●ed by the Iesuites Erasmus The actes of the Apostles cōtein a full platforme of the Churche of Christ wherby to discrye all seduce●s and namely the Iesuites We ought to be Christians not only i● name but also in deede The Iesuites seeme to be ashamed of the name of a Christian The Iesuites true name