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A17121	An historicall narration of the iudgement of some most learned and godly English bishops, holy martyrs, and others (whereof III; viz. Archbishop Cranmer, B. Latimer, and Bishop Hooper, suffred martyrdome, in the dayes of Q. Mary, for the truth and Gospell of Christ Iesus) concerning Gods election, and the merit of Christ his death, &c.	J. A., of Ailward.; Ailward, John, attributed name. aut; Andrewes, John, fl. 1615, attributed name. aut	1631 (1631)	STC 4; ESTC S100399	62,871	120

AN HISTORICALL NARRATION OF THE IVDGEMENT OF some most Learned and Godly English Bishops Holy Martyrs and Others Whereof III viz. Archbishop CRANMER B. LATIMER and Bishop HOOPER Suffred Martyrdome in the Dayes of Q. MARY for the Truth and Gospell of CHRIST IESVS Concerning GODS Election and the Merit of CHRIST his Death c. LONDON Printed by B. A. and T. F for Samuel Nealand and are to be sold at his shop at the Signe of the Crowne in Duck. Lane 1631. Archbishop CRANMER his Booke of the Sacrament of CHRIST his Body and Blood against STEPHEN GARDINER B. of Winchester was written by that most Reverend Father Anno 1551. in the Raigne of K. EDVVARD the 6. And Reprinted by Iohn Day Anno 1580. Cum Privilegio B. HOOPER his Booke upon the Commandements together with the Preface which is heere presented was Written by him An. 1549. Novemb. 5. and Printed first in the said Kings raigne Anno 1550. And afterwards reprinted by Robert Walgrave in Queene Elizabeths Time but the yeare is not specified B. LATIMER is Printed by Divers and at divers Times and is in every mans hands But the Copie here-alledged is that which was Printed by Iohn Day Anno 1571. TO THE IMPARTIALL Christian Reader Whether He bee Laick or Ecclesiastick Grace Mercy Truth and Peace bee Multiplyed Deare CHRISTIAN ALbeit I am no Professed Scholler nor am able to brangle Sophistically about the niceties of Schoole-Quod-libets yet by the Blessing of GOD and Tender care of my Parents I have beene trayned up to such a little Measure of Learning as hath enabled mee though not to conceive the STRONG LINES of these Times yet to understand Plaine English And some Easie-latine Authors Wherefore when I can steale any Vacancie from mine Ordinary Imployments I doe betake my selfe to converse with such Bookes as speake to my Simple capacity in a Stile Intelligible And happening by Chance upon a Booke written some Fourescore yeares agone by an excellently-learned Byshop and a most holy Martyr Iohn Hooper upon the Ten Commandements I perused it with Diligence and received no small comfort to my Soule and instruction to my understanding by It Especially by the Perface In which to my simple Iudgement The Author discourseth very learnedly and conscionably about the Points of Gods Election and the Merit of our Blessed Saviour Iesus Christ-his Death and Passion I had also read in the Booke of English Martyrs That the great learned and Holy Arch-Byshop Doctor Cranmer and Byshop Latimer and Byshop Hooper did All of them suffer Martyrdome and shed their dearest Hearts bloud in the blacke dayes of Persecution under Queene Marie for the Truth and Gospell of Christ Iesus And that None of Them could iustly bee Charged or Branded with any Hereticall or damnably-Erroneous Doctrine More-over I was informed That All of Them were worthy Instruments of God in the First Reformation of Religion from Popish Errours and Superstition in the Raigne of King Edward the sixt of ever-Blessed Memory And that Some of them were imployed in the Making and Ordering of our Booke of Common-Prayer as it was THEN set out and in Composing the Confession of the Church of England in the Booke of Articles of Religion That These were Persons as cleare and Free from all Taint of Poperie Pelagianisme Superstition or Heresie as Any that lived in Those Times or Since I thinke the Booke of Acts and Monuments will fully perswade any honest man that shall There reade their Stories without preiudice Besides Though I will not take upon Me to give you the Sence and Meaning of the Confession of our owne Church yet This wee may say without offence to Any That such learned Men and Holy Bishops as were Principall Agents inframing the Confession and Doctrine thereof in the Booke of Articles and in the Booke of Common Prayer did well and throughly understand and know the True-sense and meaning of their owne Conclusions and neither did nor would eyther write or preach any thing against or Contrarie to the Same Neither is it possible or any wayes probable that These Holy Martyrs and learned Bishops who sacrific'd their lives for the Gospell of Iesus Christ Almost fourescore yeares agone should derive and borrow Their Tenents touching these matters from Iames Harmin or the Remonstrants in Leyden Considering These did first begin publikely to write of such Things not much above Twenty yeares since Wherefore It seemes to me that it is against Reason that very Many Conscientious learned Divines amongst us which doe now teach the selfe-same Doctrine that was long agone delivered by These Holy Mirtyrs and Fathers of our Church should be uncharitably Falsely and Ignominiously Branded with Odious and Abhorred Nick-names fetcht from Leyden Whereas in Truth I know They disdaine to become Sectatours ' to Any Sectaries of any Countrey But Contrariwise doe strive to preserve the Purity of the same Doctrine which They received from the First Fathers of the Reformation in England and neede not to straggle beyond the Seas into Belgia to learne Instructions from thence For which Cause I thought I should doe God and my Holy Mother the Church of England no Evill seruice in giving Notice to the world of what These Holy Fathers and Martyrs did hold and Teach touching these Matters of Gods Election and the Merit of our Blessed Saviours Death in a meere Narrative and historicall way which onely will stand with my profession not in any Argument or so much as in a Bare-word Interposing or Engaging my selfe For my End and scope is not at all to Debate or Determine such points to Meddle with the sacred Doctrine of the Church to wrest the sense or Meaning of the Articles or indeed any way to State the Trueth on eyther side For this would not sute with my poore Abilities But mine Earnest Endeavour and desire is for Peace and quietnesse sake among Those of our owne whose Consecrated Mouthes especially in consecrated places cannot without Sacriledge bee imployed by the Houre in ray lings and evill speakings to give such as are willing to reade it onely a sight and view what Propositions concerning These matters Opinions or Doctrines call them what you will were agitated and Maintained by Many ancient Fathers of our Church and Principall Authors in our Reformation who were all Dead before Leyden was so much as an Vniversity and concerning whom no member of any Reformed Church in Christendome can make any scruple but that they might bee saved To the Intent that if such Positions as we Here shall find were by them tollerated and Approved in those Times by One or other without Breach of Charity or Bandying of Nick-names We also in these Times notwithstanding the like private Differences in unnecessary Controversies may as They herctofore did beare with one Another and unanimously orderly and silently submit our Pennes and Tongues unto Gods sacred and our Dread Soveraignes Royall and Christian Ordinance in this Church which onely bids us to

keepe the VNITY of the Spirit in The Bond of Peace And I am perswaded that upon the deliberate and considerate Reading of these following passages Many who are not too-much Byaced in Iudgment and Affection will as I my selfe have done out of meere Conscience forbeare uncharitably and contumeliously to stander and condemne as Broachers of NEW Doctrine Those Men who labour faithfully to preserve as They concerve the OLD DOCTRINE and which I am sure was anciently taught by These first Fathers in the First times of the Blessed Reformation So desiring God by his Holy and blessed Spirit to increase his Graces of Illumination and Sanctisication in every One of us I commend These Following Pages to thy Christian Consideration and Thy selfe Body and Soule to GODS most gracious Protection and direction in the Trueth resting Thine in CHRIST IESVS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Courteous Reader In some places of this Copie the right Pointings are missed by reason of the Collectors absence which the Printer requests thy Gentlenesse to pardon and to mend these places following with thy Pen. PAge 13 Line 31 32 blot out H 〈…〉 i 〈…〉 peccatum vitare non posse quam i 〈…〉 os quieum Io●iniano asseru●● Pag. 50. l. 24. read Ado●ai From pag. 66 to pag. 89 in the Title read The Iudgement of B. Hooper● Pag. 71. l. 10. blot out as read By whose Passion we are made whole Pag. 73. l. 5. read Though by the Scriptures Page 73. l. 26. r. Not in the persons themselves Pag. 74. l. 20. read That Epistle Pag. 76. line 10. read Cleane delivered Pag. 76. l. 14. read His owne Body Page 79 l. 3. read They that be led and line 10. blot out Yet Pag. 82 l. 1. read Poore creature Pag. 86 In the Margin blot out First Pag. 86 line 24. read Except it be Helped Pag. 87 line 12 read Simple and plainly and line 14 read The same neere unto us Pag 88. l. 27. read Others that be Learned Pag. 95. l. 13. read Then to hearken Page ●8 l. 17. blot out H●● Pag. 100 l. 16. read For there are None THE Copie of an Answere unto a Certaine Letter Wherein the Answerer purgeth himselfe and others from Pelagius Errours and from the Errour of Free-will or Iustification of Workes wherewithall He seemeth to be Charged by the said Letter And further He sheweth wherein he differeth in Judgement from certaine English Writers and Preachers whom he chargeth with Teaching of False Doctrine vnder the Name of Predestination Published about the Second or Third yeare of Q. ELIZABETH by a Protestant Divine who florished both in the time of K. EDVVARD and Q. ELIZABETH and in the time of Q. MARY for his Conscience endured voluntary exile I desire of GOD by his Grace and Mercie to settle strengthen and establish you in the Truth of his holy Word for ever Dearely Beloved WHere you write vnto Mee that you haue often heard that I and others should hold the Errours of Pelagius whose errors you say are almost vnknowne vnto you what they are● and whereas further it is reported of us as you say that we should deny the Prede 〈…〉 ina●ion of GOD and seeke a Iustification by Free-will and by * Deserving of workes which matter you doe both understand and also have found good proofe as you suppose that wee are guilty in the same laying the whole Foundation of your Proofe upon this saying set forth in Print viz. Although there bee but Few on Earth That Rightly They * Deserve Yet Thou ô LORD for their good life The Residue Preserve With which Filthy saying to burthen Mee and others whom you Name I marvaile greatly that you could be so much abused not considering by whom it was written and se● forth in Print For by the Intituling you see it was Printed beyond the Seas in Q. MARIES time For that it is entituled A Prayer to GOD for hi● Afflicted Church in England and as it there appeareth manifestly it is the worke of one WILIIAM SAMV●L which is a Man to Mee of very small acquaintance But a Preacher Hee is And as for his saying that a Man may Deserve God c. which you des 〈…〉 mee to proove if I can It is a Doctrine so Abominable and Blasp 〈…〉 s as I am sure Neyther Papist nor Pelag 〈…〉 nor any other Heretique eyther Old or New hath ever written or maintained a more filthy and execrable saying For it is the flat and manifest Denying both of GOD the Father and of his Sonne CHRIST IESUS Neyther doth it require any Confutation to him that doth but Confesse that there is a GOD. And as for My selfe I doe not love my Life so dearely as I Hate this vile Saying Deadly But wonder it is that such a Sentence containing the very filthiest Dregs of all Pelagius Errors could so long stand printed and neither bee forbidden nor by any man Written against And although I deny not but some other there are which maintayning the power of Mans F 〈…〉 will and the Meritorious worthinesse of Mans deseruings doe deny the Free gift of Gods Grace in Christ Iesus and For his sake onely comprehended in the Eternall Predestination and Fore-ordinance of God and Declared vnto us in his most-Holy word Yet because I see there be many in these Dayes wrongfully and falsly accused to be the Enemies of that Blessed Predestination to bee Pelagians Iustisiers of themselves and such like and with Those bitter Termes are in Open-Auditories defaced and brought into Contempt among the Multitude who being deceived with giving over-has●y Cred●t unto such men not throughly-understanding the Matter doe use to giue Sentence before the Cause bee heard I have thought it good therefore Most-dearely Beloved Not to Them which take more Delight in the Defamation of other than in knowing the Truth themselves but to Thee which art willing to vnderstand the Matter before Thou Condemne or Iustifie eyther partie in as Few words as I possibly can to shew what shamefull Doctrine under the Name and colour of Gods Predestination is Now-a-dayes set forth and taught of Many which both I and many others mislike and have divers times with some of them in Private and Friendly talke perswaded to leaue Both because wee Iudge the Doctrine to be False and also the Destruction of all vertue to Follow thereupon For which Cause as the Manner is of Them that Feare not so much the Shipwracke of a good Conscience as they doe the losse of worldly estimation least any such Disfavourers of their Fantasie should hap to have some credit among the People with boisterous breath they blow abr●ad That the Mislikers of this their Doctrine are Enemies of Gods holy Predestination But right well they know that those whom they now so specially accuse to be such Haters of Gods Predestination are indeed Most intire lovers of the same and Many of Those whom They accuse to bee Popish Pelagians and Iustifiers of themselves have bestowed