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A01219	An oration against the vnlawfull insurrections of the protestantes of our time, vnder pretence to refourme religion Made and pronounced in Latin, in the Schole of Artes at Louaine, the .xiij. of December. Anno. 1565. By Peter Frarin of Andwerp, M. of Arte, and Bacheler of both lawes. And now translated [by John Fowler] into English, with the aduise of the author.; Oratio Petri Frarini quod male reformandae religionis nomine arma sumpserunt sectarii nostri temporis habita. English	Frarinus, Petrus.; Fowler, John, 1537-1579.	1566 (1566)	STC 11333; ESTC S112684	57,035	182

selues who were the worst in al y e packe and then hardely to lay to other mennes charge what ye could Or was this your purpose to compell men to receiue your Gospell and to poure it into their mouthes spite of their teethe So did neuer Christ plant his Religion but so Mahumet stablished his cursed sect Ye labored in vaine when ye trauailed to bring the world to your Religion by Villany railing and dubble Cannons as easily as the Apostles did win men to the Gospell of Christ by their good liuing preaching and miracles How be it in dede it was neither Religion nor Gospel nor Gods quarell that ye ment to further euen he him self who not for Gods sake but formalice against the Pope begā this whole Tragedy is a currant witnesse in this poynt and hath constantly so deposed Was it to restore the Christen Faithe being as ye thoughte well nighe worne out that ye made so great sturre Your labor was needlesse for the Churche of God the Seat and sure Piller of Truth hath allwaies without force and battail most Reuerently and charely kepte the Faith that was from the beginning cōmitted to her Custody This Christ obtained of his Father this shall the Heauenly Comforter the holye Ghoste perfourm for euer How thē good sirs Was this wel done so to turmoile and tosse the quiet state and publike affaires of cōmon weales to make a mixture and confusion of whot and cold high and low to trouble and turne vp and downe all thinges appertaining to God man so lightly so rashly so wickedly without any iust occasion without any sufficient cause without any good reason Men that professed Christianity haue sought cruelly and outragiously a longe time against Christen men haue sought their liues and goods haue bereaued thē of house and home of Church and Chappell welthy and rich Cities are impouerished sacked spoiled Church Vestries are voided rifled robbed And now if a man call them to accomptes aske the cause of al these their tragical cruel doings he shal haue a short answer w t mum budget except they will peraduēture allege this y t the lofty Ambitiō y e gredy Auarice the desperat boldnes of certen w●tō lose friers haue ministred iust occasiō of so horrible wicked hainous battel Now I come most gētle Audiēce to y e secōd parte of this matter to y e poynt wherin I promised to make discourse of their cōspiracies and treasons to the end ye may plainly perceiue y t our Aduersaries were not only w tout cause offēded rashli moued to bēd their minds to fight but that also they toke weapon in hand and bad battaile traiterously and that as they attempted warre without iustice right so they proclaimed and pursued the same without Authoritye and Commission to omit nothing that should help to fil vp the measure of their so great and execrable wickednesse It is great pitye in verye deede it is muche to be pitied that Christen Princes doe make warre one against another so often yea and that God wot for light occasion or wel nighe for none occasion at all Desire of raigne and soueraigntie light displeasure taken vpon a word spoken Glory Hastinesse Emulation of Rulers haue bread vs many times long and cruell battaile so that a man mighte wel now sing as the Poet Horace did When Kinges and Rulers kepe ill rule The people paies for all Their ouersightes the Commons sighes And feeles their wanton fall The time shall come Oh I tremble when I speake it the time shall come in deede when it shall repent them to late that by their lightnesse and raish panges so much and so manie mens blood hath bene shed Yet to say the truthe in suche warres most commonlie the souldiours are excused for that theyr part is rather to obey fulfil and accomplisshe their lawful Princes and Capitains commaundement then deliberate dispute and reason of the equitie of the cause wherefore they fight But in this domesticall insurrection in this mostruous Tumulte and Sedition that hath bene sturred vp these many yeres vnder pretense of refourmation in maters of Religion wherein nor Capitaine nor Magistrate nor Prince nor Emperour biddeth any man strike Where without anie Lieutenant general knight Martial or deputie Captaine all the whole hoste is but an assemble of priuate men of common souldiours or rather of rouers cutthrotes and moste cruell murderers who is voide of hainous offense what one is free from maliciouse treason Who of all this companie is able to say that he is in his conscience giltlesse innocent and vnspotted Priuate men that had no Authoritie ●t all bad battaill them selues of theyr owne headdes and styckte not without theyr Kynge and Soueraigne his commandement to bringe and receaue into the Realme forayners straingers hyred souldioures and enemies I wyll aske them nowe no more what iuste Quarell what reasonable Cause they had to muster and to proclayme warre Be it that the Cause was moste iuste and sufficiente because theyr pleasure was so But this I aske them what lawefull Power what lawe what Statute what Right what Custome or common Example of Antiquitie what Authoritie and Commission they had so to doe Whereas they are but mere Priuate men and Subiectes called to no Office nor Authoritie at all nor placed in anye roome or Dignitie in the Common weale yet they dare be so bolde as to Muster to Campe to pytche a Fylde they take vppon them to mynister Iustice and right right Rather may I cal it moste vnmercifull wronge they wyll needes be Rulers yea and rule al Rulers and the whole roste them selues alone If a man might be so bold as to aske you nowe right Honorable Gospellinge Capytaines as the Renoumed Prince and moste Reuerende Father my Lorde Cardinall of Lorraine a fewe yeres agoe asked the Ministers of that Deformed Churche in the Honorable Assemble at Poissie wherehence came you Who sent you By what Authoritie doe ye all these thinges either ye shoulde be domme without any thing to saye as they were then A longe whyle Or lye impudentlye as your accustomed manner is Or be driuen plainlye to confesse and graunte that ye are but priuate Subiectes of no Iurisdiction of no Place or Degree called to no Office or power to meddle with the Publyke Affaires of Christendome Finally that for all these your strainge maruelouse and monsterouse Mysteries which ye professe and practice moste impudently and desperately takinge vppon you to redresse the state of all Christendome and to Reforme matters of Religion ye haue no Authoritye at all neither ordinarie power in earth nor extraordinarie Commission from heauen For ye shal neuer be able to proue either this by Miracles or that by letters Patentes As for Martine Luther or rather Luder but that for shame he chaunged that filthie name of his borne at Islibium in Saxonie and begotten of

traiterous against God man for y t without any iust occasiō ye haue so long so cruelly troubled the whole estate of Christendō But you say y ● faith was wel nigh quite quēched out of the Church It is a wonderous matter ye speake of Christ praied for S. Peter that his Faith shuld neuer faile And wil ye say he praid in vaine lost his labor and could not obtain his prayer that were iniury and reproche to the sonne of God The holye Ghost came downe from heauen into the Church here militant on earth to teache her al truth Hath he not taught her you blaspheme the holy Ghost so to say But goe to let it be graunted that as you imagine all maner of fonde absurd thinges so you thought in this poynte with no lesse madnesse that the Christian Faith was lost or at least that Christian Religion being nigh outworne and spēt before your happy daies needed to be restored by such excellent graue godly and wise men as you were replenished with all maner of knowledge vertue and heauenly giftes of the sprite To be short your purpose was ye say to refourme the Christian Faith Howe then When you could not therin preuail nor perswade the people that was somewhat stubburn and stiffenecked perhaps as you iudged did you thinke it the best way by and by with gonneshot and bytels to beat and driue the faith into their heades Who euer being in his right wit did thinke that any thing might be perswaded by force Men vse to perswade the minde and not the bodye but it is moste certaine that the minde as it maye be bent led and induced by reason so by stripes blowes buffets it can neuer be compelled and constrained But it was a carnal Religion y t these flesshly Gospellers brought and taught therefore they dyd what they could to driue it into mens braynes with strokes and to prick it into mens flessh with swordes dags and daggers It may be ye were muche offended w t the vitiouse maners and ill liuing of men now a dayes In good faith and so were we there is no honest Catholike man that euer was delighted therwith But yet when we saw that it was very hard fully to cleanse purge anie one familie or how shold frō all maner of synnes sores we thought it a matter of far greater difficultie importance to amend the faultes heale y e wondes of al the whole corps of Christēdom together therfore of necessity be cause we could not remedie y t desperat case by reason of the multitude we bore w t y t cōmon and vulgare Deceases and vices of al sortes of men the cure wherof was more past hope and did take them patientlye but yet surely not without great greif and sorow to see them open preaching cōtinuallie against them But you sowr Checkmasters most bitter Controllers of maners went about lyke Iudges sent from heauen or Physitions dropte owt of the skyes to cōdēne and cut of with sword burn with fire and gunpowder all at a pushe y e faultes and folies of the whole world together Yf ye had bene officers hauing Commissiō and authoritie so to doe yet your Iudgement and processe could not be excused herein from exceding crueltie and raishnes but where it appeareth ye were but flingbraynes light Iackstrawes hauing no authoritie at al y t toke vppō you without any examinatiō without processe of law without any sentence to condemne al Christendome to rack it to punish it and with most greuouse and painefull tormentes to teare and turne vpsyde down y e whole world what shall I call this but a bloudy Butcherie a haynous wickednes a dyuelish dealing an impietie neuer to be pardoned O but say you the Catholikes did lyue vitiously the Cleargie were out of order the Princes and Rulers ruled not as they should yea there were manie ceremonies in y e Churche y t we could not brook I assure you these be greuous weighty Inditementes Who laid them in I pray you Who but you the worst men naughtiest liuers y ● euer trode on earth What blames the theefe Verres his mate Or cutthrote falles with Miles at bate The third Elias him self did playnlye confesse that the manners of men were far more vitious vnder his Gospel then euer they wer before vnder y e Popedome He hath said it It is not lawful to gainsay y e same But if any of y e disciples dare deny that which this theyr great master Pythagoras sayde the beddes are yet warme wherin these gospellers lay with other mennes wiues the Townes and Cities smoke yet of the fire wherewith they burned houses the earth is moiste at this houre with the bloude of manye good subiectes whome they haue slaine theyr Purses do swel and are yet at this present puft vp with the goods they gathered and gaines they got by roberies Simonye and Extortion Shew forthe thy brasen face Martin Luther and saye if thou dare that thou art an honester and better man then the vertuous and graue Fathers and Prelates of the Catholike Churche I wyll out of hād bring in against thee the publike Edict that the most noble Charles the fift our late foueraigne Emperour of happy memory made againste thee at Wormes the witnesse of the greate and mightye Henry the eight King of England whose sacred Royall crowne be it spoken here with leaue thou like a sluttish slaue vauntest thou wouldst anoynt with durt and donge of thy dronken body The decree of the most renoumed Sigismund king of Pole and by these euidences I wil by and by conuince thee proue that thou art worthy to be caste of Rebellion Sedition Sacrilege Impiety Heresy Finally of all manner of wicked vices and hainous offences that can raigne in a man What canst thou lay against these witnesses who were at that time the noblest the best the worthiest of credite of all that liued in our daies Theese worthy Princes Proclamations and Publike Edictes sette oute againste thy Wickednesse and Naughtye behauioure are euery where in euery mans hande published in print to the vewe and sight of the whole world Come vp againe hither frō hell if thou canst Ihon Caluine tel truth seing al y e world knoweth y t thou diddest kepe y e space of fiue yeares together a Nunne who was a Renegate out of y e Nūnerie called Veilmur y t thou diddest paye two crownes a moneth for her borde in the towne out of y t poore mens boxe of Geneua vppon condition she should come euery day to make thy bedde and learne her lesson out of thy Gospell practize how to beare y e burden of wedlocke patiently and at last when she was great w t childe by thee and had now caried abowt y e burden of her bealie three or fower monethes that thou didst bestow vppon an Apostate Chanon dwelling at Losanna thereby