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A14436	The waie home to Christ and truth leadinge from Antichrist and errour, made and set furth in the Latine tongue, by that famous and great clearke Vincent, French man borne, aboue .xi. hundred yeres paste, for the comforte of all true Christian men, against the most pernitious and detestable crafte of heretikes, which in his tyme by all subtell wayes, deuised to obscure and deface the doctrine and religion of the vniuersall churche. And now the same worke is englished, and by the Quenes highnes authorised to be sette furthe for the reliefe fo diuers Englishe menne, which yet stande in doubte, whether they may goe to heauen in the peace and vnitie of Christes vniuersall churche, or to hell in the dissention and confusion of heretikes; Pro catholicae fidei antiquitate libellus. English	Vincent, of Lérins, Saint, d. ca. 450.; Proctor, John, 1521?-1584.	1554 (1554)	STC 24754; ESTC S104650	58,039	228

Gospell Prophetes and Apostles yet none of them can saye as Paule the Apostle saied Our exhortacion was not to bringe you to error nor to vncieanes neither was it with gyle our conuersation was not at any time with flatteringe wordes neither in cloked couetousnes neither sought we praise of mē Ye are witnes and so is God howe holy and iustly and vnblameable we haue behaued our selues emouge you This said S. Paule What can our new Apostles say Out of all doubte the verie contrarie as truly as euer S. Paule said the other But for feare of Hypocrisie they dyd all their good workes in corners that mē might not se them Yet Christ said Let your lyght shine before men that they may se your good workes But thoughe they were not men of manye good workes yet had they many pretie Aualities though I saie it For I may lykē them well to the beast called Camelopacdus chiche being but one resembleth yet many beastes as by hys necke the horse by his feete the oxe by his head the Camell by his spottes in his skinne the Tygre So these late preachers in their stoute countenaūce they seemed warriers in their lighte apparell courtiers in their familiar talke rybawdes in their gesture wantons in their liuinge ryotous in the pulpyt lying preachers in their bokes spiteful railers If they haue not been suche as I report them then showe me what they were and howe muche ye that haue been their disciples and schoters haue profited vnder them and by their example in godlynes of lyfe in honestie of behauiour in charitie towardes your neighbours sins ye first wēt frō your mother the church left the auncient orders and customes of religion and became gaye Gospellers after the gyse of your newe teachers Beholde your selues in the glasse of your owne cōsciences tel me trueth Ye say that they were godly teachers and that through them ye haue attayned to a great knowledge of Goddes word The more knowledge ye haue the more godly ye ware of lyfe For wher the true knowledge of Gods worde is ther is the true spirite of God which euermore sterreth moueth mā to liue wel according to his knowledge the pleasure of God whose knowledge he doth professe But in Englande I am perfecte none of you cā sai nay saie truth but that ye haue growen in al wickednes as ye haue growē in this newe religion in somuche that there was neuer suche vnthriftines in seruaūtes suche vnnaturalnes in children suche vnrulines in subiectes suche feircenes in enemies suche vnfaithfulnes in frendes againe suche beastlynes of myndes such disdainfulnes in hartes finally such falshood in promises such deceitfulnes in bargaines suche gredy extortiō such insatiable couetousnes such itollerable pride as therfore ye are becōe a fable amōgest al natiōs How saye ye is not this true whiche of you can denaie it And be these the fruites of true knowledge yea do not these behauiours and vngodlye maners of you declare manifestlie that ye haue of late yeres geuen your selues rather to errors then to trueth rather to haue forsaken the catholike and pure faieth of our mother the true churche and folowed the fonde fansies of a fewe vngodly and false teachers to the highe displeasure of God Will God thinke ye reforme his churche if they were in error or call his people to knowledge if they had been in ignoraunce by the ministers of the deuil by the preachers of Antichrist Or can ye sai that thei be the ministers of God that liue so vngodlye that they be the preachers of righteousnes whose dedes are so full of vnrighteousnes that in comparison of them other whom ye called papistes might be saintes for the honestie of their liuinge and sobre behauiours as ye your selues haue saied many times euen in my hearing Be not these worthie Prelates to be folowed haue ye done a noble fete trowe ye to forsake the vniuersall vnitie of all christianitie to be at defiaunce with your louing mother the catholike churche whiche hath fostred you from your infancie and without whose help furtheraūce and succour ye cannot be saued for to folow suche blinde guides suche grosse maisters as whose doctrine hathe brought you in errors to the high displeasure of God whose example of vnclene lyuinge hathe ledde you into all wickednes to your great ignominie shame and rebuke with all godly people what good haue they done in this realme either by their preachinge in wordes or with their teaching by example Haue thei not brokē many good and godlye ordinaunces and set vppe none Haue they not caused for greate concorde and vnitie great tumult and rebellious sedition for godly fastinge ryotous feasting for deuout praiyng peuishe prating for due obedience vnlawfull libertie for peace Gods plentie and inough warre dearth famine more then inough I write and wepe in my harte to considre what maye be writen of the wretched condition and state that our countrie hath been in of late yeres Which of you al yea which of your preachers whose light should shine that the worlde shoulde see it which of them I saie hath not been as redye as the worst disposed of you all to eate vpon good friday or any other vigill daye as soone the Pigge as the Pikerel the Capon as the Carpe the Chykin as the Cheuen Notwithstanding the Magistrates of this realme cōmaunded the wisedome of the whole worlde thought necessarie the vniuersall consent of Christ his churche prescribed the contrary What seruaunt for the most parte hath any of you all that loketh not to haue his brekefast his dyner and his supper as well vpō Christmas eue as any other daye or els ye must prouide a newe seruaunt Who can blame them Are thei not as they haue been vsed Rather then ye would obserue the ordre of fasting prescribed by the churche ye woulde not stick at the beginning to giue your seruauntes one meale more on the fasting daye then ye woulde on any other day And where ye would other dayes feede them with milke butter cheese only on the fasting daie they should be sure to haue fleshe Yea and thought it a glorie whē ye had so done that ye had so well reformed your householde frō that popishe fast calling all thinges popishe that was godly But what haue ye gotten hereby Surely ye had neuer so lytle good seruice and yet ye neuer paide more for it then nowe Ye had neuer such disobedient seruantes and yet ye neuer cherished them better then nowe Why so Before they were better taught then fedde and of late they haue been full fed and ill taught Then were they obedient trustie and diligent as thei were taught and now be they disobedient slouthful and vntrustie as thei be fedde then were thei well taught workers and nowe ill fed porkers then had ye diligent laborers and now ye haue negligent loyterers I speake as I heare your selues saye that haue them Well will ye haue

humayne letters then he Whose breste was farced vp with a most plenteous varietie of all maner of knowledge There was no sect of Philosophers no part of theyr studies whiche he had not sought and faithfully placed in the treasurye of remembraunce He so far excelled in grauitie and vehemencie of witte that he hath not at anye time almoste purposed to withstande or ouerthrow anye controuersie which either by finesse of witte or by wayghte of argumentes he archiued not The prayse of whose oration who can expresse Whiche was interlased wyth so greate necessitie of reason that it did impell and inforce to his opinion such as otherwyse he could not induce and perswade In which almost howe manye wordes so manye sentences be And howe many sentences so many victories A great many can recorde this and speciallye Marciones Apelles Praxee Hermogenes the Iewes the Gentiles the detestable heretikes called Gnostici Whose blasphemies he hath in great large volumes defaced and as it were with the violent stroke of percinge lightninge clene ouerthrowen And yet euē this Tertulliā after al these godly practises not stedfastlye cleuing vnto the faithful shore of the catholik trueth the vniuersal and auncient faith beinge more eloquēt then happy more pregnāt in wit then cōstant in faith forgetting as it wer him self his former profession did at length as the blessed confessor Hillary in a certaine place dothe wryte of him saiyng Tertulliā tracing and folowing error hath pluckte awaie authoritie from his probable writinges And he also hathe ben in the Churche a greate tempracion But I shall spare to speake any more of this man Onely thys shall I remembre that forasmuche as he mainteined the newfangled furies of Montanus beinge raysed in the Churche contrarie to Moyses precepte affirmed those mad dreames of newe doctrine deuised by worse then mad women to be true prophesies he therefore hath deserued that of him and his writynges it shoulde be said If a Prophet shal rise among you you shal not herkē to the wordes of that prophet Wherefore Because saieth Moyses the lorde your god tēpteth you whether you loue him or not By these other the lyke so many and so greate examples we maye euidentlye perceiue and by the lawes of Deuteronomie more clearly see and vnderstande that if at any tyme any ecclesiasticall prelate orlearned man shall erre from the catholike faith in any point that then the heauenlye prouidence dothe suffre the same to tempte and proue vs thereby whether we loue God or not in all our harte and in all our soule Wherfore seyng it is so he then is a true and perfecte catholike man whiche loueth the trueth of god which loueth the church the mysticall bodye of Christe whiche estemeth no singular mans authoritie witte or iudgemēt knowlege or eloquence aboue the true religiō of Christ whiche preferreth not the affection loue or frendeship of anye singular person before the vniuersall and catholike faith But despising all those thinges doth abide permanent and stable in faith and resolueth with him selfe to receiue hold and beleue which he knoweth the catholike Churche vniuersally and continually to haue receiued holdē beliued And what euer new doctrine at any time after he shall perceiue to be brought in by any one either besides or aboue or contrarie and repugnant to that whiche the catholike fathers haue in consente agreid vpon he adiudgeth the same to pertaine not to religion but vnto temptation onely accordinge to the holesome doctrine of blessed S. Paule expressed in the firste epistle vnto the Corrinthians Oportet hęreses esse ut probatimanifesti fíant in uobis That is to saie Heresies must be to th ende that the proued may be made manifest amonge you As if he had saied the authors of heresies be not by by rooted oute but permitted for the time by God that euery man beinge proued maye be made manifest and euidentlye to appeare howe stedfaste faithful and sure louer he is of the catholike faith And in dede as oft as any noueltie riseth vp thē esely is the good corne tried by his weighte and the chaffe by his lightnes Then the good corn abideth within the floore notwithstandinge any puffe of noueltie And the chaffe is therwith lightly pufte out hauinge not the substaūce of good corne to keepe it within the floore of the catholike vnitie For thē we see howe some take their leaue shake handes for euer some other hange houerynge in the ayre and kepe them aloufe both fearing to depart and ashamed to retourne beynge wounded halfe dead and half aliue For why They haue receiued suche quantitie of the poyson as neither killeth ne can be digested neither forceth to dye ne suffereth to lyue Ah moost wretched and miserable condition In what restles cares are their hartes broyled trowe ye Now thei will nowe they nil one whyle they are violently plucked with the raised error where the wind of noueltie dryueth another while reuersed vpon them selues as contrarie waues they do relide and beate against the walles of theire owne conscience Nowe with foule hardie presūption they approue that whiche semeth vncertaine now throughe causelesse feare they dreade and feare to cōfesse such thinges as are moost certaine being al vncertaine which way to god or come what to desire and what to auoide what to hold or what to let passe Which affliction of so doubtfull wauering hart is no doubt the remedie and medicine of Goddes mercie towardes them if they be wise For beinge without the moost surest porte of the catholike faieth they are shaken beaten and almost slayne with the violente stormes of sondrye thoughtes to th ende that they put downe the sayles of proude minde whiche they had hoyssed alofte and vnaduisedlye had spreed to the windes of noueltie and that they ariue againe home warde into the quiet and calme hauen of their good and peaceable mother the churche where they myghte drinke the streemes of lyuelye and springing waters that thei vnlearne well whiche they learned not well and to prouoke them to forget with speede that whiche they receiued in ouer great hast And of the whole doctrine of the churche what can be comprehended in their vnderstandynge and reason to vnderstand the same and learne it by reason and what is aboue their capacitee of reason that same firmelye to beleue Thys beinge thus reuoluynge and many times recordynge the same with my selfe I cannot sufficientlye wondre at the greate madnes of certayne menne the greate impietie of blinded mindes and finallye the greate luste and desyre to erre that some haue that they cannot be contented with the auncient beleife taughte and receyued vniuersally in the churche but muste seke daylye newe gere Euermore couetynge to alter and innouate the religion eyther by adding some thing that is newe or by pullinge awaye parte of that whiche was olde As thoughe the religion of the churche were not an heauenlye decree but an earthly institucion whiche

¶ The waie home to Christ and truth leadinge from Antichrist and errour made and set furth in the Latine tongue by that famous and great clearke Vincent Frenche man borne aboue .xi. hundred yeres paste for the comforte of all true Christian men against the most pernitious and detestable crafte of heretikes whiche in his tyme by all subtell wayes deuised to obscure and deface the doctrine and religion of the vniuersall churche And now the same worke is englished and by the Ouenes highnes authorised to be sette furthe for the reliefe of diuers Englishe menne whiche yet stande in doubte whether they maye goe to heauen in the peace and vnitte of Christes vniuersal churche or to hell in the dissention and confusion of heretikes AR 1693 W. Bect. 1856 ¶ To the most excellent and moste vertuous ladye and our moste gracious soueraigne Marie by the grace of God Quene of Englande Fraunce Naples Hierusalem and Irelande Defendour of the faith princesse of Spaigne Sicilie Archeduchesse of Austria Duchesse of Millaine Burgundie and Braband Loūtesse of Haspurge Flaunders Tyrole Your Maiesties moste faithfull louinge and obedient subiecte Iohn Proctor wissheth all grace longe peace quiet raygue from God the father the sonne and the holy Ghost WE haue with our gret harmes longe tried nothing to be more perilous thē wicked follye armed with princely authoritee Blessed be the heauenly God moost gracious Mary we nowe sauour what inestimable good thinge is godly wisedome coupled with power imperiall The first nedeth not proffe for all haue felt and none can denay I hother is nowe in vre that wordes were vaine to declare where deedes are present plentuouslye to shewe What glorie hereof riseth vnto youre maiestie I neither can expresse as I would nor yet wil as I may hauing experience of your graces nature delighted to do the beest in all and least of al to heare of it againe Sparing therfore to praise whō none but the wicked cā dispraise I yet with other can not but reioyce that so high wisedome so heauenlye inclination is nowe by Gods prouidence matched with semblable authoritie of highe gouernaunce that what Godlye wayes for the maintenaūce of Gods honour and the wealth of this realme youre grace of heauenlie inclination hath tofore wished whē ye could not require of high wisdome hath thought right to be done when ye lacked might to doo the same hensfurthe your maiestie of right may will and of authoritie commaunde that where as heretofore vnder men of courage more stoute to doo their wyll then godlye deuoute to doo thinges wel the trueth of Gods word and the zeale of good workes haue detaied so hereafter vnder Mary a lady of he auenly simplicitie the liuely sparke of godly loue may eftsones kindle that was extinct the bright sterre of Euangelike lighte maye shine that was obscured the righte vaine of heauenlye doctrine maye appere that was stopped vp If all could that woulde your highnes shoulde lacke no helping handes to further youre maiesties godlye purposes Amongest them that haue muche good wyll and litle power I haue alwayes claimed to be one and nowe for maintenaūce of that claime I do moost humbly beseche your highnes to accepte this litle worke whiche presently I present vnto your grace that beinge accepted and authorised by your highnes it mighte finde fauoure with other that can not but like what your wisedome hath not mislyked Wherein I haue expressed bothe my humble and loyall hart towardes your maiestie also my vehement affection towardes my naturall countreemen and most earnest desire of their happie retourne home to trueth that haue so long straied from home in errour And for asmuche as many seme to stray because they knowe not their home nor the waye thither I haue deuised for them a perfect table wherin our home is lyuelye set furth and the waye also thither Our home I cal the catholike church the true spousesse of Christ our most louinge mother The way to this home is to folowe her ordinaunces and lawes This haue I done howe euer the dede be liked with other if youre maiestie allowe the intent of the doer I haue a great portion of my desire The grace and blessing of God be with your highnes euer and euer Amen Your highnesse true and faiethfull oratour Iohn Proctor THE PROLOGVE TO HIS DEER brethren and naturall countree men of Englande IN this newe and miraculous raign of mercifull Mary our newe and mooste lawefull Quene gouernesse wherin we see so many good olde orders newely restored and so many new erronious nouelties antiquated and made olde I haue had a vehement desire dere brethren to exhibite vnto you some newe gifte and token therby to witnesse the great gladnes newly engendred in my harte of so many newe occasions And emongest all other giftes that myght commende the gyuer and aduauntage the receyuer I finde none either fitter for me to geue or better for you to receiue or more agreable for thys presente tyme then if I should renewe some old treasure and present you with some auncient Iewel the vse wherof might bothe increase knowledge in you to discerne the worthye value of olde and aūcient Iewelles of late daies not regarded and expell also from you blind grosse ignoraunce to the vtter defacinge of suche newe fantasticall pelfrie counterfaite trashe as latelye haue been estemed I am muche deceiued but I haue founde suche a Iewell for you as for the findinge I myght haue prayse and you pleasure in hauinge for the gyuinge I might deserue commendation you receaue consolation in the vsinge of it For what pleasure without Christ what consolation canne be had without the trueth of his heauenlye worde There is one onely waye to Thriste one onely meane to the trueth of his word This way who euer hath trased neuer missed Christe Thys meane who euer hathe obserued was neuer seduced by falshode This waie to Christ this meane to trueth is the gifte whiche I purpose in this newe face of so newe and happye worlde to gyue you It is a Iewell soo muche worth as your soules health is worth It is a treasure of so muche value and efficacie as wherwith God is pleased and heauen wōne It is a talet of such speciall propertie as neither time can diminishe nor violence deface nor vse weare it Thys waye to Christe this meane to trueth is by a generall name called Ecclesia catholica the catholyke Churche whiche is our mother we her children Without this mother as there is no waye to heauen where Christ is Porta emm coeli est Gene xxviii for she is the gate of heauen wherby we must entre to Christe so is there no trueth i. Cimo .iii. but what she alloweth Columna enim firmamentu veritatis est For she is the piller and foundation of trueth None canne sucke the sweete mylke of Christe his comfortable word but frō her pappes August in erpositione

epistole Ioannis apostoli q̄ ca●atu .iii. Mater enim est cuius vbera sunt duo testamenta For she is our mother whose twoo brestes are the .ii. testamentes of God Wherfore to knowe her is to knowe Christe and trueth Betwene whiche there is no more difference then is betwixte the head and the bodye the spouse and the spousesse which as they are by a necessarie band of vnitie knitte together so Christ trueth the church are inseparatly conioyned For neither canne Christe be without trueth nor trueth without the churche with whom God the holy ghost doeth communicate al truth Wherfore to thend you shal not hensforth misse of Christ ●e mistake his trueth I haue geuen you a worthy worke in your naturall language of famous Vincent priect somtime of Lyryn which he penned aboue a .xi. T. yeres agone in the Latin tōge wherein you shall finde the true and liuely image of this churche and also most certayne vnfallible rules wherby to discerne all cloked falshode from the simple trueth diabolike sophistrie from Euangelike doctrine I haue geuen you this Iewell of a great zeale and affection doe not you receaue it vnthankefully How be it I grate not thankes for the geuinge but onely acceptation of the gifte And howe worthye it is to be accepted howe necessarie to be had you shall soner vnderstande by the vse therof than I by words can expresse Accept it therfore for it is worthy and follow the counsell thereof for it is necessarye What more necessary can be geuen the siche then soueraigne medicine whereby he maye be recouered What more necessary can be geuen the worldling being in daunger to perishe then to directe him in the wat to heauen wher he may be saued What more necessarye for the drowned in sinne whiche bringeth bondage then to trace him to grace that might sette him free What more necessary can be geuen him whom the fleshe ruleth the cause of corruption then to acquaint him with the heauenly spirite the cause of sanctification What more necessary canne be geuen him that is nouseled in ignoraunce whiche made him blinde then to instructe him with knowledge whereby he may see What more necessarye to be geuen him that is smolthered in heresye which hilleth then to shew him the true religion wherby he may reuiue Al these malavies grieffes soores and discases in you Vincent yea rather God that heauenlye Phisition by the ministerie of this holy Vincent shal remedie and cure whilesthe shal eftsones settle you in the sure lappe of our mother the catholike churche the comfortable leche of all infirmities the necessary nourse of al weakelynges the most surest hauen for all stormebeaten to ariue vnto O dere brethren frendes it muche pitieth me and I trust it nowe repeuteth you also to consider how euyl you haue ben of late taught howe vnnaturally you have been intreated synce ye lefte this good and louing mother howe manye diseases and infirmities haue growen vpō you synce your departing frō this comfortable leche howe owgle carren leaue ye are to see synce you chaunged this necessary nourse with how great tempestuous stormes you haue ben beaten synce you first did loose frō this faithfull hauen Wo worth that false harlet that hathe deceaued you I meane that malignaūt and cursed church It is she that by her flatteringe meanes and deceatefull allurementes hath intised you to come from so swete amiable mothers lappe into her whorishe armes frō church to church I graūt but not from like to like Frō an heauenly church to a malignaunt church from a louinge mother to a flatteryng harlote From the condition of grace to the state of perdition From the vnitie of christians to diuision of Nerelikes Frō the light of pure knowledge to the darkenes of foule ignoraunce From the trueth of antiquitie to the falshode of nouelties From faythfull beleuyng to carnall reasonyng From sauing Christ to deceyuing Antichrist Thus they agree together that in all thinges they be vtterlye vulike The one is of God and ledeth to Christ and trueth Thother is of the deuyll and leadeth to Antichrist and heresie The one grounded in fay the subdueth reason thother ledde by reason confoundeth faith The one beleueth reuerentlye what reason can not comprehende thother impudently alledgeth reason faith to reprehende Betwene thē ther is no amitie no semblaunce no agrement no felow ship but continual war one against another Nowbeit for asmuch as no vntrueth can deceaue but by colour of trueth no hereticall poison can beguyle but when it is geuen in fourme of medicine therefore thys whorish churche laboureth by al meanes to resemble in vtter shewe and countenaunce thother good churche the rather to seduce the improuident when her falshode is cloked the soner to catche the simple when her hooke is couered And this is the matter why diuers haue been so greatlye deceaued of late and diuers againe wil be hereafter if vpon this warning thei watch not and by other menues harmes they beware not For although this harlot this deuillishe Syuagege purposeth nothinge els but to incororate you to the deuyll Antichrist yet hath she euer more in her mouthe Christe Christe Though she only laboreth to tumble you headlong into hell both body and soule yet doth the continually babble of heauen though she teacheth nothing but heresy to ouerthrow the ghospel yet her tongue runneth stil of the ghospell as thoughe shee hated heresye Thoughe she be whollye of the deuyll and nothing of Christ yet she pretendeth great familiaritie to Christ oulie as thoughe she knewe not the deuyll Thoughe shee lacke no crafte to subuert trueth yet trueth trueth is euer her word as though she lacked crafte O malicious harlot O deceauable feinde O cruel stepdame Come home come home gentle brethren to youre louing and tender mothers lay whiche hath fostered you from your youthe and leaue the armes of that cruelstepmother whiche will not leaue if you leaue not till she hath strangled you Come home to this leache that shee maye heale you of your foule leprie wherwith this feinde hath ifected you Come home to this swete nourse that you maye sucke from her brestes the holsome foode of your soules healthe and comforte and leaue the stinkinge carren wherewith this whore feedeth you Come home I say to thys calme and quiet port where you shall finde reste and tranquillitie of conscience whiche the deuyll coutinually tosseth and tumbleth in restles paynes with the tempestuous stormes of hereticall nouelties Who is our mother Wher is our home No doubt the vniuersall church is our mother her lappe is our home If you be not ther at home you can not be at home with God If you acknowledge not her to be your mother you may not acknowledge God to be your father To this mother Mary the mother of her countrye calleth you To thys home Vincent wyll leade you euen by the hande as it were If you be not at home with

this mother there can be no health in you but all diseases there can bee no knowledge in you but al ignoraunce there can be no hoope of lyfe lefte in you but assurednes of deathe Yea ye can not be of God but of the deuyl Qui matrem ecclesiam relinquit August in sym bolo ad Catechumenod Libro mi. cap. r. quomodo est in Christo qui in membris eius nō est Quomode est in Christo qni in corpore Christi non est Ne that leaueth his mother the church sayeth S. Austen howe may he be of Christ whiche is not of his membres Nowe maye he be in Christ whiche is not in the bodie of Christ The bodie of Christ is the churche If you wil be healthfull come home and haue it If you couet knowledge come home and sucke it at your mothers brestes in forme and maner as it shall please her and not you If you wil haue life come home bide at home with our louinge mother where deathe ne hell can preuail against you If you wil be of god come home and be incorporate into the bodie of God and man Iesus Christe and then the deuil shall haue no power ouer you Do thus and you shall be assured to inherite heauen where that wicked harlot and her hareheades shal neuer come you shal doubtlesse possesse the celestiall Paradise which that wicked maistres and her minstrelles can neuer entre You shall receiue eternite which that hereticall churche and her chyckines shall neuer haue Their disobedience and false beleife shal tomble them together into hel your true obedience and faieth shall mounte you to heauen They as vnfaithfull rebelles shal be destitute of all heauenlie grace you as obedient and faithfull children shal be supported with the maiestie of Angels For them euerlasting tormentes are appointed for you heauenlye ioyes preparedeuer to ēdure Thei shal perishe wicked with the wicked you shall raigne sanctified with saintes I feare not but you that are at home wiltarie at home for feare of so many daūgers and I mistrust not but you that are from home wyll make hast homeward allured with so many benefites There is no doubte if cloked crafte begile you not if flattering fawninge of that deceiteful auoutresse hold you not but that you wyll make spede as I said to come home againe that haue straied from home so longe But as at home with our mother there is no lacke of trueth so that harlot our cruell stepmother lacketh no crafte to entrap and entangle you no falshood no flatteringe to allure and intice you Come vnto me saith she for here is Christ here is health here is saluaciō Thus the Ape can ruffle in purple thus the Asse can strowt in the Lyons skynne thus the iarringe Iaye canne counterfeicte the pleasaunt note of the nightingale But beware brethren be not deceaued It is and euer hath been the practise of the deuill and his ministers by coulor of trueth to perswade falshood vnder the cloke of good to bringe in al euil Our true mother the true church is but one in all respectes but one only one in one vniforme vse of one Baptisme sacramētes one faith one spirite This mother is not a mother of a fewe but of many her power is not particular but vniuersall as she is extended through all the foure partes of the earth her glorie diffused in the whole world For of her it is saied Dabo tibi gentes haereditatem tuā possessionem tuam terminos terrae I wyll giue the nations thine inheritaunce and the extremities of the earthe shal be thy possession This our mother the true churche hateth not light loueth not to lurke in corners where she maye not be seene but as her power hath euer more been vniuersall so vniuersally she hath been at all tymes aperte plaine and manifest For how can she be obscure and hidden saith fainte Austē Quae obtinuit omnes gentes is that citie of whiche it is spoken Non potest abscondi ciuitas super montem constituta The citie cannot be hid which is set vppon a mountaine Our lorde hath set hys tabernacle in the sōne saith the propher his tabernacle is our mother the catholike church saith S. Austē which is set in the bright sonne not in the darke shade whiche walketh openly by daye and not preuilye by night Whose aduersarie the hereticall churche is of a contrary nature For she neither is vniuersall nor at all tymes but at some certaine time and in some one certaine place And againe she goeth and commeth preuilie and in her doinges there is no vnitie no certeintie at all Her ministers are diuided now they dreme one thinge nowe an other this daye they like to morowe they mislike one is against an other of them euen in the highest mysteries of Christ his religion Who list to cōsidre their writinges shall proue true that I saie Howe be it experience of their doinges without readinge of their bookes mighte perswade vs of Englande what thei were and wherehence they be that yeres past haue been preachers and teachers here amongest vs that haue persecuted our true mother the vniuersall churche of Christ and haue set vp their lorde Antichriste and his hereticall churche What orders what forme of religion haue they set furth sins their firste raigne that shortly after they altered not Whiche three of them amougest them all that agreed together in their matters No marueill for the deuill is their chiefe head whō they serue and he is full of lyes variaunce diuision and discorde And vnder him their scholemaisters were Hus Luther Zuinglius Decolampadius Bucer Melanethon Tindall Frythe whiche in their doctrine agree not one with an other Such maisters suche scholers come of them And this diuision this vncōstancie of doctrine was a manifest token that they were not the children of oure true mother the catholike churche nor ministers of Christ but the children of the deuill and ministers of Antichrist yea very Autichristes For who soeuer saith S. Austen is gone from the vnitie of the catholike churche he is become Antichrist Those Antichristes haue borne a great stroke here nowe to longe time in Englande in whom was no constācie no staye no stedfastues of religion and doctrine Howebeit thei al agreed wel in some thinges They all woulde be as proude as headdy as false and suttle as the deuill their father wherhence they came They al would haue wyues longe berdes and finally no olde trueth or fashions but all newe knackes and fansies as their scholemaisters lyked Bucer c. of whō they were taught Yet woulde they bere vs in haud the they wer catholike christiās But howe can ye be catholike christiaus saith sainte Austen in his treatise vpon sainte Iohn his Epistle that do not communicate and agre to the vnitie of doctrine and faith whiche is receiued and vsed through all christianitie They woulde be counted true preachers of the

awaie the carelesse securitie from the catholike sort and haue been occasion that they haue giuen them selues more earnestlie to watche and warde for their mothers right whiche tofore liued as careles without feare of enemies and here in thei were as profitable to the catholike as Apes to the Lyon Thus thoughe they woulde not abide to be papishe yet were thei stil apishe Thei haue lost but one letter of the name but they lacke an hundreth good conditions of them that be so named They will say here vnto me now ye talke at pleasure of vs but all this while why haue not you amongest you confuted by argument and learning our doctrine if it were so euill I saie vnto them what nede any of vs to cōfute your doctrine by argument whiche the vniuersall church of Christ by consent hath long ago cōdempued for heresie Tushe they will say againe you could say nothing against it How know ye that that when we speake you will not vnderstand vs or els your selues haue so many wordes that ye will neither vouchesafe vs time to speake nor your selues leisure to here Ye are so ful of wordes that ye cannot abide vs to speake and soo full of malice that ye will not sauer of it if it sounde contrarie to your opinion Ye are made like Porticus ī Olympia which was called Septiuoca hauing seuen voyces or seuen soundes because for one voice it woulde giue many Soo you were made Septiuoci for one worde you will haue the tellinge of seuen score or els the sprite woulde fume and be in a greate heate howe be it manye times and often we haue confuted your doctrine although you hetherto were not coufuted which coulde not be for two causes the one was because you were become heretikes which will neuer be perswaded against their conceiued opinion as Lucifer the heretike confessed of his disciples to S. Hierom. Vnum ribi confiteor quia mores meorum apprime nom facilius cos vinci posso quàm persuaderi I cōfesse this one thing to the for asmuche as I do so well knowe the nature of my disciples that to dye for they will not be perswaded rather will they by violent cōpulsion be vāquished Next because ye are apishe as I say For as the Ape whippeth here and there and neuer staiethe in one place lykewise pour custome and maner is so to sterte and whippe from place to place from matter to matter from texte to texte that it is not possible to preuaile against you in resoninge It is an olde saying some what to true Frensie Heresie Gelosie after that they haue ones crepte into man they will neuer lightlie out of him againe Blame me not if I be some what quicke You re quicke spede heretofore requireth no lesse hast Yet am I not so quicke to touch you for your euil doinges which deserue no fauor as ye haue been ouer hastie here afore to depraue vs for such matters as were worthye praise and commendation If ye haue taken pleasure in deprauing vs that offended not take not nowe displeasure to be reproued for that ye haue offended ye haue many times spoke what ye ought not and nowe nomaruell if ye heare what ye woulde not Who hath not bothe sene and hard in booke balet and plaie your spurning and kycking your croing and cryinge your barkinge and bitinge against the faiethfull beliuers and catholike preachers and why forsothe for two causes Let Diogenes tell the first and I will not sticke to tel the nexte One asked Diogenes what was the cause that some men woulde rather giue their almes to the creplte and lazar then to a Philosopher marye quod he because they hope soner to be a creple or lazar then to be a Philosopher that is a louer of wisedome truethe Nowe why haue ye so vehemētly inueighed against the true preachers of Christ and the trueth of hys spousesse our mother the churche and haue extolled the false ministers of Antichrist and the ministrie of his harlot the malignant churche Speake Diogenes speake It is because they soner hoope to be still the false ministers of Antichriste then at any time the faithfull preachers of Christ soner to go to dwell in hell with the deuill for heresye then to raigne in heauen with god for true religion Wel saide Diogenes and by promise I must tell the nexte cause I haue readde of an vnskilfull Painter who hauinge painted on a time in a table home lie and verie euill fauoredly a companie of croinge cockes and beinge preuie of his owne ignoraunce he commaunded his hoye to driue out al the pultry out of the house and that in no wise any liuelye Cocke shoulde come night the place where the table with his painted cockes stode least the beholder or byer by comparison and collation of them together might esely deprehende the grosse and rude ignoraunce of the Painter and so hinder the vttraunce of his ware So beware saide our preachers beware of these papistes beware of their Sophistrie harken not to them Kepe not companie with them Trie fye on thē and let them go Wherfore The painter hath told the cause They were priuie of their owne wicked ignoraunce For they feared I am out of doubte that if ye had truely conferred their doctrine and liues with the doctrine and liues of the other good and godlye teachers whiche they called papistes if ye had quietly and diligently with indifferencie of minde wayed well what they haue either saied in pulpit or writen in bookes ye had longe agone perceiued the blinde and grosse ignorance of your guydes Ye had eslie found out their treacherie crafte and falshood ye had soone tried that al their gaie painted wart was but bumling and fumbling peltrie and not as they made you beleue faithfull religion but deceitful delusion not wittie writing but wyly wresting of well written trueth not truethfull preching but rutheful brekinge of all christian ordres not right reformacion of thinges amisse but denellishe deformation of thinges that were well to be short not repairing but impairing of the catholike fayth Alas most deere countremen that euer ye should be somuch bewitched by that deuelishe harlot that for her whigge whay ye should thus leaue the nourishinge milke of your louinge mothers brestes for the durtie poudle of her vncleane pittes whiche bringeth death ye shoulde forsake the cleane fountaine and well of your mother where he●s springeth the water of lyfe O alas dere frendes ye haue greatly hasarded the wealth of your soules ye haue heaped the burninge coles of vengeaunce vpon your owne headdes ye haue vtterly cast your selues awaye for euer to be tormented body soule amongest the foule deuelles of hell in fire euerlasting if vpon this callinge ye repent not and make hast homewarde into the bosome of your louinge mother Ye haue ben often called and fewe of you haue regarded What pituous plages what meruelous miseries haue not you sene and

moost of you felt sins ye left the vnitie of the vniuersal church And were they not all as Prophetes sent amongest you to put you in remēbraunce that ye were from home that ye were out of the fauor of god What desperation hathe there been amonge you howe manye of you nowe of late yeres haue died desperate of Goddes mercie howe many haue caste awaye themselues with their owne violente handes And was not all this suffered to let you vnderstand that ye were become disobediēt children to your good mother that ye were no longer membres of that liuely bodie can the childe despaire of the fathers mercie as longe as he is obedient to the mother Can he despaire to be saued by Christ that is a membre of his bodie no no. Thus mercifullye by diuers meanes GOD bouchesafed to call you home againe into his dere spousesse lappe into your tender mothers armes But it hath not moued your stonie and stouborne hartes Nowe againe of his mesureles mercy he calleth you And out of doubt this is the laste call this is the laste sounde of the trumpet If ye come not nowe home at this call it is to be feared least he will exclude you out for euer and you that would not come vpon so many callinges shal be bidden goe at one commaundement Maledicti in ignem aternum accursed into fire euerlasting Ye haue been called diuersly by diuers and maruelous plages and yet ye come not Nowe last of all he calleth you by a more gentle meane by his true elect Marye our most noble and godly Quene Whom his inscrutable prouidence hathe preserued of a speciall purpose no doubte that by her he might restore his true churche of late yeres miserably vexed And by her last of all call you home into the folde that haue longe straied as loost sheepe She remembringe therfore whose ministresse she is doeth not slacke to execute her office Clamat virgo Angli surgite sponsus adest The faithful and heauenlie virgin crieth earnestlye vnto you O my louinge subictes of Englande O dere beloued people arise arise come accompany the spousesse of Christ our louing mother for the spouse cōmeth If ye be not of her traine if ye be not of her familie the Spouse will not knowe you the Spouse Christe will not admit you where he hath to doe If ye be not one with the spousesse the spouse you must nedes be two The spouse and the spousesse shal be one in heauen you and the deuil shalde one in hell Wherfore arise arise I sai Come home come home ytare so louingly called Who calleth you god calleth you Whose vengeaunce you cannot escape if you come not if this last call bringe you not home Your creatour calleth you whose wilis to saue what he hath made The lord of mercie calleth you who by so many waies letteth not to seeke the lost shepe in whose recouerie he more reioyseth then in the hauitige of ninetie and nyne Thus God the creatour and lorde of mercie most gently and louingly calleth you By whom by many messengers and nowe last of all by a famous Mary whose merites and mercie towardes you all might moue you all to come by an heauenly maide whose integritie of life and constancie of faithe ought to perswade you al to come willingly by a mightie Quene whose authoritie might compel you all to come with syede whether to come home in to your mothers lappe where lacketh no comfort no cōsolation no heauenly pleasure With her ye shal haue al beinge ones made mēbres of him that is al ī al. At home with her you shal haue assuraunce of life that caunot dye of inheritaunce that shall not quaile of blisse that cannot ende eternally to cōtinue in heauen with God If ye tarie stil from home what shall you haue out of al doubte ye shal be assured of bitter deathe of perpetual seruitude of vnspekeable tormentes euerlastinge to endure in hell amongest deuilles Tan niether so great benefites perswade you to come home neither soo great displesures wery you to wādre from home were ye so lightly caried from home by the deuil your enemie that ye might be lost and are ye nowe so hardly perswated to turn whē god your redeiner calleth you by so many louinge waies that ye might be saued Shal I cal you mē that wilfully rūne into confusion whiche the vntesonable beastes would not Shal I cal you christians that so ofte and so louingly called choose rather to folowe Antichrist to hel then christ to heauen shal I cal you Englishe subiectes that soo litle regarde the trumpet of your soueraigne Ladie Is it so harde to perswade men whiche shoulde haue reason to choose rather life then deathe rather pleasure then paine Is it soo hard to perswade christians to folowe rather God then the deuill rather to raigne in heauen then to suffer in hell Is it so harde to pecswade Englishe hartes to obey so noble a Quene soo godly a Mary so heauenlye a virgin calling you home in such louing wife where ye maye haue rest and quietnes that haue been tossed with so many miseries where ye maie haue remedie of so many pestilent sores and vlceres wherewith your soules are infected Come come louinge countree men For the passion of Christ make hast and come Be not slacke in comming that made so great hast in goinge Beholde your louinge mothers armes are open to receiue you her bosome vnlased ▪ her brestes bare to feede you with the swete milke of true knowledge althoughe ye haue vngentlie delte with her in forsakinge her Yet come I saie and humbly submit your selues vnto her and she wil louingly receiue you She wil forget and forgeue al vnkindnes past and she wil deliuer you from so many euilles perilles and daūgers that ye are in She can and will and without her there is no other to bee loked for but vtter confusion If ye will not beleue the trueth vttered in wordes yet credit the effecte expressed by example When the raging waters had ouerwhelmed the whole earthe and drowned man beast and all that was who then was saued but Noe seuen with him What did the Arke prefigure vnto vs No doubte the catholike churche of Christ whiche doth regenerate you to God and deliuereth all that abide in her from the peril and daunger of hell the deuill Ad quam confugiunt omnes in omni pressura in omni tribulatione sua Vnto the Arke of which catholike churche saith saint Austen al doe resort for succour in all persecution miserie and trouble Ye cannot conceiue dere frendes the great comforte consolatiō and safegarde that is with in this churche because your headdes are so heuie with newe fantassticall errours Ye are so drousie and so blinde in the dead slepe of ignoraunce But if ye would awake out of that dead slepe and see the trueth then no doubte but ye woulde thinke with me saie with waking