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A03619	An apologye made by the reuerende father and constante martyr of Christe Iohn Hooper late bishop of Gloceter and Worceter againste the vntrue and sclaunderous report that he should be a maintainer and encorager of suche as cursed the Quenes highnes that then was, Quene Marye. Wherein thou shalte see this godlye mannes innocency and modest behauioure: and the falsehode and subtyltye of the aduersaryes of Gods truth	Hooper, John, d. 1555.; Bull, Henry, d. 1575?	1562 (1562)	STC 13742; ESTC S122036	17,261	56

comforted not leafte alone as the manner of the worlde is at this presente but diligentlye sought and laboured for as Christe dyd for the loste sheepe who did not onely seeke for it but also caryed it home vppon his owne shoulders when he had founde it Thus haue I spoken and witten gentle reader againste the papistes proceadinges as it is my bounden dewtye and all mennes elles that feare God For I am sworne by the terryble venerable holye and blessed name of God as I truste too be saued by the ryches treasure and meryties of Christes deathe nother dyrectelye nor indyrectelye too agree vntoo the wycked and pretensed supremacye of the Bishoppe of Rome but with all my wytte learning and other meanes resyst him This othe by Gods helpe I wyll not violate break let the wicked persured men that he the wicked popes adherentes saye what they wyll and do what God shall permitte them I feare not deathe nor passe of their cruell imprisonment which is more vile and cruell towards vs true men then euer it was against murtherers traytoures and theues But that is no now thing For there is no offence irremissible with the popishe bishops but to beleue trulye in Christ as his word teacheth Cipriane in a sermon de mortalitate hath these words eius est mortem timere qui ad Christum nolit ire he feareth death y t wold not go to christ But we desire and grone too be dissolued frō this wicked life and world if it please God How be it we wyll not gladlye prouoke enmitye nor yet suffer vnprofitable persecution but when the glorye of God shall perishe withoute the truth be testifyed I defye all tormentes and tormentours And let al good men and women reioyce also in Christe for doubtelesse the churche of Christ was first planted vnder the gospell by the deathe of Christ and his poore seruaunts and nowe it shall take no more harme by the persecution of the Satanicall papistes then golde taketh by the goldsmythes fornace There is no deathe canne come to the creature withoute Goddes good leaue and permission Therefore let vs reioyce that oure tyme draweth so nere to go from this ruinous and decayed cytye and tabernacle of oure bodyes for there is an euerlastynge mansion in heauen prepared for vs. And whyles we doo liue let vs pray to god for this our naturall countrey For where as before it was cursed but by wicked manne the Antichriste of Rome nowe is it cursed of God And where as before it was interdicted but by a false wretche that would be Christes vicare in earthe nowe is it interdicted by the maker and creatour of al the earth as the woord of God doeth shew vs and all the olde counsayles and doctoures Besydes that loke vppon the Bishops boke Winchesters oration doctour Sampsons oration the byshoppe of Duresmes sermon and the Bishop of Londons Epistle I praye thee gentle reader as soone as thou readest this treatise kepe it not close but make it open and spare not For it is not by sworde and fyre that the papystes canne feare vs frome the truth of Goddes word Grace and peace bee wyth thee Amen ¶ The copy of the letter wherby Master hooper was certyfyed of the takinge of a Godlye companye in bowe churcheyarde at prayer MY duty humbly remembred you heare I know of a godly company imprisoned whiche were taken vppon newe yeares nighte yet notwithstandinge for as muche perhaps as you knowe not perfectelye how nor wherefore you shall vnderstande that beinge vppon their knees in ending of praier wherin thei gaue god thankes prayed for the magistrates estates of the realm and required thinges necessary at his bountefull handes two of my Lorde chauncelours mē as I am informed came first into y t chamber wher they wer in bow churchyard immediatlye afterwards folowed M. shyryeffe with others who cōmaunded thē all to staye in y e king quenes magisties name wherunto thei humbly obeyd for they came not thether weapened to conspire or make any tumult but onely like Christians Christianlye to praye and too be instructed in the vulgare tounge by the readinge and hearinge of Gods woorde as theyr conscience did enforce them without the dyspleasure of God to do For as you well know there is nothing so greuouse too the paciente in this worlde as the gnawinge and byting worme of a troubled conscience beinge accused by Goddes lawe for the wylfull transgressing of the same as by experience we knowe by iudge Hales who contrarye to the knowledge of Gods woorde consented to the wicked traditions of the papists Which although in name they wold be of the holye church and preachers of the gospell of Christ yet in facte and deede do they dissente frome the same and mostedetest that godly societye as by the cruell handlinge of the Christians by the prelates at this presente it doeth euidentely appear Therefore I saye that they might without the offence of God quietly praye together as they be taught by his worde there assembled a Godly companye together to the number of xxx deuyded and sente to bothe the counters where at commaundement they yet remayne And with master Chambers master Monger and the rest in the counter at breadstreate I was yesterday who god be thanked be stronge and doo reioyce that for well doing they are imprysoned Not doubting but y e as god hath vouchsaued to accept them worthy to sustain imprisonmente for his sake so he wil strengthen thē rather to suffer death then to deny his truthe As the Lord knoweth who assist you with his holye spirite that vnto the end you may perceauer in his truthe vnto whose tuition in my pore prayer I humbly cōmend you 3. of Ianuary 1554. M. Chamber M. Monger M. Sh. and the rest in the counter do pray for you in Christ salute you mooste humbly ¶ The aunswer of Master hoopers letter vnto the former letter THe grace of God be with you amen I perceaue by your letter how that vpon new years daye at nighte there were taken a Godly company of Christians whilest they were prayinge I do reioyce in that men can be so well occupyed in this perilous time and flye vntoo God for remedye by prayer as well for their own lackes and necessityes as also charitablye to pray for them that persecute them So doeth the word of God commaund all men to praye charitablye for them that hate vs and not to reuile anye magistrate with woordes or too meane him euyll by force or violence They also maye reioyce that in well doynge they were taken too the prysonne Wherefore I haue thought it good to send them this lyttle wrytinge of cōsolatiou praying god to send them pacyence charitye and constancye in the truth of his most holi word Thus fare you well and praye too God too sende his true woorde into this realme againe amongest vs which the vngodlye bishops haue nowe banished 4. Ianuarye 1554. ¶ The coppye

An apologye made by the reuerende father and constante Martyr of Christe Iohn Hooper late Bishop of Gloceter and Worceter againste the vntrue and sclaunderous report that he should be a maintainer and encorager of suche as cursed the Quenes highnes that then was Quene Marye Wherein thou shalte see this Godlye mannes innocency and modest behauioure and the falsehode and subtyltye of the aduesaryes of Gods truth ¶ Newelye set foorth and allowed accordinge to the order appoynted in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions Anno. 1562. ¶ To the Godly reader Henry Bull wysheth grace and peace with vnfayned fayeth and a good conscience in Christ Iesus our Lorde IT hath alwayes bene the practise of Sathan and his subtill souldiers the papistes euen the sworne aduersaries of Gods truth that when thei can not preuail against the same by tyrannye and tormentes they laboure to deface it by most impudente sclaunders and lyes the chiefest defence and staye of their kingedome as thou shalt see good reader in this treatise folowynge For when they coulde by no tiranny nor cruel handlinge dyscourage this man of God frome the constante confession of the truth they stirred vp most shamfull cursed lies against him that he should be a priuye maintayner of suche as cursed the Quene but to their owne perpetuall shame and ignomye For whilest they haue soughte by thys meane to bringe Gods eternall veritye in to contempte and too make it more odious to the worlde what els haue they done but dysclosed theyr owne wickednes and malice and geuen him occasion so to paint out their falsehode and lyinge spirite in their righte coloures by this pithye learned and worthy little pece of worke that all men may hereby clearly perceaue whose children they are and they them selues shall nede no other glasse to see how like their father thei looke the father of all falsehode and lyes And to the ende that this theyr wicked dealinge whiche haue thus proudly set them selues against God and agaynste his Christ in his poore members may be y e better knowen regestred to the worlde and the posterity to come to their shame and confusion and to the auauncing of gods glorye in the innocente sufferinge of his saintes thus torne and rente by tiranny tormentes lyes and sclaunders for his names sake beholde the prouidence of god who hath now brought this worke to lighte which otherwise by the negligence of some was like to pearishe And here haue I iust occasion to discommende those men whiche do defraude the congregation of such worthye monuments Greate was the care of this blessed man and other for the church of God and manye frutefull workes did they write in prison in bands in setters but fewe are come to lighte and shal we like carelesse and ingratfull people suffer these Godly laboures these painfull trauales thus to pearishe how desirous thei were to haue them published to wytnesse to the worlde that whiche they taughte and sealed with theyr bloud and to profyt their bretheren it appeareth by this authors earnest request to the readers of this treatise which is that they wyll not kepe it close to thē selues but as sone as thei haue red it set it abroad communicate it to other And that request whyche he make the concerning this treatise do I here generallye make in his name and others and in the behalfe of the churche of God for the rest of their workes to them in whose hands they remayne that they wyll not suffer them to be suppressed any longer for that is it whiche Sathan and the ennemies of the crosse of Christ do mooste desire but cause thē to be set abroad in printe to the cōmodity of many And trulye it mighte seeme to be a laboure no lesse cōmendable for the learned then profitable for the houshold of God to be as diligent in searchinge and setting foorth of suche worthye works as in penning and publishing of new So full are they of heauenlye doctryne so full of power of Gods spirite so full of comforte and consolation beinge wrytten as it were out of gods sanctuary wyth the fynger of God by menne euen then out of the world and in heauen alreadye that in dede thei are most worthy to be sought for as precious Iewelles and treasures For God knowethe what lacke we haue of such trumpettes to stirre vppe oure dull hartes in these daungerouse dayes wherein all states of menne haue turned this greate blessynge of God bestowed vppon vs I meane theese breathinge dayes and tyme of rest from antichristes tyrannye in to a securitye and are become like men rocked a sleepe And manye that semed to be zelous earnest and constant in the Lords quarell so long as theese captaynes were in the battayle and they them selues wyth in the sounde of the trumpette are now well cooled Praye wee therefore that the Lorde woulde warme them heate them enflame them agayne wyth the zeale of hys house that we maye haue manye suche valyaunte captaynes suche worthye prelates and sheepeheardes as thys was ouer theyr lambes watchful and carefull in preachynge dylygente and paynefull in zeale feruente harty and syncere and of lyke fortytude of spirit to helpe and maintayn the trauailinge saith of the gospell that we may enioy styll this fatherly blessing of our gratious God and escape the wrath to come and plagues at hande for our vnworthy receauinge againe of this greate benefite of his woorde and libertye of conscience Whhiche plagues we maye assuredlye loke for with double woo vnlesse by speedye repentaunce we seke to remoue the cause thereof God for hys Christes sake graunte vs hartelye earnestlye and effectuouselye so to do Amen ¶ An apologye agaynste the vntrue and sclaunderouse reports made against me Iohn Hooper late byshoppe of Worcetour and Gloceter that I shuld be a maintainer and encourager of such as cursed the Quenes Maiesties highnesse IT is the vse and fashion of all wicked and euyl desposed personnes gentle reader that whē one way wyll not serue too bringe their wickednesse to passe they assay proue as Terence sayth an other The whole congregation company of Godlye charitable people be not ignoraunte howe falsely and vncharitablye the papisticall cleargye hath for this yeare and halfe openly and priuelye by all meanes laboured to perswade not onely the common sort of people but also the magistrates to iudge and condempne me in theyr conscience for an heretyke By the which means thei haue much preuait led against me but yet not as much as they desyre and loke for Wherefore seynge plaine allegacion of pretensed and falselye surmised heresye as yet sheadeth not my bloude withoute the whyche that whoryshe and vnbrideled false supremacy of Rome was neuer satisfyed nowe because the princes and the magistrates may be their hangemen althoughe that wicked power of Antichriste as all cronicles and true historiographers do record wold haue no power aboue it equall with it nor none vnder it but