ciuill or forraine vndertaken for Religion is honorable All which things considered I appeale to any good natured Papist who hath in him any sparke of loyaltie in his heart to his Prince loue to his natiue countrie whether this Cardinall not only by secret practises seeking to stir rebellion against her Maiesty but by publike writing earnestly perswading the same yea animating encouraging her Subiects to lay violent hands vpon her sacred person were not indeed a cardinall and arch-traitor and for this his Proctor I answere him and conclude almost with the very words wherwith himself shutteth vp this his Encounter let all men iudge of this mans treacherie Resistance to the fift Encounter concerning the Iesuites THe sundrie occurrents in his last Encounter about Bishop Gardiner and Cardinall Allen did draw from mee moe lines then either at the first entrie I purposed or these two worthie Prelates were worthie of Now for the ground and foundation of his long and tedious prattle in this fift Encounter he saith he will set downe my accusation in mine own words which are these that ensue I doe not heare that the Popes holines is so purged from ambition or so reconciled to Religion as he meaneth not to continue his clayme for the Supremacie or will cease to settle the dregs of his poysonfull and superstitious doctrine amongst vs. I cannot perceiue that the thirst of Parsons and his Pew-fellowes is yet quenched for seeking the bloud of our deare Soueraigne and in her the destruction of vs all the cause remaining still for which heretofore they haue sought it c. And here first like a right Hicke-scorner as in deed scorning and rayling are the flowers wherewith hee doth garnish all his speech hee noteth the fond and ridiculous manner of my fantasticall writing as it is his pleasure to censure it and because his note if it were not worth noting men would thinke it worth nothing therefore hee also painteth his margent therewith that ye might not faile to remember it in these words Sir Francis ridiculous Festus called Paul a madde man who yet spake the words of truth and sobernes the madnes was in Festus himselfe euen so gentle Sir I doubt not but to sober men I shall appeare to write soberlie howsoeuer you iudge me ridiculous and the follie shall rest in your owne bosome And therefore I say againe that I doe not heare nay more then that I doubt I shall neuer heare that the Popes holines is so purged from ambition or so reconciled to true Religion c. or that the thirst of Parsons and his Pew-fellowes is yet quenched for seeking the blood of our deere Soueraigne c. And in the first you giue me a good satisfaction for you assure me that your holy Pope will neuer leaue his claime for Ecclesiasticall Supremacy because when he doth that he must leaue to be Pope In this I easilie beleeue you and for this I will neuer put you to your oath for it is hard for the Pope to cease to vsurpe other mens rights but if you should take a solemne oath vpon your holie Masse booke that your Popes Popedome or Supremacie was ordained by our Sauiour I could not beleeue you Therefore looke not that your bare word shall goe for a currant proofe with mee in this behalfe seeing you haue no one title of the word of God to warrant it it being manifestlie to be proued thereby that he is wholie opposite to Christ both in faith manners and gouernment which long challenge of his and leane proofe of yours is largelie confuted and ouerthrowne by sundrie learned Neither is it like you say that he will be so purged to become a Protestant and I confesse this is rather to be wished then hoped for but if your reason be for that the Pope cannot erre in doctrine or become an heretike such as you mistake Protestants to bee your error is great in the Popes prerogatiueâ— wherein not onely your owne friends will bee your enemies but the examples of sundrie Popes which fell into heresie will disproue you For Marcellinus fell not onelie into heresie but into Idolatrie for he sacrificed to Idols Honorius held taught the heresie of the Monothelites and was therefore accursed by the sixt generall Councell Honorio haeretico Anathema Cursed be Honorius the heretike Liberius became an Arrian heretike Stephen fell into the error of the Donatists and to be short Iohn the 22. did so notoriouslie erre about the state of the Soules after death that his error was by the Diuines of Paris with sound of Trumpets openlie condemned in the presence of the King himselfe who beleeued rather the Parisien Diuines in that point then the Court of Rome I would they were not so prone to heresie nay authors of heresie but that they would returne from whence they are fallen that is to that truth of Christian Religion which we professe which also many Bishops of Rome for the space of some hundreths of yeares after Christ religiouslie professed But though you thinke the Iesuites much honoured by mee in that I ioyne them as you say in slaunder and calumniation with the Pope himselfe yet you please not to ioyne them in defence with the Popes holines whom for a prerogatiue you will handle by himselfe And in deede I mislike not your method for it were absurd to make the worke equall to the workeman and to ioyne the Creator and the creature together for so a learned man writeth of the sect of the Iesuites that it is Creatura Papae nouissima nequissima The last and worst creature of the Popes making You therefore enter your plea for the Iesuites deferring the Popes cause to the last saue one that hee might bee accompanied with the King of Spaine following in the last whom yet you might if you had followed your Booke of ceremonies haue sent before the Pope to leade his horse by the bridle that the Pope in his pontificalibus might haue come all behinde But your method be at your owne choice for defence of your Iesuites you labour and sweate amaine but it is like Sisyphus toyle Saxum sudans nitendo neque proficit hilum In rouling vp the stone he takes great paine But all for naught it tumbles downe againe Your tedious and irkesome prolixitie I will recompence with all conuenient breuitie You run a long course about the contradictors of the Iesuites which you acknowledge to be not onely those whom you account heretikes but sundrie Pope-Catholikes and to them you applie the saying of the Iewes against the Christians That the sect of the Christians was euery where spoken against with a long idle discourse to the same purpose But Sir all this is besides the purpose and it is apparant that all this while you doe extra chorum saltare If you had first by Scripture proued and strengthned the originall of your Iesuiticall societie together with their
AN APOLOGIE OR DEFENCE OF THE WATCH-VVORD AGAINST THE VIRVLENT AND SEDITIOVS WARD-VVORD published by an English-Spaniard lurking vnder the title of N.D. DEVIDED INTO EIGHT SEVERALL Resistances according to his so many Encounters written by Sir FRANCIS HASTINGS Knight PSALM 122. O pray for the peace of Ierusalem let them prosper that loue thee PSALM 109. Though they curse yet thou wilt blesse they shall rise vp and be confounded but thy seruant shall reioyce LONDON Imprinted by FELIX KYNGSTON for Ralph Iacson 1600. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER I Haue obserued gentle Reader from the words and writings of the learned that it is a Maxime or Rule in Philosophie Finis est primus in intentione The end aymed at is first setled in the intention of man And finding this Romanist to boast and brag much of his learning it is not vnlike that like a cunning Clerke whatsoeuer his learning be the ende of this his worke was the first ground of his writing He proclaimeth Temperance in his title he pursueth the Art of Rayling in the whole processe following and in the end of all he perswadeth ruine both to Church and Common-wealth In the first dissimulation in the second scurrilitie and the third trecherie is contained for he shakes handes with Temperance at the verie first and leaueth her to rest and remaine with his title and the leafe being turned he plungeth presently into his vaine of rayling which if he had affected Temperance he would neuer haue done and the end sheweth his intention to be to bring in either a tolleration or flat alteration of Religion But wilt thou know Christian Reader what forced this fellow to become so suddenly distempred My Watch-word presented vnto thee to prepare thee with a couragious heart and readie hand to resist forraine malice and home treason plotted and purposed by Rome and Spayne against our Soueraigne and Countrie hath wakened him before his time and out of the lightnesse of his braine through ouer-watching of himselfe to deuise and worke mischiefe he tearmeth this my booke in the beginning of his Preface an iniurious Pamphlet and a biting Libell my labours therein he calleth a base exercise of calumniation and rayling and in the matter thereof it pleaseth him to say I spare neither God nor man So farre forth as they concerne the Catholike cause or the cause of them and for this I must receiue my checke and refutation at his pleasure The iniurie he chargeth me to haue done is to his Catholikes of whose doctrine and dealing I confesse in my former booke I warne thee to beware as for the tearme of a byting Libell thou wilt say gentle Reader when thou hast perused him and me both ouer that it is a more fit addition to the title of his temperate Ward-word which is byting because it is full of rayling and is a Libell because it is slaunderous against her Maiestie and the seat of her Iustice and is thrust out without name as for the basenes of the exercise imputed to me for writing and publishing that booke and the cause thereof indeed it is a verie base thing to calumniate and rayle as he doth but to lay before Subiects the doctrine and deeds of disloyaltie and to warne them to take heed thereof as I haue endeuoured therein to doe will proue neither calumniation nor rayling If any simple seduced Catholike stand free from subscribing to the disloyal doctrine of Rome from doing that it directeth and teacheth he is not touched by me therefore this Champion that draweth all Catholikes within the compasse of my words wrongeth them more then I doe but he might haue spared to name the God of heauen as a partie in his Catholike cause till he can proue the cause warranted from God and his truth which he shall neuer do yet I must receiue this worthie Gentlemans checke for my labour but he shall find it is farre from a mate and that his Bishops are too weake to bring it to that The Gentleman saith he is verie loath to be ouer eager and sharpe with me in his Encounters not onely in his owne worshipfull disposition but also for the reuerent respect he carrieth to the house and family I come of and the particuler affection he feeleth towards some of my name and linage but this is no sooner vttered then that he breaketh out presently into these words Who will not confesse but that lying forging and falsifying ignorant vaunting odious scoffing malicious calumniations seditious interpretations bloudie exaggerations barbarous insultations ouer them that alreadie are in affliction and calamitie ought to be farre from the nature pen and tongue of a Knight or Gentleman And who would haue thought that so temperate a title could haue afforded so vntemperate a stile Againe who would haue expected such raging and rayling Rhetoricke against me from one of so milde a disposition as he professeth to be of and that caried so reuerend a respect to the family whereof I am a braunch and such a feeling affection to some of my name as he would perswade But he hath cut the throate of his temperate title and proclâ—imeth intemperance in his whole booke and I doubt 〈◊〉 breake the strength of his chiefe wards for all his fencing skill if he meane to play the fencer and to leaue him altogether to his hanging-ward which proueth alwaies a dangerous ward if it be sharpely followed by the assaylant but for his reuerent respect to my family and his affection to some of them which surely I thinke it verie slender and scunt sounde to any of them I would aduise him not to lie so open but to betake him to a stronger and sounder ward least be catch a double venue for his labour But he is prouoked by me to breake out into choler for that I not onely saith he Touch the honours states and liuings of home-borne subiects and bring them into question vniustly being no waie tollerable but rush further to the open assault of forraine Monarchies also their honours fame and reputations which is lesse tollerable and consequently hath neede of some more sharpe and forcible reiection The former persons meant by him are made apparant before and therefore of them I onely say this in this place I wish them all from my heart that as they are home-borne so they may be home-hearted Subiects that their Soueraigne and countrie may enioye them sound English Subiects indeed as for his Monarches of Rome and Spayne hee hath no cause to carpe at me but to blame themselues for it is they and not I that haue teinted their honours fame and reputations the first of them hauing long sought to depose her Maiestie from her regall and supreame right within her owne Dominions the other hauing made attempts to inuade and make a conquest of her land and both of them hauing conspired the death of her Maiestie by setting on both bastard borne English and bâ—â—â—h strangers to depriue her of life this I confesse
to giue ouer their olde impudent proposition That ignorance of the Scriptures is the mother of Popish deuotion For what meant the so strict forbidding to laye men the reading of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue but that their deuotion should not growe of the knowledge but of the ignorance of the Scriptures flat contrarie to our Sauiours commandement giuen to the vnlearned multitude of the Iewes Search the Scriptures for in them you thinke to haue eternall life and they are they that testifie of me where the reason annexed to the Commandement sheweth to whom the Commaundement appertaineth euen to as many as it concerneth to seeke after eternall life and to know Iesus Christ and him crucified which is the laytie no lesse then the Cleargie contrarie also to the Apostles exhortation to the Colossians being laye men Let the word of Christ dwell plenteously in you Whereupon Chrisostome noteth Audite seculares omnes comparate vobis biblia animae Pharmaca c. Heare you secular or laye men euery one get vnto you Bibles the Phisicke of your Soule if you will nothing else at the least get you Testaments the epistles of Paul the Gospels the Actes to be daily and diligent instructors to you In a word contrarie to the spirite of the same Apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrewes who reproueth them that they were like vnto Children and vnexpert in the word of righteousnes whereas they ought to haue their wits exercised therein But ignorance of the Scriptures better pleaseth you in the people and shall leade them to such deuotion as maketh more for your aduantage Hence hath growne your deuice of fides Implicita a faith wrapped and folded vnder the obedience of the Church namely that it is sufficient though they knowe not distinctly what they ought to beleeue but obediently submit their vnderstanding to the Church beleeuing as the Church beleeueth though what the Church beleeueth they knowe not This Carbonaria fides is highly commended by Cardinall Hossius who farther teacheth the simple laye man that he should thinke it went very well with him if he could say by heart the Lords praier the Articles of beliefe and the ten Commaundements though he knew not the meaning of the words As for other knowledge if any asked him a question hee should answere that hee did beleeue the Catholike Church And this ignorance of the Scriptures as a fruitfull mother hath brought forth many a blinde daughter of gainfull deuotion to your kitchin what greater deuotion was either then esteemed to be or indeed what acte more for your aduantage then the building of Monasteries and Nunneries and the endowing them with great lands and reuenues And this deuoute daughter mother Ignorance of the Scriptures brought forth which as for the most part they were builded by Kings and great States vpon some great murder either by wane in the field or priuately committed at home so the cause was as in stories may be seene Pro remedio animae meae pro remissione redemptione peccatorum meorum c. For the reliefe of my soule for the redemption and forgiuenes of my sinnes c. Which blasphemous derogation to the death and passion of Christ Iesus the knowledge of the Scriptures would haue quicklie discouered Yea how Deuotion hath been separated from knowledge not in your laye people alone but in your Priests too whilest deuotion hath been so tyed to their daily saying of their Maâ—tins and euensong which without deadly sinne they may not leaue vnsayd whiles in the meane time they vtterly cast aside the Apostles commaundement Giue attendance to reading exhortation and doctrine in the answer of Iohn Lambert to the 25. Article to him obiected may partly appeare I will onely adde this one testimonie that by the confession of some of your owne coate which haue made any conscience of their carriageâ— may appeare how carefullie your deuoutest Fryers haue been to couple knowledge with their imagined deuotion Franciscus Sampson generall of the order of the Friers Franciscans reprouing both their ignorance and carelesnes hath these words Pratres mei dilectissimi à primordio nostrae Religionis floruit conscientia c. My beloued brethren in the beginning of our Religion there flourished conscience but our beauty by little little sliding away the first sillable was taken away and there remained Scientia science or knowledge but now our sinnes so deseruing the first sillable is againe taken away and we remaine Pura entia stipites statuae meere things which haue a being euen very stockes and blockes To adde further proofe in a case so manifest were to light a candle at noone day yet this I will adde ex abundanti If publike praier in the Church and congregation of the faithfull be a chiefe and principall part of Deuotion made you not Ignorance the mother of their Deuotion when as ye would not allow their publike praiers in a tongue that the people vnderstoode Yea your Cardinall Hossius vseth this reason to proue that the Church seruice should be in the Latine tongue rather then the vulgar because saith he since some vsed the vulgar and knowne tongue in Church seruice Deuotion hath not onely not been increased but diminished And our Countrey man but the Popes Champion D. Stapleton in an English booke that he writeth against Bishop Iuel confidently affirmeth that Deuotion is not furthered but hindered by a tongue that is vnderstoode In a word D. Cole Deane of Paules and one chosen not onely to maintaine the Papists assertions against the Protestants in the disputation at Westminster but appointed by the Bishops and other his Colleagues to be the mouth for them all whose speech in the end they all being asked did auow to be the mind and saying of them all euen he in that honorable assemblie of the Councell and Nobles and frequent concourse of the Commons did with great vehemencie maintaine this proposition in these words I say Ignorance is the mother of Deuotion And so Sir Encounterer you must be forced to take it both for a maxime minime though minimè tibi placet to confesse a truth The second fayned position wherewith it pleaseth this deepe Clerke to charge me is because I say your Syde holdeth that it is not for lay men to meddle in matters of Religion c. And for this after your olde railing fashion you charge me with subtiltie and impudencie my subtiltie you say I shew in this word meddle which may either signifie that lay men must not determine or define of matters of Religion or else not to meddle or care for Religion at all And surely Sir though I may giue you good leaue to take it in which fence you will for in the former sence you will not deny but that euen Princes are restrained to doe any thing in causes of Religion within their own dominions without
of Antichrist should be by the working of Sathan with all power and signes and lying wonders Wonders then Antichrist shall worke but they are lying wonders both in forme because many of them are but counterfait and in the end because the end of all is to draw men from the truth to lies falsehood For what was the end of these miracles was it not to draw men to Idolatry to the worship of the relicks of dead men to shrine their bones in gold and siluer and precious stones as this Becket was vsed was it not to drawe men to Canturburie with their vowes and offerings by heapes out of which the Couent sucked no small aduantage Of this dangerous temptatiō by miracles to draw vs away from Christ to Antichrist our Sauiour Christ hath likewise graciously forwarned vs saying That there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders so that if it were possible they should deceiue the verie elect The miracles therefore which the munkish generation hath wrought by the power of Sathan to draw men to Idolatrie and to enrich themselues I hope shall not much moue vs being forewarned of this temptation and therefore well armed against it especially if we remember that the Lord willeth the people of Israel not to credit the Prophets though they worke miracles if thereby they seeke to draw them to Idolatrie because the Lord doth this to proue them whether they will loue the Lord their God with all their heart and with all their soule Or else thirdly they were neuer wrought neither indeed nor in apparance but were deuised by men of leaden hearts brasen faces as one termeth the author of your Golden legend for the infinite inriching of their purses and so are they onely the shameles inuentions of the Munkes idle braines and this seemeth most true in the miracles ascribed to Becket which as by the number they discredit themselues amounting to the number of 270. said to be wrought by him after his death who neuer wrought any one in all his life so likewise by the qualitie of them being farre off from all truth and reason some ridiculous some monstrous vaine absurd some also blasphemous and some so impudent that not only they deserue no credit altogether sauouring of meere forgerie but also for very shame wil abash an honest pen to write of them As namely that three daies after his death he appeared at the Altar in his pontificalibus cōmaunding the Quire not to sing but to say this office of his Masse Exurge quare obdormis domine c. Againe that it was shewed a Munke in a vision that Becket had his place appointed in heauen with the Apostles aboue Steuen Laurence c. Also that a Knights sonne being two daies dead was reuiued againe so soone as he had a little of the water of Canturburie put into his mouth and had by his parents foure peeces of siluer bended to be offred at Canturbury in the childs behalf And further most blasphemously that Becket in a vision did appeare and say that his bloud did crie out of the earth to God more then the bloud of righteous Abel as also that Becket appearing to a Priest named Thomas told him that he had so brought to passe that all the names of the Munkes of the Church of Canturburie with the names of the Priestes and Clerkes and with the families belonging to that Citie and Church of Canturburie were written in the booke of life These and many more absurd then these are the miracles ascribed to him to proue him a Saint dying in so holy a quarrell and to fill the purses and fat the panches of idle Monkes But miracles are not rare at Rome the thing which may iustly bee thought most vntrue shall bee confirmed with a miracle Aquinas Diuinitie rules in all their schooles will you doubt of the truth of it and trie it by Scripture that shall not need it is confirmed by a miracle and that a sound one When hee was once praying to the Image of Christ crucified the Image spake to him Benè scripsisti de me Thoma quā ergo mercedem accipies You haue written well of me Thomas what reward wil you haue for your labour of which that no man may doubt it was testified by the oath of a deuout man which hid himself there of purpose belike the Image had spoken to him before to be present secretly to bearewitnes of the matter Hiacinthus a Polonian who dyed in the yeare 1257. was lately canonised for a Saint doe ye doubt whether the Pope did well therein or not consider the miracles hee wrought A young man that brake his necke from his horse being carried to Hiacinthus Tombe presently reuiued and was restored whole and sound Againe a mayde hauing a calfe suddenly dead runneth to his graue and prayeth him to reuiue her calfe againe when shee came home and found the Butcher skinning of it the calfe mouing the leg that was fleyed lifted vp the head and was by and by as whole as a fish And that ye may know it is no great noueltie with these fellowes to haue stockes and stones to speake◠when this Hiacinthus was aliue and at the sudden irruption of the Tartarians was readie to flie out of the Church the Image of the Virgine Marie being an huge one and of Alablaster called to him O sonne Hiacinthus dost thou flie from the hands of the Tartarians and leauest me with my sonne to be torne in peeces and trampled vnder their feete therefore take me with thee At which he being somewhat amazed answered O glorious Virgin this Image of yours is too heauie how can I carrie it with me But she replied take it for my sonne shal lighten the burden Whereupon he tooke it and carried it in one hand as if it had been as light as a reede through the great riuer Borysthenes on drie foote Here is a tast of your strange miracles of Rome but it is most strange that men should bee so bereft of reason and iudgement to beleeue them If Calphurnius were liuing of whom the Poet writeth Pleno ridet Calphurnius ore and should reade the wonderfull miracles to the Popes Saints attributed I suppose he would not onely laugh with open mouth but euen breake his bellie with laughing at these their ridiculous follies The Lord giue vnto vs grace to loue the truth that we may be saued least otherwise in his iust iudgement he send vs strong delusions to beleeue such loude and lewde lyes And so I leaue Becket with all his miracles as in stories I finde him recorded the Kings rebell and the Popes Saint The residue of the exceptions in this Encounter against me are altogether to false and friuolous as I might well spare the labour in giuing any answere thereto but that this foule-mouthed fellow who sayleth in a Sea of words painteth
but to lay violent and bloudy hands vpon the Lords annointed wherby they shew to be guided rather by the spirit of Sathan that hartened Kaine to kill Abell then by the spirit of God that taught Dauid to spare Saule There remaineth now onely the fourth and last charge against me in this Encounter briefely to be discharged namely that I lay to your charge vntruly as you say that yee prescribe a meanes of deliuerie from all daungers euen when men sinned immediately against God which is a pardon from the Popes holines and absolution from his holy Priestes In which accusation what say I more then all the world knoweth to be true Is it not strange that these men either so vnconscionably practise that openly and generally which they dare not auow and iustifie or so impudently denie that which they doe so commonly practise the Catholike doctrine is saith this Champion that the Popes and Churches Indulgences auaile not to remooue mortall sinnes c. neither doth the pardon remit the guilt of sinne c. But Sir whatsoeuer your doctrine is in this point your practise is quite contrarie neither is it any rare thing with your almightie Pope to practise that generally by his infinite authoritie which all his Doctors and schoole-men are ashamed to defend For as for the authoritie wherupon your indulgences are grounded your owne men confesse as namely amongst the rest Durandus De Indulgentijs pauca dici possunt per certitudinem quia nec scriptura expressè de ijs loquitur sancti etiā patres Ambrosius Hilarins Hieronymus Augustinus minime loquuntur de indulgentijs Little can be certainly affirmed of indulgences because neither the Scripture speaketh expressely of them and the ancient fathers Ambrose Hilarie Ierome Augustine make no mention of them Thus your selues truly confesse that ye haue neither warrant of Scripture nor of auncient fathers for your Popes pardons yet goe they currant The notorious abuses whereof euen councels haue condemned as the Lateran Councell a Councell held at Vienna and euen your Councell of Trent too doth in generall termes condemne all abuses in these pardons which by superstition ignorance irreuerence haue crept in though in speciall it name none because it seemeth it intended not to reforme any Notwithstanding whatsoeuer eyther your Doctors pressed with truth doe write or your Councels for shame are forced to decree the Pope hath forced for no shame to make marts and marchandise of mens soules by his pardons and to sell sinne for money as flesh is sold in the shambles Whereof let those verses partly beare witnes which are written in an auncient stone in the Cathedrall Church of Saint Stephen amongst the Bituriges in Aquitania a few whereof I will here set downe Hîc des deuotè caelestibus associate Mentes aegrotae per munera a sunt tibi lotae Ergo venitote gentes à sede remotae Qui datis estote certi de diuite dote Te precor accelera spargas hic dum potes aera Et sic re vera securè caelica spera Giue francklie here in Heauen a place prepare Your sicklie soules by gifts cleane purged are Come people then which dwell far from this place Ye that doe giue rest sure of mickle grace I pray thee haste giue money while ye may Then surely hope for Heauen at the last day And againe Hic si largè des in coelo fit tua sedes Qui serit hîc parcè comprendit in arce Cur tardas tantùm nummi mihi des aliquantum Pro solo nummo gaudebis in aethere summo If thou giue freely here Heauen is thy hire He that giues little shall little there acquire Why staiest thou then onely some money giue For onely money thou in Heauen shalt liue To which wee may adde the complaint of the Princes of Germany against the Pope exhibited in the Councell at Norremberg the third complaint being this But especially the burden and grieuance of the Popes pardons and Indulgences are most importable When as the Bishops of Rome vnder pretence of building some Church in Rome or to warre against the Turke do make out their Indulgences with their Buls perswading and promising to the simple people strange and wonderfull benefits of remission à Culpa paena from the guilt of their sinnes and punishment due for the same and not in this life onelie but also after this life to them that bee dead burning in the fire of Purgatorie Through the hope and occasion whereof true pietie is almost extinct in all Germanie While◠euery ill disposed person promiseth himselfe for a little money licence and impunitie to doe what him listeth whereupon followeth fornication incest adulterie periurie homicide robbing and spoyling rapine and vsurie with a whole stood of mischiefes c. By which what was the generall and currant vse of the Popes pardons is euident to be seene Tecelius the Popes Marchant who set to sale Pope Leo the 10. his Indulgences in Germany for ten shillings the peece doth so praise and set forth his ware as that his pardons not onely reached to the remitting of mortall sinne which this Encounterer would faine deny but that his Indulgences were of such validitie that there was no sinne so great though a man by impossible supposition had defloured the mother of Christ but by them might be pardoned and that a man by vertue of them is freed both from the guilt and punishment of his sinne What should I adde that it sufficeth them not to sell pardons for sinnes past but that this mysterie of iniquitie preuailed so farre as that it stretched to pardon sinnes to come The sundry formes of which Buls I could out of good authors here set downe whereof as is reported fell out a prettie experiment with the same Tecelius to whom a certaine Noble man commeth confessing that he had a purpose to commit an haynous sinne and heartely praieth to haue a pardon graunted him for hereafter Tecelius setteth a great price vpon that ware but yet the Noble man payeth the money shortly after this Noble man laying waite for Tecelius in a wood brake open his Coffers wherein was all his treasure that hee had gotten by fale of his pardons and robbed him Tecelius threatneth and curseth sore but the Noble man sheweth him the Bull which he bought so dearely of himselfe and merilie telleth him this was the sinne which he purposed to commit from which I am fully and in good forme absolued I would the opinion conceiued of the Popes plenarie pardons did not induce Subiects to commit most hainous treason against the Lords annointed to satisfie the Popes desire Whereof an example may be seene in Parry who vndertooke the murdering of her Maiestie as himselfe confessed whereunto hee was the more strongly resolued by the Pardon from the Pope of all his sinnes whereof Cardinall Como in his letter assureth him the words to this purpose I haue thought good
weake to weaken my speech the gracious worke of God in preseruing her Maiestie at that time appearing to euery Christian and indifferent iudgement no lesse miraculous and strange then I haue affirmed God is the onely proper maker of miracles I onely acknowledge his worke in deliuering this my Soueraigne from daunger with thankfulnes without either flatterie of any person or ambitions seeking after honour though you very maliciously and scornefullie do charge me with both but by that time that veine of your carriage in this your rayling Pamphlet be throughly scanned and conceiued neither your tongue nor pen will proue any great slaunder I will shut vp this point with a speech of Master Iohn Hales vsed in his oration to her Maiestie at her first entrance to her raigne which seemeth 〈…〉 fying of my sayings his words are these He that sitteth on high and laugheth at their madnes would not suffer that the malicious purposes and most cruell deuised Iniustice should haue successe He did take vpon him the protection of you he onely hath been your Iehosheba that preserued you from this wicked Athalia he onely was the Iehoiada that destroyed this cruell Athalia he onely hath made you Queene of this realme in stead this mischieuous Marana No earthly creature can claime any peece of thanks therefore no mans face no mans counsaile no mans aide hath been the cause thereof The second thing you finde fault with in this your Encounter is my affirming that when our Soueraigne was fullie possessed of her royall seat then Sathan began to rage and his ministers to fret and chafe these my words you terme to be wicked calumniations and tales of a tubbe to entertaine fooles and ignorant people but with how little truth and honestie and with what abundance of malice and folly that which followeth shall I doubt not make apparant to the indifferent reader You aske how it could be that the Papists did freat and chafe seeing they as the greatest number and chiefest persons did freelie and willingly place her crowne her annoint her take her oath for preseruing the lawes of the Realme and sweare fidelitie to her againe To which question I returne the like for answere how could it be that Haman commaunded to honour Mardocheus in the sight of the people should fret and chafe at his aduancement when as he was the man that arrayed Mardocheus with royall apparrell brought him on horsebacke through the streete and proclaimed before him Thus shall it be done to the man whom the King will honour This is no tale of a tubbe as this carping companion would perswade but a truth out of Gods booke whereby we may see that some do yeeld vnto that outwardlie in shew which in their hearts they yeeld not vnto and at which afterwards they fret chafe And could it otherwise be but that they must fret and chafe when as before her raigne in her sisters time one Ferrar that was defended by Storie and Bonner said that he hoped that she and they that hoped she should haue the Crowne should hop headlesse or be fired with faggots before she should come to the Crowne and also after her aduancement to the Crowne the Bishops and Clergie maisters as they shewed themselues in the conference at Westminster and in the Parliament assembled verie disobedient stubborne and malicious wherupon some of them were committed to prison so they had a consultation to haue excommunicated her as your worshipfull Cardinall Allen affirmeth in his 52. page of his answere to English Iustice and as your Rishton saith the Archbishop of Yorke whose dutie it was to haue crowned her Cardinall Poole being dead refused to doe it and so did all the Bishops except one and he almost the lowest But I will proceed to peruse the examination of some particulars of the hostilitie by me alleadged willing the Reader by the way to consider deeply of your graue aduise which vpon my vsing the words Sacred and Annoynted as honourable and rightly appertaining to her Maiestie you offer to be aduisedly thought of as tending to the commendation of annointing Priestes and Princes and concluding stronglie the great honour that her Maiestie had by Catholikes at her first entrance What must it needs follow that annointed must be taken for annointing with oile or must her Maiestie needs be beholding to the Clergie for that she is called the Lords annointed I had well hoped that your quoting in the margent diuers places of Scripture for confirmation of the ceremony of annointing Priests and Princes had been a better Bible-clerke then so foulie to be mistaken in the 105. Psalme which place hath been alleadged for Priuiledge of the Popish Clergie from the sword of Iustice notwithstanding their filthie life The Patriarches Abraham Isaac and Iacob are called annointed and yet were neuer annointed with oile In Esay 45. Cyrus is called the Lords annointed and yet a heathen Prince our Sauiour Iesus is called annointed and yet it is not read that euer he was annointed with outward oile Princes are called the Lords annointed chieflie because God hath put them apart and consecrated them to serue him in place of gouernment because they are indued with wisedome courage strength and feare of the Lord and because they should be profitable to the people gentle and mercifull the truth is more respected then the outward ceremonie in the word annointed Priestes Kings and Prophets before Christes time were annointed with visible oile I confesse not for such cause as you imagine that Princes are but to shew that they were appoynted of God consecrated and furnished with gifts from him as also to be types and figures of Christ who vnder the law was represented by these three offices estates or orders of men The ceremonie is not now of necessitie to continue Christ without outward annointing was called by Simeon the annointed of the Lord. So that hir Maiestie may be tearmed honorablie and deseruedlie the Lords annointed and yet neither your superstitious and Iewish ceremony of greazing your popish Priests commended thereby nor her Maiestie made much beholding to your Clergie for that honour The first particular of hostilities which you take vpon you to disprooue is my speech of your darling Doctor Storie whom because I call a bloudsucker as Dauid calleth his persecutors Saul Doeg and others bloudie men you charge me to be light-witted and foule mouthed you may take your pleasure Sir N.D. at me stil as you haue done but you know the reward of such as contemptuouslie reproach others with follie or maliciouslie doe raile and speake euil of them vndeseruedly You tell vs there are three things in my speech of Doctor Story to be considered the words I charge him with my interpretation of them and the iudgement he receiued in all which if you can either conuince me of vntruth or iustlie condemn me for vncharitably censuring the speech and his person we will beleeue you another
doctrine and institute of life these places might haue seemed to serue some turne but to seeke to raise vp a building without a sure and sound foundation is to climbe high for a certaine and dangerous downefall Therefore vnles you can fetch their foundation from the word of truth these places of Scripture shall neuer be proued to concerne them any thing at all A worthie sect it must needes be that was so lately sounded by Ignatius Loiola a lame Souldiour who when hee would tricke vp these Nouices as the Beare licketh her deformed whelpes and send them abroade into the world offered by himselfe and his friends 3000. hoastes or propitiatorie sacrifices to God so many horrible blasphemies against that alone true propitiatorie sacrifice of Christ Iesus which was offered once and onely once for our sinnes thereby to obtaine grace and fauour to his new erected societie Concerning the profession of these Iesuites their doctrine their life name and conuersation what is to be obiected against them whether they be seditious troublers of Common-wealths and seekers of Princes deaths I neede not say any thing since they are by so many so plainelie handled and laide open and almost all the Christian world seeth and abhorreth their treacheries The Sorbonists of Paris will tell you that their name is vsurped without warrant for in deede what presumption is it that not being content with the auncient and honorable name of Christians which was first giuen to the saithfull at Antioch drawne from Christ the name of our Sauiours office who hath made vs Kings and Priests to God his father they will speciallie bee called Iesuites of Iesus which is our Sauiours name of nature and so as much as in them is diuide Iesus from Christ or ouer presumptuouslie by a speciall priuiledge intrude vpon that name their profession they shew to be different from all others consisting in practising as deepe politikes against Princes and States their doctrine that it is lawfull in some cases for Subiects to kill their Princes labouring by stirring vp seditions and authorising treasons to holde vp and strengthen the tyrannie of Spaine This hath been by the way proued in part in my Resistance to the fourth Encounter by the example of Cardinall Allen who publikelie teacheth that there is no warre whether forraine or Ciuill so honorable as that which is vndertaken for Religion By whose perswasions Parrie confessed that hee was animated and encouraged to kill the Queene as also by the cases of conscience which the Iesuites brought with them into England in which they teach that it is a point of faith that if the Pope depose her Maiestie she is no longer to bee obeyed nor acknowledge for our Queene To which may be added that Parrie was hartened and resolued likewise by Iulio Palmio a Iesuite to put in execution his intended treason against her Maiestie And besides this Edmund Yorke and Richard Williams who being apprehended confessed the same were by Iberra the King of Spaines Secretarie hired to murther the Queene the assignation for the payment of 40000. Crownes for the performance of this notable exploite was deliuered as in deposito to one Holte a Iesuite an olde English Rebell Many were the conferences held about this villanie in which Holte the Iesuite did sit in a sort as a President or head of all these conspiracies and did vehemently perswaded Yorke and Williams to enterprise the matter not onelie receiuing of them both an oath to performe it but also ministring to them the Sacrament thereupon himselfe kissing it and swearing to them solemnly for the assurance of their reward shewing also to them the bill of assignation signed with the King of Spaine his Secretaries hand for the more assurance of the payment Yea further that the insatiable thirst in this Iesuite after her Maiesties bloud may be more manifest he tolde Yorke that seeing the English had often failed to perfourme this enterprise if now it should not be perfourmed by Yorke and his Companie he would afterwards imploie Strangers in it Which in deede before this he attempted by perswading one Patricke Cullin an Irishman and a Pencioner of the King of Spaine to come secretly into England to kill her Maiestie and being his ghostlie Father gaue him absolution to this purpose which Cullin being at his comming apprehended and examined confessed the whole and was accordinglie condemned and executed Whether Doctor Guifford be a Father amongst the Iesuites or a simple Priest I cannot affirme sure it is by Sauage his owne confession that hee perswaded this Sauage to vndertake that most barbarous and sauage acte of shedding the innocent bloud of our gracious Soueraigne The famous Iesuite Posseuine exhorteth the Souldiours of Pius Quintus sent into France against those of the Religion that it is their dutie to kill all Protestants otherwise they breake their faith and lose their saluation And to leaue forraine matters and to ende with our owne because to prosecute all particulars in this kinde were infinite Wal-poole a Iesuite did by oath latelie binde Squyre Stanley and others either by poyson or stabbing to kill her Maiestie By which and sundrie other examples it is euident that this Iesuiticall broode is of Caines humour who had a bloudie heart and hand to shed his brothers bloud and that they follow nay runne farre before Chore in conspiracie For farther insight into this new foundation I referre the Reader at his leasure to the Bishop of Winchesters booke before named to Doctor Humfreyes Iesuitismus to Kemnicius c. The profession practise and vertues of this sect was so fully sifted and tried by the Catholikes of France that it may not be thought to be done by enemies that the vniuersity of Paris wholy opposed it selfe against them and by the mouth of their aduocate pronounced thē worthy of Banishment and after that vpon farther search into them the Parliament of Paris by a publike decree condemned them and cast them out of the whole Kingdome of France into perpetuall Banishment A worthy example of the wise and politike Kingdome of France to try out their treacheries which I wish all Christian Kingdomes would follow that so all Iesuites might be perpetually banished into Terra Virginea or Terra Florida with which this fellow in the entrie of his libell disporteth himselfe from whence no daunger of them might redound to any Christian Monarch Whereto the consideration of the principall vow of this new-found sect might serue to perswade Their principall vow is as a Catholike Frenchman setteth it downe to obey their generall or superiour who is alwaies a Spaniard or one of the King of Spaynes Dominions the words of which vow are set downe to be these That in him they must acknowledge Christ to be present as it were and if Iesus Christ should commaund to goe kill they must doe so In which vow to omit the intollerable blasphemie that they make a
they are willed to hate them and make warre against them for his sake and consequentlie also the like is willed against Princes in the same cause and this out of your conscienceles hart made fit for Rebellion you falselie and impudentlie affirme but we say we must hate Father and Mother as we must our life for Christ not to doe violence to our selues or to make warre vpon them nor to doe any thing against either but in comparison of Christ and for his sake not to regarde the losse of either and therefore that which you adde of warring against our Countrie and Prince for Religion as it is not in any text of holie Writ so doe you plainelie discouer your traiterous minde against Queene and Countrie and what was the marke you aime at in all this wrangling against the point of obedience His friuolous exception against my translating Saint Peters words which I alleage to proue That all obedience is due to Ciuill Magistrates for the Lords sake is not worth the answering he cauilleth first because I translate to euerie ordinance of man where hee would haue it to euerie humane creature which I thinke would affoorde but a colde sense But he saith I translate it to euery ordinance of man because it serued more to my purpose what purpose forsooth a purpose that I detest more then himselfe and those of his sect that we should obey euerie decree of man Master Beza translateth it Ordinationi that is ordinance shewing that by humane ordinance is ment that forme of policie and gouernment which is in euerie Common-wealth and that this policie or forme of a Common-wealth is called an humane ordinance not because it was inuented by men for it is the gift of God but because it is proper and peculiar vnto men to liue vnder Magistrates and Lawes The next exception hath lesse colour that I transtate to the King as to the superiour and leaue out or vnto gouernours as vnto them that are sent of him c. by calling the King the Superiour he dreameth that I meane the King to be absolute and all obedience due to Superiours which I haue alreadie answered But Sir if Saint Peter doe adde in the leauing out of which words you suppose a mysterie or vnto Captaines and vnder Magistrates sent from him as you translate is not the King rightlie termed Superiour in regard of the Inferiour and vnder Magistrates sent by him I suppose that Saint Peter doth first set downe a generall proposition to liue obedientlie to that pollicie vnder which wee are whether in Monarchie Aristocracy c. and then commeth to the speciall forme vnder which the Iewes did then liue vnder the Romane Emperours and their deputies Therefore I referre to the indifferent reader to iudge either of the falsehoode and treacherie he saith I haue vsed in corrupting and translating this little peece of Scripture or else of his vntemperate humour of rayling and cauilling his long digression about Spirituall Magistrates and formall speeches to Catholike Recusants I let passe But if you please to resolue all Recusants that they are bound in conscience to yeelde all ciuill obedience to her Maiestie as to their lawfull Soueraigne though the Pope send forth neuer so many Buls to depose her you shall deserue thankes of them in teaching them so godlie a lesson and free your selfe from no small suspition giuen that you are of a flat contrarie minde which will sticke neerer your conscience if you continue that mind then any prophane flatterie wrongfullie vrged by you against me shall euer doe to mine for God be blessed the truth of his Gospell hath taught me a farre better lesson then to flatter with any Resistance to the seuenth Encounter about the Pope FRedericke the good Duke of Saxonie requested earnestly that great learned Clarke Erasmus that hee would plainelie and truelie tell him what he thought of Luther and his writings to whose request Erasmus answering and that sincerelie and with great iudgement yet began his answere merilie saying that in Luther were two great faultes the one that he spake against the Monkes fat panches the other that he presumed to touch the Popes triple Crown But though each of these is a sore that may not be touched and an euill against which no man may presume to speak amongst the Papistes yet the least word vttered against the Popes extrauagant and vsurped authoritie is deemed an offence almost inexpiable for father Bellarmine himselfe doth teach vs that to call the Popes Crowne in question is to take the foundation from the building the shepheard from the flocke the Generall from the armie the Sunne from the firmament and the head from the bodie This conceit hath so farre preuailed with this libeller that he reuelleth and raileth against me for a few words vpon most iust occasion spoken against the Pope namelie that I call him the proud Priest and Archprelate of Rome bloudie monster Antichrist the man of sinne c. that thereupon he outrageth crying that these are but rauings of a lunaticke braine and belchings of a burthened stomacke with the surfet of heresie and charging me with audacitie or impudency rather that I presume to vse opprobrious speeches against the sacred honours of annointed Princes and the greatest Monarches of Christendome c. And here he imagineth as imagination is strong that he hath gotten a marueilous aduantage against me and therfore proclaimeth that I haue herein done contrarie to the law both of nature and nations and am to be checked and restrained euen for the verie honour of England it selfe and our Nation Yet all this winde shaketh no corne I doubt not but the wise and discreete reader will follow the counsell of Pythagoras who â—â—ght that the Muses were to be preferred before the Syrens or Mirmaids comparing falshood varnished to the shew with a gay flourish of words to the Syrenes and the plaine and naked narration of truth to the Muses which bare narration I will in verie few words here set downe and oppose it against all his Rhetoricall amplifications furious exclamations and railing calumniations which is the Iuâ—e bush he hangeth forth to make his wine seeme worthie the vttering To come then to a briefe declaration of these points I call the Pope proud Priest and Archprelate of Rome whereto he answereth that the words Priest and Prelate are names of his dignitie as they were in Christ and the Apostles themselues who were both Priestes and Prelates and Archprelates also in that they were more principall then others That Christ was and is an high Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech is by vs confessed and by you his priesthood by a consequent disanulled in that you haue ordained another Priesthood to offer propitiatorie sacrifices to God that the Apostles were massing or sacrificing Priestes all the Priestes in Rome and Rhemes shall neuer be able to proue that they might be called Archprelates in that they