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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19742	A briefe discouerie of Doctor Allens seditious drifts contriued in a pamphlet written by him, concerning the yeelding vp of the towne of Deuenter, (in Ouerrissel) vnto the king of Spain, by Sir William Stanley. The contentes whereof are particularly set downe in the page following.	G. D.	1588 (1588)	STC 6166; ESTC S109186	83,314	136

so much nor giuen so great trust vnto mens traditions you might with Gods grace and assistance haue found out a sounder Religion But then should you haue fallen from the precepts of your Popish teachers But yet should you haue followed the commaundement of Christ who biddeth you Search the Scriptures What fault find you with our Religion Wee teach nothing but what we learne out of the Scriptures we hold constantly the doctrine of our Sauiour Christ and of the holie Apostles in all pointes vnchanged and by them we offer our selues to bee tried and our Religion And do you condemne the Scriptures the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles If you do the whole world will condemne you if you do not how can you then condemne our Religion Compare it with your owne and if you bee not ouer partiall senselesse or shamelesse be iudges your selues whether of the two is the sounder We ground our Religion wholy on the word of God you more vpon the traditions of men we recommend vnto all men the knowledge of the Scriptures for the direction of their life and assurance of their saluation your teachers restrayne from you the knowledge of the Scriptures deliuering you their owne traditions both for your instruction of life and assurance of your saluation we commend vnto subiects obedience and fidelitie to their Princes they commaund subiects disobedience and rebellion against their Princes Denie anie part hereof if you can examine your owne consciences if this be not all true and then iudge your selues by the true cognisance of Religion whether of the two is the true Religion We flie not to armes to mainteine our Religion for the truth is able to vphold it selfe and hath God for her protector Your Religion had neede to be aduaunced by armes els must it soone decaie hauing neither God nor the Truth nor reason to mainteine it And will you then take armes against your Prince for defense of this Religion No no if you doe you deceiue your selues you take armes against both your Prince and Religion and in defense of mens traditions and tromperies vnder pretense of Religion you seeke to ouerthrow the true Religion wherein you rebell not onelie against your Prince but against God himselfe who is the authour and defender of this Religion Christ teacheth you not to take armes though ye were persecuted for Religion but to flie and if ye will abide and stand in the Truth he willeth you to suffer like Martyrs not to resist like Rebelles But you haue no such cause giuen you either to resist or to flie for ye are not persecuted but instructed and if yee refuse to come to heare ye are punished for your disorder and disobedience not for Religion for what Religion teacheth you to refuse to heare the word of God preached Christ saith My sheepe heare my voyce whose sheep are you then for you are none of Christes If ye wil be of Christes flock you must renounce that Religion which withdraweth you from the hearing of his voice for till then you cannot be his sheepe Do you call th'execution of Iustice against your Iesuits and Seminaries persecution for Religion You do either ignorantlie mistake it or slaunderouslie misreport it For none was euer executed for Religion but for expresse Treason against her Maiesties person as hath bene sufficientlie declared and published to all men But you will say they did nothing but what Religion moued and bound them in conscience to do I beleeue it and affirme asmuch as you saie this is the fault I warned you of before in your Religion A good Religion ywis that moueth and bindeth men to the committing of Treason against their Christian Rulers Can you confesse so much your selues and yet are ye so blinde that you will not see the impietie of your Religion Yet see your owne daunger how in professing that Religion you condemne your selues of treason If your Religion tie thē necessarily to treason that hold it as in truth it doth for they must either disobey her Maiesty or not obey the Pope how can you acknowledge your selues professors of that Religion and not condēne your selues for traitors to your souereigne Leaue leaue therefore that erroneous and vngodly profession and terme it not by the holie name of Catholike Religion but meere blindnes and Superstition being grounded vpon the vaine inuentions and traditions of men so directly opposite vnto the word of God so contrarie to the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles and so inseparably combined and linked with Treason as you cannot be either true Catholiks Christians or loyall subiects so long as you persist in it Pretend not the quarrell of Religion against your Prince and Religion for assure your selues if you will admit as you ought that onely to be the true Religion which is founded vpon Christ the head Corner stone there is no Religion that alloweth so rebellious an action If you giue any heed vnto outward and Ciuill respects consider with your selues the long peacible and prosperous reigne of your Souereigne the like wherof your forefathers haue not seene nor any age doth record If long peace wealth and prosperity be the outward blessings of God as vndoubtedly they bee whereby hee declareth his speciall fauour vnto that Prince kingdome which feare him worship him syncerely and with whom he is well pleased according to his word and promises in the Scriptures al these maie be to you an assured argument both of the singular fauour of God vnto your Prince and Countrie and of the true sincere Religion professed by them wherewith hee is well pleased But looke yet further into the exceeding fauour of God shewed particularlie vnto her Maiestie I speake not of her rare and singular giftes of wisedome learning vertue and other her excellent and Princely qualities and perfections both of bodie and minde with all other Complements of nature so abundantlie bestowed vpon her as few ages haue euer knowen her equall all which wee must yet acknowledge to bee the speciall graces of God looke I saie into his gracious goodnes towardes her in protecting her from the manifold dangers and mischiefes attempted against her own person I know there is none of you ignorant how often sundrie times her deare life hath bin sought and how neare the bloodie tortors haue been to the verie execution of their deuilish designement some of them more then once or twice in neerest and priuate place with their murderous weapons in their hands euen readie to strike the deadlie and cursed stroake of our calamitie and their owne vtter confusion and damnation had not God preuented it by striking them with a sodeine trembling of heart and astonishment of minde for the preseruation of his annointed seruant and handmaid This you know to haue been attempted not once nor twice nor thrice but oftener then either memorie serueth mee to repeat or horrour of the

to encounter their wicked proceedings and to hinder the kingdome of Antichrist did put himselfe forwarde to reprooue their errors rebuke their abuses and sincerely to teach the word of God and due administration of the Sacraments according to the true institution of Christ and the doctrine of the Apostles and the Primitiue Church endeuouring to communicate vnto all men the knowledge of the trueth they forthwith condemned him for an Authour of new doctrine a sower of sedition and to make him the more odious vnto the world proclaimed him for an Heretike thundring out their Bulles excommunications and curses against him and all to the ende that men might not incline to him nor giue anie credit or regard to his teaching whereby they might come to the knowledge of the Scriptures and to the discouering of their Popish abuses and impostures Now whē they see these policies no lōger auaile thē but that mighty Princes whole Natiōs mooued by the invvard vvorking of the holie Spirite haue caught hold of and embraced the light of the Gospel and thereby haue begun to descry their iugling and tromperie and to fall away from their obedience they flie now from policie to plaine force and ioyne the one with the other and fall to inciting not only of naturall borne subiects but of forreine Princes and nations to ioyne in armes against the defenders of the true ancient Catholike and Apostolike Faith only to the intent to reduce them to their former subiection and obedience and to establish their owne Antichristian Monarchie And what other meanes vse they to drawe them to the accomplishment of their vngodly and woorse then barbarous designements but euen their ancient and accustomed policie and practise of deceit seducing them with false doctrine and persuading them those thinges to bee most lawfull honourable and necessarie to bee done vpon paine of damnation which are expresly forbidden by the word of God And can anie man then bee so senseles as to bee mooued by their persuasions seeing how first they haue noozled them in ignorance and barred them the meanes whereby they might haue come to the knowledge to bee able to discerne of trueth and falshood only to the intent to binde them wholy to the beleeuing of their traditions and now hauing so Captiued their vnderstandings and iudgements with blindnes as either they haue not the knowledge to descry their abuses or at the least haue it wholy restrained to the credit of their doctrine forbeare not to impose vpon them anie falshood that may further their ambitious purposes There is no man but knoweth that the plaine and simple Truth which is euer able to iustifie it selfe craueth no credit nor feareth to be sifted to the vttermost but it is falshood that seeketh corners and vseth policie to creepe into credit and refuseth to come to open triall And why should then the Romish Church recommend ignorance vnto the people and leade them on in blindnesse with their own traditions restraining from them the reading and knowledge of the Scriptures which is the true touchstone of Religion if their doctrine were pure and sounde and able to abide the touch Christ biddeth all men search the Scriptures why should they then forbid or hinder anie man to reade the Scriptures but that they know the Scriptures condemne both their doctrine and dooings and therefore feare to haue their falshood and wickednes discouered Wherein they doe most of all and most euidently condemne themselues to the iudgement of all men in whom there is anie iote of iudgement or common sense bewraying themselues to bee the children of darkenes not of the light The blinde leaders of the blinde Wolues in Sheepes cloathing And what better marke seeke ye to know them by then the same verie marke whereby Christ himselfe hath notified them vnto you that is by their fruites their pride their ambition their malice their deceit their imposture their falshood their prophanesse to conclude their plaine Atheisme And can you notwithstanding all these notes of them giuen you by Christ beleeue them or suffer your selues to be seduced by them But mee thinkes I doe euen see D. Allen himselfe proceeding on with the rest of Dauus his part and saying to the Pope his Maister Deceptus sum at non defatigatus Hac non successit alia aggrediamur via I am disappointed of my purpose but not weary of my worke Since this trick hath not serued our turne let vs trie another In trueth I doubt nothing of his good will nor of his endeuour neither yet of the readines of the rest of that crue to pursue this argument for neither is this the first assault that D. Allen hath giuen to the subiects fidelitie and obedience neither is D. Allen the first and onely Champion that hath striken the first blow in so bad a quarrell though none of them euer yet answered the encounter But the best hope is let him or anie other giue the assaie againe when and as often as they lust I trust they shall bee still disappointed and in the ende weery or cleane worne out and when they haue attempted all the waies they can they shall bee as wise as they were in the beginning and in the beginning midst and ending neerer to their owne ende then to the ende of their purpose For God will neuer giue successe to so godles an enterprise As for this slender push of D. Allens Pamphlet I hope there is not the holowest hart of all her Maiesties subiects in whom there is either feare of God sense of reason or regard of his owne safetie but that hauing seene his weake forces his brittle weapons his false fiers and counterfeit engines is sufficiently armed in himselfe with his owne honestie faith and loyaltie to abide and withstand and this feeble and forcelesse batterie But what shall I now saie to M. Allen and the rest of our fugitiue Countreymen that haue left their Souereigne their Countrie and their duetie altogither especially such as haue not onelie left them but doe maliciously stirre vp all the meanes they can to ouerthrow destroy and vtterly deface them Shall I whet my selfe wholy to inueigh against them I know their deedes haue not only deserued it but doe iustly prouoke me and euerie good subiect vnto it But I will vse Charitie euen where it is not to bee shewed Shall I then in Charitie reprooue them I would they were as willing to heare reproofe and as readie to bee reformed as they haue been charitably friendly and brotherly admonished Shall I labour to exhort and perswade them to the consideration of their duetie the repentaunce of their grieuous offences committed againste their Souereigne and Countrey and restauration of their due obedience and fidelitie I feare I shall but loose my labour to cry to them Resipiscite conuertimini Be wise and turne their eares are so close stopped their hearts so