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A16278	The fortresse of fayth defended both by the Scripture, and doctors / gathered by the learned German Bodonius ; and translated out of Latine into English by Edward Crane.	Bodonius, Stephanus.; Crane, Edward.	1570 (1570)	STC 3195; ESTC S1817	30,160	80

my saluation neither yet commeth my helpe from the hilles or of the hilles But from and of the liuing God that made both Heauen and earth ¶ Augustine in Opere imperfecto vpon Mathi. Capite 32. TEll me O thou foolysh priest is not the Gospell of Christ dayly preached to the people in the Churchches and is it not daily tought then if being tought them it doth not profitte them how can it saue them being hanged about their necks Father whether is the strenght and operation of the Gospell in the figures of letters or in the vnderstanding of the sences if it be in the figures then is it wel hanged about their neckes But if it be in vnderstanding then is it better to put it into thy harte then to hange it about thy necke other meaning to shew themselues more iust do hang the Gospell about the hems and skertes of their garment or at their heyre or lookes O detestable impietie vngodlines which will rather shew godlines in their garments outwardly then in the precious bodye of Christ For he that is not saued by eating and receauing his bodye wil be saued by the holines of the hemes of his garments despairing in the great mercies of his goodues doth put his trust in the coote or gowne of a Temperall or wordly man But what will they saye O dyd not Paule giue his handkercher and gerdell to heale the weake Yes certainly before the knowledge of god was knowne in man it was necessary reason that by the godlines of man Gods power might be knowne But now it is madnes sith that now we knowe the power of God what is it necessary that we should know it by the power of man another doth thus interpretate this place saying By the obseruations of times and dayes delatinge at large their wordes and earnestly teaching that by conuersasion of health and saluation of whom Christ spake in vaine they worshippe me teaching the precepts and doctrine of man for they magnifie the hemmes and seames of their clothes For when they prayse the superfluous obseruations of their owne righteousnes to be pleasing vnto God they do as it weare magnifie the seames of their clothes Exodus 20. THou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image nor y likenes of any thing y is in heauen aboue nor in y earth beneth neither in the waters vnder the earth for I am the Lord thy God strong Ielous I am the Lord your God you shall not make to your selues any Idole or grauen Image neither shal you set a stone in your land to worshippe it You shall ouerthrow their Alters and breake downe their pillers cut downe their groues burne their grauen Images with fyer for thou art an holy people v●thy Lord thy God. Cursed be the man that maketh an● carued or molten Image an abhomination vnto the Lord the worke of the hand● of the hole craftes man and putteth in 〈◊〉 secret place in like case these places which are too many to reherse 3. Para. 33. Psalm 105. Psalme 96. Esai 30. Deut. 6. Deut. 32. 1. Reg. 7. Mala. 3. ¶ Iohn Chrisostome vpon Math. Homelie 45. Cap. 23. HOw will you flye the iudgement 〈◊〉 Hell damnation By the building your graues or Sepulcres of the saintes or rather by purging your hartes from rancour and malise wyll God iudge as man iudgeth man iudgeth man by worke but God iudgeth the harte What righteousnes is this to honour the saintes and holy men and to contemne sanctitte and holines The first degree of godlines is first to loue godlines then the godly for the saints were not before sanctitie or holines but holines was before the saints Therfore wel do they honour y righteous or iust that doth tread vnderfoote or spurne at iustice or righteousnes how will you escape will the saintes whose graues and moniments you adthorne and decrée deliuer you the saintes cannot be frendes to them to whom the Lord is enemie for can the familie or houshold be inquiet if the Lord or master be against it Howe will you escape will paraduenture a bare or vnfrutefull name deliuer you because you do seme to be the people of God what doth it profite that harlot if she be called a chast woman and is not so shall it nothing auayle the sinner if he be called or name the seruaunt of God In the end how wil you auoyd or escape the punnishment of Hell fyer which do build Churches and yet do not followe the fayth of the eclesiasticall truth Which read the Scriptures and yet do not beleue them which name the Prophets and Apostelles and Martirs and yet do not imitate the Martirs nor follow their confession Neither haue you hard him that saith not euery one that sayth vnto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kyngdome of Heauen but he that doth the will of my father which is in Heauen For as all that do call on the Lord are not the Lordes so not all that name the Apostelles and Martirs are true worshippers of them but they do truly worshippe and honour them that imitate and follow their workes and fayth I am thy Lorde God and Sauiour worshippe none other God but me Do not turne vnto Idoles neyther make you fayned Gods for I am the Lord your God. Among the Gods there is none lyke vnto the Lord and there are no workes lyke vnto thy workes all nations that thou hast created shall come and worship before the Lorde and shall glorifie thy name because thou art great and doinge great thinges and thou art the onely God and God alone Manoah sayd vnto the Angell of the Lord we will kepe thée still vntil we haue made ready a kydd and haue set it before thée And the Angell of the Lord sayd vnto Manoah though thou make me abyde I will not eate of thy bread and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering thou must offer it vnto the lord c. And I wyll speake my iudgementes with them c. Hast not thou sene what he hath done Cursed be the man that trusteth in man. He that loued vs and wasshed vs from our sinnes Their is but one God and one mediatour c. Though their be many Gods and many Lordes yet to vs is there but one God for the better vnderstanding of the case Read these places at large and you shall find the wordes most playne ¶ Iohn Chrisostomes Homelie of the profect of the Gospell Thom. 6. THe woman of Canaine came and praied vnto Christ for her daughter which then was possessed of a deuel crying after him with a loud and shryll voyce and sayd haue mercy vpon me Lord for my daughter is sore vered of a Dyuell Behold the strange Barberus woman and an outcast from the lawe of the Iewes what was she otherwise then a dogge such a one as was not worthy to

haue dayly do arise and for the better confirming of their credite I haue set before their words such textes of the holy scriptures as they do most ground vpon and in these fewe questions you may easely and wel perceaue what false and erronious opinions haue bene raysed of the rest therfore God graunt vs so to waye and diligently consider hereof that we may truely knowe his blessed will and plesure as also frame our liues and workes therafter to his glory to the helpe of our poore brothers necessitie Amen ¶ Your graces most humble seruaunt E. Crane ¶ THE EPISTLE TO the Reader SIth that gentell Reader in this our age we do plainely see many Bookes and innumerable sorte therof to be setforth which do not onely cleane ouerthrowe the mind of the Reader But also do allure and drawe thee in into schismes and most pestiferous sectes Therfore I did think● it would be a more fitte worke to renewe the olde moniments and workes of our Fathers which by occasion of tyme and rashnes of writers haue bene peruerted then to setforth any new matter And such workes ought most chefely to haue credite geuen to them which haue there original of our excelent roote and stocke and which doth flowe out of a good stone and runne out of a most excellent fountaine or welspringe as are those which be drawne out of the Buttries of the old Catholike Doctors which vnder the choyse of wordes haue powred out the deuine spirite in such sorte that all the worlde maye easely vnderstand and chuse an immortall lyfe as also knowe what is good and what is euill and as sone as like vnto diligent and paynefull Bees you haue drawne out the swete hony more precious then Rosemarie out of the swete flowers of our holy Fathers and hath layed them vppe in the hyue of your minde there is no doubte but that you shall haue floddes of water of lyfe sesoninge and with force watering the poore thirstie Church of our Sauiour Christ farthermore euery purpose or Arte hath his princes of whom it is led by as of capitaines which doth most sone and with great expidition bring our purpose to that effect which otherwise our wittes would hardly comepasse as I knowe him which is setforth or fygured to me by the shape of an other which goeth or passeth by so in our lyfe we shall sone addicte our selues to followe other mens examples as it is sayd of old liuely examples sticketh in the mind wherof as Heronimus doth witnes the Romanes did follow as leaders capitaynes the Camillians the Fabricians and the Scipians The Philosophers hath apoynted maisters of there Arte. Pythagoras Socrates Plato and Aristotle The Poets do followe Homere Virgill Menander and Terens The historians Thucidides Salust Herodatus and Liuius The Orators Licias Graccus Demosthenes and Tullie The Painters or caruers Appelles Dedalus Iason But we which labour for and seeke the moste excellent giftes of the mind and the knowledge of Christian doctrine haue so many and so great examples of our most worthy forfathers that we lacke nothing pertayning to thaugmenting or establishing of a Christian lyfe Sith that therbe an innumerable number of interpretors or Prophets of the word of God and Canonicall scriptures I thought good out of so great a number to chuse certayne which both by sinceritie and purenes of doctrine by integritie of manners by vehimens of teachinge By sharpnes of wtte doth both much affect and delight as also make vs wel instructed prepared and Armed not that the doctores themselues would haue vs farther to credite or beleue them then they do agree with the holy Scriptures as Augustine doth witnes in many places but chefely in his booke of Retractiones wh●● he sayth I nether can nor ought to denye But as there were in my forfathers so there are in my so many and huge workes many things which by iust iudgement and without any temeritie may well be erected but they haue made Arroes and dartes agaynst these Antechristes in the Church For neuer since the dayes of the Apostles vnto this our tyme vpon whom the endes of the worlde are come the Church of Christ hath bene free from those enemies althought continually the truth remaineth inuincible yet falshood doth neuer leaue of taduaunce her selfe agaist it if in this world there might be the end of lying the Church of Christ should be in quiet But this most detestable euill and sinne doth neuer rest to knocke at the harte of man and with such argumentes as one woulde not thinke to disquiet the Catholike fayth therfore it is necessary for the folowers of the troth wisely to forsee these captious Arguments and being vncouered and brought to light with the mallet of veritie and truth to beate them downe yea and euen to the death and bloudsheding for verities sake to fight against them and chefely because the holy Scriptures doth admonish and saye Be not dismayed or asrayd to speake the word for thy soule and for the troth euen to death for Paule doth desire the Romanes to marke them which cause diuision and geue occasions of euill contrary to the doctrine which they had learned and to auoyde them for they that are such serue not the Lord Iesus Christ but their owne bellies and with sweete preaching and flattering wordes disceaue the hartes of the innocents it may be that the Apostle did admonish the Romaines that they shold not be wauering in faith and in the word that they should shonne and put away Heritikes and seducers of soules But it is commaunded vnto vs that we should preach the word and should stand to it at all times and seasons we should correcte we shoulde perswade we should chide and chasten them withall patience and doctrine for the time shall come and now it is when they shall not away with true and wholsome doctrine but shall get them masters according to their owne desires which haue itchchinge eares and which turne their hearing and sence from veritie and truth vnto fables Therfore the Apostle doth exhorte vs to watch to labour and to do the workes of true gospellers let that terrible sentence of S. Chrisostome neuer be out of our eares saying he is not onely a Treatour to veritie that doth openly setforth a lye in stead of troth but he also that doth not freely without feare speake the troth Augustine saith the like in his Epistle to Casulan who soeuer for feare of any power doth hide the truth such a one doth prouoke the wrath of god vpon him because he doth more feare man then god But gentle Readers I do besech and perswade you that do wisely and simply loue the wordes of troth that you do not contemne this treasure that you haue now in your handes but both to loue it and set it forwarde for this one little Booke doth declare that which being contayned in many volumes would be hard tattaine vnto and this shall lead