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The displaying of the Protestantes, [and] sondry their practises, with a description of diuers their abuses of late frequented Newly imprinted agayne, and augmented, with a table in the ende, of all suche matter as is specially contained within this volume. Made by Myles Huggarde seruant to the Quenes maiestie.
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Huggarde, Miles.
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power that no kynde of mannes woorkes after faith receiued can helpe him to be made the sonne of God But this their saying will not stande with S. Iohns wordes For he sayth that to as many as receiued him and beleued in his holy name too suche people so receiuing so beleuing him he gaue to them power to be made the soÌ„nes of god Then if he gaue too them power to be made the sonnes God there be workes wrought after faythe so receiued wherby thei haue power in the merites of Christe to be made the sonnes of God And thus by fayth and not by faythe onely haue they this power too woorke the will of God whiche workes helpeth a man to iustificatioÌ„ as saint Iames affirmeth saying What auaileth it my brethren though a man saie he hath faith if he haue no dedes caÌ„ faith saue him How chaunceth it then that the protestantes with theyr onely faith beareth such swynge glorie so in the scriptures sithe saint Iames so manifestly saith that withoute workes a man can not be saued If a brother or a syster sayeth he be naked or destitute of daily fode and one of you saieth vnto them God sende you warmnes and fode notwithstaÌ„ding you geue theÌ„ not those thinges nedefull to the bodye what shal it helpe â–ª Euen so faith without workes is dead in it selfe He also saieth in another place that Abraham and Raab wer iustified by workes and coÌ„cludeth saying that of dedes not of fayth only a man is iustified What more plainer wordes can be wished for to proue that workes auayle too iustification But what shall we saie vnto you then o ye pestilent protestantes whiche with youre sugred talke and swete woordes haue begiled the poore people in suche sorte that thei beleue verely they shal be saued in a beleuing faith without any workes at al What shall we say vnto you O ye betrayers of your countreye for this your lastinious preaching of onely fayeth too exclude good workes the chief state wherfore we were borne O wicked men worse then the deuel your father of whose progeny ye are lyneally descended What ment you herein to robbe God of his glory and to bereue from his poore membres their reliefe and fode What glorious similitudes haue you vsed in these your practises to begile the poore men Hope in the bloud of Christe truste in his redemption he is our satisfaction his death only can iustifie vs and suche like ye were wont to vse to instil a zeale to the hartes of your herers the rather to credite your doctrine These be swete wordes doubtles and mete to be hadde in price of all men But howe as ye meane theÌ„ God forbidde I may aswell saye Doest thou beleue in the bloude of Christe Then do what thou liste his death is sufficient But let euery catholike man beware of this doctrine for it is a lying doctryne a deceitfull argument and a doctrine of deuels We knowe that our iustification procedeth of God only by the passioÌ„ of his derebeloued soÌ„ne Iesus Christe But this his passion beyng not to vs applied by folowing his steppes so farre as it lieth in our powers in doynge the dedes of charitie the same to vs is not auailable For although his death is sufficient enough to attaine to iustification yet if in the merites of the same we do not worke euerye man according to his vocation the same to vs yeldeth no comfort Saint Paule therefore sayeth that the hearers of the lawe are not iuste but the doers of the same shal be iustified Therfore accordyng to the saying of Saint Iohn let no man seduce you for he that doeth righteousnes is iustified The scriptures are full of these exhortacions in doing the woorkes of iustice the rather by Christ not by faith only to attayne to saluacion Therefore these odible perswasions of the protestantes touching this opinion ought too be from the harte of man clerely repelled And as Liuie rehersing the oracion of Menippus Embassadour to Antiochus spokeÌ„ to the Romaines saieth that faire perswasions in the beginning seme pleasant but in th eÌ„de they be sorrowfull euen soo the vnhappie sermons more vnhappy bokes made by these hedgecreping protestantes semed at the first show pleasant stuffe but thendes therof god wote are moste lamentable For besides the ill opinions beaten into the heades of the careles multitude libertie of lyfe hathe borne suche swynge that good life bereth no rule Libertie by meanes of these ruffians hath takeÌ„ such holde fast that it hath dashed good life quite out of couÌ„tenance Libertie is rooted so in mannes harte that to moste meÌ„ it is fraÌ„kely retayned Libertie a roister hath such interteignemeÌ„t that of many he receyueth a double welcome Libertie a parasite at euery mannes borde is choked with the fare of many daintie dishes Thus moste sortes of men glad too haue libertie care not what haste they make to the deuell O deuelysh libertie I wold to GOD Germany might haue kepte the styll so Englande had neuer bene troubled with the. I would to God thou haddest had all our Englyshe bier too drynke dronke with Hance and Yacob in Strasborowe vpon condicioÌ„ London had neuer reteyned the. I would to God thou haddest remayned in Switherlande a conquerour so that thou haddest neuer had conquest in Englande For sythe thy arriuall hether many poore men by thy vngracious marchaundise are vndoone Many a good Englyshe man at the first glad to entertaygne the for curtesie as a straunger wold now be rydde of their gueste but they cannot But I truste shortly to see the bankeroute and glad to flye the realme I heare saye thy poore companions nowe in Geneua Emden Frieslande Strasborough and other places of Gernye â—urse the time that euer they knewe the and thy haunte if credite may be geuen to the coiners froÌ„ thence Whose miserie is such that a chamber as bygge as a Swynecotte is of as good rente as the best marchauntes house in LondoÌ„ And no maruaile though our cornerkreapers be so frendely welcomed paying soe well for their welcome I heard saye of one in Grauesende Barge belyke some pilgryme of Goddes churche that the poore menne of that couÌ„trey which in dede were very poore before the repayre of our englishmen thether are now become iolye fellowes And by what meanes thinke you By lettyng out their cotages in the townes to our countreymeÌ„ Who because they be glad to haue theÌ„ vse no debating of the matter as we do but bidde them aske and haue And they strayning small curtesie are contented too take their offer O lameÌ„table cases of a sorte of thurstie soules whiche for the thurst of the lordes worde as they cal it do thurst after their owne destruction The Lordes woorde was taught here establyshed longe before your dayes and the hole laÌ„de beleued therin And wil you deuise a new lordes worde to cole your dronken stomakes Hath Germany a
with teares too lament the same yea if it were as harde as the stony Caucasus or as sauage is the Tigres of Hircania And whereof sprange this miserie Doubtles by the similitudes of godlines which then was pretended to the kynges maiestie by certen yonge whelpes newely crept oute of the stable who too bryng the same to passe inuented a similitude of godlynes too banyshe the popes authoritie which with all meanes possible withstode the same But here I know certen good fellowes wil obiecte sayinge Sir you begyn to rage to far vpoÌ„ vs poore protestantes lay al this geare to our charge as though none but we and oure skolemaisters were the doers hereof But sir I pray you did you neuer reade a booke made by the bishop of Winchester deceased entituled of true obedience whiche boke inueyeth against the authoritie of the Pope Yes in deede goodman protestaÌ„t I haue read the sayde booke in latyn and of late I reade the same also in englyshe but howe faithfully translated I leaue that to the iudgement of him which wyl compare them bothe together before the whiche is annexed a dronken prologue made by some hote spreted brother no doubt of as fine matter as the maker coulde deuyse But forasmuche as it is obiected that the author of that boke and others also inueyed against the sayd Popes authoritie that they were not only protestantes which sought the abandoning of the same Wel then I wold wyshe that the protestaÌ„tes which were then the originalles of the same would do as the sayde byshop of Wynchester and other good byshoppes haue done synce seke all meanes possible to restore the same agayne and to reduce that to the olde state whiche the protestantes for ambicion and the other for feare did then seke meanes to displace And as it is well knowen that it hath pleased god to call thautor of that boke to his mercy since who with a repentant harte with sainte Peter lamented the denial of gods truth so I wold it were as wel knoweÌ„ that the other I meane Cranmere had repented in semblable maner and would haue acknowledged goddes truthe to th ende For the one hath ended his lyfe after natures direction thother hath shortened his lyfe contrarie to nature The one in his bedde the other in the fier the one in the vnitie of the churche the other in the discord of heretikes the one honorably the other miserably the one as a catholyke the other as an heretike the one a true maÌ„ to God and the crowne the other a false man to God the realme Therfore I appeale to al mennes iudgementes herein to consider whether partie sought y â— destructioÌ„ of this realme or whether partie more worthy to be blamed The one worthy of blame but y â— other worthy condemnacioÌ„ And therefore pretented accordyng to their dispositions similitudes of godlines but denied the poower therof TheÌ„ folowed subuersioÌ„s of abbaies being another similitude of godlines perswaded by the sayd protestantes by whose pytifull spoyle procedeth the decaye of our common wealth For it was thought before their subuersion that all thynges woulde be better cheape but they became as good cheape as thinges did in Rome after the makyng of the lawe called Agraria For whyles the Senatours and other rulers of the citie were striuing for thassignementes of their porcions the hoale publike state was brought to ruyne by dissension and ciuile warres The landes and possessions belonging to the sayde abbaies beyng let slyp at liberttie from the sure bandes wherewith thei were before duely kept to the coÌ„modite of the realme and relief of the poore are nowe neyther so profitable to the owners al thinges considered nor yet comodious to the common welth It is to be thought that some whiche wer appointed doers about these possessions played the parte of a Romaine called Quintus Fabius Labeo who beynge appointed a daiesman betwene the Nolanes Neapolitanes about the boundes of their laÌ„des did debate the matter with either of them a parte wheÌ„ thei were come to the place and to thintent they shoulde not encâ—oche vpoÌ„ eche other the same was staked oute indifferentlye Nowe in the middes there remained a parcel of grouÌ„d vntouched which parcel of ryght also ought to haue bene staked out to thuse of either partes but he adiudged the same to the people of Rome In lyke maner whyle some were in debating the abbaie possessioÌ„s and stakinge the same oute to the kinges vse some remained in the middes mete for their owne vses Thus these similitudes of goodlines in reprouyng the abbaiemen of their ill lyues haue brought both the abbaies and all to vtter ruyne And whiles they were tickling the kynges maiest in the eare with the abuses vsed in the same they theÌ„selfes sought meanes to aspire vnto honoure not caring for the miserie whiche myght ensue nor yet seking reformatioÌ„s of the sayd abuses What a shewe of godlines was it trowye to induce so many straunge alteracions of Religion after the death of kyng Henry the eyghte but only to deny the power therof Did not men crye alwayes vpon goddes booke the worde of the lorde the heauenly fode the spirite of truthe and suche lyke But howe contrarye their dedes were too these their outcries let theÌ„selfes be iudges Many other similitudes of godlines haue thei brought forth to the shew of the worlde but the power of al godlines they vtterly denye with the effecets And to come to some particuler pointes haue they not denied the power of goddes word to worke any thyng too the iustifying of manne by the water of baptisme Haue they not also denied the moste manifest woordes of god spoken touching the consecration of his reall body in the sacrameÌ„t of thaltar and say that those wordes be spokeÌ„ tropically and figuratiuely and that they can woorke no suche effecte as bread to be transsubstanciated in to his body although Christe by his Euangelistes Apostles Prophetes Doctors Martyrs doth moste playnely affirme the same Haue they not also denyed the power of God in the wordes spokeÌ„ by the priest at the tyme of confession beyng so playnly commaunded by Christe saying Whose synnes you forgiue the same shal be forgeuen Haue they not also denied the power of gods worde in the rest of the seuen sacramentes abolishyng fyue quite out of their coÌ„pany as vnworthy therof yea and the other twayne remaining as they handled theÌ„ skarce worthy the name of a sacrameÌ„t And as they haue denyed the power of godlynes in these Sacramentes so haue they also denyed the same in the workes of GOD wrought by his grace in all godly men to be any meanes too attayne to iustification contrary to the wordes of S. Iohn saying To as manye as receyued hym meanyng Christe he gaue them power to bee made the sonnes of God euen them that beleued in his holy name some peradueÌ„ture wyll saye here that fayth onely includeth so this