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A01219	An oration against the vnlawfull insurrections of the protestantes of our time, vnder pretence to refourme religion Made and pronounced in Latin, in the Schole of Artes at Louaine, the .xiij. of December. Anno. 1565. By Peter Frarin of Andwerp, M. of Arte, and Bacheler of both lawes. And now translated [by John Fowler] into English, with the aduise of the author.; Oratio Petri Frarini quod male reformandae religionis nomine arma sumpserunt sectarii nostri temporis habita. English	Frarinus, Petrus.; Fowler, John, 1537-1579.	1566 (1566)	STC 11333; ESTC S112684	57,035	182

a Sprite Incubus as the common reporte goeth who is your chiefe Apostell and Patriarche We knowe him verie well what he was whence he came and what authoritie he had When he was a yonge man he studied the ciuill law and afterward when for his recreation he walked in the field nigh the Vniuersitie of Erforde he was strykē down to y t grounde with a sudden thunderclap and lighting and his companion that walked then with him was with y ● blow quite slaine before his face whereat he was so astonied and put in such feare that he determined with him self to forsake the world to enter into Religion so out of hande made him selfe an Augustine Friere At the laste he was made Doctour in Diuinitie with shame inough for he came to that degree with the money that was bequethed to an other man whome with the help of his Prior he beguiled What other estate or degree he had in the common weale or Apostleship in the Church of God beside this we could neuer yet learne by any meanes But in deede he braggeth verie often that he is wel assured that his doctrine and conclusions are from heauen and that he was sent from heauen to the Germans to be their first Apostle that should preache them the Gospell for before his dayes he sayed that they neuer had any true Religion or Christen doctrine In few words he maketh more accompte of him selfe then of S. Augustine and all other holie and auncient Fathers of Christes Churche This bragginge Thraso telleth manie strainge matters of him selfe more maruelouse then true This is more like to be true as he reporteth of him selfe that he had manie times familiar conference and talke with the Diuell Yea and his Actes doings during his raigne written and faithfully regestred by Cocleus other of his neighbours men of great learninge and credite do most manifestly declare and proue that from y e diuel also his familiar frend Prince of this world he receaued authoritie and commission to punissh all good and honest men and to gainesay and withstand the holy Masse Ihon Caluine borne at Nouiodunum in Picardie a man banished frō his countreie for his wicked behauioure and whiles he liued in his countreie the veriest vnthrifte and naughtiest verlet of al his companions first hydde him selfe at Basile then beganne to shew his head at Straseburge and preache to the Renegates and Apostles there At last came to Geneua and put out the Deputie of the Citie expelled the Bisshope and all the Cleargie that were honeste and Catholike with all the vertuouse and substantiall Citysens and so wanne Authoritie and beganne to raigne there like a Conquerer by the lawe of treason and force of armes What neede I here againe bring you in mind of that Epicure Beza the Burgonion a Licentiate in law who taketh so muche Poeticall licence that in his bawdie and fylthie Epigrammes he passeth farre the wanton Pagan Poetes Martiall and Tibullus What shall I speake of Bernardinus Ochinus y ● Italiane who laboreth to plante the beastly Doctrine of Polygamie that is that more then one wife at once may ioyne w t a mā in y e state of lawful matrimony willing therefore and perswadinge men to be Manywiuers as the Turkes are What shall I tell you of Peter Martyr the Renegate Moncke or of Bernarde Rotman an vnlearned Asse that beganne to professe learninge and by color of only Scripture whiche he vnderstode not expelled the Catholikes out of the Citie of Munster Or of Ihon of Leid y t tailor y t furiouse captaine of the mad Anabaptistes who within a yeare after got y ● vpper hand of Rotman draue out y ● Lutherans brought in y t Anabaptistes begā to raigne in y ● very same Cit hauing won cōquered y ● field by y ● same crafte pretēse of scripture only as Rotmā did before so gaue him a fall in his own turn serued him w t his own sance or of Osiander that Holie Man commonlye called the seconde Enoch a Goddes name or of Carolostadius that rude maried Archedeacon of Wittemberge who became afterwarde for mere foly a mad and vnskilful plowghman to the wonder and laughinge game of all that coūtry Or of Illyricus Musculus Farellus Virettus Or of Bucer Morot and Malot the ringleaders and teachers of all mischefe good God what a rable haue we here what a noble ranke of vertuous graue renoumed Fathers is here such as I assure you no honest and discreete householder woulde euer suffer by his good will to tarie within his doores Such Champions are they that professe them selues to be the Aduersaries and enemies of the Catholike Churche these be y e captains that stand against the Bisshopes of Christes Church y ● kinges of Christendome and Rulers of cōmon Weales Such are the Oratoures and Preachers that vse to declaime to raile to thunder againste the blood Shrines of Martyres against the Catholyke and vniuersal Religion of the Christians against the mystical and holy Sacramentes of the Churche Yea and sticke not like madde dogges to barcke and baye against y ● very blessed and pretiouse body of our Lord Iesus Christ These yea such fellowes as these be are they who nowe these manie yeres vsurpe a Lordly authoritie ouer vs whome we are compelled to take for our masters who take vppon them to controlle the doinges and maners of all the whole world And yet can we learn by no meanes wherehence came this so Imperiall a soueraigntie or who gaue them so greate and princely Authoritie except we say they had it of Satan and y ● they be the very vndouted prophets and Forerunners of Antichrist The Bysshoppes and Prelates of Christes Church doe excommunicate thē out their flocke and seperate them from the mystical Society felloship and Communion of all Christian men The Christen Princes and Rulers of the worlde do bannissh them do take them for outlawes and both by proclamations and force of armes trauaile with much care and diligence to defende and saue themselues and theyr louing Subiectes from them God allmightie the Omnipotent Lord and Ruler of heauen and earth neuer signifyed to the worlde by any miracle Signe or seely token that we shoulde take suche as these are for hys Commissioners or Deputies excepte a man will saye that this is a Miracle y ● these fellowes oftentymes whyles in the presence of the People they faine that they are able in the Vertue of the Gospel they preache to restore the dead to lyfe doe make the liue stark dead ●…s a certaine Preacher did one Mathias in Polonia and the like is crediblie reported of Ihon Caluine at Geneua Howe then ▪ What shal we take them to be In fewe wordes they are theeues that come in by the Windowe they are Murderers Traytours Heretykes Satans Ministers For why theyr doeinges declare no lesse They doe the Commons wronge

and a dog an adder a cocke and an Ape w tin the bag with him and being so beset and accompanied with those vgly dismold and deadly mates packed about him was cast aliue into the sea if it were nigh els into the next riuer So y t being yet aliue he lost the vse and seruice of al y ● foure elements at ones the aier the fire the earth y e water because he had bereued that man of his life by whose benifite he was brought to the world and to the vse of all these And this strainge kind of most shameful ignominious punishment death was executed only vpon those y t had killed their parēts for their vnnatural vile and abhominable offense But this mā y t was put to so strainge filthy infamous kind of most cruel death who was cōpelled against nature to eat his owne flesh which euery man spareth and cherisheth haue bene of likelihood giltie of such so great so vilanouse a trespace that excepte he had bene rydde out of the waye and put to the moste cruell death that coulde be inuented the whole frame of all the world must nedes haue fallen downe and perysshed And yet to this miserable man who shalbe spoken of hereafter to y ● worldes end and be peraduenture the rufull argument and lamentable matter of tragicall stages this only faulte was laied that he was a Christian man a Catholike a Priest It was againste theyr will that y ● Ministers of the Gospell punished him so cruelly but yet for Reformations sake they could not chuse but of necessity do it For reformations sake also I doubt not as the Reformed brethren in Christ doe fondly beleue they sacked spoiled threw doune to the grounde the most Christian Kings house at Orleans and the goodly Temple of S. Anian that stoode by it buylded with Princely worke of y t kings charges and al the faire and riche Churches of that noble and renoumed Citie excepte certaine litle Churches whiche they spared to put in their Harnesse Artiliary and prouision for Warre and the chiefe Cathedrall Churche S. Crosse which they reserued standing but yet all to rifled rased and mangled to preach in and to be the place of their dailye walke for recreation The Englishe men who by the lawe of armes by manhode princely prowesse and force of warre had conquered and wonne well nigh all Fraunce could neuer ouercome and get the strong mighty and most defensed walles and rampiers of Orleans But this Gospellish Refourmation in this last Insurrection in Fraunce hath filled vp the Ditches with earth stones and rubbell hath throwen downe to the ground the surest towres the strongest Bulwarkes all the defense of the Towne and all the stronge holdes and Fortresses round about they haue made the Walles so flat and plaine that in sundry places Cartes and Horses may cas●y passe ouer yea they haue brought al the goodly streates Suburbes Vines about the Towne to a bare barein and naked field The moste Christian king Lewys the eleuenth his body was buried Honorably and princely in a goodly tumbe richly garnished with his Image grauen on the outside in our Lady Church at Clery foure leagues from Orleans For reformations sake they did hew the kinges Image in peeces cut of his armes feete and head and when they thoughte they had sufficiently punished the Image they open the sumptuous honorable graue pluck vp the kinges body out of the lead wherein it was enclosed caste it into the fire and burne it and at laste they spoyle the goodly Church that was trimly builded with costly and faire worke they vncouered the toppe of it and caste it quite downe For Refourmations sake the harte of good king Francis the second who died lately poysoned as it is thought by the meanes of these Gospellers that was buried before the highe Aultare in the Churche of S. Crosse at Orleans was digged out of the ground broyled on a grediern and at last burned For Reformatiōs sake Orleās Roan Lions and many other rich Townes in Fraunce the whiche florished sometime with great traficke of marchaundise are brought to extreame pouertye and miserable lacke and scarcitie of all things necessary And haue fewer occupiers porer Marchauntes and are lesse hanted then euer they were before in any mannes remembraunce How many parents bereaued of their children how many children benummed of their Parentes how many Widowes weping for y e death of their husbāds how many Burgises turned out of house and home are nowe to be sene commonlie in Fraunce latelye reformed and all for reformations sake S. Peter had neither golde nor siluer nor yet passed vpō the getting of any he gaue to y ● pore man that asked his almes helth in stede of money But these newe Postles the disciples of Iudas Iscarioth and Simon Magus who trauail toth nail not to alter change but to abolishe and take quite and cleane away both law and Priesthode haue exceadinge greate store of gold and syluer which they scraped and gathered together by robbinge and spoiling and sacrilegiouse ●acking of Churches and yet they geue neither money nor helth to such as ask their almes they feede them with faire wordes and geue them sometymes stripes blowes wondes and most cruell death in steed of almes They say that the Cleargie is to riche and therefore they take away both from them and from the laietie also without respect or partialitie such hindrance letles impedimentes of pietie deuotion and perfection And they them selues in the meane tyme good men doe beare patiently vpon their neckes the synnes of the people and al this traish mucke and heauie burdens They throw down townes and Cities ouerthrow Temples and Churches to get gold without the which theyr Gospell can not be planted the world can not be refourmed yea they go into y ● bowelles and bottome of the earthe They robbe the dead to fill theyr owne purses they open and breake vp sepulchres and graues to haue y ● very lead wherein dead mens bodies bones and asshes are wrapped What tounge is able to expresse in wordes the spoile saccage and ruines of the Churches of Poictiers Lions and of other townes in al quarters of France This is moste certaine that Beza and his companions Theeues curthrotes like him selfe stole out of the Churches and Vesteries at Tours two thousand markes in syluer and a thousand marke in gold besides pretiouse stones chaines and other Iewels and ornamentes of greate valew yea and that with suche a rage such an vnmeasurable desyre and outragiouse couetousnes such a furiouse affection and thyrste of stealing and hauinge that they scratched all that euer they could by anie meanes and lefte not as much as a naile or peece of yron behinde them And bysydes all this the Holy Beza dubbled this myscheuous robbery of his with an other enormous outrage so haynouse and greate that no condigne and worthy ponisshment