bare witnesse of the light and therefore was of more authoritie then the light it selfe So in the first of Peter and the third chapter it is sayd That men should be wonne to the word without the word by the conuersation of women so that the conuersation of women should be of more authoritie then the word But it must be considered that this argument is not good The authoritie of the church to Sainct Augustine being a puny and a nouice in matters of religion was greater then the authoritie of Christ therfore the authoritie of the church is simply greater then the authoritie of christ No more then this argument Iohn was in better credit with the Iewes then Christ when he â—…are witnesse of Christ therefore Iohn his witnessing ought to be the better Or this argument womens conuersation moueth some men more then the word therfore it doth moue or ought to moue simply more then the word But euen as Iohn that bare witnesse of Christ did confesse that he was not worthy to loose Christes shoe latchet no more the church though it beare witnesse of Christ in respect of credit and authoritie is not worthy to loose Christes shoe latchet And euen as when Christ put forth him selfe and began to be knowen to the people Iohn said it behoueth me to waxe lesse and him to waxe greater so when the church hath geuen a man to vnderstand of Christ and that Christ beginneth to appeare vnto vs the church decreaseth in authoritie and estimation like Iohn and Christ increaseth and waxeth greater in authoritie and credit Euen so do the Samaritanes in the fourth of Iohn that were brought to Christ by the woman of Samaria say thus we do not now beleue for thy talke for we our selues haue heard and do know And yet S. Augustines case and ours is not like For he was moued by the authoritie of that church which perswaded him to the Gospell the authoritie of the church of Rome doth bend it selfe and is directed to moue vs onely to the church of Rome Besides that that church did compell no man as he writeth to Fundamentus in the 4. epistle the church of Rome doth compell vs to beleue theyr church or compell the soule to forsake the body Agayne they reason that the Church shall be a citie standing vpon a mountayne and therfore it must alwayes be visible and no church say they is so but the church of Rome The very true exposition of thys place is this as it may appeare by all good expositors that the Apostles are called the citie vpon a mountayne the salt of the earth So that the true meaning is this a good Apostle is salt and therfore let him season a good Apostle is a mountayne citie or a high citie and therfore let him shew and shine so in workes that he may glorify God his heauenly father And in déede this text is expounded naturally thus and without violence For it is very straunge to a diuine to thinke that Gods church should be a mountayne citie or a mounting citie a high thing or a renounded thing or a thing glorius in the world For the church of God is represented in the burning bush of Moses it is neuer without fiery persecution it is like the white horse in the Apocalips that is alwayes chased with a red horse it is like the Arke of Noah that is tossed in the sea and this is tossed in the world it is compared to the Moone that waxeth and wanteth by the presence or absence of the Sunne It is like Iacob that sleapeth on a stone It hath semen sanctum subsistentiam eius holy seede and holy men the substance and not commonly great personages and solemne personages the substaunce I know the church of God is oftentimes famous but that is thus ascendamus in montem Domini c. Let vs go vp vnto the mountayne of the Lord and he will teach vs of hys wayes The teaching of Gods wayes maketh Gods church a famous mountayne If Gods wayes be not truely taught though she sit vpon seuen hilles as the church of Rome vpon seuen hilles shée is not a famous mountayne but an ignominious valley Then they reason thus Christ prayed for Peter that his fayth shoulde not faile therefore Peter nor the Pope can erre Christ prayed likewise for all those that shall beleue hereafter then they may thus conclude that all those which haue do or shall beleue caÌ„ neuer erre TheÌ„ they reason thus Dic ecclesiae Tell the Church 〈◊〉 say that must be done when it may be done In the time of Constantius whom would they tell but Arrius for he bare all the countenaunce of the Church hys Church stoode then rather vpon a mountaine then any other Church for it was the highest and most mounting in mens eyes They reason againe that y Church is a pillor But I reason that Christ is the rocke Take away the rocke and downe comes y pillor The rocke is well inough without the pillor the pillor can not be without the rocke But besides all this they haue a perilous interrogation by which alone they thinke to master all the worlde to make vs all starke dumme and for euer to locke vp all our lippes and that is In such and such yeares where was your Church And this is that choking interrogatorie where was your Church I aunswere them euen from the very Articles of my Créede Credo sanctam Catholicam ecclesiam I beleue that there hath bene is and shall be a holy catholicke Church My sense can not shewe it and therefore I beleue it for if I sée it belief is in vaine for where sense faileth and can go no further there beliefe beginneth Nor is iâ—… necessarie that I should froÌ„ time to time sée the Church but I should from time to time beleue there is a holy catholicke Church But in déede they and such like brimme persecutors haue of so long time kept vnder the Church that we are driuen to beliefe onely for they haue left scarse any sense or memory of the true members of Christes Church But they cry still a loude Where was the Church I tell them that it is sayd of God Tu es vere Deus absconditus Thou art verily a hidden God. So the Church is oftentimes hidden The husband of an hidden condition and the spouse of an hidden condition Where was the Church Christ stoode in the middest of them and they knew him not The Church was in the middest of them and they knewe it not Where was the Church Venient dies in quibus raedices aget Iacob There shall come dayes in which Iacob shall take roote Where was the Church when the Church had taken no roote Where was the Church Erat in vobis sed non erat ex vobis It was amoÌ„gest you but it was not of you Where was the church Ubi duo vel tres congregati erant in
Elizabeth by the grace of god c. That Gods enemies and her enemies may be made his and her footestools That her scepter may growe gréene and florishe like a Palme trée well and moystly planted and that her seate may neuer totter or nodde but stand stedy as the seate of Salomon and fayre as the sunne That the dayes of her regiment may be as the dayes of heauen Let vs pray for all the Nobilitie and genterie of this land that they do not liue as the Giantes or noble men before Noes floud without raigne or rule leâ—…t that as those Giantes brought downe vpon the heades of the world a floud of water so some of our Englishe Giantes do bring vpon vs a floud of fire That they may remember that saying of Dauidâ—… I sayd you are Gods because the word iâ—… come to you If the worde come to them or they to the worde then they are Gods Gods and Gods gentlemen if it come not to them nor they to it then they are the Heraldes Gods the Heraldes gentlemen Pray for them that they may be to their prince as Thomas was to his master Christ Let vs go and let vs dye with him That they may remember that Gods booke of life is better then the Heraldes booke of armes and that neither house nor bloud can saue or withholde their soules from the hand of hell but onely that iust bloud of the iust man Iesus Christ. Let vs hartily wishe to her maiesties most honorable Counsaile the spirite of councell and direction that they may be as Iosephes in Egypt faythfull and carefull to prouide for the necessities of the realme specially that mens soules be not starued with hunger and pine of the worde of god Pray for all vs of Christes Ministerie that as we are called â—…ightes so we may geue light and as we â—…re called Gods so we may continue to â—…aster the world by the worde as we are â—…alled Ambassadors so we may be cheaâ—…ie to speake from God to man as we are called dogges we may barke and as we are called watchmen so we may carke and kéepe and that that voice may ring through and through our heades O Tymothie keepe that which is committed Pray for both twaine the Uniuersities of Cambridge and Oxenforde or as the Scripture calleth theÌ„ the families of the sonnes of the Prophets that they may growe on from strength to strength in courage of spirite and from wisedome to wisdome in plentie of iudgement that they may be able meÌ„ to teach and reproue to plant and destroy and that like young Samuell they may profite in fauour with God and man Pray for all the whole world that they may open the gates of their hartes that the prince of glory may haue entraunce in and that being entred he be not bound and pinnioned as somtime he was in Cayphas his entresse but that he may be franke Chrisâ—… and at libertie and rule from one corner of our consciences vnto an other Likewise for thâ—…se that suffer trouble or grâ—…uance in soule or body but specially thosâ—… that grone vnder the crosse of Gog 〈◊〉 Rome and Magog of Constantinoplâ—… that they may be assisted with might or deliuered with spéede and that as Ioell sayth the house of Iacob may be a fire the house of Ioseph may be a flame and the house of Esau may be stubble Lastly let vs yeld vp thankes to the high throne of our heauens father for those our brothers and sisters that are gone to God out of this lamentable maze of miserie Desiring God that the north winde may geue and the south winde do not retaine that y who le shéete with all y fower corners of beastes cleane vncleane may be taken vp into heauen that Christ may be king from sea vnto sea that nations may be geuen vnto his inheritance that the holy Ghost may stirre and the father draw and the sonne thrust no man out that commeth vnto him that the workemen may be many that the nets may be full that his will may be done in these Sainctes in earth as in those aboue in heauen where doubtlesse nothing is done against Gods will that we full of the feare of God and full of fayth may be gathered together to our forefathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob For these and what soeueâ—… the holy Ghost that best doctor spirite of wisedome shall prompt into our spirites I pray you all say the Lordes prayer Our Father c. Fayrest of women whether is thy beloued gone c. Here are fower thinges as I take it to be noted And in the first place because there is a question asked Whether is thy beloued gone I will endeuour my selfe to speake of questions demaundes Secondly because the question is asked of the fayrest of womeÌ„ that is of Christes Church I will speake of the Church which Church is a woman and which not which is fayre and which not and then of the authoritie of the Church because here the question is asked of the Church and the Church séemeth to kéepe the determination in the goinges of the beloued that is in matters to be knowen of christ In the third place commeth to be handled the aunswere geuen by the Church which is My beloued is gone downe to the beds of hys spicerie c. Lastly though not by the order of the text yet by order of matter I will speakâ—… vpon these wordes Tell vs and we will seeke him with thee Howbeit these latter wordes shall not growe into any long processe Onely I will geue charge and vehement exhortation to the world to séeke Christ and make after him I will tell them if they séeke him they shall finde him and I will not sticke to sweare if they finde him they shall find the whole complishment of their hartes desire In the meane season feare ye not good presence that I should kill you with lothsomnesse and length For I will poste through my many matters with what possible speede I can And first touching questions thinges to be demaunded it is well sayd of Paule coÌ„cerning questions of edifying In these thinges I would haue thee confirmed these be good and profitable for men But folishe questions and questions of natiuities those shunne for they be vnprofitable and vaine Good questions and profitable are to be demaunded So the kinges in old time were wont to aske the Prophets of their battailes and affaires So Naamans seruaunt asked Elizas the Prophet Whether if hys master should goe vp to the Idole temple and worship he might do so or no So the Eunuch asked Philip the exposition of these wordes Ductus est sicut ouis ad mactationem c. So Iohn asked a question Tâ—… ne is es c. Art thou he that shall come or shall we looke for an other So Mary asked a question How can these thinges be done vnto me sith I haue no knowledge of man So Philip asked a
be but a brokeÌ„ staffe as Esay termes weake helpes and will in the end plunge mans soule in desperation in conflict and in hel Such peace tasted Franciscus Spira of that died in desperatioÌ„ tasted Ecchius of that dying vttered desperate wordes tasted Sadoletus of that dyed in a weake fayth tasted Latomus of that roared like an Oxe in his death bedde and as some thinke tasted Bish. Gardiner of Those of that Church do fremere vt vrsi do rore like Beares and those of our Church and those that be the members of our faire woman they doe as the Prophet sayth Gemere vt columbi Mourne like Doues Thei die therfore like our Sauior Christ Ego vado ad patrem taking death to be no more but a passage to the father They die like Paule There is layde vp for me a crowne of glory They die like Steuen Lord I betake my soule to thy handes They die like Polycarpus Lorde make me a partner of thy resurrection They die like Luther God is the great Byshop of my soule let him take carke of my soule They die like Caluine 〈◊〉 haue holden my peace Lorde because thou hast done this This woman this Church bringeth warre to the body and warre to the soule and therefore she is 〈◊〉 foule woman Againe if sinne do make foule and vncleane then is this woman that wayâ—… very foule and vncleane to In respecte oâ—… sinne Tertullian Hierome call Rome Babylon But if they will be so impudenâ—… as to denie their vglie monstrous racâ—… of sinne then let Barnard speake that sayth There is no healthfull place in that Church froÌ„ the toppe to the toe â–ª Nay go ye then to and speake euen ye Italian writers speake Boccas speake Petrach speake Mantuan and speake Pallengenius Howbeit it is vaine in mâ—… to bidde them speake who commonly throughout all their workes doe burste out into most bitter spéeches agaynst the enormious life of the Church of Rome But admit these men had neuer spokeÌ„ any one word agaynst that church yet doo but loke ouer Bales booke of Votaries and a boke called A Cataloge of witnesses agaynst the Pope of Rome and then I doubt not but you will subscribe that this church of Rome is a most sinfull woman In the meane time vpon the witnessing of so many witnesses in great earnest I tell you that she is a most sinfull woman and therfore spiritually a most foule and deformed woman Those thinges that they obiect to our church are but freckes and speckes in comparison of the Botches and Biles of theyr owne church And for our further purgation I report me to a litle booke of Master Caluine de scaÌ„dâ—…lis nostrae ecclesiae of such reproches as may be intended against our church Now if they will say that their church is fayrer because she is trimly attired because she hath curious copes and veluet vestmentes sensing and singing and much ioly ringing it may please them to vnderstand that all this fayrenesse is not fayrenesse from within the church but an outward fayrenesse and a paynted fayrenesse And all those reasons which Peter Martyr in the booke of kings doth bring that a woman ought not to paint her face may be alleged agaynst them that they ought not to paint theyr church And if euer they will proue theyr church to be a fayre church they must first make this good that painted beawty is a good beawty And thus much haue I sayd in these two poynts that Christes church is a woman and hath womanhead that Antichristes church is a drab and a shamelesse brothell that Christes church is fayre that Antichristes church is foule And now let me speake of the church and of the authoritie of the church which I coÌ„fesse to be some because here the church or fayrest of women is asked and doth geue answer of the beloued and doinges of christ Touching theyr argumentes whereby they would geue so great an authoritie to the church they be light and nothing such as they are estéemed To come to their first argument which is Thou art Peter and vpon thee Peter I will build my church â–ª it doth not serue for theyr turne euen by the testimony of the better sort of the fathers For Augustine vpon Iohn sayth Non a petro petra sed petrus a petra The rocke taketh not name of Peter but Peter of the rocke And agayne he sayth I will build thee vpon me and not me vpon thee Such like wordes hath Origen and so Hierom to Iouianus who in an other place sayth that the church is fouÌ„ded vpon all the Apostles But they haue an vnuincible argument out of S. Augustine I would not beleue the Gospell except the authoritie of the church did moue mee I will not expound S. Augustine nor they shall expouÌ„d him but S. Augustine shall expound S. Augustine And here I let them vnderstand by S. Augustine that he vseth to spâ—…ake in the preterimperfectence for the preterplupâ—…ctence So in the first booke of his confessions and â—…enth chapt speaking of his youth he sayth thus Non enim dicerem nisi cogâ—…r Which can not be truely expounded but thus Non didicissem nisifuissem coactus I should neuer haue learned except I had bene driuen thereto Agayne in the second booke and third chap. he sayth Erubescerem for Erubescebam I should blush for I did blush soo that there hée straineth the moodes In the eight chap. he sayth Si tunc amarem poma illa qua furutus sum which cannot be expounded thus If I then would haue loued these aples which I haue stolen but thus If I had then loued those aples which I had stolen so that we must reade amarem for amassem I had loued for I should loue â–ª In the tenth chap. he sayth thus Ego solus illud non facerem which must néedes be expounded thus I would not had done so So that héere we haue facerem for feciscem the imperfectence for the pluperfectence No otherwise must néedes be sayd Euangelio non crederem that is non credidisceÌ„ The Papistes say I would not beleue the Gospell except the authoritie of the church did moue me to it I by the circumstances of that placâ—… by likenes of these other places do say it can not be expounded but thus Non crederem Euangelio id est non credidiscem Euangelio So that the mere and vnbroken sense of S. Augustines wordes be these I should not had beleued or I should neuer had beleued the Gospell except the authoritie of the church had moued me thereto So that all the authoritie that they can gayne for the church out of this place is but this The church was an introduction to Sainct Augustine to beleue the Gospell therfore it is of more authoritie then the Gospell So they may say that the starre did shew the wise men the way vnto Christ therefore the starre hath more authoritie then christ â—…o Iohn
infinite so thaâ—… he could not perdy forget him self What â–ª was it learning in Doctor Smith to alledge the councell of Nice for Transuâ—…stantiation and than not to be able tâ—… show one word for that purpose â–ª Agayne that Doctor Ogelthorpe sayd openly in great assemble Ostende mihi qualis 〈◊〉 corpus qualis est corpus Is it not learnedly concluded of Prierias The church founded pardons Ergo the church is greater then Christ Is it not excesse of learning that maketh Durand and the rest of their rationals thus to dispute God made heauen and earth in the beginning and not in the beginnings therfore the Pope must be soueraigne Or thus God made two lightes a greater and a lesse therefore the Pope is bigger then the Emperour as the Sunne is bigger then the Moone Or thus princes shall eate the fat things of Ashur therfore princes sonnes must be Cardinals to haue rich temporalities in the church Or thus Iacob layd his handes thwartlinges or a crosse vpon Ephraim and Manasses therefore the wodden crosse is venerable Or thus when one shall go ouer vnto the Lord let his couering be remoued therfore he that becommeth a priest must shaue his crowne Or thus The Lordes is the earth and the roundnes thereof therefore the Oste must be round Or thus the Ethnickes must licke the dust of Israels feete therefore all men must kisse the Popes féete Or thus he shall sprinckle many nations therfore there must be holy water Or thus we sinne by word worke and hart therefore we must say thrise Kyrielison Or thus the Law goeth before the Gospell or Iohn before Christ therfore the Epistle must be red before the Gospell Or thus the Gospell lightneth the world therfore waxen Tapers must be lightned before the reading oâ—… the Gospell â–ª Or thus the Lord paised the earth with thrée fingers therfore we ought to crosse our selues with thrée fingers Or thus God sayd to the north wynde geue therfore the Gospell must be red with the priestes face northward â–ª Or thus A smoke came vp from the prayer of the sainctes Apoc. 8. therfore there must be sâ—…nsing in the church Or thus Mary went not forth to méetâ—… Christ ergo there must be close Nunnes Or thus Elias went to sée Gilgal Bethel and Ierico therfore there must bâ—… pilgrimes Or thus the féete of those that preach peace are beawtifull therfore Bishops must weare purple sandals Oâ—… thus the rocke was Christ therfore thâ—… altar must be of stone Oh high mistâ—…ries of learning and profound depthes of learning and surpassing fathers in respect of learning Should we not now strike downe and sacrifice a great huge forfatted bull to these worthies of learning Or should we not take a shril trompet and blow vp from a lofty Theatre All haile Learned doctors Uenerable doctors Reuerent doctors Doctorall doctors Doctorly doctors Irrefragable doctors Impregnable doctors Seraphicall doctors Angelicall doctors Magistrall doctors Illuminate doctors Autenticall doctors c. But sée the learning of these doctors in the epistles of obscure men and in a dialogue betwene Reuclin and Erasmus Thus haue I spoken good people of questions that they may be asked and that they may not be asked That they should be asked for learning that learning should be that ignoraunce is hurtfull that the aduersaries are vnlearned or learned by vs Touching the vnlearned state of their Clergic which hath bene now many a yeare I may well say that which Rabbi Aggai sayd of the vnlearned Iewes Our foréelders sayd he plowed and sowed made furrowes and mowed made flowers and threshed winded and grinded baked and set bread before you but ye Iewes ye had no mouth to eate it So of these Papistes they had Augustine and Chrysostome the Gregories Basill Theophilact and the rest that plowed and sowed made furrowes and mowed c but their mouthes were stopped with steples they had no mouthes to eate it England to thée as thou now art thou hast euen at this day plowers and sowers flowerers and mowers threshers winders and grinders bakers and bread makers bread of zealous doctrine and bread of life Open thy lippes God send thy lippes open O England God send thée good England God send thée mine owne deare countrey lippes to be opened mouth to receaue this bread chappes to conteine it teeth to chewe it palate to taste it toung to support it and to order it throate to conuey it stomacke to welcome it to disgest it to turne it into an heauenly iuice to supernaturall humor to spirituall bloud to life to blisse to spirite to comfort and ioye Fayrest of all women whether is thy spouse gone Here is to be noted that the Church is a woman and that she is fairest of womeÌ„ and of the authoritie of the Church because the question is demaunded of the Church in this place And first that the Church is a woman I will go by the fower Hebrue names of a woman onely I will compare the Church with a woman as she is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The appetite of a woman ought to be to her husband the appetite of the Church ought to be to christ The woman bringeth forth her children in sorrow and paine the Church bringeth forth in gréefe of members and losse of limnies A good woman must call her husband Lorde a good Church must call Christ and make Christ her Lorde A good woman must be obedient to the voyce of her husband learne of her husband at home the Church that is good must be ruled by Christ and not rule Christ Christes scholer and not Christes scholemaister Where it is said to Abraham Abraham heare the voice of thy wife The Papistes must consider that Christ doth not ouersée him selfe as Abraham did and therefore needes no aduertisement from his wife the Church Againe women be fearefull so Ieremy sayth The strong men of Babell shall be fearefull like women so the Church and euery member of the Church is fearfull So it is sayd Feare not Mary Feare not Ioseph Feare not Abraham Ieremy be not afraide of their faces and to Sainct Paule amongest the Corinthians Be not afrayde It was great shame in the olde time for a woman to be barren it is great shame for any Church not to teach the lawes of God to their sonnes and their sonnes soÌ„nes for that engendreth new churches It is as I say the Church of Christ is a woman and hath womanhead towardes her beloued The Church of Antichrist or Rome is a drab and hath no womanhead but fornication betwixt her pappes and adulterie betwixt her scirtes And euen at the last Councell of Trent they called the Pope the spouse of the Church I require all that â—…e of honestie what womanhead there is in that to haue two spouses at once to commit adulterie witâ—… Images to ouerrule the wordes of her husband to adde and take to and fro the wordes of her husband to burne
the eleuenth chap Assumam mihi duas virgas I will take to me two whippes that is many whippes But what is Gods backe That which the prophet Nahum sayd in his 3. chap. to Niniuy Uox flagelli et vox impetus rotae The voyce of a whippe and the voyce of a rumbling wheele the praunsing of horses the iumping of chariotes The horsemen lifting vp both the the brandishing blade of the sworde and the glistering speare many men wounded many corpses and carcases without number But what is Gods backe That which the prophet Malechy sayd in hys third chapter Accedam ad vos in iudicio I wil come vnto you in iudge ment and I will be a swift witnesse agaynst al of you But what is Gods backe That which I will tell you Our wickdnesse shall eate vp this best religion eate vp our best most deare and naturall prince eate vp all our good counsellors all our wyse and faythfull preachers and eate vp all that good is in this common wealth This is Gods backe This this good christians is Gods heauy backe Heauy it is God wott to those that shall féele it â–ª and I dare not say to England that it will be any lighter because England will be come no better But when that heauinesse shall come vpon England which hath come vpon other realmes for the same causes that it may worthely come vpon England let England then remember it was foretold her that God had a heauy backe And let no man here present or where so euer else thinke that it was womanish or childish in hagar to wéepe Quia vidit tergum Dei â–ª because she did see Gods backe for if God doo turne his backe so long vpon England as he hath turned his face vpon England Quis mirmidanuÌ„ dolapuÌ„ue aut duri miles â—…lissi temperet a â—…achrimis What Mirmadon souldier is he or what souldier of Dolap land or which of flintie Vlisses souldiers that shall be able to forbeare wéeping Nay it will wring teares from the eyes of the most retchlest Atheistes and obdurable Papistes in all this realme be they neuer so forlorne and flintie But these thinges be heauy things and matters of wéeping howbeit if men will reforme themselues to do better I will speake more chéerie and swéeter For if Adam will know the basenesse badnesse of his metall the misery that he hath in this base and badde fleshe that long he can not tarie in this base bad and miserable fleshe if being thus heauie and ouerloden he will resort vnto Christ the comforter if as God hath permitted the vse of weapon to man so weapon may be worne vnshethed to the strengthning of the realme and warres may be fought that Gods prayses may be quietly celebrated in great congregations if Princes and Magistrates will weare their weapons to purpose and draw them out for Gods sake if the safetie of the people may be minded and names of mildenesse and mercifulnesse not blind Princes eies and withdraw them froÌ„ their duties if Gods enemies and lawlesse leude persons may be punished if Papistes who be so may truely be taken to be greatest traytors to God and greatest to the Prince and féele and be fed accordingly if men will labour to lead such liues that they nede not to blushe if those which haue loued euill will fall to some honestie and blushe and be ashamed of that which is past and likewise shame to do the like hereafter if they will so runne to all Gods coÌ„maundementes and so intirely and without hypocrisie with zzeale and courage of spirite professe God with all the functions of body and soule as they ought to do then no more of Gods backe we may dry vp our teares God him selfe most willingly will do away his own backe â—…arken O louing and loued Christian brethren we shall escape Gods backe Gods heauie backe we shall sée Gods face Gods cherefull face as the Prophet Dauid sayth We shall see the braue beutie of our God. 〈◊〉 â—…al sée it clap our haÌ„des to haue séene it We shall haue as much blessednesse in seing ioying in our noble Queene as euer 〈◊〉 Salomons seruantes had â–ª in seing the face of their soueraigne master Gods word shall ruÌ„ne our sunne shal rise our sunne shall set no more we shall wash our waies with butter hony and oyle wil gush out of our stony rockes Our peace shall be like a floud and the iustice of the land shall be like gulfes of the sea the seede of our people shall be as the heares of their head as the starres of the skie as the sand of the shores as the grasse of the ground our race shall neuer be raced out Our soule shall be led into a faire gréene field and Christ our great shepeheard wil make vs draw neare to the waters of comfort he will make vs lye down on the soft wholesome grasse he will take vs and féede vs and we shall be fedde full euen in the fatte mountaines of Israell he will kisse vs with a kisse of his owne mouth his right hand will take holde on vs and his left hand will vpholde vs he will call vs his beloued and let vs sleepe as long as we list we shall sléepe in great safetie for the Sunne by the day time nor y vs by the night time we shall though it be 〈◊〉 the Cockatrice and wâ—… â—…rample on the Dragon 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 Lion. God will so rauish vs in tâ—…â—…weetenesse of his ointmentes that our dayes shall be as the dayes of heauen The wisedome of God will delight to play amoÌ„gest the sonnes of men the strength of God will be the chariots and knightes of Israell It is in vaine for man to be agaynst vs for he will be our Emanuell that is God with vs To whome the prince of peace the father of eternitie the glorious messenger of the great coun cell be all honour and dominion both now and euer more Amen The argument or occasioÌ„ oâ—… thâ—… place of Script Gods word makes noble men and gentlemen Diuision The Sorbonistes Latin. Duke Alua. Gen. 36. A brow of dishonestie D. Coâ—… Two speciall causes of Papistiâ—…all ignoraunce Faultes in the vulgar translation in the Bible Good intent is not inough D. SauÌ„ders behauiour The Papistes haue not had nor haue the best learned men on their side Sanders sayth earnestly that Caluin is vnlearned Let him go about to shew how and he shall be answered Naâ—…istes had liued still without learning if it had not bin for protestantes Those argumentes are to be found out gathered by Iacobus Anderae Sanders reasoning The groundes of papistry The second part The church and a woman compared The names of Gods church in scriptures The beutie of y church The first reason to proue the church of rome foule Mahomets the Popes churches foule alike The Iewes church and Popes church foule alike The secoÌ„d reason The third reason Contrarietie betwixt old young Peter The same reason other wayes proued The deuill and hys pope semblable The fourth reason tâ—… proue â—…er foule The fifth reason The authoritie of the church I would not beleue the Gospell c. Marâ—…e this aunswere throughout I should not had beleued the gospell c. The Church an hiâ—… Citie Gods church not mounting but miserable How gods church is mounting famous Christ prayed c. Tell the church The church a pillor Where was your church The Church of Rome not the church Argumentes The aunswere of the Church of Rome in speciall pointes of beliefe The â—…nswere of the church Sinnes of this time Papistes sinnes Protistantes sinnes Sinnes of great men Sinnes of clergy Sinnes of Magistrates Catholicke sinnes Psal. 50. The boyes of Christes Hospitall The beggars outcry or rather the outcry of the beggars Ezech. 34. A man A Lily Pride dashed Salomon The deuision The first part who is naked The basenesse of man. All is dust In this our dust is much miserie Eccles. 40 Man can not coÌ„tinue in his base misery The second part what it is to be naked The Anabaptistes reasoning agaynst warre Reasons for warre Psal. 144 Poâ—…icy diuinitie would haue misedocrs punished I. Esd. 7. The prince may punish iustly and yet be milde and mercifull Psal. 101 3. Reg. 2. Psal. 101 In his Morals The first reason Papistes can not be good subiectes The second The third The fourth The fifth The sixt That Adam was without apparell Apparell diuided Mat. 11. Practises in kinges houses are not presidentes The condition of all Preachers that preach the truth Amos. 6. Gods backe Leuit. 26. â—…ac 3. Ierem. 5. Iich 1. Sophoni 1 Nah. 3 Malac. 3. An abridge ment of the 〈◊〉 All these speeches are in the prophets