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A14462 The firste parte of the Christian instruction, and generall so[m]me of the doctrine, conteyned in the holy Scriptures wherein the principall pointes of the religion are familiarly handled by dialogues, very necessary to be read of all Christians. Translated into Englishe, by Iohn Shute, accordyng to the late copy set forth, by th'author Maister Peter Viret. 1565. Ouersene and perused, accordyng to the order appointed, by the Queenes maiesties iniunctions.; Instruction chrestienne et somme generale de la doctrine comprinse ès sainctes Escritures. Part 1. English Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571.; Shute, John, fl. 1562-1573. 1565 (1565) STC 24777; ESTC S119198 167,989 225

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approched Shortly after one appareled lyke a courtier came to the chāber where the Pope laye and knocked very lowdly saying that he must nedes speake with hym The doore beyng opened vnto hym he came and spake with the Pope all others wer retired from them The Pope and he talked very secretly but mē might se be their coūtenances that they wer very earnest and in great contention betwene them selues that the Pope was not well cōtent for he sayd to hym how may this be my tyme is not yet expired thou knowst that I had 19. yeares wherof I haue passed but. 11. 8. monethes wher upon they heard the courtier aunswere hym boldly you dyd mistake that worde for I sayd not 19. yeares but I ment 11. yeares and 8. monethes should be the raigns of thy Papacy and therfore thou must needes dye Now albeit the Pope requested instantly that he would haue consideration of hys lyfe and terme of yeares concernyng hys Papacy it was as if he had spokē to a deafe man for al hys exceptiōs requestes and allegations could stand hym in no stede for al that were in the chamber might well see that the deuill was more perfect in Arithmetique then was the Pope and in the ende it was easyly cōcluded that Alexander had erred in hys accōptes Finally to cōclude the matter when Satan departed frō thēce forthwith the soule of the Pope most miserably departed frō hys body with horrible cryes and feareful gronyngs and bewaylyngs And in this sort most miserably wretchedly and wickedly dyed the Pope Alexander surnamed the 6. leauyng to hys sonne his patrimonie greatly engayged and encombred the Italians theyr Romane common wealth wholly confused disordered and spoyled to the end he might be an example to all ages to declare how that thynges euyll goten are consumed spent miserably wickedly ●ontanus writeth that thy● Pope had a daughter whō hys sonne dyd vse and so dyd the Pope hym selfe her name was Lucresse Sanazarius the Italian Poete in hys Epigrames and 2. boke speakyng of this Pope Alexander notyng hys incest sayth thus O Lucresse will Alexander yet still couet thee O horrible case he is thy father In the worcke intituled l'Estat do l'Eglise it is writen of this Pope Alexander that not only he dyd vse hys daughter Lucresse but hys sonne dyd the lyke wherupon she is called his wife his daughter and daughter in law c. Vrspergensis noteth of Bregory the. 7. otherwise named Hildebrand that the common wealth of Rome and the Churche was in great daunger vnder him by meanes of errors and new Scismes whiche were neuer heard of before that he dyd vsurpe the Papall seat by tyranny not be lawfull election The Councell holden at wormes in the yeare 1080. sayth of Gregory the. 7. that it is certayne that he was not chosen of God but that he dyd shamefully thrust him self in by disceate and money and did turne vp syde downe the order of the Churche and troubled the state of the Christian Empire and framed the destruction of both the body soule of the Catholicke kyng and dyd defend the periured kyng dyd sow discord among such as did accord and strife among the quiet offences among the brethren diuorce among the maried and sturred vp and chaunged all thinges that might tend to quietnes among such as were of honest lyfe we therfore beyng gathered together by God agaynst the sayd Hildebrand who preached nothyng but sacrileges fires main tayned the periured and murderers and brought the vniuer fall and Apostolicke fayth of the body and bloud of the Lord into doubt being an obseruer of diuinations and dreames an open Nigromancer hauing a familiar spirit and leauing in this sorte the true fayth we iudge that he ought by lawful auctoritie to be deposed driuen frō his seat and perpetually condēpned if he leaue not hys seat when he shal vnderstand these thyngs I refer such as wil vnderstād more of the said Gregory to the readyng of the Cardinal Benno hys worcke wherin the lyfe of the sayd Gregory is set forth Moreouer I wish them in Platina to consider the lyues of Iohn the. 8. Siluester Bennet the. 8. with many others Also in Sabellicus in hys 9. Eneide and first and 2. booke where they shall see of the Popes afore writē Also in the Cōmentaries of that worthy mā Iohn Sleydan in hys 21. boke where he mencioneth of an Italian whiche wrote a booke very sharpely agaynste Paul the. 3. namyng hym therin Antechrist declaring that in the tyme of Innocent the Pope he was committed to prison beyng a wicked prelat for if murders and for the poysoning of his mother his nephew wherby the inheritaunce might come to hym further after that he was deliuered out of prisō he made great fute for a Hatte of a Cardinall and was three tymes refused by the Cardinals in the end his sister Iulia Fernese obtayned it For she threatned the Pope Alexāder the. 6. that frō that time forth she would neuer be at his cōmaundment the Pope fearing her displeasure accepted him into the troupe of Cardinals further that he poysoned an other sister of hys and vsed an other of them and also his nee●e and hys own daughter and for that that he would the more liberally enioye her he found the meane to poyson her husband Bose Sforce he was also a great Nigromācer as witnesseth Sleidan in his Cōmentaries and. 19. booke Iohn Bale in the lyfe of the said Paul the 3. in his act Roma Pontificum wher he fully declareth the vertues of him Let vs see one mo among a great nōber of these reuerend fathers Clemēt the. 8. of that name borne in Florence bastarde to Leo the. 10. his nephew I should say named before Iulius Cardinal Priest of the title of S. Laurēce in Damase c. It is writen of him in certaine Cōmētaries vpon the articles of the Doctors of Paris that this Clemēt was a bastard empoysoner homicide bawd simoniaque Sodomit periured whoremaster negromancer Church robber and a worker of all wickednes c. Such as wil vnderstād more of the goodnes of the lyues of such holy fathers I referre thē to the readyng of the Florentine hystory of Machiauell let them read Volateran Sabellicus Platina Iohn Bale act Rom. pont Iohn le Maire in hys woorke of Scismes the sea of histories Fascicul tēp Naucle supplimēt chro with a nomber of others whō for briefty I do omitte Truly these fathers ar iolly folowers of Christ who ought chiefly to be folowed he sent his Apostles abrode into the world commaundyng thē to preache the Gospell to all men and to A comparisō betvvene Christ the Pope baptize in the name of the father the sonne the holy ghost c. the Pope commaūdeth hys to hallow Churches water bread oyle belles chalices grene bowghes candles with such lyke traishe to sing Masses for the liuyng and for
the whiche Pilate dyd very well knowe And therefore he woulde not condemne Iesus Christe vpon the onely reporte of the Iewes when they had brought hym vnto hym all ready condemned in theyr Counsell nor was forthwith preste to commaunde hym to be executed as an euill doer accordynge to their desire but did diligently enquire of the causes for the which they would haue hym to be condemned gyuing them playnely to vnderstande that he woulde not be their hangemen but woulde do the office of a Iudge whiche is duely to examine the cause And if he see the sentence of hys assistauntes to be vniuste he oughte not to folowe it but to reiecte it accordyng to the authoritie that God hath gyuen hym and he ought to put in vse that whiche is written in the lawe to Exod 10 that same purpose Thou shalte not folowe the multitude to do euill for if he gyue sentence contrary to ryght and equitie he shall make aunswere for the same before God For if he know it be vniuste and do consent and agree to it or els do dissemble the matter or els thorowe negligence he hath not sought to vnderstand the truth of it he can not excuse hymselfe but that he is greatly culpable before God T. That is very true ¶ Hovve men ought to haue greater care for those matters that appertayne to Religion then for any others and the reasons vvhy D. MOreouer the case in matters of Religion is not lyke to that of other matters or of other artes sciences occupations and estates For whē there is question in matters of Religion we haue not a matter in hand of a péece of money or of a péece of lande or for an other man whiche toucheth not vs at all But a matter of the greatest importance that may be and toucheth all men in generall and in particular so neare as nothynge in the worlde doth so nearely touch them Yf there were question of a péece of an earthly inheritaunce or els of our honor fame we would not so greatly put others in trust but that we wold put to our own hād would know in what sort the matter should passe And further if it wer a matter that touched our life we would not slepe the matter but would be so much that more carefull we would leaue no meane vnsought for that myght stand vs in stede T. Experiēce teacheth it plainly D. Nowe in this matter wherof we speake the question is of the greatest honor or dishonor that euer may happē vnto vs here is the questiō of a maruelous great honor glory or els of an extreme shame confusion whiche we shall once receaue before the face of God before al mē which euer haue ben are or shal be this questiō is of an eternall inheritaūce to wit of Paradise or els of hell here is the questiō of our death or of our life not onely tēporal but eternal Wherfore I do gretly maruel of those that haue so great trust in the sond fayth of their Curates Priestes Monckes Byshops and Prelates whiche cōmitte thē wholly into their handes both body and soule T. There are no small nomber of those that do so ¶ Of those men that make greater accoumpt of their purses then of their consciences and of the daūger into the which they cast thēselues that cōmit such charge to false teachers and they them selues to haue no great regard to the same D. I Would gladly vnderstād of those mē if they would in the like sorte trust thē with their purses neuer aske thē any accōpt nor neuer haue regard to their gouernmēt T. I do not beleue it For there is no prince nor other that committeth the charge of his affaires to others but that somtime he will know in what sort they are passed done D. Thē their purse is dearer vnto thē thē is their cōsciēce or their soule or els that inheritaūce of the kingdom of heauē for they put their trust in such cōmit the whole charge of their cōsciences soules to those that they would hardly trust for a couple of crownes they esteme very slēderly that price which our Lord Iesus Christ hath payed for thē whiche is much more precious i. Pet. ● thē all the gold all the siluer that euer was in the world T. They do trust as I haue already said that these men shal aunwere for thē D. It is very true that they shal aūswere but so much the worse for those for whō they shall aunswere for so much as they shall not by meanes therof be acquited of the det for if it must needes be shall that they aunswere for default of that debt whiche they owe to our greate Lorde whiche shall not be payd vnto him according as their office doth require it shal be thē for that the same is lost The Lord speaking of this matter saith by his Prophet Ezechiel that he Ezech. 3. 33 wil require at that hāds of the shepherd the bloud of the shepe which shal perish through his default it foloweth thē that the shepe shal be lost whose blud the lord wil require Whē a murderer hath slayne a man is taken vpon the same he must Exampl● satisfie the iustice with hys own lyfe yet notwithstandyng the payne whiche he shall endure shal be small recompense to hym that is slayne Wherfore I do not thinke that those men whiche make so small accoumpte of the lyfe of theyr soules woulde lose their bodely lyfe for such a price T. I am of your oppinion D. If a man do vs wrong either in spoylynge vs of our worldlye goods or els in vsinge any violence agaynste our personnes and we endure the same patiently for the honoure of God this same shal be no losse vnto vs before God but a great profite for God hath promised great rewarde to those that shall suffer wrongfully In this behalfe none shal sustayn the losse but he onely that Mar. v hathe done the wronge for he hathe hurte hys soule and there is no hurte that can so hurte a man as can that hurte But in thys matter whereof we doo nowe speake the soule is not onely hurte but slayne wherefore the losse can neuer be recouered And therefore I would wishe that such as are of that opinion should well consider that whiche Iesus Christ sayd let them alone for they are blynd and leaders of the blinde If the blynde leade the blynde both shall fall into the dyke He doth not saye that the blynde guyde Mathe. 15. shall alone fall into the dyke but he also that shal be led by hym wherefore that councell is best to be folowed whiche Iesus Christe hym selfe doth gyue in that behalfe in the same passage or texte he doth not say Folow such leaders and if they lead you wronge they shall endure the punishement for you ●nd you shall go free but he gyueth expressed commaundement to flee
the dead and to apply them to sondry vses but the pulpit is not greatly encumbred with them and whē they do preach they preach nothyng els but lyes as their owne dreames phautasies Legenda aurea a Scripture of their owne inspiration theyr owne traditions decrees and ordinaunces Christ ordeined onely two Sacramētes which two they haue corrupted and added to thē fiue bycause that Christ did not so well know what is meete for his Church as they do O horrible Gene 2 presumption God him selfe when he had created man in Paradise sayd It is not good that man be alone we will make i Cor 7 hym a helper The Apostle s Paul saith It is good for a mā not to touche a woman yet to auoyde fornication let euery man haue his owne wife euery woman her own husband Heb 13 ● The Apostle saith mariage is honorable among al mē the bed vndefiled but God will iudge the whore masters and adulterers these wordes are generall and haue regarde to all men and to all estates Iesus Christ did not onely alow mariage but did also honor it with his presence In Cana of Galilee S. Augustine in hys treatise of the goodnes of mariage sayth in his 21. Chap. that he dare not preferre the virginity of S. Iohn before the mariage of Abraham S. Ambrose in hys first booke sayth Touching virgins S. Paule sayth I haue no cōmaundmēt of the Lord but I do coūsel or aduise if the doctor of the Gentils had no commaundemēt who is he that might haue any And truly he had no cōmaundment but he did counsell therunto for virginitie can not be cōmaūded it may wel be desired for that which is not in our power is not to be cōmaūded but it is to be wished for Origens vpō S. Mathew in his 24. Homelie sayth That they which do forbid men to marry do enforce thē to a licentious villeni forbiddyng that which is expediēt The like he sayth of those that cōmaund abstinence from meates and such lyke where vnto the faithfull may in no wise be cōstrained he sayth that they lay he any burdens on the shoulders of men cōtrary to the wil of Christ who sayth My yoke is pleasant my burthen light easy c. Eusebius in hys Ecclesiasticall historie 3. boke 30. cha reciteth that S. Clement writyng against such as did condempne mariage among other thynges sayth wil they reproue the Apostles S. Peter had a wife So had Philippe Paul also had a wife as appeareth by one of hys Epistles in the whiche he is not ashamed to send salutations to her whom he sayth he would not carry about the countrey with him bycause he would be the more ready to preach the Gospell Many of the auncient fathers were maried as Patriarkes Prophetes and Bishops of the primitiue Church Yet is not the Pope affrayde to say and stand agaynst God and Christ that mariage is vnclennes pollution and carnal filthynes as it is said in the. 4. of the sentēces Dist c. 17. chap. 4. and his decret 27. Quest 2. chap. whiche begynneth Cum societas Tertulian in his prescriptions agaynst the heretikes sayth It is not in our power or choise lawful ▪ to bring in to chuse or alledge for authoritie that whiche any other hath brought in or alledged for hys own pleasure for we haue the Apostles of the Lord for our authors who haue brought in nothing for theyr own pleasure ▪ nor any new thing but haue faithfully preached and taught to the nations that discipline which they receyued of Christ S. Augustine vpon S. Iohn in the. 46. treatise and. 10. chap. sayth if they whiche sit in the chaire of Moses do teache the lawe of God it doth then folowe that God teacheth by them but if they will teache any thyng of theyr owne heare them not nor yet do it c. And in the. 6. against Faustus chap. 16. in the. 18. booke chap. 12. doth cal by the wordes of Christ not onely false Prophetes but also theeues and murderers all such as dare preach any other thing to the people of God thē the Canonical Scriptures against such he alledgeth the saying of Christ al those y● came before me are theeues murderers S. Paul in his 1. Epistle to the Galathiās doth accurs●e him that bringeth any other doctrine thē that which he hath taught yea if it wer an Aūgell of heauen Further in hys Epistle he sayth that whiche I receyued of the Lord the same also deliuer I vnto you c. It is not so with these men of whom we haue alreadie spoken they deliuer vnto vs their own traditions inuentions and dreames in the stead of the worde of God And I doubt not although these men haue nothing in their mouthes but the fathers the fathers which must authorise the scriptures vnto thē if the fathers liued in these daies but they wold be as readye to persecute them as they are to persecute those which in these dayes do professe Christ Let it be seene how many of them were which suffered in the late tyme of theyr late persecution that did denie any one article of the Christian fayth but they did by Gods grace most costantly affirme them euen sealing them vp with their bloud examine Theodoret Epiphanius and Augustine Fathers of great holynes and doctrine who haue largely written of heresyes and let it be seene whether they maintained any one of those which they cite no not one let vs see how many Arrians Anabaptistes Pelagians Marcionistes Nestorians Ebionistes or any other kind of heretikes they did then execute I suppose the number wil appeare very smal for they are al in leage with Sathan I doubt not but if the Gospell had as fatte a smoking kitchin tyed vnto it as haue the Romyshe rytes we should haue a great number of Gospellers for this kitchin Seducers of the people is of great effecte among the Romanistes S. Chrisostome vpon S. Mathew in his 48. Homelie chap. 24. sayth thus There are some which do greatly seduce through lyes vntrouthes they preach Christ they teach the fayth they haue also churches orders and elders as the faythfull haue They do also read the Scriptures of God it semeth that they geue the same baptisme and the sacrament of the bodye and bloud of Iesus Christ likewise they honour the Apostles Martyrs and by these meanes they do greatly abuse the vnderstanding not only of the simple but also of such as are wise who shall he be that Antichrist shall not be able to shake or moue partlye doing the workes of Christ and the antichristians fulfilling in a sorte the dueties of christians vnlesse it be peraduenture such an one as doth consider that which the Apostle sayth if Sathan can transforme himself into an Angell of lyght is it then a greate matter for hys ministers to be transformed lyke to the minister of iustice whose end shal be according to