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A07845	The golden ballance of tryall VVherein the reader shall plainly and briefely behold, as in a glasse of crystall; aswell by what rule all controuersies in religion, are to be examined, as also who is, and of right ought to be the vpright iudge in that behalfe. Whereunto is also annexed a counterblast against a masked companion, terming himself E.O. but supposed to be Robert Parsons the trayterous Iesuite.	Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.	1603 (1603)	STC 1822; ESTC S120918	58,889	126

report in their Writinges are grieuously offended with them because they will not consent to their vnnaturall attempts for inuasions treacheries rebellions most cruell Spanish conspiracies wherein themselues being entangled and plunged ouer head and eares they endeuour to set the Lay-Papistes on like mad dogges to barke bite and deuoure their ghostly fathers and deare friends They terme the secular Priestes Mal-contentes factious seditious irreligious Apostataes yea knaues villaines and rebels forsooth to Prince George Blackwell king Henry Garnet and Emperour Robert Parsons And all this is done for not allowing say the Priests of a Trayterous Archpriest set vp in preiudice aswell of the Church of Rome as of the common Weale of England And no maruel seeing as the said Priestes doe write the Iesuites came into England by the instigation of the Diuell These Iesuites make it an vsual practise to publish scandalous libels and trayterous Pamphlets eyther without names at all or vnder the names of others or at least by such two letters bare lie and nakedly as may bee applied to many indifferently and no wayes to the true authors of the libels In which kind of coggery Robert Parsons the Iesuite whome the secular Priestes terme a notorious lyer a brasen faced Fryer a known cozener a sacrilegious Bastard an incestuous villain a cursed Fairie bratte and bloudthirsty traytor seemeth to excell all others This goodly Fryer Parsons of whose sactimony more at large in my Anotomie of Popish tyranny hath lately published or caused to be published a most scandalous libell against a godly learned and very famous man M. D. Sutcliffe as also against M. Willet a very learned and graue Writer Which rayling Libel the saide worthy men as I heare haue already confuted to the Libellers euerlasting shame and confusion if he doe not repent in time In the saide scandalous libell and ridiculous Pamphlet the Libeller termeth himselfe E. O. like a masked counterfait Companion as he is indeed and doth in the said impudent libell combine my silly selfe to my disparagement as he supposeth with those worthy men But I repute it to my great credite as who freely acknowledge that I am altogether vnworthy to bee coupled with such famous and worthy Writers That which hee imputeth to me may iustly and with al facility be retorted against himselfe as in due place God willing shall appeare CAP. II. Of the resolution and determination of the masked Companion E. O. THE swaggering diuine and hote spurmate E. O. telleth the Reader in his Preface that hee was once determined to haue adioyned me poor soule to the vertuous graue and famous Writers M. D. Sutcliffe and M. Willet but he altered his purpose if wee may beleeue him for these two respectes First for certaine considerations to himselfe well knowne as yee must suppose but may not in any wise be disclosed to the world Secondly because the confutation of my worthy workes as hee scoffingly termeth them is already vndertaken and must bee published if it shall be thought necessary Thus discourseth this counterfeit companion remember well his words Concerning this determination I thinke it very expedient to notifie to the Reader these fiue materiall adiuncts First that I published in Print to the view of the world my booke of Motiues in the yeare 1593. my suruey of Popery in the yeare 1596. and my hunting of the Romish Foxe in the yeare 1598. In the first of these Bookes I offered publike dispute with what Seminarie in England soeuer no one or other excepted whosoeuer protesting in the same worke to proceed so sincerely as if I could by the aduersarie be conuinced eyther to alledge any Writer corruptly or to quote any place guilfully or to charge any author falsly I would neuer require credite at the Readers handes neither in that booke nor in any other I protested likewise in the saide book that if any Papist in England or else where in Europe coulde truely and substantially confute the same I would once again embrace the late Romish religion thogh I did then and still do hate and detest the same as the mortall poyson of my soule Secondly that about two yeares after the publication of my Motiues I did essoones in my Suruey of Popery challenge all English Iesuites and Seminaries to aunswere my said Bookes promising vnfainedlie vnder my hand that if any of them could yeeld a sufficient answere in their defence I would doubtles subscribe vnto his doctrine Thirdly that all Iesuites and Seminaries notstanding all the former challenges haue beene silent aboue eight whole years and neuer yet durst aduenture to frame any aunswere to any one of the saide bookes and to publish the same to the view of the world At the last in the end of the yeare 1602. a shameles Pamphlet and scurrilous libell is published by an odde masked companion who naming himselfe E.O. hath set a broach a rude lying hotch-potch of Omnigitherum I know not well how to tearme it or what to make of it But I hope in God to turn it topsie toruie ere I make an end Fourthly that if the Iesuites or Seminaries could haue framed any true and sincere answere nay any likely or colourable answere to all or to any one of the said Bookes they would haue done it vndoubtedly and that many yeares ago Fiftly that when the said counterfaite E O. beareth the world in hand that now at the last in the yeare 1603. the confutation of the said books is vndertaken he doth but bestirre himselfe with might and maine to dazell the eyes of the simple Readers and of others that shall heare thereof that they may still bee seduced with Popish Legerdemain from time to time and not behold the Sunne shining at noone tide Who all must receyue in the end the iust reward of their folly euen the flappe of a Foxe tayle I proue it by these euident and insoluble reasons First because he saith the confutation must be published if it shal be thought necessary For I pray you is not this a merry iest The Iesuites and Seminarie Priests haue consulted now for the space of eight yeares fully complete and ended and haue all that time deuised how to frame some colourable answere at the least to all or some of the saide bookes and in the end of the yeare 1602. haue vndertaken the confutation thereof but for all that cannot yet tell whether it bee expedient to publish the said confutation or no. Oh sweet Iesus are these men the great Statists of the world are these men the skilfull Polititians that must manage all Europe are these men our learned diuines are these men they indeed vppon whose doctrine and guiding all Lay-Papistes doe depend and on their shoulders doe hang their soules and their saluation doubtles they may preach this goodly sermon to Wisemen and repute themselues for very noddie and starke fooles Secondly because after E. O. and his complices haue tossed and turned volued and reuolued all the parts

wordes Sed quia in Nouissimo tempore sanctorum remuneratio perpetua impiorum ventura est damnatio dictum est eis expectate But because in the last time Saints must receiue their rewardes and the wicked their damnation it is said vnto them Expectate ye must expect or doe ye expect a while I could alleadge the wordes of Ireneus of Euthymius of Oxigenes and others to the same effect and yet the doctrine taught by these Fathers is this day holden for a flat heresie euen of the Papistes themselues Caietanus a learned Papist and sometime Cardinall of Rome for which respect hee must perforce be of great credite among them doth grauely aduise the Reader in his commentaries vpon the Pentateuch of Moyses willing him to contemne nothing rashlie but to examine all thinges by the holy scripture and to embrace that which is agreeable thereunto although it swerue from the opinion of neuer so many Fathers His words are set downe at large in my booke of Motiues The great Schooleman and renowned popish Bishoppe Melchior Canus confesseth verie plainely that the consent of many Bishops and learned men doth not yeeld a sound argument for mans conscience to rest thereupon The same Canus in an other place auoucheth boldly that though al the Thomists with the Scotists late writers with the olde take part against him yet must he perforce haue the victorie because reason is on his side his wordes are set downe at large in my Booke of Motiues What neede long periods Austen Ambrose Bede Chrysostome Remigius Eusebius Bernardus Bonauentura Maximus Erardus Bernardinus Aquinas Hugo and almost all the rest affirme with one consent alledging expresse textes of Scripture for their opinion that the blessed Virgin Mary was conceiued in originall sinne and yet doth the late hatched nest of Iesuites with other Papistes this day auouch the contrarie for a truth if any man be desirous to know more of this point hee may find it at large in my books of Motiues and Suruay loe these cannot always be iudges in al matters of faith and religion CAP. III. Of the vncertainety of the Popes Iudgement whose faith say the Papistes can not faile ALbeit the Popes Canons and popish glosses thereupon tell vs that it is sacriledge to reason of the Popes power yet by his holines fauour I hope I may set downe without offence to any godly mā what I find in his own popish decrees and that I may proceede sincerely and plainly for the better satisfaction of the Reader I will distribute this Chapter into seuerall sections The First Section Of the manners liues and conuersation of the late Bishops of Rome ALthough the Bishops of Rome bee now a dayes termed by the name of Holinesse yet haue the liues and manners of manie Popes been most wicked most notorious and most scandalous to the Christian world I will passe ouer Pope Stephanus who disanulled all the Actes of Pope Formosus degrading those whome hee had made Bishops and priestes a rare and strange Metamorphosis in the Church of God Pope Romanus did reproue and abrogate all the Actes of Pope Stephanus and Pope Sergius the third did so hate the name of Formosus that he caused his bodie to be beheaded after it was buried and laide in the ground yea hee commaunded his dead corps to be cast into the riuer Tyber as vnworthy to bee interred in Christian sort Pope Bonifacius the eight entered into his popedome as a Foxe raigned in it as a Wolfe and died in the end as a dogge Pope Christopher was depriued of his pontificall dignitie and enforced to be a Monke Pope Bonifacius the seuenth and Syluester the second aspired to their popedomes by Necromancy and Diabolicall meanes Syluester the third obtayned his popedome by sedition and Damasus the second was made pope by violent meanes without consent either of the Clergie or of the people pope Gregorie the fift was by sedition thrust out of his throne and pope Iohn the 18 by tyranny occupied the popedome But I may not let passe to speake at large of Pope Syluester the second of that name the storie is most memorable well worthy for edification sake to bee engrauen in golden letters of the truth thereof no man can stand in doubt For Martinus Polonus the popish Archbishop of Consentina and high Penitentiarie as also the chiefe Chaplain to the Popes Holines hath published the same in writing to the view of all the world Which thing doubtles hee world neuer haue done if he had not thought it a thing necessary to be known Thus therefore doth he write Pope Syluester the 2. was first a Monke a Frenchman borne Gilbertus by name he promised homage to the Deuill so long as he did accomplish his desires which his request the Deuil vndertooke to bring to passe he being very ambitious did so often expresse his desire to the deuill as hee made homage vnto him the Deuill procured him to be made Archbishop first at Rhemes then at Rauennas and at the last to be Pope of Rome for the Deuill knowing his ambitious mind brought him to honour by begrees being made Pope he would needes know of the Deuil how long he should liue in his Pontificall glorie the Deuill aunswered him that he should liue so long as he did not say Masse in Ierusalem the Pope receyuing that aunswere was very ioyfull within himselfe thinking that hee was as farre from death and from the ende of his worldly pompe as hee was farre of in his minde from going on pilgrimage to Ierusalem beyond the Sea But what will yee more The Pope in Lent said Masse in the Church Sanctae crucis which they call in Ierusalem my self know the place Yet the Pope as it seemeth infatuated with pride and excessiue desire of honor had quite forgot the name While he was at Masse O holy sacrifice he heard a great noyse of Deuils and so remembred not the place onely but also his death to bee at hand Hee therefore wept though hee were afore most wicked disclosing his offence to all the companie nothing doubting of Gods mercie withall he cōmaunded to cut away from his bodie all the members with which hee had done sacrifice to the Deuill This hystorie I haue truly set down as I find it recorded by the said Martinus Polonus Archbishop of Consentina a man most deare vnto the Pope so as no Papist can without blushing denie the truth therof me thinks it is an vnfit thing that the faith of all the Christian world should depend vpon the resolution of such wicked Popes Benedictus the ninth as writeth the said Polonus appeared to a man going by a Mill in the likenes of a monstrous beast who had a head and tayle like an Asse and the rest of the bodie was like a Beare And when the man that saw the Monster fled away for feare the monster cryed after him

who affirmed Christ to haue but one onely nature after the vnion hypostaticall albeit hee graunted him to haue had two natures before the sayde ineffable coniunction This to be so most renowmed Historiographers and Chronographers will testifie with me I say secondly at such times and in such places as they might safely and lawfully come togither because in these latter dayes neither can a plenarie and generall Councell meete togither with securitie neither will the late tyrannizing Bishops of Rome permit that freedome to be their vsed which hath beene graunted in former times Hereof none can stand in doubt that will seriously peruse my booke of Motiues The great pillar of Christs Church Saint Augustine confirmeth this whole discourse in these golden wordes Putemus illos Episcopos qui Romae iudicarunt non bonos iudices fuisse restabat adhuc plenarium Ecclesiae vuiuersale Concilium vbi etiam cum ipsis iudicibus causa possit agitari vt si malè iudicasse conuicti essent eorum sententiae soluerentur Let vs imagine that those Bishoppes which gaue sentence at Rome were not good Iudges there yet remained a plenarie vniuerfall Councell of the Church where both the cause might be examined and the Iudges also that there sentences might be disanulled if they were found to haue giuen euill iudgement The same Saint Austen sayeth againe in an other place that great Doctors of the Church thought diuersly of rebaptization and that without all preiudice of fayth vntill the question was decided in a plenarie generall Councell Loe a free and godly generall Councell was in Saint Austines time the ende of all controuersies in religion But now there remayneth a great and most important question to wit what remedie must bee sought to appease controuersies when a free godly and lawfull generall Councell can not bee had To which question aunswere shall bee made in the Paragraph next following The fourth Paragraph I haue proued at large in my booke of Motiues that the decrees of generall Councels in these latter dayes are nothing else but a meere mockerie and sophisticall subtiltie to deceyue and delude the Worlde To which booke I referre the reader that shall expect a larger discourse in this behalfe I say now for the present that seeing generall Councels cannot be gathered togither in such maner and with such freedome as they haue beene in former times of antiquity and seeing withall that some iudges must be designed of meere necessity to appease end and decide doubts difficulties and controuersies in religion least the Church should be vexed turmoiled and swallowed vp with schismes heresies and variety of opinions euerie Emperour and Empresse euery King and Queen and euery other ciuill Magistrate independent by what title or name soeuer he be called must before all things haue a vigilant Christian and religious care to settle establish and plant within their kingdomes Realmes Precinctes common weales territories and dominions where they haue the chiefe and independent soueraignty immediately vnder God the pure and sincere religion of Iesus Christ and to abandon extirpate and vtterly abolish all schismes heresies errors and superstitions whatsoeuer This hath euer beene the religious care of all godly and zealous Princes aswell before Christ in time of the olde testament as since Christ in time of the new testament Holy Moses tooke the molten Calfe which Aaron the High Priest to please the people had made burnt it in the fire bet it to powder strowed it in the water and made the people to drinke thereof He reproued Aaron for his offence who calling him Lord laboured with humble obeysance to excuse himselfe Iosue commanded the Priestes and Leuits to do all their ecclesiasticall functions to beare the Arke to carry trumpets to circumcise to set vp Altars to offer sacrifice and to reade the booke of the law to all the people yea the same Iosue was appointed to go out and in before the people and to leade them out and in least the congregation of the Lord should be as sheepe without a Pastor King David ordered disposed and reformed the Priestes and Leuits in their offices and functions ecclesiasticall He appointed how the Arke shoulde be borne hee ordained Psalmes Singers Instrumentes Officers and all other things for the setting forth of Gods true religion and seruice King Salomon appointed the Priestes to bring the Arke into the temple hee instituted the dedication of the temple hee offered sacrifice hee directed the Priestes Leuites and other Church officers as his father had done afore him He deposed Abiathar the hie Priest and placed Sadocke in his roome King Iosaphat appointed in Ierusalem Priestes and Leuits and Princes of the Families of Israell that they might iudge the iudgement and cause of the Lord to the inhabitantes of the land And he vsed these expresse wordes vnto them Sic agetis in timore Domini fideliter corde perfecto Thus shal yee doe in the feare of the Lord faithfully with a perfect heart King Ezechias tooke away the hie places brake the images cut downe the Groues and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had set vppe He purged the Temple reformed the Priestes and commanded them to doe their duties in cleansing themselues and in offering their sacrifices Hee renued the Passeouer Hee appointed the courses of the Priestes and Leuites by their turnes both for the burnt offeringes and peace offeringes to minister and to praise God in the Temple He also commanded that sufficient maintenance should be giuen to the Priestes that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord and not bee intangled with prouision of worldly thinges And which is to bee noted he called the Priestes and Leuites his sonnes in regard of his royall power and estate in which respect hee was the Father of all his people for otherwise hee was but a Child and for yeares might haue had many of thē to haue bin his father King Iosias brake the Altars of Baalim destroied the Groues burnt the bones of the idolatrous Priestes vpon their altars and purged Iuda and Ierusalem from idolatrie This religious care had the noble Emperour Constantine the Great who as reporteth Eusebius thought nothing to pertaine more to his royall charge then to plant true religion throughout his realmes and dominions S. Austen proueth the facts and examples of the Kinges of the old Testament to haue beene figures of the new Testament and consequently that it is the duty of all kinges in this time of grace to haue speciall regard to the seruice and true worship of God to abandon all false worshippe idolatrie errors heresies and superstition and to plant the Gospell of Christ Iesus in all the partes of their realmes and dominions The same S. Austen in an other place among many golden sentences which I now omit in regard of breuitie hath these expresse words In hoc ergo reges