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A16704	Luthers life collected from the writinges of him selfe, and other learned Protestants, together with a further shorte discourse, touchinge Andreas Melanchton, Bucer, Ochine, Carolostadius, Suinglius, Caluine and Beza, the late pretended reformers of religion. Taken from the onely reporte of learned Protestants themselues. By Iohn Brerely priest and author of the Protestants apologie.	Anderton, Lawrence.; Anderton, James, fl. 1624, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 3606; ESTC S106394	244,302	202

211. 212. alledgeth sundrie testimonies to proue that the argument is not good à moribus ad doctrinăm I answere thereto that though the argument thereof do not alwayes hould yett this letteth not but that in the now speciall case of the first professors or reformers of religiō yt should be of force accordinge to the testimonies heare nexte before in that behalfe alledged at b.c. and next hereafter at allegation to the contrarie notwithstanding that if the now pretended reformers of religion were in such theire action not sanctified but of flagitiouse and wicked life then cannot they possible be the instruments chosen by God to that worke nor consequentlie their doctrine so by them reuealed be the eternal truthe of the liuing God An inference yet further made good from the wordes of (g) in so much as maister Foxe in apocalipsin printed 1597. in cap. 14. pag. 468. post med intreatinge De Ecclesia qua vera fit qua falsa qua vera eius notae proprietates saith Ad fructus vitamque corum nos mittit Christus ex fructibus inquit corum cogn●scetis eos rursus omnis arbor bona facit fructus bonos c. and then concludeth pag. 469. initio sayinge Ex morum igitur vera innocentia vitaeque institutione certissimum sumitur indicium c. Osiander in centur 16. lib. 3. cap. 65. pag. 814. initio saithe Paulus Eberus Theologiae Doctor c. in cathedram Lutheri collocatus euangelium docuit vir quidem doctissimus pius docter Paulus Eberus successor to Luther in his chaire at Wittemberge who forbore not to acknowledge that (h) Paulus Eberus in prefat commentar Philippi in epist ad Corinth saith vniuersa nostra euangelica congregatio tot Schismatibus offendiculis scatet vt nihil minus sit quam quod se esse gloriatur c. quae mala cum quisque proprijs oculis intuetur merito dubitat an noster euangelicus caetus vera sit ecclesia c. in qua tot tam enormia vitia conspiciuntur the confessed wickednes so apparentlie then aboundinge in theire owne euangelicall congregation mynistred matter of iuste doubte whether the same were the true churche or not which his assertion putteth the matter out of doubte in case it fall out that theire verie first and principall supposed reformers of religion be no lesse but rather more discouered and chargeable in that kinde for so much therfore as it is the constant assertion of our learned aduersaries that as maister Iewell saith (i) Maister Iewell in his defence of the apologie printed 1571. part 4. cap. 4. diu 2. pag. 426. prope finem the truth was vnknowne at that time vnheard of when Martine Luther and Vlricke Suinglius first came vnto the knowledge and preachinge of the ghospell that also as maister Parkins saith wee (k) maister Parkins in his exposition of the Creede printed 1596. pag. 400. and in the last edition of his workes volum 1. printed 1608. pag. 310. a circa med saye that before the dayes of Luther for the space of manye hundreth yeres an vniuersall apostasie ouerspred the whole face of the earth and that our church was not then visible to the worlde but lay hidde vnder the chaffe of poperie that likewise as Benedicte Morgensten a learned protestant saithe (l) so saithe Benedicte Morgenstern in tract de Ecclesia printed Francofurti 1598. pag. 145. it is manifest to the whole christiane worlde that before Luthers time all churches were ouerwhelmed with more then cimmeriane darknesse and that Luther was diuinely raised vp to discouer the same to restore the light of true doctrine whereto Daniel Chamierus a learned aduersarie addeth that as then (m) Daniell Camierus in his epist Iesuitic part altera printed Geneuae 1601. pag. 49. saithe Arianorum renenum non portiunculam quandam sed penè totum orbem contaminauerat c. in ea nos tempora denenimus qua etiam excedant Ariani furoris confusionem non portiunculam vnam aut alteram error occupauit sed totum corpus apostasia auertit à Christo. error had possessed not some or other litle porcion of the churche but had auerted the whole bodie from Christ with much (n) Caelius secundus curio in his booke de amplitudine regni Dei printed 1554. pag. 212. post med saythe Factum est vt per multos iam annos Ecclesia latuerit ciuesque huius regni vix ab alijs ac ne vix quidem agnosci potuerit and Caluine in his booke of epistles printed 1597. ep 141. pag. 273. paulo post med saith hereof discessionem à ●ote mundo facere coacti sumus And maister Brightman in apocalips in cap. 11. pag. 283. prope finem answeringe our common demaund where theire churche was before Luther saith thereto Ecclesia nostra ante Lutherum fuit in abdito Dei sacrario other instance he giueth none also Ioannes Regius in libro apologetico c. printed in 4. Mulhusij 1603. pag. 176. circa post med answeringe the same demand saithe The church was then inuisible and could not be shewed And maister Dent vppon the Reuelations in cap. 14. pag. 199. ante med answeringe to the same demand saithe Christ then had his litle flocke in the wildernes c. without further naminge either place or person In so much as Luther himselfe in respect of this knowne want of any other originall protestant then before in beinge to ioyne with him at the time of his first begunne pretended reformation saithe as appeareth next heareafter cap. 1. sect 1. in the margine at l. more no lesse fully affirmed by other learned aduersaries to the same purpose In so much as Bucer forbeareth not heare vpon to tearme Luther (o) Bucer in epistola ad Episcopum Hereford extant in his scripta Anglicana printed 1577. pag. 675. ante med saithe Lutherum primum purioris Euangelij ad nos epistolam honoris causa nomino the first Apostle to vs of the reformed doctrine as also maister Iewell calleth Luther (p) Maister Iewel in his defence of the apologie printed 1571. part 4. c. 4. diuis 2. pag. 426. prope finem a most excellēt man euen sent of God to lighten the whole world in the midst of darknes And maister Foxe likewise saithe (q) Maister Foxact mon. printed 1563. pag. 400. à fine it pleased the lorde to reforme and reedifie the desolate ruynes of his religion by the industrie of Martine Luther sent and set vp by the mightie spirite of God whereto is further added that he was the (r) see in the foresaid actes and monuments pag. 416. à initio Helias conductor and chariot of Israel to be reuerenced (s) Christus habet primas habeas tibi Paule secundas at loca post illos proxima Luther habet these verses ar commended for true and godly by Ciriacus Spangenbergius in his Duche booke against certaine catholickes in the

sainctes the vnmaried life of priestes satisfaction and some moe such l●ke c. before recited wherto he there further answereth not euadinge as doth maister Feilde but confessinge and sayinge (10) vt supra at the figure 9. Respondeo verum esse c. I confesse yt is true which Caluine and the Centurie writers doe affirme of the aunciente churches erringe in lymbus freewill meritt of woorkes and in all those other poyntes before mencioned soe confessedlie true is that which is as heretofore sett downe concerninge Caluines bould reiectinge of the auncient fathers Wherein how he together with maister Whitaker D. Humfrey Peter Martyr and Beza who ioyne with him (11) Whitaker contra Duraeum printed 1583. l. 6. pag. 423. fine saythe Ex patrum erroribus vester ille pontificiae religionis cento consultus est and obserue further maister Whitaker next before at the figures 4. 5. allso D. Humfrey in libello de vita Iuelli printed 1573. pag. 212. circa med saythe to vs as in reprehension of maister Iuells soe bould offer to be tryed by the fathers Nimium largitus est vobis plus aquo concessit sibi nimium fuit iniurius c. seipsum Ecclesiam quodammodo spolianit c. quid nobis rei cum patribus cum carne sanguine and Peter Martyr de votis printed 1559. pag. 476. paulo post med saythe Quamdiu consistimus in concilijs patribus versabimur semper in ijsdem erroribus And see Beza hereafter cap. 7. sect 4. at i. k. in soe reiectinge the fathers haue at once discouered theire owne nouellisme and withall sett foorthe the confessed antiquitie of our catholicke religion let the indifferent reader to whose censure wee submitte whatsoeuer hath bene sayde in gods name iudge VI. NOwe lastely howe seditiouse Caluine was reputed both in doctrine and practise appeareth by his confessed seditiouse opinion (c) Maister Bridges Bish of Oxforde wrote a speciall booke entituled a defence c. answeringe allso to the Arguments of Caluine Beza and Danaeus with other our reuerend learned brethren both for the regiment of women c. printed 1587. against the regimente of women in ciuile causes as therby to (d) ibidem lib. 9. pag. 711. prope initium he saythe Danaeus and Caluine were caried awaye in this matter to defeate the naturall righte and title of the soueraigne women princes of Englande c. defeate the then two catholicke quenes of Englande and Scotlande Allso he is not abashed to write that (e) Caluin in Daniel cap. 6. vers 22.25 saythe Abdicant se potestate terreni principes dum insurgunt contra Deū imo indigni sunt qui censeantur in numero hominum potius ergo conspuere oportet in illorum capita quam illis parere princes doe bereaue them selues of authoritie when they erecte them selues againste God yea that they are vnworthie to be accompted in the number of men and therefore wee muste rather spitt vpon theire faces then obey them a sayinge soe reproueable notwithstandinge all excuse thereof by maister D. (f) hereof see protest apol prefat sect 11. pag. 18. at a. b. Moreton that maister D. Wilkes thoughe for Caluines credite supressinge his name obiecteth yett to the puritanes these very wordes of Caluine as beinge seditiouse sayinge (g) maister D. Wilkes of obedience printed 1605. pag. 60. They were your teachers whoe accompte those princes that are not refined by theire spirite vnworthie to be accompted emongst the number of men and therefore rather to be spitted vpon then obeyed they were your teachers whoe defende rebellion againste princes of a different religion c. Whereto mighte be added further testimonie (*) see Caluin institut l. 4. c. 20 § 31. of Caluines other like seditiouse doctrine In soe much as the late Archbishop of Canterburie and maister D. Sutlife doe both of them confesse howe that Iohn Knoxe (h) soe saith maister Bancrofte the late Archbishop in his d●ngerouse positions c. pag. 10. initio a man trayned vpp at Geneua and whome Caluine tearmeth (i) Caluin in epist. respons epist 305. fine pag. 565. fine the epistle beinge written to Knoxe saithe to him Vale eximiè vir ex animo colende frater an excellent man and his (k) vt supra at i. moste reuerend brother (l) see this in the historie of the churche of Scotlande printed by Vantrovillier pag. 213. and alledged by maister Sutlife in his answer to a libell supplicatory printed 1592. pag. 192. ante med 71. circa med and see this allso reported by maister Bācrofte in his dangerouse positions printed 1595. pag. 10. ante med reporteth the doctrine of Caluine and certaine other ministers then residinge at Geneua teachinge that yt is lawfull for subiectes to reforme religion when princes will not yea rather then fayle euen by force of armes Whereto mighte be added as the beste interpreter of Caluines doctrine the knowne confessed example of Geneua it selfe the verie seate of Caluine in which saithe maister Sutlife they (m) maister Sutlife in his answere to a libel supplicatorie pag. 194. initio of Geneua did depose theire catholicke liege lorde and prince from his temporall righte albeit he was by righte of succession the temporall lorde and owner of that cittie and territorie (n) maister Bancrofte in his dangerouse positions c. pag. 9. post med since which time saythe the late Archbishop yt hath bene a principle with some of the chiefe ministers of Geneua c. that if kinges and princes refused to reforme religion the inferior magistrates or people by direction of the ministrie might lawfullie and ought yf need required euen by force and armes to reforme yt them selues c. And thus muche brifly concerninge Caluines life and doctrine referringe the maner of his tragicke deathe to that which hath bene heretofore sayde thereof not onely by (o) heretofore cap. 6. sect 1. at d. Conradus Schlusselburge a protestante writter of greate (p) heretofore cap. 5. sect 1. at 1. esteeme but allso by (q) heretofore cap. 6. §. 1. after f. at * Iohannes Herennius thoughe him selfe otherwise an earneste Caluiniste BEZA CHAPT VII NOwe lastelie as concerninge Theodore Beza whose life was in like maner written by Hierom Bolsecke and by him published Anno 1582. wherein he obiecteth againste Beza manie greate and heynouse imputations set downe in particuler with speciall naminge of times places and persons as for example emonge other the sellinge of his priorie for readie monie in hande and further lettinge yt to others in farme for fiue yeres vpon money before hande receyued whereupon the abused parties vpon his secret steallinge awaye fell at publicke suite which depended of recorde in the courte at Paris Allso his then steallinge awaye at the tyme of his sayde flight the taylors wife dwellinge in Calender street at Paris furthermore the gettinge of his mayde with childe at Geneua

allso is made more odiouse and remarkeable by Bezas owne vnchaste profane (d) Hutterus publique professor in the vniuersitie of Witemberge in his libri concordiae explicatio printed 1608. Art 7. fine pag. 703. circa med reporteth sayinge Beza in fine libri de absentia corporis Christi in caena scribit Candidae siue Amasiae suae culum parce tu Christe blasphemias istas mihi referenti imo partem diuersam magis adhuc pudendam mundiorem esse quam illorum ora qui simpliciter verbis Christi inherētes credunt se praesens Christi corpus in caena sacra ore suo accipere wordes soe immodeste as I blushe euen in my verie forbearance to Englishe them yt is not altogether without scruple that Anthoni Faius not ignorante of this soe comon reporte and vndertakinge in his saide discourse of Bezas life to make mention of Bezas marriage doth no better preuent or cleare yt but rather as some conceaue dothe giue colour thereto tellinge howe that Beza (e) Faius de vita obitu Beza pag. 11. initio saithe Nam voluptatem illecebris ambitiosulae gloriae quam ex epigrammatorum editione erat adeptus honorumque amplissimorum spe irretitus aliquandiu detinebatur c. ac primum ne à iuuenilibus illis desiderijs superaretur vxorem sibi despondit sed clam conscio vno altero ex pijs amicis beinge entangled with the enticement of voluptuousnesse ambitiouse sweetnes of glorie gotten vpon the edi ion of his epigrames and with hope of prefermente did leaste he should be ouercome by those youthfull desires promise him selfe in marriage but yett secretlie one or twoe of his godly frend● made priuie thereto And that continewinge with the partie in this estate longe time together at last saythe Faius betakinge (f) ibidem pag. 12. fine yt is saide Seque in voluntariam exilium cum sua coniuge recipit Geneuam Anno 1548. ibi primum palam in Ecclesia solenni inter Christianos ritu matrimonium celebrauit him selfe into voluntarie exile he with his foresaide spouse came to Geneua and there firste openlie in the churche celebrated the marriage accordinge to the solemne rite of Christianes then which discourse of Faius what more (*) More inferringe for Faius his pretence of Bezas former supposed marriage beinge as of his marriage not knowne and open but in secret and in presence of some one or other of his godlie frendes not to be named together with further mencion of his opē marriage after all this in the open churche at Geneua vpon his first cominge thither with he her what other thinge argueth all this but that Beza was enforced to marrie her vpon the then cōceyued suspicion of his incontinencie with her inferringe to proue that Beza was as then suspected to liue with her incontinenthe and that to auoide the danger thereof therefore married her openlie in the churche at Geneua which was no lesse them sacriledge had he byn then before allreadie married to her this pointe seemeth furthermore soe euident that our Englishe protestant poet maister Owen taketh notice thereof in his epigrames where writinge of Bezas two wiues he saythe The (g) maister Owen in his soe much esteemed epigrames printed Londini ex officina Humfredi Lownes Anno 1607. editione tertia wherin he so commendeth his English protestant Bishops l. 2. epigram 23. 24. 25 dothe there l. 1. epigram 141. in Theodorum thus write of Bezas two marraiges Vxorem tibi more nouo fas ducere non est quid refert veterinam tibi lege licet At tu Mosaicam violasti bis quoque legem nupta prior meretrix nam fuit haec vidua est Leuit. c. 21. vers 7.13 14. thus farre maister Owen firste was a whore and the seconde a widdowe concerninge which his seconde wife I cannot but commende to all indifferente iudgements what signe of mortification beseeminge Bezas pretended (h) hereof see Beza in epist. theolog printed 1573. ex Alemanno pag. 49. and see hereafter c. 7. §. 5. fine in the margine at s. extraordinarie vocation was by him shewed when after the (i) Faius de vita obitu Beza pag. 54. ante med saythe Anno 1588. mense April è viuis excessit Claudia de Nossa Beza coniux cum qua coniunctissime honestissime vixerat annos quadraginta deathe of his sayde firste wife him selfe beinge then sole (k) Fayus ibidem pag. 74. ante med saithe Liberos nullos vnquam habuit without children and at the time of her sayde deathe aged (l) Fayus ibidem pag 8. fine affirminge Beza to be borne 24. Iunij Anno 1519. and the same compared to her foresayde deathe in April 1588. yt followeth by computation that he was then aged 69. yeres wantinge but one monethe threescore nyne yeres he yet afterwardes beinge then entred vpon the 70. yere of his age in more then ordinarie haste euen within the cōpasse but of some fewe (m) It appeareth by Fayus vbi supra pag. 66. fine 67. initio that Beza died 13. Octobris 1605. aged 86. yeres 3. monethes and 19. dayes and yt appeareth further pag. 74. ante med that his seconde wife had ben then maried to him duringe the space of 17. yeres which 17. yeres beinge deducted from the foresaide 86. yeres of his age sheweth her marriage vnto Beza to haue bene within the meane time which was betwene April 1588. in which his firste wife dyed as next heretofore at e. and the 13. of October then next followinge which begunne the first seauententh yere of the second wyues continuance with Beza and this perhaps was the cause why Anthonie Fayus beinge curiouse in settinge downe the verie yere and certaine tyme of Bezas other proceedinges as namely of his birthe pag. 8. his death pag. 66. his first marriage at Geneua pag. 12. the death of his first wife pag. 54. and diuers other like forbeareth yet to obserue this course in like settinge downe the certaine tyme of his seconde marriage thoughe yet neuerthelesse the obseruant reader may otherwise collecte the same from him in that vpon his foresayde mencion of Bezas first wifes death Anno 1588. set downe pag. 54. he doth saye pag. 55. that Beza made his second marriage aliquanto post tempore a smalle time after and the same there set downe as in order precedent to Bezas actions of Anno 1589. which yere of Anno 1589. beginneth not before pag. 56. initio monthes (n) Fayus vbi supra pag. 55. paulo post med married not without greate note thereof both at home and a broade Katherine the yonge widdowe of Franciscus Taraffus whereof maister Owen in his foresayde epigrames amongst his highe prayses there seriously giuen of diuers his protestant Bishops affordeth not his vnwittie nor vnpleasant (o) maister Owen in his epigrames mencioned nexte heretofore at c. lib. 2. epigram 14. in Theodorum saythe Iam septem

holie professors shoulde damnablie erre and that the deuill and Luther the deuill and Suinglius the deuil and Carolostadius and men soe further branded as Andreas Caluin Beza and the reste pardon courteouse reader the zeale of my soe earneste speakinge by me nowe or els where throughout this treatise vsed as but vpon supposall til they be answered or auoided of the premisses for true that these I saye should be vsed by God as the apologie of the churche of Englande saythe of Luther and Suinglius for see this in maister Iewels defence of the apologie of the church of Engla●d printed 1571. part 4. cap. 4. diu 2. pag. 426 prope finem and see heretofore in the preface to the reader at e. f. i. and alsoe in the margine there at h. moste excellente men euen sente of God to giue lighte to the wholle worlde in the midst of darknes when the truth was vnknowne and vnhearde of ys the poynte nowe insisted vpon and specially referred to thy consideration for if these men haue the truth with them that the true churche as they houlde eyther erred or became inuisible to speake the leaste for the thousand yeres laste paste before Luther then as in case of lyke supposall sayde Tertulian wee maye likewise saye Tertul. de prascript saithe Age nunc omnes Ecclesia errauerint c. nullam respexit spiritus sanctus vt eam in veritatem deduceret ad hoc missus à Christo ad hoc postulatus de patre c. neglexerit officium Dei villicus Christi Vicarius finens Ecclesias aliter interim intelligere aliter credere quam ipse per Apostolos praedicabat c. ecquid verisimile est vt tot ac tanta Ecclesia in vnam fidem errauerint c. aliquos Marcionitas Valentinianos for which wee maye no lesse Ironically saye aliquaem Lutherū Suinglium liberanda veritas expectabat interius perperam euangelizabatur perperam credebatur tot millia millium perperam operata vt tincta tot opera fidei perperā administrata tot virtutes tot charismata perperā operata tot sacerdotia tot ministeria perperam functa tot denique martyria perperam coronata Is it like that soe many and soe great churches erred Or to forbeare the like complainte of Nazianzen ep 2. ad Chelid saithe Absconditam post Christum sapientiam nobis annunciant rem Lachrimis dignam si enim triginta his annis f●des originem habuit cum quadringenti for which wee maye nowe saye mille quingenti ferè anni ab eo tempore fluxerint quo Christus palam conspectus est inane tanto tempore fuit Euangegelium inanis etiam fides nostra martires quidem frustra martyrium subierunt frustra etiātales tantique antistites populo praefuerunt Nazianzen as sayde that worthie auncient father Vincentius Lyrinensis in his goulden booke translated by our aduersaries in these wordes Vincentius Lyrinensis l. adu haeret cap. 33. and after the Englishe ● translation printed at London by Thomas Fulke Anno 1611. fol. 59. a. which nouelties if they should be receyued it cannot be but that the faithe of the blessed fathers shoulde be violated eyther all or for a greate parte thereof at the leaste that all the faithfull of all ages all the sainctes all the chaste or continente virgines all the clergie Leuites and priestes soe manie thousande of confessors so greate armies of martyrs soe greate an assemblie and multitude of citties and people soe manie ilandes prouinces kinges nations kingdomes contries and finally that nowe allmoste al the worlde c. shoulde be saide to haue byn ignorante for soe longe continuance of tyme to haue erred to haue blasphemed and not to haue knowne what they should beleiue c. And yf the auncient fathers mighte thus set foorthe amplifie againste all then pretence of appearinge nouellisme the absurde supposall of the churches erringe but for soe smale a season in comparison before theire tymes how much more then ys the same nowe preuaillinge againste the indignitie of our aduersaries assertion in chargeinge the confessed true churche with latencie and error for soe manie moe hundreth yeres as are by them as before pretended til nowe at laste that Martine Luther and others Nexte heretofore at p. gaue lighte to the wholle worlde in the mydst of darknes In which respecte I will and as I take not vnaptelie conclude with signifyinge my complainte hereat in these wordes allmoste the very same with those of our learned aduersary maister D. Bilson in the like case maister Bilson in his suruey of Christes sufferinges printed 1604. pag. 421. ante med If Christian religion were not professed soe manie confessed ages since Christes tyme before our age wherein Luther and Suinglius men soe qualified as before sayde tooke vpon them to restore the same this then ys a greater forsakeinge of Christe then any was on the crosse for then hath God forgotten all his promisses soe often mencioned in the prophets and confirmed to Christe c. The due consideration to be hadde of all which premisses beloued Reader I doe without all further inferringe or vrgeinge finallie referr to the religiouse care of thy owne more leasurable reserued obseruation and iudgemente THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOKE CHAPT I. SEct. 1. mencioninge the motiues of Luthers reuolt Sect. 2. his obiected disputation with the deuil Sect. 3. an examination of that which is pretended in answere thereto Sect. 4. the acknowledgmente thereof from learned protestantes them selues Chapt. 2. Luthers licentiouse doctrines Sect. 1. concerninge pastors beinge subiecte to the peoples iudgment Sect. 2. of not warringe againste the turke Sect. 3. touchinge the canonicall scriptures and theire translation Sect. 4. concerninge faithe Sect. 5. concerninge workes Sect. 6. concerninge marriage diuorce c. Sect. 7. concerninge magistracie Sect. 8. concerninge sacraments and their administration Sect. 9. of Christes passion in his humane nature vpon the crosse Sect. 10. concerninge the B. Trinitie Sect. 11. of God and the author of sinne Sect. 12. concerninge marriage and single life Sect. 13. concerninge the immortalitie of the soule Sect. 14. concerninge locall hell Chapt. 3. Of Luthers externall behauiour and Sect. 1. of his pride Sect. 2. of his contention and raylinge Sect. 3. of his inconstancie in doctrine Sect. 4. of his pretended certaintie in doctrine Sect. 5. of his maintayninge his doctrine againste his owne conscience Sect. 6. his marriage and other condicion of life Sect. 7. of Iacobus Andreas Chapt. 4. Sect. 1. of Melancthon Sect. 2. of Bucer Sect. 3. of Bernardine Ochine and some litle touche of Knoxe Bucanan Crammer Goodman c. Sect. 4. of Carolostadius Chapt. 5. Of Suinglius and Sect. 1. the maner of his reuolte and pretended reuelation Sect. 2. his doctrines Sect. 3. of his vnchaste conuersation Sect. 4. his sedition and deathe Sect. 5. of Luther and his arisinge at one tyme and the ominouse apparitions then before shewed c. Chapt. 6. Sect. 1. Of Caluins externall behauior and death Sect. 2. of his doctrine concerninge God and the author of sinne Sect. 3. his doctrine touchinge the Trinitie Sect. 4. of his translatinge the scriptures and his doctrine of Christes sufferinges Sect. 5. his proude reiectinge of the fathers in theire affirminge of our catholicke doctrines concerninge 1. the Trinitie 2. freewill 3. merite of workes grace and iustification 4. lymbus patrum 5. prayer for the deade 6. lente faste 7. grace confered by sacraments 8. the necessitie of baptisme 9. ceremonies vsuall in sacramentes 10. concupiscence not to be sinne in the baptised 11. Christe mediator accordinge to his humane nature 12. the vnmarryed life of priestes 13. satisfaction 14. solemne enioyned pennance 15. monachisme 16. Peters primacy 17. Antichriste 18. the Romane churches primacie 19. induration 20. reall presence and reseruation 21. sacrifice c. 22. Angells and Sainctes 23. Images Sect. 6. his sedition Chapt. 7. Sect. 1. Of Beza his licentiouse doctrine and allso of his Andebert and Candida c. Sect. 2. his marriages Sect. 3. his equiuocatinge i● doctrine Sect. 4. his sedition and contempt of the auncient fathers Sect. 5. his bouldnes with the scriptures FINIS

LVTHERS LIFE COLLECTED FROM THE WRITINGES OF HIM SELFE AND OTHER LEARNED PROTESTANTS TOGETHER With a further shorte discourse touchinge Andreas Melanchton Bucer Ochine Carolostadiius Suinglius Caluine and Beza the late pretended Reformers of Religion Taken from the onely reporte of learned Protestants themselues By theire fruictes you shall know them doe men gather grapes of thornes or figges of thistles Math. 7.16 By IOHN BRERELEY Priest and Author of the Protestants Apologie AT S. OMERS For IOHN HEIGHAN Anno 1624. With permission of Superiors TO THE CHRISTIAN READER BEinge requested by such as may challenge interest in my labours to write somewhat in satisfaction of those whose meaner capacitie is not able to discerne of learned discources nor to wade into the depthe of more intricate pointes and questions concerning religion I coulde not make choise of any thing more fitting in this kinde then the description of theire liues proceedinges who now in this last age vnder pretence of reformation impugned our auncient and no lesse longe before continued (a) For the thousand yeares last past Simon de Voion in his discource vpon the catalogue of the docters c. printed at London 1598 in the epistle to the reader post med affirmeth that Anno 605. when pope Boniface was stalled in the papall throne then falshoode got the victorie c. then was the whole worlde ouer-whelmed in the dreegges of antichristian filthines abominable superstitions and traditions of the pope then was that vniuersall apostasie frō the faith foretould by Paule And master Powel in his consideration of the papistes reasons printed 1604. page 105. fine saith I grante that from the yere of Christe 605. the professant companie of poperie hath bene verie visible and perspicuouse And maister D. Fulke in his answere to a counterfaite catholicke printed 1577. act 11. pag. 36. initio saithe The religion of the papistes came in and preuayled in the yere of our Lord. 607. c. and so vniuersally that saith he the reuelation of Antichrist with the churches flight into the wilderernes was anno 607. whē c. see this last in his reioinder to Bristoe printed 1581. pag. 347. circa med And maister Parkins in his exposition of the creed printed 1596 and after the last edition of his workes volum 1. printed 1608. pag. 266. b. initio saith During the space of 900. yeres from the time of Boniface the popishe heresie hath spred it selfe ouer the whole earth and the faithful seruantes of God were but as an handful of wheate in a moūtaine of chaffe which can scarse be discern●d and Vorstius in his Antibellarminus printed 1610. pag. 154. initio saith quod ad Ecclesiam Romanam hodiernam attinet tametsi fatemur eam hactenus mille circiter annos continuo sub hac corrupta formae generatim accepta durasse c. Also maister Naper in this treatise vpon the reuelation for the supposed worth therof dedicated to his maiestie and reprinted at london 1594. and againe reprinted at london 1611. cum priuilegio regiae maiestatis and as appeareth by the preface thereto imprinted and sett out diuers times in the frenche and duche tongues and to be published in latine to the vtilitie of the whole churche acknowledgeth a yet longer vniuersall continuance of our religion sayinge Betwene the yere of Christe 300. and 316. the Antichristian and papisticall reigne beganne reigning vniuersallie without any debateable contradictiō 1260. yeres after the firste edition proposition 36. pag. 68. prope finem and after the other edition pag. 90. fine and the same so affirmed by him not in regarde of some or other particuler doctrine of our religion but so generallie concerninge the whole that saith he gods true churche most certainlye abode so longe latent edition first in c. 15. pag. 191. initio and inuisible ibidem in cap. 12. pag. 161. col 3. circa med and after the 2. edition pag. 201. fine The pope and his clergie possessinge the outwarde visible churche of christians euen 1260. yeres ibidem in c. 11. initio edit 1. pag. 145. fine And maister Brocard vpon the reuelations printed 1572. fol. 110. à circa med affirmeth that the churche was trodden downe oppressed by the papacie euen from Siluesters time to these times duringe the saide 1260. yeres and see him further there fol. 123. b. Lastly maister Brightman in his apocalipsis apocalipseos printed 1609. in his synopsis placed before the beginninge of the booke in c. 11. and 14. sayth Ecclesia à tēporibus Constantini per mille ducentes sexaginta annos abscondita fuit c. per mille annos à Constantino versante Ecclesia in abditissimis latebris fuit vna cum Christo c. and in Apocal. in c. 12. pag. 341. paulo ante med he saith Necessarijs argumentis euincimus mulierem in solitudinem se recipisse c. ad illud tempus quando regnum inibat Constantinus And in c. 11. pag. 283. circa med he saith Accedente Constantino ad regnum capit Ecclesia se abdere in occulto concedendo à mundi conspectu in quoddam interius penetrare and pag. 577. circa med he further saith Respondeo c. non expectandam esse vllam aliam cessationem publicae religionis quam quae extitit multis saeculis à Constantino magno in hunc vsque diem quo omni tēpore regnauit Antichristus dum agebat quidem mulier in deserto then vniuersallie professed catholicke faith for seeinge it (b) Math. 7.13.14 is not the broad but the straite way that leadeth vnto life and that accordingly it is euident by all examples and obseruation of former times that the liues of those were euermore not licentiouse or dissolute but austere and sanctified whom God chose to be the reformers of his churche or first publishers or restorers of religion it cannot but afforde matter of singuler satisfactiō to such as are but euen of meanest vnderstandinge if vpon due examination taken in this course it do falle out that those who are now pretended to haue beene for this last age the (c) extraordinarie reformers whereof see cap. 7. sec 5. fine in the margine at S. extraordinarie reformers of the Christiā worlde haue in such theire vndertaken endeauor behaued thēselues as men of more then ordinary deformed wicked condiciō of life for our Sauiour saith (d) Math. 6.22.23 the lighte of the bodie is the eye if this lighte be darke how greate shall the darknes it self be to which purpose he further forwarneth sayinge (e) Mat. 7.15.16.17 Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheepes clothinge but inwardlie are raueninge wolues by theire fruits you shall knowe them doe men gather grapes of thornes or figges of thistles c. a good tree yeeldeth good fruite c. from which permisses it necessarilie followeth maister Whites (f) wheras maister White in his way to the true churche printed 1608. sec 38. nu 2. 3. pag.