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

al France whiles he went about to quenche the flame to parte y ● strife to appeace y ● sedition of his contreie was traiterouslie cruellie murdred by the meanes counsel and vnmercifull conspiracie of that vile Caytif Beza the inuenter coyner of al these michiefes seruante bondslaue of al bawdie luste fylthie concupiscence and all detestable sinne and vice I feare me leaste I seeme to passe y e limites cōpasse of y e time apointed for me to speake by y ● custome of this Schole to abuse your gentel patience suffrance right worshipfull if I trauaille anie further with longer discourse to long talk to declare rippe vp y ● endlesse and infinite desperatnes crueltie madnes of these harishe Ministers traiterouse Refourmers and brutishe Heretikes To be shorte your wisdomes I doubt not doe plainlie now perceaue that this theyr warre for Religion againste God and all true Religion hath been made nother iustelie nother orderlie nother to anie good effect or furtherance of Refourmation Ye see now as clere as the bright shining sonne that the Protestātes of our time ranne raisshelie together and toke weapon in ●hand without anie iuste cause reasonable occasion or sufficient quarell that they badde and proclaimed warre againste theyr countrey against theyr Souueraignes againste y ● Catholike Churche of Christe without anie commission power or Authoritie y t they fought that battaille to fearcelie to vnmercifullie and to cruellie to the exceding great iniurie harme and wrong of all good men to the incredible hindrance and dammage of all Christendome and suche l●sse as can neuer be repayred Ye know now these new Gospellers the wicked Captaines of these moste traiterouse and dangerouse insurrections ye vnderstand what maner of men they be how vprightlye how honestlie they liue and behaue themselues in the Churche of God and what they meane what they go about what they attempt What saye you then by them what p●nisshement thinke you haue suche bloudsuckers suche cruell butchers deserued to suffer what estimation what degree what state among Christen men iudge you suche verlets to be worthy of whome neither shame could withdraw from dishonestie neither feare keepe of frome dāger nother reason reuoke from madnes nor Religion stop from Sacriledge nor pitie staie from killing and murdering of theyr own neighbours At the firste for a messe of potage certaine loose friers and fained dissemblers of Monasticall profession fell out at debate betwene themselues afterward they were pricked dryuen and drawen by auarice ambition and wanton iuste of wicked libertie and pleasure to strike vp a larme and to bid battaille and at length they fought in open field againste theyr own contremen neighbours and followes againste y e Magistrates Kings and Emperours against the Bishops againste the Churche againste the Christian Religion againste all good men against the Sayntes of heauen finally againste God allmightie himself as the Gyātes did of whome y e Poetes in theyr fables make mention meaning in deed such desperat raging wicked caytiffes rebelles miscreants as these were The false traitors desperat cutthrotes brought into the Churche of Christe a cursed kind of Religion framed caste made of wicked whoredomes bawdie bitcherie of innocent bloud and murder of true subiectes of all maner of troublesome and seditious mischiefe discord and all loosenes and libertie to embrace and f●llow vice sinne They haue called in holpen maintained the enemies of Christendome Forayners Tyrans Turkes They haue geuen to the Turke and added to his dominion and Empire manie Noble and goodlie countreies prouincies of Christendome They haue lead an infinite nūber of Christen soules to eternall damnation throwen them down hedlong to the deepe pit of euerlasting fire and betaken them to the tyrannie and furie of the vglie finds and horrible diuelles of hell They made the holie fonte stones the couers of theyr iakes yea the durtie Helhowndes Oh abhominable acte were not ashamed to laye the excrementes of theyr vile and wicked bealies euen in the verie sacred fonte and place where Christen men were wonte to receaue theyr Baptisme There were slayen in Germanie with in three monethes space by the wicked occasion and faulte of these Refourmers an hundred and thirtie thousande men and in Fraunce aboue a hundred thousand among whome I recken not the infinite number of suche as died of the plague there in y e meane time of whome the greatest parte were these Cu●throtes themselues speciallie they of Lyons who as it is reported did poison the welles common waters of theyr Citie for a traiterouse and wicked intent So that by the iuste iudgement of God it is brought to passe that there scars remaineth now aliue vppon the earthe y ● fourthe parte of those who for a great number being but beardlesse yong men and moste of them witlesse altogether desperat and destitute of y ● feare of God attempted to doe suche so strainge and villainouse deedes I will not staie now to make an accōpte and iuste reckening of al those that throughe this cursed Refourmatiō were caried to miserable captiuitie vnder the Turke or were slayen in the field in defense of Christendome againste him and these his adherents and yet this I am bold to saie that if ye hard the euen tale iuste accompte of them ye wold more wonder at it pitie it then ye doe now at the rehearsall of this maruelouse nūber slayen and murdred in Fraunce and Germanie They haue turned all lawes out of y ● countrey and sent all right and equitie into bannishement deuotion true Religion Chaste lyuing can wel nighe now abyde sa●e in no place the Profession of Chastitie is suspected hated and despised eueriewhere Al things are besette and turmoyled with madnes rage murder fire and sword The desperate crie of furiouse heretikes doth make all the world ring the streates runne of bloud the walles of Chapelles and Churches are sprinkled dawbed with the gore blood and braine of Christen men Al Europe being weakened with the cruel warre long seditions of heretikes cracks and shakes and is euen now readie to fall quite to the ground And now when al this is done after al these mischeifs and Tragical offenses y t these mad Bedlems cursed Caines haue committed they blame the Catholiks and lay crueltie to theyr charge that haue suffred all these iniuries losses dāmages and murders at theyr handes There came furth in printe of late to the sight of the world a verie fond foolishe peuyshe litle boke out of Englande writen againste the tyrannie of the Papistes for so it liketh them in scorne to call the Catholikes In these and suche like dangers of tumultes and insurrections of subiectes right learned Audience in these verie same snares and trappes of treason and cōspiracie we also ourselues haue liued stood nowe a long time We nourrish in our owne lappes

traiterous against God man for y t without any iust occasiō ye haue so long so cruelly troubled the whole estate of Christendō But you say y ● faith was wel nigh quite quēched out of the Church It is a wonderous matter ye speake of Christ praied for S. Peter that his Faith shuld neuer faile And wil ye say he praid in vaine lost his labor and could not obtain his prayer that were iniury and reproche to the sonne of God The holye Ghost came downe from heauen into the Church here militant on earth to teache her al truth Hath he not taught her you blaspheme the holy Ghost so to say But goe to let it be graunted that as you imagine all maner of fonde absurd thinges so you thought in this poynte with no lesse madnesse that the Christian Faith was lost or at least that Christian Religion being nigh outworne and spēt before your happy daies needed to be restored by such excellent graue godly and wise men as you were replenished with all maner of knowledge vertue and heauenly giftes of the sprite To be short your purpose was ye say to refourme the Christian Faith Howe then When you could not therin preuail nor perswade the people that was somewhat stubburn and stiffenecked perhaps as you iudged did you thinke it the best way by and by with gonneshot and bytels to beat and driue the faith into their heades Who euer being in his right wit did thinke that any thing might be perswaded by force Men vse to perswade the minde and not the bodye but it is moste certaine that the minde as it maye be bent led and induced by reason so by stripes blowes buffets it can neuer be compelled and constrained But it was a carnal Religion y t these flesshly Gospellers brought and taught therefore they dyd what they could to driue it into mens braynes with strokes and to prick it into mens flessh with swordes dags and daggers It may be ye were muche offended w t the vitiouse maners and ill liuing of men now a dayes In good faith and so were we there is no honest Catholike man that euer was delighted therwith But yet when we saw that it was very hard fully to cleanse purge anie one familie or how shold frō all maner of synnes sores we thought it a matter of far greater difficultie importance to amend the faultes heale y e wondes of al the whole corps of Christēdom together therfore of necessity be cause we could not remedie y t desperat case by reason of the multitude we bore w t y t cōmon and vulgare Deceases and vices of al sortes of men the cure wherof was more past hope and did take them patientlye but yet surely not without great greif and sorow to see them open preaching cōtinuallie against them But you sowr Checkmasters most bitter Controllers of maners went about lyke Iudges sent from heauen or Physitions dropte owt of the skyes to cōdēne and cut of with sword burn with fire and gunpowder all at a pushe y e faultes and folies of the whole world together Yf ye had bene officers hauing Commissiō and authoritie so to doe yet your Iudgement and processe could not be excused herein from exceding crueltie and raishnes but where it appeareth ye were but flingbraynes light Iackstrawes hauing no authoritie at al y t toke vppō you without any examinatiō without processe of law without any sentence to condemne al Christendome to rack it to punish it and with most greuouse and painefull tormentes to teare and turne vpsyde down y e whole world what shall I call this but a bloudy Butcherie a haynous wickednes a dyuelish dealing an impietie neuer to be pardoned O but say you the Catholikes did lyue vitiously the Cleargie were out of order the Princes and Rulers ruled not as they should yea there were manie ceremonies in y e Churche y t we could not brook I assure you these be greuous weighty Inditementes Who laid them in I pray you Who but you the worst men naughtiest liuers y ● euer trode on earth What blames the theefe Verres his mate Or cutthrote falles with Miles at bate The third Elias him self did playnlye confesse that the manners of men were far more vitious vnder his Gospel then euer they wer before vnder y e Popedome He hath said it It is not lawful to gainsay y e same But if any of y e disciples dare deny that which this theyr great master Pythagoras sayde the beddes are yet warme wherin these gospellers lay with other mennes wiues the Townes and Cities smoke yet of the fire wherewith they burned houses the earth is moiste at this houre with the bloude of manye good subiectes whome they haue slaine theyr Purses do swel and are yet at this present puft vp with the goods they gathered and gaines they got by roberies Simonye and Extortion Shew forthe thy brasen face Martin Luther and saye if thou dare that thou art an honester and better man then the vertuous and graue Fathers and Prelates of the Catholike Churche I wyll out of hād bring in against thee the publike Edict that the most noble Charles the fift our late foueraigne Emperour of happy memory made againste thee at Wormes the witnesse of the greate and mightye Henry the eight King of England whose sacred Royall crowne be it spoken here with leaue thou like a sluttish slaue vauntest thou wouldst anoynt with durt and donge of thy dronken body The decree of the most renoumed Sigismund king of Pole and by these euidences I wil by and by conuince thee proue that thou art worthy to be caste of Rebellion Sedition Sacrilege Impiety Heresy Finally of all manner of wicked vices and hainous offences that can raigne in a man What canst thou lay against these witnesses who were at that time the noblest the best the worthiest of credite of all that liued in our daies Theese worthy Princes Proclamations and Publike Edictes sette oute againste thy Wickednesse and Naughtye behauioure are euery where in euery mans hande published in print to the vewe and sight of the whole world Come vp againe hither frō hell if thou canst Ihon Caluine tel truth seing al y e world knoweth y t thou diddest kepe y e space of fiue yeares together a Nunne who was a Renegate out of y e Nūnerie called Veilmur y t thou diddest paye two crownes a moneth for her borde in the towne out of y t poore mens boxe of Geneua vppon condition she should come euery day to make thy bedde and learne her lesson out of thy Gospell practize how to beare y e burden of wedlocke patiently and at last when she was great w t childe by thee and had now caried abowt y e burden of her bealie three or fower monethes that thou didst bestow vppon an Apostate Chanon dwelling at Losanna thereby

them ca●ling them di●elles of hell and saied that out of dout the Nobles might easelie winne heauen by shedding the bloud of such traiterouse rebelles See I pray you the Euangelical sprite of this Apostle how dubble it is how experte and readie in false fayning and dissimulation All this he wrote to make the world beleue that he was none of that pack and wicked conspiracie of rebelles wheras in deed he was y ● Author and Grand captaine that did set them on and clapte his handes and egged them forward as long as they had anie hope to haue the vpper hand We maye thank this traiterouse Catiline of our time for all these blouddie tragedies By suche practizes he came in fa●●or with Solimam the great Turke in whose Bokes he was highelie esteemed wel worthie so to be For by occasion of debate about y ● Lutheran Gospell and so through Luthers meanes he conceaued Good hope to ouerrunne and conquer all Germanie when he came to that Keye of Christendome y ● noble Citie Vienna Austriae with suche a huge great host y ● he made all Europe quake Yea Soliman wrote in plaine wordes that he wished Luther long life that he hoped the daie should come that Luther should find him his good master And in verie deed at that time the terrible and mortall enemie of Christendome gaue a great puyshe missed but a litle to subdue al Germanie whiles Christen men being at debate betwen them selues about the Gospell drew curtisie verie vncourteouslie and were in doubt whether they should go with the Emperour fight againste him or no had not God of his infinite mercie then especiallie holpen his afflicted flocke and spared his people I can not w tout great greif of harte remember y ● by the wicked meanes and procurement of this Gospeller one of y ● beste Christen Emperours y ● euer ruled Christendome was brought in trouble and great danger among his own subiectes Is there anie man aliue y ● ene● saw or can anie of vs all call to remembrance y ● we euer hard or read of such a Noble worthy Prince for wit vertue ▪ prowesse experience courage and for al other Princely graces honorable giftes and renoumed actes as was our late puissante mightie Emperoure Charles the fifte Ye● this Princelie man this Lieutenant general Patrone and Defendor of all Christendome this moste renoumed Emperour was assaulted and entrapped by this pestilent treason and Gospelissh conspiracie And whereas it should haue becomme Germanie especiallie to obey him at a beck certaine Germans mustered made a great hoste all the power they could againste him and pursued him in open warre whiche they call Smalcald Fielde thoughe thankes be to God they loste the field and preuailed not I could here tell you of the greate Sedition and insurrection in Zuitzerlād whiche was sturred vp by Zuinglius the raging flame whereof was so fearce and great that the bloud of manie thousand men was scarse able to quenche it I could declare vnto you how the traiterouse Gospellers of England gathered a maine hoste againste their moste vertuouse ladie Queene Marie the rare treasure y ● peerlesse Iewell y ● moste perfecte Paterne Example of our dai●● How they shotte arrowes and ●a●tes againste her Courte gates conspired her death deuised to poison her to kil her w t a dagge at one time w t a priuie dagger at an other time reuiled her called ●er bastard boutcher printed seditiouse bokes againste her wherein they railed at her like Hellhoundes and named her traiterouse Marie mischeuouse Marie It were to long to rehearse how the noble Queene of Scotlād that now ●aigneth was driuen a great while to liue like a poore priuat woman in her own realme to obey her own subiectes todoe no more then they gaue her leaue yea and in the meane tyme was euerie daye and euery houre in greate perill danger of her life among them I need not tell that euery man knoweth how the Gētell men that were seduced by thies new preachers rebelled againste their Prince in Sucuia nor how y ● Comōs made an vprore againste their king in Denmarck But I can not omit to speake of th●● late treason and cruell conspiracie of the Hugonoes in Frāce who could without weeping teares abyde to tell how those naughtie false wicked subiectes were not ashamed to stand in open field againste their own natural Soueraigne in his own realme To bid war and fight againste theyr lawfull King during his Nonage to make a league and confederacie w t y e enemies of his croune to sell his Cities and townes to forayners straingers for mony This holie bataille for the Gospell a Gods name was fought againste France by Frenchemen themselues that is first by Caluin the Dictator and General of the field then by Beza the Lieutenant and Othomannus and Spifamius the petie Captaines These were the cheife doers in deed though as they toke the coloure of Religion pretense of refourmation for cloke of their treason so they vsed the names seruice of certaine of y ● nobilitie of France whome they had seduced to beare out the brunte of the Battaille the smarte of the strokes the enuie the infamie all the outward face and po●● of that busy mater These were the ●naues that lay in y ● stocke as for other they were but theyr trumping Cardes The preface of their tragedie was verie calme and peaceable They would seeme to go verie orderlie to work They got an edict to be made forsooth for the furtherance of theyr Gospell they got a law by force and extorsion against y ● king and Magistrats wil and pleasure The highe Court of Parlemēt of Paris made answer at the firste We can not we wil not we ought not But afterward they were compelled to let the bill passe the Edicte of Ianuarie to be made y ● these rakchels might preach without y ● walles by permission and as it were by vertue of a law whiche law to all honest good men neuer seemed worthie to haue the name of a law as the whiche was obtained by force was laied vppon mens neckes by the might and violence of theeues and traitours that had taken bound y ● Common weale hand foote was written and penned againste all reason and equitie But yet a law they would needes haue were it neuer so vnlawfull to be a cloke to couer theyr outragiouse sedition And in deed at the firste they made them selues verie humble and meeke When the King and the Honorables of France were assembled about weightie greate affaires of y e Realme at Poissie thither came the twelue Apostles of that deformed Churche of whiche number eight or nyne were Apostates Munkes and friers that had caste of their habites broken their vowes and forsaken theyr profession suche smothe marchantes y ● in outward

bosoms Domesticall enemies who raging with desperat boldnesse and panting for verie malice doe imagine labor to poison vndoe theyr Countrie breake out into suche common talke dailie communicatiōs as abode add threaten the murder of all good men and the setting of the Citie a fire This cruel this horrible this contagiouse and deadlie plague we haue by the benefite mercie of God allmightie and the diligent prouision of graue and wise Rulers often times escaped If it were writen in euerie mans forehead what he thought of the Common weale ye might reade murder bloud burnings the bane wherling gulphes and ouerthwart rockes prepared to poison to swalow vp to ouerthrowe y e Citie at home within your own houses abrode in the Churches in the Scholes yea sometimes in this verie auditorie where ye stand Learne by other mens dangers losse harme what hangeth ouer your owne headdes what is like to fall on your Citie your Churches and aulters what is like to become of your liues your goods and substance if whiche God forbyd this your coūtrey also should happen to be sette a fire with this terrible flame of discord and Rebellion There is no hope of forgeuenes no looking for mercie no place left for pardon where the rage of these Gospellers beginnes to get y e vpper hād or theyr desperat furie to beare the swaie and rule Nother the regard of their Coūtreie nor of parētes nor wines children nor frendes shalbe able anie whit to moue or mollifie the hard stonie and more then Adamante hartes of Protestātes They will not set a russhe by the weeping wayling and teares of theyr frendes acquaintance they will caste away all feare and set naught by the loue frēdship both of God and man and breake as muche as euer they may all God and mans lawes and moste desperatlie cutte the throte of euerie Christen man thy meete when they perceaue y ● they haue the stronger syde Tread out therfore and quenche the sparkles of this fire now whiles ye may Doe not winke anie longer at these Mōstres to your own smarte harme Do not nourisshe cherishe in your howsen and by your fire syde these venemouse Esopicall adders to your own vndoing especiallie and to the destruction of all good men Ye haue heard what they haue don other where you vuderstād therby what you your selues also ought to feare For whiche of you al or what honest man in all the world wil they spare think you who are so malitiouse spiteful againste all good men that they can not find in theyr hartes to let them reste in theyr graues nor pardon them when they are dead and buried There is no honest man yea no Christen man who at leste remembreth himself to be a Christian that can abide to see suche villaines suche Gospellers boutchers traitors madmen wicked Church robbers that can abide to heare of them whose harte riseth not against them and finallie detesteth and abhorreth not theyr crueltie and trem●leth not at the verie remembrance of theyr Tyrannie EGo Frater Ioannes Hentenius sacrae Theologia professor Louan praesentibus mea manu scriptis attestor praedictam orationem in lingua primûm Latina editam mea approbatione nunc autem in linguam Britannicam versam nihil continere propter quod minus in lucē edi debeat imó plurimum vtilitatis ad fidem Catholicam tuendam allaturam aduersus haereticos Hoc autem quoad versionem hanc idcirco audeo attestari quanquàm hoc idioma non calleam quòd id certô mihi asserant Docti ac Catholici viri Anglicanae Nationis I0 HENTENIVS THE TABLE OF THIS BOOKE SET OVT not by order of Alphabete or nūbre but by expresse figure to the eye sight of the Christian Reader and of him also y ● canno treade The first note storie in this litle booke to skan The Gosplers in Paris streates thus in a rage ran With Gospel in their mon hes sworde in their handes I see not how these two together well standes Caluin in his chamber fiu● yeres taught a Nonne Tyll she was great with Gospell and swolne with a sonne Beza solde to two men his lininges of the Churche And ran his way with all and left them in the lurche His white M● stresse Candita a taylors wyfe before Of her charit●e for al Christen soules fetchtone ●●iscol more Caluin bannisht Fraunce Geuena did possesse And all the lauful Magistrates did expel and oppresse Rotman for the Lutherans draue the Catholikes out Iohn Leid for the Anabaptists expeld the Lutheran rout Muntzer with his Gospellers vplandish bande The Princes Magistrates doth stoutly withstande Many Towne and Castel and Palaice of renoune Many Churche and Chapell is quite throwen downe The Turke against Christen by Christen is calde in With more then Turkishe treason and most horrible syn The Emperour in warre is assayld on eche side More perill in his life did he neuer abide No Queene in her kingdome can or ought to syt fast If Knokes or Goodmans bookes blowe any true blast Many Kinges in their Thrones this Gospel did shake And made many mayne landes full terribly to quake The Chiefe of Christes Churche sitte in Councell to aduise Then al Prelates and Princes thinke ye yourselues more wyse Vniuersities Colleges and Scholes be ouerturned These men spette at Learning they will haue al bookes burned Beholde a good preachor with a pistolet in his hande Against such pistle or Gospell it is to hot ● to stande A pistolet in the Pulpit what is the Churche then A storehouse for your weapon and a stewes for your women Caluin beynge younge the Crosse and Chalice stale Beinge olde he did put greater things in his male Vpon poore priestes Beza in iudgement doth sitte Him selfe to be iudged aud hanged vp more fitte An Abbot and a Prieste at Orleans without pitie They hangd vp in the open Market place of the Citie A Religiouse olde man escaped with care They tooke againe and stript him all naked and bare With a rope about his necke along they him drewe Bounde him to a tree and with handgons him slewe An others bely was cutte and his guttes taken out And wounde softe and fayre on a staffe rounde about One out of his bed they pulde lying sore sycke And in the Churche on the Roode they hangd him vp quicke An other that was fled like a beggar priuilye They tooke and stript and set to sale with open outcry They flea his fingers crowne and pull out both his eyes And kill him with their hand ●ons for their warlike exercise And other at their bayt into their Inne they drewe Ript his bely and his guttes all about the house threwe Many Priestes had this man by like maymed and flayne Sith he coulde of their eares make himselfe such a chayne Two Priestes thus they hanged by the Roode for theyr game With Christ so to hange doo they thinke