passe from me but god sayde then neuer a word of y e Masse to his son in y e gret agony yet then was the time for God to haue spoken of it if euer he would speake of it therefore it is most manifest that the Masse hath no suche power to release vs of our sinnes as the Pope and his Prelates would make vs beléeue For if it would deliuer vs from our sinnes then God at this special time wold haue heard the earnest prayer and request of Christ his deare and only sonne and would haue kept him from that cruell death that after he suffered and would or might haue answered his sonne thus oh my louing sonne be merry and glad thou shalt not dye for the sinnes of the people for I haue deuised another easier way to saue thē wherby thou shalt not néede to dye and this it is the Pope and his Priestes shal say and celebrate the Masse whiche is not onely the most highest and honorable seruice that can be done to me but also it shal be a sufficient and perfit sacrifice for sinnes both of the quicke and dead and therby they shal be deliuered from Hel as well as though thou had dyed for them and it shal be a ladder for them to climbe vppe to heauen If God had said thus to his son our sauiour Christe when he prayed so earnestlye to his Father for the sauing of hys life I would haue liked you Masses a great deale better but bycause Christ saide to his Father if it be possible let this Cup of deth passe frōme yet God suffred him to die for al his request therfore it is most manifest true y t it is impossible for vs to be saued by any thing but only by the passion death of Christ. This is so sufficiēt an argument to make you forsake most spéedily y e most detestable Masse y e robs Christe of his merits to take hold on Christ to embrace his gospel as none cā be more sufficiēt probable But for that manye of you doe thynke and beléeue that the bread in the Masse after the Priest hath consecrated it is the verye bodie of Christe bycause Christe sayde This is my bodye you shall nowe heare playnely by the auntient and learned Fathers and Doctors what Christ ment by these wordes But firste before I rehearse them you shall sée what Christe ment by conferring of his owne wordes Christe tooke breade and gaue thankes and brake it and gaue it to hys Disciples saying this is my bodye whiche is giuen for you this doe in my remembraunce now thys latter sentence doe thys in my remembraunce doth shew the meaning of the first sentence For if Christ hadde lefte hys owne bodye wyth vs then he woulde not haue sayde doe thys in my remembraunce For what néede one be wylled to remember that thing that hée séeth Saint Paule likewise sayeth That whiche I deliuered vnto you I receyued of the Lorde for the Lorde Iesus the same nighte in whiche hee was betrayed tooke breade and gaue thankes and brake it and sayde Take yee and eate yee this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembraunce of me After the same manner hee tooke the cup when supper was done saying this cup is the newe Testament in my bloud yet the cuppe wherin was the wine was not the new testament though the very words are so this do as ofte as yee drinke it in remembraunce of me for as ofte as yee shall eate this breade and drinke this cup not meaning that they shoulde drinke the Cuppe thoughe he say so but the Wine in the Cuppe yee shall shewe the Lordes deathe till hee come Here Saint Luke and Sainte Paule differ from Sainte Matthew and from Sainte Marke for here they saye This Cuppe is the newe Testamente in my bloude but Marke and Matthew sayth This is my bloud of the new Testament c. wherby it appeares that therein S. Luke and S. Paule doe open the meaning in this place of y e other two Euangelists So y t therby Christ mēt not that the Wine was the bloud but that the Wine doth signifie his bloud and is a newe couenaunt or witnesse of his bloud that was shed for manye and so he meant of the bread And Saint Paule sayth further Ye shall shew the Lordes death vntil he come So that by his words it plainelye appears that in eating of the Lords supper we chiefly ought to remember Christ in his absence and shewe and remember his death and to be thankeful to him therefore vntil he come again at the last day for these words vntil he come do signifie plainely that he is absent in his body and will come at length And nowe you shall heare whether the auntiente Doctours and writers were of the same iudgemēt or not Tertullian expoundeth these wordes of Christe hoc est corpus meum hoc est figura corporis mei which is This is my bodye that is to say this is the figure of my body likewise Saint Augustine sayth Non dubitauit Dominus dicere hoc est corpus meum cùm daret signum corporis sui Our Lord saith he doubted not to say this is my body when he gaue a signe of hys bodie And he sayth Christ receiued Iudas vnto his banket whereat he gaue to his Disciples the figure of his body and bloude here by these auntient and learned writers it appeares that the breade that Christe brake and gaue to hys Disciples was not his body but a figure and signe of hys body Sainte Cyprian sayeth The cuppe is offered in the remembraunce of Christe by the wine the Lordes bloude is shewed or signified therefore Wine is vsed that by Wine we maye vnderstande the Lordes bloude c. Sainte Augustine sayth in this sacrifice is a thankesgiuing and a remembraunce of the fleshe of Christe that hee hath offered for vs and of the bloude that hee shedde for vs And if you refuse all these learned authors aforesaid yet you wil not refuse I hope y e Popes own glose y t expoūdeth it thus vocatur corpus Christi id est significat corpus Christi It is called the body of Christ that is to say it signifieth the bodye of Christ. De consecra dist 2. hoc est quod in glossa A great sort moe of learned Authors write of the Sacrament to this effect but these are sufficient to proue that the Sacramentall breade and wyne are fygures and sygnes of the bodye and bloud of Christ and not the verye bodye and bloud of Christ. If it be a Sacrament as you call it then it can not be the body of Christ for Saint Augustine sayth Sacramentum est visibile signum inuisibilis gratiae A Sacramēt is a visible signe of an inuisible grace Now if it be a signe of an inuisible grace then it is not the inuisible grace it selfe So that the Sacrament
spake such Latine or out of such Latine made suche English if you can shewe vs no better Author wee muste needes thinke it is your owne c. but that representare should signifie eyther to make Christes bodie or to make it present no man I trowe euer durst to say so but Maister Harding In these woordes doe this you say is conteyned make this doth Christ bid you to make this in deede Maister Harding and what this I pray you would you make ye will say Christes bodie but Christes bodie as we beleeue is made already and needeth no newe making at your handes But you will say you will make Christ in remembraunce of Christe All this is meere follie for euery way yee tell vs you make Christ. Presume not Maister Harding to make him that made you it is inough for Stella clericorum to say qui creauit me c. he that made me hath gyuen me power to make him a Priest is his makers maker by this meanes the Prieste was before he was and God was not God when he was oh abhominable doctrine But God hath made Hell fire to the destruction of all them that yeelde their mouthes to speake suche blasphemie Thus Maister Iewell answeared and confounded Maister Harding that so foolishly and falsly did expound and wrest the wordes of Christe for the making of Christ of a péece of bread Marke further howe learnedly and truely Maister Harding commendes and extolles the Masse vpon whose wordes Maister Iewell wryteth as followeth M. Harding sayth he maketh as though in their Masse the Lords banket is so purely finely truely and so delicately drest and that it is such a feast for the people as the lyke is not in any thing else saying let this banket be dight as it ought to be let the best dishe be made readie c. Good Christian reader sayth Maister Iewell the best the wholesomest the most pleasant and most comfortable dish at this table is the death of Christ that lambe of God that hath taken away the sinnes of the world Thus Christ himselfe the maister of this feast hath willed vs to dresse this dinner Do this saith he in the remembraunce of me Likewise Saint Paule sayth as often as ye shall eate of this bread and drink of this cup yee shall shewe forth and publish the Lordes death vntill he come This banket therefore is not the outwarde or bare Sacrament And as it is alleaged out of S. Ambrose this banket is not the bread of the Sacrament that passeth into the belly but the bread of euerlasting life which relieueth the Substance of the Soule c. Likewise Saint Augustine sayth hee that is blinde in his harte within seeth not Christe that is our bread And is he blessed no man will so saie vnlesse he be one as blinde as he And so Maister Iewell goeth on and sayth But what maner of feast is it that M. Harding prepareth for the people how is it seasoned how is it drest firste by vncurteous and vnciuile dealing he withdraweth the one halfe that is the cup of the new Testament and reserueth it seuerally to him selfe And yet he woulde make the people beleeue they haue the whole And this doth he when he hath the greatest companie to sup with him when his feast is best furnished otherwise he suffreth his guestes to stand aloofe he consumeth all his prouision himselfe alone Neither hath hee any thing to set before them sauing onely a cold surcharge of dead shewes and dumbe Ceremonies The poore people heareth nothing vnderstandeth nothing eateth nothing drinketh nothing tasteth nothing they publish not the Lords death they know not the Lords supper To such a bāket Pasetes the Iugler vsed sometimes to cal his friendes there was great varietie and plentie of all maner of meates and drinkes the table full but when anye of the guestes would haue touched any thing it vanished sodainly away and was turned to nothing and so when their eyes were ful they put vp their kniues rose an hungred Euen thus M. Harding feedeth and feasteth the people of God with shewes and Ceremonies suffers them in the meane while to sterue for hunger Euen as the Prophet sayeth it shall be like a dreame of a hungrie man beholde he eateth and maketh merrie but when he is awakte his soule is emptie Thus excellently and most truelye hath that famous learned Bishop M. Iewell compared your great and worthie feast in the Masse whiche M. Harding so highly commendes and maintaines to the feast of Pasetes the Iugler Your Romish religion is so fond childishe false that it bewrayeth it selfe and hir champions that séeme to defende hir doe wounde hir and quite ouerthrowe hir and the more they approue hir the more they disproue hir for though M. Harding doth praise his Masse to be such a maruellous and godlye feast yet it appeares that the maister of the feast is but a very churle for as M. Iewell sayeth he hath none to his feast or dinner but himselfe but Christes Supper though M. Harding commendes it not was more like a feast than your Masse for he did not eate his Supper by himselfe but he bad all his Apostles to it yea Iudas his enimie that betraide him and all and they did eate drinke with him and he deuided both the breade and wyne among them but the Priest at the Masse though he breake the bread yet he eates and drinkes al himselfe Therfore if the Masse be a feast it is not onely a churles feast but also it is quite contrarie to Christs feast as before is well proued Therefore in all things the Papistical religion and doings be quite contrarie to the doings of Christ. And for that in many places before it appeareth that your Romish religion doth ouerthrowe it selfe euen so I will nowe by your Doctors owne doctrine ouerthrow your Christ of bread It is concluded in a Booke called Antididagma lately set forthe by the Chapter of Colain that the bare wordes of Christes institution without the wordes of the Canon of the Masse are not sufficient to make consecration If this bée true then Christ dyd not consecrate the breade and wyne bycause the Cannon of the Masse was not then nor of a good whyle after And you saye that before the consecration the breade is not the body of Christ so that for want of consecration Christ dyd not make the breade his bodye and bycause your Priestes makyng of Christes bodye dependes wholly of Christes making the breade his bodye for that they claime to do as he did and by the wordes that he spake therefore they doe not make the breade Christes bodye bycause Christ made not the bread hys bodye and thus by your owne doctrine your changing of the breade into the bodye of Christ is cleane ouerthrowne and therefore it must néedes bée breade still and so they teache you falsely and you beléeue falsely that the Sacrament after it
and hée sayde yea and if you thynke it be not wel then mend it Then Rose Allen sayd mend it nay the Lorde mend you and gyue you repentaunce if it bée hys wil. And nowe if you thinke it good beginne at the féete and burne to the head also for he that set you a worke shal pay you your wages one day I warrant you And so she went and carryed hir mother drinke as she was commaunded The saide Rose Allen being asked of one howe she coulde suffer the painefull burning of hir hand she saide at the first it was some griefe but afterward the longer she burned the lesse she felte or wel néere none at all Thus you may wel perceiue that the Gospel that shée professed was and is the true religion and that she tooke Gods quarrel in hand or else the Lord would not haue giuen hir this wonderfull patience and haue strengthned hir and mitigated hir paines in the burnyng of hir hande as he did Byshop Bonner he mighte be called Bishop Burner wel ynoughe caused a blinde Harpers hande to be burned with a hote burning coale whiche blinde man saide that if euery ioynt of him were burned yet he trusted in the Lorde not to flye Marke here agayne I beséeche you a wonderfull and straunge example not only of the great constancie and patience of one Thomas Hawkes that was burned for his professing the gospel of Christ but of the manifest proofe therby that the cause he died in was iuste and true and that God did myraculously assiste him and mitigated his torments in the flames of the fire This worthy member of Christ Thomas Hawkes was burned for witnessing the worde of God at a Towne in Essex called Coxhall A little before whose death certayne of his friends priuily desired that in the mids of the flames he woulde shewe them some token if he coulde whereby they might be more certaine whether the paine of suche burning were so greate that a man might therein kéep his minde quiet and pacient whyche thing he promised them to doe And so secreatlye betwéene them it was agréede that if the payne myghte bée suffered then hée should lifte vp his handes aboue his head towardes Heauen before hée gaue vppe the Ghost And when hée was broughte to the stake to be burned there mildely and paciently hée addressed himselfe to the fire hauyng a straighte chaine caste about his middle after whose feruent prayers made vnto God the fire was set vnto him in the whiche when he continued long and when his spéeche was taken away by violence of the flame his skinne also drawne togither and hys fingers consumed with the fire so that al men had thought certainely he hadde béene dead sodainely and contrary to expectation the saide blessed seruaunt of God beyng mindfull of his promisse before made reached vppe hys handes burnyng on a light fire which was maruellous to behold ouer hys head to the liuing God and with greate reioysing as it séemed stroke or clapped them thrée tymes togither At the sight whereof there followed suche an outcrye of the people and especially of them whiche vnderstoode the matter that the like commonly hathe not béene hearde And so this blessed seruant of God strait way sincking down into the fire gaue vppe his spirite Thys myraculous burning of the saide Thomas Hawkes was in the yere of our Lord. 1555. These wonderful examples of the Gospellers suffring so patiently of their dying so willingly of the holy Ghoste speaking in them so abundantly of their maruellous constancie of Gods strengthning them so mightilye and hys working in them so myraculouslye that if before I had not sufficiently proued the Pope to be the childe of Sathan and your Romishe religion to be the Diuels Doctrine is sufficient to winne you to God to allure you to Christe and to embrace the Gospel our heauenly and true religion to obey your Prince to loue your Countrey and nowe with great desire to become english friends But if there be any of you so deluded by the diuel so incensed by Sathan and so bewitched with papistrie that neither any thing before written can moue you nor these maruellous examples of Gods mercifull and wonderfull protecting boldening teaching strengthning fauouring comforting assisting and defending of his seruauntes the professors of the Gospell cannot allure you then I beséeche you for I can goe no further let these fearfull faithlesse horrible dolefull and desperate deaths of the persecuting and murthering cruell Papists with their mockers and scorners of Gods word and reuolters and shunners from the Gospel that folow feare and terrifie you any longer to persiste in youre erronious and most pernitious Papisticall doctrine least you be made the instrumēts of his wrath as they were Now therfore marke them well and as you like their deaths so followe their liues And as I saide before that the Martyres of the Primitiue Churche and our persecuted Protestantes suffered all alike were patient all alike and were loued ayded and strengthned of God all alike and therfore all of one religion So the tyrannous persecutors of the Martyres long since and the Papisticall persecutors of the professors of the Gospel since that time haue died desperately horribly diuelishly and dolefully all alike and haue hadde Gods wrath and vengeaunce all alike and therefore were all of a wicked and diuelish religion And for that you shall not thinke that the Papisticall murtherers and persecutors died more godlye than they you shal sée the godly ends and deaths of some of them both And firste I will shewe you some examples of the tyrannous persecutors in the olde time of the professors of the Gospell Herod that murthered Iohn Baptist and condemned Christ was condemned to perpetuall banishement where hée dyed miserably Pylate vnder whome Christe was crucified was apprehended and accused at Rome deposed then banished to the Towne of Lyons who at length dyd kil himselfe Antiochus a tormentor of the Christians fell downe from his iudicial seate crying out whose bowels burned within him and so he dyed Decius that cruell persecutor of the Christians bothe hée and his sonne were slaine of enimies in battell The Emperour Valerian a cruell persecutor of the Christians wente not without hys rewarde therefore for Sapores the King of the Persians tooke him prisoner and vsed him for his blocke when he got vpon his horse Maxentius that greate persecutor of the Christians fell off on a bridge wyth his horse and his harnesse whyche brydge he had made for Constantine the Christian Emperoure and so be was drowned Marke the endes and death of these persecutors of the Christians Dioclesian poysoned himselfe Maximinian was hanged Seuerus was slayne by Maximinian Lucinus was slaine by Constantine Thus these persecutors of the professors of Christes Gospel neuer liue quietly nor yet dye godly Galerius the Emperour of the East parts a great persecutor of the Christians was therefore plagued of GOD wyth a
wonderful sicknesse and an incurable disease for he hadde a sore risen in the nether parte of his belly which consumed his priuie partes from whence swarmed greate plentie of wormes whyche disease coulde not be helped with any surgerie or phisicke according to the promise of God wherefore he confessed that it happened for his crueltie towarde the Christians who slew hymselfe not able to abide the stenche of his owne sore Suche hathe béene is and wyll be the gaine and ende of them that persecute Gods people Beholde here a wonderful example of God shewed vpon thrée periured persons for falsely accusing the aged and reuerend father Narcissus the seruaunt of God and a pure professor of Christes Gospell whiche Narcissus was of the age of a hundreth thrée score and thrée yeares and Byshop of Ierusalem The one of them that were hys accusers wished to be destroyed with fire the other to be coÌ„sumed with a grieuous sicknesse the third to lose both his eies if he did lye whereby the godly and guiltlesse man went and liued in a solitarie and desert place a great while But God that is a iuste reuenger of wickednesse and a defender of his innocent seruants punished them al thrée according to theyr owne wordes The first by casualtie of one little sparke of fire was burned with his goods and al his family The second was taken with a greate sickenesse from the head to the féete and deuoured by the same The thirde hearyng and séeyng the punishement of the other confessed his fault But through great repentance powred oute suche feares with wéeping that he loste bothe hys eyes And thus as God iustly punished them for their periurie against the innocent seruant of God So God of late dayes hathe maruellously punished a great sorte of the Papists that cruelly killed murthered and misused Gods true and simple seruaunts for professing the Gospell And nowe as I haue shewed you howe God hath powred his vengeaunce on the tyrantes and persecutors of the holye Martyres that were persecuted long since before the wicked Popes so also I will expresse vnto you the miserable endes and deaths of some of the Papisticall persecutors since the tyme of the wicked Popes whose terrible and fearefull endes I beséeche GOD maye bée a sufficient warning for you A cruel wretche called Iohn de Roma a Monke hauing a coÌ„mission to examine suche as professed the gospel whom they call Heretikes vsed great crueltie towardes them He filled bootes with boiling grease and so put them vpon their legs tying them backward to a fourm with their legs hanging downe ouer a small fire so he examined them Thus hée tormented verye many and in the ende moste cruellye putte them to death c. But the sayde holye Monke as holynesse goeth with Papists by the iust iudgement of God fel sicke of a moste horrible disease straunge and vnknowne to any Phisition whose paines and tormentes being moste extreame coulde not be eased one minute of an houre with any ointment or any thing els whose steÌ„ch and sauor was so greate that came from hym that none coulde abide it neyther would anye of hys owne fréendes come neare hym wherefore hée was carryed to an Hospitall to be kept but the stenche and infection so encreased and was so greate that no manne there durste come neare him no more he hymselfe was able to abide the horrible smell that issued from hys bodye béeyng full of vlcers and soares and swarming with vermyne and so rotten that the fleshe fell awaye from the bones by péece meale And whyles he was in these tormentes he cryed oute often in greate rage Oh who wil deliuer me who wil kill and rid me out of these intollerable paines which I knowe I suffer for the euilles and oppressions that I haue done to the pore men he wente dyuers tymes aboute to destroy himselfe but he had not the power to doe it In these horrible tormentes and feareful despaire this blasphemer and moste cruel vexer tormentor and murtherer of the poore professors of Gods worde most miserably ended his curssed life Here you maye plainely vnderstande that this wicked Monke thoughe he were of the Popes religion hée was not of Gods religion for that the Lord thus plagued and tormentâ—d him shewing his verye cursse béefore mentioned euen an incurable diseaâ—e as hée didde to wicked Iehoram the sonne of good King Iehoshaphat And as the Monkes tormentes and end was like to the ende of Iehoram So he was like in crueltie and also in Idolatrie forsaking the lawe of God for the wicked deuises of men Also the Lord of Reueâ—â— chief President of the Parliament of Aâ—aâ— cruellye vsâ—d the professors of the Gospell and putte them to death who after was stricken with such an horrible sickenesse of furie and madnesse that hys wife nor any durst come neare him and so he dying in hys furie and rage was iustely plagued of GOD for hys vnmercifulnesse and crueltie shewed and done to the children of God The Commendator of Saint Anthonie of Vienna that gaue sentence of condemnation on the seruaunt of GOD Wolfgangus fel sodainely downe and dyed And the Abbot of Clarilocus his fellow stricken with sodaine feare at the cracke of guns fel downe and dyed Thomas Arundale Archbishop of Canterburie a persecutor of the Gospellers y t gaue sentence on the Lorde Cobham for professing the word of God was plagued of God that hys tongue dyd swell that he could swallow no meat and so dyed And althoughe he gaue sentence on the Lorde Cobham yet gods iudgemeÌ„ts were suche that he died two or thrée yeares before him A certain Bishop of Hungarie did runne about starke mad so rauing dyed miserably that tyed Hares Géese and Hennes about a Priest and then put dogges to him who chased him about the Citie snatching and catching at him what they coulde get whereof he dyed And thus the Priest was martyred for saying that the eating of fleshe is not forbidden by the Scriptures but this Bishop gayned nothing by thus martyring of him vnlesse Gods wrath be a gayne A Priest reuolting from the Gospel was sodainely killed by two gentlemen that oughte him euill will by the iudgemeÌ„t of god immediately after he weÌ„te out of prison from one Philbert that after was strangled and burned for the word of God To which Priest Apostata the sayd Philbert sayde oh vnhappie and more than miserable is it possible for you to be so foolishe as for sauing of a fewe dayes which you haue to liue by course of nature so to start away and deny the trueth know you therefore that althoughe you haue by your folishnesse auoyded the Corporal fire yet your life shall be neuer the longer for you shall die before And God shall not giue you grace that it shall be for his cause and you shal be an example to al Apostles And immediately the reuolting Prieste was slaine as soone as he went out of
God could not abide to heare that the Bible should be in Englishe who said in the presence of one Edward Hall a writer of the English storyes the reporter hereof swearing a great oth that if he thought the kings highnesse would set forth the Scriptures in English and let it be read of the people by authoritie rather thaÌ„ he would liue so long he would cut his owne throte But he brake promise saith Hall for he did not cut his throte with a knife but with an halter did hang himselfe One Doctor Foxforde Chauncellour to the Bishop of London a cruell persecutor and a common Butcher of the professors of the Gospell who was the condemner of all those which were put to death troubled and absured vnder Bishop Stokesley through all the Diocesse of London died suddenly sitting in his chaire his bellie being burst and his guâ—â—es falling out before him Thus you may plainely sée that God doth reuenge the wronges done to his children that paciently suffer all their tormentes deliuering them out of their enimies handes by death or other waies and paies them home at length for their hyre that so persecute and torment them But these cruell Papistes that wreake their malice themselues on the professors of the Gospel that do them no harme there is none to take their partes nor that can deliuer them hereafter when the Diuell shall torment them in Hell fire Marke well and consider the ende of that hautie proude Papisticall persecutor of Gods seruants in Quéene Maries time Steuen Gardiner then Lord Chauncellor of England who after so long professing of the doctrine of papistrie when there came a Bishop to him on his death bed and put him in remembrance of Peters denying his Maister he answearing againe sayd That he had denied with Peter but neuer repented with Peter and so both stinkingly and vnrepentantly died he knew then full well on his conscience that he had denied Christ and his Gospell in following the Pope and his Religion Therefore denie the Pope and repent with Peter least in denying of Christ you die vnrepentant with Gardiner Consider further the miserable end of one Twy ford a busie and diligent doer by Bonners appointment in setting vp of stakes for the burning of the seruants of God who when he sawe the stakes consume awaie so fast yea sayd he will not these stakes hold I will haue a stake I trowe that shal hold and so he prouided a big trée and cutting off the tops did set it in Smithfield but thankes be to God ere euer the trée was all consumed God turned the state of Religion And the same Twyforde fell into a horrible disease rotting aboue the ground aliue before he died Hofmaister the great Archpapist and chiefe maister piller of the popishe Churche as he was in his iourney going towardes the Counsell of Ratispone to dispute against the defendors of Christes Gospell suddenly not farre from Vlmes was preuented by the stroke of Gods hand and there miserably died with horrible roring and crying out His death doth shewe that the cause was not very good that he went to maintaine Fraunces Spiere fell into a maruellous desperation after he had recanted the worde of God as may appeare by his wordes death who could not be perswaded of Gods mercie by any man though many learned meÌ„ with Scriptures mightly moued him to repent but it could not preuaile but still cried when he heard any testimonie of the Scripture that nothing could saue him that had offended against the holy Ghost and in that manner pittifully died Marke also the end of a yong Gentleman called Maister Smith that first was a Protestant and an earnest professor of the Gospell and after allured to Papistrie who went to Louaine a fit nest for all Owles that hate the light where he was so noozeled that he became a perfect Papist And after returning into England he brought with him froÌ„ thence Pardons a Crucifixe an Agnus dei whiche Agnus dei he coÌ„monly did weare about his necke which when he wore he thought then he was false inough that neyther deadly sinne desperation nor Diuell had any power to hurte him But hée was deceyued as all other are that putte their trust in such trashe and refuse Christe and his holy worde For he notwithstanding his Pardons Crucifixe Agnus dei the Images before which he vsed to pray hanged himself in his chamber Consider I beséech you that this is not the end of such as turne froÌ„ Papistrie to the Gospel but it is the end or such like as appeare before as depart from the Gospell to Papistrie or shrinke from or denie the Gospell Therefore if Gods worde nor any other persuasions can win you let this and the other dreadfull examples feare you The burthen of conscience and desperation of mind happens chiefly to such as haue first embraced Gods word and the Gospell of Christe and do fall from the same to any other Religion or committe some grieuous and notable sinne learning by the same worde of God that it deserueth the great wrath of God so driueth them to desperation As may appeare by Iudas one of Christes Apostles who after he had betrayed Christe for moneye agaynst his owne conscience despayred of Gods mercie and so hanged himselfe And as may appeare by Fraunces Spiere and Maister Smith before mentioned who first professing the Gospell and after reuolting or shrinking from the same died moste desperately daungerouslie and dreadfully Besides many other whereof diuerse at laste haue notwithstanding bene comforted with the grace of God and so haue died very paciently and godly But I haue not redde nor heard that they that haue turned from Papistrie or any other Religion and receyued and followed this our Religion of the Gospell continuing in the same did euer fall into despaire or died desperately Which is a most infallible argument that this our Religion is true and your Papisticall religion and all other are false Marke wel I pray you what end William Swallow and Richard Petto came to that were troublers persecutors of one George Egles a true and constant professor of Gods worde The same William Swallow was shortly after so plagued of God that all the haire of his head and the nayles of his fingers and toes went off hys eyes were well neare closed vp that hée coulde scant sée the other Richard Petto vpon a certaine anger or chaufe with his seruantes was so suddenly taken with sicknesse that falling vpon his bed like a beast there he died and neuer spake worde Behold further and marke well for here is such a glasse for you to looke in that vnlesse you winke purposely or turne your faces backwarde bycause you will not sée you muste néedes whether you will or no graunt and yéelde that our religion is most true and that your Romish religion is moste false and that our doctrine doth worke our saluation