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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02797	An apologie or defence of the watch-vvord, against the virulent and seditious ward-vvord published by an English-Spaniard, lurking vnder the title of N.D. Devided into eight seuerall resistances according to his so many encounters, written by Sir Francis Hastings Knight	Hastings, Francis, Sir, d. 1610.	1600 (1600)	STC 12928; ESTC S119773	131,190	226

here to set down translated into English out of the Cardinals letter And to the end you may be the more ayded by that good spirite which hath induced you to this his blessednes graunteth you full pardon and remission of all your sinnes as you requested assuring you that besides the merite you shall receiue in Heauen his holines will make himselfe debter to acknowledge your deseruings in the best manner that he may Now how ignorant soeuer you presume me to be of the difference betwixt the Popes pardon and the Priests absolution because I make mention of them both together I would your wisdome should well knowe that for this deepe point of Catholike doctrine I am as well acquainted with the speculation though not practise of it as your selfe Howsoeuer they haue some differences yet herein they concur as Simeon and Leui brethren in euill that both are vsed as inducements to most hainous sins thereby to satisfie the Popes pleasure Sundry chronicles make mention of Simon the Monke of Swinested who poysoned King Iohn that before the fact hee confessed his purpose to his Abbot who highly commended his zeale and gaue him absolution before-hand for the committing of this wicked acte whereunto I might ioyne the example of Iacobus Clemens who murdered the King of France being also before-hand confessed and absolued of it But what neede I adde more when as almost the whole world knoweth and crieth out of the horrible abuses both of your Pardon-mongers and absoluing Priests to the strengthning of sinne and decay of vertue That my conclusion seemeth absurd in the eies of your proud folly I neither maruell nor grieue at it notwithstanding I do again affirme that the blasphemie blindnes of your Popish superstition is most aparant herein And God be praised that hath clered the spirituall sight of our English Nation to hate and abhorre them and with your gibing railing I leaue you to disport your selfe because I scorne to be a companion to men of those occupations But if your needels eye be no straiter then to passe through confession to be enioined your popish penance your high way to heauen is broad enough especially when a pardon may be had in store for some money by vertue whereof any Priest may giue full remission of all sinnes at the hower of death As for that which you blasphemously cal the open cart-way of onely faith you shall finde a straiter and narrower passage then you would beare the world in hand if you conceiue not an historicall faith which may be dead but a true liuely iustifying faith for though we be iustified by faith onely apprehending Christ his obedience merits who was made sinne for vs that we might be made the righteousnes of God in him yet are we not iustified by an onely faith such as is voide and destitute of good workes but in the person of them that are iustified faith and good workes are vnited and coupled together though in the Act of iustifying they are seuered it being the proper dutie of faith alone as a hand to appehend and take hold of Christ who is made to vs of God wisedome and righteousnes sanctification and redemption that according as it is written He that reioyceth let him reioyce in the Lord. Heate and light are both inseparable in the fire though it be the propertie of the heat onely to warme and not of the light so are faith and good workes coupled in as many as are iustified though we be iustified through faith onely Therefore we are necessarilie to exercise our selues in good works dying to sinne and liuing to righteousnes if wee hope hereafter to liue with Christ eternally For it is true that Ambrose hath Sicut sancti sunt membra Christi sic impij sunt membra Dioboli As those that are holy are the members of Christ so are the wicked ones the limmes of Sathan and so with the words of the Prophet I conclude This is the way walke in it and God almightie for his Christes sake giue euen you grace to finde this way in time Resistance to the third Encounter about her Maiesties marueilous deliuerances from dangers in Queene Maries time and since IT is the Common and vsuall practise of wrangling and cauilling spirits for the preuenting of iust accusations against themselues first to begin and challenge others of the same crimes whereof themselues are most guiltie So dealt Sathan the accuser of the brethren with Iob saying vnto God That if he were touched in all that hee had he would blaspheme God to his face and yet there is nothing more common with that olde Serpent then to curse and blashpheme God In like manner this parasite and slaunderous Encounterer being priuie vnto himselfe of his guiltines in flatterie and bloud-thirsting of both which he hath giuen sufficient proofe throughout this his whole Ward-word would yet notwithstanding in the entrance of this his third Encounter perswade the readers that I like a Parasite doe both flatter the State and Prince and also exasperate both the one and the other against the Recusant Papistes who liue amongst vs. How vniustly he hath charged me with flatterie and forging is made apparant I trust to euery indifferent reader in my answeres before to his two first Encounters and how farre I am from a bloudie mouth a poysoned tongue and an earnest desire to haue all his Catholikes destroyed for so he tearmeth the Recusant Papists amongst vs shal by Gods grace be made plaine euident in that which followeth Let the beast that hath two hornes like a Lambe but not of the Lambe delight in his hornes and let the whore of Rome that is drunken with the bloud of Gods Saints delight to gorge in bloud but the true Church of Christ and her children shall be alwaies found gentle peaceable and merciful without either the sauage cōdition of beasts or the barking bloud-thirstie condition of dogs and hounds how reprochfully maliciously dishonorably soeuer this Encounterer doth write of the house of Huntingdon my selfe But before I come to the particulars handled in this Encounter what moued you Sir Encounterer thus hastely and fiercely to charge me in this place with a bloud-thirstie humor to paint your margent with Sir Francis his malignitie doe you vncharitablie suspect my thoughts or doe you frowardly peruert and misconstrue my words the secret thoughtes are knowne onely to God but if my writings doe any where bewray such a sauage disposition why did you not frame your inditement vpon mine owne words what were you moued because I did truly and thankfully acknowledge the maruellous deliuerance and preseruation of her Maiestie in the daies of her sister Queene Marie which is the first thing in this your Encounter you find fault with all Or were you mooued because I haue faithfully related the Popish practises of bloudie Prelates and home-borne Traitors against her Maiestie both

as children nourisheth vs with the knowledge of the Rudiments and principles of Religion the foode of the soule which doth farther strengthen vs with increase of deeper knowledge is no longer as of late times like a sealed booke which being deliuered to one that can reade and he willed to reade it he answereth he cannot because it is sealed but we haue it in our owne mother language permitted vnto vs that euery one may priuately exercise himselfe in the reading thereof and for the confirmation of his faith in the points that he is taught publikely by the mouth of the Preacher may with the men of Berrhea daily search the Scriptures to see whether those things be so or not which triall the doctrine of Rome will hardly submit it selfe to And this dutie of searching the Scriptures at home priuatly Chrisostome requireth at the hands of his Auditors Idque semper hortor c. and this I alwaies exhort and will not cease to exhort that you be not onely attentiue here to those things which are taught but that when you are at home you daily intend the reading of the holy Scriptures and so I take it that Saint Iohn setteth down three steps or degrees whereby we are to climbe vp to blessednes first priuat reading secondly publike hearing thirdly fruitfull practising of those things which by reading and hearing we learne Blessed is he that readeth and they that heare the words of this prophesie and keepeth those things that are written therein Thirdly this is also a great blessing that we haue our publike prayers in the Church in our owne tongue that the people may vnderstand what the Minister prayeth and keeping silence while he is speaking may still haue their minds and vnderstandings accompanie the voice of the Minister and in the end may ioyntly answere Amen Euen as not a Clerke alone for the people as New Rome hath taught but the whole people for themselues were accustomed in Saint Ieromes time as he witnesseth Tota Ecclesia instar tonitrui reboat Amen The whole Church like a mightie thunder doth sound out Amen This also Augustine acknowledged to be a great blessing Beatus populus qui intelligit Iubilationem c. Blessed is the people that vnderstandeth the ioyfull song let vs runne to this blessednes let vs vnderstand the song let vs not sing it without vnderstanding Of this the Apostle most diuinely treateth in the 1. Cor. 14. which though the Rhemists doe miserablie striue to shake off as Master Whitakers learnedly sheweth yet Cardinall Caietan ouercome with the euidence of truth plainely confesseth as in the end of that Controuersie Doctor Whitakers alleageth him Exhac Pauli doctrina c. By this doctrine of the Apostle we haue to vnderstand that it is better for the edification of the Church that the publike praiers which are made in the hearing of the people should be vttered in a tongue common both to the Clerkes and people then to be vttered in Latine Hence it followeth that we learne to exercise our selues in workes of true pietie such as by the word of God we are assured are acceptable with him not putting holines in workes of mens deuising as superstitious obseruation of daies with like difference of meates in gadding on pilgrimage and such like of which may be said that which the Lord spake in Esay Who hath required these things at your hands Whence it hath come to passe that many liuely members of Christ Iesus being colde naked and hungrie haue been neglected while it was thought an holier worke to shrine in gold and siluer the bones of dead men as Erasmus in his Colloquie or dialogue of peregrination for Religion sake doth note That the golden shrine of Thomas Becket was beset with Diamonds Carbuncles with pearles and rare precious stones Vilissima pars erat aurum the basest part was gold But we blessed be God haue learned to make the will of God reuealed in his word the Rule and Squire of our obedience studying to walke in his waies and to keepe his commaundements both of the first and second table according to that of our Sauiour If you know these things happie are ye if you doe them wherein we are taught to striue against two extremities First proud presumption before God that we put no opinion of merit in our workes but referre them partly to the glorifying of our good God according to that Let your light so shine before men c. partly to the assuring our selues of our election by the fruits thereof as Peter exhorteth Make your election sure by good works acknowledging that of Bernard Bona opera sunt via regni non causa regnandi Good workes are the way wherein we must walke to the kingdom of Heauen but not the cause wherefore we shall obtaine the kingdome Secondly before men we must auoide hypocriticall ostentation that we vaunt not of our vertues as the Pharisee O God I thanke thee I am not as other men extortioners vniust or euen as this Publican c. But according to the rule of the Apostle in meekenes of minde euery man to esteeme other better then himselfe we must turne our eyes inward looking vpon and censuring our owne imperfections and indeuoring to practise that good lesson Nosceteipsum For very true it is that Chrisostome hath speaking of Christian humility Esto multum adifices habeas elecmosynas preces ieiunia c. Be it you build much you vse almes fasting and prayer and all other vertues without this foundation of humilitie they are all in vaine yea adde continence virginitie contempt of riches Omnia prophana sunt impura abominabilia absque humilitate They are all prophane impure and abominable without humilitie Father the entrance of our peaceable Salome to the Crowne what Halcyon daies hath it brought to the poore afflicted Church of Christ ● The little barke of Christ Iesus before tossed with the waues and stormes of furious and bloodie persecution hath now found some repose and rest vnder her gracious and benigne protection so mercifully hath Christ rebuked the stormes and windes when the shippe was in danger of drowning and there is followed a great calme Not onely they that were openly knowne to abhor the Romish Idolatrie refusing to bowe the knee to their blocke-almightie as some then called them and to honor a peece of a Cake as their Creator were by heapes brought to the fire but so violent was the furie of that Wooluish Sinagogue against the poore Lambes of Christs fold that through inforcement and by vertue of their oath were compelled to accuse against the law of nature the wife the husband one brother another c. as in a table of persecution vnder Bishop Longland of Lincolne doth appeare the bloody rage of this persecution sparing neither man woman nor child wife nor maide lame blinde nor creeple But of this what should I say more of which