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A19657	The confutation of the. xiii. articles, wherunto Nicolas Shaxton, late byshop of Salilburye [sic] subscribed and caused to be set forth in print the yere of our Lorde. M.C.xlvi. [sic] whe[n] he recanted in Smithfielde at London at the burning of mestres Anne Askue, which is liuely set forth in the figure folowynge. In the nexte page shalt thou finde the contentes of thys little boke.	Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.; Shaxton, Nicholas, 1485?-1556.	1548 (1548)	STC 6083; ESTC S105139	70,962	161

done that you solde me into these quarters for God sente me hyther before you for your healthe And a lyttle after he sayeth not thorowe youre aduise was I sent hyther but by the wyl of God et c. Pharao also whose wyckednes Exodi .ix was moste aboundaunt what heareth he in the scripture For soeth euen thys For thys purpose haue I ordeyned the that I myght shewe my power vpon the that my name mighte be tolde thorowout al the earth And what sayth the Lorde to Moyses Go in to ●harao For I haue hardened his hert the hertes of his seruauntes that I may worcke Exod .x. these my wonders vpō him that thou shouldeste reporte to thy sonne to thy ne●●wes howe oftē I ouerthrewe the Egyptiās and wrought my wōders amonge thē And you shall knowe that I am the Lorde What scripture cā be more plaine thē this Shall we patche out these places with God suffered Pharas to hardê his herte bycause in the .viii. chap. it is said Whē Pharao saw that he had rest he hardened his hert gaue no hede to Moyses and Aaron as the Lord had cōmaunded No God forbid For if we shoulde trifle out of the scriptures on suche sort what maner of God shoulde we make the Lord Forsotheuê as vncertaine in al his doinges as we are oure selues in ours But we must graunt boeth these scriptures to be true For God by his eternal predestinatiō hardened the hert of Pharao he being the vessell of wrath in his wickednes hardened his own hert What saye we then to Iudas was he not predestinated to betraye Christ Yes forsoth euê as Christe was ordeyned before to be betraied And therfore he calleth him he son of perdiciō And as possible as it was that christ shold not die on the crosse so possible was it that Iudas shold not betray hym And as possible as it is that the sayeynges of Gods prophetes should not come to passe so possible is it that Iudas shoulde not betraye Christe For the Psalmist had sayed of hym Let hys Psal ●viii aud cvii. place be desert and let there be none to dwel in it and let an other take hys ministration But here begynne the freewyl men to besturre them and crye out vpon suche priuate exemples to proue Gods vniuersall predestination We haue vniuersal scriptures for our parte saye they declarynge that God would haue all men saued and come to the ● Timo .ii. knowledge of the trueth Whereunto I answere that youre vniuersall scriptures are not so vniuersal but that all your scriptures notwythstandynge God may wyl the greatest numbre to be damned For where saynte Paule sayth that God wyll haue all menne saued he meaneth not euerye particular persō for thē could none be damned for asmuch as Gods wyll must nedes be done but his meaninge is that God refuseth no degre of men neyther estate but accepteth all asyke Neythere doeth he accepte Iewe or gentyle but accepteth of al nations estates such as he hath written in the boke of lyfe Apoca. xvii But if vniuersall scriptures be so muche estemed amonge you lette vs se whether we haue avie for our part Murmur not among your selues sayeth Christe for no man can come vnto me except my father drawe him Iohn .vi. Compare thys no man wyth youre euerye man and then tel me whych of them is most vniuersall Your euery man stretcheth to as manye of all nations kinredes tonges estates and degres as are written in the boke Rom .viii. of lyfe And our no man stretcheth to all thē that be not written in that boke Boeth therfore must be measured by the wordes of Paul to the Ro. We know saith he that to suche as loue God all thynges Apoca .xiii. do worke togither into good to them I say whiche beynge sanctified are called accordyng to the purpose For such as he knewe before he predestinated to be the lyuelye Images of his son to the entēt that he might be the first begottē amōg mani brethrē And such as he predestinated those he called And those whō he called he iustified And those whō he iustified he glorified What shal we then say to these thinges If God be on our syde who shall preuaile agaynst vs. c. And againe Ephe .i. Blessed he God and Ephesi .i. the father of oure Lorde Iesus Christe who hath blessed vs in all spirituall blessynges in heauenly thynges in Christ euen as he hath chosen vs in hym before the creation of the worlde that we shoulde be holy vndefiled in his sight in charitie Who also predestinated vs to be sonnes of adoption vnto hym thorow Iesus Christ accordynge to the purpose of hys wyll c. Yet haue we mo scriptures of thys kynde if these satisfie you not And fyrst hear what Eclesi .xxxiii. is reade in Ecclesiastiens the sonne of Syrach All men are made of the grounde and out of the earth of Adam In the diuersitie of studye hath the Lorde disseuered them He hath disseuered them and chaunged their wayes Some of thē hath he blessed and exalted some he hathe sanctified and claymed them to hym selfe and some of them he hath cursed and made lowe and put them oute of theyr estate Like as the claie is in the hād of the potter and all the orderyng therof at his pleasure so are ●●en also in the hand of hym that made them so that he maye geue thē as it liketh him best Now marke what Solomon writeth in Prouer .xvi Prouer .xx. Prouer .xvi hys prouerbes Man deuiseth a waye in his hert but it is the Lord that ordereth his steppes And againe The Lorde ordereth euerye mans goinges for what mā can vnderstand hys own waye And yet againe The lottes be cast into the lap but the fall stādeth in the Lord. Nowe herkē to Esai who saieth in the persō of god I am the Lord ther is none other Esai .xlv. It is I that created the light darknes I make peace trouble Yea euē I the Lorde do al these thinges And a little after Wo be vnto him that chideth with hys maker the potsharde with the potter Saieth the claye to the potter what makeste thou Or thy worke serueth for nothing Wo be vnto him that saith to his father Why begettest thou And to his mother Why hearest thou Are me of things for to come cōcerning my sonnes put me in remēbraunce as to wchinge the worckes of my handes I haue made the earth created mā vpō it Wyth my hādes haue I spred forth heauē geuē a cōman̄demēt to all the hostes therof I shal wake him vp with rightuousnes ordre al his waies To cōclude thus saieth Ieremie I know Ieremi .x. Lord that it is not in mans power to ordre his own waies nor to rule his own steppes goinges And after al this Paule writing to Timothe saith thus He that deliuered vs

Sacramēte after the cōsecration then it was before For the second person in trinitie beinge incarnate and remaynynge inseparablye vnitted to the father and to the holye Goste it muste neades be that the manheade of the same persō beynge risen agayne from death is inseperablye vnited to the Godheade so that the Godheade is alwayes essentiallye presente wyth the bodye All thys is true but it foloweth not of thys that the Godheade is otherwyse presente in the bread after your consecration as you cal it then it was before bicause the bodye wherein Christe is incarnate is not nor can not be substanciallye presente there For that were as much to saye as that the body wherin Christ is incarnate is so mixed with the deite that it is in al places at once as the deitie is Whyche sayinge is agaynste the doctrine of Athanatius in the Creede that you synge and reade daylye in your prime Wherin he sayeth Deus et homo vnus est Christus non confusione substantie sed vnitate persone That is Christe beinge but one is boeth God and manne Not by the mixture of the substaunce but by the vnitie of the person If the substaunce therfore of God and man be not myxed togyther then is not the manheade so large to be in all places as the deitie is For of it owne nature it can be but in one place at once And thys is it that S. Austine speaketh ●d Darda●ine of in thys wyse We muste beware that we do not so set vp the diuinitie of the māhead that we take awaye the veritie of the bodye For it is not consequent that the thyng that is in God should be so in all places as God is For the scripture doeth moste truelye recorde of vs that welyue moue be in hym and yet be we not in all places as he is But man is in God after one sort and God is in man after an other sorte After a certain peculier sorte For one person is boeth God and man and boeth are one Christe Iesus In all places in that he is God but in that he is man in heauen If thys be not sufficiente heare yet more of the same Augustine As concernynge hys manhode he was in earth and not in heauen where he is nowe when he sayd No man ascendeth into heauē sauynge onelye the sonne of man whyche is in heauen who dyd also descende from heauen I passe ouer here manye testimonies of the auntiente doctours wherby is manifestlye declared the locall nature of the body of Christ and that it is nore can no more be in all places at once now then it myght when he yet liuinge vpon the earth But perchaunce you wyl not be ashamed to saye that it myght euen then be in all places at o●ce For in verye dede your Articles declare no lesse but that you thynke it to haue bene in .xiii. places at once the nyghte before he suffered Whych thyng graunted it must nedes fo●owe that it beynge a mortall bodye myghte be and was in manye places at once But to satisfye you in this matter I would you should thorowlie scanne the wordes of Christe to his Apostles when he told them that Lazarus was deade For youre sakes sayeth he I am glade that I was not there Now thinke you by these wordes dyd christ ieste wyth hys disciples or dyd he speake in earneste If he meaned good fayth by them as I suppose you wyll saye that he dyd howe can you denye but that his body was then locall and coulde not be in all places at once For if he dyd not ieste wyth hys disciples in these wordes he meante none other thinge by thē but that hys disciples shoulde beleue him to be God for that aboue the nature of man he beynge absente knew without any mannes relation that Lazarus was deade And so the verye wordes do sounde For he addeth That you maye beleue As he shoulde haue sayed and as the texte lyeth in dede I reioyse for your sakes that youre fayeth maie be confyrmed in the opinion of my diuinitie knowynge that I was not ther presente in body and canne tel you of the death of Lazarus wythout relation of anye that was ther. Now tel me if Christ might haue bene in many places at once in his māhead what should it haue holpē the fayth of the Apostles to saye that he was not there This matter is to manifeste Wherefore I thyuke it but waste laboure to go aboute to make the daye brighter For thed aye birdes can holde theym selues contente wyth thys lyght As for the lurkinge night byrds that fle the lyghte the encrease of lyghte shoulde but driue them into darcker corners Wherefore I shall desyre the Lorde of hys infinite mercye to open theyr eyes and to take the vaile from theyr hertes that they maye be able to abyde the lyghte and to receyue into their hertes the trueth of Goddes worde confessynge wyth the fayethfull mēbres of Christe that the sonne of God the seconde person in trinitie is and euer hathe bene God equale with the father and the holy Gost And that although as he is God he can not be conteyned in anye place but is immense increat almighty and euerlasting Yet as he is man he is and muste neades be in one o●ely place at once and beinge ascended into heauen is locally ther and not here as he was locallye here and not there before hys ascention Thys is oure fayeth in Christ Iesus the onelye sonne of God whome we honoure and beleue to be honoured neythere in the mounte of Samaria neyther in Hierusalem but in spirite and veritie Wherefore when you saye come o●te into the deserte for loe there Christe worketh miracles in our blessed Ladyes chapel And when you saye knele downe before the pyxe for lo ther is Christe reallie presente we say vnto you that our shepeherde Christ hath geuen vs warnynge to be ware of you wherefore we wyll not beleue you But we beleue confesse that he sytteth on the right hande of God the father wher he muste be honoured in spirite tyll he come to iudge the quicke and the dead and that no diuine honoure oughte to be geuen to any creature in heauen earth or in hell Shaxton The fourth Article THe churche by the ministration of the prieste offereth daylye at the masse for a sacrifice to almyghtye God the selfe same bodye bloud of our sauiour Christe vnder the fourme of breade and wyne in the remembraunce and representation of Christes death passion Crowley Before I canne saye anye thynge in thys matter I muste knowe what churche it is that doeth as you saye offer vp thys sacrifice by the ministration of the prieste Is it the same churche that offered vp Christe on the crosse or is it the churche that was redemed by that sacrifice If it be the same churh that offered vp Christe on the crosse then it is the congregation of the wycked For so sayeth