this stout Champion reverend Doctor worthie preacher of Gods word Iohn VVickliffe whose very a Vetus Hypocrita Angeius Sathanae Antichristi prae aÌ„bulus non nominandus Io. Wickliâ— vel potius Wickebeleefe haereticus Wals. p. 256. OrganuÌ„ diabolicuÌ„ hostis Ecclesiae confusio vulgi haereticorum Idolum Hypocritatum speculum Schismatis inceÌ„tor odij seminator incendij fabriÌ„cator lb. Pag. 266. o linguaÌ„â—emper mendacem male dicam blasphemaÌ„ Wald. To. I. pag. 177. ¶ Ps. 64. 5. name is therfore become hateful vnto the Adversarie his parson conteÌ„ptible and his doctrine the only marke or but at which those ¶ Ps. 64. 5. qui sagittaÌ„t in occulto which lie priuily lurkiâ—â—g in coâ—ners do especially aime shooting there arrowes bitter words eueÌ„ lewd lying Pamphlets some challeÌ„ging him of Blasphemie towards God some of Treason towards the king others of monstrous b Of Manicheisme Donatisme Pelagianisme c. see Walden Act. Cap. 25. lb. Verl 7. heresies in Religion all of sondry errours and grosse absurdities knowing therefore that howsoeuer iure soli the Court of Rome maie yet iure poli Gods law doth not condemne any man before his cause be heard I haue thought it most conuenient and sit to bring him forth before you Christian Readers as before so many * Festusses Agrippaes to the end that you maie know the truth of those things wherof he is accused And albeit our Romanists haue as euilly intreated him as euer the Jewes did * Paul laying many and grievous complaints against him yet I doubt not but you when you shall as it becommeth men of profouÌ„d iudgment good discretion permitte him to answere for him selfe as Act. 26. 1. Act. 25. 7. Agrippa did Paul wil either finde there complaints with Festus such as they shâ—l Act. 25. 8. never bee able to proue viz that hee hath nether offended against the law of God neither against the Temple nor against Cesar and finallie pronounce this sentence of absolution with K. Agrippa Act. 26. 31. This maÌ„ hath done nothing worthy of death nor of bondes The order and method which I wil God willing obserue shal bee first to shew his conformitie with the now Church of England in the chiefest points coÌ„troversed thence to descend vnto questioÌ„s not altogether so material and last of al to answere al such obiections as haue beene mooued by our late Popish writers Whose proofes because they are of two sorts drawn either froÌ„ c From Foxe Stow Osiander Melancthon Luâ—her c. Protestantes which for want of due information or from d The Apologists Father Parsons Papists which of ill wil ' which never spake good of anie man ' haue vttered anie thing preiudicial either vnto his doctrine or to his person I wil indeuour as much as in me lieth the truth wil permit to informe the one and reforme the other The proofes which I shal alleadge shal be cleere euident apparent authentical for they shal be produced out of his own words and works as they are extant in sundry good Manuscripts in our so renowned publike Librarie as theÌ„selues may see or cause to bee seene by others for therefore to iustifie my proceedings against them knowing there sundrie malignant e See the Treatise tending to mitigation writteÌ„ by P. R. with the answere thereto oppositions against vs I haue quoted in the margent the very wordes of the Auctor either in f As the Author himselfe wrot them Latin or in English noting both Bookes and Pages And for a final Conclusion I make this protestation his writings shal not be defended by mee farther then they are agreeable with the Articles of our Religion and I exhort you as manie as shal happen to read this Apologie as S. Paul did the I. Thesâ— Cap. 5. vers 21. The ssalonâ—ans onâ—nia probate quod bonuÌ„ est tenete Examine all things hold fast that which is good AN APOLOGIE FOR IOHN VVickliffe shewing his conformity with the now church of England both in Doctrine Discipline TO proceed theÌ„ according vnto the first part of our general diuisioÌ„ J doubt not but it wil easily be acknowledged of al hands that the greatest Controuersies betweene the Papists and vs maie be reduced into these fewe heads They concerne 1 The Scripture 2 Traditions 3 The Pope 4 The Church 5 Iustification 6 Merits 7 The blessed Sacrament of the Lords supper For the rest which concerne the other Sacraments or other pointes of doctrine that are collateral they shal be handled with the principal questions or else in the second place apart by themselues according to our former diuision The I. Chap. Of the Scripture THe questions to be moued about the Scripture are no lesse infinite then the Scripture it selfe but the greatest points controuersed betweene vs and the Papists resteth in these 4. About the number Sufficiencie Interpretation or Communication of the Scripture or bookes Canonical Sect. 1. The first questioÌ„ about the number of the bookes Canonical Article 6. TO the 1. point Io. VVickliffe fully agreeing with the 6. Article of the Church of England and S. HieroÌ„s doctrine maketh but f Satis est pro sua militia habere 22. libros de veteri Testamento-AutheÌ„ticos Wiekliffâ— de ver Scrip. Pag. 110. 22. books Canonical excluding the rest which are as he rightly tearmeth them bookes Apocrypha so called as he writeth g Non quia oportet illis discredere tanquam fa sis sed quia non oportet Ecclesiam militantem illis libris credere explicatè tanquam authenticis ld lb. not because they are to be discredited of falshood but because the Church militant should not beleeue them explicatè as if they were authenticall h Stultum et vanum circa veritatem aut passiones Scripturae Apocryphae nimis contendere cum habemus plenè Scripturas sensibilitèr nobis authenticas ld lb. he thinketh it to saâ—or of folly vaine curiositie for a man to striue about the truth or proper passions of these bookes Apocrypha where there are so manie books besides which are verie sensibly and plainly authentical Now if you happen to aâ—ke VVickliffe how he knoweth these bookes to be losse authentical then the former The differences betwixt the books Canonical Apocrypha he wil informe shew you that the best meanes of discerning books Canonical from the Apocrypha bookes are 1. i Auctoâ—izatio corum in Nouo testamento Wickleff de Veâ—r Scrip. pag 95. pag. 109 To looke into the newe Testament and to see what books of the old Testament are therein cited authenticated by the holy Ghost 2. If that wil not serue for k Credo quod Ecclesia discre tè examinanâ— quemcunque librum quoad totam suam sententiam dicià Spiritu Sancto in alia Scriptura lo. pag. 96. the Church of God discreetly examining any booke to consider whether the like
AN APOLOGIE FOR IOHN WICKLIFFE shewing his conformitie with the now Church of England with answere to such slaunderous obiections as haue beene lately vrged against him by Father Parsons the Apologists and others COLLECTED CHIEFLY OVT OF diuerse works of his in written hand by Gods especiall providence remaining in the Publike Library at Oxford of the Honorable foundation of S r. THOMAS BODLEY Knight BY THOMAS JAMES keeper of the same 3. Esdras Cap. 4. ver 38. Truth doth abide and is strong for ever and liveth and raigneth for ever and ever At Oxford Printed by Ioseph Barnes printer to the Vniversitie 1608. TO THE HONORABLE S r EDWARD COOKE Knight Lord Chiefe Iustice of his Maiesties Court of Common Pleas. My very good Lord it is not loÌ„g since It was my happe to see a Booke published quo iure quáue potius miuria against your Lordships Fift booke of Reportes Intituled de Iure Regis Ecclesiastico by one that if he had not tearmed himselfe a Catholik Deuine I should haue takeÌ„ him for any thing els So far is he in this lying Libel froÌ„ being a Deuine much lesse Catholik vnlesse it â—â—e in the sence vniuersal being indeed nothing els but an vniuersal HistoriaÌ„ I haue also read an other book wherin your Lordship is most vniustly produced or rather traduced for an egregious falsarie a crime which that Libeller hath made common to others of your ranck and of higher mark by imputing the same most scandalously vnto one of the most Honorable and religious Peeres of this land Farthermore I haue hard of diuerse others whose fingers doe itch to be dealing with your Lordship according to the grounds of your Honorable profession By al which I perceaue that your Lordship hath so mortally wounded the hayrie scalp of that man of Rome which would faine bee accepted for head of this Church that our aduersaries doe striue with noe smale adoe whoe shal be most forwarde to salue this sore though it be neuer so incurable But amongst all others who so aduenturous as our pretended Catholike surnaming himselfe the Deuine which hath spared no cost no labour for the effecting thereof in his late aunswere Seely disputer that where the question is de Iure produceth testimonies de facto and being by profession a Deuine the questioÌ„ of law bringeth his proofs out of Hisstorie Doubtles the Deuine is much beholding vnto your Lordship though hee doe craftily dissemble it for giuing him so good an occasioÌ„ both to shew his great reading and withal to purg so much choller being of liklyhood of that cholericke bilious disposition Quod si non aliquà nocuisset mortuus esset I gather so much by his writings for I am verily perswaded that this is not the first book that hath come out of thâ—s mans forge â—here bee diuerse books I should haue said Pamphletts cast abroad which sauour of the same stile and file so finely smothed and framed for the nonce that a man maie knowe him to bee his crafts Master in this black Art though he transfigure himselfe into an Angel of light professe al manner of Candour and Chariâ—ie in hiâ— writings but the contrary is too too manifest in his lyeing Pamphlets To saie nothing of his slaunderous reports against the late religious Queene of blessed memorie against the reuerend Sages and Iudges of the Common law in general and your Lordship in particular because he takes vpon him to be so great a Clearke in the question about the Kings Crowne and dignitie I haue endeauoured in this Apologie which I haue framed in defence of that famous writer and preacher of Gods word Iohn VVickliff to oppose against his slaunderous Libel his answere as the answere of a most ancieÌ„t Catholike and learned Deuine Ancient for hee liued in the time of K Edward the 3. Catholike for he maintained the same doctrine then which the Church of Eng 1 and now being guided by the Holy Ghost and sacred writings of Scripture Fathers doth professe learned in al kind of good knowledge needfull for a Divine for the maine question touching the kings Regaltie the Popes Supremacie hee delivereth in other termes the very same argumeÌ„ts reasons which I finde written in that your said fift Booke of Reports proving the truth of your assertioÌ„s by the Iawes Civill Canon Common Wherein because I professe little knowledge it being not my element and as your Lordship hath well obserued Perito in sua arte credendumest I haue presumed to submit the whole Apologie vnto your iudicious learned censure quatenus de Iure If your Lordship finde him not in this Apologie where I haue as neare as I could truly related his words most iudicious religious temperate learned altogether conformable vnto the doctrine and discipline of this preseÌ„t Church which this libeller so much impugneth and agreeing with the laws of God and of this Realme let me beare the fault of presumption and vndergoe your heauiest Censure whom I professe I doe honour and reuerence as farr as anie of my profession and as it becometh me to doe in al Christian dutie knowing your Lordship to be a zealous professor of the truth a worthy maintainer of the Cleargie a louing Patron of both our Vniuersities and lastly a great furtherer of al good learning which that you may liue for to doe maugre the opposition of our aduersaries I shal neuer cease to pray vnto the Almighty long to continue your Lordship in health wealth and prosperitie with encrease of spiritual gifts for the benefit of both Church and Common wealth From the Library in Oxford Feb. 10. 1608. Your Lordships in al Christian dutie to be commanded THO IAMES Faults escaped in the printing of this Apologie Pag. 1. l. 15. but read butte p. 7. in the marg 1.6 for Auctorziatio read Auctorizatio p. 9. l. 12. impious read pious p. 19. marg l. 36. discipui read discipuli p. 25. l. 18. ohfarlanot read of an harlot p. 34. l. 2. awere read werep 37. l. 7. tâ—e read the p. 39. marg l. 34. lucrationes read lucratiuas p. 40. l. 21. secundaÌ„ read secundum p. 42. marg l. 33. habeâ— read habent p. 44. mar l. 33. formicator read fornicator p. 48. l. II. excommunication read excommunications p. 53 l 20. fitest read fittest p. 56. l. 12 rained read raigned pag. 69. l. 10 ia read in pag. 71. l 5 should obay read obay lb. marg l. 16. leges read legis in his life for many read maine for to pray macks read their stomacks THE PREFACE VNTO ALL TRVE Catholicks and Christian Readers WHeras among al the writers which haue since the daies of Antichrist sharpened there pens in defence of the Gospel and maintained the cause of Christ against Antichrist and his Supposts by opposing themselues as Arch-pillers against the Arch-hereticks and Caterpillers of there times there is none that hath behaued himselfe more religiously valiantlie learnedlie and constantlie then
doctrine be deliuered by the Holy Ghost elsewhere in the Scripture And what else doth the Church of England answere So that VVickliffe is wholly for vs in the first point Sect. 2. TO the 2 point the Church of England differing from the Church of Rome professeth that Holy Scripture containeth althings necessarie to Saluation and that what soeuer is not read therin The 2. questioÌ„ about the sufficiency of the Scripture The 6 Article of Religion nor may be proued thereby is not to be required of anie man that it should be beleeued as an Article of the faith or bee thought requisite or necessarie to Saluation To this Article also l Diuersorium Lollardorum Nihâ—il inquiuÌ„t praeter Scripturas Sacras accipimus quicquid istis apponitut aut subtrahitur est blaphemum Walden To. 3. Pag. 3. Io. VVickliffe most willingly subscribeth in that most excellent booke of his De veritate Scripturae affirming positiuely that m Lex Dei patula in dâ—s obus Testamentis VVicklis in expâ—sit Decâ—l Pag. 5. â—criptura ergo est lex Christi 〈◊〉 des Ecclesiae ld de verit Script Pag. 15. Lib de 7. Peccat Moâ—â—libus Pag. 40. Gods will is plainly reuealed in two Testaments which he calleth else where Christs law or the saith of the Church that Christs law sufficeth by it selfe to â—rule Christs Church that a n Scriptura secuÌ„duÌ„ sensuÌ„ suuÌ„ sacrum sufficit pro quadaÌ„ scientia necessaria viatori De Ver. Scrip. pag. 66. Christian man wel vnderstanding it may thence gather sufficient knowledge during his pilgrimage here vpon earth that wheras o â—uÌ„ in Scriptura S. sit omnis veritas pa tet quod omnis disputatio quae iin Scriptura Sacra non habet origineÌ„ est prophana lb. p 39 all truth is contained in holy Scripture that what disputation soeuer is not originally thence to be deduced is to be accounted prophane Againe that p Non oportet admittere scientiam vel coÌ„ clusionem quae noÌ„ habet Testimonium ex Scriptura lb. pag. 66 we owght to admit of no science no conclusion that is not approued by the Scripture q Nisi in ordine ad haÌ„c Legem lb. p. 485. no lawe vnless it be ether subordinate vnto this law or r Nisi de quanto promouet ad hanc LegeÌ„ld lb. p. 50. helpe to bring vs vnto this law No Court s lb. pag 11. citra Calum besides the Court of heauen no parson not the Popes holines which t Ex Augustino contrarius Scripturae etiam Dominus Papa quem aliqui fingunt dispensare contra illam non est vt sit Christianus lb pag. 128. if he should dispense as some faine that hee maie with holy Scripture he shal not any longer be accounted a Christian yea he is so resolued vpon the certaintie and sufficiencie of the Scripture that he telleth vs elsewhere that u Lib. de biasphemia pag. 42. thowgh we had an hundred Popes and al the Friars in the world were turned into Cardinals yet should we trow more the law of the Gospel theÌ„ we should trow al this multitude And this was not a bare opinion of his which might grow vppon dislike discontent or be vtteâ—ed by waie of contradiction but a â—etled and constant persuasioÌ„ out of the word of God therefore uu Logâ—â—cos Grammaticos oportet submittere â—e ad diâ—cendum in Scriptura tam nouam Gâ—ammaticam quam Logicam De verit Script pag. 7. he magnifieth and extolleth this heaveÌ„lie Logike and Grammar aboue all the Logiks and Grammars of the world willeth x Finus non debet infringere testamentum Patris lb pag. 72. true sonnes in no wise to goe about to infringe this will and Testament of there heavenly father and perswadeth al y omne genus humanum debet stare pro deâ—ensione veritati Scripturae ex integro vsque ad mortem lb. pag. 161. true subiects to performe al due obedience and subiectioÌ„ thereunto whether they be of the Laitie or of the Clergie saying that all men ought to defend it vnto the death Saecularis violentia Clericus ratio ne lb pag. 161. Secular men by power and strength Clergie men by reasons and arguments Professing of him that holdeth the contrarie opinion z Non est vt sit Christianus lib. de verit Script p. 128. that he cannot be a Christian that a Quicunque noÌ„ vere fundaue rit vel vitam suam vel sententiaÌ„ in Scriptura S sed ad versatur sibi suis professoribus hic ob liquat vt pugil Diaboli atque haereticus lb. pag. 189. hee is flatly the Diuels champion and finallie that b Non est vox Theologi sed Docmonologi lb. pag. 327. he speakes not as a Divine but as a Divell I coulde inlarge this point with infinite quotations so earnest is he euerie where in his writings to establish this doctrine which is the ground of al our Protestant opinions And the reason of this his earnestnes impious zeale was this he saw the grosse ignorance of those times wherein few sermons were preached those for the most part out of c Lib. de 7. pee cat mort p. 22 lb. pag. 22. lb. pag. 3. de verit Script pag. 332. Chronicles and fables leasings and traditions d Expos. Decalogi pag. 69. prophaned with much scurrilitie and emptines by e Lib. de 7. peccat mort pag. 10. lb. pag. 22. laying aside Gods law and Christs Gospel Yea so farre were they from preaching the word of God that they went about to f Contra Fratres mendiâ— p. 52 burne the Gospel in English to consume with fire or g They pursue true men for preaching the truth Lib. de 7 peccat mort pag. 102. Like the Byshops of the Temple letten men to preach lb. pag. 19. letten the Gospel Pistles to be preached and pursue the true tellers thereof Lib. Miscell pag. 34. sword with banishmeÌ„ts or imprisonmeÌ„ts the true and godly Professours thereof despiting reviling the Scripture by the name of g Opinio haere tica quod Scriptura S. sit haeretica et blasphema Lib. de ver Scrip pag. 196. Multiplicati qui dixerâ—it Scripturam secundum magnem partem suam esse falsissimaÌ„ Ibid. pag. 130. Blasphemous false flexible or changeable vnto anie sense that a man would haue it and lastly that h Lib. contra Fraâ—res mendic pag. 44. it was neuer well since Lords and Ladies tooke regarde to the Gospell and leften there ancestors manners When these absurd infamous blasphemous Romish or rather Diuelish opinions began to be broached and boâ—stred vp by Antichrist and his deerest Minions the Moonks Friars maruel wee at his positions doctrine constancy and resolution for the auctoritie and maiestie of the Scripture or that he was as we finde him in this 2. and most materiall point of al
ouer al persons 2. Admit he were so whether he may intermedle with the Temporal affaires of Kings and Princes Thirdly supposing that also whether he be of that temper and making that he cannot erre in his finall Conclusions Fourthly and lastly whether he be Antichrist or no. Sect. 1. Touching the 1. point it cannot be denied but that Iohn VVickliffe supposing the Donation of ConstaÌ„tine which afterwards proued but a counterfeit did for a while hold that the Pope was to bee consulted in the greatest points of Religion and that he had b De Verit. Scrip. p. 122. plenaÌ„ solam potestatem plenarie and ful power of himselfe and c Peccatum paganitatis incurrit quisquis dum â—e Christianum aâ—â—erit sed i. Apostolicae ob edi re contemnit De Verit. Scr. pag 426. that he did incurre peccatuÌ„ paganitatis the crime of Paganisme which did not obay his mandats But what of all this Was VVickliffe a Papist No verely For first his plenarie power was built vpon a rotten d Tempore Constantini translatioâ— Sacerdotij nec fuit decretum quodâ— Episcop illius Ecclesiae haberet necessario primatuÌ„ in alios vt hic supponitur De Ver. Scrip. pag. 565. foundation which afterwards fel to the ground of it selfe 2. It was giuen him only e Habet plenaÌ„ solam potestatem ad aeâ— dificandum Ecclesiam De Ver. Scrip. pag. 122. ad aedificandum Ecclesiam for to edifie not to destroy or demolish the Church 3. It was so limited that he could doe nothing f lb. pag. 455. contra Deum or contrarationem against the Law of God or against the law of reason Lastly if his lawes g Certum est ex fide Scripturae quod quicunque Secularis vel Clericus maxime obuiat Christi legibus hic est potissimus Antichristus De Verit. Scrip. pag. 590. did obviare Christi legibus an h Oportet inferiorem nomine tenus Superiorem â—uum corrippete lb. p. 524. Inferiour might and in conscience ought not only to disobey him but to reprooue correct and contradict him as i lb. pag. 524. Paule did withstande Peter vnto the face and wil our Papists grant this Farthermore he grants the Pope no greater auctoritie or superiority over his fellow-brethren k Peâ—â—â—s ipse Apollo exclusi à Dominatu suorum conuerâ—â—rum imo ipsos esse quasi nihil abiectos seruos D â—esu cui omnis scientia omnis amor vel honor Christiani debet attribui cum nullum creatum debet sciri amarivel honorari nisi Christus vel in habitu diuino ad ipsum De Verit Script pag. 494. then Peter and Apollo had over there new Converts whom he excludeth and debarreth flatly from any such Soveraintie taking away all honour from them and giving it vnto Christ Iesu to whoÌ„ all knowledge all loue all duty from al Christians is to be ascribed so far that no Creature is to be acknowledged loued or honored but Christ or in respect of Christ. l Nec credo quenquaÌ„ Catholicum ad â—antum desipere quod credat quod vbi Christiâ— vicatius scâ—ibit Fiat ipse qui dixit facta sunt non approbat ad quiritur ius aliquod impetranti cum de isto solo verificatur hoc metricum-sic volo sic iubeo sit pro ratione voluntas in Expos. Decal p. â— Nether is it possible as he thinketh for any Catholike to be so vnadvised or inconsiderate as to follow the Popes fiat Let it be done when he that spake and it was done shall say no. Because this verse can be true of no earthly man but of our blessed Saviour Christ Iesus Sic volo sic iubeo sit pro ratione voluntas This is my will this I commande My will for reason good shall stand Finally to conclude this point he was m Quod Papa sit summus Pontifex est ridiculum Christus nee in Petro neâ— in alio talem approbauit dignitatem Art 17. damnat in Syn. Const. condeÌ„ned as an heretike for denying the Popes Supremacy and therfore cannot verie wel be accounted of the Romish Church Sect. 2. The 2. questioÌ„ whether the Pope may intermedle with the Temporal affaiers of Princes NOw we come to the 2. question where we consider his civile dominion or right in Temporall estates which question VVickliffe doth n In ciuili dominio non possunt esse duo dominantes aequo oportet quod vnus sit capitalis Dominus alter subdominans-Regem nostrum nolumus in hac parte sibi â—ubijcere cum donans quicquid ad manum mor tuam sibi reseruat capital e dominium Wickliff de Ciu. Dom. p 67. euerie where determine against the Pope for the king his regalty and that of set purpose in an especiall Treatise of his o Extant in the publike Librarie De Civili Dominio strengthning his opinioÌ„ verie plainly out of the p The contrary opinioÌ„ aâ— he saieth videtur impugnare iura consuetudines Regni de Ciuili Dominio pag. 66. Tenendo quod iura Angliae in hac parte sunt nullo modo Iuri contraria lb. I knowe the particular and approued custome of euerie naâ—ion is the most vsual binding assured Law my L. Cook in his 5. l. of Reports in praes FuÌ„dameÌ„tal laws of this laÌ„d with great iudgement and knowledge of the common law which I speake in fide aliena being not able to iudge of that which is beyond my profession but I do verily beleeue it to bee so becauseth he seemeth vnto me to vrge the verie same reasons lawes and arguments which that thrise q My L. Cook Chiefe Iustice of the Common pleas in his 5. booke of Reports Wickliffe maintaineth it as an old Custome the which our King Lords Prelats beene sworen to sustaine maintaine-as pertaining to the Kings Regalty and of Common Law In supplicat por recta ad Parliam pag 9. The kinglie head of this politique body is instituted and furnished with p'enarie and entire power prerogatiue and iurisdiction to render iustice and right to euerie part and member of this bodie of what estate degree or calling soeuer in al causes Ecclesiastical or Temporal otherwise hee should not be head of the whole bodie My Lâ— Cook in his 5. book of Reports pag. 9. The verie same reason is vrged by Wickliffe in sundrie places else he were not King of al England but of a little part thereof In supplicat adâ— Parliam pag. 10. Non haberet plenae pacis custodiam De Verit. Script pag. 453. Non â—oret ' Rex totius Angliae sed Regulus paruae partis De Verit. Script pag. 424. The Title of his book is this ControuersiaruÌ„ Rob. Bel larmini Defensio Auctore Iac. Gretsero Soc. Iesu S S. Theol. Doct. et in Academia Ingolstadiensi Professore Ingol Anno. 1607. in fol. Reverend and learned Iudge doth faithfully mention in his fift booke
vnto the people His opinion of the Sacrament was the same with the Church of England uu Confess de Sacramento Euchar p. 58. Isle panis est bene vâ—â—è realâ—ter spiritualiter virtualiter Sacra meÌ„taliter cor pus Christi Ib. that the body of Christ was really and truely in the Sacrament in his kind that is sacramentalitèr and figuralitèr by way of Sacrament and figuratiuely y Sicut Io. Bap tista figuraâ—iter fuit Helias non perâ—onaliter Aâ—t 4. in Syn. Const. damnaâ— so Iohn Baptist figuratiuely was Helias not personâ—lly and as y Sicut Christus est simul Deus homo sic hostia consecrata est siâ—ul corpus Châ—istâ— verus panis quiâ— est coâ—pus Domini ad minimum in figura verus panis in natura vel quod idem sonat est verus Panis naturaliter coâ—pus Christi figuraliter Art 49. Oxon damnatus Christ was together God and man so the z Posuit panem in corpus vinum in â—anguinem mystica consecratione conuertiâ—on reaâ—iter ita intelligenda sunt verba Wicklefi ex sent Will. Woodford vide Lib. Ms. pag. 107. consecrated host for so he calleth it was at the same time Christs very body and very bread not by waie of ConsubstantiatioÌ„ as the Lutherans teach for it was Christes body in figure and true bread in nature or vvhich is all one true breade naturallie and Christs body figuratiuely Moreouer hee affirmed Vae generationi adulterae quae plus credit Testimonio Innocentijvel Ray mundi quam senâ—uâ— Euangelij câ—eâ—o quod finaliter veritas vincet eos in Confesâ— de sacramento altaris p. 59. constantly without wauering that this true Catholike Apostolical doctrine f De blasphem pag 4â— lasted in the Church for a 1000. yeares till Sathanas was vnbound and g De blasphem pag. 37. the people blinded by Friars with the Heresie of accidents without subiects which opinion they durst not maintaine wheras h I 'am certaine for the third part of the Clergie that defends this sentence that they wil defend it on paine of loosing their liues Confess de Sacram. Anglice pag. 64. VVickliffe and the third part of the Cleargie that defended the contrary were readie to defende it on paine of loosing of their liues cum non fuâ—rit materia martyrij plus laudanda Art Oxon damnat 52. there being no better cause of martyrdome For i De blasph pag. 63. he could speake it boldlie beeing certaine of the truth thereof that al the Friars of this land or other Blasphemers could not disproue that faith which he told and thus it appeareth that VVickliffe was wholly for vs and our Church in the 7. principall pointes of controuersie containing 16. questions in the whole stroÌ„gly maintained and defended by him against the Papists of his time Of other questions wherein also VVickliffe holdeth with vs against them which are collateral or accidental to the former after a more briefe manner HAuing sounded these 7. greater controuersies as it were so many Ios. Chapt. 6. v 20. TruÌ„pets see how the wals of this spirituall Hiericho doe fall flat vnto the ground as they did in the time of Iosua Iudge of Israel and as he spake vnto the Jewes so I say vnto al good perfect Christians Ib. v. 26. Cursed be the maÌ„ before the Lord that riseth vp and buildeth this Citty Hiericho The 8. Chapt. FAther Parsons that worthy Jesuit in his k Part. 2. c. 9. p. 489. Then belike Friar Walden wil proue a notable liar whichmaketh Wickliffe to hold almost al the opinioÌ„s that wee doe thowgh hee charg him besides with many vntruths booke of the three conversioÌ„s or rather as he hath made theÌ„ perversions of England woulde faine make vs to beleeue that the points wherin VVickliffe agreeth with the Papists against vs are many and farre more theÌ„ the former wherein he ioineth with the Protestants against them And our Apologists say that l Tract 2. Cap 2. Sect. 4. pag. 108. after his revolte hee retained stil sundry Catholike points I knowe not how â—ur Apologists wil be able to iustifie their saying sure I am it wil pinch on the Parsons side Sect. 1. Of the Nomber of the Sacraments FOr the nomber of the Sacraments he held that there were but two True it was I note the same of Wickliffe which M. WottoÌ„ obserues of Luther that hauing beene a loÌ„g time kept in thedarknes of Poperie he could not by by discern the truth in al points Wott pag. 29. that some time after his Conuersion when he began to see and know the truth being not fully instructed in all points at the fiâ—st for his conuersion was wrought by degrees the elder he grew the more he loathed and detested there abhominable heresies he names 7. Sacraments but. posteriores cogitationes sunt sapientiores his after opinions were better theÌ„ his former els why did their m Art 45.46 47.48 Damnper Oxon Syn. Const. Church condemne him for an Hereticke in this point Sect. 2. Of holie Orders n Videtut SS Doctoribus quod superfluit in sacramento ordinis ponere plures quam duos gradus scilicet Diaconos vel Leuitas Presbyteros siue Episcopos cum nec dignitas ministerij TOuching holy orders he held that there were but two viz of o Nec auctoritas facit euidentiam quod in statu Cleri debent istiâ—â—es gradus scilicet Clericus 1. tonsurae Acolytus Subdiaconus approbari â—mo irrationabile infundabile videtur quod Ecclesia militaÌ„s sâ— cum istis tribus Ordinibus onerata Artic. 55. Oxon. damnatâ— vide Walden To. 2. p. 200 Deacons and Priests so doe we Sect. 3. Of the Chrisme in Bâ—ptisme Articul 43. in Synodo CoÌ„st damnat He held against the Chrisme in Baptisme saying that Christ contented himselfe with pure water so doe we Sect. 4. Of the Sacrament of extreme Vnction p Si corporalis vnctio foret SacrameÌ„tum vt modo fingitur Christus sui Apostoli eius promulgationem non tacuissent Art 58. Oxon. damnat vide Wald. To. 2. pag. 268. HE held that corporal Vnction or the last anointing or anealing was no Sacrament so do we Sect. 5. Of Popish Confirmation q Quantum adoleum quo Episcopi vngunt pueros poplum lineum quod complexum est capiti Videtur quod sit ritus leuis infundabilis ex Scriptura quod ista confirmatio introducta super Apostolos blasphem in Deum Artic. 8. In Synod Const. daÌ„nat HE held that Popish Confirmation with oile vaile and I know not what fooleries was a Relique of the Diuels but r Walden To. 3. pag. 105. such ConfirmatioÌ„ as was agreeable with reason he allowed Sect. 6. Of Images HE preached against the f PraedicanduÌ„ est coÌ„tra pretiositateÌ„ speciositatem alias sophisticationes quibus