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A15760	A friendly admonition to Martine Marprelate, and his mates. By Leonard Wright	Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6.	1590 (1590)	STC 26030; ESTC S102791	5,768	12

A Friendly Admonition to Martine Marprelate and his Mates By LEONARD WRIGHT LONDON Printed by John Wolfe 1590. To Martine Marprelate and his Mates L. Wright wisheth the spirit of grace wisedome and charitie with speedie reformation of former follies HE that reproueth a wise man saith Salomon winneth loue and fauour but who so medleth with a scornfull person gaineth nothing but reproch and dishonour This Prouerbe Martine is verified in thée and thy fellow workers who lyke as the spitefull spider conuerteth his foode into poison and the venimous serpent regardeth not whom he sting so whatsoeuer as yet hath bene said vnto you though neuer so learned pithie or sensible haue conuerted the same into poisoned mallice returned it with ridiculous scoffes and augmented it with slanderous reproches Notwithstanding though in small hope of more curteous entertainment at your hands then as well my selfe as others my betters haue lately found I haue thought good not in waie of reuenge to requite you with euil for euil as tant for tant squib for squib or scoffe for scoffe but rather in friendly and charitable manner gently to admonish and intreate you to cease your grieuous railing disdainfull mocking and bitter contention which yéeldeth occasion for our enemies to laugh at our follie our friends to lament our miserie and al neighbor countries to wonder at our curiositie Alasse Martine I pittie thy want of discretion who in publishing thy vnprofitable and immodest conceites breaking the vnitie of the Church hindering the course of the Gospell disquieting the peaceable state of the realme hast set thy selfe vppon an open stage in the view of the whole world to bee scorned hated and detested for euer Oh mercifull Father what Christian subiect hauing either ciuill honestie feare of God or spark of grace could so presumptuously take vppon him to incourage the commens to cast off the yoke of obedience and resist her Maiesties lawes establyshed against her crowne and dignitie so disdainfully to harden his heart and sharpen his tongue against his poore brethren for shewing their dutiful allegeance to her Highnesse procéedings or with such spitefull mallice raging furie and desperate boldnesse as though neither Prince Magistrate nor Lawe durst controll them to deride slander discredit those ancient graue Fathers godly learned pastors and chiefe pillers of our church reuerenced for their speciall giftes placed in authoritie for theyr rare vertues and honoured of all good men for their callings by whom the doctrine of saluation hath ben so plentifully planted and taught during her Maiesties most happy raign and taken such déepe rooting in the heartes and consciences of many thousands in England to Gods honor be it spoken as neyther Papist Martinist nor Atheist are able to seduce or remoue them Is this the sinceritie of doctrine purity of liuing and precisenesse of consciences which thou and thy mates pretend boast vpon Is this your brotherly kindnesse to loue your neighbor as your selfe and doe vnto all men as you would be done vnto Is this the honest nature charitable disposition and curteous behauiour beséeming a ciuill religious Gentleman No no Martine thy odious railing scoffes and vile carterly rethorike more fit for Skogan Will Summer or a vice in a play bewraieth in thée rather a vile base and churlish condition Againe if thou and thy fellowes were not euen blockes in sense and monsters in mallice you might with griefe perceiue and with shame inough confesse that forasmuch as wée haue the Gospell of Christ sincerely preached and his Sacramentes as seales annexed thereunto duely ministred the substance whereby the true Church is knowen with such a godly reformation and vniforme order by law therein established not only touching faith doctrine and remission of sins in euery point to the sacred word consonant and agréeable but also touching externall pollicie discipline decencie ceremonies rites and fashions in no point to the same repugnant or contrary as al y e churches in Europe do honor reuerence commend it by the iudgement of M. Cartwright himself do giue the right hand of society in the house of God vnto y e church of England There is no iust cause of our parts therfore why you should in sects and factions separate your selues from vs. As for your assertions by the iudgemēt of the profoundest diuines in this land as D. Fulke for one whose words I am able to iustifie they are false erronious your reasōs obscure and senselesse and your challenge most arrogant presumptuous whose argumentes are either framed vpon grounds of your owne diuices to draw things indifferent to faith religion or else vnder a shadow of things which God hath commanded to proue those he neuer commanded which hath bin alwaies the speciall groundes of sectes and scismes in the Church your chiefe points of y e best learned haue bin sufficiently answered alredy to satisfie any reasonable man deceiued through ignorance for him that is drowned in wilfull blindnesse all that can be sayd will not suffice for such as bée naturally inclined to contention will neuer want cauelling wordes The mightier that men be saith Iesus Syrach the greater is theyr wrath the longer that strife endureth the more it burneth Christ himselfe confuted the Pharesies yet could hee not put them to silence To pester therfore more paper in answering euery selfe-willed foole in his foolishnes were not only vnprofitable but méere ridiculous One reproofe doth more good to a wise man saith Salomon then an hundred stripes to a foole Whom Pasquin very aptly compareth to an Ape which the more sagely he is looked vpon the more he grinneth so the more substantially a foole is reasoned withall the lesse he vnderstandeth I but Martine in his owne opinion is a man of most déepe and profound iudgement able to sée further in matters of state and religion then all the learned Bishops in the land whose conceits must néeds be pure and perfect without errors For why he is resolute to confirme and seale them with his bloud Yet Martine remember thou art but a man and man is subiect to error yea and as it is proper to God onely not to erre so is it seldome giuen vnto man to hit the truth He is wise that can perceiue his owne folly If thou and I had béene iudge betwéene the Publican and the Pharesie which of thē were the honester man I doubt we should both haue erred Againe Campion the Iesuite was as learned and resolute to die as thou and yet but an obstinate Papist Copin and Helias the Brownists as resolute to die as thou yet but rebellious traitors Lewes Cole and Ket at Norwich as resolute to die as thou and yet but ranke heretikes But Martine and his mates are men specially endued with diuine wisedome godly zeale and other spiritual gifts aboue the rest I but we haue faire warning not to beléeue euery spirite

for many false Prophets are gone out into the world in whome satan transformeth himselfe into an Angell of light Et ex fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos Let vs therfore trie those spirites whether they be such in déede as they would séeme yea or no. The spirit of wisedome saith Salomon is louing mild and modest whose fruits saith the Apostle do consist in all goodnes righteousnesse and truth The wisedome that is from aboue saith Saint Iames is peaceable curteous and easie to be intreated Those that be méeke shall the Lord guide in iudgement sayth Dauid and such as be gentle them shall he learne his waie The children of wisedome saith Iesus Syrach are a congregation of the righteous their exercise is obedience and loue Loue is humble patient curteous Loue is bountifull liberal and friendly Loue couereth the multitude of sins iudgeth charitably of all men Contrariwise these Martinists are so fierce fell furious so obstinat wilfull and malitious so churlish disdainful and presumptuous so captious ouer other mens manners so readie to spie a moate in other mens eies so busie in laying open other mens infirmities and so painfull in binding heauie burthens to lay vpon other mens shoulders as it yéeldeth iust occasiō to suspect them for men possessed rather with spirits of error They are very diligent labourers I confesse But what doe they euen as the venimous waspes assemble together to make honie combes lyke good bées so doe these vnder the title of a pure vnspotted Church associate themselues with such spitefull railing slanders to vex and persecute the true members of Christ as the Angell durst not giue to the deuill himselfe They plow the forrowes of falsehood sow the séeds of iniquity féed the multitude with lying fantasies They lead them vp down by the eares to heare their vaine conceits as it were a foole to the stocks till they proue as wise in the end as Waltams calfe Whose doctrine by wringing wresting and abusing the meaning of the holy Ghost to a wrong sense appeareth so dark obscure and doubtfull as the people do feele their mindes more profitablie edified their consciences more soundly satisfied and their faith more comfortably strengthened by hearing the onely wordes of the text distinctly read without anie addition at al then by many such long darke and tedious discourses as commonly proceede from the scull of their seditious braules falsly applied to serue their own purpose Thus Martine the conditions manners doctrine of thée thy fellow workers rightly considered do plainly bewray you for no other then those vaine ianglers presumptuous talkers and false dissembling hypocrites of whom the spirite of truth hath so often so earnestly forewarned vs that should obstinatly stand in their own conceits despise gouernment speak euill of those that be in authoritie promising libertie to them that follow their damnable waies Resembling much that péeuish brood of whom the Prophet Dauid so grieuously complaineth that go to from the euening grinning like dogs bend theyr tongues like bowes shoot out bitter wordes like arrowes imagine mischiefe in their hearts against those that be quiet in the land and stir vp strife al the day long But wo be to such foolish prophets as are wise in their own conceits follow theyr owne spirits speak where thy see nothing For the sinnes of their mouth and the words of their lips they shall be taken in their own pride For why theyr preaching is of cursing and lies The Israelites for deriding Gods prophets were brought to confusion The tribe of Iuda for contemning his seruāt Ieremy were cast into loathsome captiuitie The obstinate Iewes for pesecuting Christ and his Apostles were brought vnto miserable slauerie and your selues for abusing the true messengers of God without spéedy repentance must néeds come ●o some fearefull end In the feare of God therefore I do friendly admonish you nay more our soueraigne Lady and mistres by her princely authoritie doth straitly command you our louing mother the church of England in sorrow griefe for your offēce doth curteously intreat you and the Apostle himself in most christian charitable manner doth vehemently exhort you that if you haue conceiued any feeling in the fatherly kindnes of God our mercifull creator any consolation in y e precious death of Christ our louing redéemer or any fellowship in his holy spirit our comfortable instructor to cease your bitter contention confesse your folly detest your errors repent your wickednes be reconciled to God his church Turne your scornfull mocking into pensiue mourning your spiteful railing into sorrowful wéeping your presumptuous prating into hūble praying your busie medling in matters of state into spéedie reformation of your owne misbehauior call to God for grace betimes least with his fearefull iudgements he strike you sodainly despise no longer the riches of his goodnes patience long suffering which leadeth to repentance Abuse no longer the fauorable and charitable dealing of those godly reuerent fathers who notwithstanding your vile slanderous reproches haue curteously sought frō time to time not your deserued confusion but desired conuersion Submit your selues to y e mercy of our gratious soueraign craue pardon for y t is past learn to know frō hence forth y t the displeasure of y e prince is a messēger of death and therfore more dangerous then séemly for euery meane person to call in question matters of gouernmēt or meddle in princes affaires The foxe for prying in y e lyons den had his skin pluckt ouer his eares surely if your wound be so vncurable as neyther friendly caueat can warne you gentle admonition allure you nor the feare of God withdraw you but y e still you meane to persist in your diuellish enterprise then must you know féele y t her Maiesty beareth not the sword for naught Where lenitie cannot reclaime seuerity must correct duro nodo durus cuneus Finally my brethren in generall forasmuch as we are all fellowe seruants of one houshold none of vs without his imperfections shal all appeare before the iudgemen● seat of Christ y e only searcher of mans hart where euery one shal beare his owne burthen receiue reward according to his own labor Let vs learn of y e Apostle to deck our selues with humilitie lowlines of mind be more louing friendly charitable one to another Let him y t stands take héed least he fall As for his brother whether he stand or fall y t pertaineth to his owne maister Let him y t is endued with knowledge learning shew it forth in méeknes discretion Let vs learn of S. Augustine to agrée together in feare least we perish in error It becōmeth not the seruants of God to bee stubborne waywarde or contentious but quiet peaceable vnto all men If you bite deuour one another saith the Apostle take héed lest you be consumed one of another The Lord of his fatherly kindnes at his good will and pleasure relent mollifie our hard stonie hearts lighten our ignorant minds preuēt our obstinate wils indue vs with his heauenly grace circumspectly to followe those things that make for peace studie to be quiet especially cōsidering our daies are dangerous y t with one hart one mind one wil one iudgement we may ioyne together in due obedience to glorifie our God honor his Prince reuerence his Prelates Pro 9.10.9 13 Looke Martins conclusiōs And their booke intituled D. Some laid open in his colours Rom 2.23 Marke 7.6 Math. 2.12 Esay 3 If Martine bee a Gentleman it is onely by profession not by condition M. Cartwright his Epistle to Harison Eccle. 28. Prou. 26. Prou. 17.10.9.23.9 Eccle. 22.6 It were good he had lesse art more grace In old Martins protestation Luke 18 The giftes of y e spirit are rife but the fruites are reare 1 Iohn 4.1 2. Tim. 4.3.4 2 Cor. 2.13.14 Math. 7.16 Wisedome 1 Ephe. 5.9 Iames. 3 Psalm 25.8 Eccle. 3 1. Corinth 13 Ephe. 4.31 Ezech. 13 Rom. 12 1● Rom. 2.1 Math. 7 Math. 23 1. Tim. 4.2 Iudas 9. 2. Pet. 2 That ranne ix miles to sucke a bull Whereby though against theyr wils the people are broght by experience to know and feele that publike reading in some measure is preaching 2. Pet. 2 2. Tim. 3 Iudas Whose mouths saith the Apostle must be stopt Psal. 140 Iere. 9 Psal 35.20 Ezech 13 Esay 5 Psal. 59 2. Cron. 36. Iere. 37 4. King 2.4 Luke 15 Math. 23 Phil. 2 Cleanse your hearts from mallice and your tongues from slander Ephe 4 Wisedome 1. Rom. 2.4 Prou. 20 Rom. 13 1. Corinth 4.5 Rom. 14.10 Psal. 7.10 Gal. 6.5 1 Cor. 3.8 Ephe. 4 Colos. 3.12.13 1. Cor. 10.12 Rom. 14.4 Iames. 3.13 Augustine 2. Timo. 2.24 Galath 5.15 Rom. 14.19 Ephe. 5.15.16 Phil 2.2.3.16 1. Pet. 2.17 Heb. 13.17