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A16161	The Protestants evidence taken out of good records; shewing that for fifteene hundred yeares next after Christ, divers worthy guides of Gods Church, have in sundry weightie poynts of religion, taught as the Church of England now doth: distributed into severall centuries, and opened, by Simon Birckbek ...	Birckbek, Simon, 1584-1656.	1635 (1635)	STC 3083; ESTC S102067	458,065	496

were so powerfull that they brought an hundred thousand fighting men into the field and were then very likely to have utterly overthrowne Simon Montfort Generall of the Papall armie had not the unexpected death of the King of Arragon intercepted by ambush quite discouraged and dissolued the Albigenses army Besides if the Waldenses had not had any visible assemblies what needed such councels consultations conferences disputations inquisitions and examinations bans and excommunications against them They set up the order of Dominican and Franciscan Friers to preach against them they leavied forces of Pilgrimes Cruciferi or crossed souldiers to fight against them they published their Croysadoes promised their pardon of sinnes and remission of pennance enjoyned to as many as would take up the badge of the crosse and weare it on their coate-armour and goe against the Waldenses as against Sarracens and Infidels Now sure had the Waldenses beene but some few dispersed and meane persons they needed no such stirre to suppresse them But we finde that they used all possible meanes for to quell them Pope Inncent the third about the yeere 1180 called a a solemne Councell at Lateran against them Caelestine the third in the yeare 1197 confirmed the order of the Cruciferi or crossed souldiers and they were to warre against them The Monke of Auxerre in France saith That the Pope sent his Bulls farre and neere and granted them pardon of sinnes and absolution of pennance to such as should serve in his warres against the Waldenses About this time was the holyhouse of Inquisition set up by Pope Innocent the third and the mastership thereof committed first to Frier Reiner and Guido and afterwards to Saint Dominicke and his order Eymericus hath given certaine directions to the Inquisitors and Commissioners and Francis Pegna hath glossed upon them and there were lately to be seene the severall consultations of the Bishops and Lawyers of France in what sort they were to proceed against the Waldenses And the Monk of Newborrow tels us that when the Waldenses came into England under the name of Catharist's or Publicans there was strict charge given under paine of excommunication that none should receive harbour or keepe them within their houses liberties or territories nor to have any commerce or manner of dealing with them and if any of that sect dyed in that state that upon no termes they should have any prayer or Christian buriall but they saved them a labour of buriall for Caesarius saith that at the taking of La-vail there were foure hundred of them burnt and the rest hanged and the like execution done in divers other places and namely at Vaurcastle where after they had strangled the Governour Aimerius they stoned to death the Lady Girard the Popes Legats not sparing as Thuanus saith any Sexe at all Now all this they patiently endured so that as Altissidore saith the beholders were astonied to see them goe so cherefully to their death and withall to exhort one another to abide the fierie tryall PAP There might be great numbers of the Waldenses and them of the meaner sort PROT. That is not so for Du Haillan saith that many Noble and worthy men tooke part with them even to the hazzarding of their lives and estates namely the Earles of Tholouse of Cominges of Bigorre of Carmain of Foix as also the King of Arragon for Remond had marryed Ioane once Queene of Sicilie sister to Iohn King of England by whom he had a sonne called also Remond after the decease of Ioane he married Elenor sister of Peter King of Arragon so that he was strong in affinity and confederacy besides that he had as one saith as many citties and castles and townes as the yeere hath dayes By the way we may observe that considering the neere alliance which was betweene the Earle of Tholouse and his brother in law the King of England as also the Earles lands lying so neere to Guienne then in the possession of the Engl●sh hence I say we may observe that this made the way more easie to communicate the doctrine and profession of the Waldenses unto their neighbou●s of the English Nation PAP You tell us of great troupes of the Waldenses and yet they had but bad successe PROT. We must not measure the lawfulnesse of warre by the issue nor judge the cause by the event The eleven Tribes of Israel were appointed by God himselfe to goe and fight against the Benjamites the Israelites were moe in number than the Benjamites and had the better cause and yet the Israelites were twice overcome by the Benjamites so King Lewis of France fighting against the Turke his army was scattered and himselfe dyed of the Plague ●esides you have little reason to stand on the successe of this warre It is true indeed that their chiefe Cittties Tholouse and Avignion were taken and the King of Arragon was slaine in the Waldensian warre but so also was Simon Montfort Generall of the Popes army he was slaine like Abimelech Iudges 9 with a stone cast out of a sling or engine and the same supposed to be ●lung or darted by a woman And as for King Lewis he dyed at the siege of Avignion and as Math●w Paris saith sustained great losses by a terrible plague strong and venemous flyes and great waters devouring and drowning his army so that there were two and twenty thousand French slaine and drowned during that seige Lastly the Waldenses had no such ill successe for though themselves were persecuted yet their doctrine was thereby communicated to others and spread abroad throughout the world PAP You make as if the Pope had dealt ill with the Albingenses but they dealt ill with him for the Earle of Tholouse or some of his subjects killed the Popes Legat Frier Peter de Casteaneuff and this was it that stirred up the Pope PROT. This was but a colour of the warre and an untruth when the Popes Legat charged the Earle with this fact his answere was that he was no way culpable of the Fryers death that there were many witnesses of the death of the sayd Monke slaine at S. Giles by a certaine Gentleman whom the said Monke pursued who presently retired himself to his friends at Be●caire that this murther was very displeasing to him and therefore he had done what lay in his power to apprehend him and to chastise him but that he escaped his hands that had it beene true which they layd to his charge and that he had beene guilty of the fact yet the ordinary courses of justice were to be taken against him and not to have wracked their anger upon his subjects that were innocent in this case In the end he was forced to confesse that he was guilty of the murder onely because it was committed within his territories so that he was glad to doe pennance and that in a strange sort for the Legat

THE PROTESTANTS EVIDENCE TAKEN OVT OF GOOD ●●●ORDS Shewing that for Fifteene hundred yeares next after CHRIST divers worthy ●uides of Gods Church have in sundry weightie poynts of Religion taught as the Church of England now doth DISTRIBVTED INTO SEVERALL CENTVRIES and opened By SIMON BIRCKBEK Bachelor in Divinitie sometime Fellow of Queenes Colledge in Oxford and now Minister of Gods Word 〈◊〉 Gilling in RICHMONDSHIRE LONDON Printed for Robert Milbourne and are to bee sold at the Signe of the Grayhound in Pauls Church-yard 1635. TO THE RIGHT WORshi●full HV●FREY VVHARTO● of Gillingwood Esquire Receiver Generall of his Majesties R●v●nues within the Arch-Deaconry of Richmond the Bishopricke of Durham and Northumberla●d my m●ch respected Patron G●ace and Peace bee multiplied Sir THe free accesse which you made mee for the exercise of my Ministerie within your donation what time besides other Sutors you had a sonne of your owne whose sufficiencie of Gifts might have anti-dated his yeares and made him capable of greater Preferment had God been pleased to have continued his life hath so farre engaged mee unto you that I have laid hold on the first oportunitie whereby I might manifest my thankefulnesse unto you which I could not better expresse than by Dedicating this Treatise to your Name and Memory beseeching God that as hee hath hitherto done great things for you and given you a Benjamins portion above your brethren so hee would still continue his favours to you and yours and blesse you both in your owne person and in your fruitfull promising off-spring Now if this Treatise seeme not no sutable a Present either to your yeares or disposition which call you indeed rather to a poynt of Devotion than Disputation the truth is it is a Controversall Treatise yet it is withall a just and Defensive War which I have undertaken rather for the clearing of our owne cast than the infesting of others and the end I aime at is to discover the truth and guide others therein And I know it would please you at the heart to see such as have gone astray reduced into the old way which the Prophet calls the Good way If any shall reape benefit by this Worke and thanke the Authour for his paines I shall foorthwith take them up and bestow them wh●re they are due namely next under God upon your selfe upon whose Gleabe these first Fruits of mine grew and are now in such sort as you see gathered into this Store-house and sequestred into severall Centuries for the Churches use and benefit by one of her meanest Proctors but Your much bounden Kinsman and Beneficiary SIMON BIRCKBEK TO THE READER CHristian Reader this Treatise was first occasioned and afterwards composed in maner as followeth The Prophet Hosea saith of Ephraim that hee had mixt himselfe among the people that Ephraim was as a Cake on the hearth not turned baked on the one side and raw upon the other that is in poynt of Religion was partly a Iew and partly a Gentile It was my lot to fall upon a Charge which like Ephraim was part Protestant part Papall and the one side questioned with the other Where their Religion was before Luther Whereunto I addressed such answere as I thought might satisfie the weake and represse the clamourous but the matter growing to farther debate it occasioned me to draw a Catalogue of our Professors Now it fell out that about the same time M Doctor ●e●●ly one who is exc●llently verst in Controversies had with good successe stood up in this quarrell with Iesuit Fisher. I acquainted him therefore with the businesse and he gave mee the right hand of Fellowship encouraging me to go on with my Catalogue but I found it too hard a taske for me though I had good helps from others namely from the wel-furnished Libraries of my much respected friends Master D. Potter the worthy and learned Provost of Queenes Colledg in Oxford and Mr. W. Richardson Minister of Gods Word at Borough Church in Westmerland a very learned and revere●d Divine also my good neighbour M. Nathaniel Hawksworth to procure such Records as might prescribe for 1500 yeares together so that it caused me travell as far as Oxford there to visit those famous private and publike Libraries where I became an eye-witnesse of divers parcels of Evidence wherof I made use in this Treatise And now havi●g my materialls about mee I though● my selfe tollerablie furnisht for the Worke and yet if I had had ●he whole Bodleian-Vaticane Library about me I might sometime have bin at a stand if I had not had some Living Librarie to consult withall Whereupon having to deale with a companie of subtill Adversaries like the sonnes of Zerviah of whom David complained that they were too hard for him and lest the truth and the Churches Cause might seeme to suffer through my weaknesse I repaired by entercourse of Letters to my learned Counsell Mr. Dr. Featly and hee I thanke him was readie to resolve me when I was in doubt and to direct mee yea and correct mee also when I was at default and indeed I was well pleased with the Obeliskes and dashes of his pen for as Salomon saith The wounds of a lover are faithfull I have used the helpe of Ancient and Moderne Writers forreine and domestick and namely the Reverend and learned Bishops and Doctors of our Church insomuch as I may say in Samsons language That if I had not ploughed with their Heifer I had not so easily unfolded divers Popish Riddles I have dealt faithfully in the businesse not wresting nor wittingly misalleadging any Authours testimonie nor yet sleightly proposing the Adversaries Argument for that had beene to have set up a shaw-fowle of mine owne framing and then have battered it in pieces with mine owne Ordna●ce but I have done as the Israelites who went downe to the Philistims to sharpen their tooles I have set as keene an edge on the Adversaries Arguments as Bellarmines Parsons or Brereleyes Forge could afford I conf●sse the Worke is larger than I either desired or expected but it could not well bee otherwise and speake fully to a thousand yeares and a halfe and withall cleere the Evidence as it went from the Exceptions of the Adversary I have also been long about it and so my worthy Doctor tells mee but withall hee puts mee in hope it may prove like the Cypresse tree which though it bee long a growing yet wh●n once it is growen up to a tree the shade of it s●rves for an harbour to the child unborne the issue hereof I leave to GOD. This onely I may truely say of this Worke It hath stood mee to some charges and cost mee much paines and travell Al which were it an hundred times more than it is I should thinke well bestowed if the Church of God and my Charge profit by me and the Christian Reader pray for me S. B. Catalogu● Testium Veritatis OR A Catalogue of

such VVitnesses as are produced in th●● Treatise for proofe of the PROTESTANTS Religion disposed according to the times wherein they flourished Witnesses produced in the first Age from Christs birth to 100 yeares CHRIST IESVS The twelve Apostles Saint Paul and the Churches of the Romanes and others Anno 63. Ioseph of Arimathea who brought Christianitie into Britaine 70. Dionysius Areopagita The Bookes that beare his Name seeme to bee written in the fourth or fifth Age after Christ. 100 Ignatius the Martyr In the second Age from 100 to 200. 150 Iustine Martyr 166 Hegesippus 169. The Church of Smyrna touching the Martyrdome of their Bishop Polycap 170 Melito Bishop of Sardys 177 Pope Eleutherius his Epistle to Lucius the first Christian King of Britaine 180 Polycrates of Ephesus and the Easterne Churches touching the keeping of Easter 180 Irenaeus Bishop of Lyons 200 Clemens Alexandrinus In the third Age from 200 to 300. 201 Tertullian 230 Origen 230 Minutius Felix 250 Cyprian Bishop of Carthage 300 Arnobius 300. Lactantius Anno 291 Amphibalus and his associates martyred in Britaine and Saint Alban ann 303. In the fourth Age from 300 to 400. 310 A Councill at Eliberis in Spaine 317 Constantine the Great 325 The first Generall Councill at Nice against the Arrians 330 Eusebius Bishop of Caesarea 337 Ephraim the Syrian 340 Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria 360 Hilarie Bishop of Poitiers 364 A Councill at Laodicea 370 Macarius the Aegyptian Monke 370 Cyril Bishop of Hierusalem 370 Optatus Bishop of Mela in Africke 370 Ambrose Bishop of Milain 370 Basil the Great Bishop of Caesarea 370 Gregorie Nazianzen 380 Gregory Nyssen Bishop of Nyssa in Cappadocia brother to Basil. 381 The second generall Councill at Constantinople where Macedonius was condemned 390 Epiphanius Bish. of Salamine in Cyprus In the fifth age from 400 to 500. 406 S. Chrysostome Bish. of Constantinople Andr. Rivet Critici sacri 415 S. Hierome idem 420 S. Augustinus 429 Palladius sent by Pope Celestine into Scotland and Germanus by the French Bishops into Britain to beat downe Pelagianisme 430 Vincentius Lirinensis wrote against the Pelagians and Nestorians 430 Cyril Bishop of Alexandria 430 Theodoret the Historian Bish. of Cyrene 431 The third generall Councill at Ephesus where Nestorius was condemned deprived 450 Leo the Great 451 The fourth generall Councill at Chalcedon where Dioscurus Eutyches were condēned 490 Gelasius the Pope In the sixth age from 500 to 600. 520 Cassiodore Abbot of Ravenna 520 Fulgentius Bishop of Ruspa in Africke 529 A Councill at Aurange against Semi-Pelagians and Massilians 540 Iustus Orgelitanus claruit ann 540. Trithem de Scriptor Ecclesiast 545 Iunilius Episcopus Africanus 545 Primasius a Bishop of Africke Bellar. de Scriptor Ecclesiast 540 Rhemigius Bish. of Rhemes Andr. Rivet 553 The fifth generall Councili at Constantinople to confirme the Nicen Councill 560 Dracontius 580 Venantius Fortunatus Bish. of Poictiers a Poet and Historian 596 Augustine the Monke Mellitus and Laurence sent into Britaine by Pope Gregorie 596 The Britaines Faith 600 Columbanus or Saint Colme of Ireland In the seventh age from 600 to 700. 601 Greg. the First the Great placed by Bellar. in this seventh age Bell. de Script Eccles. 601 Hesych Bish. of Hierusalem Bellar. ibid. 630 ●sidore Bishop of Sevill Disciple to Gregorie the Great 635 Aidanus Bishop of Lindasferne or Holy Iland and Finanus his Successour 681 The sixth Generall Councill at Constantinople against the Monothelites who held that although Christ had two Natures yet hee had but one will In the eighth Age from 700 to 800. 720 Venerable Bede the Saxon. 740 Ioannes Damascenus 740 Antonius Author Melissae 754 A Council held at Constant. wherein were condemned Images and the worshipers of them● 768 Clement B. of Auxerre Disciple to Bede 787 The second Councill at Nice about restoring of Images 790 Alcuinus or Albinus an Englishman Disciple to Bede and Tutor to Charlemaigne this Alcuinus laid the foundation of the Vniversitie of Paris 794 A Councill at Frankford wherein was condemned the second Councill of Nice for approoving the worshipping of Images 800 Carolus Magnus and Libri Carolini In the ninth Age from 800 to 900. 815 Claudius Scotus 820 Claudius Taurinensis against Image-worship 824 A Councill at Paris about Images 830 Christianus Druthmarus the Monke of Corbey 830 Agobard Bishop of Lyons 840 Rabanus Maurus Bishop of Mentz Disciple to Al●win 840 Haymo Bishop of Halberstadt Cousin to Bede 840 Walafridus Strabus Abbot of Fulda Disciple to Rabanus hee collected the Ordinarie Glosse on the Bible Trithem de script Eccles. 861 Hulderick Bishop of Auspurge 862 Iohn Mallerosse the Scottish Divine or Ioannes Scotus Erigena hee was slaine by the Monkes of Malmsbury 860 Photius Patriarke of Constantinople he wrote the Nomo-Canon 876 Bertram a Monke and Priest of France 890 Rhemigius Monke of Auxerre hee wrote upon Saint Mathew 890 Ambrosius Ansbertus the French Monke In the tenth Age from 900 to 1000. 910 Radulphus Flaviacensis Monachus Bellarm quò suprà 950 Stephanus Eduensis Monachus Idem 950 Smaragdus the Abbot 975 Abbot Aelfrick and his Saxon Homily and his Saxon Treatise of the Old and New Testament both translated into English In the eleventh age from 1000 to 1100. 1007 Fulbert Bishop of Chartres 1050 Oecumenius 1050 Berengarius 1060 Radulphus Ardens 1070 Theophylact Archbish. of the Bulgarians 1080 Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury 1090 Hildebert Archbishop of Tours 1100 Anselmus Laudunensis Collector of the Interlinear Glosse In the twelfth age from 1100 to 1200. 1101 Zacharias Chrysopolitanus 1120 Rupertus Tuitiensis 1130 Hugo de Sancto Victore 1130 Bernardus Clarae-vallensis 1130 Peter Bruis and Henry of Tholouse 1140 Peter Lombard Master of the Sentences 1150 Petrus Cluniacensis 1158 Ioannes Sarisburiensis 1160 Petrus Blesensis Archdeacon of Bathe 1170 Gratianus 1170 Hildegard the Prophetesse Trithem 1195 Ioachimus Abbas 1200 Nicetas Choniates In the thirteenth Age from 1200 to 1300. 1206 Gul. Altissiodorensis 1215 Concil Lateranense Cuthb Tonstal Dunelm Episcop de eodem 1220 Honorius Augustodunensis Bellarm. 1230 Gulielmus Alvernus Parisiensis Episcopus 1230 Petrus de Vineis Trithem 1240 Alexander de Hales 1250 Gerardus and Dulcinus 1250 Hugo Cardinalis 1250 Robert Groute-head or Grosse-teste Bishop of Lincolne 1256 Gulielmus de Sancto Amore. 1260 Thomas Aquinas 1260 Bonaventura 1260 Arnoldus de Novâ villâ 1300 Ioannes Duns Scotus In the fourteenth age from 1300 to 1400. 1303 Barlaam the Monke and Nilus Archbishop of Thessalonica 1320 Gulielmus Ockam 1320 Nicol. de Lyra a converted Iew who commented on all the Bible 1320 Marsilius Patavinus 1320 Michael Cesena Trithem 1320 Dante 's 1320 Durandus de S. Portiano 1330 Alvarus Pelagius 1340 Iohannes de Rupe-scissâ Trithem 1340 Thomas Bradwardin 1343 The Kings of England oppose Papall Provisions and Appeales Anno 1391. 1350 Richardus Armachanus 1350 Robert Holcot the Englishman 1350 Francis Petrarch Bellarm. 1350 Taulerus a Preacher at Strasbrough Bellarm. 1370 Saint Bridge● 1370 Iohn Wickliffe and