to pretende that cause to bee ashamed of the Gospell I woulde the time woulde nowe suffer mee to giue you a taste of that I haue nowe spoken I should then note vnto you the exceeding contention ambition and briberie that a many of them vsed about the yeere of our Lorde 900. after of whom Platina in the life of Benet 4. saith thus Vbi cum ipsis opibus lasciuire caepit Ecclesia nullo principe coercente clericorum flagitia ipsa peccāds licentia haec monstra peperit à quibus illa fedes per ambitionem largitionem occupata est i. When as the Church through riches began to waxe wanton and that no Prince then corrected the great offences of the clergie euen then did libertie to sinne bring foorthe these monsters who nowe by Ambition and Briberie doe holde that Sea And againe in the lyfe of Siluester 2. Eo tum pontificatus deuenerat vt qui largitione ambitione non dico vitae sanctitate doctrina plus possit is tantummodo bonis reiectis dignitatis gradum obtineret quem morem vtmam nostra tempora non retinerent sed hoc parum est peiorá nisi Deus auertat visuri sumus i. To that state then had the Popedome come that he which by briberie and ambition I doe not say holynesse of lyfe and sounde doctrine myght doe most He onely obtained that place of dignitie those which were good being then reiected whiche manner and custome I woulde to God that our times did not continue still Yet this is but a smal matter and worse things then this shall wee see if God turne them not awaye I shouldem oreouer describe vnto you the outragious cruelty of them that could not be contēted to Depose their aduersaries But to cut of their noses to put out their eies to take thē out of their graues thē to cut off their heads and fingers to cast them as dogges without buriall into y ◠ryuer Tyber To famishe them to death to hang them vp an whole day by the heare of their heades with such other practises more like y ◠successors of Phalaris then of Peter For testimonie of these thinges looke Platina in the lyfe of Stephane 6. Sergius 3. Iohn 14. Boniface 7. Calixte 2. And beside Platina Carsulanus Vincentius and Stella Venetus who among other of that time writeth thus Onis virtus tam in capite quam in membris ex hominum ignauia consumpta est i. All kind of vertue aswell in the head as in the other mēbers is by mens great slouthfulnesse and securitie vtterly consumed and gone I should beside this set out vnto you y ◠wicked detestable Sorcerie Nicromancie and poisoning practized about the yeere of our Lord. 1000. long after by Siluester 2. and a meany of his schollers and successors set forthe by Benno a Cardinall in the life of Hilde Brand after called Gregory 7. Which treatise he that wyll reade shall see suche horrible matter as I am sure no Prophane Historie mentioneth of any Heathen or Pagan that euer was I shoulde declare vnto you the monstrous and vnspeakeable Iniuries wrought vnto moste worthie and Noble Emperours by Gregorie the seuenth Adrian the fourth Gregorie the. 9. Clement the sixth diuers other which are so descriued and painted forth by the Abbot of Vrsperge lyuing about that tyme and by Hier. Marius as it woulde cause their owne friendes to detest them Last of all I shoulde laye open vnto you such a bottomlesse gulfe of couetousnesse and Extortion as all the wealth and treasure of Christendome could neuer to this daye satisfie and content Of which the Abbot of Vrsperge in his Chronicle sayth thus Gaude mater nostra Roma quoniam aperiuntur tibi cataracta thesaurorū in terra vt ad te confluant riui aggeres nūmorum in magna copia Jocundare super adiutrice tua discordia qua erupit de puteo infernalis Abyssi vt accumulentur tibi multa pecuniarum praemia Habes quod sitisti decanta canticum quia per malitiā hominū non per`piam religionem orbem vicisti Bee glad our mother Rome because all the Thesauries of the earthe are opened vvyde vnto thee that to the maye come streames and heapes of money in great and large aboundance Sport thou thy selfe with thy fellow helper discorde whiche hath broken forthe out of the bottomelesse pitte of Hell that there might bee heaped vp vnto thee many rewardes of mony Now hast thou that thou diddest thirst for sing thou out a loude for by the wickednesse of men and not by anye good Religion haste thou ouercome all the whole worlde But the time that is appoynted for mee woulde not be sufficient in this manner onely to recken vp theyr mysdoinges muche lesse at the full to set forthe the examples of them And yet forsooth it is those men and their mayntayners that at this daye doe finde so great faulte with the lyues of them that professe the Gospell and woulde for that cause haue men to be ashamed of it Muche lyke is the quarrell of them that saye the doctrine of the Gospell dothe disquiet common Weales and cause Sedition and ciuill warres This is the complaynte of them commonly that woulde incite Princes and Noble personages and Magistrates to hate the Gospell and to perfecute the Preachers of it And this theyr complaynt doe they amplifye and make lykely by the example of those stirres that haue beene of late yeeres in Germanie in Fraunce in Scotlande in Flaunders in Englande As thoughe forsoothe there had neuer beene rebellion and stirre before the late preaching of the Gospell As though common Weales had neuer bene turmoiled and troubled before thys daye But this Realme of England may be a very good example of the contrarie wherein scantly one king hath passed his raygne without rebellion made by one or other What a troublous Realme was this in the time of king Henry the second when the Wife after other trouble did set vp the Sonne against the father What horrible and grieuous rebellions were their in Henry the thirds raigne whē after the Slaughter of many thousandes the king himselfe was taken prisoner and forced to yeelde to the decrees of his subiectes What shall I say of Edward 2. when by the pride of the Spensers the Qneeue hir selfe warred against hir husband And that I may not continue altogether in examples of rebellion by Noble persons This Citie of London and the Maiors thereof can bee good witnesses what trouble there was raysed in this Realme in the tyme of Kichard the seconde by Iacke Strawe Tom Millarde Watte Tyler and such other iolly persons I passe ouer Henrie the fourthe and the pitifull raygne of Henrie the sixth And euen in the quiet time of Henrie 7. howe manye attemptes of Rebellion were there by the counterfaited Sonne of the Duke of Clarence by Perkin Warbecke and other
see y t not only the ecclesiastical state but also al the Realms of Christendom besyde by the ambition of these Bishops were brought to hatred dissention and horrible warres Neuer was there like canuassing stir for y t attaining of any principallity either one or other as hath bene for the sea of Rome as in part you nowe maye perceiue and I could farre more amplie declare vnto you but that I feare I should weary you with hearing as I am now with rehearsing examples to the profe of the same If any man thinke I speake of affection more then truth is let him examine the Histories and hee shall find I haue not sayde so muche by a great deale as iustly I may affirme But what was this onelye the Vice that reigned in that holye Sea of Roome no truelye their Pryde Crueltie Couetousnesse and vniust dealing was muche more horrible I will not offende the chaste eares of many with some other Vyces onelye I will touche a fewe Examples of these thinges I haue named Was not this thinke you vncharitable and cruell dealing amonge Prelates of the Church not only by violence and armes to depose their enemies but to cast them in prison to putte out their eyes to pul of their noses to famish theÌ„ to death to cut of their heads and fingers as they serued Constantinus the 2 Formosus the 1. Leo the 5. and diuers other Such Tyrantes were Stephane y e 6. Iohn the 13. Sergius the 3. John the 14. Boniface the 7. and a number moe Of John the 14. Platina writeth that when the Emperour had subdued an ennimie of the Bishops one Peter a notable man and committed the same vnto his hande to vse him as he thought good This charitable Bishoppe stript him starke naked and hung him vp a whole daye by the heare of the head Afterward hee sette him on an Asse with his face backwarde and the tayle of the Asse in hys hande and so led him through the Citie and they whipped him and cast him into banishment Calixt the second vsed like crueltie toward Gregorie that was chosen Bishoppe agaynst him and in like despight brought him into Rome on a Camels back w t his face toward the tayle as Carsellanus Platina Stella and Vincentius do write Mighte not these heades of the Church haue learned charitie and mercie of the PagaÌ„ Licurgus who as Plutarche writeth was contented gently to remitte and pardon him that in a seditious styrre had put out his eye Yea might not Caligula Nero and Phalaris himselfe haue the commendation of gentlenes seing the Prelates of Religion the heads of the Church and the Vicars of Christ doe passe them in crueltie But they vsed not this only among themselues or towarde meane ennimies but towarde Kinges Princes toward the head rulers of the earth those to whome by Gods lawe they ought most humble obedience I mean the moste worthy and noble Emperoures After there had bene hatred a long time betweene the Emperour Henrie the fourth and Pope Gregorie the seuenth that wicked Tyraunt as Benno sayth most vniustlye by sundrye meanes had wrought him muche trouble at the last the good Emperoure for sparing of Christian blood willing to yeelde and seeke meanes of Concorde in a colde and sharpe winter and moste daungerous passage came with his wife and Children to Carnusium where the Bishop was and there being wullwarde and bare footed came to the gates of the Cittie by the Bishops commaundment was kepte out three dayes in moste sharpe cold weather ere he coulde bee admitted and then at the intreatie of a Lady called Mathildis the fourth day after was let into the Cittie and had his Pardon but not before hee had sworne Obedience to the Sea of Rome and maynteynance of the same as Platina wryteth And yet all would not serue in the ende for the wicked Bishop did sette vp 3. Rebels agaynst him Rodulphe Harman Egberte all which by the iust iudgement of god came to foule end Rodulphe in battayle had his right arme cut of and thereof died crying out vpon the Bishoppes that had incited him Herman was slayne by a woman casting downe a greate stone from a Castle that he besteged Egberte flying into a Mille was taken and slayne Thus God preserued the good Emperour maugre the malitious hart of the cruell Bishop Of this Gregory the 7. Abbas Vrspergens in his Chronicle writeth thus Constat Hildebrandum non à Deo electum sed à se ipso fraude pecunia intrusum qui ecclesiasticum subuert it ordineÌ„ Christiani imperij turbauit regnum pacifico regi intendit morteÌ„ periuros defendit lites seuit discordias seminauit quicquid inter piè viuentes rectè stare videbatur concussit i. It is manifeste that HildebraÌ„d was not chosen of God but by himself intruded through deceit and money Who did ouerthrow ecclesiasticall order troubled the kingdome of the Christian Empire practised the death of the peaceable king defended periured persons planted strife sowed discord and ouerthrew all whatsoeuer semed to be well established among those that led a godly life How cruelly vniustly AlexaÌ„der the 3. vsed the Noble Emperour Friderike it is wonderful to read in Nauclerus Funcius By misfortune being takeÌ„ prisoner of the Venetians this Emperoure for safetie of his Lyfe was fayn to yeeld and came to Venice where the Bishop was but could not obtain pardon before he came to S. Markes church and did prostrate himself on the ground before the Bishop at which time with exceding pride he set his foote on the Emperours necke caused this Verse of the Psalter to be song Super aspidem Basiliscum ambulabis c. Thou shalt walke vpon the Lion the Adder the yong Lion and the Dragon shalt thou tread vnder thy feete That verse y t the spirit of god ment of our Sauiour christ this proud Antechrist turned to the aduancing of his own glory and repressing of Gods cheefe minister to whom he had giueÌ„ by lawful means y â— thefe gouernmeÌ„nt of y â— earth I neede not put you in mind that they admittted Kinges Emperours to go at their styrrapes as footemen So did Charles the great King Lewes of Fraunce and King Henrie of Englande both at one time Yea Adrian the fowerth blamed Friderike the Emperoure that comming on foote to meete him he did stay the styrrop on the wrong syde when hee lighted from his Horse And at another time impudentlye blamed the sâ—â—ne Emperoure because in the Tytle of his Letters that hee did sende hee didde sette his owne name before the Popes The time wil not suffer me to declare vnto you the intollerable pride and crueltie of Gregorie the 9. ClemeÌ„t the 6. The one of y t which after most despightful cruel iniuries wold not be recoÌ„ciled to Friderike the 2. before he had paide in way of penance one hundred and twenty thousand
to foules of the ayre to take it away and to deuoure it The foules that eate vp the seede of gods word in the high way are the Deuill his Impes Ministers of his own begetting breding which be in number infinite but I will speake only of two or three which I may iustly compare to the rauenous filthie Harpies which y â— Poets speake of The first is Worldly Securitie the secoÌ„d godlesse Gentilitie the third Obstinate Papistrie Worldly Securitie lulleth men asleepe in the delights and cogitatioÌ„s of worldly pleasure so y t they caÌ„not fruitfully heare either y t sweete songes of Gods mercifull prouidence alluring theÌ„ to repentance or the dreadfull threatninges of his iudgements fearing them from euill doing But still they lye as it were be 〈…〉 ed and senceles in a dull heauye slumber much like vnto theÌ„ y t be taken with y e drousie sicknesse called Lethargus Speake crie vnto them as loud as you wil they heare nothing nor will shew any tokeÌ„ that they are aliue if you prick them with a pinne they will open their eyes and looke sternely a little while but by and by they are aslecpe agayne and lye as they weredead Euen so they whose hartes be ouer whelmed with Securitie if a man preach Gods word vnto them be it neuer so godly or earnestly done it nothing moueth them but if you prick them a little or pearse them to the quicke in any matter perticularly touching themselues they will looke vp somwhat stearnelye for the time as though they were angrie with you but by and by they are asleepe agayne and shew no sence of any good counsayle that you haue giuen them If we cry generally to all that professe Christianitie and principally to this Realme of Englande that God of his exceeding goodnesse in these latter perilous dayes hath beyonde all our expectations almost myraculouslye restored to vs the truth of his Gospell not that we should continue in sinne and wickednes to the defacing of his glory but that wee being lightned with the brightnesse thereof should learne that Christ Jesus our sauiour hath payd the price of our redemption deliuered vs froÌ„ the captiuitie of sinne sathan death and hel that We might walke before him in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our life If we tell them y t by their baptisme they couenanted with God to forsake the Deuil al his workes that they are baptized into the death of Christ y t as they bee partakers of his death so also should they bee partakers of his cosurrectioÌ„ to the end that as Christ is risen from death so also we shold rise from y â— death of siun to newnes of life If we preach vnto theÌ„ neuer so ofteÌ„ y t by the benefite of Christ his Passion we are made the heires of God w t him and the children of light therfore y t we should walk as is worthy our vocation not to be partakers of y â— workes of darknes and passe our time in surfeting in banqueting in dronkennes in chaÌ„bring wantonnesse in â—oÌ„tention strife Emulation but y t we should put on Christ Jesus not satisfye y â— lusts of the flesh to the lyking thereof If we say y t we are by our profession Citizens of heauen of the housholde of God for that cause that our conuersation should be Heauenly w t manifest declaratioÌ„ of y â— conteÌ„pt of this miserable world the transitory vanities therof yet I saye though we preach this often though we still cal vpon theÌ„ Security so lulleth theÌ„ on sleepe that they cannot heare these sweete and Godly exhortaâ—â—â—s Yeâ— though we change out copye and ringe in their eares the terrible threatninges of God and declare that this lamentable vnthankefulnesse in receauing the Doctrine and light of his truth muste needes prouoke Gods iustice most greeuously to plague vs when we in this manner crie out vnto them it will not waken them We tel them often that God must be the same God toward vs as he was toward his people of the Iewes that he must shew the same Justice to England that he didde to Hierusalem Vnto Hierusalem Christ with lameÌ„table mind sayd Oh Hierusalem Hierusalem which killest the Prophets and stonest theÌ„ to death which are sent to thee how often woulde I haue gathered thy Children vnder my winges as the Henne gathereth her Chickens yee would not Beholde your habitation shall be lefte vnto you desolate And to England he now sayeth O Englande Englande how often times haue I called thee how sundrie wayes haue I prouoked thee howe aboundantlye haue I powred out my benefites and blessinges vppon thee howe earnestlye haue I by the mouth of my Preachers clocked and cried to thee as an Henne doeth to her Chickens that thou mightest awake out of thy securitie and by repentaunce returne vnder the shadowe of my wings there to be safe from al the gredy Kites Eagles that houer ready to pray vpon thee yet thou wilt not therefore thy house shal come to confusion I will take the light of my Gospell from thee and giue it to a people that shall shew the fruites thereof Thy eninimies yea thy auncient enimies shall raigne ouer thee and kepe thee in subiection The glory and renown of thy kingdome shall fall and decay and thy people shall come to desolation and al because thou wilt not know the mercifull day of thy visitation so often and so sundery times offered vnto thee These wordes mighte shake stonie Rockes and cause them to tremble and yet they wil not moue English harts nor wake them out of their Securitie â—o although GOD let them see with their eyes y t the worldly hope of their Securitie hangeth by a twine thread I meane y â— fraile life of a tender Ladie after which they theÌ„selues caÌ„ looke for nothing but heapes of mischiefe and miserie and so much the sooner for that by Gods iust iudgement they nourishe in their owne boosoms the instrument of their confusion The Lord open our eyes mollifie our hartes y t wee may in time see and feele his mercie affected towarde vs and chase out of our mindes this foule Harpie Securitie that deuoureth the seede of Gods blessed word and will not suffer it to bring forth fruite among vs. Another birde is as ougly and lothsome as this doth as much harme which is Heathenish Gentilitie which raigneth in the hartes of godlesse persons Atheistes and Epicures which passe neither for heauen nor hell nor for God nor the Diuell but thinke those things to bee no better than Poeticall fables or at the least Bugges by policie deuised to feare Babes Therefore they iest scoffe at all Religion and make themselues merie with talke of Preachers For they passe not which end goe forwarde or whether Christ or Antichrist preuaile so that they maye singe with
an vsurper or if any maÌ„ be ignoraunt thereof lette him looke into Saunders Monarchie and there beside shamefull and detestable treason towarde her Maiesties person and state he shall finde good ground of that opinyon layde and yet forsooth Protestants must be the daungerousts Subiects vnto Princes I pray you of what professioÌ„ are they that haue altered the title of al the principalities almoste in Europe of Arragon of Naâ—are of Italy of Naples of Sicyly of Fraunce of Germany of the Empyre both of the Weaste and of the Easte And what the Pope challengeth at this day for the principalitie of England Ireland euer since King Iohn his time euery man that hath read the English Chronicles knoweth Of what professyon are they that say they haue all temporall power immediatelye of God and all Princes to holde the same as feodaryes vnto them And therefore haue they exempted their annoynted Clergye from all secular power and authoritie and haue so tyed Christian Princes that they maye not drawe theire owne Sworde of Justice nor doe anye thing in theire owne Dominions but at the becke and appoyntment of the Sea of Roome and then mighte the Father drawe the Sworde againste the sonne and the sonne agaynste the Father and Brother against brother finally all subiects against their Prince Yea in all Countries they did set shackles and fetters vpon Princes to bridle them that they might do nothing but that was liking to them I meane they sette some of theire owne Court in euery region as it were to keepe vnder the Prince and to see euen into his secrete dealings such as Thomas Becket and Stephen Lancton were in this lande Which I doubt not but godly and wyse Princes and counsellers will consider and specially call to remembrance that the honorable state dignitie and Maiestie of Princes was continually troden vnder foote vntill it was within this 40. or 50. yeeres that it pleased God to restore into the world the light of his Gospel and by the Preachers therof out of his holy word did let the Princes vnderstand the right authoritie of their dignitie which before was kept from them Therefore great iniurie doe they in these dayes whosoeuer they bee that seeke to perswade Princes that the Preachers professors of the Gospell be the most daungerous subiects and the Papistes or at least the good indifferent men which passe not which way religion goeth but keepe themselues safe for all chauÌ„ges to be the best most quiet and assured faithfull subiectes But the euent wyll teach godly Princes and wyse counsellers the contrarie But whatsoeuer others shall doe I doubt not but that mightie and mercifull God that raised our gratious Soueraigne out of the dust of death and pulled hir out of the Lyons deune and out of y â— iawes of hir greedie enimies gaping for hir destruction to our vnestimable comforte and benefite set hir in the Royall throne of this lande to the ende that she might bee a noursing mother vnto the church of God and this land a noursery for the Gospell of Christ and a place of refuge for the afflicted saintes of God in these miserable dayes and for that ende and purpose hath myraculously defended preserued and maintained hir against all the deuises and pollicies of our enimyes and not onely sâ— but hath made hir being but a woman dreadfull to hir mightiest enimies and the especiall worldlye comforte that the Saintes of God and the true professors of his Gospell haue in these dayes against all the daungerous enimyes then which things greater honour could neuer be done vnto Prince And therefore I saye I doubte not but that the same God wyll also at thys time lighten hir mynde and direct and strengthen hir heart that by no colour of cunning or flattering counsell shee shall be caried away eyther to forsake hir gratious Lorde God as Salomon dyd or conceaue heauie displeasure against the Ministers of Gods trueth as vnkinde Joas dyd And that this may bee so wee haue all great cause most earnestly to desire it of God in our continuall prayers A third matter wherwith Preachers be vniustly burdened in these daies is y â— they ar charged not only with their owne sinnes and offences which god knoweth are too many but with the slacknesse wickednesse of al other For vpon vs only they lay al the whole fault of the smal fruite y â— the doctrine of the Gospell hath taken here in this land now for the space of this twentie yeares Oh saye they if we had good and zealous Bishops and godlye Preachers such as the Apostles were vndoubtly this doctrine of the Gospel would haue had better successe and more woulde haue preuayled in mens hartes For they are not zealous nor seeme themselues to be moued with the spirit of God therefore it cannot be that they shoulde moue other O dearely beloued though this reason seemeth plausible to some yet I aduertice all them that haue anye sparke of Gods feare in their hartes that they take heede of it beware that they be not caryed awaye with it For I neuer read that the people of God among whome true doctrine hath â—in preached as the Lord be thanked it hath bin with vs did euer vse such allegation for their owne defence It hath bene alwayes the pretence of the reprobate and wicked to excuse and colour their owne obstinacie and contempt of Gods word when they were offered the light of the Gospell and called to repentance But that these men may not flatter nor deceaue themselues I let them vnderstand that the Scriptures doe in no place teach them that the offences and faultes of the Ministers and Preachers are alwayes the onely cause why the worde of God doth not take place in mens heartes It is more commonly and almost alwayes imputed vnto the waywardnes vnthankfulnesse and obstinacie of the people that heare it Therefore it were good for all sortes of men of what calling soeuer to looke into their owne â—oosomes and carefully to consider whether the fault thereof bee not in themselues for they knowe the Maister may be learned and diligent and yet the scholler not thriue by reason of his owne dulnesse The Phisition may be honest skilfull the obstinate patient make light of hys wholsome Counsell The seede may bee good and the seede sower a painful honest person yet the fruite not to bee aunswerable to hys trauaile because of the naughtines barrennes of y t ground This our sauiour Christ teacheth vs in the parable of the seedesower Matth. 13. The sower saith he went out to sowe the seede and some fell in the high way that is into the harts of them that were continually trampled with wicked and naughtie cogitations so y t the seede could not sinke into their harts but by those birdes of y e Diuell was caried away w tout
Christ and his Gospell in the beginuing of the world ◠D. Deuice ¶ Man in his excellencie of carnall wit is not able to giue any perpetuitie to his Deuice Folio 4 The gouernemente and direction by Gods word preuayleth more than any Deuide of man Folio 5 Of mans policie and Deuice and what kinde of grounde it is to Common weales Folio 8 How God can shew himselfe when all mans Deuice fayleth c. Folio 8 Dissention ¶ Dissention of opiniōs is no new thing Fol. Folio 54. 55 Dissention of the Protestants about the Sacrament c. Folio 56 Dissention among Protestants for apparell c. Folio 57 The bitternes of the Dissention amōgst the Schoolemen Papists Folio 6 Dissention about originall sinne and the vertue of Sacraments Folio 60. 61 Of the multitude of Dissentions among Papists in sundrie poyntes Folio 59. 60 Late Dissentions in opiniōs among Papists Folio 62 Doctrine ¶ Protestantes Doctrine of saluation is the Doctrine of the Scripture Folio 234 The generall ende of the Protestantes Doctrine and what doctrine only they mislike Folio 234 Godlynesse may be pretended by some that loath true Doctrine Folio 216 None can haue good conuersation which are not sound in Doctrine Folio 216 Faith followeth Doctrine Folio 216 Contemners of Doctrine were foretold of to come Folio 217 How little their owne methode would profit thē of teaching manners without Doctrine Folio 217 Most vnnaturall and vndutifull warres lawfull by Papists Doctrine Folio 220 What is the cause that good Doctrine doth not fructifie in the hearers Folio 222 What the Scriptures shew to be most commonly the cause why true Doctrine doth not fructifie Folio 223 Doctrine is to be receyued vpon trial Folio 228 How to perceyue Protestantes to haue true Doctrine and of what weight the matters are wherein they differ from Papistes Folio 228. 229 F. Fayth ¶ Faith doth ingraffe vs into the church Fol. Folio 21 Faith followeth doctrine Folio 216 No man can be saued for any good life when he hath not true Faith Folio 216 The force and effect of Faith set out at large Folio 146. 147 Faith the mouth of the soule whereby Christ is eaten Folio 144 Matters of Faith may be better perceyued by meanes of writing than by mans bare memorie Folio 25 Of the doctrine of iustification by Faith only and what it procureth Folio 13. 14 Fortune ¶ A definition or description of Fortune declaring what it is Folio 164 God the creator disposer and preseruer of all and not blind Fortune Folio 164 Nothing betideth man by Fortune but all things by Gods direction Folio 163 Freewill ¶ How profitable the doctrine is which is against Freewill Folio 13 Opiniō of Freewill is vnthankefulnes Folio 13 How we haue Freewill and how we haue it not Folio 13 G. Gentilitie ¶ Of the vayne opinion of Gentilitie and the daunger of the same thys toucheth contempt Folio 2 Of heathenish Gentilitie and the mischiefe by it Folio 189 God ¶ Certayne notable and excellent titles proper vnto God Folio 193 Who or what God that is whiche is taught to be beleeued Folio 193 Mocks against God his iudgemēts Folio 190 Against those that denye God altogyther Folio 191 Meanes to make those acknowledge a God which do altogither deny him Folio 191 Gospell ¶ Why we ought rather to esteeme the Gospell than all earthly things Folio 205 In what sort true professors of Christ his Gospell must cleaue to him it Folio 199 How God hath blessed England euen in this late time of the Gospell Folio 65 That Princes do resist the Gospell is no cause of discredite vnto it Folio 65 The Gospell often flourisheth when it is most resisted Folio 66 Howe it commeth to passe that many seeme first to be glad of the Gospel yet afterwardes hate it c. Folio 197 Of some which now professe the Gospel which peradventure may dyslike of it hereafter c. Folio 198 Of worldelie inconveniences which do commonly followe the professors of the Gospel Folio 199 Why true professours of the Gospel can not by any meanes be dryuen from it Fol. Folio 199 The mercie of the professors of the Gospel compared with the crueltie of the Church of Rome Folio 76 The Gospel euill spoken of because of suche as ydlely professe and liue not after it Folio 109 The preachers of the Gospel exhorte to holinesse of life to godlynesse c. Folio 111 The preaching of the Gospel is not altogither fruitlesse Folio 111 The godlynesse of the preachers of the Gospel compared with that of the prelates of Rome c. Folio 112 What fruits haue followed the preching of the Gospel Folio 113 Not the Gospel but our corrupt nature is the cause why our fruits at these days are no better Folio 109 Diuers sorts of enimies to the Gospel Folio 8. 9 Sixe obiections againste the Gospel to bring it into dyscredit c. Folio 10 A first obiection against the Gospel that it doth not further but hinder good conversation Folio 10. 11. 12 A seconde obiection against the Gospel that it maketh this lyfe lesse pleasant to vs than it should be Folio 16. 17 18 A thirde obiection againste the Gospel that we the pretended professors ther of are not of the catholike church Folio 19 A fourth obiection againste the Gospel concerning the leude lyues of protetestantes c. Folio 46 A fift obiection against the Gospel that the professors of it agree not in opinion Folio 54 A sixt obiection against the Gospel that ignominie and persecution doth followe it Folio 64 The estimation of Christ his Gospel Folio 2 Of the power of the Gospel of Christ how many wayes it appeareth Folio 3 Man needeth not by the Gospell thinke himselfe debased c. Folio 15 Of the power of the Gospell appearing in these latter dayes Folio 7 That the power of the Gospell is no whit to be discredited by afflictions c. Folio 7 Contentions and warres haue bin in other Nations before the renuing of the Gospell Folio 219 England neuer in such peace as since the embracing of the Gospell Folio 219. 220 The sturre following the Gospell is not to be imputed to the Gospell Folio 52. 53 How stirres do come in the time of the Gospell Folio 53 H. Holynesse ¶ Outward Holynesse is no sure token of true teachers Folio 69 The firste clawe whereby a Woolfe is knowne is trust in Holynesse of life Folio 70 The second claw to know the Wolfe by is Holinesse consisting in the obseruation of mens conditions Folio 71 The preachers of the Gospell exhort to Holinesse of life c. Folio 111 K. Kingdome ¶ The Kingdome of God what it is Folio 199 Of the Kingdome of Christ and what is by it to be looked for Folio 198 M. Martyrdome ¶ The increase of the church by Martyrdome 182 What increase only commeth by Martyrdome Folio 182 Ministerie There is more meanes amongst protestants to reforme the Ministerie thā
by vvorkes Heb. 10. 14 2 Papisticall dayly sacrifice propitiatorie Col. 3. 1. 3 Papisticall presence of Christ on earthe 4 Papisticall keeping avvay of the cuppe of the Lorde Mat. 26. 27. 5 Papisticall vngodlinesse in vvorshipping saintes Exo. 20. 4. 6 Papisticall abuse of the scripture in a tonge vnknovvne 1. Cor. 14. 19. Papistes cannot be knowne to be of the true church by their sacramentes Papisticall number of sacraments Fruitfull doctrines of the protestantes concerninge Baptisme vâ— 5. Gal. 3. 27. Act. 2. 38. Act. 22. 16. August Joh. 3. 5. Tit. 3. 5. Papisticall vntruthes and abuses concerning Baptisme vâ— 3. Papisticall sacramentes of their own deuise Thres sortes of Papistical annointing Fruitfull actions and doctrines of the protestantes concerning the Lordes supper vz. 5. 1. Cor. 11. 23. 1. Cor. 11. 25. 1. Cor. 10. 21. Christ his body and not signe only of his body is receaned 1. Cor. 10. 16. The receuing of Christ in the sacraments is not carnallye to be vnderstod Jo. 6. 53. Papisticall vntruthes and abuses concerning the Lords Supper vz. 5. Note Papistes obiecte Succession as a note whereby to proue themselues the true church De prescrip Heret How the argument of Succession hath bene vsed by the fathers Lib. 4. ca. 43. Succession is nothing without the doctrine of the Apostls De prescrip Aug. ca. 4 The true Church better proued by Doctrine then Succession and neuer without doctrine what Church is moste likely to haue falle interpretations De simplic Prael Phil. 2. 7. Heb. 2. 17. Act. 1. 11. Rom. 3. 25. â— Joh. 2. 1. Col. 1. 20. Act. 10. 43. Jer. 31. 34. Rom. 3. 25. Eph. 1. 7. Col. 1. 14. Heb. .10 1. 10 Joh. 3. 2. Joh. 14. 26 Joh. 16. 13. 1. Cor. 11. 3. Eph. 5. 23. 1. Cor. 3. 11. Personall Succession is no sure profe for the Romishe church that it is the true church It is against the papists that they say the Gretians are Scismatikes Papists obiecte the visible state of their churche to proue it to be the true churche Gods true churche may be and yet not appears generally visible That may seame to be the true Churche whiche is not Examples prouing a Church and yet not visible as the papistes require it In the time of the prophets Noe. Achas 2. Chro. 28. 24. Esay Manasses 2. Chro. 33. 1. c. 2. Chro. 34. 1. c. Ieroboam 3. Reg. 12. 31. Achab. 2. Reg. 16. 33. 1. Reg. 19. 10. Also in the time of Christ and his Apostls The iuâ—isible state of the Church since the Apostles doth not proue the Church to be no true Church Rom. 1. 16. The. 4. obicetion against the Gospell Answere Dissolutsnesse of protestantes lyues doth not make their doctrine errour or to be hated Mat. 11. 19. Jo. 8. 48. Act. 21. 28. Act. 24. 5. Dissolutnesse and wickednesse of life hath beene more in the church of Rome then amongest the protestantes That the popedome was to begotten by ambition and briberie Vertue and learning not regarded in choise of popes And yet worse then so to c. Of horrible cruelties in popes A cruell tormentor Time when in state of the popishe clergie vertue seemed to be vtterlye decayed Popes Sorcerers Nicromancers Coniurers Poisoners Popes did greate iniuries even to Emperours Of couetousnesse and extortions in Popes Protestants not to be hated of papistes as seditious persons which is parte of the answere to the 4. obiection Wars were in time of papistrie more then frâ—â—ce Spensers Popes raisers of war Popes by their strife curâ—ing one the other set all christendome by the eates Meanes for Magistrates to iudge what cebellious subtectes Papists are The Religion of protestantes maintaineth no â—â—â—â—ultes c Rom. 13. 1. The stirre following the Gospell is not to bee imputed to the Gospell Rom. 3. 8. How stirres doe come in the time of the Gospell Act. 19. 24. Papisticall slaunder of Protestants to be sedicious c. is no new thing The. 5. obiection against the gospell vs. That the professors of it agree not in opinion Obiection of dissention is no new thing Mat. 13. â—5 Protestants at not to be blamed for the sectes that happen in the time of the gospell 1. Jo. 2. 19. Sectaries Sectes do more agree to papistes then protestantes Obiection â— conuince protestantes for dissention in opinions The dissencion of the protestantes for the sacrament is no such greate matter as papistes make it The dissention among Protestants for apparell is no suche great matter as Papistes make it God suffereth diuersitie of opinions euen in his true Church Gal. 2. 11. Act. 15. 39. 1. Cor. 11. 18. â—â— Act. 17. 5. Act. 21. 27. Act. 15. 6. Diuersitie of opinion which was in the Easte and Weste Church for Easter Other Scismes in the East church whiche were Christians Chrisost Other Scismes of others Papistes comâ—â—e without their owne shame obiect scismes to protestants Of multitude of dissentions amongst papistes Of their diuersitie of helpers Of their diuersitie of orders professions whereby to goe to heauen Mar. 13. 21. 1. Cor. 1. 12. Repugnancie euen in the decres of popes The Scholemen are full of diuersitie of opinions Lib. 2. di 25. For originall Sinne. Li. 4. di 4. For the vertue of the Sacramentes Diuersitie of titles chalenged of Papisticall Scholemen Papisticall Scholemen which deuided themselues to sectes and how hurtfull that is to christianitie The bitternesse of the coutention amongest the Scholemen papistes Counselles to disagree differ in opinion Diuersitie of opinion betwâ—â—t the vniuersitie the Friers Of late dissentions in opinion amonge papistes 1 2 3 4 Rom. 1. 16. The. â— obicetion againste the gospell vz. That ignoâ—â— and persecution doth followe it The cause of few diuines in vniuersities of the best sorte of witts Answere to the â— obiection Ioh. 15. 18. How god hath blessed Englande enen in this late time of the gospell That princes do resist the gospel that is no cause of discredite vnto it The gospell often florisheth when it is most resrifted God his good prouidence is such to his that they may hope wel against any force whatsoeuer Mat. 5. 1. c. Discription of false Prophets examined Mat. 7. 15. 2. Cor. 11. â—3 c. 2. Thess 2. 9. c. Distinction to be made betwixt the Cloathinge the fruites of false prophets The fyrste Sheepes cloathing where with Wolues are cladde Outward holinesse no sure token of true teachers Mat. 6. 2. Mat. 6. 16. â— Wolfe in a sheepes skinne is discried by his clawes The first claw where by a Wolfe is knowne is trust in holinesse of life Luc. 18. 21. Mat. 3. 4. The seconde Claw to know the Wolfe by is the holinesse consisting in obseruation of mens traditions Mat. 15. 3. The thirde claw is the respect that the wolues haue more to their owne bellyes then to the glory of god Mat 23. 14. Luk. 20. 47. Ezec. 13. 2. Ezec. 34. 2. 2. Pet. 2. 3. 1. 2. Tim. 3.