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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04483	A viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome, anno. 1569. Taken by the reuerende Father in God, Iohn Iewel, late Bishop of Salisburie. Wherevnto is added a short treatise of the holy Scriptures. Both which he deliuered in diuers sermons in his cathedral church of Salisburie, anno. 1570	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Garbrand, John, 1542-1589.	1582 (1582)	STC 14614; ESTC S107782	85,989	232

Did not our hearts burne within vs while he talked with vs by the way and opened to vs the Scriptures His words did possesse all our senses this talk was not like common talk we felt it forcible in vs as the worde of Israel hearde Peter declare vnto them at Ierusalem by proofe of the Scriptures that Christ was come they were not able to resist the worde of God but were pricked in their heartes and saide vnto Peter and the other Apostles Men and brethren what shall we do we acknowledge our errour the words which you speake are most true they are the words of life teach vs and instruct vs what we shal do They felt the force of it and yéelded vnto it they did acknowledge it was the word of God S. Augustine after he had continued long in errour and withdrewe himselfe into a secret place where he might make his prayer and bewaile his ignorance hearde a voice say vnto him Tolle lege tolle lege Take vp and reade take vp and reade And hee foorthwith tooke vp the Epistles of Saint Paul and opened them and secretely read the Chapter which he first lighted on euen these words Not in gluttonie and drunkennesse neither in chambring and wantonnesse nor in strife and enuying but put yee on the Lord Iesus Christ and take no thought for the fleshe to fulfill the lustes of the same Nec vltra volui legere saith he nec opus erat Statim quippe cum fin● huiusce sententi●e quasi luce s●curit atis infusa cordi meo omnes dubita●ionis tenebrae diffugerunt I woulde reade no farther for I needed not For when I had read to the ende of this sentence all the darkenesse of doubtfulnesse vanished away as if some cleare light of securitie were powred into my heart It was as if it had béene saide O man acknowledge thy miserie thou art naked couer thy filthinesse put vpon thée Iesus Christe And forthwith I felt a fire within me my heart was lightned the scales fell from mine eyes I was able to sée Thus was he comforted and staide by this the worde of God This profite of the worde S. Cyprian declareth Si ad diuinae tradi●ionis caput originem reuertamur cessat omnis error humanus If wee returne to the heade and the beginning of the Lordes traditions all errour of man must needs giue place Theophilactus writing vpon these wordes in the Gospell by Sainct Iohn Hee that entreth not in by the doore into the Sheepefolde but climbeth vp an other waye he is a theefe and a Robber sayth non ingreditur per ostium hoc est per Scripturas Non enim vtitur Scripturis testibus neque Prophetis Nam profecto scripturae ostium sunt per quas adducimur ad Deum illae lupos non permittunt intrare prohibent haereticos vt nos securi simus de omnibus rationem dant de quibus voluerimus Fur igitur est qui non ingreditur per scripturas in stabulum ouium ita per illas deprehenditur Sed ascendit aliundè hoc est aliam sibi viam insolitam parat Talis erit Antichristus He entreth not in by the doore that is by the Scriptures For he doth not vse the Scriptures nor the Prophets as witnesses For indede the Scriptures are the dore by which wee are brought to God and they suffer not the Woolues to come in they kepe of heretikes that wee may be in safetie they teach vs the reasō of any thing wherein we woulde be instructed therfore he is a theef which entereth not into the shepefold by the Scriptures And by the Scriptures it apeareth he is a a theefe that climbeth vp an other way that is maketh himselfe an other waye a way which was not knowen nor beaten Such a one shall Antichrist bee What greater profite they bring vs to God teache vs the trueth and giue vs reason of all things they kéepe vs in safetie suffer not Wolues to deuour vs kepe off Heretiques bewray a théefe and make knowen who is Antichrist Therefore vppon the Gospell by Sainct Luke he expoundeth these words Let your lights bee burning that is haue not your being in the darkenesse and bee yee not voide of Iudgement but take vnto you the light of Gods word which wil teach you what things you shoulde doe and what things you ought not to doe And as the worde of God is the light to directe vs and to bewray errours so is it also the standerde and beame to trie the weightes of trueth and falsehoode Chrysostome writing vppon the foure and twentith of Sainct Mathew sheweth it were vnpossible for a mā to stay himselfe and finde out which is the true Church but by the worde of God For it could not be tried by working of myracles bicause the gift of working miracles is taken away and such false myracles as carrie some shewe are rather to be found among false Christians nor yet by their conuersation and life because Christians liue either as il or worse than Heretiques Nulla probatio potest esee verae Christianitatis neque refugium potest esse Christianorum aliud volentium cognoscere fide● veritatem nisi tantummodò per scripturas There can be no triall of true Christianitie and Christians which desire to know the trueth wherevpon they may builde their faith haue no other refuge but to trie and learn this by the Scriptures For sayth he Heretiques haue the counterfaite and likenesse of those things which are proper to Christ. They haue Churches they haue the Scriptures of GOD they haue Baptisme they haue the Lords Supper and al other things like the true Church yea they haue Christe himself He therefore that will knowe whiche is the true Churche of Christ howe maye he know it but by the Scriptures Therfore our Lord knowing that ther should be such confusion of things in the latter dayes commaundeth that Christians whiche liue in the profession of Christian faith and are desirous to settle them selues vppon a sure grounde of Faith shoulde goe to no other thing but to the Scriptures Otherwise if they had regard to other things they shoulde bee offended and perishe and not vnderstande whiche is the true Church The maister of the Ship when he is on the maine Sea casteth his eye alwayes vpon the Loade Starre and so directeth and guideth his wayes Euen so muste we which are passengers and straungers in this world euer settle our eyes to beholde the worde of God So shall no tempest ouerblowe vs so shall we be guided without danger so shal we safly arriue in the hauen of our rest The Prophet Dauid therefore saith Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies and seeke him with their whole heart Their faces shal not be ashamed they shal not bee confounded which haue respect vnto his commaundement Blessed is the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord and in that lawe do the

numbred I owe you obedience I will not resiste your power for if I shoulde resiste I shoulde resiste the ordinaunce of God I am subiect to you for conscience sake I will forsake my countrey my goods my children and my selfe at your commaundement I will say to mine owne fleshe I knowe thée not onely I can not forsake my Lorde God Deare sir you fight ●ot against me Alas what am I What can I doe You fight against God against the moste holy against him which can commaunde your life to goe out of your body it is a hard thing for you to kicke againste the spur It is no hard matter for you to kill me for so mightie a Prince to kill so wretched a worme But this I declare to you that my bloud which you shed is innocēt shal be required at your hāds It maye please God to giue vnto you repentance and the knowledge of the truth If my bloud may be a mean therto if my bloud may open your eies if my bloud may soften your heart it coulde neuer be spent in a better cause Blessed be the name of God whiche hathe made me his instrument for youre so happye conuersion thys is the onelye thing wherein I can not yéelde The Lorde hath spoken vnto me I haue heard his voice my hart hath felt it my conscience knoweth it I can not denye it No sworde can cutte me from it no water can drowne it no fire can burne the loue I beare vnto it there is no creature in heauen or earth that can carrie me from that blessed hope I haue conceiued by his word So constant is he that hathe learned the worde of God hath set his delighte vppon it and is through it assured of the wil of God Heauen shal shake the earth shall tremble but the man of God shall stande vpright His foote shall not faile his heart shall not faint he shall not bée moued Such a ground such a foundation suche a rocke is the worde of God Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lorde He shal builde vppon a sure place he layeth his foundation vpon the corner stone He néedeth no armie to make him strong he néedeth no friendes to comforte him in aduersitie His strength is within the gates of hel shal not preuaile againste him His comfort is inwardly within his hearte He speaketh to God and God vnto hym His eyes beholde the kingdome and power and glorie of God But what say we of the Fathers Augustine Ambrose Hierom Cyprian c. What shall we thinke of them or what accompt may we make of them They be Interpretors of the worde of God They were learned men and learned Fathers the instruments of the mercie of God vesselles full of grace We despise them not we reade them we reuerence them and giue thankes vnto God for them They were witnesses vnto the truth they were worthie pillars and ornamentes in the Churche of God Yet may they not be cōpared with the word of God We may not build vpon them we may not make them the foundation and warrant of our conscience we may not put our trust in them Our trust is in the name of the Lorde And thus are we taught to estéeme of the learned Fathers of the Churche by their owne iudgement by that whiche they haue written either for the credite of their owne doings or of the auctoritie whych they haue thought due to the writings of others S. Augustine said of the Doctours and Fathers in his time Neque quorumlibet a●sputationes quamuis Catholicorum laudatorum hominum velut Scripturas Canonicas habere debemus vt nobis non liceat salua honorificentia quae illis debetur aliquid in eorum scriptis improbare aut respuere si fortè inuenerimus quod aliter senserint quàe veritas habet Talis sum ego in scriptis aliorum tales esse volo intellectores meorum Neither weigh we the writings of all mē be they neuer so worthy and catholique as wee weigh the canonical Scriptures but that sauing the reuerence that is due vnto them we may mislike and refuse somewhat in their writings if wee finde that they haue thought otherwise than the truth may beare Suche am I in the writings of others and such would I wishe others to be in mine Some things I beléeue some things which they write I can not beléeue I weigh them not as the holy Canonicall Scriptures Cyprian was a Doctor of the Church yet he was deceiued Hierome was a Doctor of the Church yet he was deceiued Augustine was a Doctor of y e Church yet he wrote a Booke of Retractations he acknowledged that he was deceiued God did therfore giue to his Church many Doctors many learned men whych all shoulde search the truth and one reforme an other wherein they thought him deceyued S. Augustine saieth Auferantur de medio chartae nostrae procaedat in medium codex Dei audi Christum dicentem audi veritatem loquetem Take away from amongest vs any our owne Bookes lette the Booke of God come amongest vs heare what Christe saieth hearken what the truth speaketh He is the wisedome of his father he can not deceiue vs. Againe he saith Audi dicit dominus non dicit Donatus aut Rogatus aut Vincentius aut Hilarius aut Ambrosius aut Augustinus Heare this the Lorde saieth heare not this Donatus saith or Rogatus or Vincentius or Hilarius or Ambrose or Augustine saith Al these were learned most of them were holy yet saith Augustine we may not yéelde to that which is saide by learned men but we must yéelde our ful consente and beliefe to the worde of God Origen saith Necesse nobis est in testimonium vocare sanctas Scripturas Sensus quippe c. Wee muste needes call to witnesse the holy Scriptures for oure iudgementes and expositions without those witnesses carry no credite Marke wel our words and expositions constructions vnlesse they be warranted by the Scriptures are not ynough they cary not credite Augustine saith Nos nullam Cipriano facimus iniuriam cùm eius quaslibet literas c. Wee offer no wrong to S. Cyprian when wee seuer anye his Letters or Writings from the Canonical auctoritie of the holy Scriptures Thus speaketh Aug. a Doctor of the Church of Cyprian another Doctor also of y e Churche Cyprian was a bishop a lerned Father a holy man a Martire of Christe yet saith Augustine his worde is not the Gospell his worde is not the worde of God there is no wronge done to him though his writings cary not like credit as the holy Scripture I could shewe many the like spéeches of the auncient Fathers wherein they reuerence the holy Scriptures as to which onely they giue consent without gainsaying which can neither deceiue nor be deceiued In this sort did Origen and Augustine and other Doctours of the Church speake of themselues and of