sagelie compareth their qualities together as Plutarch doth the most famous worthies of Rome and Greece which his comparison I passe ouer as nothing concerning any thing said by me in my former booke against them Onely I yeelde they were birdes of a feather and therefore fit to slie together and according to our English prouerbe like will to like you know what followeth and in deede milke is not liker milke nor one egge another then were these two statelie Prelates each of them being brides of the Popes owne hatching and as it is in the Prouerbe Mali corui malum ouum and both of them for the Popes sake being false and treacherous against their Soueraignes Cardinall Allen against her Maiestie as hereafter shall bee shewed Bishop Gardiner against her renowmed Father when he was Ambassadour for the King to the Emperour hauing secret intelligence with the Pope then the Kings open and professed enemie in so much that the King in euery generall pardon that he graunted by Parliament after this practise he did still except all treasons committed beyond the Seas meaning thereby as it was supposed that the Bishop should not take any benefite by any generall pardon if his Maiestie would at any time call him to account and further minded as it seemeth to haue vsed extremitie of lawe against him if the Lord had lent his Highnes longer life vpon iust matter not taken away by any pardon commaunding thereupon often the Lorde Paget being then his Secretarie to keepe safe certain writings which he had against him But the parities or disparities of your two Prelates by you compared together I passe ouer as matter impertinent and come to your exceptions against my speeches vttered of them in particular And first concerning Bishop Gardiner he setteth downe these my speeches Gardiner that most proude and bloodie monster left no corner of his wit vnsought to shorten her Maiesties daies and preuent her by the bloodie slaughter of her sacred person from being our Queene And againe The Recusants of our age cannot professe nor make greater shew of loyaltie and loue to our dread Soueraigne neither c. This my charge against Gardiner this sturdie Encounterer seeketh to beate backe first by commending him for a most tender hearted and milde man that no one great man in Queene Maries time was farther from bloud and bloudines then he and that any good natured Protestant that liued in that time and had wit to iudge and indifferencie to speake the trueth without passion would confesse as much Which because himselfe cannot but know to bee a shameles vntrueth and therefore doubting how the generall commendation of his milde nature would be intertained he for a particular instance telleth vs a long tale of like authoritie concerning his tender affection towards the Duke of Northumberland after hee was condemned c. which as it nothing concerneth our matter in hand so hauing onely his bare worde to warrant it the indifferent reader may credite and regard as he seeth cause And for the better direction of thy iudgement gentle Reader and fuller iustifying of my accusation against him it shall not be amisse to take a short view of a few particulars by which the gentlenes of this Bishops nature may appeare to all men I will not here stand vpon the secret intestine and deadlie hatred which he alwaies bare to the fauourers of the Gospell and how through his wilie craft he so farre preuailed with the king to proceed in such sort against the worthy Martir of Christ Iohn Lambert as he did the only example of Marbecke for that kings time shall suffice Who being conuented before Gardiner for the concordance in English now extant which he then had begunne was by all meanes by men sent from the B. sifted to detect whom he knew to be fauourers of the Gospell with which importunities the man of God being wearied he burst forth into these words O Lord what will my Lord doe will his Lordship compell me to accuse men and wote not wherof After this the Bishop himself talketh with him asketh him whether he wil cast away himself To whom he answering no my Lord I trust yes quoth the Bishop thou goest about it for thou wilt vtter nothing What a diuell made thee meddle with the Scriptures thy vocation was another way c. and why the diuell diddest thou not hold thee there And after hard pressing him to detect and accuse some and his deniall to accuse anie for heretikes because he could not iustly the milde Bishop told him Sith thou art so wilfull and stubborne thou shalt goe to the diuell for me And so whereas Sir Anthonie Wingfield Captaine of the Guard had before sent word to the keeper of the Marshalsey that it was the Counsels pleasure he should intreat Marbecke gently this charitable tender hearted Gardiner sent word to the keeper to lay yrons vpon him to keepe him fast shut in a chamber alone that when he came to meat he should speake to no man nor no man to him and further that he should suffer no manner of person no not his own wife to come to him or minister anie thing to him and in this streight and hard sort continued he about three weekes His wife made often sute to the Bishop to be permitted to visite her husband but his bowels wanted compassion till at length she meeting him at the Court was bold to pul him by the Rochet and said to him O my Lord these eighteene daies I haue troubled your Lordship now for the loue of God and as euer you came of a woman put me off no longer but let me goe to my husband One of the kings seruants and her next neighbour standing by besought him to be good Lord to her which had her owne mother lying bedredde vpon her hands besides fiue or six children I promise you quoth the Bishop her husband is a great heretike and hath read more Scripture then any man in the Realme hath done and he knoweth a great sort of harlots and will not vtter them but at length gaue her leaue to go to her husband willing her to aduise him to vtter such naughtie fellowes as hee knew c. In Queene Maries time when he was now Lord Chancellor ruled the rost how far not onely from tender pittie but euen from ciuill humanitie hee shewed himselfe to bee the examples are too many and experiments too plaine and therefore needlesse here to be inserted But a taste must be giuen to the Reader for which this may suffice when that reuerent learned man and afterwards a most constant Martyr of Iesus Christ D. Rowland Taylor a Doctor professed in both the lawes and withall a right perfect diuine appeared before Gardiner vpon his summons how vngently did he intreat him nay how furiously did he at the very first sight rage against him not reasoning with him mildly as he came a Bishop
here to set down translated into English out of the Cardinals letter And to the end you may be the more ayded by that good spirite which hath induced you to this his blessednes graunteth you full pardon and remission of all your sinnes as you requested assuring you that besides the merite you shall receiue in Heauen his holines will make himselfe debter to acknowledge your deseruings in the best manner that he may Now how ignorant soeuer you presume me to be of the difference betwixt the Popes pardon and the Priests absolution because I make mention of them both together I would your wisdome should well knowe that for this deepe point of Catholike doctrine I am as well acquainted with the speculation though not practise of it as your selfe Howsoeuer they haue some differences yet herein they concur as Simeon and Leui brethren in euill that both are vsed as inducements to most hainous sins thereby to satisfie the Popes pleasure Sundry chronicles make mention of Simon the Monke of Swinested who poysoned King Iohn that before the fact hee confessed his purpose to his Abbot who highly commended his zeale and gaue him absolution before-hand for the committing of this wicked acte whereunto I might ioyne the example of Iacobus Clemens who murdered the King of France being also before-hand confessed and absolued of it But what neede I adde more when as almost the whole world knoweth and crieth out of the horrible abuses both of your Pardon-mongers and absoluing Priests to the strengthning of sinne and decay of vertue That my conclusion seemeth absurd in the eies of your proud folly I neither maruell nor grieue at it notwithstanding I do again affirme that the blasphemie blindnes of your Popish superstition is most aparant herein And God be praised that hath clered the spirituall sight of our English Nation to hate and abhorre them and with your gibing railing I leaue you to disport your selfe because I scorne to be a companion to men of those occupations But if your needels eye be no straiter then to passe through confession to be enioined your popish penance your high way to heauen is broad enough especially when a pardon may be had in store for some money by vertue whereof any Priest may giue full remission of all sinnes at the hower of death As for that which you blasphemously cal the open cart-way of onely faith you shall finde a straiter and narrower passage then you would beare the world in hand if you conceiue not an historicall faith which may be dead but a true liuely iustifying faith for though we be iustified by faith onely apprehending Christ his obedience merits who was made sinne for vs that we might be made the righteousnes of God in him yet are we not iustified by an onely faith such as is voide and destitute of good workes but in the person of them that are iustified faith and good workes are vnited and coupled together though in the Act of iustifying they are seuered it being the proper dutie of faith alone as a hand to appehend and take hold of Christ who is made to vs of God wisedome and righteousnes sanctification and redemption that according as it is written He that reioyceth let him reioyce in the Lord. Heate and light are both inseparable in the fire though it be the propertie of the heat onely to warme and not of the light so are faith and good workes coupled in as many as are iustified though we be iustified through faith onely Therefore we are necessarilie to exercise our selues in good works dying to sinne and liuing to righteousnes if wee hope hereafter to liue with Christ eternally For it is true that Ambrose hath Sicut sancti sunt membra Christi sic impij sunt membra Dioboli As those that are holy are the members of Christ so are the wicked ones the limmes of Sathan and so with the words of the Prophet I conclude This is the way walke in it and God almightie for his Christes sake giue euen you grace to finde this way in time Resistance to the third Encounter about her Maiesties marueilous deliuerances from dangers in Queene Maries time and since IT is the Common and vsuall practise of wrangling and cauilling spirits for the preuenting of iust accusations against themselues first to begin and challenge others of the same crimes whereof themselues are most guiltie So dealt Sathan the accuser of the brethren with Iob saying vnto God That if he were touched in all that hee had he would blaspheme God to his face and yet there is nothing more common with that olde Serpent then to curse and blashpheme God In like manner this parasite and slaunderous Encounterer being priuie vnto himselfe of his guiltines in flatterie and bloud-thirsting of both which he hath giuen sufficient proofe throughout this his whole Ward-word would yet notwithstanding in the entrance of this his third Encounter perswade the readers that I like a Parasite doe both flatter the State and Prince and also exasperate both the one and the other against the Recusant Papistes who liue amongst vs. How vniustly he hath charged me with flatterie and forging is made apparant I trust to euery indifferent reader in my answeres before to his two first Encounters and how farre I am from a bloudie mouth a poysoned tongue and an earnest desire to haue all his Catholikes destroyed for so he tearmeth the Recusant Papists amongst vs shal by Gods grace be made plaine euident in that which followeth Let the beast that hath two hornes like a Lambe but not of the Lambe delight in his hornes and let the whore of Rome that is drunken with the bloud of Gods Saints delight to gorge in bloud but the true Church of Christ and her children shall be alwaies found gentle peaceable and merciful without either the sauage cōdition of beasts or the barking bloud-thirstie condition of dogs and hounds how reprochfully maliciously dishonorably soeuer this Encounterer doth write of the house of Huntingdon my selfe But before I come to the particulars handled in this Encounter what moued you Sir Encounterer thus hastely and fiercely to charge me in this place with a bloud-thirstie humor to paint your margent with Sir Francis his malignitie doe you vncharitablie suspect my thoughts or doe you frowardly peruert and misconstrue my words the secret thoughtes are knowne onely to God but if my writings doe any where bewray such a sauage disposition why did you not frame your inditement vpon mine owne words what were you moued because I did truly and thankfully acknowledge the maruellous deliuerance and preseruation of her Maiestie in the daies of her sister Queene Marie which is the first thing in this your Encounter you find fault with all Or were you mooued because I haue faithfully related the Popish practises of bloudie Prelates and home-borne Traitors against her Maiestie both
death of the King to leuie warre against the Prince or to be adherent and fauourers of the Kings enemies all which lawes doe verie neerly concerne such amongst you as vouch the Popes wicked claime to depose Princes and are perswaders aiders and comforters of inuasion and rebellion Your affections wee deale not with but with your confessions wee punish you not for your faith but for your works What punishment did the lawes of our Realme in the first twentie yeeres of her Maiesties raigne inflict vpon anie Recusant for his recusancie but either imprisonment or amercement If your aduentures had not been most audacious and your attempts most dangerous being as men perplexed and enraged to see her Maiestie liue and gouerne in so long happines you might haue been stil vsed with as much mercie and clemencie as it is possible for a Christian Prince to offer to vnrulie and vndutifull subiectsâ— Princes for their safetie and repressing of rebellions may temper their lawes with seuerity and make that treason which to some seemeth a matter of Religion as wee see in Augustines time it was treason to say that Emperours perished for persecuting which yet Petilian and his companie thought they might say trulie and zealously You desire a reconciliation betweene your Pope and our Prince longing to see the daie when you might againe imbrue your handes in the bloud of Gods Saints but as wee know there can be no agreement betweene light and darknes so wee doubt not but the powerfull and mightie God will continue our Prince all her daies to be a true defender of the faith and will preserue his poore flocke from the sauage crueltie and bloudines of woluish tirants and Romish Prelates Our sinnes indeed doe hasten vpon vs the seueritie of Gods iustice but our hope is that the God of heauen will for his mercies sake be fauourable vnto his Sion and continue his truth and true worship amongst vs wherein standeth our chiefest happines our praier shall be to the Lord as Dauids was Let not the vngodly haue his desire ô Lord let not his mischieuous imaginatioÌ„s prosper least they be too proud It may be the Lord himselfe will correct vs in mercie as he hath done manie times alreadie and not deliuer vs into the handes of our enemies to be punished by them It may be the mother of Sisera shall looke out at the window and crie out at the casement Why is his Chariot so long in comming Why tarry the wheeles of his Chariot So let thine enemies O Lord the enemies of thine annointed perish but let them that loue thee and thy truth continue as the Sunne when he riseth in his might as Oliue plants in the house of God that flourish for euer Amen The third and last hostilitie against which in this Encounter you take exception is the rebellion and traiterous practises of diuers of your Catholikes against our gracious Soueraigne where with I charge them which though you labour with all your skill and cunning to excuse will appeare to be no lesse impious and hainons in them nor lesse daungerous to Prince and Countrie then I haue affirmed Your colours and cloakes wherewith you would gladlie couer and hide the rebellious hearts and seditious minds of sundrie your Romish Catholikes are speciallie these the onely actuall rising of two Earles as you say the great pressures wherewith you haue beene burdened being the common griefe of all Common-wealthes and cause that they are troubled with commotions and rebellions the admirable patience of Papistes and Catholikes the practises of Protestants at home and abroad and lastly the light and small offence of such as are charged to haue been rebels and traitors to her Maiestie all which being throughly considered will appeare either most false â—â— too slender â—o coueâ— such treacherous hearts and rebellious practises And to giue the reader a taste thereof although I will not long insist vpon them hath there been but one actuall rising of your Catholikes in fortie yeeres and haue not the wicked counsels of Romish traitours burst out more then once into open hostilitie what say you to the rebellion in Ireland vnder Doctor Saunders their chiefe encourager what of the alienating mouing of the people by your open Masses in Laâ—kashire and else where what of your other attempts with armes so neere the quicke procured by your Iesuiticall Masses of reconcilement what of the canonizing of the Northren Rebels for Martyrs and proclaiming such warres to be godly iust and honorable Lastly what is to be thought of your resoluing directing and encouraging Babington Parrey Somerfield and sundrie others that with violent hands sought to abridge our Soueraignes life Are not these open hostilities and open and actuall proofes that there is in you a resolution to doe anie thing that you can for the ouerthrow of the present State vnder which through Gods mercie we happily and blessedlie liue That we had but one commotion in this Realme we may thanke our good God and not you and your Catholikes who haue done your best by procuring inuasion from abroad and ripening rebellion at home to multiplie that one to many but that the mightie hand of God did alwaies disioynt your deuises praised be his name for it You complaine of the bloudie listes of Lawes rigorous execution and incredible molestations amplifying the correction which is here laid on you for your good with words of the highest and hotest degree but looke backe Sir Auditor to your owne accounts and view with shame enough both your cruell and bloudie persecution with fire and sword as also the mildnes of her Maiesties Regiment whose twentie yeeres together pressed you with no heauier burthens then the penaltie of a shilling by the weeke or some restraint of libertie your Marian persecution yeelded in foure yeeres more effusion of Christian bloud by hanging heading burning and prisoning then euer was heard of in anie Princes raigne in this land before or I hope will euer hereafter It is no new thing with you and your adherents by outcries tragicall exclamations and most slaunderous vntruthes to seeke to blemish her Maiesties milde gouernment and the iust execution of Iustice amongest vs there is a God that knoweth all and will iudge betweene vs how light a matter soeuer you take it to be to rayle vpon his annointed and to vilifie and reuile the reuerent Iudges and wholesome lawes of the land by the odious names of Atheists and bloudie lawes The third colour wherewith you would dasell our eies in beholding your traiterous practises is no lesse vaine and foolish then the other two before are slanderous and false for what though it be incident to all Common-wealthes to be troubled with commotions shall it therefore not follow that your rebellious and seditious practises moued onely for the maintenance of the Romish primacie and saith doe manifest the dangerousnes of your doctrine and treacherie of your hearts against
vnder his Father and Grand-father and for their affections declining to Idolatrie and not truly esteeming the blessings in Iosiah their king powred vpon them the Lord threatneth to bring euill vpon that place and the Inhabitants thereof Which he did by suffering Iosiah to be slaine by the souldiours of the king of Egypt and within few yeares after his death selling his owne people into the hands of the idolatrous Babilonians For as darknesse naturally followeth light and night the day so do great punishments accompanie rare blessings when they are not duely esteemed as they ought Blessed was Ierusalem by the testimonie of the Lords owne mouth when he said My beloued had a Vineyard in a very fruitfull hill and he hedged it gathered out the stones of it and he planted it with the best plants and built a Tower in the middest thereof and made a wine-presse therein But when he looked for grapes and it brought forth wild-grapes the Lord threatned from the height of this blessed estate to cast them into the gulfe of miserie to take away the hedge from his Vineyard that it might be eaten vp and breake downe the wall thereof that it might be troden downe c. The Lord hath not therefore been lesse beneficiall to vs in placing so gracious an head vpon the bodie of this Realme because you and some such as your selfe are doe yet remaine to God ingrate and to your Prince and Countrey vnnaturall Onely I beseech God that whereas by his appointment the Oliue is yet ouer vs with her fatnes and the Figge with her sweetnes and the Vine with her fruitfulries that amongst many other sinnes of our land for our vngratefull contempt of so great a blessing a Bramble be not set ouer vs which is good for nothing but to burne and consume vs and so much concerning my supposed contradiction Now Sir N. D. it is your pleasure to heare my manner of speech in these words If I should take vpon me to enter into the enumeration of all the benefits and blessings that from the Almightie haue beene powred vpon this little Iland of England c. And hauing thus vnperfectly repeated them you passe the ouer with this sleight exception saying That in mentioning our little Iland I must take Scotland with me else I erre in Cosmographie as though England were not deuided in gouernment from Scotland though both rest vpon one continent and as though your selfe did not tearme this Realme an Iland euen where you do distinguish it from Scotland Therefore Nodum in scirpo quaeris and to this shift you are put very often for want of matter But if seemeth that Scotland was named here by you chiefly to make way for your purpose to giue a glaunce at battels murders destruction of Countries Prouinces Townes Cities Houses and particular men that haue beene in Scotland within these fortie yeares as though Scotland had neuer tasted these or any of these before and then you come in with Ireland wherein you seeme to bewaile the death of the noble Desmons whose treasons yet liue by succession in one of the same name who it is said wrote â— treason full letter stuffed with most intolerable opprobries and slaunders against her Maiestie and the state to the King of Spaine And this I hope is no great proofe of your sonâ—dnes to Queen or State France and Flaunders follow to fill vp the number But had you any respect of truth or care of modestie you would neuer haue made the true Religion wee professe the cause of murders tumults and garboyles which teacheth dutifull obedience and condemneth all mutinies seditions and rebellions You should do well to haue told vs who murdered the King the Lord Iames the Lord Russell in Scotland In France who murdered the Prince of Conde after he was taken prisoner which I thinke the law of Armes will not well beare Likewise who they were that laidâ— bloudy hands vpon the Admiral Chattilion being first shot in with a Pistoll with three bullets in the streetes and afterwards slaine in his chamber And so of Marlâ—ret slaine in his garden and of the famous learned man Ramus who hauing paid monie to ransome his life was beyond all humanitâ—e most cruelly quelled And generally who were the Authors not onely of the bloudie massacre in Paris but also of the like vprores in other Cities and quarters of the Realme principally at Lyons Orleans Roan Tolouse in which Cities within the space of one moneth there are numbred at the least thirtie thousand godly Protestants to be slaine your holy father at Rome to shew with what spirit he is led and with what meanes he sticketh to maintaine his Religion which otherwise would fall to the ground so soone as he heard of this bloudie tragedie maketh great ioy with his Cardinals with their procession with their gunshot and singing Te Deum Yea in honour of that Act proclayming a Iubile with great indulgence and solemnitie For Flaunders tell vs who murdered the noble Prince of Orange against whom it was proclaimed that who soeuer could bring him aliue or dead or slaie him should haue fiue and twentie thousand crownes You shall finde that such a Catholike-faith as yours is hath still sought to maintaine it selfe by such Catholike means as these are treasons tumults seditions secret murders and such like As for our true Christian Religion it is so cause of tumults garboyles and murders as Christes birth was of the murther of the poore infants in which neither Christ nor the infants ought offended the madnes was in Herod and all Ierusalem to be for this cause in an vprore In a word it is Herods Religion which seeketh to murther Christ and the Christes and annoynted of the Lord. I proceed to your aduertisement for a better direction to mens iudgements that all blessings of a Common-wealth may be reduced to two heades the one spirituall belonging to the soule and conscience the other temporall concerning the bodie and weale publike and that the Lord hath richly blessed this land since her Maiesties Raigne I doubt not to proue to all that haue iudgement and indifferency following your owne methode And first there hath beene in England since this happie alteration change from popish superstition to Christian veritie One God worshipped in spirit and truth one faith one belief one forme of seruice in praier and praises to God one number of Sacraments which are onely two by the word of God one head of the Church which is Christ the Lord as the holy Ghost testifieth by the Apostle Him hath God appointed to be the head of the Church And his substitute annointed appointed ouer vs is our Soueraigne and Queene who is to commaund and be obeyed in Christ and for Christ in all causes aswell ecclesiasticall as ciuill and not your proud vsurping Priest at Rome and if you can like to looke vpon the harmonie of confessions you shall find all the
Churches of Christendome where the Gospel and truth of Christ Iesus is embraced to be of the same iudgement and in this blessed vnitie grounded vpon veritie the Lord for euer keepe vs. And how scornefully soeuer you tearme this to be our Parliament Religion be it knowne to you that the reuerent assemblie of States and Commons in Parliament haue cause to praise God for their ioyning to present such lawes and for her Maiesties consenting to establish such lawes as tende to so holy a purpose as to hem in the ignorant that they may frequent the holy assemblies to learne to professe and obey the truth and to restraine the headstrong humors of Papistes and Atheists who are forward to runne astray from God and all godlines As for your tricke of cunning often grated vpon with a desire to disioyne our affections by calling some Puritanes other Protestants this malicious purpose of yours I hope the Lord of might mercy will turne to the good of his Church and I trust it will please him by his grace to direct the hearts of our Church-men to see how needfull it is for them to ioyne heart and hand together to defend the doctrine of faith which they all hold against the calumniations and slaunders wherewith you and men of your sort seeke to load the truth of our profession and to crosse the cunning and most dangerous plots laid also to mingle at the least our blessed and most holy profession with a toleration of cursed Poperie if not to alter all to Poperie to the rooting out of Gods true Religion wholly from amongst vs. And howsoeuer some dissent hath appeared about the toleration or abrogation of some things yet I doubt not it doth shall wel appeare that the dissention is not such as this turbulēt spirited fellow would faine haue it and that all sides will manifest to the whole world that howsoeuer they may in these outward things dissentire yet it shal be concordi discordia and so much for your cunningly deuised distinction of Puritane and Parliament Religion not without a setled and grounded malice to both But Sir your vaunt of a generall vnitie before alteration of Religion amongst vs if I had leasure to sift it would proue more boldly then truly vttered for how worshipped you one God when you serued so many Idols Or how glorified you the Creator when you gaue his glorie vnto creatures not onely to his true Saints as to the blessed virgin whom you call the Queene of Heauen as God is King of Heauen and one of your greatest pillars affirmeth as Doctor Raynolds alleadgeth him that the King of kings hath giuen halfe his kingdome to this Queene and of the chiefest treasures of this kingdome namely Iustice and Mercy hath reserued Iustice to himselfe but his mercie he hath granted to her but euen vnto vile base and dumbe creatures as when they pray for their crosse of mettall that as by Christ his crosse the world was deliuered from the guilt of sinne so by the merit of this crosse of mettall they that offer it may be freed from all the sinnes they haue committed and to the crosse they pray crauing that of a dumbe creature which the Creator onely can giue that is God blessed for euer O Crux aue spes vnica Hoc passionis tempore Auge pijs iustitiam Reisque dona veniam All hayle O Crosse our onely hope In this time of the passion In faithfull people grace increase And grant of sinne remission If Lactantius should iudge of your Religion he would scarce allow you to worship God at all who denieth that creatures may be worshipped with him yeelding this reason Si honos idem alijs tribuitur ipse omninò non colitur cuius Reltgio est illum esse vnum ac solum Deam credere If the same honour be giuen to others he is not worshipped at all whose Religion is to beleeue that he is one and the onely God The best that probablie may be made of your worshipping is that it is like the Religion that the Gentiles learned which were brought from Assiria to inhabite the Cities of Samaria who worshipped the Lord and Idols together Likewise of your owne faith and beliefe might be shewed how vaine a presumption it is when as you are so miserablie rent in sunder into so innumerable diuersities and sects of Friers and Munkes putting holines in diuers institutions of life some being white some blacke some wearing linnen some wollen some going shod some bare-foote with infinite diuersities more which are by learned men handled It shall be sufficient for me onely to remember you of the stirre betwixt the Franciscans and Dominicke Friers about the conception of the blessed Virgin the Franciscans or gray Friers affirming that she was neuer Subiect one moment in her conception to originall sinne the Dominicke or blacke Friers teaching that she was conceiued in sinne as are all the children of Adam which controuersie occupied all schooles and vniuersities almost throughout the whole Christian world which was at the length doughtelie decided by Pope Sixtus the fourth quite contrarie to that Word which shall iudge all at the last day Of your one head your vaunt is the like which being the Pope how can you haue one head vnles you reiect Christ If you meane one visible and ministeriall head how can that be when as Christ hath promised to be with vs to the end of the world And in the Reuelation Iohn saw him walking in the middest of the seuen golden Candlesticks if he be thus alwaies present with his Church by his spirite to guide the whole and euery member thereof how shall any presume to take vpon him to be a ministeriall head of the Church because Christ is not visiblie present Againe how haue you had one visible head when there hath been so many Antipopes So often Such tumults and schismes about the Papacie Which though your men would deriue vpon the Emperours intermedling with the election though very falsely yet as a learned man proueth of thirtie schismes in the Church of Rome so many as no Church can boast of besides the worst and the longest hath been since that time that the election was deuolued onely to the Cardinals euen the 29. which lasted for the space of 50 yeares first with two Popes at one time and then with three c. So that to cease any further to examine your assertions who intend onely a defence of mine owne by you carped at and traduced your great brag of vnitie in your Religion the like whereof you deeme is not amongst vs to be found is in deede nothing but meere vanitie But to returne from whence I digressed Secondly by the establishment of true Christian Religion amongst vs this great blessing we haue obtained that the Scripture and word of God which is the incorruptible seede whereby we are begotten to God the sincere milke that
but to lay violent and bloudy hands vpon the Lords annointed wherby they shew to be guided rather by the spirit of Sathan that hartened Kaine to kill Abell then by the spirit of God that taught Dauid to spare Saule There remaineth now onely the fourth and last charge against me in this Encounter briefely to be discharged namely that I lay to your charge vntruly as you say that yee prescribe a meanes of deliuerie from all daungers euen when men sinned immediately against God which is a pardon from the Popes holines and absolution from his holy Priestes In which accusation what say I more then all the world knoweth to be true Is it not strange that these men either so vnconscionably practise that openly and generally which they dare not auow and iustifie or so impudently denie that which they doe so commonly practise the Catholike doctrine is saith this Champion that the Popes and Churches Indulgences auaile not to remooue mortall sinnes c. neither doth the pardon remit the guilt of sinne c. But Sir whatsoeuer your doctrine is in this point your practise is quite contrarie neither is it any rare thing with your almightie Pope to practise that generally by his infinite authoritie which all his Doctors and schoole-men are ashamed to defend For as for the authoritie wherupon your indulgences are grounded your owne men confesse as namely amongst the rest Durandus De Indulgentijs pauca dici possunt per certitudinem quia nec scriptura expressè de ijs loquitur sancti etiā patres Ambrosius Hilarins Hieronymus Augustinus minime loquuntur de indulgentijs Little can be certainly affirmed of indulgences because neither the Scripture speaketh expressely of them and the ancient fathers Ambrose Hilarie Ierome Augustine make no mention of them Thus your selues truly confesse that ye haue neither warrant of Scripture nor of auncient fathers for your Popes pardons yet goe they currant The notorious abuses whereof euen councels haue condemned as the Lateran Councell a Councell held at Vienna and euen your Councell of Trent too doth in generall termes condemne all abuses in these pardons which by superstition ignorance irreuerence haue crept in though in speciall it name none because it seemeth it intended not to reforme any Notwithstanding whatsoeuer eyther your Doctors pressed with truth doe write or your Councels for shame are forced to decree the Pope hath forced for no shame to make marts and marchandise of mens soules by his pardons and to sell sinne for money as flesh is sold in the shambles Whereof let those verses partly beare witnes which are written in an auncient stone in the Cathedrall Church of Saint Stephen amongst the Bituriges in Aquitania a few whereof I will here set downe Hîc des deuotè caelestibus associate Mentes aegrotae per munera a sunt tibi lotae Ergo venitote gentes à sede remotae Qui datis estote certi de diuite dote Te precor accelera spargas hic dum potes aera Et sic re vera securè caelica spera Giue francklie here in Heauen a place prepare Your sicklie soules by gifts cleane purged are Come people then which dwell far from this place Ye that doe giue rest sure of mickle grace I pray thee haste giue money while ye may Then surely hope for Heauen at the last day And againe Hic si largè des in coelo fit tua sedes Qui serit hîc parcè comprendit in arce Cur tardas tantùm nummi mihi des aliquantum Pro solo nummo gaudebis in aethere summo If thou giue freely here Heauen is thy hire He that giues little shall little there acquire Why staiest thou then onely some money giue For onely money thou in Heauen shalt liue To which wee may adde the complaint of the Princes of Germany against the Pope exhibited in the Councell at Norremberg the third complaint being this But especially the burden and grieuance of the Popes pardons and Indulgences are most importable When as the Bishops of Rome vnder pretence of building some Church in Rome or to warre against the Turke do make out their Indulgences with their Buls perswading and promising to the simple people strange and wonderfull benefits of remission à Culpa paena from the guilt of their sinnes and punishment due for the same and not in this life onelie but also after this life to them that bee dead burning in the fire of Purgatorie Through the hope and occasion whereof true pietie is almost extinct in all Germanie While◠euery ill disposed person promiseth himselfe for a little money licence and impunitie to doe what him listeth whereupon followeth fornication incest adulterie periurie homicide robbing and spoyling rapine and vsurie with a whole stood of mischiefes c. By which what was the generall and currant vse of the Popes pardons is euident to be seene Tecelius the Popes Marchant who set to sale Pope Leo the 10. his Indulgences in Germany for ten shillings the peece doth so praise and set forth his ware as that his pardons not onely reached to the remitting of mortall sinne which this Encounterer would faine deny but that his Indulgences were of such validitie that there was no sinne so great though a man by impossible supposition had defloured the mother of Christ but by them might be pardoned and that a man by vertue of them is freed both from the guilt and punishment of his sinne What should I adde that it sufficeth them not to sell pardons for sinnes past but that this mysterie of iniquitie preuailed so farre as that it stretched to pardon sinnes to come The sundry formes of which Buls I could out of good authors here set downe whereof as is reported fell out a prettie experiment with the same Tecelius to whom a certaine Noble man commeth confessing that he had a purpose to commit an haynous sinne and heartely praieth to haue a pardon graunted him for hereafter Tecelius setteth a great price vpon that ware but yet the Noble man payeth the money shortly after this Noble man laying waite for Tecelius in a wood brake open his Coffers wherein was all his treasure that hee had gotten by fale of his pardons and robbed him Tecelius threatneth and curseth sore but the Noble man sheweth him the Bull which he bought so dearely of himselfe and merilie telleth him this was the sinne which he purposed to commit from which I am fully and in good forme absolued I would the opinion conceiued of the Popes plenarie pardons did not induce Subiects to commit most hainous treason against the Lords annointed to satisfie the Popes desire Whereof an example may be seene in Parry who vndertooke the murdering of her Maiestie as himselfe confessed whereunto hee was the more strongly resolued by the Pardon from the Pope of all his sinnes whereof Cardinall Como in his letter assureth him the words to this purpose I haue thought good
but barking at him like a mad dog calling him knaue traitor heretike villaine varlet beetlebrow-foole c. and afterwards committed him to prison where he lay a yeere and three quarters till the Papists had gotten certaine olde tyranous lawes by King Henrie and King Edward before put downe to be reuiued againe vpon which Gardiner cyted him and others ex officio before himselfe and his colleagues and pronounced against him Master Bradford and Master Saunders three worthie learned and painefull preachers the sentence of death His dealing with Master Philpot Archdeacon of Winchester a Gentleman of a good house being a Knights sonne though rayling Storie cried out against him he is a vile heretike knaue for an heretike is no Gentleman I aske not of what compassion and mercie but of what equitie and iustice did it sauour when he committed this valiant Souldier of Iesus Christ prison and kept him there a yeere and a halfe taking all his liuing from him without all lawe onely because he spake his mind freely of the questions proposed to be disputed of in the Conuocation house whereunto besides the libertie of the house they had the Queenes warrant for their securitie But it booted not to pleade priuiledge of the house or warrant from the Queene tender hearted Gardiner of his dissolute I would say absolute power kept him so long in prison and afterwards sent him to his slaughterman Boner to be branded to the fire In whom this is worthie the noting that he seemed as if he had been vnwilling to haue medled with Master Philpot saying I maruaile why other men will trouble me with their matters but I must be obedient to my betters and I wis men speake otherwise of me then I deserue as if he should haue said that the bloudie affection of Gardiners heart must be executed by Boners hands And when in that time of Master Philpots captiuitie with Boner Gardiner died Boner perceiuing that Master Philpot would by no meanes recant burst forth into these words Now ye thinke because my Lord Chancellour is dead we will â—â—â—â—e no moe Which wordes what doe they argue else but that howsoeuer some Bishops and other Clergie Masters were the inferiour executioners yet Gardiner the Lord Chancellour was the Arch-Dedalus and chiefe master of the worke and he that did blow the bellowes to kindle all the fires wherein the bodies of so many Martyrs were consumed to ashes The which will appeare more plainly if we consider a memorable storie set downe by Master Foxe of him reported by two credible persons of worship in the house of a worshipfull Citizen bearing then office in the Citie of London from Master Mundaie secretarie sometime to the old Lord Thomas Duke of Norffolke namely that the same day Master Ridley and Master Latimer were burnt at Oxford the olde Duke of Norffolke with this reporter his secretarie attending on him came to Bishop Gardiners house the olde aged Duke wayting there for his dinner the Bishop was not disposed to dine till at length about foure of the clocke commeth in his seruant in all post haste from Oxford assuring the Bishop most certainly that he saw fire put to them Then commeth out Gardiner reioycing to the Duke and calleth for dinner and began merely to eate but the bloudie Tyrant had not eaten a fewe bits but the suddaine stroke of God his terrible hand fell vpon him in such sort as to vse mine Authors own words immediately he was taken from the table and so brought to his bed where he continued the space of fifteene daies during which time he could not auoid by vrine or otherwise any thing that he receiued whereby his bodie being miserablie inflamed within who had inflamed so many godly Martyrs before was brought to a wretched end And thereof no doubt as most like it is came the thrusting out of his tongue from his mouth so swolne and blacke with the inflammation of his bodie A spectacle worthie to be noted and beholden of all such bloudie burning persecutors But not to stand vpon the deuotion of this your milde Bishop who would not eate till he were sure of the death of these two worthies a deuotion matchable with that of the Tyrant Richard the third then but Protector who sware by Saint Paule that he would not dine till the Lord Hastings head were off and would needs stay so long for his oathes sake nor vpon the great ioy this Bishop conceiued at the certaine report of their deaths as if the shedding of Christian bloud had been to him as the obteyning of great treasures nor yet vpon the fearfull iudgement of God so vpon the present and on the suddaine inflicted vpon him I will remember this one thing how that the Dutches of Suffolke espying him in the Tower being the prisoner inking Edwards raigne said it was merrie with the Lambes now the Wolfe was shut vp which speech this your gentle natured Bishop and nothing vindicatiue as you terme him well remembred in Queene Maries time and therfore in the first lent of her raigne studied an holie practise of reuenge first by touching this Dutches in the person of her husband Master Bertye for whom he sent an attachment to the Sherife of Lincolneshire with a speciall letter commaunding him most strictly to attach him and without Bale to bring him vp to him to London whereas he had no cause at all to send for him Afterwards examineth him of the Dutches his wiues Religion whether she was now as readie to set vp the Masse as before to pull it downe with further obiections to the same purpose by which Master Berty fully perceiued the cruell minde of the Bishop set vpon bloudie reuenge and therefore obtained leaue of the Queene for his vrgent and important affaires to passe the Seas secretly appointed how the Dutchesse should come after who with her daughter of a yeere olde with a fewe of her meanest seruants in great danger tooke barge at Lion Key in the mistie morning chusing rather to commit her selfe to the winde and waues then to your Gardiners gentle and nothing vindicatiue disposition What should I stand vpon any further matter to lay open the nature disposition of this your milde Prelate Boner who knew him better then you Sir Encounterer doth more then iustifie me in that large description of Gardiners nature disposition which he wrote to the Lord Cromwell wherein he tearmeth him to be of an hard heart and cankred malicious stomacke that he spake with a Pilates voice and chargeth him that in talke had with him he bad turde in Boners teeth againe and againe that the flesh of his cheekes beganne to swell and tremble and that hee looked as if he would haue runne through him that he behaued himselfe bedlemly that in malice and disdaine he might be compared to the diuell of hell not yeelding to him in pride at all with sundrie other notes of such speciall commendation
which in that letter of Boners to the Lord Cromwell are to be found And this I hope is sufficient to cleare me from malignitie and sycophancie for calling so vnworthie a man a bloudie monster After this flourish to make shew in generall of the Bishops milde mature whereof by these fewe particulars the reader may more soundly iudge this his Proctor proceedeth to cleere him of seeking her Maiesties life in the raigne of her sister but it seemeth his conscience gaue him a secret checke when he set pen to paper about this defence For how weake an Apologie doth make for so haynous an accusation the lines are few in which he wrappeth vp the handling of this weightie case and the reasons as weake as water that he alleadgeth for the Bishops clearing It was so farre off from Gardiners condition and nature saith this forward Proctor that he dareth say I doe him apparent and wilfull wrong What Sir if for malice he might be compared to the diuell as Boner witnesseth what could be more agreeable to his nature then to seeke the bloud of so gracious and innocent a Ladie And seemeth not trow ye his case to be verie good which so wooddie yea so hot and fierie a Patrone seekes to maintaine with so slender and cold a defence as I dare say he doth him apparunt and wilfull wrong But he addeth she was an obiect rather of loue and compassion then of enuie and hatred But what loue could proceede from him that was of an hard heart and cancred malicious stomacke what compassion could he shewe whose verie bowels were cruell As for the misterious bracelet of which this brabler talketh in which all the secrecie of Wyats conspiracie was said to lie hidden which Gardiner farther pierced then any other but neuer vsed or vrged the knowledge gotten thereof to the Ladies perill I answere that the misterie of this Shemeis treacherie against that innocent Ladie his now Soueraigne may hereby appeare to all men who to grace his client with the commendation of a deepe politike to pearse further into the misterie of that conspiracie then anie other and of a tender harted man in not vsing nor vrging his knowledge gotten thereof to the Ladies perill layeth the highest disgrace vpon his Soueraigne that can be imagined as if she had been secretly confederate with Wyat in his rebellion against her sister and that this Eagle-eyed Bishop had spied so much in a misterious bracelet but of pure good will did neuer vrge it to her perill Whereas for euer finding any suspition against her through so manie hard and earnest siftings his owne mouth is a witnesse against him who kneeling downe to her Grace after long triall had of her loyaltie and integritie said Then hath your Grace the aduantage of me and other of the Lords for your long and wrong Imprisonment As for his concealing of any thing that hee might finde against her or desire to free her from daunger who knoweth not how farre both hee and the rest of the Clergie were from any such inclination For when Wyat at his death cleered the Ladie Elizabeth Doctor Weston cried Beleeue him not good People c. Which being related to Sir Thomas White then Lord Maior he was moued at the bloudie humour of this Popish Doctor and said of him with indignation In sooth I neuer tooke him but for a knaue But was your Bishop more mildlie affected then the Doctor Nay hee was so vnwilling to haue her cleered as hee chafed exceedinglie at a poore Apprentise in London for saying that Wyat had cleered her and the Lord Courtney and caused the Lord Maior to bring this poore youth to the Starre Chamber where hee vttered a speech vpon that occasion and pronounced the innocent Ladie guiltie and commaunded the Apprentise should be punished And if Master Bridges then Lieutenant of the Tower had not as is reported most honestly aduentured to Queene Marie to informe her of a warrant that was out for the execution of this her worthie Sister the innocent Ladie had lost her life poore England had been depriued of so gracious a Soueraigne and the light of our Candlesticke had been put out But blessed bee the Lorde who gaue not the Soule of his Turtle Doue to the beasts nor his darling to the power of the dogges With this for good fellowship may walke hand in hand his plea for the Bishops freedome concerning the bringing in of the Spaniard of which I affirme that Gardiner and his complices neuer rested vntill they had brought in the Spaniard and matched him with Queene Marie by which they betraied God her and the whole Realme from which this Proctor first would cleare him by imagining in him a partiall affection to the Earle of Deuonshire whom he would haue married to the Queene But it were strange that in a man of Gardiners place there should bee so great ficklenes and mutabilitie that in so short a space so great loue should bee turned into such extreame hatred a little before in his loue he would haue made him as you say as a King by matching him to Queene Marie within a while after he would haue made him worse then a caitife and to suffer as a Traitour accusing him earnestlie in the Starre Chamber when as Wyat had cleered him Secondlie hee demaundeth if this had been so as hee saith it was not why did they betraie therein both God their Queene and their Countrie To which his demaunde I briefelie answere God was betraied because his true Religion was exiled which Queene Marie before her obtaining the Crowne promised to the Suffolke men to maintaine and in steede thereof Idolatrie was established The Queene they betraied because they matched her to an vnhusband-like husband who estranged both his affection and companie from her which was thought to be a great cause of the shortning of her daies for when the cause of her often sighing a little before her death was asked of her selfe she confessed this to bee one though not the onelie cause that she could not enioie the companie of her husband The Realme they betraied because they sought to make it subiect to a stranger though yet blessed bee God doe all they what they could or the Queene herselfe they could neuer set the Crowne of England vpon King Phillips head And that the temporall inconueniences by that match were not more fullie felt God is to bee praised who gaue him here so short an aboade Further by this match they bringing in the Pope and resigning the Supremacie to him did wrong to the Crowne for by the Lawe of God the King in his owne Realme is chiefe gouernour both in causes Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill the Pope contrariwise will not onelie be aboue the King in all causes Ecclesiasticall but also in some Ciuill challenging all Bishops and Cleargie men for his subiects exempting them in things Ciuill from the Kings authoritie whereby he robbeth the
learning is not verie great or their cause is bad Iohn Hus. Martin Luthers offer to dispute at Wormes He goeth to the same end to Augusta Simon Grinaeus at Spire Colloquie of Poissy Particular absurdities of Poperie Heresie with the Papists to reade the Scriptures in vulgar tongueâ— An obiection answered D. Rayn de Idol eccl Ro. lib. 1. cap. 1. The Sorbonists oth For reading of the Scriptures in vulgar tongues men were called before the Biâ—shops Act. Mon. ex Regist. Lin. Act. mon. aeâ— testim D. Outredi Ibidem pa. 863. A godly Booke seller in France 1. Mach. 1. Ignorance with Papists the mother of Deuotion Doctor Fulke Scripture forbidden to be read Iohn 5. Coloss. 3. Chrisost. in epist. ad Coloss. â—om 9. Fides implicita Ignorance a fruitfull Mother for the Papists Act. Monu pag. 139. Deuotion separated from knowledge in many of the Popish Cleargie 1. Tim. 4. D. Rayn de Eccl. Rom. lib. 2. cap. 5. 1 Conscientia 2 Scientia 3 Entia Publike praier or deuotion in an vnknowne tongue Hossius de sacro vernacule legendo Art 3. pa. 75. See the 27. article betwixt B. Iewel and Harding How the Papists allow lay men to meddle with matters of Religion To meddle with Scriptures is to examine by Scriptures the doctrine taught Act. 17. 1. Iohn 4. Chrysost. in 2. Cor. hom 13. Papists forbid Lay men thus to meddle with Scriptures and why Paraleip Abb. vrsperg pa. 448 In lex Expurg cuâ— vt si Ber. c About Thomas Becket The ground of Beckets quarrels with his King Becket goeth inta France against the kings will Beckets words to the Earle of Leicester The King and Nobles adiudge Beckets a traitor The controuersie between Becket and the King put into the French Kings hands The Kings officer Proud Beckets refusall The letter of the Empresse Two Cardinals censures of Becket About Beckets sainting Ex. Auentino Disputation about Becket at Paris Argument of miracles Popish miracles threefold 1 Onely in shew Act. Mon. pag. 733. Ex Pencero Munst. Caâ—ione aliis 2 Wrought by Sathan 2. Thess. 2. Math. 24. Deut. 13. 3 Falsely deuised Beckets miracles Act. Mon. pa. 204. Miracles not rare amongst the Papists D. Rain ex breuiario Rom. ex vita Thâ— â—ius operi Romae editis prefixa D. Rain ex seuerinâ— Large talke betweene Hiacinthus and an image of Alablaster The Pope will be obeyed commanding either disloyaltie or blasphemie Blasphemy by the Pope commanded Portiforium ad vsum Sarum in festo S. Tho. Caenâ—uar Disloyaltie by the Pope commaunded About Pardons and Indulgences Indulgences grounded neither vpon Scripture nor vpon ancient Fathers Councels condemne the abuses of the Popes pardons Ex Chemnicio de Indulgentijs The complainâ— of the Germaine Princes Tecelius Pardous for sinnes to be committed Parry Caines spirit Absolution Simon a Monke Iacobus Clemens The conclusion Iustification by faith Esay 30. Iob. 1. This bloudie mate falsely chargeth me with bloud-thirstines â— Sam. 18. Aug. in Psal. 37 Her Maiesties marueilous deliuerance in Queene Maries time Her Maiesties deliuerance and Dauids compared Her Maiestie vniustly troubled in Queen Maries daies A ridiculous argument Causes concurring to her Maiesties preseruation M. Hales Oration The fretting of the Papists against her Maiestie now being Queene Hester 6. About annointing Psal. 150. Luke 2. About D. Storie Psal. 5. 59. Stories words The interpretatioÌ„ of them Stories iudgement Martyrium Ioan Stor Angl. pro ecc Rom. primat The Bull of Pius Quintus Master Iuel Bullenger Whether any man may depose Kings Dan. 2. and 4. Luke 1. 1. King 14. 1. King 19. Prou. 8. August in Psalm 47. 1 2 Rom. 13. Valentinian Theodosius Sigebert in Anno 1088. Aug. contraliterai Petil. lib. â— ca. 92. Psal 140. Iere. 10. Iudges 5. Traterous practises of some Papists Fond amplifications of punishments inflicted on papists A vaine colour Protestants not to be compared with Papists in rebellion 2 King 11. Lib. conform in initio About the two Earles insurrection Francis Throgmorton and Charles Paget About the late Earle of Northumberland and the Earle of Arundel The substance of the Encounterers conclusion Bishop Gardiner and Cardinall Allen compared Bishop Gardiner A short view of Gardiners milde nature Gardiners hard dealing with Marbeck Heresie for lay men to meddle with the Scripture Gardiners argument to proue an heretike Doctor Tailor Gardiners milde Rhetorike Master Philpot Boner vnwilling to meddle with Master Philpot Boners speech concerning Gardiners being dead Gardiners ioy for Bishop Ridley master Latimers death with God his suddaine stroke vpon him Gardiners desire of reuenge against the Duches of Suffolke Boners description of Gardiner About Gardiners seeking Queene Elizabeths life A weake Apologie The misterie of his tale of a misterious bracelet Gardiner confesseth the wrong imprisonment of Ladie Elizabeth D. Weston Gardiner vnwilling to haue the Ladie Elizabeth cleered The bringing in of the Spaniard Gardiners booke de vera obedientia with Boners proface Gardiners Sermon in Queene Maries time vpon Rom. 13. The A.B.C. to the Pope and his Clergie in Hen. 4. time Gardiner put out of King Henries Will. King Henrie the eyght not minded to reconcile himselfe to the Pope as Gardiner saith but quite contrarie About King Henries diuorce from his first wife with Gard. iudgement of it Cardinall Allen. Allens iudgement of Pius Quintus Bull. Parsons and Campions faculties Saunders Rebellion in Ireland A similitude alleadged for Allens defence examined 1 The Pope no way our father 2 Your elder brethren yeeld not due reuerence to the Queene their mother 3 Your yonger brethren are the elders agents against the Queene Paines practise against her Maiestie Heskets treason Treason against the Queene made a point of the popish faith and religion Allen perswadeth it to be honorable to kill the Queene Parrey resolued by Allens booke to kill the Queene The grouud of this Encounter The Pope will not disclaime his title of vsurped Supremacie The Pope will be no Protestant but may be an heretike Marcellinus Honorius Liberius Stephanus Iohan. 22. The Iesuites The Sorbonists iudgement of the Iesuites Iesuites practises Parrie hartened by Iulio Palmio a Iesuite Yorke and Williams set on by Holte a Iesuite Patricke Cullen Sauage perswaded by D. Guifford Posseuine Wal-poole France iudged the Iesuites The chiefe vow of Iesuits Sacriledge to vow simple obedience to man The scope of their vow The conclusion Te rayling of N.D. Iames. 3. An outward ciuill conuersation Ciuill honesty to be found amongst Infidels Turkes True faith not without good workes Dissimulation taught by Papistes 1 2 3 Dissimulation of some Papists manifested The threefold accusation examined 2 The hurt Recusants do Forcing to do against Conscience Moderate punishment for Religion lawfull Comparison tweene our punishment of Recusants those of former times The Papistes hands deepe in this transgression 2 The hurt Recusants would doe Barbarous railing against Henrie Earle of HuntingdoÌ„ 3 Dissimulation in sundrie Papists Cardinall Allen inciteth to Rebellion Dispensation of Gregorie 13 to Parsons and Campion 3 All Recusants not charged with dissimulatioÌ„ or rebellious mindes â—â—e Papists 〈◊〉 â—at the 〈◊〉 de 〈…〉 1 2 3 4 5 6 The truth of my position iustified Rebellion cunningly broached Abraham and Lot Ieremie Iere 9. Ieroboam Iehu Athanasius Obedience in temporall Princes This is N.D. his spirituall conceite as you may reade in his booke pag. 83. The translation of S. Peters words freed froÌ„ corruption The Popes Crowne may not be touched Archprelate How Christ and his Apostles were Priests and Archprelates 1 Christ gaue no Superiority to Peter Luke 22. 2 Peter neuer challenged anie such Act. 15. 3 The Apostles acknowledge no superioritie in Peter The Popes spirituall supremacie without good warrant The Popes temporall Supremacie His temporall Supremacie neuer acknowledged The Popes intollerable pride The Pope a bloudie monster The Popes bloudie humour against the Queene What iudgement is to be had of this Encounterer Whether the Pope be Antichrist How farre England standeth beholding to Rome 1 2 Elutherius acknowledge the Kings Gods Vicar in his owne kingdome 3 1. Thes. 1. The cause of libertie of speech vsed against Spaine The Encounterers iniurious rayling Of the Spanish Nation Not all Spaniards charged Experiments of the Spaniards pride crueltie c. N.D. maliciously slaundereth his natiue countrie No cause to except against our free speech of Spaniards The person of the discouerer considered The Taxes Papists the only contemners of princes Reuel 52. About Lopus His sute to the Lords The conclusion