sheweth by what sinister meanes such came to bee reputed Fathers who were more fit to bee taken for children 29 Fourthly I name that which is most horrible of all other even a manifest evidence of a desperate cause and that vvhich is rotten at the roote VVherein the impudency and shamelesse fore-head of the vvhore of Babylon and her Peeres can never sufficientlye bee exclaimed vppon albeit heaven and earth and all the creatures therein bee called to vvitnesse For hath this Antichristian broode so longe fledde from the Scriptures to the Fathers and haue they and doe they so crake of these every where and are they nowe forced to raze them and pare them and blurre them else they cannot hould vp their irreligion This is the case of vvhich I desire all my weake and abused country-men to take notice In the Conventicle of Trent there were certaine u Index Expurgar Belgic in Regul CoÌ„cil Tridentini rules made vvhich openlye did pretend the purging and clensing of bookes from hereticall matters but secretly intende more even to raze out what they thinke fitte out of olde or newe as their practise in this behalfe doth testifie vvhich is vvarranted by the covert orders there concluded For this businesse in diverse places of the Papacy vvere secretly appointed some of their owne stampe men conscience-lesse and fitte for any vile acte to revise as well the Fathers as later bookes of all sortes and vvhatsoever made against Popery and could not handsomely bee glosed should vppon the newe printing of the bookes by Printers in Popishe places bee cunningly altered or quite lefte out This must bee done notwithstanding that all the copies even formerly printed by themselves and many written ones in their libraries and as many in ours did plainely shevve the contrarie Yea though marveilous store of copyes vvritten hundreds of yeeres before vvhen as neither Luther nor Hus nor Wiclefe vvere yet borne did concurre in that for which we plead Heere-vppon closely vvas dravvne first u An 1571. one Index Expurgatorius by the vvarrant of Philippe the second King of Spaine and of the Duke of Alva Governour of the Lovve Countryes for him There in the Kinges letters patentes prefixed before the booke charge is given that in every city where booke-sellers dvvell there shoulde bee some Prelates appointed to supervise all noted bookes and that x Diploma Regis Catholici Belgic they should have vvith them privatelye and no other men knovving of it one Index Expurgatorius vvhich they shoulde neither communicate vnto others nor graunt a copy of it to any man but only shall most diligently take care of that that they inquire vppon expunge and restore the places before spoken of According to this were al the new printed bookes proceeded withall by them and our men not knowing the mystery wondred at those things which were left out and altered but could not gesse at the true cause till about fifteene y An 1587 yeeres after Franciscus Iunius by Gods speciall providence light vpon one of them and published it to the vvorlde Sutable to this vvas there by the commaundement of Pope z An. 1572. Pius the 5. a Censure vpon the Glosses of the Canon Lawe closely framed by Frier Thomas Manriq Maister of the holy and Apostolike Palace and the same by the a An 1580 mandate of Pope Gregory the 13. was afterward reviewed by Sixtus Faber also Maister of the same Palace Apostolike and according therevnto were the Glosses of the Canon Lavv printed all thinges being blotted out which made against the Romishe faith This also vvas concealed as the Index Expurgatorius had beene before till that b An 1599 latelye Doctour Iohn Pappus mette vvith it and published it to the view of all vvho vvill reade it I finde also c F. Gregor Capuch in libris Corrig fol 166 mention of a Censure concerning certaine Authours vvhich vvas put out in Spaine in the yeere 1562. but the booke it selfe is not yet come for ought that I knowe to anye of our handes But after that by the meanes of Gaspar Quiroga Cardinall and Archbishoppe of Toledo beeing also cheefe Inquisitour in Spaine d An 1584 Madriti apud Alphons Gomezium RegiuÌ„ Typograph there was printed another Index Librorum Expurgatorum which was not without the advise of the highe Sonate of the holy Generall Inquisition This booke also vvas unknovvne to any Protestant vntill that her late Maiesties forces taking the tovvne of e An. 1596 Calez in Spaine there vvas one of these Indices founde there vvhich beeing brought into England was by a f M. Tho. Iames. man carefull to laye open such fraudes sent to the L. of Plessis into Fraunce vvho keeping the originall in his ovvne Library g An 1601 printed it at Saumure and made it knowne to the bodye of Christendome In the beginning of this edition it is shevved that they thrust out diverse thinges of their ovvne vvriters as out of the vvoorkes of Osorius Ferus a booke called h Edit Venetijs An 1576. Ordo Baptizandi cum modo visitandi Yea out of the Glosse on Epiphanius and from the Tables in the endes of the woorkes of Chrysostome Hilary Hierome Cyril of Alexandria vvhen notvvithstanding the matters to bee put out and razed are either literally or in sence apparantly and not to bee spoken against in the Texte of those Fathers Nay in the Index of the Bibles put out by Robert Stephanus these propositions must bee blotted out as suspect i Ioh 11. 26 Hee vvho beleeveth in CHRIST shall not dye everlastingly k Act. 15. 9. By faith the heartes are purified l Gal. 2. 16 UUee are iustified by faith in Christ Christ is m 1. Con 1 30. our righteousnesse No n Ps 143. 2 man is righteous before God o 1 Cor 7â—… 2. Every man may have his wife wheras yet notwithstanding they are the very worde of GOD as may bee seene in the places quoted 30. Last of all for ought that is yet come to our knowledge there was a treatise p Venetijs An 1597 apud lo Baptistam lo Bernardum Sessam Concerning bookes to bee corrected put out by Fâ—…ter Gregory a Capuchine Neopolitane intituling himselfe Purger of the bookes at Naples This fellow doth frequently make mention of the Censure put out in Spaine Anno 1562. 1584. is much more peremptory then it or any other whom I haue seene I will breefely lay downe some things that I finde in him Speaking then of q Litera F. fol. 153 Frauncis Petrarcha thus he saith Let there bee put out the foure expositions with the texte to wit Dell ' impia Babilonia 〈◊〉 Avara Babilonia Fontana de dolori fiamma del Cielo which matters how neere they touch Rome every one acquainted with Petrarkes works do wel know Mentioning the Bibles of the r Fol. 166. Vulgar edition thus he speaketh Bibles which
reason of her birth the other for that she was deprived by the Pope Mentioning the story of one Fenne it is vrged that the dignity of S t. Peters successour was conferred vpon a profane woman Afterward these verses are set on her sacred Maiestie Sathanico praesul Calvini imbuta veneno est Elizabeth diraquè impietate tumet And lastly this is bestowed vpon her Elizabetha scelerum caput These thinges being writen by diverse of them beyond the seas do argue what spirit was among our Divines there If we wil have more proofe of the faithful harts of our male contented fugitives toward our late Princesse let vs looke on the words closely couched of the Rhemists in diverse places As that about u Annot in 2. Ioh. 10. Heretikes excoÌ„municated by name what things men are to withdraw from theÌ„ And let the traiterous actions of theÌ„ in our Realme expouÌ„d that covert speech of Iezabel u In Apoc. 2. 20. elsewhere But in steed of al let the Action attempted against this kingdome heere in the yeare 1588 speake which was vehemently vrged by our Priestes abroade and the people to the beste of their povver fitted for it at home 18 If these generalities do not yet satisfy theÌ„ let it be remeÌ„bred where these Seminary Priests are brought vp how flying froÌ„ their native soile in the highest discoÌ„tentment they goe into the dominioÌ„s of the Pope King of Spaine to whoÌ„ howmuch England hath bin beholding a blind maÌ„ may almost see At their expeÌ„ce they are maintained who in behalfe of their charges looke for some service again And vnder whoÌ„ have they their educatioÌ„ Vnder men Iesuited as nowe D. Worthington the Rectour of the College at Doway is or vnder the Iusuits theÌ„selves of whose vertues I have before spokeÌ„ To their Governours by othe they owe obedieÌ„ce of liklihood at their returne they take their directioÌ„ froÌ„ theÌ„ Now what maner of meÌ„ these be Allen who was long the Rectour of the College at Rhemes Persons now Governour of the Seminary at Rome may declare CoÌ„cerning AlleÌ„ our Secular Priests of late displaying the Iesuites do labour to extenuate the malice and poisonful behaviour of that hungry Cardinal but his works are extant testifying that there was never any man more virulent in hart against the state of England theÌ„ he was x Apolog. cap. 11. Persons reckoneth vp four of his bookes The Answere to the English Iustice The defence of the twelve martyrs in one yeare The Epistle allowing Sir VVilliam Stanleyes delivery vp of Daventry And the Declaration against her Maiestie and the State in the yeare 1588. In the first of these the y Chap. 2. protestatioÌ„ of Laborn before meÌ„tioned is remeÌ„bred that by other Papists as occasioÌ„ should serve it might be imitated And the whol treatise howsoever it seeme to be more closely coÌ„veied then ordinary is forced with pestilent caluÌ„niations Of the same nature is the whole subiect of the second peÌ„ned of purpose to direct meÌ„s affectioÌ„ froÌ„ the state The third is a litle Pamphlet short but not sweet maintaining the treasoÌ„ful actioÌ„ of Sir William StaÌ„ley by many an vn-ChristiaÌ„ ceÌ„sure most slauÌ„derous imputatioÌ„ As for z Allens answere 1584 exaÌ„ple That our country is fallen into Atheisme That the Queenes confederacies were only alwaies with Christs enemies That the warres of the English in the low Countries were sacrilegious warres and of a hereticall Prince And because he wil be like himselfe hee goeth on That all the actes in this Realme since the Queene was excoÌ„municated and deposed from regall dignity are voide therfore shee can denotence no warre neither may her subiects there serve her when a Prince is become an open Rebell to the See Apostolike He wishâ—…h that the rest of the English souldiours would doe as they with Sir VVilliam Stanley did He saith that the English take no quarrels in handes but for the dishonorable defence of Rebels Pyrates and Infidels I doe of purpose heere omitte many vile and execrable speeches by him added least the very rehearsing of them might iustly be offensive But the wicked man did make no coÌ„science to staine his whole couÌ„trey with horrible defamations I would heare any Secular in the vvorlde vvho can excuse this cursed fellovve The fourth was printed in Englishe and should have beened vulged if the Spanyardes coulde have sette footing in England in the yeare 1588. Hee vvho list to see it may finde it vvorde for vvorde in a Belgic Histor l. 15. Meterranus Amonge other matters there are these Our Soveraigne then beeing is called the Pretended Queene and the present vsurper Shee must be deprived of the administration of the kingdome Shee is an Heretike a Schismatike excommunicate contumacinis vsurping the kingdome against all right as for other causes so because shee had not the consent of the greate Bishoppe of Rome Shee mooved the Turke to invade Christendome Shee hath sette at sale and made a maâ—… of Lavves and rightes Some of her factes make her vncapable of the kingdome some other make her vnvvorthie of life Therefore Pope sixtus the fifth doth renew the excommunication against her and doth deprive her of her title and preteaces to the kingdomes of Englande and Ireland declaring her illegitimate and an vsâ—…per and absolving all her subiectes from the â—…th of sidelity toward her Then he chardgeth all to withdraw their â—…de from her that worthy punishment may be taken of her and that they â—…e themselues with the Duke of Parma Also it is proclaimed lawfull â—…y hands vpon vpon the Queene and a very great reward is promised to those who do so A safe conduct is then given to as many as wil bring â—…ny wâ—… like provision to the Spanish campe and to all who woulde assist that enterprise the Pope doth by Indulgence giue full pardon and plenary remission of all their sinnes If these things doe not sufficiently shew the viperous minde of this lewde Cardinall against his Prince Country nothing in the world can manifest it His dis Englished woolvish desire was that his naturall place of educatioÌ„ for which the old heatheÌ„s would haue lost ten thousand liues should haue beene in the everlasting bondage of the Spanyard Our Seculars then commending and excusing him to their powers are pitifully out but the error of them and of some English gentlementravailers was this that they imagined him in his latter yeares to be altered when indeede it was nothing else but that after the yeare 88 his hopes being deluded and neither Pope nor Spaniarde nor all their adherentes knowing how to remedy or recover that inestimable losse and incomparable dishonour vnto them his hart was as good as broken and he would seeme more desirous to shew all tolerability to single men of our English nation that he might haue some grace with theÌ„ since he began to haue so little with the Spanyard But doubtlesse venime had so putrisied him
the gilt as if they had never coÌ„mitted any such facts This confidence maketh the life of many of your false named Catholikes to be a coÌ„tagious sinke of execrable lewdenes no pen being able to paint out their filthines which as elswhere it may be exemplified so principally in Rome that singular cage of foule and vncleane birdes I was once in Oxford present with two prisoners coÌ„victed of a murther the one was named Parrhy a kinsman of the great traitour Doctour Parrhy the other was called Richardson When this Parrhy after many villanies in England and beyond the seas had finally as a robber murthered vpon the way a drover carying with him good store of mony it much grieved his fellow Richardson theÌ„ being in coÌ„pany that Parrhy had slaine the maÌ„ Richardsons coÌ„science as himselfe reported to me other could in no sorte be appeased about the fright remorse therof Parrhy bad him not dismay himselfe but prepare as soone as he could to fly after him into Ireland for thither indeede the principal murtherer was hastening and from thence they would to Rome where he had been with his vncle Doctor Parrhy before and knewe the fashions of the place there hee vndertooke to get a pardon of his Holinesse and all should be as wel as if it had never beene This Parrhy tould mee that he had beene a Page to a Cardinal in Rome an attendant on the Duke of Guize slaine by the commaundement of Henry the third of Fraunce and of garde to the Duke of Parma and therefore may bee well supposed to have knowne Popishe fashions And of certainty he lived aâ—… Romanist and so professed himselfe at the time of his execution I could adde more examples of this nature shevving that Papistes vvant no incouragementes to sinne 18 On the contrary part we simply and absolutely dehorte our people from all crimes laying the iudgments of God before such as transgresse in the same VVe lay vnto them the texte of the Apostle that the k Gal. 5 19 vvorkes of the fleshe are adulterie fornication vncleannesse vvantonnesse Idolatrie vvitchcraftâ—… hatred debate emulations vvrath contentions seditions heresies envy murthers drunkennesse gluttony and they who doe such thinges shall not inherite the kingdome of God And that l Hebr 13 4. Whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge That as m De ieiunio christi Cyprian telleth vs Fornicatours and adulterers haue thee Sathan for their suggestour they shall have thee for their tormentour revenging flames shall burne both thee and them Concerning gluttony wee put them in minde of Christs speech n Luc 21 Take heede vnto your selves least at any time your harte bee oppressed vvith surfetting and drunkennesse and cares of this life and that daye came on you vn-avvares And of that in Saint Paule o Rom 13 13 Let vs walke honestly as in the day not in gluttony and drunkennesse neither in chambering nor wantonnesse To which may bee ioyned that of S. Ambrose p De Noe Arca c 9. What is more vnseemely then evermore to bee attending to the belly which when it is filled is to be emptied when it is emptied is to be filled againe Touching ambitioÌ„ we stirre meÌ„ vp that they should imitate the modesty of q Iohan 1 20 Iohn the Baptist who tooke no honour to himselfe but resigned it al to his master Christ. And the humility of S. Paul who avouched of himselfe his felowes t r1 Thes 2 6 Neither sought we praise of meÌ„ neither of you nor of others But especially the meekenesse of Christ our blessed Lord who being vrged by his kinsmeÌ„ to shew some s Ioh 7 3 miraculous works so to make himselfe famous refused would not coÌ„desceÌ„d to their humourous motion And for the repressing of this sin we cite that of S. Bernard s De considerat ad Eugen lib. 3 1 O ambitioÌ„ the very crosse of those who be ambitious how doest thou torturing al please al Nothing doth vex more bitterly nothing doth disquiet more troublesomly yet amoÌ„g wretched meÌ„ there is nothing more ordinary theÌ„ the exercises therof Lastly for Covetousnes we say with Christ t Luc 12 〈◊〉 Take heede and beware of covetousnesse for though a man haue abundance yet his life standeth not in his riches And with Saint Paule u 1. Tim 6 10. The love of mony is the roote of all evill vvhich vvhile some lusted after they erred from the faithâ—… and perced themselves through with many sorrowes And wee thinke it not amisse to remember the covetous person of that in Saint Augustine u Aâ—…g in Psal. 123 Take with thee to hell that vvhich thou hast gotten VVhat vvilt thou does Thou hast gotten golde thou hast lost thy faith After a fevve daies thou departest out of this life The golde vvhich thou hast gotten vvith the losing of thy faith thou caâ—…st not take with thee Thy harte which is voide of faith goeth forth to paines which if it had bâ—…n full of faith should have gone out to a crowne These the like doctrines out of the holy Scriptures Fathers we do daily lay open to our hearers against these sins Our Sermons and bookes are full of them and on the other side we stirre them vp to chastity to sobriety to temperance to humility to bounty toward the poore and therefore your reporte in this behalfe is a matter verie ordinarie vvith you and yours but in the presence of God and men a most malicious slaunder 19 You haue bin bold with vs already making small spare and lesse conscience to laye vpon vs any vniust imputation and the fowler the more pleasing to you and nowe forward you goe in the same that is in your owne vaine We must needs contemne S. Basile S. Chrysostome S. Hierome and S. Augustine Howe farre are we from despising them the excellent lights of the Primitive Church the noble instruments of Gods glory in their time may be gathered from that which I have said before froÌ„ our reading and studying of them from the manifold printing revising of them by men of our side that in diverse places from our vsing of them in disputations our citing of them in the pulpit Neverthelesse it is not to be expected that your malice should ever saye well S. Basile wee reckon a famous Bishoppe of the East x Gregor Naz. orat 30 brought vp at Athens so coÌ„pleted with humane literature the equal love deere coÌ„panion of that Gregory Nazianzen who for his high mystical knowledge in Divinity was thought worthy to be called with an excellency Theologus whose worke touching the y Basil Hexâ—…meroÌ„ 6. daies of the creatioÌ„ seemed so admirable that S. Ambrose was coÌ„tented to imitate it yea almost to make himselfe onely a traÌ„slatour of it The golden streames of S. Chrysostomes eloquence wee hold wel neere incomparable his frequent similitudes