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A01219	An oration against the vnlawfull insurrections of the protestantes of our time, vnder pretence to refourme religion Made and pronounced in Latin, in the Schole of Artes at Louaine, the .xiij. of December. Anno. 1565. By Peter Frarin of Andwerp, M. of Arte, and Bacheler of both lawes. And now translated [by John Fowler] into English, with the aduise of the author.; Oratio Petri Frarini quod male reformandae religionis nomine arma sumpserunt sectarii nostri temporis habita. English	Frarinus, Petrus.; Fowler, John, 1537-1579.	1566 (1566)	STC 11333; ESTC S112684	57,035	182

can make sufficient amendes for it For he toke away the sacred Relyques of the blessed Archebysshoppe of Tours the body and asshes of S. Martyne the Greate Confessor that had bene kepte there with greate reuerence so many hundred yeres notwithstandinge the often warre and cruell persecutions of diuerse enemies both heathen and Christian And when he had taken them out of the Shrine he burnte them with fyere and then gathered vp the holy and blessed asshes and threwe them into the ●yuer of Loyer that runneth thereby With the lyke impietye and furiuose rage at Lyons the bodie of S. Ireneus sometyme Bysshoppe there one that liued very nigh the Apostles tyme at Poictiers the bodie of S. Hylarie Bysshoppe also there were pulled out of theyr Graues defiled Prophaned burnte with fyre and then caste into the Riuers O wonderfull Impietye and madnes of raginge Heretikes O beastly and more then Barbarouse rudenes and crueltie What Tyranne euer in anye Lande was so fierce and cruell that woulde persecute teare and mangle all good men not only in theyr lyfe tyme but also after they were departed out of thys world and buried in theyr graues These cruell Graueroo●ers that labor to brynge a newe Religion into Christendome can not abyde that good men shoulde lyue any where on the earth nor yet suffer them to reaste vnder the earth in theyr graues after theyr decease They couer with Sylke and decke with veluettes theyr owne fylthye bodies and theyr Womens moste vyle and stynkinge carcasses whiche without the greate mercy of God shallbe one daye the stuffe and matter of Helfyre and carrayne for death and damnation to feede on And wyll they not suffer the blessed bodies and ▪ boues of Sayntes that shallbe in the end placed in Heauen with theyr blessed soules whiche are there before in peace and reast and ioye with Christe to be in the meane tyme closed in lead or couered with stone or layed vnder earth and claye It is happy they can not plucke theyr holy Soules out of heauen to as they doe al theyr endeuor to destroy and vtterly rydde theyr bodies out of the earth For if they could gette them thence set themselues in theyr places it appereth here by this good wil of theirs in y e one what they would doe in the other and that is no more but euen to follow their Grand Capitaine Lucifer For as he would haue done to God himself when he sayed in his harte he would clyme aboue al y e starres of God and be Gods owne fellowe and syt faste by his syde euen so by al likelihod these men would doe to Gods fryndes and seruantes that is robbe them of all glory and of theyr places both in heauen earth if it lay in theyr power so to doe But though God geue them alitle leaue on theyr bodies whiche is all that they or the the diuell hath any power vpon For the Serpent feedeth on the earth and crepeth on his belie and can do no more yet Sanctorum Animae in manu Dei sunt nō tanger illos tormentum malitiae The Soules of Saintes are in Gods owne hand and reast and raigne with him that all the malice of y ● diuelles in hell or theyr seruantes in earth cannot once touche nor come nere them what euer they doe in the meane tyme to theyr bodies I cannot let passe but rehearse and note here vnto you surely a notable Hystorie out of Eusebius of the persecutiōs of the very self same places in Fraunce by which it may be thought in cōferring the one with the other that these men nowe be of the same feruēt and hot zeale as themselues terme it of the same mynde opinion in these lyke actes of theyrs as y e cursed Paynyms were then toward the Christen folke whome they persequuted and put most cruelly to death For they not content with all the terrible tourmentes paynfull deathes Martyrdomes executed vpon them would not somuch as suffer theyr bodies to be buried but threw them to dogges and kept straight watche day and night y ● noman should take them away but that y ● dogges should deuoure them in deede And if the beastes or the fyre leaste any part of theyr bodies not confumed they toke the bones and asshes and the duste and all together threwe into y e Riuer thinking thereby to ouercome and conquere God himselfe that neyther he shoulde be able to gather theyr asshes together and make theyr bodies aliue againe as they were before nor they haue any hope of Resurrection out of theyr graues being out of all hope of graue or any kynd of buriall at all This doth Eusebius wryte reporte out of the very letters and Autentyke wyttenesse of the Christen folke Martyrs there at that tyme. And if we shal cōpare together those myscreantes then with these our mysseshapen Christians nowe I cannot see wherein they any thing differ from them but well may I sone see that in some pointes these matche them go beyonde them to For the persons and holy Sayntes of God against whome all this crueltie and extremitie of malice is shewed be all one of the same Catholike fayth and Religion and much about the same age and tyme far within syxe hundred yeres after Christe And what els is the cause that our newe Gospellers doo so persecute spette at and abhorre theyr bones and ashes nowe but for the hate they haue both to them and theyr Catholique Religion if they durst so playnly for shame cōfesse it as by y e diuelles persuasion they doo in theyr hartes beleue it The Paynyms would not only themselues not burie the dead bodies of the Sayntes but dyd also most cruelly forbyd and most straightly watche that none other mā nor Christen nor heathen moued with pitie should steale them away and burie them What els meane these Captaine Protestants nowe but y ● neyther they nor any good Christē man in deede shall see any such holy bodies reuerently buried and layed in graue The heathen Infidelles cruelly kylled the Christians as theyr mortal enemies and threwe theyr bodies to beastes to deuoure These worse than Infidelles take vp the bodies that haue so long lyen styl spoyle the graues and Sepulchres and prophane all together most impiously The Infidelles to wreake theyr present āger forbyd burial to their enemies being newly ●layen theyr blood yet warme and the tormentors wrath yet fressh and fierce these fell persecutors denie them buriall yea most violently spoyle them of theyr graues which they had quietly kepte and possessed so many hundred yeares Whome if they take for theyr fryndes why order they so cruelly and if for theyr enemies why haue they not forgot all yre and malice after so lōg tyme of so many hundred yeares The mysbeleuing Paynyms thought that the Christen men ran wyllingly to suffer all kynde of torment and death for Christes sake because of the

Citie An other old Religiouse man night foure score yeares of age of the Abbey of S. Euuerte there when he had escaped out of Orleans and gotten a mile or two from the Citie was taken by the souldiours of the Gospell in a certaine Village called Mareau where he had receaued his maker that morning preparing himself to die out of hād they strip him starke naked and caste a rope with a riding knot about his necke and so pulled him drew him a long the streate When they saw he was now at deaths doore geuing ouer struggling gasped for breath they toke awaye death from him leaste it should ease him to sone of his paine they vntied and loosed y e corde they toke his feble and now wel nighe dead carcasse bownd hit to a tree and made hi● theyr marke to shoote at with theyr harquebuzes and gunnes for exercise sake and practice of theyr feates of warre An others bealy they opened wounde out his guttes about a staffe softe and faire he being yet aliue and looking on his own entrayles They came to an other good parson of a Village in the countree who laye sore sick in his bedde so worne spente with sicknes that for very weaknes he was not able to stād on his fete They plucke him out of his bedde by force they hale him in his sherte bare headed barefoote and barelegd out into the streate after they had sported and mocked like mad men about him a while they pull him in to y ● Churche y t was there hard by they hoyse him with a rope vp to the roode that stode a highe ouer the quiere doore and there hanged him vp vppon the crucifix I haue yet fressh in my remembrance yea my thinke I see yet now before my eies the teares of certaine honest men in Orleans who for weeping snobbing could scante abide to tell me how miserably how cruellie how vnmercifully a certaine vertuouse mā a Priest withe whome they had been familiar● and acquainted in his life time was handeled murdred by these cruel butchers The poore honest man as they told me got on a beggers cloke and a scripp full of crustes of old vinowed bread scraps of meate such as beggars haue being so disguysed had escaped as he thought out of all gunneshot and danger when behold sodenlie Caluines souldiours ouertake him on the waye being now weerie and nighe out of breath And as these kind of people are verie suspiciouse wel practized and experte in al mischiefe they aske and examine him verie diligētlie what he was and whence he came When by long examination and muche threatning they vnderstood at length y t he was a Prieste they brought the innocent poore man bound like a theef into the next Village and there in the open market they make an auction and sale of him as if he had bene a bondman and aske if anie man would geue readie mony for him The inhabitāts there flocked together were maruelouslie amased astonied at so strange a case they beginne to intreate for him they praye them and holding vp theyr handes to heauen they beseeche them hartelye that they would dimisse let goe the innocent harmelesse man and doe him no more harme that they would consider that he was a Christian man the image of God and anoynted priest But it had been as good they had told a tale to a tubbe or whispered in a deaf mans eare For all Heretikes haue stonie hartes they can not be mollified It is the nature and propertie of men and not of diuelles to be moued with mercie and pitie towardes suche as are in miserie To be shorte first they pull out both his eies then they cut of y e toppes of his fingers whiche had been sometimes anoynted with holie oyle and flea with a knife the skynne of y ● crowne of his head whiche was shauen according to the ancient Custome Cannons Priestlike After they had thus mangled hym to the end the cruell butchers of the Gospell might haue some more pastime in mockinge and laughing at him they leade him along the streat stark naked sauing that he had a poore shurte on to couer his black blew and blouddie bodie and disioynted bones that were brused and wel nigh all crusshed w t buffets blowes and wondes At last when euerie man had his fyll of this vnmercifull cruell and raging mad pastine they binde the constant Martyr of Christe with a rope vpright againste a tree and with theyr gunnes shot at him so often that they perced all his bodye throughe full of holes O God immortall that thou seest these so wonderfull and strainge villauies so horrible and incredible cruel●ies and doest not out of hand strike down consume awaye Suche mo●struouse men with fire and lightening from heauen or cause the earth to open and sodenlie swalowe them aliue down headlong into the bottomelesse pit of hel O lord God most mightie and omnipotent King and Emperour of al heauen and earth suffrest thou thy seruants to be thus dismembred hewed and mangled But what talke I wretched earthlye and mortall man so foolisshlie after the maner of man with the euerlasting immortall and almightie God my lord and maker It seemed beste so to thy eternall wisedom O mercifull God it stood so with thy heauenly will pleasure that the might and power of vs thy seruantes the Christians shoulde be made perfit by weakenes and infirmitie that such as fought manfully as they should doe vnder thy banner should be rewarded w t a heauenly croune be honoured with an immortall garland of triumphe and victorie that thou wouldest bring vs throughe fire and water into a place of reste and comfort that suche as would leese theyr liues for thy sake should be reuiued and restored into life euerlasting The onely euerlasting and immortal sonne of God our Captaine lord and Emperour Iesus Christ taught vs firste of all by his own example and Passion to treade this path Sithens the first houre that the crosse was halowed adourned and ●erked w t his sacred blessed bodie as with a most pretiouse and celestiall Margarite His diuine prouidence made the Crosse all affliction in this world light and easie to true Christian men his example and imitiation hath made al tribulation and aduersitie pleasante and sweete This was y e cheife reward that our Master Christe gaue in this world to his deare disciples the noble Princes and worthy Prelates of his Church to al the most vertuouse holy and good men in al ages that they should take pleasure be glad y ● they were accompted worthie to suffer reproche iniuries for his names sake that they shoulde willinglye and gladlie take vp theyr Crosse on theyr shoulders and follow him theyr master guyde that lead them the waye It is not therefore O happie soules it is not shame for you to suffer y ● Christe