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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07038	Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges, for it is worthy worke: or an epitome of the fyrste booke, of that right worshipfull volume, written against the puritanes, in the defence of the noble cleargie, by as worshipfull a prieste, Iohn Bridges, presbyter, priest or elder, doctor of Diuillitie, and Deane of Sarum Wherein the arguments of the puritans are wisely prevented, that when they come to answere M. Doctor, they must needes say some thing that hath bene spoken. Compiled for the behoofe and overthrow of the vnpreaching parsons, fyckers, and currats, that haue lernt their catechismes, and are past grace: by the reverend and worthie Martin Marprelat gentleman, and dedicated by a second epistle to the terrible priests. In this epitome, the foresaide fickers, [et]c. are very insufficiently furnished, with notable inabilitie of most vincible reasons, to answere the cauill of the puritanes. ...; Oh read over D. John Bridges. Epitome	Marprelate, Martin, pseud.; Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601, attributed name.; Penry, John, 1559-1593, attributed name.	1588 (1588)	STC 17454; ESTC S112311	32,960	52

and trouble verie few vnles it be for fear that if they should tollerate to much they should haue a checke of their worshipfull Paltripolitan But you three like furious senceles brute beasts dread no perill looke no farther then your feete spare none but with tooth and naile cry out downe with that side that fauoreth the gospel so Fetch them vp with purciuants to the Gatehouse to the Fleet to the Marshalsey to the Clinck to Newgate to the Counter with thē It makes no matter with you I folow your own words brother London so you may shew your selues in shewe though not in trueth obedient subiects to the Queene disobedient traytors to God and the realme Thus farre I haue followed your words howbeit I thinke you are not well pleased w t me because yo● meane not to stand to any thing you haue written Nay you holde it vnlawfull now for a preacher as far as the two tables of the lawe do reache to speake against bishops much lesse any vngodly statute And yet you say page 49. line 7. That prechers must not be afraid to rebuke the proudest yea kings and Queenes so far forth as the two tables of the law doe reache As we see in Samuell Nathan Elias Iohn Baptist many other They may not stoope to euery mans becke studie to please man more then God Thus far are your wordes and they are as farr from your practize as you are from the imitation of these godly examples whiche you haue brought I see a bishoppricke hath cooled your courage for in those dayes that you wrote this book you woulde haue our parliament to ouer rule her maiestie not to yeelde an inche vnto her of their prileadges Your words I will set downe In like manner say you page 53. if the parliament vse their priuiledges the king can ordaine nothing without them if he doe it is his falt in vsurping it and their folly in permitting it wherfore in my iudgement those that in king Henrie the 8. daies would not graunt him that his proclamations shoulde haue the force of a statute weare good fathers of their countrie worthie of commendation in defending there libertie c I assure you brother Iohn you haue spoken many thinges worthie the noting and I would our parliament men woulde marke this action done in King Henry the 8. dayes and follow it in bringinge in reformation and putting downe lord Bishops with al other points of superstition they may in your iudgment not only doe any thing against their Kings or Queenes minde that is behoofull to the honor of god and the good of the common welth but euen withstand the procedings of their soueraigne But me thinks you haue a palpable error in the 48.49 50. page of your booke which is that women are vncapable of the ministerie not in regard of their sexe but of certaine wants and imperfections in their sex vz. their want of learning and corage so that if a woman should be brought vp in learning and trained in disputations were not milder in nature then men of al which wants in women you speake page 48 but knewe their quarter stroke which knowledg you require in the minister page 49 then by your reason they might prech in your di●ces whosoeuer wil read your 50. and 51. pages shal find this to be your iudgment Besides al this the reader shall find such earthly carnal stuff in al these pages that you must needs giue this iudgment of the whole book surely fleshe euen a lump of meere fleshe writ it For there you shall see the Englishe man prefered before other people only because he feedeth vpon and hath in his possession plentie of sheepe Oxen kie calues I keepe Iohn Elmars words Con●es fish and where as other nations feed vpon rootes rawe hearbes oyle grapes c. In the last place against the French King he raileth and outrageth in this wife That Turkish valesius that French tyraunt Is he a king or a diuell a christian or a Lucifer that by his cursed confederacie with the turke Page 113. line 4. O wicked ca●tife fyrebrand of hell And line 8. O foolish Germanes which conspire not together with the rest of christian princes to pull out such a traytour to God and his kingdome by the eares out of France hang him against the Sun a drying The discreet reader of that whiche hath bene spoken may apparantly see the vndiscreete briutishnes that was in you euen then when you were best worthy to be accounted off And thereby may gather what you are now when you haue bidden farewell not onely vnto the synceritie of religion whiche then you seemed to imbrace but euen vnto all humanitie and ciuill behauiour And yet you doe not thus leaue the Frenche king but in this page 113. line 13. You say that the diuel hath none of his side now but him to maintaine both the spirituall the temporall Antichrist in the same page Wherefore seeing he hath forsaken God like an Apostata and solde himselfe to the diuell c. And line 27.28 Proud Holophernes Oh blessed is that man that looseth his life against such a Termagaunt Againe page 114. line 2. but this Iulia the Apostata is named a diuels name Christianissimus Line 3. And like a trayterous Sarazen is Christes enemie● Here he leaueth the French king and here I leaue his booke Nowe I entreat the reader to consider these thinges that I haue set downe out of his booke and iudge whether such things as he wrote coulde proceed from a religious heart and whether the booke be not an offspring proceeding from a lumpe of earthly flesh This booke is almost all the tokens of Christianitie that euer he shewed Since the time he became bishop he hath bene a continuall oppressor of the Churche of God His practises against God and his saintes was the onely cause whie I haue taken this paines with his booke and he shall bee more beholding vnto me vnlesse he leaue his tyrannie But now alas alas brother Bridges I had forgotten you all this while my brother London and I were so busie that wee scarce thought of you Why coulde not you put me in minde that you staid al the whyle But it is no matter we will make the quicker dispatche of our busines You shall see I will bee the more fauorable to you And let me see howe roundly you ouerturne these puritans for you are now to ouerthrow the seuerall partes of their discipline Our brethren say that our Sauior Christ ordayned an holy ministery● of men for the buylding of his Church and prooue the saying by the place of Paule Ephe. 4.11.12 Your mastership 3. maner of wayes shew the place they alleage to make nothing for their purpose First say you Paule speaketh of diuers functions therefore nothing of Ecclesiasticall gouernment This reason brethren is a very sound one if you should denie