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A15978	[A notable discourse, plainelye and truely discussing, who are the right ministers of the Catholike Church written against Calvin and his disciples, ... with an offer made by a Catholike to be a learned Protestant ... .]; Marques de la vraye église catholique. English	Albin de Valsergues, Jean d', d. 1566.; Rishton, Edward, 1550-1586, attributed name. aut; Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1575 (1575)	STC 274; ESTC S112318	85,201	271

¶ The Preface to the Reader PLutarche a noble Philosopher a diligent Historician writeth in the life of Demetrius a king of Macedonie that when an olde woman came to him beséeching him to heare her speake and he made aunswer that he had no leasure the woman looking vpon him sayd to him agayne with a loude voyce why haue you no leasure to rule as a king shoulde Which wordes so pearced the kinges heart and so greatly preuayled in him that he forthwith gaue her audience and from that day none came to him for any matter but gently and with all diligence he did heare them discusse their causes Boysteouslye were these wordes spoken of a subiect and not with that reuerence that was méete to be geuen to a king Notwithstanding as Cicero witnesseth in the second of his Tusculanes Tristis res est dolor sine dubio aspera amara inimica naturae ad patiendum tolerandumque difficilis Sorow is a gréeuous thing without doubt sharpe bitter and an enemye to nature harde to suffer and forbeare Sorowe as I suppose constreyned the séelye woman to speake as she did veras exprimere voces and to vtter the truth On the other side consider not only the gentle nature of this noble prince but also his great wisedome in considering nothing to be more séemely for a gouernour then to hear mens causes indifferentlye and to sée all wronges redressed Nihil sayeth the same Plutarche tam egregium tamque proprium Regis esse videtur quàm iusticiae opus Nothing is so excellent so properlye pertayning to him that is a magistrate as iustice I haue read that the Tribunes which wer officers chosen for the defence of the Commons of Rome had their gates or dores neuer shut neither by day nor by night in token that thither might be the recourse of al them that had néede of succour So ought euery gouernoure whether he be spiritual or temporall to be a succour and as it wer a castle and a fortresse to them that be vnder his tuition Dion Cassius in his bookes that he wrote de principe amongst other preceptes willeth chiefely and aboue all thinges that whosoeuer be the head of the people be a diligent worshipper folower of God next that he be louing to his subiectes if he will haue them to be faythfull to him and loue him as subiectes shoulde their prince For it is not of likelyhood said Dion neither doth nature permit but that he that loueth should be loued when we sée dogges to fawne and horses to neye to them of whom they be cherished Again he would haue such rulers to call themselues shepherdes and féeders of men rather then otherwise So Homer calleth a king pastorem populi a shepherde and féeder of the people And Plato in his Dialogue called Minos writeth that Minos and Radamanthus which gaue lawes to the men of Crete were the true shepherdes of men whiche was not spoken of so noble a Philosopher without a iust cause for nothing doth more nourish mainteine and vpholde a common wealth then lawe which as Tullie in secūdo de natura deorum sayth est recti praeceptio prauique depulsio a commaunder of that which is good and honest and an expulser of all that is noughte and vnhonest Now as a shepherdes care is to sée his shéepe fedde in wholsome pastures and to be kepte safe from wolues al other beastes that would wery and destroy them and if any in the flocke be infected with any outwarde scabbe or inward maladie to remedie it betime or if the contagion admit no helpe but is incurable to haue suche a one away from the flocke that he hurt none of them that be whole Euen so must he that will be a shepherde of men studye for the good ordering and quietnes of the multitude ouer whom he hath charge and that all enormities that might disturbe a common wealth whether it be spirituall or ciuill be expelled and that all faultes be redressed with due correction vsing lenitie and seueritie after as hope or dispaire of amendment shall appeare Neither hath the name of a shepherde lacked his preheminence at any time That good Abell ad cuius munera deus respexit to whose giftes sacrifice God had respect was a shepherde Abraham in whose séede God promised that all nations shoulde be blessed was a shepherde so was Isaac his sonne and Iacob his nephewe and his sonnes also Moyses that noble captayne and deliuerer of God his people was a shepherde in the lande of Madian Dauid of whom S. Steuen sayde that God gaue this testimonye Inueni Dauid filium lesse virum secundùm cor meum qui faciet omnes voluntates meas I haue founde Dauid the sonne of Iesse a man after mine owne heart and minde which shall do all my will. Act. 13. This noble king Dauid was a shepherde These I suppose almightie God woulde haue to be ensamples to all them that be in authoritie for as Paule sayth Quaecunque scripta sunt ad nostram eruditionem scripta sunt All thinges that are written are written for our instruction that as they fedde that séely innocent cattell so shoulde all Magistrates that professe his sons name learne to gouerne the people in the obedience of his doctrine that they might be innocentes manibus puro corde nec iurantes in dolo proximo suo Innocents of their handes and of a pure heart which vse no deceipt towardes their neighbours but in al their doinges shewe themselues to be veras oues pascuae Christi the true shéepe of the pasture of Iesus Christe who sayeth Bonus pastor animam suàm dat pro ouibus suis A good shepherd geueth his life for his shéepe Fewe wordes but full of pith And neuer could mo thinges be spoken more compendiouslye For what will he refuse to doo what labour what trauayle what payne will he forsake which for that perfourmance of that he goeth about will not spare his owne life If a good shepherde setteth so great store by his shéepe if he loue them so tenderly that he will rather lose his lyfe then to sée thē in any danger what will he not doo els for them Howe can it be otherwise but that he will sée his flocke fedde in wholsome pastures howe can it be thoght that he will not tarye with them to kéepe them from wolues from dogges that fall to byting of them and from other like rauenous beasts Who would imagine him to be so negligent that he will not in the euening bring them home to the cote or folde Will he not trowe you if any be strayed go séeke him out and bring him agayne to his felowes If any be sicke will he not sée him holpen with all diligence Sée therfore what a great matter our Sauior did comprehend folde vp as it were knit together in a bundell al that can be desired in a good herdesman O that gouernours whō god hath put

or stay in any one of them vntill they come ad profundum malorum and to a most playne and open apostacie to be miscreants Turkishe and of Mahomets religion not caring or setting by God nor the deuill neither for heauen nor hell Nowe heresyes being thus ficle and mouing the finall ende of them thus lamentable and horrible in the sight of God Let any learned protestant liuing answere directlye and playnelye without all cauill coloure or fraude of wordes without all vnprofitable and impertinent digressions not onely to this but to al the foresaide signes tokens and demaundes And I shall for company good felowship with them leaue the common knowen churche and the playne way of saluation beaten by our forefathers for the space of these fyftene hundred yeres past and nowe wander with thē in their vncertaine bypathes through vnknowen desertes rough woods brambles and bryers to seeke in the end we cannot tell what And here to conclude and of my part to minister vnto you some occasion in the relinquishing of these priuate churches and congregations of sectaries to returne to the vnitie and attonement of the common knowen catholike churche of Christe where stabilitie and constancie of fayth and religion is onely to be founde I shall here lay before you the worthy example of the blessed martyr Sebastian by him brought of a loafe of breade to Genserichus then king of the Vandales a furious and a barbarous nation whiche breaking into Affrike they founde there many valiant captayns placed by the Emperour Theodosius the second for the defence and sauegarde of the countrey amonge the rest was this Sebastian by dignitie an earle and a couragious and valiant captayne who with the rest yeelding to the force of Gensericus was as Victor de persecutione Vandalorum writeth for his great wisedome and valiantnes not so muche beloued as feared of the king Genserichus who being an Arrian intended by colour of religion to work his death For Genserichus knowing Sebastian to be a seuere and a perfit christian man conuented him before the Arrian Bishops and vnder the pretence that amitie and frendshippe might be the surer and continue the longer betwixte them Genserichus moued him to become an Arrian and to professe the same maner of beleefe and religion as he and his people were of For answere this holy martyr Sebastian requested Genserichus the king to commaunde a fyne wheten loafe to be brought vnto him and taking it in his hande and here to omit many of his wordes and notable sayinges he requested the king Genserichus to commaund the loafe of breade to be broken in peeces to be ground brought to flower and boulted afreshe to be seasoned with water and salte and baked agayne if then it should in the end proue better bread then it was before he would not faile to accomplishe the king Genserichus his will pleasure but if it were not possible by breaking of the loafe and baking of it againe to better it but to make woorse breade then before he wold not nor could not consent therevnto And in fine suffered death in the defence of the christian fayth religiō by him alreadye professed and receaued rather then he would condiscend to the impayring infringing or breaking of any part therof And so Genserichus caused this blessed man Sebastian to dye a holye Martyr Thus much I haue brieflye deducted out of the history of Victor to that intent that so apte and familiar an example of so holy blessed a martyr might in these perplexities and doubtes in these ofte changes mutations of religion confort the weaklings of Christ his church and bring them to some more better stay when by this example of Sebastians loaf certain sure we may be that the loafe of the vnitie of Christe his Churche the loafe of his Gospell fayth and religion being by schisme and heresye neuer so ofte broken neuer so finely grynded boulted searced and syfted kneaded baked agayne and agayne they shall neuer be able to better it or to bring it to that perfection which it had before And therfore all their attemptes to the contrarye are moste vayne the only remembraunce of this Sebastians loafe should suffise to confyrme the faythfull to stay the wauering and weaklinges and to plucke the deceaued backe agayne and to cause them in leauing of this their fickle waueringnes of this their proceedinges as they terme it from one secte to another from one congregation to another and from their scatering abrode with Antichriste to stay them selues and to gather them selues with our Sauiour Christ into the vnitie of his common knowen catholike churche where they shal be sure to ●ynd vnitie of religion vniformitie in all ceremonies and obseruances of the same with thattonement of christian fayth throughout in all Sacramentes and articles of our Creede to the pacifying of many contentions and strifes among vs to the quietation of mens consciences causing vs all professours of Christe as brethren here to liue together in quietnes peace and vnitie to the more better assuraunce of the publique estate of this Realme and to the great glorye and honour of almightie God to whom be all prayse honour and glorye worlde without ende Amen FINIS Act. 20. In his booke of Insti ca. 18. Art. 58. Heb. 5. L. Si quis ad se ad leg lul de nil publ c Num. 16. 2. Paral. 26 Math. 5. Ephe. 4. Lib. con haer Canti 1. Canti 1. Lib. 4. contra haeres cap. 65. Ephe. 1. Galat. 1. 1. Cor. 10. Exod. 29. Leuit. 4. Num. 8. 17. Act. 8. 19. 13. Tim. ● A 7. Cip. 1. epist. cap. 6. Gal. 1. Ioh. 6. Mat. 22. Rom. 10. Mat. 15. Cap. 3. Rom. 13. Rom. 13. Cap. 14. Cap. 34. Math. 11. Cod. vt nemo in sua causa iud Ioh. 15. Gen. 20. 1. Ioh. 4. Mat. 28. Mat. 12. 24. Exod. 19. Act. 14. Gen. 20. Gen. 24. Iud. 2. Psal. 18. Sap. 13. Rom. 1. Act. 12. Lib. ● ca. 15. Act. 3. Deut. 16. Act. 10. Li. 8. fo 4. Cap. 6. 10. 12. An heresie of the Puritans Cap. 5. Cap. 3. Math. ca. 10. 16. Psal. 90. Ioh. 6. Ioh. 2. 1. Cor 5. Ioh. 8. Psal. 84. Ioh. 5. Gen. ca. 12 15. 19. 22. 24. Ioh. 5. Mat. 11. Luk. 6 Mat. 15. Dani. 15 Iohn 18. Rom. 1. Iohn 8. Sap. 1. 1. Cor. 10. Iohn 10. Ioh. 20. Mat. 16. 2. Cor. 4. Luk. 16. Mat. 7. In his booke of the true body of Christ in the sacrif written in Latin. Mat. 28. Mar. 16. Act. 20. Heb. 13. Ioh. 14. Certayne and assured signes and tokēs of false prophetes heretikes and schismatikes 1. Iohn 2. Rom. 10. Heb. 5. Heb. 13. 1. Cor. 1. 2. Tim. 3. Exod. 7.