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A17988	The life of Bernard Gilpin a man most holy and renowned among the northerne English. Faithfully written by the Right Reverend Father in God George Carleton Lord Bishop of Chichester, and published for the sake of his common auditors, by whom it was long since earnestly desired.; Vita Bernardi Gilpini. English	Carleton, George, 1559-1628.; Freake, William.	1629 (1629)	STC 4647; ESTC S125899	43,782	70

curiously pryeth into the Popish relligion he was inforced to acknowledge that very many errours were crept into the Church which hinder and obs●ure the matter of our salvation insomuch that they are no small offence to as many as hunger and thirst after righteousnesse and the knowledge of the truth He discovered many corruptio●s and changes of sound doctrine he found not so much as word touching seven Sacraments before Peter Lumbard and that the vse of the Supper was delivered vnder one kinde onely contrary to expresse Scriptures that Transubstantiation was a devise of the Schoolemen that the doctrine of the worke wrought called Opu● operatum was newly risen that the Masse was turned from a Sacrament to a Sacrifice that in the Church wherein all things were ordeined for the edification of the people all things were now done to the non-edification of them that the adoration of Images was instituted against the expresse commandement of God Demurring for a while as distracted with these thoughts behold the rule of faith lately changed in the Councel of Tr●n● vtterly astonished him For he had observed out of the auncient Writers as well as out of the later ones Lu● ba●d Scotus Aq●inas and the rest that the rule of faith was to be drawne onely from the holy Scriptures but in the Councel of Trent he beheld humane traditions made equall wi●h the Scriptures And seeing he vnderstood these traditions to be nothing else but peevish and crosse expositions of the holy Scriptures devised by the Bishops of Rome and thrust in among the Decretall Epistles as also that the said Decretall Epistles were meerely feigned and suppositions as is confirmed by the testimonies of many learned men and indeed by the confession of the very Papists themselues is acknowledged to be out of all doubt this so great a confusion of things being risen in the Church in these latter ages enforced Gilpin now earnestly desiring nothing so much as true piety to begin to doubt whether the Pope might not be that Antichrist foretould in the Scriptures and the Popish Church plainly Antichristian For what is it to exalt and set vp himselfe against all that is called God insomuch that he sitteth as God in the Temple of God behaving himselfe as God if not this that the Pope is head of the vniversall Church the Lord the Monarch and as it were the God thereof And that the word of the Pope is defended as the very word of God For how shall not he whose word is as the word of God be as God opposing himselfe to God and shewing himselfe that he is God But this word is called the vnwritten word or verbum non script●m is drawne out of the stinking puddles of the Decretals that is to say patched vp together out of false and fictitious writings And this word which is in no respect worthy to be compared with the word of an honest man is the vnwritten word of God and to be enterteined with the same pious affection as are the holy Scriptures Can Antichrist when he shall come if yet there be another to come more grievously wrong and blaspheme Christ and the holy Scriptures then the Pope doeth And here at the last he demurred as in an exceeding great doubt For who would haue thought the Pope to be Antichrist who durst to speake such a word before Martin Luther Therefore thus he argued with himselfe If the Pope be Antichrist I fee not onely probable but even necessary causes to depart from the Popish Church But if the Pope be not Antichrist I see no sufficient ground for such a departure It is not lawfull to make a seperation from the Church but we are not onely enioyned to come out of the Church of Antichrist but we see the fearefull anger of the living God and heare his dreadfull threates thundered out against those who shall remaine in Babilo● that Sinagogue of Antichrist Forasmuch as a voice from heaven speaketh vnto vs. Apoc. 18 Come out of her my people it is denounced that they shal receiue of her plagues whosoever haue beene partakers of her sinnes Here therfore he stoppeda while because except the Pope were manifestly detected to be Antichrist he did not vnderstand how he might seperate from the Church and therefore he applied himselfe by searching reading prayer and meditation to be resolved of this truth He observed out of the Auncient Fathers Tertullian I●rom Ambrose Augustine Chrysostome Cyrill and others that passage wherein Antichrist is described 2 Thess. 2 7. He which now withhouldeth shall let till he be taken out of the way to be so interpreted as vnderstood of the Romane Empire that the Romane Empire which now held preheminence should keepe possession vntill Antichrist shall come who shall possesse the seat of the Romane Empire And moreover whereas it is said in the same place that Christ shall not come againe except there be a depart●r● first he observed this thing to be fulfilled likewise He perceived first a very maine departure of the Church of Rome from her primitiue simplicity and truth And secondly a second departure or seperation no lesse manifest to wit of that of the Reformed Churches from the Church of Rome Mr. Gilpin would often say that the Churches of the Protestants were not able to giue any firme and solid reason of their seperation besides this to wit that the Pope is Antichrist For he vnderstood that a departure was commanded from the Church of Antichrist by that heavenly iniunction Goe out of her my people and be not partakers of her sinnes lest ye reciue also of her plagues Revel 18. 4. In which place S. lohn wisely foretelleth that the people of God should be called out of the Synagogue of Antichrist that here was no third thing to be thought vpon that either the Church of Christ was not to be forsaken or the Pope to be accounted Antichrist out of whose Church the Church of God is called forth by an heavenly voice command And now event which is the most vndoubted interpreter of Prophecies hath prooved all these things vnto vs We haue seene already many Ages agoe that Kingdome taken away which ruled over all in the time of the Apostles and in the roome thereof an Ecclesiasticall Kingdome erected such an one as was never seene in the Church in former Ages We haue beheld the fearfull departure of the Church of Rome from the auncient purity and integrity of the Church We haue observed and doe daily the people called as it were by a voice from heaven comming out of Babylon that is to say out of the Church of Antichrist Our eyes haue seene these things fulfilled which we haue read of as being foretould so many Ages agoe These things mooved the mind of Mr. Gilpin wonderfully to follow that Church which was shewed vnto him out of the word of God The Church of Rome kept the rule of faith intire vntill that rule was changed and altered by the

of that name had done vnadvisedly seeing he had made it an Article of faith And he did further confesse that the Pope had committed a great fault in that touching Indulgences and other things he had taken no better order for the quiet of the Church Afterwards I conferred with Doctor Redman in whom I reposed much hope in regard of his eminent vertues and great schollership He affirmed vnto me that the booke of Common Prayer was an holy booke and agreeable to the Gospell These things cast me into many distractiue thoughts After this one of the fellowes of Queenes Colledge in Oxford told me that he heard Doctour Chedsey saying among his friends that it must come to this point that the Protestants must grant vs a reall presence of Christ in the Sacrament and we likewise giue way vnto them in the opinion of Transubstantiation and so we shall accord Doctor Weston made a long Oration touching the Supper of the Lord to bee administred vnder both kindes Mr. Morgan tolde me that Doctor War● a man most famous for life and learning had affirmed vnto him that the principall sacrifice of the Church of God was the sacrifice of thanksgiving This was his answer when I had demanded of him what could be said for the sacrifice of the Masse The most learned Bishops in this Kingdome at that time confuted the primacy of the Pope both in words and writing Mr. Harding being newly returned home out of Italy in a long and famous oration so plainly set out and painted to the life the Friers and vnlearned Bishops who had met at the Councell of Trent in their greene gownes that it abated in me and in very many others a great deale of that opinion and confidence which we had reposed in Generall Councels These things and many others gaue me occasion diligently to search the Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers whence I had began to obserue very many and very great abuses and some enormities oftentimes vsed and as oft defended in Popery and to iudge reformation necessary on the other part Whiles I went on in this manner I was overruled by the persuasions of some friends to accept of a Parsonage whereunto I was drawne against my will If I offended God in vndertaking the charge before I was a more sufficient scholler and better grounded in Religion I aske God forgiuenesse Nor doe I doubt but I haue obtained mercy in his sight Before I was entred vpon that Parsonage I preacht before King Edward at Greenwich a Sermon which had approbation of many good men The Lord Treasurer being at that time Secretary obtained for me from the King licence as a generall Preacher throughout the Kingdome so long as the King lived which time fell out to be not much aboue the space of halfe a yeare after In my Sermons I handled those points wherein I was best grounded and wherein I was vndoubtedly resolved o●t of the Scriptures I examined the Masse and the abuse so farre as I was able to obserue at that time consisted in the too much reverence and grosser worship of the people because I beleeved not Transubstantiation Neverthelesse at some times I read Masse but seldome and privately Then was I forthwith sent beyond the Seas that I might oversee the printi●g of my Lord Bishop Tonstall his booke touching the Eucharist with two or three books more as you know at Antwerp where I beheld for the space of three yeares at Paris Antwerp and L●va●n● and in some other places very grosse Idolatry This thing did more and more estrange me from the Popish religion most of all because the learneder Papists did in their disputations in schooles deny the adoration of images yet allowed the intolerable abuse thereof in their Churches And now whiles with all earnestnesse I advised with the holy Scriptures and writings of the Fathers I observed many things alienated mine heart from the Popish Church I observed in that Church notable corruptions of the doctrine of the Bible many things in the Sacraments instituted against Scripture some Sacraments lately added In the Sacrament of the Supper the one halfe taken away the fiction of Transubstantiation brought in traditions of the Church made equall to the word of God and to the holy Scriptures and to be imbraced with the same pious affection the worship of Images brought into the Church all things performed in the Church before the people in an vnknowne language but aboue all the rest the question concerning Antichrist troubled me most because it seemed not to me a safe thing to make a seperation from the Popish Church except I were first fully resolved that the Pope is Antichrist and in this point I cannot easily expresse with how many difficulties and distractions I was daily opposed Afterwards I was sent for home againe by the Bishop who conferred vpon me the Rectory of Essi●●don where when I had indeavoured to be constant in preaching I observed that I had vpon a sodaine procured to my selfe many and heavy enemies thereby for I had preached against plurality of Benefices and Non-residency Mine adversaries cryed out that all such as broached that doctrine would prooue hereticks quickly Others were much displeased with me for that I had preached repentance salvation by Christ. They laid to my charge that I did not make whole Sermons about Transubstantiation Purgatory Holy water the worshipping of Images the invocation of Saints and the like which they could never heare come from me And by how much the people were more earnest to resort to my Sermons so much the more eagerly they tooke offence at mee and hated mee A very small matter brought me into danger An honest Matron because in her pangs of childbirth she had often called vpon God was grievously checked by the other good women because she had not called vpon the blessed Virgin To whom she made answer I haue heard saith she a certaine famous Preacher one Gilpin a man that came lately out of France if he will advise me to call vpon the Saints I will take his counsell in that point I tolde them that I durst not persuade any one to invocate the Saints but that those who call onely vpon God for help in all their da●gers haue a commandement from God so to doe and a firme promise for the infallible comforting of their conscience This occasion stirred me vp many foes In the meane while I often conversed wit● learned men my very loving friends and kindred I demanded how it came to paste that there was no reformation of so many abuses touching Images Reliques Pilgrimages buying and selling of Masses and Trentalls with many other errours which in the time of King Edward the Papists had not onely confessed to be superstitious but had promised reformation of them and professed that it was meete the Church should be purged of them which thing they said they would gladly doe if ever the power came into their hands againe When I asked