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A11218	A briefe resolution of a right religion Touching the controuersies, that are nowe in England. Written by C.S.	C. S., fl. 1590.; Shutte, Christopher, d. 1626, attributed name.	1590 (1590)	STC 21482; ESTC S100915	24,293	41

diuelish braynes that doe nothing els but deuise the vtter ruine and destruction thereof if they could tell which way To these men therefore me thinkes Gameliel a doctor of the lawe should satisfie answering in the like case to the rulers who tooke counsell to put Peter and the rest of the Apostles to death for their preaching in the name of Iesus Let them alone saith he for if this a Act. 5 28 worke be of men it will surely come to naught if of God you cannot dissolue it least you be found to fight against God As long therefore as our religion is builded not vpon men but vpon God in vayne doe papistes looke for the ouerthrow of that whereof God himselfe purposeth to vphold They obiect as contrarie vnto vs the antient fathers by whose consenting voyce if the debate were to be ended the better part of the victorie to speake moste modestly would bend to our side but whereas manie thinges haue bin well and wisely written of those fathers and something hath happened to them which is woont to happen to men these kinde natured children according to the rightnesse they haue both of wit and iudgement doe worship onely their faultes and errours and those thinges which are well spoken they eyther vtterly reiect or els mischieuousle corrupt with their bastard glozes and interpretations And no maruell though they thus deale with the fathers who were but men when they dare be bolde to adde to to take from to curtoll corrupt in like sort the sacred scriptures of God himselfe as afterward shal be declared But the papistes are so drowned in their owne sensuall blindnesse they are so addicted onely to the outward eye that they can see no true token of the true church they shew themselues to be men in that rather then they will haue no Church they will build it vpon men when they want the word of God for their foundation whervpon in trueth the true Church is builded but of the same fountain of ignorance is it that they call our religion newe because it appeared not in outward shewe along time together as their painted Church hath done to whome we answere that it is new to them to whome the Gospel is new And wheras it hath long lien hid vnknown and as it were buried that was the fault of the vngodlinesse of the world but nowe sith it is by the bountifulnesse of God restored againe it ought by right of full restitution to receiue againe the due title of antiquitie And herein the papistes do manifest iniurie vnto vs who conuey our religion farre before theirs namely from the mouth of God and the prophets of Christ and his apostles by a lawfull conueyance written with the finger of God sealed with the blood of his sonne and deliuered vnto vs by the handes of the prophetes and apostles so that we haue the writinges of God lawfully sealed and deliuered to giue in euidence for the trueth of that faith that we professe the truth whereof is confirmed by the myracles that are extant in scriptures wrought by Christ and his apostles for the establishing of his doctrine foreuer So that I trust the Papistes will not driue vs to other myracles for all the myracles that euer were done before either in the time of Moses and the Prophetes or Christ and his apostles for confirming of the doctrine that they should teach vpon which doctrine already confirmed by innumerable myracles signes and wonders Wee rest and stay our selues as vpon a most sure anchor and infallible foundation which can neuer faile nor fall They haue charged our doctrine as the welspring of troubles vprores and contentions and tearmed it most slaunderously a Doctrine of Libertines and licentious libertie But who knoweth not that these are euident and apparant badges of their Romish religion Dooth not daylie experience teach vs that the Romaine Iesuits and Seminaries of Rome doo disquiet not onely England but all Europe with erecting vprores and monstrous treacheries and treasons in peaceable common-weales with seeking to shead innocent blood to pull crownes from lawfull annointed Princes and setting subiectes if they could in rebellious troupes to bid battaile against their lawful Soueraignes But it is an hard matter to take Hercules club out of his hand and to wreath from Princes their crownes is more impossible but in raising warre against God the annointer of Princes and preseruer of their regal Scepters is far lesse hope to get a victorie Therefore to the turbulent spirited Papistes Elias hath taught vs to answere that it is not we that haue c 1. King 18 troubled Israell but themselues that wrastle against the power of God And whereas they vrge vpon vs a doctrine of liberties and licentiousnesse they throwe that vppon vs which is appropriated and peculier vnto themselues onely For our religion teacheth a true faith towards God and good and godly conuersation among men but all the Romishe Catholikes if they bee once reconciled to the Sea of Rome there is no trueth in their mouthes nor faithfulnesse in their heartes they may sweare and forsweare for Fides non est seruanda cum haereticis as they with as much rage as litle reason tearme vs yea what villanie may they not commit They may sinne all monstrous sinnes of the world and iustifie it when they haue done so that they may sinne and that with authoritie They may haue a pardon from the pope and a dispensation also for money to commit all filthinesse and kindes of naughtinesse adulterie robberie murther treasons rebellions And what villanie is there that they may not commit with boldnesse by vertue of their vitious and most pestilent religion For a popes pardon will salue all Doo wee not see it euident that the pope sendeth his Legates hither to perswade the people to a wrong faith to whisper in their eares treachery and treason against a most naturall prince and Soueraigne And to such fellowes as like hereof they graunt pardons and take it a matter meritorious in heauen But who is so blind that dooth not see the peruersnes and sensuall beastinesse of their Romish religion who when they are able no longer to stand vpright and to maintaine the pompe of the Pope but that his kingdom beginneth to fall being already shaken when by the power of the word of God the glory of their church beginneth to decay and fade away then they are driuen to deuise newe subtilties and because their doctrine cannot please God they endeuour another while to see if they can please men withall Wherein good reader I beseech thee consider with me vpon what good foundation the Church of Rome is builded and how well the pope that vainely bosteth himselfe to be Peters successour dischargeth the office of a true apostle The papistes and Romanistes they contend with stretched out voice and fight with all the violence they can to erect and vphold the vanishing and all tottering glorie of the pope This

there bee woorkes of superogation able to saue both themselues and others also they may so aboūd with such superfluitie of good workes Yea worse then all this they holde and teache and teach other to practise which is most horrible blasphemie that bad workes are also meritorious namely that treason in subiects and murthering of their lawfull Christian Soueraigne is not onely lawful but alowable yea commendable nay more than so meritorious in heauen which doctrine as it is moste blasphemous so the practise thereof is moste damnable and dangerous abhorring from nature which teacheth euerie subiect to feare and honour his prince as nature bindeth the sonne to feare and honour his father for princeps est patriae parens degenerating from the law of all nations for it is lawfull and meritorious for a papisticall Romanist treacherously to murder his holy father the pope yea rather more if of euils the least be to be chosen then it is for a sworne subiect to be false and traiterous to so christian a prince Meere repugnant to all Scripture yea contrary to the doctrine of Peter himselfe whose doctrine the pope must obey and teach if in succession hee will be accompted a lawfull Apostle of Christ harken O ye Papists and listen what Peter teacheth you follow his doctrine let not the popes bare name of holy father deceiue you any more nor the name of the Apostolicke Sea for they are but lying wordes to deceiue you Compare the Apostleship of Peter with the Apostleship of the Pope and then if you find him contrarie though he be Peters successour reiect him and tread hys doctrine vnder feete The wordes of Peter are thus be m 1. Pet. 2 13. subiect therefore saith he to euery humain creature whether it be to the king as to the chiefe or to relers as to them that be set in authoritie for the punishment of them that doe ill and the praise of them that doe good againe in the same chapter he saith honour all men loue brotherly charitie feare God honour the king againe he commandeth seruantes to submit themselues in all feare vnto their masters not onely saith he if they be good but also though they be froward If a froward maister be to be honoured and feared of his seruaunt much more ought the person of a kinde and vertuous Soueraigne be had in most reuerent estimation of all subiectes considering that the person of a Prince on earth is the image of God in heauen that she is a person of mightie maiestie of puissant magnificence and of most glistring princely royaltie who being placed in her throne by God by whome Reges regnant principes dominantur is impossible to be thrust out by the power or pollicie of men no not of the deuill himselfe nor all his adherentes for that must needes stand which God hath stablished but that may easily fall which men onely haue erected heauen and earth may passe but not one iote of the word of God shall perishe but shal be fulfilled They therefore may aswell thinke it as possible to pul God out of heauen as it is to remoue a lawful annoynted prince from beside the seat wherein God himself stablified her The vaine hope of the papists therefore dismayed and the false Apostleship of the pope confuted by the faithfull Apostle Peter let vs proceede further to compare them together n 1. Pet. 2.11 Beloued saith Peter I exhort you as strangers and pilgrimes abstaine from fleshly lustes which fight against the soule And againe he saith o 1. Pet. 1.15 As he which called you is holy so be ye also sanctified in all conuersation because sayth he it is written p Leuit. 11 4 4 be ye holy as I am holy So that Peter admitteth no vncleannesse nor dispenseth with anie sinne but reproueth all and onely alloweth sanctimonie of life and conuersation and hee bringeth in scriptum est also for the warrant of his doctrine I would all that pretend themselues to be his successours would doe the like and giue the like wholesome sound admonitions and preceptes then should not men eyther for loue or money haue pardons dispensations commissions with authoritie to commit most diuelish murder accompting that for meritorious which is most monstrous and meriteth in trueth a moste bloudie reuenge for the body and eternall tormentes for the soule if it should be but so much as conceaued in the imagination What the office of a true Apostle is Peter describeth in his fift Chapter q 1. Pet. 5.1 The elders that be amongest you I which am also an elder exhorte feede as muche as in yours the flocke of Christ not compelledly but willingly not couetous of filthy gaine but of a readie minde not as exercising lordship ouer the clergie but that yee may be r 2. Cor 4 24 examples of the flocke If Peter shewing himselfe that he is an elder doe clayme no Lordship in hys Apostleship how commeth it to passe then that the pope his pretended successour claymeth not onely a lordship and dominion in Rome but a litle of supremacie ouer all nations The Papistes answereth at christ said vnto Peter Thou s. Mat i6 18 art Peter and vpon this Rocke I will build my Church and the gates of hel shal not preuaile against it and I wil geue to thee the keies of the kingdom of heauen And whatsoeuer thou bindest on earth shal be boūd in heauen and whatsoeuer thou loosest on earth shall be loosed in heauē But can these words of binding loosing giue a supremacie and kingdome vnto the Pope and not to Peter whose successour he is For we heard before from Peters own mouth that he claymeth nor alloweth but disclaimeth and disswadeth such exercised lordship ouer the Cleargie So that neither did he affect such proud titles of honour Lordship and superioritie but sought rather as he wished all other to be examples of mildnesse and good conuersation How can wee thinke that Christ should giue such Lord-like authoritie when Christ telleth his disciples contending among themselues who should seeme to bee the geeatest The t Luke 22 25 Mat 20.25 Marke 15.24 Kinges of nations saith he beare Lordship but it shall not be so with you but he that will be the greatest among you let him be as the least or as a seruant Now if neither Peter had the superiority but forbiddeth it as teaching al humilitie being taught by Christ his maister the kings of nations are to beare the lordship his apostles should be so far from contending for primacy on earth that they should rather be as seruants appointed to minister to the Church of Christ to build a kingdom for God in heauen If neither Peter had it and if Christ also forbad it shewing the kingdomes belong to the kinges of the nations how can any man gather that Christs meaning was to giue that to Peter which he forbiddeth Peter al the rest of the apostles If