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A17020 A treatise of the perpetuall visibilitie, and succession of the true church in all ages Abbot, George, 1562-1633. 1624 (1624) STC 39.3; ESTC S100501 43,587 128

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was not long after that Conradus the Archbishop himselfe became a Hussite also as the Authour calleth him Vnder this Conradus as President of the assembly these Hussites held a Councell at Prage in the yeare 1421 and there they compiled a Confession of their faith This cause did the said Archbishop and many Barons of Bohemia afterward stiffely maintaine complained against the Emperor Sigismund for offring wrong to those of their Religion Alexander also the Duke of Lituania did giue these Hussites ayd which moued Pope Martin the fifth to write vnto him in this sort Know that thou couldest not giue thy faith to Heretikes which are the violaters of the holy faith and that thou doest sinne deadly if thou shalt keepe it because there cannot be any fellowship of a Beleeuer with an Infidell Thus did the vertuous Pope write In processe of time there grew a parley betweene Sigismund the Emperour and the Bohemians There among the Compacts this was one That the Bishop should promote to holy Orders the Bohemians euen the Hussites which were of the Vniuersitie of Prage And they might well deserue to be reputed Vniuersity men for Cochleus himselfe witnesseth that the Priests of the Thaborites were skilled in arguing and exercised in the holy Scripture Kakizana one of them did vndertake to dispute with Capistranus a great and learned Papist By that time that the yeare 1453. was come Aeneas Syluius doth complaine that the kingdom of Bohemia was wholly gouerned by Heretikes Now all the Nobilitie all the Comminaltie is subiect to an Heretike That was one George of Gyrziko Gouernour of the kingdome of Bohemia vnder King Ladislaus But when Ladislaus was dead this George himselfe was by the Nobles and people chosen King of that Countrey And continuing the ancient profession of his Religion about the yeare 1458. those of Vratislauia and Silesia doe refuse to obey him as being an Heretike Notwithstanding Pope Pius the second then intending warres against the Turke did by all meanes perswade them that they should yeeld obedience vnto him This George saith the Authour was borne and brought vp in the heresie of the Hussites Now when Pope Pius did interpose himselfe as a Mediator betweene the King and his subiects George did require of the Pope that hee might keepe the Compacts agreed vpon at Basil in behalfe of the Bohemians And when Pius would not yeeld thereunto the King calleth together the Estates of his kingdome and protesteth that hee would liue die in those Compacts and so did also the nobles which were Hussites This was done at Prage in the yeare 1462. This resolutenesse of his caused that Pope to tolerate many things in him But Paul 2 who succeeded in that See of Rome did excommunicate that King set vp a Croisado against him Also he gaue to Matthias the King of Hungary the title of King of Bohemia Onuphrius in the life of Paul the 2. saith that the Pope did excommunicate him and depriue him of his kingdome Indeed for seuen yeares this George Matthias did war for it and Matthias got from him Morauia and Silesia a good part of the kingdom of Bohemia Vratislauia also and some other Prouinces and Cities did put themselues in subiection to Mathias Yet did not George deale hardly with the Papistes which were in Prage but in his greatest extremity did vse both the aduise and aid of many Nobles of the popish belief At length after the continuance of warre for seuen yeares Mathias concludeth a peace with king George both against the wil of the Pope and the Emperour And then this King was content to aske of the Pope an absolution from the Excommunication some Princes being mediators for him in that respect But before the Agents could returne from Rome the King died in the yeare of our Lord 1471. By this Story it is manifest that both noble and learned of high account were of that Christian Beliefe which Iohn Hus taught and were contented to aduenture al things which they had in the world for the maintenance of the same Perhaps here it may bee asked but how shal we know that Iohn Hus and his followers did imbrace that Religion which is now professed in England We find in Aeneas Syluius some opinions of theirs which peraduenture will scant be reputed currant among all English Protestants Hee rehearseth these foure of theirs That they would receiue the Sacraments in both kinds that ciuill dominion is inhibited to Clergie men that Preaching of the Word was permitted to al men that publik crimes are in no sort to be tolerated I answer that truth it is that hee there mentioneth onely those and whether he relateth them truly or no it may be doubted as anon I shall shew by laying open the custom of the enemies of the Gospell in misreporting their doctrine But elsewhere he deliuereth other opinions of theirs as against the Supremacy of the Pope against Purgatory against Inuocation of Saints and such like matters If we returne to Cochleus who was best acquainted with their matters we shal find much more As thus Hus translated all the Books of Canonicall Scripture into the Bohemian tongue and the people did most diligently read them They would haue the holy Scriptures to be the onely Iudge in Controuersies They held that all Bishops and Priestes are the Successors of the Apostles that not the Pope but Christ is the head of the Church neither are the Cardinals the body but all that beleeue in Christ that that the Pope is not a member of the Church but of the Deuill and his Synagogue that one Pope was a woman yea Hus did preach that the Pope is an abomination and Antichrist Also he calleth the generall Councell at Constance The Synagogue of Sathan Another of his articles was The Pope is the Beast in the Apocalyps His Schollers after his death brake downe the Images in Churches and Monasteries yea Zisca did cast down all the churches which were dedicated to the virgin Mary or to any Saint as if it were lawfull onely to build a Church to Almighty God In his time the professors began to be distinguished in two companies the one of thē did not so much dissent from the Pope as the other Those which in fewer matters diffred from the Bishop of Rome retained still the name of Hussites they which disagreed in more were called Thaborites of Thabor the citie which Zisca built for them And these were the greater number and the stronger There is in Cochleus a confession of faith made by one Iohann Pezibram a Bohemian who was but a Hussite and not wel affected to the Thaborites because he accounted them as a kinde of Precisians or Puritans in comparison of himselfe yet this more mild man doth wish and beg of God to see a reformation of the Church that there might be redressed Symonies throughout all
and Head of the Church and appointed no one to be his Vicar 7 that priests may be maried 8 that Saint Peter was neuer at Rome 9 that The Popish Synagogue is a denne of theeues 10 that The Doctrine of the Pope is not to be followed because it leads to euerlasting destruction In the time of this Marsilius liued the noble Poet ●●ente who wrote also a booke against the pope concerning the Monarchy of the Emperour but for taking part with Lewes Bauiere he was condemned for an Heretike and his book as hereticall Then also wrote Occam directly to the same purpose but for his labour therein and his large reproofe of the Papacie in other points hee was excommunicated by the Romane Bishop which he so much contemned that hee not vnwillingly dyed vnder that Sentence About that time were heer and there dispersed sundry godly men who saw more than the common sort touching religion as Hayabalus a Minorite who frequently said in his Sermons that The Church of Rome was the whore of Babylon and that the Pope and his Cardinals were meere Antichrists which propositions were held somewhat before also by Gerhardus and Dulcinus two learned men This Dulcinus may bee thought to haue many followers since Cochleus could say that Iohn Hus committed spirituall fornication with the Wickleuists and with the Dulcinists The same opinions concerning the Pope and Rome did that rare man Franciscus Petrarcha seeme fully to embrace as may appeare to any who will reade his workes howsoeuer Cardinall Bellarmine labour to make the world beleeue otherwise beeing desirous to haue vs thinke that Petrarch spake not against the Pope but some abuses in the Court of Rome And to make it plaine that it was not a slight conceipt or onely in a few that The Pope was Antichrist and Rome was Babylon Apo. 17. God stird vp yet more in that age who proclaimed the same matter as Petrus Iohannes Biraensis or Piranensis who was a Minorite and for teaching so was digged vp after that he was dead and his body after the Sentence of Clement the Sixt was burnt A few yeeres after him did Iohannes de Rupe-sciss● a Monk teach the same doctrine which as euery man may ghesse doth ruinate the Papacy in euery respect Iohannes Gerson came not so farre but saw in his age many horrible abuses of the Church of Rome and in his writing spake liberally of it And it did bite deepe when hee disputed that the Pope might bee taken away safely from the Church and yet no danger follow of it But let vs now goe a little higher I mentioned before how Cochleus saith that Iohn H●s took his doctrine from the Wickleuists and the Dulcinists Heare I pray you what he saith Hus did commit spirituall fornication with many aliens with the Wickleuists the Dulcinists with the Leonists the Waldenses the Albingenses and other of that sort enemies of the Church of Rome These Leonists or poor-men of Lyons and Waldenses and Albingenses were the same men but diuersly on diuers occasiōs tearmed by the Roman Synagogue which hated them Their opinion then did Hus maintain AEneas Syluius doth also witnesse the same affirming that the Hussites did embrace the opinions of the Waldenses There you may see that their doctrine was against the Primacy of the Pope Purgatory and such like matters Genebrard who saith that these Waldenses began Anno 1170. or as some other will 1218. rehearseth out of Syluius these opinions of theirs that Prayers for the dead and Purgatory fire are an inuention of the Priests couetousnesse that Holy Images are to be defaced that Confirmation and Extreme Vnction are no Sacraments that Auricular Confession is a trifling thing Hee who list may see a great many more of their positions agreeing with the doctrine which we teach which may well also be gathered from the Iesuites themselues For that is the cause that Bellarmine ioyneth these together as Hereticks the Berengarians the Petrobrusians the Waldenses the Albingenses the Wickleuists the Hussites the Lutherans c. And Lewes Richcome another of that Society in his defence of the Masse against the Lord Plessis saith that The Ministers for the confirming of their figuratiue sense in This is my body haue none for their Doctors for their Antients for their Fathers but Berengarius Zuinglius Caluin Carolastadius Wicklef the Albingenses the Waldenses These Waldenses then and Albingenses are ours by the confession of our Aduersaries and of these long agone there were no small company For as Du Haillan in the life of Philip the Third King of France speaketh being driuen from Lyons in France they withdrew themselues into Lombardy where they so multiplied that their doctrine began to spread through Italy and came as farre as Sicily As the same Author writeth Philippus Augustus came to his Kingdome Anno 1180. which is now more then foure hundred yeeres since and in his time it was that the Albingenses did so increase in France that the Pope and Princes adioyning were afraid of their number Hee who readeth the Story of them shall see that they are reported to haue held many grosse wicked and absurd opinions mingled with their true Doctrine But Du Haillan the best and iudicious Chronicler of France and no partiall witnesse in our behalfe since his profession touching Religion was such that hee was imployed to write that Story by King Henry the third had not so little wit but that he perceiued those imputations to bee laid on them in odium and of purpose to procure their defamation See how wisely hee speaketh truth and his conscience and yet so coucheth it that his fellowes might not bee iustly offended at his words Although saith hee these Albingenses had euill opinions yet so it is that these did not stir vp the hate of the Pope and of great Princes against them so much as their liberty of speech did wherewith they vsed to blame the vices and dissolutenesse of the said Princes and of the Clergie yea to tax the vices and actions of the Popes This was the principall point which brought them into vniuersall hatred and which charged them with more euil opinions then they had Now first that they were not men infamous either for their vile opinions or filthy conuersation and secondly that they were not onely base and poore people it is euident by this that so many noble and worthy men took part with them yea to the aduenturing of their liues in their company and for their behalfe as the Counts or Earles of Tholouse of Coninges of Bigorr of Carmain yea the King of Arragon And when Raymund the Earle of Tholouse was for his beliefe excommunicated by the Pope and a Croisado was proclaimed against him and the Albingenses as if they had beene Saracens or Infidels not onely the Counties of Foix and Coninges came with all their strength to assist Raymund