Popes obedience Therfor it is a newe maner of heresye that is here set out for menne to be ware of than was in those dayes 3 God hath at a tyme permitted the false Prophete to speake that was true As we haue for exaÌ„ple Balaam the sorcerer Saul the disobedient kynge Cayphas the cruell Bysshoppe and Pylate the vnryghtfull iudge But he gaue them not with it to vnderstande that they vttered Pantolabus hath here mencioned Martyne Luther to be of the same kynde that Wyclef and Husse were of yet hath he done yt of a wycked sprete and knoweth not what he hath written But the Prophecye of the seyd Iohan Husse whiche he vttred at the houre of his deathe shall make that saynge good Centum reuolutis annis Deo respondebitis eâ— mihi An hondreth years ones past sayth he to the papystes to God shall ye answer and to me By this he ment that after an hondreth years they shuld beginne to coÌ„sent to his doctrine whoÌ„ at y â— tyme they condempned and in proces of tyme graunt it to be agreable to the scriptures of God This Prophecye ded the Bohemes inprint vpon the one syde of their coynes and so reserued it from the yeare of owr Lorde a. M. CCCC and .xv. tyll vnto the yeare of owr Lorde ageyne a. M. CCCCC and .xvii. In the w c Martyne Luther impugned the Popes pardons power and auctorite by the open worde of God And therfor Pantolabê° hath spoken it trulye that Luther is of the same kynde But where as he hath done it of spyght and malyce he sheweth himselfe to be of a contrarye part As where that Luther is the popes great enemye he is his trustye frinde and louer A mysterye 1 He by his meane Hath baÌ„nyshed cleane 2 Out of that coste The holye ghoste 3 And hath brought inne Lyberte and synne 4 Posuerunt templuÌ„ sanctum Psal. 78. The openinge 1. GReat busynesse maketh Pantolabus herewith Martyne Luther for bannishynge that sprete of theirs which hath so longe vpholden their popishe churche of proude porkelynges the synagoge of Sathan the rose coloured whore and the spowse of the deuyll This sprete is not the holye ghost as he is here reported but the sprete which went out from the manne and returned ageyne with .vii. spretes worse thaÌ„ himselfe As with the sprete of errour the sprete of falshede the sprete of sorcerye the sprete of lyes the sprete of fornicacion the sprete of hypocresye and the sprete of the vtter conteÌ„pt of God with all other abhominacyons of vayneglorye malyce muther and Idolatrye In these spretes haue they gouerned their gloriouse churche of Antichrist euer sens they sprange vp vndre Phocas w t Mahomete Specyallye sens Syluester the sorcerer fat the deuyll from hell to graunt to his confirmacion and to geue him the iurisdiccyon of both swerdes In these fylthye spretes also haue their horned whoremongers euer sens by the same auctoryte bannished all godlye veritees and knowlege exâ—rcysynge all tyrannye cruelte and vyolence possible to holde the peple in darkenesse and ignoraunt blyndenesse And this in dede hath Martyne Luther lyke christes true disciple with all dilygence sought to redresse which moueth not a lyttle here the sycke stomake of Pantolabus he beinge the Popes Apostle 2 But that holye ghost which is the spre of wysdome knowlege counsell force science pyte and the true feare of God hath not Martyne Luther exyled as he is here of this lymme of the deuyll most falselye reported His workes shall in this poynt stande with him as wytnesses ageynst Wynchestre Bonner Standishe Wattes Quarrye the pardoner Pantolabus and all their affinite though they haue all the deuyls of hell vpon their syde He that shal reade his boke ageynst y â— Iewes quod Christus Iudeâ—s sit natus his commentaries vpon the scripturs with his other treatyses conferrynge them with the Popes olde diuinite Decrees and Decretals Extrauagantes Clementynes and Synodals shall fynde them so moche to dyffer from them as lyght doth dyffer from darkenesse or Christ froÌ„ Belial yf he be Christenlye lerned It fareth here by Pantolabus as it doth by him that daunseth naked in a nâ—t thinkynge that no manne seyth him whan all the world beholdeth him a presumptuouse Idyote fole No maÌ„ne there is which seyth anye truthe but perseyueth that the sprete which prouoketh Martyne Luther to destroye the Popes kyngedoÌ„ is a cleane contrarye sprete to that w c hath regned in the Pope and his clergye And therfor yf the Popes sprete be of y â— deuyll as the scripture sayth it is his sprete must nedeâ— bâ— of God And therfor Pantolabus holye ghost whom Luther hath bannisshed is not of God but of the deuyll 3 What lyberte this is that Pantalabê° here coupleth with synne makinge them all one 〈◊〉 caÌ„ not wele tell vnlesse it be fre will And ther vnto geueth Martyne Luther no lyberte that is godlye as testifyeth his boke de Seruo arbitrio And therfor is Pantolaê° moche to be blamed so to slaundre him But in dede his Lorde of Wynchestre hath brought in that lyberte now of late by y â— good helpe of Eckiâ—s the dowtye doctor of the papystes and taketh great paynes vpon him to make it a newe article of the fayth of Englande I thinke not the contrarye but his great hot stodye is also to sett vp purgatorye ageyne reparinge the broken chest of y â— churches olde suffrages deseruinges and merites to redeme the brent sowles and sende them to haueÌ„ by the vertu of Scala celâ— And therfor yf Pantolabus fynde fawte in the bringinge in of that lyberte lete him blame his good lorde for it not Luther The synne that he here speaketh of shuld seme to be Prestes marryage For that in dede they put out as an horryble synne whan they toke their oyled orders and were marryed to Sodome Gomor If Luther hath brought that in ageyne and dryuen out their souerayne ladye and swete sacred Sodomye he is worthye to be condempned of them for an heretyqye For holye Pope HyldebraÌ„de which was a Necromanser made this constitucion that non shuld be admitted to holye orders vnlesse he forsware marriage for terme of his lyfe Which constitucion hurt him nothinge at all he hauinge at his pleasur Mawde y â— Duchesse of Lotharyne with manye other more out of marryage 4 Farre out of frame is the scripture which he hath here alleged to conferme w t his folyshe purpose Polluerunt templum tuum O lorde God sayth Asaph the prophete a peple is broken into thyne herytage which hath defyled thy holye temple If the Popes churche were ment by that temple this text is falselye applyed to Luther and his companye For they haue not broken into that churche but gone out of it as all the worlde knoweth And in the verses folowinge are they mencyoned that destroyed the faythfull seruauÌ„tes of God by sheding their blood and geuynge their fleshe to the fowles of the
â—ant of scripturs to youre mynde Ther will ye haue him to be reallye onlye whan ye shall commaunde him That is to saye that the thynge there in syght made of flower and water is verye he in dede by the vertu of youre office ye will haue him there also substanciallye in his owne propre persone in lengthe and in breadethe in formâ— and proporcion with fleshe blood skynne bones heare tethe and nayles ye are verye connynge worke menne that ye can do so moche in so lyttle tyme and with so fewe wordes But ye can not tell vs whether he sytteth or standeth lawgheth or wepeth I thinke verelye he myght wepe in dede yf that naturall affect were now styll regnynge in his glorifyed bodye lyke as he sumtyme wepte vpon Hierusalem to se his dere herytaâ—e so wretchedlye abused of you I can not but moche maruele that ye requyre so great honour to those wares of yowr makinge so little worshipp to the eternall testament of Iesus Christ. Whye holde ye not vp that euerlastinge treasure before the people Whye tell ye theÌ„ not that he is therin both reallye and susâ—anciallye contained No ye will non therof For it is neyther to yowr spirituall commodite nor yet auauÌ„â—age ye will cruellye persecute it and blaspheme it makinge the people to beleue that it is most detestable heresye 4. yowr text here of Quociesâ—unque maÌ„ducabitis panem hune et calicem bibetis c. is nothinge at all vpon yowr syde but directlye ageynst yow So oft as ye shall eate this breade sayth Saint Paule and drinke of this cuppe c. Here is the communion of Christes holye supper not called Christ him selfe but breade drynke receyued of christ Moche lesse than is yowr waffer cake christ which yow haue receyued of the Pope A curtal haue ye made of that text cutting awaye this tayle cleane from his rompe MorteÌ„ dominianunciabitis donec veniat least other menne shuld knowe the truthe of the thinge what were the true office in that ministracion Herin are ye tolde that whan ye so â—ate ye shuld shewe the lordes deathe tyll he come but that will ye neuer do If ye marke wele the same Tyll he come yowr realite and substancialite of Christes presenâ—â— there bodylye will sone apere nothinge at all Both here afore ye haue writeÌ„ it ryallye with a y in both yowr prented coppyes If it be yowr fawte ye are but a fole in yowr owne occupacion If the fawte be of yowr .ii. prenters than are both yow lewde for teachinge of them soche wytcherye as they can not vnderstande and they beastlye also to beleue soche blinde beggerye mynistrynge it so a brode for moneye ye offâ—e vs here ageyne in both yowr coppyes one chapter for an other and I am verye glad of it For in so doinge ye bringe vs to the truthe of yowr matter In that .x. chapter is it writen Nolo autem vos socios fieri demoniorâ—â— I wyll yow in no case saith Saint Paule to haue felyshyp with deuils ye caÌ„ not at ones be partakers of the lordes table and of the table of deuils That is offred to yowr Idols is no mete refeccioÌ„ for the christianes As yowr daylye sacrifices are which ye make before the Images of yowr aulters and not before the people of God It shuld seme a farre other catinge and drinkinge that Saint Paule doth meane than this yowr morninge brekefast is by that which goth afore there For he sayth that all y â— fathers afore Christes comminge As Adam Noe Abraham Moyses Dauid and soche other ded eate of one spirituall meate though that Christ came longe after yet had they neuer yowr whyght God w t so many blessinges A mysterye â— But lyke a fole He vvas set at scole â— By a dyuyne For to declyne 3 This prono vvne hoc 4 Hoc est corpus meum Matth. 26. ¶ The openinge 1. WOrshyplye doth this Poete bestowe his wyttes here yf ye marke him wele flatterynglye fawnynge vpon some great pyller of his churche for a vaunâ—age though it be not vpon his good lorde of Wynchestre A common custome is it of these vayne hypocrites and ydell wytted papistes to cloyne with all craftye colours and ingyns possyble for to crepe into the fauer of those that the worlde lawheth vpon Wo be vnto you false prophetes sayth Ezechiel that some pyllowes vndre mennys arme holes and bolsters vndre their heades to catche sowles with all for lucre Moche better sayth Salomon are the strypes of a louer than the frawdelent kysses of a flatterer More profyght is it to be chastened of a wyse manne than to be deceyued by the lawhynge of foles Soche a false flatterer wolde not Dauid regarde but coÌ„maunded him strayght wayes to be slayne By these flatterynge meters it is easye to perseyue what Pantolabus seketh here A benefyce of my lorde to synge for butterflyes that the profyghtes therof myght pamper him vp in all ydelnesse And for that he hath magnyfyed his good lordeshyppe here with a lye in reportynge him to proue Lambert a fole in the disputacion of their sacrament and to sett him agayne to scole to declyne this pronowne hoc But I feare me they will proue foles both his good lorde and he ere the matter be fullye ended 2 The diuynite of this great diuyne of his will scarselye apere good sophistrye or yet simple gramer after olde Alexanders rewles be it ones tryed by the scripturs I thynke it be no better than course legerdemayne for all these gloriouse glauerynges Diuinare is sumtyme to gesse at a venture and thervpon I suppose he calleth him here a diuyne and not for anye truthe he hath vttered therin or in anye other godlye matter els as yet Not onlye is this great pyller of holye churche thus regestred here of Pantolabus in this his genealogie of heresye that he shulde be good lorde vnto him in an other matter as yf a benefyce fell that he myght be preferred for this his good zele but also his good diuynite is putt in here with him The nature of this dowtye diuynite is to stande moche in the declynynge of pronownes as he hath here full poeticallye described it This was in the olde tyme but boyes playe in the gramer scoles and now it is taken vp for hygh diuynite in the consistorye scoles of the papistes to proue Christ reallye and substanciallye present in their sacrament Lyke is it to be no small matter for menne to be burned for are they haue done with it that hath so substancyall proues or argumentes Necessarye is it to declyne a pronowne wele for him that will knowe the mysterye therof after their meanynge Now forsoth here is godlye Christen lernynge crept latelye into Englande for the mayntenaunce of their newe Christen beleue 3 Sumwhat must these braggynge hypocrites haue alwayes to blynde with the eyes of the simple which neuer seketh oute their wyles So folyshe are they that they nothynge
els beleue but that they haue in falsehede taught them as the blynde with the blynde so fallynge into the dytche Here is it boasted of PaÌ„tolabê° that his good lorde of Wynchestre that greate diuyne proued lambert an heretyque with this pronowne hoc The sentence that Christ spoke at his last supper amonge his disciples and bretherne had neyther hic nor hoc for it was in the Hebrue speche which hath neyther of both Wherefore the declynynge of hoc maketh nothynge at all for the tryall of anye veryte therin More to the purpose had the comparynge or conferrynge of that Latine pronowne with panis or with corpus bene than the declynâ—nge therof That is yet all togither to folyshe I put Wynchestre and Pantolabus the case that the Hebrue hath not the newtre gendre as it hath not in dede How will they thaÌ„ with their newe diuinite declyne their pronowne hoc I thinke both their wittes wyll scarselye wele serue them hauinge no better helpe thaÌ„ themselues Erasmê° saith also in his annotacions that this verbe substantyue est is not in the Greke nomore than it is in the Hebrue I maruele how they wolde handle this matter also yf they shuld graÌ„maticallye declyne it It is a worlde they saye to heare foles prate whan they be vpon their alebenche 4 Now cometh forth the text that must make vp all their market yf it be not all togither ageynst theÌ„ which is to be feared We fynde not in y â— Gospell neyther of Matthew Marke nor Luke nor yet in Paule to the Corinthes that Christ breathed vpon y â— bread whan he seyd Hoc est corpus meum For all they make mensyon that it was out of his handes and delyuered to his Apostles befor he spake those wordes Therfor that breathinge of yowrs vpon the breade is but a newe sounde toye of yowr owne sorcerye to make men beleue that ye are great doers by the vertu of yowr oylinges and shauinges He gaue thankes in dede vnto God his father but the wordes of his thankesgeuinge which were the wordes of his consecracioÌ„ he lest not here be hinde him soryow to df yowr feates with For he knewe yow subtyâ—e worke menne ye haue alwayes a craftye custome for your occupacioÌ„ is nothinge els but crafte to gelde yowr scriptures of so moche as ye thinke shuld discouer yow Quod pro vobis tradetur had as good place and was as wele allowed in Christes consecracion as yow falselye take it as had Hoc est corpus meuÌ„ And I thinke verely that y â— one declareth the other after his meanyng but not after your subtile meaning for your aduaÌ„tage He called that his body that shuld be betrayed for theÌ„ now construe you y â— rest because yeare so coÌ„ning in construccioÌ„s By as clarkely diuinite as you do vse here a maÌ„ne might axe yow whether ye call that hoc of yowrs this or that As this is my bodye w t sitteth or that is my bodye which ye haue eaten For he badde them both take and eate and paused sumwhat after before he sayd This is my bodye which shall be betrayed for yow ¶ Amysterye 1 But lyke a blocke He had nought to saye Nother ye nor naye 2 Vvher for lyke a davve He vvas iudged by the lavve 3 To be dravvne verelye And burned for heresye 4 Confuse sunt sapientes Hiere 3. ¶ The openinge 1. XErxes the cruell kyng of the Parthyanes in his frantyck furye made proude preparacions of .x. hâ—ndreth thousande soudiours ageynst the Grekes yet was he at y â— latter slayne but of one simple captayne called Artabanus Verye lyke is it to be so here with Pantolabus yf he taketh not hede Though he hath vpoÌ„ his syde the Popes great armye or infynite host of cardinals Bisshoppes suffraganes archedeacons chauncellers officials coÌ„missaryes deanes prebendes colligeners doctors bachyllers persones curates prestes lawers purgatorye prowlers and holye water mongers with hattes whodes myters scarlettes furres cattes tayles coÌ„missioÌ„s scrowles cytacions pardons surpleses crysmatoryes stoles and oyle boxes with the deuill and all yet shall poore Christ with one blast or puffe of his mouthe ouerthrow him Here scornefullye disdayneth he Iohan lambert a poore membre of his full blockyshlye callinge him a blocke hauinge nought to saye he saith whan his reuerende lorde disputed with him neyther yea nor naye And I beleue it wele For Lambert afore had lerned this wyse lesson of Salomon Ne respoÌ„deas stulto iuxta stulticiamsuam c. Answere not a fole accordinge to his folyshnesnesse least thu apere lyke to him He considered also that his master Iesus Christ had verye fewe wordes before Annas and Cayphas and non at all before Herode least he shuld haue geuen that was holye to dogges and that was preciouse vnto swyne 2 What skylleth it how dawyshe and foâ—yshe you iudge him which haue no iudgement that is godlye whyls Christ hath promised him a plentuouse reward in heaueÌ„ for that he suffreth here of yow Saint Paule saith that the worde of the crosse is euermore iudged folyshnesse to them that shall perishe But vnto them that shall be saued it is y â— power of God In that he was iudged by the law at your procuremeÌ„t he hath that rewarde which his master promised him that he his selfe had afore If they haue persecuted me saith he they shall also persecuâ—e yow For no better is the scruaunt thaÌ„ his master If yowr madde modye generacioÌ„ called Christ afore tyme samaritane dronkarde deuill heretyque traytour what maruele is it though yow folowinge after in the same selfe fore steppes call so his poore meÌ„bre No lesse rewarde hath Iohan Lambert as I beleue for sufferinge yowr violence at London than had Antipas the faithfull wytnesse of y â— lorde which was cruellye slayne at Pergamos For that stronge victorye which he had ouer yow not beinge ouercomen in his faithe by the terrour of deathe w t yow procured him he hath now of his lorde God that swete Manna which is hydde froÌ„ the wyse of this worlde that fayre whight Stone which hath the newe name writen that no manne knoweth saue he that receyueth it 3 A great sort of your shorne generacion â—o ere drawne to the gallowes in the seconde yeare of kynge henrye the forth and now in owr tyme also for betrayenge this realme to the Pope as I haue tolde you afore but at them ye triumphe nothinge at all Fryre Iohan forest a wyse prelate of yowrs was both hanged and brent for heresye and treason yet is he non of your Genealogye The marques of Eâ—etur the lorde MouÌ„tegue sir Edwarde neuele sir Adryan foscue a great nombre of trayters more suffred deathe openlye yet are they not here remeÌ„bred But easye it is the cause to coniecture for they were your fryndes They dyed for the lybertees of your whorishe churche as ded your holy trayter Thomas Becket to mainteyne ye in all pryde and voluptuousnesse
ye knowe what ye do wele ynough though ye be not all with the godlye wysest yowr quarell in this iest is onlye ageynst heretyques speciallye ageynst soche as hath deminisshed your lyuiÌ„ges As this Lambert was one whom here ye repart to be burned for heresye not yll apayed therof To them that are brent for Christes veritees sake remayneth the same crowne of rightousnesse that remayned vnto Polycarpus the Bisshop of Smyrna which was also brent for the same for whan the ryghtfull iudge shall come at the latter daye that now semeth ryght in youre eyes will than apere otherwyse Nothynge shall there be decysed after youre popishe lawes but all accordynge to that worde whom ye now condemne for heresye 4 For a custome in a maner ye take it falselye to allege youre scripturs And to amende the matter ye haue made it false Latine wherby I iudge you but a sengle syr Iohan. ye occupye here the feminyne gendre for the masculyne I suppose it is for some good loue ye beare to that gendre out of the ryght rewle If these fawtes had bene but in one of youre coppyes we myght haue thought it the printers neglygence But now we are coÌ„pelled to iudge it youre ignoraunce Confusi sunt sapientes is not in the .iii. chapter of Hieremie but in the .viii. And it is there spoken of those prestes and preachers which ministreth vnto the people lyenge lernynge for lucre For it foloweth immediatly after Verbum enim Domini proiecerunt sapieÌ„tia nulla est in eis The worde of the Lorde haue they throwne at their tayles and haue now no maner of wysdome Their rebuke sayth the prophete is open for they do abhominable thynges yet are they not ashamed No they will knowe of no maner of shame If this be not spoken of youre fylthye generacion I report me to you ye wolde fayne haue it serue for Frith Lambert As who shuld saye They were confounded of youre bisshoppes for all their wysdome No no youre bisshoppes are confounded by them though the worldlye eyes seyth it not And they are departed hence with victorye in the veryte A mysterye 1 Next after him Came in a lymme 2 Of Antichrist An Anabaptyst 3 One Peter Franke. 4 Hi sunt fontes sine aqua quibus caligo tenebrarum reseruatur 2. Pet. 2. ¶ The openinge 1. YMagyne yow neuer so manye craftye colours yet can ye not hyde a wolfe Now couple ye these good menne with the Anabaptistes y â— more to blemishe their names though they neuer agreed to that supersticyouse secte Rather shuld the Anabaptistes seme to be of youre sorte than of theirs For they haue in a maner the same opinion of fre will of iustificacion by workes that you haue They will obeye no temporall magistrates and nomore will you but by compulsyon They force not to breake their othe of allegeaunce nomore do you They wolde haue all mennes goodes in common so wolde you also youre owne alwayes excepted And this foredele of them ye haue in that article ye are sure in euery maÌ„nes goodes to haue a porcion by tyttle of tythes offerynges confessions testaments masses so forth doynge lyttle or nothynge for it and so are not they And therfore I can not se but ye are a membre of theirs as daungerouse coyeshe and diuerse as ye make it Marrye in dede a zele they haue vnto the Gospell thoughe nothynge to knowlege which yow neuer had yet but a most bytter hate in the stede therof And therfore ye seme rather to be lymmes of the denyll which hath bene a murtherer in youre spyghtfull generacion euer sens the beginnynge than of anye congregacion that is godlye 2 If ye knewe so wele what an Antichrist were as ye can name him ye shuld here plucke youre selfe by the nose harde But I perseyue wele now ye are but a wytlesse fole It is not y â— â—ebaptisynge or retynctynge agayne in water that maketh an Antichrist but the obstinate resistaunce of that heauenlye veryte which Christ ones taught He is a verye Antichrist which vndre Christes tyttle playeth a part cleane contrarye to Christ. As where as Christ was meke gentyll sowlye mercyfull peceable poore pytefull iust and true He is cruell ferce frowarde frantyck tyrannouse proude vaynegloriouse spyghtfull wycked and false and yet is all done in Christes stede what blasphemye so euer he worketh Antichrist after y â— scripturs is he which calleth himselfe holye changeth y â— lawes obserueth dayes and tymes doth manye false miracles denyeth Christ destroyeth peoples woundeth vnto death assoyleth for monye iudgeth euyll good and good euyll is worshypped of Princes burneth in concupiscence and shall be destroyed with the onlye breath of Gods mouthe Now blowe in both youre fystes tell me whom they meane ye knowe I am sure 〈◊〉 they are which worketh all these feates els are ye a manne of verye small experience But here perauenture ye playe Tom Nytygo ye knowe it but ye will not be acknowne of it 3 To assertayne yowe fullye of the matter the great Antichrist is youre whole clergye with the layte of the same false faythe Of the which youre holye father the Pope with his college of cardinals is the head All Patriarkes Archebishoppes metropolytanes bisshoppes lawers doctors prestes presones curates monkes chanons and nonnes are the bodye the .iiii. orders of fryers which came last of all are the tayle that couereth his arse which is now cutt of in Englande and therfore he is there become a curtall This is the great bodye of sathan which ministreth to the worlde all fylthynesse of ydolatrie and necrolatrie What Peter Franke was by his lyfe whom ye call here a lymme of Antichrist I can not iustlye report for he was of an other nacyon But yf that mannes lyfe maye be called good whose ende is godlye and perfyght I dare boldelye saye that his lyfe was good For in his death confessed he the Lorde Iesus Christ to be his onlye sauer and redemer which is the true seale marke of the seruaunt of God In the myddes of the fyre also he stode withoute feare sorowe tremblynge changynge of countenauÌ„ce or dissolute mouyng which were playne tokens of a conscience not trobled but assertayned throughlye of a moche better lyfe after this lyfe This lerned I in Colchestre of them which were by his onlye deathe or pacient sufferauÌ„ce coÌ„uerted from youre papisme vnto true repentaunce where as nothynge afore coude conuert them 4 A verye theues part haue ye played here with the text which ye haue taken out of saint Peters seconde epistle Hi sunt fontes sine aqua quibus caligo tenebraruÌ„ reseruatur For ye haue left oute of it no lesse than these .iiii. wordes nebule turbinibus exagitate These saith saint Peter are y â— welles without water clowdes carryed forth with tempestes to whom is reserued the myste of darkenesse This was neuer spoken for anye that euer yet dyed for the
described them besides the large witnesse of his enemies as of Iohan kyuyngham Thomas Walden and soche other yea soche tyme as WyllyaÌ„ Thorpe in his examinacion reported him to be a manne of most christen sobryete conforminge his lyfe and lerninge to the doctrine of Christ and the lyuinge of his Apostles Thomas Arondell than Archebysshop of Canterberye beinge both an aduersarye to him and to the verite that he had taught affermed him with his owne mouthe to be a great clarke and a perfight lyuer The stomake that he bare ageiÌ„st him was for his doctrine For that he sayd was â–ª not agreable to the lawes of holye churche And yet he graunteth afore that it was agreable to Christ and to his Apostles He coude not awaye in dede with their popishe tradicions but called them the fylthye frutes of Anticrist He sayd he wolde no longar aparell the Asse that Christ shuld ryde vpoÌ„ with their vayne rytes and ceremonies but folowe the clere doctrine of his Sauer Iesus which glorified in heaueÌ„ hath nede of no soche Idell offices to be done to him kynge Edwarde the thirde sumwhat fauored him for his godlye giftis as I haue sufficientlye to proue it So ded kinge Rycharde the seconde as he durst preuylye w t afterwarde cost him his lyfe In this beleue Iohan Wyclef contynued and was person of Lutterworth in lyncolne shere And in the year of owr lorde a M.CCC.lxxxvii this true Apostle of Christ most constantlye and cristenlye departed from this worlde commeÌ„dinge his sowle into the handes of God His workes were wonderful and manye as I intende to declare God lendinge me lyfe in an other worke Of whom Subinco lepus than Bysshop of Prage brent more than .ii. hondreth great volumes fayre written as witnesseth Eneas Siluius in his boke de origine Bohemorum The .xli. yeare after his deathe which was the year from Christes incarnacioÌ„ a M. CCCC and .xxviii. by a cruell decree from the generall counsell of CoÌ„stance were his bones taken vp ageyne and brent by the clergye of Englande as testifieth Walden in lib. de sacramentalibê° Cap. 89. et fo 199. to make foles afrayed NoÌ„ hath condempned this wyclef for an heretyque but the Pope and his sworne soudiours whose cause matter and quarell Pantolabê° hath here taken vpoÌ„ him to defende though it be with a small faythe to God his Prince and moche lesse honeste to his owne preciouse persone 4 As touchinge his allegacion out of Iohans first Epistle Qui facit peccatum exdiabolo est to proue that mischefe begate Wyclef The deuyll his master of whom it is there spoken might haue vttered 〈◊〉 as godlye and to as moche edificacion of y ◠〈◊〉 the as he hath done here He that doth synne sayth the text is of the deuill For the deuill styll synneth after his olde woÌ„â—e and can do non other I maruele of Pantolabus that he coude thus with this clause blaspheme his dead brother in the handes of God without all godlye feare thinke not therin to synne If he had marked the argumeÌ„t of that chapter wele he shuld haue founde in it Gods singular loue towardes vs to that ende that we shuld loue here one an other And not to condempne by name or to make raylinge rymes of him bycause the Pope hath condempned him afore For by non other auctorite is Wyclef condeÌ„pned Who securses God doth blesse and ageyne doth curse his blessinges Lete Pantolabus therfor be ware For though he hath nowe both his good lorde of Wynchesters blessynge and the Popes he maye chaunce yet to dwell vndre Gods curse I Wondre that the Bysshppes so narrowlye serchinge for heretiqÌ„s caÌ„ not here smell out both an heretique and a traytour Happlye thei are so vsed to that sauer out of their owne bosomes that thei knowe not the one from the other But maye saye Thu and I are both one mannis children Saye wele by me and I shall do as moche forthe By this text folowinge is Wyclef discharged of that Pantolabus layeth to him Qui natus est ex deo peccatum non facit quoniaÌ„semen ipsius in Deo manet He that is borne of God as Iohan Wyclef was receyuynge Christes doctrine in faythe synneth not he folowing that doctrine in his lyfe though he doth despyse all the Popes tradicions as he ded also For the sede of God which is his eternall worde remayninge styll in him wyll not permyt hiÌ„ to synne by no soche blasphemouse popetrye Thys strayght waye hauinge the sure promises of God perseyueth not Pantolabque but strayeth wyldelye a brode with the renegate Cain desperatlye trustinge to the promises of menne syckle and vncertayne as their tradicions hath non other A mysterye 1 After this brother Came forth an other 2 His name to discusse Menne called him husse 3 He and his cumpanye Began in Germanye 4. Heâ— est gens que non audiuit vocerâ— domini sui Hiere 2. The openinge 1. EVermore doth pantolabê° pranke forth with his pylde Popyshe Poesyes not vnlyke Iacke of Bedlem with his net full of wolle From that bryer hath he gathered that lock all tarrye and from that thorne that patche all dryseled Lete him that hath eyther lerninge or witt marke what dyrtye gete this is and from what good authors borrowed The grounde therof was first taken out of Pope Benedyct the .xiii. pope Gregorye the .xii. and Pope Iohan the .xxiii. all thre deposed at ones in the generall counsell of CoÌ„stance out of the cowyshe actes and proclamacyons of Pope Martyne the fift which after supplied their rome there vpon the seate of the beast in the darke kyngedom of Anticrist or the chayre of pestylence whether ye wyll Here is the name of a brother most scornefullye vsed whiche is in the scripturs both holye and preciouse And no maruele For crist sayd there shuld come soche swyne as wolde treade the fayre pearles vndre their fete and soche dogges also as wolde turne ageyne teare his true disciples The chefe cause of it is that his hipocrites eyes can abyde no light But lete him not thinke so to auoyde the great indignacion of God nor yet anye other soche scorner as he is 2 Iohan Husse that holye Apostle and true Martyr of Iesus Christ moche pyteynge to se y â— churche so wretchedlye deformed with hypocresye pryde Idolatrye other abhominacioÌ„s of Anticrist after he had sum what perseyued therof by the doctrine of Iohan Wyclef put forth his owne bodye to y â— crosse for it to suffre the death yf nede shuld require it The pure lawe of the Gospell waâ— the scripturs of both testameÌ„tes ded he most constantlye preache to the pople of Boheme ageynst that kyngdom of wyckednesse detestinge all errours heresyes scysmes His conuersacion was accordinge to his instruccyons perfight and holye Not onlye by the report of .liiii. noble menne of the lande of Morania but also by the testimonye of his enemyes Pope Pius otherwyse called
holye churche also to fyll hell We rede of a watchynge deuyll whether he were a prest or no that can I not tell but he begate Marlyne the great Prophete of Wales of an holye nonne of saynt Peters in Carmalyn which was the dowter of the kynge of Demecia to conferme this blessed storye with all About a fourescore yeares after that was one Alwinus then bysshop also of Wynchestre accused of yll rule with Emme kyng Edwardes mother so commytted to the examynacyon of the clergye in the yeare of oure Lorde a thousande fyftye but through spirituall fauer he escaped it full well As wytnesseth Rhegino pruniensis whan Charles the seconde Emprour returned agayne into Almanye from his warres with the NormÌ„nes he founde Limphardus the bysshop of Versell which was his chefe councellour so famylyar with his wyfe or empresse Richarda that he coude do no lesse than laye aduouterye to his charge Remigius the bisshop of Dorcestre was depryued of his bisshoprycke by Pope Alexander the seconde bycause he was proued a prestes sonne Eyther had prestes wyues of their owne in those dayes or els there was some other good workemanshyp a brode As â—udaâ—icus y â— archebisshop of â—â—adeburge was daunsynge at mydnyght in a towne called Caâ—ua with her that he loued best he sodenlye fell dead and neuer recouered it in the yeare of oure Lorde a M.CCC.lxxxiii As that holye nonne laye a dyenge which brought forth at one byrthe Petrus Lombatdus the master of the senteÌ„ces Petrus Commestor the master of the hystories and Gracianus monachus the master of the Popes lawes or decrees and was admonisshed of her ghostlye father to be sorye for that aduoâ—trye for soth father quoth she I can not repent it consyderynge that holye churche hath receyued soche thre lyghtes thereof Iohan Eckius that impudeÌ„t warryour of anticrist and the onlye instructour of Englande in that article and certen other in the boke which he farelye made agaynst Martyne Luther grauÌ„teth himselfe not to be Amartiton oâ— a maÌ„ne all without synne He can not he sayth excuse himselfe but that he hath bene as other menne are which hath not obserued the chastyte of Hypolitus for yf he ded we knowe the coÌ„trarye yet will not that brent consciensed hypocrite afferme it to be lawfull for a prest to marye in the lorde so indurate is he to this houre Though Benedict the .xii. Pope graunted to Franciscus Petrarcha which was a Canon of Padua archedeacon of Parma to take one Laureta to wyfe retayninge styll his benefices yet wolde he not afferme it lawfull that prestes myght marrye but onelye by soch blynde dispensacioÌ„s for his owne carnall purpose For this was the chefe cause of his beneuolence towarde him Petrarcha had a fayre syster in Auinion in the howse of his brother Ghirarde whose felyship the holy father ded inwardlye couete workynge manye feate polycies for it He promised besydes this speciall prerogatiue vnto y â— seyd Petrarcha to make him a Cardinall and to geue him greate goodes in case he wolde bringe it to passe Vnto whom as a manne fearynge God Petrarcha made this answer The lorde of heuen forbydde sayth he that euer so fylthye a diademe shulde couer my head And with this he departed the Popis court and so fled into Italie recompensynge there shortlye after by wrytinge this vnworthye demaunde of the Pope as testifyeth Philelphus His impacable furye not yet qualyfyed this holye father by manyfolde gyftes and rewardes made Ghirarde his brother a mannefyt for his hande and so at the last abhominably corrupted the mayde For the which the seyde Ghirarde hauynge great remorse of conscience made himselfe a Charterose monke in Materne not farre from Marsilia to make all to the deuyll Petruo Ryarius a mynorite or graye fryre of Genua and prest cardinall of saynt Sixte in Rome procured of Pope Sixtus y â— fort his vncle by the helpe of his brother Hierome a dispensacyon for the whole how sholde of the cardinall of Saynt Lucie to haue the fre occupyenge of buggerye boyes for the .iii. hotter monthes of the yeare with this clause in the ende Fâ—at vt petitur O fylthynesse noâ— to be spoken but that their hypocresye requireth it in these latter dayes the vengeauÌ„ce of God most depelye hangynge ouer them Nomore am I now ashamed to open their abhominacions than they are yet styll with the dissemblynge tytle of their stynkinge chastyte to couer them The seyd religionsâ— cardinall Peter spent within the space of two yeares .ii. hondred thousande florence in most prodigiouse lecherye And dyed all rotted in that fylthynesse in the .xxviii. yeare of his age the yeare of oure lorde â— M CCCC lxxiiii Petrus Mendosa the cardinall of Valencia in Spayne was not onlye satisfyed with y â— quene vndre kyng Ferdinandus nose besydes other whores but he sent to the Pope for a lycence to occupye his owne sonne the marques of zanet What ruffâ—lynge Pope Iulius made with the cardinall of Nantes in Brytayne for two yonge laddes which the French quene Anne coÌ„mytted vnto him it wolde abhorre honeste eares to heare Pope Clement the .vii. was reported of some wryters to be a bastarde a manqueller a poâ—sener abawde a symonyake a Sodomyte a periure a rauysher a sorcerer a sacreleger a worker of all other myscheues as Wynchestre is now in Englande whose chast lyfe men maye coÌ„iecture by his chekes and ordre Oh that the earthe open not at soche wretchednesse I thinke in Sodome and Gomorre were neuer soche prodigiouse kyndes of fylthynesse as are yet in that spiritualte yet will they be styll a chast generacyon and holde marryage for synne The syster of Alexander farnesius which is now saynt Peters vycar yf he hath anye vndre the name of the .iii. Paule was at this narraw poynt with Pope Leo the .x. no longar to be his owne swete lemanne vnlesse he wold make her brother a cardinall after his wyfe was dead which was than but his scrybe and coÌ„ueyar In all hast possyble was this graunted and perfourmed he constitute bysshop of Hostyense These and soche other lyke examples of holye churche are the frutes of Pantolabus holye ghost that Luther hath bannysshed by his manyfolde heresyes And in the sted of them hath he brought in maryage whom Pantolabê° hath dyffyned to be synne here though it be the clere institucyon of God But parauenture Pantolabê° God is not the God that made marryage and therefore he dare do that wele ynough A mysterye 1 Next after him Is his chefe lym 2 One Melanchtonus Nequaquam bonus 3 Euanuerunâ— in cogitationibus sut◠〈◊〉 â— The openinge 1. IN this processe folowynge is Pantolabus compelled to playe Myhell make shyft No longar will his wittes serue him to coÌ„tinue forth his genealogie by anye maner waye of naturall propagacyon But now he boroweth a lymme of him an other lymme of him Now seketh he to fatche in that coÌ„mer in and
than suffred at London Colchestre Hadleye Ippeswyck Norwyche Lynne and in other more places of Englande Good WyllyaÌ„ Tyndale was done to death also at Vylforde in Braban within the same years by the procurement of youre craftye Cayphases in the yeare of oure Lorde a M. V. and .xxxv. in the moneth of Septembre And therfore I wondre they escaped youre hande This maketh vs to thynke that ye entended of these onlye with those that here foloweth to iest at youre pleasure vpon soche malyce as ye had agaynst them conceyued Sure are you to be of soche a secte as will worke lyttle goodnesse Lete menne suspect of you what they will but these popyshe poesyes of yours smell knauyshlye whan ye can fynde out non other heretyques but these alone of so manye Popes poyseners trayters sorcerers Sodomites scysmatyques and pestylent papistes as hath bene and are yet styll to this daye 2 Because ye are here in hande with Lambert I will saye sumwhat for him for I knewe his coÌ„uersacyon The truthe of it is he was sumtyme a prest of youre generacyon called syr Iohan Nycols and was borne in the cyte of Norwyche After that he had in Cambryge geuen himselfe to good letters and became sumwhat expert both in the Latyne and the Greke at the preachynges of the good menne Arthure and Bylneye he toke repentaunce of his former lyfe And after that the kynge by his lawfull offycers had taken of him an othe to renounce the Pope as a false vsurper he threwe from him that Antichristes yoke with his lyuerye and marke to shewe himselfe throughlye obedieÌ„t Than leauyng papistycall customes he enbraced the Gospell for his lyfes direccyon lyued otherafter a vertuouse Christen lyfe which you iudge here a lyfe peruert soche is youre owne Englyshe terme This wolde I not wryte so manyfestlye yf I knewe it not for a certente Where as he was before an ydell Massemonger and an hater of the scripturs he became than a fauorer and folower of them yea he taught them vnto other and lyued his selfe accordynge to the same Manye Christen instruccyons wrote he to his bretherne brought vp their chyldren in all vertu Dyuerse workes of Erasmâ—s and of other good authors more translated he into the vulgar Englyshe tonge to the Christen commodyte of other 3 And whereas Pantolabus wryteth him here to be a manne almost woode for that he was not in fayth and opinyon to his folyshe mynde agreable He declareth himselfe to be of lyke iudgement with those relygyouse curates of the Iewes Synagoge which reported Iohan Baptist to be a madde manne for his abstinence and Christ to be a dronckarde for his good felyship kepyng But lete him not thynke easlye to auoyde this slaunderouse report before the eternall iudge vnlesse he repent in tyme. What so euer thu art sayth saynt Paule that iudgest an other this shalt thu be sure of forthyne owne part to condemne thyselfe perfourmynge the same selfe thynges that thu condemnest him of Moche more than yf it be left in wrytynge as this outragyouse slaundre is that he was a manne peruert and almost wood Though I and soche other which haue redde ouer Pantolabus iest here ded not iudge him a fellawe of a peruerse opinyon and doctryne and a Bedlem beast more than madde the seyd iest it selfe wolde do it for vs. Therfore lete him not saye that we iudge him agayne here for his owne fylthye frutes declareth him How abhomynably the scripturs are here peruerted for a trayterouse popyshe purpose to vpholde the fylthye kyngedome of Antichrist it will be euydent to him that shall serche the places 4 Now cometh here one in borowed of y â— first chapter of saynt Paule to the Romanes Marke the good workemanlye handelynge I praye ye therof Sicut non probauerunt sayth he hab ere Deum in notitia tradidit â—llos Deus in reprobrum sensum As they haue not regarded to knowe their lord god so hath he geuen them ouer into a lewde mynde And what is this text to the purpose to proue that Iohan Lambert was a manne peruert and almost wood This is there a conclusyon of an olde stynkynge matter of yours goynge but a lyttle afore and therfore lete it not be left so cowardlye behynde you Relicto naturali vsu femine exarserunt in desyderiis suis in inuicem masculi in masculos turpitudinem operaÌ„tes They which haue vnrightouslye with holden the truthe of the lorde in vnrightousnesse leauinge y â— naturall vse of women haue burned in lustes amonge themselues workinge menne with menne vnspekable fylthynesse Be ashamed wretches be ashamed and bestowe ones the scripturs whereas they shuld be bestowed Lerne to amende yowr abhominable lyuinge and leaue to blaspheme the poore innoceÌ„tes by them For yf ye can no rightlyar bestowe them trulye yf yowr wrytinges come to owr handes we shall teache yow the right waye bycause yowr own shepeherdes are slacke A mysterye 1 Vvhich vvolde make good Vvith tonge and penne Before all menne 2 That in the Masse Nothinge els vvas 3 But a signifycacion Of Christes passion 4 Ne sis sapiens a pud te ipsum Prou. 1. ¶ The openinge 1. THough this verse agreeth with his other fellawe in sownde yet doth he not agre with him in matter therfor I haue disseuered them It is not all one to be wood or madde and to do good therfor I haue put the good doer from the madde Pantolabê° saith here that Lambert wolde make Than is he moche better by his owne report than is his holye generacyon for they haue euer marred â–ª yea farthermor he saith that he wolde make good He caÌ„not so report of his owne monstruouse mustre for they haue made all thinges euyll Noâ— one thinge is there vndre the heauens that they haue not defyled with one kynde of Idolatrye or other Besydes their hypocresye whoredome Idelnesse buggerye and the deuill and all of soche vyces their shameful abhorringe of marryage their supersticâ—ouse forbyddynge of meates and their abhominable peruerting of the scripturs with their sophistrye sorcerye wyles wytchecraftes decrees decretals actes clementynes extrauagantes pryuileges bulles prouinciall synodals makynge playne merchandyce both of the bodyes and sowles of menne This have they done before all menne both with tunge and penne lyke as Pantolabus here reporteth of Lambert 2 I wyst wele this goodnesse had a tayle which at the latter ende wolde not seme verye good Lambert both with tunge and penne was a contynuall aduersarye to their holye Masse which is their princypall market and that is the cause that he is here regestred for an heretyqÌ„â— yea marrye set now vnderstande the matter moche better than I coude afore Now can I tell yow what heresye is as ye take it and who be the heretyques that yow meane Not they that speake ageynst the father of heauen with Sabellius and Arrius Nor they that blaspheme y â— sonne with Porphirius and Photinus Nor yet
skynne though they shuld to the deuyll for their errours Next after this shall come in sumwhat but I thyncke no great wysdome into Pantolabê° brayne vnlesse he change from this frantycke frenesye into some purpose godlye and repent soche willfull wodenesse But I doubt verye moche in that 2 I thynke in conscience that a blynder beast than Pantolabus is not this daye alyue If I had nothynge els but these blynde poesyes of his to beare me wytnesse they were sufficient ynough For soche blynde beggerye yet sawe I neuer so garnyshed with the scripturs O bloderynge Balaamites which stodye nothynge els but to prouoke the people to folowe youre whoredome What Barnes was in the iuste quarell of God agaynst youre blynde beastlye kyngedome of Antichrist we are not so blynde but we knowe And yf oure testimonye shulde fayle the workes which he compyled are sufficient wytnesses to declare his godlye wytt and lernynge of the which we haue seane more than .x. vndre diuerse tyttles So blynde is youre popishe generacion that they neuer yet were able to answer one of them Which of you all with youre dyrtye diuynite hath yet soluted but the least of his argumentes in his boke of prestes matrymoney or yet of the Masses abusyon Naye ye are non of those It is ynough for you to crye heretyque heretyque whan ye playe noÌ„ other but an heretyques part yourselues Neuer are you good in Christen disputacioÌ„s but whan ye haue halters and fyre vpon youre syde Verye blynde Asses ye apere now a dayes for anye good lernynge ye shewe that is wele seane in the treatyse of Standysâ—e in Bonners declaracioÌ„s and in this worshypfull worke here of yours 3 I praye you hartelye what swete pathes haue you founde out euer sens the yeare of oure Lorde a M. and one In the which yeare was sathan youre great grandesyre sett at large by youre holye father Pope Syluestre y â— seconde which obtayned of him by Necromancye to be saint Peters vycar to worke in the worlde all myschefe by you which are his ryght fashyoned members I thynke the wayes are wonderfull yf we shuld laye thâ— out here togither Neyther haue you spared the nyght nor yet the daye to fynde out all fylthynesse Ded not you fynde out the worshippinge of Images the prayeÌ„ge to rodes the knelinge to ladyes the kyssinge of relyques the sensinge of aultres and the sekinge of shrynes with soche lyke abhominacyons It is vnspekable what nombre of sowles ye haue lost by these soche other path wayes of yours besydes your own wretched sowles This ded ye neuer yet recant by protestinge vnto your cures Good people we haue ledde ye wronge wayes by these vncommaunded sacrifices heythnishe worshippinges No I dare boldelye saye before God and manne that ye neuer yet repented it for all your oft goinge to confession so farre are ye from grace and all godlynesse The lorde of his great mercye delyuer ones his people of that malignauÌ„t generacioÌ„ of yours For neuer shall they be but blinde so longe as they haue yow for their gydes 4 Here ye are not ashamed to accuse good Doctor Barnes that right disciple of Christ that he neuer coude fynde the right waye vnto Christes lore As who shuld saye the pathes that yow leade are the verye iust wayes vnto Christes lore And this do yow write that the people shuld so beleue it Lete vs pondre yowr doinges vpon your most priÌ„cipall feastes of the yeare as vpon cristmas daye good frydaye easter daye and penthecost day And so se whether they be soche wayes as Christ hath walked or no. For whye those pathes which he hath gone afore are the onlye wayes to his lore First ye haue euen songe and compline in latyne withe the sensinge of your aultres to beginne the solempnite with these path wayes Christ neuer knewe The next daye folowinge ye haue mattens prime houres in the same vnknowne language ye haue holye water makinge procession and hygh masse with double sensinge of Images ye haue at nyght ageyne euensonge and coÌ„pline with sensinges With these abhominable wayes and soche other was Christ yet neuer acquainted But he demaundeth of yow this question by his holye sprete in Esaye who hath required these thinges at yowr handes CoÌ„cludinge with you that his wayes are not your wayes nor yet his pathes Therfor all your pretensed colours are false here 5 Full true is the clause which ye haue here alleged out of Salomons prouerbes sauinge onlye that ye haue changed the tyme to come into the tyme present Qui peruersi cordis est noÌ„ inuenit bonum saye you And it is there Non inueniet bonum Who so hath an hart geuen to mischefe shall in the conclusion wine no profight therbye I maruele ye toke not with it the clause next folowinge Et qui vertit linguam incidet in mâ—lum Lykewyse he that hath an ouerwhart tonge shal come to a myschefe This myght haue bene a premonishment for you that ye shuld not thus haue raged to youre owne coÌ„fusyon Of a wonderfull nature are the scripturs that they neuer will serue you vnlesse they be peruerted mangled spoyled of sumwhat This text here alleged agreeth better with no manne than with you For I thynke the deuyll hath not a more peruerse stomake than you haue as youre frutes here declareth I maruele ye marked not this in the chapter afore He that disdayneth the poore blasphemeth him that made him And he that is glad of an other maÌ„nes hurt shall neuer be vnponnished Almost in the ende of that chapter is this text for Barnes Preciosi spiritus vir eruditus A preciouse sprete hath he that is lerned speciallye of God Though youre whole generacion denyeth him this yet is it knowne to the Christen worlde by his godlye workes to youre vtter confusyon and shame A mysterye 1 But euermore By meane of ambycyon Ded so vve sedycyon 2 He sayd certayne In vvordes playne 3 It coude not be founde That vve vvere bounde 4 To be obedient 5 Vir apostara iurgia seminat Sap. 6. The openinge 1. YDyotyshe and folyshe are youre poesyes euermore and full of blasphemose lyes Malyciouslye accuse ye here doctor Barnes of ambicion which soughte nothynge lesse than ambiciouslye to regne after that maner of youre proude modye mustre Where as Ambicion is in his most pryde there fynde ye no fawte with him But there ye worshyp him with cappe legge and knee and wolde kysse his arse to please him To currye fauell he shall be youre singular good lorde and a prelate most wyse and pregnauÌ„t though he haue nomore godlye wytt than an ape Thus at a tyme Ambicion shall be youre God and yet to rebuke an other ye can take him for a vyce Oh vngodlye flatterer and false glosynge hypocrite Lerne first to se that vyce where it is most depelye regnyng and correcte it in yours selfe whan ye playe soche an hypocrites part
of synne But vvhat ded he vvynne 3 He vvas tyed at a poste And there ded roste 4 Onnis anima potestatibus subdita sit Rom. 8. ¶ The openinge .1 MAlice hath so blinded this imprudeÌ„t pratler that he seyth not the waye he goeth in And though he doth se it playne ynough yet doubteth he not the daungers therof And parauenture he nedeth nor neyther For the wynker of wyles and y â— seker out of subtyltees hath put him and his companye in assuraunce that though they slyde a lytle in the darke yet shall they catche no scathe For nought is it not that they daunse attendaunce plainge placebo with Reynarde the foxe At all tymes shall they be redye to geue warninge yf anye parell be towardes their whelpes Lete them do nothinge els in the meane season but se alwayes that the people obeye the commaundement of the high powers meaninge by theÌ„ the spiritual prelates And that they beleue as holye churche doth teache theÌ„ after the olde customes of their auÌ„cieÌ„t elders for these newe falshyoned wayes are nothinge worthe If any be busye with these newe bokes ageynst those hygh powers lete them cause their sworne satellites to indite them of heresye Come they ones that wayes vndretheir spirituall handes they shall fynde lesse ease of it than eyther thefe or murtherer Therfor it shall be mete at all houres seasons for him that will lyue in rest to be obedieÌ„t to these hygh powers though he shuld for their obedience vtterlye forsake God and obeye the deuyll For their obedience is non other 2 A farre diuerse obedience is this froÌ„ al other For it bideth vnto sinne as witnesseth also the great wyse clarke Iohan Standishe in his treatise of reporche ageiÌ„st Barnes And I beleue it wele for their lawes commaundementes and customes to whoÌ„ they wolde binde vs are nothinge els but fylthye Idolatrye sinne Agreinge with y â— sainge of Saint Paule That is not of the faithe which Christ hath taught is wickednesse and sinne I wote that of a craft they wyll saye here they meane the kiÌ„ge though they mynde nothinge lesse but vndre that coloure to establishe ageyne the decayed aâ—ctorite of their whorishe churche Whye shuld Pantolabus els call Barnes here craftelye an Apostata That clause was not all brought in for nought The manne ment sumwhat more thaÌ„ he durst wele vtter But where as he doth scornefullye axe this question what Barnes ded winne by so disobeinge the holye fathers I will answere it for him bycause he is now dead He hath wonne so moche as Christ promised him which set him a worke That is persecucion enprisonment and deathe And trulye that was a swete winninge for therwith hath he wonne also the lyfe euerlastinge Who so euer will saue his lyfe saith Christ shall lose it And he that shall lose his lyfe for my sake shall fynde it ageyne in the lyfe euerlasting Saint Paule sayed boldelye vnto the Philippyanes that deathe was vnto him a winninge And I knowe that the lyberall hande of the lorde is not yet abreuiated 3 Now steppeth forth Pantolabê° as bragge a bodye lowse and as one depelye lerned in y â— scole of scornefulnesse he soluteth his owne wyse questioÌ„ He declareth to the worlde what Barnes dâ—dâ— wynne for not obeienge holye churche as though menne were ignoraunt therof He telleth them with so moche spight as he can wele Imagine that Barnes was tyed to a poste in Smytfelde at London with .ii. companions more and that he there ded roste But he sayeth nothinge I trowe of the Popes .iii. sworne chaplaynes Powell Abell and fetherston his owne swete companions which were the some daye houre in the same selfe smithfelde both hanged and quartered for treason No that disobedience toucheth not Pantolabus I tolde yow afore that he wolde at the last declare vnto yow for all his craftye colours what obedieÌ„ce he ment O holy Rome holy Rome thu spirituall Sodome and Egipt moche beholden art thu to thy secrete louers in Englande so workemaÌ„ly to cloyne in thy cause As concerninge good Robert Barnes whose ende is thought without honour of y â— daintye babes of this worlde He is counted amonge the dere children of God and hath his porcion with the saintes Though he semeth lost to y â— vngodlye wise yet resteth he swetelye in the peace of the lorde As golde in the hote fyerye fornace tryeth he his electes and as a brent offeringe receyueth theÌ„ For soche matters passeth not after y e blinde iudgement of menne lyuinge here in waÌ„tonnesse 4 Alwayes is Pantolabus lyke him w c tempted Christ in the desart whose Apostleship he hath here deuoutlye taken vpoÌ„ him Styll vseth he his olde roberyes and legerdemaynes with the scripture Here geueth he vs a mangled texte of Saint Paule to the Romanes appointing vs the .viii. chapter instede of the. xiii If it be not honest playe and cleane conueyaunce I report me to yow Omnis anima potestatibus subditâ—sit sayth he in both his coppyes but sublimioribus is out there for seruinge his spirituall purpose Lete euerye sowle sayth he submit it selfe to the powrs but the hyghar powers he nameth not least he shuld haue mencioned the kynge myndinge nothingelesse For he is the hygher power and God is y â— hyghest of all Powers without hygher or hyghest are alwayes indifferent maye be iudgled with therfor he putteth them here for the Prelates of his churche But Saint Iohan sayth in the Apocalyps that their powers are of the Serpent which gaue his auctorite and seate to that beastlye Antichrist of theirs Whan Christ spake of worldlye powers he ernestlye charged his Apostles to obeye them but in no case to take them vpon them I wondre of the blyndenesse of Pantolabus that he perseyueth not what foloweth in the same Chapter Nemini debeatis quicquam nisi vt inuicem diligaâ—is Lete nothinge be donne amonge yow but in mutuall loue sayth Saint Paule Lete charite be the power that yow shall occupye for that fulfylleth the lawe If this power regned in Prelates and were so well taught of them as it is commaunded neyther shuld the hygh powers haue so moche a do in ponnyshinge theft whoredome and murther nor yet so many of their spirituall swarme be whoremongers murtherers robbers of the common people as they are A mysterye 1 On his ryght syde Vvas also tyed 2 A brother of his One garretyvvys 3 Vna enim cachena tenebrarum colligati erant Eccle. 17. ¶ The openinge 1. Excedinge hote and modye is this maÌ„ne styll in his matters and wyll not haue done with Barnes yet for a lyttle He now describeth his standinge in the fyre betwixt Garade and Hierom. But he telleth not which of his own generacion hinge that daye in the myddes of powell Abell fetherstoÌ„ No that pleased him not so wele as this For these were fryndes to his holy father of Rome where as they were enemies His
one scripture trulye applyed nor yet after anye honest sort declared But as a blinde sorgeon or dogge leche he hath turned it all into one blynde eyesalue to blynde menne all togither True is it in him that Saint Iohan ded saye Though the lyght doth shyne in the darkenesse yet wyll not the darkenesse receyue it Moche water cometh by the myl 〈◊〉 they saye that the myller taketh not in 3 Now coÌ„cludeth Pantolabus his lonâ—â— lowsye circumstaunce conceruinge Doctor Barnes and his companye shewinge vs hete that all they thre are burned And not a lyttle glad is he and his generation therof for so moche as they thre ded them so deadlye noyaunce by their preachinges It cost them no small stodye to bringe it to passe nor yet small diligence and labour to haue it so to their mynde But yet had they w t it a sowle displeasure for so moche as there were the same selfe daye houre .iii. mightye captaynes of their holy assemblye hanged and quartered for treason before the same selfe people Lyke as the deathes of these ii companyes were diuerse so were their opinions and causes The one sort dyed for Christ the other for the Pope For vphold â—ge of Antichrist was powell Abell and fetherston hanged For helpinge downe his kingedom was Barnes Garade and Hierome burned Fortunate are they which suffred for Christ for their rewarde is sayed forth in the scripturs and promises of the lorde For the other is there neyther scripture nor promise Though they were most greuouslye tormented before menne yet was their hope full of immortalyte which now they fele ineffect Their sowles are now in the haÌ„des of God and sure to suffre nomore tormeÌ„tes Though they semed before the vnwyse to dye yet are they nâ—w in a lyfe moche better As sunne beames shall they shyne in y â— daye appointed and iudge y â— nacions which are now vnfaithfull 4 Wele maye that spyghtfull spiritual tâ— be called the kyngedom of Antichrist or beasiâ—ye bodye of Sathan as the Apocasyps doth name it for their beastlye workinge I thinke the deuyll of hell coude not more vnreuerently and mockingly handle the sacred scripturs than this wreched fellawe doth For here he bringeth in a text Ipsi sibi grauiores tenebre which he hath both spoyled of wordes astered in senteÌ„ce and distroyed for the true vnderstandinge puttinge the nominatiue case for the ablatiue And bycause he wolde be behinde with vs in no point of falshede he hath sent vs to seke it in the .xvii. Chapter of Ecclesiastes and there is no Chapter so called in the whole Byble In dede in the .xvii. Chapter of Sapience I fynde this clause Ipsi ergo sibi erant grauiores tenebris yea they were worse vnto them selues sayth Sapience than anye other darkenesse possible This was at that tyme spoken for the Egipcianes and now it extendeth to yow Papystes folowinge them in the same selfe steppes of Idolatrye The cause whye ye do so daÌ„pnablye erre is that ye will not be reformed by the wysdoÌ„ of God as the beginninge of that Chapter specifyâ—th but ye take your owne wayes in all thinges Frequenter enim sayth he preoccupaÌ„t pessiniâ— redarguente consciencia Oft tymes do they those wicked thiÌ„ges that their conscience rebuketh them of Whan ye haue practised deceyt spoken lyes exercysed fylthynesse done the innocent to deathe with soche other feates your myndes are not alwayes in quiet In token wherof ye go oft to confession yet are your lyues seldon the better A mysterye 1 I feare me sore There vvyll come more 2 Vnto that ende Except they amende 3 Vix corriguntur impij Eccle. 1. ¶ The openinge 1. OVt of no small charite aryseth this feare of Pantolabus least anye more shuld come to the ende of Barnes or be brent in the fyre as he was yea so brotherlye he tendereth that matter and with so moche Christen loue that he wolde not greatlye care to be the first that shuld accuse a true Christen beleuer yf he knewe his faythe throughlye As moche pyâ—â— hath he in those matters as hath eyther the foxe vpoÌ„ the chyckens or the wolfe vpon the lambe I wolde that Pantolabus shuld take care for his olde showes yf he hath them and not for Christes dere members For they must entre heaueÌ„ by the strayght gote as he ded not by the brode waye which leadeth 〈◊〉 to destruccioÌ„ They must suffre hatred wroÌ„ge spyght vengeaunce yll reportes persecucions exyle curses lyes blasphemies enprisonmeÌ„tes â—hyrst hongre and deathe of their bodies for ryghtousnesse sake elâ— shall they not be lyke meÌ„bers to their head For his spouse is a churche that suffreth not the prâ—â—de gentyll womaÌ„ that mustreth with myters canapees copes crysmatoryes crosses cruettes and candelstyckes A compâ—nye of bretherne there are vnderneth the aulter as Saint IohaÌ„ reporteth which daylye calleth to y â— lorde to haue their blood reuenged of that gorgiouse apareled gentyl woman which is dronken with the excesse therof and their nombre must be fulfylled with soche poor sowles And tyll that be fynished there must daylye folowe more nâ— remedy 2 Moche doubt hath Pantolabê° for this ende But he had more nede to take care for himselfe least an halter be bewixt him and his ende For he hath so plentuouslye deserued it as hath anye other ranke Papist of that affinite yf this Iest of his be but indifferentlye wayed As for those good menne whom he heeâ— moste cruellye blasphemeth without lerninge though their deathes were not verye preciouse in his folyshe iudgemeÌ„t bycause he is ledde of a contrarye sprete yet were they right pleasaunt to their lorde God in whose kyngedom nowe they rest with Abraham Isaac and Iacob If they had dyed for fellonye murther whoredom or treason I wolde with Pantolabus haue iudged their deathes verye yll Se that non of you suffre sayth Saint Peter as an homicide thefe or yll doeâ— If anye manne suffre as a cristiane lete him not be ashamed therof but glofyâ—â—e God in that behalfe For w tstandinge the false kingedom of Antichrist in the beiytees quarell dyed they as it is euident to all ryght iudgementes and therfor their deathes are gloriouse The amendement which Pantolabus requireth here concerneth the obedience of that malygnaunt mustre of those mitred mahouÌ„des whoÌ„ he wolde in no wyse to decaye But lete him set his hart at rest for the lorde is almost at a point with that wretched wytcherye 3 VnplesauÌ„t euermore are the scripturs to Pantolabê° and that apereth wele by his monstruouse handelynge of them Here bringeth he in to coÌ„ferme his purpose a ragged patche out of the first chapter of Ecclesiastes otherwyse called the preacher but not as it is there spokeÌ„ For here it is Vix corriguntur impiâ— And there it is thus peruersâ— difficiâ—e corriguntur A verye harde thinge is it sayth he to make the croked strayght or the frowarde wele disposed Parauenture he hath made this
preciouse stone pearle But inwardlye decked with faythe hope charite and the rightousnesse of Christ. And outwardlye she is adourned with calamitees veâ—acions most slaunderouse rebukes and deathe 3 Glad are we to heare it that the ernest sprete of Christ is not yet extinguished in them for all yowr most cruell assaultes of penaltees inprisonmentes famishemeÌ„tes halters swerdes faggottes fryre and all other tormentes els A remnauÌ„t is there yet lest of them which hath not bowed their knees to yowr false God Baal To them hath the lorde promised a crowne of lyfe yf they perseuer stedefast to the ende For these do we praye dayly with teares w t are a brode in exylâ— that they do not swetue from that stedefast rocke at the venemouse suggestions of your fylthye generacion as some fleshly wantons hath done now of late to their sowles detriment Better had it bene for them that they neuer had geuen that is holye to dogges and swyne after Christes premonishementes than thus shamefullye to become swyne with them and so to treade his preciouse pearles vndre their fete For in so denienge the lordes verite before menne they haue shewed themselues what they are eueÌ„ the flesshlye louers of themselues and vnworthye of Christ. More harme haue they done than they which hyd the lordes treasure neuer openinge their mouthes to declare it Those are they which are neyther hote nor colde whom the lorde hath promised to spewe out of his mouthe or vtterlye to reiect them from the eternall herâ—tage of his clerlye racinge their names out of the boke of lyfe yf they repent it not sore 4 If those good creaturs whom PaÌ„tolabê° here spyghtfullye reporteth cleaneth fast vnto their bone we are greatlye ioyfull therof For a more manifest token caÌ„ not be that they are Christes members than that By that inseperable saythe apere they to be his naturall spouse in dede a bone of his bones and a rybbe of his rybbes Now are they by that meanes become his own dere meÌ„bers his misticall fleshe and bodye He that shall now persecute them shall persecute the apple of his eye so dere and preciouse are they vnto him For their faithfull perseuerauÌ„ce make we daylye intercessions with teares from our hartes which are now dispersed or scattred abrode in the regions of Samaria and Iudea for the persecucioÌ„ that is at HierusaleÌ„ With the wiges that the lorde hath graciouslye geueÌ„ vs which are his wordes and examples ded we flye into the wyldernesse so sone as we perseyued that the rode Dragon vometed waters to destroye the saythe which we gatâ— by his worde â–ª ye shall be persecuted saith Christ from cyte to cyte For yf they haue persecuted me they shall also persecute you But as they shall pursue yow in one cyte flee yow alwayes into an other Not onlye was this Christes counsell but he ded it also in effect He fledde into Egypt in his yowthe he declyned from the malice of his enemies and he absented himselfe from the Iewes In that wyldernesse hath he prepared for vs as he ded for Helias to fede vs there for the space of a thousande ii hondred and thre score dayes A mysterye 1 For though they be gone yet is there behinde That are as blynde 2 As the other before Vvhich kepe in store 3 Full close and pryuelye Their cankered heresye 4 Stultorum infinitus est numerus Ecclesâ— 1. ¶ The openinge 1. NArrowlye doth Pantâ—labus loke to his matters now least all wolde away froÌ„ his holye mother to the great detryment of his popishe lyuinge Though frith Lambert Barnes and soche other be gone yet are there he sayeth of the same sort styll remayninge as yll to his generacioÌ„ as they Whose blood he wolde haue his holye mother to drinke so bloodthurstye is the spirituall hart of the manne and zelouse in her quarell He is verye glad that his good graciouse lorde of wynchestre doth sturre so wele aboute him as he doth He turmoyleth in their kynde these newe Gospell readers to cause all Englyshe menne to abhorre Christes testament but vnto the Stewes of LoÌ„don he is a full gentyll benefactor and founder Not onlye doth he leaue them vnrebuked of verye tendre sauer and loue but also full fatherlye he mainteyneth them with y â— lordelye wages of his seruauntes and sumtyme with the delycates of his owne table by the lyberalite of them I thinke this fatherlye beniuâ—lence of his is for some respect that he hath to the common welthe or els to qualyfye the great heates of his hote howsholde which euerye where tosseth lyke termagauntes with the blood of oure lorde the sowle the hart the fleshe the bodye the bones This is the holye Gospell that he maynteyneth Blynde are they called here of Pantolabus which will not folowe these vertuouse rewles to the vpholdynge of their markett in confessyons at lent But the eternall father delyuer his flocke from the abhominable blyndenesse of them 2 Non can ryghtlye se after the blynde opinion of Pantolabus vnlesse they be ledde blyndefelde in the darke by the sprete of his holye mother She must sett vpon their noses y â— spotted specularyes of her olde tradicions and customes or els is yt nothynge worth If they shulde be now without their Latine houres wherwith neuer manne yet was Christenlye edifyed their Christen relygyon were clerelye lost If they shuld not haue their accustomed wainlynges in the temple their processionynges their sensynges their holye water swyngynges with soche other ioyes of olde Troye they wolde thynke that heauen were out of the worlde and hell comen home to their dores This is the syght that Pantolabus requyreth non other wolde he the people to haue least they shulde in a whyle be moche godlyar wyse than he This houglye syght despysed Iohan Wyclef and Iohan Husse This fylthye syght contempned Mariyne Luther Melanchton It was nothynge for the appetyte of Oecolampadius and zwinglius with soche other more And that is the verye cause whye they are regestred here of Pantolabus for heretyques These are they that were blynde afore because they had not that syght of his holye mother And they which cometh after kepeth now yet styl in store the same selfe blyndenesse in his folyshe opinion and therfore he is not contented with them but wolde verye fayne haue them burned for heretyques yf yt myght be 3 Afore grefe is yt to the stomake of Pantolabus that anye shulde be alyue which fauoreth not the Pope This parauenture will be rekened a slaundre but the denyll of lye yt is What other is yt but to preferre a manne whan we magnifye his workes Are anye other thynges called vpon here than matters of Papistrye No verelye Not one poynt is sought here of Christes clere institucion Neyther his holye Supper nor Baptym compassion of y â— poore nor mutuall charyte nor yet the true preachynge of repentaunce by the Gospell of saluacion But here seketh Pantolabus with all
power possyble to holde vp Antichristes kyngedome for fallynge and that with the most spyghtfull â—omempt of his Christen bretherne which is but a fylthye buyldynge For more enclynynge to Christes clere veryte than to their vnwolsom Papistye he accuseth them here most malyciouslye of preuye vpstorynge and close enclosynge togyther of cankred heresye As though the Gospell of y â— lorde which they haue receyued as his onlye power to saue them were most cankred and pestylent heresye Thus do they to cause the people to abhore yt and to brynge the worlde in an yll opinion of them that oweth yt fauer Non other is the nature of soche execrable loâ—ustes which are crept out of the smoke of the bottomlesse pytt but alwayes to stynge hurte sleâ— and destroye all that is grene vpon the earth All that hath receyued anye quyekenesse of beleue by the worde of the lyuynge Lorde wolde they wyther vp to the fyer of hell 4 True is the clause of Ecclesiastes that Pantolabus here allegeth for a full confirmacion of his matter yf yt were trulye bestowed Stultorum infinitus est numerus Of foles is there an infynite noumbre or an innumerable sort This was not spoken for the small flocke of Christes persecuted members whom the worlde reputeth for foles for they are but fewe in nombre Manye are called sayth he but verye fewe are chosen But this was first vttered for that pleasauÌ„tlye disposed multitude of this worlde whoÌ„ God hath reputed and styll doth yet repute foles in his scripturs The noumbre of those foles are infynite in dede and their swarme innumerable Of his faythfull seruauntes doth the Lorde knowe the noumbre for he hath their names wrytten in the boke of lyfe But of these ruffelynge rutters he knoweth no noumbre for his knowlege most coÌ„monlye is his acceptacion which they shall neuer enioye Wysdome had yt bene for Pantolabus to haue consydered this text there also Vidi cuncâ—a que fiunt sub sole Et ecce vniuersa vanitas afflictio spiritus I behelde all thynges sayth the wyse manne done vndre the sunne And I perceyued wele they were all but vanyte and vexacion of mynde By this myght he haue consydered what his folyshe Papistrye is not rysynge of the expresse worde and commaundment of God but of the syckle fantasyes of men That yt is but mere vanyte and madnesse and that the obseruacion therof is execrable fylthynesse A mysterye 1 But I praye God To spare the rod. 2 And that vvith hart They maye conuert 3 And call for grace Vvhyle they haue space 4 Dum lucem habetis credite in lucem vt filij lucis sitis Ioan. 12. ¶ The openinge 1. By all pâ—uyshe pathwayes of Papistrye hath Pantolabê° wandered here at the last he playstreth vpp his pedlarye poesyes and falleth full vndeuoutlye to his prayer He desyereth God without that fayth which riseth of his veryte to spare that rodde which he neuer yet threttened vnto manne For the crosse of contynuall persecucioÌ„s which coÌ„monlye lyghteth vpon the elect members of Christ are not threttened vnto them but promysed with his eternall rewarde yf they faythfullye beare them Only are plages threttened to the disobedient breaâ—eâ—s of the Lordes commaundementes And those plages are the verye curses of God where as persecuâ—ions for his truthes sake are his most wholsom blessynges Blessed are your sayth he whan meÌ„ne reuyle yow and falselye report yow for my names sake For great is youre rewarde in heauen A moche better waye therfore were yt for Pantolabus and for his bloodthurstye generacion to leaue their murtherynge vp of innocentes and to repent from the hart their manyfolde myscheues past And that ones done than to praye vnto the Lorde in faythe to withdrawe from them that vengeaunce of innocent blood she dynge which hangeth ouer their heades as a perpetuall plage rodde or scourge of eternall damâ—nacion Thus doynge they myght beccome of publycanes true Apostles with Matthew of cruell murtherers faythfull minysters with Paule the elect vessell of God 2 Charytable wolde Pantolabus gladlye apere now that he hath spewed out all his poyson and myschefe agaynst y â— true seruauÌ„tes of God A fayre colour sett they alwayeâ— vpon the matter be their workynges neuer so vengeable And in that they agre with their spirituall head the serpent which temptynge Eua shewed a bewtyfull face outwardlye with swete and pleasaunt wordes Whan they sytt in their consistoryes vpon condempnacion of the innoceÌ„tes with Cayphas they outwardlye pretende all godlynesse They first call vpon the name of God openly protestyng that they haue his ryght honour before their eyes in all that they go abought They sweare also vpon the holye Euangelyes that they will there do nothynge of displeasure hate percyalyte nor malyce Yet is the poore innocent in the ende coÌ„dempned accursed geuen to the deuyll disgraded fyered and burned onlye for his fayth in the Lorde Iesus Christ. Neuer the more is Pantolabus here to be trusted that he prayeth so bytterlye for their conuersyon For abhomynable is that charyte which foloweth of so moche malyce as he hath afore here vttered and that apereth by the fylthye frutes therof Not vnto Christ and his holye verytees wolde he haue them here with all their hartes to conuert but vnto the Antichrist of Rome by a newe obedience of his olde cankred customes whoÌ„ their lorde God doth detest and abhorre This is y â— dissemblynge charite of this worme of way wardnesse or maliciouse membre of SathaÌ„ This is the conclusion he seketh 3 Fayne wolde Pantolabus haue them to conuert to that false obedience of Antichrist that he might lyue lyke a gentylman and haue his dishes the fatter and his purse the waghtyer Oh it is a pleasaunt thinge to haue the people on both sydes of the way salutinge them with cappe and knee It is a good syght saye they whan the flocke foloweth the shepeherde and y â— parryshynes their curate yea but alas what is it whan the lambes folowe the wolfe which is a cruell thefe a destroyer and a murtherer For whose grace wolde Pantolabus haue Christen menne to call For the grace of holye churche of his holye father the Pope of his good lorde of Wynchestre his good lorde of London His good lordes of lyncolne yorke and Durham with soche other ghostlye fathers If he meaneth the grace of God I maruele that he forgetteth himselfe his owne generacion Me thinketh they ought in soche prayer to be had most in remembraunce consideringe they are fardest of all meÌ„ne froÌ„ his grace yf they seke not for it whilâ— they haue here space and layser it wyll be wyde with them whan they shall come ones to their strayght reakininge But they thynke it safe ynough so longe as they haue y â— Popes powr still in their handes w t Ego absoluote vndre a stulticia a stole I shuld saye For yf they maye geue grace vnto others they haue grace ynough for themselues
them at tymes be brent in the fyre for Christes testymonye through the Bisshoppes olde tyrannye Nothynge is there lost but their corruptyble bodyes Wheras he suffreth one bodye in their malyce so to peryshe he saueth that â—owle and a thousande more by the fredome of Christes Gospell Blessed be the Lorde therfore that euer he was borne 3 I couÌ„sell no manne to make this prayer with Pantolabus nor with soche other execrable Papistes so damnablye vayne in the corrupt practyses stodyes and deuyses of their wretched hartes though yt semeth verye good and godlye But praye after y â— scripturs with y â— dere heretage of Christ which is a churche persecuted as he was and not pampred vp here in pryde and in vayne glorye It is a congregacion not knowne to the worlde nor regarded of fleshlye lyuers nomore than he was knowne and receyued of them whan he came into his owne Praye all from within as that churche is from within lyke as Dauid wytnesseth with all the Apostles and Prophetes And lete this be youre specyall prayer for youre kynge and prince euermore Thu eternall God of our fathers thre distyncte persones in one euerlastynge Godhede Thu omnypotent father and creatour of all Thu eternall sonne and redemer Iesus Christ. Thu euerlastynge holy ghost conforter equall vnto them both all one God in power substaunce and nature of the Godhede for thy tendre mercyes sake haue respect vnto oure kynge and yonge prince And lyke as thu hast of thy munyfycence and lyberalyte geuen vnto them the imperyall crowne and scepture of Englande So graunt them to lyue in thy feare to walke in thy worde and to do that is ryghtouse in thy syght euermore Graunt them also Lorde with the swerde that they beare that they carrye yt not in vayne but alwayes to the ponnyshment of the yll doers and to the syngular solace of thy faythfull seruauntes For so is thy eternall will Thus ought true subiectes to praye without all hypocresye dissymulacyon and glosynge flatterye A mysterye 1 CoÌ„pyled by Ponce PaÌ„tolabus 2 Imprynted at London In Pater noster rovve 3 At the signe of our ladye pytye By Iohan Redman Ad imprimendum solum ¶ The other coppye 4 Imprented by me Robert Vvyer Ad imprimendum solum ¶ The openinge 1. NOw shuld soche a famouse worke made in defence of holye churche apere notable vnto the readers therof except the name of a notable clarke as master Pantolabus is were putt ther vnto fytt is yt that the carpenter shuld stande by his carpeÌ„trye and the buylder by his buyldynge A broken wall of Babylon hath Pantolabus dawbeâ—d vp here of old fauer and loue but his dyrtye dawbâ—rye holdeth not For lyke an vnworke manlye dawber he hath done yt with vntempred claye contrarye to all godlye admonyshmentes Most dampnably hath he peruerted the sacred scripturs here to maynteyne his Popyshe malyce agaynst all Christen charyte But Hieremye Ezechiel Micheas and Abaâ—uk with other holye Prophetes byddeth him and soche other to sett their hartes at rest For the cyte which is buylded with blood and the howse that standeth by vnryghtousnesse shall not alwayes contynue in the worlde I shall cast donge in youre faces â—sayth the Lorde by his Prophete Malachias euen the verye donge of youre solempne feastes and ceremonyes And yt shall cleaue fast vpon you and take you with yt to eternall perdicion What Ponce Pantolabus is which putteth himselfe forth here for y â— Author of this Iest I nede not to describe For the verye worke it selfe setteth forth his lyuelye ymage It manyfestlye declareth him a braynelesse babler a presumptuouse ydyote a frantyck Papist a peruerter of the scripturs a stynkynge heretyque an enemye to God a secrete louer of Antichrist a preuye conspyrer agaynst his prince for the Pope 2 Moche accordinge to the ryght nature therof is the settinge out here of this heretycall Genealogie Abhominably blasphemouse it is and therfor it passeth forth vndre some tytles of abhominacion It is seyd first of all to be imprinted at London which is a most noble cyte Verye sorye I am that soche sylthye frutes shuld come from so worthye a place Notwithstandinge I ascribe not this partycular euyll to that worshypful cyte wherin I knowe to be people most vertuouse and godlye But of this am I certayne Though Hierusalem were holye and the verye cyte of the lorde allowed by the scripturs yet was it in conclusion most greuouslye ponnyshed for sufferinge blasphemers and for vnthankefullye receyuinge of Christ and his verite Pater noster was wont to be a most wholsom prayer ordayned and commaunded of Christ to dwell onlye within mannys sowle and from thens to be sent in dayly massage to the eternall father of heauen And now he is becomen an out strete dweller the name of a lane or the sygne of a tauerne Farre is he changed from Christes first institucion aâ—d from the office that he appointed him A farre meaneâ— change from a pylde popyshe ceremony wolde be called a great heresye of y â— Bysshoppes What this is I leaue it to yowr coniecture 3â— In this Pater noster rowe or in bedealleye whether ye wyll was this Genealogye imprinted at the signe afowr ladye pyte What that pyteouse ladye is I can not tell but wele I wote she hath no â—ust tyttle to be called owr ladye No true fygure is she to Marye the mother of Christ. For neuer was she so farre from the ryght faythe that she sorowed so largelye for that thiÌ„ge which was vnto vs all most necessarye I knowe she neuer wept so vndyscretely for the deathe of Christ which was owr vniuersall helthe but most hyghly reioysed therin If she euer mourned it was for the synnes of the people and for that she sawe his veryte conteÌ„pned of the cruell clergye as it is yet styll They therfor which worshyp that sorowfull pyte of Marye do honour that infydelyte w t she neuer had and make them therof an Idoll Thus is the sygne that Iohan RedmaÌ„ dwelleth vndre an exercrable Idoll and he for so magnifyenge her with that tyttle a verye Idoll worshypper The lesse maruele is it that soche fylthye frutes cometh out of his howse Here is he not ashamed openlye to confesse that he hath sett his handes to most wycked Papystrye and vnto an heape of peruerted Scripturs to the great dyshonour both of God and of his kynge Adioyninge ther vnto his pryuylege Ad imprimeÌ„dum solum the rather to infect his people 4 Now foloweth Robert wyer he graunteth also by his owne handye worke that he hath promoted forewarde these Popyshe Poesyes and Scripturs abhominablye peruerted Wherin he hath done all that hath lyen in him to assure the kiÌ„ges faythfull subiectes to geue their good hartes to y â— Popes olde faythe An vngodlye cruell waye were it yf menne ded but mynistre that thinge w t shuld but poyson the bodyes of the people What shall we than recken it whan that fylthynesse is ministred of them which infecteth their sowles to eternall deathe Soche is the vnsacyable thirst of theÌ„ that are couetouse that they care not what myschefes they do to get money If the deuyll had geuen them a matter ageynst Christ as his sworne Chaplayne hath done here ageynst his true seruauntes and haue monyed them wele they wolde surely haue done by that lyke as they haue done by this And the daye wyll ones come that they shall fynde it all one The kynges priuylege Ad imprimeÌ„dum solum is put to the same to bringe him also vndre the selfe same curse of God yf anye chaunce for it at the latter daye whom he defende so good subiectes are thy vnto him By soche diuersite of printes is it easy to perseyue that the sale hath bene great the profyghtes therof plentuouse If the worke had bene Godly yt neuer had gone so frelye abrode nor with so moche fauer of y â— Bysshoppes The lorde ones be mercyfull to his afflicted famelye and delyuer theÌ„ froÌ„ their myâ—cheues Amen ¶ The conclusion ¶ Expreslye is it here to be seane dere frynde in the lorde what Pantolabê° was at the makinge of this iest and what manye other are yet styll in the same synefull lyne of Antichrist I perseyue by him and soche other more that Leuiathan had than great strengthe in his loynes to sende forth soche sturdye babes Not longe afore that they hydde their heades and durst not be seane abrode But thaÌ„ ded they on their mothers shamelesse face and were ageyne as bragginge as in their Popes tyme. Small harme is it to them that the Beastes head was wounded it is so wele and workemanlye healled vp ageyne Not to Christes glorye haue they fashyoned theÌ„ a newe churche now after the Gospell preachinge but after their owne vayne glorye ageyne yet for aduauntage Destroyed yet vtterly shall that execrable moÌ„stre be within short space trust vpon it by y â— only breathe of y â— lordes eternall mouthe For now doth he call to remembraunce the blood of his elect Seruauntes whoÌ„ she hath slayne seduced to establyshe her kyngedoÌ„ of lyes abhominacioÌ„s Now shal she be subdued of that heauenlye verite whoÌ„ she hath of so longe tyme suppressed the beast peryshinge w t her whoÌ„ she hath worshypped in so manye kyndes of Idolatrye That lorde make spede to fulfyll his euerlastinge promes to the confort of his electes Amen ¶ Thuâ— endeth y â— openinge of a darke mysterye of inyquite latelye spredde a brode in Englandâ— by Ponce Pantolabus and dysclosed by Iohan Bale 1542.