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A02616	The great bragge and challenge of M. Champion a Jesuite co[m]monlye called Edmunde Campion, latelye arriued in Englande, contayninge nyne articles here seuerallye laide downe, directed by him to the lordes of the Counsail, / co[n]futed & aunswered by Meredith Hanmer ...	Campion, Edmund, Saint, 1540-1581.; Hanmer, Meredith, 1543-1604.	1581 (1581)	STC 12745; ESTC S3923	32,146	62

beyng bewrayed and stripped of this pharisaicall shewe and counterfaite weede least theire kingdome should fall they haue found out a newe order and society commonly called of Iesuits as the last refuge and onely shift to vphold their ruinous walles Montanus with his prophetisses sent disciples to sowe his heresye throughout Asia and Phrygia Manes chose twelue Apostles and sent thē throughout Persia with the Easterne partes of the worlde The Family of Loue haue their prophets and disciples The Anabaptistes out of Munster the head citye of Westphalia sente abroade as Sleidan reporteth in the euening 28. Apostles And the Pope hath lately about 40. yeares past cōfirmed the sect of Iesuits sends thē abroad in the euening of the world with the Anabaptists in the night seasō with the enemy of God and man to sow tares among the wheat And to further the credite of this new found order they father the same vpon Iesus and cal themselues Iesuites hauing their originall of one Ignatius a maymed Souldioure as is declared at large in the answeare There were heretikes called Angelici who worshipped Angels others called Apostolici arrogating in greate pride that title vnto themselues others Humiliati croaching fryiers that pretended humility others called Iesuati and they the veriest varlets of all others of the familye of Loue and as they affirme deifyed in God The Carpocratian heretikes sayd they were like vnto Iesu and excelled the Apostles The Massilian heretikes called also Euchitae beyng corrected for their lewdnes called them selues Martyrianos yet saith Epiphanius for al their holines they worshipped the deuil wer called Sataniani If ye called any of thē Christ a Patriarch a Prophet or an Angel they said they were so But as touching this late order of Iesuits this society passeth all other sectes in Hypocrisie outward shew of holines In weede monkish frierish priestly and Pharisaicall in discipline austere much like the Heretikes Flagellefiers or Circumcellions or Baals priestes whipping and launcing themselues in wordes humble lowlye dowking and ready to kisse your fote but in hart prowde arrogant bragging and bosting as this Iesuit doth challenging the combat with countries and kingdomes I will at this present no more but warne thee Beware of false Prophets we are commaunded to be wise as Serpentes and simple as Doues Peruse the whole and trie the spirites geue the praise vnto God let the paynes be myne and the profite thyne owne Farewell M. Champion a Iesuite lately arriued here in England hath laide downe as followeth by way of chall●ng RIght Honorable wheras I haue come out of Germany and Boh●●me land being sent by my superiors and aduentured my selfe into this realme my deare countrey for the glory of God benefit of soules I thought it good litle inough in this busie watchfull and suspicious worke I should eyther sooner or later be intercepted and stopped of my course Wherfore prouiding for all doubte and incertenties which may soone come o● me when God shall happely deliuer my body into durence I suppose it needefull to put this writing in a redinesse desiring your L. to geeue it the reading and to knowe my cause Thus doing I trust I shall ease you of your labour for that whych otherwise you must haue sought by practise of Wit I doe nowe lay into your handes my playne confession And to thentent this whole matter may be conceaued in order so the better vnderstoode and remembred I make heereof nyne poyncts or articles directly truely and resolutely opening my full enterprice and purpose The aunswere IT should appeare by your preamble and entrance that your person were not lightly to bee regarded neyther your message to be reiected neither your trauell to be vncōsidered seeing that meane personages may not be acquainted with your arriuall neyther saluted in your style You begynne with Right honorable as one sent in Embassage from some great state not vouchsafing the presence of the meaner sort afore you haue accomplished your entent with y e superiors and yet withdraw your selfe that neyther the one nor thother shall vew your person but from hand to hand in hucker mucker receyue in scrowles and torne papers your drift and enterprise By your Preface I gather fiue thinges First to whom you direct these your scattered deuises to the ryghte honorable her Maiesties most noble Coūsailers the Pieres and state of y e Realme Weygh wyth your selfe afore yee presume further they are no Babes Secōdly I perceaue whēce ye come you traueled Germany passed through Bohoemia rested at Rome tooke counsell of your Prouost obeyed your Superior tooke your voyage northwarde and arriued in Englande In fewe words out of England yee went into England yee are come agayne you are welcome home Thirdly I gather your dryft purpose is as ye say to set forth Gods glory to winne erring wandring soules if you meane playnly none better welcome For the haruest is great and the labourers fevve Fourthly mee thinkes yee bewraye your selfe where you confesse this your enterprise to appertayne to a busy body the trauel to require vigilance and the worke to be suspicious mistrusting what will befall to your person the perill and daunger which hereby yee may incurre Fiftly not forgettinge y e slye conueyaunce of Rhetorical insinuations you would subtlely creepe into y e fauour of your Readers by protestīg an opē sh●w of plaine sincere vnfained ●e●●ing by promising to cōtriue into order method for ease memories sake y e principal poincts of your drift purpose This is y e sinne of your preface y e which I thought good thus to repeate y t yee may perceaue we finde you and y t the reader bee not ouer hastely carried away w t your fayre shewe and gloriouse florish Substance as yet I finde not longer to stay my pēne But in y e poincts following deliuered by your selfe in their seuerall numbers I purpose wyth Gods helpe mildly and brotherly to confer with you both being of one countrey fellow studentes sometime in the famous Uniuersity of Oxenford professor● as you woulde beare vs in hand of one fayth thoughe varyinge in forme and manner Fellow Laborers as you would make vs beleeue in the Uineyard of Christe Iesus planting vertue plucking vp vice graffing the penitent croppinge of the fruictlesse and withering branches drying wyth comfort the dropping eyes of the sorowful and watering with the dew of Gods word the dry consciences of the ignoraunt Whatsoeuer I lay downe take before hand my meaning that nothing be spoken neither cōstrued of you in the worse sense as derogating from your study blemishing of your person nor diminishinge of your credit but all in the Zeale of Gods cause in the defence of my Prynces proceedings in the quarell of my Countrey and in the loue of my deare brethren and that wyth as much modesty as lyeth in mee Let the spirites be tryed Helia●

attention to such a conference as in the secōd part of my Articles I haue mēcioned and requested or to a fewe Sermons wythin her or your hearing I am to vtter such manyfest and fayre light by good methode and playne dealing as may be cast vpon these cōtrouersies that possible her zeale of truth and loue of her people shall encline her noble grace to disfauore frō proceeding hurtfull to the Realme and procure towardes vs oppressed more equity The aunswere THe summe of this your seuēth diuision is cōtained in a wish wher you not onely desire the presence of the nobility Lords of y e counsaile but also her Royall Maiesty to geue attention vnto your preaching moreouer yee hope y t by cūning methode and playne dealing as yee say beyng cast as it were a mist vpon these controuersies yea ye doubt not but ye shal be able to do som good c. Princes sittīg in thrones of great maiesty haue not to harkē vnto each pilgrims sute their affaires beyng great causes waighty neither is it expedient y t euery sorte of priuate persons should haue accesse vnto theire presence neyther that their sacred eares should bee abused with the hearyng of such ●rasse as commōly such pedlers as you are doe bryng in their packes fardels from Rome The Lordes her maiesties most honorable counsel the nobles pieces and state of the realme beyng mē of greate wisedome learnyng zeale and Godly religiō busilye occupyed in theyr seuerall callynges prudently gouerning vnder her highnes and ministringe vnto her maiesty by direction of the spirite of wisedome receyued from aboue holsome aduyse and counsaile are not to be troubled with hearing of any such message as yee bringe from the prouost of your order vnlesse you wil minister occasion vnto them to examine you of your loyalty and subiection vnto her royal maiesty and Godlye procedinges Lastly discretion wisedome in mine opinion are to direct you not to attempt in opē audience in y e hearynge of the lay and common sort of people the publishinge of anye deuyse discourse or doctryne that is not agreable with the word of God that is not alreadye established that is repugnant vnto her Maiestyes proceedinges The maner of old and the vse receiued in the Church hath bene that none vnlicensed vnexamined vntryed and vnknowen shoulde be permitted to preache neyther in open assemblies to set any doctrine abroch that is not receaued Any hereticke be hee an Arrian Macedonian Eunomian Nestorian Pelagian Libertine Anabaptist or of the Family of Loue may be a suter as ye are but whether you are any of the aforesayde is to be permitted to discourse in open audience I referre it to the wyse to consider of I know not what fauor in the premisses ye shall obtayne as for myne owne part I submit herein my censure to the learned wyse and pollityke magistrates and superiors Loke to whom yee haue made your suite and petition they are in this poynt further to resolue you What diuinitye is may sone be layde downe for there is here no greate occasyon ministred of discourse or answeare The Iesuite MOreouer I doubte not but you her highnes counsaile beyng of such wisedome and discretion in cases most important when you shall haue hearde these questions of religion opened faythfully which many tymes of our aduersaryes are hudled vp and confounded will see vpon what substantiall ground our catholick fayth is builded and how feble that syde is which by sway of the time preuayleth agaynst vs and so at the last for your owne soules and for many thousandes that depende vpon your gouernement will discountenance error when it is bewrayed and harken to those which wold willingly spende the best bloud in theyr bodyes for your saluation Many innocent hands are lyft to heauen for you daily and hourely by the English students whose posterity shall neuer dye Which beyonde the seas gathering vertue and sufficyent knowledge for their purpose are determined neuer to giue you ouer but either to winne you heauen or to die vppon your pikes As touching our society be it knowē vnto you that we haue a league all the Iesuits in the worlde whose succession and multitude must ouerreach the practise of England chearefully to carry the crosse which god shall lay vppon vs and neuer to dispayre your recouerye whiles we haue a man left to enioy your tyburne or to be racked vvyth your torments or to bee consumed with your prisons The expence is reckoned the enterpryse is begun it is of god it cannot be withstoode so the fayth was planted so it must be restored The Aunswere YOu are still in hope of good successe No doubt their honors will yeld credit vnto that whych is faythfully deliuered accordyng vnto Gods worde but where ye charge vs with hudling vp and confounding of questions in diuinity and matters in controuersie I returne y e same vnto you and the shame to light vpon their pates that deserue it Your complices of the Romish religion haue defended your holyewater by the exāple of Elizaeus and by the words of the prophet Ezechiel your pardons by the prophet Esay your images by the Cherubins and brasen serpent your seuen sacraments by the seuen seales seuen trumpets seuen starres seuen golden candelstickes seuen eyes your seruice in an vnknowen language without translating of y e scriptures into y e vulgare tongue by that which Peter reporteth that there are some things harde to be vnderstood in Paule your vowed pilgrimage by that where it is commaunded that none puttyng hys hand to the plough must looke backward your eleuatiō in the sacrament by the story of Lazarus where it is sayd that Christ lyfted vp his eyes your superiority of y e church of Rome by the words of our sauiour vnto Peter thou arte Peter vpon this rocke our sauiour meaning hys faith no say you vppon the Sea of Rome I vvill builde my Church your right of both swordes by the answer of Peter in the garden behold here are tvvo svvordes your popes primacy aboue the emperour by comparing the Pope to the sunne and the emperour to the moone such is the practise of your side such is your confusion in matters of diuinity and such is your hudlyng vp of Scriptures you proceede on further and hope to crepe into fauor by declaring that many handes are lift vp for the State of England by the Englyshe Studentes beyonde the Seas This is right Frierish Limit or like God saue my good maister my good dame the scrip be like is empty and are yee nowe come to fill it their flying declareth their disposition their absence sheweth their loue and their practises open vnto vs what prayers they make You tell vs of your league and that you are determined neuer to geue vs ouer No more as I think then the Ievves which vowed neyther to eate nor to drincke before they had killed Paule

being commaunded to wayte the Lords comyng on y e Mounte as the story sayth The Lord went ouer a great mighty winde shauing the Mountaynes and renting the Rockes but the Lord was not in the Wynd after the Wynd came there an Earthquake but the Lorde was not in the Earthquake and after the Earthquake there cāe a Fyre but the Lord was not in the Fyre and after the fire there came a still soft or mylde hissing and there was the Lord. My minde I doubt not but you perceaue and now to y e poyncts in order as you haue placed them The Iesuite I Confesse that I am albeit vnworthy a Priest of the Catholicke church and through the greate mercy of God vowed now this eyght yeres into the Society of Iesus and thereby haue taken vpon mee a speciall kynde of warrefare vnder the Banner of obedience and eke resigned all my interest and possibility of wealth honour and pleasure wyth other worldly Felicities The aunswere IN these words yee geue vs to vnderstande your ●yr●e your Order your state and condicion You begin wyth Confiteor yeelding a shewe of modesty by confessinge your vnworthines The 〈◊〉 inferre a vehement suspicion lest that your reader should long stand in suspēce you display your banner and vncouer your nakednes Wee finde you a Priest no ●orce Of the Catholike church not amisse if it be true A Iesuite as you write Of the Society of Iesus You bewray your selfe whē as vnder the faire name of Iesus you haue together with your complices lately found out a fond order neuer heard of the space of fifteene hundred and odde yeares after Christ. Here I am to warne my Brethren and Countrey men that they take heede they be not deceiued by meanes of you and such as you are entitlīg your selfe a Priest of the Catholick faith and for the further aduaūcement of your credite to father your felowship vpon Iesus Wee know that Waspes haue Honye Combes as well as Bees wicked men haue companies like to the Church of God your brethren of the societye or Family of Loue haue a Glorious title but we find them a detestable sect of Hereticks of like antiquity with your order they are not straight way the people of God which are called the people of God neyther be they all Israelites as many as are come of Israel the Father The Arrians were Heretickes yet bragged that they alone were Catholickes calling the true professors Ambrosians Athanasians Iohānits as you do nowe call the professours of the Gospel Lutherans Zuinglians Caluinists c. Nestorius y e Heretick sayith Theodoret cloked his falsehoode with the coloure of truth Ebion beyng in opinion a Samaritane yet sayth Epiphanius would hee be called a Christian. The Turkes comming by lineall discent of Agar the bondwoman yet sayth Sozomenus will they be called Saracens of Sara Abrahams true lawful wyfe The Spirit in the Reuelation reporteth of some how they call themselues Ievves yet testifyeth he they are the Synagoge of Satan The Pharisies told Christ they had Abraham to theyr father yet affyrmeth Christ they were of their father the Deuill Looke vnto your selfe that ye be not in a wrong boxe for assure your selfe vnlesse we fynd your doctrine Catholike wee will not allowe of your title You bleare the eies of y e simple with mouthing the Church the Catholicke Church our holy mother the Church Not vnlike the vayne guyse of Hipocriticall professors in the time of Ieremie who had in their mouthes The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord but in their harts th● idole groue of the deuill you are therein to be aduysed with them trust not in false lying vvords saying 〈◊〉 is the temple of the Lorde c. they shall not auayle you Here you tel vs of your order a fayre shew without but a foule shame when the secrecy therof is opened It is a new order new maysters newe men new lawes new leaders the deuil is an old knaue and now he hath put on a new coate we are forewarned that if an Angell from Heauen should bryng vnto vs any other Gospell any other Christ or christiā order thē we haue already receyued we should shun him Bevvare of false Prophets saith Christ for many vvil come in my name saying I am Christ or as you say of the society of Iesus deceiue many if any say vnto you here is Christ in this order or that order beleue them not If they saye vnto you behold he is in the desert in this Cell or y t Cell in this rocke or that rocke in this vale or that vale goe not after them or if they say behold hee is in the secrete closet or inner chamber in City Towre Temple Chappel Ile Aulter Shryne c. beleue them not And now with your pacience I will blaze the armes of your order the antiquitye of your house the originall of your lyne progresse of your society whom your selues call Iesuits the Printer shal play the crier publish the same if ye please in our natiue soyle sweete country of Englād to the knowledge of y e posterity yet for more indifferency let an other speak for vs both Ther was saith Martinus Chēnizius a certain Souldier by name Ignatius Layola as Pantaleon wryteth Cātaber a spaniard of Biskay who being at y e siege of Pompeiopolis was shot throughe both shankes with a Gunne and returning into his countrey made away with that litle which he had and determined with himself thēceforth to lead a straict and austere kynd of lyfe and consideringe with himself that Learning and knowledge auayled much to further his enterprise purpose hee got him to Paris where he studied as it is reported the space of ten yeares and linked vnto him in that space ten associats or cōpanions of his new-founde order and deuysed trade of life At the tenth yeares end with his tenne cōpaniōs he returned into Spayne in the yere of our Lord 1536. The yeare followinge to wit 1537. they came to Rome crauing the Popes Bul a faculty to goe a pilgrimage to Ierusalem there to visite as they signifyed y e holy places They toke their voiage to Venice and then as storyes record the Turkes warred with the Venetians and trauaylinge was so daungerous that they were disappoynted of theyr iourney Immediatlye they alter theyr mindes and determine to geue them selues to preaching Whereuppon the Popes Legate oyled after the Romish manner and shore Priestes seuen of them and gaue them licence freely and in all places to preach to heare confessiō and to minister the Sacramentes In the yere 1540. through the help of Cardinal Contarenus they made sute vnto Pope Paulus 3. that that order of theirs might by his autority be cōfirmed Paulus 3. graūted theyr request ratifyed theyr order with this prouiso that the number of theyr society exceeded not 60. This Pope afterward