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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02469	A sight of the Portugall pearle, that is, the aunsvvere of D. Haddon maister of the requests vnto our soueraigne lady Elizabeth by the grace of God quene of England Fraunce and Irelande, defendour of the faith. &c. against the epistle of Hieronimus Osorius a Portugall, entitled Pearle for a Prince. Translated out of lattyn into englishe by Abraham Hartwell, student in the kynges colledge in Cambridge; Gualtheri Haddoni pro reformatione Anglicana epistola apologetica ad Hier.Osorium, Lusitanum. English	Haddon, Walter, 1516-1572.; Hartwell, Abraham, b. ca. 1542.	1565 (1565)	STC 12598; ESTC S112464	36,621	136

venemous ioice of a basterdlie Religion forgoeth the sounde fruite of heauenly meditation Let vs bind vp al with examples The former auncient churche of apostles and martirs had none of these your costly iewelles yet was there most whot zeale burnynge in their breastes In baser times of religiō by fote and foote in stepped peintrie and so died in the former loue of gods seruice y t was so kendled in mens harts At last rushed in the scholemens diuinitie by whole cartloades a birde of an other nest ouglie mishapen with superstition anon all places were stuffed with peinted stockes and idolls which being euery where risely worshipped the true spirituall honour of God was troden vnder foote Nowe powre out your Philosophie concerning the weakenes of oure capacitie extoll youre holy blockes vntil you sweate withal yet is this deepely groūded in the scriptures that the vndoubted knowledge of god is in his worde and sincere worshyppinge in spyrite As for your pyctures where the spyrite is present they neede not where that wanteth they auayle not It were a tedious matter for you to make of euery thyng a seuerall discourse and therefore with one breath you say that all holly seruice ceremonies and sacramentes ar by vs cleane sacked and destroyed What is it that I heare Is there lyuing any such broode of diuynes that spoyleth and destroyeth all holly seruice al ceremonies all sacramentes Either it is so orels muste this bee as it is in deed a shameful excesse in lying For forreine Churches I can gage nothinge but I haue a good opinion of them Of our orders in diuine affayres I wyll make you a briefe accōpt not suffring you eyther to be ignoraunt youre selfe or to bewytche other First bycause fayth commeth by hearing we send into al coastes of the Realme Preachers to edifye the people in their duties toward God and to enstructe them in the true worshipping of y e same Thē haue we an order of commō prayer collected out of Scriptures by Parliament for so we terme the consent of the three estates of our Realme authorised frō the whiche we suffer no man to wander forseing wyth all diligence two pointes fyrst the holy ghost to be obeyed warning that whosoeuer open his mouth in the congregacion speake the worde of God secondly that in al things be found an vnity wythout dyscorde The sacramentes we cause to be ministred very precisely after the prescript of holy writ and the liuely paterne of the former Churche wherin the Lorde Iesus Christe first in his own person instituted them with his Apostles And all these are propoūded in y e vulgare toung for that it is a brutish folly and plainly excepted in the testament in the presence of God to clatter out that wee vnderstande not our selues The geuing of orders hallowing of wedlock churching of childwiues visitynge of the feble and burying of the dead corses we execute with solemne and publike rites according to y e veritye in the Gospell whych we spice with ceremonies so far forth as al things may procede in order and decently within oure Churches as we are certainly aduertised out of the gospel Of y e times places dayes other circumstances we haue made no alteration neither in the whole body of religion innouated anye thing but y t eyther abhorred from all reason or was stayned wyth open impietie Thus haue I rypped vp vnto you the rites and manners of our Churche whych you see is cleane strypped neyther of holy seruice sacraments nor traditions but of eche sort hath reserued so muche that who so chargeth vs to bee voyde of all wantinge in dede no parcell requisite vnto the peculier anauncement of Gods honor shal shal offer vs vnreasonable iniury You saye we haue shyfted of the yoke of the imperial Bishop and you saye well It was to heauy and broosyng for either vs or our fathers before vs any lōger to susteine Neither acknowledge we any one high superintendent but only our lord Iesus Christ which honor the scriptures assigne vnto him alone And herein do we not part Christs coate as you gesse but wee touse and hale the Popes gaberdine neyther vnlocke we the doore vnto sedicion but stoppe the hyghe waye wherein vpon his lawlesse bulles of leade we rode stepe downe into perdicion You rake together many vnities and therof packe vp an argument that in any wise there must be in the Church one spiritual souereigne or hyghe regent What nedes that sith euen in the soundest age of the Church there was one God one fayth and yet notwithstanding had Peter one prouince Paul another and Iames another and diuers other had seuerall charge whereas the seuering of the persōs was no breach to the vnity in fayth In sequele of time diuerse prelates of Rome were holy Martirs put to death by heathen Princes vsurping no other crowne but the crowne of martirdome As for this extraordinary popish regalty they knew it not and S. Gregorye by name doth defie it Wherfore if the most floryshinge tyme of the Churche were voyde of thys your Monarchy we also may wesleaue if out nay we ought so to do not onely for the streight charge of y e scripture but also the suggestion of all good reason We cannot abide to haue the head so far distant from the body especially hauinge thys souereigne power for the which you labor so harde here at home in England that no nede it is to seke any abrode We haue the full authority of a regall power conteyning the whole vertue of king lye iurisdiction ouer the whole Realme But thys this is it that you cry away withall thys hath set you in such a glowinge that vnto Princes you impute sacrilege bicause they extend their authoritye ouer the Ecclesiasticall lawes dare auenture to touche things consecrate What I praye you M. Hieronimus come out of thys traunce fie vpon this impacience in a professed wyse man let in a littell breath chere vp your spirites you shall se al things in a cleare case The Quenes maiesty reygneth ouer all her subiectes of Englande And reason it is So haue the Frēchmen theyr French king and the Scottes their scottish souereigne Yea but she presseth in vnto church matters Not a whytte Al politike affayres ar gouerned by ciuill magistrates spiritual matters by bishops In spirituall exploites if any publike order be to be taken the diuines determine the same whose determination is by the Quenes Maiesty authorised Now what mislyke you vnder these ordinaunces did the kinges of Israel in those daies gouern the proper and peculier people of God Then ensued the gospel which also making in powers a distinction fyrst hoyseth vp the Regal estate and subdueth thervnto al other degrees by the mouth of Peter Paule whose names and titles by false vsurpaciō you deriue vnto thestablishing of your Romishe Seignory As for you you bidde battel not only in behalf of the Romish Scepter but also for the