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A03768	A most excellent treatise of the begynnyng of heresyes in oure tyme, compyled by the Reuerend Father in God Stanislaus Hosius Byshop of Wormes in Prussia. To the moste renomed Prynce Lorde Sigismund myghtie Kyng of Poole, greate Duke of Luten and Russia, Lorde and heyre of all Prussia, Masouia, Samogitia &c. Translated out of Laten in to Englyshe by Richard Shacklock M. of Arte, and student of the ciuil lawes, and intituled by hym: The hatchet of heresies; De origine haeresium nostri temporis. English	Hozjusz, Stanisław, 1504-1579.; Shacklock, Richard.	1565 (1565)	STC 13888; ESTC S113605	100,065	244

cōcerning his doctrine Among whō one Menno Phrisius who semeth to pass all the sorte of them in learning saythe in this wyse Certaynely o heauenly Father I can not be deceaued in this matter with thy worde I haue beleued and that haue I receaued by the holy Ghoste as the worde of truthe And with in fewe lynes after I knowe certaynely and surely that with this my doctryne which is the worde of God in the day of ryghtwise iudgement I shall iudge not onlye Lordes Princes not only the worlde but also the Aungelles them selues Thus dothe he magnifically make his vauntes of his doctrine as thoughe it were God hys worde with no lesse confidēce and corragiousnes then Luther dyd of hys doctryne Notwithstandyng Luther dyd as hottly inueyhe against this sect as he dyd agaynst the sect of the Sacramentaries and wryting a boke to two Plebanes as before I haue made mentiō among other sayinges he oseth these wordes Whereas the Anabaptistes saye that we fynde in no place of scripture that infantes either haue faythe or the they ought to be baptized we graunte in dede that it can not be proued by any scripture which saythe playnely and euidently in these or suche lyke wordes You ought to baptize younge children for they do beleue if any man be ernest with vs to shewe any suche text we must nedes gyue hym place Luther is fayne to flee for helpe to traditions agaynst the Anabaptistes and graunt hym the victorye for we fynde it not in the whole Byble But good reasonable Christians do demaunde no suche thinges of vs that is the fashion of brablers and obstinate persons to the intent that they may be accompted wyse But they for all they re Byble bablyng and crying for scripture alleadge for them selues no scripture which saythe you ought to baptize those which be of yeares of discretiō but not infantes and younge children By by after by the tradition of the Apostles allwayes obserued in the churche of God he teacheth that younge children are to be baptized all be it no scripture dothe gyue any suche commaundement And lyke as before in defending the Sacrament of the altar so now in mayntayning Christning of younge children he dothe cheifly leane vpon the authoritie of the churche which authoritie for all that he wyll not let vs laye in his way for feare of gyuing him a fall so oftē as he requireth scripture of vs for profe of any one thing be it that it hathe bene receaued and allouwed of the church neuer so many yeares The Anabaptistes wurse thē all other sectaries This therefore is the thyrde Ghospell much more pestilent then the other twayne For besyde that it taketh clene away the sacrifice of the Masse the ordre of Prestehode with the Lutherans and denieth the real presence of Christ in the Sacramēt of the Altar with the Zuinglians it hathe many other articles bothe blasphemouse also seditiouse For it forbyddeth the publyk ministery of God hys worde it defendeth that Christ toke not man hys nature vpon hym of the blyssed virgyn it reneweth the errour of the Chiliastars it despyseth rule and wyll not haue men subiect to laufull authoritie Therefore where so euer this sect taketh place it rayseth vp greate vprores and seditions Examples of thys we haue many cities in Germany especially the citie of Munster An example by the citie of Munster For as Henry Dorpius a Lutheran and he which translated hys history out of the Germane tongue in to Latten Ihon Sleidane a Zuinglian haue wrytten in they re Cronicles aboue foure and twentye yeares agone ther cam fyrst thether certayne preachers to declare vnto the people in stede of Christ hys Gospell the doctryn of Luther whome when the Catholyke Prestes thought in no wyse to be suffred Bernard Rothman with hys cōpanyons Heretykes manner to provoke catholykes to dispute before a laie iudge whome Philipp the Lantgraue of Hessia had sent to further advaunce Luthers learnyng dyd that which all heretykes vse to do that is chosyng appoynting oute certayne cheife learned men of the catholyke faythe they prouoked the Catholykes to ioyne with them in disputation that before a lay Magistrate whome they appoynted to be theyr iudge and before whome they promised to proue the doctryn which the Catholykes held to be false and erroniouse But whē the Catholyke Prestes refused to dispute with them they departed the citie after that they were forbydden to execute theyr office of preaching the worde of God After this departure of the Catholykes before a yeare was comē fully to an end the Anabaptistes lykewyse began in the same citie to sowe the seades of they re doctryn vnder the name of Christe hys Ghospell And whē they had prouoked one an other to set fote to fote in disputation but on the selffe same condition which before was offered to the Catholykes which was that nothing shold be alleaged but Canonicall scripture beholde Bernard Rothman the cheifest trumpetor in all that citie of Luthers Ghospell who makyng the lyke lawe a lyttell before had chalenged the Catholykes to come to disputation now wolde admitt no suche condition So it cam to passe that the Lutherans which not long before had thrust the Catholykes oute of the towne they themselues fearyng to mete or encounter in disputation with the Anabaptistes were shortly after by them banished the same towne No meruayle thoughe they were so handled For the Senators also were pulled downe from they re iudgement seates the churches were spoyled and burned and whosoeuer wolde not take parte with the Anabaptistes perforce was dryuen oute of the citie As for Bernard Rothmā Henry Roles Godfry Stralen sent oute of Hessia as they of Christians grewe to be Lutherans so of Lutherans they becam Anabaptistes and with tothe and nayle furthered the Ghospel of Anabaptistes shewing vs the experience howe true that is which is wrytten in the Scripture The wycked man when he cometh in to the depthe of syn careth not what he dothe For if any man do once forsake Christian Religion vnto what so euer sect he dothe afterwarde inclyne he makethe it but a pastyme to leape from one heresie to an other And this sect truly of the Anabaptistes Anabaptistes be deuided in to diuerse kyndes is diuided in to many sections For they agree not in the principall pointes of they re doctrine In certayne cities of Germany some dyd run aboute naked as thoughe they had a bumble be in theire breche exhortyng the people to repentaunce seking in the meane whyle busyly how they might fynde any opportunytie to set the people together by the eares Neither dyd thys heresie begyn yester day or the day before for it reygned also in saynt Augustyn his tyme. And as the moste parte of all other heresies be so was this in the begynnyng deuyded in to many other partes For some were called Donatistes other Rogatistes other Maximianistes other

that it was but a signe bare figure only The which contention so sone as it begā to be made hotte in cōtinuaunce of tyme it grewe to suche a greate flame that they tossed the fyar brandes of this controuersie one at an others heade aboute the space of fyften yeares because as Calvyn wryteth they coulde not abyde to heare one an other quietlye to speake they re myndes For sayth he althoughe they met once together to discusse thys matter yet they so helde one an other at the staffes end that they brake of and left the matter in as euell a pyckell as they founde it So that when they sholde haue come to some agrement they shronke backward more and more myndyng no thing elles then to mayntayne they re owne opynion and to comptroll and confute them whiche sayde the contrarye When Caluin spyed that Caluin taking vpon hym to be a iudge betwene the Lutherans the Zuingliās raysed vpp an heresie never heard of before he toke vpon him to be iudge betwene them bothe as Muncerus intermedled hym selffe betwene the Pope and Luther condemnyng as well Zuinglius and Oecolampadius hys opinyon as Luthers brought in a newe heresye neuer heard of before not only vnknowen to the auncient Fathers and Doctours but also straunge to the late vppstart dyuellishe proctoures the Sacramentaries For he taught that breade and wyne vsed in oure Lorde hys supper be nothing elles then an assuraunce and as it were a certayne seale confirmyng all the promisses made vnto vs in Christ and thys dyd he teache withoute the authoritie of the scriptures withoute the warrant of the holy fathers without the consent of hys owne fraternitie With which doing besyde offending of Luther he gat greate displeasure of the scole of Tigurine the whiche scole for so muche as it dothe reuercene Vlryke Zuinglius as the fyrst founder of they re doctryne coulde not abyde the Caluyne sholde fynde faulte with hym with out any warrāt of scripture forge a newe fangled opynion of the sacramēt Caluyn afterward glad and fayne to quenche this hott displeasure kyndled against hym dyd wryght an Epistle in which he labored to shewe that he dyd not swarue from Zuinglius and others his good masters of that scole in the doctryne of the supper of oure Lorde whereas in very dede he varyed greatly frō them Caluin cōvicted of a lye Yea he went aboute to beare the people in hand that all they which held and beleued the Confession of Ausbourch a citie of the Vandales dyd ioyne with hym in hys doctryne of oure Lorde hys supper Of the which thing seuen yeare before he set furthe a certayne booke intituled A sum of the confession of the sacramentes Called in Laten Augusta Vindelicorum in which he plyet it a pase to declare that the Confessionistes of Ausbourge do not once wrynckell but go smothely away with that opinion of the sacrament of oure Lordes supper which the Confessionistes of Tigure or Surk do teache among whome Caluin hym selffe is numbred Nowe for so muche as by the space of one yeare or twayne no mā did wryght agaynst that forsayde booke of Caluine many dyd gesse by thys long silence that Caluin hys councell was accepted and allowed and then began thys to be bruted abroade that the Confessionistes of Ausbourch of Lutherans were become Zuinglians Dyuerse of Luthers scollers stormed at thys that they sholde be reported to haue bene traytours to Luther lyke runagates to haue fled to Zuinglius syde for so muche as it was vnknowē to no man howe ernestly Luther dyd set against the opinion of Zuinglius concernyng the Sacrament of oure Lorde hys supper Therefore there stepped forth some which with contrary bokes confuted that fornamed boke of Caluine agaynst whome it is nowe more then .ij. yeares agone synce Caluin dyd wryte a booke intituled A defence of the sounde doctrine of the Sacramentes whiche the Ministers of the Tyguryn and Geneva Churche had comprehended before in a brefe forme of Confession contayninge a confutatyon of those reproches with the whiche vnlearned and euell tonged men do slaunder it not long after he also dyd set forthe an other defence agaynst the false accusations of Ioachim Westphalus whose bokes which he namely dyd wryght agaynst Caluin as yet I could neuer come to syght of yet for all that whylst I was wryting this worcke there happened to come in to my handes a lyttell boke of the sayde Ioachim Westphalus a Lutheran which boke hath this name A iuste defence against the lowde lyes of Ihon a Lasko which he telleth agaynst the Churches of Saxonie in his Epistle to the moste excellent Kyng of Poyle In a letter sent to the Senatoures of Franckforde he maketh twyse mentyon the whylst Luther lyued there were certayne at Frācforde vpō the ryver Meyne which taught Zuinglius his heresie that very craftily vnder thys cloke that they swarued nothing from the Churches of Saxonie of whome that they sholde take diligēt hede Luth. hym selffe dyd ernestly exhorte them by writyng But after that Luther was deade he saythe that they more boldly and more shawfully dyd set lyes a broche saying that in the Sacrament of oure Lorde hys supper they dyd agree with the Confessionistes of Ausbourgh when in dede as he sayth there is greate difference betwene the Confession of Ausbourgh and the doctryne of the Sacramentaries for so muche as the Confessionistes of Ausbourgh do teache that the breade is truly the body of Christ that the body bloode of Christ is truly distributed by the handes of the ministre and is receaued in this sacramēt with the mouthe of them which cōmunicate contrariwyse the Sacramentaries do teache that it is only a token or signifycation of Christ his body which is absent that the minister gyueth but bare breade and wyne and that the receauer taketh but bare breade wyne Wherefore he exhorteth the Magistrates of Franckford that they wyll be ruled by Luthers councell that they auoyde suche false teachers and banyshe them cleane oute of theyr citie A scabbed shepe sayth he is sequestred least it infect the whole flock Heretykes are to be handled punyshed seuerely A putrifyed member is cut of least it corrupt the resydue Leprouse men be shut oute of all companye least they poyson them which be hole howe much more ought those which be taynted with the spirituall leprosy of the sowle be abandoned and remoued farre least they spill infect the shepe of Christ The Apostle forbyddeth to receaue in to house those which bryng not with them Apostolyke doctryne least the receauers may be partakers of theyr euell doinges then howe shall they be intertayned in to Christian mennes company which bring a doctryn cleane contrary to the Apostolyke veritie The scripture dothe oftentymes prayse hospitalitie it cōmaundeth to vse mercifull and charitable dedes toward banished men and straungers but so that we hurt not oure fayth so that for doing good

Christ nor Christ with them See I pray you howe lyttel a sparcke which so sone as it begā to kyndle myght easily haue bene quenched alas the day in to howe greate a fyar is it blowne in how many places euen with the dust and all as the prouerb is hath it ouerturned al Christian godlynes do you suppose that I haue reckoned vp all the Ghospelles nay There remayneth yet a rakehel rablement For seing suffering syn vnpunished is a great intysemēt to syn when men perceaued that they had no harme which attempted such thinges many stept forthe running as it were for the best game which thinkyng skorne of old thinges laboured to make all thinges a new by inuentyng some straunge kynde of doctryne might make theyr names neuer to be forgotten But who is so good in Arithmetyke that he is able to coumpt or who is at suche leasure that he is able to stand about declaring euery peculiar errour For so muche as it is both a greate busynes and also not pertayning to this present purpose Wherefore I wyll stand no longer in recyting those three hundred at Apocella in Heluetia which after seruice song to God all the lightes being put oute when they lyke brute beastes had defyled them selues yet for all that ascended in to an hyghe hyll frō whence they persuaded them selues that they sholde be caryed vp bothe body and soule And of other conuenticles of which Erasmus speaketh in the which the mothers of theire owne accorde dyd gyue they re children to be kylled Erasmus in his treatise of the amiable cōcorde of the churche and with chearefull countenaunce dyd stand by and looke on whylst the slaughter was done beleuing verily that theire children so slayne sholde be numbred amōg the cheifest saintes in heauē Then the which thinge what may be sayde more horrible Besyde this there is no cause that I sholde speake muche of a certayne Preste takē in Suenia A Preste in Suethen which taught that the Christian fayth was now almoste at an end that seing the lawe of Moyses continued but a thowsand fyue hundred yeares that lawe of Christ lykewyse sholde indure no longer Husbandmen deceaued by an heretyke wherefore the tyme was now at hand that an other lawe an other faythe sholde be gyuen to men And of an other not farr from Wittenberdge which tolde the husband men that by such a certayne day by such an howre domes day shold be which the sely soules beleued so certaynely that they left of all their husbandry loking for that howre And after they had loked long in vayne they were in ieopardy to peryshe for hunger because whereas they had sowed nothyng there was nothing for them to reape And of the thyrd Dauid which in the towne called Embden renued the heresy of the Saduces where as he denyed bothe the resurrection of the fleshe the latter iudgemēt Aungelles Dyuelles Baptisme Matrimony Scriptures the kyngdome of heauē Lykewyse of that Apostata of Premonstre who taught that there was no hell Caluin holdeth that Christ did not descēd in to hell that Christ dyd not descend in to hell which opinion Caluin holdeth in his Institutions or Catechisme the holy Patriarches and Prophetes not to haue bene in hell Yea that Christ hym selffe because whē he sayde God my God why hast thou forsaken me semed to despere therfore was damned Could any man speake any greater blasphemy Moreouer I wyll not voutsaffe to speake of them which thinck it an horrible thing to call oure lady the mother of God in whome the heresie of Nestorius lately cōdemned in the councell of Ephesus semeth to be renued Nether wyll I make mencion of them which ten tymes in the day worshipp the dyuell and there of arre called demoniacalles Besyde these there be spronge oute of Luthers scole Ihon Campane and among the Spaniardes Myles Seruet who wrote certayne bokes of the erroures aboute the Trinitie very full of erroures and blasphemies In the which they go aboute to set a newe glas vpon the olde cankred erroures of Arrius Macedonius and to disanull that faythe which the father 's gathered in the Councell of Nece and Constantinople haue prescribed vs. For they defend ernestly that onlye God the father and none elles is to be worshipped and called vpon because he only seeth oure hart the which no creature can do And it is a precept of the olde Lawe that he sholde be kylled which worshippeth any other but God alone To the which God they say we haue none other intercessor procurator or mediator besyde oure only Lorde Iesu Christ What other thing ells semeth to be forbydden by these wordes then the adoration and inuocation of the sone of God and of the holy ghoste Marke I pray you what great wyckednes dyd spryng oute of Luther his small beginninges in to what a pickell they haue brought the worlde at laste Prestehode being taken away the sacrifice ouerturned the Sacramentes by all meanes troden vnder foote many are so farre growne oute of grace that they deny that there is any heauen any hell any Christ Who wolde euer haue thought that of so small begynnynges there shold haue proceded so many horrible blasphemies which we haue comprehended in fewe wordes But that is a trym saying Principijs obsta serò medicina paratur Cùm mala per long as inualuére moras Seke phisick at first t is to late at lengthe VVhen euelles by prolonging haue gotten theyr strengthe If the disease had bene healed when it began fyrst the Churche of God sholde not now be pintched with such panges These pestilent poysons of Seruetus be scattred farr and neare and I wolde to God most noble Prince that euen as other heresies which I haue recited for the most parte so this had not entred in to youre Kyngdome and dominions the which whereas in dede it is more wycked then all the other yet of all the heresies of oure tyme there is not one which is more bolstred with scriptures then this is For it cryeth all the day long nothing elles but the scripture scripture Ghospell Ghospell And see I pray you what a cōfidence this man had in his owne cōceyte Although Caluin had written bookes agaynst his errour yet durst he ventre to go to Geneua and conferre with him face to face Seruetus cōdemned and put to deathe by meanes of Caluin At the lengthe after long and sharpe disputation when he dyd stick styffly in his opinion he was cōdemned to dye which no doubt was done at the earnest sute and request of Caluine who immediately dyd set furthe a boke in which he declareth his doctrin and describeth the whole matter as it was done also he teacheth Timmanus a Lutheran teacheth that heretykes are to be punyshed that it standeth with ryght and reason that heritykes sholde be punished with the sworde The lyke of the whiche a certayne Pastor of Breme named Timmanus in his sum