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A04873	The popish kingdome, or reigne of Antichrist, written in Latine verse by Thomas Naogeorgus, and englyshed by Barnabe Googe; Regnum papisticum. English	Naogeorg, Thomas, 1511-1563.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.; Naogeorg, Thomas, 1511-1563. Agriculturae sacrae libri quinque. Book 1-2. English. aut	1570 (1570)	STC 15011; ESTC S109280	147,386	198

powre and euerlasting dignitée Who doth regarde the déedes and actes that here on earth are done And suffers nothing in the worlde at random here to runne But holdes the helme of all himselfe and sterne doth onely guide Though diuers Ministers he hath for euery thing beside He well shall also vnderstande the great affection deare That God doth alwayes beare to man who made his subiectes heare Both birdes and beastes and skalie fishe that in the seas doe swim And gaue him from the skies a minde that most resembled him Nor left him when he wickedly vpon the ●●ende did waight But threatning Sathan and his traine to mercie tooke him straight Moreouer he shall learne from whence the spring of death and sinne And wretched ignorance of truth did in the worlde beginne And what great force of ours remaynes to deale in vertuous déedes And whence the safe assured hope of righteousnesse procéedes And whence remission of our sinnes Besides he plaine shall sée Examples store of Gods great wrath for such as wicked bée And eke againe the mercy great of God omnipotent Towards them that vertuous are and such as earnestly repent There plainely also shall he sée what things the law doth tell How it condemneth euery man and driueth downe to hell That sinne deserueth dreadfull death and eke the certaine way To please the euerlasting Lorde and him for to obay Moreouer that there are good sprites and aungels faire aboue Sent out from God for mans defence and for their great behoue As vnto them the wicked sprites are deadly enimies There shall he learne that soule of man with bodie neuer dies Nor that the bodie euermore shall kepe the stinking graue But sound and safe at th' ende of the worlde their olde estate shall haue And come to euerlasting life where of the Iudge seuere The fearefull sentence shall they sée and righteous iudgement here There shall the wicked sort receyue theyr iust deserued hire Cast downe into the smokie pitte of dreadfull flaming fire The good exalted to the ioyes of heauen shining bright Shall sée the face of God and liue in passing great delight And more he well shall vnderstande that will of God aboue What honor here he best estéemes and what he most doth loue What orders he accepteth here what dutie eke we owe Vnto the Magistrate the whole estate of mariage shall he knowe But of this worthie treasure●great why call I all to minde As if I would the surges tell of seas in raging winde Or number all the glistring starres that in the skies appeare And cast abrode their golden beames when as the night is cleare Or tell howe many thousand leaues in wooddie groues doe lie While as in Autumne Saturne throwes his frostie flakes from hie Or count the number of the eares that through the worlde are séene While as approching Haruest néere the corne forsakes his gréene There shall he finde whatsoeuer doth to husbandmen belong Wherewith to ouerthrow the foe and to instruct the yong Therefore let him at first the bookes of Moyses well applie And all the other Prophetes else in order héedilie And from the fountaynes draw the worde and fetch it from the spring That perfitely he know the minde of God in euery thing But chiefly in the scriptures written by the holy ghost These two the law and Gospell let him alwayes thinke on most Discerning well betwixt them both what doth to eche belong The propertie of euery one their force and vertue strong Least that he hap to deale therein as most men doe this day To make them both agrée in one that differ farre away The lawe destroyes condemnes worketh wrath and vengeance due And showth vs what we ought to doe and what we must eschue Augmenteth sinne and driues men downe into the pit of hell That doe not heare in euery poynt obserue and kéepe it well On the other side the Gospell doth bring euerlasting life And doth appease the wrath of God for sinne and ceaseth strife And thorow Christ forgiueth all that hath bene done amisse And drawth vs from the depth of hell and placeth vs in blisse In giuing ioyes that neuer endes ne shewes how we should liue So much as it the déedes of Christ to vs doth wholy giue And maketh righteous euery one and doth our sinnes deface Restoring vnto sauing health all such as séekes his grace Lo here thou séest a diffrence great that will no vnitée No more than fowle deformed death with life will here agrée Therefore herein our husbandman must seuer them aright Not mingling them togither thus as iust in egall plight Not making Moyses here of Christ or olde Licurgus sowre Nor yet ascribing that to Christ that longs to Moyses powre Let eche of them their office kéepe their time and eke their place Sometime t' is méete the stonie hearts with deadly lawe to chase And to declare the dreadfull plagues that no excuse remaine To wretched men that all their life in wickednesse doe traine A time againe when méete it is of nothing else to speake But graciousnesse and to relieue and comfort vp the weake With swéetenesse great of Iesus milde both necke and hands vnbound From dolefull chaynes of miserie that weyes them to the ground What can be worse than for to kill such as deserue to liue And vnto such as death deserue eternall life to giue Which thing doth alwayes come to passe when all things are not well Discerned as they ought to be and as I earst did tell And though the face of Moyses and our Sauiours countnance bright Must both be bare and open showde and furnisht out with light Yet most of all we ought the name of Christ to magnifie And séeke t' aduaunce aboue the rest his prayse and dignitie For he of euery other thing is finall ende and summe And all things both in heauen and earth by meanes of him are donne And euery thing committed here vnto his holy hande Wherein both health and righteousnesse and death and life doth stande With fauour grace and punishment and whatsoeuer doth lie Created heare vpon the earth or in the heauens hie He is the soueraigne king and guide of chosen people pure The happie priest chiefe head and Lorde and Sanctuarie sure The stedfast stone to cleaue vnto and strongest towre of might The glorious Bridegrome garnished most bewtifull in sight That with his owne most precious bloud did washe and purifie His spouse from euery spot and staine that might offend the eie The onely shepheard bread and light and chiefest maister here In fine the large and welthie horne where all things doth appere Him from the first beginning God did promise for to giue To Adam and his children all that after him should liue A gift that well should pacifie his iust conceyued yre And eke redéeme the damned soules from neuer ceassing fyre Thus taught the holy ghost abrode and Moyses did the same And all the Prophets after him did blase abrode

hath toucht mine eares of late A piteous thing for to beholde and miserable state Whersoeuer the worthie name of Christ hath bene reputed hie There whoremongers in euery place and harl●ts swarming lie Aduoutryes fowle and shamefull actes doe rage in euery place In tauernes hie wayes stréetes and eke amid the Market place Whereof good christian people should not once declare the name Much lesse abide or haunt the thing allowing well the same Nor onely on the people doth this sinke of mischiefes light Who scarcely knowe the will of God nor how to serue him right But chiefly on their guides and on the husbandmen profest Who know the Lords commaundments well and brag aboue the rest In things belonging vnto God in all dominions wide Most skill to haue and terme themselues the maisters chiefe beside O shame with tongue not to be toucht and fowle iniquitée Beholde thy husbandmen O Christ if that it lawfull bée To call them thine that nowe doe folde and roll themselues within Thy sacred name as lothsome Apes in princely Lions skin Aufidius maners vse and in Sardanapalus guise Doe leade their life and alwayes passe their time in pleasure so As Chratis did Semiramis and Xerxes long a go As men that neuer trayned were nor fostred in thy lawe Or knewe thy dreadfull worde deuine or stoode thereof in awe Or brought vp in the bosome of thy chaste and sacred folde But in the Capraean Iles whereas Tiberius built his holde Where from their tender youth they vse to drinke and reade the while The bawdie booke of Sotades and Eelephantis vile What country is there in the world where Christ his name is knowne And Popish lawes by tyranny hath earst bene euer sowne What Colledges can you report what Cities great of name What villages in Christendome or townes of any fame Wherein the husbandmen themselues from harlots do refraine Where as no great examples fowle of filthie lust remaine That scape with lesser punishment and easlier delt withall Than those that breake a light decrée in lawe or statute small The hyer sort abuse themselues and liue so voyde of shame That iustly can they not controll the meaner for the same And dare such beastes the blessed worde of God to others breake And both in bodie and soule defilde of holy scripture speake May such disguised wretches full of vice and sinfull crime To any man presume to giue the sacraments deuine Who could Autolycus or else his crasie father beare Or Cacus or Voranus if they should them plainly heare Disswading men from frawde and theft who would not all to breake Both Pulpet and the Tables quite in hearing Caine to speake And to entreate of brothers loue or else to chastest trade Of life to heare the mother of Orestes mad perswade Aristo or Pasiphae of shamefastnesse to tell Or weryed with the vse of men yet not contented well The wife of Caesar great that past in order last of all The shamelesse threshold of the stewes and hatefull harlots hall Farre of from hence you godly men depart and go in hast Among the seruaunts of the Lorde go séeke for maners chast Whom pure religion best becomes the giftes of God deuine Receyue not at such filthie handes nor of such beastly swine More wholesome is the streame by much that from the fountaine cleare Doth runne than that which durtie standes in lake defiled heare The Lorde himselfe cannot abide yll men to handle heare His holy worde who once forbad the deuill witnesse cleare The like did Paule who of hir tale the Prophetesse did breake And would not suffer Phoebus Mayde the certaine truth to speake Looke you likewise you suffer not such plowmen as you know With any open filthinesse or wicked vice to flow The swine can neuer wholsomely of holy matters speake No more than can the Lapwing lewde with fowle and durtie beake Here therefore let our plowmen learne to liue in chastitie And to restraine the raging force that in his flesh doth lie For Gospels sake least from the same he driue men quite away With filthie life and from the loue of Christ him selfe doe stray And vnderneath the dreadfull waues of worldly pleasures runne From whence he neuer can escape what néede soeuer come But if he cannot leade his life in perfite chastitie But féeles himselfe a subiect still to fleshly frailtie And flameth euermore with lust then let him take the holde Of mariage as a remedie that scriptures haue him tolde And chastly therein leade his life among the vertuous crue This libertie doth God alow and men haue thought it due No fault it is t' obay the order of the holy spright But rather reason good and most according vnto right Thus all things well prepared thus that hereto néedefull bée Instructed eke in euery arte and learned qualitée With good conditions furnished in minde and bodie cléene For filthinesse must banisht be when scriptures must be séene Then vnto this let him applie his witte with all his might To finde the chiefest séede to sowe by which in better plight Himselfe also may dayly wax Canst thou not truly tell What Garner for to séeke for this or in what secrete Cell What fields to ouerlooke whereas the knowledge doth remaine Of Christ And vertuous life without which all things else are vaine Giue care vnto the maister great discending downe from hie He willes vs for to search what doth in holy scriptures lie The volumes fiue of Moyses and the Prophetes all beside In them to heare the tongue and voyce of him that all doth guide And for to learne what thing is good and méete for vertuous men And eke what things are yll and nought and to be shoonde of them So that we neuer néede the ayde of deuils here to craue Or heathens helpe or for to call the sprite from stinking graue T is sure these Prophets neuer did their owne deuises teach Nor mens decrées but euermore the worde of God did preach Hereby appeares howe much we ought their writings for to wey What credite eke we ought to giue vnto their wordes alway That God by them doth vtter here who dare his name dispise Or yet his worde by whome is rulde eche thing in earth or skies First therefore let vs here perswade our selues assuredlie Who thinke with God to liue and dwell aboue the heauens hie That God will haue vs to esteeme whatsoeuer the Prophetes olde Inspired with the holy ghost in auncient time foretolde As if himselfe with sacred voyce the wordes pronounced had Long time agone by Aungels mouth he spake to good and bad And many things himselfe declarde in that most happie tide When as the worlde was not so yll and he but fewe did guide Before that Amrams sonne was borne while as the Hebrues all Were sore oppressed in the lande where Nilus floud doth fall But when they were deliuered thence then Moyses streight did write His volumes fiue the Prophets eke put out their workes to light

his fame The Apostles bande did preach and teach him all the world throughout With trauaile and with labour great And eke the Lawyer stout That was sometime his enimie confessed openlie That nothing here he sought to knowe saue Iesus that did die Vpon the crosse for mans offence who at that present time Was made our wisedome righteousnesse and purger of our crime And not by will or force of man but by th' almighties law Why seekst thou here to knowe the cause the rest not worth a straw Respecting this thou mayst account but all as darknesse blinde And fonde ymaginations and fancies of the minde The perfite way that leades to hell which here with labor great The foolish worlde doth blase abrode while as it doth intreat Of lawes religion offices yea though they taken bée From Gods most holy worde or more from worldly fantasée They all are vaine and of no force except we hereto ioyne The knowledge pure of Iesus Christ and maiestie deuine The Iewes although the Bible still they gaze and looke vpon And honor great do giue vnto the Prophets euery one Whose foming lips with boasting of the law the people féedes And glorie in such Cartlodes here of good and vertuous déedes Yet blinde they still remaine shut out from euerlasting light In darkenesse groping all about doe runne to hell aright What profites bookes or Moyses nowe or yet the Prophets all When as thou dost not vnderstand the chiefe and generall Both many worthie words likewise from Turkish mouth procéedes Of God his worship prayers and good workes and almose déedes And in the sobernesse of life they farre doe vs excell They fast and kéepe their bodyes euer pure and cleane and well And oft a pilgrimage they runne with paynes and great expence From Saint to Saint to visite shrines with wondrous reuerence But all not worth a strawe For if that God be angrie still And neyther heare their prayers nor to their vowes he hearken will. For if he all extréemely hate and can away with none That put not all their confidence in Iesus Christ alone As holy scriptures testifie and teach in euery place What profites all this trauaile vaine or labor voyde of grace Like vanitie a great while nowe hath vext the christian sort With ignorance of Christ whose name they onely could report The merits of good workes and prayers mens cares did alwayes fill Of vaine and foolish cerimonies their Pulpets thundred still And in the meane time as the Turkes with name of Christ they play Not teaching all our confidence and trust on him to lay And thus no good foundation of their doyngs doth remaine But as the daughters of Danaus they labourde all in vaine And tooke their trauaile to no ende with weake and wearie hande But tilde vpon the barraine earth and sowde vpon the sande Not that they lacke the worde of God which likewise had the Iewes But that it lay neglected still and slept in deske and Pewes With dust and Cobwebs all to rayde in fowle and filthie plight Whereon if any man by chaunce did happen for to light And otherwise than custome was on leaues a fewe to looke As vsde it was in Churches oft to chaunt vpon the booke He sought not here for Christ nor how to finde the way to skies For that was thought but childishnesse and plaine to all mens eies But sought for other kinde of things though worthie sure of prayse As for to leade a vertuous life and to direct his wayes Some others vsde to mumble vp the matter spéedily And with the swiftnesse of their tongue did labor busily Regarding neyther sense nor wordes to whome it séemde a hell For to bestow a little time in reading scriptures well Hereof sprang vp the blindnesse great that dazde the people sore And well deseruing did oppresse their husbandmen the more The knowledge eke of Christ lay hid that bringeth righteousnesse And causeth vs the blessed reigne of heauen to possesse Thus warnde by Christes example and the daunger that may fall Our husband man must follow Iesus Christ before them all That for the people and himselfe by this he may prouide Least that he stumble at a straw and mountaynes ouerstride And wonder at the village small and stately towne despise And at the entrance misse the house of God before his eies Which doth declare a bussard blinde or one that wants his sight Or else some dronken Plowman mad that knowes no way aright This rule obserude and drinking at the purest fountaine cleare And taking counsaile first of God and alwayes giuing eare Vnto the voyce of Christ our Lorde reseruing it in minde No voyce nor any Paraphrase nor glose of any kinde That olde or newe hath written béene must be dispisde of thée That eyther is the Bridegroomes friend or else is thought to bée Both for the Bridegroomes sake and for the right of all the reast That iustly here are called in vnto the Bridegroomes feast Yet not without a iudgement great or straight examining Reade thou the workes of any man or his interpreting For oftentymes it comes to passe that euen the guide of hell Takes on himselfe the furniture of Aungels séeming well And in the middest of righteous men the craftie knaue doth stande And as a Saint his matters there he taketh than in hande Whatsoeuer wryter followeth still the text of scriptures plaine With Paule and Peter ioyning iust and all the Apostles traine And teacheth that our health procéedes from onely Christ alone And for to liue as he commaundes and trust to others none Him reade and earnestly withall lay vp his wordes in minde As one that onely teacheth as the holy ghost assignde And séekes with all his force and might to extoll and magnifie The honor of the Bridegroome here and soueraigne Maiestie But some there are that at the Thresholde of the doore are blinde Who leauing all the Prophets and the testament behinde Set out the fonde decrées of men and fancies lewde and vaine Such as the man that neuer heard of Christ nor of his raigne With easie trauaile might inuent as once did Xenophon Isocrates and Cicero and others many one Who surely better things doe teach and sounder much are tride Than diuers whom we earst haue knowne with baptisme purifide These also reade for vnderneath the dunghill oft doth lie The precious stone and many tymes from sandes the Golde we trie Scarce can there any booke be founde so lewde vnlearnde or naught But bringeth some commotitie as Plinie truely taught For though there be no learning great for to be had therein And though the phrase and matter all be scarcely worth a pin Though many wicked things they teach yet good to know the same For to auoyde the yll and of the ●est to make a game More laugh to heare the Cuccow lewde to rattle in the throte Than for to heare the Nightingale with swéete and pleasant note But if these foolishe bookes doe hap a