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A04483	A viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome, anno. 1569. Taken by the reuerende Father in God, Iohn Iewel, late Bishop of Salisburie. Wherevnto is added a short treatise of the holy Scriptures. Both which he deliuered in diuers sermons in his cathedral church of Salisburie, anno. 1570	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.; Garbrand, John, 1542-1589.	1582 (1582)	STC 14614; ESTC S107782	85,989	232

famine of hearing the word of the Lord. We were driuen to eate those things whiche were loathsome and horrible to beholde we were driuen to féede vpon our owne children euen the phantasies and vanities of our owne heart There was no substance in them they coulde not féede vs. In this case were the children of Israel when they grewe wearie of the word of God and lefte the ordinaunces sette downe vnto them God had no pleasure in them their prayers and sacrifice were not accepted I can not suffer saieth the Lorde youre newe Moones nor Sabbaoths nor solemne dayes Who hathe required this of your handes In such case were the Scribes Phariseis when they forsooke to be guided by the word of God and tooke awaye the key of Knowledge they fedde vpon their own deuises they neglected the commādements and will of God and followed their owne traditions Therefore Christ reprooued them O Hypocrites Esaia● prophecied well of you saying Thys people draweth neare vnto mee wyth their mouth and honoureth mee wyth their lippes but their heart is far off from mee But in vaine they worshippe mee teaching doctrines mens precepts Therefore if wée séeke to knowe the Sacramentes of the Churche what they are if wée woulde bée instructed in the Sacrament of Baptisme or in the Sacramēt of the body and bloud of Christe if wée woulde learne to knowe oure Creatour and to putte the difference betwéene the creatour and a creature if wée desire to knowe what this presente life is and what is that life whiche is to come if we woulde beléeue in God and call vpon the name of God and doe worshippe vnto God if we would be settled in perfect zeale and true knowledge if we woulde haue an vpright conscience towards God if we would know which is the true Church of God it is verye néedeful that we heare the word of God There is no other word that teacheth vs vnto saluation Now it remaineth we speake of the delectation and pleasure which the word of God giueth The worde of God is full of sadde and graue counsell full of the knowledge of God of examples of vertues and of correction of vices of the ende of this life and of the life to come These are the contentes of the worde of GOD. These things saye you are greate and weightie of themselues there is no vanitie or pleasure in them They are greate and waightie I grant and bicause they are so waightie they be the more worthie that we heare them But we muste take a delight and settle our fansie that it maye like of the weight and greatnesse They were vnto the Prophet Dauid more sweete than home and the honie combe If we taste them with suche an affection as hée did wée shall féele and sée the greate and weightie and heauenly pleasure whiche is in them Many are delighted in the stories of Iulius Caesar of Alexander the Greate of mightie and victorious Princes They haue pleasure to reade of their warres of their victories and of their triumphes And many take their pleasure in trauell to far countries to sée the diuerse fashions and behauiour of men If it were possible we mighte stande vpon such a Hill from which we might at once see al parts of the world the Citties and Townes and Mountaines and Forrests and Castels and gorgeous buildings and al the Kings and Princes of the world in their princely estate if we might sée the varietie of the whole worlde how some liue quietly in peace others are turmoyled in war some liue in wealth others in pouerty and miserie some rise others fall To sée and beholde so greate varietie of things it cannot be but it would delight vs. Such a Hill from whence wée maye take view of so great varietie such a story in which we may reade of noble princes of their warres and victories is the worde of God Upon this Hill you may at once behold al the works of his hāds howe he made Heauen and Earth the Sun and Moone the Sea Flouds the fishes in the water the fouls in the aire and the beastes in the fielde Upon this Hill you may stand and sée his Aungels and his Archangels and blessed spirites howe some of them fell and some continued in glorie howe God hath sent them in message howe they haue come downe from Heauen to serue the sonnes of men Here you may reade of the warres of the God of Hostes howe he hath pitched his tentes in the middest of hys people and hath gone before them and foughte for them How the Amorrheans and Canaanites were rooted out howe the Amalekites were ouerthrowen by the lifting vp of Moses hands in prayer howe the wall of Iericho fell downe flat at the sound of a Trumpet and the shooting of the people and howe 185. thousand Assirians were slaine in one night by the hande of one Aungel when God raughte out his hand from Heauen to giue victorie to his people Here may you sée howe God plagued ouercame his enimies how he drowned Pharao in the red sea and his horses and men and Chariots altogither Her● may you sée Nabuchodonosor a mightie Prince so bereft of his wittes that hée forsooke his Palaces and the companye and order of men and liued in the fieldes after the maner of beasts Here may you sée how God stroke King Antiochus and King Herod with filthy diseases caused lice to eate their fleshe Howe he sent downe fire and brimstone from Heauen and destroyed Sodome and Gomorrha for their sinnes Howe he made the earth open and swallowe vppe Dathan and Ab●●am howe King Ozias was stricken with Leprosie and carryed from the Temple and cut off from his kingdom What stories of any princes or people in any age can report vnto vs so strange battels so mightie conquests so wōderfull deliuerance in extremities so dreadfull subduing of the enimies as the hand of God hath wrought and the storie of the Scriptures declareth vnto vs This worde also sheweth the goodnes and mercie of God towardes the people which put their truste in him Howe he made them terrible to their ennimies howe he made their enimies their footestoole how he ledde them safe thoroughe the red Sea how he sent his Aungell to go before them and guide them how he gaue them water out of a rocke and rained downe breade from Heauen howe hée brought them into a Lande that flowed with Milke and Hony and sware vnto them that hée woulde bée their GOD and they shoulde be his people In this worde are to be séene wonderfull and straunge workes of God such as are beyonde the course of nature and passe the reason of man That the Sea parted and stoode on both sides as a high wall that at the worde of Iosua the Sunne stoode still and went not on his course Ezechias spake the word and required it and the Sunne went backe tenne degrées At the word of Elias fire came

down from heauen to consume hys sacrifice Here may you sée an Asse open his mouth and speak reproue his Maister thrée seruants of God walk in a hot burning fornace without hurte Daniel in the den among Lions and not deuoured Peter in the raging Sea and not drowned Leapres clensed the lame to goe the dumbe to speake the deafe to heare the blinde to sée the dead to rise out of theyr graues and liue simple and vnlearned men to speake in strange tongues the diuell to go out of the possessed and to saye I knowe thou arte Christe the sonne of God Here may you sée twelue pore séelie men without speare or sworde or force make conqueste and winne the whole worlde No power coulde represse them no might coulde withstande them It is reckoned a great matter for a King or a nation to yéeld submission vnto an other King or nation It must therefore bée a matter of greate wonder to sée al Kings throwe downe their Maces and all people to yéelde before so fewe so simple so vnarmed And to acknowledge they embraced lies and liued in ignorance and that these twelue are the seruants of the highest and to sée how God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to ouerthrow the wise and the weake things of this worlde to confounde the mightie things Such force did God giue to their wordes He made them the sonnes of thunder they shooke the foundations of the worlde they threw downe whatsoeuer stoode againste them Here may you see the fight of Gods electe children How they patiently suffered afflictions in their bodies rather than they woulde deny the truth of God they gaue their backes to the scourge theyr neckes to the sworde their bodies to the fire No tyrant no menacings no racke no torment no sworde no death could remoue them from the loue of the Gospell which they had receiued The more of them were cut downe the more did spring vp the more were killed the more wer left aliue Augustine saith Ligabantur includebantur torquebantur vrebantur multiplicabantur They were bounde and shutte vp and racked and burnt and yet were encreased This is the victorie that hath ouercome y e world For the Lord answered S. Paule My power is made perfect through weaknesse It liueth in death it is made whole and sound by woundes and stripes it is increased by those meanes whereby men destroy it Iacob sawe a ladder stand vpon the Earth and the toppe of it reache vppe into heauen and the Aungelles of God goe vp and downe by it This was but a dream and vision in his sleepe yet when he awoke he tooke pleasure comfort of this Vision We haue not onely the delight of this with Iacob but wée haue other farre greater visions We sée Esay beholding the Lord as he sate vpon an high throne we sée Paule taken vp into the third heauens we sée the glorie of God appeare and heare the voice whiche came out of the cloude saying This is my welbeloued sonne in whome I am well pleased here him We sée Iesus Christe the sonne of God borne of a Uirgin and how he made himselfe of no reputation and toke on him the forme of a seruant and was made like vnto men and was found in shape as a man That he humbled himself and became obedient vnto the death euen the death of the Crosse We heare him crye with a loude voice My God my God why haste thou forsaken mee We heare him say Father forgiue them for they knowe not what they doe And Father into thine hands I commende my spirite Here we may sée the Sun to be darkened that the Moone giueth no light the Earth to shake the rockes cleaue asunder the vaile rent the Graues to open and Christe rise from the dead and goe vp into heauen and sit at the right hand of this father Here maye we sée the ouerthrowe of Babilon which made al nations to drinke of the Wine of the wrath of hir fornication Howe shée is destroyed with the breath of Gods mouth Here we behold the resurrection of the dead and foure and twentie Elders sitte before God on their seates and the antient of dayes sit vppon his throne and the iudgemente seate and the Bookes opened and all flesh appeare before him and how some are taken into euerlasting life and some are sent into euerlasting death What tongue is able to expresse these pleasures and delightes which are laid open to vs in the word of God We buy Images and Pictures and Mappes of men and of diuers things Countries But what Mappe or Picture can shewe vs the like varietie and chaunge of thinges Wée purchase Landes and haue a liking so to doe Here we are taught how we may come to that lande which shall stand with vs and in which wee shall continue for euer To sée any one of these it were great pleasure either the creation of heauen and earth or the Angels Archangels and blessed spirites or the battailes of the God of Sabaoth or Amalech dasht in péeces like a Potters vessell or the wals of Iericho blowne downe with the sound of a trumpet or Pharao drowned in the sea or Nabuchodonosor eating grasse among the beastes or Antiochus smitten from heauen or Sodome and Gomorrha burnt with fire and brimstone or the earth to open and swallow vp the wicked or the sea to stand like a wall or water to come out of a stone or breade to come from heauen or the Sunne to stande still or to chaunge his course or an Asse to speake and teache his Maister or fire to be extreame hot yet not burning or Lyons hungrie yet not eating their meate or the Sea tempestous yet not drowning or blind to sée deafe to heare dumbe to speake dead to rise or ignorant men to speake in languages they neuer learned or the Diuel to roare and confesse Christ or God sitting in his Maiestie and Christ at his right hande or Babylon throwne downe and become a Tabernacle of fowle spirites a denne for the Diuel or Christ to sit in iudgement and giue sentence vpon the quick and the dead to sée any one of all these wōderous works of God it were great pleasure Howe can it be then but that we reioice and take delight to sée so many so great so marueilous so heauenly and so glorious wonders in one heape altogither Howe farre would we ride or go to sée the triumph of a mortall King Here is to be séene the triumph of God the Lorde of Lordes and the King of Kinges howe he hath made the name of his Sonne triumph ouer principalities and powers and ouer the whole worlde Here is a Paradise full of delightes no tongue is able to speak them they are so many No heart is able to conceiue them they be sogreat Here is a shoppe wherein is set out the wisedome and knowledge the power the iudgements and

people were changed the Temples and Sacrifices and Praiers were chaunged mens eyes and heartes were chaunged They forsooke their Gods their Kings their Priests they forsooke their antiquity customes consent their Fathers and themselues What power was able to work these things What Emperour by force euer preuailed so much what strength could euer shake down so mightie idols from their seate What hand of man could subdue and cōquer the whole world make such mighty nations confesse they had done amisse This did the Lord bring to passe by the power of his word and the breath of his mouth This was it y t lead captiui●ie captiue threw downe euery high thing that lifted it self vp against the Lorde brought all powers vnder subiection vnto the Lord It is the image the power the arme y e sword and the glorie of God It is mightie of great force and vertue of authoritie and maiestie because it is the worde of God therefore the glorie thereof is great Now let vs stand a farre of and humble our selues and in reuerence and feare learne to take the fruite and comfort of the same for so is the wil of God that we may be partakers of his glorie But where shal we finde enterance into this matter And howe shall we bée able to come a land For this is the Sea and the depth of all the workes of the iudgementes and mercies of the kingdome of God This is a Sea that hath no shore a pit that hath no botome The holy Scriptures are the mercie seate the registry of the mysteries of God our Chartre for the life to come the holy place in which God sheweth him selfe to the people the Mount Ston where God hath appointed to dwel for euer The more comfort in thē so much the more gréedily let vs desire them the more heauenly and glorious they are with so much the more reuerence let vs come vnto them For consideration of this mater of the fruite comfort which God worketh by the worde what may we better call to minde than that is réecorded by S. Paul Whatsoeuer thinges are written aforetime are written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might haue hope All that is writtē in the word of God is not writtē for Angels or Archangels or heauenly Spirites but for the sonnes of men for vs and for our instruction that by them we may receiue strength and comfort in all aduersities and haue hope of the life to come It is the word of God God openeth his mouth and speaketh to vs to guide vs into all truth to make vs full and readie in all good workes that we may be perfect men in Christ Iesus so rooted and grounded in him that we bee not tost to and fro with euery tempest The profite which the worde of God bringeth shal best apeare if we first take a viewe of our estate what we are in what place we stande what enemies make force against vs. We are y e sons of Adam stubborne children the children of vanitie and of wrath The ch●ldren of those fathers which forsooke God and haue erred in their hearts were deceiued God which created man breathed into him the breath of life saith The imagination of mans heart is euill from his youth Such are we euē by the iudgment of God and his iudgement faileth not What errour what idol what wickednes euer hath bene heard which hath not bene forged and wrought in the heart of man wée can neither doe nor speake nor thinke the thing that is good our vnderstanding is heauie our will froward our eyes blinde and our heart vncleane We go astray through this worlde as lost shéepe euery man after his owne way Euen as a leafe is caried vp and downe with a blast of winde so are we easily driuē into errour in our selues we finde no stay no succour nor helpe Such are we and so weake of our selues But where are we in the world And what is the world Some thinke it to be a place full of all delights and pleasures a goodly strong and gorgious palace and a paradise of ioy Let no man deceiue vs nay rather let vs not deceiue our selues the world is a shoppe of vanities it is a dungeon of darkenesse a potte full of poyson a shippe full of leakes a way full of snares It blindeth our eyes beguileth our senses and helpeth vs forwarde into all daungers We are blinde our selues and the place wherein we are is nothing els but darkenesse Wherunto may I resemble our case Ieremy the Prophet was cast into a dūgeon There he sate without light and without comfort His case was miserable and the place lothsome yet he knew where he was he knew what he lacked he cryed vnto the Lord and was deliuered Daniel was cast into the den of Lions there to bee torne in péeces and deuoured But he sawe his misery and the daunger in which he stoode he sawe the Lions the pawes which shoulde gripe him and the téeth which shoulde teare him His case was miserable yet is ours more miserable We are in the déepe dungeon of hel and think we are in safetie we are in the middest of darkenesse and thinke it to be light we are compassed with Lio●s with Dragons and Scorpions yet think not of our miserie Who hath not heard the story of Ionas Ionas was in a Whales belly The place was very darke the waues beat on euery side he was drowned yet touched no water he was swallowed vp yet not consumed he liued without any sense of life the fish was his death y ● sea was death the tempest was death yet he died not but liued in the mids of death he could not sée he could not heare he knew not to whom he might call for helpe hée was taken carried away he knew not whether Let vs marke well this storie it is a true pattern of our estate sheweth what our life is in this worlde We are beset w t like dangers we are driuen w t tēpests we are drowned in like flouds we liue in y e middest of horrible darknes we are caried we know not whether The Philosopher telleth vs trueth falsehode are nigh neighbors and dwell one by the other the vtter porch of y e one is like the porch of the other yet their way is contrarie the one leadeth to life the other leadeth to death they differ little to the shew saue that oft times the dore of falshod is faire painted grauen and beautifully adorned but the dore or fore front of trueth is plaine and homely Therby it hapneth that men be deceiued they mistake the dore and goe into errors house whē they séeke truth They call euill good falsehoode truth darkenesse light They forsake that is good deny the truth and loue not the light This moued S. Paul to say of his brethren the Iewes I beare them

things in the Scriptures are harde I deny it not It is very expedient that somewhat shoulde be couered to make vs more diligent in reading more desirous to vnderstand more feruent in prayer more willing to aske the iudgement of others and to presume the lesse of our owne iudgement Gregorie sayth Magnae vtilitatis est ipsa obscuritas eloquiorum Dei. Facit enim c. The hardenesse whiche is in the worde of God is verie profitable For it causeth a man to take that profite by paines which hee coulde not take with negligence If the vnderstanding were open and manifest it woulde be litle set by Cyrillus saith Omnia plana recta sunt illis qui cognitionem inuenerunt fatuis verò etiam facilima● ob secura videntur All thinges are plaine and straight to them that haue founde knowledge but to such as are fooles the most easiest places seeme harde And againe Eaequae perspicua sunt difficilia sunt haereticis Quomodo enim in maleuolam animam intrabit sap●entia Those thinges which are plaine are harde vnto Heretiques For howe can wisedome enter into a wicked heart It is true which S. Peter hath saide some thinges are hard to be vnderstande But it is also true that they which peruert them vnto their own destruction are vnlearned and vnstable that is they to whom they are hard haue not their eyes opened that they may sée the light of the worde or they be wicked and turne the truth of God into lies and abuse the Scriptures to their owne damnation The Howlet séeth not by the brightnesse of the Sunne not because the Sunne beames are dark but for that his eyes are weak and cannot abide so cleare light it is therfore but a pretence and a colour for their ignorance and a meanes to deceiue the people more boldly with their errours when they charge the worde of God wyth darkenesse and hardnesse For how many hundred places are there which be as cleare as noone day God saith I am the Lord thy God thou shalt haue none other gods before me Thou shalt make thee no grauē image neither any similitude of things that are in heauen aboue neither that are in the earth beneath nor that are in the waters vnder the earth thou shalt neither bow downe to them neither serue them Againe he saith that is cursed that is made with hands both it and he that made it hee because he made it and it because it was called God being a corruptible thing And againe Cursed be al they that worship carued images and delight in vaine Gods This is the word of God What darkenesse is in any of these sayings God saith If thou lend mony to my people to the poore with thee thou shalt not be as an Vsurer vnto him yee shall not oppresse him with vsurie Againe If a man hath not giuen forth vpon vsurie neither hath taken any encrease c. hee shall surely liue but hee that hath giuen forth vpō vsurie or hath taken encrease shall he liue He shal not liue And the wages of sinne is death And the soule that sinneth it shall die And againe This yee knowe that no whoremongers neither vncleane person nor couetous person which is an Idolater hath any inheritāce in the kingdome of Christ of God Let no man deceiue you with vaine wordes for for such things commeth the wrath of God vpon the childrē of disobedience These are the words of God and what darkenesse is in them Saint Paul saith If it be possible as much as in you lieth haue peace with all men Abhorre that which is euill and cleaue to that which is good auenge not your selues but giue place vnto wrath Againe Let euerie soule bee subiect to the higher powers there is no power but of God He is the Minister of God for thy wealth but if thou doe euill feare for he beareth not the sworde for naught These bée the wordes of God what darkenesse is in them Saint Iohn saith Christ is the Lambe of God which taketh away the sins of the world And the bloud of Iesus Christ his son clenseth vs from al sinnes Saint Peter saith His owne selfe bare our sinnes in his bodie on the tree that wee being deliuered from sinne should liue in righteousnesse Christe saith Aske and it shall bee giuen you seeke and yee shall finde knocke and it shall be opened vnto you And againe Come vnto me all ye that are weake and laden and I will ease you The Prophet saith Whosoeuer shall call on the name of the Lorde shall bee saued These bée the words of God What darkenesse is in them What eye so simple but he may sée them The wayes of the Lorde are straight and his wordes plaine euen vnto the simple C●rysoft saieth Omnia clara plana sunt in scriptures diuinis quaecunque necessaria sunt manifest a sunt All things are cleare and plaine in the holy Scriptures Whatsoeuer things there is necessarie for vs is also manifest Some thinges are couered as men couer pretious stones and precious garmentes They are couered and yet we sée them Wée sée them and yet they are couered Yet all thinges that are necessarie are plaine and open Clemens saith Nullis caelatum est verbum lux est communis omnibus illucescit hominibus nullus est in verbo Cymmerius The worde of God is hid from no man It is a light common vnto all men there is no darkenesse in Gods worde Marke it is a common light and shineth to all men It is as bright and beautifull as the Sunne there is no dungeon or darknesse in it So sayth Irenaeus Scripturae in aperto sunt sine ambiguitate similit●r ab omnibus audiri possunt The Scriptures are plaine without doubtfulnesse and may be heard indifferently of all men All men may heare them euen all sortes of men without exception Where be they then which say it is not lawfull for the people to haue the worde of God and that the Scriptures are not méete for their reading they are breade they are drinke they nourish vnto euerlasting life great crueltie it is to sterue Gods people to death Are they vnfit to haue the Scriptures because they bée poore Christ sayth The poore receiue the gladde tidings of the Gospell And Blessed are the poore in spirite for theirs is the kingdome of heauen They want riches and worldly glorie but God giueth his feare and grace to them as well as to the rich Are they vnfit to reade the Scriptures because they are not bred vp in other learning S. Paul saith I esteemed not to know any thing among you but Iesus Christ and him crucifyed The Prophet Dauid saith Blessed is the man ô Lord whom thou teachest in thy lawe And Christ saith Thou hast hid these things from the wise and men of vnderstanding