A treatise of the perpetuall visibilitie, and succession of the true church in all ages
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             A treatise of the perpetuall visibilitie, and succession of the true church in all ages
             Abbot, George, 1562-1633.
          
           [8], 116 p.
           
             Printed by Humfrey Louunes, for Robert Milbourne,
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             1624.
          
           
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           A
           TREATISE
           OF
           THE
           Perpetuall
           Visibilitie
           ,
           AND
           Succession
           of
           the
           True
           CHVRCH
           .
           
             in
             all
          
           AGES
           .
        
         
           AT
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           by
           HVM●REY
           LOVVNES
           ;
           for
           ROBERT
           MILBOVRNE
           .
           1624.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           TO
           THE
           READER
           .
        
         
           KIng
           Salomon
           ,
           the
           Mirror
           of
           wisdome
           ,
           who
           digged
           deepest
           into
           the
           richest
           Mines
           of
           diuine
           and
           humane
           knowledge
           ,
           exhorts
           others
           to
           search
           after
           that
           which
           himself
           had
           found
           in
           such
           abundance
           :
           and
           he
           sets
           an
           edge
           vpon
           our
           desires
           ,
           by
           promising
           ,
           
             If
             thou
             seekest
             after
             her
             as
             for
             siluer
             ,
             and
             searchest
             for
             her
             as
             for
             hid
             treasure
             ,
             then
             shalt
             thou
             finde
             the
             knowledge
             of
             God
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           Of
           so
           pretious
           a
           Talent
           when
           wee
           haue
           found
           
           any
           parcell
           ,
           wee
           ought
           not
           to
           hide
           it
           in
           a
           napkin
           ,
           much
           lesse
           to
           bury
           it
           in
           the
           bowels
           of
           the
           earth
           ,
           by
           concealment
           or
           suppression
           :
           for
           ,
           
             Veritatem
             celare
             ,
             est
             aurum
             sepelire
          
           ;
           
           To
           conceale
           the
           Truth
           ,
           is
           to
           burie
           gold
           ,
           and
           therby
           to
           depriue
           not
           only
           others
           ,
           but
           our selues
           also
           ,
           of
           the
           benefit
           and
           vse
           thereof
           .
           Wherefore
           Saint
           Austen
           sharply
           censureth
           such
           as
           would
           challenge
           a
           peculiar
           interest
           and
           propriety
           in
           this
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           true
           common
           treasure
           of
           Gods
           Church
           ,
           saying
           ,
           
             Veritas
             nec
             mea
             ,
             nec
             tua
             ,
             nec
             illius
             est
             ,
             sed
             omnium
             nostrum
             ,
             quos
             ad
             eius
             communionem
             publicè
             vocas
             ;
             admonens
             nos
             ,
             vt
             nolimus
             eam
             habere
             priuatam
             ,
             ne
             priuemur
             ea
             :
          
           The
           truth
           is
           neither
           mine
           ,
           nor
           thine
           ,
           nor
           his
           ,
           but
           all
           ours
           in
           common
           ,
           whom
           thou
           (
           O
           Lord
           )
           callest
           publikely
           to
           the
           communion
           thereof
           ;
           dreadfully
           admonishing
           vs
           ,
           not
           to
           desire
           to
           haue
           it
           priuate
           ,
           lest
           we
           be
           depriued
           of
           it
           .
           Now
           ,
           of
           all
           truth
           this
           day
           in
           controuersie
           ,
           there
           is
           none
           more
           sought
           after
           by
           some
           ,
           than
           the
           visibility
           of
           the
           true
           Church
           ,
           which
           retained
           the
           purity
           of
           the
           Apostles
           
           doctrine
           ,
           vnmixed
           with
           dregs
           of
           errour
           and
           superstition
           ,
           especially
           in
           the
           gloomy
           and
           dark
           Ages
           before
           Luther
           .
           As
           for
           higher
           times
           ,
           and
           neerer
           the
           Apostles
           ,
           such
           was
           the
           clarity
           and
           splendour
           of
           the
           pure
           Church
           ,
           that
           in
           a
           manner
           it
           obscured
           the
           Sun.
           But
           ,
           in
           succeeding
           and
           degenerating
           times
           ,
           after
           the
           number
           of
           the
           name
           of
           the
           Beast
           ,
           666
           ,
           it
           began
           much
           to
           be
           obscured
           and
           clouded
           with
           ignorance
           and
           superstition
           :
           and
           in
           the
           thousandth
           yeer
           ,
           in
           which
           ,
           Satan
           was
           let
           loose
           ,
           and
           much
           more
           after
           ,
           euen
           till
           the
           happy
           reformation
           in
           these
           later
           Ages
           ,
           it
           was
           so
           eclipsed
           ,
           especially
           in
           the
           Western
           Parts
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           that
           some
           confidently
           affirm
           ,
           it
           was
           quite
           extinct
           .
           The
           Woman
           ,
           clothed
           with
           the
           Sun
           ,
           hauing
           the
           Moon
           vnder
           her
           feet
           ,
           was
           now
           fled
           into
           the
           Wildernesse
           ,
           and
           had
           but
           a
           fewe
           Stars
           to
           discouer
           her
           .
           By
           the
           conduct
           and
           lustre
           wherof
           ,
           yet
           many
           Wise-men
           follow'd
           her
           obscure
           track
           ,
           and
           found
           her
           .
           Among
           whom
           ,
           the
           most
           reuerend
           ,
           religious
           ,
           learned
           ,
           and
           painfull
           Authour
           of
           this
           enfuing
           Treatise
           ,
           concerning
           
             The
             Visibility
             and
             
             Succession
             of
             the
             true
             Church
             ,
          
           deserueth
           to
           bee
           named
           in
           the
           first
           rank
           ;
           who
           hath
           more
           particularly
           and
           perspicuously
           trauelled
           in
           this
           Argument
           ,
           than
           any
           in
           our
           English
           Tongue
           .
           It
           was
           the
           manner
           of
           the
           Heathen
           Race-runners
           ,
           
           after
           they
           had
           finished
           their
           course
           ,
           *
           to
           deliuer
           a
           Lamp
           or
           Taper
           to
           the
           next
           Runner
           .
           Semblably
           whereto
           ,
           this
           Christian
           Antiquary
           shewes
           vnto
           thee
           ,
           
           how
           the
           noble
           Worthies
           of
           the
           Christian
           world
           ,
           and
           Fore-runners
           of
           our
           faith
           ,
           after
           they
           had
           finished
           their
           course
           ,
           deliuered
           the
           Lamp
           of
           their
           doctrine
           from
           one
           to
           another
           :
           
           as
           (
           to
           omit
           other
           former-bearers
           of
           this
           Light
           )
           Bertram
           ,
           to
           
             Berengarius
             ;
             Berengarious
          
           ,
           to
           
             Petrus
             Bruis
             ;
             Petrus
             Bruis
          
           ,
           to
           
             Waldo
             ;
             Waldo
          
           ,
           to
           
             Dulcinus
             ;
             Dulcinus
          
           ,
           to
           Gandune
           and
           Marsilius
           ;
           they
           ,
           to
           
             Wicklef
             ;
             Wicklef
          
           ,
           to
           Hus
           and
           Ierome
           of
           Prague
           ;
           and
           their
           scholars
           ,
           the
           Taborites
           ,
           to
           Luther
           .
           This
           Treasure
           of
           Antiquitie
           falling
           into
           my
           hands
           ,
           and
           finding
           it
           hard
           to
           come-by
           ,
           I
           thought
           fit
           to
           publish
           it
           ,
           and
           make
           it
           more
           common
           ;
           that
           so
           ,
           all
           that
           loue
           
           the
           truth
           ,
           might
           cleerly
           see
           in
           it
           the
           perfect
           Image
           of
           their
           Mother
           ,
           the
           true
           Protestant
           Church
           ,
           partly
           blubbered
           with
           tears
           ,
           partly
           smeared
           with
           bloud
           ,
           by
           the
           cruelty
           of
           the
           Man
           of
           sinne
           ,
           and
           his
           Complices
           ,
           in
           former
           Ages
           .
           About
           which
           dolefull
           Image
           ,
           we
           may
           fitly
           write
           these
           words
           of
           the
           Prophet
           Micah
           ,
           
           for
           a
           Motto
           :
           
             Reioyce
             not
             against
             me
             ,
             O
             my
             enemy
             :
             when
             I
             fall
             ,
             I
             shall
             rise
             :
             when
             I
             sit
             in
             darknes
             ,
             the
             Lord
             shall
             be
             a
             Light
             vnto
             mee
             .
          
           Such
           a
           Light
           hee
           hath
           been
           Before
           ,
           and
           In
           our
           daies
           ,
           and
           Henceforth
           will
           bee
           ,
           according
           to
           his
           promise
           ;
           til
           he
           shall
           dispell
           all
           darknes
           ,
           and
           consume
           the
           Man
           of
           sin
           with
           the
           Spirit
           of
           his
           mouth
           ,
           
           and
           destroy
           him
           with
           the
           brightnes
           of
           his
           Comming
           .
           Euen
           so
           come
           ,
           Lord
           Iesu
           ;
           come
           quickly
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           A
           TREATISE
           OF
           the
           perpetuall
           Visibilitie
           and
           Succession
           of
           the
           true
           CHVRCH
           .
        
         
           WEE
           teach
           ,
           
           that
           as
           from
           the
           beginning
           long
           before
           the
           Incarnation
           of
           Christ
           ,
           God
           euer
           had
           his
           Church
           ,
           yet
           sometimes
           more
           visible
           and
           glorious
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           more
           contracted
           ,
           and
           obscured
           :
           so
           since
           the
           appearance
           of
           our
           Sauiour
           ,
           at
           all
           times
           infallibly
           and
           without
           exception
           ,
           there
           haue
           been
           chosen
           children
           of
           God
           ,
           who
           haue
           retained
           his
           faith
           ,
           
           and
           calling
           vpon
           his
           name
           haue
           studied
           to
           expresse
           their
           knowledge
           in
           their
           life
           ,
           by
           retyring
           themselues
           both
           from
           the
           loose
           conuersation
           of
           Libertines
           ,
           and
           the
           profanation
           of
           Idolatrous
           persons
           .
           Neither
           euer
           was
           there
           any
           of
           our
           profession
           ,
           which
           did
           teach
           or
           write
           the
           contrary
           .
           But
           wheras
           the
           Synagogue
           of
           Rome
           layes
           it
           downe
           for
           a
           fundamentall
           Rule
           ,
           that
           this
           Church
           hath
           been
           and
           must
           bee
           in
           all
           ages
           ,
           a
           visible
           and
           conspicuous
           Congregation
           at
           the
           least
           ,
           consisting
           of
           an
           apparant
           Hierarchy
           ,
           so
           that
           at
           all
           times
           a
           man
           may
           poynt
           it
           out
           ,
           and
           may
           repaire
           thither
           ,
           as
           to
           a
           matter
           eminent
           ;
           yea
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           sort
           pompous
           too
           ;
           or
           to
           say
           as
           Stapleton
           speaketh
           when
           he
           doth
           most
           extenuate
           it
           ,
           a
           
             It
             is
             euermore
             visible
             in
             respect
             of
             her
             Gouernours
             and
             Sheepheards
             ,
             but
             most
             of
             all
             for
             the
             Pope
             ,
             or
             cheife
             Pastor
             thereof
             .
          
           To
           which
           Pope
           ,
           b
           Bellarmine
           assigneth
           that
           he
           cannot
           erre
           in
           iudgment
           ,
           
           and
           to
           the
           people
           and
           Cleargie
           of
           Rome
           (
           where
           this
           sensible
           Church
           must
           principally
           be
           )
           that
           
             they
             cannot
             erre
             with
             a
             personall
             errour
             ;
             so
             that
             all
             altogether
             erre
          
           ;
           we
           therein
           doe
           dissent
           from
           them
           ,
           and
           maintaine
           ,
           that
           although
           when
           the
           godly
           are
           most
           driuen
           to
           extremities
           by
           Heresies
           or
           persecutions
           ,
           they
           bee
           visible
           each
           to
           other
           ,
           and
           acquainted
           with
           some
           other
           brethren
           ,
           who
           are
           in
           like
           case
           with
           themselues
           ,
           yet
           they
           are
           not
           so
           apparant
           to
           other
           men
           ,
           as
           that
           at
           all
           times
           they
           know
           where
           to
           find
           Assemblies
           ,
           and
           Congregations
           of
           them
           .
           But
           that
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           his
           Pontificall
           Clergie
           ,
           should
           haue
           the
           face
           of
           the
           Church
           tyed
           ,
           and
           inseperably
           ioyned
           vnto
           them
           ,
           wee
           can
           in
           no
           sort
           yeeld
           ,
           but
           doe
           disclaime
           it
           as
           a
           flattering
           tale
           ,
           suggested
           to
           that
           Bishop
           by
           such
           parasites
           as
           are
           about
           him
           ,
           and
           from
           time
           to
           time
           doe
           depend
           vpon
           him
           .
        
         
         
           And
           that
           it
           may
           bee
           seene
           what
           reason
           we
           haue
           of
           this
           our
           assertion
           ,
           
           wee
           first
           shew
           ,
           that
           the
           estate
           of
           the
           faithfull
           was
           frequently
           so
           ,
           before
           the
           comming
           of
           Christ.
           For
           when
           it
           lay
           as
           hid
           in
           some
           fewe
           persons
           ,
           within
           the
           single
           Families
           of
           the
           old
           Patriarks
           ,
           before
           and
           after
           the
           Floud
           ,
           what
           great
           boast
           could
           there
           bee
           made
           of
           it
           ?
           Nay
           ,
           when
           the
           Commonwealth
           of
           the
           lewes
           was
           much
           setled
           ,
           into
           what
           straight
           was
           it
           brought
           ,
           when
           Dauid
           complained
           ,
           c
           
             Helpe
             Lord
             ,
             for
             there
             is
             not
             one
             godly
             man
             left
             :
             for
             the
             faithfull
             are
             fayled
             from
             among
             the
             children
             of
             men
             ?
          
           This
           being
           spoken
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           most
           probable
           ,
           in
           the
           dayes
           of
           Saul
           ,
           aster
           the
           dayes
           of
           Samuel
           ,
           and
           the
           d
           slaughter
           of
           the
           Priests
           ,
           how
           was
           it
           euen
           in
           Iudah
           and
           Ierusalem
           ,
           when
           Esay
           cried
           out
           ,
           that
           e
           
             the
             whole
             head
             is
             sicke
             ,
             and
             the
             whole
             heart
             is
             heauy
             ,
             from
             the
             sole
             of
             the
             foot
             vnto
             the
             head
             ,
             there
             is
             nothing
             whole
             therin
             ?
          
           The
           estate
           of
           the
           Church
           
           being
           then
           most
           miserable
           ,
           and
           all
           depraued
           ,
           not
           onely
           in
           manners
           ,
           but
           in
           Religion
           ,
           Idolatry
           being
           plentifull
           ,
           as
           is
           manifest
           by
           the
           wordes
           in
           the
           same
           vision
           ,
           f
           
             For
             they
             shall
             be●
             confounded
             for
             the
             Okes
             which
             you
             haue
             desired
             ,
             and
             yee
             shall
             bee
             ashamed
             for
             the
             G●rdens
             you
             haue
             chosen
             :
          
           which
           intendeth
           the
           trees
           and
           pleasant
           places
           where
           they
           vsed
           their
           superstitions
           .
           Call
           to
           mind
           the
           dayes
           of
           Ieremie
           ,
           when
           hee
           sayd
           ,
           g
           
             Runne
             to
             and
             fro
             by
             the
             streetes
             of
             Ierusalem
             ,
             and
             behold
             now
             ,
             and
             know
             ,
             and
             inquire
             in
             the
             open
             places
             thereof
             ,
             if
             yee
             can
             finde
             a
             man
             ,
             or
             if
             there
             bee
             any
             that
             executeth
             Iudgement
             ,
             and
             seeketh
             the
             Truth
             ,
             and
             I
             will
             spare
             it
             .
          
           And
           those
           of
           Ezech●l
           ,
           testifying
           in
           this
           sort
           :
           h
           
             I
             sought
             for
             a
             man
             among
             them
             that
             should
             make
             vp
             the
             hedge
             ,
             and
             stand
             in
             the
             gap
             before
             mee
             for
             the
             land
             ,
             that
             I
             should
             not
             destroy
             it
             ,
             but
             I
             found
             none
             .
          
           These
           things
           were
           spoken
           of
           Iudah
           and
           Ierusalem
           ,
           where
           alone
           at
           that
           time
           was
           that
           Church
           
           which
           was
           ;
           the
           Israelites
           for
           their
           grieuous
           sins
           ,
           being
           long
           before
           caried
           away
           into
           captiuitie
           .
           You
           may
           adde
           to
           this
           ,
           if
           you
           will
           ,
           the
           complaint
           of
           Micah
           ,
           i
           
             Woe
             is
             mee
             for
             I
             am
             as
             the
             Summer
             gatherings
             ,
             and
             as
             the
             Grapes
             of
             the
             vintage
             :
             there
             is
             no
             cluster
             to
             eate
             :
             my
             soule
             desireth
             the
             first
             ripe
             fruites
             .
             The
             good
             man
             is
             perished
             out
             of
             the
             earth
             ,
             and
             there
             is
             none
             righteous
             among
             men
             :
             they
             all
             lie
             in
             wait
             for
             blood
             :
             euery
             man
             hunteth
             his
             brother
             with
             a
             net
             .
          
           If
           the
           Priests
           &
           people
           had
           not
           almost
           generally
           gone
           astray
           ,
           and
           the
           whole
           face
           of
           the
           visible
           Church
           had
           not
           seemed
           to
           bee
           defaced
           ,
           would
           these
           Prophets
           thus
           haue
           particularized
           ,
           that
           one
           godly
           man
           was
           not
           left
           ,
           and
           that
           one
           was
           not
           to
           bee
           found
           ,
           who
           had
           not
           declined
           from
           truth
           ?
        
         
           Wee
           doubt
           not
           but
           in
           those
           times
           the
           Lord
           had
           many
           faithfull
           ones
           in
           secret
           ,
           
           as
           hee
           had
           seuen
           thousand
           in
           Israel
           when
           k
           Elias
           liued
           ,
           of
           whom
           neither
           
           the
           enemies
           of
           the
           trueth
           ,
           nor
           scant
           that
           Prophet
           ,
           did
           take
           any
           notice
           .
           l
           The
           marke
           in
           the
           forehead
           is
           sometime
           knowne
           to
           few
           ,
           but
           onely
           to
           him
           that
           imprinted
           it
           there
           ;
           yet
           this
           is
           a
           good
           holde
           for
           the
           Elect
           ,
           m
           
             The
             Lord
             knoweth
             who
             are
             his
             .
          
           But
           vpon
           what
           might
           those
           ,
           who
           were
           Gods
           secret
           chosen
           outwardly
           build
           ,
           when
           diuers
           times
           the
           Princes
           and
           people
           had
           corrupted
           their
           wayes
           ,
           and
           the
           Temple
           it selfe
           was
           polluted
           ,
           and
           made
           a
           sinke
           of
           Idolatrie
           ?
           For
           wee
           finde
           that
           things
           stood
           vpon
           those
           termes
           in
           the
           dayes
           of
           Manasse
           ,
           when
           in
           the
           House
           of
           the
           Lord
           ,
           euen
           that
           house
           ,
           whereof
           the
           Lord
           had
           said
           ,
           n
           
             In
             Ierusalem
             will
             I
             put
             my
             Name
             ,
          
           hee
           built
           prophane
           altars
           :
           and
           in
           
             the
             two
             Courts
             of
             the
             House
             of
             the
             Lord
             hee
             built
             Altars
             for
             all
             the
             hoste
             of
             Heauen
             .
          
           Iudge
           where
           in
           those
           dayes
           was
           the
           glorie
           of
           the
           visible
           Church
           ,
           or
           where
           it
           was
           a
           prettie
           while
           before
           that
           ,
           when
           the
           
           Priest
           o
           Vriah
           was
           as
           ready
           to
           set
           vp
           in
           the
           Temple
           an
           Altar
           after
           the
           fashion
           of
           that
           which
           was
           in
           Damascus
           ,
           as
           the
           King
           Ahaz
           was
           ready
           to
           commaund
           it
           .
           And
           then
           the
           Prince
           and
           Priests
           conspiring
           ,
           there
           was
           scant
           any
           kinde
           of
           grosse
           Idolatry
           ,
           which
           was
           not
           plentifully
           committed
           ,
           Ahaz
           himselfe
           making
           his
           sonne
           to
           p
           
             goe
             through
             the
             fire
             after
             the
             abominations
             of
             the
             Heathen
             .
          
           And
           least
           it
           should
           bee
           thought
           ,
           that
           the
           people
           at
           least
           ,
           did
           amend
           somewhat
           which
           was
           amisse
           ,
           in
           the
           very
           next
           chapter
           it
           is
           witnessed
           in
           generall
           ,
           q
           
             Yet
             Iudah
             kept
             not
             the
             Commaundements
             of
             the
             Lord
             their
             God
             ,
             but
             walked
             according
             to
             the
             fashion
             of
             Israel
             ,
             which
             they
             vsed
             .
          
           And
           by
           most
           probabilitie
           ,
           this
           outrage
           vnder
           r
           Ahaz
           was
           the
           time
           ,
           against
           which
           Esay
           so
           inueighed
           in
           the
           Vision
           before
           remembred
           .
           These
           things
           are
           so
           plaine
           ,
           that
           the
           greatest
           pillars
           of
           the
           Papacie
           cannot
           deny
           them
           ;
           and
           therefore
           they
           are
           
           forced
           to
           another
           shift
           ,
           as
           the
           Rhemists
           when
           they
           say
           ,
           
           
             That
             there
             is
             a
             great
             difference
             betweene
             the
             Christian
             Church
             ,
             and
             the
             Iewes
             ,
             ours
             resting
             vpon
             better
             promises
             then
             theirs
          
           ;
           which
           is
           a
           very
           poore
           euasion
           ,
           in
           as
           much
           as
           euery
           Diuine
           may
           know
           ,
           that
           there
           be
           as
           large
           and
           many
           promises
           ,
           that
           the
           Church
           of
           the
           Iewes
           should
           last
           vntill
           Christes
           appearance
           in
           the
           flesh
           ,
           as
           there
           bee
           that
           the
           Congregation
           of
           Gods
           Saints
           shall
           continue
           among
           the
           Gentiles
           vntill
           the
           day
           of
           Iudgement
           .
           And
           ●auing
           onely
           for
           the
           time
           of
           the
           Babylonish
           captiuitie
           ,
           there
           was
           one
           set
           externall
           place
           of
           Gods
           eminent
           seruice
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           the
           Temple
           at
           Ierusalem
           ,
           supported
           with
           such
           words
           ,
           t
           
             This
             is
             my
             rest
             for
             euer
             ,
             heere
             will
             I
             dwell
             ,
          
           〈◊〉
           and
           u
           
             In
             Ierusalem
             shall
             my
             name
             〈◊〉
             euer
             :
          
           the
           like
           whereof
           through●●
           all
           the
           continuance
           of
           the
           New
           Testament
           ,
           is
           not
           warrantable
           o●●
           of
           the
           Word
           for
           any
           one
           place
           wh●●●euer
           .
           Now
           it
           
           cannot
           bee
           so
           much
           as
           superficially
           maintained
           out
           of
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           that
           Rome
           it selfe
           hath
           any
           such
           promise
           ,
           but
           rather
           out
           of
           the
           Reuelation
           of
           St.
           Iohn
           ,
           there
           are
           many
           substantiall
           matters
           which
           make
           to
           the
           contrary
           .
        
         
           But
           because
           by
           the
           strong
           shot
           of
           Trueth
           they
           bee
           beaten
           from
           the
           Bulwarke
           of
           the
           Iewish
           Synagogue
           ,
           
           and
           flye
           to
           the
           next
           hold
           of
           the
           later
           Testament
           ;
           let
           vs
           follow
           them
           thither
           .
           VVhen
           our
           Sauiour
           Christ
           was
           borne
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           most
           part
           afterward
           ,
           till
           he
           was
           baptized
           ,
           where
           shall
           we
           conceiue
           was
           the
           visible
           Church
           ?
           The
           Scribes
           and
           Pharisees
           possessed
           all
           the
           shew
           ,
           and
           they
           were
           no
           better
           then
           a
           blinde
           leaders
           of
           the
           blinde
           .
           The
           Priesthood
           was
           long
           before
           and
           after
           bought
           and
           sold
           ;
           
           and
           in
           Christs
           owne
           time
           it
           is
           euident
           out
           of
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           that
           the
           highest
           spirituall
           dignitie
           going
           b
           by
           yeares
           ,
           Annas
           and
           Caiphas
           ,
           and
           other
           vnworthy
           men
           of
           that
           rabble
           
           did
           enioy
           it
           .
           Vpon
           the
           birth
           of
           Iesus
           ,
           they
           were
           not
           glad
           ,
           who
           should
           haue
           most
           reioyced
           in
           it
           :
           but
           all
           c
           Ierufalem
           was
           troubled
           at
           it
           .
           And
           how
           they
           persisted
           afterward
           till
           Christ
           did
           manifest
           himselfe
           fully
           ,
           may
           bee
           guessed
           by
           diuers
           circumstances
           ,
           which
           the
           Euangelists
           do
           mention
           after
           his
           birth
           .
           But
           when
           hee
           came
           first
           into
           the
           world
           ,
           of
           whom
           doe
           we
           find
           speech
           made
           ,
           but
           of
           some
           Shepheards
           in
           the
           field
           ,
           of
           Simeon
           an
           old
           man
           ,
           of
           Anna
           a
           most
           aged
           woman
           ,
           both
           ready
           to
           goe
           into
           their
           graues
           ,
           of
           Ioseph
           and
           
             Marie
             ,
             Zacharias
          
           and
           Elizabeth
           ,
           and
           very
           few
           others
           ?
           and
           of
           these
           some
           might
           bee
           soone
           dead
           ,
           others
           might
           liue
           out
           of
           the
           way
           at
           Bethlehem
           ,
           or
           Nazareth
           ,
           or
           in
           Aegypt
           ,
           and
           the
           Shepheards
           were
           in
           the
           fieldes
           about
           their
           Trades
           :
           but
           where
           there
           was
           the
           appearance
           of
           a
           visible
           Congregation
           can
           hardly
           bee
           imagined
           .
           When
           our
           Sauiour
           had
           selected
           out
           his
           Apostles
           ,
           they
           then
           were
           
           termed
           by
           the
           name
           of
           a
           Flocke
           ;
           but
           yet
           by
           their
           Master
           they
           were
           called
           but
           a
           d
           
             little
             flocke
          
           ,
           where
           the
           Rhemists
           do
           confesse
           ,
           
             that
             in
             the
             beginning
             it
             was
             little
             indeed
             .
          
           At
           the
           death
           of
           Christ
           ,
           when
           his
           body
           hanged
           on
           the
           crosse
           for
           our
           sakes
           ,
           and
           his
           Disciples
           were
           all
           e
           fled
           ,
           no
           man
           daring
           to
           shew
           himselfe
           .
           f
           Mary
           and
           Iohn
           ,
           and
           a
           fewe
           women
           were
           all
           the
           faithfull
           that
           now
           appeared
           vpon
           earth
           :
           and
           afterward
           while
           the
           Apostles
           &
           their
           followers
           walked
           very
           priuately
           ,
           or
           were
           assembled
           g
           in
           a
           chamber
           ,
           the
           Priestes
           ,
           and
           Scribes
           ,
           and
           Pharisees
           were
           they
           who
           ruffled
           it
           in
           the
           streetes
           ,
           and
           bore
           the
           sway
           in
           the
           Temple
           ;
           so
           that
           if
           a
           weak
           body
           had
           enquired
           for
           the
           Church
           ,
           he
           might
           rather
           haue
           been
           directed
           to
           them
           ,
           who
           had
           the
           Law
           ,
           and
           the
           Altars
           ,
           and
           all
           sacred
           things
           in
           their
           custody
           ,
           
           then
           to
           any
           other
           .
           When
           Steuen
           had
           been
           stoned
           ,
           and
           for
           feare
           of
           the
           persecution
           which
           was
           at
           Ierusalem
           ,
           
           the
           Disciples
           were
           all
           scattered
           ;
           besides
           the
           Apostles
           ,
           it
           may
           well
           be
           presumed
           ,
           that
           for
           a
           time
           they
           which
           remained
           in
           the
           citie
           where
           Steuen
           had
           lost
           his
           life
           ,
           did
           not
           walke
           very
           openly
           .
           Truth
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           after
           these
           things
           the
           Church
           was
           better
           setled
           ,
           and
           the
           truth
           was
           more
           spread
           ;
           but
           yet
           neuer
           was
           there
           any
           such
           priuiledge
           bestowed
           vpon
           it
           ,
           but
           that
           in
           the
           dayes
           of
           persecution
           ,
           or
           some
           grieuous
           apostacy
           ,
           the
           faithfull
           might
           bee
           brought
           to
           a
           small
           visibilitie
           .
        
         
           Our
           Sauiours
           wordes
           intend
           so
           much
           ,
           
           when
           alluding
           to
           the
           time
           of
           his
           second
           appearance
           ,
           to
           iudge
           the
           quicke
           and
           the
           dead
           ,
           he
           asketh
           ,
           i
           
             Neuerthelesse
             ,
             when
             the
             Sonne
             of
             man
             commeth
             ,
             shall
             he
             find
             faith
             on
             earth
             ?
          
           as
           meaning
           ,
           that
           very
           little
           should
           then
           bee
           found
           ,
           in
           comparison
           of
           the
           Floodes
           and
           Ocean
           of
           iniquitie
           which
           euery
           where
           should
           abound
           .
           But
           God
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           that
           he
           might
           not
           haue
           vs
           ignorant
           
           but
           warned
           before
           hand
           into
           what
           straights
           the
           Church
           should
           bee
           brought
           ,
           informeth
           vs
           by
           Saint
           k
           Paul
           ,
           that
           the
           Lord
           shall
           not
           come
           ,
           except
           there
           first
           bee
           an
           apostacie
           ,
           or
           reuolt
           ,
           or
           falling
           away
           ,
           wherein
           Antichrist
           with
           great
           pride
           and
           disdaine
           should
           shew
           himselfe
           .
           This
           is
           solemnly
           spoken
           of
           by
           the
           Apostle
           ,
           and
           by
           all
           both
           old
           and
           new
           ,
           intreating
           of
           it
           ,
           is
           obserued
           to
           some
           matter
           of
           great
           note
           ,
           that
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           some
           maine
           declining
           from
           somwhat
           .
           Many
           of
           our
           Papists
           fearing
           to
           touch
           this
           sore
           ,
           which
           can
           in
           no
           case
           turne
           them
           to
           good
           ,
           would
           haue
           that
           interpreted
           ,
           to
           note
           nothing
           else
           but
           the
           slipping
           of
           diuers
           regions
           &
           countries
           from
           their
           subiection
           to
           the
           Romane
           Empire
           .
           But
           
             Gregory
             Martin
          
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           Rhemistes
           being
           ouercome
           with
           the
           euidence
           of
           truth
           ,
           are
           heere
           a
           little
           more
           honest
           then
           ordinary
           ,
           and
           speake
           to
           other
           purpose
           .
           Indeed
           they
           cannot
           tell
           how
           it
           will
           be
           taken
           at
           other
           
           Papists
           hands
           ,
           that
           contrary
           to
           the
           custome
           of
           their
           fellowes
           ,
           in
           a
           matter
           of
           such
           moment
           ,
           they
           should
           giue
           way
           vnto
           vs
           ;
           and
           therefore
           they
           doe
           vse
           these
           words
           in
           vvay
           of
           excuse
           ,
           ●
           
           
             Be
             it
             spoken
             vnder
             the
             correction
             of
             Gods
             Church
             ,
             and
             all
             learned
             Catholiques
             .
          
           But
           to
           the
           poynt
           concerning
           the
           Apostacie
           ,
           they
           deliuer
           this
           :
           
             It
             is
             very
             like
             ,
             that
             this
             great
             defection
             and
             reuolt
             shall
             not
             bee
             onely
             from
             the
             Romane
             Empire
             ,
             but
             especially
             from
             the
             Romane
             Church
             ,
             and
             withall
             from
             most
             poynts
             of
             Christian
             Religion
             ,
          
           (
           in
           the
           Margent
           it
           is
           ,
           
             and
             from
             most
             Articles
             of
             the
             Catholique
             Faith.
          
           )
           Heere
           they
           would
           haue
           vs
           take
           the
           Romish
           beleefe
           for
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           ,
           and
           Catholique
           faith
           :
           but
           that
           deserueth
           a
           long
           pause
           :
           we
           rather
           obserue
           out
           of
           them
           ,
           that
           this
           reuolt
           is
           in
           matter
           of
           faith
           ,
           and
           not
           onely
           from
           the
           Empire
           ;
           then
           which
           Glosse
           ,
           nothing
           can
           be
           truer
           .
           Well
           then
           ,
           if
           there
           must
           bee
           so
           egregious
           an
           Apostacie
           ,
           it
           
           will
           follow
           ,
           that
           Antichrist
           so
           domineering
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           Apostle
           he
           is
           described
           ,
           will
           not
           bee
           negligent
           so
           to
           represse
           the
           publike
           seruice
           of
           God
           ,
           that
           it
           shall
           not
           carry
           any
           liuely
           head
           ,
           or
           countenance
           ,
           where
           hee
           hath
           to
           doe
           .
           So
           that
           certainely
           our
           Rhemistes
           yeelding
           to
           this
           Exposition
           ,
           doe
           in
           substance
           confesse
           so
           much
           ,
           as
           that
           the
           apparancy
           of
           Gods
           Congregation
           ,
           in
           the
           time
           of
           the
           great
           defection
           ,
           must
           bee
           mightily
           ecclipsed
           .
           Now
           the
           Lord
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           hee
           might
           establish
           his
           faithfull
           ,
           and
           arme
           them
           to
           expect
           this
           paucitie
           of
           beleeuers
           ,
           and
           inconspicuousnes
           of
           his
           Church
           ,
           and
           yet
           not
           be
           discouraged
           for
           that
           which
           should
           bee
           past
           ,
           present
           ,
           or
           to
           come
           .
           And
           againe
           ,
           that
           there
           might
           bee
           no
           doubt
           in
           a
           matter
           of
           this
           moment
           ,
           letteth
           vs
           further
           know
           ,
           that
           the
           m
           
             woman
             fled
             into
             the
             wildernesse
             ,
             where
             shee
             hath
             a
             place
             prepared
             of
             God.
          
           It
           is
           not
           doubted
           of
           betweene
           the
           Romanists
           and
           vs
           ,
           but
           
           this
           Woman
           doeth
           represent
           the
           Church
           ,
           concerning
           whom
           ,
           being
           in
           the
           wildernesse
           ,
           it
           doth
           manifestly
           follow
           ,
           that
           for
           the
           time
           of
           her
           abode
           there
           ,
           which
           the
           Almightie
           had
           decreed
           ,
           she
           should
           not
           be
           discerned
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           by
           her
           enemies
           ,
           who
           did
           &
           would
           chase
           her
           :
           notwithstanding
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           doubted
           ,
           but
           shee
           knew
           where
           her selfe
           was
           .
           If
           the
           Romanist
           therefore
           ,
           and
           persecuting
           aduersary
           ,
           did
           not
           euer
           see
           the
           Professors
           of
           the
           Gospell
           ,
           it
           was
           no
           wonder
           :
           the
           woman
           was
           to
           remaine
           in
           the
           Wildernesse
           a
           part
           ,
           and
           hidde
           from
           them
           .
           The
           euidence
           of
           which
           matter
           is
           such
           ,
           that
           as
           n
           Master
           Fox
           obserueth
           ,
           for
           feare
           of
           diuers
           things
           in
           the
           Reuelation
           of
           Saint
           Iohn
           ,
           (
           whereof
           this
           may
           worthily
           be
           one
           scant
           any
           Popish
           Writer
           for
           many
           yeares
           together
           ,
           durst
           aduenture
           to
           comment
           any
           thing
           vpon
           the
           Apocalyps
           ,
           vntill
           our
           Rhemistes
           being
           desirous
           to
           shame
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           themselues
           ,
           
           with
           all
           who
           are
           wise
           ,
           and
           adventured
           to
           set
           pen
           to
           paper
           .
           Hauing
           then
           a
           purpose
           to
           set
           forth
           and
           corrupt
           the
           New
           Testament
           ,
           partly
           by
           their
           Translation
           ,
           but
           most
           of
           all
           by
           their
           Annotations
           ,
           they
           could
           not
           choose
           but
           say
           somewhat
           of
           the
           Reuelation
           ,
           although
           they
           professe
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           as
           o
           sparingly
           as
           may
           be
           ,
           and
           as
           briefly
           ;
           which
           is
           not
           for
           that
           the
           Volume
           of
           the
           Rhemish
           Testament
           groweth
           great
           ,
           as
           they
           would
           colour
           it
           ,
           but
           for
           feare
           least
           they
           should
           too
           much
           lay
           open
           their
           owne
           weakenesse
           ,
           which
           while
           that
           Booke
           is
           in
           the
           Bible
           ,
           will
           neuer
           bee
           concealed
           .
           Howsoeuer
           therefore
           ,
           through
           their
           Volume
           ,
           in
           many
           maine
           matters
           ,
           they
           bee
           very
           silent
           where
           they
           should
           most
           speake
           ,
           as
           of
           the
           Question
           of
           imputed
           righteousnesse
           ,
           where
           the
           p
           Apostle
           doeth
           most
           handle
           it
           ,
           (
           a
           sore
           argument
           of
           their
           owne
           conscience
           distrusting
           their
           cause
           ,
           and
           euen
           sinking
           vnder
           the
           
           waight
           of
           that
           chapter
           )
           yet
           here
           God
           ouer-ruling
           them
           ,
           to
           say
           the
           truth
           ,
           as
           hee
           did
           q
           Caiaphas
           ,
           they
           interpret
           the
           woman
           to
           be
           the
           r
           
             Church
             ,
             flying
             from
             the
             great
             persecution
             ,
             which
             shall
             be
             in
             the
             time
             of
             Antichrist
             .
          
           Indeed
           ,
           to
           keepe
           peace
           with
           their
           Lord
           and
           Mastes
           the
           Pope
           ,
           they
           will
           not
           haue
           this
           flight
           to
           bee
           but
           in
           the
           very
           ending
           of
           the
           world
           ;
           and
           so
           they
           would
           fetch
           it
           with
           a
           backe
           Racket
           ,
           that
           the
           woman
           should
           continue
           so
           in
           secret
           ,
           but
           three
           yeares
           and
           a
           halfe
           ,
           which
           (
           to
           keepe
           all
           vpright
           )
           they
           assigne
           to
           be
           the
           time
           of
           Antichrists
           raigne
           ,
           and
           then
           the
           Iudgement
           must
           come
           ;
           which
           is
           a
           most
           fond
           evasion
           ,
           seeing
           by
           that
           meanes
           men
           liuing
           at
           the
           appearance
           of
           Antichrist
           ,
           should
           be
           able
           precisely
           to
           tell
           when
           the
           day
           should
           be
           ,
           to
           wit
           ,
           three
           yeares
           and
           a
           halfe
           after
           Antichrists
           entring
           .
           f
           
             But
             of
             that
             day
             and
             houre
             knoweth
             no
             man
             ,
             no
             not
             the
             Angells
             which
             are
             in
             Heauen
             ,
             neither
             the
             Sonne
             
             himselfe
             ,
             saue
             the
             Father
             onely
             .
          
           It
           can
           neuer
           be
           made
           good
           ,
           that
           the
           t
           time
           ,
           times
           ,
           and
           halfe
           a
           time
           ,
           the
           two
           and
           fortie
           moneths
           ,
           and
           the
           thousand
           ,
           two
           hundred
           and
           sixtie
           dayes
           ,
           are
           so
           literally
           to
           bee
           taken
           ,
           as
           that
           they
           should
           containe
           exactly
           three
           ordinary
           yeares
           and
           a
           halfe
           .
           Your
           Romane
           Bishop
           in
           his
           declination
           ,
           hath
           already
           been
           in
           the
           world
           much
           longer
           ,
           and
           he
           is
           the
           greatest
           Antichrist
           that
           euer
           yet
           was
           manifested
           among
           men
           ,
           and
           on
           whom
           many
           things
           in
           the
           Scripture
           signified
           ,
           touching
           Antichrist
           ,
           doe
           directly
           and
           vnauoydably
           light
           .
        
         
           Well
           ,
           
           this
           reuolt
           taking
           place
           ,
           and
           the
           woman
           ,
           the
           Church
           being
           in
           the
           wildernesse
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           doubted
           ,
           but
           here
           and
           there
           be
           diuers
           ,
           which
           serue
           God
           aright
           ,
           the
           very
           gates
           u
           of
           Hell
           not
           being
           able
           to
           preuaile
           against
           them
           .
           And
           as
           these
           in
           generall
           wheresoeuer
           dispersed
           ,
           doe
           make
           vp
           
           the
           vniuersall
           militant
           Church
           :
           so
           where
           any
           few
           of
           them
           ,
           euen
           in
           the
           smallest
           number
           ,
           are
           assembled
           together
           ,
           they
           may
           be
           said
           to
           be
           a
           particular
           Congregation
           ,
           or
           Church
           .
           
             Where
             three
             are
          
           ,
           saith
           w
           
             Tertullian
             ,
             there
             is
             a
             Church
             ,
             although
             they
             bee
             Lay
             persons
             .
          
           It
           is
           likely
           ,
           that
           he
           alludeth
           to
           that
           saying
           of
           our
           Sauiour
           ,
           x
           
             Where
             two
             or
             three
             are
             gathered
             together
             in
             my
             Name
             ,
             there
             am
             I
             in
             the
             middest
             of
             them
             .
          
           He
           is
           with
           them
           as
           with
           members
           of
           his
           Church
           ,
           to
           guide
           them
           and
           heare
           them
           ,
           to
           blesse
           them
           ,
           and
           preserue
           them
           .
           And
           that
           such
           little
           assemblies
           are
           not
           vnworthy
           the
           name
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           is
           plaine
           by
           S.
           Pauls
           words
           to
           Philemon
           ,
           where
           he
           sendeth
           greeting
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           Philemon
           ,
           and
           Appias
           ,
           and
           Archippus
           ,
           but
           a
           
             to
             the
             Church
             in
             Philemons
             house
             :
          
           for
           so
           the
           Rhemistes
           themselues
           translate
           it
           .
           In
           dangerous
           and
           Apostatating
           times
           ,
           such
           petty
           assemblies
           doe
           make
           vp
           the
           generall
           ,
           
           and
           they
           belong
           vnto
           the
           same
           mysticall
           body
           ,
           although
           they
           not
           onely
           be
           not
           knowne
           to
           their
           persecutors
           ,
           but
           many
           of
           them
           haue
           no
           acquaintance
           with
           other
           .
           They
           haue
           the
           same
           Head
           ,
           the
           same
           Faith
           ,
           the
           same
           Charitie
           ,
           the
           same
           Spirit
           ,
           
             the
             same
             Holy
             Ghost
             is
             giuen
             to
             all
             Saints
             ,
             ioyned
             one
             to
             the
             other
             in
             loue
             ,
             whether
             they
             know
             each
             other
             corporally
             ,
             or
             doe
             not
             knowe
             them
             ,
          
           saith
           b
           Saint
           Austen
           .
           The
           want
           then
           of
           Acquaintance
           each
           with
           other
           ,
           may
           keepe
           the
           godly
           asunder
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           rage
           of
           their
           persecutors
           ;
           both
           which
           are
           to
           be
           found
           in
           the
           case
           of
           Elias
           .
           But
           directly
           to
           follow
           further
           this
           Argument
           of
           the
           Ecclipse
           of
           the
           Churches
           glorie
           ,
           may
           it
           not
           bee
           thought
           to
           be
           brought
           to
           a
           low
           ebbe
           ,
           when
           it
           is
           said
           of
           the
           second
           Beast
           ,
           That
           c
           
             he
             causeth
             all
             both
             small
             and
             great
             ,
             rich
             and
             poore
             ,
             free
             and
             bond
             ,
             that
             he
             should
             giue
             them
             a
             marke
             in
             the
             right
             hand
             ,
             or
             in
             their
             foreheads
             ,
             and
             that
             no
             man
             might
             
             buy
             or
             sell
             ,
             saue
             hee
             that
             had
             the
             marke
             ,
             or
             the
             name
             of
             the
             Beast
             ,
             or
             the
             number
             of
             his
             name
             .
          
           And
           what
           else
           is
           signified
           ,
           when
           so
           d
           many
           are
           mentioned
           to
           haue
           commerce
           with
           the
           Whore
           of
           Babylon
           ;
           yea
           ,
           e
           all
           Nations
           are
           reported
           to
           haue
           drunken
           of
           
             the
             wine
             of
             the
             wrath
             of
             her
             fornication
             .
          
           The
           ancient
           Fathers
           were
           not
           ignorant
           ,
           that
           such
           times
           these
           might
           bee
           ,
           when
           they
           so
           oft
           compared
           the
           Church
           to
           the
           Moone
           ,
           as
           Saint
           f
           
             Ambrose
             .
             The
             Moone
             it selfe
             ,
             whereby
             in
             the
             Oracles
             of
             the
             Prophets
             ,
             the
             countenance
             of
             the
             Church
             is
             figured
             ;
             when
             at
             the
             first
             rising
             againe
             ,
             shee
             is
             renewed
             into
             the
             ages
             of
             the
             Moneth
             ,
             she
             is
             hidden
             by
             the
             darknesse
             of
             the
             night
             ,
             and
             by
             little
             and
             little
             filling
             her
             hornes
             ,
             or
             right
             ouer
             against
             the
             Sunne
             ending
             them
             ,
             doth
             shine
             with
             the
             light
             of
             cleare
             brightnes
             .
          
           g
           S.
           Austen
           in
           one
           place
           doth
           for
           diuers
           respects
           liken
           the
           church
           vnto
           the
           moone
           ,
           and
           expoundeth
           the
           moone
           to
           signifie
           it
           .
           h
           In
           another
           place
           he
           hath
           
           the
           Sun
           is
           Christ
           ,
           the
           Moon
           the
           Church
           ;
           which
           as
           one
           the
           one
           side
           it
           doth
           intimate
           vnto
           vs
           ,
           that
           the
           Moone
           hath
           no
           light
           but
           from
           the
           Sun
           ;
           and
           the
           Church
           no
           light
           nor
           beauty
           ,
           but
           from
           God
           :
           so
           on
           the
           other
           side
           it
           doth
           most
           liuely
           put
           vs
           in
           mind
           ,
           that
           as
           the
           Moon
           continueth
           at
           the
           same
           stay
           ,
           but
           increaseth
           and
           decreaseth
           ,
           waxeth
           and
           waneth
           ,
           is
           ecclipsed
           by
           the
           interposition
           of
           the
           earth
           between
           her selfe
           and
           the
           Sunne
           ,
           and
           somtimes
           in
           the
           change
           cannot
           be
           seene
           ,
           although
           it
           is
           neuer
           to
           be
           doubted
           but
           there
           is
           a
           Moon
           :
           so
           the
           church
           of
           Christ
           ,
           whilest
           this
           troublesome
           world
           doth
           last
           ,
           is
           now
           glorious
           ,
           then
           shadowed
           ;
           in
           one
           age
           in
           beauty
           ,
           in
           an
           other
           age
           kept
           vnder
           ;
           vnder
           some
           Princes
           in
           peace
           ,
           vnder
           others
           in
           persecution
           ;
           yea
           ,
           sometimes
           so
           pressed
           with
           the
           extremity
           of
           the
           malicious
           ,
           as
           that
           she
           is
           glad
           to
           remaine
           retyred
           into
           secret
           places
           ,
           &
           not
           to
           appeare
           openly
           to
           the
           malignant
           ,
           albeit
           shee
           neuer
           is
           nor
           
           can
           be
           extinguished
           ,
           but
           hath
           a
           continuall
           being
           .
           Vnto
           which
           it
           may
           bee
           added
           ,
           that
           since
           faith
           doth
           much
           consist
           of
           i
           
             things
             which
             are
             not
             seene
          
           ;
           and
           we
           beleeue
           the
           holy
           Catholike
           church
           as
           an
           Article
           of
           our
           faith
           ,
           it
           may
           follow
           ,
           that
           it
           need
           not
           euer
           be
           eminently
           visible
           ,
           and
           apparantly
           sensible
           vnto
           vs.
           
        
         
           For
           the
           better
           exemplification
           of
           this
           verity
           ,
           
           it
           may
           be
           remembred
           what
           hauock
           was
           made
           by
           the
           Heathen
           Romane
           Emperors
           ,
           and
           their
           deputies
           ,
           against
           the
           flock
           of
           Christ
           ,
           in
           the
           ten
           first
           persecutions
           :
           that
           in
           the
           Roman
           dominion
           ,
           there
           was
           scant
           any
           to
           be
           heard
           of
           ,
           who
           professed
           Christianity
           ,
           but
           he
           was
           soone
           cut
           off
           by
           the
           sword
           ,
           or
           otherwise
           .
           Did
           they
           in
           those
           times
           suffer
           any
           potent
           visibilitie
           of
           true
           Professors
           ,
           or
           whē
           they
           once
           knew
           where
           they
           were
           ,
           did
           they
           not
           forthwith
           labour
           to
           extirpate
           them
           ?
           But
           in
           the
           dayes
           of
           Constantius
           ,
           when
           the
           Arrian
           
           Heresie
           had
           once
           gotten
           the
           head
           ,
           where
           in
           the
           world
           did
           there
           appeare
           any
           sencible
           Congregation
           ,
           maintaining
           the
           Orthodox
           beliefe
           ?
           Hieroms
           testimony
           of
           those
           dayes
           was
           ,
           k
           
             The
             whole
             world
             did
             sigh
             ,
             and
             wondred
             that
             it selfe
             was
             Arrian
             .
          
           The
           words
           are
           but
           few
           ,
           but
           they
           are
           to
           the
           purpose
           .
           So
           said
           Saint
           
             Gregorius
             Presbyter
          
           ,
           writing
           the
           life
           of
           
             Gregory
             Nazianzen
             ,
             The
             Sect
             of
             the
             Arrians
             had
             almost
             possessed
             all
             the
             coasts
             of
             the
             world
             ,
             the
             power
             and
             impietie
             of
             the
             Emperour
             ministring
             vnto
             it
             .
          
           The
           words
           of
           Constantius
           himselfe
           in
           L
           Theodoret
           ,
           do
           giue
           testimony
           vnto
           this
           .
           Neither
           doth
           Liberius
           the
           Roman
           Bishop
           say
           ought
           to
           the
           contrary
           .
           The
           speeches
           of
           the
           Arrian
           Emperour
           against
           him
           and
           Athanasius
           are
           these
           ;
           
             The
             whole
             world
             doth
             thinke
             that
             this
             is
             well
             .
             The
             whole
             world
             hath
             giuen
             sentence
             of
             his
             impietie
             .
             Thou
             alone
             doest
             embrace
             the
             friendship
             of
             that
             wicked
             man.
          
           And
           a
           little
           before
           that
           :
           
             Doeth
             so
             great
             a
             part
             of
             the
             
             world
             reside
             in
             thee
             Liberius
             ,
             that
             thou
             alone
             doest
             dare
             to
             come
             in
             ayd
             to
             that
             wicked
             man
             ,
             and
             disturbe
             the
             peace
             of
             the
             vniuersall
             world
             ?
          
           Whereunto
           Liberius
           did
           not
           take
           exception
           ,
           saying
           ,
           that
           the
           visible
           Church
           stood
           for
           him
           ,
           and
           Athanasius
           ,
           but
           rather
           giueth
           another
           reason
           ,
           to
           make
           good
           his
           being
           alone
           ;
           
             Be
             it
             that
             I
             am
             alone
             ;
             notwithstanding
             for
             that
             the
             cause
             of
             the
             faith
             is
             not
             the
             worse
             :
             for
             a
             great
             while
             ago●e
             ,
             there
             were
             three
             onely
             found
             ,
             who
             would
             resist
             the
             Kings
             commandement
             .
          
           Heere
           the
           Church
           for
           any
           external
           shew
           ,
           was
           low
           brought
           :
           for
           if
           any
           body
           held
           it
           vp
           ,
           it
           was
           Athanasius
           ,
           who
           then
           played
           least
           in
           sight
           ,
           and
           durst
           not
           appeare
           .
           For
           this
           Liberius
           ,
           who
           did
           for
           a
           time
           second
           him
           ,
           did
           afterward
           shrinke
           .
           He
           went
           at
           first
           into
           banishment
           in
           defence
           of
           the
           truth
           :
           but
           after
           that
           ,
           he
           was
           solicited
           ,
           and
           laid
           at
           by
           Fontunatianus
           ,
           that
           he
           relented
           and
           condiscended
           to
           subscribe
           to
           the
           Arrian
           heresie
           ,
           as
           m
           Hierom
           
           witnesseth
           ,
           who
           liued
           in
           that
           age
           ,
           and
           was
           long
           conuersant
           in
           Rome
           ,
           and
           therefore
           could
           better
           report
           what
           was
           the
           issue
           of
           Liberius
           his
           constancie
           ,
           then
           some
           others
           who
           doe
           relate
           it
           otherwise
           .
           What
           can
           be
           said
           for
           him
           ,
           Bellarmine
           hath
           :
           but
           yet
           inforced
           by
           n
           the
           euident
           testimony
           of
           
             Athanasius
             ,
             Hillary
          
           ,
           and
           Hierome
           ,
           he
           confesseth
           so
           much
           as
           I
           haue
           here
           set
           down
           ;
           but
           couer
           it
           he
           would
           ,
           that
           he
           only
           consented
           to
           the
           externall
           act
           of
           subscribing
           ,
           but
           remained
           in
           heart
           Othodox
           .
           Why
           should
           it
           then
           bee
           a
           maruell
           ,
           if
           in
           processe
           of
           time
           ,
           Antichrist
           growing
           to
           greater
           strength
           ,
           the
           Church
           should
           bee
           in
           couert
           ?
           It
           is
           no
           more
           then
           often
           fell
           out
           vnder
           the
           Iewish
           Synagogue
           ,
           &
           hath
           bin
           exemplified
           to
           haue
           been
           since
           among
           the
           Christians
           ,
           and
           was
           so
           euidently
           foretold
           before
           .
           In
           so
           much
           that
           by
           the
           example
           of
           the
           o
           woman
           ,
           it
           can
           not
           bee
           the
           true
           Church
           ,
           vnlesse
           it
           should
           be
           hidden
           in
           the
           wildernesse
           .
           
           Which
           while
           our
           Popish
           teachers
           deny
           to
           agree
           to
           their
           Romish
           Church
           ,
           but
           professe
           that
           it
           hath
           euer
           been
           in
           sight
           ,
           they
           themselues
           doe
           by
           a
           consequent
           proclaime
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           not
           the
           pure
           and
           vndefiled
           flying
           woman
           ,
           but
           another
           painted
           harlot
           and
           strumpet
           .
           The
           true
           Church
           is
           for
           a
           time
           out
           of
           sight
           in
           the
           wildernes
           ;
           but
           so
           say
           they
           ,
           was
           their
           Church
           neuer
           :
           and
           therefore
           will
           they
           ,
           nill
           they
           ,
           their
           Church
           is
           not
           the
           true
           Church
           .
        
         
           And
           here
           ,
           
           to
           the
           end
           that
           the
           slaunderous
           calumniation
           of
           our
           aduersaries
           may
           the
           more
           be
           manifested
           to
           all
           those
           ,
           who
           wil
           not
           wilfully
           close
           their
           eyes
           against
           truth
           ,
           I
           will
           a
           little
           shew
           the
           vanity
           ,
           &
           yet
           maliciousnes
           of
           their
           obiection
           ,
           when
           they
           say
           there
           was
           neuer
           any
           of
           our
           faith
           before
           the
           daies
           of
           p
           Luther
           ,
           who
           in
           the
           yeare
           1517
           ,
           began
           for
           his
           part
           to
           display
           the
           kingdome
           of
           Antichrist
           .
           Where
           ,
           I
           pray
           the
           Reader
           to
           consider
           ,
           that
           the
           most
           part
           
           of
           those
           whom
           I
           shall
           cite
           ,
           are
           Popish
           Writers
           ,
           and
           no
           way
           partially
           affected
           towards
           vs.
           We
           say
           then
           ,
           that
           
             Martine
             Luther
          
           was
           not
           the
           first
           brocher
           of
           those
           points
           which
           he
           taught
           again't
           papistry
           ;
           but
           as
           he
           did
           originally
           deduce
           them
           from
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           &
           out
           of
           the
           works
           of
           the
           ancient
           Fathers
           ;
           so
           he
           did
           derine
           them
           also
           hereditarily
           from
           other
           ,
           who
           immediatly
           before
           him
           had
           taught
           the
           same
           doctrine
           ,
           &
           left
           it
           both
           in
           books
           ,
           &
           the
           hearts
           of
           men
           recommended
           vnto
           him
           ;
           as
           principal
           parties
           herein
           I
           name
           
             Iohn
             Hus
          
           ,
           &
           Hierome
           of
           Prage
           ,
           and
           all
           such
           as
           were
           their
           schollers
           ,
           in
           or
           about
           Bohemia
           ;
           who
           before
           Luthers
           time
           oppugned
           the
           beliefe
           of
           the
           church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           &
           their
           profession
           was
           not
           extinguished
           vntill
           his
           dayes
           ,
           howsoeuer
           it
           before
           had
           bin
           mainly
           assaulted
           .
           If
           we
           could
           learne
           this
           no
           where
           els
           ,
           yet
           q
           
             Fr.
             Guicciardine
          
           ,
           an
           Italian
           ,
           &
           
             Florentin
             Historiographer
          
           ,
           would
           informe
           vs
           of
           it
           ,
           who
           writing
           of
           the
           
           yeare
           1520
           ,
           saith
           plainly
           ,
           that
           Luther
           did
           set
           abroad
           the
           Heresies
           (
           as
           he
           tearmeth
           them
           )
           of
           the
           Bohemians
           ;
           and
           hee
           nameth
           there
           Hus
           and
           Hierome
           as
           former
           diuulgers
           of
           the
           same
           :
           and
           r
           
             Petrus
             Messias
             a
             Spaniard
          
           therein
           agreeth
           with
           him
           ,
           who
           mentioning
           the
           opinions
           of
           Hus
           and
           the
           Bohemians
           ,
           saith
           ,
           they
           were
           the
           seed
           of
           those
           errours
           ,
           which
           were
           afterward
           in
           Germany
           ,
           alluding
           to
           the
           doctrine
           of
           Luther
           .
           There
           is
           no
           man
           whose
           testimony
           in
           this
           behalfe
           may
           be
           of
           more
           worth
           then
           Ioh.
           
           Cochleus
           ;
           First
           ,
           because
           he
           wrote
           a
           large
           story
           of
           purpose
           concerning
           the
           Hussites
           ,
           &
           therfore
           by
           his
           long
           search
           ,
           reading
           ,
           and
           writing
           ,
           in
           that
           argument
           may
           be
           persumed
           to
           know
           as
           much
           as
           any
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           because
           it
           may
           be
           well
           imagined
           ,
           that
           he
           would
           fain
           nothing
           to
           do
           Luther
           good
           ,
           in
           as
           much
           as
           he
           also
           wrote
           a
           volume
           purposely
           against
           that
           worthy
           seruant
           of
           God
           ,
           
           intending
           to
           rip
           vp
           his
           whole
           life
           from
           yeare
           to
           
           yeare
           ,
           and
           to
           censure
           all
           his
           works
           ;
           yet
           this
           enemy
           of
           his
           ,
           in
           the
           Story
           of
           the
           Hussites
           ,
           doth
           plentifully
           satisfie
           vs
           about
           the
           matter
           now
           in
           question
           .
           One
           where
           he
           telleth
           vs
           ,
           
           that
           
             Hus
             did
             slay
             soules
             for
             an
             hundred
             yeares
             together
             ;
             neither
             yet
             doth
             he
             cease
             to
             slay
             them
             by
             the
             second
             death
             .
          
           Within
           an
           hundred
           yeares
           after
           him
           came
           in
           Luther
           ,
           according
           as
           the
           said
           
             Iohn
             Hus
          
           did
           a
           prophecie
           not
           long
           before
           his
           death
           .
           And
           when
           it
           is
           added
           ,
           
             that
             yet
             he
             doth
             not
             cease
             to
             slay
          
           ;
           it
           is
           manifest
           ,
           that
           his
           Doctrine
           remained
           till
           the
           dayes
           of
           Cochleus
           .
           b
           In
           another
           place
           he
           relateth
           ,
           that
           Luther
           did
           stirre
           vp
           seditions
           in
           Germanie
           ,
           by
           the
           Books
           of
           the
           Hussites
           .
           Afterward
           he
           calleth
           those
           ,
           who
           were
           in
           Germany
           in
           his
           time
           ,
           New
           c
           Hussites
           .
           And
           againe
           ,
           
             Hus
             did
             so
             rent
             the
             vnitie
             of
             the
             Church
             ,
             that
             vnto
             this
             day
             there
             remaineth
             a
             pitifull
             diuision
             in
             Bohemia
             .
          
           He
           proceedeth
           in
           the
           same
           matter
           elsewhere
           ,
           
           saying
           ,
           
             That
             the
             people
             of
             Germanie
             are
             now
             by
             
             Luther
             partakers
             of
             the
             Heresies
             of
             Hus
             ,
             and
             Hierome
             .
          
           One
           sort
           of
           the
           followers
           of
           this
           
             Iohn
             Hus
          
           ,
           did
           call
           themselues
           Thaborites
           ;
           and
           these
           were
           they
           ,
           who
           most
           dissented
           of
           all
           from
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           Rome
           :
           Of
           these
           he
           speaketh
           thus
           :
           e
           
             Vnto
             this
             day
             remaineth
             the
             Sect
             of
             the
             Thaborites
             ,
             in
             many
             places
             of
             Bohemia
             ,
             and
             Morauia
             ,
             vnder
             the
             name
             of
             Picards
             and
             Waldenses
             .
          
           Lastly
           ,
           the
           same
           f
           Cochleus
           ,
           in
           the
           yeare
           1534.
           doth
           wish
           that
           hee
           
             may
             see
             the
             remainders
          
           or
           leauings
           of
           the
           
             Hussites
             to
             returne
             to
             the
             Church
             ,
             and
             the
             Germanes
             to
             cast
             out
             all
             new
             Sectes
             .
          
           VVhat
           can
           bee
           more
           euident
           ,
           then
           that
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           
             Iohn
             Hus
          
           was
           sensibly
           and
           apparantly
           continued
           somewhere
           ,
           euen
           till
           the
           dayes
           of
           
             Martin
             Luther
          
           ?
           Vnto
           which
           may
           bee
           added
           ,
           that
           whereas
           Luther
           began
           to
           shew
           himselfe
           but
           in
           the
           yeare
           1517
           ,
           that
           very
           yeere
           ,
           was
           g
           ended
           the
           Councell
           of
           Laterane
           held
           at
           Rome
           ,
           and
           finished
           by
           Pope
           Leo
           
           the
           tenth
           .
           And
           there
           consultation
           was
           had
           of
           
             reforming
             the
             manners
             of
             the
             Church
             ,
             and
             of
             recalling
             the
             Bohemians
             to
             the
             vnity
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             .
          
        
         
           And
           as
           these
           Testimonies
           doe
           conuince
           ,
           
           that
           the
           Christian
           Confession
           of
           Hus
           was
           not
           extinguished
           at
           the
           comming
           of
           
             Martin
             Luther
          
           :
           so
           may
           there
           be
           good
           reason
           assigned
           ,
           why
           it
           did
           so
           long
           continue
           ,
           in
           as
           much
           as
           it
           was
           imbraced
           by
           many
           ,
           and
           earnestly
           maintained
           euen
           vnto
           the
           death
           .
           When
           Hus
           began
           first
           to
           preach
           the
           people
           which
           vsed
           h
           handy
           craftes
           did
           with
           great
           desire
           heare
           his
           sermons
           ,
           &
           did
           read
           the
           scriptures
           ,
           being
           turned
           by
           him
           into
           their
           mother
           tongue
           ,
           so
           that
           they
           could
           dispute
           with
           the
           Priestes
           ;
           which
           the
           very
           women
           were
           able
           to
           doe
           ;
           m
           yea
           ,
           and
           one
           woman
           did
           make
           a
           Booke
           .
           Not
           long
           after
           three
           of
           the
           schollers
           of
           this
           Preacher
           did
           affirme
           ,
           that
           the
           Pope
           thē
           liuing
           was
           Antichrist
           ;
           who
           had
           proclaimed
           a
           Croisado
           against
           
           a
           Christian
           King
           ;
           that
           was
           Ladislaus
           ,
           King
           of
           Naples
           ,
           then
           infesting
           the
           lands
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           .
           These
           three
           persons
           were
           martyred
           for
           this
           speech
           ,
           and
           tooke
           their
           death
           patiently
           .
           In
           small
           processe
           of
           time
           ,
           this
           Doctrine
           so
           multiplied
           ,
           that
           as
           n
           Onuphrius
           hath
           ,
           the
           Councell
           of
           Constance
           was
           called
           principally
           for
           two
           things
           ;
           the
           one
           was
           against
           the
           Hussites
           ,
           the
           other
           to
           take
           away
           the
           Schisme
           between
           the
           Popes
           .
           These
           of
           liklihood
           grew
           great
           ,
           that
           now
           a
           generall
           Councell
           was
           called
           against
           them
           .
           Neither
           did
           the
           people
           only
           agree
           in
           faith
           with
           
             Iohn
             Hus
          
           ,
           but
           the
           Nobles
           of
           Bohemia
           stood
           apparantly
           for
           him
           ;
           in
           so
           much
           that
           they
           sent
           two
           o
           seuerall
           and
           solemne
           supplications
           to
           the
           Councell
           of
           Constance
           in
           his
           behalfe
           .
           And
           when
           these
           their
           request
           were
           neglected
           ,
           and
           
             Iohn
             Hus
          
           ,
           and
           Hierom
           of
           Prage
           (
           contrary
           to
           the
           p
           Emperors
           safe
           conduct
           giuen
           to
           the
           former
           of
           them
           )
           were
           burnt
           ,
           the
           Nobles
           
           of
           Bohemia
           did
           mightily
           murmure
           against
           the
           Fathers
           of
           the
           Councell
           ;
           in
           so
           much
           that
           Sigismund
           the
           Emperour
           ,
           to
           giue
           them
           satisfaction
           on
           his
           behalfe
           ,
           did
           write
           vnto
           them
           ,
           excusing
           himselfe
           touching
           the
           death
           of
           these
           men
           ,
           and
           laying
           the
           fault
           vpon
           the
           Councell
           .
           But
           this
           gaue
           not
           contentment
           vnto
           the
           Bohemians
           ,
           now
           robbed
           of
           their
           principall
           Pastor
           ,
           but
           being
           mooued
           at
           the
           perfidiousnesse
           of
           those
           at
           Constance
           ,
           they
           assembled
           themselues
           together
           ,
           
           to
           the
           number
           of
           thirtie
           thousand
           ;
           and
           in
           the
           fields
           vpon
           three
           hundred
           Tables
           erected
           for
           that
           purpose
           ,
           they
           receiued
           the
           Eucharist
           in
           both
           kindes
           .
           Afterward
           ,
           they
           rushing
           into
           the
           Churches
           and
           Monasteries
           ,
           
           did
           breake
           downe
           the
           Images
           there
           .
           It
           was
           not
           long
           after
           ,
           but
           that
           vnder
           q
           
             Iohannes
             Zisca
          
           ,
           a
           Noble
           and
           victorious
           Warriour
           ,
           these
           Hussites
           grew
           to
           bee
           of
           Souldiers
           fortie
           thousand
           in
           one
           armie
           ,
           who
           got
           
           into
           their
           hands
           the
           Castle
           of
           Prage
           ,
           the
           chiefe
           Citie
           of
           Bohemia
           .
           Then
           not
           long
           after
           did
           Pope
           Martin
           the
           fift
           publish
           a
           Croysado
           against
           these
           ,
           whom
           hee
           called
           Heretiques
           ,
           promising
           remission
           of
           their
           sinnes
           to
           such
           as
           could
           destroy
           them
           .
           Notwithstanding
           ,
           these
           hated
           persons
           did
           still
           prosper
           ,
           getting
           many
           Victories
           vnder
           Procopius
           ,
           and
           other
           Captaines
           ,
           but
           especially
           vnder
           Zisca
           ,
           who
           was
           of
           that
           dexteritie
           ,
           and
           felicitie
           in
           his
           Warres
           ,
           as
           that
           r
           Cochleus
           almost
           amazed
           at
           his
           strange
           successe
           ,
           sayeth
           ,
           
             That
             scant
             any
             Historie
             of
             the
             Greekes
             ,
             or
             Hebrewes
             ,
             or
             Latines
             doeth
             mention
             such
             a
             Generall
             as
             Zisca
             was
             .
          
           Hee
           built
           a
           new
           Citie
           ,
           as
           a
           refuge
           for
           his
           men
           ,
           and
           called
           it
           Thabor
           ,
           whereof
           diuers
           embracing
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           Hus
           ,
           were
           afterward
           called
           Thaborites
           .
           A
           s
           second
           time
           did
           Pope
           Martine
           proclaime
           a
           Croysado
           against
           them
           ,
           graunting
           remission
           of
           sinnes
           to
           all
           who
           
           did
           either
           fight
           ,
           or
           contribute
           money
           against
           them
           .
           Vpon
           which
           ,
           there
           were
           at
           one
           time
           t
           fortie
           thousand
           Germane
           Horse
           men
           gathered
           to
           destroy
           them
           :
           but
           such
           was
           the
           terror
           of
           their
           name
           ,
           that
           vpon
           the
           approaching
           to
           them
           ,
           the
           Horsemen
           of
           their
           owne
           accord
           turned
           their
           backes
           and
           fled
           .
           The
           Popish
           Authour
           saith
           ,
           that
           there
           was
           in
           this
           some
           secret
           Iudgement
           of
           God
           ,
           but
           hee
           thinketh
           the
           cause
           of
           their
           ill
           successe
           ,
           was
           ,
           that
           they
           had
           Bishops
           and
           Priests
           to
           their
           Leaders
           and
           Captaines
           .
           By
           this
           time
           came
           on
           the
           Councell
           of
           Basil
           ,
           which
           as
           u
           Onuphrius
           saith
           ,
           was
           held
           against
           the
           Hussites
           .
           This
           sheweth
           that
           there
           were
           many
           ,
           which
           may
           also
           appeare
           ,
           in
           that
           the
           Fathers
           at
           Basil
           ,
           did
           by
           an
           Indulgence
           graunt
           to
           the
           Bohemians
           this
           dispensation
           ,
           That
           contrary
           to
           the
           Act
           of
           the
           Councell
           of
           x
           Constance
           ,
           they
           might
           receiue
           the
           Eucharist
           both
           in
           Bread
           and
           Wine
           .
           y
           Genebrard
           ,
           who
           
           was
           euer
           a
           true
           seruant
           to
           the
           Pope
           ,
           confesseth
           so
           much
           :
           but
           addeth
           withall
           ,
           that
           the
           Cup
           was
           permitted
           vnto
           them
           ,
           because
           that
           alwaies
           before
           had
           beene
           their
           custome
           so
           to
           communicate
           :
           yet
           saith
           he
           ,
           all
           was
           on
           that
           condition
           ,
           
             That
             they
             should
             not
             finde
             fault
             with
             the
             contrary
             vse
             ,
             nor
             seuer
             themselues
             from
             the
             Catholique
             Church
             in
             other
             Rites
             and
             Doctrines
             .
          
           y
           Cochleus
           nameth
           no
           such
           condition
           .
           Nay
           ,
           to
           shew
           that
           simply
           and
           directly
           it
           was
           yeelded
           vnto
           them
           ,
           hee
           reporteth
           ,
           that
           the
           Legates
           of
           the
           Councell
           of
           Basil
           ,
           did
           thus
           expound
           that
           which
           was
           concluded
           in
           the
           Bohemians
           behalfe
           .
           The
           z
           
             Councell
             doeth
             permit
             the
             Eucharist
             vnder
             both
             kindes
             ;
             not
             tollerating
             it
             onely
             as
             a
             thing
             euill
             ,
             as
             to
             the
             Iewes
             was
             permitted
             a
             Bill
             of
             Diuorce
             ;
             but
             so
             ,
             that
             by
             the
             authoritie
             of
             Christ
             and
             his
             Church
             ,
             it
             is
             lawfull
             and
             profitable
             to
             the
             worthy
             Receiuers
             .
          
           Where
           is
           it
           likely
           ,
           that
           vnlesse
           the
           Bohemians
           now
           after
           Husses
           death
           had
           beene
           a
           
           strong
           partie
           ,
           the
           Antichristian
           rabble
           would
           haue
           yeelded
           to
           their
           importunitie
           ,
           so
           directly
           against
           the
           Canon
           of
           the
           next
           precedent
           Councell
           ?
           Indeed
           the
           a
           Emperour
           Sigismund
           did
           afterward
           take
           a
           course
           to
           lessen
           their
           number
           ,
           when
           he
           sent
           many
           of
           them
           into
           Hungaria
           against
           the
           Turkes
           ,
           that
           there
           they
           might
           either
           conquering
           winne
           to
           him
           victories
           ,
           or
           being
           conquered
           themselues
           ,
           so
           be
           destroied
           and
           perish
           .
           He
           who
           list
           to
           see
           more
           concerning
           the
           multitude
           of
           these
           Professors
           ,
           
           let
           him
           but
           looke
           on
           diuers
           places
           in
           the
           workes
           of
           
             Aeneas
             Syluius
          
           ,
           who
           was
           afterward
           Pope
           ,
           by
           the
           name
           of
           Pius
           the
           second
           ,
           and
           hee
           shall
           finde
           him
           reporting
           of
           his
           owne
           knowledge
           ,
           as
           trauailing
           himselfe
           into
           Bohemia
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           many
           ,
           and
           very
           earnest
           also
           in
           their
           Religion
           .
        
         
           If
           heere
           it
           should
           bee
           replyed
           ,
           that
           these
           perhaps
           were
           base
           people
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           vulgar
           ,
           who
           thus
           followed
           
             Iohn
             
             Hus
          
           ;
           but
           men
           of
           learning
           and
           knowledge
           ,
           or
           persons
           of
           authoritie
           ,
           they
           had
           none
           to
           ioyne
           with
           them
           ;
           the
           course
           of
           the
           Story
           will
           easily
           cleare
           the
           same
           ,
           and
           shew
           that
           they
           had
           both
           learned
           Pastors
           ,
           and
           great
           Magistrates
           ,
           who
           beleeued
           as
           they
           beleeued
           ,
           and
           stood
           wholly
           with
           them
           .
           Of
           what
           literature
           Hus
           himselfe
           was
           ,
           is
           euident
           by
           his
           workes
           yet
           remaining
           ,
           and
           by
           his
           personall
           withstanding
           the
           whole
           Councell
           of
           Constance
           .
           And
           what
           learning
           ,
           what
           eloquence
           ,
           what
           memory
           ,
           all
           admirable
           were
           in
           
             Hierom
             of
             Prage
          
           ,
           as
           also
           with
           what
           singular
           patience
           he
           tooke
           his
           death
           ,
           is
           most
           significantly
           deliuered
           in
           an
           Epistle
           of
           c
           Poggius
           ,
           who
           as
           an
           eye
           witnes
           beheld
           him
           ,
           and
           seemed
           to
           be
           much
           affected
           with
           the
           singular
           parts
           of
           the
           man.
           Which
           noble
           testimony
           of
           that
           worthy
           Poggius
           ,
           is
           acknowledged
           by
           d
           Cochleus
           .
           Whilst
           these
           two
           liued
           ,
           there
           were
           diuers
           e
           Priests
           ,
           and
           f
           Preachers
           ,
           which
           agreed
           
           in
           their
           doctrine
           ;
           and
           in
           their
           Sermons
           reproued
           the
           Popish
           Clergy
           for
           their
           
             Simony
             ,
             keeping
             of
             Concubines
             ,
             auarice
             ,
             ryot
             ,
             and
             Secular-like
             pride
             .
          
           But
           after
           the
           death
           of
           those
           two
           famous
           seruants
           of
           God
           ,
           their
           g
           followers
           got
           to
           them
           a
           Bishop
           ,
           who
           was
           a
           Suffragane
           to
           the
           Archbishop
           of
           Prage
           ,
           and
           by
           him
           they
           put
           into
           holy
           Orders
           ,
           as
           many
           Clerkes
           as
           they
           would
           .
           Which
           the
           Archbishop
           tooke
           so
           ill
           ,
           that
           he
           suspended
           his
           Suffragan
           .
           But
           it
           was
           not
           long
           after
           ,
           that
           h
           Conradus
           the
           Archbishop
           himselfe
           became
           a
           Hussite
           also
           ,
           as
           the
           Authour
           calleth
           him
           .
           Vnder
           this
           Conradus
           ,
           as
           President
           of
           the
           assembly
           ,
           these
           Hussites
           held
           a
           Councell
           at
           Prage
           ,
           in
           the
           yeare
           1421
           ,
           and
           there
           they
           compiled
           a
           Confession
           of
           their
           faith
           .
           This
           cause
           did
           the
           said
           Archbishop
           ,
           and
           many
           Barons
           of
           Bohemia
           ,
           afterward
           stiffely
           maintaine
           ,
           &
           complained
           against
           the
           Emperor
           Sigismund
           ,
           for
           offring
           wrong
           to
           those
           of
           their
           Religion
           .
           i
           Alexander
           
           also
           the
           Duke
           of
           Lituania
           ,
           did
           giue
           these
           Hussites
           ayd
           ,
           which
           moued
           Pope
           Martin
           the
           fifth
           to
           write
           vnto
           him
           in
           this
           sort
           :
           
             Know
             ,
             that
             thou
             couldest
             not
             giue
             thy
             faith
             to
             Heretikes
             ,
             which
             are
             the
             violaters
             of
             the
             holy
             faith
             ,
             and
             that
             thou
             doest
             sinne
             deadly
             if
             thou
             shalt
             keepe
             it
             ,
             because
             there
             cannot
             be
             any
             fellowship
             of
             a
             Beleeuer
             with
             an
             Infidell
             .
          
           Thus
           did
           the
           vertuous
           Pope
           write
           .
           k
           In
           processe
           of
           time
           there
           grew
           a
           parley
           betweene
           Sigismund
           the
           Emperour
           ,
           and
           the
           Bohemians
           .
           There
           among
           the
           Compacts
           ,
           this
           was
           one
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Bishop
             should
             promote
             to
             holy
             Orders
             the
             Bohemians
             ,
             euen
             the
             Hussites
             ,
             which
             were
             of
             the
             Vniuersitie
             of
             Prage
             .
          
           And
           they
           might
           well
           deserue
           to
           be
           reputed
           Vniuersity
           men
           :
           for
           Cochleus
           himselfe
           witnesseth
           ,
           that
           
             the
             Priests
             of
             the
             Thaborites
             were
             skilled
             in
             arguing
             ,
             and
             exercised
             in
             the
             holy
             Scripture
             .
          
           l
           Kakizana
           ,
           one
           of
           them
           did
           vndertake
           to
           dispute
           with
           Capistranus
           ,
           a
           great
           and
           learned
           Papist
           .
           By
           that
           
           time
           that
           the
           yeare
           1453.
           was
           come
           ,
           
             Aeneas
             :
             Syluius
          
           doth
           complaine
           ,
           that
           m
           the
           kingdom
           of
           Bohemia
           was
           wholly
           gouerned
           by
           Heretikes
           .
           
             Now
             all
             the
             Nobilitie
             ,
             all
             the
             Comminaltie
             is
             subiect
             to
             an
             Heretike
             .
          
           That
           was
           one
           George
           of
           Gyrziko
           ,
           Gouernour
           of
           the
           kingdome
           of
           Bohemia
           ,
           vnder
           King
           Ladislaus
           .
           But
           when
           Ladislaus
           was
           dead
           ,
           this
           n
           George
           himselfe
           was
           by
           the
           Nobles
           ,
           and
           people
           chosen
           King
           of
           that
           Countrey
           :
           And
           continuing
           the
           ancient
           profession
           of
           his
           Religion
           ,
           about
           the
           yeare
           1458.
           those
           of
           Vratislauia
           and
           Silesia
           doe
           refuse
           to
           obey
           him
           ,
           as
           being
           an
           Heretike
           .
           Notwithstanding
           Pope
           Pius
           the
           second
           then
           intending
           warres
           against
           the
           Turke
           ,
           did
           by
           all
           meanes
           perswade
           them
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           yeeld
           obedience
           vnto
           him
           .
           This
           George
           ,
           saith
           the
           Authour
           ,
           
             was
             borne
             and
             brought
             vp
             in
             the
             heresie
             of
             the
             Hussites
             .
          
           Now
           when
           Pope
           Pius
           did
           interpose
           himselfe
           as
           a
           
           Mediator
           betweene
           the
           King
           and
           his
           subiects
           ,
           George
           did
           require
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           that
           hee
           might
           keepe
           the
           Compacts
           agreed
           vpon
           at
           Basil
           ,
           in
           behalfe
           of
           the
           Bohemians
           .
           And
           when
           o
           Pius
           would
           not
           yeeld
           thereunto
           ,
           the
           King
           calleth
           together
           the
           Estates
           of
           his
           kingdome
           ,
           and
           protesteth
           that
           hee
           would
           liue
           &
           die
           in
           those
           Compacts
           ,
           and
           so
           did
           also
           the
           nobles
           which
           were
           Hussites
           .
           This
           was
           done
           at
           Prage
           in
           the
           yeare
           1462.
           
           This
           resolutenesse
           of
           his
           caused
           that
           Pope
           to
           tolerate
           many
           things
           in
           him
           .
           But
           Paul
           2
           ,
           who
           succeeded
           in
           that
           See
           of
           Rome
           ,
           did
           excommunicate
           that
           King
           ,
           &
           set
           vp
           a
           Croisado
           against
           him
           .
           Also
           he
           gaue
           to
           Matthias
           the
           King
           of
           Hungary
           ,
           the
           title
           of
           King
           of
           Bohemia
           .
           p
           Onuphrius
           in
           the
           life
           of
           Paul
           the
           2.
           saith
           ,
           that
           the
           Pope
           did
           excommunicate
           him
           ,
           and
           depriue
           him
           of
           his
           kingdome
           .
           Indeed
           for
           seuen
           yeares
           this
           George
           &
           Matthias
           did
           war
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           Matthias
           got
           from
           him
           Morauia
           ,
           
           and
           Silesia
           ,
           &
           a
           good
           part
           of
           the
           kingdom
           of
           
             Bohemia
             :
             Vratislauia
          
           also
           ,
           and
           some
           other
           Prouinces
           and
           Cities
           did
           put
           themselues
           in
           subiection
           to
           Mathias
           .
           Yet
           did
           not
           George
           deale
           hardly
           with
           the
           Papistes
           which
           were
           in
           Prage
           ;
           but
           in
           his
           greatest
           extremity
           did
           vse
           both
           the
           aduise
           and
           aid
           of
           many
           Nobles
           of
           the
           popish
           belief
           .
           At
           length
           ,
           after
           the
           continuance
           of
           warre
           for
           seuen
           yeares
           ,
           Mathias
           concludeth
           a
           peace
           with
           king
           George
           ,
           both
           against
           the
           wil
           of
           q
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           the
           Emperour
           .
           And
           then
           this
           King
           was
           content
           to
           aske
           of
           the
           Pope
           an
           absolution
           from
           the
           Excommunication
           ,
           some
           Princes
           being
           mediators
           for
           him
           in
           that
           respect
           .
           But
           before
           the
           Agents
           could
           returne
           from
           Rome
           ,
           the
           King
           died
           ,
           in
           the
           yeare
           of
           our
           Lord
           ,
           1471.
           
           By
           this
           Story
           it
           is
           manifest
           ,
           that
           both
           noble
           and
           learned
           of
           high
           account
           ,
           were
           of
           that
           Christian
           Beliefe
           which
           
             Iohn
             Hus
          
           taught
           ,
           and
           were
           contented
           to
           aduenture
           al
           things
           
           which
           they
           had
           in
           the
           world
           for
           the
           maintenance
           of
           the
           same
           .
        
         
           Perhaps
           here
           it
           may
           bee
           asked
           ;
           
           but
           how
           shal
           we
           know
           that
           
             Iohn
             Hus
          
           and
           his
           followers
           did
           imbrace
           that
           Religion
           which
           is
           now
           professed
           in
           England
           ?
           We
           find
           in
           
             Aeneas
             Syluius
          
           ,
           some
           opinions
           of
           theirs
           ,
           which
           peraduenture
           will
           scant
           be
           reputed
           currant
           among
           all
           English
           Protestants
           .
           Hee
           rehearseth
           these
           foure
           of
           theirs
           :
           m
           
             That
             they
             would
             receiue
             the
             Sacraments
             in
             both
             kinds
             ;
             that
             ciuill
             dominion
             is
             inhibited
             to
             Clergie
             men
             ;
             that
             Preaching
             of
             the
             Word
             was
             permitted
             to
             al
             men
             ;
             that
             publik
             crimes
             are
             in
             no
             sort
             to
             be
             tolerated
             .
          
           I
           answer
           ,
           that
           truth
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           hee
           there
           mentioneth
           onely
           those
           ;
           and
           whether
           he
           relateth
           them
           truly
           or
           no
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           doubted
           ,
           as
           anon
           I
           shall
           shew
           ,
           by
           laying
           open
           the
           custom
           of
           the
           enemies
           of
           the
           Gospell
           ,
           in
           misreporting
           their
           doctrine
           .
           But
           n
           elsewhere
           he
           deliuereth
           other
           opinions
           of
           theirs
           ,
           as
           
             against
             the
             Supremacy
             of
             
             the
             Pope
             against
             Purgatory
             ,
             against
             Inuocation
             of
             Saints
             ,
          
           and
           such
           like
           matters
           .
           If
           we
           returne
           to
           Cochleus
           ,
           who
           was
           best
           acquainted
           with
           their
           matters
           ,
           we
           shal
           find
           much
           more
           .
           As
           thus
           ,
           o
           Hus
           translated
           all
           the
           Books
           of
           Canonicall
           Scripture
           into
           the
           Bohemian
           tongue
           ,
           and
           the
           people
           did
           most
           diligently
           read
           them
           .
           They
           would
           haue
           
             the
             holy
             Scriptures
             to
             be
             the
             onely
             Iudge
             in
             Controuersies
             .
          
           They
           held
           ,
           
             that
             all
             Bishops
             and
             Priestes
             are
             the
             Successors
             of
             the
             Apostles
          
           ;
           that
           ,
           
             not
             the
             Pope
             ,
             but
             Christ
             is
             the
             head
             of
             the
             Church
             ,
             neither
             are
             the
             Cardinals
             the
             body
             ,
             but
             all
             that
             beleeue
             in
             Christ
          
           ;
           that
           ,
           
             that
             the
             Pope
             is
             not
             a
             member
             of
             the
             Church
             ,
             but
             of
             the
             Deuill
             ,
             and
             his
             Synagogue
          
           ;
           that
           
             one
             Pope
             was
             a
             woman
          
           :
           yea
           ,
           Hus
           did
           preach
           ,
           
             that
             the
             Pope
             is
             an
             abomination
             ,
             and
             Antichrist
             .
          
           Also
           he
           calleth
           the
           p
           generall
           Councell
           at
           
             Constance
             ,
             The
             Synagogue
             of
             Sathan
             .
          
           Another
           of
           his
           articles
           was
           ,
           q
           
             The
             Pope
             is
             the
             Beast
             in
             the
             Apocalyps
             .
          
           His
           Schollers
           after
           his
           death
           ,
           r
           brake
           downe
           the
           
           Images
           in
           Churches
           and
           Monasteries
           :
           yea
           ,
           f
           Zisca
           did
           cast
           down
           all
           the
           churches
           ,
           which
           were
           dedicated
           to
           the
           virgin
           Mary
           ,
           or
           to
           any
           Saint
           ;
           as
           if
           it
           were
           lawfull
           onely
           to
           build
           a
           Church
           to
           Almighty
           God.
           In
           his
           time
           the
           professors
           began
           to
           be
           distinguished
           in
           two
           companies
           ;
           the
           one
           of
           thē
           did
           not
           so
           much
           dissent
           from
           the
           Pope
           as
           the
           other
           :
           Those
           which
           in
           fewer
           matters
           diffred
           from
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Rome
           ,
           retained
           still
           the
           name
           of
           Hussites
           ;
           they
           which
           disagreed
           in
           more
           ,
           were
           called
           Thaborites
           ,
           of
           Thabor
           ,
           the
           citie
           which
           Zisca
           built
           for
           them
           .
           And
           these
           were
           the
           greater
           number
           ,
           and
           the
           stronger
           .
           There
           is
           in
           Cochleus
           a
           confession
           of
           faith
           made
           by
           one
           
             Iohann
             .
             Pezibram
          
           ,
           a
           Bohemian
           ,
           who
           was
           but
           a
           Hussite
           ,
           and
           not
           wel
           affected
           to
           the
           Thaborites
           ,
           because
           he
           accounted
           them
           as
           a
           kinde
           of
           Precisians
           ,
           or
           Puritans
           in
           comparison
           of
           himselfe
           ;
           yet
           this
           more
           mild
           man
           doth
           wish
           and
           beg
           of
           God
           ,
           to
           see
           a
           reformation
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           
           that
           t
           there
           might
           be
           redressed
           
             Symonies
             throughout
             all
             the
             world
             ,
             most
             detestable
             ,
             most
             wicked
             ,
             setting
             to
             sale
             of
             al
             Sacramēts
             ,
             most
             insatiable
             auarice
             ,
             most
             impudent
             fornications
             ,
             most
             putrified
             vncleannesses
             ,
             rottennesses
             most
             abominable
             ,
             Concubines
             keeping
             most
             polluted
             ,
             manners
             most
             dissolute
             ,
             most
             corrupt
             gestures
             and
             behauiors
             ,
             harlotry
             euery
             where
             too
             too
             much
             multiplied
             in
             the
             Clergy
             ,
             wherwith
             alas
             the
             whole
             world
             lieth
             corruptly
             filthy
             .
             Also
             the
             Lucifer-like
             pride
             of
             the
             Clergie
             is
             exalted
             aboue
             God
             ,
             their
             dainty
             &
             daily
             banquets
             ,
             their
             abundant
             riches
             ,
             and
             rich
             abundance
             ,
             their
             disquietnes
             most
             litigious
             being
             the
             chiefe
             root
             of
             the
             quarels
             of
             the
             world
             ,
             their
             curiositie
             most
             vaine
             ,
             their
             most
             vnseemely
             pompe
             of
             apparell
             ,
             their
             conuersation
             most
             Secular-like
             ,
             their
             most
             open
             transgression
             of
             all
             the
             Commandements
             of
             God
             ,
             their
             most
             remisse
             care
             of
             soules
             ,
             their
             most
             negligent
             regard
             of
             the
             word
             of
             God.
          
           This
           he
           saith
           for
           himselfe
           :
           but
           concerning
           the
           Thaborites
           ,
           who
           indeed
           came
           neerer
           to
           the
           purity
           
           of
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           he
           witnesseth
           of
           them
           ,
           that
           they
           held
           ,
           u
           
             that
             materiall
             bread
             doth
             remaine
             in
             the
             Sacrament
             ;
             that
             the
             Saints
             now
             triumphant
             are
             not
             to
             be
             called
             vpon
             ;
             that
             there
             is
             no
             purgatory
             ;
             that
             no
             suffrages
             or
             prayers
             are
             to
             be
             made
             for
             the
             dead
             .
             Also
             they
             allow
             not
             of
             the
             holy
             dayes
             almost
             of
             all
             the
             Saints
             ,
             nor
             of
             Eue
             or
             Vigils
             that
             goe
             before
             them
             ;
             nor
             the
             consecrations
             of
             visible
             things
             ,
             as
             salt
             ,
             oyle
             ,
             holy
             water
             ,
             Bels
             ,
          
           and
           such
           like
           .
           
             They
             haue
             a
             schismaticall
             celebration
             of
             their
             Masses
             ,
          
           that
           is
           ,
           a
           seuerall
           sort
           of
           Church-seruice
           ,
           
             and
             refuse
             the
             most
             celebrious
             seruice
             of
             the
             Church
             ,
             and
             the
             rites
             and
             administrations
             of
             almost
             all
             the
             Sacraments
             .
          
           Let
           our
           Papists
           now
           speak
           ,
           whether
           they
           &
           we
           do
           not
           agree
           in
           the
           same
           doctrine
           altogether
           .
           For
           I
           doubt
           not
           but
           they
           who
           had
           receiued
           so
           much
           grace
           frō
           God
           ,
           as
           to
           see
           al
           these
           things
           ,
           were
           also
           partakers
           of
           farther
           knowledg
           in
           the
           misteries
           of
           saluatiō
           .
        
         
           While
           I
           haue
           spokē
           thus
           largely
           concerning
           
           these
           good
           Christians
           in
           Bohemia
           ,
           
           let
           not
           any
           man
           imagin
           that
           Christs
           faithfull
           flocke
           was
           restrained
           within
           the
           compasse
           of
           that
           countrey
           ,
           so
           that
           godly
           men
           were
           else
           no
           where
           to
           be
           found
           .
           For
           certaine
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           betweene
           the
           times
           of
           
             Io.
             Hus
          
           ,
           who
           was
           burnt
           in
           the
           yeare
           1415
           ,
           and
           the
           first
           standing
           vp
           of
           
             M.
             Luther
          
           ,
           
           were
           very
           many
           other
           who
           in
           that
           darknes
           did
           see
           what
           belonged
           vnto
           the
           light
           of
           the
           Gospel
           .
           Among
           these
           may
           be
           reckoned
           as
           very
           memorable
           the
           Waldenses
           ;
           who
           about
           the
           yeare
           1508
           ,
           do
           make
           an
           a
           answer
           in
           defence
           of
           themselues
           ;
           and
           therin
           as
           they
           testifie
           that
           then
           they
           had
           Priests
           of
           their
           owne
           :
           so
           they
           speake
           
             against
             Purgatory
          
           ,
           and
           most
           openly
           
             against
             Transubstantiation
          
           .
           The
           same
           touching
           Transubstantiation
           they
           doe
           in
           a
           Confession
           of
           b
           theirs
           ,
           where
           also
           they
           impugne
           
             Adoration
             of
             the
             Eucharist
          
           .
           There
           also
           they
           name
           the
           Prelates
           
             Vnsauor●
             Salt
          
           ,
           and
           auouch
           that
           the
           
             execrabl●
             naughtinesse
             ,
             which
             was
             in
             them
             by
             the
             
             instinct
             of
             the
             Deuill
             ,
          
           did
           driue
           them
           away
           from
           the
           Sea
           of
           Rome
           .
           For
           the
           Papists
           in
           their
           Sermons
           did
           call
           one
           another
           
             Schismaticks
             ,
             Hereticks
             ,
             Sacrilegious
             false
             Prophets
             ,
             rauening
             VVolues
             ,
             the
             Beast
             and
             Whore
             in
             the
             Reuelation
             ,
          
           c
           of
           these
           there
           were
           many
           in
           one
           part
           of
           France
           ,
           who
           time
           out
           of
           mind
           had
           refused
           to
           beare
           the
           yoake
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           therefore
           in
           the
           dayes
           of
           Frauncis
           1.
           
           King
           of
           France
           ,
           by
           a
           bloudy
           decree
           of
           that
           King
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           execution
           of
           one
           Minerius
           a
           most
           cruell
           person
           ;
           Merindol
           &
           Cabriers
           ,
           with
           some
           other
           villages
           about
           them
           ,
           were
           sacked
           and
           destroyed
           ,
           men
           ,
           women
           ,
           &
           children
           ,
           being
           slaine
           ;
           yea
           ,
           diuers
           of
           them
           being
           stripped
           starke
           naked
           first
           ,
           and
           then
           murthered
           ,
           and
           fortie
           poore
           women
           being
           burned
           in
           a
           Ba●ne
           .
           I
           may
           adde
           vnto
           these
           many
           worthy
           men
           here
           &
           there
           dispersed
           ,
           whereof
           all
           cryed
           out
           against
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           desired
           a
           reformation
           ,
           and
           many
           of
           them
           
           apprehended
           ,
           and
           deliuered
           to
           other
           the
           true
           meanes
           of
           Iustification
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           nearest
           point
           of
           saluation
           .
           The
           d
           Author
           of
           the
           16
           Century
           nameth
           about
           the
           yeare
           1500
           ,
           and
           somewhat
           after
           (
           but
           yet
           before
           
             Luther
             )
             Baptista
             Mantuanus
             ,
             &
             Franciseus
             Picus
             ,
          
           Earle
           of
           Mirandula
           ,
           both
           which
           much
           inueighed
           agaiust
           the
           Clergy
           and
           their
           whole
           practise
           .
           Also
           one
           
             Doctor
             Keiserspergius
          
           ;
           another
           called
           
             Iohn
             :
             Hilton
          
           ;
           a
           third
           named
           
             Doctor
             Andreas
             Proles
          
           ,
           and
           Sauanorola
           ,
           all
           groning
           vnder
           the
           burthen
           of
           those
           times
           .
           The
           e
           Oration
           of
           Picus
           in
           the
           Coūcel
           of
           
             Later
             an
          
           is
           extant
           ;
           where
           besides
           his
           most
           bitter
           taxing
           of
           the
           filthy
           behauiour
           of
           the
           Clergie
           ,
           he
           vseth
           these
           words
           :
           
             Pietie
             is
             almost
             sunke
             into
             superstition
             .
          
           How
           Mantuan
           doth
           euery
           where
           pay
           the
           Romanists
           ,
           may
           appeare
           to
           those
           who
           read
           his
           workes
           .
           f
           But
           one
           place
           of
           him
           I
           will
           name
           ;
           
             
               —
               Petrique
               domus
               polluta
               fluente
            
             
               Marcessit
               Luxu
               ,
               (
               nulla
               hic
               arcana
               reuelo
            
             
             
               Nonignota
               loquor
               ,
               liceat
               vulgata
               referre
               :
            
             
               Sic
               Vrbes
               populique
               ferunt
               ,
               ea
               fama
               per
               omnem
            
             
               I
               am
               vetus
               Europam
               )
               mores
               extirpat
               honestos
               :
            
             
               Sanctus
               ager
               scurris
               ,
               venerabilis
               ara
               cynaedis
            
             
               Seruit
               ,
               honorandae
               Divum
               Ganymedibus
               aedes
               .
            
             
               Quid
               miramur
               opes
               ,
               recidiuaque
               surgere
               tecta
               ?
            
             
               Thuris
               odorati
               globulos
               &
               cinnama
               vendit
            
             
               Mollis
               Arabs
               ,
               Tyr●
               vestes
               ,
               venalia
               nobis
            
             
               Templa
               ,
               Sacerdotes
               ,
               Altaria
               ,
               Sacra
               ,
               Coronae
            
             
               Ignis
               ,
               Thura
               ,
               Preces
               ,
               Coelum
               est
               venale
               Deusque
               .
            
          
        
         
           Some
           of
           them
           I
           English
           thus
           .
           
             
               Priests
               land
               now
               Iesters
               vile
               doth
               serue
               ,
            
             
               the
               Altars
               Bawds
               maintaine
               ;
            
             
               Of
               holy
               Churches
               of
               the
               Gods
               ,
            
             
               lewd
               Ganymeds
               make
               their
               gaine
               .
            
             
               Why
               doe
               we
               wonder
               that
               their
               wealth
               ,
            
             
               and
               houses
               falne
               doe
               rise
               ,
            
             
               Sweet
               Frankincense
               and
               Cinnamon
            
             
               are
               the
               onely
               Marchandise
            
             
               Of
               the
               Arabians
               ;
               and
               but
               Clothes
            
             
               the
               Tyrians
               vse
               to
               sell
               :
            
             
               But
               with
               vs
               Churches
               ,
               Altars
               ,
            
             
               Priests
               ,
               yeeld
               money
               well
               .
            
             
               Things
               hallowed
               ,
               crowns
               ,
               fire
               ,
               frankincense
               ,
            
             
               the
               Prayers
               which
               we
               make
               ;
            
             
               Yea
               Heauen
               ,
               yea
               God
               ,
               are
               saleable
               ,
            
             
               if
               money
               wee
               may
               take
               .
            
          
        
         
           The
           opinions
           of
           Sauanorola
           against
           Popery
           are
           many
           ;
           
           and
           for
           them
           (
           howsoeuer
           
           it
           be
           otherwise
           coloured
           )
           he
           was
           burnt
           .
           In
           the
           matter
           of
           free
           h
           Iustification
           he
           is
           cleare
           .
           And
           the
           same
           is
           written
           also
           of
           i
           Trithemius
           ,
           another
           learned
           man
           ,
           who
           liued
           at
           that
           time
           .
           How
           in
           England
           Christ
           had
           in
           all
           these
           times
           Professors
           of
           the
           truth
           ,
           I
           shall
           haue
           occasion
           to
           shew
           anon
           ,
           when
           I
           come
           to
           speake
           of
           
             Iohn
             Wiclefe
          
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           meane
           while
           I
           shal
           not
           do
           amisse
           to
           mētion
           some
           other
           whowere
           between
           the
           daies
           of
           
             Io.
             Hus
          
           ,
           &
           
             M.
             Luther
          
           .
           
           A
           special
           oppugner
           of
           the
           Papacy
           was
           the
           learned
           
             Laurentius
             Valla
          
           ,
           a
           
             Romane
             Patritian
          
           ,
           and
           Canon
           of
           
             S.
             Iohn
          
           of
           
             Later
             an
          
           there
           .
           He
           wrote
           a
           k
           Treatise
           of
           purpose
           against
           the
           forged
           donation
           of
           Cōstantine
           .
           He
           prouounceth
           of
           his
           own
           experience
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Pope
             himselfe
             doth
             make
             war
             against
             peaceable
             people
             ,
             &
             soweth
             discord
             between
             Cities
             &
             Princes
             .
             The
             Pope
             doth
             both
             thirst
             after
             mens
             riches
             ,
             and
             swalloweth
             vp
             his
             owne
             .
             He
             maketh
             gain
             of
             not
             only
             the
             Common
             wealth
             ,
             but
             the
             Estate
             
             Ecclesiasticall
             ,
             and
             the
             holy
             Ghost
             .
             The
             latter
             Popes
             do
             seeme
             to
             labour
             this
             ,
             that
             looke
             how
             much
             the
             ancient
             Popes
             were
             wise
             ,
             and
             holy
             ,
             so
             much
             they
             will
             be
             wicked
             and
             foolish
             .
          
           He
           liued
           about
           the
           yeare
           1420
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           freenesse
           of
           his
           speech
           and
           pen
           ,
           was
           by
           the
           Pope
           driuen
           into
           exile
           .
           About
           the
           same
           time
           liued
           Archdeacon
           l
           
             Nicholaus
             Clemang●is
          
           ,
           who
           rebuked
           many
           things
           in
           the
           Ecclesiasticall
           state
           ,
           and
           spake
           excellently
           in
           the
           matter
           of
           generall
           Councels
           ,
           and
           their
           circumstances
           ,
           as
           hereafter
           may
           be
           declared
           .
           m
           
             Petrus
             de
             Aliaco
          
           ,
           Cardinall
           of
           Cambray
           ,
           gaue
           a
           Tract
           to
           the
           Councell
           of
           Constance
           ,
           touching
           the
           reformation
           of
           the
           Church
           .
           There
           doth
           he
           reproue
           many
           notable
           abuses
           of
           the
           Romanists
           ,
           &
           giueth
           aduise
           how
           to
           represse
           them
           ;
           n
           
             There
             should
             not
             be
             multiplied
             ,
             saith
             he
             ,
             such
             varietie
             of
             Images
             and
             pictures
             in
             the
             Churches
             ;
             there
             should
             not
             be
             so
             many
             holy
             dayes
             ;
             there
             should
             not
             be
             so
             many
             new
             S
             t
             s
             canonized
             ;
             Apocryphal
             writings
             should
             not
             
             be
             read
             in
             the
             churches
             on
             holy
             dayes
             ;
             o
             such
             numerosity
             &
             variety
             of
             religious
             persons
             not
             expedient
             ;
             there
             are
             so
             many
             Orders
             of
             begging
             Friers
             ,
             that
             their
             state
             is
             burtheusome
             to
             men
             ,
             hurtfull
             to
             hospitals
             ,
             and
             to
             the
             poore
             ;
             few
             doe
             now
             study
             diuinity
             ,
             for
             the
             abuse
             of
             the
             Church
             of
             Rome
             ,
             who
             hath
             despised
             Diuines
             ;
             all
             now
             turne
             to
             the
             law
             ,
             &
             artes
             of
             gaine
             .
          
           He
           saith
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           then
           a
           prouerbe
           ,
           
             The
             Church
             is
             come
             to
             that
             estate
             ,
             that
             it
             is
             not
             worthy
             to
             be
             ruled
             ,
             but
             by
             reprobates
             .
          
           He
           hath
           very
           much
           more
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           p
           end
           concludeth
           ,
           
             That
             as
             there
             were
             7000
             ,
             who
             had
             not
             bowed
             to
             Baal
             :
             so
             it
             is
             to
             bee
             hoped
             there
             bee
             some
             ,
             which
             desire
             the
             reformation
             of
             the
             Church
             .
          
           Imagine
           whether
           this
           Cardinall
           ,
           if
           he
           had
           found
           company
           to
           haue
           ioyned
           with
           him
           ,
           would
           not
           haue
           sayd
           much
           more
           .
           
           About
           that
           time
           liued
           
             Leonardus
             Aretinus
          
           ,
           whose
           little
           book
           against
           Hypocrites
           is
           worth
           the
           reading
           .
           
           So
           is
           the
           oration
           of
           
             Antonius
             Cornelius
             Eynni●hanus
          
           ,
           laying
           open
           the
           lewd
           lubric●●e
           of
           
           Priests
           in
           his
           dayes
           .
           So
           doth
           he
           detect
           many
           abuses
           and
           errours
           ,
           who
           wrote
           
             The
             ten
             grieuances
             of
             Germany
          
           ;
           
           but
           those
           who
           compiled
           the
           hundred
           grieuances
           of
           the
           German
           nation
           ,
           doe
           discouer
           many
           more
           .
           Finally
           ,
           he
           who
           list
           to
           see
           further
           ,
           that
           God
           euen
           in
           those
           dead
           dayes
           ,
           had
           diuers
           seruants
           ,
           who
           by
           more
           then
           a
           glimpse
           did
           see
           the
           truth
           ,
           and
           desired
           yet
           to
           be
           more
           plentifully
           instructed
           in
           religion
           ,
           let
           him
           read
           the
           
             Catologus
             testium
             veritatis
          
           ,
           
           lately
           set
           out
           ,
           and
           there
           he
           shall
           find
           diuers
           ,
           whom
           I
           haue
           not
           named
           .
        
         
           By
           this
           time
           I
           trust
           it
           is
           manifest
           how
           
           fals
           a
           slander
           that
           of
           the
           Papists
           is
           ,
           that
           before
           the
           daies
           of
           
             M.
             Luther
          
           ,
           there
           was
           neuer
           any
           man
           of
           our
           religion
           .
           Til
           the
           time
           of
           the
           Councell
           of
           Constance
           ,
           this
           case
           is
           cleared
           .
           And
           beyond
           that
           ,
           it
           is
           as
           easie
           to
           shew
           ,
           that
           
             I.
             Hus
          
           ,
           &
           
             Hierom
             of
             Prage
          
           had
           their
           imediat
           antecessors
           in
           witnessing
           the
           faith
           of
           Christ
           For
           they
           were
           instructed
           &
           much
           helped
           by
           the
           
           Books
           of
           
             Io.
             Wiclif
          
           an
           English
           man
           ;
           and
           therefore
           saith
           Platina
           ,
           as
           
             spectators
             of
             Wiclife
          
           ,
           
           they
           were
           condemned
           in
           the
           Councell
           of
           
             Constance
             .
             AEneas
             Syluius
          
           sheweth
           the
           meanes
           how
           those
           Bohemians
           came
           to
           know
           the
           doctrine
           of
           Wiclife
           ,
           
           he
           saith
           thus
           ,
           
             He
             who
             first
             raised
             vp
             the
             opinion
             of
             the
             Hussites
             ,
             had
             them
             frō
             Oxford
             ,
             carying
             thence
             into
             Bohemia
             Wiclefs
             books
             de
             Realibus
             Vniuersalib
             '
             ,
             Coehleus
             ,
          
           who
           by
           his
           good
           will
           would
           bee
           taken
           for
           a
           great
           defender
           of
           Popery
           ,
           giueth
           yet
           a
           larger
           testimony
           ;
           for
           he
           saith
           ,
           
           
             That
             as
             a
             Bohemian
             brought
             first
             into
             Bohemia
             Wiclefs
             books
             de
             Realibus
             Vniuer
             salibus
             ;
             so
             there
             was
             afterward
             one
          
           Peter
           Paine
           ,
           
             a
             Scholler
             of
          
           Wiclefs
           ,
           
             who
             after
             the
             death
             of
             his
             Master
             came
             also
             into
          
           
           
             Bohemia
             ,
             and
             brought
             with
             him
          
           Wiclef
           
             bookes
             ,
             which
             were
             in
             quantity
             as
             great
             as
          
           S.
           Austins
           works
           :
           many
           of
           these
           books
           did
           Hus
           afterward
           translate
           into
           their
           mother
           tongue
           .
           In
           plaine
           termes
           ,
           after
           this
           the
           Author
           deliuereth
           it
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Hussites
             &
             Thaborites
             were
             branches
             of
             
             Wiclefe
             .
          
           
           And
           in
           the
           same
           book
           Hus
           did
           commit
           spiritual
           fornication
           with
           many
           strangers
           ,
           
             with
             Wiclefist
             the
             Dulcimist
          
           ,
           &c.
           
           And
           in
           the
           next
           he
           auoucheth
           ,
           that
           a
           Hus
           &
           Hierom
           tooke
           their
           heresies
           frō
           Wiclef
           .
           And
           once
           againe
           he
           termeth
           the
           Protestant
           Germās
           b
           
             new
             Wiclefists
          
           .
           What
           an
           opinion
           of
           this
           man
           
             I.
             Hus
          
           had
           ,
           may
           be
           fully
           seen
           by
           that
           wish
           of
           his
           ,
           wherin
           he
           praied
           ,
           c
           
             that
             he
             might
             there
             be
             where
             the
             soul
             of
             Wiclef
             was
             .
          
           
           Now
           what
           Wiclef
           did
           teach
           ,
           may
           be
           easily
           gathered
           ,
           if
           by
           nothing
           else
           ,
           yet
           by
           the
           deadly
           hatred
           which
           the
           Romanistes
           did
           carrie
           towards
           him
           .
           
           The
           Councell
           of
           Constance
           did
           define
           him
           to
           be
           an
           Heretike
           long
           after
           his
           death
           ,
           &
           commanded
           that
           his
           bones
           should
           be
           taken
           vp
           &
           burnt
           .
           Also
           Pope
           Iohn
           23.
           
           in
           a
           general
           Councell
           at
           Rome
           ,
           did
           before
           that
           time
           condemne
           him
           for
           an
           heretike
           ;
           which
           the
           Hussites
           did
           but
           laugh
           at
           :
           but
           no
           man
           had
           a
           harder
           conceit
           of
           him
           then
           Cochl
           .
           who
           sticketh
           not
           to
           affirme
           ,
           that
           
             he
             thinketh
             that
          
           
           f
           
             the
             torments
             of
             Wiclefe
             are
             greater
             in
             hell
             ,
             then
             those
             of
             Iudas
             ,
             or
             Nero.
          
           If
           God
           almightie
           had
           no
           better
           opinion
           of
           him
           ,
           the
           man
           were
           in
           an
           ill
           case
           .
           But
           the
           best
           is
           ,
           this
           cholerick
           Criticke
           is
           not
           the
           Iudge
           of
           all
           the
           world
           .
           He
           was
           angry
           belike
           ,
           in
           behalfe
           of
           Transubstantiation
           ,
           concerning
           which
           he
           citeth
           this
           article
           of
           
             Wiclefe
             :
             There
             was
             neuer
             a
             greater
             heresie
             ,
             then
             that
             which
             putteth
             the
             Accident
             without
             a
             Subiect
             in
             the
             Eucharist
             .
          
           But
           hee
           might
           haue
           named
           more
           points
           ,
           wherein
           that
           holy
           man
           did
           differ
           from
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           .
           
           The
           Councel
           of
           Constāce
           picketh
           out
           45.
           articles
           of
           his
           Positions
           ,
           which
           the
           learned
           Reader
           may
           find
           there
           .
           Yet
           doubtles
           many
           of
           them
           are
           falsly
           reported
           ,
           which
           is
           a
           matter
           common
           with
           enemies
           of
           the
           truth
           ,
           to
           peruert
           &
           misconster
           ,
           that
           so
           they
           may
           more
           freely
           defame
           .
           There
           was
           one
           
             Wilh
             .
             Wideford
          
           ,
           
           who
           tooke
           on
           him
           to
           answer
           18.
           articles
           said
           to
           bee
           Wiclefs
           ,
           whence
           a
           man
           may
           gathersome
           of
           his
           doctrine
           .
           But
           that
           all
           things
           there
           said
           against
           him
           
           were
           not
           true
           ,
           may
           wel
           be
           obserud
           out
           of
           the
           same
           answere
           ,
           declaring
           that
           he
           had
           many
           things
           concerning
           Wiclef
           ;
           but
           only
           by
           a
           a
           fame
           and
           report
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           not
           the
           most
           certaine
           relater
           .
           What
           positions
           indeed
           he
           held
           ,
           may
           be
           seen
           in
           
             M.
             Fox
          
           ,
           reporting
           his
           life
           and
           actions
           ,
           as
           also
           
             in
             Catalogo
             testium
             veritatis
          
           .
           
           And
           those
           who
           be
           not
           learned
           ,
           may
           esteem
           of
           thē
           by
           the
           doctrine
           of
           
             Io
             Hu●
          
           before
           rehearsed
           ,
           who
           by
           the
           testimony
           of
           the
           Papists
           themselues
           ,
           as
           I
           haue
           shewed
           ,
           maintained
           the
           opinions
           of
           Wiclef
           .
        
         
           Now
           that
           this
           worthy
           Champion
           
           &
           Preacher
           of
           the
           Gospel
           of
           
             Iesus
             Christ
          
           went
           not
           alone
           ,
           but
           had
           many
           English
           men
           and
           women
           ,
           who
           in
           his
           life
           time
           ,
           &
           after
           his
           death
           beleeued
           as
           he
           beleeued
           ,
           and
           professed
           as
           he
           professed
           ,
           is
           in
           the
           next
           place
           to
           be
           shewed
           .
           Among
           the
           chiefe
           of
           his
           fautours
           ,
           were
           Iohn
           of
           Gant
           ,
           
           (
           as
           Parsons
           the
           Iesuite
           confesseth
           )
           and
           Lord
           
             Henry
             Percy
          
           ;
           the
           one
           of
           them
           Duke
           of
           Lancaster
           ,
           the
           other
           Marshall
           
           of
           England
           .
           M.
           Fox
           citeth
           out
           a
           Register
           of
           the
           Archb.
           of
           Canterbury
           ,
           
           a
           Mandate
           that
           the
           Conclusions
           of
           Wiclefe
           were
           
             preached
             in
             diuers
             and
             sundry
             places
             of
             the
             Archbishops
             Prouince
             ,
             generally
             ,
             commonly
             ,
             and
             publikely
             .
          
           The
           same
           also
           is
           manifested
           by
           a
           letter
           of
           the
           Archbishop
           to
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Lōdon
           ;
           and
           in
           a
           Monition
           directed
           to
           Oxford
           ,
           
           where
           it
           is
           said
           ,
           that
           
             certain
             Conclusions
             hereticall
             and
             erronious
             were
             generally
             and
             commonly
             preached
             and
             published
             in
             diuers
             places
             of
             the
             Prouince
             of
             Canterbury
             .
          
           There
           be
           extant
           also
           Letters
           of
           king
           Richard
           2.
           
           directly
           signifying
           so
           much
           .
           But
           there
           is
           nothing
           which
           may
           more
           amply
           testifie
           the
           spreading
           of
           his
           doctrine
           ,
           then
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           in
           the
           beginning
           almost
           of
           that
           young
           Kings
           dayes
           ,
           
           where
           it
           is
           related
           ,
           that
           there
           were
           diuers
           
             Preaching
             dayly
             ,
             not
             onely
             in
             Churches
             and
             Church-yardes
             ,
             but
             also
             in
             markets
             ,
             faires
             ,
             &
             other
             open
             places
             ,
             where
             as
             great
             congregation
             of
             people
             is
             ,
             diuers
             Sermons
             containing
             heresies
             ,
             and
             notorious
             errours
             .
          
        
         
         
           This
           putteth
           me
           in
           minde
           of
           a
           written
           book
           which
           once
           I
           saw
           ,
           
           being
           a
           Chronicle
           compiled
           by
           a
           Monk
           of
           
             Leicester
             Abby
          
           ;
           who
           ,
           writing
           of
           the
           time
           of
           the
           said
           King
           ,
           reporteth
           at
           large
           ,
           that
           the
           people
           in
           faires
           and
           markets
           ,
           and
           riding
           by
           the
           way
           ,
           and
           almost
           euery
           where
           ,
           would
           talke
           of
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           reprooue
           the
           customes
           of
           that
           time
           ,
           as
           also
           the
           Priests
           ;
           to
           the
           exceeding
           great
           trouble
           and
           offence
           of
           the
           Clergie
           .
           This
           they
           might
           the
           rather
           do
           out
           of
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           because
           the
           Scriptures
           were
           then
           translated
           into
           English
           ,
           as
           may
           bee
           seene
           by
           diuerse
           Copies
           written
           and
           remaining
           vnto
           this
           day
           ,
           supposed
           to
           be
           so
           turned
           by
           Wicklef
           .
           And
           it
           is
           very
           probable
           ,
           that
           in
           
             Leicester
             shire
          
           there
           were
           many
           of
           those
           of
           whom
           the
           Monk
           Leicestrensis
           spake
           ,
           since
           ,
           at
           Lutterworth
           a
           Towne
           in
           that
           County
           ,
           
             Iohn
             Wicklef
          
           was
           beneficed
           .
           But
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           this
           learned
           mans
           abode
           was
           at
           the
           first
           in
           the
           Vniuersitie
           
           of
           Oxford
           ,
           where
           hee
           was
           both
           a
           Doctor
           and
           Reader
           in
           Diuinity
           ;
           and
           therefore
           is
           to
           bee
           conceiued
           to
           haue
           many
           learned
           men
           partaking
           with
           him
           in
           his
           opinions
           .
           Master
           Fox
           saith
           (
           out
           of
           the
           Chronicle
           of
           S.
           Albanes
           )
           ,
           
           that
           hee
           had
           a
           Benefice
           in
           Oxford
           ;
           of
           which
           he
           was
           depriued
           by
           
             Simon
             Sudbury
          
           ,
           Arch-Bishop
           of
           Canterbury
           .
           It
           may
           bee
           ,
           this
           was
           nothing
           else
           but
           the
           Mastership
           or
           chiefe
           Gouernors
           place
           in
           Bailioll
           Colledge
           ;
           which
           I
           am
           perswaded
           that
           hee
           had
           ,
           since
           there
           are
           yet
           two
           antient
           Writings
           in
           the
           treasury
           of
           that
           Colledge
           (
           which
           I
           haue
           seene
           )
           ,
           
           which
           were
           made
           in
           the
           name
           of
           
             Iohn
             Wicklef
          
           ,
           Master
           of
           that
           house
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           the
           daies
           of
           King
           Richard
           the
           Second
           .
           But
           while
           he
           liued
           ,
           he
           had
           so
           many
           fauourers
           in
           that
           Vniuersity
           ,
           as
           that
           Master
           
             Robert
             Rigges
          
           Vice-Chancelor
           ,
           
           and
           the
           two
           Proctors
           ,
           took
           part
           with
           him
           ;
           as
           also
           
             Nicholas
             Herford
             ,
             Philip
             Repington
          
           and
           
             Iohn
             Ashton
          
           ,
           Preachers
           and
           Batchelors
           of
           
           Diuinity
           ,
           and
           grew
           into
           great
           question
           for
           his
           cause
           :
           where
           Repington
           in
           the
           end
           beeing
           Doctor
           ,
           did
           slippe
           from
           him
           .
           Yea
           ,
           so
           farre
           was
           his
           doctrine
           there
           spred
           ,
           
           that
           Pope
           Gregorie
           the
           Eleuenth
           ,
           in
           the
           yeere
           1378
           ,
           did
           direct
           his
           B●ll
           to
           the
           Vniuersity
           of
           Oxford
           against
           the
           Doctrine
           and
           Articles
           of
           that
           learned
           man
           ,
           euen
           Rome
           it selfe
           ringing
           of
           his
           opinions
           in
           that
           Vniuersity
           .
           Neither
           did
           his
           Followers
           dye
           when
           he
           himselfe
           died
           .
           But
           long
           after
           that
           ,
           
           Pope
           Gregory
           the
           twelfth
           did
           direct
           downe
           another
           Bull
           to
           Oxford
           against
           Wicklef
           ;
           in
           which
           he
           vsed
           the
           same
           words
           which
           his
           Predecessors
           had
           ,
           that
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           
             Wicklef
             did
             follow
             the
             doctrine
             of
          
           Marsilius
           of
           Padua
           ,
           
             and
             of
          
           Iohn
           of
           Gandune
           
             of
             vnworthy
             memory
          
           :
           Which
           speech
           is
           worth
           the
           marking
           ;
           to
           shew
           ,
           that
           this
           man
           also
           had
           his
           Predecessors
           .
           The
           Copie
           of
           this
           latter
           Bull
           is
           to
           bee
           seene
           in
           the
           
           Booke
           which
           that
           worthy
           louer
           of
           Antiquities
           ,
           Master
           Hare
           ,
           gaue
           to
           our
           
           Vniuersity
           :
           where
           also
           is
           to
           bee
           seene
           in
           the
           Constitution
           of
           a
           Prouinciall
           Councell
           ,
           celebrated
           at
           Oxford
           ,
           a
           sharp
           Inquisition
           decreed
           by
           
             Thomas
             Arundel
          
           Archbishop
           of
           Canterbury
           ,
           against
           all
           ,
           euen
           the
           heads
           of
           Colledges
           and
           Halles
           ,
           and
           others
           suspected
           of
           Lollardy
           and
           Wicleuisme
           .
           They
           might
           well
           suppose
           ,
           that
           the
           Students
           of
           that
           place
           were
           entertainers
           of
           such
           doctrine
           ,
           since
           about
           that
           very
           time
           a
           testimoniall
           was
           giuen
           in
           their
           Congregation
           house
           vnder
           seale
           ,
           in
           fauour
           of
           
             Iohn
             Wicklef
          
           :
           where
           these
           words
           are
           among
           other
           ;
           
           
             God
             forbid
             ,
             that
             our
             Prelates
             should
             haue
             condemned
             a
             man
             of
             such
             honesty
             for
             an
             Heretick
             .
          
           And
           yet
           in
           the
           Councell
           of
           Constance
           hee
           was
           condemned
           for
           such
           a
           one
           ,
           forty
           yeeres
           after
           that
           he
           was
           dead
           and
           buried
           .
           But
           all
           would
           not
           serue
           to
           extirpate
           his
           Bookes
           or
           memory
           out
           of
           our
           Vniuersity
           :
           but
           euen
           in
           the
           daies
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           Fourth
           ,
           
           there
           were
           new
           letters
           directed
           to
           the
           Gouernors
           of
           
           that
           place
           ,
           by
           the
           King
           himselfe
           ,
           to
           make
           search
           for
           his
           Bookes
           ,
           and
           to
           burne
           them
           .
           I
           haue
           in
           my
           custody
           a
           faire
           antient
           Record
           of
           that
           Vniuersity
           :
           which
           ,
           by
           meanes
           of
           a
           good
           friend
           ,
           I
           haue
           gained
           back
           to
           this
           place
           .
           And
           therein
           is
           a
           solemne
           Letter
           directed
           from
           the
           Conuocation
           of
           Doctors
           and
           Masters
           ,
           to
           the
           King
           ;
           te●tifying
           ,
           that
           according
           to
           their
           Soueraigns
           Commandement
           ,
           they
           had
           with
           accurate
           diligence
           searched
           out
           the
           Bookes
           and
           Tracts
           of
           Wicklef
           himselfe
           ,
           and
           of
           
             Reginald
             Pecock
          
           ,
           and
           had
           burnt
           them
           .
           So
           much
           adoe
           was
           it
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           so
           long
           a
           space
           ,
           to
           suppresse
           the
           head
           whereunto
           Wicklefs
           doctrine
           was
           growne
           in
           the
           famous
           Vniuersity
           of
           Oxford
           .
        
         
           How
           elsewhere
           in
           this
           Kingdome
           ,
           
           his
           positions
           were
           spred
           ,
           may
           be
           easily
           collected
           out
           of
           
             Geffry
             Chaucer
          
           :
           who
           ,
           dying
           about
           the
           yeere
           1400
           ,
           may
           rightly
           be
           supposed
           to
           haue
           liued
           while
           
             Ioh.
             Wicklef
          
           liued
           .
           This
           Chaucer
           ,
           
           who
           wanted
           neither
           wit
           nor
           learning
           ,
           did
           at
           *
           large
           paint-out
           the
           pride
           ,
           lasciuious
           ,
           vicious
           ,
           and
           intolerable
           behauior
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           Cardinals
           and
           Clergy
           ,
           euen
           applying
           the
           name
           of
           Antichrist
           diuers
           times
           vnto
           the
           Romane
           Bishop
           ,
           and
           saying
           ,
           that
           There
           were
           many
           in
           those
           daies
           of
           the
           speakers
           minde
           ;
           yea
           ,
           finding
           fault
           with
           their
           faith
           ,
           aswell
           as
           with
           their
           manners
           .
           The
           whole
           tale
           is
           wel
           worth
           the
           reading
           :
           but
           I
           will
           cite
           onely
           a
           few
           verses
           .
           
             
               Peter
               was
               neuer
               so
               great
               a
               foole
               ,
               
            
             
               To
               leaue
               his
               *
               Key
               with
               such
               a
               *
               lorell
               ,
            
             
               Or
               take
               such
               cursed
               such
               a
               toole
               ,
            
             
               He
               was
               aduised
               nothing
               well
               :
            
             
               I
               trow
               they
               haue
               the
               key
               of
               hell
               :
            
             
               Their
               master
               is
               of
               that
               place
               Marshall
               :
            
             
               For
               there
               they
               dressen
               hem
               to
               dwell
               ,
            
             
               And
               with
               false
               Lucifer
               there
               to
               fall
               :
            
             
               They
               beene
               as
               proud
               as
               Lucifer
               ,
            
             
               As
               angry
               ,
               and
               as
               enuious
               :
            
             
               From
               good
               faith
               they
               beene
               full
               farre
               ,
            
             
               In
               couetize
               they
               beene
               curious
               .
            
             
             
               To
               catch
               cattaile
               ,
               as
               couetous
            
             
               As
               hound
               ,
               that
               for
               hunger
               will
               yall
               :
            
             
               Vngodly
               and
               vngracious
            
             
               And
               needily
               such
               falshod
               shall
               fool
               fall
               .
            
          
        
         
           This
           and
           a
           hundred
           times
           as
           much
           ,
           he
           expresseth
           in
           a
           simple
           plough
           mans
           person
           ;
           as
           euidently
           inferring
           ,
           that
           the
           husbandman
           &
           meanest
           country
           body
           of
           that
           time
           ,
           by
           the
           reading
           and
           hearing
           of
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           could
           tell
           what
           was
           right
           and
           religious
           ,
           and
           what
           otherwise
           ;
           yea
           ,
           and
           complaine
           of
           the
           blindnesse
           ,
           and
           impiety
           of
           the
           Romanists
           in
           that
           age
           .
           But
           if
           wee
           would
           be
           aduertised
           ,
           what
           euen
           Lay-men
           in
           those
           times
           could
           doe
           ,
           let
           vs
           looke
           into
           the
           Declarations
           of
           
             Walter
             Bruite
          
           ,
           who
           was
           in
           question
           for
           his
           opinion
           ,
           before
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Hereford
           ,
           in
           the
           yeere
           1393
           ,
           and
           gaue
           vp
           a
           a
           little
           booke
           ,
           containing
           those
           t●●ngs
           which
           he
           maintained
           .
           The
           true
           copy
           of
           that
           treatise
           is
           yet
           extant
           ,
           
           and
           deserueth
           to
           bee
           read
           .
           There
           wee
           may
           finde
           these
           and
           the
           like
           positions
           :
           
           that
           Bread
           remaineth
           in
           the
           Sacraments
           after
           Consecration
           ;
           that
           The
           Pope
           is
           Antichrist
           ;
           that
           Nothing
           is
           to
           be
           beleeued
           ,
           but
           what
           may
           bee
           confirmed
           out
           of
           the
           Scriptures
           ;
           that
           The
           Pope
           is
           the
           Idoll
           of
           desolation
           ,
           sitting
           in
           the
           Temple
           of
           God
           ;
           that
           Antichrist
           is
           not
           to
           come
           of
           the
           Tribe
           of
           Dan
           ,
           neither
           onely
           to
           raigne
           three
           yeeres
           and
           a
           halfe
           :
           that
           The
           Citie
           Apoc.
           17
           ,
           is
           Rome
           ;
           that
           Our
           Iustification
           is
           freely
           by
           faith
           alone
           ;
           that
           The
           doctrine
           of
           the
           Pope
           differeth
           from
           that
           of
           Christ
           ;
           that
           Miracles
           are
           no
           assurance
           of
           truth
           ;
           that
           Men
           are
           not
           rashly
           to
           bee
           reputed
           Saints
           ;
           that
           The
           Pope
           hath
           not
           power
           beyond
           other
           Bishops
           ,
           neither
           is
           the
           Head
           of
           the
           Church
           ;
           that
           Papists
           mistake
           the
           keys
           of
           binding
           &
           loosing
           ;
           that
           Infants
           dying
           before
           Baptisme
           ,
           are
           not
           therefore
           damned
           ;
           that
           Auricular
           Confession
           is
           not
           prescribed
           in
           the
           Scripture
           ;
           that
           The
           Canon
           Lawe
           is
           ill
           grounded
           ;
           that
           The
           Pope
           deceiueth
           men
           in
           his
           pardons
           ;
           that
           Absolution
           is
           to
           be
           sought
           at
           the
           hands
           of
           God
           onely
           ;
           that
           The
           Priests
           vse
           vaine
           
           prayers
           in
           the
           Masses
           ;
           that
           Exorcismes
           and
           holy
           water
           are
           vnlawfull
           ;
           that
           Priests
           doe
           sinne
           ,
           who
           bargaine
           to
           sing
           for
           the
           soules
           of
           men
           departed
           ;
           that
           Religious
           men
           and
           women
           are
           deuourers
           of
           widowes
           houses
           ;
           that
           Selling
           of
           orders
           and
           dirges
           is
           naught
           ;
           that
           The
           Pope
           is
           the
           beast
           with
           the
           two
           hornes
           like
           the
           Lamb
           ,
           while
           he
           challengeth
           the
           double
           sword
           ;
           that
           He
           seeketh
           to
           bee
           worshipped
           as
           God
           ;
           that
           
             Dux
             Cleri
          
           doth
           make
           vp
           the
           number
           666
           ;
           that
           Worshipping
           of
           Images
           is
           idolatry
           ;
           that
           Temporall
           goods
           may
           be
           taken
           from
           the
           Clergie
           offending
           .
           
             There
             was
             a
             great
             Papist
             ,
             one
          
           William
           Wideford
           ,
           
             whom
             before
             I
             mentioned
             ,
             who
             giueth
             testimony
             to
             this
             Treatise
             of
          
           Bruite
           ,
           
             whom
             hee
             calleth
          
           Waltherus
           Britta
           in
           Latine
           ;
           
           
             and
             writing
             against
          
           Wicklef
           ,
           
             maketh
             twise
             mention
             of
             a
             booke
             of
             his
             owne
             ,
             sent
             to
             the
             Bishop
             of
          
           Hereford
           (
           Dominum
           Erfordensem
           
             he
             calleth
             him
             )
             in
             confutation
             of
             the
             book
             of
          
           Walter
           Bruite
           .
        
         
           While
           I
           write
           these
           things
           ,
           
           I
           cannot
           
           but
           think
           vpon
           the
           audacious
           absurdnes
           of
           an
           ignorāt
           popish
           Doctor
           ;
           who
           blusheth
           not
           to
           vtter
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           most
           manifest
           ,
           that
           
             All
             in
          
           England
           
             were
             Papists
             ,
             without
             exception
             ,
             from
             the
             first
             christening
             thereof
             ,
             vntill
             this
             age
             of
             King
          
           Henry
           
             the
             Eight
          
           .
           He
           is
           doubtless
           an
           honest
           man
           ,
           and
           worthie
           to
           bee
           trusted
           on
           his
           word
           .
           It
           is
           not
           onely
           manifest
           ,
           but
           most
           manifest
           ,
           not
           that
           the
           greatest
           part
           ,
           but
           all
           ;
           yea
           ,
           and
           because
           it
           shall
           not
           be
           scanted
           ,
           
             all
             without
             exception
             ,
             were
             Papists
             ,
             &c.
             
             Were
             Iohn
             Wicklefs
          
           bones
           burnt
           ,
           because
           he
           was
           a
           Papist
           ?
           And
           were
           the
           Bulls
           of
           the
           pope
           denounced
           against
           him
           for
           that
           cause
           ?
           And
           were
           the
           Arch-bishop
           Arundels
           constitutions
           against
           his
           Followers
           so
           seuere
           ,
           because
           they
           were
           Papists
           ?
           The
           man
           is
           to
           be
           pitied
           for
           his
           simplicity
           .
           A
           man
           may
           know
           by
           the
           Lawes
           ,
           Proclamations
           ,
           Letters
           and
           Proceedings
           by
           the
           State
           ,
           against
           some
           as
           against
           Hereticks
           ,
           as
           also
           by
           the
           records
           of
           Bishops
           yet
           extant
           ;
           and
           by
           the
           manifold
           
           executions
           and
           burnings
           afterward
           ,
           that
           euen
           in
           that
           deepe
           time
           of
           ignorance
           ,
           England
           did
           giue
           most
           noble
           testimony
           of
           Christs
           truth
           against
           Popery
           ;
           euen
           so
           farre
           ,
           as
           to
           the
           fiery
           triall
           .
           If
           the
           Christian
           Reader
           peruse
           the
           Ecclesiasticall
           History
           of
           Master
           Fox
           ,
           hee
           shall
           finde
           ,
           
           how
           before
           the
           Councel
           ,
           
             William
             Sawtree
          
           a
           Priest
           was
           burnt
           ,
           &
           after
           him
           
             Iohn
             Badby
          
           ;
           &
           that
           because
           they
           were
           Wickleuists
           or
           Lollards
           (
           as
           they
           then
           called
           them
           )
           ,
           and
           not
           because
           they
           were
           Papists
           .
           There
           are
           the
           reasons
           also
           and
           asseuerations
           of
           Puruey
           and
           Thorpe
           against
           Poperie
           ,
           with
           diuers
           other
           matters
           .
           And
           is
           it
           not
           to
           be
           thought
           ,
           
           that
           the
           Hereticks
           increased
           ,
           when
           a
           Synod
           was
           assembled
           in
           S.
           Paul's
           Church
           at
           London
           ,
           into
           the
           which
           came
           twelue
           Inquisitors
           ,
           who
           in
           a
           former
           Synod
           were
           appointed
           to
           sift
           and
           scan
           the
           writings
           of
           Wicklef
           ,
           wherein
           they
           found
           246.
           
           Conclusions
           ;
           all
           which
           they
           supposed
           to
           be
           heresie
           ?
           But
           it
           is
           plaine
           ,
           that
           in
           
           the
           first
           yeere
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Fift
           ,
           diuers
           were
           put
           to
           death
           as
           Lollards
           .
           Afterward
           the
           Lord
           Cobham
           was
           hanged
           ,
           for
           a
           shew
           ,
           as
           if
           hee
           had
           beene
           a
           kinde
           of
           Traytor
           :
           but
           hee
           was
           then
           also
           burnt
           as
           a
           reputed
           Heretick
           .
           So
           was
           one
           
             Iohn
             Claydon
          
           ,
           for
           his
           Conscience
           ,
           consumed
           to
           ashes
           .
           Not
           long
           after
           the
           comming
           of
           Henry
           the
           Sixt
           to
           the
           Kingdome
           ,
           
           besides
           diuers
           which
           were
           questioned
           and
           much
           troubled
           about
           religion
           ,
           Taylor
           and
           White
           ,
           two
           Priests
           ,
           and
           Houeden
           a
           Citizen
           of
           London
           ,
           were
           burnt
           :
           and
           some
           other
           followed
           afterward
           .
           Neither
           did
           the
           daies
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           Fourth
           ,
           and
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           Seuenth
           ,
           escape
           without
           the
           Martyrdome
           of
           sundry
           English
           ,
           yeelding
           vp
           their
           liues
           for
           Iesus
           Christ
           his
           sake
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           profession
           of
           the
           truth
           :
           The
           particular
           Stories
           of
           whom
           may
           bee
           found
           in
           the
           Author
           aboue-named
           .
           The
           Clergy
           of
           those
           times
           did
           beare
           much
           sway
           with
           their
           Princes
           ,
           and
           
           left
           no
           meanes
           vnsought
           ,
           no
           stone
           vnturned
           ,
           to
           keepe
           vp
           the
           dignity
           and
           preeminence
           of
           their
           romish
           Hierarchy
           ,
           and
           the
           superstitious
           Idolatry
           which
           then
           was
           in
           vse
           .
           Now
           ,
           if
           in
           the
           Raigne
           of
           all
           these
           Princes
           ,
           so
           many
           were
           slaughtered
           for
           the
           testimony
           of
           a
           good
           conscience
           ,
           how
           many
           weake
           brethren
           were
           there
           ,
           who
           made
           not
           open
           profession
           of
           their
           faith
           ?
           &
           how
           many
           did
           there
           lie
           hid
           ,
           diuers
           of
           them
           in
           probability
           hauing
           confederates
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           them
           beeing
           Priests
           ,
           and
           therfore
           not
           vnlikely
           to
           haue
           learning
           both
           to
           confirme
           themselues
           in
           the
           truth
           ,
           and
           such
           others
           as
           heard
           them
           ?
           Thus
           haue
           I
           both
           in
           England
           and
           else-where
           brought
           vp
           the
           doctrine
           of
           the
           Gospell
           ,
           vntill
           the
           time
           of
           
             Iohn
             Wicklef
          
           ,
           who
           flourished
           in
           the
           yeere
           1371.
           
        
         
           Heer
           it
           may
           please
           the
           Reader
           to
           
           remember
           ,
           that
           the
           iudgement
           (
           before
           cited
           )
           of
           two
           Popes
           ,
           was
           ,
           that
           Wicklef
           taught
           the
           doctrine
           of
           Marsilius
           of
           Padua
           ,
           
           &
           of
           Iohn
           of
           G●●dune
           .
           
           Of
           the
           later
           
           of
           these
           there
           yet
           appeareth
           no
           monument
           written
           ;
           
           but
           he
           ioined
           in
           opinion
           with
           the
           former
           .
           But
           as
           for
           
             Marsilius
             Patauinus
          
           ,
           our
           Aduersaries
           cannot
           but
           acknowledge
           him
           to
           be
           a
           very
           learned
           man
           ,
           after
           the
           measure
           of
           the
           age
           wherein
           he
           liued
           ,
           which
           was
           in
           the
           yeere
           1324.
           
           He
           wrote
           a
           Book
           against
           the
           vsurped
           power
           of
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Rome
           ;
           
           which
           argument
           he
           entred
           into
           ,
           in
           behalfe
           of
           the
           Emperour
           
             Lewes
             of
             Bauiere
          
           ,
           who
           was
           mightily
           layd-at
           by
           three
           Popes
           successiuely
           .
           There
           the
           Authour
           auoweth
           ,
           as
           right
           and
           iust
           ,
           the
           supreme
           authoritie
           of
           the
           Emperour
           ,
           displaying
           the
           iniquity
           of
           the
           Popes
           vsurpation
           ouer
           Christian
           Princes
           ,
           and
           generall
           Councels
           :
           The
           book
           is
           worth
           the
           reading
           ,
           to
           see
           Whether
           all
           in
           times
           past
           did
           allow
           of
           the
           Popes
           doctrine
           and
           proceedings
           ;
           or
           not
           :
           his
           opinions
           are
           these
           ;
           I
           
             that
             The
             Pope
             is
             not
             superiour
             to
             other
             Bishops
             ,
             and
             much
             lesse
             to
             the
             Emperour
             and
             ciuill
             
             Magistrates
             ;
             2
             that
             Things
             are
             to
             be
             decided
             by
             the
             Scripture
             ;
             3
             that
             Learned
             men
             of
             the
             Laity
             haue
             voices
             in
             Councels
             ;
             4
             that
             The
             Clergie
             and
             Pope
             himself
             are
             to
             be
             subiect
             to
             Magistrates
             ;
             5
             that
             The
             Church
             is
             the
             whole
             company
             of
             the
             faithfull
             ;
             6
             that
             Christ
             is
             the
             foundation
             and
             Head
             of
             the
             Church
             ;
             and
             appointed
             no
             one
             to
             be
             his
             Vicar
             ;
             7
             that
             priests
             may
             be
             maried
             ;
             8
             that
             Saint
             Peter
             was
             neuer
             at
          
           Rome
           ;
           9
           
             that
             The
             Popish
             Synagogue
             is
             a
             denne
             of
             theeues
             ;
             10
             that
             The
             Doctrine
             of
             the
             Pope
             is
             not
             to
             be
             followed
             ,
             because
             it
             leads
             to
             euerlasting
             destruction
             .
          
           In
           the
           time
           of
           this
           Marsilius
           ,
           liued
           the
           noble
           Poet
           ●●ente
           ,
           who
           wrote
           also
           a
           booke
           against
           the
           pope
           ,
           concerning
           the
           Monarchy
           of
           the
           Emperour
           :
           
           but
           ,
           for
           taking
           part
           with
           
             Lewes
             Bauiere
          
           ,
           he
           was
           condemned
           for
           an
           Heretike
           ,
           and
           his
           book
           as
           hereticall
           .
           Then
           also
           wrote
           Occam
           directly
           to
           the
           same
           purpose
           :
           
           but
           for
           his
           labour
           therein
           ,
           and
           his
           large
           reproofe
           of
           the
           Papacie
           in
           other
           points
           ,
           hee
           was
           excommunicated
           by
           the
           Romane
           Bishop
           :
           
           which
           he
           so
           much
           contemned
           ,
           that
           hee
           not
           vnwillingly
           dyed
           vnder
           that
           Sentence
           .
           About
           that
           time
           were
           heer
           and
           there
           dispersed
           sundry
           godly
           men
           ,
           who
           saw
           more
           than
           the
           common
           sort
           touching
           religion
           ;
           
           as
           Hayabalus
           a
           Minorite
           ,
           who
           frequently
           said
           in
           his
           Sermons
           ,
           
             that
             The
             Church
             of
          
           Rome
           
             was
             the
             whore
             of
             Babylon
          
           ,
           and
           that
           
             the
             Pope
             and
             his
             Cardinals
             were
             meere
             Antichrists
             :
          
           which
           propositions
           were
           held
           somewhat
           before
           also
           by
           Gerhardus
           and
           Dulcinus
           ,
           two
           learned
           men
           .
           This
           Dulcinus
           may
           bee
           thought
           to
           haue
           many
           followers
           ,
           since
           Cochleus
           could
           say
           ,
           
           that
           Iohn
           Hus
           
             committed
             spirituall
             fornication
             with
             the
             Wickleuists
             and
             with
             the
             Dulcinists
             .
          
           The
           same
           opinions
           concerning
           the
           Pope
           and
           Rome
           ,
           did
           that
           rare
           man
           ,
           
             Franciscus
             Petrarcha
          
           ,
           
           seeme
           fully
           to
           embrace
           ,
           as
           may
           appeare
           to
           any
           who
           will
           reade
           his
           workes
           ,
           howsoeuer
           Cardinall
           Bellarmine
           labour
           to
           make
           the
           world
           beleeue
           otherwise
           ,
           
           beeing
           
           desirous
           to
           haue
           vs
           thinke
           ,
           that
           Petrarch
           spake
           not
           against
           the
           Pope
           ,
           but
           some
           abuses
           in
           the
           Court
           of
           Rome
           .
           And
           to
           make
           it
           plaine
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           not
           a
           slight
           conceipt
           ,
           or
           onely
           in
           a
           few
           ,
           that
           
             The
             Pope
             was
             Antichrist
             ,
             and
          
           Rome
           
             was
             Babylon
          
           ,
           Apo.
           17.
           
           God
           stird
           vp
           yet
           more
           in
           that
           age
           ,
           who
           proclaimed
           the
           same
           matter
           ;
           
           as
           ,
           
             Petrus
             Iohannes
             Biraensis
          
           ,
           or
           Piranensis
           ,
           who
           was
           a
           Minorite
           ;
           and
           for
           teaching
           so
           ,
           was
           digged
           vp
           after
           that
           he
           was
           dead
           ;
           and
           his
           body
           ,
           after
           the
           Sentence
           of
           Clement
           the
           Sixt
           ,
           was
           burnt
           .
           A
           few
           yeeres
           after
           him
           ,
           
           did
           
             Iohannes
             de
             Rupe-sciss●
          
           ,
           a
           Monk
           ,
           teach
           the
           same
           doctrine
           ;
           which
           ,
           as
           euery
           man
           may
           ghesse
           ,
           doth
           ruinate
           the
           Papacy
           in
           euery
           respect
           .
           
           
             Iohannes
             Gerson
          
           came
           not
           so
           farre
           ,
           but
           saw
           in
           his
           age
           many
           horrible
           abuses
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           in
           his
           writing
           spake
           liberally
           of
           it
           .
           And
           it
           did
           bite
           deepe
           ,
           when
           hee
           disputed
           ,
           that
           the
           Pope
           might
           bee
           taken
           away
           safely
           from
           the
           Church
           ,
           
           and
           yet
           no
           danger
           
           follow
           of
           it
           .
           But
           let
           vs
           now
           goe
           a
           little
           higher
           .
        
         
           I
           mentioned
           before
           ,
           
           how
           Cochleus
           saith
           ,
           that
           
             Iohn
             .
             H●s
          
           took
           his
           doctrine
           from
           the
           Wickleuists
           and
           the
           Dulcinists
           .
           Heare
           ,
           I
           pray
           you
           ,
           what
           he
           saith
           :
           Hus
           
             did
             commit
             spirituall
             fornication
             with
             many
             aliens
             ;
             with
             the
             Wickleuists
             ,
             the
             Dulcinists
             ,
             with
             the
             Leonists
             ,
             the
             Waldenses
             ,
             the
             Albingenses
             ,
             and
             other
             of
             that
             sort
             ,
             enemies
             of
             the
             Church
             of
          
           Rome
           .
           These
           Leonists
           or
           poor-men
           of
           Lyons
           ,
           and
           Waldenses
           ,
           and
           Albingenses
           ,
           were
           the
           same
           men
           ,
           but
           diuersly
           ,
           on
           diuers
           occasiōs
           ,
           tearmed
           by
           the
           Roman
           Synagogue
           which
           hated
           them
           .
           Their
           opinion
           then
           did
           Hus
           maintain
           .
           
           
             AEneas
             Syluius
          
           doth
           also
           witnesse
           the
           same
           ;
           affirming
           ,
           that
           the
           
             Hussites
             did
             embrace
             the
             opinions
             of
             the
             Waldenses
             .
          
           There
           you
           may
           see
           ,
           that
           their
           doctrine
           was
           against
           the
           Primacy
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           Purgatory
           ,
           and
           such
           like
           matters
           .
           Genebrard
           ,
           
           who
           saith
           ,
           that
           these
           Waldenses
           began
           ,
           Anno
           1170.
           or
           ,
           as
           some
           other
           
           will
           ,
           1218.
           rehearseth
           out
           of
           Syluius
           these
           opinions
           of
           theirs
           ;
           
             that
             Prayers
             for
             the
             dead
             ,
             and
             Purgatory
             fire
             ,
             are
             an
             inuention
             of
             the
             Priests
             couetousnesse
             ;
             that
             Holy
             Images
             are
             to
             be
             defaced
             ;
             that
             Confirmation
             and
             Extreme
             Vnction
             are
             no
             Sacraments
             ;
             that
             Auricular
             Confession
             is
             a
             trifling
             thing
             .
          
           Hee
           who
           list
           ,
           may
           see
           a
           great
           many
           more
           of
           their
           positions
           agreeing
           with
           the
           doctrine
           which
           we
           teach
           :
           which
           may
           well
           also
           be
           gathered
           from
           the
           Iesuites
           themselues
           .
           
           For
           ,
           that
           is
           the
           cause
           that
           Bellarmine
           ioyneth
           these
           together
           as
           Hereticks
           ;
           
             the
             Berengarians
             ,
             the
             Petrobrusians
             ,
             the
             Waldenses
             ,
             the
             Albingenses
             ,
             the
             Wickleuists
             ,
             the
             Hussites
             ,
             the
             Lutherans
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           And
           
             Lewes
             Richcome
          
           ,
           another
           of
           that
           Society
           ,
           
           in
           his
           defence
           of
           the
           Masse
           against
           the
           Lord
           Plessis
           ,
           saith
           ,
           that
           The
           Ministers
           ,
           for
           the
           confirming
           of
           their
           figuratiue
           sense
           in
           
             This
             is
             my
             body
          
           ,
           haue
           none
           for
           their
           Doctors
           ,
           for
           their
           Antients
           ,
           for
           their
           Fathers
           ,
           but
           
             Berengarius
             ,
             Zuinglius
             ,
             Caluin
             ,
             Carolastadius
             ,
             Wicklef
             ,
          
           
           the
           Albingenses
           ,
           the
           Waldenses
           .
           These
           Waldenses
           then
           and
           Albingenses
           are
           ours
           ,
           by
           the
           confession
           of
           our
           Aduersaries
           ;
           and
           of
           these
           long
           agone
           there
           were
           no
           small
           company
           .
           For
           ,
           as
           
             Du
             Haillan
          
           ,
           
           in
           the
           life
           of
           Philip
           the
           Third
           ,
           King
           of
           France
           ,
           speaketh
           ;
           being
           driuen
           from
           Lyons
           in
           France
           ,
           they
           withdrew
           themselues
           into
           Lombardy
           :
           where
           they
           so
           multiplied
           ,
           that
           their
           doctrine
           began
           to
           spread
           through
           Italy
           ,
           and
           came
           as
           farre
           as
           Sicily
           .
           As
           the
           same
           Author
           writeth
           ,
           
           
             Philippus
             Augustus
          
           came
           to
           his
           Kingdome
           ,
           Anno
           1180.
           which
           is
           now
           more
           then
           foure
           hundred
           yeeres
           since
           :
           and
           in
           his
           time
           it
           was
           ,
           that
           the
           Albingenses
           did
           so
           increase
           in
           France
           ,
           that
           the
           Pope
           and
           Princes
           adioyning
           were
           afraid
           of
           their
           number
           .
           Hee
           who
           readeth
           the
           Story
           of
           them
           ,
           shall
           see
           that
           they
           are
           reported
           to
           haue
           held
           many
           grosse
           ,
           wicked
           ,
           and
           absurd
           opinions
           mingled
           with
           their
           true
           Doctrine
           .
           But
           
             Du
             Haillan
          
           the
           best
           and
           iudicious
           Chronicler
           
           of
           France
           ,
           and
           no
           partiall
           witnesse
           in
           our
           behalfe
           (
           since
           his
           profession
           touching
           Religion
           ,
           was
           such
           ,
           that
           hee
           was
           imployed
           to
           write
           that
           Story
           by
           King
           Henry
           the
           third
           )
           ,
           had
           not
           so
           little
           wit
           ,
           but
           that
           he
           perceiued
           those
           imputations
           to
           bee
           laid
           on
           them
           
             in
             odium
          
           ,
           and
           of
           purpose
           to
           procure
           their
           defamation
           .
           See
           how
           wisely
           hee
           speaketh
           truth
           and
           his
           conscience
           ;
           and
           yet
           so
           coucheth
           it
           ,
           that
           his
           fellowes
           might
           not
           bee
           iustly
           offended
           at
           his
           words
           .
           Although
           ,
           saith
           hee
           ,
           
           
             these
             Albingenses
             had
             euill
             opinions
             ,
             yet
             so
             it
             is
             ,
             that
             these
             did
             not
             stir
             vp
             the
             hate
             of
             the
             Pope
             and
             of
             great
             Princes
             against
             them
             so
             much
             ,
             as
             their
             liberty
             of
             speech
             did
             ,
             wherewith
             they
             vsed
             to
             blame
             the
             vices
             and
             dissolutenesse
             of
             the
             said
             Princes
             and
             of
             the
             Clergie
             ,
             yea
             ,
             to
             tax
             the
             vices
             and
             actions
             of
             the
             Popes
             .
             This
             was
             the
             principall
             point
             which
             brought
             them
             into
             vniuersall
             hatred
             ,
             and
             which
             charged
             them
             with
             more
             euil
             opinions
             then
             they
             had
             .
          
           Now
           first
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           not
           men
           infamous
           ,
           either
           for
           
           their
           vile
           opinions
           or
           filthy
           conuersation
           ;
           and
           secondly
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           not
           onely
           base
           and
           poore
           people
           ,
           it
           is
           euident
           by
           this
           ,
           that
           so
           many
           noble
           and
           worthy
           men
           took
           part
           with
           them
           ,
           yea
           ,
           to
           the
           aduenturing
           of
           their
           liues
           in
           their
           company
           ,
           and
           for
           their
           behalfe
           ;
           as
           the
           Counts
           or
           Earles
           of
           Tholouse
           ,
           
           of
           Coninges
           ,
           of
           Bigorr
           ,
           of
           Carmain
           ,
           yea
           ,
           the
           King
           of
           Arragon
           .
           And
           when
           Raymund
           ,
           the
           Earle
           of
           Tholouse
           ,
           was
           for
           his
           beliefe
           excommunicated
           by
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           a
           Croisado
           was
           proclaimed
           against
           him
           and
           the
           Albingenses
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           had
           beene
           Saracens
           or
           Infidels
           ,
           not
           onely
           the
           Counties
           of
           Foix
           and
           Coninges
           came
           with
           all
           their
           strength
           to
           assist
           Raymund
           ,
           but
           Alphonsus
           ,
           the
           King
           of
           Arragon
           ,
           came
           in
           his
           owne
           person
           to
           his
           succour
           ,
           as
           beeing
           his
           kinsman
           and
           his
           friend
           .
           And
           when
           all
           these
           were
           met
           together
           ;
           
             the
             report
             is
             ,
             saith
          
           Du
           Haillan
           ,
           
             that
             the
             Armie
             of
             these
             Hereticks
             did
             consist
             of
             about
             the
             number
             of
             one
             hundred
             thousand
             fighting
             
             men
             .
          
           These
           things
           beeing
           thus
           discouered
           by
           men
           of
           your
           owne
           part
           ;
           bee
           ashamed
           ,
           you
           Papists
           ,
           and
           blush
           to
           spread
           among
           your
           simple
           and
           credulous
           Followers
           ,
           that
           neuer
           men
           did
           as
           we
           doo
           ,
           nor
           beleeued
           as
           wee
           beleeue
           ,
           before
           Luther's
           time
           ;
           but
           that
           all
           Christendome
           formerly
           liked
           of
           the
           papisticall
           doctrine
           and
           proceedings
           .
           But
           because
           you
           shall
           heare
           one
           testimony
           further
           touching
           these
           Albingenses
           and
           Waldenses
           ,
           how
           honest
           and
           truely
           religious
           they
           were
           ,
           I
           will
           cite
           what
           one
           Reinerius
           ,
           a
           man
           who
           did
           hate
           them
           ,
           and
           was
           (
           as
           it
           is
           supposed
           )
           an
           Inquisitor
           against
           them
           ,
           reported
           concerning
           them
           ,
           now
           300
           yeers
           ago
           ,
           or
           thereabout
           .
           Thus
           then
           ,
           among
           much
           other
           matter
           ,
           he
           saith
           of
           them
           :
           
             There
             were
             many
             Sects
             of
             Hereticks
             long
             ago
             :
             among
             all
             which
             Sects
             that
             are
             or
             were
             ,
             there
             is
             not
             one
             more
             pernicious
             to
             the
             Church
             of
             God
             ,
             than
             that
             of
             the
             poore
             men
             of
             Lyons
             ,
             for
             three
             causes
             .
             First
             ,
             because
             it
             is
             of
             longer
             continuance
             :
             some
             say
             ,
             
             that
             it
             hath
             endured
             from
             the
             time
             of
             Syluester
             :
             others
             say
             ,
             that
             from
             the
             time
             of
             the
             Apostles
             .
             The
             second
             is
             ,
             because
             it
             is
             more
             generall
             :
             for
             ,
             there
             is
             almost
             no
             Land
             into
             which
             this
             Sect
             doth
             not
             creep
             .
             The
             third
             ,
             that
             whereas
             all
             other
             ,
             by
             the
             immanity
             of
             their
             blasphemies
             against
             God
             ,
             doo
             make
             men
             abhorre
             them
             ;
             this
             of
             the
             Lyonists
             ,
             hauing
             a
             great
             shew
             of
             godlinesse
             ,
             because
             they
             doo
             liue
             iustly
             before
             men
             ,
             and
             doo
             beleeue
             all
             things
             well
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             all
             the
             Articles
             which
             are
             contained
             in
             the
             Creed
             ,
             onely
             the
             Church
             of
          
           Rome
           
             they
             doo
             blaspheme
             and
             hate
             :
             which
             the
             multitude
             is
             easie
             to
             beleeue
             .
             And
             as
          
           Sampson
           '
           
             s
             Foxes
             had
             their
             faces
             seueral
             waies
             ,
             but
             their
             tails
             tied
             one
             to
             another
             :
             so
             Hereticks
             are
             diuerse
             in
             Sects
             among
             themselues
             ,
             but
             in
             the
             impugning
             of
             the
             Church
             they
             are
             vnited
             .
          
           There
           can
           hardly
           be
           found
           a
           more
           honourable
           testimony
           out
           of
           the
           mouth
           or
           penne
           of
           a
           bitter
           and
           bloudy
           Aduersary
           as
           he
           was
           ,
           who
           wrote
           this
           &
           much
           more
           concerning
           those
           good
           seruants
           of
           God.
           We
           shall
           
           not
           need
           to
           ascend
           any
           higher
           ,
           since
           hee
           giueth
           witnes
           of
           the
           antiquity
           of
           their
           profession
           long
           before
           his
           time
           :
           which
           otherwise
           to
           make
           plain
           ,
           is
           as
           easie
           ,
           as
           to
           deliuer
           that
           which
           hitherto
           I
           haue
           spoken
           .
           And
           it
           is
           not
           to
           bee
           conceiued
           ,
           
           that
           
             Petrus
             Waldo
          
           (
           of
           whom
           the
           Waldenses
           tooke
           their
           name
           at
           Lyons
           )
           had
           his
           doctrine
           from
           no
           body
           ,
           but
           that
           of
           himselfe
           he
           attained
           to
           his
           owne
           knowledge
           ,
           since
           he
           was
           not
           deeply
           learned
           .
           Berengarius
           indeed
           was
           onely
           called
           in
           question
           for
           denying
           Transubstantiation
           in
           the
           Sacrament
           ;
           but
           it
           may
           well
           bee
           thought
           ,
           that
           in
           something
           else
           he
           dissented
           from
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           :
           and
           albeit
           by
           his
           owne
           weaknes
           ,
           and
           the
           importunity
           of
           the
           Clergie
           ,
           
           he
           yeelded
           once
           or
           twice
           to
           recant
           and
           abiure
           the
           true
           doctrine
           which
           hee
           held
           ,
           yet
           hee
           had
           many
           scholars
           ,
           who
           by
           his
           example
           would
           not
           bee
           driuen
           from
           the
           right
           beleef
           which
           they
           had
           apprehended
           .
           These
           scholars
           were
           in
           France
           
           in
           great
           numbers
           ,
           
           and
           in
           diuerse
           other
           lands
           :
           and
           Genebrard
           cannot
           conceal
           it
           ,
           but
           that
           about
           the
           yeer
           of
           our
           Lord
           1088
           ,
           
           Basilius
           the
           Monk
           did
           set
           on
           foot
           again
           the
           errour
           of
           Berengarius
           .
           And
           might
           not
           the
           doctrine
           of
           both
           these
           bee
           sucked
           from
           Bertram
           ,
           who
           wrote
           so
           learnedly
           and
           so
           directly
           out
           of
           the
           Scriptures
           and
           Fathers
           against
           the
           reall
           presence
           and
           Transubstantiation
           ,
           
           that
           the
           
             Index
             expurgatorius
          
           cannot
           tel
           what
           to
           make
           of
           him
           ?
           But
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Eureux
           ,
           vnder
           the
           name
           of
           Henry
           Constable
           ,
           tearmeth
           him
           The
           great
           fore-runner
           of
           all
           the
           Sacramentaries
           :
           
           and
           Richcome
           the
           Iesuit
           disclaimeth
           him
           plainly
           as
           a
           Sacramentarie
           Heretick
           .
           Then
           Caluin
           and
           Zuinglius
           were
           not
           the
           first
           who
           gain-said
           transubstantiation
           .
           Before
           our
           ascending
           thus
           high
           ,
           we
           might
           tell
           you
           of
           Saint
           Bernard
           :
           whom
           although
           it
           is
           likely
           ,
           at
           the
           first
           dash
           ,
           you
           will
           challenge
           as
           your
           owne
           ;
           yet
           ,
           when
           you
           haue
           well
           aduised
           on
           him
           ,
           you
           may
           let
           him
           goe
           
           again
           :
           for
           ,
           albeit
           hee
           had
           his
           errours
           ,
           which
           he
           suckt
           from
           the
           age
           wherein
           he
           liued
           ,
           and
           we
           may
           not
           in
           all
           things
           subscribe
           to
           his
           iudgement
           ,
           but
           say
           of
           him
           ,
           as
           commonly
           it
           is
           spoken
           ,
           
             Bernardus
             non
             vidit
             omnia
          
           ;
           yet
           wee
           finde
           in
           him
           
             saniorem
             partem
          
           ,
           a
           liberall
           profession
           of
           many
           good
           &
           sound
           points
           agreeable
           to
           the
           Gospell
           .
           Hee
           ,
           for
           a
           fashion
           ,
           
           acknowledgeth
           many
           matters
           to
           be
           in
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           giueth
           him
           greater
           titles
           than
           any
           Papist
           can
           iustifie
           ;
           but
           it
           is
           ,
           by
           such
           insinuation
           ,
           to
           win
           him
           more
           attention
           frō
           Eugenius
           :
           and
           then
           ,
           hauing
           procured
           liberty
           ,
           or
           rather
           taken
           it
           to
           himself
           ,
           he
           schooleth
           and
           lessoneth
           the
           Pope
           plainly
           ;
           shewing
           ,
           that
           he
           liked
           not
           of
           their
           ordinary
           courses
           ,
           neither
           did
           hee
           repute
           him
           to
           haue
           that
           preeminence
           or
           prerogatiue
           which
           his
           Parasites
           did
           allow
           him
           .
           But
           ,
           touching
           the
           matter
           of
           merit
           by
           good
           works
           ,
           
           for
           iustification
           alone
           by
           Christ
           ,
           of
           free-will
           ,
           for
           certain
           assurance
           of
           saluation
           in
           the
           death
           and
           
           by
           the
           strength
           of
           our
           Sauiour
           ,
           and
           for
           disliking
           then
           the
           vile
           life
           of
           the
           Clergie
           ,
           how
           cleer
           ,
           how
           learned
           ,
           how
           copious
           is
           hee
           !
           These
           things
           wee
           teach
           together
           with
           him
           ;
           and
           ,
           notwithstanding
           his
           other
           slips
           ,
           we
           doubt
           not
           but
           his
           soule
           doth
           rest
           with
           the
           Lord
           ,
           God
           pardoning
           vnto
           him
           his
           errours
           and
           his
           ignorances
           ;
           which
           hee
           ,
           being
           carried
           with
           the
           stream
           of
           that
           Time
           ;
           did
           neuer
           discusse
           ,
           but
           took
           them
           as
           they
           were
           deliuered
           to
           him
           ,
           without
           scanning
           or
           examining
           .
           And
           to
           this
           good
           hope
           we
           are
           firmly
           induced
           by
           that
           Saying
           of
           Saint
           Paul
           ;
           
           
             Other
             Foundation
             can
             no
             man
             lay
             ,
             but
             that
             which
             is
             laid
             ,
             which
             is
             Iesus
             Christ
             :
             and
             if
             any
             man
             build
             on
             this
             Foundation
             ,
             gold
             ,
             siluer
             ,
             precious
             stones
             ,
             timber
             ,
             hay
             or
             stubble
             ,
             euery
             mans
             work
             shall
             bee
             made
             manifest
             :
             for
             ,
             the
             day
             shall
             declare
             it
             ,
             because
             it
             shall
             be
             reuealed
             by
             fire
             ;
             and
             the
             fire
             shall
             try
             euery
             mans
             work
             of
             what
             sort
             it
             is
             .
             If
             any
             mans
             work
             that
             he
             hath
             built-vpon
             ,
             abide
             ,
             he
             shall
             receiue
             wages
             :
             if
             any
             mans
             workburn
             ,
             
             he
             shall
             lose
             ,
             but
             he
             shall
             be
             safe
             himself
             .
          
           He
           held
           the
           Foundation
           of
           iustification
           onely
           by
           faith
           in
           Christ
           ;
           
           and
           that
           our
           best
           deeds
           are
           but
           
             via
             Regni
             ,
             non
             causa
             regnandi
             ;
             the
             way
             to
             the
             Kingdome
             ,
             not
             the
             cause
             of
             raigning
             :
          
           and
           for
           that
           cause
           ,
           we
           doubt
           not
           but
           his
           soule
           is
           safe
           ,
           though
           his
           hay
           and
           stubble
           of
           praying
           to
           Saints
           ,
           and
           such
           other
           stuffe
           as
           cannot
           endure
           the
           fire
           of
           the
           holy
           Ghost's
           triall
           ,
           doo
           burn
           and
           consume
           .
           And
           this
           is
           our
           iudgement
           touching
           many
           other
           both
           before
           and
           after
           the
           time
           of
           Saint
           Bernard
           ;
           that
           ,
           holding
           Christ
           the
           Foundation
           aright
           ,
           and
           groning
           vnder
           the
           heauy
           burden
           of
           humane
           traditions
           ,
           satisfaction
           ,
           and
           other
           popish
           trash
           ,
           they
           ,
           by
           a
           generall
           repentance
           from
           their
           errors
           and
           lapses
           knowne
           and
           vnknowne
           ,
           and
           by
           an
           assured
           faith
           in
           their
           Sauiour
           ,
           did
           finde
           fauour
           with
           the
           Lord.
           Such
           as
           these
           were
           we
           hold
           to
           be
           God's
           good
           seruants
           ,
           to
           bee
           of
           the
           number
           of
           the
           Elect
           ;
           and
           ,
           
             propter
             sanioren
             et
             meliorem
             
             partem
             ,
          
           for
           their
           sounder
           and
           better
           part
           ,
           to
           bee
           of
           that
           Church
           ,
           whereof
           we
           are
           to
           be
           members
           ;
           of
           that
           body
           ,
           whereof
           (
           by
           the
           grace
           of
           Christ
           )
           we
           are
           a
           portion
           .
        
         
           And
           in
           this
           respect
           our
           settled
           and
           
           resolued
           iudgement
           is
           ,
           that
           when
           it
           is
           asked
           ,
           Where
           our
           Church
           in
           former
           Ages
           was
           ;
           we
           may
           ,
           besides
           that
           which
           we
           haue
           formerly
           answered
           ,
           truly
           say
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           in
           England
           ,
           in
           France
           ,
           in
           Spaine
           ,
           
           in
           Italy
           ,
           yea
           ,
           in
           Rome
           it selfe
           :
           
             Spiritus
             vbi
             vult
             spirat
          
           ,
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           breatheth
           where
           it
           pleaseth
           :
           for
           who
           cannot
           conceiue
           by
           the
           writings
           of
           many
           in
           former
           Ages
           ,
           or
           by
           such
           touches
           as
           others
           doe
           giue
           concerning
           them
           ,
           that
           diuers
           ,
           who
           liued
           neerest
           the
           Whore
           of
           Babylon
           ,
           did
           most
           detest
           her
           abomination
           ;
           and
           ,
           finding
           that
           the
           weaknes
           and
           impurity
           of
           her
           doctrine
           could
           not
           truely
           satisfie
           the
           hungry
           and
           thirsty
           soule
           ,
           did
           ,
           according
           to
           that
           knowledge
           which
           Christ
           out
           of
           his
           Word
           reuealed
           vnto
           them
           ,
           seek
           
           some
           means
           which
           was
           not
           ordinarily
           professed
           in
           that
           Time
           ?
           And
           if
           it
           be
           asked
           ,
           Who
           they
           were
           ,
           and
           how
           they
           could
           lie
           hid
           from
           the
           world
           ?
           It
           may
           truly
           be
           answered
           ,
           that
           their
           case
           was
           like
           the
           case
           of
           them
           in
           the
           daies
           of
           Elias
           ,
           who
           were
           not
           knowne
           to
           that
           State
           which
           would
           haue
           persecuted
           
           them
           .
           Now
           ,
           why
           should
           not
           wee
           think
           ,
           but
           as
           God
           had
           his
           secret
           and
           inuisible
           company
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           in
           that
           most
           idolatrous
           Countrey
           :
           so
           ,
           in
           the
           time
           of
           the
           deepest
           darknesse
           ,
           hee
           had
           those
           which
           saw
           light
           ;
           his
           Christian
           Children
           ,
           among
           Antichrists
           Brood
           ;
           such
           as
           embraced
           true
           Religion
           ;
           among
           the
           superstitious
           ?
           So
           that
           Italy
           ,
           and
           Rome
           ,
           and
           these
           Westerne
           parts
           ,
           had
           some
           of
           Gods
           Saints
           in
           all
           Ages
           ,
           who
           ,
           like
           Sea-fish
           ,
           most
           fresh
           in
           the
           salt
           water
           ,
           and
           beeing
           remoued
           in
           their
           affections
           ,
           though
           not
           in
           their
           persons
           ,
           
           did
           with
           Lot
           vex
           their
           righteous
           soules
           in
           the
           middest
           of
           a
           spiritual
           Sodom
           ,
           
           and
           kept
           themselues
           vnspotted
           
           of
           the
           world
           .
           And
           yet
           it
           is
           not
           to
           bee
           taken
           ,
           that
           wee
           coarctate
           the
           Church
           within
           those
           Prouinces
           onely
           which
           looked
           towards
           the
           See
           of
           Rome
           ;
           but
           know
           ,
           that
           God
           had
           thousands
           of
           his
           Elect
           elsewhere
           .
           Christians
           haue
           bin
           in
           India
           ,
           
           euen
           by
           perpetuall
           descent
           ,
           from
           the
           daies
           of
           the
           Apostles
           ;
           and
           so
           in
           Africa
           among
           the
           Abissines
           ,
           in
           infinite
           and
           huge
           companies
           ;
           besides
           such
           as
           haue
           continued
           in
           
             Armenia
             ,
             Asia
          
           the
           lesser
           ,
           Aegypt
           ,
           but
           especially
           in
           the
           Greeke
           Church
           ,
           which
           was
           neuer
           so
           much
           as
           in
           shew
           extinguished
           ;
           and
           from
           whom
           the
           Russians
           and
           Muscouites
           had
           their
           Faith.
           Our
           Popish
           Lads
           would
           gladly
           shut
           all
           these
           out
           of
           Christs
           Fold
           ,
           because
           they
           acknowledge
           not
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Rome
           for
           their
           Vniuersall
           Pastor
           :
           but
           wee
           should
           doe
           wrong
           to
           Almighty
           God
           ,
           to
           pinne
           his
           iudgement
           vpon
           the
           Popes
           sleeue
           ,
           and
           to
           offer
           to
           pull
           from
           him
           so
           many
           ample
           Churches
           ;
           whereas
           charity
           and
           common
           sense
           
           might
           put
           vs
           in
           minde
           ,
           that
           he
           might
           there
           haue
           thousands
           throughout
           all
           Ages
           .
           Looke
           to
           these
           places
           ,
           ye
           Papists
           ,
           and
           imagine
           ,
           that
           if
           there
           had
           beene
           none
           but
           these
           ;
           yet
           the
           words
           of
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           which
           in
           generality
           speake
           of
           a
           Spouse
           ,
           had
           beene
           true
           :
           and
           Christ
           had
           there
           had
           his
           body
           on
           earth
           ,
           and
           the
           Church
           had
           not
           beene
           vtterly
           extinguished
           ,
           if
           neither
           we
           nor
           the
           Synagogue
           of
           Rome
           had
           beene
           extant
           .
        
         
           But
           in
           as
           much
           as
           it
           cannot
           be
           denied
           ,
           
           but
           that
           the
           prophesies
           concerning
           Antichrist
           ,
           doe
           most
           touch
           the
           Westerne
           world
           ,
           Rome
           beeing
           by
           the
           holy
           Ghost
           euidently
           designed
           to
           bee
           the
           seat
           of
           the
           Whore
           of
           Babylon
           ,
           
           as
           also
           because
           our
           Romish
           Standard-bearers
           are
           more
           willing
           to
           talke
           of
           those
           parts
           then
           of
           any
           other
           ,
           I
           will
           once
           returne
           againe
           to
           the
           Countreys
           neere
           adioyning
           .
           Then
           ,
           in
           some
           parts
           of
           Christendome
           ,
           how
           many
           men
           were
           there
           in
           all
           ages
           ,
           who
           loathed
           both
           
           the
           See
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           the
           whole
           courses
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           the
           Israelites
           did
           loath
           the
           Aegyptians
           bondage
           ?
           
           
             Mathew
             Paris
          
           alone
           giueth
           as
           many
           notable
           experiments
           that
           way
           ,
           as
           relating
           the
           Acts
           of
           the
           Emperour
           Frederick
           ,
           who
           put
           out
           diuers
           declarations
           in
           detestation
           of
           the
           Pope
           ;
           and
           adding
           elsewhere
           ,
           further
           of
           his
           owne
           ,
           
           that
           Pope
           
             Gregory
             did
             absolue
             from
             the
             oath
             of
             fealty
             ,
             all
             who
             were
             bound
             vnto
             the
             Emperor
             ;
             perswading
             them
             ,
             that
             they
             should
             be
             faithfull
             in
             vnfaithfulnesse
             ,
             obedient
             in
             disobedience
             .
             But
             so
             much
             deserued
             the
             Romane
             Churches
             lewdnesse
             ,
             which
             is
             to
             be
             execrated
             of
             all
             men
             ,
             that
             the
             Popes
             authority
             did
             merit
             to
             bee
             harkened
             vnto
             by
             few
             or
             none
             .
          
           He
           reporteth
           also
           of
           a
           certain
           Carthusian
           Monk
           at
           Cambridge
           ,
           
           who
           cryed
           out
           against
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           said
           ,
           that
           Hee
           was
           an
           Heretick
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Churches
           were
           profaned
           ;
           and
           of
           
             Robert
             Grosthead
          
           ,
           Bishop
           of
           Lincolne
           ,
           who
           was
           a
           man
           both
           holy
           and
           learned
           in
           his
           time
           .
           This
           Lincolniensis
           ,
           
           while
           he
           liued
           ,
           had
           many
           combates
           with
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           openly
           resisted
           his
           barbarous
           tyranny
           in
           domineering
           so
           farre
           in
           England
           ,
           as
           to
           enioyne
           prouision
           of
           the
           best
           Benefices
           to
           be
           taken
           vp
           for
           Italian
           Boyes
           ;
           which
           for
           a
           Prebend
           in
           his
           Church
           of
           Lincolne
           ,
           hee
           would
           not
           yeeld
           vnto
           ;
           and
           for
           that
           cause
           was
           by
           the
           Pope
           excommunicated
           .
           
           But
           when
           hee
           was
           dying
           ,
           
           hee
           most
           bitterly
           inueighed
           against
           the
           Romane
           Bishop
           and
           the
           Ecclesiasticall
           persons
           ,
           as
           the
           most
           wicked
           men
           that
           did
           liue
           .
           In
           the
           same
           Author
           you
           may
           also
           finde
           the
           conceit
           which
           the
           most
           reuerend
           Arch-bishop
           of
           
             York
             ,
             Sewaldus
          
           ,
           
           had
           of
           them
           and
           their
           proceedings
           .
           What
           should
           I
           mention
           Ioachim
           ,
           
           who
           said
           ,
           that
           in
           his
           time
           Antichrist
           was
           already
           born
           ,
           and
           was
           in
           the
           City
           of
           Rome
           ?
           or
           that
           Bishop
           of
           Florence
           ,
           who
           liued
           about
           the
           yeer
           1100
           ,
           
           and
           did
           vse
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           Antichrist
           was
           then
           in
           the
           world
           ?
           Which
           moued
           Pope
           Paschalis
           so
           
           much
           ,
           as
           that
           hee
           thought
           fit
           to
           enquire
           of
           him
           in
           a
           Councell
           ,
           and
           did
           there
           castigate
           him
           for
           it
           .
           Notable
           in
           this
           kinde
           are
           the
           Contentions
           of
           Philippus
           Pulcher
           ▪
           the
           King
           of
           France
           ,
           
           and
           his
           whole
           Clergy
           ,
           against
           Boniface
           the
           Eightth
           .
           I
           might
           adde
           to
           these
           ,
           
             Petrus
             de
             Brus
          
           ,
           and
           many
           other
           learned
           men
           ,
           who
           laid
           the
           Axe
           to
           the
           very
           Root
           of
           Popery
           ,
           and
           some
           in
           set
           Treatises
           oppugned
           one
           of
           their
           documents
           ,
           and
           some
           assaulted
           other
           ;
           but
           that
           the
           Writer
           of
           the
           
             Catalogus
             testium
             veritatis
          
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           lately
           enlarged
           ,
           and
           Master
           Fox
           ,
           and
           Master
           Bale
           ,
           and
           diuers
           other
           ,
           haue
           largely
           handled
           this
           ▪
           to
           the
           reading
           of
           whose
           Bookes
           ,
           
           I
           doe
           referre
           them
           who
           in
           particular
           desire
           to
           bee
           more
           aduertised
           in
           this
           behalfe
           .
           Now
           ,
           if
           these
           things
           doe
           appeare
           much
           by
           their
           own
           witnesse
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           confession
           of
           Papists
           themselues
           ,
           as
           also
           by
           such
           few
           Records
           ,
           as
           (
           by
           Gods
           prouidence
           so
           disposing
           )
           doe
           yet
           remaine
           ;
           how
           many
           
           illustrious
           arguments
           might
           there
           haue
           beene
           of
           the
           Confession
           of
           our
           faith
           ,
           if
           the
           Clergy
           and
           Magistracy
           of
           those
           darke
           times
           had
           not
           burned
           and
           suppressed
           all
           things
           which
           made
           against
           them
           ,
           as
           I
           shewed
           before
           ,
           touching
           the
           Bookes
           of
           
             Iohn
             Wickles
          
           &
           
             Reinald
             Pecock
             in
             Oxford
          
           ?
           The
           Clergy
           in
           those
           dayes
           did
           almost
           rule
           all
           :
           and
           they
           had
           the
           custody
           of
           all
           Libraries
           ,
           to
           ransack
           at
           their
           pleasure
           ,
           or
           to
           put
           in
           and
           pull
           out
           :
           and
           they
           had
           power
           to
           search
           poore
           mens
           houses
           ,
           and
           to
           destroy
           what
           was
           thought
           fit
           by
           them
           to
           bee
           destroyed
           .
           But
           God
           ,
           who
           would
           not
           haue
           his
           truth
           vtterly
           burned
           or
           buried
           in
           ashes
           ,
           suffred
           a
           remnant
           to
           remaine
           ,
           yea
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           England
           ;
           albeit
           
             Potydor
             Virgil
          
           ,
           with
           an
           Italian
           trick
           of
           his
           owne
           ,
           did
           heer
           consume
           and
           destroy
           many
           worthy
           and
           antient
           Monuments
           .
        
         
           By
           this
           time
           ,
           
           I
           may
           wel
           suppose
           ,
           that
           some
           vehement
           Papist
           is
           euen
           ready
           to
           swell
           ,
           with
           his
           belly
           full
           of
           exceptions
           
           against
           these
           things
           heer
           said
           .
           And
           first
           he
           will
           begin
           &
           say
           ,
           that
           we
           rake
           together
           ,
           as
           the
           Ancestors
           and
           forerunners
           of
           our
           faith
           ,
           such
           as
           were
           notorious
           Hereticks
           ;
           as
           Wicklef
           ,
           or
           Hus
           ,
           or
           the
           Waldenses
           ,
           men
           condemned
           by
           Popes
           or
           generall
           Councels
           :
           and
           Hereticks
           ,
           
           as
           Campian
           telleth
           vs
           ,
           
             are
             the
             dregges
             ,
             and
             the
             bellows
             ,
             and
             the
             fewell
             of
             hell
             .
          
           These
           ,
           as
           our
           Papists
           commonly
           say
           ,
           are
           already
           fire-brands
           of
           hell
           ,
           and
           frying
           there
           in
           flames
           .
           It
           is
           no
           rare
           matter
           with
           the
           Synagogue
           of
           Rome
           ,
           to
           pronounce
           such
           Sentences
           as
           these
           are
           .
           Our
           Rhemists
           ,
           by
           their
           Consistoriall
           or
           Imperiall
           Decree
           ,
           haue
           defined
           ,
           that
           Caluin
           and
           Verone
           are
           not
           onely
           Hereticks
           ,
           but
           Reprobates
           ,
           for
           writing
           so
           as
           they
           haue
           done
           ,
           touching
           the
           Article
           of
           Predestination
           :
           
           Yea
           ,
           they
           call
           Master
           Beza
           ,
           a
           Reprobare
           also
           ,
           although
           hee
           were
           then
           aliue
           ,
           and
           long
           after
           too
           ;
           how
           ●oeuer
           the
           Iesuites
           some
           few
           yeeres
           since
           ,
           
           did
           ,
           by
           a
           most
           ridiculous
           pamphlet
           or
           other
           newes
           ,
           
           spread
           it
           in
           France
           and
           Italy
           ,
           
           that
           hee
           was
           then
           dead
           ,
           and
           that
           dying
           had
           recanted
           his
           Religion
           ,
           and
           was
           returned
           to
           the
           Romish
           faith
           ;
           which
           also
           Geneua
           did
           by
           his
           example
           .
           It
           is
           no
           newes
           with
           Iesuites
           to
           lie
           ,
           and
           therefore
           Master
           Beza
           must
           beare
           with
           them
           ;
           and
           so
           had
           he
           neede
           to
           doe
           with
           the
           Rhemists
           also
           ,
           who
           got
           hastily
           into
           Gods
           Chaire
           ,
           and
           there
           concluded
           him
           to
           bee
           a
           Reprobate
           .
           But
           indeed
           these
           good
           Christians
           before-named
           ,
           of
           whom
           many
           lost
           their
           liues
           for
           the
           maintenance
           of
           Gods
           truth
           ,
           were
           Hereticks
           in
           such
           a
           manner
           ,
           as
           Christ
           was
           said
           to
           bee
           a
           blasphemer
           ;
           who
           indeed
           was
           both
           called
           so
           ,
           
           and
           condemned
           to
           bee
           such
           a
           one
           ,
           by
           the
           counsell
           of
           the
           high
           Priests
           ,
           Scribes
           and
           Rulers
           of
           the
           Synagogue
           .
           We
           doe
           not
           beleeue
           ,
           that
           a●l
           those
           are
           Hereticks
           ,
           whom
           your
           Papists
           will
           so
           call
           or
           account
           :
           for
           ,
           you
           giue
           vs
           that
           name
           ,
           which
           ,
           maugre
           your
           malice
           ,
           you
           shall
           neuer
           bee
           able
           to
           proue
           against
           vs.
           They
           are
           
           truely
           orthodox
           and
           right
           Catholiques
           ,
           who
           teach
           nothing
           but
           that
           whereof
           they
           haue
           euident
           warrant
           out
           of
           the
           Word
           of
           God.
           And
           this
           wee
           haue
           ,
           as
           hath
           beene
           oft
           shewed
           by
           men
           of
           our
           side
           ,
           and
           in
           that
           question
           wee
           are
           ready
           at
           all
           times
           to
           iump
           with
           you
           ,
           for
           any
           part
           or
           all
           the
           Doctrine
           wee
           professe
           .
           With
           Saint
           Paul
           therefore
           wee
           say
           ,
           
           that
           ,
           
             After
             the
             way
             that
             you
             call
             heresie
             ,
             so
             worship
             wee
             the
             God
             of
             our
             Fathers
             .
          
           The
           same
           which
           you
           maliciously
           and
           pres●mptuously
           tearm
           schisme
           and
           heresie
           ,
           is
           that
           ,
           whereupon
           ,
           vnder
           our
           blessed
           Sauiour
           ,
           wee
           rest
           our
           soules
           ;
           and
           by
           the
           Confession
           thereof
           ,
           wee
           hope
           to
           bee
           saued
           in
           the
           day
           of
           the
           generall
           Iudgement
           .
           Do
           not
           you
           therfore
           take
           that
           for
           granted
           ,
           which
           is
           so
           highly
           questioned
           betwixt
           vs
           and
           you
           ;
           but
           rather
           ,
           if
           you
           can
           prooue
           our
           Prof●ssion
           to
           bee
           hereticall
           ,
           by
           Gods
           grace
           we
           shall
           not
           shrink
           at
           any
           of
           your
           biggest
           obiections
           .
        
         
         
           Yea
           ,
           but
           say
           you
           further
           ,
           
           The
           Writers
           which
           make
           mention
           of
           these
           your
           Predecessors
           ,
           doo
           brand
           them
           with
           the
           holding
           of
           some
           most
           grosse
           and
           damnable
           doctrine
           ,
           which
           you
           your selues
           will
           not
           auouch
           .
           My
           answer
           is
           ,
           that
           wee
           our selues
           doo
           easily
           beleeue
           so
           much
           :
           for
           ,
           did
           malice
           ,
           I
           pray
           you
           ,
           
           euer
           say
           well
           ?
           The
           Apostles
           were
           at
           more
           times
           ,
           and
           in
           more
           places
           than
           one
           ,
           charged
           with
           many
           accusations
           ;
           which
           yet
           ,
           in
           truth
           ,
           were
           but
           calumniations
           :
           The
           old
           Christians
           in
           the
           Primitiue
           Church
           were
           slandered
           ,
           to
           vse
           incestuous
           company
           each
           with
           other
           ,
           like
           Oedipus
           ,
           and
           to
           eat
           vp
           mans
           flesh
           at
           the
           banquet
           of
           Thyestes
           ;
           yea
           ,
           their
           owne
           *
           seruants
           for
           fear
           were
           induced
           to
           lay
           such
           matters
           to
           their
           charge
           .
           
           Athanasius
           was
           accused
           to
           haue
           cut
           off
           ones
           hand
           :
           and
           a
           harlot
           to
           his
           face
           would
           haue
           calumniated
           him
           to
           haue
           committed
           fornication
           with
           her
           .
           This
           practice
           was
           neuer
           more
           liberally
           frequented
           ,
           than
           
           by
           the
           enemies
           of
           the
           Gospell
           in
           the
           late
           daies
           of
           Popery
           .
           You
           may
           remember
           what
           I
           cited
           before
           out
           of
           
             Du
             Haillan
          
           ,
           concerning
           matters
           falsely
           obiected
           to
           the
           Albingenses
           .
           There
           is
           extant
           an
           excursitory
           Oration
           of
           the
           Waldenses
           ;
           
           wherein
           they
           say
           ,
           that
           ,
           for
           that
           their
           faith
           which
           they
           were
           ready
           to
           iustifie
           ,
           they
           were
           condemned
           ,
           iudged
           ,
           captiuated
           ,
           and
           afflicted
           ;
           and
           afterward
           that
           they
           were
           called
           Hereticks
           :
           but
           in
           their
           Confession
           they
           haue
           it
           directly
           ;
           
           
             Of
             these
             criminations
             whereof
             we
             are
             blamed
             of
             tentimes
             ,
             we
             are
             nothing
             at
             all
             guilty
             .
          
           The
           Pope
           and
           his
           Chaplains
           were
           fell
           &
           furious
           against
           them
           ,
           because
           they
           did
           bite
           so
           neer
           :
           and
           therefore
           ,
           to
           disgrace
           them
           both
           in
           present
           and
           to
           posterity
           ,
           they
           held
           it
           fit
           ,
           that
           by
           speech
           ,
           preaching
           and
           writing
           ,
           it
           should
           be
           divulgated
           ,
           that
           they
           taught
           monstrous
           blasphemies
           ;
           that
           by
           that
           meanes
           the
           credulous
           people
           might
           be
           preiudicate
           ;
           and
           so
           not
           onely
           frighted
           from
           hearkning
           to
           them
           ,
           
           but
           bee
           much
           the
           readier
           to
           ioyne
           in
           the
           prosecution
           of
           them
           to
           prison
           and
           to
           death
           .
           But
           what
           they
           indeed
           held
           ,
           is
           declared
           before
           .
           When
           
             Iohn
             Hus
          
           was
           at
           the
           Councell
           of
           Constance
           ,
           hee
           did
           openly
           call
           God
           to
           witnes
           ,
           that
           
             Hee
             did
             neither
             preach
             nor
             teach
             those
          
           
           
             things
             which
             his
             Aduersaries
             did
             obiect
             against
             him
             ,
             neither
             that
             they
             euer
             came
             into
             his
             minde
             .
          
           Neither
           is
           it
           to
           be
           maruelled
           ,
           that
           they
           did
           load
           his
           scholars
           with
           the
           like
           false
           accusations
           ,
           when
           their
           malice
           was
           such
           towards
           them
           ,
           as
           that
           they
           burnt
           many
           thousands
           of
           them
           in
           Barnes
           :
           which
           was
           done
           by
           the
           treachery
           of
           one
           Mainardus
           .
           
           In
           other
           places
           the
           Romanists
           haue
           still
           held
           the
           same
           course
           of
           slandering
           :
           which
           caused
           the
           Protestants
           to
           professe
           in
           the
           Diet
           at
           Augusta
           ,
           
           that
           
             Diuers
             opinions
             were
             falsely
             reported
             vp
             and
             down
             ,
             which
             wrongfully
             were
             fathered
             on
             them
             ;
             and
             that
             those
             were
             not
             only
             estranged
             from
             the
             holy
             Scriptures
             ,
             but
             that
             they
             were
             abhorrent
             euen
             from
             common
             sense
             .
          
           
           And
           is
           it
           not
           probable
           ,
           that
           long
           since
           ,
           when
           much
           darknesse
           did
           couer
           the
           face
           of
           the
           earth
           ,
           that
           few
           had
           grace
           to
           perceiue
           their
           dooings
           ,
           and
           fewer
           had
           authority
           to
           question
           their
           doctrine
           ,
           the
           Pope-holy
           Clergie
           ,
           which
           hated
           the
           true
           gospellers
           with
           all
           their
           harts
           ,
           would
           pay
           them
           with
           vile
           &
           odious
           reports
           ;
           when
           in
           this
           Age
           ,
           wherein
           God
           hath
           affoorded
           more
           plentifull
           meanes
           to
           discouer
           their
           false-hoods
           ,
           they
           doo
           dare
           ,
           not
           onely
           in
           their
           Sermons
           ,
           or
           in
           their
           secreter
           whisperings
           ,
           but
           in
           their
           printed
           books
           ,
           to
           proclaim
           abroad
           concerning
           vs
           ,
           most
           false
           and
           vngodly
           calumniations
           and
           imputations
           ;
           as
           ,
           that
           wee
           doo
           teach
           all
           loosenesse
           of
           life
           and
           libertinisme
           by
           this
           our
           new
           Gospell
           ;
           that
           we
           maintain
           ,
           that
           
             All
             sinnes
             are
             equall
          
           ;
           that
           we
           hold
           it
           as
           a
           Maxime
           ,
           that
           God
           is
           the
           Author
           of
           sinne
           ;
           and
           whatsoeuer
           it
           pleaseth
           Master
           Campian
           and
           his
           Fellowes
           to
           inuent
           and
           deuise
           touching
           vs
           :
           whereas
           we
           vtterly
           disclaim
           these
           
           and
           the
           like
           positions
           ,
           as
           execrable
           and
           vngodly
           ;
           yea
           ,
           that
           Mounti-bank
           ,
           which
           once
           before
           I
           mentioned
           ,
           hath
           not
           blushed
           to
           asseuere
           ,
           that
           we
           so
           teach
           ,
           as
           that
           by
           our
           doctrine
           
             the
             Protestants
          
           
           
             are
             bound
             in
             conscience
             ,
             neuer
             to
             ask
             God
             forgiuenesse
             of
             their
             sinnes
             ;
             and
             that
             They
             are
             bound
             in
             conscience
             to
             auoid
             all
             good
             works
             ;
             as
             also
             ,
             that
             We
             make
             God
             the
             only
             cause
             of
             sinnes
             ;
             and
             hold
             ,
             that
             God
             is
             worse
             than
             the
             diuell
             .
          
           So
           shamelesse
           was
           this
           fellow
           growne
           ,
           that
           hee
           neither
           knoweth
           nor
           careth
           what
           hee
           saith
           :
           and
           yet
           many
           a
           poor
           Papist
           ,
           abused
           and
           gulled
           by
           the
           diuels
           deceiuing
           instruments
           ,
           doth
           swallow
           such
           Gudgeons
           ,
           and
           runneth
           away
           with
           these
           things
           ;
           beeing
           as
           verily
           perswaded
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           that
           the
           gospel
           is
           true
           .
           Such
           a
           hand
           the
           seminary
           Priests
           haue
           ouer
           their
           disciples
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           not
           read
           our
           Books
           ,
           to
           see
           whether
           these
           obiections
           be
           true
           or
           no
           ;
           neither
           may
           they
           hear
           ought
           to
           the
           contrary
           .
           Now
           ,
           if
           they
           thus
           vse
           vs
           ,
           who
           can
           speak
           for
           
           our selues
           ;
           will
           any
           man
           maruell
           ,
           that
           those
           who
           professed
           the
           Verity
           two
           or
           three
           hundred
           yeers
           since
           ,
           doo
           taste
           of
           the
           malignant
           aspersions
           of
           those
           Times
           ?
        
         
           The
           Romanists
           ,
           
           notwithstanding
           all
           this
           which
           hath
           been
           said
           ,
           doo
           not
           yet
           so
           leaue
           vs
           ;
           but
           once
           more
           further
           adde
           ,
           that
           none
           of
           all
           those
           which
           hitherto
           haue
           been
           named
           ,
           or
           can
           be
           named
           ,
           but
           in
           some
           knowne
           ,
           consessed
           ,
           and
           vndoubted
           opinions
           ,
           did
           vary
           from
           you
           :
           and
           therefore
           they
           and
           you
           may
           not
           bee
           said
           to
           bee
           all
           of
           one
           Church
           .
           Our
           Masters
           of
           Rhemes
           doo
           think
           ,
           that
           this
           lieth
           hardly
           vpon
           vs
           :
           and
           therefore
           thus
           vauntingly
           they
           vrge
           ;
           
           that
           
             They
             will
             not
             put
             the
             Protestants
             to
             prooue
             ,
             that
             there
             were
             7000
             of
             their
             Sect
             ,
             when
             their
             new
          
           Elias
           Luther
           
             began
             :
             but
             let
             them
             proue
             ,
             that
             there
             were
             seuen
             ,
             or
             any
             one
             ,
             either
             then
             ,
             or
             in
             all
             ages
             before
             him
             ,
             that
             was
             in
             all
             points
             of
             his
             belief
             .
          
           What
           the
           old
           Fathers
           taught
           ,
           we
           may
           haue
           time
           heerafter
           to
           shew
           :
           but
           
           for
           other
           of
           later
           time
           ,
           it
           is
           most
           easie
           to
           manifest
           ,
           that
           all
           those
           whom
           before
           I
           haue
           named
           ,
           did
           generally
           ,
           for
           all
           main
           matters
           ,
           teach
           the
           same
           that
           we
           now
           doo
           teach
           .
           There
           is
           no
           Papist
           ,
           who
           can
           truely
           ,
           and
           without
           calumniating
           them
           ,
           or
           faining
           things
           vpon
           them
           ,
           demonstrate
           ,
           that
           in
           causes
           which
           touch
           the
           substance
           of
           faith
           ,
           or
           the
           foundation
           of
           Christian
           Religion
           ,
           they
           did
           dissent
           from
           vs.
           Hee
           that
           will
           try
           this
           ,
           let
           him
           look
           on
           the
           Declaration
           of
           
             Walther
             Bruite
          
           ,
           
           which
           I
           before
           mentioned
           ;
           and
           let
           him
           read
           it
           set
           down
           by
           himself
           ,
           and
           not
           reported
           by
           other
           .
           And
           what
           did
           that
           learned
           Lay-man
           deliuer
           there
           ,
           which
           was
           not
           the
           belief
           of
           Wicklef
           ,
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           English
           ,
           professing
           the
           Gospell
           in
           those
           Times
           ?
           But
           if
           there
           bee
           ,
           in
           some
           petty
           matters
           ,
           yea
           ,
           questions
           of
           some
           reasonable
           moment
           ,
           difference
           of
           opinion
           between
           them
           and
           vs
           ,
           shal
           wee
           not
           therefore
           bee
           of
           the
           same
           Church
           with
           them
           ,
           or
           they
           with
           vs
           ?
           
           Yes
           verily
           :
           for
           ,
           otherwise
           many
           of
           the
           antient
           Fathers
           should
           not
           bee
           of
           the
           Communion
           of
           Saints
           ,
           or
           Catholick
           Congregation
           ,
           with
           those
           who
           came
           after
           them
           ,
           and
           amended
           their
           errors
           :
           for
           ,
           
           was
           not
           Lactantius
           spotted
           with
           the
           Millenary
           infection
           ?
           and
           Cyprian
           with
           the
           matter
           of
           re-baptizing
           ?
           Had
           not
           Austen
           an
           opinion
           of
           the
           necessity
           of
           the
           Eucharist
           to
           bee
           administred
           to
           children
           ;
           
           and
           that
           infants
           ,
           being
           dead
           without
           Baptism
           ,
           were
           not
           onely
           depriued
           of
           the
           fruition
           of
           heauenly
           ioies
           ,
           but
           were
           damned
           to
           the
           pit
           of
           hell
           ,
           and
           to
           euerlasting
           torments
           ?
           And
           what
           man
           ,
           religiously
           affected
           ,
           will
           suspect
           ,
           
           but
           that
           although
           S.
           Cyprian
           and
           the
           other
           African
           Bishops
           ,
           assembled
           in
           a
           Councell
           ,
           did
           ,
           concerning
           the
           new
           baptizing
           of
           those
           who
           were
           already
           baptized
           by
           Hereticks
           ,
           determine
           clean
           contrary
           to
           Cornelius
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Italian
           Bishops
           ,
           yet
           they
           should
           not
           bee
           of
           the
           same
           faith
           in
           generall
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           same
           holy
           Church
           
           
           
           whereof
           Cornelius
           was
           ?
           Saint
           Austen
           can
           thus
           write
           concerning
           
             Cyprian
             :
             Whereas
             that
             holy
             man
          
           Cyprian
           (
           thinking
           
           
             otherwise
             of
             Baptisme
             then
             the
             matter
             was
             which
             was
             afterward
             handled
             ,
          
           
           
             &
             with
             most
             diligent
             consideration
             established
             )
             did
             remain
             in
             the
             Catholique
             Vnity
             ;
             both
             by
             the
             plentifulnesse
             of
             his
             charity
             ,
             a
             recompence
             was
             made
             ;
             and
             by
             the
             sickle
             of
             his
             suffering
             ,
          
           
           
             there
             was
             a
             purging
          
           .
           In
           another
           place
           hee
           saith
           ,
           
             The
             authority
             of
             Cyprian
             doth
             not
             terrifie
             me
             ,
             but
             the
             humility
             of
          
           Cyprian
           
             doth
             refresh
             mee
          
           .
           He
           meaneth
           ,
           that
           if
           that
           worthy
           man
           had
           liued
           to
           haue
           seene
           more
           light
           in
           that
           argument
           ,
           or
           to
           behold
           what
           the
           succeeding
           time
           had
           reuealed
           and
           concluded
           in
           that
           behalfe
           ,
           hee
           would
           ,
           in
           great
           humility
           and
           meeknes
           of
           heart
           ,
           haue
           conformed
           himself
           ,
           and
           yeelded
           vnto
           it
           :
           which
           may
           iustly
           seeme
           for
           a
           true
           defense
           of
           the
           Waldenses
           ,
           
             Io.
             Wicklef
             ,
             Iohn
             Hus
          
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           seruant
           of
           God
           ,
           who
           might
           seeme
           ,
           in
           matters
           of
           small
           moment
           ,
           to
           vary
           from
           vs.
           
        
         
         
           And
           thus
           I
           trust
           ,
           
           that
           by
           this
           time
           it
           appeareth
           to
           euery
           one
           who
           will
           not
           wilfully
           cloze
           his
           eies
           ,
           and
           stop
           his
           eares
           against
           an
           apparant
           truth
           ,
           that
           God
           hath
           at
           all
           times
           had
           his
           Children
           holding
           the
           verity
           of
           Christian
           Religion
           ,
           and
           not
           approouing
           of
           the
           filthy
           Superstitions
           and
           sacrilegious
           Idolatries
           of
           the
           abominable
           Antichrist
           of
           Rome
           :
           So
           that
           it
           is
           a
           most
           fond
           collection
           ,
           that
           either
           the
           Popish
           Conuocation
           or
           Confusion
           are
           the
           right
           and
           vndoubted
           Spouse
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           ;
           or
           else
           ,
           that
           for
           one
           thousand
           yeeres
           together
           there
           was
           no
           Church
           in
           the
           world
           .
           They
           doat
           much
           vpon
           themselues
           ,
           and
           on
           the
           opinion
           of
           their
           beauty
           ,
           who
           ,
           in
           such
           intolerable
           deformities
           ,
           doe
           predicate
           and
           magnifie
           their
           Synagogue
           ,
           as
           the
           vnspotted
           wife
           &
           mysticall
           body
           of
           our
           most
           blessed
           Sauiour
           .
           Truth
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           ,
           intending
           to
           blinde
           the
           ignorant
           ,
           and
           to
           abuse
           the
           simple
           ,
           they
           labored
           ,
           by
           all
           externall
           pomp
           and
           shew
           ,
           to
           giue
           to
           their
           
           hypocrisie
           &
           outward
           formality
           a
           settled
           opinion
           of
           pietie
           &
           sanctitie
           :
           and
           for
           that
           cause
           ,
           there
           was
           no
           corner
           of
           the
           braine
           of
           man
           ,
           or
           rather
           of
           men
           ,
           in
           many
           Ages
           succeeding
           together
           ,
           vnsought
           ,
           to
           procure
           glory
           to
           that
           which
           in
           it selfe
           was
           very
           vnglorious
           .
           Their
           care
           therefore
           was
           ,
           to
           conuert
           the
           eies
           of
           all
           persons
           on
           their
           externall
           hue
           ,
           which
           was
           maruellously
           adorned
           and
           garnished
           to
           the
           sense
           with
           their
           Crosses
           set
           vp
           or
           carried
           before
           some
           
           Prelates
           ,
           with
           the
           triple
           Crowne
           of
           their
           Popes
           ,
           in
           the
           red
           Hats
           of
           their
           Cardinals
           ,
           the
           precious
           attire
           of
           some
           in
           their
           Churches
           ,
           their
           prodigious
           apparel
           abroad
           ,
           the
           diuers
           color'd
           Couls
           of
           their
           Monks
           ,
           such
           singing
           &
           chanting
           with
           Organes
           ,
           such
           ringing
           of
           Bells
           ,
           such
           trimming
           of
           Images
           ,
           and
           many
           more
           such
           sensible
           matters
           ,
           as
           that
           neither
           the
           Iewes
           nor
           the
           Gentiles
           had
           the
           like
           .
           And
           among
           al
           this
           ,
           if
           true
           Religion
           in
           diuers
           were
           present
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           maruelled
           at
           ,
           if
           shee
           were
           
           scant
           seene
           ,
           or
           if
           no
           notice
           were
           taken
           of
           her
           for
           her
           poore
           ,
           and
           vntrimmed
           ,
           or
           vngarnished
           hue
           ,
           for
           her
           naked
           simplicity
           ,
           and
           vnpainted
           integrity
           .
           It
           was
           the
           commendation
           giuen
           to
           Salomons
           Beloued
           ,
           by
           whom
           the
           Church
           is
           represented
           ,
           
           that
           
             the
             Kings
             daughter
             is
             all
             glorious
             within
          
           ;
           her
           beauty
           consisting
           of
           purity
           in
           faith
           ,
           verity
           in
           doctrine
           ,
           seuereness
           in
           behauiour
           ,
           innocency
           ,
           patience
           ,
           and
           such
           like
           spirituall
           complements
           .
           And
           these
           are
           as
           much
           contemned
           in
           others
           ,
           by
           the
           Antichristian
           Rabble
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           neglected
           in
           themselues
           :
           whereas
           their
           externall
           pomp
           ,
           on
           the
           contrary
           side
           ,
           is
           as
           much
           despised
           by
           the
           Lord
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           magnified
           in
           their
           fleshly
           and
           carnall
           imaginations
           .
           The
           Lord
           direct
           vs
           in
           his
           own
           waies
           ,
           and
           call
           home
           such
           as
           wilfully
           ,
           or
           by
           ignorance
           ,
           haue
           gone
           astray
           ;
           that
           at
           length
           they
           may
           bee
           reduced
           to
           the
           sheepfold
           of
           Christ
           Iesus
           :
           to
           whom
           ,
           with
           his
           Father
           and
           the
           blessed
           Spirit
           ,
           be
           praise
           for
           euermore
           .
           Amen
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
         
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A17020-e50
           
             L.
             12.
             confess
             .
             c.
             25.
             
          
           
             Erasm.
             Ad.
             
          
           
             *
             Pers.
             Sat.
             Nunc
             in
             decursu
             lampada
             trado
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             Lucret.
             Et
             quasi
             currentes
             vitalem
             lampada
             tradunt
             .
          
           
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
          
           
             Micah
             7.
             8.
             
          
           
             2
             Thes.
             2.
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A17020-e380
           
             Sect.
             1.
             
          
           
             a
             In
             Antid
             .
             Matt.
             24.
             
          
           
             b
             De
             Rom.
             Pontif.
             4.
             4.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             2.
             
          
           
             c
             Psalm
             12.
             1.
             
          
           
             d
             1
             Sam.
             22.
             18
             
          
           
             e
             Esay
             1.
             5
             ,
             6.
             
          
           
             f
             Esay
             1.
             29.
             
          
           
             g
             Ierem.
             5.
             1.
             
          
           
             h
             Ezek.
             22.
             30.
             
          
           
             i
             Mich.
             7.
             1.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             3.
             
          
           
             k
             1
             King
             19.
             18
             
             Rom.
             11.
             4.
             
          
           
             l
             Ezek.
             9.
             4.
             
             Apoc
             7.
             3.
             
          
           
             m
             2
             Tim.
             2.
             19
             
          
           
             n
             2
             Kin.
             21.
             4
             ,
             5
             
          
           
             o
             2
             Kings
             16.
             11.
             
          
           
             p
             Verse
             ●
             .
          
           
             q
             2
             Kings
             17.
             29.
             
          
           
             r
             Esay
             1.
             1.
             
          
           
             Rom.
             11.
             4.
             
          
           
             t
             Psal.
             13●
             .
             14
             
          
           
             u
             2
             Chro.
             33.
             4.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             4.
             
          
           
             a
             Math.
             23.
             24.
             2
             
             Mach.
             4.
             8.
             24.
             c.
             11.
             3.
             
          
           
             Ioseph
             de
             Bell.
             lud
             .
             4.
             5.
             
             &
             lib.
             5.
             9.
             
          
           
             b
             Iohn
             11.
             51.
             
          
           
             c
             Math.
             2.
             
             ●
             .
          
           
             d
             Luke
             12.
             22
             
             Rhem
             ●Annot
             ,
             ibidem
             .
          
           
             e
             Math
             26.
             56.
             
          
           
             f
             Iohn
             19.
             25.
             
             Nich.
             de
             Clem.
             de
             Mater
             .
             Concil
             .
          
           
             g
             Acts
             1.
             13.
             
          
           
             Actes
             8.
             2.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             5.
             
          
           
             i
             Luke
             18.
             8
             
          
           
             k
             2
             Thes.
             2.
             3.
             
          
           
             Rhemes
             .
             in
             2.
             
             Thess.
             2.
             
             ●
             .
          
           
             m
             Ap●c
             .
             12
             ▪
             6.
             
          
           
             n
             In
             Prefat
             .
             super
             Apocal.
             
          
           
             o
             In
             Argument
             .
             Apocal
             &
             in
             Apoc.
             I.
             1.
             
          
           
             p
             Rom.
             4.
             6.
             
          
           
             q
             Ioh●
             11.
             15.
             
          
           
             r
             Apoc.
             12.
             6.
             
          
           
             f
             Mark.
             13.
             22.
             
          
           
             t
             Apoc.
             11.
             2
             ,
             3.
             
             &
             12
             ▪
             6.
             
             &
             13.
             5.
             
             &
             Dan.
             7.
             25
             
          
           
             Sect.
             6.
             
          
           
             u
             Math.
             16.
             18.
             
          
           
             w
             Tertull
             ,
             exhort
             ,
             ad
             chastit
             .
          
           
             x
             Math.
             18.
             20
             
          
           
             a
             Phil.
             2.
             
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
          
           
             b
             De
             Baptism
             .
             contra
             Donatist
             .
             6.
             4.
             idem
             spiritus
             〈◊〉
             ea
             dimit
             tit
             (
             i.
             peccata
             )
             quod
             datus
             est
             〈◊〉
             sanctis
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             c
             Apoc.
             13.
             16.
             
          
           
             d
             Cap.
             17.
             2.
             
             &
             21.
             
          
           
             e
             Cap.
             8.
             3.
             
          
           
             f
             S.
             Ambr.
             Epist.
             lib.
             5.
             31.
             
          
           
             g
             S.
             August
             .
             in
             Psal.
             101.
             
          
           
             h
             Serm.
             134.
             de
             Temp●re
             .
          
           
             i
             Hebr.
             11.
             1.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             7.
             
          
           
             k
             Hiero
             aduersus
             Luciferi●nos
             .
          
           
             L
             Theod.
             Histor.
             Eccles.
             l.
             2.
             16.
             
          
           
             m
             In
             Catalog
             .
             Scripter
             .
             Eccles.
             
          
           
             n
             Bellar.
             de
             Pont.
             Rom.
             4.
             9.
             
          
           
             o
             Apoc.
             12.
             6.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             8.
             
          
           
             p
             Camp.
             Ref.
             10.
             quint.
             Euangely
             Pr●sessores
             .
          
           
             q
             Histor.
             l.
             13.
             
          
           
             r
             In
             vita
             VVenceslai
             .
          
           
             Histor.
             Cochlei
             de
             Hussitis
             .
          
           
             Histor.
             de
             actis
             &
             scriptis
             Mar.
             Luther
             .
          
           
             L.
             2.
             
          
           
             a
             Iobannes
             Fox
             .
             in
             Hist.
             Eccles.
             
          
           
             b
             Cochleus
             .
             l.
             2.
             
          
           
             c
             Ibidem
             .
          
           
             L.
             3.
             
          
           
             e
             Cochl
             .
             lib.
             8.
             
          
           
             f
             L.
             12.
             
          
           
             g
             Centur.
             16.
             l.
             1.
             20.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             9.
             
          
           
             h
             Cochleus
             l.
             1.
             
          
           
             m
             lbide●
             .
          
           
             n
             In
             Tabulo
             Concilii
             ante
             Platine
             Hist.
             
          
           
             o
             Ioh.
             Fox
             .
             in
             Concil
             Constant.
             Histor.
             
          
           
             p
             Cochl
             .
             l.
             4.
             
          
           
             Ibidem
             .
          
           
             Zisca
             ad
             locum
             quem
             cruci●
             appellant
             profectus
             est
             ,
             ibi
             supra
             quadragint
             a
             millia
             vnorum
             ex●ere●
             icis
             conuenere
             .
          
           
             q
             Cochleus
             l.
             5.
             
             &
             Pe●us
             Messias
             in
             Sigismundo
             .
          
           
             r
             L.
             5.
             vix
             vlla
             Graeco●
             um
             ,
             Hebreo●●que
             .
             aut
             Latin●ou●●
             Historia
             talem
             ref
             ducem
             qua●●s
             Zisca
             fui●
             .
          
           
             s
             L.
             6.
             
          
           
             t
             Ibid.
             quis
             putasset
             quadraginta
             millia
             aequitum
             Germanicae
             nationis
             tam
             leuiter
             compelli
             posse
             &c.
             nolo
             hic
             temere
             iudicare
             sciens
             iudicia
             Dei
             esse
             oc
             .
             culta
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             u
             In
             Tahul
             .
             ante
             Platin.
             
          
           
             x
             Sess.
             13.
             
          
           
             y
             Lib.
             4.
             
             Chronog
             .
          
           
             y
             L.
             7.
             
          
           
             z
             L.
             8.
             
          
           
             a
             Ibidem
             .
          
           
             Histor.
             Bohem.
             c.
             35.
             
             &
             50.
             
             〈◊〉
             .
             130.
             
          
           
             c
             Ad
             Leonard●●
             Aretinum
             .
          
           
             d
             Mortē
             ala●ri
             vultu
             vt
             ait
             Poggius
             ,
             non
             so
             〈◊〉
             perpeti
             ,
             sed
             etiam
             appetiuisse
             visus
             est
             .
             C●cb
             .
             lib.
             3.
             
          
           
             e
             L.
             2.
             
          
           
             f
             L.
             1.
             
          
           
             g
             L.
             4.
             
             Nacti
             Episcopum
             Archi●episcopi
             Pragensis
             Suff
             aganeū
             ordinouerum
             per
             eum
             clericos
             ,
             &c
             
          
           
             h
             Coch.
             lib.
             5.
             
             Concil
             ,
             Pragens
             .
             Hussitarum
             ita
             incipit
             ,
             In
             nomine
             Dom.
             Amen
             .
             Incipit
             sancta
             Syn●dus
             hibita
             &
             rite
             celebrata
             anno
             1421.
             sub
             Conrad
             .
             &c.
             Conradus
             Archiep
             .
             Pragensis
             cum
             Zisca
             &
             Hussitis
             scribit
             ●d
             principē
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             i
             Ibidem
             .
          
           
             k
             L
             8.
             
             Scholare
             die
             caesis
             Pragens
             .
             vtri
             ▪
             tam
             sub
             vna
             quam
             sub
             ●
             traque
             communi●ca●
             es
             specie
             habilitate
             &c.
             pr●supposita
             ad
             s●
             cros
             crdine●
             psomoueantar
             &
             ordine●tur
             .
          
           
             l
             L.
             10.
             
          
           
             m
             L.
             11.
             
          
           
             n
             L.
             2.
             
             Georgius
             Girziko
             de
             Cunstat
             ,
             &
             Podiebrat
             quem
             Acneas
             Poggi
             siratium
             v●●●re
             solebat
             ,
             vnctus
             est
             in
             Regem
             Bohemis
             ,
             &c.
             post
             ,
             〈◊〉
             vna
             defi●sset
             labes
             Hussititae
             sect●
             ,
             in●er
             optimo●
             reges
             haud
             immeritò
             commemorari
             possit
             .
          
           
             o
             Ibidem
             .
          
           
             p
             Apud
             Plat.
             
          
           
             q
             Cochl
             .
             l.
             12.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             II.
             
          
           
             m
             Hist.
             Bohem.
             c.
             50.
             
          
           
             n
             Ep.
             130.
             
          
           
             o
             Coch.
             Hist.
             lib.
             1.
             
          
           
             p
             L.
             2.
             
          
           
             q
             L.
             3.
             
          
           
             r
             L.
             4.
             
          
           
             f
             L.
             5.
             
             Zisca
             vno
             impetu●
             insignes
             ●asilicas
             ,
             &
             am
             pla
             monastéria
             quae
             in
             bonorem
             beat●
             Maria
             ,
             &c
             dedicata
             erant
             ,
             disiecit
             tanquom
             non
             sit
             fas
             alteri
             ,
             quam
             soli
             Deo
             basilicas
             ,
             a●t
             templa
             consecrare
             .
          
           
             t
             Artic.
             57.
             
          
           
             u
             Artic.
             55.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             12.
             
          
           
             Anno
             1517.
             
          
           
             a
             Respons
             .
             ad
             Doctor●m
             August
             .
          
           
             b
             VValdensium
             confessio
             in
             fasciculo
             rerum
             expetend
             .
             &
             fugiend
             .
          
           
             c
             Seiden
             .
             li.
             16.
             
          
           
             d
             Luea●
             Os●ander
             .
             lib.
             1.
             c.
             8.
             
          
           
             e
             Oratio
             ad
             Leo●●●
             decimum
             .
          
           
             f
             Calamitatum
             .
             3
             
          
           
             Guicciar
             ●
             .
             lib.
             3.
             
          
           
             h
             In
             Ps.
             52.
             
          
           
             i
             Catalog
             .
             testi●●
             veritatu
             ,
             lib.
             19.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             13.
             
          
           
             k
             Co●●●
             em●●titam
             donationē
             Const.
             
          
           
             l
             De
             ann●tis
             non
             soluendis
             .
          
           
             m
             De
             Reform
             .
             Eccles.
             
          
           
             n
             cap.
             3.
             
          
           
             o
             c.
             4.
             
          
           
             p
             c.
             6.
             
          
           
             In
             Hypocritas
             libellus
             .
          
           
             Oratio
             od
             clerū
             Coloniensem
             .
          
           
             Decem
             grauami
             .
             na
             Germaniae
             .
          
           
             L.
             19.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             14.
             
          
           
             In
             Iohn
             24.
             
          
           
             Histor.
             Bohem.
             c.
             35.
             
          
           
             Hist.
             de
             Huss●tis
             ,
             lib.
             1.
             
          
           
             Scripsit
             mihi
             quidā
             ex
             Anglia
             Epis●
             opus
             esse
             sibi
             ad●uc
             bodie
             duo
             maxima
             volum●a
             VVitlefi
             quae
             mol●
             sua
             videantur
             ●quari
             opera
             beati
             ,
             August
             .
          
           
             L.
             1.
             
             Hus
             forni
             ca●us
             est
             spiritu
             aliter
             cum
             ali
             enigenis
             plurimis
             cum
             VViclefistis
             cum
             Dulcinistis
             ,
             &c.
             
             L
             2.
             
          
           
             a
             L.
             3.
             
          
           
             b
             L.
             6.
             
          
           
             c
             L.
             2.
             
          
           
             Miser
             Hus
             optauit
             animam
             suā
             fore
             ihi
             est
             anima
             VViclefi
             .
          
           
             S●ss
             .
             8.
             
          
           
             L.
             2.
             
          
           
             f
             Multa
             g●autora
             ●●diderim
             esse
             VViclefi
             tbrmeta
             ,
             quā●uit
             apud
             infero●
             vel
             scele
             ratissim●rum
             hominum
             ,
             Iudae
             prod●
             o●s
             Christi
             &
             Neronus
             ●●irstianorum
             persecu
             .
             ●●is
             ,
             &c.
             L.
             2.
             
          
           
             Sess.
             8.
             
          
           
             Respons
             ad
             18.
             
             Artic.
             VViclefi
             in
             f●●cic
             rerum
             expe●end
             .
          
           
             a
             In
             fine
             Artic
             .
             10.
             
             V●rg
             .
             Aen●ad
             .
          
           
             L.
             18.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             15.
             
          
           
             Apolog
             ▪
             Hicra●c
             .
             c.
             1.
             
          
           
             Ex
             Regist.
             G.
             Courtney
             .
          
           
             Ad
             Cancell
             .
             Ox.
             
          
           
             Ad
             Arthiepi●c
             Cant.
             &
             Cancell
             .
             Ox.
             
          
           
             Anno.
             5.
             
             Rich.
             2.
             c.
             5.
             
          
           
             In
             manu
             magistri
             Wirley
             .
          
           
             In
             fine
             R.
             Richard●
             3.
             
          
           
             In
             Arch
             uis
             Coll●dg
             .
             Bali●l
             .
          
           
             Vid.
             10.
             
             Fox
             .
             in
             vit●
             Wicklef
             .
          
           
             A
             〈◊〉
             .
             Richara●●
             2.
             
          
           
             Sub
             rege
             Hen.
             4.
             
          
           
             L.
             2.
             in
             literis
             Reg.
             Henrici
             4.
             
          
           
             Anno
             1406.
             
             Octobr.
             5.
             
             In
             operib
             .
             I.
             Hus.
             
          
           
             Anno
             1476.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             16.
             
          
           
             *
             in
             a
             Ploughmans
             tale
             .
          
           
             The
             Apostle
             .
          
           
             *
             which
             Papists
             say
             ,
             he
             hath
             of
             heauen
             gate
             .
          
           
             *
             as
             the
             Pope
             .
          
           
             Ex
             registro
             Episcops
             Herefor●
             
          
           
             Contra
             18.
             articul
             .
             Wicklef
             .
             In
             articul
             .
             11.
             
             &
             12.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             17.
             
          
           
             A●
             .
             1400.
             sub
             Reg.
             He●
             .
             4.
             
          
           
             Sub
             reg
             .
             Henrie
             .
             5.
             
          
           
             Sub.
             Hen.
             6.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             18.
             
          
           
             Greg.
             11.
             
          
           
             Greg.
             12.
             
          
           
             Catal.
             testium
             ●esitatis
             ..
             l.
             18.
             
          
           
             Defensor
             pacis
             .
          
           
             Petrus
             Messias
             in
             Ludo●●co
             .
          
           
             Catalogus
             ●estium
             verit●●●
             .
             l.
             18.
             
          
           
             Ibid.
             ex
             .
             Hen.
             de
             Erford
             .
          
           
             Histor.
             Hussit
             .
             l.
             2.
             
          
           
             Epis.
             20.
             et
             in
             poe●i
             italic●
             .
          
           
             In
             appendice
             ad
             libros
             de
             Rom.
             pontifice
             .
             c.
             20.
             
          
           
             Genebrard
             ,
             Chron.
             l.
             4.
             
             Anno
             1327.
             
          
           
             Catal.
             ●estium
             veritatis
             .
             l.
             18.
             
          
           
             Academ
             .
             les
             .
             Christ.
             Clas
             .
             15
             
          
           
             De
             auseribilitate
             Pap●
             ab
             ecclesia
             .
          
           
             Sect.
             19.
             
          
           
             Hist.
             Bohem.
             c.
             35.
             
          
           
             Chron.
             l.
             4.
             
          
           
             Catal.
             testium
             veritatis
             .
             l.
             15.
             
             In
             Pr●sat
             .
             general
             .
             Controuers
             .
          
           
             L.
             1.
             c.
             19.
             
          
           
             Hist.
             l.
             12.
             
          
           
             L.
             9.
             
          
           
             L.
             10.
             
          
           
             Ibid.
             
          
           
             Mat.
             Paris
             i●
             Guliel
             .
             cōquaest
             .
          
           
             Contin
             .
             hist.
             de
             gestis
             Anglor
             .
             lib.
             3.
             cap.
             7.
             
          
           
             Malmis
             .
             l.
             3.
             
          
           
             Chron.
             l.
             4.
             
          
           
             Index
             in
             Bertram
             resp
             .
             ad
             Dan.
             Til●s
             .
             fol.
             158.
             
          
           
             La.
             sainct
             .
             Mess●
             de
             clar
             .
             l.
             2.
             
          
           
             De
             consider
             .
             ad
             Eug●n
             .
             l.
             2.
             8.
             
          
           
             Ser.
             61.
             in
             Cant.
             ep
             .
             190.
             de
             grat
             .
             &
             lib.
             arbitrio
             .
             Ser.
             1.
             de
             septem
             misericordi●s
             .
          
           
             1
             Cor.
             3.
             11
             
          
           
             Degrat
             .
             &
             libero
             arbit●io
             .
          
           
             Sect.
             21.
             
          
           
             Iohn
             ●
             .
             8.
             
          
           
             1
             Kings
             19.
             18
             
          
           
             2.
             
             Pet.
             2.
             8.
             
          
           
             Iam.
             1.
             27.
             
          
           
             Os●rius
             l.
             3.
             degestis
             Eman●el
             .
             Li.
             9.
             
             Dam
             ▪
             à
             Goes
             .
             de
             mori●
             .
             Ae●●i●●um
             .
          
           
             Sect.
             22.
             
          
           
             Apoc.
             17.
             18.
             
          
           
             In
             Hen.
             3.
             
          
           
             Ibidem
             .
          
           
             Ibidem
             .
          
           
             Lincoln
             .
             Epist.
             
          
           
             Math●●
             Paris
             in
             H.
             ●
             .
             3.
             
          
           
             Ibidem
             .
          
           
             Houede●
             in
             parte
             2.
             
          
           
             Pla●in
             .
             in
             Paschael
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             Pap.
             Mas.
             on
             in
             Bo●
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             In
             Histo●
             .
             Eccle.
             sias
             .
             in
             catal
             .
             script
             .
             Brit.
             L●ur
             .
             Humsr.
             I●suit●sm
             .
             part
             .
          
           
             Sect.
             23.
             
          
           
             R●●ion
             .
             10.
             
          
           
             In
             Rom.
             11.
             33.
             
          
           
             Ann●
             159●
             .
          
           
             Vid.
             Epist.
             Beza
             ad
             Stuckium
             .
          
           
             Mat.
             26.
             65.
             
          
           
             Acts
             24.
             14
             ▪
             
          
           
             Sect.
             24.
             
          
           
             Acts
             16.
             20.
             and
             17.
             7.
             2
             
             Cor.
             12.
             16
             
             
               Eus.
               ●ccl●
               .
               hist.
               l.
            
             4.
             7.
             
          
           
             *
             L.
             5.
             1.
             
          
           
             Socrat.
             1.
             20.
             
             Theod.
             eccl
             .
             hist.
             l.
             1.
             30.
             
          
           
             Infasciculo
             rer●
             expetend
             .
          
           
             Conses
             .
             Walden
             .
          
           
             Cocleus
             histor
             .
             Hussit
             .
             l.
             2.
             
             Cum
             articulos
             istos
             nunquam
             tenuerim
             quos
             falsi
             te●●es
             c●●ra
             me
             〈◊〉
             ,
             se●●●ont
             aria
             tenuer●m
             ,
             ●oc●erim
             ,
             〈◊〉
             rimque
             ,
             〈◊〉
             praedicau●rim
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             L.
             8.
             
          
           
             Sl●idencomment
             .
             l.
             8.
             
          
           
             Certain
             Articles
             or
             forcible
             rea●ons
             at
             Antwerp
             ,
             1600
             
          
           
             Sect.
             25.
             
          
           
             In
             Rom
             11.
             4.
             
          
           
             In
             Fox
             eccles
             .
             Story
             .
          
           
             Diuin
             .
             ●istitut
             .
             l.
             7.
             c.
             14.
             
             Aug.
             Ep●st
             .
             48.
             
          
           
             Ep.
             106.
             
             &
             28
             
          
           
             Con●
             .
             Carth.
             in
             Cyp.
             oper
             .
          
           
             De
             bapt
             .
             cont
             .
             Donatis
             .
          
           
             L.
             1.
             
          
           
             L.
             2.
             
          
           
             Sect.
             26.
             
          
           
             Prefat
             .
             catal
             .
             testium
             veritat
             .
          
           
             Psal.
             45.
             13.