A CAVEAT for Parson's Owlet, concerning his untimely flight, and scriching in the clear day light of the Gospel, necessary for him and all the rest of that dark brood, and unclean cage of papists, who with their untimely books, seek the discredit of the truth, and the disquiet of this Church of England.  
Written by john Field, student in Divinity.  REVEL. 18. 6. ¶ Reward her as she hath rewarded you, and give her'd●uble according to her works, and in the cup that she hath filled to you, fill her the double. 
¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Waldegrave, for Thomas Man, & Toby Smith.   

To the right honourable, and my very good Lord, the Lord Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Baron of Denbigh, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, Master of the Queen's majesties Horses, and one of her highness most honourable privy counsel. I. P. wisheth grace and constancy in the blessed truth of 〈◊〉, in this life, and afterwards everlasting life by jesus Christ our Lord.  
Having of late according to my bounden duty (right honourable and my very good Lord) testified my poor affection to the Church of God, and to your honour aprincipall member thereof, by translating that worthy 〈◊〉 concerning the Church: I find that one OWLET (If I be not deceived) now lying in Rutlandshire or thereabouts: one of mine old acquaintance, a scholar in my time, hath taken the matter in great grief, for that to your honour, I have insinuated the Papists to be enemies to God, and to her royal majesty. This he saith, I have done to excite your honour to persecution. The truth 〈◊〉, I did it to your honour, because, that as God hath set you in a chief place over this his church, so you and all the rest of your calling, might watch against such enemies, and discharge that trust he hath committed 〈◊〉 to you, both to 〈◊〉 them from farther 〈◊〉 the Church of God, 〈◊〉 evermore they have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and also 〈◊〉 for the preservation of the Q●e● ne her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon whom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 favour & commodity they have been, are, and shall be, 〈◊〉 her most dangerous enemies, such as from time to time, have gone about to seek her highness 〈◊〉 subversion. This argument, though I did then but touch as it were by the 〈◊〉, yet this enemy hath now provoked me to make a further discourse thereof. Which although it be not done with that gloss & polishing of words that many times ill matters are coloured & pounced with all, yet it is done truly and faithfully, no one charge being 〈◊〉 upon 〈◊〉, to my knowledge, that is not justifiable in every respect. I grant it might have been more fully debated, longer stood upon, and with some better order & method: But this being a common argument, others also having dealt and dealing in it, who can better, do it then I, And considering against what adversary it is, whose gifts are known unto me, I have been bold in this simple & rude sort further to provoke him, not doubting, but by the assistance of God, to be able from time to time, if he shall take any exception, to give him his answer. That I use myself otherwise then my manner is, in roughness of words and charpenes of style, which perhaps some delicate ears will hardly bear, supposing it not fit for the spirit of the gospel, I have done it I confess, both advisedly and with just deliberation thinking it to be the fittest way, to 〈◊〉 down his haughty presumption. I think I know the man and also his gifts. Neither is it amiss, to use sharp medicines 
Esa. 58. 10.  against impostumous corruptions, and fretting cankers. 
jer. 10. 21.  The Scriptures give sufficient warrant, 〈◊〉 by examples 
Eze. 22. 25.  confirmed in the Gospel, of round speech against the 
Mat. 23.  adversaries of Gods everlasting truth. I thank God my 
Mat. 6. 2.  conscience beareth me witness of no hatred towards 
Luk. 11. 42. etc.  their person, but I protest unto your honour in the face, & sight of all the world, that I hate all their idolatrous and abominable superstitions, and if they shall at any time 
Psal. 11. 25. 5.  like the proud Philistian, dare to provoke the host of the 
Psal. 30. 7.  Lord in maintenance of their false religion, and shall blaspheme the truth, let them not think, but to hear their 
1. Sam. 17.  own. The Lord hath many in Israel, in what contempt soever they hold them, that shall be able to meet them, and every way to match them, yea with their own swords to cut off their own heads. I beseech your honour therefore, cheerfully to go for ward in defence of this truth of God. Beware of the 〈◊〉 of these double tongues, their 
〈◊〉. 140. 3.  mouths are full of guile, & the 〈◊〉 of A pes is under their lips. As low as they 〈◊〉, & as fast as they weep, if they might but creep in and have opportunity to show their nature, you should try (as God forbidden) what Crocodiles they are: Her 〈◊〉, and all that 〈◊〉 the glorious Gospel of Christ, under her gracious government, should feel then the sword, which now, they have so anointed with honey. It were much better for us that 〈◊〉 the gospel, to fall among Ravens, if necessity should 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, then into the hadst of these me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, for the one would never light on us, till we were dead, 〈◊〉 as the other would devour us whilst we are living 〈◊〉 they have honey 〈◊〉 their mouths, & death in their hearts As Doeg the Idumean flattered Saul in accusing David, who was saul's dear Friend and Son, so do they by accusing us. I saw the 
1. Sam. 22. 9  Son of 〈◊〉 (saith he) in Nob 〈◊〉 Achimelech the Son of Achitob the priest. So the flattering messenger that came 
2. Sam. 7. 10.  to inform David of saul's death, received a judgement from his own mouth, a just 〈◊〉 fit for all flatterers. So Rechab and Banaah brought 〈◊〉 head of Isboseth to David 
2. Sam. 4. 8.  in Hebron, with flattering 〈◊〉, But David a just King, gave them a just recompense. So Absalon, stealing the hearts of the subjects, made show of great readiness to execute justice and spoke flatteringly to 〈◊〉 people. Their mat 
2 Sam. 15. 〈◊〉.  ters were good and righteous, but no man was appointed of the king to hear them etc. Oh, if he were judge, how he would sit in the gates. No man could make so much as a sign of obeizance, to whom his hand was not strait way stretched on't to take him, and to give him a ludas kiss, so popular he was But what became of it? The stron gre flattery is, and the more examples we have, how it 
2. Sam. 16. 7.  hath deceived, the more wary had Princes and men of authority 
1. Reg. 22. 〈◊〉.  need to be (against whom especially this kind of 
2. Par. 18. 10.  assault is usually made) how they give credit unto it. Sibah 
2. Reg. 22. 12.  〈◊〉 man deceived David, So did Sedechias 
2. Par. 18. 11. & 10. 10.  that horned Prophet with his iron horns, promising the subversion of Syria. So did the false Prophets who would have the king to go up into Ramoth Gilead, against the word of the Lord, and Rheboams' counsellors in feeding the humour of their king, Therefore (good my Lord) As you 〈◊〉, and have hitherto been, so continue, to be circumspect in your place, and look about you. Trust not fair speech, not feigned friendship in them that have always showed themselves so false The devil that Prince of darkness deceiveth, by taking upon him the shape of an Angel, 〈◊〉 appeareth not in his own ugly shape, for than we should abhor him. No more do these Sinon's, these sirens that play so pleasantly, and sing so sweetly. Though they have a goodly shape, yet they are unnatural monsters. They give titles (as job saith) but they are enemies to God, and to her highness: The Lord jesus send these Parasitical Papists their just reward, keep her majestic, and this whole state, 〈◊〉 their crafty underminings, continue his Gospel, that we may evermore serve him, and 〈◊〉 in the obedience of his name, till we obtain that everlasting inheritance.  
Amen.  
August. 30. 1581. Your Lordship's bounden and most faithful. I. F.   

A Caveat for Owlet, and the rest of his dark brood.  
PARSON'S OWLET, I am much beholding to you for your good remembrance, in your flattering, fraudulent & presumptuous epistle, dedicated to our most gracious Sovereign, the Queen's most excellent Majesty. Who would have thought, that after twenty three years, in the clear light of the gospel, such an obscure owl as yourself, whom all the kindly birds of the day must needs wonder at, durst ever have fluttered forth in the broad day and scritched out in her majesties ears, such notable untruths and wicked asseverations, complaining of the hard case and grievous persecutions, 〈◊〉 of your Catholics (as you call 
In the Epistle dedicatory to her highness, Pag. 3. 4. 5. 6. etc.  them:) her highness being a prince of such knowledge, so settled and confirmed in the truth of Christ's 〈◊〉, that all your devices, flattering & fawning speeches, conspiracies and traitorous attempts, shall never 
Fol. 2.  (I trust,) be able by God's grace, either to fear or remove, from that glorious truth, which shec hath 
Howlers' causes of dedicating the book to he highness. Folly 2.  professed to maintain and continue to the uttermost end of her life. The causes that moved your dedication, (though the matter were not your own) 
〈◊〉.  was the composition and penning of it, being done (as you say) in great modesty and humility, with all 〈◊〉 full respect, 〈◊〉 to her Majesty, her Counsellors, and whole estate: 〈◊〉 (you say) to the proceeding of all Sectaries (his zeal & opinion in religion only 〈◊〉, erued:) the other, the weightiness of importing her 〈◊〉 soule-health, estate, and Realm, 〈◊〉 the salvation of many: thousands 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 her confident Children, her highness their mother, and 〈◊〉 Princess, before a 〈◊〉 they lay down their griefs, as before the Substitute and Angel of God, etc. If these causes were in deed as you pretend, you were the more to be borne with, but being subtle, slanderous and false, your presumption is intolerable. For first, for the manner of conceiving & penning that treatise, if it had been done with such modesty and humility you speak of, you would not so have betrayed her majesty 
Mat. 26. 49.  with a judas Kiss, crying All hail and 
a Saund. lib. 7. pag.730.  yet putting her into her enemy's hands. You would not bear the world in hand, as if of herself she 〈◊〉 your Religion, and yet so slanderously charge her majesties Realm and government with such diversity of Sects, contrary to the truth of God. 
b Pref. Fol. 3.  you would not have charged the glorious religion of Christ, to be heresy, and the Church of God, & it to be the Synagogue of Antichrist from which upon pain of damnation, all your Catiline Catholics must 〈◊〉, and not communicate, but must with all their powers resist and avoid. You would not have snared and entangled the 
〈◊〉. fol. 5  consciences of the modester sort of your dissembling, timeserving Hypocrites, even as yourself account them, (who are yet the bane of this land, hated of you, and to us as pricks and thorns in our sides) charging them to sin against the holy ghost, (wherein you bewray your slender divinity) 
a Brist. Moti. 6. fol. 〈◊〉, & mot. 12. fol. 〈◊〉  you would not so have 〈◊〉 her Majesty for a Schismatic, her Nobles for heretics, her whole 
Saun lib. 70. pag 130. & eadem. pag. 7. 3.  people for departers and sallers away from the faith and true religion. You kiss her, and yet you smite her. you faun upon her like gentle Spaniels, and 〈◊〉 most cruelly you bite her, (tanquam canes clanculo 〈◊〉, as the proverb is, like butchers cutres. 
b Owlet epileafe. 4 & the 14. fol. 5.  you praise her clemency and mercy, and yet you charge her majesties government with unspeakable outrage and cruelty. And if you meant as you speak, 
c Howl. pres. fol. 6 fol. 15.  calling her The lords 〈◊〉, the Angel of God, the lords substitute your mother, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you lay 〈◊〉 your 〈◊〉 concerning religion, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of her, Seeing in flattery you acknowledge this to do harm, why, do not you and the rest to do good, acknowledge it in truth, and so deny the pope his foreign jurisdiction within this realm? And 〈◊〉 she be the lords Angel and substitute; what hath the Pope to do to intermeddle in her territories and kingdoms? Or have you M. Owlet any special privilege or commission to speak so directly against one of your own grounds, to charm the Prince withal, to th'end she may lend a listening ear to your unjust complaints? For that which 
The prince is 〈◊〉 chiefest 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 land, to 〈◊〉 the care of God's matters doth specially belong to see God's 〈◊〉 established.  you acknowledge in her, calling her the Lords substitute, would be condemned as rank heresy in us, because it importeth that she hath authority to hear and determine in causes of religion (as in deed she hath) according to the word of God. Such as you call at unwares Sectaries, more favourably than you mean, thereby meaning the 〈◊〉 of the Gospel were never 〈◊〉 with such outrage and immodesty of Spirit to the dishonour of their natural prince, to pronounce her a schismatic and an heretic, 
a 〈◊〉. mot. 40 under the title of obe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  labouring to discharge her subiectës from their dutiful obedience, too justle her out of her seat, and to pluck the Crown from her head, as you 〈◊〉 have done. If you think that I speak partially, let the Bull that 
〈◊〉 mot. 15. fol. 72. 〈◊〉.  Felton set up, sent from your abominable Father of Rome, be remembered, and the issue that came of it, Let Sanders in his book 
b 〈◊〉. lib. 2. pag. 78  of the visible monarchy 
〈◊〉 d. 〈◊〉.  of the church, be heard to speak, Let 
c 〈◊〉. lib. 7. pag. 130. 734.  Harding Dorman and Bristol say for themselves. Let 
d 〈◊〉 imprinted of 〈◊〉 a table at Paris, and therein setteth out the Queen crounle. ie, though in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 amended.  Rosse 
e Mor. Phi. his book of succession.  Morgan Phillips, and such like traitors be examined, how they have borne themselves together with this popeholy papist of the 〈◊〉 sort of Papists, who can abide no communicating with us, nor our religion in any respect. And as for the weightiness of the matter being God's cause, importing her highness salvation, Estate, and Realm, with the safeguard of thousands, it is but a shameful ask of that which yet is in question 
Howlet pre. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  betwixt us. This Owl and his Gentleman, should first have proved their particular church of Rome, to be the 〈◊〉 Church of Christ. They should first have set down wherein our Church hath departed from the doctrine of Christ and his 〈◊〉, in what 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Nobles; and 〈◊〉 are 〈◊〉 set, and continue in Heresic and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word of God: 
The papists are 〈◊〉, and their service and 〈◊〉 idolatry to be 〈◊〉.  and then the consequence had 〈◊〉 plain, that all Christians must separate themselves from us, so they had won their cause. For we agree with them, that there ought to be no dissimulation in the matters of God, that 〈◊〉 are to be 〈◊〉, that their 〈◊〉 is to be avoided: but we affirm that they are those heretics in that Apostatical 〈◊〉 fallen from that wholesome 〈◊〉 of Christ; and his Apostles: We affirm that 〈◊〉 and Lordship of Rome, and the tyrannous 〈◊〉 thereof over the 〈◊〉, to be that 
a 〈◊〉. in 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. p. 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉.  Babylon, 
August de 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 2 cap. 1.  out of which we are commanded to depart, that we be not 〈◊〉 of the same destruction together with them. But alack, this is your old 〈◊〉, 
〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 18. de 〈◊〉 dei cap. 22 〈◊〉. 17.  Owlet, when you cannot obtain your purpose, 〈◊〉 by the Pope's threatening thunderbolts of excommunication, or by your 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 
b Excom. Pii 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 obtained by 〈◊〉 who was executed in Cornwall.  books to stir up her 〈◊〉 to rebellion, than you fall to your 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 glozing. You file your tongues, and make them smother than 〈◊〉, they seem sweeter than honey, but the poison of Asps is under them: then your compassion 〈◊〉 out, her highness clemency and mercy is praised in your 
c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the papists dangerous to rel. gion, and to 〈◊〉 whole 〈◊〉.  want of punishment, which yet in deed is her greatest danger, and then she is a mother, whom notwithstanding in deed you 〈◊〉 a stepdame: a sovereign princessc and yet no Queen of yours, 
d Allen in his Apology of the English Seminary s. cap. 4.  neither her Taws any 〈◊〉, because she is not established by your pope's authority, your God's vicar, of whom you would have her hold her crown in fee 〈◊〉, either as tenant at will, or else as 〈◊〉 by your treason's king 〈◊〉 was compelled to do, that he might take it again 〈◊〉 your Popc, & pay a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for it, to he deposed or 〈◊〉 at his 〈◊〉, 
e Chronica 〈◊〉 Mathias; 〈◊〉. Math. West.  whom you hold not to 〈◊〉, when 〈◊〉 
Harding in his confutation of the Apology.  in his Chair, and advisedly he pronounceth any sentence. 
a Sun 〈◊〉. lib. 1. cap. 4.  Now he hath advisedly and 〈◊〉 pronounced her Majesty a Schismatic 
Bulla. paspae. pii 〈◊〉.  and an here tique, therefore as in your opinion she ought to be deposed: 
b 〈◊〉. mot. 40. fol. 154.  so are all her subjects discharged of their duty and allegiance. And yet (good man,) besides your general and particular crosses lying so hard upon your poor backs, that you seldom or never, except in the time of your greatest ruff, lay 〈◊〉 or fared better: example of your fellows at Wisbich, in the Marshalsey, and else where, 
c Wood the priest solicited 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to whoredom, and gave her money and a comfite to make her mad upon him.  who being idle and living in no calling, are bend to folly and filthiness, and yet the poorest of them, who might beg, if they were abroad, never had more plenty of money in their lives nor more ease and leisure to follow all delights, saving that they are restrained from a little liberty of going abroad: and yet her majesties government is accused, if not in respect of herself, yet of her counsellors, inferior officers and Magistrates, in executing of her 
d If our laws be unsupportable, that 〈◊〉 not with life for religion, what 〈◊〉 theirs, that 〈◊〉 none? Fol. 6. pref.  unsupportable laws (as you 〈◊〉 call them) through which there is such cruelty and sovadge dealing as the like was never heard of before in any age. These things are grievous, yet they 〈◊〉 nothing in 〈◊〉 of that one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 Epistle dedicatory of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of book to the Earl of Leicester hath accused you 〈◊〉 be 〈◊〉 to God and to her royal 〈◊〉. This crabbeth & nippeth you at the very heart root, And I think in deed not without 〈◊〉. For the truth of the matter being so plainly and manifestly 〈◊〉 out, and proved in the learned works of, our time, it lieth more heavily upon you, than you are able to remove: and a man need not much to stand upon it. I will not speak 〈◊〉 the other points of your 〈◊〉 Epistle, nor of that book so highly 
Howlets' impudency and presumption.  commended by 〈◊〉 grave 〈◊〉, wherewith you have taken your 〈◊〉 into the light, as with another man's wings, and 〈◊〉 yourself not as an Owl in this point, but as Esop's crow with other 〈◊〉 feathers: 〈◊〉 forsooth with such modesty, that it is fit for none but a Queen: and yet the greatest part stolen either out of your fellow 
a Gregory 〈◊〉 book of Schism hath the very 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 deficit in 〈◊〉. but he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in his minor.  Gregery martyn's book of Schism, whom you 〈◊〉 not a little, robbing him of his glory, or 〈◊〉 out of a French book, wherein the protestants rendered reasons why they could not come to your 〈◊〉 mass, which you foolishly have turned and 〈◊〉 to your purpose, I leave that to be answered by one that will stand upon it, & do it more thronghly.  
But because it hath pleased you to draw me in against my will, specifying my name, I will by the grace of God. undertake the proof of that which I have set down in that 〈◊〉. But before I enter into it, I would have this diligently marked of all, that you on lie snatch at those bare words of mine, & never answer any jot of the matter: you mention nothing of those same more general and particular 〈◊〉 of treason & 〈◊〉, plainly set down, in that 
b See the examples 〈◊〉 in the epistle.  Epistle, by express examples, which made me to call you papists by your right names, enemies to God & to her royal majesty: As for your aggravation & pelting chafe with that reverend Father & his officers, For letting pass the book to the print, for that this 〈◊〉 was not only uttered in speech, but also let it pass in print to the view of the world, and was dedicated to a noble man of her 〈◊〉 privy counsel, (Whose honour like a Katife, you labour to blemish, whilst you insinuate, that I stir him up to cruelty against you) and by such a brar sick fellow, whom 〈◊〉 possessed a long time for his fantastical opimous, & yet I think, though he knew your nest and abiding also, with your, companion Carters, or whether it be Parsons, that hath put your name upon himself, for now you are become such honest men that in an evil cause you have names at commandment: yet you scarcely know him by the face, & are not able for your life to name any of those opinions: to whom, you farther attribute such pregnancy (upon such honest men's report as yourself) of 〈◊〉 sing any new religion upon a weeks 〈◊〉. 
Fol. 6 Praefat.  etc. These circumstances I would a little consider, before I enter into my proof.  
Concerning the uttering of this matter in speech, being the truth, and uttered by so many before, it should not so much grieve you, and specially for setting it out in print to the view of all men, that it might come even to your own owlish sight, what proveth it else? but that it was done with confidency, & 〈◊〉, not fearing the light? How would you have complained, if it had been uttered behind your backs in the dark, as such owlish Owlets as yourself are want to do, who cannot abide the light? neither love to come to trial, what good face soever you set upon the matter but your common guise is to eat & drink men behind their backs, to slander the truth and as much as lieth in you, to deface it, to rage's against it, & to persecute it. When such as can answer you are driven away by your tyranny, and you 〈◊〉 the chairs alone: than you fight with your own shadows, either having them in your hands & also both sword and fire at your commandment to maintain your challenges: than you are strong enough to enter into disputations with them, or being abroad, by your truces and safe conducts. you can whope and provoke them by your sweet alluring 〈◊〉, and fawning till you have them fast, whose 〈◊〉 you have burnt to ashes, when they have come to 〈◊〉 the cause of God, & to give a reason of their 〈◊〉 in 
a Conci. Constantiense. 〈◊〉. 19  your general Councils. Thus traitorously you hold them in your limed spray, 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pata.  & as Mantuan prettily describeth. you bring them to 
Philip. 〈◊〉.  the spit. john Hus, and Hierom of prague shall witness 
Plat. volater.  this to be true to all posterities, to the perpetual shame of all such faithless traitors and trucebreakers. This the council of Constance shall witness during which there were sometimes at once 
b 〈◊〉. RomPla 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Benno. Bucchingerus.  three 
Blond. lib. 3.  pope's, sometimes two, one, and none: altogether by 
Mirandensis.  the ears, in which that goodly decree was ratified, 
Council Constantiense. 〈◊〉. 19 Quod non obstantibus saluis conductib. etc.  that faith is not to be kept with heretics, 
c Nicholas de Clamangis in quadam colatde fut Concil.  where in steed of the holy ghost, (who they blasphemously said they looked for,) 
d Council of Constance was begun at Rome where this owl showed 〈◊〉 self which they have concealed.  an unlucky owl, (〈◊〉) that same monster of birds, portending some notable mischief, one of your great ancestors was precedent that so troubled the Pope and all the company, that two whole sessions were frustrate and without effect, saving that they murdered the poor owl, with 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  〈◊〉 and cudgels. Seeing therefore it is in print, you may answer it, make what exceptions you can, & take your best advantages.  
And as for being done to a noble man, a chief 〈◊〉 in our Land, what other thing can it argue. but that you are such dangerous enemies, as they have good cause under her majesty, chief to watch against, to have a diligent eye to the maintenance of the gospel, and to the preservation of her majesties royal person the defender of the same, to whom (as fair shows as you make) 
a I et 〈◊〉 v. ordes, one. of Saunders chief 〈◊〉 be 〈◊〉 spoken in the parliament house, anno primo of her 〈◊〉 reign.  you wish no good.  
Concerning that you attribute to my person calling me a brainsick fellow, and in your popish heat and burning charity, twit 〈◊〉 with mine imprisonment in Newgate, I will only say this unto it, the words of a brainsick man should not so greatly have rend your catholic heart. But if you call me brainsick and mad, as the wicked have called the prophets, and the jews have called Christ and his Apostles, because by the grace of God I 
2. Kin. 9 11.  have and do stand for the truth, against your Popish 
joh. 10. 20.  
Act. 26. 24.  and Antichristian corruptions, I have to rejoice in it, and I consider you do but your kind: you could do little, if you could not rail, and thanks be to God, though you grenne, you cannot bite. As for my being in Newgate, the cause was not such, as should fasten upon me any such vile reproach as you object. And how 
b Owlet fol. 3. pref.  standeth this rehearsal of my imprisonment with your complaint made before where you say, that no punishment in a manner is awarded those that offend against the book. As for my pregnancy upon report of sraning new religions: the veriest Owl in the world would not so publicly in print have charged a man with such a heinous crime upon the report of others. In deed this is common with the papists, whose religion being not grounded upon the Scriptures, they vary it as every man's brain and fancy leadeth him. Besides that, fame is an evil liar, especially when such are blowers of it, as can breathe out nothing but slanders, and reproaches against the truth, and the true professors of it, yea it deserveth no more credit, 
Popery a religion patched together of all heresies and variable: A bird of divers feathers.  than 〈◊〉 Owlet should 〈◊〉 and affirm, that the papists are no traitors. But hereby may plainly appear what light 〈◊〉, rashness, uncharitableness and impudency there is in papists, that receive credit, blaze, and utter without all shame, whatsoever cometh into their brainsick heads, against the true professors of Christ's gospel. A man would have thought that he who praised modesty and humility, in the author of this peking letter, would have put it in botter practise himself.  
Whereas he 〈◊〉 me Puritan, and to require me, showeth the doctrine of two of my preachers (〈◊〉, as pleaseth him to call them) who preached at an exercise of 
a The fast at Stamford done orderly, with consent & by authority as shall appear in the end of this book.  a fast at 〈◊〉, and that against the B 〈◊〉, etc. I will not say much in it in this place, because I have proved that, a loud and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the end, which as slanderous and 〈◊〉 as it is, is yet the principal and main ground work of his vile 〈◊〉. This is 〈◊〉, that whereas it was at first somewhat feared that it would not prove orderly enough: and by the intimation of some 〈◊〉 not best affected to such holy exercises, yet was it afterwards procured both by honourable and worshipful, and done by such consent and authority, and with so good 〈◊〉, that the whole Church was comforted by it. The preachers were such, and so well known to be godly, learned and wise, as would not utter such positions as this Momus, and his reporter have spitefully patched together and blazed abroad. The collector therefore whom he nameth a minister, must needs either be some such nightebyrde as himself, not able to abide the light, or else 〈◊〉 carterly misreporter, who giving them some little ends, those Spiders have Woven according to their own humour, to bring the truth of God into hatred (if they could) with her royal Majesty. But thanks be to God her Majesty is wise, not to be carried away with such malicious parties. Her highness trusteth not; but with good trial: & where she trusteth, she will not be carried away by 〈◊〉 In hearing reports she reserveth an ear always for the absent, she is experienced to know 〈◊〉 evil, things are made at the second hand, and specially when they are uttered of malice, by such as are not indifferent but partial, not sincere but spiteful. And thus much for the circumstances. Now to the proof of my matter that pincheth you so sore, to wit, first that you are enemies to God, and then I say not enemies only, but traitors to her royal Majesty.  
That you are enemies to God, the whole truth of God, against which, you papists do mischivonslye set yourselves, doth manifestly prove. For whosoever is an enemy to his word, 〈◊〉 himself against his glory, wrestleth against his will & ordinance, corrupteth his religion, robbeth him of his greatest honour, & murdereth his people, he must needs be his enemy. That all the papists are such, holding of Anti christ, it shall appear more plainly hereafter. In the mean while, to prove the pope 
a The pope Antichrist and head of all papists.  Antichrist, as the captain & head of all this band of enemies, although it be needles, considering how it is a beaten argument in every book; yet to satisfy the Reader, I will in a few lines speak of it. He is the special antichrist that directly 〈◊〉 himself against, Christ, both in doctrine and manners. And beside, that 
* Dan. 7. 11. Apo. 17. 1. 18.  Daniel and john in the revelation hath huely paynred him out, 
* 2. Thes. cap. 2 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. etc.  Paul joineth with them, declaring by the effects, that it must needs be he; with whom the Church was threatened so long ago. 
2. Thes. 2. 4.  I am not ignorant that every heretic, who setteth himself against the truth of Christ, is after a sort an Antichrist, but the pope is this great Antichrist, that must have his seat in the Church of God, must usurp his place, and must not be in the sty of the heathen, to be sought for among the 
a This being prophesied of before cannot be intended of any singular man: but of a company and state of men, because it shall endure till the coming of Christ.  Turks, jews or Pagans of the world: but must spring and arise amongst his own, And this is not any one man of the 〈◊〉 of Dan, as the Papists would have us to dream: but a company and estate of men, and therefore it is further called an 
* Apo. 9 12. 2. Kin. 21.  Apostasy, that is to say, a falling away from the Faith, And though he be called the man of sin, and the Son of perdition, yet this is not meant of any singular person, but of the effect or quality, that shall be in the whole state and company of that Apostasy, in the continual succession thereof, which is not only borne in sin, as all other men are, but even borne and made, to uphold and maintain sin 
b Though this be spoken of all in respect of original sin, yet by a special privilege, it belongeth to this troop of perdition.  A man of Belial, who will 〈◊〉 at liberty from all laws and subjection, who (as job saith) hath drunk in ungodliness as the fish hath done water who hath sold himself to sin, & is the eldest son of the Devil, that as Christ the only son God, (who was freely given for the salvation of all that 
job. 15.  
Ephes. 4.  believe in him) is the head of them to govern them, 
Rom. 1.  to give them laws, and to enrich them with the righteousness of faith revealed by the Gospel. So he might be the head of all the faithless, giving 〈◊〉 laws directly contrary against Christ, leading them all to spiritual whoredoms, corruptions and all abominations, to their utter 〈◊〉, as that apostatical sea hath done.  
And though 
a Saunders de visibili monar chia Ecclesiae. lib. 8 cap. 3. etc.  Sanders labour his heart out, to prove Antichrist to be some singular man, and no succession of men, and reckoneth up (as he saith) many 〈◊〉 that we hold, strengthening this fly light, as a 
b Pliny lib. 10. Nat 〈◊〉 cap. 17.  hawk, (because of the old friendship between the Owl and the Hawk;) yet the apostle Paul shall convince him, who calleth it (as I have said) an Apostasy 
Auxiliatur Accipiter colegio quodam naturae, bellumque partitur.  a mystery, that albeit it began to work even in his time, yet must be no otherwise utterly destroyed, them by the coming of jesus Christ: whose greatness must be built upon the ruins of the Roman empire and 
c Aug. lib. 20. de civitate dei cap. 19  must give life to that wounded beast in the re-edifying 
Apo. 13. 15. 16.  thereof: which thing besides that, the most ancient writers do plainly confirm, the practice proveth. For the Roman empire fell by little and little, and this was builded up and erected. For at the first 
Chris. in epist. ad Thes. ca 2.  it was not so evident, it crept more closely like the ivy bush, till it had choked the one and gained the 
Apoc. 17. 18.  top of the other, which ever since it hath held and maintained. And though at the first Rome, was called the chief but of courtesy, because it was the seat of the Empire, yet afterwards by antichrist, it obtained, to be chief by tyranny, and this by privilege thereof would also be universal bishop in despite of Christ and all his poverty, For look how 
* joh. 14. 
 1. Tim. 1.  God sent his son into the world, for the salvation of his, 
* Phil. 2.  humbling himself even to the death of the cross, so is he sent into the world, for the destruction & condemnation of mankind,, advancing himself above all that is called God. These are such (as the Apostle saith) that withal other here 〈◊〉 turn 〈◊〉 grace of God into wantonness, & deny the Lord jesus the only ruler. They are clouds without water, carried hither & thither by the wind, withered 
jude.  trees, unfruiful, twice dead and plucked up by the roots: this whole body of Antichrist hath an iron forehead, & a brazen brow, a crooked & a poisoned tongue. To whom the definition of sin, joh. 3. agreeth in every point both in false doctrine and corrupt manners; both being most contrary to the doctrine of Christ & his Apostles. For whereas all our actions that must stand acceptable before god, must flow from a true and lively 
* Rom. 10.  faith, without which it was impossible to please God: these men hath overthrown the whole doctrine thereof, resisting that righteousnesle, that is made 
* Rom. 1.  manifest by the gospel, and thrusting in a patched and weak righteousness, stilted not upon the la but upon their own devised works. And therefore they want that same principal effect of faith, which is true love, & have in the place of it most savage and beastly cruelty. 
a Read the spanish 〈◊〉, and the stories of France, England, Scotland and other countries.  whose chief head in his members, killeth, hangeth, burneth, drowneth, pineth and pincheth Christians with all kind of unwonted torments, more cruelly than ever did Phalaris or Nero, and that without all colour of justice: which is a plain argument that Satan the great Belsire of the Roman Antichrist, whose lively image he beareth (for a goose can 〈◊〉 no Owls eggs) hath instructed him and 〈◊〉 him to this office. And therefore sundry of the Popes, in this seat have 〈◊〉 familiar conference with the devil their own dam, and by his means they have had their entrance, 〈◊〉 themselves in magical and devilish arts. 
a Volater in. Polych onic.  For Martin the second in the year of Christ. 882. attained to his Popedom by 〈◊〉, and 
b Mare histor. joh. Marius.  Sergius, that 〈◊〉 devised candles to be born upon Candlemas day (as they call it,) and Agnus Dei to be sung twice at mass, after he had 
c 〈◊〉. lib. 2. cap. 12 〈◊〉.  hegorten john the 12. of that name, of an harlot called Marozia, daughter 
Anno 928.  also to a Harlot I 〈◊〉, kept by john the 11.) he was so great with the devil, that by his power he 〈◊〉 great miracles, & at length by the help of this honest woman's husband; named Guido, her Son john was made pope, and the other pitifully smothered with a Cushion at Saint john's in the pallace at Lateran. What should I speak of Octavian, called by the name of john. 
d Plat Sabellic Luitprand.  13. who was the son of Albericus, the son of the foresaid whore 〈◊〉, who kept such 〈◊〉, that unless the Devil himself had been in his place, he could not lightly have gone beyond him; who was a 
e Volater Plat. joannes Mari us Naucieru.  common dicer, a 〈◊〉, a Thief, a whoremaster, whom their own authors call a 〈◊〉 of men, accursed man, that put out the eyes of some of his Cardinals, 
Chronic. Sigisb. Robert 〈◊〉.  cut out their tongues, cut off their finger's hands and noses, lay with two sisters one after another, who in playing at dice desired the devil to help him, deflowered Stephana his father's concubine, a widow called Rainer, and another named Anne: who warred, 
〈◊〉. lib. 6.  burned, broke up doors and windows, drank 
Capg in catalogo Anglic.  drunk and pledged the devil. 
f Volater. lib. 12. Platina.  This was he that 
Praemonstratensis.  did homage unto Otto, and crowned him. but afterwards played the Traitor with him: taking part with Albertus Berengatius his adversary. This was he that was in such a league with necromancers, that 
a Capg. in Catolo. etc.  Dunston that Familiar of the Devils in England, who could hold the devil by the nose with pinsons, was dear unto him, whom he made an Archbishop at length, & yet the devil in the end gave this Pope his 〈◊〉? for being taken in bed with another man's wife he was by her husoande thrust to the heart with a dagger. Of 
b Plattin a seateth out the whole story fully.  〈◊〉 〈◊〉 second who was a student of necromancy, and fetched away by the Devil, I need not to speak, the story is more manifest, then that it can be denied. 
c Supplementum chronic. mare histor.  〈◊〉 the 8. also appeared after his death on a black horse, (whether it were the devil or no that carried him? 
〈◊〉 tempor.  let Howlet and his companions judge) to a Bishop an acquaintance of his, to whom he said, he was that 
joh. Marius.  
Rob Barnes.  unhappy Benedict, being in great torment, & showed them of an hidden treasure, which till it was found he could never be quiet (though he had been Pope) either in hell or in purgatory. Also 
d Bucchingarus 〈◊〉.  Benedict the ninth gave himself wholly to this study, and wheresoever he became, always he carried a book of 〈◊〉 about with him, he obtained his Popeship by this magical art, he sacrificed to devils, and made women to follow him into desert places by the help of the devil, who waited upon him in 
e 〈◊〉 the Cardinal Sigebert volat.  the likeness of a sparraw, There was nothing done in the world (as they said though they lied) that was hidden from him: & after he had sold his 〈◊〉 
Carranza.  as he was conjuring in the woods, the devil whom he had served, strangled him for his good service: he was seen 〈◊〉 his death in the shape of a bear, saving that his head and 〈◊〉 were the head and tail of an ass, because (as 〈◊〉 yielded the reason) he lived without reason, without law, without God. 
a This was he who before was called Hildebrand. his life is writ ten by Benno the Cardinal. Marianus Scotus.  What should I speak of 
b Blondus. Plat Othofr. and others, say that Benedict was in the palace at Lateran, Sylvester and Gregory, and Clement the second was elected the 4. Caranza.  Gregory the 7. 
c De 〈◊〉 & obedientia. unam sanctam in glossa distinc. 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉.  of Gregory the 12. that bought his popedom (for at this time Benedict, Sylvester and Gregory were Popes all at once; and I wonder which 〈◊〉 the head of the church) of joh. the 21. of Alexander the 6. of Paul the third, and of all the rest of them, it would make a whole book of a great volume, to set out all their villainies & wickedness, whereby they bear the lively resemblance of their father, whom they serve in that 〈◊〉 See of desolation. For they were and so are their successors as proud as the civil, liars like himself, 〈◊〉 as he is filthy, cruel and tyrannical, enemies to the glorious truth of God, and to all righteousness.  
And though this Antichrist come like an angel of light, that he may the rather deceive, & his brood in sheeps clothing, to the end they may devour, that their deceit and illusion may be the stronger, putting on most beautiful titles and glistering vizards, calling themselves 
* Apoc 17. 18.  most holy, most godly, 〈◊〉 Lords anointed, yet are they the filthiest of all others, vomiting out 
* Apoc 16. 16.  blasphemies against the most highest. Let their stories be read, published to the world by their own writers, that testify their 〈◊〉 abominations. That this seat might fit Antichrist (as the Scripture 〈◊〉 〈◊〉) an whore 
Virgii. lib. 2.  sitting upon a beast with seven heads and 〈◊〉 
Georgic.  Homes, most lively describing the 
d Roma metro 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  See and place 
Hanc olim ve tears. etc. 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉.  of antichrist, which usually moste interpreters both old and new, expound of Rome having 
e Vrbs, septicolis  seven 
〈◊〉 nate 〈◊〉 illa 〈◊〉 Roma.  hills, howsoever that corrupter of the Rabbis commentaries, 〈◊〉 Aelianus the Italian hath with a kind of whiting, blotted such places quite out, in the last great Venice Bible: as that exposition of Aben Ezra upon the eleventh of Daniel, verses 36. 37. 38: where Damel mentroning the false God, he 〈◊〉 it of the iniquity of Rome, and so in divers other places: I say not whether it be so fitly expounded yea or no, but of the treachery 
Chryso. hom. 40. in Mat.  of this falsifier, that will have nothing, to sound against Rome, and yet it is certain, that this state 
Bernard ad Eugenium.  and city, is that 
* Apoc. 17. 18.  beast, woman and whore, 
a Read Lact. lib. 7. cap. 17.  who comes in, with cruelty and ignorance, with deceivable and enticing words, with pleasant sleights and alluring colours, drawing the world to her spiritual whoredoms and idolatries. 
b Polycr. Caxton, Marianus Scotus, Martinus Polonus Sabellicus 〈◊〉. 9 lib. 1. pag. 469  In which seat that whore Pope joan, as a 〈◊〉 testification thereof, who laid her burden in the open street between the 〈◊〉 heater Collossae and S. Clement's Church; which street their Popes shun ever since: although Harding and that 〈◊〉 Saunders deny it never so impudently against an 
c 〈◊〉. tem, Mare historiarum, Plat and a number beside.  whole cloud of their own Historiographers, and a monument of their own in Rome, that beareth 〈◊〉 of it, besides the, antiquity of their 
d Penes portam, Petri, Pauli, peperit, Papa, pater, patriae, paruulum puerum.  ten peace, and yet I say nothing of their Porphyry stone. This is therefore that 
* Apoc 17. 18. & 18. 9 joh. 17.  whore 
Near the gate of Peter and Paul, the pope the father of the country brought forth a little child.  sitting upon this beast, compassed with those hills, that by her whorish provocations must allure those blind princes of the world, who set themselves against Christ to drink of the cup of her abominations, who must be bewitched and ravished with 〈◊〉 braveries. 〈◊〉 lights, and pompous shows. This is that son of perdition, because he is a lost child and of such a cursed state as can not be saved. For whom we must not pray, but aught to cry out against him, till our Saviour destroy him by the breath of his mouth. Such a lost judas as never returneth, that betrayeth Christ with a kiss, entereth by craft, not as an enemy, but as a friend, by counterset keys, or else secretly like a thief. He is 
a Active & pass 〈◊〉 dicitur filius 〈◊〉.  said to be the son of perdition itself, from the nature of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 begat him, not only because he is already damned, but because he shall draw all his 
2. Thes. 2. 4. 7.  members, of whom he is head, to the same damnation. How should it else ever have been said, that, albeit he draw an infinite number of souls into hell with him, yet must not he be 〈◊〉 of any. 
b Plattina. 〈◊〉.  His place is not among Paynims and Ethniques, but he shall sit in the church of God: and albeit this mystery 
Anno 〈◊〉.  of iniquity began to work long before, even in 
Confirmed by a Synod under 〈◊〉. 607. by 62. b. shops.  the Apostles times, and fast after yet the time of his manifestation was, when Boniface the third obtained by the means of Phocas, (who had murdered 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 3 deacons: Synod. 〈◊〉 under Constance Heracli 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  his Master Mauritius,) the seat and name of 〈◊〉 Bishop, which 
c Gregor lib. 40 & 32. 36.  Gregory his predeessour had pronounced to belong only to the forerunner of antichrist, the Father of the Son pride, and to be the name of a very Lucyser, refusing it himself, which yet this 〈◊〉 sought, kept and continued, and so did all his successors, 
〈◊〉. 40 〈◊〉. 38. li. 7. 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 30  to the end they might make up that whole beast that 〈◊〉 to be thrown into that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. And as before, this mystery of iniquirye wrought by little and little in the corruption of true Doctrine, in some points, so 〈◊〉. from time 〈◊〉 time the contrariety, directly both against the Doctrine of Christ and his manners, showed itself, that the name might best fit him and agree unto him. And therefore he is rightly called Antichrist because he 
a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. in 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 3.  shall particularly oppose himself against Christ our only mediator and saviour. And as 〈◊〉 in composition signifieth, For and against, as 〈◊〉: 
Apoc. 16. 13. etc. 17. 3. 4.  〈◊〉 is he which is in the King's steed, or against the King, so both 〈◊〉 this agreeth of the pope 
Apoc. 3. 11.  For that 〈◊〉 is Christ's 〈◊〉, and yet setteth 
Apoc. 〈◊〉. 13.  himself 〈◊〉 Christ both in Doctrine, and manners. And though he do not this in plain words, because he hath two * horns like a Lamb, 
〈◊〉 4. 10.  and yet a * dragon's mouth: yet it is 〈◊〉; that he counterfeiteth, 
b Leo the tenth said it to 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉  〈◊〉 the Gospel but a fable, and using only die name and letter of it. for his gain and advantage * Christ came to fulfil: the laws which were ordained of his Father, 
Luk. 22. 42.  the 
c 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 art 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 caus. 15. 〈…〉 pope Mar. 〈…〉.  pope violateth 〈◊〉, dispenseth 〈◊〉 them, 
〈◊〉. 2. 8.  and altereth them at his pleasure. * 〈◊〉 submitted 
joh. 18. 〈◊〉.  himself to the 〈◊〉 will of his father, * humbled 
〈◊〉 6. 13.  
Luk. 12. 13.  himself to the death of the Cross, * declared his 
Mat, 17. 〈◊〉.  kingdom not to be of this world, * 〈◊〉 when they would have made him king, * refused the deciding of congruential causes, * rendered obedience to 〈◊〉 magistrates 
〈◊〉.  the 
d Pelag: dist. 21. cap.  Pope challengeth of right to be Christ's high and general vicar, 
e 〈◊〉. Nich. 〈◊〉 21. cap inferior.  〈◊〉 himself 〈◊〉 all sovereignty and power, 
f Bulla Clementis.  〈◊〉 against the very Angels, 
g Dist. 〈◊〉. 3. 40 〈◊〉.  iustleth the woid of God, out of his Churches, & keepeth it locked in a strange 〈◊〉 from the understanding of the common people, 
h Non habet papa superiorem.  deemeth all obedience, challengeth both the 〈◊〉, and meddleth in all 〈◊〉. All that hold of him must honour him, for Peter's successor (though 〈◊〉 be a 
i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tat. 3. Distinc.  judas and a these, yet he must be the head of 
〈◊〉 2. in her 〈◊〉 at, 1370,  Christ's Church, & without 〈◊〉 
a Glossa extrauag. de sede vacant. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  undergo the government of it, which only 〈◊〉 to Christ. Marvel it is, how contrary they be to themselves in so substantial points of their religion. For at other 
Decret de translat Episcopi cap.  times they affirm, that the spirit can never departed from him, and then how can he be a thief 
Quanto.  and a judas, and carry souls to hell? Whatsoever 
1. 〈◊〉. 5. ver. vlt.  Christ requireth, it maketh no matter, he admitteth nothing, neither must they, that is against his prerogative, against his idolatrous Mass, traditions ceremonies and customs. * Christ will have his children to beware of Idols: 
b See Carolus magnus, Catharinus in libello de imaginibus.  The Pope will have 
〈◊〉 in ca 1. ad Rom. Sand. de Typhon. & adora imaginum.  them placed & worshipped in every Church. * Christ saith, you err not knowing the scriptures: the 
c Conci. Trid. ses. 4. de canon cis Scrip.  pope & his adherents for him say, The scriptures breed errors, & that 
d Harding in his answer to the challenge.  ignorance is the mother of devotion, 
Mat. 22. 29.  that 
Hosius de 〈◊〉 dei 〈◊〉.  the people are swine and dogs, & holy things are not to be given unto them, they are dumb 
f Pighius in locis communi. 〈◊〉. lib. 1. cap. 2.  judges, 
g Eckius.  dead ink, a 
Hosius lib. 4. de tradit, & 〈◊〉 Dei 〈◊〉.  black gospel, 
i 〈◊〉 Roman distinct 〈◊〉  ynken divinity, & 
Cusanus li. 6. excitat ubi ecclesia.  therefore the Church is the lively 
k Prierius contra 〈◊〉.  breast of Christ. The 
l 〈◊〉 lus Hos ut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. Andr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 2. contr. 〈◊〉.  Church of Rome may give authority to writings, which neither have it of themselves, nor of their Authors. The 
m Andra. 〈◊〉 2 〈◊〉.  fables of Esope, & the comedies of Terence, may (if the Church will) be made Canonical scriptures. 〈◊〉 the Pope teacheth is the express word of God, & whosoever leaneth not to the doctrine of the 〈◊〉 and of the Bishop of Rome, as to the 〈◊〉 rule of God, of which the 〈◊〉 taketh force and 〈◊〉, he is an Heretic, 〈◊〉 the authority of the Church is above the authority of the Gospel. The 
n Orth. 〈◊〉. 19  change of the Church's judgement changeth God's judgement, and God's commandment also. Who can without horror and trembling in all his joints, 〈◊〉 these blasphemies, which this man of sin 〈◊〉 himself & in his members, beleheth out against the majesty of the most highest: I mean Andradius 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, Pighius, 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Osorius, Melchior Canus, Harding, Sanders, and such other bottomless locusts. 
a Vaux. Canisius catechism printed at Antwerp by Plantine.  In deed our new jesuits, M. Censurer and such like, who hath undertaken Campions' defence, and the rest of this new brood, they seem to dislike this old rotten stuff. For they profess knowledge, they seem to take a course of catechizing, and laying forth the principles of Popish religion, avouching the necessity of being learned and taught, so that 
b Carbonaris fides, fides ecclcsiae romanae. Fides Romana, id est 〈◊〉.  Hosius Colliers saith, to believe as the Church believeth is scarce sufficient with them And yet all this helpeth not their cause, for that they refuse, to be directed 
1. Tim. 25.  by the rule of faith, which is the only word of God.  
* The doctrine of Christ acknowledgeth but one mediator, 
c To the virgin salva omnes qui 〈◊〉 glorificant.  the Pope and papists an infinite number, 
d Thomas 〈◊〉 kets blood is made a ladder to heaven.  Christ teacheth that his doctrine is profitable, full, and absolute, to make the man of God 〈◊〉: The pope and his shavelings say it is not so, and 
2. 〈◊〉 2 〈◊〉.  
e 〈◊〉 Roma 〈◊〉, nugas dabit, accipit 〈◊〉, verba dat. 〈◊〉 Romae, nunc sola pecunia regnat.  therefore we must receive unwritten verities, traditions, and whatsoever their idle brains will thrust out unto us. The scripture saith, * It is a more blessed thing to give then to take. The Pope sendeth out his infinite swarms of begging 〈◊〉, the very Locusts that came out of the bottomless pit, that devour up all that groweth upon th'earth, who take all and give nothing. The number of 
Act. 20. 35.  which Sectaries following sundry Sect masters and patrons, was long ago amounted to 
a Lambert in pre. The 〈◊〉 of conformities in the beginning.  94. sundry 〈◊〉, beyond all which the jesuits now go, who seeming to profess more learning, 〈◊〉, and righteousness, are the greatest hypocrites, confirming their false doctrine with wonderful illusions, which 
S. Clare. Bridget. S. Kat. and our S. Kath. of Seen with all their goodly revelations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  they call miracles, who yet are as empty of truth, godliness and virtue, as any of their predecessors, S. Francis that in most things was preferred before Christ: with whom Augustine, S. Clare, and S. Bridget by their disciples were matched, are now put clean out of countenance, and their memories in a manner 〈◊〉 blotted out, by these new repairers of that 〈◊〉 church Christ taught that marriage was 
Ioh 2. 3. 5.  lawful, he confirmed it, both by doctrine & miracle 
1. Tim. 4.  
1 Cor. 7. 〈◊〉. 13  with his own presence: the 
b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 82 〈◊〉.  Pope and his greasy 〈◊〉 condemn it as unholy, and rather admitting whoredoome to their Clerks, and such as have received 〈◊〉 mark, than this 〈◊〉 remedy, they 
〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. di. 34 cap lector.  give them a watch word to walk warily. 
c 〈◊〉 otho licet ad 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉.  〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 caute. And though they will needs have it a Sacrament, yet it defileth their Clergy as a profane thing, and is for them utterly unlawful. And as the Pope in 〈◊〉, and in an infinite number of other points, the greatest and waightieste 
〈◊〉. dist. 82. 〈◊〉.  of 〈◊〉 religion, 〈◊〉 himself flatly against Christ, so do all they who hold of him, whom for that cause we justly call papists.  

d The name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 S.  Such hold this Antichrist the pope to be their only God's vicar in earth, they depend upon him 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 Saund. 〈◊〉. and all the 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉.  as head of the Church, in whom they acknowledge the only direction and ordering of all Church 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 throughout the world in all kingdoms 
a Christus 〈◊〉 coelo paesidet, papa in terris residet.  and countries, and therefore 〈◊〉 to the 〈◊〉 of God, and the wholesome laws provided in that behalf; they shut out all Princes and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from having any thing to do 〈◊〉 those cases, they bar them from the 〈◊〉 of their own kingdoms, and from the most principal charge * that God hath laid upon 
〈◊〉. 17. 17. 18 19 20  them 〈◊〉 I cannot but marvel at Owlets 
3. Reg. 5. 2.  slip mentioned before, where he acknowledgeth 
2. Par. 1.  the prince to be 
b Owlet 〈◊〉.  God's 〈◊〉. But slip I think it was not. For he spoke the truth, with his tongue and lied in his 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 he singeth or rather whopeth in the ears of our gracious Nightingale, of obedience, and readiness in the papists, to lay down their 〈◊〉 in her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, yet this unhappy owl meaneth nothing less. For it is to be thought, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 write, that they join with, 
c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, alias Ducat, executed the last of julie. 1581. A verve 〈◊〉 and wilful 〈◊〉 proveth this.  〈◊〉 Hans, 〈◊〉 this other day, for his wicked treasons. The Lord give her highness more 〈◊〉 subjects to rejoice in, or else it were like to be wrong with her, and with us all, as it should quickly appear, I am afraid, if their power were to their hearts, but God hueth and blessed be his name for that holy persuasion he hath given us in his protection. And though he glaveringly calleth her the 〈◊〉 of God, yet the gentleman whom he extolleth for such rare modesty in the 42 leaf of his discourse, calleth this Antichrist the pope, Christ's substitute, without all warrant & ground from him or his word.  
These are such deadly enemies to God, that maliciously they 
d jacob 〈◊〉 trac. de 〈◊〉. lib. 〈◊〉.  withstand that doctrine of faith and vation, which the eternal son of God taught 
〈◊〉. Tim. 2.  here upon earth, inseparably cleaving to that vile Idol of the Mass moste derogatory to his dignity. 
* 〈◊〉. 7. 10.  For whereas he is our only high and everlasting 
Rom. 6.  bishop ordained of God, who hath not spared 〈◊〉 power out his life and blood for our santisication, by offering up one 〈◊〉 sacrifice once for all. These enemies make it unsufficient, without effect and imperfect, and plead another righteousness to satisfy the wrath of God, They pester the earth with many Sacrificers and priests, matching them with our saviour Christ? They make them Peers and companions 
* Psal. 110. 4.  with him, to offer up sacrifices acceptable 
Heb. 15. 10. & 7. 21.  unto him, as well for the sins of the living as the dead, making the Apostles and 〈◊〉 liars, and yet they confess with David, that jesus Christ is an everlasting Priest, according to the order of Melchisedech. Wherein they wholly disadvantage themselves, seeing they must be Priests either according to the order Aaron and Levi, or according to thorder of Melchisedech. The 
* Heb. 10. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. etc.  order of Aaron and Levi had an end with the ceremonial 〈◊〉 and sacrifices thereof. And Christ was only that high Priest who was everlasting, offered up a perfect sacrifice, stood not at the altar, but having offered up his own body, being both the priest and Sacrifice, offering not for his own sins, but for ours, hath entered into Heaven, and is set down at the right hand of the Father for ever, having finished a perfect voorke of this Priesthood for our full satisfaction and atonement. This whole crowd therefore, The Pope, Cardinals, Friars, Priests, jesuits, Massesayers, and 〈◊〉, and all that delight in them, & consent unto them: they are horrible enemies of God, 〈◊〉 Prophets, wicked 〈◊〉, Apostates, Wolves, false pastors, Idolaters, 〈◊〉, & execrable 〈◊〉, murderers of souls, renouncers of jesus Christ, and his death and passion, false witnesses, traitors, the 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, and robbers of God's honour, and most detestable. For by this * sacrifice of 
Phil. 4. 18.  jesus Christ, all outward and visible sacrifices of any 
Heb. 13. 16.  other priesthood before or after are abolished and made of no effect, except these sacrifices of * praise 
Psal. 51.  & thanksgiving, of alms containing the spiritual worship of the kingly priesthood which are perpetual amongst all Christians. In deed we must have a high * Priest, who must be holy, innocent, and 
Heb. 4. 4 & 26.  without spot, who needed not to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins, and after for the sins of the people, but 〈◊〉 performed 
〈◊〉. 10. 12. 14  this * in offering up himself 〈◊〉 for al. He saith once for 〈◊〉, because neither it 〈◊〉 the like should or could be reiterated. And therefore he is called the * 〈◊〉 of 
Heb. 〈◊〉. 11.  〈◊〉 things to come, 〈◊〉 into the holy place, by his own blood once for all, where through was wrought everlasting redemption & 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 of sins. Wherefore unless we will renounce jesus Christ, we have no need of such sacrifices. * Behold I come, to th'end to do thy will O God, by the which 
Heb. 10. 7. 12. 15. 16. 17.  will we are 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 the offering up of the body of Christ once for al. The holy ghost witnesseth that in this new covenant, sealed and perfected in this one only Sacrifice of Christ, that he will no more remember 〈◊〉 iniquities: and where there is remission of them, there remaineth no more oblation for sin, The sacrifices of the old 〈◊〉 by reason of their imperfection must be continued & daily renewed, but Christ's offering ces of the old la by reason of their imperfection must be continued and daily renewed, but Christ's offering up himself, finished a perfect work, & his sacrifice was persect. As for their sacrifices, they are imperfect, & therefore they continue & renew a sacrifice & oblation derogatory to that of Christ's, robing God of his glory, & the people of their greatest comfort in this world. 
a D. Smith of the sacramen. 〈◊〉. & 〈◊〉 of the real presence.  They are such enemies to God, that they overthrow the truth of all religion and draw us to execrable idolatry, teaching us under bread & wine to worship whole Christ whom they affirm in a 〈◊〉 presence most grossly & contrary to all the scriptures to be there present, against the truth of a body & notwithstanding his resurrection & ascension they say, that such a transubstantiation is made, as there remaineth no substance of bread & wine, most contrary to the nature of a Sacrament, though the accidents remain: & as they are enemies to him in these gross & monstrous doctrines, so their 〈◊〉 hath another end then the supper hath. For in the supper the servants of Christ * make public profession of their faith, they hear the word preached, 
1. Cor. 11. 23 26.  they witness their faithful persuasion, & 〈◊〉 of salvation, keeping an actual memory of the death and passion of jesus Christ, & 〈◊〉 to remembrance his wonderful and unspeakable love, who hath given his life & shed his blood freely for them, and all eating of one bread, and drinking of one cup; are admonished of that brotherly love and great unity whereby they are knit together, & live and die to jesus Christ, as one body in one and the same spirit: whereas in the mass the knowledge of Christ is defaced, the preaching of the gospel is rejected, 
b Durandi rationat. 〈◊〉 see Gabriel. Biel. the Pontifical.  & the time is altogether spent in mockings and mowing, turnings, and removings from one place to another, with an infinite number of fruitless superstitions and wicked ceremonies, worse than ever those were that were invented by Numa Pompilius, and drawn from the Pagans. I could wish in my heart that some young scholar would take the pains to translate their Pontifical into English, that all our countrymen might see their more than heathenish and mad customs and abominations, 
a Alexand. ab Alexander. lib. ovid. de 〈◊〉.  The making of their holiwater, without doubt, they learned of Ovid, as they did purgatory of Virgil, & other their mysteries from other profane 
Genialio. 40. cap. 17.  Pagans and writers.  
Such enemies to God they are, that with the gentiles 
b Rom. 1. 19 20. 21. etc.  they have forsaken the living God, & chosen to themselves other foreign Gods, made of metal, wood, & stone, potearth & bread, before whom they have 〈◊〉; to which they have prayed, which they have adored & worshipped, kissed, crept to, & embraced, making their vile priests creators of their Creator. For if he be greater that maketh and createth, then that which is made and created, it must follow that their dignity must needs be more than Gods, that that place of Scripture may justly fit them, which saith: That 
c 2. Thess. 2. 7.  that man of sin, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 himself 〈◊〉 all that is called God. And if every priest be greater than God, what is he that createth such creatures, as can make God? In deed, if this were true, they are far above the virgin Mary, who bore 
Sacerdos est creator sui creatoris. Qui creavit me sine me, iam creatur mediant me.  him but once, and they make him often. She was his mother as he was man, but they make him as he is both God and man. which is horrible blasphemy: And therefore their own mass-book saith 
d In the title do dignitate sa cerdotum in a mass book printed at Paris.  that the priest is the creator of his creator, And he that made me with out me is now made by the means of me.  
Such wretched enemies to God they are, that 
a joh. Andreas Innocentius. joh. de turre. cremata, de ec cle Summa.  their saith hangeth altogether upon antichrist their God, whom they make not only a God of the hills, but also of the valleys. They believe nothing but that which he alloweth, as for Christ his Evangelists, Apostles, and teachers, they make no reckoning of them in 
b Lanfr. contra Wicklefum Lepus.  respect of their Pope's laws and constitutions: he 
c See their casus 〈◊〉.  that can dispense with them & against them, must needs be above them. And 
d Hochstratus. Eckius in his Enchiridion. Hosius de expresso dei. verbo.  therefore their doctors teach that to cleave to the scriptures 
Laurentius.  
Ockam in dia logo par. 1. lib. 5. joan.  is to be an heretic. Such enemies to God they are, as are marked with Cain's lying, crucltye and murder, both against the Law of 
Dreido de Dogmatib. vari s. lib. 4.  GOD and man, 
e See the stories of their government, the book of martyrs, Spanish inquisitio. etc.  For they have murdered Christians, without all compassion, they keep no faith nor promise. No nature or kindness maketh them spare where hatred is 〈◊〉 against the truth, no age sex or condition, draweth any pity, be they old or young; halt or blind; with child or without, brother or father, sister or mother, wife or kinswoman, husband or friend, at home or abroad, Son or servant, but they shall be sure to die a cruel death for it. All stories are full of examples of their savage and outrageous cruelty, not only against the professors of the truth, but even one of them against another, example is yet fresh in memory of 
f july. 18. 1581.  Sherwoodes 〈◊〉 against Hobson; one of his dearest friends: 
g john Diazius Pantalio in his Chronic. Sleyd an. Chrisp.  much like the wicked Treason of Alphonsus against john Diazius his own natural brother, besides infinite examples in these murders in France, in the inquisition of Spain full of hideons torments, which shall witness the truth hereof to all posterities. This howling owl notwithstanding (by his bold flight prognosticating some mischief) scricheth in her majesties ears, of the hard handling of Catholics, how they 
a Howlet. pag 5. 6.  are tossed and tumbled, opmrisoned and pined, husbands separated from their wives, wives from their husbands, their housekeeping broken up, & by name, M. Dimock killed in prison, & one mistress. Tomson a virgin sent for religion to 〈◊〉: 〈◊〉 what shall I say, In imbre garrula est noctua. This foolish owl complaineth of case, slandering her majesty, to whom he would seem so dutiful: and her whole government and state, of barbarous cruelty: when the trespass in deed is only herein, that they are dealt with but to gently, considering their continual attempts against her highness estate, crounc, and dignity. Concerning 
b M. Dimocke his own friends hath testified this to be true.  M. Dimock of whom he speaketh he had the choosing of his own prison (which was no choking dungeon, no coalhouse or 〈◊〉 tower, (such as they were wont to stifle men up in) but a friends house, to whom his wife (if he had any) friends, and other acquaintance repaired, whose death was by God's hand and by no procurement of those magistrates, that sought his reformation as his own friends can witness. As for the young woman who he complaineth to be committed 
c Bridewell a fit place for M. 〈◊〉, that behaved herself immodestly before authority.  to bridewell for her conscience forsooth, if conscience may be without knowledge she was committed by her highness high commissioners to a place, both for air & expense, that was thought 〈◊〉 for her person, & 〈◊〉, having behaved herself, over obstinately and immodestly 〈◊〉 a sober 〈◊〉, howsoever worthy her religion, before them. And yet this perking Parsons or owlishe 〈◊〉 needs be so, out of his ivy bush might have learned, that honester than she 
divers that were of the private church were committed to that place till they were reform.  and all the pack of them will ever be, except they amend & high them apace, have been committed to that place, both for religion & other causes, as some others have been for dishonesty & an ill life. There have been such conitted thither, as he complained of before, that they escaped with little or no punishment for breaking the book. It is not the place but the cause that putteth off or draweth on an infamy. But her maiesti may see, & so may all the honourable, the malapertness of this ugly owl, that is so curious in commonwealth matters, that he prierh into her highness officers doings, & having so slanderous a tongue, pretendeth notwithstanding such loyalty and duty towards her highness. But if we had been in their handling, we should have had little leisure and less opportunity to have opened our griefs before any Sovereignty in authority. For besides that they were in truth the practisers of tyranny and cruelty in all other doings, they would have dried up the best blood in our bodies, and sent us to heaven in fiery chariots: after unspeakable torments, to have put an end to our wretched lives. Their consciences forsooth may not be urged, nor their catholics may not be allowed 
Conscientia non fine scientia.  to obey their prince in coming to the Church, to hear the word of God preached, the only ordinary way to reform them, and to bring them to salvation: tender regard must be had of the sex and birth of their offenders, (& yet this woman whom he will needs make a great gentlewoman is but a francklins daughter) though they offend obstinately both against God and their Sovereign, whom they ought to obey in and for the Lord, and that when they offend against the word of God, the peace of the church, and the good laws of this Realm. Not so much as a little imprisonment (in steed of death, being found obstinate and uncorrigible, and lightly joined with treason against the state) but it must be exclaimed against, as if they had endured the greatest wrongs in the world: when it is plain, and yet fresh in memory, 
a See the lamentable stories of England, France, Ireland etc.  what havoc they made of the lives of noble and unnoble, of blind and lame, of boys & gitles, even before their counterseite sentence of condemnation were past, and yet it was for true religion in deed, and but for standing against their blasphemies and cursed idolatries. your opinion and religion (Owlet) must be reserved, but to them that did with a true knowledge allege that plea of conscience, you were and are continually ready to abuse that place of Scripture: 
Rom. 13.  Let every soul be subject to the higher powers, etc. yea, you would urge it in all things with all extremity and without all condition in respect of yourselves when yet it might not bind you nor any of your greasy generation, & this may appear by the cold exposition found of late by search in a gentleman's house, in Buckinghamshire, upon this very place, together with another slanderous, lying, and seditious libel against those godly learned men, M. Doctor Fulke and M. Charke.  
Such enemies they are to God, that they will bring the word of God into doubt, 
b 〈…〉  affirming the Church to be more ancient than the word. They will ask how 〈◊〉 know the word of God to be the word of God. And albeit (God be thanked for it) concerning the knowledge of those tongues the 
a As Daniel in the Chaldey, & some other were in Syriake, all the rest in Hebrew and Greek.  Hebrew, Chaldey, Syriack, and Greek, in which the Scriptures were first delivered, from which they would feign beat us, if they have gained any thing, they have had it at our hands, 〈◊〉 their light from ours, yet they will swear that our 〈◊〉 are false, & lead us to a translation 
b Read Freder. Furius de lib. sacris in vernaculum convertendis.  fathered upon Jerome, which we must receive even as it is, that yet in deed they can never prove to have been any of his, seeing in his own works, the 
c The common translation fathered upon Hierom, non of his as may appear in his own works.  difference is plain in many places, from that of 〈◊〉, which is full of Solicismes & imperfect speeches; Notwithstanding even by this, when we have accepted of it, and have fought with them, their own throats have been cut, as with their own sword, and the errors 
d See Marcus Marinus in his preface prefixed before his Hebrew Grammar.  which they maintain have been confuted, when they have admitted it. I think they will ask shortly, how we know there is a God, as the prophet hath said of the wicked, who though they were ashamed to utter it, yet * thought they in their hearts that there was no God. But that you may consider further of the translation, to which that 
e Concil. Trid. Ses. 4.  conspiracy of Trent hath taken upon them to bind all the world, upon pain of their 
Psal. 14.  black 〈◊〉, with what good reason, I will set down a few testimonies and places. There was a very ancient book in Hebrew, which is entitled without the authors name, 
f 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉.  Nizahon, who upon that psalm. The heavens declare the glory 〈◊〉 God. witnesseth that when Jerome did 〈◊〉 that psalm at Rome he said that he had turned the Bible with great travel out of the 〈◊〉 tongue into latin, neither did I alter any thing (saith he) but there arose after him (as the author saith) such as with writing it out, 〈◊〉 all And in Reuclines library also, being a great learned man in that tongue, there was found in a very ancient Hebrew copy written, which had these words, Lo Jerome the elder knew our whole 〈◊〉, the whole 〈◊〉 etc. What likelihood is there, that 〈◊〉 being so learned a man in all the tongues, his own translations being so far different from 
a Read in Calvin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Con cil. 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 4. Canon.  that common translation, that a little after carried his name, which himself oftentimes taxeth and findeth fault with in his works, that ever 〈◊〉 should be his, where a man 
Read 〈◊〉 in Concil.  for his life in sundry places can make neither rhyme nor reason? as far from the tongue wherein 
Trident.  it was written, as might be. And this 〈◊〉 divers of the Doctors many times into such 〈◊〉, who were either altogether ignorant, or but meanly seen in the tongues, that they knew not which way to turn them, as namely 
b 〈◊〉 Civitate Dei lib. 18. cap. 44.  Augustine: who doubted whether it were within the space of forty days, according to the Hebrew, that the Ninivites should be destroyed or within three days, as that translation fathered upon the Septuaginta had rendered. And yet, he saith, if his opinion should be asked: he rather thinketh it to be forty, as is in the Hebrew. So Jerome in his Epistle to Damasus, justly taxeth Hilarius for interpreting that word Hosianna, which he rendereth the redemption of the house of 〈◊〉. And Ambrose almost after the same manner. In 〈◊〉 in the primative Church, the Greek tongue so flourished that it was the most common tongue through out the world, howsoever the romanists boast of the latin, whereupon it came to pass that even the Evangelists and other ecclesiastical writers, living both at jerusalem and Rome, in the writings of the old testament rather used the greek interpretation, than the Hebrew founteynes themselves. And it cannot be denied howsoever there may be defence made for that interpretation that goeth under the name of these 70. both for the antiquity of it & for their wonderful pains, who laboured in it, yet that it is far more safe to have recourse to the 
a The best way evermore to go to the fountains.  fountains themselves, who ever denied but such obstinate enemies? Is it not ever safer for men to look with their own eyes, and to go with their own feet then with other men's? And if any man shall object that they might change many things by the spirit of prophesy, besides that it was long ago confuted by Hierom, who affirmed that it was one thing to do the duty of an enterpreter, another of a prophet; this also is to be considered, that we must not be over bold with the word of the almighty. For albeit we may & aught to labour precisely to interpret it, yet it becometh no mortal man to take upon him, to alter, ad, or diminish any thing in that everlasting word of God. And if they bear no excuse that drawn with an excessive love of the greek that than most flourished, & was most generally received, faulted: how shall they be excused that thrust a Latin translation upon us that hath a number of wants, which having been often showed them, yet they would never vouchsafe to amend any, and is full of imperfections, yea contrary to their own 
b Decret. Cano 1. 〈◊〉. 9  Canons, which show us that the credit of the ancient books is to be examined from the Hebrew volumes, and the new from the Greek. And therefore 
c Pagninus in 〈◊〉 gramat. Hebr.  Pagnine a learned Hebritian wisheth that they could show him Hieroms translation. For that saith he, which is read every where in his name, is none of that incorrupt translation, & that he hath proved by many unanswerable arguments in his Epistle to Pope Clement himself. And therefore another grave man saith, that it can not be proved that ever the church of God ought to be bound to any certain translation. But as the Lord in mercy shall increase and continue that necessary 
a The gift of tongues necessary in the church.  gift of the knowledge of tongues in his Church, and shall give light and understanding, so we ought evermore to repair to the fountains, & that we may be fit for so excellent a work of the ministry of the word it is a necessary labour to learn to understand it, in it own language, which whilst men have neglected, we see how by the 〈◊〉 judgement of God, they have 〈◊〉 into palpable darkness. I will omit the Psalms as they are sung in the popish churches, & divers other places in sundry lessons most absurd, in every popish pie and service book of theirs yet extant. For to reckon them all, would make a just volume, and weary a man. Only let this be marked, that as Jerome noteth the corruption of the Greek interpretation of the seventy interpreters, which either came through ignorance, or negligence, or both, so the common translation, done by an unknown author, drawn from them, strayeth further. The Greek I will pass over, and only note some few places out of the latin, sufficiently convincing the translation that is, to be none of Hieroms, because it differeth so much both from the Hebrew & the Greek, as in the 65 Psal. ver. 11. where he saith thou shalt water the rivers, in stead of the furrows. & in 68 Psalm verse 19 day and daily, in steed of daily, and in the 87. 〈◊〉 vers. 6. there is read, Nunquid de Zion, whereas 〈◊〉 is neither in the Hebrew not Greek, and so there he saith Many were, For many were borne in her, and in the 88, Psalm vers. 14. Lord why dost thou reject my prayer, for my soul. The places are infinite and have been found fault with by many, and yet never mended by any, only sometimes, they set the truth in the margin, but they keep the errors still in the text which showeth their malic, as in the article referred to the seed, and which is masculine, yet that 
〈◊〉. 〈◊〉.  they may maintain their error, they keep the article feminine and would have it understood of the 
Luk. 15.  virgin. So for 〈◊〉 domum she swept the house, they keep evertit domum, she overthrew the house, & 1. Pet. 4. 23. He committed himself to him that judgeth unjustly, referring that unto Pilate, if it have any sense, which the Apostle meaneth to god For it is contrary. He committed himself or his cause to, God to him that judgeth justly. These & a number of such absurdities there are, some noted also by divers great learned men, whereof I make no mention, & yet forsooth they will have us only bound to this common translation and no other. We say notwithstanding, that we are so far from condemning the labours of those 70. interpreters, wosocuer they were, that 〈◊〉 thank God for them: wherein they have done well, we praise their industry, and so do we, the labours of him that did that common translation, and theirs also that since 〈◊〉 rendered any thing either out of the Hebrew or Greek, but therewithal we affirm with Jerome, that if any question arise amongst the lattines concerning the new 〈◊〉, or if the copies vary, we must go to the 〈◊〉 of the Greek, or if any doubt occur with the Greeks, we must to the Hebrew, read Augustine's council in his book de doctrina Chr 〈◊〉. lib. 1. If this course had been held, since God gave increase of knowledge from the beginning, many 〈◊〉 had been amended, and the papists would not have been so obstinate in that which they cannot defend, but it is the proper nature of these 〈◊〉 of God, still to uphold errors, never to acknowledge their 〈◊〉 and faults, 〈◊〉 the children of God are 〈◊〉 ready to amend that which is amiss, and to be thankful to them that admonish them.  
Such enemies they are to God, that they join and participate withal the heretics that ever were in one point of heresy or other. They have nothing sound in the whole mass and body of their religion. From Satan the subtle serpent, whose eldest 
evagr. lib. 1. hist. cap. 21.  son this antichrist is, he carrieth his father's resemblance in all things. The 
a Epiphan. lib. 2. tom. 1.  Adamites were beastly, against marriage went naked, used all 
john 〈◊〉. Campégius pighius.  kinds & Sexes in common and 〈◊〉, as we read the frantic Annabapristes did likewise, and how 〈◊〉 off are they from these villainies? Pope 
b Crantius lib. 4. cap 43.  Leo the 9 and paschal, the one in the year 1150. the other 1100. join both together in the condemnation of marriage. 
c Agrip. art. 21 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 22. & 〈◊〉. 16. ut habetur in cap Si concubina descent excom & gratia. 34. dist 〈◊〉. 40.  Their own divines teach their priesthood to be defiled with marriage, but not with harlots, yea, that it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to play the 〈◊〉 then to marry: It is 〈◊〉 for a Christian man, who hath not a wise, to have a concubine, Neither do 〈◊〉 forswear incontinency but matrimony. This is the cause that the Pope taketh a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of his Priests for their concubines, and in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they 
Ioh 〈…〉. 34. Christianos.  have any or no, they pay their 〈◊〉 for it. And 〈◊〉 
d Agrippa Bale 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sixti 〈◊〉 lib. de Rom. Pont. vitis.  Syxtus builded stews for both kinds, like an horrible monster, in the year of Christ 1474. Herein they likewise join with 
Irenaeus lib. 3.  Tatianus, Montanus, and Carpocrates, for they 
Tom. 3. 〈◊〉.  
lib. 2. Tom. 1.  
a 〈◊〉. confu. 162. & 〈◊〉.  mayntein the 〈◊〉, tolerate whoredom by 
〈◊〉 lib. 8.  bulls and licences, yea 
b 〈◊〉 in Alphonso.  they prefer Sodomitry 
〈◊〉.  and filthy buggery, before that holy remedy of marriage in their priests, which God hath appointed for a remedy to all that have not the gift of 〈◊〉: and therefore Paul the third, beside, his common 
Mant. 2. fast.  revenue for forty five thousand whores, 
Sipudor in vil 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 pati 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  〈◊〉 paying forty thousand ducats in Rome, he had also as some report; forty thousand ruffians 
〈…〉 iam tota 〈◊〉 nar. 〈◊〉 de Clamangis de corrupto ecclaesiae statu Constitut. Othonis. de con cubinis clericorum removendis. Bucer.  kept upon their charges at an hours warning, to do him any kind of service. For every one of these harlots had a champion to keep her house, & to be her special desendant, whatsoever other incommers there were beside. And though Parsons, Nichols discoverer defends both the stews and the stipends arising to his unholy holiness for them, under the name of a punishment, yet who seethe not that it is tolerated upon this condition, and matrimony cannot be tolerated in priests, upon any condition. 
joh. Filius. vegerius. Ochi nus. 〈◊〉, Anselmus.  
c Mark. 10. 4.  The 〈◊〉 taught the putting away of men's wives for any cause, and so in a manner do they. For the pope will dispense with any, 
d Error, conditio, votum, co gnatio, crimen: cultus, 〈◊〉, vis, ordo, ligamen, honestas: si sit affinis, si forte coire nequibit  and 
Driander.  there are twelve 〈◊〉 alleged, such as the scripture 〈◊〉 approved off, why men may put away their wives. The 〈◊〉 would have the use of oath men's wives, adultery and fornication to be an indifferent thing, and so 
e Ioh de Tur. Crem Laurent.  will they, For they teach that simple fornication is no sin, and though M. 〈◊〉 slander Luther for pleading the 〈◊〉 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 1. cap 38 〈◊〉 de Sanc.  
Vict. par. 2. Distinct. 34. 〈◊〉 qui.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cap 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. de 〈◊〉.  of marriage, as much as of eating and drinking, yet they say in deed; it is lawful to have a woman once in a month, 
a Thomas Aquinas. sent. lib. 3.  ad de 〈◊〉 renes, to purge the reins. I would have seen lusty, Campion to have been as diligent in 〈◊〉 the manifest abominations of their 〈◊〉 and canonists, as he is to corrupt Luther's sayings, and to dub that which before was disproved, and neither coldly nor fearfully defended. But they and their complices have 〈◊〉 whole books 
b jason pratensis. printed 1549 by Petrus Aretinus at venice, upon which book 〈◊〉 there have been written commentaries and many filthy pictures printed there.  de ratione 〈◊〉 liberos: de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 concubandi, and joannes a Casa an Archbishop, hath written a book in the praise of filthy Sodomitry, calling it a divine work. Horrible were it to read the books of these lecherous Locusts, to see what questions and 
c Summa Angelica de casibus conscientiae.  cases of plexitie they put and take upon them to handle concerning these things, were it not the just judgement of God, that they should bewray their filthy hearts, and leave such dung behind them to infect the world, which is to be cast in their own faces to choke them, seeing without shame they will dare to open their mouths against the everlasting truth of God. It were an infinite work to reckon up all their heresies, but this is certain 
Lut. Cortes in lib. 3. sent dist. 3. Thomae 〈◊〉.  that the whole lump of popery is compact of heresy. They are judasses with judas, whom they worship for betraying Christ. They are jews with the Jews, whom they justify for killing Christ, and they plead that they had sinned deadly, if they had not done it. They worship the 〈◊〉 upon which 〈◊〉 died, the nails, thorns, 〈◊〉 and instruments where with he was executed, of which they make as sundry Idols, as they have increased the number of such 〈◊〉 relics in sundry countries. And to the cross they have dcdicated a day, 〈◊〉 it holy rood day, which they worship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, the 〈◊〉 worship which belongeth to 〈◊〉. With the 〈◊〉 they agree almost in all things in 〈◊〉 separation, apparel, pride, & 〈◊〉 wish, observations, & ceremonies, doing 〈◊〉 things like 〈◊〉, to be seen of men, & 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then to be 〈◊〉 & justified 
〈…〉.  of 〈◊〉. With the Saducees some of them have 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the soul and the life to come, 〈◊〉 did 
a 〈◊〉 hist. 〈◊〉. c.  john the 23. and Pope Leo the tenth, and as they said, that it was in our will to do good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. so do they 〈◊〉, that a man 
b 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉.  needeth not the grace of God to be good. The 
c 〈◊〉.  Essees, the 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, Melitans, Donatists, 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and justiciaries, would be saved 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 2. 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  by their own works, and so will they. Simon Magus as they themselves take him, was one of their first founders, for besides that he was a sorcerer, he would have bought the gifts of the holy ghost, and so 
d Mant. lib call Read Platina & your own 〈◊〉.  would they of whomsoever they learned it. For as 
〈◊〉 Irenaeus lib. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  Sylvester the second, joh. the 19 Ioh the 20. 〈◊〉 the 4. 〈◊〉 the 8. joh. 21. 〈◊〉. 9 〈◊〉 the 3. 
〈◊〉. lib. 6. 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉.  Gregory the 6. & 〈◊〉 the 7. were sorcerers & con 
〈◊〉. multis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cis.  〈◊〉. so they make no conscience to buy and sell their orders, and 〈◊〉 all their places by money 
f 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  from the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the lowest hedge priest. With 〈◊〉 they 〈◊〉 a new 〈◊〉, and 
〈◊〉 de turre 〈◊〉  as 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 and Tatians hoed that Christ was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the virgin Mary: So they hold that all 〈…〉 took flesh of the virgin Mary, and came and 〈◊〉 Hel. With 
g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  〈◊〉 they 〈◊〉 water, wax, Palms, bread, wine, and many other things, as may appear by their own Pontifical, with the Gnostics they maintain 
a Cliutoveus de venerat.  images, with Montanus they command superstitious fastings, & 
Gaspar Rutlandus.  forbid meats that God hath commanded to be received with thanksgiving, with Cerinthus they corrupt 
Saunders de Tip ador. imag. 1. Tim. 4.  the scriptures, with Martion & apelles they urge vncōmāded ceremonies, with the And ans, & Anthropomorphits, they make God like an old man, & with the gentiles they make images of all sorts, of foursooted beasts & creeping worms, with Donatists, they tie the universal church not to a part of the world, as they did to afftick, but to a less place, even to a city, & both with them, with the Anabaptists & Pelagians, they maintain free wil They offer to the virgin Mary & call her the Queen of heaven, as did the Colliridians, with the Cataphrigians and others who held that Christ ascended without a body, they 
The heresies are known & when they show a difference, they shall receive an answer.  hold that, that body is still in their rowed cake, and in infinite places at once. And as Severus said that a woman was the devils workmanship, and man also from the navel downward. So Pope Innocent the 8. avouched that they that were married could not please God, aleadging that place Qui in c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deo placere non possunt. With Manes they make themselves Christ and above him. With the Catharists they boast of a perfection in this life, & of such worthincsse as deserveth heaven both for themselves and others, agreeing with Henrye Nicholas that Arch-heritique, that monstrous head of the frantic Family of Love, who perverteth all the scriptures, and glorieth of an essential righteousness. With the 
Bullinger adversus 〈◊〉.  anabaptists, they deny magistrates, by cutting them of from the principal part of their office, & government in their own 〈◊〉, & countries, making them hogs & swine in comparison of their Pope, and his anointed ones, to whom no knowledge of god, nor duty in advancing Christian religion doth belong.  
Such enemies they are to God, as directly set themselves against all the commandments of God not only breaking them, as all other men do, when they say notwithstanding they can fulfil them (as other 〈◊〉 have done) but in the whole course of their doctrine quite thwart and ourthrow them.  
In 
a They worship many gods.  steed of one God the sovereign & only Lord, who is only to be worshipped, called upon, trusted in & praised for all his benefits, they set up a number 
Exod. 3. 14. & 20.  of gods exceeding the 〈◊〉 gentiles, robbing God of his glory, Every disease must have a several 
Deut. 4. 35. & 6. 4.  God both in men & in beasts, & must be called upon with a paternoster for the cure thereof, beside the abominable 
b Durand. Innocent de officiis 〈◊〉.  〈◊〉, that was made a salve for all sores, that being first had, must prosper all the seers, help hunters, purge pigs and preserve hogs, cause rain & 
Guydon de monte Roch.  fair weather, deliver out of purgatory & direct general counsels. What was it the mass could not do. And yet lest there should be lack for any thing, not so much as the toothache, but it had a saint Apolinari 
This is manifestly to be seen through out all their books.  & Valentin was for lovers, S. Lo for smiths: Chrispian & Martin, for shoemakers, Nicholas & Cletus for clerks, George for warriors & for England, Andrew for Scotland, Denis for France. james or jac 
Saint's offices many, all robbing God of his glory.  ques, for Spain, & Patrick for Ireland. There was no town, 〈◊〉, private house or country, but they had a sundry saint patron or God, upon whom they chief depended. 
Read the Behive. foi. 252. 253. 254.  Every church and church stepeple must bear the name of one S. or other, or of all Saints that they might match the old idolaters, who had their 
a Paulus Diac. Lib. Ceremo, niarum.  Pantheon at Rome, & which was more gross, their stinking relics must be sought to, not so much as Hubert's key, but must have the virtue to heal the biting 
Legenda aurea Rom Breviar.  of a mad dog, & upon relic sunday the Parson's brich must be hanged out at the top of the steeple. These 
Pontifical.  detestable idolatries buried in the dark, & scatrered amongst all christians by the light of the gospel, this 
b Hoc est viris avibus quod noctua. etc.  horsces owl that seemeth to the birds another wonder, & certain other impudent jesuits from Rome, that they may entangle many in the lime twigs, 
Eglog. 9  and bring them to the spit of utter destruction, labour to revive, & bring again from hell, amongst us. 〈◊〉 it can not be, but portend some notable mischief, that this Parson's Owl, or rather 
c Alexander ab Alexandro Ob bubonem aut 〈◊〉 Cellum iovis aut Capitolium ingressum Sulphuris & quae lustratione ur bem & Capitolium expiarunt.  wolf should thus 〈◊〉 into jupiters' Cell, and into our highest Capitolium to schriche and howl so ylfavouredly in the ears of our Prince for the maintenance of cursed Idolatry against the truth of God. But I trust, though we have not that old sacrifice of the Romans, neither use brimstone or holy-water from whom those Popish Apes learned such toys, to purge our cities and temple, yet we shall cleanse it by a better purgation.  
though 
d Images forbidden.  God have forbidden Images to be set in the temple, that Idolatry might be avoided that they might not be as snares to corrupt men, who 
Exod. 20.  
Deut. 4. 12.  are prone and apt unto it, as being too vile and insufficient 
isaiah. 41.  to set him out by: who is a spirit, almighty, 
Io. 5. 21.  incomprehensible, full of all majesty and glory: yea, though Christ be God and man, and must have a spiritual worship, so that no Image can set him out and bear his resemblance, yet rather than they will not have * God the father like an 
Abac. 2. 18. etc. james prayed to 〈◊〉 staff, & therefore we must pray to Images.  old man, decaying in nature with a white beard, and a bald head, and have a Rood of six foot long in every church, they will quite leave out this 
a Epist. Adrian Act. 2.  second commandment, and because they 
Read the trim arguments in that 2. Nicen Council, and you shall see good stuff.  would not be taken with the manner, all the world knowing that there be ten commandements, they are fain to use this bad shift, to chop and slice the last into two, God having made it but one, yea howsoever the heaven 
b The name of God holy.  of heavens cannot contain him, neither dwelleth he in temples made with hands, yet these enemies of his, will bring him into 
Horrible blaspheme ie.  the compass of the earth, they will dream of a 
See Vauses Catechism & others that commonly leave it out, One printed at 〈◊〉 by the commandment of the King of Spain.  breaden God, wherein when worms breed, they will cruelly burn him with fire: in despite of God 〈◊〉 will worship these images, with the same worship that belongeth to the holy trinity, whom they feign to speak, to sweat, and to do great 〈◊〉. 
b The name of God holy.  Though the name of God be precious, and to be honoured of all his children, yet these enemies will swear in vain by him, and because all their religion is carnal, & they imagine of God, as they paint 
Tho. Aquinsuper mandat.  him, & set him out in all respects like a man, so they profane his name in all their idolatrous worship, 
isaiah. 66. 1.  
Act. 7. 19  they swear also horribly, by soul, body, blood, heart, in their common talk. For from them not only sprang the dishonour of his name by their idolatries, 
George Wicellus in his retection sweareth horribly.  Masses, Dirges, Trentals, will worships, devised religion, charmings, 〈◊〉 of creatures, magical abusing the scriptures, but also that horrible 
Profaning and swearing common with 〈◊〉 papists.  swearing by all the parts of a body, as if he were a man, which is used of villains and Ruffianes who are want to leave no part of a body 〈◊〉. And when they have done with him, than they run 
Esay. 18. 19 jer. 12. 16.  to their mass, other idols and creatures, both of 
Soph. 15.  〈◊〉 own making, & otherwise flatly * against the 
Deut. 6. 13. & 10. 20.  scriptures. This is common I say amongst papists. not only in their accustomed speeches, but in their 
a Examples of perjury in papists, read Ma Par. of the 〈◊〉 of Ro mulus in the besieging of Avignon a Legate of the pope's in the year 1222.  solemn assemblies and places 〈◊〉 judgement, and where they should show greatest faith and truth: which are the very seed of fearful perjuries. And in all these cases their consciences 〈◊〉 without all touch, because they make account of some three halfpenny satisfaction, which they may obtrude to God, and he shall not refuse it, as they say, for a just recompense. If they will charge us with the like, 
Also before that of the breach of the oath of the clergy toward 〈◊〉 the first, when they dispossessed his heir, and crowned king Stephen. And in the 〈◊〉 of Step.  they cannot, and their own mouths shall witness for us, because, they make it a mark of an heretic as they account us, if he swear not 〈◊〉.  
As for the 
b The Saboth to be religious lie kept.  〈◊〉, they neither know what it is, nor how to keep it by any virtuous or godly exercises, seeing they have none amongst them. And therefore all the abuses that have pestered the 〈◊〉 this long time, have sprung from their idolatries. Besides: they defiled it with abominable stageplays and interludes, with baiting and tearing, of 
Gardiner, Boner, & the rest that were sworn against the Pope's supremacy, and yet afterwards revolted.  Bulls, Bears, & other beasts, with reveling & roving like mad dogs. They cared not what devise took place, what pastime were used, though therein the devil himself were served, so they might keep the people quiet and occupied in ignorance, holding them from the light of God's word: And therefore their 〈◊〉 upon these holiest days, were filthy whoredom, drunkenness, misrule and dissolute dealing. Nothing was unlawful if once they heard their abominable mass, wherein their opinion in that point was not so much to be blamed. For having committed the most horrible sacrilege in the world, why should they make bones at any other sin whatsoever? True it is, that they blaspemously 
The Saboth day most wic kedly profaned by papists both in their meetings, by idolatries, and abroad, by licentious and 〈◊〉 enormities.  charge the gospel with these abuses and corruptions but how unjustly, all the world may judge, and their own consciences shall convince them, sith they 〈◊〉 hatched under their own wings, and the Gospel doth from time to time disprove them, reform them and hath gained against them. And even as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and ill favoured face of an Owl doth bewray his kind, and all the birds of the field know him, assoon as they see him, follow him and wonder at him: So these foul abuses bewray by their feather, that 〈◊〉 & idolatry hatched them first forth into the world, which banished the doctrine of faith and repentance, from amongst the Sons of men, and lulled them 〈◊〉 in deep security, so as they were careless how they lived: seeing also that 〈◊〉 their death, they might buy out their sins for so small a value. 〈◊〉 they deny these things, a day will come when the * judgement of God, which 
Rom. 2. 2.  is according to truth shall convince them of them, and they shall feel the weight of them.  
As for the second table, they who are found such 
The second Table.  rebels to God, how can they yield the duties that are due to men? As therefore they 〈◊〉 God, so they yield no honour to those chief instruments & preservers of their life. Their princes, and Magistrates, whom God hath 〈◊〉 in the highest place that under the shadow of their wings, they might enjoy their wives, children, goods and lands, might have peace: and be shadowed from 〈◊〉 and oppressors, from foreign power and usurpers; they never regarded. Always they bedawbed them 
* Exod. 20.  with terms of reproach: And though God, to put 
Dan. 7. 6.  both them in mind of their duties, and us of that 
Deut. 17.  reverence we should yield him, vouchsafeth to communicate 
Psalm. 51. 6.  his own names with them, and * they are 
Prou. 16.  
〈◊〉. 12. 10.  called Gods, fathers, his ministers & substitutes, yet 
Rom. 13. 1.  they called them the secular power; laity none of 
1. Pet. 2. 3. 17.  the clergy; which term 〈◊〉 they understand, chargeth maiestrats to be none of the Lords inheritance 
They called them the lay and secular 〈◊〉, swine etc.  As for spiritual fathers and pastors, that broke the bread of life sincerely and truly unto them; they evermore rewarded them with fire and sword, for their labours. Their natural parents they broke from, 
1. 〈◊〉. 5. 3. Tit. 3.  not to follow the truth; but to be votaries & followers 〈◊〉 sectmasters, such as Benedict, Bernard, Bruno, Augustine, Albert, Francis, Dominicke, and such like, and if they married; they bestowed themselves most commonly as pleased themselves. And now, so new-fangled they are, & 〈◊〉 in their professions; of jesus they will be called 〈◊〉, or of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jesus; as though the ancient name of christians were not holy enough to serve their turn wherein they jump with such as will he of the Family of Love; 〈◊〉 to be of the household of 〈◊〉, as to 〈◊〉 a name for their 〈◊〉 estate. And though that 〈◊〉 unlawful Chapter of Trent 〈◊〉 
〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. an. 1215.  〈◊〉 this new devised order, yet that it may 
Concil. Nicen. 1539.  〈◊〉 an evident argument of the constancy of their Councils, it is against their own Constitutions 
In capite 〈◊〉.  that ordered long before their 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 there 
〈◊〉. de religiosis domibus.  〈◊〉 be no more such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they found themselves pestered with For they were weary of the infinite swarm they had already, and therefore one of their own 
a Petrus Aliacensis tract. 4. de reformanda ecclesia.  Cardinals 24. years before this blasphemous sect 〈◊〉 out of the bottomless pit, having a charge committed unto him, to give notice of things that were to be reform, saith plainly, that if such beggarly orders were suffered to increase as they began, it would overthrow all. And in this I hope he shall prove a true Prophet, And the name of jesus, being of his office, this new brood, by taking it upon them, what do they else but avow themselves members of Antichrist  
Of the price of man's blood, which ought to be precisely kept, and preserved, they have no regard. They pour it out as water, & the * earth crieth for 
Exod. 20.  vengeance, for that she hath drunk up from their 
Gen. 4.  hands, such abundance in all places, filling the world 
Deut. 5.  full of widows, and poor Orphans, They are so far 
Leuitic. 29.  off: from preserving life upon which God the author 
Mat. 5.  of life, hath given such special charge, that they 
joh. 8.  will pick occasions and take the least, forcibly to bereave men of them. And this they will do, not to execute justice, but for hatred of righteousness, and for professing the truth, without all colour of justice devising all kind of torments, lest they should die to easily, worse than ever did Nero, Dionysius, Dioclesian or the rest of such like tyrants. They complain of hard dealing, but he that shall enter into their tragical stories & see their practices in all countries, their proceedings and executions, shall see plainly, whose children they are, by their bloody murders, and merciless slaughters. But as this is a note that 〈◊〉 and his members, whose kingdom stands by blood, 
Psalm. 10. 7.  shall have * feet 〈◊〉 to shed blood, so is it a note 
Rom. 3. 15.  of Christ and his kingdom, to be pursued of these, to be killed and put to death, 〈◊〉 we lie before 
Esay. 53.  them as sheep, not before the shearers, but as before 
Matth. 5.  butchers, and yet open not our mouths and are led 
john. 1.  to the slaughter, not for our evil and unrighteousness but because we reprove them of sin, hold out the glory of our Christ, and renounce their false doctrine. Who knoweth not that they must needs confess, that they are unable to keep this sixth commandment, if they did understand that which Christ delivereth Math. 5. that 
a Anger, Choleric passions Taunts.  collorique passions and reproachful taunts, undeservedly bestowed, were branches of murder, but 〈◊〉 pharasaical & lose interpretations of the commandments of God, both deceived themselves, and infected the world with this contagion, that man being able to fulfil the will of god needeth not much to be beholding to Christ but of this I have said afore.  
As for adultery, where reigned it more, then amongst those contemners of marriage, 
b Adultery reigneth in the Pope's kingdom. See Bale de pontiff Rom. in the preface.  where were the heads of 6000. children and their bones found in a pond, and under 
c jovianus 'pon tanus de immanitate ca 6 Epist. Hulderich ad Nicho. primum. 265. Read that vile epistle of Clem. 〈◊〉. 4. Tom. 1. Conc. and the dist. cap. 〈◊〉. causa 12. q. 1.  altars, in caves and dry trenches, in their abominable houses, but amongst them Were not all their Cloisters, Abbeys, and Nunneries, very stews and brothelhouses? Despising Gods ordinance it was his just judgement to give them up as he did the Genriles, not only to spiritual whoredom, but to bodily, that they should follow the lusts of their own hearts, and defile themselves one with another through most beastly filthiness, that their Colleges, Abbeys, Nunneries, and religious houses, should be infected 〈◊〉 with unnatural and untimely murders, or with living bastards and dead bones, or else that they should be filthy Gomorians and sodomites, that * leaving the 
Rom. 1.  natural use they should commit unspeakable wickedness, 
The vices in religious houses.  which contrary to this commandment they nonrished with all kind of pleasant delights, idleness, pampering of the flesh in their greatest and most solemn fasts, they made their choicest feasts, with all kind of dainties & finest 〈◊〉, drinking all kind of sweet wines, that they might fully feed upon the pride & lust of the eye, this 
a Epist. Belgar. ad Nico. 〈◊〉. Avent. lib. 4.  is so common in Rome as I have partly said before, and smelleth so strong throughout all Christendom, that it hath turned 
Woe be to them by whom offences come Mat. 18.  many, that are even but natural men, who otherwise could have favoured their religion, from them: and being won by the Gospel, presently 
August. contra 〈◊〉 lib. 5. c. 3  love the truth, and a great number of others stumbling thereat, have fallen to irreligion and flat Atheism. Herein also they show themselves most unskilful of that sincerity Christ speaketh of, when he forbiddeth the ranging of the eye, when by no means they will acknowledge concupiscence to be sin, and in respect of their false doctrine 
b M 〈◊〉. Foams peccati non peccatu.  are feign to deny the definition of sin, to wit, that sin is the transgression of the law of 
All the patrimony that the Pope possesseth, he hath wrung and stolen from Emperors & princes. The dukedom of Sicily, & many 〈◊〉, Apuleia, etc.  God, yet because it is reproved by Christ himself, they are feign to yield a little, that it is the 〈◊〉 of sin, and not sin itself.  
As for temporal things, though they be of least account, yet they steal them both from Princes, and all sorts of people. Neither will their pretenced title of right help, though it be confirmed by old and worm 〈◊〉 prescription, to overway the commandment of GOD, who 〈◊〉 not have one man to encroach upon another man's possession, and yet they have 
a Read Abbas vip sub. 198.  made a spoil of all callings, getting into their hands the 〈◊〉 of the whole world. That they rob fatherless children 
De cons Dist. 5. cap. Discipulos.  and widows, under the 〈◊〉 of long prayer, by their 〈◊〉 and trentals, and such paltry robbing devices, yea that they 
b 〈◊〉 famis excusat. a 〈◊〉.  maintain 〈◊〉 committed in time of 〈◊〉, it is more than apparent  
For 
c Lving & 〈◊〉 witness 〈◊〉 condemned.  bearing false witness the false papist will not stick to belie the most blameless Christians 
Exod 20. 23.  in the world, and to charge them, though with no 
Deut. 5.  colour, with most palpable untruths, either to 
〈◊〉. 19  bring the truth into hatred, or them to the fire. 
1. Reg 21.  They will make no conscience falsely to accufe the 
Mat. 7.  
Luk. 6.  notablest men, & most singular instruments that ever 
joh. 7.  have been in the church of God, the dust of whose 
1. Cor. 4.  shoes they are not worthy to lick up. And herein 
jam. 4.  
〈◊〉. 25.  they show themselves like their father the 〈◊〉, 
Apoc, 12 10.  who was a liar from the beginning, an accuser of the brethren, malicious and full of poison. And most 〈◊〉 amongst the rest, hath that notable Apostata 
d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 at Geneva. and troubled the Church, barking against the most comfortable doctrine of God's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, now he is become a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. See 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉 also that make mention of 〈◊〉.  Hieronim Bolsek expressed the image of his father, in that filthy & slanderous book that he hath written of the life of that excellent man of God john Calvin, whom without all shame being laid up 〈◊〉 peace, a great while since, and buried with Honour, he taketh out of his grave, and gnaweth upon his 〈◊〉 carcase and bones, more barbarously than any tiger or carian Crow, the envy of whose honour and 〈◊〉 of God's 〈◊〉, though it have 〈◊〉 his serpentine tongue, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, either upon 〈◊〉 or slanderous reports, yet his 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 confirmed, by so many rare monuments of learned works, and grave testimonies of those that lament his lack in the Church of God, that though he swelled his heart, and burst for anger, he shall never be able amongst the godly to impair his credit, the value of the paring of a nail or one hair, much less hurt the truth of God, which dependeth upon no man's person, but have credit and authority from God the only author 
The ttueth of God dependeth upon no man's person, neither do we measure it by men's lives, but rather their lives by it.  thereof. Let the whole army of these slanderers, that lie by tradition one from the credit of another, do what they can, the truth shall stand inviolable. Howsoever men have their faults, who as they are men have the infirmities of men, and must plead mercy before that sincere seat, yet this false witness bearing, reacheth not to men, but to the dishonour of God himself, and therefore that railing Staphilus, Lindane, Wicellus, Vaquerius, Cocleus, Frarin, and others, that belch out their malice against Luther, Beza, and such like instruments of God, do but bark in vain, like dogs against the Moon, that is far from them & without their reach. Their lies are so notorious, as that of Luther's and Calvin's death, that whole countries can and are ready to testify the contrary. But admit that some of these things were to be credited, reported by indifferent men: yet considering these wretches to be shameless and 〈◊〉 enemies, how unequal a thing were it to accept them for witnesses, being of a false and contrary Religion, being even 〈◊〉 with malice and 〈◊〉 against them, whose learning and rare 〈◊〉 they could never attain to: and having no conscience in greater matters, will make no conscience to belie them, being adversaries to their falsehood and superstition, whom they labour to bring into hatred, that they may win some credit to themselves, being in deed but monsters in the shape of men, such liars and slanderers, backbiters and railers, as are more fit, I am sorry to speak it, to 〈◊〉 against Wispes, and to be set upon Cuckingstooles with scolds, then to be admitted to give evidence against such godly, grave, and learned fathers. But this hath always been the property of the kingdom of darkness, to slander the truth, and the true professors thereof. They have not* spared 
Mat. 10. 34.  the Prophets, Christ himself, nor his Apostles, 
Luk. 6, 40.  and therefore we must not look that they will 
joh. 13. 16. & 15. 20.  spare us. Truth was always hated of liars, and 
john 7. 7.  none find greater friendship in the world than the children thereof. He can say little, that being corrupt of nature, can not speak ill: but he that speaketh the truth, is of God. This hath bene the practice of popish heretics, when they find themselves too weak to maintain their wilfulness, than they fall to plain railing and lying. Then have at Beza, at Calvin, at Luther the dutch Bear, whose Mother 
We stand not upon miracles, but such as were wrought by Christ and his Apostles.  was a whore and slept by the Devil. Then Caluine to get credit to his doctrine, must be made a miracle worker (will he nil he:) though the miracle in deed (if any such were) be 
a The practice of popish peddling preachers and pelting writers.  set out to have been attempted by one of their own jesuits, who 
This was printed in the Dutch tongue and reported to have been done by a jesuite.  in steed of raising a man from death, killed him, and was fain to entreat the Woman to be contented, and so persuade the people, because he could not effect it, that it was long of their unbelief. This goodly tale is set out by Surius, and dubbed since forsooth by that Apostata Bolsecke. 
Surius 〈◊〉. breve. in 〈◊〉 gest.  But the children of God, they deal by truth, they 
〈◊〉 in vita joa. 〈◊〉.  take no advantage of any envious accusation, nor stand upon vain conjectures, and guesses, as they are want to do: what papist hath 〈◊〉 taught, in expounding this ninth commandment to refrain from unsea sonable and uncharitable report of their neighbours faults, 〈◊〉 or credit? and yet the truth is, and known to them that scan this commandment 〈◊〉, that the same God which forbiddeth us to defame our brother; doth therewithal enjoin us to be as careful over his credit, as over our own, and not to speak of our neighbour's faults, but to the end that they may be amended, and other warned to take heed of the like, which is well known to be only practised amongst the professors of the Gospel, and not amongst them.  
Lastly concerning coveting our neighbours house, 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, maid, Ox, Ass, or any other thing, they think this lust (as before I have partly mentioned) to be so far from sin, that they will not only possess whatsoever a Christian man hath, but they will never be satisfied, till they have his life also, 〈◊〉 his religion please them not. As for concupiscence itself, flying thoughts and desires, which the * law condemneth, they make no account of them, though by them it be manifest, that we 
Gen. 6.  are in that respect not fully replenished with the 
Exod. 20.  
Deut. 〈◊〉.  spirit of GOD, nor free from that corruption, 
〈◊〉. 6.  which we ought daily by newness of life to 
1. 〈◊〉. 10.  grow unto. 
Heb. 13.   
Such enemies to God are these papists, that they 
Rom. 7.  subvert all religion, teaching for doctrine the unsavoury 
jam. 1.  * precepts & traditions of men, they mingle their 
Mat. 15.  
jere. 2.  lead with the Lord's gold, and * fill his harvest full of 
jere. 3.  darnel They break, as you have heard, all the commandments of God, to maintain their own ways, and stop from us the springs of the water of life, that we might drink of their puddles. For their own dreams they make us forget the name of our God, and lead us from that simplicity that is in Christ jesus, They are unthankful wretches for all God's benefits, and to 
a For this was objected against the waldenses in quodam libr. inquisitorio.  say grace with them, unless it be after some mumbling sort in an unknown tongue, either before meat or after, is a note of a rank Heretic.  
At their tables they neither love to talk, nor to hear any thing of God, of his word, religion or 
Reinerius.  
Panoplia.  any godliness, but all their delight is in idle talk, jesting, 
Lyndani.  scoffing, taunting, mocking and nipping at 
This is their common practice.  them that be absent, or being present be better disposed then themselves. They will talk also filthily 
Ephes. 5.  and unshamefastlye, to recreate both themselves, and such fleshly familiars as themselves be. They naturally hate the word of God, and sit upon thorns, where the exercises of it are used. And if they lay just accusations and execute judgements upon 〈◊〉 offences, yet they do it not in love, but devise things that were never heard, nor thought of. If they be of Parson's Owlets hypocrites, and come of purpose to church to deceive the 
Though this be too common a thing among all, yet it specially belongeth to the papists.  prince, and delude the 〈◊〉, and most of all themselves, they are there without all reverence, either nodding and sleeping in the time of the exercise, or else walking and jangling, or carried away with idle and unprofitable imaginations, or else occupied in some popish paltry book either printed at home or brought from beyond the seas, or else they are watching for some advantage, against the painful and godly minister, evermore lying in wait, to stir up strife, and to disquiet the Church. They are never merry, when there is any communication of goodness, than you trouble them, they come to be merry, they sweat for anger, when they cannot suppress it. Of devilish malice and spite they hate God, detest their neighbours, and their own soul's 〈◊〉 all godliness and honesty, to * whom stolen 
Pro. 9 17.  waters are sweet, and a whore is more amiable than a spoused wife. Pighius is commended in an oration 
Staphi. against 〈◊〉.  for it, & one Girandus against Bucer, a Colen divine, saith, it is better for a priest to have an hundred whores then one wife. Aquinas saith, that marriage is to be avoided of them that tend to perfection: Durand saith it is not expedient. Lighttly they will never marry, they will oftentimes be well whittled, & then they can rail roundly, than we are heretics, Puritans, & what not? & a golden day will once come, when we shall burn for it, or else they will not bestow so much cost on us, a thrust with a sword, a knock with a halberd, a pot with a gun or a halfpenny halter shall serve for al. They will whisper from place to place, and from one to another and upon their alebench, what days are these, what wickedness is in the world, 
a All these goodly tales run amongst them from one to another.  See the lives of these Gospelers, was there ever such covetousness, now all for their women, whores and bastards. O the golden world is gone, when we had 24 eggs for a penny, when we might go to this religious house and that, and have good cheer our bellies full, and no man can say, black is your eye, or from whence come you. They say the Mass is nought, 
The common speech of 〈◊〉.  but I can not tell, than we had a merry world, and all things plenty, O since I can remember, what mirth was there in all towns, in our villages and wakes, what good fellowship: when no man's wife was in safety, when few men's daughters were married virgins: and as for men's servants, they had more mirth then in a day, than they have now in a hundredth. Then they sang and spun, they meddled with their distaffs, and liued by the faith of others: Now they are so bookish, become so wise and learned, that they will meddle with the scriptures. It was never merry world since there was so much talk of the scripture, since every cobbler and Tinker durst meddle with it, and a bible must stand in every window. Well, the Queen cannot live always, and when our day cometh, we will be even with them, they shall stand at our receipt and courtesy, and then our arguments shall make them to stoop, or else to 〈◊〉 us a fayre pair of heels: When they 〈◊〉 of any overthrow, murder, or cruelty against the professorus of the Gospel, or that some noble captain that goeth with them is slain, than they banquet one another, they 〈◊〉 and laugh together, and look as big upon us as if their day were already, & they were already become Lords over us. But he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh them to scorn, for he seethe that their day 
Psalm. 37.  〈◊〉. The swords that they have whetted and drawn against us, shall enter into their own harts, & their bows shall be broken. The Lord will 〈◊〉 the arms of these wicked ones, and holde us up with his own hand against them. For they are those false woorshippers who worship (as 
* joh. 4.  Christ said to the Woman of Samaria) they wots not what Deceitful 
* Mat. 24.  prophets they are, that tell us here is Christ, there is Christ. The cake over the altar, the rood in the rood 〈◊〉, the image upon the cross, and such like stuff, but we are commanded, not to 〈◊〉 them. They are such (besides that general condemnation, that is in Adam upon all flesh) upon whom the wrath of God is specially declared from heaven, for their ungodliness and unrighteousness, for they suppress the truth, & hold it unrighteously by an unjust possession. They * are 
〈◊〉. 〈◊〉.  without excuse, because when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, but became vain in their reasonings, having their foolish hearts blinded, thinking themselves to be wise & learned, they became fools, & turned the glory of the 〈◊〉 God into the framed image of a mortal man, of birds, 〈◊〉 footed beasts & creeping worms For they worship a man for S. Matthew, a bird for S. joh. a calf for S. Luke, and a Lion for S. Mark. This is the cause (as I have said before) that they are given up to the lusts of their own hearts (as the Gentiles were;) that they should from spiritual whoredom fall to carnal, & commit unspeakable evils, defiling their own bodies amongst themselves. For they have 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of God into a lie, and therefore it is his righteous judgement, that they should be given up to believe & delight in lies, that passing over the Creator, who is blessed for ever, they should worship creatures. All the vices where with the Apostle chargeth the Gentiles in the first to the Romans, and the root whereof he proveth to be in all flesh, are apparently in them, not only by nature, but in a full practice & execution. For they are wholly given up to follow them with a full foot. They are full of * unrigteousnes, 
Rom. 1. 〈◊〉.  fornication, wickedness, covetousness, lasciviousness, envy, murder, debate, deceit, evil conditioned; they are, whisperers, backbiters, haters of god, doers of wrong, proud, boasters. They are false * teacher's 
2. 〈◊〉. 2.  which bring in damnable sects, denying the Lord that hath bought them, & through whom the way of truth is evil spoken of. Presumptuous they are and stubborn, fearing not to speak evil of them that are in authority. They count it a pleasure to live here deliciously for a time, & to follow their own deceivable ways, fearing one another: amongst themselves & backbiting the truth. Read that lively description of all the Popish clergy, in that 2. epistle of Peter and the 2. chapter. They have eyes 〈◊〉 of adultery, and cannot cease to sin: they lay baits for instable minds, having hearts exercised to covetousness: they are the cursed children of Cain, & have forsaken the right way: they are gone astray, following the way of Balam, the son of Boser, who loved the reward of iniquity. They are wells without water, and clouds carried about with a tempest, to whom the thickness and mist of darkness is reserved for ever.  
Such enemies of God they are, as exalt the son 
Thes. 2.  of perdition above all that is called god, or worshipped for God. They allow his dispensations against God and his laws, and as for his sake (such beasts 
See whether their daily practices prove not this to be true.  they are) they set themselves against God. So do they not care in regard of him, and in respect of that idol the mass, to betray their own country, Prince, Parents, kins folks and friends to the veriest strangers and enemies in the world, yea and to lay down their own lives, Let any come forth & deny this, if they can with any colour of truth. Our country hath found it too true, and there is none that have had any dealing in any place of 〈◊〉 under her Majesty, but can confirm it by particulars in their continual practice, not only for casting abroad their 〈◊〉 lil else, but also for sending into this realm their pestiferous and traitorous 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sundry books, Sanders, Dorman, 〈◊〉.  books, and bulls against the Queen's majesty, & her honourable council, state and peace, that have been the very sparks and firebrands of rebellion, & would have been of further flame and greater destruction, had not God in his great mercy, by the light of the gospel, taught and instructed men, how they should hold themselves in dutiful loyalty, and true obedience, Put of this a little more afterwards.  
Such enemies to God they are, as devour poor widows houses under 
b Sundry 〈◊〉 in anno. 1580. very traitorous against the state, and 〈◊〉 the mi nestery, scattered through out 〈◊〉 realm.  colour of long prayers, & stick not to compass sea & land, to bring men to their 
A common practice amongst them, to be revenged by libeling.  false faith, or else to death, as Alphonsus did by his own brother 
c joh. Slei. li. 17 Cris. in mart.  joh. 〈◊〉 * Blind guides they are, wicked fools, tithers of mint, Anise & cumin, omitting faith, judgement & 〈◊〉. Hypocrites they are 
Math. 23. 14.  that make clean the outside of the cup & platter, but 
Mar. 12. 40.  within they are full of raven and * 〈◊〉. They are with the 〈◊〉; Wolves in sheeps clothing, 
Mat. 15 14. & 23. 16. 24.  painted sepulchres, outwardly glorious, but within full of rotten and dead bones. They bear a show of 
Luk. 11. 24.  Christianity, and yet are full of 〈◊〉 and murder: 
Mat. 7. 15.  
Luk. 11. 39 40. etc.  they * say, if they had been in their father's days: they would not have slain the 〈◊〉 and apostles: and yet mark what they 〈◊〉 in all Countries against the christians. Let Queen Mary's time, the continual murders and 〈◊〉 that have 〈◊〉 in France, Flaunders, Spain, Scotland, Ireland, at home amongst our 〈◊〉, & abroad, wheresoever 〈◊〉 hath gotten in a foot, beat witness. Are not these therefore enemies to God? Is not Antichrist the Pope, of whom all this hellish rout hold, an enemy to God? 
a 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 33. Cantic.  〈◊〉 not his seat where he 〈◊〉, the doctrine he teacheth, the manners that he 〈◊〉, quite contrary to Christ, and plain 
Marcel. Palin. in Leon li. 5.  marks of his Apostasy? Is not Rome (as 
b 〈◊〉. Petra. epist 20.  Franciscus Petrarcha calleth it) the whore of Babylon, the mother 〈◊〉: 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉, from whence all 
Hier. in Catal. script. eccles. in Ma. co.  shame and 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉? Doth not Peter in the first epistle under the name of Babylon name 
〈◊〉. lib 3 〈◊〉 537.  Rome, by their own confession, and by Hieromes own interpretation, and as Campion himself 
Abb V p 198. Apo. 18.  granteth? And herefore, as john * describeth it, it is that Roman whore that sitteth in her Scarlet rob, full of names of blaphemy, the habitation of devils, the hold of all soul spirits, the cage of all unclean & hateful birds: out of whose cup, all the nations in the world have drawn the draft of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom.  
Such enemies they are, as through the * effectual working 
2. 〈◊〉 2. 9 10. 11. 〈◊〉.  of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word of 〈◊〉, to whom God 〈◊〉 sent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, that they should believe lies, and prefer the 〈◊〉 fables of a lying legend, before the blessed bible, receiving as a just recompense, the fruits of their 〈◊〉 rebellion, to wit, ignorance, blindness, a lewd understanding, and in the end just demnation.  
Such enemies they are, as give heed to spirits * of error, to the devilish doctrine of such as speak 
1. Tim. 4. 1. 2. 3.  false things through hypocrisy, having their consciences branded with an hot iron, are * grievous 
Act. 20. 27. 29.  wolves, making no conscience to tear and devour the flock, * concealers of God's counsels, 
Luk. 11. 52.  speakers of perverse things, and drawing disciples after them. For they would have all the world to follow them without any examination. They shut up the kingdom of heaven, and will neither enter themselves, nor suffer others to enter. They 
a Marcel. Pali. li. 6. de sceler. omnium ordinum.  are Hypocrites and Gomorrians in deed, of the seed of Cain, children of the devil, blasphemers & bloody persecutors. They hedge in the Catholic Church, like the Donatists, into a little corner of the world: They cry, they 
b Rome a particular Church, no Catholic Church, to whom the Greek church would not be subject.  are the catholic church, and yet would draw us to one that is more particular then many others of the Greek, that were never joined and continued with them. And none must be of their Catholic church, but such forsooth as subscribe to their synagogue, much like as if they should affirm, that all Christendom were to be included in Kent. They 
c Absurdity of transubstantiation.  confound the humanity of Christ, making I can not tell how many thousand bodies, 
d For this point read the fumbling of their own schoolmen.  turning the Godhead into the manhood, & the manhood into the Godhead, agreeing with all the ancient heretics that erred about his divinity and humanity: for 
e Anno. 425.  with the Futichians & Monothelits, they make him to consist of two natures, 
Prisceanns & Cyrus the first authors Anno 〈◊〉.  but not to have two natures, neither two wills: or else they make him to have a fantastical body, as 
f Niceph. lib. 18 cap. 45.  Martion Cerdon, and Manes did: to be, in infinite places at once, in heaven and in earth, denying the truth of the humanity: as Valentinus, they make him to have a body of an airy, insensible, and invisible substance, as also Apelles did: whereas his * own word teacheth us, that we should not believe 
Lu. 24. 39 40.  him to be present in body, except by our senses we could perceive a difference betwixt him & a spirit.  
Such enemies they are, as 
a Pope Lucius 24. q. 1. cap. Recta.  believe they cannot be saved, unless they be subject to the Pope, unless 
Calixt. dist. 12 Non decet Nichol. dist 22. omnes Greg. dist. 80. cap. 52 qui.  they acknowledge him to have all authority in heaven, earth, hell, purgatory, and wheresoever. Do not they herein plainly deny God, from whom alone is all salvation, as did Hebion, Cerinthus, Basilides, Carpocares, Photinus, Artemon, Paulus Samosetanus, 
Mat. 9 3.  Ennomius, AEtius, & Theodotinus, when they undoubtedly believe that the Pope can forgive sin? A grosser heresy, than ever the * Scribes 
In vita Gre. 7.  
Bulla Clementis.  and Pharisees were infected with, who deeming Christ to be only man, thought it extreme blasphemic 
Panormit ertra 〈◊〉 cap. fin.  for him to take upon him to forgive sin. They are persuaded that the Pope by his 
b Pope Hildeb. ex plar.  Benediction 
Summa Angelica in dictione Papa. etc.  can make things more holy then ever God made them in their creation? that he can dispense with 
c Sigism. Neapo Decisiones rotae in decisionum tertia.  Christ, Peter, Paul, Moses, and all laws both of God and man? Whosoever kisseth his shoe, though he were excommunicated, yet for so doing he hath clean remission a poena & culpa;, both 
Ant. Ma●ia in addit. 1. Decis. rotae.  from the punishment and fault. What shall I say they are such enemies to God, that they believe 
Novas. Ekius l●●or●m communum cap. de ecclesia. 5. q 6. 〈◊〉 in glossa. Eckius de consid. Statuta canonum.  undoubtedly, that 
d Glossa in 〈◊〉. 11. cap 〈◊〉.  if a priest or one in holy orders know an harlot carnally, he sanctifieth and blesseth her in so doing, & as Petrus Ravennus saith, Though handling & kissing be occasions of inconstancy and unchastity in lay persons, yet in priests and those that are in holy orders, it is far otherwise: a wife he must disavow & forswear, but not a whore. It is not good to touch a woman, therefore it is evil.  
And seeing every priest maketh a God every day, or as often as he consecrateth, and therefore excelleth 
Mant in Alph. Non 〈◊〉 incont nentia, sed matrimonium.  the virgin Mary, that did bear him but once, and from whom he only took flesh and blood: It can not be that they can intend, commit, or perform any such great evil. And if they do, what great matter is it, seeing 
a This is like the way that julia devised for trial of their mortification, to lay men and women together, and a crucifix betwixt them Agrip, art 22.  Christ redeemed the whole world with one drop of his blood, and left the rest to the pope, his vicar general at Rome, and from him to all the other priests, that they might have the overplus to make pardons withal, for these, either weighty, or petty offenders. It would weary a man to reckon up all their abominations. The 
Non obstantibus constitutionibus, & ordinationibus Apostolicis caeterisque contrariis quibuscumque c silvest. Prierius contra Lutherum.  Pope and his generation are as like unto Christ, as light is unto darkness, and as Parson's Owl is to a Nightingale: For Christ being God, became very man, the pope being an abominable man, taketh upon him the 
b Clement 〈◊〉 one 〈◊〉 of this blood: uhiche juli the their e had at Rome, all England 〈◊〉 as pardoned. 〈◊〉.  office of God, yea and to be above him and his word, Christ humbled himself, and put himself as it were out of himself: the pope maketh himself 
c Alb. Pighius.  equal with God, & not without rob berry, more than God, Christ never came amongst the 
Stanislaus Ecchinius in Chimaera.  multitude upon a barred horse, both with sword & keys, like a Prince and a Priest, though in deed he were both. But the 
d 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉. and 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 Read 〈◊〉 Sabel.  pope that will needs be his 
Hierarch lib. 1. cap. 2. 16. q. 1.  Vicar, he hath done it. The two swords with Christ, 
Quicunque in glossa Dist inc 〈◊〉.  
Lector. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Francis Zarabella.  
So 〈◊〉  
〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉.  are both jurisdictions civil & ecclesiastical, 
a See the Pontifical & the book of the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉, that 〈◊〉 the emperor, Prince's dukes, & earls their several places. lib. 1. sect 5. ca 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. cap 20.  a Pope in the forenoon, a warier in the after, yea 
b Anton. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 part. 〈◊〉.  Emperors, kings, princes & dukes serve him wait upon his stirrup, lead his horse, hold basin and to well, carry in his service, wait upon his cup kneeling, and all the rest kneeling while this is a doing. They bear his Canopy over his head, they kiss his foot and whom the Lord hath anointed to bear his image amongst men, they abase themselves and become slaves to this prond beast of abomination. Christ had conversation with the poor, the pope 
'tis 22. ca 5. 4.  looketh at leisure upon the mighty, and he scarcely 
Cerem. lib. 1. cap. 80.  vouchsafeth them his presence: Christ lived sparing lie and poorly, they deliciously and wanton, 
c Baptista 〈◊〉.  Pope 
li 〈◊〉 sec. 5. c. 4.  july notwithstanding his gout, would have his pork in despite of God, and was in such a rage, also for his peacock, that he blasphemed God, alleging that if God were angry 〈◊〉 an apple he had greater cause to be angry for his peacock, Christ washed his disciples 〈◊〉, the pope treadeth upon the Lords anointed with his feet. 
d Marius.  He crowned 
〈◊〉 fol. 13.  Henry the sixth with his foot, and with his foot uncrowned him again. Christ 〈◊〉 to be made a king, the pope giveth, disposeth, and transposeth 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉.  kingdoms at his pleasure and appointment. He setteth princes and Subjects together by the ears, and maintaineth factions on all sides, to uphold his proud Hierarchy, 〈◊〉 
e Rogerus Houedenus.  Gregory the second did irritate the subjects of Leo the Emperor against him. As 〈◊〉 assoiled Pypin and the rest of the French, from their oath and allegiance to Childericke, whom he made to trot at his horse heels three miles together. 
f Pope 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. 15. q. 6. cap Alius.  Phocas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  murderer is by him lifted up to an Empire, & he again for recompense advanceth him to be Antichrist, by giving him that which the other sought for to wit to be the universal Bishop, which his predecessors condemned. 
a The places are quoted before ex gres sus Hildbrand  Hildebrand that firebrand of hell, of whom all stories writ shame, made Henry the fourth with his wife & Sun to cool his feet, the space of three days at his gate, before he would admit him to his presence, and yet that was by the 〈◊〉 of his whore. And 
b Clement li. 2 descent. & re indica. cap. 2.  Clement the 〈◊〉, who pronounced the empire to belong to him, made Dan dalus a noble man, & an Ambassador from the venetians, in chains like a dog to lie under his table. The Pope is the Sun, The Emperor is but the moon. 
c Auentin Rex venitad fores iurans per urbis honores. Post homo sit Papae sumit quo date coronam.  Emperors & princes be his Vassals & feodaries, & receive their crowns & dignities from him. They become his men. Every hedge priest is before a prince, because Priests make God, but all his Princes are the Pope's creatures. Christ * sent his disciples to preach 
Mat. 28.  the Gospel. The pope & his Cardinals persecute & stop the preaching of the gospel, & their chiefest business is to practise 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉, that his Sovereignty may be maintained in all dominions. 
d Read 〈◊〉 of the practice of prelate's.  Christ 
Mat. 5. 6. 7.  himself taught the gospel, The pope can fly as well 
Mat. 27. 32.  as preach. * Christ being both poor & weak was 
〈◊〉. 23. 26. 27.  compelled to bear his own cross: the 
e Cerem. lib. 1. se. 2. fo. 33. 35.  pope being fat & strong is born of others. * Christ wore a crown 
Mat. 27. 29.  of thorns, the Pope weareth a triple crown of gold, 
Lu 12 13. 14.  〈◊〉 with precius stones. * Christ would not take upon him the deciding a civil cause, when two brethren strove for land: 
f pope Innocentius 3. D. 〈◊〉 cap. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Causa. 2. qu 6. cap ad 〈◊〉.  The pope will meddle with all causes & deal with all persons in heaven, earth and hell. Christ died to save us & bring us to heaven: the Pope liveth to kill us, and lead us to hell. Christ through his death reconciled us to his father the Pope continually killeth us and draweth us to his father the devil. Fire & water are not so 〈◊〉 as Christ and the pope. Christ was true and sincere, he 
a Aurea. Leg. 〈◊〉. temp.  is false and counterfeit and notwithstanding all the prerogatives of his chair, (as hath been partly touched before) which as Cusan saith, hath the truth cleaving unto it, yet it is evident, that 
b Luit. Vallande donatio. 〈◊〉  Leo, 
c Pugosus de inusitat. mortis generibus. 〈◊〉. q. 〈◊〉. vino.  Liberius, & 
d 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 31  Anastasius were Arians. 
e 〈◊〉 in quadam epist.  Celestinus and 
f Lyra. in Mat. cap 16.  Marcellinus, Nestorians, 
g Sabe. Ennead 9 lib. 3.  Honorius was a Monotholite. 
h 〈◊〉 decade 2. lib. 3 Benno. Vsperg 〈◊〉.  joh. 13. a cruel villain, the 
i In the accusa. of W. Plesiuro knight.  14, a tyrant, Hildebrand an hellhound, a conjuror, an incestuous wretch. Read his life set out by one of his own Cardinals. Boniface the 8. who entered as a Wolf, reigned like a Lion; and died like a dog, was so far from not erring, that he is tainted with all kind of villainies, and is 
k pope Paschalis Casulanus Platina.  accused to have affirmed whoredom to be no more sin, than the chaffing of two 
R d  hands together. No more was Pope paschal, who set the son of Henry the fift against his own father. And made Pope 
l Chroni. vernacul.  Calixte to ride through Rome upon a Camill, with his face toward the tail, and to hold the 〈◊〉 tail in his hand, 
〈◊〉.  in steed of a bridle, which doth no more commend 
Stella.  his innocenice then this doth Pope 
m Si 〈◊〉 4.  Innocentes, 
Mat. Paris.  who armed Philippe of France against 
Pope 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 Plat de vitu 〈◊〉  King john sometime our sovereign Prince, to the disturbance, undoing, and spoil of this Realm. Think you not that Pope 
n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Textor.  〈◊〉 the fourth also, was a holy Father, who not only himself was given to that sylthie sin of Sodomitrye, but also dispensed with Peter 〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉 
a 〈◊〉 Mantuan 〈◊〉. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & oratio ad 〈◊〉.  Hicrome for it, during those three hot months of the year; june, july, and August. I am 
b Their doctrine is evident, their lives are so horrible that I am a shamed 〈◊〉 set them down, see their own stories.  weary of speaking of all, the stories are plain, that from that same first Apostata Bonifacius, to him that now usurpeth that seat, they have been all tainted and infected both with corruption of doctrine, & lewdness of life, What should I speak of their cruelty, dissension. lives, and death. john the 
c Praemonstrat.  〈◊〉. was begotten in adultery. Ioh 
d Volateran.  the 12. 〈◊〉 in it. The 
e 〈◊〉.  13. was slain as he was committing it, the 18. 
f Bucching.  was put to death, and both his eyes put out, by the means and procurement of Gregory, about it, Pope 
g Capgrave.  Clement poisoned Lodovik 
h Commentarius super Arti 〈◊〉. Volat.  Sylvester the 2. was a notable 〈◊〉, 
i Praemonstrat Benno Card. Sigeb.  Gregory the iwenter of images was given over to all kind of wickedness. 
k 〈◊〉. Sabel.  Benedict is said to be the corrupter of Rome with all filthiness, who sold his popedom for a great sum of money. 
l Nauclerus.  Stephan so raged against Formosus being dead long before, that he disannulled his decrees, took up his dead carcase, threw it into Tiber, chopped of 3. of his fingers, and cut of his nose 
m Plat.  Vrbanus drowned five of his dearest 〈◊〉 in sacks. If this be not enough to prove all these Popes, and those that hold of them, and 〈◊〉 them, such wicked ones (which is * alike wickedness) to be 〈◊〉 to god; let 
Pro. 17.  their own 〈◊〉, I say, 〈◊〉 further searched. ja all things they are most contrary to Christ. The whole description of Paul agreeth to them in all points.  
Whereas it is further said, that he shall 〈◊〉 up 〈◊〉 ab we 〈◊〉 that is called God. It is most evident, he contenteth not himself, with the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 that belong to Angels and men, but wilhave those that belong to God himself. And his clawbakes and flatrerers, not the grossest but the finest and wittiest, not of those old flattering civilians, but our new oilemouthed divines, M Harding and such like hold, that after a 〈◊〉 he may be 
a Hierom in Daniel cap. 3.  called God. Even 〈◊〉 Antiochus, Domitian, & Caligula arrogated those names, so do they, & therefore they make no bones to take it thus 
b 〈◊〉 Marc. in Cencil. 〈◊〉. sess. 4.  Thou art another God on earth. And Cardillus a spaniard writing in defence of that late conspiracy of Trent, often times caleth the Pope an earthly God. And 
c Cardillus pro Council Trid.  Cardinal Hostensis saith that 
Quanto 〈◊〉.  except sin, the Pope hath power to do 〈◊〉 soever God himself can do. Christ 
d Extra de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  & the Pope make but one consistory, & 
e Leo 〈◊〉. 39 Extra in sex to lib 1.  Christ hath receiucd Peter into the fellowship of the indivisible unity. And therefore the Canonists 
f De Consuetudine. Non putamus.  have 〈◊〉 whole disputations, whether the Pope be God or no: whether he cannot do 〈◊〉 God may do: That no appeal can be made from the Pope's consistory to God, because 
g 〈◊〉. joh. 22.  ab uno 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. And they confess plainly to all the worl de that he is Dominus 〈◊〉 noster 〈◊〉 our Lord God the Pope. And albeit the 
h Ceremoniar. lib. 1. cap. 2.  late qualifiers say, that he is 〈◊〉 God nor man, but a thing between both, yet they affirm, that 
i Concil. Later sub Leo dec. in 〈◊〉 Stephani.  kings reign by him, which is spoken only of God that he hath all 
k Francis Zarabella. 15. quaest.  power in himself, above all powers as well of heaven as of earth, therefore he doth what himself 〈◊〉, yea unlawsull things, and he is more than God. Shall any man check him? are not the scriptures subject unto him, being God, do they not say truly? that the pope 
l Authoritat. in glossa.  can dispense against the la of nature? against the 
m Dist. 82 〈◊〉. jelin. constitutionibus.  Cannons of the apostles, against the 
n Statuta Canonum 6. qu. Quicunqua in glossa.  new testament, against all the commandments, 
a 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 & obedientia ca 〈◊〉.  against Paul's Epistles, In Baptism he may alter the form, 
b Summa Angelica. in litterapp.  In marriage he dispenseth with all persons, saving only with father and mother. A man may marry his own sister, and here of Pope Martin the fist hath left us an example. Nay one saith, that the Pope may dispense supra 〈◊〉 & of unrighteousness he can make lighteousnes, and of 
c Panorm extra Hostien. de trans episcop. 〈◊〉  no sentence, he can make a sentence, and of 
d Haruaeus de 〈◊〉 pape  nothing, he can make something. He 
Card Cus. ad 〈◊〉 epis. 2.  challengeth such authority to expound 
Qranto.  and declare the scriptures, as it is not lawsull for any man to hold or think the contrary. Of the fullness of his power he can do all things. If this be not the * mouth that Daniel spoke of that 
Dan. 7. 8.  uttered presumptuous things, let themselves judge if they have any shamefastness in them. If this be not that beast, before whom the kings and princes of the earth have fallen down and worshipped: Let master Censurer or Parson's Owlet together with all that dark brood tell me. But this is that * Beast, to whom they have yielded their power, & 
〈◊〉, 13.  the woman that sitteth upon this beast, is that filthy 〈◊〉 of the world, (as they speak of their stews which they tolerate) I mean the city of Rome, to which power is given over every tribe, language & nation: which all the inhabitants of the earth shall worship, whose names are not written in the book of life. And howsoever this monster come under the pretence of 〈◊〉, & will have these 
f De maior & 〈◊〉. unam sanctam. In glosla.  〈◊〉 & presumptuous titles of most blessed and holy father, 
Dist 40. Non. nos.  yea, will be called 
g 〈◊〉. in job cap. 34. lib. 25 cap. 14.  〈◊〉 itself, and will be placed in such absolute and spiritual estate of holiness as none can be in, but himself, and therefore must not be 〈◊〉 of any fault whatsoever without sacrilege, yet herein also he is plainly proved to be that Antichrist, that being a damnable man and no spirit, 
a Ansel. in 2.  by lying he feigneth himself to be God, and therefore feigneth himself to be religious; that under 
Thes. cap, 1.  the colour of godliness he may deceive, yea he calleth himself God, and causeth himself to be worshipped. There is nothing belonging to Christ and to his special office, that he doth not take upon him: he forgiveth sins, changeth the nature of things, 
Euseb de preparat. 〈◊〉 7.  will be head of the Church, an universal by shop, Lord of the world, a commander of Angels, without error, and what not? This is a plain token that 
〈◊〉.  he hateth God, seeing he will be called by the name 
Agatho.  of God And being a thief, an Apostata, and a slave will yet be worshipped as God, and proclaimed as a king. This is he, 〈◊〉 holdeth that his 
b Dist. 16.  decrees, must be esteemed as spoken by the instinct of the holy Ghost from Peter himself, who having full authority must 
c Bonif. extravagant. cap. de obedient.  conclude, decide and define all things, who is the wonder of the world, and therefore of 
d 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  Papa is called Pope, before whom not only all creatures but the greatest princes of the world must do homage. God the judge of the whole world vouchsafeth oftentimes to communicate to us miserable 〈◊〉 a reason of his doings, but this monster must yield no reason: No man whatsoever he 〈◊〉, must ask him why he doth it. The very heavens sweat at his abominations. And therefore I conclude this first part, that this is the very antichrist, that sitteth in men's consciences: And that whole body the head and members is that Babylon, Egypt and Sodom, enemies to jesus Christ, the true and only head of his Church, and to all his members.  
Now it followeth to prove that they are enemies 
〈◊〉 The papists are enemies to all christian princes.  to Christian princes, and namely the most dangerous and greatest enemies, that our Sovereign, the Queen's Majesty that now by the grace of god reigneth over us, hath. Being proved (as they are) 〈◊〉 to God, how can they be friends to his ministers & magistrates whom he hath appointed under him? If true christian obedience to princes must necessarily flow from dutiful obedience to God, how can they obey christian men, that have no fear of God: well they may couch and crouch for fear of the whip, yield an outward & civil reverence, such as M. 〈◊〉 speaketh of, but they can never love truly as children, but fear as slaves, whom true knowledge hath not framed, for in respect of God, to 〈◊〉 obedience and duty. That this true obedience hath been taught, advanced and established in the hearts 
The gospel teacheth obedience 〈◊〉 all persons the pope resisteth it.  of men by the gospel, it is apparent to 〈◊〉 men that will not be wilfully blind, and of malice kick against the prick. For where hath there been greater and more godly 〈◊〉, humble, lowly and faithful loyalty in the hearts of subjects towards their princes, with the willing bearing of all burdens & paying of all taxes, impositions, and such like civil duties, but where the gospel hath moste flourished? let all the countries in the world, where it hath been received, speak the truth thereof. Contrari wise, the troubles that have arisen (as it cannot be denied, but that there have been great troubles by occasion thereof, in many places of the world) yet they have all sprung from the unquiet and hammering heads of faithless and traitorous Papists, who in favour of their idolatry have always with a deadly hatred persecuted the truth, and the true professors of it, And be they what they might be, of what estate or condition so ever, superiors or equals, Magistrates 
This needeth no confirmation, for the truth hereof appeareth in all stories.  or vassals, Princes or subjects, they have always been set against, undermined and overthrown with out all respect, if once they have made but show to embrace the Gospel. And hereof have Christian princes found their troubles, common, weals their wastinges and overthowes; Christian people pitiful effusion of blood, joined with hideous cruelty, such as was never exercised amongst heathen Tyrants. And though all the simpler sort of papists amongst the common people be not to be drawn into this company of 〈◊〉 conspirators, 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉, but rather are to be deemed as ignorant deceived, and reduced by the finer sort of heads, yet these greatest and 〈◊〉, their captains, and 〈◊〉 being politics, have offended of knowledge: and making that reckoning of the pope that they do, they must needs be enemies and traitorous to our sovereign prince the Queen, even such as they are to God. For they being fully persuaded in conscience & in deed, that the pope is Christ's vicar, that princes must reign by him, must needs deny that those princes who allow not his 〈◊〉 and are so 〈◊〉, off from being 〈◊〉 by him, that they are excommunicated and deposed (as much as 〈◊〉 in him) from their crowns and dignity; they must deny, I say, as in deed they do, that such at 〈◊〉 princes, & therefore deny them all obedience. And hence it is, that popery is always accompanied 〈◊〉 treason, rebellion and consparacye, whereof, as our 〈◊〉 Lad hath 〈◊〉 more than her highness noble progenitors, in regard that she hath more advanced the gospel, & yet God be praised, hath been delivered from them, so they making but the least show that could be, of favouring the 〈◊〉 religion (such as those dark times could afford them) which 〈◊〉 
Henry the second.  very dim; have yet had their hands full, being many times put to their shifts, & hardly escaping the loss both of their crowns & lives. 
a See our own stories.  So was Henry 〈◊〉 2. dealt withal when his crown was plucked from his head & he compelled like a private man; to the no small disgrace of the majesty of a Prince. to creep to the 〈◊〉 legate, to be restored again, So was king john 
King john.  dealt withal, when from the pope; by the means of the 〈◊〉 & monks, he was discharged from his govern meant, his subjects released from their allegiance; his no 〈◊〉 in arms & in field against him, & at length finished his miserable life, by the treason of a monk that poisoned him & himself with him, as their own stories 
Mat. Pari. 1211  have delivered unto us. So dealt they with Henry the 8. a famous prince, stirring up the emperor against him, the french king & others, wherein those 
Card. Pol. lib. 3.  same notable traitors, the one a necromancer Cardinal Wolsey & Cardinal Poole, both special dealers; doing as much as lay in them to deprive him of his kingdom. As for that blessed 〈◊〉 king Edward, all the 
In Northfolk, Devonshire, & other places.  commotions & treasons that were stirred up & practised against him. both at home & abroad came from the pope & papists at Rome. Let the stories be searched I speak not so much of those former times, I could show how king Harrold lost his kingdom, for banishing 
Capgr. 〈◊〉. Westmon.  one Robert, 〈◊〉 of Canterbury, who flying to the duke of Normandy, was not only resto 〈◊〉 to his archbishopric again, whether the king would or no, but the said duke being 〈◊〉 by the 
Ansel. Willi. the second.  pope, got the whole kingdom. So did Anselmus a traitor trouble William the 2. about the election of bishops, which was by his own right, that in spite of the king's teeth, he brought it to the pope that 〈◊〉 christ. I could also show how one Ralph; a piled & 
Raze Bishop of Chester.  shorn bishop of Chester, did so justle with the king, 
Barus 〈◊〉.  about a tribute for whores, that he suspended the churches, stopped up the doors with thorns, & compelled the king to yield unto him, which he could never have done, had not the pope & divers of that traitorous cive assisted him. So one Stephan Langton 
Steph. 〈◊〉  an archbishop caused the realm to be interdicted, stirred up rebellion in Ireland, & provoked the pope to conquer it, till the king became the pope's tenant, & received the crown at his hands; So Thomas Arundel, 
Tho. Arundel. All this is 〈◊〉 in our own chronicles.  being also Archbishop of Canterbury and chancellor (for then all offices might 〈◊〉 in any of their men) in the time of king Henry the second, being exiled with the earl of Darbye, belike for some treason, when the king was abient, they deposed 
Guil. of Malm. Guil. Newbri. Barns.  him, & afterwards put him to death. So raged they also against good duke Humfrey, the stories showing that he began to see, and smell out their knavery the bishop of Winchester set first upon him at London and afterwards in a parliament time, not 〈◊〉 from Bury they murdered him. What should I 
Rich. Scrowp.  speak of Richard Scrowpe archbishop of 〈◊〉 in the time of Henry the fourth, who was in the field against the king, and had the reward of a Traitor. And hence was it that they made such laws against the procuring of excommunications, Bulls, or ecclesiastical censures, from the pope or See of Rome, against the king or any of his 〈◊〉 
Ancient presidents to show what they were 〈◊〉 that procured any Bulls or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Rome.  in those days, when popery most flourished 〈◊〉 the time of Edward the first, one for 〈◊〉 an excommunication from Rome, against one of the 〈◊〉 subjects, was 〈◊〉 the realm, and had suffered, as in case of high 〈◊〉, had not the Chan cellor and treasurer of England made special suit for him. Theresore also it was enacted that no foreign 
Anno. Edw. 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉.  power, should hold any plea without the king's protection within this realm or take any without. 
Anno 27. Edward. 〈◊〉.  The pope should give no benefices, nor bishop ricks here. They that procured cytations or procurations 
Stat 〈◊〉 in anno 30.  from Rome, fell into a Praemunire, So did 
Edw. primi.  they that took letters of Attorney, lormes or administrations 
An. 25. Edw. 〈◊〉.  for benefices, without the king's special 
An 27. Edw. tertii.  licence. It was made death, to 〈◊〉, procure or cause to be procured any Summons, excommunications 
Richardi pri.  or 〈◊〉 from Rome. If any took upon 
Anno. 30.  them the 〈◊〉 of any bishop, sued any process or sentence, excommunication, Bull or 〈◊〉, touching the king's crown or regality, brought 
An. 16. Rich.  them in, or received them, notified them, or made execution of them, within the Realm or without, both the offenders and maintainers were out of the king's protection, their Lands and goods were con fiscate, and Bulls from Rome for 〈◊〉 was a 〈◊〉. 
An. 2. Henry. 4  I speak not of our late parliaments and laws, because they will hold they are 〈◊〉, as not being ratified by their Pope and themselves. This being so manifest & plain, I marvel at Campions' impudency that will avouch the Romish religion, not only by 〈◊〉, and philosophy, but also by law both civil & temporal yet in force; and yet herein I 〈◊〉 appeal to those lawyers that are his best friends & 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 mostè, (the laws standing as they do) if they would plainly show their judgement. 〈◊〉 must the trial of God's religion, that is always one & perfect, be subject now to the changeable 〈◊〉 of men? and yet it may appear in all ages and times, sith antichrist displayed himself, that he and his members have been the 〈◊〉 practisers of treasons that ever 〈◊〉, and being such evil men have brought forth those good 〈◊〉, that hath been made against such usurpation, and unnatural treachery against God, 〈◊〉 natural prince, state and country. I could 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from their practice, specially when princes began to see some 〈◊〉 of the truth, And this was the cause that when king Henry began to banish the Pope's 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉  aúthority, he and his land were interdicted And did 
Polus. 〈◊〉. 3.  not Cardinal Poole 〈◊〉 Charles the 〈◊〉 in an oration, being bend against the 〈◊〉, to leave all that business, & to bend his 〈◊〉 against 〈◊〉, encouraging the subjects of the 〈◊〉 against their sovereign Lord? The gospel and the 〈◊〉 thereof, howsoever 〈◊〉 be charged by viperous, & 〈◊〉 tongues, such 〈◊〉 as Surius, Wicellus, 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 and the rest, (who seem to have 〈◊〉 that faculty above the rest) that from it and the preachers thereof, hath sprung 〈◊〉, bloodshed, disobedience, contention, and 〈◊〉 in france, Germany and other countries: The truth is, that from themselves and under their own wings these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of treason and rebellion have evermore been hatched, or else from such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉. I mean the 〈◊〉, who, howsoever they differ in some heads, yet they are fast tied together by the 〈◊〉. For Caluine, Beza, Luther and such other excellent instruments have been from time to time, the only oppugners and resisters of these heretics, and their rebellious proceedings: when papists have clapped their hands and laughed in 〈◊〉 sleeves at them, because hereby truth was brought into hatred with Christian princes, & they 
The impudency of Howlet  〈◊〉 the advantage to set up their 〈◊〉 I dolatry and heresy: And therefore I wonder not a little at this platterfaced owl of Parsons, that with his staring and shameless countenance, dareth even to the majesty of a prince, whom the Pope his master and all the right Papists, such as he calleth the hotter sort of Catholics, condemn as a 
a Sand. lib. 7. 30.  schismatic & heretic, and therefore think themselves discharged of all obedience, and her highness to have no 〈◊〉: of government over them, that he should thus sawn upon her whom he condemneth, and loveth as well as the light of the gospel, which neither he, nor any of that dark brood could ever abide, yet I say, that he dareth thus shamlesly to flatter, as though she were so simple to be carried away with words, when she seethe & understandeth their deeds, hath felt their practices, and (if God of his wondered mercy had not kept her highness) had tasted of their cruelty, as other Princes & noble gentlemen have done before her & round about her. What should I blot paper, in setting down such things as every book soundeth forth only let us hear out of the 
b Sanders the mouth of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, in his book dedicated to the pope, approved by the Cardinals, & allowed by the popish 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉.  mouth of the papaists on of their own doctors, how they 〈◊〉 of her 〈◊〉. I mean not to set down, that might yield me some advantage against them, as neither standing with my 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 it, 〈◊〉 spoken to the dishonour of her majesties person, not being 
So doth Brist. 〈◊〉. 5. fol. 72. 73.  fit to be noted by writing in the face of the world, but rather to receive, a punishment due for such presumptuous 〈◊〉: only I will mention, how 
Story, Felton, the Nor to 〈◊〉, Wodhou e, Plumtre, and all the northern men that were in actual rebellion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, the other in 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  he maketh Story, Felton & others, that were condemned not in any cause of religion, but for high treason, 〈◊〉 he maketh them Martyrs. The most 〈◊〉, that refuse without all reason the means of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and have been for 〈◊〉 & just 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet 〈◊〉, he calleth constant 〈◊〉, but I hope, some of them are ashamed (I know whatsoever they are, they may be) to have their names in such a calendar. Of those same rebels, in the north, that appeared in actual rebellion against her highness, he maketh a solemn calendar, he putteth in a Catalogue their names & conditions giving it this 
Lib. 7. de visib.  〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 qu: 〈◊〉 fidem 〈◊〉, & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 
Monarch pag. 730. pag 734.  〈◊〉, arma 〈◊〉, & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉. The names & conditions of those englishmen which took arms, & are yet in exile for the Catholic 〈◊〉, & for the primacy of the church of Rome. He rehearseth the Bull of 〈◊〉 Quintus against her highness, & plainly assevereth, that it was for just causes declared & published. He calleth her majesty the pretended Queen, and showeth how Doctor Morton was sent into England to admonish 〈◊〉 catholic noble men, that Elizabeth that then governed was an 〈◊〉, & that for that cause she was by very right fallen from all government & power, which she usurped over the catholics, & that she might be 〈◊〉 of them without any danger, 〈◊〉 an heathen & publican, neither that they were from 〈◊〉, bound to obey her laws & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he showeth, that 〈◊〉 noble men 〈◊〉 to deliver their brethren ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de from the tyranny of heretics, and albeit things fell not out to 〈◊〉 expectation, yet he 〈◊〉 their attempt. In another place he affirmeth that 〈◊〉 in some cases, kings and Emperors that govern christian 
Lib. 20. cap. 4. 〈◊〉.  people be not subject to Christ's 〈◊〉, yet by the virtue of the keys of the kingdom of heaven, when their governments hurt the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉, and the salvation of souls, they are to be deposed. Did 〈◊〉 any professor of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a sentence? Alack, they 〈◊〉 out of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, for an 〈◊〉 which 〈◊〉 gathered and forged many years after his death, that princes being in deadly 
In 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 Conci. Const 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉.  sin are no longer princes, nor 〈◊〉 are to yield them any longer obedience, which yet the article (as it was first set down in the Council of Constance) speaketh of Priests and 〈◊〉. This Owl a so whopeth against us of obedience, that we break the book, that we despise authority, that we do this and that, but look upon the face of this babe, mark the feature of this cub, view his claw, and tell me who is his dam & 〈◊〉 we or these 〈◊〉 papists? 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 first a 〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an 〈◊〉, or an 〈◊〉 amongst people 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 kingdom And a 〈◊〉 
Li. 2 ca 4. 78.  〈◊〉, If 〈◊〉 A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, that Christians being 〈…〉 common 〈…〉 under them, 〈◊〉 esse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 born that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 should of their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 set 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. d. 〈◊〉 suffered an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: que 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them? 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thou must not say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ave, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they serve 〈…〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not more to obey 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉? Do you think the Queen is 
〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o 〈◊〉.  not like to have good 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 as may not 〈◊〉 to salute 〈◊〉? do not they call her their mother, God's substitute, and their 〈◊〉 Queen, in mockage, when they cry thus all 〈◊〉, and yet buffet her, breaking the very neck of her 〈◊〉. The same Sanders 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, that it is the special 〈◊〉 of bishops, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or an 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 
Pag. 〈◊〉.  they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉, as that 〈…〉 as may 〈◊〉, may 〈…〉, 〈…〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, It is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, by 〈◊〉 soever 〈◊〉 they 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not in the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉. This traitor throughout that whole chapter laboureth to prove, that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 del ought not to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the faithful, 〈◊〉 he asketh whether he be 〈◊〉 the name of 〈◊〉 man, 〈◊〉 shall 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 be 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 after one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, ob 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, per 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉: For the same 〈◊〉 they may 〈◊〉 ought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be 〈◊〉 from i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they holds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. After a long 〈◊〉 he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conclusion, Pronus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, eum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non vult, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the Church of Christ, to remove a king that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉, from his 〈◊〉, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 place. It amongst a multitude one 〈◊〉 man or two, have 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 opinions, not in common, but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, not by 〈◊〉, against such as they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, but tyrants in deed, O how they yelp, 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉, crow and whoop, to bring all the 〈◊〉 into 〈◊〉, and yet these are their 〈◊〉: in them forsooth catholic and religious, 〈◊〉 in us 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉. This made Bishop fisher and Syr. Thomas Moor with 〈◊〉 others, to lose their heads. supposing to die Catholics, they had in deed as they were and deserved, the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 The pope that then was, I mean Pope Clement that was the son of a Courtesan, This was Leo the tenths bastard also, as some think, sent out 〈◊〉 Bull against king Henry the eight, but thanks be to God, it neither shook his seat, as he had thought it should 〈◊〉 deprived him of his kingdoms, as he undoubtedly looked 〈◊〉; but it was a means to bring many of those Romish calves to a just 〈◊〉, though many ventured but to late upon his absolution, 〈◊〉 they took it after his life in purgatory.  
Of this wholesome doctrine confirmed by the pope's practice, have sprung all rebellions, Treason's 〈◊〉, tumults, 〈◊〉, and uproars, in all come mon wealths and 〈◊〉, where the pope hath had any thing ado, not of any right, but by usurpation. 
Plat lib. 10. 2. Tom. Conci.  For Emperors were wont 〈◊〉 depose evil pope's, now evil pope's dispose good kings. So was the government 
In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Parisiis cap. 14.  of France once by such a deposing, transposed from the right heirs for ever. When 〈◊〉 deposed Chilperic, & Pipin his Marshal became, 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 q 6. 〈◊〉.  king, so did Vrban depose pierce the king of Spain, setting in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Henry a 〈◊〉. I 〈◊〉 not 
Alius.  〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 Henry the fourth, because I have mentioned them before. So would Pope Pius impiously have done, 〈◊〉 his power had 〈◊〉, to our gracious Queen, whom the Lord long preserve, to hold up his icepter among us Neither say we as Parson's 〈◊〉 would 〈◊〉 us speak, that every contrary profession 〈◊〉 in any state or 〈◊〉 is by and by treason, or that they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any contrary religion 〈◊〉 by and by traitors. For falsehood 
The 〈◊〉: 〈◊〉 M. Charkes book v. 〈◊〉 it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the name of 〈◊〉 or any others.  is many times defended and perketh up, when truth is in 〈◊〉 and hardly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 face. The world loveth her own, & all princes be not true professors and 〈◊〉 of Prophets: But this 〈◊〉 say, that 〈◊〉 and treason are commonly inseparable 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. The foundation and whole building is nought 〈◊〉 but treason and treachery. Christ and his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the truth, taught true obedience, gave to Caesar that which was Caesar's, and to God that which was Gods, Christ 〈◊〉 tribute 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and for Peter: and though 〈◊〉 be contrary to falsehood, yet there is no 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 against falsehood, but in 〈◊〉 against truth Our gracious 〈◊〉 therefore by the grace of God maintaining truth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, true religion against 〈◊〉, upholding the Gospel of righteousness, and reigning by Christ, they that shall 〈◊〉 it, seeking together her 〈◊〉 with it, from a foreign Italian usurper are not only traitors against her, but against God. They that shall 
If the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 land, he must 〈◊〉 have it from the word of God, or 〈◊〉 our laws & so from both, or else 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  pinch her 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 it, 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 power, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 her 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against her, 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of obedience, 〈◊〉 in Bulls to roar out her 〈◊〉, discharge her 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉, hold her as an 〈◊〉 and labour to withdraw the loving 〈◊〉 of her subjects by any new pardons or 〈◊〉, all which the papists have done, and do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉? they are enemies to God, to her Highness, to the whole state, and to themselves: and except they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, God in 〈◊〉 when they think least of it, will find out their wickedness, and as he did unto Story make them feel the punishment of their wicked treason? If this be not their dealing, let me be reproved. If their rebellion in the North, their conspiracy in Norfolk, their calculating her birth, their practices by sorcery, by imagery, and such trumpery, their libeling 〈◊〉 slandering, their threatening and monstrous flattering, their 〈◊〉 invading of her highness territories and dominions, with giving placards to the meanest of her subjects to shed her blood, that hath been alleged before, be not enough to convince them to be 〈◊〉, let me bear the shame of it. I could set down the particulars, but that the same are handled, and it may please God, one day, besides that which is already declared, that a just 〈◊〉 will be published of it. I refer the reader for further satisfaction herein to the worthy works of M. Norton published at that time, when the Bull roared so 〈◊〉 in our ears, and to his warning given to our Northern rebels. I refer them also to Owlets check now in publishing. Who did these things but papists? who procured the Bull, brought it into the Realm, set it up, and published it? And what was the matter, against whom, for what, and to what purpose? What were 〈◊〉? who plaited the deposing of the Queen, and 〈◊〉 up of another Mary amongst us? Who conferred with the Devil? sowed 〈◊〉 reports and 〈◊〉 to effect their malicious purposes? Who had their 〈◊〉, their Seminaristes and landleapers to gad from place to place, and from country to counrrye, and from gentleman's house to gentleman's house to shed the seed of 〈◊〉, but rank and 〈◊〉 papists? 〈◊〉 that are in high places, know to whom the knowledge of these things specially belong, that 〈◊〉 conspiracies, treasons, practise of her majesties death, hath been found in that nest, For 〈◊〉 they glaver, their minds are known, and their 〈◊〉 are seen, and to the discomfort of all 〈◊〉 be it spoken, God of his goodness hath from time to 〈◊〉 brought their secretest 〈◊〉 and attempts done in the dark to light; he hath thrown their ladden treasons into our laps, unfolding them & laying them open; in tender regard of his church, and to the end her highness taking good heed might more & more be confirmed in the truth & learn to rest in the assurance of his protection, that hath been her mighry 〈◊〉, in all her greatest dangers, And thanks be to his goodness, he hath done it 〈◊〉 any great bloodshed or hard dealing, either of rack, or of any other tortures, and though it please 〈◊〉 M. Censurer to utter his malapertness, 〈◊〉 into the judgement of her 〈◊〉 dealings concerning the racking of those lately in the tower, 〈◊〉 the world in hand, that it was for religion, yet he might have considered, that it is much better for one or two bodies to be scaired and feared, then that a whole country should be betrayed; that one member should be cut off, than all the rest should 〈◊〉, and had he been so 〈◊〉 seen, as he would seem to be, he had had sufficient 〈◊〉 to consider, that they coming over at such 〈◊〉 as they did, their complices the Pope's soldiers appearing in actual rebellion in 〈◊〉, and divers coming over in companies and troops, to scatter (were it) but their errors, their Honours had good cause finding them obstinate against religion & her highness jaws, to distrust their sidelity, and to regard 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 safety, rather to 〈◊〉 them with the rack, than we should be seared with the overthrow of our flourishing peace and country, wihch God in mercy turn from us. This also hath God done for her, that her highness may carry always a thankful heart towards him, when she shall have such experience of his mercy in preserving her, when she shallbe established in judgement, not to be affected with every Sirens voice that seemeth very sweet, but yet bringeth a sharp destruction, as this Owlet, that with his yvybushe at the first is very humble, lowly and low, but resteth not there. For as it groweth and getteth strength, it claspeth and girdeth so hard, that within a little time it will kill the heart of the greatest oak. and get above it; to be an haborowe for such owls and unclean birds as himself is. And even so did the first pope deal with the Emperor, he crept allow, till 〈◊〉 aurhotity bore him up, & so he crept up by little & little, 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 decayed; was removed and overthrown, and now he is become the 〈◊〉 for all the filthy birds in the world. I will make on farther application, the wise I hope will see light at a little hole.  
Who have been those traitors that have stirred, up other princes against the Quecne? who have procured their forces, and laboured for an alteration by colourable practices, but papists? Who have been such traitorly fugitives as themselves? who are the authors of erroneous & traitorous books, 〈◊〉 forth as wildfire, & thrown as fyr: 〈◊〉 into our church & common wealth, to kindle the sire 〈◊〉 rebellion, but papists? For who hath written against her highness by name, against her trusty 〈◊〉 but you Papists? against such as you most hated, because their wisdom and care in the Lord was against you, foam being 〈◊〉 from your malice, & 〈◊〉 yet living maugre your heads, to help (as long as it shall please God) with their faithful 〈◊〉 against you? who 〈◊〉 taken upon 〈◊〉 to decide 〈◊〉 to discover, as they say, privy treasons to debate of state matters, and to make heirs apparent, but papists? Was there any one protestant that can be named that did these things. No goodman How let, howsoever Surius, Frarin, & such scurrilous railers charge the gospel and the profestors of it, it is with the same truth that the 〈◊〉 their master is want to speak against the truth, & no otherwise. It is as fit 〈◊〉 a papist to speak of obecience, and as ill it be cometh him, as when an Owl counterfeiteth to become an Eagle, or when he will take upon him to sing like an Nightingale. You must bear with me, the name you have chosen, whether truly or like a counterseite, maketh some proverbs to fit my purpose. Is not true obedience to God in his true religion and worship, the mother of all true obedience and duty to princes and peers? And how then can a 〈◊〉, that is a traitor to God in his worship, be faithful & true to princes? What conscience is there, where there is no knowledge? & what knowledge can there be without his word. & without the gospel, to teach either obedience to God, or duty to Princes? The subject that feareth God, the instructed Christian, he only knoweth how to obey in and for God. He 〈◊〉 knoweth what duty is to be rendered to God's Lieutenants. They are not the best 〈◊〉, that are readiest to fulfil all Prince's commandments and pleasures, but they are 〈◊〉 subjects, that love and honour their Princes in the Lord, not of custom but of conscience, yea for conscience sake, though they be evil, both to pray for them and to 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 duty 〈◊〉 their conversion unto God; and if they cannot be won, patiently to bear 〈◊〉 is laid upon them. The other are servants and 〈◊〉, these are children. The one obey of fear, the other of love. Those fulfil their wills with the breach of Gods. These submit themselves to suffer, and pray the changing of their minds, that they may enjoy a kingdom, where there shall be no respect of 〈◊〉.  
If any 〈◊〉 object the troubles of France, and Flaunders, and 〈◊〉 countries, where they 〈◊〉 to have colour of charging the professors of the Gospel to have taken arms against their princes, as I have said 〈◊〉, to I say again, they 〈◊〉 arisen by occasion from 〈◊〉 own wicked and wretched 〈◊〉, for that through treason and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have 〈◊〉 drawn most dishonourably to break 〈◊〉 own faith and 〈◊〉, to go 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 laws and 〈◊〉, which armed subjects, 〈◊〉 against their Princes, but with and 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of them, against the 〈◊〉 & heady 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 singular persons And therefore they have evermore been 〈◊〉 by their 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 discharged from all disloyalty by their public instruments and writings, their soldiers have been paid from their Princes pay, and so have been discharged. As for rebellion and the scholars thereof, have always sprung out of the School of Popery, it is a whelp of your own litter, and an egg of your own nest. Macke Morris was a Papist, so is Saunders (if he be yet 〈◊〉) that set in of late for Ireland, & brought a company thither, out of Italy to get a kingdom, to 〈◊〉 a place wherein to lay their dead 〈◊〉, and to bury their bones. It is your doctrine, Owlet, and those of your feather, that hold that 〈◊〉 be duly discharged from subjection, and 
Bristol in his Motives. Motive 40. In the 〈◊〉 of obedience.  〈◊〉 Prince from dominion, by the 〈◊〉 authority of the common Pastor of 〈◊〉. We have and do acknowledge ourselves subject of duty, by the institution of God, we confess her Highness lawful authority to extend to and over all sorts, and no man's profession to exempt him from obedience & fealty, which you do not: for if you yield any, you say, It is but 〈◊〉 common 〈◊〉 sake, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and so far 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the accustomed use of a natural 〈◊〉. and only in temporal things. You have no cause therefore, to storm in such 〈◊〉, nor to take it in such dudgeon, for being said to be enemies to God, and to her royal Majesty. And it is a lewd lie that this broadefaced owl would face down that Papists set her 〈◊〉 into her government, and will 
Owlet Praef.  likewise be ready to maintain her in it, when all the 〈◊〉 knoweth, and every Court upon record soundeth, that they have shaken her seat, and endeavoured from time to time, as much as lay in them to depose her from her peaceable and rightful Sceptre. To conclude therefore, The Papists erring in doctrine, and being members to 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 of sin, adversary to 〈◊〉 Christ, and being the most 〈◊〉 livers that ever were, setting themselves 〈◊〉 against the righteousness of the 
This is 〈◊〉 by all their p 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before.  Gospel, and being plainly proved to be deadly enemies against all government, the 〈◊〉 of treasons, the stirrers up of strife and rebellion, in all 〈◊〉 wheresoever they become, being persuaded that the Pope can not err, who hath pronounced our Sovereign to be a schismatic, and hath 〈◊〉 his Bull to deprive her of 〈◊〉 royal 〈◊〉 and dignity, and to discharge her Subjects of all loyalty and duty, reconciling, persuading, and withdrawing her subjects to the pretended authority 
Against the last statute.  of Rome: I conclude that they are enimiesto God, to their own Realm and country, to their natural Prince, and to them 〈◊〉: and I beseech God, either to turn their hearts, or else to give them the 〈◊〉 of traitors. And thus much to require this Papist in assevering that which I set down in my dedicatory Epistle.  
Now a word or two concerning the Fast at Stamford, and so an end. Whereas this 〈◊〉 owl, to bring the truth into hatred with her Majesty, by way of comparison, setting his quiet Catholics, and their doctrine of obedience, against us and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the same matter, to 〈◊〉 
The common 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 men with that where, 〈◊〉 they have no 〈◊〉.  me, who have (as he said) so falsely infamed them, promising to set down certain propositions 〈◊〉 out of two 〈◊〉 of my Preachers. etc. I 〈◊〉 no farther credit of the whole Church of God, of her 〈◊〉, & of all indifferent men, than I shall be able to prove the same by sufficient testimonies to be most shameful and 〈◊〉. And first, before I enter into it, what colour of 〈◊〉 can it have, that those propositions out of their Sermons should be gathered by a Minister, unless it were some such 〈◊〉 as Euerard Hans was, alias Ducat, who 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thereabouts before his going over? Think you there was any Minister so familiar with this Owl being of the dark brood of Papists? If he were a Minister, either he must be some such hypocritical liar and an accuser & 〈◊〉 of his b. 〈◊〉, or else this ugly owl hath out of his own head to declare himself a 〈◊〉 like his father, 〈◊〉 these shameful untruths. He 〈◊〉 that this 〈◊〉 was forbidden, by the L. superintendant of Lincoln, by his letters bearing date the fifth of September, & yet that these Preachers would not 〈◊〉, that the letters were directed to the 〈◊〉 & Comburgesses there. In deed it is true, that after the allowance of this Fast, by former letters 〈◊〉 the Bishop, and at the request of others, all which 〈◊〉 are set down, that the Bishop sent some such restraint, 〈◊〉 by some rumour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, that his appointed order should not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 observed, both as touching the 
Good things never lack 〈◊〉.  〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉, & also 〈◊〉 bringing in some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, for whose doings he could not answer: but M. 〈◊〉 & his brethren very wisely considering that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now already appointed and warranted, and being clear in their 〈◊〉 knowledge from any 〈◊〉 of altering that which was prescribed and 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 they should seem to yield to such suppositions as they 〈◊〉 dreamt of, & so show themselves 〈◊〉: they kept their determination according to th'order which 
Otherwise they should have showed themselves 〈◊〉.  was prescribed. And therefore, though Parson's Owlet by some of his inteligencers got notice of such a letter, yet he was not acquainted with the premises, nor with all that belonged to this matter. And it might well be, that by practice of some enemy giving false insormation (as lightly there lacks none to hinder good things) when the fast had been in divers places of the Realm else where, 〈◊〉 the fearful earthquake, a token of God's anger, and was ordinarily sought for, by the Alderman and Comburgesses there, to the end they might show their forwardness, to humble themselves beforc the Lord, as 〈◊〉 had done, it may be, I say, that that exercise was then sought to be stayed, as the first was, but thanks be to God it was both orderly kept, and well obtained. For upon better information given 
The Lord Treasurers honourable readiness to further the fast of Stamford.  to the Right Honourable the Lord Burleigh, Lord high 〈◊〉 of England, who by reason that his Honour is Lord of that town of Stamford, and for that also his Lordship's house of Burleigh is hard adjoining 〈◊〉, and being otherwise very good Lord unto the town, he was the rather made acquainted with their good desire and proceeding, and by the letters of M. Robert johnson also satisfied. To which letter his Honour vouchsafed to give an honourable and favourable answer, returned to the said M. Robert johnson from the Court then being at Otelandes, bearing date the 25. day of july 1580. wherein his Lordship showeth his good contentment and forwardness to so holy an exercise testifying that for the said M. johnsons readiness and pains in preaching, in teaching and reading in those parts thereabout, he hath cause both to esteem and love him. His Lordship exhorteth him to continue in his vocation. I set not down his Honour's letters in respect of duty, not having communicated my purpose with his Honour, trusting of his honours favour in this behalf, seeing it is against an enemy of God, and in maintenance of the truth. But this is true, that therewithal his Lordship written also a loving letter to the Alderman and Burgesses of the said town of Stamford, bearing the same date, approving any thing, that the Bishop should direct or order in that behalf, & another also he written to the Bishop of the Diocese which they forthwith sent by a special messenger & a letter from themselves: and this was the copy of the letters sent from the town.  
To the right reverend Father in God, and our Diocessan, my L. Bishop of Lincoln.  

The letters of th' 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his allowance 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉.  RIght reverend Father, after our duties most humbly premised. It may please your L. to be advertised, that whereas of late we made request to the godly learned 〈◊〉 about us, to afford us their godly travel, in a days exercise to be spent with us in the serving of god, in fasting prayer, godly meditations, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his word & relieving of the poor, which orders we understand to the great 〈◊〉, edification, instruction, and comfort of God's people, hath of late been observed in many 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, & in sundry such places within your good Lordship's Diocese, as law thought convenient for that purpose: which our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 determination was misreported of to the Lord Treasurer our especial and very good Lord, whereupon by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 letters of the second of this month, he required & advised us, that the said intended exercise for some considerations should be stayed and forborn, whereupon we have made stay of it hitherto. So it is now that upon some 〈◊〉 and more particular declaration made to his Lordship, by letters sent from M. johnson a preacher to his Lordship touching that matter, it hath pleased his Lordship by his letters of the 25. of this month, to grant us his good and favourable allowance, to the having of the say de exercise, and further hath advertised us in the same letter, to beseech your good Lordship of your direction & consent thereunto, to the wnich purpose he hath sent a letter to your Lordship, included with a letter sent to me, and my brethren the Comburgesses of this town, which letter we send unto your good L. by this bearer, most humbly beseeching you to grant us your good furtherance in this our request, which we 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 make to your good 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 we nothing doubt, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 godly zeal and care to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 of God's glory. And thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lordship's favourable 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we most humbly take our leave. 〈◊〉 this 30. of july. 1580.  
Your 〈◊〉 humble 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Borough & 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 etc.  
To these letters and by occasion of the others the Bishop gave his consent, and returned in effect this answer, gathered out of his letters by M. Francis Harington Recorder there.  
〈◊〉 superscription.  
To my very 〈◊〉 friends, the Alderman and 〈◊〉 of Stamford, 〈◊〉 this.  
THE order that I do 〈◊〉 good of is this, that 
The sum of the bishops answer to the town again.  you of the town of 〈◊〉, by conference with your Preacher M 〈◊〉, should agree upon some 〈◊〉 or days, wherein you will use that godly 〈◊〉 of preaching & fasting, without the confluence of other 〈◊〉 that appertain not unto your town. And that M. Hanson on the Sunday before the 〈◊〉 appointed, do in a Sermon exhort the people 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 themselves to so convenient & godly an exercise, & that on the day itself there be two sermons, one preached by M. Hanson, and 〈◊〉 by M. Lively, the residue of the time, either before, between, or alter the Sermons, you may 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in open or 〈◊〉 prayer, or in contribution to the poor, in such 〈◊〉 as you shall think convenient. This manner I think in my 〈◊〉 sufficient, neither would I 〈◊〉 you to do it otherwise, for I know, and have signification given me already that it 〈◊〉 be very offensive, & breed more 〈◊〉 than I would gladly have come to 〈◊〉. These my letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you keep. for the 〈◊〉 of my 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 the matter 〈◊〉 come in contioversie. Thus far you heartily 〈◊〉.  
Your very loving friend, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Hereby may plainly appear the shameless lie of this staring Owl, that blushed not in the ears of her 〈◊〉 to whoop, that this exercise was kept 〈◊〉 against the Bishops will, that the preachers disobediently stepped up in the pulpit, and uttered such seditious 〈◊〉, as he and his informing scribe have patched together, as far from all colour of truth, as any of the rest, to the slander, not only of those godly and learned preachers, but also of the magistrates, and whole corporation of that town, who did nothing, but according as they were directed by authority, saving only that M. johnson preached in the second place, in steed of him that was appointed by the bishop, he upon some occasion failing (as there may 〈◊〉 out in such a case many 〈◊〉) M johnson being notwithstanding requested of the magistrates there: both by letters at the first & at that instant, & that after the viewing of his 〈◊〉: and as for M. Lively the first preacher, let him be heard, as able to speak for himself in this matter.  

Richard Lively minister in Market Deeping and first preacher in the public fast at 〈◊〉, to john Owlets acculation, answereth as followeth.  
IT is not without great cause, that Saint Paul in his first Epistle to Timoth. cap. 5. 19 setteth down this rule, and leaveth the same as a 〈◊〉 order in the Church, that against an Elder no accusation should be admitted, but under the testimony of two or three witnesses: he did well consider, that the minister being stained, his doctrine is in hazard, and the gospel thereby like to receive some wound. Therefore he would not that the minister without true proof should be condemned, but rather judicially called, and heard to answer for himself, Again, as nothing more hindereth or plucketh down the kingdom of Satan, and setteth up the kingdom of Christ, than the word and Gospel, and the comfortable preaching thereof: So there is 〈◊〉 wherein he is more diligent, then to accuse and slander, to deface and deprave the Preachers of the word, as the readiest mean to hinder the credit and course of the Gospel, to retain the wicked in their 〈◊〉, and so to hold the world (as it were) in his claws. That this hath been the practice of Satan from time to time, not only by his own unclean mouth, but other convenient instruments for that, to forge accusations and slanders, to carry and recarrye misreports, especially against the ministers, experience of all ages, and examples in Scriptures do plentifully record, He moved Corah, Dathan, and Abyram, to accuse and slander Moses and Aaron in the open face of the congregation, he procured the Priests and false Prophets to accuse jeremy, and Amaziah to accuse Amos, he 〈◊〉 the Scribes and Pharisees to slander Christ himself, he stirred up the eloquent Orator 〈◊〉 to accuse Paul. So it is a 〈◊〉 of the Gospel till this day, to be subject to captious enemies, and the preachers thereof to the persecution of 〈◊〉 lous tongues, which no doubt were able to discourage us from our duties, and wound us to the very hearts: if we had not that good shield left us, Mat. 5. Blessed are you, when men shall speak all manner of 〈◊〉 sayings against 〈◊〉.  
Now Sir, if you be found in the rabble of these accusers, and your accusations, though in many words, yet most of them untrue, then with what Spirit you were led in penning these things, your conscience will tell you, even with the Spirit of him who as a liar, from the beginning, and the father of the same thing. And all men may easily conjecture that malice in your heart exiled truth from your tongue, and bashfulness from your countenance. For if to report a lie to a meaner person, hath been evermore counted shame and dishonesty; Then so malepertly to insinuate such manifest untruths into the ears of a prince, yea of so wise, godly, and virtuous a Prince, because you would do the greater hurt, I doubt not but it shall purchase to yourself perpetual discredit and 〈◊〉.  
You lay to our charge the odious crime of disobedience, and contempt of laws and magistrates, and this you seem to prove, partly by our acts as violent rushing up into the pulpit being forbidden, partly, by certain propositions of doctrine published at the general fast in Stamford as you are informed by a minister there present.  
Now how greatly your minister that gratified you with these 〈◊〉 did therein abuse you, and consequently you abuse others, you shall soon perceive. First, concerning the note of disobedience, I say, that the 〈◊〉 of Stamforde, who 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 person in that town, with the other 〈◊〉, by one assent and consent, and by earnest suit requested me to 〈◊〉 that good work, my 〈◊〉, which is my L. Bishop of 〈◊〉, by his letters 〈◊〉 date the 〈◊〉 day of August did nominate, and by special name appoint me to that 〈◊〉, to occupy the place that day: Therefore, 〈◊〉 by the alderman and his brethren requested, and by the Bishop appointed, and never after had, nor heard of any restraint or countermand, nor any 〈◊〉 tending to that purpose, what truth can be in your assertion, that I would not obey? my charge lieth not in that place and therefore no cause why I should intrude myself against authority.  
Concerning your four propositions of Doctrine inferred as it seemeth altogether from the Prophet jonas, hath not so much as any face of truth, seeing my text was in the prophecy of Esay. Upon these Articles as false 〈◊〉, you ground a most wicked conclusion, that we would have no ruler nor governor at all. Notwithstanding I doubt not to approve my loyalty to my Prince, and my good affection towards magistrates well enough, howsoever you dare so maliciously 〈◊〉 port it.  
In that place, and not long time before, I proved, 
In a Sermon upon 〈◊〉 seven teenth of November, Anno 1579.  that neither City nor Kingdom, nor Socictye of men was able to endure, but by the benefit of good and wholesome Laws, and that Laws were nothing worth, 〈◊〉 there should be Magistrates to execute the same, for Lex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 autem est lex 〈◊〉. The law is a dumb Magistrate, but the Magistrate is a speaking law.  
I declared openly that by them we enjoy our lands, livings, goods, and possessions in safety: that by them our controversies are decided, & the weakest, which else were like to go to the walls, by this means godly defended. And therefore the sun in his brightness not more needful for the increase of the fruits of the earth, nor meat and drink for the sustentation of this our nature, than the use of good and godly magistrates in every common wealth. As occasion then required, I stirred up the people's hearts to thankfulness to God, for the happy and peaceable government of this Realm. All which may argue how far I am, from such anabaptistical opinion of wishing no ruler or governor at al.  
At that instant time of the general Fast, I made prayer myself, and exhorted the people to pray aswell for her Highness, as her most honourable Counsel, and all other the Nobility of this Realm, all judges, justices, and civil Magistrates, and by special words for her majesties preservation, against all traitorous practices either of domestical or foreign enemies, for the multiplying of her days and years, in abundance of peace and godly life, & for the continuance of her and the Gospel, if it were his good will and pleasure, even to the days of Methushelah. And can any man think that in the turning of a hand, out of one fountain should flow sweet water and sour also. first to show honest and hearty affection to Magistrates, and immediately to breathe out hatred and contempt of Magistrates, to make a divorce between my words and my heart, to wish there should be no ruler or governor at all?  
No it is you and your sect of stisnecked Papists, that pinch at Magistrates, while you exempt yourselves from 〈◊〉 obedience, you know who ground themselves upon that saying of the Psalm, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 meos, touch not mine anointed, do wrist this and such like places, & retch them as Shoemakers do their leather, to serve your purpose for the Pope's shavelings. A learned father confuting your vanity, saith, you might aswell make a 
Latimer in Serm. habit.  syllogism of Quem terra pontus, to prove of nothing something. 
Stamford.   
Where you are pressed, with the authority of S. Paul, Rom. 13. Let every soul submit himself to the authority of the higher powers, you know who shift of the matter with this gloze, Onnis anima secularis, non item 〈◊〉, Every secular soul, and not every spiritual soul. But Chrysostom confuteth your saying, Omnis anima 〈◊〉 Propheta, sive Apostolus, sive 〈◊〉, Every soul whether he be Prophet, or whether he 〈◊〉 an Apostle, or Evangelist. But this is beside my purpose. And therefore to return to your propositions, albeit by charitable instruction they might be mitigated, from that rigour that you would enforce upon them, yet to do not only that which is just, but to do the same justly, faithfully & truly, I say I never spoke them, yea as surely as the Redeemer of the world liveth, and I myself hope to be partaker of that redemption: so surely I never uttered them. How far they were from my words, the whole company then present can testify, how far from my heart, God himself doth know. And albeit my nay aught to be as good as your yea, & my flat denial in mine own defence, in good reason ought to countervail and prevail with your bare and naked affirmation, yet to put the matter out of all doubt, I have craved the 〈◊〉 of such as did hear me, not of the simple, rude or ignorant, but of the better, the more learned sort, and such as be of good credit and calling in the common wealth, as followeth.  
WE the alderman & comburgesses of Stamford knowing the premises which the said Richard Lively hath alleged to acquit himself of the abovesaid slander of disobedience, to be most true, have thought good to ratify the same by the subscription of our names as hereafter followeth.  

Comburgesses.  
john Wimbleby Alderman  
Willam Lacie Gent.  
john Houghton Gent.  
Reinold Harrison.  
Richard Euely.    

The true report of john Hanson Bachelor of divinity, and preacher in Stamford, concerning the 〈◊〉 of Richard Lively, and Robert johnson, at the general fast in Stamford. 14. Sept. Anno. 1580.  
I john Hanson with great 〈◊〉 writing and gathering the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 sermons, and having examined & 〈◊〉 the same with eight propositions of john 〈◊〉 promised, wherewith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 charged the 〈◊〉 parties, do find no such 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 words, but 〈◊〉, that they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therewith, and this I am ready, if need be to verify by oath.  
By me john Hanson.   

The faithful information of Robert Crosdale preacher, concerning the abovesaid sermons of M. Richard Lively, and M. Roberte johnson, at the general fast in Stamforde. 14. Sept. Anno. 1580.  
I Robert Crosdale, gathering the notes of the said Sermons, and conferring the same with the propositions which are laid to their charge, do steadfastly and truly affirm they have great injury to be so wrongfully accused, and to this I am ready to be sworn, if I shall be thereto ordinarily required.  
By me Robert Crosdale   

The testimony also of the right honourable, the Lord Zouch: M. Francis Harrington Recordor of Stamford, & M. Shepheard Archdeacon of Northhamptonshire, concerning the said 〈◊〉.  
TOuching the propositions set down by john Howlet, which (as he saith) were gathered at two sermons, by a Minister present at Stamford at a general Fast. These are to certify, that howsoever the minister your informer, mistook the matters by gathering and setting down his notes, or for want of diligence or readiness of his pen, or for want of memory, capacity, or understanding or howsoever, the said john Owlet hath altered them to serve his purpose, the truth is so, that I am certain lie informed, by some both of honourable & worship full callings which were then present, that he hath very much abused the preachers in this his report, by setting down that which they never uttered; and that in truth, there was nothing then & there taught, which was not spoken with all loyal and dutiful obedience, and in good terms, and which might; without just occasion of offence given, have been preached before any estate in this land, both for the matter and manner thereof.  
And albeit it must needs be confessed, that both 〈◊〉 & after the order was set down, by the Lord superintendant of the Diocese (as you term him) that said exercise was secretly undermined, and some ways crossed, by false intymations and untrue 〈◊〉, yet in the end it was reverently and profitably kept, according to the true meaning which was permitted, prescribed and allowed in writing by the letters of the said superintendant, the proceeding herein was after this manner At the request of the Aldermen and 〈◊〉, not without some allowance from the right Honourable the Lord Treasurer, to whom the inheritance of that Borough 〈◊〉, upon such good liking and allowance as should thereof be made by the ordinary (to whom his honour written about that matter) the exercise was held and performed in such sort, as nothing was taught corruptly, disorderly or seditiously, but the godly order set down in that behalf, by the right honourable the Lords of her majesties privy Counsel, being first kept in every point, for the more better edification of the people according to the bishops letter, there were two sermons preached by two such as were lawfuly & sufficiently allowed and authorized thereunto, one of the said preachers being earnestly entreated to preach by the Magistrates and 〈◊〉 of the Town, by occasion of the defect of one of the two which was named in the bishops letter, and this was th'only difference of the order observed, from the order prescribed in the bishop's letters.  
Both the sermons were neither twelve nor 〈◊〉 hours long, nor yet much above five hours, which time was thought to be little enough for them, considering they had to 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 the manifold corruptions and abuses of the popish and Pharisaical fasting, and to teach the true order and end of true Fast, with the doctrine of true 〈◊〉, and humbling of their souls and bodies by true repentance and newness of life, which necessarily ought to accompany 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, as without the which it is unprofitable, which being done, there was a liberal contribution and collection made for the poor, and so the action was peaceably and profitably ended. And thus much briefly touching that matter.  
Edward zouch. Nicholas Shepherd Francis Harring●on Recorder of Stamford.   

The credible report of Toby Houghton of cliff in the County of Northhamp. Gentleman, for & concerning the sum and effect of the late Sermons of M. Richard 〈◊〉, and M. Robert johnson preachers, at the 〈◊〉 general Fast at Stamford, the 14 of September. 1580 as followeth.  
The Text of the said M. Lively being contained in Esa. 22. 12. 13. 14. 15 verses, whereof 〈◊〉 the said Toby Houghton, written the quantity of one sheet and a half of large 〈◊〉 in notes, gathered from the say de preacher, out of his own mouth, and by these presents do justify, that the said M. Lively is 〈◊〉 and unjustly charged by john 〈◊〉 in his late book dedicated to the Queen's most excellent majesty.  
And further, I am in like sort to clear the said M. johnson of the said Owlets like slander against him. I having gathered out of his sermon at the said 〈◊〉; to the quantity of one whole 〈◊〉 of paper in notes as he spoke them, his Text being the 2. of 〈◊〉 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. verses.  
And to conclude, I will by the grace of God, be ready to justify, that they or either of them at that present, spoke not any of the articles objected against them by the said Owlet, neither did they utter any manner of speech against the good and godly government of the estate of this our Realm of England. In 〈◊〉 whereof. I have written this same with mine own hand and set my name to the same, this xii. of February. 1580.  
〈◊〉 Houghton.    

By these testimonies alleged by me, concerning the Fast of 〈◊〉, it appeareth (I 〈◊〉) 〈◊〉 how vain the accusation is, that these enemies of God, and of her highness, have made against those Godly and learned men the Preachers that preached there, against the whole Borough & Magistrates thereof, and against myself who never was acquainted with the matter, neither had any dealing at that time or at any other 〈◊〉 any such thing. And now because I have sufficiently discovered this whole trowp of papists under Antichrist the Pope, to be enemies to our Lord & Captain jesus Christ, to his religion, to our gracious Sovereign for professing it, and to us, as 〈◊〉 as under her highness gracious government heartily embrace it: 〈◊〉 that he hath severed us from them, to the end we should hold out his glory against them, and not be ashamed of his Cross in the groatest 〈◊〉 they shall be able to lay upon us, and, that 〈◊〉 should have no fellowship with them. And therefore I most humbly befeech her Majesty upon the 〈◊〉 of my heart; whom God hath 〈◊〉 to that high top of honour, to honour him, & to hold us 〈◊〉 in all obedience under his sceptre and government (which these enemies 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 both against God 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉, and against her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of it:) that she will (in that 〈◊〉 knowledge of the truth, whereof by the singular 〈◊〉 of God she is made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 measure, and in that 〈◊〉, the Lord in mercy hath 〈◊〉 in her gracious heart, against 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without fainting, to the 〈◊〉 on of all 〈◊〉, her most 〈◊〉 and loving 〈◊〉: wherein as 〈◊〉 have by Gods: assistance pitched our staves to stand fast, so 〈◊〉 fully 〈◊〉 ourselves of her gracious defence even to the end. It is no time 〈◊〉 for us to look back: All the boastings land proud challenges in the world, of 〈◊〉 and new 〈◊〉, cannot 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to any suspense of the truth. We are not ignorant of their great speech & proud words: we know that Antichrist shall come with power, yea with lying signs & wonders: his bulk shall be big, & his men shall appear as 〈◊〉 as great as ever were the Anakims' and Goliath: yet we are not by the grace of God, afraid of them. We have had suf ficient trial of their weapons & armour, we know their standings & their studies, and evermore when we have crapled with them, by the 〈◊〉 of God, we 〈◊〉 been to hard for them. A taste was given in the beginning of her majesties most 〈◊〉, & since at sundry times, at Wifbich of late: & this other day at the Tower. And as evermore God hath knit victory with his truth, so he gives shame and confusion to salsehood, with what wisdom of man soever, with what learning or policy it be maintained. And therefore having by the grace of God found the truth, we are fully determined to live and die in it. And it is 〈◊〉, that as God and Satan can not be served together, so we can not be faithful Subjects to Elizabeth our Queen maintaining 〈◊〉, if we serve antichrist. We can not be 〈◊〉 to her, if we yield 〈◊〉 to her enemy, and a 〈◊〉 usurper. And 〈◊〉 as we are made one with Christ our head, & are sorted and 〈◊〉 into his fold, as his Confederates, under the leading of our Christian Prince on earth: we meame by his assistance faithfully to fight his battles. Neither can they 〈◊〉 us, though they shove in amongst us, as long as they come in, under this Antichristes slandered and 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 the Marks both of false 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉. Tyranny and wicked life. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if they 〈◊〉 to be with us as friends, and yet craftily undermine us to cool us and hinder us, we may for a time be deceived, but our 〈◊〉 will at the length discover them, and when they are found out, our eyes shall not 〈◊〉 them. They shall be used not as confederates to him, which only the faithful are: but as enemies, whom we being commanded to strike, we dare not spare, neither reserve: how goodly and fat Oxen soever they be, and what good shows soever they have. We dare not trust neither the 〈◊〉 & whining of these Curs in this time of their bondage & tying up. The time was when they were lose, and then they played their parts, they showed their kind; and we know that there is no change, but by regeneration. Their snarling, their barking against the truth, their lying in wait, and continual looking for advantage, when they may crush us, even in this time, testifieth what we were like to find, if they had any power over us. And though in this 〈◊〉 of them up, as Wolves they have licked out hands whilst we said them to train them to humanity, yet lying lose, they willbe the more 〈◊〉 against us: God of his gracious goodness keep us out of their hands. And we give him most humble & hearty thanks, who in so exceeding mercy & wonderful patience, waiteth for our conversion, even overcoming our sin with his goodness, in protecting and defending us against the madness and 〈◊〉 of these open and deadly enemies. We humbly thank him for defending this Realm, our Queen, her Counsellors, and all her people. For it is well known, and we 〈◊〉 it, that if he had looked upon our unthankfulness, we should have been as a pray unto them and they would have eaten us up alive: he hath done it: not unto us, that is, not for our sakes, but unto his own name, that he may have the glory of it. And surely, if we faint not, but go cheerfully sorward in that glorious truth, in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he hath called us unto, if we labour to approve ourselves to him, giving him a pure worship & service according to his own appointment & will, striving to sincerity and cleansiug our churches from that popish filth, this man of sin hath left behind him in them, if we give him the honour of leading us, & will be ruled by his word, renouncing man's wisdom, policy, and strength in the work of our salvation, then shall we not need to fear, though these enemies be never so many or mighty: If God be with us who can be against us? Though their Parsons be tall and terrible, their furniture well appointed, their strength in the judgement of men invincible, their knowledge in martial affairs equal with ours, their learniug, wealth, riches, and policy above ours, yet in the name of the Lord of hosts we will not fear them: if God be in the midst of us, compass us about & fight for us, if we be under his leading how can they prevail against us? And surely comfortable experience we have had of his goodness these many late years in protecting this realm, so beset with enemies, our gracious prince by nature a weak woman, and subject to many infirmities, her counsellors exercised with many difficulties & hard tentarions, her people given up in peace, as commonly common people are in such times, to 〈◊〉 their profits and pleasures: that God, I say, hath yet so mightily defended them, and enriched us all, with so many blessings both of this life, and of the life to come which are most precious, what other argument can it yield unto us, then of great encouragement? This should even increase our hope, and add new strength unto us, to make us stand fast to our God: The truth is, that our policy and arm hath not wrought it, but our 〈◊〉 God who hath kept continual watch over us, to the end we should walk in holy and 〈◊〉 obedience, in fear and trembling as in his presence: not that we should be secure and careless, arming these enemies of ours, with our sins and transgressions against us, but that we should fear before his 〈◊〉, & trust in him, being armed with the righteousness of jesus Christ our head, which shall not only shroud us from their fury, but from his own wrath and 〈◊〉 damnation.  
Thus much I thought good, being specially drawn in by the adversary to speak in the defence of God's everlasting truth. If I give any just offence to the godly, by any slip of humane infirmity, I crave pardon for it: but I protest before him, that knoweth the secrets of all hearts, that I have not of any malice, sinister affection or desire of revenge, written any thing, but for & in the simple defence & maintenance of the truth and to the end to discredit error and 〈◊〉. And concerning one Owlet, whom I 〈◊〉 in my Epistle dedicatory to aim at, and since have understood that the name by all likelihood should be counterfeit, and taken upon, by one 〈◊〉 a runagate jesuite: I am very sorry for the wrong (if any be) that I have done to Owlet, whom I supposed it to be. And I would the willingliar cry him mercy for it, 〈◊〉 the Lord would vouchsafe him an happy conversion, from that false religion of popery, which I will undoubtedly pray for, with all my heart. The Lord God of all glory, who is king of kings, and Lord of Lords, preserve our gracious Sovereign Queen Elizabeth, and all her honourable counsellors, 〈◊〉, inferior officers and people, and so strengthen them in the truth, as all may have judgement to discern those things that differ, and in their several callings know what belongeth unto their special duties, that they may all detest popery, false doctrine and heresy, and with the glorious profession of the truth, join a sincere and godly conversation in life, & so hold out the glory of Christ their head, through the sanctification of his blessed spirit, till they be gathered the way of all flesh, and arrived at that happy Hǎuen of 〈◊〉 rest, which he hath purchased.  
Amen.  
I have hated the Church of the Malignant.  
FINIS.