THE
RESTORER
OF
THE
FRENCH
ESTATE
.
THIS
WHOLE
DISCOVRSE
IS
made
vnder
the
name
of
France
.
IT
seemeth
that
my
calamities
doe
call
,
follow
,
and
one
enterteine
another
,
not
vnlike
the
waues
,
surges
&
currants
of
waters
:
the
end
of
forrein
warres
hath
bene
to
me
th'
entrance
of
ciuil
warres
,
and
cruil
warres
do
cause
to
reflow
on
me
,
like
a
violent
streame
of
brimstone
,
the
furie
of
all
my
borderers
.
They
say
,
that
warres
are
to
Estates
and
Common
weales
,
that
which
medicines
,
bloudlettings
,
caustiks
,
and
setons
are
to
the
body
of
man
:
By
such
meanes
the
body
is
purged
of
bad
and
superfluous
humors
encroching
either
by
influence
of
the
starres
,
or
by
distemper
of
seasons
corrupting
the
ayer
,
or
by
excesse
and
abuse
in
this
life
,
committed
by
our
Fathers
or
our selues
:
warres
in
like
manner
do
cleanse
Estates
of
wits
that
are
restlesse
&
vnruly
,
mabitious
,
cholerick
,
contentious
,
longing
for
inuasions
,
&
hungring
after
other
mens
good
and
bloud
.
This
they
say
,
but
I
feele
the
contrary
.
Howbeit
the
case
being
so
,
I
made
an
end
of
forrein
warres
too
soone
,
it
was
no
time
to
giue
ouer
the
Physicion
,
to
pay
th'
Apothecaries
bill
,
to
vndoe
the
rollers
,
to
take
of
the
caustiks
and
setons
,
and
to
close
vp
the
woundes
:
somewhat
remained
of
th'
excesse
and
conflict
betweene
the
humors
and
their
qualities
,
great
store
of
corrupt
dregs
and
inflammation
lurked
yet
within
the
bloud
and
woundes
,
the
swoord
,
torment
and
losse
had
not
yet
cleered
all
the
passions
of
distempered
spirites
.
Nay
rather
,
our
great
God
was
not
appeazed
of
his
wrath
,
nor
we
reconciled
to
him
,
he
had
not
reuoked
his
hardning
of
our
hartes
,
neither
were
the
phials
of
his
furie
emptied
.
Alas
!
I
felt
no
euill
but
in
the
vtmost
partes
,
in
the
inferior
members
subiect
in
vse
to
the
principall
,
in
the
feete
and
handes
:
but
now
the
euill
is
got
within
,
it
hath
seized
the
vitall
parts
,
the
principall
members
,
it
is
spred
ouer
all
.
It
is
now
no
more
a
Rheume
,
a
squincie
,
a
particular
downe
flux
of
humors
:
it
is
euen
an
apoplexie
,
a
generall
taking
,
an
vniuersall
corruption
.
Warre
with
its
wast
was
no
where
but
in
the
frontiers
,
in
Picardy
,
in
Burgonie
,
or
in
Champaigne
and
Daulphiny
:
now
it
is
in
the
very
middest
of
mee
,
it
is
ouer
all
,
not
onely
within
Prouinces
and
Gouernements
,
but
euen
within
townes
&
cities
,
within
boroughs
,
villages
and
castels
;
in
houses
particular
,
euen
in
granges
&
solitary
dwellings
;
betweene
the
husband
and
wife
the
father
and
children
,
the
brethren
and
sisters
;
&
which
is
yet
more
horrible
each
one
of
my
children
,
at
least
the
more
part
,
hath
warre
within
his
owne
conscience
.
So
that
for
these
28.
or
30.
yeeres
past
,
I
haue
vniuersally
bene
filled
with
outcries
,
hurlyburlies
,
and
affray
,
with
ashes
,
bloud
,
and
with
rubbish
of
ruines
;
mine
euill
is
become
mine
habite
,
and
to
be
ill
disposed
is
my
ordinary
disposition
.
Now
if
any
discontinuance
came
betweene
,
it
was
but
as
of
accidents
lightnings
before
a
new
fitte
,
or
playing
of
the
pulse
;
it
was
to
take
cause
,
force
and
new
footing
:
it
surceased
not
but
onely
to
take
breath
and
rallie●t
selfe
,
and
so
to
returne
with
more
assurance
to
the
medley
,
to
the
charge
,
to
the
fight
.
Further
more
the
Pacifications
haue
appeared
in
effect
to
haue
bin
nothing
lesse
then
that
they
haue
signified
.
For
I
haue
seene
more
iniustice
&
violence
,
I
haue
heard
more
plaints
&
groanes
in
such
peace
,
then
in
the
warre
:
to
be
short
the
harder
and
more
violent
strokes
of
the
warre
haue
lighted
on
mee
during
those
Pacifications
.
Alas
!
hath
any
one
of
my
townes
bene
exempt
from
the
ghastly
blowes
of
outrage
?
My
sonnes
are
degenerated
,
they
haue
lien
downe
like
sauage
beastes
,
snared
in
the
cros-waies
of
euery
streete
,
full
of
the
wrath
and
threatning
of
the
Lord
.
Is
there
any
member
of
mine
not
crased
thoroughout
,
or
voide
of
woundes
and
filthines
?
My
Church-men
are
marred
and
corrupt
:
they
were
wont
to
take
tithe
;
now
adaies
they
are
not
onely
tithed
themselues
,
but
also
must
forgoe
both
fruite
and
gleebe
;
they
haue
left
deuotion
and
charitie
,
to
embrace
hypocrisie
and
madnes
,
to
plot
practises
,
and
contriue
murthers
.
Of
my
nobility
remaine
none
almost
but
widowes
and
orphanes
;
their
small
reliques
suruiuing
seeme
enclined
rather
to
vndermine
abate
and
turne
my
house
vpside
downe
,
then
to
vphold
,
prop
and
defend
the
same
.
I
see
my
Iustice
no
more
,
I
can
not
discerne
my
Iusticers
by
their
long
robe
,
grauitie
and
modesty
;
all
the
world
is
furious
and
armed
:
they
haue
forsaken
the
doctrine
,
the
true
honor
and
feare
of
God
,
they
breath
of
nought
els
sauing
worldly
glorie
and
gaine
.
All
my
villages
&
champion
soyles
are
conuerted
into
sepulchres
,
monuments
and
churchyardes
:
my
poore
Villagers
doo
resemble
goblins
,
ghoastes
forepined
of
skin
&
bone
,
without
flesh
;
so
many
Pesants
,
so
many
Anatomies
:
they
be
labourers
no
more
,
they
be
all
counsellers
of
Estate
,
they
obserue
no
longer
the
seasons
of
the
yeere
,
the
motions
and
alterations
of
the
ayre
;
and
they
haue
reason
:
since
that
they
sow
no
more
,
the
imuries
of
th'
ayre
can
hurt
them
no
more
:
but
they
are
busie
to
marke
the
motions
and
alterations
that
happen
in
the
Estate
and
common
wealth
;
for
from
this
quarter
comes
the
tempest
on
that
little
which
is
left
them
:
they
are
inquisitiue
,
and
heare
speach
of
kings
more
commonly
,
then
Gouernours
of
Prouinces
did
in
ancient
time
.
Finally
,
on
what
side
soeuer
I
turne
mine
eyes
,
I
see
nothing
but
deformitie
.
Alas
!
I
hoped
during
the
last
peace
,
that
my
children
after
they
knew
the
vanitie
of
their
conceipts
and
desires
,
the
difficultie
of
their
enterprises
the
small
fruite
,
and
that
same
euill
,
of
their
actions
,
of
their
paines
and
trauaile
,
&
consequently
the
curse
of
God
vpon
them
,
after
they
had
by
so
long
continuance
of
yeeres
endured
and
felt
the
troubles
,
horror
,
and
wearisome
toyles
of
warre
,
after
they
had
not
got
one
iote
of
another
,
but
the
ruine
alone
of
their
publike
weale
,
of
mee
that
am
their
mother
,
and
yet
moreouer
each
one
his
owne
particular
ruine
and
confusion
:
I
dare
assure
my selfe
,
said
I
,
that
they
will
hold
themselues
to
this
last
peace
:
I
supposed
that
lacke
of
bloud
and
sinewes
would
not
suffer
them
to
continue
their
furious
stirres
,
that
faintnes
would
enforce
them
to
remaine
peaceable
,
would
yeeld
and
betake
them
to
repose
and
sleepe
.
And
so
hoped
I
to
repose
my selfe
,
to
recouer
by
meanes
of
a
peaceable
sleepe
my
first
naturall
beauty
and
disposition
.
I
hoped
in
short
time
to
recouer
my
first
estate
;
to
recall
,
settle
againe
,
and
contayne
my
children
each
one
in
his
true
vocation
;
to
render
them
the
contentment
they
were
wont
to
receyue
of
me
;
to
reestablish
and
repayre
for
them
my
ruines
and
wastes
;
to
multiplie
,
weede
,
and
trimme
for
them
my
fruites
;
to
moderate
by
the
same
meane
their
concupiscences
,
to
qualifie
their
cholers
,
o
rule
their
desires
,
to
refine
their
willes
,
to
renew
,
accomplish
and
confirme
their
amities
,
to
vnite
them
together
.
The
purgations
which
I
ministred
in
the
mean
season
towards
Picardie
on
the
one
side
,
and
towardes
Guien
for
Portugall
on
the
other
,
strengthened
my
hope
very
much
:
the
effect
it selfe
and
forwardnes
of
my
reparations
,
confirmed
me
farre
more
,
and
kindled
my
naturall
heate
,
and
diligent
heed
,
vpon
promise
of
a
full
enioyment
.
I
saw
mine
olde
skin
pill
,
fall
of
and
vanish
away
;
I
perceiued
mens
spirites
did
cleere
;
I
perceiued
that
out
of
their
willes
dreined
hate
,
enuie
,
pride
,
ambition
,
and
other
like
workers
of
enmitie
and
discord
:
charitie
began
to
warme
the
hearts
of
my
children
,
and
to
moue
their
bowels
;
diuersitie
of
religion
was
made
no
more
a
different
marke
for
persons
,
houses
,
and
townes
;
religion
was
no
longer
the
obiect
of
good
wil
and
amitie
,
of
grudge
and
enmitie
.
But
,
good
God
,
behold
all
my
hopes
dashed
;
the
rash
zeale
of
religion
was
in
deede
mortified
,
but
the
other
cause
of
my
ciuil
warres
,
to
wit
ambition
,
was
not
.
Behold
me
now
fallen
into
a
relapse
worse
than
the
former
.
I
know
now
,
my
children
were
not
werie
but
in
body
,
they
reposed
but
their
bodies
during
the
peace
.
For
it
appeareth
at
this
day
to
me
,
that
while
peace
lasted
,
their
trauell
euer
lasted
by
giftes
and
promises
,
by
honors
and
gratifyings
,
to
seeke
them
partakers
,
amities
,
intelligences
,
fauours
and
succours
,
not
in
this
Realme
alone
,
but
throughout
all
the
dominions
of
Europe
also
.
I
see
on
the
one
fide
the
more
part
of
my
children
in
armes
and
vprore
,
vpon
shew
of
hope
offered
,
that
Fraunce
shal
be
like
those
fortunate
Isles
for
the
Clergie
;
that
no
Gentleman
so
simple
,
but
shal
be
glutted
with
honour
and
riches
,
but
shal
be
created
incontinent
a
Gouernor
,
Earle
,
Vicount
,
or
Baron
;
that
all
my
Iusticers
shal
be
Chancelers
or
Counsellers
of
estate
;
all
my
Townes
shal
be
free
,
peaceable
,
priuiledged
,
as
those
of
the
Empire
,
or
of
the
Cantons
.
But
this
sufficed
not
;
they
haue
distrusted
their
owne
force
as
vnable
to
ruine
me
;
they
haue
thought
their
owne
armes
too
faint
and
feeble
to
slay
themselues
,
to
foile
and
pull
me
downe
on
themselues
;
they
must
therefore
wage
strangers
.
On
this
their
partie
,
I
spie
the
Pope
,
who
vnder
assurance
of
reestablishing
his
credite
,
first
here
,
and
thenelswhere
,
drawes
out
both
his
blades
,
and
makes
a
lustie
flourish
.
I
see
there
the
Spanish
Tyrant
,
who
gaping
for
a
good
share
,
and
speciallie
thinking
to
hasten
the
sale
of
me
which
I
perceiue
hath
bene
made
him
,
as
also
to
auoide
the
ransacking
of
his
vsurpations
,
and
to
weaken
his
neighbors
,
vnladeth
his
ships
freighted
with
treasures
within
my
hauens
.
I
see
there
the
Loraine
and
Sauoyen
,
who
allot
to
themselues
alreadie
the
Countries
lying
most
commodious
for
them
.
Yet
was
not
that
partie
or
side
strong
inough
,
it
sufficed
them
not
to
passe
the
mountaines
;
they
must
trauerse
Italie
ouer
,
and
the
sea
,
or
els
all
along
the
gulfe
of
Venice
,
to
bring
hither
Albanians
,
and
so
to
reenforce
this
partie
.
Aboue
three
yeeres
are
past
since
the
auctors
of
this
partie
appeared
in
armes
in
the
middest
of
me
,
hauing
for
their
cheefe
Standard
for
their
white
Cornet
,
the
League
,
the
conspiracie
well
signed
of
all
these
partakers
,
of
all
these
Potentates
.
The
king
(
forsooth
)
must
enter
into
this
league
:
that
is
,
in
good
phrase
and
bad
French
,
he
himselfe
with
all
his
power
must
rely
on
them
;
he
must
aduaunce
them
aloft
,
that
they
with
more
ease
may
take
his
crowne
off
his
head
,
or
at
least
that
they
may
first
seize
on
it
after
his
death
,
be
it
naturall
,
or
procured
;
or
els
he
must
determine
to
runne
the
race
of
poore
Childeric
;
he
must
take
this
Aquafortis
,
this
Aqua
vitae
,
this
confection
of
Alkermes
,
or
els
he
must
see
his
owne
speedie
death
,
he
must
see
his
owne
limmes
fall
of
and
forsake
him
.
His
Lieutenants
,
Gouernors
,
and
Townes
awayted
not
(
said
they
)
but
his
refusall
to
declare
his
minde
:
the
Pope
had
an
infinite
sort
of
men
in
ambush
amid
the
mountaines
readie
to
ouerrun
him
presently
vpon
his
refusall
:
the
sea
was
couered
with
Spanish
ships
redy
to
inuade
and
fill
all
the
hauens
of
France
,
presently
vpon
the
signall
geuen
:
there
were
also
Almaines
and
Switzers
.
It
seemed
that
all
people
and
Nations
had
forsaken
their
owne
businesse
and
homes
for
to
come
force
her
,
or
runne
to
her
ruine
,
to
her
fall
.
Behold
my
king
surprised
and
forced
in
the
heart
of
his
Realme
,
in
the
greatest
of
his
Cities
,
in
the
greatest
aboundance
of
his
Subiects
,
by
his
owne
foster
children
,
by
them
that
had
no
good
,
nor
honor
,
but
through
his
fauour
,
and
his
predecessors
:
behold
him
forced
to
violate
his
faith
,
to
sweare
and
signe
his
owne
death
,
his
owne
ende
,
and
the
ende
of
me
,
and
of
all
his
brothers
my
children
,
the
ruine
and
wracke
of
his
Realme
,
to
plucke
asunder
the
foundations
,
and
the
lawes
whereon
it
is
grounded
:
behold
him
forced
to
dispose
his
crowne
to
the
behoofe
of
strangers
.
Behold
me
presently
more
tumultuous
then
euer
before
:
no
speech
but
of
banishments
,
publications
&
proscriptions
of
outlawrie
,
of
troubles
and
turmoiles
.
Ye
may
see
many
housholders
oppressed
with
yeeres
and
sorowes
,
laden
with
children
on
their
shoulders
and
at
their
sides
;
their
wiues
folowing
at
their
heeles
blubbered
with
teares
,
hauing
their
little
infants
lugging
at
their
breastes
;
abandoning
their
auncient
and
goodlie
patrimonies
,
their
purchases
so
agreeable
,
their
houses
so
commodious
,
their
mouables
so
costlie
:
winding
them selues
at
length
out
of
the
armes
of
their
kinred
,
friendes
,
and
neighbors
,
after
they
had
susteined
the
conflict
with
reasons
and
considerations
,
had
bedewed
themselues
with
teares
,
their
bowels
yerning
,
and
heartes
forespent
with
sighes
and
sobs
;
and
albeit
liuing
,
had
deemed
themselues
as
dead
one
for
the
other
;
had
recommended
themselues
to
God
:
some
trauailing
towardes
Germanie
,
others
towardes
England
,
perswaded
to
finde
more
courtesie
,
charitie
,
pitie
,
mercie
and
succour
amid
the
wilde
forrestes
of
Almaine
,
amid
the
surges
of
the
sea
,
among
them
that
are
reputed
naturall
and
sworne
foes
of
all
Frenchmen
,
than
in
their
owne
Realme
,
their
natiue
Soile
,
in
their
own
Citie
,
of
their
owne
king
,
of
their
owne
Countriemen
,
and
felow
Citizens
.
Euery
one
curseth
his
chaunce
,
yea
,
they
rather
that
tarie
,
than
they
that
are
gone
,
as
bereft
of
the
incredible
comfort
they
receiued
by
the
companie
of
their
friends
absent
.
The
wife
hath
lost
her
husband
,
the
mother
her
sonne
,
being
her
stay
;
the
brother
his
brother
,
being
his
ioy
:
the
father
in
law
forgoing
his
sonne
in
lawe
,
must
abide
the
charge
of
his
daughters
maintenance
,
she
neither
maried
,
nor
in
state
to
marrie
.
Aliance
and
amities
are
made
voide
,
families
are
confounded
.
At
the
same
instant
beholde
mee
couered
ouer
with
armies
,
in
whom
is
found
nor
respect
,
nor
mercie
,
nor
law
,
nor
faith
:
nothing
but
insolence
,
but
crueltie
,
but
violence
,
&
trecherie
;
being
in
deede
nought
els
saue
a
vacation
,
not
from
armes
,
but
for
armes
.
They
make
warre
as
though
they
neuer
hoped
for
,
nor
euer
would
haue
peace
;
they
commit
violences
and
iniuries
irreparable
,
they
cause
enmities
irreconcilable
:
the
Nobles
know
not
one
another
,
&
as
persons
meerly
vnacquainted
do
deeme
themselues
no
longer
neighbours
:
there
is
no
house
be
it
noble
or
meane
that
is
not
shiuered
in
peeces
,
that
is
not
betrayed
,
surprised
,
forced
,
and
sacked
:
finde
me
him
out
,
that
is
not
streined
and
wringed
as
it
were
in
a
presse
to
extract
from
him
his
substance
:
the
Cities
are
turmoiled
for
their
pride
;
the
man
,
the
Prince
,
the
King
desireth
to
be
letten
into
his
Citie
,
and
can
not
.
It
seemes
I
am
at
an
end
,
rather
dead
then
aliue
;
they
vse
me
as
if
I
were
past
feeling
;
they
make
gashes
in
my
skin
on
all
partes
,
they
make
the
scales
leape
from
my
bones
:
they
labour
not
but
to
burie
the
dead
,
and
sinke
the
liuing
in
bottomles
darknes
;
they
build
not
,
but
to
destroy
other
buildings
:
euery
where
are
diches
,
trenches
,
mynes
,
troupes
and
bandes
.
But
all
this
is
but
one
of
the
actes
of
the
Tragedie
.
Behold
here
the
other
partie
arising
vp
,
which
beginneth
to
appeare
,
which
is
werie
of
retiring
to
beare
of
the
blowes
;
it
is
more
knowen
and
auowed
with
me
then
it
was
euernt
consisteth
of
all
my
Princes
what
countenaunce
soeuer
they
make
,
&
of
a
great
number
of
my
peaceabler
children
;
they
want
not
frends
both
within
&
without
the
Realme
,
euen
more
then
is
supposed
.
They
say
,
that
all
the
Allemaignes
,
the
Switzers
,
the
English
,
and
Scotts
are
raised
,
armed
,
mustred
,
and
comming
for
their
cause
,
as
if
none
should
rest
behind
of
all
these
nations
in
a
maner
saue
old
folke
,
women
and
children
.
If
they
should
bring
as
much
euill
will
as
power
,
without
doubt
I
am
vndone
.
Alas
!
I
haue
not
life
enough
to
sustaine
so
mightie
an
assault
of
sicknesse
.
It
behoueth
by
remedies
to
preuent
the
fit
,
it
behoueth
by
good
counsell
to
remoue
from
these
Princes
prouoked
all
occasion
that
may
egge
them
on
while
they
are
yet
not
moued
too
much
,
nor
banded
together
;
hitherto
they
haue
neither
spoken
nor
done
any
thing
,
as
more
inclined
to
peace
then
warre
:
they
restraine
so
much
as
they
may
the
motions
of
their
choler
,
&
th'
execution
of
their
power
.
Let
me
intreat
you
my
children
not
to
plead
our
cause
by
armes
,
not
to
hazard
our selues
on
the
doubtfull
euents
of
battaile
.
Victories
in
ciuill
warre
bring
no
commoditie
but
to
two
or
three
;
they
vndo
the
rest
,
and
specially
the
people
.
Otherwise
how
great
soeuer
the
hap
and
aduantage
of
the
victors
be
,
they
must
alwayes
come
to
agreement
in
th'
end
.
Get
he
the
maistrie
,
that
may
,
I
am
desolated
for
euer
.
I
feare
the
victory
as
much
as
confusion
;
be
the
issue
what
it
will
,
the
French
shal
be
defeated
.
Come
hither
my
children
,
harken
to
me
;
we
may
not
doubt
but
that
the
wrath
of
God
pursueth
vs
,
seing
the
stripes
he
geueth
vs
:
the
pestilence
rageth
within
,
the
sword
without
,
the
famine
throughout
,
and
these
are
but
threats
in
comparison
of
more
boystrous
blowes
prepared
by
him
for
vs
yet
:
leaue
we
our
senceles
obstinacie
,
&
bestow
we
our
endeuour
betweene
the
threat
and
stripe
,
&
the
stripe
shall
not
light
;
bestow
we
our
endeuour
betweene
stroke
and
stroke
,
the
woundes
shall
cease
and
turne
to
blessings
.
Let
vs
wittingly
and
in
good
earnest
know
&
feele
our
owne
euill
,
the
cause
thereof
;
let
vs
be
humbled
and
search
out
the
remedie
.
Do
ye
not
vnderstand
;
that
in
one
moneth
of
warre
we
offend
more
the
diuine
maiestie
,
then
in
a
whole
age
of
peace
?
Vnderstand
ye
not
that
peace
brings
all
good
,
warre
all
euill
?
If
ye
doubt
it
,
marke
the
pictures
and
greetings
of
your
ancesters
,
compare
your
discommodities
with
the
commodities
of
your
fathers
.
Let
vs
seeke
then
this
peace
,
&
to
that
end
boldly
&
peece
meale
try
&
examine
our
euill
&
enmities
&
search
the
remedy
therefore
:
Let
vs
suck
out
the
sense
,
&
swalow
the
wise
sentence
.
CHAP.
1.
Whether
faith
may
lawfully
be
geuen
and
holden
to
heretikes
.
YE
haue
broken
the
peace
so
solemnely
sworne
(
I
speake
to
you
my
children
,
that
haue
bene
induced
to
begin
this
warre
)
ye
haue
falsed
your
faith
,
ye
haue
taken
the
name
of
God
in
vayne
:
for
that
(
say
you
)
a
man
neither
may
nor
should
promise
nor
keepe
faith
towards
heretickes
and
Infidels
,
according
to
the
resolution
taken
and
practised
in
the
Councell
of
Constance
Anno.
1414.
&
againe
according
to
th'
aduise
and
commaundement
executed
by
Pope
Eugenius
the
fourth
to
Vladislaus
king
of
Hungary
.
,
about
xxx
.
yeares
afterward
.
Ye
say
,
this
is
a
doctrine
receiued
so
solemnly
,
confirmed
by
so
many
reasons
&
auctorities
,
approued
by
so
many
actes
,
continued
by
so
many
yeares
,
that
now
it
is
no
tyme
to
doubt
thereof
.
My
children
,
this
defense
can
not
warrant
you
from
vices
and
infamous
reproches
damnable
before
God
&
men
.
For
if
ye
bring
in
and
so
freely
receiue
such
distinctions
in
promises
and
othes
,
ye
open
a
gap
to
all
maner
of
miseries
&
confusions
in
all
Estates
but
principally
in
this
Realme
,
where
are
few
houses
,
families
,
townes
,
cities
&
gouernements
,
few
companies
publick
or
particular
,
that
are
not
bound
by
such
othes
,
few
or
no
mariages
,
successions
,
felowships
,
and
other
couenantes
,
whose
suit
,
enterteinement
,
and
assurance
depend
not
on
such
othes
.
For
in
all
these
things
they
that
we
haue
called
heretickes
be
confusedly
intermedled
with
the
Catholikes
.
So
that
I
may
say
with
truth
,
there
is
no
humane
wit
nor
might
,
which
would
not
sooner
melt
and
consume
,
then
be
able
to
preserue
this
Realme
,
otherwise
then
by
obseruing
that
hath
bene
bene
couenaunted
and
sworne
.
Moreouer
,
if
ye
be
resolute
to
practise
this
doctrine
,
ye
shall
make
all
our
warres
endelesse
and
immortall
,
as
well
ciuill
and
domesticall
for
the
reasons
afore
touched
,
as
the
warres
we
may
haue
with
the
stranger
be
it
the
Switzer
,
Almain
,
Fleming
,
English
,
Scot
,
Spaniard
,
Italian
,
or
Turke
:
for
in
manner
all
our
neighbors
doo
differ
in
religion
from
vs
,
and
consequently
heretikes
or
Infidels
in
our
opinion
,
&
perhaps
they
also
esteeme
vs
for
such
.
Who
then
will
treate
with
you
concerning
peace
knowing
this
your
resolution
?
They
will
rather
choose
to
miscary
,
or
make
you
miscary
vnder
the
chargeable
toile
and
daungers
of
warre
,
then
bee
choked
in
the
nets
of
your
disloyaltie
.
But
how
will
ye
excuse
your selues
towards
God
?
If
it
be
euill
done
to
promise
faith
to
the
Reformed
,
wherefore
haue
yee
sworne
to
them
so
solemly
by
actes
often
reiterated
,
and
by
long
spaces
of
time
distinguished
▪
If
ye
alleage
,
they
compelled
you
:
ye
can
not
auerre
nor
iustifie
this
compulsion
:
yee
haue
alwaies
bene
maisters
of
the
field
,
of
the
townes
and
gouernments
,
and
which
is
to
be
noted
,
the
most
part
of
the
Pacifications
haue
bin
made
in
their
greatest
weakenesse
.
If
it
were
impietie
to
agree
with
them
,
yee
should
haue
sooner
suffred
a
thousand
deaths
,
then
done
it
.
If
yee
say
,
it
was
done
to
make
them
difarme
,
and
afterward
to
surprise
and
destroy
them
,
to
th'
aduancement
and
exaltation
of
your
religion
,
as
many
beleeue
:
yee
are
abominable
persons
so
to
profane
the
othe
,
which
God
hath
ordained
for
a
witnesse
and
assurance
of
the
truth
,
for
an
end
of
all
variances
,
for
renewing
of
charitie
offended
,
and
restablishment
of
peace
and
rest
among
men
:
ye
make
it
a
bait
for
lying
,
for
treason
,
and
cruelty
:
yee
shall
not
ascend
into
Gods
holy
hill
,
for
ye
sweare
in
deceipt
.
The
Romains
in
their
auncient
fashion
of
swearing
and
contracting
alliances
,
were
wont
to
say
,
ô
Iupiter
smite
&
with
thy
lightening
blast
him
,
whosoeuer
in
this
company
shall
haue
brought
hither
an
intent
to
beguile
his
companion
:
what
?
must
Pagans
with
more
holinesse
deale
in
a
sacred
oth
then
we
?
Ye
take
not
alone
the
name
of
God
in
vaine
,
but
ye
also
defile
it
so
much
as
in
you
lieth
,
making
it
the
auctor
and
protector
of
your
murderous
disloyalties
:
yee
thinke
yee
may
sport
with
mens
liues
by
your
othes
;
it
is
with
God
,
with
his
glorious
and
magnificent
name
,
and
with
your
owne
saluation
that
yee
sport
,
it
is
your
owne
saluation
that
yee
lose
:
imagining
to
draw
men
on
to
their
death
,
&
make
them
fall
on
the
poynt
of
your
weapons
lurking
in
the
pit
of
your
treasons
,
yee
draw
on
your
owne
heads
the
curse
of
God
,
and
plunge
your
selues
head
long
in
the
fearefull
dungion
of
darkenesse
and
eternall
woe
.
No
euill
ought
to
be
done
that
good
should
come
of
it
.
The
very
Paynims
could
say
,
that
no
religion
is
accomplished
by
mischieuous
wickednesse
:
faithlesnesse
is
an
impe
of
impietie
:
impietie
is
directly
opposite
to
religion
:
then
monstrous
is
their
errour
that
thinke
to
vphold
and
augment
religion
through
impietie
.
Yee
condemne
the
iudge
that
with
his
oth
promiseth
impunitie
to
malefactors
,
prouided
that
they
confesse
and
acknowledge
the
crimes
they
are
accused
of
,
yee
disanull
all
his
processe
&
reuerse
it
as
erronious
:
thus
by
your
owne
sentence
yee
incurre
condemnation
,
in
that
by
othe
yee
haue
assured
rest
and
peace
to
the
Reformed
,
to
the
end
that
hauing
abandoned
their
defences
yee
might
afterward
murther
them
by
surprise
and
with
more
aduantage
.
Neither
can
yee
also
pretend
excuse
by
ignorance
,
as
not
knowing
the
nullitie
of
your
othes
at
the
time
ye
sware
:
for
the
doctrine
and
examples
alleaged
by
your selues
,
are
of
a
date
far
more
ancient
then
the
troubles
and
Pacifications
of
this
Realme
.
Moreouer
,
after
your
goodly
fearch
for
that
holesome
doctrine
,
to
warrant
you
from
shame
and
reproch
,
vpon
the
breach
that
yee
made
of
the
former
Pacifications
,
yee
haue
againe
notwithstanding
treated
and
sworne
peace
with
them
manifold
times
,
&
that
with
more
banning
if
yee
brake
it
,
then
euer
afore
.
But
the
likelihood
is
great
,
that
your
violation
of
the
peace
comes
not
through
religion
:
more
credible
it
is
,
that
your
vnreconcileable
enmities
,
&
greedy
aspiring
mindes
are
the
cause
:
so
that
yee
speake
for
God
in
fraud
,
and
plead
for
him
in
iniquitie
:
yee
enterprise
to
make
the
holy
Scripture
stoupe
to
the
windes
of
your
will
,
and
bende
to
the
billowes
&
tempests
of
your
naughty
passions
;
yee
force
it
to
serue
your
commodities
,
and
fit
your
purposes
,
to
execute
your
r●uenges
,
and
satisfie
your
ambition
and
auarice
.
Let
vs
see
notwithstanding
if
the
doctrine
yee
propose
is
so
necessary
and
certaine
as
ye
make
it
.
I
graunt
you
,
and
aduow
it
that
euery
oth
ought
not
to
be
obserued
,
specially
when
the
same
importes
therevpon
the
performance
of
some
hainous
sinne
,
and
doth
directly
preiudice
the
free
passage
of
Gods
word
,
which
we
all
are
bound
to
seeke
:
but
reseruing
these
two
inconueniences
aboue
,
we
may
in
all
things
els
giue
our
faith
vndoubtedly
to
any
whosoeuer
,
&
being
once
giuen
,
we
ought
to
keepe
it
.
So
that
when
we
contend
not
directly
against
Gods
glory
and
our
owne
saluation
,
faith
must
be
obserued
.
Now
the
couenants
with
Heretiks
and
Infidels
,
by
letting
them
liue
in
peace
and
quiet
without
attempting
them
by
materiall
armes
,
do
not
hinder
the
hope
of
our
saluation
nor
offend
the
glory
&
commaundements
of
God
,
when
we
are
vnable
to
cut
them
of
by
the
ordinary
way
and
power
of
the
magistrate
,
easily
and
without
trouble
&
detriment
to
the
Church
.
For
though
it
be
commaunded
in
the
law
,
that
the
Heretike
be
cut
of
,
which
importeth
a
more
strong
reason
forbidding
to
conuerse
or
deale
with
an
heretike
:
that
ought
to
be
vnderstood
,
when
we
may
commodiously
destroy
or
expell
him
,
not
disturbing
the
Church
.
It
is
more
tollerable
,
more
reasonable
,
and
agreable
to
Gods
pleasure
,
to
suffer
the
heretike
and
infidell
to
liue
,
and
dwell
by
him
,
then
to
make
hauock
in
the
Church
,
and
set
a
way
wide
open
to
a
thousand
&
a
thousand
confusions
,
impieties
,
&
other
mischieuous
villanies
which
warres
brings
with
it
,
&
leaues
be
it
,
namely
warre
Ciuill
.
This
is
that
,
which
the
Patriarch
of
Constantinople
named
Atticus
,
said
vpon
the
like
occasion
:
that
we
must
sometimes
vpon
some
necessitie
,
holde
vs
content
with
that
which
hapneth
not
to
our
liking
,
that
we
must
sometimes
preferre
vtilitie
before
strict
iustice
,
sometime
encline
to
agreement
,
to
the
peace
and
tranquilitie
of
the
people
:
preferring
the
peace
of
a
Realme
,
the
peace
of
all
the
world
,
before
the
precise
obseruation
of
the
wordes
,
after
the
example
of
the
Apostles
,
that
wisely
dispenced
with
occasions
and
circumstances
.
Better
it
is
then
to
continue
the
vlcer
open
,
than
close
it
vp
to
the
hazard
of
the
whole
bodie
.
Better
it
is
to
strike
saile
in
the
storme
,
than
striue
too
gloriouslie
against
it
,
and
make
shipwracke
:
wee
must
hate
the
heretike
,
but
yet
our
loue
to
the
Church
must
excell
our
hatred
towards
him
.
Scipio
,
and
after
him
the
Emperour
Antonine
the
meeke
said
,
they
had
leifer
saue
one
Citizen
,
than
slay
a
thousande
enemies
:
what
?
should
my
king
,
my
princes
&
you
,
beare
lesse
affection
to
your
countrie
,
and
to
the
Church
,
then
they
bare
to
their
Countrey
alone
?
That
which
I
tell
you
is
confirmed
by
the
doctrine
of
Iesus
Christ
,
CHAP.
II.
Whether
mens
consciences
ought
to
be
compelled
for
Religion
,
and
how
the
Magistrate
should
be
employed
agaynst
heretikes
.
BVt
ye
wil
tell
me
perhaps
,
that
ye
are
not
moued
to
begin
this
warre
by
disloyaltie
,
nor
by
desire
of
reuenge
,
nor
by
other
euill
passion
:
but
through
zele
ye
beare
to
the
glory
of
God
,
to
th'
aduancement
of
the
kingdome
of
his
sonne
our
Lord
,
to
th'
edification
of
his
Church
:
through
the
charitie
ye
beare
towards
all
men
,
whom
ye
fayne
would
haue
to
be
all
good
Christians
,
whom
ye
would
marshal
in
the
Church
vnder
th'
obedience
of
God
,
or
cut
of
the
refusers
;
to
cease
all
blasphemies
and
abominations
that
they
commit
against
his
diuine
Maiestie
,
and
to
purchase
assured
tranquillitie
to
all
the
faithfull
.
The
holy
Ghost
foreseing
(
as
it
seemeth
)
your
excuses
saith
,
that
Saul
assaied
to
destroy
the
Gabaonits
through
a
zele
he
bare
to
the
children
of
Israell
and
Iuda
:
this
his
deuotion
was
deemed
sinne
against
God
;
the
Israelites
and
namely
the
children
of
Saul
incurred
Gods
displeasure
for
this
sinne
,
CHAP.
III.
Whether
it
be
lawfull
with
good
conscience
to
liue
with
heretikes
or
nigh
them
.
PEraduenture
ye
will
tell
me
,
that
my
counsaile
is
a
snare
of
sinne
:
bicause
ye
gather
by
my
discourse
that
a
man
may
conuerse
with
heretikes
,
which
is
prohibited
in
many
places
of
the
Gospell
.
My
children
,
if
yee
will
yeeld
as
much
to
reason
as
ye
doe
to
your
passions
,
yee
will
vpon
this
doubt
stand
contented
with
those
arguments
&
examples
by
me
already
proposed
,
when
I
proued
that
we
might
lawfully
graunt
and
keepe
faith
to
heretikes
:
there
I
haue
sufficiently
taught
,
that
in
France
it
is
impossible
to
sequester
the
Reformed
from
the
Catholikes
without
destruction
of
France
:
there
also
haue
I
recited
the
reasons
for
which
we
haue
determined
sometimes
to
liue
in
peace
with
them
,
and
wherefore
likewise
all
our
neighbours
haue
taken
the
selfe
same
resolution
and
continue
still
therein
,
and
do
find
it
better
for
them
to
keepe
it
,
then
we
to
haue
left
it
.
Neuthereles
,
to
make
it
plaine
,
that
I
am
no
lesse
earnest
to
desire
and
seeke
your
conuersion
,
and
safetie
,
then
your selues
are
earnest
to
reteine
and
recall
the
causes
of
your
confusion
and
wrack
:
and
also
to
make
good
,
that
my
substantiall
reasons
do
in
number
and
weight
exceede
those
emptie
shadowes
that
make
a
great
muster
in
your
passionat
conceipts
,
I
am
content
for
your
sakes
to
handle
againe
more
particularly
this
question
,
to
wit
:
whether
we
may
with
good
conscience
conuerse
with
heretikes
or
nigh
them
.
I
reknowledge
that
it
is
written
:
Take
heed
least
any
men
seduce
you
:
go
not
,
be
not
partakers
with
them
,
take
heed
that
none
ouertake
you
:
auoyd
an
heretike
after
the
first
and
second
admonition
:
who
so
disobeyeth
the
Church
let
him
be
to
thee
as
an
Heathen
person
&
Publican
.
Corps
du
gard
,
hard
by
our
chiefetaine
,
within
the
shadow
of
our
colours
.
Seing
then
we
cannot
choose
but
be
intermedled
with
heretikes
;
we
must
watch
,
ward
and
trauaile
for
our
own
defence
against
them
;
we
must
geue
th'
onset
with
spirituall
armes
;
their
presence
must
stirre
vp
and
whet
our
carefulnes
.
Seing
the
Church
is
militant
,
it
must
not
geue
ground
,
but
abide
where
th'
enemie
is
.
Who
so
flieth
from
his
enemie
,
and
hath
withdrawen
himselfe
so
farre
,
that
he
can
not
smite
,
heare
nor
see
him
,
may
not
be
termed
militant
,
or
one
that
maketh
warre
.
We
must
keepe
so
close
to
our
enemies
,
that
they
see
our
fires
,
heare
the
sound
of
our
drummes
and
trumpets
,
that
they
see
,
heare
and
feele
the
glittering
,
the
noyse
&
weight
of
our
weapons
.
Euen
so
the
Church
militant
ought
to
approach
nigh
the
heretikes
,
namelie
by
charitie
,
that
they
heare
and
vnderstand
the
sound
of
Gods
worde
,
that
they
feele
the
vertue
thereof
to
their
confusion
,
condemnation
,
or
conuersion
.
If
we
should
not
draw
nigh
to
infidels
and
heretikes
after
some
sort
or
other
,
God
would
not
call
so
many
as
he
doth
daihe
by
the
efficacie
of
his
word
,
which
he
makes
them
vnderstand
publikly
by
exhortations
,
sermons
and
seruices
;
and
priuatly
by
particular
studies
and
conferences
.
Let
vs
not
be
afraide
of
them
;
the
spirit
of
God
is
not
a
spirit
of
feare
;
CHAP.
IIII.
Whether
the
order
established
in
successions
,
and
namely
of
the
Crowne
,
ought
to
be
broken
bycause
of
Religion
.
I
Know
that
there
yet
remaineth
dissension
in
your
soule
,
and
that
yee
are
not
resolute
.
Lo
here
your
doubt
:
well
,
say
yee
,
be
it
that
we
must
liue
nigh
heretikes
and
infidels
,
seing
otherwise
it
may
not
be
,
and
that
it
seemeth
necessarie
for
th'
aduancement
of
the
kingdome
of
Christ
,
yet
must
we
trauaile
,
as
Saint
Paul
appointeth
,
and
do
the
worke
of
Euangelists
,
to
let
them
from
plucking
downe
the
building
of
the
Church
,
yea
to
let
them
from
building
in
the
house
of
God
,
if
it
were
possible
.
Perhaps
it
is
tolerable
to
liue
with
them
vnder
one
politike
gouernement
,
prouided
that
we
haue
at
the
least
equall
power
with
them
:
but
it
is
intolerable
to
be
commaunded
by
them
,
by
cause
that
seemeth
preiudiciall
to
th'
aduancement
of
the
soueraigne
auctoritie
of
Gods
word
.
For
the
most
part
of
men
conforme
themselues
to
the
man●r
and
Religion
of
their
Princes
.
By
common
obseruation
,
all
peoples
require
in
their
Emperours
,
Kings
&
gouernours
,
not
to
vary
from
them
in
Religion
.
Th'
Ægyptians
approued
not
their
king
,
till
he
had
learned
and
assented
to
the
Religion
of
their
Priestes
:
likewise
the
Persians
,
Indians
and
euery
nation
welnigh
.
Ye
alledge
surther
,
that
the
bond
of
Religion
betweene
kings
and
their
subiects
,
being
rent
in
sunder
and
taken
away
,
there
is
nothing
but
confusion
,
there
is
no
more
will
and
consent
,
it
is
nought
els
saue
force
and
tyranny
:
that
Religion
aboue
all
things
doth
perswade
and
conteine
subiects
in
obedience
,
as
appeareth
by
most
Empires
,
Monarchies
,
and
common
wealthes
,
begun
,
enlarged
and
mainteined
rather
by
Religion
then
by
iustice
and
armes
,
that
in
consideration
hereof
kings
submitted
them selues
to
the
heads
and
Princes
of
their
Religion
,
or
els
were
intitled
them selues
,
Princes
of
Priests
and
Sacrificers
.
So
did
the
Spartan
and
Romain
kings
call
themselues
soueraigne
sacrificers
.
Mahumet
&
his
successors
the
Caliphes
&
Sultans
,
the
Sophies
of
Persia
,
the
kings
of
Calicut
,
and
of
AEthiopia
called
themselues
soueraigne
rulers
of
their
Religió
in
all
lands
vnder
their
obedience
:
the
Othomans
also
deferre
the
same
honour
wholy
to
their
Muphtis
th'
examples
of
our
Christians
,
&
among
them
our
domesticall
presidents
to
this
purpose
come
fast
inough
into
your
memory
.
Whereupon
yee
concluded
that
sith
it
pleaseth
not
God
to
fauour
your
king
and
you
also
with
a
successor
descended
from
his
loynes
,
&
for
that
yee
see
the
next
heires
to
whom
by
order
of
succession
the
Crowne
doth
apperteine
,
according
to
your
lawes
and
customes
,
not
to
be
of
like
Religion
to
yours
,
ye
therefore
by
good
right
do
prouide
in
good
time
not
to
admit
their
dominion
,
to
th'
end
ye
forgoe
not
your
Religion
.
I
acknowledge
that
all
these
considerations
haue
some
waight
,
but
yet
they
must
yeeld
to
causes
of
more
weight
,
they
must
geue
place
to
truth
.
I
auow
that
the
will
of
subiectes
towardes
their
Princes
,
&
Princes
power
ouer
their
subiects
,
whereof
proceede
the
hope
of
commoditie
,
fauour
,
honour
and
dignitie
,
and
the
feare
of
their
contraries
,
do
astonish
men
,
and
make
them
stark
blind
,
and
do
imperiously
commaund
their
consciences
:
I
wot
well
that
most
men
follow
rather
the
Religion
of
fortune
,
then
that
of
God
:
we
know
it
too
well
.
But
with
the
faithfull
it
hath
no
place
,
to
whom
nothing
is
more
deare
then
the
Church
of
God
,
who
confesse
with
S.
CHAP.
V.
Whether
the
Reformed
be
heretikes
and
schismatikes
,
or
no.
HItherto
(
my
children
)
I
haue
bene
vnwilling
to
sound
your
cuill
to
the
bottome
,
as
being
loth
to
greeue
you
too
much
,
or
alter
your
patience
:
I
haue
winked
at
your
maladie
,
to
acquaint
you
with
my
medicines
;
I
durst
not
assaile
it
with
violent
remedies
,
doubting
its
force
,
least
being
prouoked
it
would
haue
reiected
al
physike
:
I
haue
framed
my self
to
your
vowed
opinions
,
&
to
your
light
phrensie
,
lest
it
should
turn
into
raging
madnes
:
I
haue
borne
with
your
error
to
winne
at
your
hands
some
little
patience
;
I
haue
not
stood
on
those
qualities
,
which
ye
say
are
the
very
kindlers
of
your
choler
,
&
motioners
of
your
commotions
;
I
was
afraide
to
anger
you
ouermuch
at
the
beginning
of
my
discourse
.
I
haue
examined
your
actions
as
if
they
wholy
aymed
at
heretiks
.
It
is
time
to
wink
no
more
,
nor
to
conceale
my
meaning
,
the
salues
haue
mortified
the
inflamation
of
the
wound
,
your
hot
&
contentious
humors
begin
to
coole
and
qualifie
;
ye
begin
to
know
your
malady
,
that
furie
reigned
in
your
zele
&
among
your
determinations
being
not
leueled
by
the
word
and
commandements
of
God
;
that
the
same
zele
of
yours
was
without
warrant
,
in
danger
of
reproose
,
curse
&
punishment
:
the
knowledge
of
your
owne
cuill
,
&
lessening
thereof
,
should
haue
purchased
in
you
an
hope
of
recouery
,
and
extreme
longing
to
attaine
thereto
by
any
paines
what
so
euer
.
Th'
acknowledgement
of
your
errors
ought
to
haue
brought
withall
your
trust
and
desire
of
repentance
,
and
your
will
redie
to
yeeld
to
seuere
aduertisements
requisite
for
that
end
.
Ouerrule
therefore
your
passionate
mindes
and
listen
to
me
.
Let
vs
search
your
wounds
throughly
,
let
vs
encounter
your
disease
with
medicines
of
true
contrarietie
and
fight
with
it
to
the
vttrance
;
let
vs
proceed
to
the
soundations
of
your
errors
and
see
whether
they
be
well
grounded
.
Examine
we
frankly
whether
the
Reformed
be
heretikes
and
schismatiks
,
either
one
or
other
,
without
pausing
on
formalitie
,
or
proceedings
to
be
had
against
them
,
for
of
such
matters
inough
is
spoken
afore
,
and
therein
the
iudgementes
of
trueth
are
not
most
often
found
.
Ye
mainteine
that
they
are
heretikes
and
schismatikes
,
for
so
much
as
they
allow
not
the
doctrine
of
the
Catholik
,
Apostolik
and
Romane
Church
,
and
will
not
become
of
the
body
,
and
yeeld
to
the
discipline
of
that
Church
.
They
say
,
they
are
of
the
Catholik
or
vniuerfall
Church
,
doe
beleue
in
the
doctrine
of
Iesus
Christ
,
of
his
Apostles
and
of
the
whole
Primitiue
Church
,
and
doe
yeeld
to
the
gouernment
and
order
of
the
same
.
They
repute
the
Roman
Church
at
this
day
most
abhominable
.
We
will
limit
your
controuersie
and
say
frankly
that
ye
suppose
them
heretikes
and
schismatikes
because
they
auow
not
the
Pope
and
his
doctrine
,
nor
will
bow
vnder
his
authoritie
,
nor
enter
into
his
Church
.
For
it
shall
appeare
by
the
conclusion
of
this
treatise
more
cleerely
,
that
herein
consisteth
the
controuersie
.
Forbeare
me
a
little
while
to
discourse
with
you
,
as
if
I
were
a
Reformed
,
and
to
declare
in
breefe
the
reasons
why
the
Reformed
will
none
of
the
Pope
nor
his
doctrine
.
And
be
not
offended
if
now
and
then
I
vse
their
tearmes
and
manner
of
speech
:
for
since
the
question
in
this
behalfe
leadeth
vs
to
speake
for
them
,
we
must
speake
like
them
.
The
Prophesies
(
say
they
)
were
not
written
for
nothing
the
holy
Ghost
is
trueth
it selfe
,
there
shall
not
one
onely
word
of
all
that
he
hath
endited
remaine
vnperformed
;
heauen
&
earth
shall
faile
,
It
is
written
by
Daniel
and
Esdras
,
It
is
written
by
S.
Iohn
,
and
S.
Peter
,
It
is
written
by
Daniel
,
S.
Matthew
and
S.
Paul
,
It
is
written
in
Daniell
,
It
is
written
,
that
Antichrist
the
sonne
of
perdition
shall
list
himselfe
aboue
all
that
which
is
called
God
,
or
is
worshipped
,
so
farre
as
to
sit
in
the
temple
of
God
,
as
God
;
shewing
himselfe
that
he
is
God
.
The
Pope
doth
name
himselfe
God
in
earth
onely
,
but
in
effect
doth
behaue
himselfe
as
God
ouer
all
:
he
geueth
,
altereth
;
and
repealeth
lawes
;
he
geueth
priuileges
,
goods
,
estats
,
fauours
,
he
geueth
good
seasons
and
bad
,
by
his
power
;
by
his
blessings
&
cursings
he
threateneth
kings
,
punisheth
,
summoneth
,
chaungeth
,
and
supplanteth
them
;
and
(
that
which
belongeth
to
God
the
king
of
kings
)
he
wil
be
adored
on
earth
:
&
so
is
he
God
in
earth
.
He
saith
,
he
hath
power
ouer
the
deuill
,
he
can
take
soules
out
of
hell
,
out
of
the
company
and
dominion
of
the
deuill
,
which
can
not
apperteine
but
to
Iesus
Christ
:
and
so
is
he
God
in
hell
.
He
assureth
vs
,
that
he
can
send
soules
into
Paradise
,
whatsoeuer
infidelitie
is
in
them
,
whatsoeuer
sinne
they
committed
in
this
world
,
by
his
great
Iubiles
,
by
certeine
beadrols
of
prayers
and
ceremonies
,
by
money
;
&
therefore
nameth
himselfe
ghostly
Father
of
soules
.
It
is
God
that
is
our
father
,
who
by
his
grace
,
exceeding
bountie
and
mercy
,
hath
called
&
chosen
vs
to
be
in
his
Paradise
,
it
is
our
Lord
Iesus
,
who
by
the
great
loue
he
beareth
vs
,
by
his
death
and
passion
,
hath
purchased
for
vs
,
opened
vs
the
gate
,
guideth
and
bringeth
vs
thither
,
through
the
faith
we
haue
in
him
and
which
he
geueth
vs
by
his
holy
spirite
.
Thus
the
Pope
is
God
in
Paradise
,
is
God
ouer
all
.
He
sitteth
in
the
Temple
of
God
as
we
haue
said
,
for
that
he
ruleth
ouer
all
Christendome
being
the
Temple
of
God
.
He
aduaunceth
himselfe
aboue
all
that
is
called
God
,
aboue
Iudges
and
Magistrats
which
are
called
Gods
in
Scripture
:
they
can
not
be
Iudges
without
vndertaking
his
mark
,
allowing
&
well
testifying
of
it
,
and
without
swearing
fealtie
to
him
:
lawes
and
Iudgements
depend
on
him
.
Kings
and
Emperours
are
likewise
called
Gods
in
Scripture
:
yet
he
exalteth
himselfe
aboue
them
;
the
maner
is
to
kisse
the
Kings
hand
,
th'
Emperours
knee
,
and
the
Popes
foote
:
he
crowneth
and
blesseth
them
;
he
maks
them
promise
and
sweare
fealtie
,
that
they
will
yeld
him
all
reuerence
,
obedience
and
seruice
.
Lewes
of
Bauaria
th'
Emperour
was
excommunicated
for
hauing
taken
on
him
the
gouernance
of
th'
Empire
,
before
he
had
performed
th'othe
of
subiection
,
or
as
some
history
writers
say
,
for
not
hauing
auowed
the
Pope
for
soueraigne
Iudge
of
the
variance
touching
th'
Empire
betweene
him
and
Frederik
of
Austrich
:
Frederik
the
second
was
excommunicated
,
for
presuming
to
iourney
into
Asia
without
taking
leaue
of
the
Pope
.
And
to
knit
vp
all
in
a
word
,
there
are
no
Kings
nor
Emperours
but
by
him
for
he
deliuereth
their
Realmes
in
pray
at
his
pleasure
,
he
depriueth
and
restoreth
them
their
subiects
at
his
lust
.
He
exalts
him selfe
aboue
Angels
,
he
commaunds
them
peremptorily
.
He
exalts
him selfe
aboue
th'
Apostles
and
other
Saincts
in
Paradise
;
at
his
bidding
they
must
runne
,
trot
and
sollicite
euen
as
he
will
,
as
though
their
Saincting
,
honour
and
saluation
depended
on
him
.
He
racketh
,
gloseth
,
interpreteth
,
chaungeth
,
choppeth
and
defaceth
the
word
of
God
,
as
best
fitteth
his
fansie
;
he
repealeth
the
law
,
he
disguiseth
,
correcteth
,
enlargeth
and
despenceth
against
the
lawes
and
commaundements
of
God
:
God
must
not
be
obeyed
,
but
as
pleaseth
the
Pope
.
He
abolisheth
the
Gospell
;
the
merite
of
our
Lords
death
and
passion
he
ascribeth
to
the
workes
of
men
,
and
to
the
obedience
they
beare
him
and
his
foolish
inuentions
and
ceremonies
.
Th'
election
of
the
faithfull
belongeth
to
God
no
more
,
the
Pope
hath
vsurped
and
limited
the
same
.
He
Saincteth
whom
he
please
;
he
hath
arrogated
to
himselfe
the
office
of
sanctifier
aboue
the
holy
Ghost
.
He
maketh
or
thinks
to
make
the
like
stirres
and
alterations
in
Heauen
as
he
doeth
here
below
;
he
carieth
at
his
girdle
the
seuen
keyes
and
seuen
seales
of
the
seuen
Churches
;
saying
,
it
is
his
ofsice
to
shut
and
open
the
Churches
.
Lo
,
how
he
lifteth
vp
himselfe
aboue
all
that
is
called
God
.
Thus
the
markes
which
(
as
S.
Paule
teacheth
)
should
be
in
Antichrist
,
It
is
written
in
Daniel
,
It
is
written
,
that
the
Spirit
speaketh
euidently
,
or
read
of
an
enmitie
pursued
with
more
diuelish
malice
than
that
of
Gregorie
the
seuenth
against
Henry
the
sourth
?
Onely
because
this
Emperor
would
preserue
the
rights
and
prerogatiue
of
th'
Empire
against
his
attempts
;
he
excommunicated
him
,
he
stirred
vp
al
the
Lords
and
Bishops
against
him
;
compelling
euery
one
with
threates
to
become
his
sworne
enemie
;
&
commaunding
against
him
manifold
treasons
:
at
last
through
his
threates
,
assayes
and
enterprises
he
inforced
him
to
come
woolward
and
barefoot
,
to
fall
downe
at
his
feet
,
&
with
great
scornfulnes
and
disgrace
made
him
endure
th'
miurie
of
the
wether
and
reproches
of
men
;
and
yet
these
submissions
and
suffrances
notwithstanding
,
he
continued
his
pursuites
more
furiouslie
than
afore
.
For
,
after
he
had
out-weried
many
Lords
&
brought
them
to
their
end
in
making
warre
on
him
,
he
incited
his
owne
sonne
Henry
the
fift
,
and
with
his
superstitions
,
commaundements
and
threatnings
he
so
hampered
and
bewitched
the
wit
and
iudgement
of
this
youth
,
that
he
durst
warre
on
his
owne
father
;
besiege
,
betray
and
take
him
;
dispoyle
him
of
his
Imperiall
diguitie
,
and
make
him
ende
his
dayes
in
great
sorrow
and
captiuitie
:
which
moued
a
learned
personage
of
that
time
to
cry
out
,
the
sonne
hath
betrayed
,
dispoyled
and
done
his
father
to
death
,
not
by
the
commandement
of
any
barbarous
tyrant
,
of
any
Phalares
,
but
by
the
counsell
of
the
most
holy
father
of
Rome
:
adding
;
reioyce
ye
,
ô
Caligula
and
Nero
,
for
the
Pope
of
Rome
playeth
such
prankes
,
that
there
shal
be
no
more
remembrance
of
your
crueltie
.
The
hatred
of
Gregorie
the
ninth
against
the
Emperor
Frederik
the
second
passed
likewise
al
comparison
in
stifnes
and
frowardnes
of
stomach
;
he
preached
the
Croissado
against
the
Emperor
,
promising
glorie
and
eternall
life
to
them
that
would
rise
in
armes
against
him
;
he
excommunicated
him
oftentimes
:
the
Princes
and
Bishops
of
Germanie
were
a
whole
yeere
in
praying
him
to
mollifie
his
minde
&
receiue
Frederik
to
fauor
;
he
reiected
them
all
with
their
petition
so
holy
,
so
carefully
and
humbly
offred
and
sued
;
they
neuer
had
come
to
an
end
,
had
they
not
geuen
for
that
purpose
,
sixescore
thousand
pounds
of
golde
.
The
Popes
egged
on
with
a
vehement
lust
of
reuenge
,
mounted
to
this
step
of
furie
and
vngodlines
,
that
they
empoysoned
the
host
or
Sacrament
of
th
,
altar
,
whereby
they
brought
one
Emperor
to
his
bane
.
Pope
Iohn
the
thirteenth
caused
one
Cardinals
nose
to
be
cut
off
,
and
anothers
hand
;
for
hauing
purposed
in
the
Consistorie
to
geue
him
some
admonitions
touching
his
whordome
;
he
spent
the
most
part
of
his
life
in
minding
&
committing
all
sorts
of
such
vncleannes
,
and
ended
his
life
in
adultery
:
for
he
was
taken
with
the
manner
,
and
slayne
in
the
very
acte
.
The
whoredomes
adulteries
,
incests
,
and
sodomies
of
Pope
Iulio
the
third
are
knowen
:
th'
Italians
printed
and
published
them
in
Rome
in
euery
corner
of
the
streets
.
Nothing
euer
came
to
the
Pope
amisse
,
prouided
he
might
draw
profit
out
of
i●
When
Robert
had
inuaded
the
landes
of
his
nephew
and
ward
the
County
of
Puglia
and
Calabria
an
Orphan
,
the
Pope
excommunicated
and
further
threatned
him
with
his
materiall
sword
;
this
Robert
knowing
the
force
,
credit
,
natural
propertie
and
intent
of
Popes
came
to
him
,
and
gaue
him
Beneuent
and
Troy
a
portion
of
his
bootie
:
the
Pope
thereupon
reuoked
his
thundring
sentence
,
honored
him
with
his
amitie
and
blessing
,
and
iudged
th'
vsurpation
made
by
the
vncle
vpon
the
neuew
his
ward
and
an
Orphan
,
to
be
an
action
holy
and
full
of
deuotion
.
It
hath
euer
bene
an
heresie
to
be
the
Popes
neighbour
,
for
any
that
had
land
in
his
good
Grace
and
liking
,
&
had
no
power
to
defend
it
:
for
then
must
other
Lords
warre
on
such
an
heretik
,
and
not
leaue
him
so
long
as
a
foot
of
land
were
left
him
,
as
they
tendered
his
holines
good
Grace
.
The
proofe
may
easely
be
made
by
histories
,
that
Popes
haue
vsurped
&
encroched
on
all
the
Seigneuries
of
Christendome
,
at
least
on
the
greater
part
.
Thus
the
Popes
palace
is
full
of
robberies
,
pray
and
spoiles
,
which
he
hath
raked
by
no
other
titles
then
impietie
,
iniustice
&
violence
,
neuerthelesse
he
calleth
it
,
his
rights
,
S.
Peters
patrimonie
&
Gods
demain
.
As
for
Popes
,
most
of
them
haue
clymbed
vp
to
the
holy
See
by
lyes
,
hypocrisie
,
guiles
and
deceipt
,
by
money
,
armes
,
massacres
,
sackings
,
poysonings
and
Magicall
arts
.
There
is
no
kind
of
impietie
,
Atheisme
,
idolatry
,
enchauntements
,
heresie
&
schisme
but
ye
shall
commonly
read
it
in
their
stories
.
View
the
the
life
of
Siluestre
the
second
,
Misnia
;
and
after
the
death
of
Hebert
being
still
wedded
to
his
owne
selfe
will
and
stubborne
opinion
against
God
,
(
who
brought
all
these
Emperors
being
the
Popes
creatures
,
to
confusion
)
he
gaue
the
Empire
to
Henrie
the
fift
,
the
sonne
of
Henrie
the
fourth
,
who
was
yet
liuing
,
allowed
and
acknowledged
of
all
men
for
Emperor
,
except
the
Pope
and
his
adherents
.
Histories
are
full
of
such
contempts
;
we
learne
by
them
that
Emperors
during
foure
hundred
yeeres
and
vpward
,
were
tossed
and
troubled
by
th'
iniuries
and
oppressions
of
the
Pope
;
&
that
such
stormes
and
tempestes
neuer
tooke
end
till
after
th'
Emperors
had
quitt
to
the
Popes
the
greater
part
of
their
possessions
and
rights
,
and
had
subiected
to
them
their
persons
&
dignities
.
The
Pope
tooke
the
Crowne
from
Childerik
,
gaue
it
to
Pepin
;
took
it
from
Lewis
the
meek
,
gaue
it
to
his
sonne
;
which
is
a
story
as
lamentable
as
that
of
th'
Emperor
Henry
the
fourth
:
there
was
no
let
in
him
,
that
he
disposed
not
our
Crowne
more
often
:
Boniface
,
when
he
had
excommunicated
Philip
the
Faire
,
gaue
the
Realme
to
Albert
king
of
the
Romanes
:
it
passeth
all
account
to
tell
how
many
times
he
hath
excommunicated
our
kings
,
hath
exposed
our
kingdome
in
pray
,
hath
adiudged
it
to
him
that
first
could
seize
on
it
,
and
by
dispensation
hath
discharged
the
Subiects
of
their
othe
,
to
turne
them
from
their
fidelitie
and
allegeance
.
How
oft
and
how
long
he
hath
put
and
held
the
Realme
of
England
in
interdiction
,
is
knowen
.
By
this
gate
of
iniustice
hath
the
Spanish
tvrāt
inuaded
the
kingdome
of
Nauarre
;
this
is
all
the
iust
and
lawfull
title
he
hath
there
to
.
It
is
knowen
how
the
Pope
hath
played
with
the
Realm
of
Naples
and
Sicile
.
He
tooke
it
from
the
Germaines
,
to
geue
it
the
French
;
and
after
from
the
French
,
to
geue
it
the
Spaniardes
:
a
very
long
time
hath
he
made
faire
shew
to
these
two
Nations
,
crossing
or
fauouring
the
hopes
now
of
th'
one
&
then
of
the
other
:
he
let
it
be
taken
from
Conradin
;
he
opposed
himself
against
Maufred
,
&
made
war
on
him
,
calling
this
war
holy
,
which
touched
th'
estate
of
Religion
in
nothing
,
but
only
the
ease
,
securitie
,
profite
,
enuie
and
grudge
of
his
holinesse
:
he
called
thither
the
Earle
of
Aniou
,
he
condemned
and
put
to
death
Conradm
by
the
hand
of
the
hangman
,
and
a
douzen
or
fiftene
great
Lords
with
him
,
for
no
other
cause
than
his
owne
priuate
hatred
:
after
that
,
he
fauoured
the
Earle
of
Aniou
against
the
house
of
Arragon
a
great
while
,
but
at
last
in
fauor
of
the
house
of
Arragon
,
he
tooke
from
Charles
of
Aniou
and
his
successors
that
which
he
had
geuen
them
.
Briefly
,
there
hath
bene
no
quarrell
nor
iar
betwene
the
Lords
of
Christendome
,
which
hath
not
bene
kindled
by
him
,
wherof
he
hath
not
taken
intelligence
,
&
wherein
he
hath
not
demaunded
the
obedience
of
both
parties
.
He
hath
stirred
vp
the
French
against
the
Greeks
and
Lombards
,
the
Germaine
against
the
French
,
the
French
against
the
Germaine
,
the
Italian
against
the
Germain
,
the
French
against
the
Italian
the
Italian
against
the
French
,
and
againe
the
Spaniard
against
the
French
,
all
Christen
dome
against
the
English
,
the
French
against
th'
Arrogomans
,
the
Spaniard
against
the
Nauarreans
.
He
hatched
the
diuision
of
th'
Vrsins
and
Columnas
,
of
the
Guelfs
and
Ghibelins
,
&
the
warre
betwixt
the
Genoans
and
Venetians
.
It
is
impossible
to
discourse
of
al
these
in
particular
,
I
cannot
abide
to
stand
vpon
them
,
their
remembrance
is
so
grieuous
.
In
like
maner
the
diuisions
that
Popes
haue
made
in
the
Church
,
the
schismes
of
two
or
three
Popes
at
once
,
the
sects
of
Monkes
,
Friers
and
Nunnes
require
so
long
a
processe
,
that
I
may
not
vndertake
to
recite
them
at
this
present
.
But
what
is
said
sufficeth
to
shew
that
the
Pope
despiseth
gouernments
and
maketh
diuisions
.
It
is
written
,
that
Antichrist
shal
be
an
aduersarie
;
Our
Sauiour
had
no
place
where
he
might
rest
his
head
:
Our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
refused
to
iudge
and
deuide
an
inheritance
betweene
two
brethren
,
Iesus
Christ
fled
,
doubting
least
the
people
would
make
him
king
:
the
Pope
pestreth
the
ayre
and
hell
with
bruites
,
and
the
earth
with
coursings
vp
and
downe
,
to
atteyne
the
soueraigne
throne
and
be
ouer
kings
;
and
to
this
end
seekes
out
and
employeth
men
and
deuils
;
gold
,
siluer
and
iron
;
hypocrisie
and
lies
;
poyson
and
force
.
Iesus
Christ
hued
in
all
obedience
,
submitted
himselfe
to
Gouernours
,
Kings
and
Emperours
,
payde
them
tribute
;
was
content
to
be
iudged
by
them
:
th'
Apostles
likewise
haue
bowed
vnder
their
commaundements
and
iurisdictions
.
The
Popes
liue
in
all
power
,
&
not
onely
disobey
,
but
also
vniustly
commaund
Kings
and
Emperours
,
iudging
them
as
we
haue
said
,
and
wringing
tribut
from
them
and
their
subiectes
:
and
Boniface
the
eight
by
name
made
a
Decree
against
all
Christen
Kings
and
Princes
excommunicating
them
for
euer
,
that
should
leuie
any
exactions
vpon
Clergie-men
.
Iesus
Christ
said
to
his
Apostles
:
yee
know
that
they
which
rule
ouer
the
people
haue
dominion
ouer
them
,
&
their
Princes
haue
auctoritie
ouer
them
.
But
it
shall
not
be
so
among
you
,
but
whosoeuer
among
you
will
be
the
greatest
shal
be
your
seruant
,
and
whosoeuer
wil
be
the
first
among
you
shal
be
seruant
to
al.
For
so
the
sonne
of
man
is
not
come
to
be
serued
,
but
to
serue
,
and
giue
his
life
for
the
redeeming
of
many
.
The
Pope
ruleth
both
ouer
people
and
Princes
,
and
also
ouer
all
Bishops
which
clayme
to
be
likewise
th'
Apostles
successours
.
Neuerthelesse
he
nameth
himselfe
seruant
of
the
seruants
of
God
,
he
thinketh
that
God
is
without
iudgement
as
are
his
Idols
,
he
makes
a
mockerie
of
God
,
he
takes
the
name
,
and
doth
the
contrary
to
that
it
signifieth
:
since
that
men
feele
themselues
more
highly
displeased
with
offences
done
them
by
doltish
driftes
then
by
open
disobedience
;
how
should
God
concerue
thinke
ye
,
and
be
moued
at
this
blasphemie
so
grose
,
to
call
himselfe
the
seruant
of
seruants
,
and
neuerthelesse
to
play
the
tyrant
ouer
Bishops
,
people
,
Kings
,
Emperours
,
the
Church
,
and
the
word
?
Iesus
Christ
sent
forth
his
Apostles
saying
to
them
:
Preach
that
the
kingdome
of
heauen
is
at
hand
:
Iesus
Christ
said
to
his
Apostles
:
be
not
ye
called
maisters
:
the
truth
is
,
that
the
wonderfull
vertue
and
power
of
God
who
conuerteth
th'
euill
of
man
into
good
,
and
vseth
it
for
his
iustice
,
punishing
sin
by
sin
,
may
not
be
iudged
by
the
constitutions
of
man
&
namely
by
the
aboue
sayd
;
as
also
that
we
must
discerne
,
chuse
,
&
proue
Christian
doctrine
among
so
many
errors
not
by
humane
reasons
,
but
by
the
holy
Scripture
.
Which
holy
Scripture
teacheth
vs
,
that
God
is
almighty
&
bringeth
all
things
to
passe
,
the
good
&
euill
;
that
al
actions
are
good
in
God
,
and
take
the
qualitie
of
being
euill
from
the
deuill
&
from
sin
that
haue
enthralled
the
nature
of
man
:
in
such
wise
that
although
God
maketh
or
doeth
all
good
and
euill
things
,
yet
is
he
goodnes
it selfe
,
The
Pope
teacheth
vs
that
man
of
himselfe
may
doe
that
which
is
good
.
Thus
it
sufficed
him
not
impiouslie
to
abridge
the
power
of
God
by
the
former
partition
,
he
proceedeth
yet
to
another
abridgement
thereof
by
this
doctrine
.
Whereas
he
affirmed
before
,
that
all
good
actions
come
from
God
:
now
he
learneth
vs
,
that
man
may
also
doo
them
of
himselfe
.
But
the
holy
Scripture
teacheth
vs
quite
contrarie
,
that
man
neither
can
nor
doeth
bring
any
good
thing
to
passe
;
that
he
is
the
seruant
of
sinne
;
that
it
is
God
which
worketh
the
good
that
is
in
vs
and
that
commeth
from
vs
;
that
by
the
sinne
of
Adam
we
haue
bene
made
subiect
to
sinne
;
that
sinne
and
Gods
curse
haue
so
corrupted
our
nature
,
that
it
neither
knoweth
,
nor
can
,
nor
doeth
any
thing
els
,
saue
sinne
:
but
that
God
by
his
grace
,
by
his
holy
spirite
geueth
vnto
those
that
are
his
a
certaine
light
of
vnderstanding
,
which
striueth
against
sinne
;
howbeit
sinne
most
often
ouercommeth
this
light
;
that
God
will
haue
it
so
,
to
the
end
his
power
may
be
perfected
in
our
infirmitie
,
and
that
we
glorifie
our selues
in
him
and
his
grace
,
and
not
in
our selues
&
our
owne
workes
.
The
Lord
saith
:
It
sufficeth
not
the
Pope
to
teach
that
man
of
himselfe
may
do
some
good
thing
;
Iesus
Christ
saith
in
S.
Iohn
:
all
that
the
Father
giueth
me
,
Iesus
Christ
saith
:
It
is
written
that
Iesus
Christ
is
th'
end
of
the
law
in
righteousnesse
to
all
beleeuers
:
that
Meses
said
;
It
is
written
els
where
,
But
some
do
argue
against
the
word
of
God
in
these
termes
:
The
Pope
commaundeth
to
beleeue
,
that
the
body
&
bloud
of
Iesus
Christ
are
really
and
in
deed
,
in
the
bread
and
wine
of
the
supper
.
He
commaundeth
that
the
bread
of
the
supper
be
adored
as
God
.
I
maruéile
that
he
makes
not
the
wine
be
likewise
adored
,
for
the
reason
of
both
is
all
one
.
He
hath
ordeined
a
daily
sacrifice
of
this
body
,
&
for
to
commend
this
sacrifice
the
more
,
he
hath
prouided
it
a
seruice
of
the
church
,
altar
,
sacrificers
,
priests
,
and
other
officers
,
priestly
omaments
,
ceremonies
&
superstitions
in
words
&
gestures
,
in
water
,
fire
&
otherthings
;
being
in-deed
a
mingle
mangle
of
all
religions
that
euer
were
.
He
groundeth
his
opinion
of
the
reall
&
corporall
presence
of
the
body
&
bloud
,
and
of
the
substantiall
turning
or
chaunge
of
the
truth
of
the
bread
&
wine
into
the
substance
&
truth
of
the
body
&
bloud
of
the
Lord
,
The
Pope
willeth
vs
to
haue
images
of
Angels
,
The
Pope
willeth
vs
to
call
vpon
Angels
and
Saincts
as
mediators
and
intercessors
;
The
Pope
enioyneth
vs
to
beleeue
that
there
is
a
Purgatorie
,
The
Pope
will
not
haue
the
Bible
to
be
translated
into
French
our
vulgar
and
mother
tong
,
Now
againe
,
The
Pope
forbiddeth
marriage
to
persons
innumerable
,
The
Pope
maketh
a
difference
of
meate
and
dayes
:
it
is
written
:
But
concerning
these
matters
,
let
vs
conclude
with
these
wordes
of
S.
CHAP.
VI.
How
we
should
be
resolued
to
iudge
of
the
Schisme
in
Christendome
at
this
day
;
and
namely
whether
the
Reformed
be
Schismatiks
.
BVt
he
that
would
discourse
on
all
differences
,
disagreements
and
contrarieties
betweene
the
Pope
with
his
fauourers
,
and
Iesus
Christ
with
his
Apostles
&
followers
professing
his
Gospell
,
aswell
in
life
,
proceedings
and
actions
,
as
in
doctrine
and
belief
,
should
neuer
haue
done
.
Not
that
the
matter
were
hard
to
proue
:
for
among
them
that
reuerence
&
read
the
holy
Scriptures
,
there
is
no
man
so
meanly
exercised
in
the
same
,
and
so
slenderly
acquainted
with
the
state
of
your
Church
,
but
can
easily
iustifie
euery
contrarietie
.
Howbeit
,
their
numbre
is
so
great
,
that
the
memory
,
age
,
trauaile
and
instruments
of
one
man
can
not
serue
to
set
downe
the
full
reckening
of
all
.
But
yet
,
me
thinks
I
haue
spoken
enough
to
make
you
know
and
acknowledge
,
that
the
Reformed
doo
not
without
reason
condemne
the
Pope
and
his
doctrine
:
I
haue
said
enough
to
instruct
and
cause
you
to
confesse
the
Pope
to
be
that
great
Antichrist
,
foretold
by
our
Sauiour
,
his
Prophets
and
Apostles
,
and
whom
they
threatened
and
assured
vs
should
come
.
Ye
see
all
the
Prophecies
touching
Antichrist
brought
to
passe
in
the
Pope
&
by
the
Pope
:
which
can
not
be
verified
in
any
other
persecutor
of
the
Church
whatsoeuer
.
The
Arabians
,
Tartars
,
Scithians
and
Parthians
;
the
Hunnes
,
Vandals
and
so
many
other
nations
of
the
North
and
East
;
Attila
,
Mahumet
,
Tamberlan
,
and
the
Turks
the
successors
of
Mahumet
haue
mightily
persecuted
,
and
yet
do
persecute
the
Gospell
:
but
many
Antichrists
were
to
come
,
according
to
their
seuerall
prophesies
apart
by
themselues
.
CHAP.
VII
.
Here
followeth
the
Conclusion
,
and
the
application
of
all
this
discourse
,
with
the
admonitions
or
aduertisements
.
THen
,
forasmuch
as
afore
when
I
was
content
to
winke
with
you
,
and
when
I
treated
touching
the
Reformed
,
as
if
they
had
bene
schismatikes
,
yet
it
fell
out
vpon
proofe
that
ye
were
in
fault
,
for
violating
and
breaking
the
peace
ye
made
with
them
,
the
faith
ye
gaue
to
them
,
and
the
othe
ye
sware
to
God
:
and
also
for
intending
and
indeuouring
to
destroy
them
by
force
and
materiall
sword
,
or
compell
them
by
the
same
sword
to
leaue
their
religion
and
take
yours
:
which
fault
ye
haue
redoubled
with
sinne
vpon
sinne
,
in
going
about
to
confound
the
state
of
the
Church
,
the
state
of
the
Crowne
,
the
lawes
of
the
Realme
,
the
order
of
successions
,
the
common
wealth
,
the
common
peace
,
and
the
wealth
and
peace
of
euery
one
,
rather
then
ye
will
liue
nigh
the
Reformed
or
be
gouerned
by
any
of
them
:
Know
now
,
how
much
your
euill
is
greater
,
your
nature
frowarder
,
and
your
sinne
horribler
then
ye
thinke
.
They
are
no
longer
heretikes
,
to
whom
ye
deny
the
interest
and
benefit
of
the
law
of
all
nations
vnder
heauen
,
to
whom
ye
haue
vnrighteously
violated
your
faith
,
whom
ye
persecute
in
their
goods
&
persons
,
whom
ye
compell
against
their
consciences
,
whom
ye
put
to
death
:
they
are
the
people
of
God
,
the
true
professors
of
his
holy
Gospell
.
They
be
no
heretiks
,
though
ye
assay
by
violence
to
bring
them
backe
into
the
right
way
,
as
ye
say
:
they
be
true
and
faithfull
Christians
,
whom
ye
seeke
to
bring
out
of
the
right
way
.
They
are
no
heretikes
,
whose
company
and
gouernement
ye
seeke
to
shunne
,
with
so
costly
an
aduenture
,
as
your
countrey
liues
and
soules
are
worth
:
they
are
Gospellers
(
though
ye
prophanely
deride
the
name
)
and
hold
a
right
opinion
of
the
Catholike
faith
;
who
demaunde
nothing
but
reason
and
right
,
euen
for
the
comfort
,
quiet
,
profit
and
saluation
of
all
,
and
euery
one
.
It
comes
to
my
remembrance
,
that
about
the
beginning
of
this
discourse
,
when
I
shewed
you
how
needfull
it
was
that
othes
should
be
made
and
kept
,
and
told
you
how
it
was
impossible
to
excuse
you
of
periurie
and
reproofe
before
God
and
men
after
ye
had
violated
the
pacifications
of
this
Realme
so
solemnely
sworne
;
I
promised
you
then
to
resolue
you
of
a
doubt
which
ye
might
make
,
to
wit
,
that
since
the
breach
of
the
peace
ye
haue
made
many
others
and
protestations
against
that
peace
,
so
that
by
the
same
necessary
&
religious
regard
of
oths
,
it
seemeth
impossible
to
you
to
returne
againe
to
obserue
the
peace
broken
.
Behold
a
doubtfull
knot
,
which
may
be
losed
with
very
small
ado
.
For
since
it
appeareth
,
that
the
Reformed
are
true
Christians
,
and
do
demaunde
onely
the
free
and
open
passage
of
Gods
word
,
that
the
kingdome
of
Christ
may
reigne
in
mens
hearts
,
ye
must
confesse
that
your
othes
and
protestations
made
before
or
after
the
peace
,
to
hinder
the
exercise
of
their
Religion
and
destroy
them
,
are
quite
contrary
to
iustice
,
to
Gods
glory
,
the
freedome
of
his
word
,
and
the
kingdome
of
his
sonne
:
so
that
these
later
othes
and
their
like
,
&
not
those
which
you
made
for
preseruing
of
peace
,
are
to
be
condemned
and
vtterly
retected
.
It
standeth
not
so
with
vowes
&
othes
which
are
thought
to
be
made
to
God
,
as
it
doth
with
testaments
&
some
other
actes
among
men
whereof
the
later
do
make
the
former
voyde
:
for
euen
as
God
is
vnmoueable
and
neuer
chaungeth
his
will
,
euen
so
his
pleasure
is
,
that
what
soeuer
is
done
with
him
,
&
men
promise
him
should
be
vnmoueable
:
a
vow
or
othe
then
being
forcibly
and
lawfully
made
,
all
other
othes
,
execrations
,
and
protestations
which
can
be
made
in
preiudice
of
the
same
may
not
nor
ought
be
counted
as
othes
but
as
periuries
and
mere
vngodlinesse
.
It
is
a
monstrous
abuse
and
profaning
of
faith
to
make
it
a
warrant
for
trecherie
impietie
,
trouble
,
confusion
,
and
ruine
of
a
state
and
Church
.
This
is
but
to
strengthen
sinne
with
sinne
,
to
establish
and
make
faithlesnesse
necessary
by
othes
,
and
namely
by
othes
that
can
not
otherwise
stand
nor
be
auowed
before
Gods
iustice
.
Away
then
with
these
last
oths
and
their
like
,
shew
your
disalowance
of
them
by
your
repentance
:
otherwise
(
to
returne
to
my
purpose
)
ye
must
confesse
that
ye
will
reteine
them
in
despite
of
God
and
his
Church
,
of
reason
,
of
iustice
,
of
the
weale
publik
,
&
in
the
end
of
your selues
.
Now
sith
the
case
so
stands
,
I
tell
you
not
that
the
Reformed
are
more
in
number
&
value
,
that
they
haue
Cities
not
to
be
won
by
assault
,
that
they
haue
societies
,
amities
,
alliances
,
&
ayde
within
&
without
the
Realme
:
but
I
tell
you
,
that
they
haue
many
mo
millions
of
Angels
for
them
,
that
the
truth
of
God
is
vnvanquishable
,
that
God
is
for
them
,
that
God
shal
be
the
maister
,
that
the
lambe
shal
ouercome
,
that
his
holy
Word
&
Chosen
shall
remaine
,
and
the
traditions
of
men
,
men
them selues
,
and
the
world
shall
perish
:
I
tell
you
,
that
the
people
of
God
,
as
Isay
saith
,
how
few
soeuer
they
be
,
Ye
then
,
my
Clergi-men
,
And
you
my
Nobles
,
And
ye
,
my
Iusticers
and
Counsellers
of
Estate
,
And
ye
(
my
poore
People
)
murmur
no
more
,
And
you
(
my
King
)
lift
vp
your selfe
about
the
dissimulation
of
your
Counsellers
,
Finally
(
my
children
)
ye
see
how
God
condemneth
your
actions
,
and
fighteth
against
them
by
all
kinde
of
calamities
,
with
pestilences
&
other
dease
,
blinde
&
strange
diseases
,
vnknowen
to
your
Physicians
:
by
warres
,
fammes
,
and
ghastly
feares
,
which
stoupe
nor
yeeld
at
all
to
your
wisdome
and
trauaile
:
God
condemneth
your
conspiracies
by
the
wretchednes
&
vanitie
of
their
effects
,
by
the
conspiracy
of
the
ayre
and
seasons
,
which
bande
themselues
against
you
,
which
marre
themselues
to
marre
you
,
which
arme
themselues
to
execute
on
you
the
iustice
of
Gods
curses
and
vengeance
.
If
you
harden
your
harts
against
this
speach
which
your
soueraigne
God
vseth
,
if
ye
vnderstand
it
not
;
he
will
speake
to
you
yet
more
aloude
,
more
plainly
more
roughly
.
Be
conuerted
then
.
Go
(
my
children
)
craue
mercie
of
the
Lord
,
crie
still
to
him
till
he
repaire
and
set
his
Church
for
his
praise
in
the
land
:
yelde
your selues
guilty
,
and
seeke
his
face
,
till
he
come
&
make
his
mercy
&
rightcousnes
to
raine
on
you
,
till
he
be
the
plague
of
the
plague
,
the
destruction
of
the
graue
,
the
dearth
of
famine
,
and
the
sword
of
the
sword
.
FINIS
.