Deerly
beloved
,
beleeve
not
every
spirit
,
but
trie
the
spirits
whether
they
be
of
God
:
For
manie
false
prophets
are
gone
out
into
the
world
.
1.
IOH.
4.
1.
THESE
words
which
I
have
readde
unto
you
(
right
Hon.
and
beloved
in
the
Lord
)
do
divide
themselves
into
three
parts
:
a
prohibition
,
Beleeve
not
everie
spirit
:
a
commaundement
,
But
trie
the
spirits
whether
they
be
of
God
:
and
a
reason
of
them
both
,
Bicause
many
false
prophets
are
gone
out
into
the
world
.
Of
these
three
parts
,
the
last
in
order
is
the
first
in
nature
;
and
the
first
is
the
last
:
and
I
meane
to
proceed
accordingly
.
First
I
will
shew
unto
you
,
that
many
false
prophets
are
gone
out
into
the
world
:
secondly
,
the
triall
of
them
is
to
be
considered
of
:
which
two
points
being
well
understood
,
the
necessitie
of
the
prohibition
will
evidently
appeere
;
which
is
,
that
we
ought
not
to
beleeve
every
spirit
.
Mony
false
prophets
are
gone
out
,
&c.
In
this
first
part
I
observe
fower
things
:
the
number
of
these
prophets
,
They
are
manie
:
their
qualitie
,
They
are
false
:
their
going
out
,
and
the
causes
that
moove
them
so
to
do
:
and
where
they
remaine
,
They
are
gone
into
the
world
.
As
concerning
the
number
of
these
prophets
,
Simon
Magus
,
Elimas
,
Barjehu
,
the
Nicholaites
,
Himinaeus
,
Philetus
,
Alexander
,
Phigellus
,
Hermogenes
,
Diotrephes
,
Theudas
,
and
Iudas
of
Galilee
.
To
whom
also
these
may
be
added
:
Ebion
,
Cerinthus
,
the
Carpocratians
,
Simon
of
Galilee
,
Menander
,
and
divers
others
.
With
these
prophets
the
Church
was
so
troubled
and
disquieted
in
S.
Iohns
time
,
that
(
as
it
seemed
)
some
cared
for
no
spirit
,
prophet
,
nor
doctrine
:
and
some
were
so
giddy
headed
,
that
in
a
maner
every
spirit
contented
them
,
which
caused
the
Apostle
to
vse
in
effect
these
words
:
to
the
one
sort
,
Beleev●…
not
every
spirit
:
and
to
the
other
,
although
you
are
not
to
beleeve
every
spirit
,
yet
it
is
your
dutie
to
beleeve
some
spirit
.
After
the
Apostles
times
,
as
it
were
out
of
the
ashes
of
these
false
prophets
,
there
grew
and
sproong
up
so
many
other
schismat
ikes
and
heretikes
:
as
Irenaeus
,
Tertullian
,
Epiphanius
,
and
S.
Augustine
do
testifie
,
that
the
verie
name
of
Christ
began
to
be
odious
among
the
people
:
and
as
Socrates
reporteth
,
the
Of
the
times
in
like
maner
wherein
we
now
live
,
the
Apostle
S.
Paule
did
prophesie
,
Arrians
,
Donatists
,
Papists
,
Libertines
,
Anabaptists
,
the
Familie
of
love
,
and
sundrie
other
(
I
knowe
not
of
what
opinion
)
so
many
sectaries
and
schismatikes
,
as
that
in
very
deed
divers
do
revolt
daily
to
Papistrie
,
many
are
become
meerly
Atheists
,
and
the
best
do
stand
in
som
sort
at
a
gaze
.
So
as
all
the
complaints
which
in
times
past
have
been
made
heerof
,
may
trulie
be
applied
to
these
our
daies
wherein
we
now
live
;
Vos
Christiani
dissidetis
inter
vos
&
tot
sectas
habetis
:
quae
licet
omnes
Christianismi
titulum
Clemens
Alexandrinus
noteth
some
others
to
have
said
upon
the
like
occasion
)
yee
dissent
amongst
your selves
and
maintaine
so
many
sects
:
which
sects
notwithstanding
they
al
claime
the
title
of
Christian
religion
,
yet
one
of
them
curseth
and
condemneth
another
:
and
therefore
your
religion
is
not
true
,
nor
hath
hir
beginning
or
ground
from
God
.
And
Chrysostome
of
the
Atheist
;
Venit
The
Infidel
and
Heathen
commeth
and
saith
,
I
would
be
a
Christian
man
,
but
I
know
not
whom
I
should
follow
:
there
is
much
strife
,
dissention
&
trouble
amongst
you
:
I
can
not
tell
what
doctrine
to
choose
to
set
before
other
:
Nam
singuli
dicunt
,
ego
verum
dico
for
everie
one
saith
,
I
speake
the
truth
.
The
best
amongst
us
in
like
maner
I
feare
are
come
to
the
same
passe
that
they
were
at
Now
of
the
qualitie
of
those
prophets
:
In
respect
of
their
conversation
they
are
saide
to
be
humble
and
lowlie
in
outward
shew
,
but
yet
of
nature
verie
contentious
and
unquiet
,
doting
about
questions
and
strife
of
words
:
wherof
commeth
envy
,
strife
,
railings
,
and
evill
surmisings
.
Their
mouths
do
speake
proud
things
and
swelling
words
In
both
these
respects
they
are
resembled
in
the
Scriptures
,
and
in
the
ancient
fathers
unto
diverse
things
;
as
unto
painted
wals
and
sepulchers
,
bicause
they
are
hypocrites
:
Of
these
false
prophets
some
indevour
to
seduce
the
godlie
under
pretence
of
dreams
and
revelations
:
especially
the
popish
priests
and
prophets
:
For
prooving
of
their
reall
presence
&
purgatorie
,
as
it
appeereth
most
manifestlie
in
diverse
of
their
bookes
:
but
especially
touching
purgatorie
in
Dionysius
the
Carthusian
;
De
quatuor
novissimis
.
Vnto
these
I
might
adde
the
holie
maide
of
Lisbone
,
who
did
prophesie
this
last
yeere
(
if
the
report
be
true
)
that
the
invincible
navie
of
the
Spaniardes
should
no
sooner
approch
the
coast
of
England
,
but
that
presentlie
all
English
mens
harts
shoulde
faile
them
,
and
the
Spaniards
obtain
the
victory
.
I
praie
God
that
al
prophesies
and
attempts
against
England
have
never
better
successe
then
these
of
late
have
had
.
There
are
other
false
prophets
in
like
maner
so
termed
,
bicause
they
do
applie
the
saiengs
of
the
true
prophets
unto
a
false
ende
and
purpose
:
as
those
in
the
Apostles
times
who
tooke
upon
them
to
set
down
peremptorilie
the
certaine
time
of
the
day
of
judgement
.
Such
there
are
also
in
these
daies
:
especially
Brocard
the
Italian
,
who
expoundeth
Esaie
,
Ezechiell
and
the
rest
touching
the
overthrow
of
Ierusalem
,
Egipt
,
Tyre
,
Sidon
,
and
Babylon
with
their
kings
&
rulers
to
be
understood
of
the
destruction
of
Anwarpe
,
Paris
,
the
prince
of
Orange
,
the
prince
of
Conde
,
and
others
both
noblemen
,
and
famous
cities
in
these
last
daies
.
Of
this
number
I
may
verie
well
account
the
late
obstinate
heretike
Francis
Ket
,
who
Another
of
this
sort
(
whose
booke
I
have
,
written
with
his
owne
hand
)
endevoreth
to
proove
out
of
the
prophets
,
that
ELIZABETH
now
Queene
of
England
is
ordained
of
God
to
be
Queene
of
Ierusalem
:
even
as
the
Anabaptists
long
since
dreamed
of
Iohn
Lastlie
they
are
to
be
reckoned
amongst
the
number
of
these
false
prophets
who
do
pervert
the
meaning
of
the
Scriptures
for
the
maintenance
and
defence
of
any
false
doctrin
,
schism
,
or
heresie
.
Heerof
you
know
I
might
give
you
many
examples
:
I
pray
you
beare
with
me
if
I
set
downe
one
as
strange
in
my
opinion
,
as
any
is
to
be
founde
in
a
matter
of
no
greater
importance
.
The
name
of
false
prophet
I
am
content
in
diverse
respects
to
suppresse
:
the
matter
it selfe
which
I
meane
,
standeth
in
this
sort
.
There
are
very
many
now
a
daies
,
who
do
affirm
that
when
Christ
used
these
words
,
Dic
They
had
(
saie
these
men
)
in
their
synagogs
This
forme
of
governement
they
call
the
tabernacle
which
God
hath
appointed
,
the
glory
of
God
,
and
of
his
sonne
Iesus
Christ
,
the
presence
of
God
,
the
place
which
he
hath
chosen
to
put
his
name
there
,
the
court
of
the
Lord
,
and
the
shining
foorth
of
Gods
glorie
.
Where
this
ecclesiasticall
synode
is
not
erected
,
they
say
Gods
ordinance
is
not
performed
:
the
office
of
Christ
as
he
is
a
king
is
not
acknowledged
:
in
effect
that
without
this
governement
we
can
never
attaine
to
a
right
and
true
feeling
of
Christian
Religion
,
but
are
to
be
reckoned
amongst
those
who
are
accounted
to
say
of
Christ
as
it
is
in
Luke
,
Wee
will
not
have
this
man
to
raigne
over
us
.
And
their
conclusion
upon
this
point
against
Heere
you
see
there
is
great
vehemencie
used
,
and
very
sharpe
applications
are
urged
,
A
man
would
thinke
that
if
the
grounde
of
this
government
were
not
more
cleere
then
the
sunne
,
and
so
determined
of
by
all
the
godlie
and
learned
in
the
worlde
ever
since
Christs
time
,
they
could
never
be
halfe
so
resolute
or
earnest
.
But
heerein
they
passe
indeede
the
measure
of
a
modest
mans
conceite
.
For
there
was
never
ancient
father
since
the
Apostles
times
,
were
he
never
so
learned
or
studious
of
the
truth
:
there
was
never
particular
Church
,
councell
or
synode
,
or
any
man
of
judgement
that
ever
lived
till
these
latter
times
(
as
I
thinke
,
and
I
have
taken
paines
for
the
search
thereof
)
that
did
ever
so
expound
and
interpret
that
place
:
or
that
ever
did
so
much
as
once
dreame
of
anie
such
meaning
.
Besides
,
it
is
most
manifest
that
there
hath
been
a
diverse
governement
from
this
used
in
the
church
ever
since
the
apostles
times
:
and
these
men
themselves
confesse
that
long
before
the
councell
of
Nice
this
their
government
began
greatly
to
decay
:
and
that
since
the
said
councell
it
was
never
heard
of
in
christendome
untill
these
their
times
.
A
verie
strange
matter
if
it
were
true
,
that
Christ
should
erect
a
forme
of
governement
for
the
ruling
of
his
Church
to
continue
from
his
departure
out
of
the
world
untill
his
comming
againe
:
and
that
the
same
should
never
be
once
thought
of
or
put
in
practise
for
the
space
of
1500.
yeers
,
or
at
the
least
(
to
take
them
at
the
best
)
that
the
governement
and
kingdome
of
Christ
shoulde
then
bee
overthrowne
,
when
by
all
mens
confessions
the
divinitie
of
his
person
,
the
vertue
of
his
priesthood
,
the
power
of
his
office
as
he
is
a
prophet
,
and
the
honor
of
his
kinglie
authoritie
,
was
so
godlie
,
so
learnedlie
,
and
so
mightilie
established
against
the
Arrians
,
in
the
councell
of
Nice
,
as
that
the
confession
of
the
Christian
faith
then
set
So
as
for
mine
owne
part
I
cannot
choose
but
account
these
Interpreters
to
bee
in
truth
perverters
of
Christs
meaning
:
and
do
holde
them
among
the
number
of
those
of
Manie
false
prophets
are
gone
out
.
Are
gone
Thus
all
heretikes
and
schismatikes
have
done
from
the
beginning
,
wherein
they
are
greatly
to
be
woondred
at
.
For
this
hath
ever
been
reckoned
a
most
certaine
ground
and
principle
in
religion
,
that
that
Church
I
might
bring
very
many
testimonies
out
of
the
ancient
fathers
to
proove
this
principle
:
especially
out
of
S.
Augustine
against
the
Donatists
;
but
I
hold
it
needlesse
.
And
yet
for
the
better
satisfaction
of
those
which
are
of
the
new
humor
,
I
will
trouble
you
with
the
judgement
heerin
of
a
man
of
the
newe
reformation
.
Danaeus
handleth
this
Touching
the
causes
why
false
prophets
Martin
affirmeth
that
there
are
so
manie
schismes
in
the
Church
of
England
at
this
day
,
bicause
that
Bishops
will
not
suffer
men
to
do
as
they
list
(
for
I
can
make
no
better
sence
of
his
discourse
touching
that
matter
)
but
for
mine
owne
part
I
am
not
of
his
opinion
.
For
I
find
in
the
ancient
fathers
sundrie
other
causes
far
differing
being
truly
applied
,
from
those
which
Martin
alledgeth
.
Of
which
causes
if
that
which
I
have
to
say
do
haply
displease
any
,
let
them
not
be
offended
with
me
,
but
rather
blame
themselves
and
their
owne
demeanour
,
in
that
a
man
can
scarcelie
speake
any
thing
out
of
the
saide
godlie
fathers
as
touching
the
behavior
of
the
ancient
heretikes
and
schismatikes
,
but
he
shall
seeme
to
point
at
and
describe
the
factions
in
these
daies
.
There
are
many
causes
set
downe
by
the
Which
thing
being
observed
before
Ieromes
Vnde
schismata
&
haereses
ortae
The
second
cause
why
so
many
false
prophets
are
gone
into
the
world
,
I
finde
to
be
This
will
appeere
verie
evidently
unto
those
who
shall
consider
the
histories
of
Arrius
coveting
the
Bishoprick
of
Alexandria
:
of
Donatus
laboring
to
have
been
Bishop
of
Carthage
:
of
Novatus
desiring
a
Bishopricke
in
Italie
:
and
of
Aerius
contending
with
one
Eustathius
for
a
Bishopricke
in
Pontus
.
These
men
affecting
these
honorable
roomes
,
by
receiving
their
severall
foyles
,
when
through
ambition
they
could
not
get
the
places
they
looked
for
in
the
church
,
they
sought
to
attaine
them
in
their
particular
synagogs
.
But
the
historie
of
Aerius
is
most
of
all
pertinent
to
this
purpose
.
Epiphanius
doth
reporte
it
Aerius
and
Eustathius
being
schollers
togither
The
course
of
which
historie
I
have
the
rather
at
large
noted
unto
you
,
bicause
Martin
would
gladly
have
been
as
subtill
to
have
deceived
you
,
as
he
is
malicious
in
depraving
his
superiours
.
Who
taking
upon
him
with
Aerius
to
proove
an
equality
in
the
ministerie
,
and
that
there
ought
to
be
no
difference
betwixt
a
B.
and
a
priest
,
commeth
at
last
to
these
wordes
;
There
was
never
anie
but
Antichristian
popes
and
popelings
that
ever
claimed
this
authoritie
(
he
meaneth
the
superioritie
which
Bb.
have
over
the
clergie
)
especially
when
the
matter
was
gainsaid
,
&c.
Why
doth
mans
allowance
or
disallowance
make
a
matter
Antichristian
or
not
Antichristian
?
Were
they
godly
Bb.
which
claimed
this
authoritie
when
it
was
not
gainsaid
,
and
are
they
become
Antichristian
Bb.
for
challenging
the
same
,
bicause
som
do
mislike
it
?
But
that
you
may
yet
farther
see
Martins
boldnes
(
I
might
say
either
his
malice
or
ignorance
)
it
may
please
you
to
understande
,
what
account
was
made
in
the
church
of
God
in
those
daies
of
Aerius
gainsaying
and
impugning
of
the
superioritie
of
Bishops
.
For
if
then
his
opinion
prevailed
,
the
favorers
of
the
same
cause
now
have
some
what
to
boast
of
:
but
indeed
it
fell
out
far
otherwise
.
For
it
appeereth
in
Epiphanius
,
after
due
triall
and
examination
made
by
the
learned
fathers
who
then
lived
,
of
all
his
arguments
and
sleights
which
he
used
for
the
proofe
of
his
assertions
,
that
with
a
generall
consent
of
the
whole
church
his
opinions
were
overthrowen
,
and
he
himselfe
persisting
in
them
was
condemned
for
an
heretike
.
Saint
Augustine
likewise
beareth
witnes
heerof
,
who
in
his
booke
of
Heresies
ascribeth
this
to
Aerius
for
one
,
in
that
he
said
;
Presbiterum
ab
episcopo
nulla
differentia
debere
Besides
for
all
Aerius
gainsaying
,
the
most
of
the
godly
,
the
best
learned
,
and
the
most
zealous
of
the
fathers
,
who
spent
themselves
in
the
defence
of
religion
against
such
heretikes
and
schismatikes
as
the
church
of
God
did
then
abound
and
slow
withal
,
did
themselves
take
upon
them
the
offices
of
Bishops
:
and
till
this
day
there
was
never
any
but
heretikes
,
and
such
lewd
persons
,
who
did
account
them
antichristian
.
There
were
,
as
it
seemeth
,
in
Chrysostomes
time
such
like
men
in
behaviour
towards
Bishops
,
as
we
see
manie
to
be
amongst
our selves
at
this
time
:
who
being
called
before
them
as
occasion
required
,
did
behave
themselves
in
verie
proude
and
disdainfull
maner
,
in
so
much
as
thereby
they
were
discerned
to
be
very
arrogant
and
contemptuous
heretikes
;
Quilibet
haereticus
&c.
loquens
cum
pontifice
,
nec
eum
vocat
pontificem
nec
Archiepiscopum
,
nec
religiosissimum
,
nec
sanctum
:
sed
quid●…
reverentia
tua
.
sapientia
tua
,
prudentia
tua
,
&
nomina
illi
adducit
communia
ejus
negans
authoritatem
.
Diabolus
hoc
fecit
cum
Deo
,
&c.
Everie
he
The
third
cause
why
many
false
prophets
go
out
into
the
world
,
Saint
Augustine
noteth
Captare
laudem
de
singularitate
scientiae
:
to
hunt
And
surely
it
is
greatly
to
be
marvailed
at
,
into
what
doting
follie
men
may
fal
,
who
shall
give
over
themselves
to
follow
this
humor
.
Irenaeus
writeth
,
that
some
were
so
besotted
with
an
opinion
of
themselves
,
that
Aaron
.
Simon
Magus
affirmed
sometimes
that
he
was
God
the
father
,
somtime
God
the
sonne
,
somtime
God
the
holy
Ghost
,
and
somtime
the
power
of
God
.
And
hence
it
is
,
that
the
ancient
fathers
have
reckoned
this
dotage
to
be
the
verie
beginning
and
fosterer
of
heretikes
:
Initia
haereticorum
,
&c.
The
beginning
of
heresies
is
(
saith
Cyprian
)
Vt
sibi
placeant
:
When
men
begin
to
please
themselves
.
For
then
(
as
Ierome
They
may
rightlie
therefore
be
compared
unto
Pigmaleon
,
who
fell
in
love
with
an
image
of
his
owne
making
:
or
to
Narcissus
that
doted
so
greatly
in
beholding
himselfe
.
These
men
if
once
they
affirme
any
thing
,
they
wil
rather
hazard
their
lives
than
by
revoking
the
same
impaire
their
reputation
.
Alledge
against
them
the
generall
consent
of
all
the
ancient
fathers
,
and
they
esteeme
it
not
a
rush
.
He
is
but
of
a
meane
conceite
among
them
who
will
sticke
to
say
(
as
Bernard
Petrus
Abailardus
and
his
followers
)
Omnes
Patres
sic
,
at
ego
non
sic
:
Indeed
all
the
fathers
are
of
this
opinion
,
but
I
am
of
another
judgement
.
Of
whom
(
saith
Bernard
)
an
non
justius
os
loquens
talia
fustibus
tunderetur
quam
rationibus
refelleretur
?
Were
it
not
more
agreeable
to
justice
that
the
mouth
of
such
a
man
should
by
punishments
be
stopped
then
by
reasons
refelled
?
Nonne
omnium
in
se
merito
provocat
manus
,
cujus
manus
contra
omnes
?
Doth
not
he
woorthilie
provoke
all
men
to
bee
against
him
,
who
is
himselfe
against
all
men
?
Howe
this
selfe-love
hath
blinded
many
in
these
daies
,
there
is
none
of
you
my
brethren
who
are
ignoraunt
of
it
.
God
of
his
infinite
mercy
deliver
us
all
from
so
dangerous
an
enimy
.
The
fourth
cause
why
manie
false
prophets
are
gone
out
into
the
world
,
is
said
to
Paulus
Samosatenus
But
I
would
to
God
this
matter
were
not
evident
by
experience
amongst
our selves
.
For
I
am
fully
of
this
opinion
,
that
the
hope
which
manie
men
have
conceived
of
the
spoile
of
Bishops
livings
,
of
the
subversion
of
cathedrall
churches
,
and
of
a
havocke
to
be
made
of
al
the
churches
revenues
,
is
the
cheefest
and
most
principall
cause
of
the
greatest
schismes
that
we
have
at
this
day
in
our
church
.
I
would
be
loth
to
say
thus
much
if
I
had
not
verie
apparant
reason
to
lead
me
thereunto
.
For
the
better
explanation
whereof
I
Discip.
Eccl.
●…rned
dis
▪
●…se
.
〈◊〉
judge
to
6.
quest.
do
contend
,
that
all
the
livings
which
now
appertain
to
the
church
,
ought
of
right
to
be
imploied
for
the
maintenance
of
their
presbyteries
,
&
that
rather
then
they
should
want
,
the
old
spoile
of
the
abbies
and
such
religious
houses
should
be
restored
againe
unto
their
use
:
and
in
this
course
they
are
so
earnest
,
as
that
in
a
supplication
exhibited
in
the
name
of
the
communaltie
to
the
high
Court
of
Parleament
1585.
they
have
set
it
down
as
a
resolute
doctrin
,
that
things
once
dedicated
to
a
sacred
use
,
ought
so
to
remain
by
the
word
of
God
for
ever
,
and
ought
not
to
be
converted
to
any
private
use
.
The
laie
factious
on
the
other
side
are
of
Even
as
though
one
should
saie
unto
you
,
Now
deerly
beloved
unto
you
of
all
sorts
,
but
especially
to
you
of
the
richest
,
I
praie
you
tell
me
how
you
like
this
doctrine
.
Do
you
thinke
it
is
true
or
meete
to
be
taught
?
No
surely
it
is
not
.
The
whole
maner
thereof
is
wholy
Anabaptisticall
,
and
tendeth
to
the
destruction
and
overthrow
of
all
good
rule
and
governement
.
And
yet
I
tell
you
it
may
be
urged
with
as
great
necessitie
against
the
laitie
,
as
the
other
may
against
the
clergie
:
but
in
deede
neither
the
one
or
the
other
against
either
of
them
both
truely
.
Mary
it
may
be
you
desire
to
heare
what
the
clergie
factous
do
answere
for
themselves
,
and
in
what
good
part
they
take
their
schollers
liberalitie
towards
them
.
I
warrant
you
they
are
not
toong-tied
on
their
owne
behalfe
,
but
finding
their
desire
are
bolde
ynough
to
tell
them
of
it
.
Whilest
they
heare
us
speake
against
Bb.
Discipl
.
E●…
and
Cathedrall
Churches
(
saith
the
author
of
the
Ecclesiasticall
Discipline
)
it
tickleth
their
eares
,
looking
for
the
like
praie
they
had
before
of
Monasteries
:
yea
they
have
in
their
harts
devoured
alreadie
the
churches
inheritaunce
.
They
care
not
for
religion
,
so
they
may
get
the
spoile
.
They
coulde
be
content
to
crucifie
Christ
,
so
they
might
have
his
garments
.
Our
age
is
ful
of
spoiling
souldiers
,
and
of
wicked
Dionysians
,
who
will
rob
Christ
of
his
golden
coate
,
as
neither
fit
for
him
in
winter
nor
sommer
.
They
are
cormorants
,
and
seek
to
fil
the
bottomles
sacks
And
whereas
you
have
alreadie
in
your
I
have
not
used
a
worde
of
mine
owne
heerin
,
but
have
been
a
faithfull
relator
unto
you
,
what
the
clergie
factious
do
thinke
of
their
lay
schollers
.
And
is
not
then
deere
brethren
the
consideration
heerof
very
pitifull
unto
you
?
The
one
sort
you
see
would
bring
us
to
the
government
which
was
,
as
they
saie
,
in
the
Apostles
times
,
but
they
would
have
the
livings
of
these
times
:
the
other
sort
not
caring
so
much
for
the
said
government
,
do
greatly
urge
in
the
ministery
the
Apostolicall
povertie
,
to
the
intent
that
they
might
obtaine
the
pray
,
which
they
looke
for
.
Wherby
I
doubt
not
,
but
it
is
manifest
unto
you
,
that
covetousnes
in
them
both
hath
thrust
them
into
this
schisme
.
But
yet
a
worde
or
two
more
unto
you
the
factious
of
the
laitie
.
I
beseech
you
upon
what
groundes
do
you
stand
?
Your
owne
teachers
seeing
your
fetches
do
utterly
condemne
you
;
and
for
mine
owne
part
I
do
not
absolve
you
.
It
is
therefore
very
meete
and
agreeable
to
the
reputation
which
you
desire
,
either
for
your
vertue
or
for
your
religion
,
that
before
you
proceed
any
farther
in
your
disclosed
maske
,
first
you
provide
you
of
teachers
for
your
warrant
therein
:
least
otherwise
you
growe
into
hatred
,
as
men
for
their
commodity
regarding
neither
God
nor
the
word
.
Nay
in
my
opinion
you
ought
to
be
ashamed
to
open
your
mouthes
ever
heerafter
against
the
present
governement
of
the
Church
,
and
for
the
newe
platforme
,
untill
you
can
be
contented
to
be
so
far
from
coveting
the
goods
of
the
church
,
as
that
you
are
both
willing
and
readie
to
deliver
out
of
your
hands
such
spoiles
and
praies
thereof
,
as
you
have
alreadie
.
If
I
were
urged
,
deerly
beloved
,
to
give
my
consent
to
the
erection
of
these
Presbyteries
,
which
both
the
sorts
of
these
men
do
seeme
so
earnestly
to
desire
,
I
could
be
content
(
so
that
first
they
agreed
who
shoulde
have
the
present
revenues
of
the
church
)
for
som
short
time
(
until
they
saw
the
mischiefe
of
them
)
to
yeeld
therin
unto
them
.
Almightie
God
graunt
unto
them
and
to
everie
one
of
us
such
grace
from
above
,
as
that
we
may
not
wilfully
infringe
his
holy
commaundement
,
prohibiting
us
to
covet
other
mens
goods
:
but
with
all
thankefulnes
to
satisfie
our selves
with
those
benefits
which
of
his
mercie
he
hath
alreadie
bestowed
upon
us
.
And
thus
much
of
these
fower
causes
why
so
manie
false
prophets
go
out
from
the
church
.
Now
followeth
the
last
point
of
the
first
Many
false
prophets
are
gon
out
into
the
world
.
Into
the
world
;
that
is
(
as
one
observeth
verie
well
upon
this
place
)
It
had
beene
good
for
the
church
,
that
when
false
prophets
wil
needs
separate
them selves
from
the
communion
thereof
,
they
would
have
gone
likewise
and
have
dwelt
in
some
strange
countries
;
as
India
,
Cataia
,
or
to
the
farthest
parts
of
Afrike
,
where
they
might
have
delighted
themselves
in
all
sorts
of
novelties
,
and
erected
such
governments
as
should
best
have
pleased
their
fansies
.
But
they
will
none
of
that
:
for
as
Tertullian
noteth
;
Illorum
opus
non
proprio
aedificio
venit
,
sed
ex
veritatis
destructione
:
Their
workmanship
riseth
not
by
their
owne
building
,
but
by
the
overthrow
of
the
truth
.
And
againe
;
Nostra
suffodiunt
ut
sua
aedificent
:
They
undermine
our
works
,
that
they
may
erect
their
owne
.
But
indeed
if
they
would
be
gone
to
dwel
in
strange
countries
:
yet
they
could
not
be
permitted
.
For
(
as
Saint
Augustine
saith
)
where
God
doth
build
his
citie
,
the
divel
wil
have
another
hard
by
to
confronte
it
:
or
as
an
other
writeth
;
where
Christ
erecteth
his
church
,
the
divell
in
the
same
church-yarde
will
have
his
chappell
.
Where
Christs
ministers
do
sowe
the
good
&
pure
seed
of
truth
,
unitie
and
order
,
there
the
divel
doth
stir
up
his
ministers
by
waies
and
meanes
secretlie
in
corners
to
caste
abroad
their
cockle
and
darnell
of
falshood
,
discorde
,
and
confusion
.
When
Sathan
(
saith
Saint
Augustine
)
saw
his
True
it
is
,
that
almightie
God
if
it
had
stoode
with
his
good
pleasure
,
could
easilie
First
(
as
Saint
Paule
saith
)
that
they
which
Vt
fides
habendo
tentationem
,
Secondlie
(
saith
Saint
Augustine
)
there
must
bee
heresies
,
bicause
God
doth
see
it
The
third
reason
heerof
is
this
,
that
men
might
be
driven
thereby
the
rather
to
labor
and
search
for
the
finding
out
of
the
truth
.
To
that
end
God
permitted
the
Iebusites
to
Scipio
Nasica
diswaded
the
league
of
peace
betwixt
the
Romans
and
the
Carthaginians
,
least
thereby
the
Romans
should
grow
to
be
slothfull
.
Saint
Augustine
upon
the
54.
Psalm
affirmeth
,
that
the
doctrine
of
the
Trinitie
was
never
so
fully
handled
by
the
church
,
as
when
they
were
driven
thereunto
by
the
heresies
of
Arrius
:
nor
of
repentance
,
as
when
Novatus
opposed
himselfe
against
it
:
nor
of
Baptisme
,
as
when
the
Donatists
labored
to
confirme
their
false
opinions
.
And
againe
,
Multi
sensus
Scripturarum
latent
,
Seeing
then
(
deerlie
beloved
)
that
there
are
many
prophets
and
of
false
disposition
,
which
through
contempt
of
ecclesiasticall
governors
,
through
ambition
,
self-love
,
and
covetousnes
have
made
a
great
schism
in
the
church
,
and
do
continue
amongst
us
for
the
trial
of
our
faith
,
the
glorie
of
God
,
and
that
we
might
more
carefully
search
out
&
hold
faste
the
truth
:
you
see
how
necessarie
this
exhortation
of
the
apostle
is
:
Deerely
beloved
,
beleeve
not
everie
spirit
,
but
trie
the
spirits
whether
they
be
of
God
.
And
thus
much
of
the
first
part
.
Trie
the
spirits
whether
they
be
of
God
.
That
which
I
have
to
saie
of
this
matter
will
be
subject
to
slanderous
toongs
:
I
praie
The
Popish
false
prophets
will
suffer
the
First
they
forbid
them
the
reading
of
the
scriptures
.
And
the
better
to
be
obeied
therin
,
they
will
not
permit
the
Scriptures
to
be
translated
into
their
vulgar
toong
.
Whereof
it
came
to
passe
that
the
people
were
so
easilie
seduced
and
drawen
from
Christ
to
the
Pope
;
from
his
merits
,
to
the
saints
and
their
own
merits
;
from
his
bloody
sacrifice
,
wherby
onely
sins
are
remitted
,
to
their
most
drie
and
fruitelesse
sacrifice
;
from
the
spirituall
food
of
his
bodie
and
bloode
,
unto
a
carnall
and
Capernaicall
transubstantiation
;
from
the
calling
upon
his
name
,
to
the
invocation
of
saints
:
and
from
their
sure
trust
and
confidence
in
his
death
,
to
a
vaine
imagination
of
the
vertue
of
their
masses
,
pilgrimages
,
pardons
,
and
I
knowe
not
to
what
intolerable
superstition
and
idolatrie
.
Against
this
their
falshood
and
very
lewd
dealing
all
those
places
of
Scripture
may
be
alledged
,
wherein
we
are
commaunded
to
search
the
Scriptures
,
To
proove
all
things
,
and
to
hold
tha●…
which
is
good
:
and
likewise
in
this
place
to
try
and
examine
the
spirits
whether
they
be
of
God
.
To
the
like
purpose
an
infinite
number
of
places
out
of
the
ancient
fathers
may
be
applied
(
as
you
may
finde
them
collected
togither
by
doctor
Buckley
in
his
answer
to
certaine
reasons
in
the
Preface
of
the
Remish
testament
)
where
they
are
verie
earnest
upon
this
point
.
That
all
Christian
men
should
read
the
Scriptures
,
buy
unto
themselves
Bibles
,
and
meditate
continually
upon
the
word
of
God
:
so
as
thereby
their
eies
might
be
opened
,
their
consciences
comforted
,
their
faith
nourished
,
and
their
hope
lifted
up
to
a
full
assurance
of
the
promises
therein
contained
.
The
second
shift
which
these
false
prophets
of
the
Romish
church
do
use
,
is
this
:
Now
that
they
perceive
the
scriptures
to
be
translated
into
the
language
almost
of
everie
nation
;
and
that
the
bookes
are
now
so
common
in
every
mans
hands
,
as
that
with
their
former
devise
they
are
no
longer
able
to
cover
their
nakednes
:
they
labor
with
all
their
might
to
bind
us
to
the
fathers
,
to
the
councels
,
&
to
the
church
of
Rome
,
protesting
verie
deepely
,
that
we
must
admit
of
no
other
sence
of
any
place
of
the
scriptures
,
than
the
Romish
church
shall
be
pleased
to
deliver
unto
us
:
according
to
the
saying
of
Hosius
;
Si
quis
habeat
interpretationem
ecclesiae
Romanae
de
loco
aliquo
scripturae
,
etiamsi
nec
sciat
To
refell
the
grossenes
of
this
absurd
opinion
,
all
that
is
very
effectuall
which
is
brought
,
to
proove
that
the
church
is
inferior
to
the
scriptures
.
Besides
,
we
saie
that
the
fathers
do
in
manie
points
dissent
amongst
themselves
:
and
their
generall
councels
have
been
oftentimes
repugnant
one
to
another
.
But
yet
we
joine
with
them
upon
a
nearer
issue
.
Where
the
fathers
do
all
agree
togither
,
we
do
not
dislike
them
;
and
for
the
first
fower
generall
councels
we
allow
and
approove
them
.
And
heerof
it
commeth
to
passe
,
that
we
do
the
rather
condemne
manie
points
of
Poperie
,
in
that
they
have
of
later
daies
broched
and
taught
us
sundrie
very
strange
and
dangerous
opinions
:
which
as
they
are
not
to
be
found
in
the
scriptures
;
so
are
they
repugnant
as
well
to
the
fathers
,
as
to
all
the
foresaid
generall
councels
.
Whereupon
ariseth
their
third
shift
.
They
wil
not
stick
to
confesse
,
that
they
teach
manie
things
now
which
are
not
to
be
prooved
either
by
the
words
of
scripture
,
fathers
,
or
councels
.
Mary
saie
they
,
if
the
Apostles
and
fathers
had
lived
in
our
times
they
would
have
taught
and
decreed
,
as
we
have
done
.
For
you
must
understand
(
saith
Cardinall
Namintellectus
scripturae
currit
cum
praxi
:
For
the
understanding
of
the
scriptures
runneth
with
the
practise
of
the
Church
.
And
therefore
he
commendeth
that
obedience
to
be
most
full
&
perfect
which
is
without
reason
:
that
is
,
when
a
man
obeieth
without
requiring
of
any
reason
.
Sicut
jumentum
obedit
domino
suo
:
as
a
horse
is
obedient
to
his
master
.
To
refell
these
blasphemous
assertions
,
all
those
authorities
of
Scripture
are
verie
materiall
,
wherin
God
is
shewed
to
be
immutable
,
and
his
word
an
everlasting
word
,
and
a
word
of
truth
.
Likewise
those
sentences
of
the
fathers
,
wherin
they
appeale
as
occasion
serveth
,
to
the
Scriptures
,
accounting
them
as
the
verie
touchstone
and
rule
of
all
truth
.
Which
coulde
not
be
true
,
if
(
as
the
Papists
say
)
they
were
like
a
nose
of
waxe
,
or
a
sword
of
lead
,
that
might
be
turned
as
a
man
list
:
or
like
to
the
Cameleon
that
changeth
his
colors
according
to
his
seate
:
or
as
though
the
scriptures
were
to
yeeld
to
the
fantasies
of
men
:
that
as
they
changed
their
minds
,
being
by
nature
mutable
:
so
the
scriptures
should
change
the
sense
&
meaning
of
God
,
who
is
not
subject
to
any
alteration
or
change
.
It
were
but
a
deceitfull
touchstone
that
would
apply
it self
unto
the
goldsmiths
pleasure
:
and
he
that
should
trust
it
,
were
not
unlike
oft
times
for
pure
gold
to
be
deceived
with
copper
.
The
Lord
open
their
eies
that
they
may
see
the
grossenes
of
this
their
great
sinne
:
or
otherwise
I
can
saie
nothing
farther
of
them
,
but
that
if
needs
they
will
be
filthie
,
let
them
be
filthie
still
.
Another
sort
of
prophets
there
are
,
Greg.
Naz.
writeth
)
therby
To
arme
their
toongs
,
and
that
they
may
be
eloquent
against
the
truth
.
They
will
take
upon
them
to
be
masters
,
before
they
deserve
the
name
of
schollers
,
and
to
be
in
the
greatest
matters
of
Gods
law
,
judges
,
being
far
unmeete
to
be
called
to
the
barre
.
Si
verbum
nacti
sunt
subito
prosiliunt
,
Gregorie
Nazian.
)
they
straight
insult
upon
it
,
&
with
great
injurie
they
contemne
those
things
which
have
beene
rightly
delivered
unto
them
.
They
wring
and
wrest
the
Scriptures
according
as
they
fansie
.
It
would
pittie
a
mans
hart
considering
what
paines
they
will
take
in
quoting
of
places
,
to
see
how
perversly
they
will
apply
them
.
And
I
greatly
feare
,
except
they
take
heed
betimes
,
they
will
fall
into
the
number
of
those
,
who
(
as
Saint
Peter
saith
)
being
unlearned
indeed
,
and
unstable
,
do
wrest
the
Scriptures
unto
To
represse
therefore
this
boldnes
,
first
I
Search
,
examine
,
trie
and
seeke
:
bringing
them
thereby
into
a
great
uncertainty
wherupon
they
may
insist
:
as
also
to
a
more
readie
conformitie
for
the
imbrasing
of
their
opinions
.
For
as
the
said
father
saith
:
Qui
credit
quae
credere
debuerat
,
&
aliud
ulterius
putat
in
ea
re
requirendum
:
indicat
sanè
nihil
se
eorum
credidisse
quae
credere
videbatur
,
aut
credere
jam
desusse
:
He
that
once
beleeveth
those
things
that
he
ought
to
beleeve
:
and
afterwards
thinketh
some
other
thing
to
be
sought
for
in
the
same
;
he
sheweth
himself
that
he
did
not
beleeve
those
things
which
he
seemed
to
beleeve
,
or
else
that
now
he
hath
given
over
to
beleeve
.
Greg.
Nazianzen
:
It
falleth
not
within
the
compas
Which
things
considered
,
togither
with
our
experience
of
the
presumption
which
is
every
where
to
be
found
in
these
daies
:
Very
just
occasion
is
given
to
all
the
godlie
to
complaine
with
Saint
Ierom
in
his
epistle
ad
Paulinum
:
Husbandmen
,
Dawbers
,
Smiths
,
Carpenters
,
Woolsters
,
Fullers
,
and
other
men
of
such
like
occupations
,
Absque
doctore
non
possunt
esse
quod
cupiunt
:
They
al
are
content
to
learne
of
their
masters
.
Quod
medicorum
est
promittunt
medici
,
tractant
fabrilia
fabri
:
Phisitians
deale
with
matters
of
phisicke
,
and
men
of
trade
with
their
owne
occupations
:
Sola
scripturarum
ars
est
quam
sibi
passim
omnes
vendicant
:
Onely
the
knowledge
of
the
scriptures
is
that
which
every
man
chalengeth
to
be
skilfull
in
.
Learned
and
unlearned
they
take
upon
them
to
write
.
Hanc
garrula
anus
,
hanc
delirus
senex
,
hanc
Sophista
verbosus
,
hanc
universi
presumunt
,
lacerant
,
docent
antequam
discant
:
This
art
of
the
scriptures
the
pratling
old
woman
,
the
doting
old
man
,
the
brabling
sophister
,
and
generally
al
men
presume
they
have
obtained
it
,
when
it
is
far
otherwise
:
they
teare
it
in
peeces
,
and
take
upon
them
to
teach
it
before
they
have
learned
it
.
The
meane
therfore
betwixt
both
these
extremities
of
trieng
nothing
and
curious
trieng
of
all
things
,
I
holde
to
be
best
.
And
this
it
is
:
that
when
you
have
attained
the
true
grounds
of
Christian
religion
,
and
are
constantly
built
by
a
lively
faith
upon
that
notable
foundation
whereof
the
Apostle
speaketh
,
which
is
Iesus
Christ
,
being
incorporated
into
his
mystical
body
in
your
baptisme
Reade
the
Scriptures
,
but
with
sobrietie
.
If
any
man
presuming
upon
his
knowledge
,
seeke
farther
then
is
meete
for
him
:
besides
that
,
he
knoweth
nothing
as
he
ought
to
know
,
he
shall
cast
himselfe
into
a
labirinth
and
never
finde
that
he
seeketh
for
.
God
hath
bound
himselfe
by
his
promise
When
certain
men
in
the
councell
of
Calcedon
began
to
dispute
of
some
points
determined
before
in
the
councell
of
Nice
,
the
fathers
there
assembled
saide
all
with
one
voice
:
Si
quis
retractat
,
anathema
sit
:
si
quis
super
ista
inquirit
,
anathema
sit
:
maledictus
qui
addit
:
The
Emperours
Valentinian
and
Martian
thought
it
verie
unmeete
,
that
those
things
And
surely
it
is
a
very
true
doctrine
,
that
when
councels
and
synods
being
lawfullie
assembled
and
directed
with
Gods
spirit
do
resolve
upon
matters
in
question
:
that
private
men
should
content
themselves
therewithall
.
Neither
can
I
see
,
now
that
popery
is
banished
and
the
truth
of
christian
religion
(
maugre
the
malice
of
all
sorts
of
enimies
)
is
godlie
planted
amongst
us
,
why
in
these
daies
we
should
not
attribute
as
much
to
the
decrees
of
our
learned
fathers
in
their
lawfull
assemblies
,
as
other
men
in
times
past
of
as
great
judgement
as
we
are
of
,
have
done
.
Is
it
not
very
absurd
that
we
should
seeke
everie
way
to
discredite
them
in
matters
of
lesser
importance
,
who
have
most
notablie
sealed
unto
us
the
verie
grounds
and
substance
of
religion
with
their
blood
?
Or
is
it
likely
that
that
Church
which
was
able
to
discerne
betwixt
truth
and
falsehood
in
so
great
pointes
of
doctrine
being
wrapped
through
continuance
of
time
in
so
deepe
an
obscuritie
;
should
be
unable
to
judge
of
ceremonies
,
forms
of
praier
,
decencie
,
order
,
edification
,
and
such
like
circumstaunces
of
no
greater
waight
?
You
would
not
,
I
thinke
,
take
it
in
good
part
,
that
men
should
nowe
begin
to
sift
and
quarrell
at
the
articles
of
religion
,
set
out
and
approoved
in
the
yeere
1562.
and
yet
I
see
no
reason
why
they
may
not
as
well
do
it
,
as
to
carpe
and
controll
at
such
orders
,
as
were
then
likewise
established
for
order
and
government
.
Quantarum
rixarum
semen
futura
est
earum
He
meaneth
being
determined
of
before
with
such
grave
and
due
consideration
as
already
is
mentioned
.
For
as
it
followeth
;
Nunquam
futurum
est
ut
omnibus
idem
placeat
,
si
res
velut
in
medio
positae
singulorum
arbitrio
relictae
fuerint
:
It
will
never
come
to
passe
,
that
one
and
the
self-same
thing
should
please
all
men
,
if
matters
may
be
left
indifferent
to
be
determined
of
,
by
everie
private
mans
discretion
.
And
writing
upon
this
place
I
have
in
hand
,
where
the
Apostle
saith
generally
;
Proove
the
spirits
whether
they
be
of
God
,
he
restraineth
the
words
to
a
due
consideration
of
certaine
circumstances
.
For
as
there
he
addeth
;
Aurum
igne
aut
lidio
lapide
probatur
,
sed
And
therefore
saith
he
;
Duplex
est
examen
doctrinae
,
privatum
&
publicum
:
The
trial
of
doctrine
is
twofold
,
private
and
publike
.
The
private
triall
to
be
had
by
private
men
,
and
privately
,
he
alloweth
in
such
sort
,
as
I
have
before
observed
against
the
Papists
:
but
the
publike
triall
already
made
or
to
be
made
with
such
consideration
as
hath
been
decla
red
,
is
to
be
preferred
by
many
degrees
.
Nam
si
penes
singulos
jus
&
arbitrium
erit
judicandi
,
nihil
unquam
certi
constitui
poterit
:
quin
potius
vacillabit
tota
religio
.
For
(
as
there
it
followeth
)
if
authoritie
and
libertie
of
judging
shall
be
left
to
private
men
,
there
will
never
be
anie
certaintie
set
downe
,
but
rather
all
religion
will
wholie
become
doubtfull
.
This
which
I
have
said
heerof
,
to
those
who
are
of
anie
moderation
or
good
discretion
,
I
account
it
sufficient
:
but
yet
that
I
may
the
better
heerin
satisfie
everie
mans
humor
,
you
shal
heare
the
judgement
of
our
English
reformers
touching
this
point
.
It
is
thus
in
effect
:
That
when
such
great
causes
of
the
churches
as
could
not
be
ended
in
their
Consistories
or
conferences
,
shall
be
heard
and
determined
by
a
synode
provinciall
,
nationall
or
more
generall
,
thereunto
the
church
shall
stande
,
as
it
was
at
Ierusalem
:
except
it
be
in
a
great
matter
of
faith
,
or
a
great
matter
expreslie
against
the
Scriptures
,
as
that
was
in
the
Nicene
councell
,
of
the
mariage
of
ministers
,
where
the
whole
councell
would
have
concluded
against
it
,
&c.
had
not
one
man
Phaphnutius
withstoode
them
,
&c.
In
which
case
saie
they
,
Trie
the
spirits
whether
they
be
of
God
or
no.
For
otherwise
the
particular
churches
must
stande
to
the
determinations
as
afore
.
Hitherto
the
Admonition
.
And
for
the
better
observation
of
this
In
Germanie
likewise
subscription
is
required
verie
streightlie
unto
the
confession
of
Augusta
,
of
al
that
take
degrees
in
any
of
their
universities
,
of
all
that
are
made
ministers
,
&
of
all
that
are
admitted
to
any
ecclesiasticall
livings
:
neither
is
any
suffered
there
to
preach
,
who
shall
refuse
the
said
subscription
.
True
it
is
that
one
Osiander
a
notable
heretike
(
as
Melancton
noteth
and
I
doubt
He
likewise
(
as
evidently
it
may
be
collected
)
did
bitterlie
inveigh
against
such
as
did
subscribe
:
Et
gloriatur
se
libertatem
retinuisse
nec
admisissa
haec
vincula
:
And
he
gloried
(
saith
Melancthon
)
that
he
had
retained
his
libertie
and
not
admitted
these
bonds
.
Atque
hi
clamores
in
tanta
licentia
&
anarchia
hujus
temporis
,
plausibiles
sunt
apud
multos
,
qui
infinitam
licentiam
sibi
sumunt
fingendi
opiniones
,
&
Phirronico
more
labefactandi
omnia
recte
tradita
:
And
these
out
cries
(
as
it
followeth
in
the
same
place
)
in
so
great
licentiousnes
and
confusion
of
this
time
are
plausible
with
many
,
who
take
to
themselves
an
infinite
libertie
of
coyning
newe
opinions
,
and
in
a
Pirronious
sort
of
the
overthrowing
of
all
things
which
have
been
rightly
determined
.
Howbeit
notwithstanding
this
mislike
of
what
schismatikes
soever
,
that
Church
to
this
daie
requireth
this
subscription
.
And
Melancthon
himselfe
by
sundrie
good
arguments
approoveth
the
same
in
his
oration
De
calumniis
Osiandri
.
I
might
heer
adde
how
in
times
past
Emperours
,
Kings
,
and
generallie
al
Christians
subscribed
to
the
Decrees
of
the
Church
either
by
themselves
or
by
their
substitutes
:
and
I
would
to
God
the
same
order
were
yet
observed
,
especially
by
our
Iustices
of
peace
in
England
.
Peradventure
it
woulde
make
them
more
carefull
than
they
are
in
the
performance
of
their
othes
which
they
take
(
as
it
is
reported
)
when
they
are
admitted
unto
those
roomes
:
especially
concerning
the
punishment
of
such
persons
,
as
are
complained
of
unto
them
,
to
be
common
depravers
and
contemners
of
the
orders
of
the
church
.
For
heerin
(
I
am
afraid
)
they
take
as
great
liberty
to
dispense
with
themselves
,
as
ever
the
pope
did
with
any
by
his
fonde
and
grossest
pardons
.
But
touching
Ecclesiasticall
persons
it
was
commaunded
about
1270.
yeeres
ago
,
that
certaine
men
,
having
by
schisme
and
heresie
devided
themselves
from
the
church
of
God
,
and
rent
in
sunder
by
their
factions
the
peace
thereof
,
should
not
againe
be
received
or
admitted
before
they
had
subscribed
to
the
constitutions
of
the
church
.
Thus
the
words
stande
in
the
eight
canon
of
the
councell
of
Nice
.
Ante
omnia
hanc
habeant
ab
iis
confessionem
,
quam
per
scripturam
exigi
oportet
,
Whereas
therefore
we
have
at
this
time
many
Osiandrians
amongst
us
,
and
manie
over-busie
in
searching
and
trieng
to
make
new
quarrels
of
matters
before
compounded
,
you
see
what
spirits
they
are
,
and
need
no
farther
triall
to
discerne
them
.
GOD
grant
unto
them
more
humble
and
sober
minds
,
that
they
may
no
longer
continue
in
this
rebellion
against
the
church
of
God
.
And
thus
much
of
the
second
part
.
Beleeve
not
everie
spirit
.
That
which
hitherto
hath
been
spoken
doth
contein
divers
&
very
sufficient
reasons
why
you
ought
not
to
beleeve
every
spirit
.
There
are
many
of
them
false
,
contemptuous
,
ambitious
,
proud
,
and
covetous
.
Whom
if
you
finde
(
knowing
your selves
to
be
throughly
grounded
in
matters
of
salvation
)
to
draw
you
by
slaunderous
speeches
,
and
false
collections
,
into
a
mislike
of
other
points
agreed
upon
by
the
church
,
thereby
troubling
your
peace
,
and
feeding
your
eares
with
plausible
devises
,
I
beseech
you
with
the
Apostle
in
this
place
,
beleeve
them
not
.
When
the
Queenes
most
excellent
Majestie
had
first
obtained
the
crowne
,
(
which
God
of
his
great
mercie
grant
she
may
long
enjoy
)
as
a
most
zealous
Salomon
,
Iehosaphat
,
and
Iosias
,
hir
principal
care
was
,
how
to
abolish
all
popish
superstition
&
idolatrie
,
and
to
place
in
hir
peoples
hart
a
right
&
true
feeling
of
Christian
religion
.
Wherein
through
the
great
diligence
of
all
the
godlie
and
learned
in
the
realm
,
in
disputing
,
examining
and
trieng
of
spirits
,
of
prophets
,
&
of
their
doctrines
,
with
what
notable
successe
hir
highnes
did
proceed
,
they
are
very
ignorant
that
know
it
not
,
and
verie
froward
and
obstinate
that
knowing
it
,
will
not
with
all
thankfulnes
acknowledge
it
.
All
the
Churches
in
Europe
which
were
then
reformed
,
understanding
of
our
reformation
,
did
on
our
behalfe
clappe
as
it
were
their
handes
for
joie
.
The
apologie
of
the
church
of
England
which
shortly
after
was
set
foorth
to
the
justifieng
of
our
doctrine
,
with
the
reasons
of
our
mislike
of
popery
,
hath
ever
since
obtained
principall
commendation
amongst
all
the
apologies
and
confessions
,
which
hitherto
have
beene
set
foorth
by
any
church
in
christendome
.
The
Papists
onely
in
the
beginning
of
hir
Maiesties
raign
,
did
shew
themselves
to
be
therewith
discontented
.
Marie
now
of
later
yeers
we
have
gotten
new
adversaries
.
O
Iesu
Christ
,
who
woulde
ever
have
thought
,
that
he
should
have
lived
to
have
heard
any
Protestants
reproove
our
religion
:
or
would
ever
have
dreamed
of
such
division
,
of
intollerable
bitternes
against
the
maintainers
of
it
?
It
must
be
confessed
for
a
truth
,
that
Barnard
saith
upon
the
like
occasion
;
Leones
evasimus
,
sed
insidimus
in
dracones
:
Inimici
hominis
domestici
ejus
:
Our
friends
are
turned
to
be
our
enemies
.
And
you
know
the
old
saying
;
Fratrum
odia
acerbissima
:
When
brethren
fall
out
,
they
growe
to
great
extremities
.
The
Papists
did
never
deale
with
more
egernes
against
us
than
these
men
do
now
.
They
say
that
,
As
the
state
is
now
of
the
church
,
we
can
have
no
right
religion
:
that
the
church
of
England
hath
neither
the
word
of
God
rightly
preached
,
nor
the
sacraments
sincerely
ministred
:
that
the
truth
doth
but
in
a
maner
as
it
were
behind
a
screene
peepe
out
amongst
us
:
and
that
we
have
mixt
togither
in
our
religion
Christ
and
Antichrist
,
God
and
the
Divel
.
Divers
such
slanderous
speeches
you
shall
find
everie
where
in
all
their
writings
▪
I
beseech
〈◊〉
brethren
beleeve
them
not
.
Or
if
any
shal
neglect
this
apostolicall
admonition
,
let
him
then
likewise
take
part
of
the
like
reprehension
;
O
amentes
Galatae
,
quis
vos
fascinavit
ne
obsequeremini
Againe
,
as
touching
the
Communion
In
the
beginning
of
king
Edwards
raigne
,
notwithstanding
it
was
then
carefully
compiled
and
confirmed
by
a
synode
:
yet
by
and
by
after
(
that
I
may
use
Master
Foxes
words
)
Through
the
obstinate
and
dissembling
malice
of
manie
,
it
was
impugned
.
Thereupon
it
was
againe
reviewed
,
and
after
published
with
such
approbation
,
as
that
it
was
accounted
the
worke
of
God
.
But
yet
not
long
after
there
were
againe
,
who
affirming
the
same
to
resemble
the
Masse
booke
,
Divisionis
occasionem
arripiebant
:
Did
greedily
hunt
(
as
Alesius
saith
)
for
occasion
of
division
.
Vocabula
Whereupon
Archbishop
Cranmer
procuring
the
same
booke
to
be
translated
into
Vpon
this
occasion
the
booke
was
againe
Master
Iohn
Oulde
a
very
learned
man
writ
Peter
Martir
,
and
fower
or
five
others
whom
he
would
choose
,
they
would
togither
defend
the
fore-said
reformation
,
(
naming
withal
the
Communion
booke
)
to
be
in
everie
point
agreeable
to
the
word
of
God
:
and
to
be
in
effect
the
verie
same
,
Quae
fuit
ante
annos
1500.
which
was
above
1500.
yeeres
ago
.
Another
also
in
those
daies
,
as
it
appeereth
in
a
Preface
before
Archbishoppe
Cranmers
the
common
praier
was
rightlie
used
,
and
the
Sacraments
were
plainlie
administred
according
to
Christs
institution
,
and
the
rule
of
his
holie
worde
.
Furthermore
,
the
godlie
fathers
(
who
then
were
fled
,
and
for
the
libertie
of
their
consciences
lived
in
exile
)
using
in
their
meetings
this
forme
and
order
of
publike
praier
:
Master
Knoxe
a
man
who
was
of
nature
too
contentious
,
with
some
other
that
joined
with
him
,
began
to
quarrell
,
and
to
make
manie
exceptions
against
them
.
Doctor
Grindall
late
Archbishop
of
Canterburie
,
being
there
in
banishment
with
Afterward
when
it
pleased
almighty
God
to
blesse
this
Realme
with
the
happie
governement
of
our
Soveraigne
Ladie
the
Queenes
most
excellent
Majestie
that
now
is
(
whom
almightie
God
long
preserve
,
with
all
health
and
prosperitie
to
rule
&
governe
us
)
the
saide
booke
in
some
points
bettered
togither
with
the
truth
of
christian
religion
,
established
in
hir
brothers
daies
,
was
againe
through
Gods
favor
and
hir
goodnes
restored
unto
us
.
Of
this
booke
a
certain
learned
man
writing
Our
service
,
is
good
and
Godlie
,
everie
title
grounded
on
holie
scriptures
,
and
with
what
face
do
you
call
it
darkenes
?
Sure
with
the
same
that
the
prophesies
of
the
holie
Ghost
were
sometimes
called
dreames
,
the
doctrine
of
the
apostles
heresie
,
and
our
Saviour
Christ
a
Samaritaine
.
As
Elias
said
to
the
priests
of
Baal
,
let
us
take
either
our
bullockes
(
meaning
the
Popes
portuise
,
and
our
Communion
booke
)
and
laie
the
peeces
on
our
altars
,
and
on
which
God
sendeth
fire
,
let
that
be
the
light
.
And
a
little
before
,
O
Master
Harding
,
turne
to
your
writings
,
examine
your
authorities
,
consider
your
councels
,
apply
your
examples
,
looke
if
any
line
be
blameable
in
our
service
booke
,
and
take
hold
of
your
advantage
,
I
thinke
Master
Iewell
will
accept
it
as
an
article
.
Heerby
you
see
,
deerly
belooved
,
what
account
was
made
of
this
booke
in
times
past
,
&
that
by
men
neither
for
life
nor
learning
,
to
be
any
way
contemned
.
But
now
the
case
is
altered
:
and
many
are
growen
to
such
a
hatred
of
it
,
as
they
scarcely
have
patience
to
heare
the
booke
once
named
.
Cranmer
,
Ridley
,
Bucer
,
Peter
Martir
with
many
other
,
as
famous
men
as
ever
this
lande
brought
foorth
:
notwithstanding
they
imployed
their
whole
times
verie
diligently
and
painfullie
in
the
studies
of
Divinitie
,
and
other
good
learnings
therunto
appertaining
,
were
compassed
about
,
belike
with
such
thicke
clouds
and
mistes
of
papable
darknes
,
that
they
could
in
a
maner
see
nothing
.
Marie
nowe
,
two
or
three
yeeres
studie
is
as
good
as
twentie
.
It
is
woonderfull
to
see
,
how
some
men
get
perfection
.
One
of
fower
or
five
and
twentie
yeeres
old
,
if
you
anger
him
,
will
sweare
he
knoweth
more
then
all
the
ancient
fathers
.
And
yet
in
verie
deede
,
they
are
so
earnest
and
fierce
,
that
either
we
must
beleeve
them
,
or
else
account
their
boldnes
to
be
,
as
it
is
,
most
untollerable
.
For
they
are
not
afraid
,
even
as
hath
been
saide
,
with
the
same
faces
,
that
the
prophesies
of
the
holie
Ghost
were
sometimes
called
dreames
,
the
doctrine
of
the
Apostles
heresie
,
and
our
Savior
Christ
a
Samaritane
,
to
publish
in
their
writings
,
that
the
foresaid
booke
so
notably
approoved
,
hath
in
it
at
It
is
full
of
corruption
,
confusion
,
and
prophanation
:
that
the
orders
therein
prescribed
are
carnall
,
beggerly
,
dung
,
drosse
,
lowsie
,
and
antichristian
.
They
saie
,
We
eate
not
the
Lords
supper
,
but
play
a
pageant
of
our
own
,
to
make
the
poore
seelie
soules
beleeve
they
have
an
English
masse
:
and
so
put
no
difference
betwixt
truth
and
falsehood
,
betwixt
Christ
and
antichrist
,
betwixt
God
and
the
divell
.
If
this
were
true
beloved
,
then
had
we
cause
to
looke
about
us
:
But
(
God
be
thanked
)
there
is
no
such
matter
:
it
is
but
contempt
,
ambition
,
and
selfe-love
that
deceiveth
them
:
their
toongs
and
pens
are
their
owne
,
they
will
write
and
speake
what
they
list
:
and
yet
who
shall
controll
them
?
Heretikes
in
former
times
looking
upon
the
Scriptures
with
their
eies
have
condemned
them
of
follie
.
There
was
never
any
thing
so
exactly
written
in
the
worlde
,
which
is
not
subject
to
malice
&
slander
.
We
desire
these
men
in
as
milde
&
gentle
sort
as
we
are
able
,
that
they
would
not
deale
in
this
maner
.
The
very
heathen
might
teach
them
better
modestie
.
He
that
by
wresting
of
lawes
established
(
saith
one
of
that
crew
)
doth
seeke
to
pervert
their
meaning
,
Dum
sophos
esse
cupit
,
fit
planè
sycophanta
:
Whilest
he
woulde
seeme
wise
,
he
prooveth
in
deed
a
sycophant
.
I
have
read
,
that
if
any
thing
,
fact
,
writing
,
lawe
or
whatsoever
may
in
reasonable
construction
admit
two
interpretations
,
the
best
and
the
mildest
is
ever
to
be
received
.
And
the
civill
lawyers
have
these
rules
;
Semper
in
dubiis
benigniora
sunt
praeferenda
:
Alwaies
in
doubtfull
matters
the
more
benigne
are
to
be
preferred
.
Non
op●…rtet
jus
calumniari
,
aut
verba
ejus
captare
:
It
is
not
meete
to
cavill
at
lawes
,
or
to
snatch
at
their
words
.
Another
saith
;
Non
sunt
rejiciendae
leges
quae
interpretatione
aliqua
possunt
convenire
:
Lawes
must
not
be
rejected
,
which
by
any
reasonable
interpretation
may
be
reconciled
.
By
these
and
many
other
the
like
perswasions
we
labor
to
withdraw
them
from
their
wringing
and
wresting
(
with
such
bitternes
)
those
things
in
the
Communion
booke
:
which
either
they
mislike
without
cause
verie
unjustly
,
or
else
do
pervert
upon
some
false
collection
verie
extreemely
.
But
nothing
will
serve
them
:
for
now
some
of
them
through
a
swelling
pride
of
their
own
conceits
(
which
as
it
is
commonly
noted
,
hath
cast
them
into
a
kind
of
frensie
)
are
not
afraid
to
lay
this
slander
upon
the
church
,
and
upon
hir
most
excellent
Majestie
,
that
since
hir
Highnes
raigne
,
there
hath
not
been
in
England
anie
booke
of
publike
praiers
,
and
order
for
the
administration
of
Sacraments
,
or
any
open
forme
for
the
outward
profession
of
our
religion
,
allowed
at
all
hitherto
by
the
lawes
of
the
Realme
.
Another
sort
likewise
there
are
,
that
will
not
give
their
heads
for
the
washing
,
who
of
their
goodnes
are
content
to
allowe
us
a
booke
and
forme
of
publike
praier
confirmed
by
law
,
but
yet
in
another
sort
,
even
for
good
natures
sake
,
and
bicause
they
would
be
thankefull
to
the
time
,
they
wholy
condemne
Good
Lord
,
if
the
fathers
before
mentioned
,
deerely
belooved
,
were
now
alive
to
see
their
dealings
heerein
,
how
every
boy
,
in
a
maner
,
doth
take
upon
him
(
as
though
he
onely
were
learned
,
zealous
&
wise
)
to
control
,
condemne
,
and
to
rage
thus
at
his
pleasure
:
surely
I
suppose
they
would
wish
at
the
least
,
as
Gregorie
Nazianzen
somtime
did
,
seeing
in
his
daies
,
the
like
pride
and
sawcy
malepartnes
of
many
.
When
I
consider
(
saith
he
)
effrenem
linguarum
pruritum
:
the
unbrideled
itch
of
toongs
,
which
raigneth
at
this
time
:
and
how
men
by
their
owne
voices
,
as
it
were
,
Vnius
diei
spatio
,
do
make
themselves
divines
,
and
challenge
the
commendation
of
learning
and
wisedome
:
Quibus
una
voluntas
ad
hoc
sufficit
ut
docti
sint
,
whom
their
will
alone
is
able
to
make
learned
:
I
cannot
choose
but
wishe
with
all
my
hart
,
with
the
prophet
Ieremie
;
That
I
might
go
and
dwell
in
the
wildernes
,
that
so
I
might
leave
the
societie
of
men
,
and
give
my selfe
onelie
to
contemplation
.
And
for
you
my
brethren
,
I
am
plainly
out
of
doubt
,
that
if
they
said
not
of
them
,
Vtinam
abscindatur
qui
vos
perturbant
:
I
woulde
Nolite
credere
omni
spiritui
:
Beleeve
not
these
spirits
.
But
verie
well
:
seeing
they
are
so
greatlie
offended
with
this
booke
,
what
is
it
they
desire
This
booke
they
tolde
us
was
a
verie
perfect
book
,
agreeable
to
Gods
word
,
and
the
use
of
the
reformed
Churches
:
and
in
the
end
therof
,
a
proviso
is
made
in
these
words
:
Provided
that
nothing
be
done
contrary
to
any
order
set
downe
in
this
booke
.
The
posie
which
they
have
chosen
to
set
in
the
fore-fronte
of
their
booke
,
thereby
insinuating
the
excellencie
of
it
,
is
this
.
No
man
can
laie
any
other
foundation
then
that
which
is
laid
,
even
Christ
Iesus
.
In
this
booke
they
seeme
to
set
downe
a
breefe
sum
of
christianitie
,
and
the
verie
absolute
forme
of
ecclesiasticall
government
:
which
they
saie
,
Christ
hath
prescribed
onely
to
be
received
with
the
godly
in
the
church
.
And
heer
you
shall
see
(
my
brethren
)
a
verie
strange
and
woonderfull
stratageme
.
For
woulde
you
thinke
that
in
a
booke
of
this
nature
describing
so
perfect
a
platforme
of
Church
governement
,
the
civill
magistrate
should
bee
quite
forgotten
?
Was
there
ever
untill
this
daie
anie
publike
confession
set
foorth
by
any
true
church
in
the
world
,
since
the
prophesies
were
fulfilled
(
as
Saint
Augustine
saith
)
that
Kings
and
Queenes
The
next
yeere
another
booke
of
Common
praier
,
&c.
with
the
like
authoritie
and
commendation
that
the
other
had
,
was
cast
abroad
:
or
you
may
call
it
the
same
booke
if
you
list
,
so
you
understand
what
violence
&
torments
in
so
tender
an
age
it
hath
sustained
.
The
whole
forme
&
order
of
it
,
was
in
a
maner
changed
(
they
are
so
constant
)
and
in
other
places
and
points
of
matter
,
there
are
not
so
few
as
600.
alterations
.
The
wise
man
speaking
of
such
resolution
,
saith
that
Stultus
In
the
last
page
of
this
booke
for
maners
sake
(
as
it
seemeth
)
they
have
remembred
the
civill
magistrate
:
but
that
in
so
cold
and
sparing
a
sort
,
as
in
my
opinion
,
there
is
not
a
priest
in
Wisbich
who
will
refuse
(
the
circumstances
thereof
being
considered
)
to
subscribe
unto
it
.
But
to
goe
forward
:
Within
another
yeere
a
third
booke
is
begotten
and
brought
foorth
,
differing
in
some
points
from
both
the
other
:
and
they
have
beene
very
earnest
that
this
should
be
allowed
of
by
publike
authority
.
Howbeit
if
you
thinke
their
meaning
to
be
,
as
they
seem
to
pretend
,
you
are
wholy
deceived
.
For
a
simple
man
would
conceive
thereby
that
their
purpose
is
,
we
should
have
a
prescribed
and
set
forme
of
publike
praier
to
be
used
from
time
to
time
in
our
severall
congregations
:
so
as
poore
men
by
often
hearing
of
them
might
the
better
know
and
understand
them
,
and
peradventure
have
them
by
hart
,
or
at
the
least
be
so
cunning
in
them
,
as
that
when
the
minister
shall
begin
with
any
praier
,
understanding
before
the
drift
thereof
,
their
harts
might
fullie
concurre
with
him
in
every
particular
sentence
,
and
with
a
better
resolution
in
the
end
say
,
Amen
.
But
in
deede
they
have
no
such
intent
:
for
you
must
imagine
,
though
(
as
the
serpent
before
mentioned
)
they
have
many
implications
and
turnings
,
yet
they
have
alwaies
means
and
waies
to
shift
for
themselves
.
If
they
should
in
deed
prescribe
unto
us
a
set
form
of
praier
,
it
might
be
said
that
though
the
words
were
good
,
yet
the
use
were
naught
:
and
therefore
you
shall
find
it
a
generall
rule
in
their
Rubrickes
,
that
the
minister
shall
either
pray
as
there
it
is
set
downe
,
or
else
as
the
spirite
of
God
shall
moove
his
hart
,
to
that
effect
,
framing
himselfe
according
to
the
time
and
occasion
.
So
as
you
see
your selves
in
this
point
left
to
the
ministers
discretion
.
If
he
conceiving
a
praier
upon
the
sudden
,
shal
after
say
it
was
to
the
same
purpose
that
is
prescribed
in
the
booke
,
you
may
not
controll
him
.
And
how
by
such
kinde
of
praiers
you
are
like
to
be
edified
,
and
in
what
danger
you
are
thereby
left
,
he
is
of
simple
judgement
that
cannot
discerne
it
.
A
great
man
and
Ringleader
in
this
faction
(
at
the
least
heertofore
so
accounted
)
though
otherwise
of
a
giddy
disposition
and
verie
uncertaine
:
yet
heerof
upon
his
good
experience
he
writeth
upon
occasion
,
after
this
sort
.
Now
what
worship
or
praiers
do
you
use
?
I
am
ashamed
to
name
the
boldnes
and
follie
of
some
who
scarce
able
to
utter
three
words
orderly
,
will
yet
take
upon
them
to
bable
out
a
tedious
,
long
and
stuttering
praier
,
wherein
every
tenth
worde
shall
be
the
repeating
of
,
O
heavenly
father
,
O
mercifull
father
,
O
deere
father
,
O
good
Lord
,
O
mercifull
God
,
&c.
and
all
things
so
foolishly
packed
togither
,
that
their
praieng
seemeth
rather
to
be
the
pratling
of
an
infant
that
would
tell
some
great
tale
but
can
not
hit
of
it
.
Thus
far
the
reformer
:
and
yet
he
saith
not
all
.
For
sometimes
they
will
so
wander
either
by
error
or
malice
,
in
framing
their
praiers
answerable
to
their
affections
(
which
are
oftentimes
malitiously
bent
against
any
thing
or
matter
wherewith
they
are
displeased
;
)
that
no
true
christian
,
if
he
had
time
to
consider
of
their
meaning
,
ought
in
charitie
when
they
have
done
,
to
say
,
Amen
.
These
inconveniences
have
been
long
since
foreseen
,
and
for
the
avoiding
of
them
,
the
church
hath
ever
tied
hir
ministers
in
their
ordinarie
and
publike
service
,
unto
a
prescript
and
certaine
forme
of
praier
.
About
1200.
yeeres
ago
it
was
decreed
in
the
councell
of
Milevitanum
:
placuit
,
ut
preces
,
And
therfore
deerly
belooved
,
seeing
these
spirits
would
draw
you
from
the
church
,
and
from
those
praiers
which
you
knowe
to
be
godlie
,
and
carie
you
,
yea
teach
you
,
they
knowe
not
whether
nor
what
themselves
,
I
beseech
you
beleeve
them
not
.
Thirdlie
they
crie
out
,
that
the
governement
Martin
upon
this
ground
tooke
upon
him
verie
boldely
to
reason
against
the
Bishops
in
this
sort
.
No
pettie
Popes
ought
to
be
maintained
or
tollerated
in
any
christian
common
weale
:
but
our
Archbishops
and
Lord-Bishops
,
&c.
therefore
,
&c.
Thus
Martin
hath
reasoned
against
one
part
of
this
antichristian
governement
.
But
why
staied
he
there
?
Indeede
it
was
time
for
him
to
staie
.
He
saith
he
is
a
courtier
:
howbeit
I
am
perswaded
there
is
none
there
of
so
undutifull
a
hart
to
his
soveraigne
:
For
though
he
cunningly
would
seeme
to
shew
his
malice
onely
against
bishops
:
yet
hath
he
left
to
be
implied
the
verie
same
reasons
against
the
civill
magistrate
.
So
that
upon
his
principles
a
man
may
frame
this
rebellious
argument
;
No
pettie
Pope
is
to
be
tollerated
in
a
Christian
common-wealth
:
But
hir
Majestie
is
a
pettie
Pope
:
Therefore
hir
Majestie
is
not
to
be
tollerated
in
a
Christian
common-wealth
.
And
his
Minor
may
thus
be
prooved
;
Whosoever
doe
take
upon
them
,
or
usurpe
the
same
authoritie
in
causes
ecclesiastical
within
their
dominions
,
which
the
Pope
had
,
they
are
pettie
Popes
:
But
hir
Majestie
doth
so
:
Therefore
hir
Majestie
is
a
pettie
Pope
:
and
so
consequently
not
to
be
tollerated
in
a
Christian
common-wealth
.
Now
surely
if
Martin
were
well
examined
,
he
is
like
to
proove
a
verie
good
subject
.
But
for
me
he
must
be
as
he
list
,
seeing
neither
in
respect
of
God
nor
his
prince
he
wil
be
as
he
shuld
be
.
Touching
the
Bb.
as
you
have
heard
before
out
of
Ierom
,
and
as
Master
Calvin
upon
When
it
pleased
almightie
God
to
deliver
this
Realme
of
Englande
from
the
bondage
and
thraldome
of
the
B.
of
Rome
,
it
was
thought
agreeable
to
the
word
of
God
,
by
the
chiefest
and
best
learned
men
of
the
religion
in
all
Christendome
,
that
not
onely
the
title
of
supreme
governor
over
all
persons
,
and
in
all
causes
,
as
well
ecclesiastical
as
civill
,
did
appertaine
,
and
ought
to
be
annexed
unto
the
crowne
:
but
likewise
all
honors
,
dignities
,
preeminences
,
jurisdictions
,
privileges
,
authorities
,
immunities
,
profits
,
and
commodities
,
which
by
usurpation
at
any
time
did
appertaine
to
the
Pope
.
In
this
supremacie
,
these
principall
points
This
preeminence
and
authoritie
was
greatly
impugned
by
the
Pope
and
his
adherents
:
but
notwithstanding
it
was
so
notably
defended
by
the
sundrie
writings
of
rare
and
speciall
men
in
all
gifts
of
pietie
&
learning
,
as
that
hitherto
(
Gods
name
be
blessed
for
it
)
the
truth
therein
hath
notablie
prevailed
.
Amongst
manie
bookes
which
have
been
written
to
this
purpose
,
you
shall
finde
these
very
learnedly
penned
:
one
De
vera
differentia
Regiae
potestatis
&
ecclesiasticae
:
another
written
by
Master
Bekinsawe
,
De
supremo
&
absoluto
Regis
imperio
:
a
thirde
,
De
vera
obedientia
,
written
by
a
man
at
that
time
in
this
point
well
affected
.
Likewise
(
as
you
may
read
in
Master
Foxe
)
Cutbert
Tunstall
Bishop
of
Duresme
,
and
Iohn
Stokeslie
Bishop
of
London
,
write
a
short
treatise
in
forme
of
a
letter
to
cardinall
Poole
then
resiant
in
Rome
,
very
effectually
compiled
to
the
same
effect
.
Lastly
,
you
cannot
but
remember
with
what
learning
and
authoritie
this
matter
hath
been
defended
by
Bishop
Iewell
against
Harding
,
by
Bishop
Horne
against
Fecknam
,
by
the
Deane
of
Paules
against
Dorman
,
by
doctor
Ackwoorth
(
as
it
is
supposed
)
against
Saunders
,
and
by
divers
others
,
as
occasions
have
been
offered
by
the
Papists
.
I
am
perswaded
there
was
never
cause
more
throughly
handled
;
and
the
issue
betwixt
them
was
ever
this
,
whether
the
king
within
his
dominions
,
or
the
B.
of
Rome
,
might
by
the
word
of
god
rightly
challenge
the
foresaid
authoritie
.
Marie
now
a
third
sort
of
men
are
risen
up
in
the
world
:
who
do
affirme
that
they
al
joined
upon
a
wrong
issue
:
and
that
the
authoritie
which
both
sides
labored
for
,
doth
indeed
appertain
unto
their
presbyteries
,
and
ecclesiasticall
senates
.
I
would
be
loth
deerely
beloved
,
to
abuse
you
with
untruthes
:
and
therefore
I
have
thought
good
to
make
this
matter
more
About
some
sixe
or
seaven
yeeres
ago
(
as
They
did
greatly
inveigh
against
the
superioritie
of
Bishops
,
and
likewise
repined
at
the
kings
authoritie
in
causes
ecclesiasticall
:
whereupon
in
his
minoritie
,
a
certaine
number
of
ministers
gathering
to
themselves
certaine
gentlemen
,
and
divers
others
,
did
erect
by
their
owne
authoritie
their
ecclesiasticall
senates
:
and
usurping
all
the
whole
ecclesiasticall
jurisdiction
,
did
alter
the
lawes
at
their
owne
pleasures
,
without
the
knowledge
and
approbation
,
either
of
the
king
or
state
.
They
likewise
tooke
upon
them
to
discharge
the
estate
of
Bishops
,
and
to
declare
the
same
to
be
unlawfull
:
directing
their
commissioners
to
the
king
,
and
commanding
him
and
the
counsell
,
under
paine
of
excommunication
never
afterwards
to
appoint
any
more
Bishops
,
bicause
they
had
concluded
that
estate
to
be
unlawfull
.
They
prescribed
lawes
to
the
king
and
state
,
&
appointed
general
fastings
throughout
the
Realme
when
they
thought
good
:
especially
when
som
factioners
in
the
countrie
were
to
moove
any
great
enterprise
.
Besides
,
divers
of
the
ministers
having
preached
very
factious
and
seditious
doctrine
,
and
being
in
that
respect
called
before
the
king
to
answer
the
complaints
made
against
them
,
they
utterly
disclaimed
the
kings
authoritie
,
as
an
incompetent
judge
,
alleaging
for
themselves
,
that
for
such
matters
as
were
spoken
in
the
pulpit
,
they
ought
to
be
exempt
from
the
judgement
and
correction
of
princes
,
denieng
his
authoritie
flatly
in
causes
ecclesiasticall
.
The
king
giving
commandement
upon
the
saterday
,
to
certain
noble
men
for
the
feasting
of
the
embassador
of
France
in
Edenborough
the
next
monday
after
:
a
number
of
the
presbyterie
understanding
thereof
:
assembled
themselves
togither
on
sunday
in
the
morning
,
&
presumptuouslie
caused
the
ministers
to
proclaime
a
faste
to
be
held
the
same
monday
,
and
could
by
no
means
be
intreated
to
alter
their
determination
therin
.
So
as
whilest
the
lords
&
the
chiefe
of
the
citie
,
according
to
the
kings
commandement
,
were
about
the
intertainment
of
the
embassador
,
the
ministers
one
after
another
all
the
daie
long
in
their
severall
sermons
were
bitterlie
inveighing
against
them
:
and
had
it
not
been
for
the
kings
,
great
importunitie
,
they
had
been
all
excommunicated
.
But
yet
another
pranke
which
they
plaied
passed
all
these
.
The
king
with
the
advice
of
his
Estates
in
Parleament
,
having
resolved
upon
a
certaine
fact
committed
by
some
of
his
subjects
,
that
it
was
treason
:
these
men
in
their
assemblie
(
esteeming
their
judgement
to
bee
the
soveraigne
judgement
of
the
Realme
)
did
not
onely
approove
the
same
fact
as
lawful
,
contrary
to
the
said
act
of
Parleament
,
but
ordained
al
them
to
be
excommunicated
,
who
woulde
not
subscribe
to
their
determination
therein
.
When
the
king
saw
what
course
these
men
held
,
and
how
notwithstanding
the
equalitie
they
pretended
,
they
sought
altogither
their
owne
advancement
:
how
they
erected
that
in
themselves
,
which
they
had
dejected
in
the
Bishops
:
how
they
tooke
more
upon
them
then
ever
the
Bishops
had
done
:
how
they
did
imitate
preposterouslie
the
papall
jurisdiction
:
how
under
the
pretence
of
their
presbyteries
,
they
trod
upon
his
scepter
,
and
labored
to
establish
an
ecclesiasticall
tyranny
of
an
infinite
jurisdiction
,
such
as
neither
the
law
of
God
or
man
could
tollerate
:
and
perceiving
withall
,
that
the
new
erected
governement
was
the
mother
of
all
faction
,
confusion
,
sedition
,
and
rebellion
:
that
it
was
an
introduction
to
Anabaptisme
and
popularitie
:
that
it
tended
to
the
overthrow
of
his
state
and
Realme
,
and
to
the
decaie
of
his
crown
:
and
that
he
must
either
discharge
himselfe
of
the
crowne
,
or
the
ministerie
of
that
forme
of
government
,
by
the
consent
&
act
of
Parliament
,
1584.
he
overthrew
their
presbyteries
,
and
restored
the
Bishops
again
to
their
places
.
All
this
you
may
finde
more
at
large
set
down
by
the
king
himselfe
in
his
said
declaration
.
It
may
heer
be
said
(
for
they
dare
say
what
they
list
)
that
nowe
the
king
is
of
another
minde
:
and
that
this
declaration
was
made
when
he
had
conceived
some
displeasure
against
them
.
For
the
king
,
he
is
not
altred
.
Ictus
piscator
sapit
.
His
crowne
and
their
soveraigntie
will
not
agree
togither
.
And
what
cause
he
had
to
proceed
against
them
as
he
did
,
although
it
be
great
boldnes
in
such
a
case
,
not
to
rest
satisfied
in
the
worde
of
such
a
king
:
yet
for
your
better
understanding
,
what
to
thinke
of
this
kinde
of
government
(
for
never
a
barrell
will
proove
the
better
herring
)
you
shall
heare
the
opinion
of
one
of
our
owne
countrie-men
,
who
was
in
Scotland
about
the
same
time
,
and
observed
verie
diligentlie
the
woonderfull
pride
and
insolencie
thereof
.
I
judge
saith
he
(
writing
of
this
Parleament
now
assembled
)
that
if
the
Parleament
should
establish
such
names
,
and
those
the
officers
according
to
those
names
which
seeke
their
owne
discipline
,
that
then
in
steede
of
one
Pope
we
shoulde
have
a
1000.
and
of
some
lord
Bishops
in
name
a
1000.
Lordlie
tyrants
in
deed
,
which
nowe
do
disdaine
the
names
.
This
I
have
found
by
experience
to
be
true
:
I
can
testifie
by
triall
of
Scotland
,
which
have
travelled
it
over
in
their
best
reformed
places
:
as
in
Doude
,
Saint
Andrewes
,
Edenborough
,
&
sundrie
other
townes
:
and
have
knowen
the
king
in
great
danger
,
and
feare
of
his
life
by
their
lordlie
discipline
,
&c.
And
againe
:
I
have
seen
all
maner
of
wickednes
to
abounde
much
more
in
their
best
places
in
Scotland
,
then
in
our
woorser
places
heere
in
England
.
Furthermore
it
may
please
you
brethren
to
heare
the
same
mans
judgement
of
such
,
as
do
labor
so
busily
in
this
matter
:
in
a
treatise
of
his
against
one
Barowe
.
Whereas
you
charge
us
(
saith
he
)
in
denieng
Christ
in
his
offices
,
and
consequently
not
to
be
come
in
the
flesh
:
it
shall
appeere
by
your
presbyterie
or
eldermen
,
that
indeede
you
are
and
will
be
the
aldermen
even
to
pull
the
most
ancient
of
all
,
Christ
Iesus
himselfe
by
the
beard
:
yea
and
seeke
not
onely
to
shake
him
by
the
lockes
of
his
haire
out
of
his
offices
,
but
also
all
his
ancients
under
him
,
I
meane
the
lawfull
magistrates
and
ministers
,
which
have
lawfull
authoritie
from
him
.
Wherefore
not
we
but
you
rather
seeke
the
glistering
blase
of
great
name
:
and
if
once
you
might
get
up
the
names
of
Elders
and
Presbyters
,
what
mischiefe
,
crueltie
,
and
pride
would
not
streame
from
that
name
,
even
as
fire
from
a
blasing
star
to
set
on
fire
the
whole
worlde
?
For
every
busie
foole
,
the
more
busie
he
were
in
discrediting
others
,
and
seeking
mastership
among
the
people
,
the
better
elder
he
should
be
judged
.
Yea
and
this
new
name
of
an
elder
given
him
,
were
even
as
a
sacrament
of
grace
,
and
woulde
seale
up
all
his
knaverie
:
that
whatsoever
filthines
dropped
from
him
,
yet
the
skirte
of
his
ancients
gowne
should
cover
it
.
This
mans
opinion
heerin
I
know
will
be
greatly
contemned
,
bicause
I
thinke
he
hath
bin
of
another
judgement
.
But
yet
they
may
give
him
leave
to
speake
,
as
his
experience
(
which
is
no
foolish
master
)
hath
taught
him
.
For
commonly
it
comes
to
passe
,
when
rash
men
run
hedlong
into
any
new
devises
,
that
Posteriores
cogitationes
solent
esse
sapientiores
:
I
beseech
you
brethren
,
especially
you
that
have
beene
brought
up
in
learning
,
and
are
able
to
looke
into
this
cause
,
do
but
consider
how
the
cheefe
magistrates
have
beene
used
and
dealt
withall
,
wheresoever
this
absolute
government
which
they
speak
of
,
hath
been
erected
.
Reade
the
writings
of
the
chiefest
pillers
of
these
platformes
,
as
the
booke
De
jure
magistratuum
in
subditos
:
the
booke
intituled
Vindiciae
contra
tyrannos
:
another
De
jure
regni
apud
Scotos
:
The
dialogs
of
Eusebius
Philadelphus
,
with
sundry
other
of
that
sort
:
and
you
shal
find
in
them
these
most
strange
and
rebellious
propositions
stiflie
maintained
,
dilated
and
amplified
.
The
people
of
themselves
may
set
up
Gods
service
and
abrogate
superstition
:
It
is
lawfull
for
the
people
by
force
of
armes
to
resist
the
Prince
,
if
he
hinder
the
building
of
the
Church
:
That
is
(
as
it
appeereth
by
the
whole
drift
almost
of
that
booke
)
their
presbyteries
:
The
people
that
do
not
resist
the
Prince
affecting
the
seat
of
God
(
that
is
claiming
supremacie
in
causes
ecclesiasticall
)
do
as
it
were
offer
sacrifice
to
idols
.
If
Princes
do
hinder
them
that
seeke
for
this
discipline
,
they
are
tyrants
both
to
the
church
and
ministers
(
saith
one
of
them
:
)
And
being
tyrants
they
may
be
deposed
by
their
subjects
,
as
they
do
generally
all
of
them
hold
.
I
dare
avowe
it
unto
you
brethren
,
and
I
thinke
no
man
will
make
exception
against
it
:
that
if
all
were
laide
before
you
that
the
Popes
have
done
against
Princes
:
it
is
not
more
then
these
men
defend
may
be
put
in
execution
when
they
thinke
good
by
themselves
and
the
people
.
I
might
make
this
thing
verie
plaine
unto
you
by
divers
particular
examples
,
which
they
greatly
allow
and
propound
to
themselves
for
their
imitation
:
were
it
not
that
the
very
naming
of
them
would
grow
offensive
unto
you
all
.
Onely
in
generalitie
it
may
please
you
to
understand
what
is
written
to
this
purpose
in
a
booke
printed
at
Geneva
,
&
compiled
by
three
or
foure
whose
names
I
know
not
.
Although
(
say
they
)
The
Popes
for
sundry
enormities
have
deposed
princes
by
their
unlawfull
authority
,
yet
the
reason
that
mooved
them
so
to
do
was
honest
and
just
,
and
meete
to
be
received
and
executed
by
the
bodie
or
state
of
every
common
wealth
.
If
any
do
heer
object
,
that
I
stand
too
long
upon
this
matter
,
considering
that
these
things
do
touch
mens
dealings
and
writings
in
other
countries
,
and
cannot
in
any
sort
be
applied
to
our
reformers
in
England
:
my
answer
is
,
that
I
wish
from
the
bottome
of
my
hart
it
were
so
,
but
I
greatly
feare
,
by
that
which
already
is
done
,
that
except
there
be
in
time
verie
good
order
taken
,
it
will
fall
out
far
otherwise
.
For
it
seemeth
to
me
,
that
whatsoever
hath
bin
done
heerin
abroad
,
is
labored
for
to
be
put
in
execution
heer
with
us
at
hom.
Our
Bishops
you
see
how
unchristianly
they
are
handled
,
even
with
more
contumely
and
disdainfull
reproch
,
then
ever
it
is
to
be
read
that
the
heathen
used
against
their
priests
,
of
what
condition
and
behavior
soever
.
Hir
majestie
(
for
whose
happie
estate
and
long
life
he
that
will
not
praie
unto
almightie
God
,
deserveth
neither
state
nor
life
in
this
common
wealth
)
in
that
she
taketh
upon
hir
to
rule
as
she
doth
in
matters
concerning
the
church
,
according
to
the
lawfull
And
they
affirme
,
that
no
civill
magistrate
hath
preeminence
by
ordinary
authority
,
either
They
which
are
no
Elders
of
the
church
,
have
nothing
to
do
with
the
government
of
the
church
.
And
whereas
Master
Harding
saith
,
that
the
office
of
a
king
in
it selfe
is
one
everie
where
,
not
onely
among
the
Christian
princes
,
but
also
among
the
heathen
:
and
thereupon
concludeth
,
that
a
Christian
prince
hath
no
more
to
do
in
deciding
of
Church
matters
,
or
in
making
ceremonies
and
orders
for
the
Church
,
than
hath
a
heathen
:
Master
Cartwright
alloweth
of
his
judgement
,
and
doth
expressely
affirme
,
that
he
is
of
the
same
opinion
,
professing
his
mislike
of
those
who
teach
another
right
of
a
Christian
,
and
of
a
prophane
magistrate
.
So
as
indeede
they
attribute
in
effect
no
more
to
hir
Majestie
,
and
all
other
civill
magistrates
in
these
causes
,
than
the
Papists
do
,
which
is
Potestatem
facti
non
●…uris
.
I
knowe
Licet
facti
executio
in
politic
is
sit
penes
civilem
magistratum
:
although
the
execution
of
the
fact
in
civill
causes
do
appertaine
to
the
civill
magistrate
.
Now
seing
,
deerly
beloved
,
how
far
these
men
are
gone
already
upon
their
own
heads
,
who
knoweth
whether
in
short
time
they
will
not
disclaime
hir
Majesties
authoritie
,
if
they
shall
be
called
to
answer
to
their
misdemeanors
,
especially
if
they
concerne
matters
of
the
pulpit
:
or
whether
they
purpose
to
discharge
the
estate
of
Bb.
and
to
erect
of
themselves
their
new
found
plat
for
government
?
What
they
will
do
,
I
know
not
;
but
what
they
have
written
,
you
shall
heare
.
If
this
reformation
(
said
on
of
them
,
when
he
was
of
that
humor
)
be
not
hastened
forward
by
the
magistrate
,
the
subjects
ought
not
any
longer
to
tarie
for
him
,
but
do
it
themselves
.
The
author
of
the
second
Admonition
(
against
whom
,
as
I
thinke
,
there
will
no
exception
be
taken
(
affirmeth
,
that
he
and
his
fellowes
Are
forced
in
conscience
to
speake
for
this
newe
order
,
and
(
as
he
saith
)
to
use
it
.
And
in
another
place
,
that
There
is
many
a
thousand
that
desire
the
same
that
he
doth
,
and
that
great
troubles
will
come
of
it
,
if
it
be
not
provided
for
.
I
thinke
he
meaneth
,
if
they
obtain
not
their
desire
.
Another
is
likewise
very
peremptorie
and
resolute
,
that
the
Presbyterie
must
prevaile
:
and
if
it
come
to
passe
(
saith
he
to
the
Bb.
)
by
that
means
which
will
make
your
harts
to
ake
,
blame
your selves
.
Martin
in
his
first
booke
threateneth
Fists
:
and
in
his
seconde
,
he
wisheth
that
our
Parleament
,
which
is
now
assembled
,
would
put
downe
Lord
Bishops
,
and
bring
in
the
reformation
which
they
looke
for
,
whether
hir
Majestie
will
or
no.
Let
the
place
be
considered
,
whether
I
have
attained
to
his
meaning
.
Surely
whilest
he
talketh
much
of
treason
,
I
feare
he
wil
be
found
a
traitor
himself
.
For
how
can
he
conceive
that
such
a
thing
should
be
brought
to
passe
(
if
hir
majesty
do
hir
best
to
withstande
it
)
without
a
rebellion
at
the
least
,
that
I
may
go
no
farther
.
Hath
not
hir
highnes
in
making
of
lawes
a
negative
voice
?
Is
not
Lex
principis
opus
?
hath
not
every
law
Vim
cogentem
of
the
king
?
I
assure
you
(
my
brethren
)
these
are
desperate
points
to
be
stoode
in
.
And
I
do
verilie
feare
,
that
except
good
order
be
taken
,
and
that
in
time
,
these
things
will
grow
to
some
extremities
.
For
seeing
these
spirits
of
ours
do
follow
so
exactly
,
and
with
such
hot
pursuite
,
the
outlandish
precepts
,
touching
the
forme
of
their
new
governement
,
is
it
not
to
be
provided
for
,
least
they
fall
to
the
outlandish
meanes
likewise
(
mentioned
before
in
their
traiterous
propositions
)
for
the
erecting
and
establishing
thereof
?
I
was
enformed
by
a
magistrate
of
right
good
worship
,
that
a
preacher
of
this
faction
,
in
the
presence
of
certaine
Iustices
of
the
peace
,
and
in
a
verie
great
congregation
did
without
controlment
,
convention
,
or
binding
over
either
to
sessions
or
assises
,
set
on
broch
the
doctrine
of
the
former
propositions
for
violent
reformation
.
He
greatly
complained
of
the
manifolde
imperfections
,
wherewithall
(
as
he
said
)
the
church
of
England
was
greevously
oppressed
:
and
laboured
verie
earnestly
to
perswade
his
auditorie
,
that
in
France
it
was
lawfull
for
the
people
or
inferiour
magistrates
,
to
compel
their
prince
to
a
reformation
of
any
such
deformities
:
or
else
whether
he
would
or
no
to
do
it
themselves
.
As
though
he
should
have
said
:
if
by
the
word
of
God
it
be
lawfull
in
France
,
it
is
likewise
lawfull
in
England
:
the
dutie
of
subjects
to
their
kings
in
that
respect
being
one
in
both
.
If
these
things
deerely
beloved
,
which
I
have
reported
unto
you
(
in
sort
as
I
have
insisted
upon
them
)
be
not
true
,
let
me
be
called
to
mine
answer
:
but
if
they
be
true
,
then
I
trust
you
will
confesse
the
necessitie
of
this
exhortation
(
so
far
as
concerneth
your
duties
)
which
heer
the
Apostle
maketh
:
Charissimi
nolite
omni
spiritui
credere
.
Take
heed
of
such
spirits
least
they
seduce
you
,
and
beleeve
them
not
.
Saint
Paule
in
his
epistle
to
Titus
doth
straightlie
in
him
commande
us
,
that
after
Saint
Basill
in
his
time
finding
the
like
jars
,
and
disorder
that
we
have
now
amongst
us
:
how
(
as
it
is
in
the
booke
of
Iudges
)
everie
man
did
even
what
he
list
himselfe
,
he
saith
,
he
perceived
this
was
the
cause
:
for
that
(
as
it
is
there
noted
)
in
those
daies
there
was
no
king
in
Israel
,
that
is
,
God
was
not
regarded
,
or
as
it
may
truly
be
saide
,
the
magistrats
did
not
their
duties
.
For
there
is
no
great
difference
betwixt
having
none
at
al
,
and
having
of
such
as
do
neglect
the
charge
which
is
committed
unto
them
.
Nay
surely
mine
opinion
is
,
that
if
there
were
not
some
,
(
whether
Bishops
or
men
of
as
great
or
greater
authoritie
)
that
doe
in
some
sort
favor
these
spirits
,
they
would
never
have
growen
either
in
number
so
manie
,
or
in
their
dealings
to
have
been
so
violent
.
That
which
Master
Calvine
writeth
,
may
Be
it
that
hitherto
you
have
been
mooved
to
spare
them
with
their
great
shew
of
zeale
.
Let
it
be
held
for
good
pollicie
,
Vt
anseribus
cibaria
locentur
,
&
canes
alantur
in
Capitolio
,
for
feare
of
theeves
in
the
night
:
But
yet
(
as
Cicero
saith
)
if
they
will
gaggle
and
make
a
noise
in
the
daie
time
without
any
cause
,
Opinor
iis
crura
suffringantur
:
I
thinke
it
very
fit
they
be
rapt
on
the
shinnes
.
And
even
so
it
is
with
these
our
prophets
&
their
adherents
,
as
it
followeth
in
the
same
place
:
Alii
eorum
anseres
sunt
qui
tantummodo
clamant
,
nocere
non
poss●…nt
:
alii
canes
qui
latrare
&
mordere
possunt
:
cibaria
his
praeberi
videmus
:
Some
of
them
are
geese
which
onely
gaggle
,
and
cannot
hurt
:
others
are
dogs
,
which
both
can
barke
and
bite
:
and
yet
we
see
them
maintained
.
Sed
vos
maximè
debetis
in
eos
impetum
facere
:
But
you
that
are
magistrates
ought
rather
to
restraine
them
.
Zanchius
in
his
epistle
before
his
answere
to
Holderus
the
Arrian
,
being
greatly
mooved
with
the
like
schismatikes
in
Germanie
,
doth
crie
out
in
the
bitternes
of
his
hart
,
O
tempora
,
O
mores
:
good
Lord
what
times
are
these
wherein
we
live
,
and
howe
are
men
in
their
maners
growen
to
be
monstrous
?
I
beseech
almightie
God
(
saith
he
)
(
using
the
verie
words
which
Alexander
Bishop
of
Constantinople
upon
the
like
occasion
had
once
used
)
that
either
it
would
please
his
majestie
to
represse
Hor●…m
incendiariorum
nefarios
conatus
:
The
wicked
attempts
of
these
firebrands
,
or
else
to
take
me
out
of
this
life
,
that
I
may
never
behold
the
miseries
and
calamities
which
of
necessitie
thereby
must
fall
upon
the
church
.
He
exhorteth
the
magistrats
that
they
would
more
diligently
looke
unto
their
duties
then
before
time
they
had
done
.
Cur
enim
unicuique
quicquid
lubet
scribere
,
&
in
quemvis
pro
sua
libidine
debacchari
,
eaque
ratione
ecclesias
perdere
permittitur
?
For
why
is
everie
one
suffered
(
saith
he
)
to
write
what
he
liste
,
and
to
raile
upon
everie
man
at
his
pleasure
,
and
so
by
that
meanes
to
destroie
the
church
?
Naie
surely
if
you
looke
not
to
this
geare
in
time
,
this
judgement
doth
but
begin
at
the
house
of
God
,
and
it
will
proceede
farther
to
the
overthrowe
of
all
government
.
God
of
his
infinit
mercy
open
your
eies
that
you
may
see
these
dangers
,
and
grant
you
both
grace
and
courage
,
that
you
may
in
due
time
prevent
them
.
And
nowe
unto
you
all
deerely
belooved
,
The
doctrine
of
the
church
of
England
,
is
pure
and
holie
:
the
government
thereof
,
both
in
respect
of
hir
majestie
,
and
of
our
Bishops
is
lawfull
and
godlie
:
the
booke
of
common
praier
containeth
nothing
in
it
contrarie
to
the
word
of
God
.
All
these
points
have
been
notably
approoved
and
maintained
not
onely
against
the
Papists
,
but
likewise
against
some
other
schismatikes
,
and
you
your selves
with
great
joy
and
comfort
have
in
time
past
imbraced
them
accordingly
.
If
any
of
you
now
,
my
brethren
,
be
otherwise
affected
,
the
fault
is
in
your selves
:
for
they
remaine
(
as
the
nature
of
truth
requireth
)
to
be
as
they
were
before
:
but
you
through
your
rashnes
in
following
of
everie
spirit
,
are
growen
to
a
woonderfull
newfanglenes
:
and
are
indeed
become
meere
changelings
.
Quemadmodum
Greg.
Nazianzen
)
appeereth
immooveable
to
those
that
are
in
health
,
which
to
the
giddie
doth
seeme
to
turne
about
:
so
you
,
my
brethren
,
by
following
the
perswasions
of
false
prophets
(
who
,
as
Irenaeus
saith
;
De
iisdem
non
semper
easdem
sententias
habent
:
Of
the
selfe-same
things
have
not
alwaies
the
same
opinions
)
are
drawen
to
an
unjust
mislike
of
the
church
;
Et
amantes
vel
non
amantes
,
haud
eadem
de
eisdem
judicatis
:
And
according
to
your
love
or
hate
,
your
judgements
upon
the
selfe-same
things
do
varie
and
alter
.
See
,
I
praie
you
,
what
dislike
is
able
to
worke
;
and
therefore
take
heed
of
those
who
shall
indevor
,
through
lies
and
slanders
,
to
make
the
truth
and
the
preachers
thereof
odious
and
hatefull
unto
you
.
For
as
the
Apostle
writeth
;
Aemulantur
vos
non
benè
,
sed
And
that
is
the
end
of
their
railing
and
libelling
.
Mos
semper
fuit
haereticorum
,
quorum
doctrinam
non
possunt
confutare
,
illorum
vitam
in
odium
adducere
:
It
hath
alwaies
been
the
maner
of
heretikes
,
to
bring
their
lives
into
hatred
,
whose
doctrine
they
cannot
confute
.
Knowing
that
by
the
contempt
of
the
one
,
doth
easily
ensue
the
dislike
of
the
other
.
How
be
it
,
they
will
pretend
that
the
zeale
of
Gods
glorie
doth
moove
them
unto
such
bitternes
,
against
the
present
estate
of
religion
,
and
against
the
chiefe
maintainers
of
it
,
and
that
for
conscience
sake
,
and
for
the
glory
of
Sion
they
are
driven
to
use
such
more
than
tragicall
outcries
.
But
Bernard
Furthermore
,
you
shal
have
some
that
will
come
unto
you
with
a
long
tale
,
protesting
that
they
cannot
refraine
their
teares
,
with
the
ancient
men
in
Esra
,
to
see
the
foundation
So
as
,
deerly
beloved
,
when
you
heare
the
like
cries
,
in
any
wise
beleeve
them
not
:
but
rather
shout
aloud
for
joy
(
as
there
it
is
likewise
noted
)
in
that
you
have
lived
to
see
your
temples
purged
from
the
leaven
of
Poperie
,
and
to
florish
,
as
they
do
,
with
the
sinceritie
and
truth
of
Christian
religion
.
They
wil
furthermore
(
the
better
to
creep
into
your
harts
)
pretend
great
humilitie
,
and
bitterly
exclaime
against
the
pride
of
Bb.
as
though
they
affected
nothing
else
by
their
desired
equalitie
,
but
some
great
lowlines
,
and
to
prostrate
themselves
at
your
feet
for
your
service
:
whereas
in
deed
they
shoote
at
greater
superioritie
and
preemi
nence
,
then
even
your
Bishops
did
use
or
challenge
unto
them
:
and
would
no
doubt
tyrannise
by
their
censures
over
both
prince
and
people
at
their
pleasure
,
in
most
untollerable
and
popelike
maner
.
As
partly
you
may
gather
by
the
premisses
,
and
partlie
furthermore
understand
in
that
not
onely
they
do
use
the
verie
same
arguments
for
the
soveraigne
authoritie
of
their
presbyteries
(
against
the
prince
)
in
causes
ecclesiasticall
:
that
the
Pope
doth
for
his
principalitie
in
the
same
(
and
none
other
so
far
as
I
can
read
,
or
I
thinke
can
be
shewed
by
any
:
)
but
do
likewise
make
to
all
our
arguments
for
hir
majesties
supremacie
against
them
,
the
very
same
answers
,
(
if
not
word
for
worde
,
yet
alwaies
in
effect
)
that
Harding
,
Stapleton
,
Dorman
,
and
Saunders
have
made
to
the
same
arguments
,
used
by
Bishop
Iewell
,
Bishop
,
Horn
,
Master
Nowell
and
others
to
the
same
purpose
,
and
against
the
Pope
.
I
cannot
stande
to
enter
into
any
particular
examples
of
this
matter
,
onely
I
thought
it
necessarie
at
this
time
to
advertise
you
of
it
(
take
his
advantage
thereof
who
list
)
that
you
might
the
better
beware
of
such
kind
of
spirits
.
You
have
heard
them
,
I
am
sure
,
greatly
exclaime
against
our
Bb.
livings
,
as
though
they
had
too
much
,
therby
to
perswade
you
with
what
simple
allowance
they
could
con
tent
themselves
:
and
yet
(
as
you
have
heard
)
they
reckon
all
the
livings
of
the
church
too
litle
for
themselves
:
condemning
you
of
the
laitie
,
who
either
have
or
would
have
part
with
them
,
for
cormorants
,
Dionysians
,
and
for
such
wicked
traitors
against
the
church
,
as
Iudas
was
against
Christ
.
The
would
gladly
seeme
to
be
very
godly
,
zealous
,
and
religious
:
and
yet
notwithstanding
,
if
you
will
relie
upon
Saint
Iames
his
opinion
,
and
judge
of
them
by
the
usage
of
their
toongs
,
in
their
immodest
speeches
and
libelling
,
you
shall
finde
their
profession
thereof
to
be
full
of
so
great
vanitie
,
as
that
particularlie
it
may
be
verified
almost
of
everie
one
of
them
:
Hujus
vana
est
religio
.
If
they
set
foorth
a
booke
of
common
praiers
,
then
caution
is
made
that
nothing
be
done
contrarie
to
any
thing
set
downe
in
the
same
.
If
they
decree
any
thing
in
their
synods
(
yea
though
it
be
in
civill
matters
)
against
an
act
of
Parleament
,
that
treason
is
not
treason
,
yet
if
you
withstand
them
,
you
are
foorthwith
accursed
:
or
as
touching
church
causes
,
except
it
should
so
fall
out
,
that
they
do
erre
in
their
determinations
,
and
that
in
some
great
matter
of
faith
,
all
men
must
stand
unto
their
orders
,
decrees
lawes
and
constitutions
,
.
But
on
the
other
side
,
if
the
church
indeed
,
upon
sufficient
grounds
shall
either
publish
a
booke
,
or
commande
any
thing
to
be
observed
,
though
that
which
is
commanded
have
beene
determined
of
,
not
onely
by
provinciall
or
nationall
synods
,
but
by
al
the
generall
councels
in
effect
,
which
were
helde
before
the
tyrannie
of
poperie
:
yet
(
as
Saint
They
sift
,
they
search
,
and
condemne
at
their
pleasure
.
This
is
too
much
,
that
is
too
little
:
this
is
too
long
,
that
is
too
short
:
this
is
idolatrous
,
that
is
superstitious
:
this
is
wanting
,
that
is
superfluous
:
this
is
not
aright
,
If
they
expound
a
place
of
Scripture
,
as
they
do
that
,
whereof
I
spake
before
,
Dic
ecclesiae
:
and
those
likewise
which
they
bring
for
the
proofe
of
their
aldermen
:
though
they
therein
dissent
among
themselves
,
and
from
the
interpretations
of
all
the
ancient
fathers
who
ever
lived
,
yet
we
must
beleeve
them
(
as
Hosius
spake
of
the
church
of
Rome
)
that
what
they
saie
,
it
is
the
verie
word
of
God
.
If
they
alledge
unto
us
the
authorities
of
fathers
and
councels
,
to
proove
the
equalitie
of
ministers
,
the
authoritie
of
their
laie
governors
,
&
the
continuance
of
their
presbyteries
since
the
Apostles
times
:
though
therein
they
pervert
them
all
most
grossely
,
(
&
I
feare
of
purpose
to
deceive
you
my
brethren
,
even
against
their
owne
consciences
,
and
contrary
to
the
expresse
meaning
of
the
said
fathers
and
councels
,
even
in
those
places
which
they
bring
and
infinte
others
:
)
yet
they
will
face
out
the
matter
with
verie
strange
boldnes
,
&
be
more
then
offended
that
any
should
examine
or
seem
to
mistrust
them
.
I
could
bring
you
divers
examples
heerof
,
but
one
of
ech
sort
shall
suffice
.
To
proove
the
equalitie
which
they
saie
ought
to
be
in
the
ministers
of
the
worde
Cyprian
,
Ambrose
,
&c.
affirming
that
in
those
times
there
was
no
difference
betwixt
a
Bishop
and
a
priest
,
but
that
they
had
all
equall
authoritie
within
their
own
parishes
,
and
that
whosoever
Againe
to
proove
the
authoritie
of
their
Ignatius
,
Tertullian
,
Hierome
,
&c.
where
mention
is
made
of
priesthood
,
of
colledges
,
counsailes
,
and
companies
of
priests
,
that
joined
with
the
Bishops
for
the
better
governement
of
the
church
,
and
execution
of
certaine
particular
duties
.
Whereas
besides
that
Master
Calvin
himselfe
writing
of
the
state
of
the
church
presently
after
the
Apostles
daies
confesseth
,
that
those
priests
were
ministers
of
the
word
and
sacraments
:
Habebant
singulae
civitates
But
of
all
other
in
my
opinion
the
last
example
appertaining
to
this
purpose
is
most
notable
.
For
the
better
understanding
whereof
,
you
must
know
that
the
church
of
God
ever
since
the
apostles
times
,
hath
distributed
the
ecclesiasticall
ministerie
principallie
into
these
three
parts
,
Bishops
,
Priests
,
and
Deacons
:
according
as
it
is
contained
in
the
apology
of
the
church
of
England
:
Credimus
,
varios
in
ecclesia
esse
ordines
This
division
our
new
reformers
with
one
consent
do
allow
,
for
the
very
platforme
of
their
desired
government
:
But
their
exposition
of
the
parts
therof
,
is
agreeable
to
that
which
is
before
observed
of
them
:
even
contrarie
to
the
profession
which
hitherto
we
have
made
to
all
the
world
,
and
contrarie
to
the
testimonies
of
al
antiquitie
.
By
Bishops
,
they
say
,
was
ment
the
ministers
of
the
word
and
sacraments
,
without
any
distinction
of
degree
,
or
any
inequalitie
for
government
or
authoritie
:
and
by
priests
their
laie
elders
onely
.
And
upon
this
presumption
and
verie
grosse
falsification
of
all
the
ancient
fathers
,
the
chiefe
ringleader
in
this
crue
is
not
afraid
For
replie
wherunto
master
Doctor
Whitgift
now
Archbishop
of
Canterburie
,
having
desired
him
that
was
so
cunning
in
the
ecclesiastical
histories
,
to
bring
foorth
but
one
that
affirmeth
this
kinde
of
government
to
have
been
under
Constantinus
:
about
three
But
you
shall
heare
this
skilfull
man
in
histories
,
howe
he
applieth
the
authoritie
of
Eusebius
.
It
is
manifest
(
saith
he
)
that
the
churches
were
governed
under
him
(
meaning
Constantinus
)
as
before
,
by
Bishops
,
Elders
,
and
Deacons
;
by
that
which
is
cited
of
An
infinite
number
of
Elders
,
and
Deacons
,
which
came
to
the
councell
of
Nice
,
with
the
two
hundreth
and
fiftie
Bishops
.
Heer
you
see
how
gladly
this
fellow
would
have
you
to
beleeve
,
that
this
their
governement
so
earnestly
now
sought
for
,
did
most
of
al
florish
about
the
time
of
the
councel
of
Nice
,
that
then
there
was
no
difference
betwixt
a
Bishop
and
a
minister
of
the
worde
,
but
were
both
of
them
,
of
equall
authoritie
,
and
that
then
their
laie
Elders
had
their
consistorie
with
the
rest
of
their
companions
in
every
parish
.
Whereas
all
the
world
knoweth
,
that
Eusebius
meaneth
nothing
els
in
that
place
,
but
to
signify
the
great
appeerance
,
from
all
places
,
of
the
clergie
men
,
of
all
sorts
,
in
that
most
honorable
synod
.
And
it
is
likewise
apparant
by
the
sixt
Canon
of
the
saide
Councell
,
that
long
before
that
time
,
Bishops
had
verie
large
jurisdictions
:
as
the
Bishop
of
Alexandria
is
saide
according
to
an
olde
custome
,
to
have
authoritie
or
power
over
all
Egypt
and
Pentapolie
.
Nay
it
is
manifest
by
the
historie
of
those
,
and
the
former
times
,
that
as
at
the
first
for
the
repressing
of
schismes
,
Bishops
had
authoritie
given
them
over
the
rest
of
the
clergie
,
so
upon
good
experience
and
long
proofe
,
that
the
Bishops
being
manie
in
number
,
did
growe
themselves
likewise
at
some
jarres
;
it
seemed
good
unto
that
councell
,
with
the
emperors
consent
,
for
the
better
government
of
them
in
like
maner
,
to
devide
the
whole
body
of
Christendome
into
fower
Patriarckships
:
whereof
the
first
was
Rome
,
which
had
authoritie
over
Italy
and
other
churches
of
the
west
:
The
second
Alexandria
:
which
had
confirmed
unto
it
the
old
jurisdiction
before
mentioned
:
The
third
Antioch
:
which
was
over
Syria
:
and
the
fourth
Ierusalum
,
that
ruled
the
churches
in
Iurie
.
So
as
he
that
should
dreame
of
any
such
presbyteries
in
Constantines
time
,
as
our
new
men
talke
of
:
must
either
be
very
much
distempered
,
verie
ignorant
or
verie
malitious
.
This
I
am
sure
of
,
that
men
of
such
a
faculty
,
can
never
want
authority
to
proove
what
they
list
.
And
therefore
as
I
said
,
so
I
saie
againe
my
brethren
,
that
if
they
shall
alledge
any
of
the
said
ancient
fathers
,
councels
or
histories
to
proove
the
equalitie
of
ministers
,
the
government
of
their
Aldermen
,
and
the
continuance
of
their
presbyteries
since
the
Apostles
times
,
they
alwaies
abuse
themselves
,
falsifie
their
authors
,
&
endevour
to
deceive
their
readers
&
hearers
:
I
beseech
you
deerly
beloved
,
beleeve
them
not
.
I
might
heere
likewise
put
you
in
minde
,
how
these
prophets
,
who
seeke
to
withdraw
you
from
the
church
established
,
are
rent
in
sunder
,
and
divided
amongst
themselves
.
They
have
written
bookes
one
against
another
,
and
do
most
bitterly
condemne
the
dooings
and
proceedings
one
of
another
.
You
(
saith
one
sort
of
them
)
in
that
you
separate
your selves
from
the
publike
assemblies
in
England
,
are
growen
to
become
plaine
Donatists
and
heretikes
:
you
(
saith
the
other
)
in
that
you
having
laid
the
foundations
whereupon
we
stand
,
and
yet
do
joine
your selves
with
them
,
are
become
meere
hypocrites
and
apostataes
:
it
had
been
better
for
you
never
to
have
knowen
the
truth
,
than
by
such
your
dealings
so
to
have
betraied
it
.
Do
you
see
these
things
(
deerly
beloved
)
and
will
you
not
eschew
them
?
Will
you
give
your selves
over
to
an
unbridled
course
,
the
end
whereof
you
know
not
?
Shall
men
of
such
inconstancy
lead
you
from
the
truth
,
and
make
you
to
imbrace
those
things
,
which
you
know
to
have
been
condemned
with
one
consent
by
all
the
ancient
fathers
for
heresies
?
If
you
will
needes
affect
them
still
,
bicause
you
have
no
stay
of
your selves
;
yet
let
me
,
I
beseech
you
,
prevaile
thus
much
with
you
,
that
untill
,
at
the
least
,
they
agree
amongst
themselves
,
you
will
be
content
to
give
over
any
longer
to
follow
them
.
In
so
doing
,
I
doubt
not
,
but
you
shall
returne
to
your
old
love
of
the
truth
,
imbrace
with
your
former
joies
this
your
present
reformation
(
which
your
neighbors
adjoining
would
thinke
themselves
most
happie
to
attaine
:
)
and
with
all
sobrietie
and
contentment
,
willingly
and
obediently
submit
your selves
to
obey
these
and
the
like
exhortations
,
penned
by
the
holy
Ghost
,
and
tending
to
persuade
you
to
perseverance
in
that
godly
doctrine
which
you
have
received
.
Sicut
accepistis
Iesum
Christum
Dominum
,
ita
in
Et
Deus
pacis
erit
vobiscum
,
And
the
God
of
peace
shall
be
with
you
.
Beware
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
of
dogs
,
beware
●…ll
workers
,
beware
of
concision
,
that
is
,
convalescit
planta
quae
saepe
transfertur
:
that
plant
never
prooveth
,
which
oft
is
remooved
.
Suffer
not
your selves
,
as
it
were
bowles
,
to
be
easily
turned
hither
and
thither
.
Lapis
quadratus
stabilis
est
:
The
square
stone
lieth
surest
.
It
is
very
unmeete
you
should
hence
foorth
be
any
more
The
time
will
come
when
they
will
not
suffer
wholsome
doctrine
:
but
having
th
eir
eares
itching
,
shall
after
their
owne
lust
s
get
them
an
heape
of
teachers
.
2.
Tim.
4.
Whereas
there
is
am
among
you
envieng
and
strife
,
and
devisions
,
are
ye
not
carnall
,
and
walke
as
men
?
for
when
one
saith
,
I
am
Pauls
,
and
an
other
I
am
Apollos
,
are
ye
e
not
carnall
?
1
Cor.
3.
FINIS
.