THE
FORE-RVNNER
OF
BELS
DOWNEFAL
.
The
vaine
and
foolishe
title
of
his
booke
,
with
a
note
of
a
quadruple
deuise
,
which
he
vseth
to
winne
him self
credit
,
and
to
endomage
the
Catholike
cause
.
CHAP.
I.
THERE
came
lately
to
my
handes
,
a
certaine
booke
presented
the
last
Easter
tea●me
to
the
viewe
of
the
worlde
,
by
one
Thomas
Bell
,
long
since
à
Minister
,
after
that
a
Preist
,
and
for
some
yeares
past
,
and
at
this
present
,
Sicut
erat
in
principio
:
as
it
was
in
the
begininge
:
a
Minister
againe
:
in
which
state
he
meaneth
constantly
to
continue
,
vntil
the
Lord
by
new
reuelation
shal
otherwise
dispose
of
his
person
.
The
title
of
his
booke
looketh
bigge
as
though
it
had
eaten
buls-beife
,
and
accordinge
to
the
comon
sayinge
,
as
the
Deuile
lockt
ouer
Lincolne
,
and
is
readie
to
quarrel
with
any
Papist
whatsoeuer
:
this
it
is
.
The
Downefal
of
Poperie
proposed
by
way
of
a
new
challenge
,
to
al
Englishe
Iesuites
,
and
Iesuited
,
or
Italianized
Papistes
:
daringe
them
al
ioyntlie
,
and
euery
one
of
them
seuerally
,
to
make
answere
thereunto
,
if
they
can
,
or
haue
any
truth
on
their
side
:
knowinge
for
truth
,
that
otherwise
al
the
worlde
wil
crye
with
open
mouthes
,
Fye
vpon
them
,
and
their
patched
hotch-potch
religion
.
Aerius
:
scorninge
of
reliques
,
scoffinge
at
inuocations
of
Saintes
,
reiectinge
voluntary
pouertie
,
and
allowance
of
Preistes
,
taken
from
Vigilantius
,
raylinge
at
the
holy
Crosse
,
and
sacred
Images
:
receiued
from
Iulian
the
Apostata
,
and
miscreant
Mahumetanes
:
and
diuers
other
such
like
fragments
,
scraped
together
,
be
in
their
congregatione
entertained
for
heauenlye
articles
:
and
so
whether
it
may
not
truly
be
tearmed
,
à
patched
hotch-poch
religion
,
and
godles
galimamphorye
of
a
new
gospel
,
I
leaue
to
indifferent
iudgment
.
Diuers
other
bookes
in
former
times
,
hath
he
also
diuulged
,
(
for
he
had
rather
be
ill
occupied
then
idle
)
each
of
them
,
one
so
like
another
,
that
any
man
may
easely
knowe
them
to
be
puppies
of
one
litter
,
&
sundrie
puddles
stewinge
from
one
sincke
.
In
al
which
the
principal
scope
he
outwardly
aymeth
at
,
is
the
ouerthrowe
of
Poperie
,
as
he
speaketh
,
and
the
aduancement
of
the
truth
:
but
whether
any
Pharaisaicall
makinge
broade
his
phylacteries
,
and
enlarging
v.
s
his
fringes
,
the
loue
of
the
first
places
at
suppers
,
and
the
first
chayres
in
the
Sinagoges
,
and
salutations
in
the
market
place
,
and
to
be
called
of
men
Rabbi
,
hath
also
his
share
,
and
diuide
stakes
,
that
is
councel
to
any
,
and
a
mysterie
so
secretlye
carried
,
that
it
is
without
the
compasse
of
al
humane
diuination
:
for
the
happie
effecting
of
these
his
designements
,
and
to
procure
credit
with
his
readers
,
(
for
I
thinke
he
hath
litle
with
his
hearers
)
like
an
olde
soldiear
and
beaten
Captaine
he
vseth
many
stratagems
,
but
especially
fower
.
The
first
is
,
to
prouoke
,
to
challenge
,
to
dare
al
learned
men
,
to
the
combat
.
for
would
any
man
in
his
wittes
,
make
such
an
offer
,
were
he
not
moste
assured
of
victory
,
and
to
triumphe
ouer
the
Romans
,
that
haue
so
often
triumphed
ouer
others
?
The
second
is
,
with
great
sorrowe
of
sowle
to
lament
,
that
he
can
get
no
answere
to
his
bookes
,
and
vtterly
to
dispaire
euer
to
see
any
such
thinge
effectually
attempted
:
an
euident
demonstration
,
that
they
be
of
rare
erudition
,
and
truth
in
his
side
.
The
third
is
an
inuection
(
if
we
liste
to
beleue
him
of
his
owne
,
as
Thraso
said
in
Terence
)
in
great
and
wonderful
thinges
aboue
him self
.
His
malice
is
great
,
but
his
power
nothing
Psalm.
130.
v.
2.
corespondent
.
He
is
a
curst
cowe
,
but
with
short
hornes
:
wherfore
let
him
striue
againste
Catholike
veritie
,
struggle
with
God
and
Church
,
war
against
heauen
:
repentance
(
god
graunt
that
not
fruitles
)
wil
be
the
end
of
his
labours
:
and
perpetual
disgrace
,
(
without
diuine
amendinge
grace
)
the
iust
rewarde
of
his
workes
.
If
any
ouerswaied
with
a
false
weeninge
,
thinke
otherwise
,
let
him
haue
a
litle
patience
,
voutsafe
the
reading
of
this
smale
treatise
,
and
he
shal
see
his
fower
forts
(
by
one
that
acknowledgeth
him self
inferior
to
thousands
in
Gods
church
)
fiered
about
his
eares
:
let
vs
breifly
runne
them
al
ouer
.
Bel
seemeth
wonderful
desirous
of
disputation
in
wordes
,
and
yet
in
deedes
refuseth
the
same
.
With
an
indifferend
offer
of
trial
.
CHAP.
II.
MVch
ianglinge
hath
the
minister
kept
since
his
laste
reformation
,
&
like
a
Ffleet-streete
hackster
iustileth
at
Iesuits
,
showldreth
Seminaries
,
braueth
al
the
learned
men
of
christendome
;
so
desirous
is
he
to
manifest
his
manhoode
,
to
exercise
his
talent
,
and
to
shew
the
worlde
some
tricke
of
his
In
the
preface
speciall
,
and
pag.
35.
and
36.
To
the
Seminary
.
Preists
in
wisbich
castle
,
&c.
Pag.
57.
and
65.
cuninge
.
This
humor
of
his
he
discouereth
in
his
motiues
:
The
same
vauntinge
vaine
hunteth
him
in
his
Surueye
:
In
his
huntinge
of
the
Romishe
fox
,
though
it
be
but
a
petty
pamphlet
,
yet
is
he
once
or
twice
harpinge
on
the
same
stringe
:
And
in
his
Counterblast
,
with
in
solent
wordes
&
opprobrious
tearmes
,
he
dareth
Iesuites
,
and
Seminaries
,
to
answere
his
bookes
.
And
lastly
in
his
late
Downefalle
,
he
proclaymeth
à
new
challenge
,
couragiously
castinge
out
his
daringe
dartes
:
and
in
the
end
of
his
preface
;
and
euery
seueral
chapter
,
as
though
he
had
bene
apprentice
to
some
ballad
maker
,
the
foote
of
the
songe
runneth
after
this
manner
:
Answere
o
Papistes
if
you
can
,
if
ye
cannot
so
doe
,
then
repent
for
shame
,
and
yeelde
vnto
the
truth
:
And
at
the
heeles
of
one
of
them
followeth
this
fearful
,
and
formidable
adiuration
.
I
challenge
you
,
I
prouoke
you
to
the
combatte
,
I
adiure
you
al
ioyntlie
,
and
euery
one
of
you
seuerally
,
for
the
creditt
of
your
cause
,
for
the
honor
of
your
Pope
,
and
the
life
of
Popish
doctrine
,
which
now
lieth
bleedinge
,
and
wil
shortly
yeelde
vp
the
ghost
,
if
some
soueraigne
remedie
be
not
speedely
prouided
for
the
same
.
The
minister
may
take
care
for
his
winding
sheete
,
gods
church
is
in
no
daunger
,
the
more
she
bleedeth
out
such
corrupt
,
and
pestilent
humors
as
he
is
,
the
better
is
hir
estate
.
He
muste
pardonvs
,
we
relie
more
vpon
Christes
promise
for
hir
perpetual
continuance
,
then
vpon
his
lyinge
lippe
,
for
hir
shorte
yeeldinge
vp
the
ghost
.
we
make
no
dout
but
that
he
mightely
enuieth
her
felicitie
,
and
greedely
thirsteth
after
hir
destruction
.
But
as
litle
doe
we
doubt
,
but
that
she
shal
stil
liue
and
endure
,
rumpantur
vt
ilia
Codro
,
although
he
frett
out
his
bowelles
with
greife
and
enuie
.
Desiderium
peccatorum
peribit
,
the
desier
of
Psalm.
111.
v.
9.
sinners
(
such
as
he
is
)
shal
perishe
.
Thus
the
minister
braggeth
&
braueth
others
to
disputation
,
either
by
worde
or
writinge
,
and
like
à
desperate
cowarde
,
feareth
not
to
fight
with
any
,
prouided
alwayes
that
they
be
far
ynough
of
,
and
him self
out
of
al
daunger
:
and
so
he
sheweth
him self
of
as
resolute
a
courage
,
as
the
coliar
of
Croidon
,
who
litle
fearinge
the
Maior
of
Londons
authoritie
,
out
with
his
purse
,
and
like
a
liberall
gentlman
,
gaue
him
that
liuerie
which
would
better
haue
beseemed
some
body
els
:
but
yet
not
before
he
was
six
miles
out
of
towne
.
Yf
he
take
him self
for
such
à
silogistical
swashbuckler
,
that
nothinge
but
present
death
,
to
approache
the
sphere
of
his
disputant
actiuitie
,
why
did
he
neuer
vouchsafe
to
visit
Wisbiche
,
where
he
might
haue
wonne
him self
imortal
fame
,
if
he
could
by
his
learninge
and
force
of
arguments
,
either
haue
transformed
them
from
Papistes
to
ministers
(
as
by
special
reuelation
he
hath
chaunged
him self
)
or
els
by
his
potent
proofes
,
so
set
them
agrounde
,
that
their
fauorable
auditors
should
haue
condoled
their
dismolle
misfortune
,
seing
them
so
battered
with
Bell
bullets
,
and
put
to
so
disgratious
confusion
:
was
he
doubtful
of
findinge
them
at
home
?
it
cannot
be
,
their
busines
lay
alwayes
within
doores
,
and
he
might
haue
bene
as
sure
of
them
,
as
though
they
had
bene
fast
shut
vp
in
a
Castle
.
was
he
vnwillinge
to
take
so
longe
à
iorney
?
no
iuste
cause
of
any
such
suspition
,
when
he
offereth
about
the
like
busines
,
with
a
safe
conduct
to
repare
into
any
parte
This
is
the
magnanimous
spiritt
of
worthie
Sir
Thomas
,
or
els
why
hath
he
not
repaired
to
these
places
,
where
his
longinge
might
haue
bin
satisfied
:
or
if
he
desiered
to
manifest
him self
to
the
world
,
or
to
seeke
for
the
common
good
of
many
,
why
did
he
not
procure
by
that
great
grace
&
fauour
which
his
desartes
hath
purchased
him
in
court
,
wherof
for
who
is
this
vncircumcised
Philistian
,
that
hath
dared
to
rayle
vpon
the
armye
of
the
liuinge
god
?
I
challenge
this
challenginge
cowarde
,
dare
and
redare
,
this
daringe
dastard
,
that
he
wilfor
the
honor
of
his
cause
,
the
creditt
of
his
learninge
,
and
defence
of
his
braginge
and
insolent
bookes
,
labour
effectually
,
that
we
may
in
manner
aforesaid
grapple
together
.
Yf
he
refuse
this
condicion
,
so
reasonable
,
so
iuste
,
so
indifferent
,
no
remedy
but
I
muste
come
vpon
him
,
with
à
lawe
case
of
nouerint
vniuersi
.
Be
it
knowen
to
all
men
,
that
the
date
of
his
learninge
is
out
,
his
great
and
flowinge
courage
daunted
,
and
drawen
drie
:
proclaime
him
contemptible
,
and
banckrout
,
hauinge
broken
with
his
owne
dependants
and
creditors
,
and
expose
him
for
a
iestinge
stocke
to
all
Christian
people
,
from
generation
to
generation
world
without
end
.
Amen
.
That
Bels
bookes
haue
longe
since
receiued
their
answere
,
with
the
particuler
contents
of
the
same
,
and
though
vpon
iust
occasion
it
hath
hitherto
bin
suppressed
,
yet
shortly
by
gods
grace
to
be
set
forth
.
CHAP.
III.
WHeras
Bel
hath
passed
hitherto
vncontrolled
,
and
without
answere
,
partly
for
that
by
some
of
iudgment
not
any
was
thought
necessary
(
of
such
course
stuffe
be
they
made
)
partly
for
other
iuste
reasons
,
hereafter
more
at
lardge
to
be
handled
;
the
minister
maketh
his
comoditie
thereof
,
and
would
haue
the
worlde
to
thinke
,
that
not
lack
of
good
wil
,
but
want
of
skill
,
hath
made
Catholikes
so
longe
silent
:
and
all
this
to
alienate
mens
mindes
from
the
faith
of
their
forefathers
,
as
a
religion
that
cannot
stande
in
feilde
againste
him
,
and
for
that
cause
hath
bin
vtterly
left
destitue
of
all
defence
.
And
albeit
he
had
intelligence
by
a
Catholike
booke
(
as
him self
confesseth
)
sett
out
in
then'de
of
the
yeare
1602
,
that
the
confutation
of
his
workes
was
vndertaken
,
and
to
be
published
if
it
should
be
thought
conuenient
(
and
one
parricular
point
in
the
same
touched
,
which
did
not
alitle
wringe
his
mastership
on
the
walles
,
though
he
set
a
good
face
on
the
matter
,
and
for
the
ease
of
his
stomake
,
entertained
the
said
booke
with
the
eloquent
flowers
of
Shameles
pamphlet
,
In
his
Counterblast
pag.
45.
Sourrilous
libel
,
and
a
rude
lyinge
hotch-pot
of
omnigitherum
:
reuelleth
also
at
the
author
,
him self
,
tearminge
him
in
the
lenity
of
his
spiritt
,
Swaggeringe
diuine
,
Shameles
calumniator
,
sowle-mouthed
swaggeringe
diuine
,
impudent
lyer
,
and
brasen
face
)
yet
by
no
the
eies
of
the
simple
readers
,
and
of
others
,
that
shal
heare
thereof
,
that
they
may
stil
be
scduced
with
popish
legierdemaine
,
from
time
to
time
,
and
not
behould
the
sun
shininge
at
noonetide
,
who
all
in
the
end
must
receiue
the
iust
rewarde
of
their
follie
,
euen
the
slapp
of
a
fox
tayle
.
Thus
the
minister
is
pleasant
,
recreateth
him self
and
his
readers
with
his
merry
conceites
,
but
if
in
conclusion
the
confutation
doe
come
forth
,
as
by
gods
grace
it
shall
,
with
that
conuenient
speed
,
which
the
time
,
and
other
occurrents
will
permitt
,
is
he
not
then
like
those
that
leremie
speaketh
of
,
proued
a
false
Prophett
,
and
doe
not
they
that
beleeue
him
(
as
I
thinke
there
be
very
few
,
let
him
prattle
what
he
liste
)
shew
them selues
very
sillie
sheepe
,
to
follow
such
a
bel-weather
;
and
that
they
must
in
the
end
receiue
the
iust
rewarde
of
their
folly
,
euen
the
blessinge
of
an
Asse
tayle
.
Agayne
in
the
very
same
place
,
No
no
my
dearest
they
meane
nothinge
lesse
.
They
wil
neuer
while
I
liue
,
publish
any
such
confutation
:
their
owne
consciences
condemne
them
,
they
knowe
they
are
not
able
to
performe
it
,
I
would
most
gladly
(
I
protest
before
god
and
the
worlde
)
once
see
any
such
confutation
duringe
my
life
.
Surelie
he
is
much
to
blame
to
discomfort
him self
without
all
cause
.
He
may
very
wel
liue
to
see
it
,
and
yet
die
sooner
much
then
he
would
.
Let
him
not
be
dismayed
,
for
I
can
assure
him
of
myne
owne
knowledge
that
our
consciences
doe
not
condemne
vs
,
neither
doe
wee
knowe
that
we
are
not
able
to
performe
as
great
a
matter
as
that
.
To
giue
the
more
creditt
to
my
wordes
,
and
somwhat
to
reuiue
his
dead
spiritts
,
I
will
here
giue
him
a
note
of
the
nomber
of
the
bookes
,
and
their
particular
contents
.
They
be
in
all
Fiue
,
written
againste
his
motiues
,
and
Surueye
fiue
yeares
agoe
.
The
first
booke
contayneth
many
of
his
notable
vntruthes
,
corruptions
,
and
falsifications
.
The
second
presenteth
a
gallant
and
desperate
fraye
,
betwixt
the
reformed
minister
of
Bascall
,
and
Thomas
Bel
preacher
of
the
worde
:
all
the
clubbes
in
London
being
not
able
to
part
them
.
For
such
a
grace
he
hath
in
writinge
,
that
he
falleth
into
grosse
contradictions
,
and
what
he
saieth
in
one
place
,
not
feldome
he
vnsaieth
in
another
.
The
third
handleth
a
couple
more
of
extra
.
ordinary
,
and
choice
contradictions
,
worthie
for
their
dignitie
,
to
haue
a
speciall
place
by
them selues
.
In
the
first
(
which
hath
diuers
proofes
)
he
condemneth
him self
,
and
his
owne
congregation
(
the
defence
whereof
he
hath
vndertaken
)
for
the
maintayners
of
false
,
hereticall
,
and
blasphemous
doctrine
.
A
pointe
worthie
to
be
considered
of
by
his
bretheren
,
for
he
giueth
them
moste
iuste
cause
,
to
suspect
him
of
playinge
bootye
,
and
that
his
hart
is
still
an
harbourer
of
Poperie
,
or
at
leaste
not
replenished
with
the
liuely
liquour
of
the
new
gospell
:
And
though
he
laboureth
to
purge
him self
of
that
suspition
,
In
his
suruey
to
the
christian
reader
.
Mat.
26
v.
73.
and
sweareth
deuoutly
,
yet
may
they
come
vpon
him
as
those
caterpillers
did
vpon
S.
Peter
with
a
loquela
tua
te
manifestum
facit
,
thy
speech
doth
bewraye
thee
.
In
the
second
(
fortified
also
with
diuers
reasons
)
he
acknowledgeth
our
faith
(
which
with
might
and
maine
he
would
seeme
to
oppugne
)
to
be
the
truth
,
and
that
very
religion
which
Iesus
Christ
god
&
man
,
brought
from
the
bosome
of
his
father
,
and
planted
in
the
worlde
:
so
that
the
Protestants
haue
againe
iuste
cause
to
complaine
of
him
(
as
Balec
did
Balaam
)
for
blessinge
those
whom
they
expected
he
should
haue
cursed
:
and
worthelie
to
haue
him
in
iealousie
as
being
fled
to
them
with
the
same
e●
cap
17.
v.
15.
minde
,
that
Chusai
Arachites
did
from
Dauid
,
to
the
campe
&
seruice
of
Absalon
.
The
fourth
entreateth
of
the
weake
groundes
of
his
workes
,
to
witt
,
what
deceites
he
vseth
in
reasoninge
,
with
exsamples
,
for
more
perspicuitie
and
light
:
what
treacherous
trickes
also
he
practiseth
,
concerninge
Doctors
and
Fathers
,
Councells
and
Scripture
:
so
that
the
reader
shal
haue
a
perfect
Anatomy
of
the
corrupt
body
of
his
bookes
,
with
their
manifolde
maladies
and
diseases
:
and
with
all
behould
all
his
foundations
and
ground
workes
vndermined
,
and
his
fortifications
blowen
vp
.
The
fifth
and
last
,
shall
answere
the
recapitulation
of
his
Suruey
or
as
he
partlie
speaketh
,
the
Perioch
:
in
which
he
would
shew
at
what
time
,
diuers
points
of
our
religion
came
in
.
And
although
what
hitherto
hath
bin
written
,
concerneth
only
his
first
two
bookes
,
yet
will
I
now
take
the
paynes
,
to
veiw
ouer
those
also
,
which
came
out
after
:
as
that
terrible
tooth-lesse
bitinge
beagell
,
called
the
huntinge
of
the
Romishe
Fox
:
the
naturall
ympe
of
his
motiues
and
Suruey
,
begotten
by
them
in
sinne
and
iniquitie
:
it
resembleth
the
parentes
so
liuelie
,
as
though
it
had
crept
out
of
their
mouthes
:
his
Goulden
Ballance
also
,
with
the
yoake-fellowe
.
The
Counterblast
:
and
lastely
his
late
Downefal
,
and
what
in
them
I
shall
thinke
meete
accordinge
to
the
order
propounded
,
by
rancke
in
his
due
place
.
Yf
ought
els
be
added
,
for
exsample
a
more
particular
reply
to
the
challenge
of
his
Downfall
,
that
must
be
counted
for
a
worke
of
superarogation
:
what
reason
hath
he
now
to
feare
that
he
shall
die
before
he
see
his
confusion
.
Tender
boughes
and
younge
leaues
as
scripture
saith
,
and
experience
teach
,
which
reacheth
from
end
euen
to
end
mightely
,
and
disposeth
all
thinges
sweetlie
shal
otherwise
ordanie
,
his
name
be
blessed
:
humaine
councels
,
must
with
al
obedience
yeald
to
heauenly
prouidence
:
only
I
would
haue
the
curteous
reader
to
vnderstande
,
and
Bell
to
knowe
,
that
there
shall
be
no
fault
in
me
,
for
performinge
of
what
soeuer
is
promised
,
more
then
which
,
neither
can
I
in
reason
assure
,
nor
any
with
equitie
euer
expect
.
That
Papistes
doe
not
oppugue
papistes
as
Bel
vainely
vaunteth
:
with
the
discouery
of
a
double
slight
,
which
concerninge
this
point
he
practiseth
.
CHAP.
IIII.
THe
principall
thinge
wherein
Bel
would
be
thought
to
out
runne
his
fellowe
ministers
(
if
any
he
hath
)
and
to
win
the
bel
from
them
al
,
is
a
certaine
singular
gift
,
and
superexcellent
dexteritie
,
of
confoundinge
our
religion
,
by
the
professors
of
our
faith
,
and
setting
one
Papist
together
by
the
eares
with
an
other
.
This
new
inuention
of
his
in
the
epistle
dedicatorie
of
his
motiues
,
dedicated
to
the
right
Honorable
lords
of
the
Councell
,
him self
calleth
A
rare
methodical
discourse
,
such
is
the
rare
humilitie
of
the
reformed
order
,
and
the
memorie
therof
is
so
gratefull
,
that
he
is
often
twanglinge
vpon
this
stringe
.
to
omitt
other
places
in
his
late
Downfal
(
though
long
since
a
fowle
downefall
brake
the
neck
of
his
soule
)
he
obserueth
,
That
popish
religion
hath
alwayes
beene
condemned
of
great
learned
papistes
,
that
liued
in
the
popes
church
.
and
in
another
place
his
margent
telleth
vs
,
that
The
Papistes
graunt
as
much
as
they
desier
:
which
I
would
motiues
,
I
will
breifly
cite
one
:
Many
papistes
(
quoth
he
)
as
Aquinas
Richardus
&c.
doe
hould
,
that
a
simple
Preist
,
by
vertu
of
the
Popes
dispensation
,
may
lawfully
and
effectualy
,
minister
their
Sacrament
of
Confirmation
.
We
willingly
graunt
it
,
as
being
the
moste
receiued
and
common
opinion
:
what
of
all
this
?
But
this
opinion
(
saith
he
)
is
stoutly
impugned
by
other
great
papistes
,
to
witt
,
Bonauentura
,
Alphonsus
,
Durandus
,
Scotus
Maior
,
&c.
Be
it
so
,
what
then
?
such
dissention
as
this
,
is
without
any
violation
of
faith
at
all
.
O
(
saith
he
)
what
gteater
and
more
important
dissention
can
be
then
this
?
for
Confirmation
is
a
Sacrament
with
the
Papists
.
If
he
knewe
not
,
and
be
content
to
learne
I
wil
teach
him
.
A
far
greater
dissention
it
were
,
euen
in
this
verie
point
of
Confirmation
,
if
some
hould
it
to
be
à
Sacrament
,
and
others
did
denie
it
:
the
disagreement
was
of
the
extraordinary
minister
of
the
Sacrament
(
which
is
no
such
important
matter
as
he
would
inforce
)
of
the
Sacrament
it self
they
made
no
question
.
doe
not
we
knowe
that
the
Protestants
them selues
allowe
,
and
prescribe
the
signe
of
the
crosse
in
Baptisme
,
and
that
the
Puritanes
detest
it
:
that
they
in
necessitie
permitt
lay
people
to
baptise
,
and
these
thinke
it
such
a
prophanation
of
that
sacred
misterie
,
that
they
had
rather
suffer
infants
to
die
without
baptisme
(
so
great
a
zeale
they
haue
to
pack
them
to
hell
warde
)
Should
I
come
vpon
him
for
this
varitie
,
and
crie
out
after
this
manner
:
what
greater
and
more
important
dissention
can
be
then
this
,
for
Baptisme
is
a
Sacrament
with
them
:
would
he
not
condemne
me
for
a
notable
wrangler
,
seinge
they
contend
not
whether
Baptisme
be
a
Sacrament
or
no
,
but
about
other
questions
,
to
witt
of
a
certaine
ceremonie
,
and
the
extraordinary
minister
,
which
they
make
no
great
account
of
.
Let
him
then
queitly
take
him self
by
the
sleeue
,
and
see
whether
the
measure
will
not
serue
(
and
much
better
)
to
make
for
his
ministershipp
a
liuery
of
the
same
cloath
.
Were
the
dissentions
in
the
Protestants
congregation
,
of
no
more
fundamentall
points
then
ours
bee
,
it
should
not
daily
be
shaken
with
such
terrible
earthquakes
,
and
to
the
great
disgrace
of
a
new
timbered
gospell
,
for
lack
of
good
worke
manshipp
,
be
in
daunger
of
fallinge
:
but
alas
they
are
continually
brawling
like
beggars
,
and
lie
lugginge
together
by
the
eares
,
about
the
verie
sinnowes
and
soule
of
their
religion
,
in
endles
quarrells
and
contentions
.
Luther
and
Zwinglins
are
proclaimed
by
M.
Iewell
,
that
Patriarchal
moste
excellent
men
sent
of
god
to
giue
light
to
the
world
.
and
yet
did
Luther
defend
till
death
,
the
true
,
reall
,
and
substantiall
presence
of
Christes
bodie
in
the
Sacrament
,
giueinge
his
black
blessinge
to
all
those
that
taught
otherwise
.
Zwinglius
for
all
that
,
hauinge
the
spiritt
no
lesse
then
Luther
,
vtterly
denied
the
reall
presence
,
contemninge
his
curse
,
and
disdayninge
to
followe
the
light
of
his
lanterne
:
such
sweete
agreement
there
was
betwixt
these
two
moste
excellent
men
sent
of
god
.
Can
Bell
deny
this
to
be
true
,
or
that
this
point
of
religion
is
materiall
,
as
vpon
which
dependeth
saluation
or
damnation
:
I
knowe
him
to
be
a
braue
minded
man
,
and
one
that
dare
venture
as
far
for
the
credit
of
the
gospell
as
an
other
:
Yet
I
suppose
he
will
neuer
stand
vpon
any
tearmes
,
but
queitly
admitt
both
the
one
and
the
other
for
knowen
truthes
:
and
then
must
I
be
so
boulde
as
to
demaunde
,
how
he
can
defend
one
of
these
heauenly
prophetes
,
from
being
an
heretike
and
damnable
doctor
;
and
so
with
the
candle
of
false
doctrine
,
to
haue
shewen
his
followers
the
way
to
euerlastinge
darknes
.
The
minister
is
quick
sighted
to
behould
a
mote
in
our
eie
,
but
he
cannot
see
a
beame
in
his
owne
.
May
we
not
iustly
say
to
him
with
our
Sauiour
,
Hipocrite
cast
out
v.
s.
first
the
beame
out
of
thine
owne
eie
,
and
then
shalt
thou
see
to
cast
out
the
mote
of
thy
brothers
eie
.
To
leaue
Germanie
and
speake
of
the
professors
of
our
owne
contrie
:
Doe
not
the
Protestants
thinke
the
dignitie
,
&
superiority
of
Bishopps
and
Archbishopps
agreable
to
gods
word
:
and
yet
doe
the
Puritanes
in
the
name
of
the
lorde
(
by
their
champion
Martin
Mar-prelat
and
his
mutinous
makebates
,
that
band
vnder
his
colors
)
crie
out
(
as
Thomas
Rogers
saith
,
and
it
is
no
councell
to
any
)
that
their
callinge
is
vnlawfull
,
that
they
be
ministers
of
Antechrist
,
In
his
sermon
printed
by
Iohn
Windet
1590.
pag.
13.
worse
then
friars
and
monkes
,
deuiles
bishoppes
,
and
diuelles
incarnate
.
netheir
as
I
suppose
will
he
say
that
this
is
a
triflinge
question
,
for
feare
of
scandalizinge
litle
ones
.
Aerius
of
whom
we
spake
before
,
was
condemned
of
heresie
for
equallinge
Preistes
with
Bishopps
.
Could
Bell
haue
the
luck
to
finger
an
Ouerseer
ship
(
to
vse
his
owne
phrase
,
that
he
may
the
better
knowe
my
Suruey
Pag.
516.
Goulden
Ballance
pag.
31.
meaninge
)
then
were
the
matter
cock
sure
,
and
a
flatt
heresie
indeede
to
mainteine
any
such
assertion
:
mary
till
then
great
wisdome
to
proceede
with
deliberation
,
to
runne
with
the
hare
,
&
hould
with
the
hounde
:
flatter
on
the
one
side
,
and
faune
on
the
other
.
Can
he
not
reade
ridles
,
Dauns
est
non
Oedipus
.
By
the
next
post
he
shall
knowe
more
of
my
meaninge
,
in
the
meane
time
let
him
feede
in
his
hart
vpon
this
by
faith
and
be
thankfull
.
Bel
pretendeth
great
sinceritye
like
à
true
Apostle
,
and
yet
like
à
false
Apostata
vseth
it
not
,
with
some
few
exsamples
of
his
malitious
and
corrupt
manner
of
proceedinge
,
CHAP.
V.
WHere
deceipt
is
intended
,
there
the
Protestacion
of
sincerity
,
vpright
dealinge
,
and
a
tender
conscience
,
as
a
necessary
preparation
must
be
pretended
.
for
this
is
the
goulden
baite
to
angle
ignorant
soules
,
and
the
common
cloake
of
coseninge
companions
.
Iuglers
tuck
vp
their
sleeues
,
open
their
handes
,
and
make
shew
of
the
plainest
dealinge
in
the
worlde
:
False
Sweete
speeches
and
benedictions
,
seduce
the
hartes
of
innocents
.
Bell
as
though
he
were
made
of
no
other
elements
then
sincere
dealinge
,
and
had
not
so
much
as
the
skill
to
foist
in
a
lie
,
or
to
mangle
and
mayme
a
sentence
,
speaketh
often
of
conscience
,
and
honest
proceedinge
,
and
of
his
owne
free
motion
and
liberality
,
entereth
into
a
bande
of
subscribinge
,
and
forfaiture
of
his
creditt
,
if
he
can
be
conuinced
of
the
conrrarie
.
In
the
epistle
of
his
Downefall
To
all
englishe
Iesuites
,
Motiues
.
18.
seminary
preistes
,
&c.
thus
he
writeth
.
In
my
firste
booke
published
in
the
yeare
.
1593.
I
premised
to
yeelde
if
you
could
conuince
me
,
either
to
haue
alleadged
any
writer
corruptly
,
or
to
haue
quoted
any
place
guylefullie
,
or
to
haue
charged
any
author
falesly
.
Yea
and
in
the
same
place
he
addeth
,
thath
he
will
neuer
require
creditt
at
the
readers
hand
,
ether
in
that
booke
or
any
other
to
be
published
hereafter
,
if
any
such
thinge
can
be
proued
against
him
.
Vpon
this
foundation
dependeth
all
the
reputation
of
his
workes
,
and
that
litle
creditt
which
he
hath
gotten
with
his
simple
followers
:
for
if
he
be
such
a
sincere
writer
,
as
he
protesteth
,
and
so
consideratiue
and
respectiue
in
the
peninge
of
his
bookes
,
that
no
suspicion
of
misreportinge
,
or
corruption
,
can
be
iustlie
fastned
vpon
him
,
then
doth
it
euidently
followe
,
that
we
haue
greate
dissentions
,
in
matters
of
faith
,
and
that
our
Doctors
,
be
the
bane
of
Catholicke
doctrine
,
and
then
no
marueil
if
he
make
challenge
vpon
challenge
,
and
remayne
vnanswered
,
when
as
not
only
our
enimies
,
but
also
those
that
we
take
for
our
frendes
,
and
relye
vpon
,
stande
in
open
feilde
againste
vs
,
and
haue
as
it
were
sworne
our
destruction
.
But
if
on
the
contrary
plaine
euidence
shall
conuince
,
that
he
maketh
no
scruple
of
lyinge
,
no
conscience
of
falsification
,
is
not
his
hopocritical
sanctitie
double
iniquitie
,
and
Bel
proued
the
sonne
of
Belial
,
and
is
not
the
maine
piller
that
beareth
vp
al
his
braue
buildinge
,
and
glorious
turretts
ouerthrowen
,
and
him self
with
his
applaudinge
mates
,
in
the
midest
of
their
pastime
,
crushed
,
and
stroken
dead
as
the
insultinge
Philistians
were
by
the
seruant
of
god
Sampson
?
I.
PAg.
40.
Thus
he
cometh
ouer
the
Part.
tit
.
1.
cap.
11
prop●
finem
.
Pope
.
Antonius
(
quoth
he
)
a
man
of
no
smale
creditt
(
for
he
was
an
Archbishop
of
the
Popish
stampe
,
and
by
the
Pope
reported
for
a
Saint
)
hath
these
wordes
.
Reperiturtamen
Martinus
quintus
dispensasse
cum
quodam
qui
contraxerat
&
consummauerit
matrimonium
cum
quadam
eius
germana
.
Neuerthelet
it
is
knowen
that
Pope
Martin
the
fift
,
did
dispence
with
one
who
had
contracted
,
and
consummated
matrimonie
,
with
his
owne
natural
and
fulsister
,
of
the
same
father
,
and
same
mother
,
for
so
much
the
word
(
Germana
,
doth
import
.
Behould
here
gentle
reader
,
the
excellency
of
holy
Poperie
,
and
if
thou
desierest
more
of
such
melodie
,
thou
maiest
finde
it
in
my
booke
of
Motiues
,
but
this
is
here
a
sufficient
antepast
for
all
our
English
Iesuites
,
and
Iesuited
popelinges
.
none
are
so
ignorant
but
they
knowe
that
only
god
can
giue
licence
,
to
marrie
a
mans
owne
natural
sister
.
This
place
he
bringeth
to
proue
(
as
his
wordes
goinge
before
import
,
and
these
now
cited
insinuate
as
much
)
that
te
Pope
taketh
vpon
him
that
power
,
which
is
proper
to
god
alone
:
and
the
matter
as
he
handleth
it
seemeth
so
odious
,
that
some
no
question
condemne
vs
highlie
vpon
his
reporte
,
and
my self
was
since
the
cominge
forth
of
his
booke
,
assaulted
with
this
very
question
,
so
markeable
it
is
in
eueri
mans
eie
.
But
as
it
is
nothinge
preiudicial
to
the
Catholike
faith
,
were
it
true
,
so
beinge
moste
false
,
it
cannot
but
launce
the
ministers
reputation
,
and
goare
the
very
intralles
of
his
best
creditt
.
First
therfor
I
say
that
it
is
nothinge
preiudicial
to
the
catholike
faith
were
it
true
:
For
we
defend
not
al
the
particular
factes
of
any
,
though
Popes
:
we
knowe
that
they
may
erre
,
either
by
wronge
informacion
,
yea
or
of
wilful
malice
.
Their
vniust
actions
(
for
which
they
must
render
account
to
god
)
hurte
them selues
,
and
their
owne
soules
,
catholike
religion
no
reason
it
is
they
should
hurt
though
weaklinges
may
be
scandalized
.
Glorious
S.
Augustin
hauing
reckned
vp
al
the
bishopps
of
Rome
,
from
S.
Peter
to
Anastatius
,
thereby
to
confounde
In
this
order
of
succession
,
there
is
none
founde
a
Donatist
bishop
,
straight
wayes
to
stop
the
mouthes
of
any
,
that
leapinge
from
faith
to
manners
,
might
truly
or
falselie
haue
obiected
the
bad
life
or
fact
of
some
Pope
,
he
addeth
these
wordes
for
a
salue
:
If
in
these
times
any
traitor
should
haue
crept
into
that
order
of
Bishopps
,
which
is
deriued
from
Peter
him selfe
euen
to
Anastasius
,
who
now
sitteth
in
the
same
chaire
,
it
should
haue
bin
no
preiudice
to
the
church
,
and
innocent
christians
,
for
whom
our
lord
prouiding
said
whatsoeuer
they
shal
say
doe
yee
,
but
doe
not
those
thinges
which
theye
doe
,
for
they
say
,
and
doe
not
.
A
certaine
Prelats
daughter
in
this
realme
,
and
wel
affected
to
the
worde
,
by
the
countenance
and
assistance
of
hir
father
,
turnd
of
hir
olde
husband
a
grasing
,
and
betooke
hir selfe
to
à
new
,
Is
Bel
content
that
this
detestable
fact
should
disgrace
their
religion
,
or
that
vpon
this
we
infer
,
that
Superintendent
to
haue
taken
vpon
him
the
power
proper
to
god
alone
,
or
rather
more
(
seing
god
cannot
geue
leaue
to
a
woman
to
haue
two
husbandes
,
neither
can
any
such
president
be
showen
,
but
of
brothers
that
married
their
sisters
we
haue
in
Adams
children
)
Yf
not
:
because
he
may
truly
say
,
that
such
exorbitant
actions
proceede
not
infallibly
or
vsually
,
from
any
such
luciferian
conceit
,
but
rather
from
passion
or
malice
,
which
,
doe
not
seldome
,
peruert
the
iudgment
of
men
in
authoritie
,
and
make
them
runn
headlonge
in
to
grosse
errors
:
then
might
he
very
wel
haue
spared
his
winde
,
and
odious
declamation
against
Martin
the
fifth
.
I
would
not
here
wishe
him
to
come
to
fiercely
vpon
me
,
for
that
I
touch
the
matter
so
lightlie
,
and
threaten
me
the
bastinado
,
for
standeringe
an
Ouerseear
of
the
gospel
,
for
if
he
be
so
liuely
and
pert
,
let
him
not
thinke
,
but
that
I
wil
stand
vpon
my
lawful
defence
,
and
be
readie
to
entertaine
him
,
with
Stafford
law
,
and
by
S.
Chad
,
that
good
Bishopp
of
Lincolne
,
I
hope
to
make
my
partie
good
.
Secondly
I
tell
him
,
that
his
lippes
haue
lashed
out
to
lustilie
,
and
that
he
hath
wickedly
slaundred
Pope
Martin
,
and
moste
perfidiously
corrupted
Antonius
.
The
very
title
of
the
chapter
might
haue
taught
him
,
that
he
was
in
error
:
or
at
least
haue
giuen
him
a
greater
caueat
better
to
consider
the
matter
,
for
it
is
De
affinitate
:
of
affinitie
:
and
therfore
had
the
Pope
giuen
one
licence
to
marry
his
owne
natural
sister
;
he
had
dispensed
in
consanguinitie
,
and
so
nothinge
fittinge
the
matter
intreated
of
in
that
chapter
.
But
what
doe
I
speake
of
error
:
when
as
monstrons
malice
,
and
extremitie
of
hatred
againste
the
church
,
and
Sea
Apostolicke
,
made
him
set
a
broach
this
shameles
vntruth
,
for
otherwise
he
would
neuer
haue
smothered
the
wordes
followinge
,
the
witnesses
of
his
false
doctrine
;
nor
euer
haue
giuen
a
false
glose
and
translation
,
to
those
which
he
doth
cite
.
The
truth
is
this
:
Martin
the
fifth
dispensed
not
with
one
,
to
marry
his
owne
naturall
and
full
sister
,
of
the
same
father
,
and
the
same
mother
(
as
Belle
ambleth
in
amplification
,
and
troteth
alyinge
pace
with
out
all
moderation
)
but
only
to
continue
still
with
hir
with
whome
he
had
married
,
and
with
whom
he
had
consummat
matrimony
,
notwithstandinge
he
had
before
his
mariage
committed
fornication
with
hir
naturall
sister
:
So
that
S.
Anthonius
speaketh
not
any
one
worde
of
the
mans
owne
naturall
sister
,
but
of
his
wife
,
and
hir
naturall
sister
.
For
proofe
and
perspicuitiee
of
this
point
,
let
vs
alleadge
the
Docters
whole
sentence
.
It
is
founde
(
saith
he
)
that
Pope
Martin
the
fifth
did
part
.
tit.
1.
cap.
11.
ss.
1.
dispense
with
à
certaine
man
who
had
contracted
and
consummated
matrimony
with
a
certaine
naturall
ssster
of
hir
,
with
whom
he
had
comitted
fornication
;
yet
with
great
difficulty
,
and
because
the
matter
was
secret
,
and
the
man
not
fit
for
Religion
,
or
to
remoue
into
any
other
contrie
,
and
so
scandal
would
haue
followed
of
the
diuorce
if
it
had
beene
made
.
Let
any
that
is
desierous
of
truth
,
by
this
one
place
,
take
a
scantlinge
of
Bells
holie
sinceritie
.
Because
he
found
S.
Antonius
to
speake
of
a
dispensation
granted
to
one
after
he
had
married
,
and
consummate
matrimony
with
hir
,
whose
sister
before
his
marriage
he
had
knowen
carnallie
:
and
so
a
dispensation
only
in
affinitie
,
contracted
by
vnlawfull
copulation
:
(
for
which
the
Minister
had
he
bin
consulted
would
rather
haue
laughed
at
him
for
his
simple
scrupulositie
,
then
thought
it
needfull
to
sue
for
any
such
fauour
or
grace
)
which
did
nothinge
fitt
his
purpose
;
and
therfore
meaninge
to
make
it
in
spight
of
all
honestie
to
serue
his
turne
,
he
hath
firste
corrupted
the
sentence
by
false
translation
,
sainge
with
his
natural
sister
,
in
steede
of
these
wordes
with
hir
naturall
sister
,
or
the
naturall
sister
of
hir
:
and
although
euery
one
can
not
espie
his
cunninge
conuayance
,
because
he
suppressed
the
other
parte
of
the
sentente
followinge
,
yet
is
it
apparant
ynoughe
to
any
Gramarian
:
for
were
the
latin
as
he
turneth
it
,
then
should
it
not
be
,
cum
quadam
eius
germana
,
but
,
cum
quadam
sua
germana
:
But
not
only
such
as
knowe
latin
,
but
euen
those
also
that
haue
any
skill
in
pewter
,
might
haue
espied
the
grosse
vntruth
,
had
he
cited
the
whole
sentence
as
it
is
in
Antonius
before
alloadged
:
and
therefore
to
healpe
out
a
lye
,
he
ventured
vpon
corruption
,
and
chopt
away
all
those
wordes
which
might
haue
marred
the
market
of
this
Geneua
marchant
.
For
had
one
married
his
owne
naturall
sister
,
as
Bell
not
so
confidently
as
impudently
affirmeth
:
then
should
it
not
haue
bin
truly
said
,
that
he
had
committed
fornication
,
but
incest
,
a
sinne
distinct
in
nature
,
and
far
more
odious
in
the
sight
of
god
:
nether
could
the
matter
haue
bin
secret
as
Antonius
saith
it
was
,
nor
yet
the
seperation
scandalous
,
but
rather
offensiue
to
haue
suffered
them
to
continue
together
in
filthie
pretensed
matrimony
.
To
conclude
therfore
he
had
not
dispensation
in
respect
of
his
owne
naturall
sister
,
but
to
remaine
still
in
matrimony
with
that
woman
,
whose
naturall
sister
he
had
before
mariage
carnally
knowen
.
Hauinge
tolde
so
notorious
a
lie
,
and
holpen
it
out
with
foule
falsification
,
he
could
not
containe
him selfe
but
crie
out
in
the
seale
of
his
soule
Behoulde
here
gentle
reader
the
excellencie
of
holie
Poperie
,
and
if
thou
desierest
more
of
such
melodie
,
thou
mayest
finde
it
in
my
booke
of
Mottues
.
But
may
not
I
with
far
more
reason
desier
him
to
note
the
basenes
of
his
ministerial
iniquitie
,
that
after
such
à
shamefull
prancke
of
lyinge
and
falsification
,
setteth
such
a
braue
face
on
the
matter
as
though
he
were
innocent
and
no
way
to
be
touched
:
And
as
for
the
melodie
he
speaketh
of
,
to
giue
him
his
iust
deserts
I
cannot
deny
but
that
not
only
his
Motiues
,
but
also
his
other
bookes
,
be
full
of
such
harmonie
,
lyinge
,
and
corruption
,
being
the
ordinary
musick
which
this
fidling
minister
scrapeth
to
those
that
daunce
after
his
pipe
.
And
wheras
he
calleth
this
a
sufficient
antipast
for
all
english
Iesuites
and
Iesuited
popelinges
(
such
is
the
modestie
of
this
refined
ropelinge
)
we
willinglie
graunt
it
,
to
be
verie
sufficient
for
all
Catholikes
,
and
his
deuoted
dependants
:
for
vs
,
to
take
him
for
a
whetstoue
docter
,
and
pollinge
preacher
:
for
them
to
discarde
him
,
as
being
the
shame
,
disgrace
,
and
confusion
of
the
new
gospell
,
and
a
corrupt
member
of
their
congregation
.
II.
PAg.
50.
S.
Austen
(
quoth
he
)
proueth
at
lardge
in
sundrie
places
of
his
workes
that
voluntarie
motions
of
concupiscence
are
sinne
indeede
,
and
trulie
so
called
:
In
his
first
booke
of
Retractations
he
hath
these
wordes
.
That
Aug.
lib.
1.
Retract
.
cap.
13.
pag.
13.
which
in
infantes
is
called
originall
sinne
,
when
as
yet
they
vse
not
free
arbitrement
of
wil
,
is
not
absurdly
called
voluntarie
,
because
beings
contracted
of
the
euil
wil
of
the
firste
man
,
it
is
become
in
sorte
hereditarie
:
It
is
not
therefore
Aug.
Retract
.
lib.
1.
cap.
15.
pag.
16.
false
which
I
said
,
sinne
is
an
euil
so
voluntarie
,
that
it
is
no
way
sinne
,
if
it
be
not
voluntary
.
Whether
Bell
fathereth
not
a
notable
vntruth
vpon
S.
Austen
,
when
he
citeth
these
wordes
of
his
to
proue
that
voluntarie
motions
of
concupiscence
be
sinne
indeede
,
and
truly
so
called
,
I
reporte
me
to
the
wordes
by
him
alleadged
:
for
no
such
thinge
is
in
them
to
be
found
,
nay
either
my
braines
are
not
in
good
tune
,
or
els
S.
Austen
proueth
the
cleane
contrarie
.
It
is
a
constant
doctrine
with
that
holie
father
;
that
sinne
is
voluntarie
otherwise
no
sinne
,
and
for
as
much
as
some
dout
might
be
made
of
originall
sinne
,
because
it
seemeth
wholy
inuoluntarie
;
he
affirmeth
also
that
sinne
to
be
voluntarie
and
so
concludeth
generally
all
sinne
to
be
so
:
Marry
a
man
of
the
ministers
learninge
,
may
quicklie
ouerthrowe
vs
with
our
owne
Doctors
,
if
by
that
rare
skill
which
he
hath
in
lyinge
,
when
they
say
one
thinge
,
he
can
without
all
blushinge
maintayne
them
to
say
the
contrarie
.
Let
the
reader
peruse
the
sentence
and
speake
his
minde
freelie
.
III.
PAg.
69.
Disputinge
againste
the
condigne
meritts
of
workes
he
citeth
this
sentence
of
a
Catholicke
writer
Iosephus
Angles
.
Eodem
etiam
modo
,
&c.
As
lib.
Sent.
pag.
130.
other
holie
Doctors
also
consideringe
after
the
same
maner
the
natural
valew
only
of
good
woorkes
,
and
perceiuinge
that
it
is
exceedinge
far
distant
,
from
the
valew
and
iust
estimation
of
eternal
life
,
said
wisely
:
That
our
workes
are
not
meritorious
nor
worthie
of
eternall
life
,
yet
for
the
couenant
and
promise
made
vnto
vs
,
the
good
workes
of
man
,
with
the
helpe
of
grace
,
are
worthy
of
eternal
life
,
and
equall
with
it
,
which
for
all
that
,
that
promise
of
god
which
is
frequent
in
scripture
,
set
aside
,
were
altogether
vnworthie
of
so
great
a
rewarde
.
In
theese
wordes
although
nothinge
be
contained
hurtfull
to
Catholike
doctrine
:
Yet
Bell
by
his
Achymistical
arte
of
chaunginge
truth
in
to
falsehoode
,
can
gather
out
matter
sufficient
against
vs
.
But
before
I
passe
any
farther
,
I
muste
note
one
thinge
breiflie
,
and
that
is
,
whereas
Ioseph
is
dedicatinge
his
bookes
to
the
Pope
,
speaketh
of
kissinge
his
holines
feete
,
this
minister
not
only
out
of
all
season
mencioneth
it
in
this
place
,
but
is
at
it
againe
and
againe
,
as
some
wise
folke
there
be
,
which
if
they
get
a
worde
by
the
end
,
will
hardlie
let
it
goe
,
but
like
a
bell
still
iangle
the
same
tune
.
Doth
not
him selfe
confesse
that
Suruey
pag.
487.
Genebrardus
in
Chron.
Anni
Christi
32.
De
verbis
Apostoli
Sermo
18.
Iustinian
the
Emperour
nine
hundred
yeeres
agoe
kissed
the
Pope
Constantiue
feete
:
and
is
it
not
well
knowen
,
that
Alexander
the
great
,
fell
downe
at
the
feete
of
laddas
high
Preiste
of
the
Iewes
:
and
S.
Austen
reporteth
how
the
people
in
his
time
did
the
like
before
the
feete
of
bishopps
.
all
which
considered
(
to
omitt
what
adoration
is
giuen
to
temporall
princes
)
I
maruell
that
it
should
seeme
so
straung
a
thinge
to
one
of
Bells
readinge
and
learninge
,
that
a
religious
bishop
should
submit
him selfe
to
kisse
the
Popes
feete
:
Ynoughe
of
this
:
Let
vs
now
see
what
he
gathereth
out
of
Iosephus
wordes
against
vs
.
In
the
margent
of
his
booke
this
wholesome
note
is
painted
.
Loe
this
Frier
graunteth
that
all
the
holie
fathers
are
against
the
Papistes
.
It
should
haue
bene
long
ynoughe
before
a
man
of
ordinarie
capacitie
,
could
euer
haue
obserued
any
such
point
in
Iosephus
discourse
.
But
take
heede
whilst
yee
liue
,
when
such
a
turn-coate
as
he
is
cometh
to
tosse
and
turne
ouer
a
sentence
:
for
he
can
not
only
inferr
,
that
which
is
true
,
but
with
as
great
facilitie
gather
that
also
which
is
false
:
Be
it
knowen
to
him
,
that
he
belieth
Iosephus
,
for
no
such
thinge
as
he
noteth
can
be
wroung
,
racked
,
or
coniured
out
of
his
wordes
:
Let
them
be
viewed
and
pondered
by
the
discreete
reader
,
and
I
leaue
it
to
his
iudgment
whether
he
graunteth
any
such
thinge
,
or
no.
The
fathers
saith
Bell
,
out
of
the
testimonie
of
Iosephus
confesse
that
good
workes
accordinge
to
their
naturall
valew
,
be
not
meritorious
of
eternall
life
.
What
is
this
against
vs
?
Doe
not
all
Catholikes
graunt
as
much
,
when
they
acknowledge
that
they
receiue
all
their
efficacie
of
workinge
from
gods
grace
:
which
doctrine
of
ours
he
may
learne
out
of
the
councell
of
Trent
,
where
it
is
handled
at
lardge
:
False
therfore
it
is
that
ether
the
fathers
be
against
vs
,
or
that
Angles
granteth
any
such
thinge
.
IIII.
PAg.
115.
Our
petye
Pygmie
will
needes
be
wrastlinge
with
Hercules
club
;
that
is
,
Bell
bicker
with
Bellarmine
,
impar
congressus
Achilli
;
The
poore
man
might
doe
far
better
and
wiser
,
to
keepe
his
teeth
to
be
agents
for
his
bellie
which
he
loueth
well
,
then
to
endanger
them
vpon
so
roughe
a
file
.
And
what
a
gods
name
is
his
quarell
againste
that
learned
prelate
.
Marry
(
quoth
he
)
These
are
his
expresse
wordes
:
But
in
the
new
Testament
De
verbo
Dei
lib.
3.
cap.
2.
tom
.
1.
because
Christ
had
fulfilled
the
figures
and
the
prophecies
,
althoug
he
many
doe
not
vnder
stand
the
sentences
of
the
scriptures
,
yet
doe
they
vnderstand
the
mysteries
of
our
redemption
,
euen
the
common
countrie
fellowes
and
the
verie
women
.
Thus
writeth
our
Iesuit
,
affirming
that
euen
women
and
the
verie
rustickes
of
the
countrie
,
doe
vnderstand
the
scriptures
,
so
far
forth
as
pertaineth
to
the
misteries
of
their
redemption
.
Yf
the
minister
doe
no
better
keepe
his
handes
from
pickinge
and
stealinge
,
then
he
doth
his
tounge
from
euill
speakinge
,
lyinge
,
and
slaundringe
,
to
vse
the
phrase
of
their
cathechisme
,
he
might
far
more
justly
be
called
in
question
,
for
the
vnlawfull
vse
of
his
fingers
,
then
he
did
the
seruinge
man
at
Thirske
about
suspition
of
Seminary
affaires
:
For
I
giue
him
to
vnderstand
(
though
no
great
newes
)
that
he
belieth
Bellarmin
:
He
saith
not
that
woemen
and
rustickes
doe
vnderstand
the
scriptures
so
far
forth
as
pertaineth
to
the
misteries
of
their
redemption
.
Nay
he
saith
the
contrarie
in
the
wordes
by
him
alleadged
,
Although
many
(
quoth
he
)
vnderstand
not
the
sentences
of
the
scriptures
.
In
which
number
,
I
thinke
rustickes
and
women
must
be
contayned
.
Yf
then
they
vnderstand
not
the
sentences
of
the
scriptures
as
Bellarmin
affirmeth
how
doe
they
vnderstand
the
scriptures
so
far
forth
as
pertaineth
to
the
misteries
of
their
redemption
.
Was
there
euer
knowen
a
more
gallant
gospeller
,
that
dareth
thus
to
practise
his
godles
occupation
though
all
the
towne
looke
on
.
Yea
but
Bellarmin
saith
that
contrie
fellowes
and
women
vnderstand
,
the
misteries
of
our
redemption
:
what
then
?
is
there
no
meanes
to
attaine
that
knowledg
,
but
but
by
readinge
and
vnderstandinge
of
the
scriptures
?
yf
so
,
woe
be
to
them
that
can
not
reade
at
all
,
no
smale
part
of
the
christian
world
.
who
knoweth
not
that
ignorant
people
learne
better
the
misteries
of
their
redemption
,
by
the
instruction
of
their
Pastors
,
dilligence
of
parents
,
and
helpe
of
good
cathechismes
,
then
by
fishinge
for
it
by
their
owne
labour
,
out
of
the
profound
sea
of
sacred
scripture
,
where
they
may
sooner
for
lack
of
skill
be
drowned
in
the
depth
of
errors
,
then
by
them selues
finde
out
the
liuely
waters
of
true
doctrine
;
would
to
god
to
much
experience
in
these
vnrulie
times
,
taught
vs
not
this
to
be
too
true
a
lesson
,
The
lamentable
storie
of
Hacket
that
quintissentiall
Puritan
and
a
great
bible
beater
,
may
warne
all
to
be
wise
vnto
sobrietie
as
.
S.
Paul
V.
PAg.
130.
Many
Papistes
(
quoth
he
)
are
so
blinded
and
besotted
with
vnsauorie
traditions
,
and
superstitious
illusions
,
that
they
deeme
it
a
greater
sinne
to
eate
fleash
in
Lent
,
then
to
commit
adulterie
,
murder
,
or
periurie
.
Seinge
moste
certaine
it
is
that
these
fowle
sinnes
of
adulterie
,
murder
,
and
periurie
,
be
forbidden
by
the
law
of
god
,
no
necessitie
occurringe
or
circumstance
what
soeuer
,
giueinge
any
leaue
to
commit
any
one
of
these
sinnes
:
and
that
the
fast
of
Lent
ordained
only
by
a
positiue
law
of
the
Apostles
,
from
which
many
for
age
,
sicknes
,
and
other
causes
,
may
be
iustly
excused
;
and
this
so
well
knowen
,
that
no
dout
can
be
made
thereof
,
what
a
creature
is
Bell
,
that
vttereth
so
notable
an
vntruth
,
bringinge
not
so
much
as
any
colourable
ground
to
support
it
,
but
his
bare
word
,
and
the
emptie
blast
of
his
owne
mouth
.
Should
I
tell
him
that
certaine
reformed
Protestants
,
otherwise
called
willet
)
vnder
the
letters
of
E.
O.
gaue
him
but
a
litle
item
by
the
way
,
notinge
a
certaine
palpable
contradiction
in
his
Surueye
:
to
wit
that
he
saith
in
one
place
,
that
the
bishops
of
Rome
,
vntil
the
Suruey
pag.
193.
dayes
of
S.
Austen
,
and
long
after
,
were
very
godlie
men
,
and
taught
the
same
doctrine
that
S.
Peter
had
done
before
them
,
and
yet
in
an
other
place
mainteineth
,
that
Pope
Siricius
Suruey
pag.
228.
&
230.
Suruey
pag.
488.
was
seduced
by
Sathan
,
published
wicked
doctrine
,
and
taught
the
flat
doctrine
of
the
diuells
:
and
Pope
Sozimus
falsified
the
decrees
of
the
Nicen
councel
:
so
to
mainteine
the
vsurped
primacie
of
the
church
of
Rome
.
seing
both
these
Popes
liued
in
S.
Augustins
time
.
To
deliuer
him selfe
from
this
disgracious
shakell
which
much
hindereth
his
goinge
,
he
fetcheth
many
crosse
capers
,
tumbleth
like
a
pig
in
a
poke
,
but
he
is
so
hampered
,
that
the
more
he
strugleth
the
more
fast
is
he
caught
,
the
holes
are
so
straight
and
him selfe
so
big
that
there
is
is
no
creepinge
out
,
well
may
he
thruste
his
head
forth
,
as
his
brother
Eaton
the
minister
by
Hounslowe
,
did
vpon
the
pillerie
in
London
,
for
teachinge
his
daughter
a
wrong
lesson
,
but
no
possibility
of
escapinge
appeereth
.
Many
soueraigne
solucions
forsooth
,
and
diuers
plaisters
of
I-sayes
,
are
applied
to
cure
the
wounde
,
but
all
in
vaine
,
for
it
festereth
more
and
more
,
without
all
hope
of
amendment
.
Bad
tinkers
stop
one
heale
,
ad
make
an
other
.
Bell
is
so
cuninge
a
worke
man
,
that
he
hath
both
left
the
olde
leakinge
stil
,
and
made
diuers
new
.
I
touch
this
point
now
breiflie
,
better
oportunitie
hereafter
will
be
offered
further
to
examin
this
matter
,
when
god
willinge
all
his
bucklers
of
defence
,
shall
be
beaten
vpon
his
owne
face
.
At
this
present
I
will
giue
the
reader
a
short
viewe
,
of
the
great
dexteritie
he
hath
in
answeringe
;
and
the
wonderfull
facilitie
in
lyinge
and
the
great
pleasure
he
seemeth
to
take
in
that
occupation
,
insistinge
so
much
vpon
that
,
and
amplifienge
it
at
lardg
,
as
if
he
had
either
conscience
in
his
soule
or
blood
in
his
cheekes
,
he
would
neuer
for
shame
once
haue
mentioned
.
I
will
cite
all
his
wordes
at
full
,
that
no
iust
cause
of
complaint
be
giuen
:
In
his
third
chapter
the
title
wherof
is
.
Of
the
notorious
lies
of
E.
O.
thus
he
declaimeth
.
Pope
Siricius
(
as
Thomas
Bell
affirmeth
)
was
seduced
by
Sathan
,
published
wicked
doctrine
,
and
Precisians
,
came
daylie
to
a
winter
morning
lecture
,
where
after
other
preparatiue
discourses
,
when
the
mot
was
giuen
by
the
preacher
,
and
the
text
of
Multiplicamini
proclaimed
,
candles
were
put
out
,
and
that
they
frequented
this
exercise
,
fare
more
dilligently
then
they
obserued
the
Lenten
fast
:
and
brought
nothinge
to
iustifie
my
relation
,
how
would
he
take
me
vp
for
halting
.
Yea
I
am
verily
perswaded
,
that
albeit
,
I
should
say
that
such
a
thinge
hapned
in
a
principall
towne
in
Barkshire
,
addinge
also
that
the
minister
vpon
the
breakinge
forth
of
the
matter
fearinge
persecution
for
the
testimonie
of
a
good
conscience
,
fled
a
way
towardes
Oxford
,
and
venturinge
with
his
horse
to
take
the
water
,
because
he
had
haste
in
his
way
,
and
could
not
expect
a
boate
,
was
there
drowned
,
that
he
would
not
make
any
great
scruple
notwithstandinge
these
particularities
to
giue
me
the
lie
.
Let
him
then
with
far
more
reason
quietly
disgest
it
him selfe
.
His
odious
tearmes
of
blinded
,
and
besotted
,
vnsauorie
traditions
,
and
superstitious
illusions
,
must
be
pardoned
:
Some
haue
such
a
defect
of
nature
,
that
they
can
not
speake
vnles
thy
stammer
:
and
Sir
Thomas
such
an
imperfection
of
grace
,
that
except
he
rayle
and
lie
he
can
write
nothinge
.
S.
Hierom
calleth
the
Lenton
fast
a
tradition
of
the
Apostles
.
vnsauorie
tradition
so
litle
doth
it
like
him
,
and
to
say
truth
,
the
old
tradition
commandinge
so
longe
abstinence
from
fleashe
,
can
not
but
be
to
the
ministers
mouth
sower
and
vnsauorie
:
and
the
new
Geneua
fashion
that
geueth
leaue
by
the
libertie
of
the
gospell
to
eate
fleash
at
all
times
,
is
far
more
sauorie
,
tothsome
,
and
pleasant
.
VI.
THus
much
out
of
the
Downe
fall
:
now
for
a
packinge
blowe
one
bout
more
and
so
an
end
.
In
this
booke
of
his
which
he
published
the
last
yeare
1603
(
and
coupled
it
together
with
his
Goulden
ballance
)
the
good
man
seemeth
to
be
much
netled
,
and
the
waters
of
his
patience
so
troubled
,
and
shaken
,
that
they
be
not
yet
queit
and
cleere
:
for
a
certaine
Catholike
author
(
in
a
booke
intituled
A
Detection
&c.
written
against
Master
Sutcliff
,
and
Master
taught
the
flat
doctrine
of
the
diuel
:
These
are
the
expresse
wordes
of
E.
O.
whom
(
as
it
seemeth
)
the
diuel
did
euen
then
posesse
when
he
vitered
them
.
For
not
one
of
these
wordes
(
TAVGT
THE
FLAT
DOCTRINE
OF
THE
DIVEL
)
can
be
found
in
my
Suruey
,
in
the
place
which
E.
O.
hath
quoted
,
but
these
wordes
which
of
purpose
he
did
omitt
(
prohibited
mariage
as
an
vnlawful
thinge
)
This
therefor
is
a
notorius
,
and
a
most
malicious
lie
,
It
is
a
lye
in
grame
,
and
that
a
knocker
(
to
vse
his
owne
wordes
else
where
)
adorned
with
the
name
of
the
diuell
,
to
giue
the
more
grace
vnto
it
;
And
that
worthelie
,
because
the
diuel
is
the
Architect
and
thiefe
worckman
in
that
art
and
occupation
.
Here
is
a
greueous
complaint
put
vp
against
E.
O.
for
that
he
hath
slaundred
the
minister
,
and
vttered
a
notorious
and
moste
malicious
lie
,
a
lie
in
graine
and
a
knocker
,
adorned
with
the
name
of
the
diuell
,
&c.
and
the
lye
consisteth
in
this
point
,
because
E.
O.
chardgeth
Bell
as
though
he
should
say
that
Siricius
taught
the
flatt
doctrine
of
the
diuele
,
none
of
which
wordes
as
he
affirmeth
can
be
found
in
his
Surueye
in
the
place
which
E.
O.
hath
quoted
:
and
this
inturie
he
reputeth
for
a
fault
of
no
smale
qualitie
when
he
writeth
that
the
deuile
as
it
seemeth
did
euen
then
posesse
him
when
he
vttered
them
.
A
greuous
crime
doutles
,
that
in
his
seeminge
opinion
deserued
so
suddaine
and
seuere
a
punishment
,
or
els
he
presumeth
much
vpon
the
diueles
friendship
,
when
he
is
readie
to
conceiue
that
for
a
trifelinge
iniurie
offered
to
his
ministership
he
tooke
the
matter
so
hotely
,
as
to
prosecute
it
in
such
terrible
reuenging
maner
.
But
now
nothwithstandinge
all
this
bitter
and
fearfull
exclamation
,
what
if
these
wordes
be
found
in
his
Surueye
and
in
that
verie
place
which
E.
O.
hath
noted
vpon
whom
them
doth
the
notorious
and
malicious
lye
fall
,
whose
coate
is
died
and
marked
with
the
lye
in
graine
,
whose
credit
doth
the
knockinge
lye
batter
and
beate
,
and
whose
tenement
moste
like
to
giue
the
diuele
intertainment
?
That
the
said
Siricius
was
seduced
by
Sathan
,
and
published
wicked
doctrine
he
denieth
not
:
why
I
beseech
him
is
there
any
such
great
difference
betwixt
these
wordes
which
he
graunteth
and
those
other
which
he
doth
not
graunt
,
that
he
should
mount
vp
into
such
extrauagant
tearmes
,
let
them
be
indifferently
pondered
,
and
they
expresse
the
verie
same
meaninge●
for
is
it
not
trulie
verified
of
him
that
he
doth
teach
the
flatt
doctrine
of
the
diuele
,
of
whom
it
is
confessed
that
,
he
was
seduced
by
Sathan
and
published
wicked
doctrine
.
Put
them
into
an
equall
ballance
,
and
a
dram
of
difference
in
sence
and
true
construction
,
wil
not
be
found
,
for
Bell
is
no
nere
allied
to
the
rineged
minister
of
Baschall
then
Sathan
is
to
the
diuile
.
These
are
vaine
shiftes
,
idle
vagaries
,
&
a
cuninge
wheelinge
from
the
matter
,
cries
out
Sir
Thomas
:
To
the
point
,
shew
the
foresaid
wordes
,
or
els
E.
O.
remaineth
conuicted
of
notorious
lyinge
,
and
I
in
the
back
house
ditch
for
takinge
his
parte
:
seeing
he
is
so
short
and
so
cutted
,
to
take
away
all
cauilles
,
and
to
chamber
the
clapper
of
his
runinge
red
rag
.
I
tell
him
that
for
the
wordes
wherewith
Bell
is
chardged
,
two
places
of
his
Surueye
are
quoted
:
to
witt
pag.
228.
and
230.
and
in
the
first
quotation
of
228.
be
those
wordes
found
which
he
admitteth
,
and
in
the
next
of
230.
is
that
sentence
registred
which
he
denieth
vtterlie
euer
to
haue
spoken
.
for
reuellinge
at
Siricius
for
callinge
,
not
holie
wedlocke
as
he
saith
(
he
must
take
an
heare
from
his
beard
which
had
he
done
so
often
as
he
hath
ouerreached
,
he
had
bin
a
balde
minister
longe
since
)
but
the
filthie
yoakinge
and
pretensed
mariage
of
Preistes
the
pollution
of
carnall
concupiscence
:
he
exclameth
against
him
in
this
manner
.
I
add
hereunto
that
this
is
the
flatt
doctrine
of
the
diuele
,
and
S.
Paul
is
my
verie
witnes
herein
.
I
report
me
now
to
his
deuoted
dependants
whether
his
witts
were
at
home
,
when
he
medled
,
with
such
hot
and
dangerous
edge
tooles
,
as
haue
pitifully
hurt
and
scaled
his
owne
fingers
,
or
what
discretion
,
shame
,
or
modestie
he
had
,
to
pursue
his
aduersarie
with
so
full
mouth
and
strong
a
crie
of
wordes
in
which
the
diuele
also
had
his
part
:
so
vainlie
to
vaunt
of
his
sincere
proceedinge
,
so
desperatly
to
deny
any
of
these
wordes
taught
the
flatt
doctrine
of
the
diuele
,
to
be
in
the
place
quoted
:
and
confidently
to
chardge
his
aduerfarie
with
a
notorious
lye
:
when
he
had
more
reason
to
haue
commanded
his
tounge
silence
seeing
it
hath
found
out
his
owne
confusion
,
neuer
to
haue
preached
of
sinceritie
,
when
he
plaide
the
cunny
catchinge
companion
:
nor
euer
to
haue
called
an
other
in
question
for
lyinge
,
him selfe
in
that
very
place
not
only
venturinge
vpon
an
vntruth
,
but
also
in
that
verie
same
thinge
,
which
as
a
notorious
lye
he
obiecteth
to
an
other
.
As
for
S.
Paul
where
he
would
haue
his
witnes
,
he
may
talke
is
pleasure
and
say
what
he
list
,
but
he
may
sooner
spend
all
his
pensions
in
Sub-penas
,
then
euer
bringe
that
blessed
Apostle
to
depose
in
his
side
for
the
lawfull
mariage
of
vowed
Preistes
and
religious
persons
.
The
testimonie
of
their
owne
corrupt
conscience
yea
and
of
their
concupiscence
they
may
haue
:
the
authoritie
of
any
Apostle
,
or
authenticall
auncient
writer
,
they
are
neuer
able
to
produce
.
And
thus
much
breiflie
for
a
sample
cutt
of
as
it
were
from
the
mayne
webbe
intended
.
No
difficultie
had
it
beene
to
haue
ranged
more
plentifully
,
after
the
same
maner
both
in
these
and
other
his
bookes
.
But
my
purpose
was
only
at
this
time
to
giue
a
tast
not
to
furnishe
a
formall
bankett
:
these
few
passages
,
shall
I
hope
for
this
present
giue
the
gentle
reader
desierous
of
truth
,
sufficient
content
:
being
as
it
were
the
two
messengers
Chusy
and
Achimaas
to
bring
FINIS
.