A lerned epistle of M. Iohn Fraser: Bachler of Diuinitie to the ministers of Great Britanie Wherin he sheweth that no man ought to subscribe to their confession of faith. And that their presumed authorite to excommunicate anie man, especially Catholiques, is vaine and foolish.
         Fraser, John, d. 1605.
      
       
         
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             A lerned epistle of M. Iohn Fraser: Bachler of Diuinitie to the ministers of Great Britanie Wherin he sheweth that no man ought to subscribe to their confession of faith. And that their presumed authorite to excommunicate anie man, especially Catholiques, is vaine and foolish.
             Fraser, John, d. 1605.
          
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             1605.
          
           
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           A
           LERNED
           EPISTLE
           OF
           M.
           IOHN
           FRASER
           :
           BACHLER
           OF
           DIVINITIE
           TO
           THE
           MINISTERS
           OF
           GREAT
           BRITANIE
           .
           Wherin
           he
           sheweth
           that
           no
           man
           ought
           to
           subscribe
           to
           their
           confession
           of
           faith
           .
           And
           that
           their
           presumed
           authorite
           to
           excommunicate
           anie
           man
           ,
           especially
           Catholiques
           ,
           is
           vaine
           and
           foolish
           .
        
         
           Permissu
           Superiorum
           .
        
         
           1605.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           
             TO
             THE
             ●VRITAINE
             MINISTERS
             OF
             GREAT
             BRITANIE
             HIS
             COVNTREYMEN
          
           Iohn
           Fraser
           vvisheth
           vpright
           mynd
           tovvarde
           bothe
           God
           and
           Prince
           .
        
         
           HEARING
           of
           your
           extraordinarie
           dealing
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           nature
           of
           your
           extraordinarie
           calling
           ,
           in
           outward
           shew
           onely
           gainst
           Catholique
           men
           ,
           In
           very
           deed
           against
           o
           the
           God
           &
           Prince
           .
           I
           thought
           it
           my
           duetie
           or
           the
           publike
           good
           ,
           to
           write
           some
           thing
           ouching
           that
           subiect
           where
           by
           ye
           might
           nderstand
           how
           ye
           deceaue
           your selues
           ,
           and
           buse
           others
           in
           that
           mater
           ;
           which
           is
           this
           :
           ●e
           labour
           by
           al
           meanes
           to
           constraine
           men
           ,
           ●ho
           at
           Catholique
           (
           for
           as
           to
           others
           men
           ye
           ●
           not
           very
           careful
           )
           to
           approue
           sweare
           and
           ●bscribe
           your
           confession
           of
           faith
           ;
           and
           in
           
           case
           they
           refuse
           ,
           ye
           take
           vpon
           you
           to
           excōmunicat
           them
           .
           Wherefore
           with
           Godds
           grace
           we
           shal
           latt
           you
           see
           ,
           that
           no
           honest
           man
           ,
           true
           subiect
           or
           good
           Christian
           with
           safe
           conscience
           ,
           can
           approue
           sweare
           or
           subscribe
           your
           forsaid
           confession
           :
           &
           that
           ye
           haue
           no
           power
           at
           al
           to
           excōmunicat
           any
           man
           :
           and
           although
           ye
           had
           ,
           yet
           could
           ye
           not
           excommunicat
           Catholique
           men
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           As
           a
           plaine
           dealer
           without
           further
           preface
           I
           wil
           enter
           in
           the
           matter
           .
           Thē
           to
           the
           first
           head
           ,
           it
           is
           certaine
           that
           whosoeuer
           wil
           sweare
           and
           subscribe
           your
           new
           confession
           ,
           contrarie
           to
           the
           duetie
           of
           an
           honest
           man
           ,
           putteth
           him self
           in
           hazard
           to
           be
           mensworne
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           the
           very
           entrie
           of
           his
           othe
           :
           for
           thir
           be
           your
           words
           ,
           if
           I
           rightly
           remember
           :
           
             vve
             al
             and
             euerie
             one
             of
             vs
             vnder
             vvritten
             protest
             ,
             that
             after
             long
             and
             devv
             examination
             of
             our
             ovvne
             consciences
             in
             maters
             of
             true
             and
             false
             religion
             ,
             ar
             novv
             throughly
             resolued
             in
             the
             trueth
             by
             the
             vvord
             and
             spirit
             of
             God.
          
           Many
           faltes
           in
           fewe
           wordes
           ,
           if
           men
           would
           long
           tyme
           ,
           and
           duely
           examine
           them
           in
           their
           consciences
           before
           they
           approue
           ,
           subscribe
           or
           sweare
           them
           to
           be
           true
           :
           for
           first
           euery
           man
           here
           answereth
           for
           his
           companion
           &
           fellow
           saying
           :
           
             vve
             al
             &
             euerie
             one
             of
             vs
          
           &c.
           where
           if
           any
           of
           the
           nōber
           hath
           spoken
           against
           the
           veritie
           or
           his
           conscience
           ,
           al
           the
           rest
           ar
           lyers
           .
           Nixt
           ,
           
           what
           examination
           can
           be
           long
           in
           so
           weghtie
           a
           matter
           ?
           certainely
           not
           fourtie
           dayes
           ,
           yea
           not
           fourtie
           yeares
           .
           When
           these
           thinges
           cometh
           in
           controuersie
           we
           may
           wel
           say
           without
           reprehension
           
             Deliberandum
             est
             diu
             ,
             quod
             statuendum
             est
             semel
             .
          
           Thirdly
           ,
           how
           can
           any
           man
           
             duely
             examine
          
           his
           conscience
           in
           matters
           of
           true
           and
           false
           religion
           ,
           seing
           that
           his
           conscience
           or
           iudgement
           can
           not
           be
           a
           iust
           square
           of
           religion
           ,
           because
           it
           surmounteth
           al
           humaine
           reason
           ,
           &
           is
           comprehended
           onely
           by
           faith
           ,
           not
           of
           our
           owne
           forgeing
           ,
           but
           of
           Goddes
           free
           gift
           ?
           or
           how
           can
           he
           duely
           iudge
           vpon
           true
           and
           false
           religion
           who
           neuer
           hath
           seene
           ,
           heard
           ,
           or
           reade
           the
           reasons
           of
           al
           parties
           ?
           For
           as
           a
           tēporal
           iudge
           ,
           not
           without
           great
           reason
           ,
           may
           be
           thought
           to
           iudge
           very
           rashly
           ,
           if
           he
           pronunce
           his
           sentence
           &
           decreit
           before
           he
           heare
           bothe
           the
           parties
           ,
           not
           withstāding
           the
           matter
           be
           of
           smal
           importance
           and
           value
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           haue
           iudged
           according
           to
           the
           right
           ,
           because
           he
           hath
           iudged
           before
           he
           knew
           the
           ground
           of
           the
           matter
           ,
           and
           so
           if
           he
           hath
           done
           wel
           ,
           it
           was
           more
           by
           happe
           then
           good
           reason
           .
           So
           the
           spiritual
           iudge
           may
           be
           esteemed
           rash
           and
           foolish
           ,
           if
           in
           matters
           of
           religion
           and
           faith
           he
           decreit
           any
           thing
           ,
           except
           ▪
           al
           reasons
           be
           wel
           discussed
           .
           Wherefor
           he
           who
           would
           
             duely
             examine
             his
             conscience
             in
          
           maters
           of
           tr●w
           and
           fals●
           
           religiō
           (
           seing
           he
           take●h
           vpō
           him
           the
           charge
           &
           place
           of
           a
           iudge
           )
           should
           with
           great
           discretiō
           ,
           quyet
           spirit
           &
           humble
           mynd
           ,
           without
           any
           passiō
           trye
           both
           the
           true
           &
           false
           ,
           read
           al
           books
           touching
           that
           subiect
           ,
           weighing
           the
           reason
           diligently
           :
           because
           the
           profit
           is
           great
           to
           them
           that
           goeth
           right
           ,
           and
           the
           danger
           likewise
           to
           them
           who
           goeth
           wronge
           .
           Now
           how
           the
           greater
           part
           of
           your
           sweares
           and
           subscribers
           can
           do
           or
           execute
           this
           charge
           truely
           I
           see
           not
           ,
           yea
           can
           not
           gesse
           ,
           seing
           that
           a
           good
           nomber
           of
           your selues
           ,
           who
           ar
           ministers
           ,
           and
           should
           be
           best
           armed
           at
           destitute
           bothe
           of
           bookes
           and
           good
           learning
           .
           Certainly
           ye
           can
           not
           iustly
           aske
           of
           gentilmen
           ,
           or
           others
           of
           meaner
           degree
           making
           profession
           of
           armes
           or
           housbandry
           ,
           that
           which
           ,
           ye
           your selues
           who
           do
           make
           profession
           of
           letters
           can
           not
           do
           :
           ye
           may
           easely
           iudge
           that
           gentilmen
           and
           commone
           people
           for
           lacke
           bothe
           of
           learning
           and
           bookes
           can
           not
           duely
           ,
           and
           for
           lacke
           of
           tyme
           can
           not
           long
           and
           vvorthly
           examine
           their
           conscience
           in
           sic
           things
           their
           affaires
           ay
           hol●ing
           them
           occupied
           otherwise
           ;
           meikilles
           to
           sweare
           that
           they
           haue
           done
           that
           ,
           which
           neither
           haue
           they
           done
           ,
           nor
           could
           they
           do
           at
           any
           tyme.
           Albeit
           there
           were
           no
           othere
           reason
           but
           this
           ,
           yetafter
           my
           iudgement
           ,
           it
           were
           most
           iust
           &
           sufficient
           for
           any
           man
           to
           refuse
           your
           subcription
           and
           
           swearing
           ,
           and
           should
           moue
           you
           not
           to
           vrge
           men
           there
           to
           ,
           except
           perhapes
           ye
           seeke
           only
           their
           vtter
           ruine
           and
           damnation
           ,
           for
           doubtles
           they
           ar
           mensworne
           who
           sweareth
           that
           to
           be
           true
           ▪
           which
           in
           their
           cōscience
           they
           knowe
           to
           be
           false
           ,
           or
           ar
           not
           assured
           if
           it
           be
           true
           ,
           of
           which
           nature
           ar
           theis
           thinges
           which
           ar
           conteined
           in
           your
           confession
           ,
           seing
           they
           proceede
           of
           men
           who
           ar
           subiect
           to
           errour
           and
           false
           opinion
           ,
           and
           so
           can
           gif
           no
           good
           assurance
           ,
           where
           vpon
           men
           may
           establish
           their
           faith
           .
           Which
           cannot
           be
           certaine
           and
           firme
           except
           it
           haue
           an
           infallible
           ground
           and
           fondament
           free
           frome
           all
           suspiciō
           of
           errour
           .
           I
           may
           with
           many
           weightie
           reasons
           proue
           that
           honestie
           could
           not
           stand
           with
           sic
           maners
           ▪
           and
           shall
           bring
           them
           if
           it
           be
           needfull
           .
        
         
           3
           ▪
           For
           the
           feconde
           head
           it
           is
           ●ar
           against
           the
           duetie
           of
           a
           true
           subiect
           towardes
           his
           Prince
           and
           liege
           lord
           ,
           to
           whom
           he
           is
           obliged
           from
           the
           first
           moment
           of
           his
           birth
           to
           his
           last
           breath
           ,
           wherefor
           can
           not
           gif
           his
           band
           of
           māred
           ,
           no●
           othe
           of
           fidelitie
           to
           any
           other
           but
           with
           exceptiō
           of
           his
           soueraigne
           ,
           which
           notwithstanding
           ye
           desire
           of
           your
           subscribers
           :
           for
           speaking
           of
           the
           worde
           of
           God
           (
           for
           so
           ye
           call
           your
           interpretations
           )
           and
           doctrine
           of
           your
           reformed
           kirk
           ,
           ye
           say
           thus
           ,
           
             to
             the
             vvhich
             vve
             ioyne
             ourselues
             vvillingly
             in
             doctrine
             ,
             faith
             ,
             religion
             ,
          
           
           
             discipline
             and
             vse
             of
             th
             holie
             sacraments
             as
             liuely
             mēbers
             of
             the
             same
             in
             Christ
             our
             head
             ,
             promising
             and
             svvearing
             ,
             by
             the
             Great
             name
             of
             the
             Lord
             ,
             that
             vve
             shall
             continue
             in
             the
             obedience
             of
             the
             doctrine
             and
             discipline
             of
             this
             kirk
             ,
             and
             shall
             defend
             the
             same
             according
             to
             our
             vocation
             and
             povver
             all
             the
             dayes
             of
             our
             liues
             ,
             vnder
             the
             paines
             conteined
             in
             the
             lavve
             ,
             and
             danger
             bothe
             of
             body
             and
             soule
             ,
             in
             the
             day
             of
             Goddes
             fearfull
             iudgement
             .
          
           There
           be
           here
           an
           absolute
           othe
           and
           without
           any
           exception
           ,
           made
           to
           you
           and
           your
           reformed
           kirk
           ,
           not
           onely
           in
           matters
           of
           religion
           and
           doctrine
           ,
           but
           also
           in
           gouerment
           and
           discipline
           .
           It
           is
           not
           my
           intent
           at
           this
           present
           to
           examine
           the
           manyfold
           absurdities
           of
           this
           new
           forme
           of
           othe
           ,
           in
           passing
           I
           say
           onely
           ,
           that
           it
           shal
           be
           very
           hard
           to
           any
           of
           your
           swearers
           to
           behaue
           him
           sel●e
           well
           with
           other
           protestant
           ki●kes
           ,
           who
           are
           bothe
           in
           doctrine
           and
           discipline
           far
           different
           from
           you
           :
           shall
           he
           enter
           incontinent
           in
           desence
           of
           your
           reformation
           ?
           shall
           he
           trouble
           all
           states
           where
           he
           doeth
           come
           ?
           Truely
           all
           men
           ha●e
           that
           opinion
           of
           your
           religion
           ,
           that
           it
           bringeth
           euerie
           where
           seditions
           with
           it
           ,
           as
           the
           most
           turbulent
           sect
           that
           euer
           yet
           was
           inuented
           in
           our
           contrey
           .
           
             Ne
             longe
             exempla
             petantur
             Betonio
             primi
             maduerunt
             sanguine
             muri
             .
          
           Or
           shall
           he
           following
           the
           maxime
           of
           your
           faith
           call
           all
           in
           doubt
           not
           withstanding
           of
           his
           othe
           ,
           
           ●ecause
           ye
           are
           but
           men
           and
           may
           erre
           ,
           except
           ●e
           may
           gif
           some
           good
           and
           sure
           reason
           ,
           why
           ●e
           onely
           say
           true
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           world
           false
           ,
           and
           that
           nothing
           can
           procede
           out
           of
           your
           mouth
           ,
           but
           veritie
           :
           for
           your
           othe
           importeth
           no
           lesse
           with
           it
           .
           And
           certainely
           without
           that
           pretogatiue
           of
           assured
           veritie
           bound
           to
           your
           heads
           and
           tounges
           ,
           to
           astrict
           men
           to
           your
           doctrine
           and
           discipline
           formed
           or
           reformed
           by
           you
           ,
           neglecting
           the
           authoritie
           of
           your
           reformed
           kirk
           in
           generall
           ,
           may
           seeme
           somewhat
           against
           reason
           ,
           and
           very
           preiudiciable
           to
           the
           Prince
           and
           common
           wealthe
           .
           For
           by
           this
           othe
           all
           must
           depend
           vpon
           you
           as
           vpon
           the
           soueraigne
           magistrat
           ,
           the
           solemne
           othe
           &
           absolute
           promise
           beinge
           made
           in
           fauour
           of
           your
           doctrine
           &
           discipline
           ,
           which
           ye
           haue
           in
           your
           hands
           and
           ministration
           .
           This
           may
           be
           easely
           seene
           by
           the
           othe
           made
           to
           the
           Kinges
           Maiestie
           ,
           or
           rather
           against
           him
           ,
           which
           ye
           sett
           downe
           in
           this
           forme
           .
           
             And
             because
             we
             perceaue
             that
             the
             quyetnes
             and
             stabilitie
             of
             our
             religion
             and
             kirk
             doeth
             depend
             vpon
             the
             safetie
             ,
             and
             good
             behauiour
             of
             the
             Kinges
             Maieste
             as
             vpon
             a
             confortable
             instrument
             of
             Goddes
             mercie
             graunted
             to
             this
             countrey
             sor
             the
             mainteining
             of
             his
             kirk
             and
             ministration
             of
             iustice
             among
             vs.
             VVe
             protest
             and
             promise
             with
             our
             heartes
             vnder
             the
             same
             othe
             ,
             handwrit
             ,
             and
             paines
             ,
             that
             we
             shall
             defend
             his
             persone
             and
          
           
           
             Authoritie
             ,
             vvith
             our
             geir
             ,
             bodies
             ,
             and
             liues
             ,
             in
             the
             defence
             of
             Christes
             Euangell
             ,
             libertie
             of
             our
             countrey
             ministration
             of
             iustice
             ,
             and
             punishment
             of
             iniquitie
             ,
             against
             all
             enemies
             vvithin
             this
             realme
             or
             vvithout
             ,
             as
             vve
             desire
             our
             God
             to
             be
             a
             strong
             and
             mercifull
             defender
             to
             vs
             in
             the
             day
             of
             our
             death
             ,
             and
             comming
             of
             our
             lord
             Iesus
             Christ
             to
             vvhome
             vvith
             the
             father
             and
             the
             holie
             spirit
             be
             all
             honour
             &
             glorie
             eternally
             Ai●●
          
           Lat
           vs
           consider
           the
           partes
           of
           this
           new
           othe
           .
           Because
           (
           say
           ye
           )
           
             vve
             perceaue
             that
             the
             quyetnes
             and
             stabilitie
             of
             our
             religiō
             and
             kirk
             doeth
             depēd
             vpon
             the
             safetie
             and
             good
             behauiour
             of
             the
             Kinges
             Matie
             ?
          
           &c.
           Well
           begoune
           truely
           ;
           that
           ye
           mistak
           not
           your selues
           ,
           ye
           lay
           downe
           the
           cause
           why
           ye
           will
           do
           or
           at
           lest
           appeare
           to
           do
           some
           seruice
           to
           his
           Maiestie
           ,
           as
           long
           as
           ye
           perceaue
           thinges
           that
           please
           you
           ,
           that
           is
           as
           long
           ,
           as
           al
           thinges
           at
           donne
           according
           to
           your
           fantasie
           ,
           ye
           wil
           be
           good
           and
           obedient
           subiects
           ,
           or
           rather
           maisters
           ,
           seing
           ye
           prescribe
           conditions
           to
           him
           who
           truely
           is
           your
           Maister
           :
           and
           reasons
           why
           ye
           will
           bestow
           any
           thing
           vpon
           him
           .
           What
           if
           any
           reformed
           imaginations
           take
           you
           ,
           or
           some
           extraordinarie
           zeall
           of
           your
           heauenly
           discipline
           trouble
           your
           braine
           ,
           and
           make
           you
           perceaue
           according
           to
           your
           passion
           (
           as
           drounken
           men
           doeth
           see
           two
           candels
           where
           there
           is
           but
           one
           )
           any
           other
           thing
           in
           his
           Maiestie
           ?
           What
           if
           ye
           find
           not
           that
           good
           behauiour
           ye
           
           looketh
           for
           ?
           Must
           he
           dresse
           all
           his
           actions
           to
           your
           fantasies
           and
           good
           pleasure
           ?
           will
           ye
           be
           censours
           and
           comptrollers
           of
           his
           doings
           if
           he
           vse
           not
           your
           counsell
           and
           aduys●
           ?
           If
           your
           perceauing
           of
           thinges
           to
           you
           agreable
           be
           the
           ground
           &
           cause
           of
           your
           promise
           &
           protestation
           ,
           how
           soone
           ye
           preceaue
           in
           your
           fantasie
           the
           contrarie
           ,
           ye
           ought
           him
           nothing
           (
           I
           meane
           according
           to
           your
           opinion
           )
           
             sublata
             causa
             ●ollitur
             effectus
          
           if
           I
           serue
           you
           because
           ye
           nurish
           me
           ,
           if
           ye
           cease
           to
           nurish
           me
           ,
           I
           am
           no
           further
           obliged
           to
           serue
           you
           .
           what
           shall
           become
           here
           of
           your
           hearty
           promises
           and
           protestations
           when
           your
           sight
           shal
           be
           changed
           ?
           to
           what
           state
           shal
           the
           cōmen
           wealth
           be
           brought
           when
           your
           foolish
           affections
           shewe
           a
           rule
           to
           the
           Kinges
           Maiestie
           and
           honorable
           con●ell
           to
           gouerne
           his
           realme
           ?
           many
           thinges
           appeares
           to
           vs
           otherwise
           then
           they
           ar
           :
           and
           reasons
           being
           knowen
           ,
           they
           ar
           found
           good
           ,
           that
           seemed
           ill
           before
           :
           we
           say
           cōmonly
           there
           should
           
           no
           hyndman
           half
           work
           see
           .
           ye
           do
           many
           things
           in
           your
           house
           perhapes
           well
           &
           honestly
           ,
           which
           were
           neither
           expediet
           nor
           decent
           to
           be
           deuulgated
           to
           euery
           man
           :
           as
           also
           ye
           haue
           some
           secret
           counsell
           touching
           your
           affaires
           ,
           which
           ye
           should
           loosse
           ,
           if
           your
           intention
           were
           publikly
           knowen
           .
           Think
           also
           that
           King●s
           &
           Princes
           according
           to
           their
           great
           rankes
           haue
           
           secrets
           ,
           which
           should
           not
           nor
           can
           not
           be
           published
           without
           preiudice
           of
           bothe
           Prince
           &
           state
           ,
           the
           which
           can
           not
           be
           cōserued
           sometymes
           without
           the
           euident
           domage
           and
           hurt
           of
           some
           particulare
           men
           (
           as
           by
           the
           losse
           of
           one
           member
           some
           tyme
           we
           preserue
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           body
           )
           by
           which
           we
           should
           not
           esteeme
           &
           mesure
           the
           princes
           actions
           but
           by
           the
           publik
           vtilitie
           ,
           which
           they
           procure
           better
           then
           we
           can
           see
           or
           vnderstand
           :
           because
           their
           authoritie
           and
           experience
           gifeth
           them
           the
           wisdome
           &
           knowledge
           which
           we
           can
           not
           haue
           
             Caesaribus
             virtus
             contigit
             ante
             diem
          
           .
           There
           be
           certaine
           
             arcana
             imperij
          
           whereto
           we
           can
           not
           penetrate
           ,
           &
           therefor
           lyke
           fooles
           oft
           tymes
           we
           do
           iudge
           rashly
           ,
           &
           condemne
           thinges
           which
           we
           vnderstand
           not
           .
           Wherefor
           we
           should
           do
           well
           not
           to
           enter
           in
           iudgement
           of
           so
           high
           matters
           .
           
             Quam
             quisque
             nouit
             artem
             in
             ea
             se
             exerceat
             .
          
           but
           your
           extraordinarie
           calling
           maketh
           you
           maisters
           in
           all
           craftes
           ,
           and
           your
           new
           discipline
           will
           not
           suffer
           you
           to
           haue
           so
           long
           patience
           .
           Ye
           who
           enter
           in
           Goddes
           cabinet
           when
           ye
           list
           ,
           must
           know
           all
           things
           at
           the
           first
           instāt
           :
           nothing
           should
           be
           hid
           to
           you
           .
           ye
           haue
           receaued
           the
           spirite
           of
           discretion
           ,
           nothing
           should
           be
           donne
           without
           your
           approbation
           .
           Ye
           ar
           in
           the
           chaire
           of
           veritie
           ,
           ye
           may
           speak
           what
           ye
           will
           ;
           iudge
           whom
           ye
           please
           ,
           comptroll
           
           whome
           ye
           list
           :
           approue
           or
           improue
           as
           ye
           think
           good
           or
           ill
           :
           ye
           haue
           taken
           the
           power
           :
           ye
           haue
           receaued
           the
           othe
           :
           all
           men
           ar
           your
           subiects
           ,
           so
           the
           Prince
           is
           subiect
           to
           your
           perceauing
           ,
           the
           principall
           rule
           of
           your
           new
           populaire
           tribuna●
           .
           But
           ye
           will
           say
           that
           my
           cōclusion
           followed
           not
           vpō
           your
           antecedēt
           .
           I
           wold
           be
           glad
           it
           were
           so
           &
           that
           I
           were
           deceaued
           in
           my
           opiniō
           ,
           so
           willing
           I
           am
           to
           heare
           that
           there
           were
           no
           traittour
           in
           our
           countrey
           .
           But
           if
           we
           will
           consider
           the
           solemne
           othe
           passed
           before
           in
           fauour
           of
           your
           new
           reformatiō
           ,
           to
           defend
           and
           obserue
           the
           doctrine
           and
           discipline
           thereof
           vnder
           so
           horrible
           a
           promise
           ,
           or
           rather
           imprecations
           &
           execrations
           as
           we
           haue
           noted
           before
           ,
           it
           followed
           very
           necessarily
           :
           for
           ye
           may
           extend
           (
           as
           ye
           do
           when
           it
           pleased
           you
           )
           the
           borders
           of
           your
           discipline
           ,
           as
           far
           as
           it
           seemed
           good
           to
           you
           ,
           and
           interpret
           your
           doctrine
           as
           ye
           thinke
           most
           expedient
           ,
           and
           so
           perceaue
           what
           ye
           please
           ,
           where
           ye
           shall
           acknowledge
           or
           not
           ,
           his
           Maiestie
           as
           ye
           shall
           think
           it
           most
           fit
           for
           your
           present
           place
           ,
           or
           proper
           for
           the
           aduancement
           of
           your
           reformed
           kirk
           ,
           to
           whome
           ye
           will
           haue
           all
           men
           obliged
           with
           so
           terrible
           othes
           without
           any
           exception
           or
           restriction
           .
           A
           very
           hard
           obligation
           and
           lawe
           ,
           principallie
           being
           at
           the
           execution
           and
           will
           of
           tippertin
           witted
           young
           
           fellowes
           (
           who
           commonly
           at
           rash
           and
           foolhard●e
           in
           all
           their
           doings
           )
           or
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           ambitious
           and
           seditious
           men
           ,
           who
           willingly
           do
           trouble
           all
           to
           come
           to
           their
           de●yre
           ,
           to
           which
           by
           good
           meanes
           they
           can
           not
           easely
           atteine
           .
           your
           holie
           poets
           Buchanans
           pamphelet
           ,
           hath
           many
           notable
           maximes
           to
           thi●
           purpos
           ,
           where
           vpō
           men
           may
           builde
           a
           world
           o●
           seditions
           and
           discords
           :
           But
           if
           your
           poetes
           authoritie
           (
           whose
           aduise
           not
           the
           lesse
           ye
           haue
           so
           skilfully
           followed
           that
           ye
           may
           seeme
           ●ather
           maisters
           then
           disciples
           or
           prentises
           )
           can
           be
           no
           preiudice
           to
           your
           pretended
           innocencie
           
           and
           good
           mynd
           ,
           at
           lest
           your
           prophe●s
           words
           may
           serue
           for
           witnes
           of
           your
           vpright
           intentions
           .
           Ye
           shall
           haue
           the
           argument
           of
           the
           second
           blast
           of
           the
           trompette
           written
           and
           sett
           out
           by
           him selfe
           1558.
           at
           your
           holie
           citie
           of
           Geneua
           foster
           mother
           of
           all
           seditious
           spitites
           and
           vnquyet
           heads
           .
           Heare
           then
           your
           good
           Apostle
           :
           
             ●ecause
             many
             are
             offended
             at
             the
             first
             blast
             of
             the
             trompette
          
           (
           behold
           how
           this
           holie
           sainct
           is
           become
           penitente
           of
           his
           former
           offence
           )
           
             in
             whiche
             I
             affirme
             that
             to
             promote
             a
             Woman
             to
             beare
             rule
             or
             empire
             aboue
             any
             realme
             nation
             or
             citie
             is
             re●ugnant
             to
             nature
             ,
             cont●mel●e
             to
             God
             ,
             and
             a
             thing
             most
             contrariouse
             to
             his
             reuealed
             and
             approued
             ordinance
             :
             and
             because
             also
             ,
             that
             some
             hath
             promised
             (
             as
             I
             vnderstand
             )
             a
             consutation
             of
             the
             same
          
           
           
             ●
             haue
             delayed
             the
             second
             blast
             ,
             till
             suche
             tyme
             as
             their
             reasons
             appere
             ,
             by
             the
             whiche
             I
             either
             may
             be
             reformed
             in
             opinion
             ,
             or
             els
             shall
             haue
             further
             occasion
             more
             simplie
             and
             plainly
             to
             vtter
             my
             iudgement
             .
             yet
             in
             the
             meane
             tyme
             for
             discharge
             of
             my
             conscience
          
           (
           behold
           the
           holinesse
           of
           this
           ex●raordinarie
           patriarche
           ,
           who
           thinketh
           him
           selue
           greatly
           burdened
           in
           his
           conscience
           if
           he
           trouble
           not
           the
           whole
           state
           of
           the
           commō
           wealth
           )
           
             and
             for
             auoyding
             suspition
             ,
             whiche
             might
             be
             ingendred
             by
             reason
             of
             my
             silence
             ,
             I
             could
             not
             cease
          
           (
           ô
           the
           good
           nature
           of
           this
           man
           ,
           who
           can
           not
           cease
           from
           ill
           doing
           ,
           
             sed
             quis
             Deus
             in
             fraudem
             ?
             )
             to
             notifie
             these
             subsequent
             propositions
             whiche
             by
             Gods
             grace
             I
             purpose
             to
             entreate
             in
             the
             second
             blast
             promised
             .
          
        
         
           1.
           
           It
           is
           noth
           birth
           only
           nor
           propinquitie
           of
           blood
           that
           maketh
           a
           king
           lawfully
           to
           reigne
           aboue
           a
           people
           professing
           Christe
           Iesus
           and
           his
           eternall
           veritie
           ;
           but
           in
           his
           election
           must
           the
           ordinance
           ,
           which
           God
           hath
           established
           in
           the
           election
           of
           inferiour
           iudges
           be
           obserued
           .
           autos
           epha
           .
           
             all
             princes
             shal
             be
             subiect
             to
             the
             peoples
             iudgement
             ,
             and
             the
             people
             to
             the
             ministers
             .
          
        
         
           2.
           
           No
           manifest
           Idolater
           ,
           nor
           notoriouse
           ●ransgressor
           of
           Gods
           holie
           precepts
           ought
           to
           be
           promoted
           to
           any
           publike
           regiment
           ,
           honour
           ,
           or
           dignitie
           in
           any
           realme
           ,
           prouince
           or
           citie
           ,
           that
           hath
           subiected
           it self
           to
           Christe
           Iesus
           and
           to
           his
           blessed
           Euangil
           .
        
         
         
           3.
           
           
             Neither
             can
             othe
             nor
             promisse
             bynd
             any
             s●
             people
          
           (
           call
           you
           these
           your
           hearty
           protest●tions
           othes
           and
           promises
           )
           
             to
             obey
             and
             main●●●●
             tyrannes
          
           (
           so
           ye
           call
           all
           Kinges
           that
           will
           not
           follow
           your
           fantasie
           )
           
             against
             God
             and
             against
             〈◊〉
             trueth
             knovven
             .
          
           that
           is
           your
           new
           forged
           faith
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           
             But
             if
             either
             ra●hly
             they
             haue
             promoted
             〈◊〉
             manifest
             vvicked
             persone
             ,
             or
             yet
             ignorantly
             haue
             ch●sen
             suche
             a
             one
             ,
             as
             after
             declareth
             him self
             vnvvorth●
             of
             regiment
             aboue
             the
             people
             of
             God
             (
             and
             suche
             be
             a●
             Idolaters
             and
             cruel
             persecutors
             )
             moste
             iustly
             may
             th●
             same
             men
             depose
             and
             punishe
             him
             that
             vnaduysedl●
             before
             they
             did
             nominat
             appoint
             and
             electe
             .
          
           Is
           no●
           this
           a
           moste
           notable
           argument
           to
           be
           handle●
           by
           a
           true
           subiect
           ,
           and
           a
           man
           affectionat
           to
           the
           quyetnes
           of
           his
           natiue
           countrey
           ?
           yet
           goo●
           sire
           Iohn
           Knoxe
           being
           in
           his
           owne
           opinion
           a
           prophete
           could
           not
           haue
           wanted
           many
           texts
           of
           the
           scripture
           to
           proue
           the
           mater
           .
           According
           to
           this
           exemplere
           and
           paterne
           of
           ●
           chosen
           or
           rather
           imaginarie
           King
           ,
           ye
           haue
           formed
           your
           othe
           :
           for
           neglecting
           birth
           and
           blood
           ,
           ye
           will
           that
           the
           Prince
           be
           made
           by
           election
           ,
           at
           lest
           subiect
           to
           obserue
           the
           ordenance
           that
           God
           hath
           established
           to
           be
           obserued
           in
           inferiour
           iudges
           and
           magistrats
           ,
           who
           may
           be
           deposed
           and
           punished
           if
           he
           passe
           the
           rules
           prescribed
           by
           you
           .
           For
           ye
           will
           the
           people
           be
           free
           from
           all
           obedience
           ,
           promise
           and
           
           othe
           to
           haue
           no
           place
           if
           the
           Prince
           go
           frome
           your
           religion
           ,
           or
           as
           ye
           call
           it
           ,
           refo●med
           kirk
           ,
           the
           declaration
           where
           of
           depended
           vpon
           your
           discretion
           &
           wisdome
           seing
           ye
           ar
           made
           iudges
           aboue
           all
           men
           .
           ●owbeit
           good
           reason
           wold
           gif
           libertie
           to
           the
           Prince
           as
           well
           to
           leaue
           you
           ,
           as
           ye
           haue
           left
           the
           Catholik
           kirk
           if
           ye
           hade
           not
           alreddie
           occupied
           the
           place
           to
           commād
           ouer
           all
           without
           appeall
           .
           I
           will
           not
           further
           insist
           in
           the
           examination
           of
           this
           blast
           of
           winde
           ,
           seing
           it
           sauoureth
           so
           ill
           that
           no
           true
           &
           modest
           subiect
           can
           abyd
           it
           .
           I
           say
           only
           that
           your
           othe
           is
           as
           lyk
           this
           proiecte
           as
           euer
           dauther
           was
           lyk
           the
           mother
           ,
           and
           lacketh
           but
           thinges
           which
           may
           very
           easely
           be
           vnderstood
           as
           we
           shall
           shew
           after
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           But
           ye
           will
           say
           that
           I
           am
           
             ●alignus
             alien●
             voluntatis
             interpres
          
           a
           maliciouse
           interpreter
           of
           other
           mens
           myndes
           .
           What
           was
           your
           meaning
           ,
           I
           pray
           you
           ,
           when
           ye
           took
           your
           Prince
           ,
           emprisonated
           and
           at
           last
           chased
           hir
           out
           of
           hir
           owen
           realme
           and
           pursued
           to
           the
           death
           ?
           What
           was
           your
           meaning
           when
           during
           his
           Maiesties
           minoritie
           ye
           caused
           strick
           money
           ,
           marked
           with
           a
           sword
           and
           this
           inscription
           
             pr●●e
             ,
             in
             me
             s●
             mereor
             ?
          
           What
           was
           your
           intent
           now
           of
           late
           yeares
           when
           ye
           beseeged
           the
           toulbrigh
           of
           Edenburgh
           ?
           was
           it
           the
           blad●
           of
           rebelliō
           or
           sword
           of
           Gedeor
           that
           was
           drawen
           out
           that
           
           day
           ?
           Why
           did
           ye
           cry
           at
           that
           tyme
           God
           and
           the
           kirk
           ,
           if
           it
           was
           not
           to
           withdraw
           the
           peopl●
           ▪
           hartes
           and
           obedience
           from
           the
           Kinges
           M●iestie
           to
           for
           ti●ie
           your
           plottes
           ?
           a
           course
           mo●●
           ▪
           dangerouse
           where
           the
           Prince
           &
           whole
           common
           wealthe
           were
           put
           in
           hazard
           vpon
           your
           ●olie
           reformed
           worde
           .
           If
           I
           be
           not
           deceaued
           ,
           ye
           would
           haue
           signified
           by
           God
           and
           the
           kirk
           your
           doctrine
           and
           discipline
           ,
           to
           which
           ye
           will
           haue
           all
           men
           subiect
           ,
           with
           no
           further
           obedience
           to
           others
           then
           ye
           think
           expedient
           ,
           and
           so
           no
           place
           for
           the
           Kinges
           Maiestie
           and
           his
           officers
           till
           it
           please
           you
           to
           employ
           them
           to
           execute
           your
           plottes
           ,
           which
           onely
           charge
           ye
           would
           leaue
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           that
           because
           ye
           ar
           not
           able
           of
           your selues
           to
           execute
           sundry
           thinges
           that
           ye
           haue
           inuēted
           ▪
           But
           ye
           will
           say
           ,
           reason
           wold
           that
           all
           thinges
           should
           be
           subiect
           to
           God
           :
           It
           is
           moste
           true
           :
           But
           ye
           ar
           no
           Gods
           ,
           yea
           not
           haue
           no
           charge
           nor
           command
           of
           God
           ,
           as
           we
           shall
           shew
           here
           after
           and
           although
           ye
           hade
           ,
           why
           should
           ye
           ,
           vnder
           pretense
           of
           your
           new
           forged
           or
           reformed
           discipline
           ,
           ●rouble
           the
           whole
           state
           to
           the
           vtter
           ruine
           of
           the
           common
           wealth
           .
           Think
           ye
           that
           God
           and
           a
           King
           can
           not
           be
           in
           one
           realme
           to
           gether
           ?
           or
           that
           God
           is
           accoustumed
           to
           destroy
           Kinges
           ,
           where
           he
           cometh
           ?
           if
           your
           reformation
           proceded
           of
           God
           ,
           we
           might
           very
           iustly
           so
           think
           ▪
           
           seing
           it
           troubles
           all
           Princes
           where
           it
           hath
           any
           credit
           .
           It
           was
           well
           sayd
           by
           an
           ancient
           Scottish
           priest
           twelue
           hondred
           yeares
           since
           :
           
             Non
             ●ripit
             mortalia
             ,
             qui
             regna
             dat
             caelestia
             .
          
           but
           he
           was
           a
           priest
           of
           the
           Romaine
           kirk
           ,
           and
           not
           a
           brother
           of
           your
           reformation
           mother
           of
           your
           detestable
           paritie
           ,
           grandmother
           of
           your
           present
           confusion
           ,
           where
           vpon
           is
           builded
           your
           sinagoge
           :
           permitt
           me
           to
           say
           so
           seing
           ye
           force
           men
           to
           enter
           therein
           ,
           because
           your
           calling
           hath
           no
           power
           nor
           strenght
           to
           inuite
           them
           .
           This
           can
           not
           stand
           with
           Princes
           lawfull
           authoritie
           .
           Heare
           Iesus
           Christe
           him self
           saying
           :
           
             date
             Caesari
             ,
             quae
             sunt
             Caesaris
             ,
             &
             quae
             Dei
             ,
             Deo.
          
           Certainely
           all
           mē
           of
           quyet
           spirite
           should
           esteeme
           them
           enemies
           bothe
           to
           God
           and
           good
           reason
           ,
           who
           thinketh
           the
           one
           contrarie
           to
           the
           other
           .
           There
           were
           never
           yet
           any
           people
           that
           hade
           a
           religion
           without
           ciuil
           gouuerment
           :
           we
           haue
           seene
           in
           all
           common
           wealths
           these
           two
           ioyned
           together
           ,
           but
           most
           perfectly
           where
           Kinges
           haue
           ●ade
           the
           s●ueraigne
           power
           ,
           because
           the
           vnitie
           is
           greater
           .
           Ye
           wold
           perhapes
           gladly
           say
           here
           (
           if
           ye
           hade
           the
           Christian
           liber
           tie
           ,
           that
           ye
           so
           earnestly
           desyre
           ,
           that
           is
           licence
           to
           do
           as
           ye
           will
           )
           that
           ye
           at
           all
           priests
           and
           Kinges
           ,
           and
           as
           ye
           haue
           cast
           out
           the
           priests
           of
           the
           kirk
           for
           their
           misbehauiour
           ,
           so
           wold
           ye
           cast
           Kinges
           out
           of
           their
           
           throanes
           &
           realmes
           for
           lyk
           cause
           .
           assay
           againe
           the
           play
           .
           assure
           your selfs
           that
           knauery
           will
           not
           ay
           haue
           good
           successe
           ▪
           If
           I
           be
           not
           deceaued
           ye
           shall
           now
           find
           Kinges
           more
           vigilāt
           ,
           admonished
           by
           others
           mens
           exēples
           ,
           then
           ye
           found
           the
           priests
           whom
           ye
           violently
           cast
           out
           ,
           not
           by
           your
           vertue
           &
           strenght
           ,
           but
           by
           their
           fault
           &
           negligence
           .
           God
           will
           cast
           the
           schourge
           in
           the
           fyre
           ,
           when
           he
           shall
           think
           it
           good
           .
        
         
           5.
           
           But
           to
           retourne
           againe
           to
           your
           words
           ,
           
             As
             vpon
             a
             confortable
             instrument
             of
             Goddes
             mercie
             ,
             graunted
             to
             this
             countrey
             for
             the
             mainteining
             of
             his
             kirk
             and
             ministration
             of
             Iustice
             among
             vs.
          
           With
           what
           reuerence
           obedience
           and
           modestie
           ye
           haue
           receaued
           that
           instrument
           ,
           I
           leaue
           it
           to
           his
           Maiesties
           memorie
           and
           your
           consciences
           :
           and
           if
           a
           few
           of
           you
           ministers
           gaue
           him
           not
           more
           paine
           and
           trouble
           then
           all
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           realme
           .
           If
           I
           see
           you
           ouer
           forgetfull
           I
           may
           well
           call
           some
           thinges
           to
           your
           memorie
           ,
           although
           your
           daylie
           behauiour
           might
           very
           well
           release
           me
           of
           that
           labour
           .
           Truely
           I
           think
           there
           be
           no
           subiects
           in
           Europe
           more
           obliged
           to
           their
           Prince
           then
           ye
           ar
           to
           his
           Maiestie
           considering
           your
           de●●●tes
           :
           nor
           no
           Prince
           who
           haue
           hade
           more
           rebelliouse
           subiects
           then
           he
           hath
           hade
           of
           some
           of
           you
           ,
           so
           far
           as
           it
           did
           ly
           in
           your
           power
           .
           ye
           will
           do
           well
           in
           tymes
           comming
           to
           mend
           this
           ,
           for
           feare
           ye
           
           be
           constrained
           to
           render
           compt
           of
           all
           together
           ,
           giftes
           abused
           may
           iustly
           be
           called
           beak
           :
           Your
           dayly
           railling
           against
           the
           present
           forme
           of
           policie
           in
           England
           sheweth
           well
           that
           your
           sicknes
           do
           increasse
           .
           
             VVe
             protest
             and
             promise
             with
             our
             heartes
          
           (
           good
           and
           friendly
           words
           truely
           )
           
             vnder
             the
             same
             othe
             ,
             handwritt
             ,
             and
             paines
             (
             quid
             dignum
             tanto
             foret
             hic
             promissor
             hiatu
             ?
             )
             that
             we
             shall
             desend
             his
             persone
             and
             Authoritie
             with
             our
             geir
             ,
             bodies
             ,
             and
             liues
             .
             Parturiunt
             montes
             nascetur
             ridiculus
             mus
             .
          
           good
           Sires
           will
           not
           your
           new
           Euangell
           suffer
           you
           to
           do
           more
           for
           the
           Kinges
           Maiestie
           ?
           onely
           to
           desend
           his
           personne
           &
           authoritie
           ?
           I
           praise
           your
           wisdome
           to
           aduertise
           what
           ●e
           may
           looke
           for
           at
           your
           hāds
           :
           yet
           sure
           I
           am
           ,
           that
           ye
           your selues
           wold
           not
           be
           content
           to
           haue
           a
           seruant
           in
           your
           house
           with
           so
           small
           seruice
           ,
           as
           ye
           offer
           here
           to
           your
           soueraigne
           whome
           ye
           wold
           seeme
           to
           haue
           greatly
           obliged
           .
           But
           at
           the
           lest
           may
           his
           Maiestie
           assure
           him self
           of
           your
           assistence
           in
           defence
           of
           his
           persone
           &
           authoritie
           ?
           No
           truely
           but
           in
           certaine
           cases
           ,
           which
           ye
           lny
           downe
           to
           him
           by
           writt
           that
           he
           may
           craue
           no
           further
           ,
           to
           Witt
           ,
           
             in
             defence
             of
             Christes
             Euangell
          
           (
           I
           think
           as
           it
           is
           now
           reformedly
           preached
           and
           interpreted
           by
           you
           the
           discipline
           hauing
           it
           sull
           course
           )
           
             libertie
             of
             our
             countrey
          
           (
           euery
           ministe●
           being
           maister
           )
           
             ministration
             of
             iustice
          
           (
           in
           chasing
           
           away
           sic
           as
           will
           not
           acknowledge
           you
           in
           all
           affaires
           )
           
             and
             punishment
             of
             iniquitie
          
           :
           principally
           if
           any
           man
           gainesay
           you
           .
           Nothing
           at
           all
           for
           the
           Prince
           ?
           Nothing
           surely
           ,
           if
           there
           cometh
           none
           of
           thes
           thinges
           in
           question
           the
           Prince
           may
           stand
           alone
           for
           you
           ,
           so
           far
           as
           I
           can
           see
           .
           Onely
           when
           ye
           haue
           a
           do
           ,
           he
           shal
           be
           assisted
           to
           do
           you
           seruice
           ,
           otherwise
           he
           may
           do
           for
           him self
           ,
           if
           he
           thinketh
           it
           good
           .
           But
           if
           he
           touch
           your
           Euangell
           ,
           yea
           with
           the
           vttermoste
           of
           his
           finger
           ,
           ye
           will
           put
           bothe
           persone
           and
           Authoritie
           in
           hazard
           ,
           ye
           ar
           so
           mightely
           gouerned
           by
           the
           reformed
           spirite
           .
           I
           will
           not
           gesse
           further
           your
           myndes
           .
           Which
           beareth
           witnes
           ,
           who
           so
           well
           does
           .
           But
           ye
           will
           suffer
           me
           to
           say
           that
           the
           subiect
           not
           onely
           is
           obliged
           of
           duetie
           ciuil
           ,
           but
           also
           in
           conscience
           before
           God
           to
           defend
           his
           Princes
           persone
           without
           any
           exception
           because
           he
           is
           
             vnctus
             Domini
          
           and
           one
           of
           the
           chief
           magistrates
           established
           by
           God
           him self
           .
           Therefore
           we
           never
           did
           reade
           that
           the
           Christians
           were
           blamed
           for
           defending
           of
           the
           Emprours
           personnes
           ,
           not
           withstanding
           that
           sundry
           of
           them
           were
           most
           cruell
           persecutors
           of
           the
           Christian
           and
           Catholik
           faith
           ,
           and
           did
           seeke
           by
           all
           meanes
           to
           destroy
           the
           veritie
           .
           The
           Christians
           refuseth
           onely
           to
           be
           executers
           of
           these
           detestable
           designes
           of
           the
           Emprours
           :
           yea
           I
           think
           it
           shall
           
           never
           be
           found
           that
           the
           Ancient
           Godly
           fathers
           did
           lay
           to
           any
           Christians
           charge
           as
           a
           cryme
           ,
           that
           he
           hath
           garded
           and
           keapt
           the
           personne
           of
           Iulian
           the
           Apostata
           ▪
           for
           that
           neuer
           was
           against
           God
           ,
           nor
           reason
           ;
           seing
           they
           were
           obliged
           there
           to
           ,
           as
           to
           a
           thing
           bothe
           honest
           and
           Godly
           ,
           which
           they
           could
           not
           neglect
           without
           a
           great
           blame
           .
           These
           onely
           were
           accused
           as
           cursed
           &
           misch●euouse
           men
           ,
           who
           were
           instruments
           of
           his
           abominations
           .
           Certainely
           the
           Princes
           personne
           should
           be
           holie
           and
           inuiolable
           ;
           and
           we
           more
           carefull
           there
           of
           ,
           then
           of
           our
           owne
           lines
           .
           Lykwise
           we
           may
           say
           of
           his
           Authoritie
           which
           cometh
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           hath
           ay
           God
           for
           reuenger
           ,
           if
           any
           man
           be
           so
           bold
           as
           to
           touch
           it
           irreuerently
           .
           Ye
           mesure
           the
           Princes
           persone
           and
           Authoritie
           according
           to
           your
           fantasie
           ,
           making
           them
           great
           or
           small
           ,
           to
           be
           obserued
           or
           dispysed
           ,
           as
           ye
           think
           proper
           to
           your
           purpose
           and
           passion
           .
           But
           ye
           will
           say
           that
           it
           is
           well
           donne
           to
           defend
           the
           Princes
           personne
           &
           authoritie
           .
           that
           is
           very
           true
           .
           who
           so
           euer
           is
           owing
           a
           hondred
           crownes
           ,
           doeth
           well
           to
           pay
           one
           crowne
           ,
           but
           not
           inough
           except
           he
           pay
           the
           whole
           somme
           ,
           so
           your
           duetie
           is
           not
           complete
           in
           these
           few
           heads
           .
           These
           fashions
           of
           othes
           a●
           inuented
           onely
           to
           exempt
           by
           litill
           and
           litill
           the
           people
           frome
           the
           due
           obedience
           oght
           to
           the
           Prince
           ▪
           
           for
           the
           people
           thinking
           that
           the
           othe
           is
           the
           onely
           sure
           rule
           of
           their
           due
           obligation
           toward
           ,
           their
           soueraigne
           :
           and
           that
           they
           ar
           not
           further
           bound
           then
           the
           othe
           sheweth
           :
           if
           in
           their
           opinion
           any
           thing
           passe
           that
           boundes
           ,
           they
           may
           think
           them
           sel
           es
           free
           and
           discharged
           from
           further
           obedience
           as
           not
           conteined
           in
           their
           othe
           .
           For
           when
           I
           haue
           donne
           that
           ,
           where
           to
           I
           am
           obliged
           ,
           it
           is
           in
           my
           hād
           if
           I
           will
           do
           any
           further
           :
           If
           I
           do
           more
           ,
           I
           merite
           thankes
           ;
           if
           not
           ,
           I
           merite
           no
           reprehension
           ,
           nor
           blame
           ,
           much
           lesse
           punition
           .
           Ye
           will
           not
           be
           offended
           ,
           if
           I
           say
           some
           what
           yet
           of
           your
           othe
           ,
           which
           hath
           beene
           formed
           either
           with
           a
           great
           malice
           or
           extreme
           simplicitie
           (
           which
           of
           these
           two
           be
           most
           proper
           for
           your
           sect
           I
           leaue
           the
           iudgement
           to
           others
           )
           which
           will
           be
           more
           cleerely
           seene
           if
           we
           shew
           the
           true
           forme
           of
           othe
           which
           should
           be
           geuen
           to
           the
           soueraigne
           Prince
           .
           The
           subiects
           of
           Emprour
           or
           King
           being
           as
           va●●●les
           (
           which
           we
           call
           cōmonly
           lieges
           )
           should
           make
           to
           their
           Prince
           the
           othe
           simplie
           and
           without
           any
           condition
           ,
           yea
           so
           farre
           that
           swearing
           fidelitie
           against
           al
           men
           they
           should
           not
           except
           them selues
           .
           And
           therefore
           the
           othe
           of
           fidelitie
           which
           the
           lawyers
           call
           
             sacramentum
             fidelitatis
          
           should
           be
           made
           without
           any
           condition
           or
           restriction
           :
           for
           if
           any
           sic
           thing
           be
           put
           in
           the
           forme
           of
           
           othe
           deceitfully
           ,
           or
           craftelie
           couuert
           with
           words
           ,
           where
           by
           the
           subiects
           may
           with
           draw
           them selfs
           from
           the
           fidelitie
           towards
           their
           Prince
           or
           attempt
           what
           so
           euer
           thing
           against
           him
           ,
           vnder
           what
           so
           euer
           pretext
           ,
           they
           should
           be
           accompted
           as
           rebelles
           ,
           lacking
           reithe●
           occasion
           ,
           then
           an
           euill
           mynd
           .
           And
           for
           that
           same
           cause
           it
           is
           not
           law
           fall
           to
           put
           the
           reason
           in
           the
           othe
           ,
           that
           he
           ,
           who
           sweareth
           ,
           may
           haue
           no
           cloake
           nor
           excuse
           to
           break
           his
           othe
           :
           
             E●t
             enim
             forme
             fidelitatis
             actus
             legitimus
             conditionem
             non
             recipiens
             .
          
           when
           the
           othe
           of
           fidelitie
           is
           made
           to
           him
           who
           is
           onely
           lands
           lord
           and
           not
           soueraigne
           ,
           the
           vassall
           puteth
           no
           condition
           although
           he
           put
           an
           exception
           of
           the
           Emprour
           or
           King
           ,
           as
           may
           be
           seene
           in
           this
           forme
           .
           
             Ego
             Titius
             iuro
             super
             haec
             sancta
             E●angelia
             ,
             quod
             ab
             hac
             hora
             in
             antea
             vsque
             ad
             vltimum
             diem
             vitae
             meae
             ,
             ero
             fidelis
             tibi
             Ca●o
             Domino
             contra
             omnem
             hominem
             ,
             excepto
             Imperatore
             vel
             Rege
             .
          
           But
           the
           forme
           of
           fidelitie
           and
           othe
           made
           to
           ●he
           Emprour
           or
           King
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           soue●aigne
           Prince
           ,
           should
           be
           sett
           downe
           in
           most
           ●imple
           plaine
           and
           cleere
           words
           ,
           without
           any
           ●eceit
           fraud
           or
           guyll
           .
           For
           as
           the
           Kinges
           Em●ire
           is
           free
           and
           absolute
           ,
           subiect
           to
           no
           other
           ,
           ●
           the
           othe
           of
           the
           subiects
           should
           be
           ●ltoge●er
           simple
           and
           without
           any
           restriction
           .
           I
           ●ay
           all
           good
           and
           true
           subiects
           ,
           not
           onely
           for
           
           their
           duetie
           ,
           but
           also
           for
           their
           conscienc●
           cause
           ,
           compare
           this
           with
           our
           new
           reformed
           or
           reither
           deformed
           forme
           of
           othe
           ,
           and
           consider
           if
           it
           rasted
           not
           of
           rebellion
           and
           conspiracie
           against
           the
           law●ull
           Prince
           ,
           and
           if
           this
           be
           not
           a
           beginning
           and
           foundament
           to
           bring
           in
           the
           Swisers
           common
           wealth
           where
           the
           soueraigne
           magistrate
           at
           the
           yeares
           end
           is
           answearable
           to
           the
           people
           ,
           by
           whome
           he
           is
           chosen
           .
           Doubtles
           these
           craftesmen
           haue
           had
           before
           their
           eies
           
             Bruti
             vindicias
          
           ,
           Buchanans
           precepts
           ,
           Knoxes
           blasts
           of
           the
           trompette
           of
           sedition
           ,
           Goodmans
           discours
           how
           superior
           powers
           ought
           to
           be
           obeyed
           of
           their
           subiects
           ▪
           Knoxe
           histories
           of
           treasons
           &c.
           or
           els
           the
           King
           of
           Poles
           othe
           ,
           
             Si
             sacramentum
             violauer●
             nullam
             nobis
             regni
             incolae
             obedientiam
             praestar●
             debebunt
             .
          
           the
           Poloniens
           may
           desyre
           of
           their
           future
           Prince
           ,
           what
           othe
           they
           please
           seing
           he
           is
           at
           their
           election
           and
           choise
           .
           But
           to
           prescribe
           to
           your selues
           ,
           how
           and
           what
           ye
           will
           sweare
           to
           your
           Prince
           ,
           to
           whome
           ye
           ,
           your
           fathers
           and
           posteritie
           ar
           allreddie
           obliged
           whether
           ye
           will
           or
           not
           ,
           I
           know
           not
           how
           ye
           can
           be
           excused
           except
           ye
           ministers
           esteeme
           your selues
           in
           the
           same
           rank
           with
           the
           ancien●
           arrogant
           Aragoniens
           ,
           who
           in
           reception
           o●
           their
           king
           were
           wount
           to
           say
           in
           this
           maner
           
             Nos
             ,
             qui
             valemos
             tanto
             comme
             vos
             ,
             y
             podem●
          
           
           
             m●s
             que
             vos
             ,
             vos
             elegimos
             Re
             ,
             con
             estas
             &
             estas
             conditiones
             intra
             vos
             y
             nos
             ,
             vn
             que
             manda
             mas
             ,
             que
             vos
             .
          
           We
           ,
           who
           ar
           as
           good
           as
           ye
           ,
           and
           may
           more
           then
           ye
           ,
           choose
           you
           our
           king
           ,
           with
           sic
           and
           sic
           conditiones
           betwixt
           you
           and
           vs
           that
           one
           may
           commande
           more
           then
           ye
           ▪
           wold
           ye
           not
           think
           your selues
           braue
           men
           ,
           if
           ye
           might
           truely
           vse
           ●ic
           speech
           to
           his
           Maiestie
           .
           But
           ye
           do
           meikill
           ●orse
           ,
           seing
           in
           eff●ct
           ye
           gif
           him
           no
           thing
           but
           assistence
           to
           do
           you
           seruice
           ,
           without
           any
           further
           honour
           or
           profit
           .
           A
           great
           seruant
           truely
           ,
           if
           ye
           were
           wo●●hie
           m●isters
           .
           Certainly
           if
           the
           King
           were
           at
           your
           choise
           (
           as
           God
           forbid
           he
           were
           )
           ye
           could
           gif
           him
           no
           lesse
           then
           ye
           do
           here
           by
           your
           othe
           :
           yea
           what
           lesse
           can
           ye
           gif
           to
           your
           moderator
           of
           one
           day
           ,
           then
           defend
           his
           persone
           and
           authoritie
           ,
           as
           long
           as
           he
           is
           in
           charge
           ,
           for
           ye
           do
           nothing
           therein
           ,
           but
           mainteine
           your selues
           .
           The
           Mu●iners
           in
           the
           warres
           offer
           no
           lesse
           to
           their
           new
           choisen
           head
           ,
           not
           for
           his
           cause
           ,
           but
           for
           their
           owne
           .
           I
           am
           assured
           that
           there
           is
           no
           people
           in
           the
           worlde
           so
           seditiouse
           or
           rebelle
           ,
           but
           wold
           bestow
           more
           vpon
           their
           Prince
           o●
           head
           whatso
           euer
           ,
           then
           ye
           b●stow
           here
           vpon
           his
           Maiestie
           :
           
             In
             promptu
             ratio
             est
          
           ,
           his
           Maiesties
           forces
           can
           not
           agree
           with
           your
           folies
           .
           But
           ye
           will
           say
           perhapes
           that
           the
           Kinges
           Maiestie
           doeth
           acknowledge
           him self
           
           
           to
           be
           made
           for
           the
           people
           and
           not
           the
           people
           for
           him
           .
           he
           speeketh
           lyk
           a
           noble
           wise
           and
           moste
           worthie
           Prince
           acknowledging
           what
           he
           oweth
           to
           God
           ,
           in
           whose
           place
           he
           is
           established
           ,
           whose
           persone
           he
           doeth
           present
           ,
           and
           in
           whose
           authoritie
           he
           doeth
           command
           .
           On
           the
           other
           part
           ,
           why
           will
           ▪
           ye
           not
           lyk
           true
           and
           good
           subiects
           acknowledge
           ▪
           your
           duetie
           ,
           towards
           him
           ,
           to
           whome
           ye
           ar
           obliged
           ,
           as
           to
           Goddes
           lieutenant
           aboue
           you
           ?
           or
           ar
           all
           men
           obliged
           to
           you
           ,
           and
           ye
           to
           no
           man
           ?
           it
           is
           lawfull
           to
           you
           to
           be
           more
           familiar
           with
           his
           Maiestie
           ,
           then
           he
           is
           with
           him self
           .
           More
           ouer
           ye
           ar
           not
           the
           wholl
           people
           being
           but
           onely
           the
           tribunes
           at
           your
           owen
           making
           ,
           and
           albeit
           ye
           were
           ,
           yet
           should
           ye
           not
           presume
           so
           farre
           of
           your selues
           ,
           as
           all
           should
           be
           donne
           by
           you
           ,
           and
           at
           your
           appetite
           .
           It
           is
           certaine
           that
           the
           head
           is
           made
           for
           the
           body
           (
           as
           also
           the
           body
           for
           the
           head
           )
           yet
           should
           not
           the
           body
           be
           maister
           and
           command
           aboue
           the
           head
           nor
           yet
           prescribe
           lawes
           or
           conditions
           to
           it
           ,
           but
           should
           obey
           it
           in
           all
           thing
           without
           contradiction
           as
           being
           subiect
           and
           not
           superior
           .
           The
           physiciens
           do
           teach
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           I
           think
           )
           not
           without
           good
           reason
           that
           the
           wholl
           strenght
           of
           the
           body
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           functions
           thereof
           cometh
           of
           the
           head
           ,
           where
           the
           senses
           at
           chiefly
           ,
           &
           wittes
           ar
           onely
           .
           If
           we
           would
           credit
           you
           &
           
           your
           reformation
           ,
           we
           should
           shortly
           see
           a
           deformed
           gouerment
           through
           all
           the
           world
           .
           I
           am
           assured
           that
           it
           wold
           be
           better
           dwelling
           among
           the
           antient
           Cyclops
           ,
           if
           there
           were
           any
           ,
           then
           among
           you
           :
           and
           if
           ye
           be
           curiouse
           to
           know
           why
           ,
           I
           shall
           mak
           you
           a
           description
           
           of
           your selues
           ,
           where
           ye
           may
           see
           a
           part
           of
           your
           beauties
           with
           out
           a
           mirrour
           :
           Ye
           haue
           bene
           so
           impudent
           and
           shamelesse
           ,
           as
           to
           aske
           for
           your
           ●eformed
           kirk
           an
           absolute
           othe
           of
           all
           the
           Kinges
           Maiesties
           subiects
           ,
           yea
           of
           him selfe
           (
           whome
           in
           his
           tender
           age
           ye
           did
           ci●cumuent
           )
           that
           he
           should
           defend
           your
           doctrine
           and
           discipline
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           embrace
           your
           inuentions
           and
           execute
           your
           plottes
           ,
           so
           that
           his
           Maiestie
           and
           all
           his
           subiects
           of
           what
           so
           euer
           qualitie
           or
           condition
           .
           should
           onely
           be
           
             vestrae
             voluntatis
             imo
             tyrannidis
             ministri
          
           ,
           to
           trouble
           and
           persecute
           all
           theis
           that
           will
           not
           obey
           you
           ,
           albeit
           it
           were
           bothe
           against
           his
           Maiesties
           honour
           and
           state
           .
           Which
           I
           think
           his
           Maiestie
           will
           suffer
           no
           longer
           to
           be
           donne
           ,
           because
           of
           the
           danger
           that
           may
           eusue
           there
           vpon
           .
           For
           what
           can
           be
           more
           perniciouse
           within
           a
           realme
           ,
           where
           obedience
           and
           modestie
           ar
           moste
           necessarie
           ,
           then
           to
           suffer
           the
           subiects
           to
           be
           corrupted
           either
           by
           monopoles
           or
           periuries
           or
           damnable
           opinions
           tending
           to
           a
           new
           forme
           of
           gouerment
           
           and
           state
           ?
           or
           to
           permitt
           a
           ●orme
           of
           common
           wealth
           within
           an
           other
           ,
           as
           a
           cotadaill
           or
           fortresse
           within
           a
           towne
           ,
           to
           hold
           the
           Prince
           and
           all
           his
           subiects
           bound
           s●aues
           to
           yow
           .
           A
           thing
           ,
           I
           know
           not
           whether
           more
           dishonorable
           to
           the
           Prince
           ,
           or
           more
           dangerouse
           .
           I
           say
           onely
           that
           the
           mo●e
           his
           Maiestie
           beareth
           with
           you
           the
           more
           ye
           at
           presumptiouse
           and
           the
           reddier
           to
           attempt
           some
           new
           interprise
           .
           Ye
           contented
           your selues
           before
           to
           raill
           against
           the
           state
           and
           gouerment
           of
           Scotland
           ;
           now
           ,
           as
           if
           your
           iurisdiction
           were
           amplified
           with
           his
           Maiesties
           empire
           ,
           ye
           ar
           entred
           in
           England
           ,
           all
           Britaine
           is
           fallen
           to
           your
           lot
           :
           ye
           will
           comptroll
           all
           mens
           actions
           there
           ,
           ye
           will
           assist
           your
           brethren
           of
           that
           nation
           ,
           defend
           them
           ,
           their
           doctrine
           and
           discipline
           according
           to
           your
           reformed
           ministeriall
           othe
           ,
           for
           why
           should
           any
           man
           be
           so
           bolde
           as
           to
           touch
           in
           any
           wise
           your
           inheritance
           ?
           or
           medle
           with
           your
           affaires
           ?
           or
           command
           within
           your
           iurisdiction
           ?
           A
           surplice
           ,
           a
           square
           cappe
           ,
           or
           a
           Bishoppe
           may
           serue
           you
           for
           a
           most
           iust
           reason
           to
           trouble
           all
           ,
           so
           liuely
           is
           your
           faith
           finding
           Idolatrie
           in
           any
           thing
           that
           mislyketh
           your
           humour
           .
           
             O
             tribus
             Anticris
             caput
             ins●nabile
          
           .
           It
           were
           best
           his
           Maiestie
           sent
           you
           to
           the
           vnfound
           lands
           ,
           where
           there
           is
           no
           man
           yet
           ,
           that
           ye
           might
           forme
           a
           common
           wealth
           at
           your
           
           owne
           fantasie
           without
           other
           mens
           griefe
           or
           trouble
           .
           Certainely
           if
           ye
           were
           sent
           ouer
           sea
           fiue
           ,
           or
           sixe
           yeares
           to
           seek
           your
           meate
           as
           others
           haue
           donne
           ,
           ye
           wold
           perchance
           be
           more
           modest
           ,
           and
           vnderstand
           how
           bontifull
           and
           patient
           his
           Maiestie
           is
           suffering
           you
           so
           long
           to
           reigne
           and
           raill
           without
           ryme
           or
           reason
           :
           
             Coge●is
             aliquando
             per
             vestrum
             scelus
             iracunda
             louem
             sumere
             sulmina
             .
          
           But
           ye
           the
           Saincts
           of
           God
           ,
           his
           elected
           people
           ,
           assured
           inheritance
           ,
           indued
           with
           only
           faith
           voide
           of
           all
           good
           workes
           ,
           destitute
           of
           free
           will
           ,
           and
           yet
           willfull
           in
           all
           your
           opinions
           ,
           predestinated
           to
           the
           heauens
           how
           so
           euer
           emptie
           of
           honestie
           ,
           and
           covered
           with
           vice
           ,
           ye
           zealouse
           brethren
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           ar
           aboue
           all
           Kinges
           and
           Princes
           ,
           they
           at
           but
           your
           officers
           ,
           executers
           of
           your
           good
           pleasiurs
           and
           will
           :
           otherwise
           to
           no
           purpo●
           in
           this
           world
           .
           To
           conclude
           this
           matter
           I
           will
           tell
           you
           the
           Catholik
           opinion
           herein
           ,
           which
           is
           this
           .
           As
           we
           ar
           wholly
           and
           without
           any
           exception
           obliged
           to
           God
           in
           matters
           of
           faith
           and
           conscience
           ,
           so
           at
           we
           absolutly
           and
           without
           any
           exception
           or
           restriction
           obliged
           &
           bound
           to
           our
           Prince
           with
           all
           fidelitie
           and
           obedience
           in
           temporall
           affaires
           ,
           that
           is
           in
           matters
           nether
           repugnant
           to
           God
           nor
           good
           reason
           ,
           how
           soeuer
           they
           be
           to
           our
           dommage
           and
           hurt
           in
           worldly
           thinges
           ,
           or
           to
           out
           
           paines
           and
           against
           our
           repose
           .
           There
           is
           no
           reason
           ,
           why
           the
           foote
           should
           refuse
           to
           trauaill
           ▪
           when
           the
           head
           haue
           a
           doe
           ,
           how
           hote
           that
           euer
           it
           be
           :
           wearinesse
           can
           serue
           for
           no
           excuse
           :
           at
           the
           nodde
           of
           the
           head
           ,
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           membres
           should
           be
           reddie
           :
           at
           sic
           tymes
           excuses
           ar
           but
           disguised
           rebellions
           :
           the
           want
           of
           commodities
           maketh
           the
           way
           more
           difficill
           but
           not
           impossible
           .
           To
           the
           foote
           thes
           thinges
           may
           seeme
           very
           hard
           and
           iniust
           ,
           because
           of
           the
           great
           paines
           and
           many
           incommodities
           it
           must
           suffer
           ,
           oftentymes
           not
           knowing
           the
           reason
           why
           ,
           except
           that
           it
           is
           a
           member
           subiect
           to
           the
           head
           ,
           and
           therefor
           obliged
           to
           obey
           according
           to
           the
           office
           and
           due
           function
           of
           a
           member
           ,
           as
           it
           shall
           please
           the
           head
           to
           command
           .
           Wold
           ye
           that
           men
           should
           goe
           as
           Iugling
           tumblers
           doe
           ,
           their
           feete
           vp
           ,
           and
           their
           head
           downe
           ?
           ye
           haue
           some
           reason
           so
           ●o
           desyre
           in
           maters
           of
           state
           (
           although
           there
           be
           no
           reason
           ,
           why
           it
           should
           be
           graunted
           to
           you
           )
           seing
           by
           that
           meanes
           sundry
           of
           you
           myght
           hope
           for
           the
           highest
           place
           ,
           as
           being
           in
           all
           degrees
           the
           very
           dregges
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           yet
           being
           promoted
           without
           order
           or
           extraordinairely
           (
           for
           all
           is
           one
           in
           your
           personnes
           )
           ye
           at
           found
           worthie
           of
           the
           charge
           ye
           haue
           ,
           ye
           become
           so
           perfect
           raillers
           :
           but
           how
           proper
           ye
           be
           to
           gouuerne
           Kinges
           and
           realme
           
           (
           which
           ye
           will
           to
           ●●pend
           vpon
           you
           in
           maters
           of
           greatest
           consequence
           )
           I
           leaue
           the
           iudgement
           to
           others
           ;
           and
           principallie
           when
           it
           is
           question
           of
           your
           zealouse
           brethren
           ,
           who
           ordinairely
           ar
           caried
           away
           rather
           by
           passion
           and
           opinion
           ,
           th●n
           guided
           by
           disc●eti●n
           and
           wisdome
           :
           where
           vpon
           ar
           founded
           an
           infnite
           nomber
           of
           rash
           iudgements
           that
           they
           haue
           made
           vpon
           other
           mens
           actio●s
           .
           I
           think
           it
           not
           needfull
           that
           I
           specifie
           any
           ▪
           the
           ex●mples
           being
           so
           frequent●
           and
           common
           .
           A
           n●w
           sorte
           of
           tyrannie
           me●kill
           to
           be
           lamented
           ▪
           if
           we
           ●ere
           not
           oppressed
           with
           a
           mor●
           grieuouse
           ,
           ●her
           by
           it
           is
           fre●
           to
           no
           mā
           to
           vse
           his
           naturall
           aire
           and
           inioye
           ▪
           the
           sight
           of
           his
           friends
           and
           kinnesmen
           ,
           except
           ●e
           sweare
           him
           ▪
           self
           your
           slaue
           ,
           foreswearing
           bothe
           God
           and
           Prince
           for
           a
           reformed
           folie
           :
           Ouer
           high
           a
           price
           truely
           ▪
           and
           ouer
           great
           subiection
           ,
           for
           the
           small
           reward
           that
           any
           mā
           can
           look
           for
           at
           your-hand
           .
           What
           so
           euer
           banishment
           were
           more
           to
           be
           desyred
           ,
           then
           that
           dwelling
           at
           home
           :
           for
           accepting
           that
           condit●on
           ,
           men
           incu●reth
           the
           danger
           of
           double
           treason
           ,
           diuine
           and
           humaine
           ,
           which
           being
           donne
           ,
           they
           were
           vnworthie
           not
           onely
           to
           be
           esteemed
           his
           Maiesti●s
           subiects
           ,
           but
           to
           ●e
           suffered
           to
           liue
           vpon
           the
           earth
           ,
           if
           that
           come
           of
           their
           proper
           consent
           and
           desyre
           .
           And
           what
           fidelitie
           ,
           I
           pray
           you
           ,
           can
           
           his
           Maiestie
           look
           for
           of
           you
           ,
           who
           requires
           of
           other
           men
           sic
           othes
           as
           cutt
           away
           all
           assurance
           of
           fidelitie
           towards
           the
           Prince
           ?
           ye
           pre●erting
           your
           vaine
           opinions
           (
           that
           I
           say
           nothing
           more
           displeasant
           )
           to
           the
           whol
           antiquitie
           ,
           yea
           to
           all
           ages
           passed
           and
           present
           ,
           in
           maters
           of
           religion
           ,
           and
           your
           iudgement
           to
           all
           magistrates
           of
           what
           so
           euer
           authoritie
           or
           experience
           in
           maters
           of
           state
           ,
           and
           your
           interprises
           to
           peace
           and
           quyetnesse
           ,
           ar
           good
           Christians
           and
           true
           subiects
           ,
           well
           at
           your
           case
           in
           honour
           and
           Authori●ie
           ,
           although
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           you
           be
           the
           first
           honest
           men
           of
           your
           race
           ,
           or
           rather
           the
           worst
           that
           euer
           was
           of
           your
           race
           ,
           shewing
           the
           common
           say
           to
           be
           very
           true
           .
           
             Asperius
             nihib
             est
             humili
             cum
             surgit
             in
             altum
             ,
          
           ●et
           a
           beggar
           on
           horseback
           and
           he
           will
           ride
           ●
           gallop
           .
           But
           peiceable
           men
           ,
           who
           haue
           not
           that
           turbulent
           presomptious
           spirite
           ,
           because
           they
           prefer
           the
           authoritie
           of
           the
           vniuersall
           ki●k
           ,
           and
           iudgement
           of
           the
           ancient
           pastours
           and
           Ca●holik
           consent
           to
           their
           priuat
           and
           particula●e
           opinion
           ,
           respecting
           the
           magistrates
           as
           Gods
           officers
           and
           law●ull
           instruments
           ,
           they
           at
           Idolaters
           ,
           papists
           ,
           traitours
           to
           his
           Maiestie
           enemies
           to
           the
           cōmon
           wealth
           ,
           excōmunicat
           incōtinēt
           ▪
           put
           to
           the
           horne
           ▪
           their
           goods
           confiscated
           ,
           them selues
           banished
           out
           of
           the
           countrey
           :
           what
           rank
           or
           qualitie
           that
           euer
           
           they
           be
           of
           ,
           they
           ar
           not
           worthie
           to
           be
           faluted
           by
           the
           worst
           rascal
           fellow
           of
           your
           sessions
           although
           they
           be
           composed
           ordinairely
           of
           the
           very
           sinke
           of
           the
           people
           .
           But
           honest
           men
           must
           take
           patience
           ,
           seing
           ye
           gif
           so
           litill
           reuerence
           to
           them
           ,
           to
           w●ome
           ye
           ar
           more
           obliged
        
         
           6.
           where
           I
           will
           no●e
           a
           thing
           very
           remarcable
           ,
           that
           neither
           riches
           ,
           good
           traict●ment
           ,
           dignities
           ,
           nor
           honours
           can
           mak
           you
           quyet
           and
           peaceable
           men
           ;
           neither
           iniuries
           ,
           indignities
           ,
           banishment
           ,
           losse
           of
           goods
           nor
           freinds
           can
           moue
           the
           Catholiks
           to
           leaue
           their
           duetie
           towards
           the
           Prince
           :
           which
           I
           doubt
           not
           but
           his
           Maiestie
           some
           day
           will
           consider
           when
           it
           shall
           please
           God
           to
           haue
           pitie
           of
           our
           mise●ies
           .
           Abyding
           which
           tyme
           ,
           I
           pray
           you
           all
           good
           and
           Godly
           Catholiks
           (
           s●sfer
           me
           good
           sites
           to
           turne
           my
           speeche
           a
           litill
           to
           them
           )
           to
           behaue
           your selues
           towards
           his
           Maiestie
           with
           due
           obedience
           and
           modestie
           ,
           se●king
           no
           pre●●xt
           no●
           excuse
           to
           withdraw
           your selues
           :
           suffering
           paciently
           persecutions
           if
           any
           be
           .
           Mixe
           no
           worldly
           respectes
           with
           heauenly
           bl●slinges
           ,
           God
           is
           highly
           offended
           when
           we
           mak●
           to
           our
           particulare
           passions
           a
           cloake
           of
           his
           name
           ,
           his
           honour
           and
           our
           affaires
           ar
           not
           of
           lyk
           rank
           ,
           they
           should
           not
           be
           mingled
           together
           ▪
           If
           any
           harme
           cometh
           to
           you
           in
           his
           seruice
           ,
           your
           reward
           wil
           be
           th●
           greater
           ,
           soing
           ye
           haue
           ●r●uailled
           
           for
           his
           glorie
           ,
           and
           haue
           stand
           stoutly
           to
           his
           ryght
           ,
           vnder
           whose
           banner
           to
           die
           ,
           is
           to
           triomphe
           for
           euer
           :
           feare
           no
           damnage
           ▪
           not
           losse
           ,
           ye
           haue
           a
           most
           sure
           promise
           of
           a
           honderdfold
           profit
           &
           the
           lyfe
           eternall
           .
           we
           should
           bestow
           our
           goodes
           w●llingly
           in
           his
           seruice
           who
           rccompenseth
           so
           liberally
           .
           The
           lesse
           of
           our
           priuat
           affections
           we
           midle
           here
           in
           ,
           the
           better
           is
           outs
           ,
           the
           more
           ample
           shal
           be
           our
           lords
           goodnes
           towards
           vs
           :
           because
           his
           glorie
           the
           more
           cleerly
           doeth
           shine
           ,
           when
           it
           is
           allone
           .
           But
           when
           his
           veritie
           is
           blamed
           for
           our
           misbehauiour
           ,
           what
           can
           we
           look
           for
           at
           his
           hands
           ,
           but
           for
           a
           iust
           punition
           for
           abusing
           his
           authoritie
           and
           name
           ?
           It
           were
           very
           hard
           to
           suffer
           sundry
           thinges
           that
           occurre
           in
           thes
           spirituall
           wat●es
           ,
           if
           our
           captaine
           were
           not
           inuincible
           ,
           and
           we
           assured
           how
           long
           we
           stand
           with
           him
           .
           We
           lack
           no
           good
           examples
           bothe
           of
           head
           and
           membres
           .
           We
           can
           not
           be
           first
           in
           this
           batai●l
           where
           so
           many
           thowsands
           lossing
           the
           earth
           haue
           conquised
           the
           heauens
           ▪
           there
           ar
           passed
           before
           vs
           infinite
           nomber
           of
           champions
           off
           all
           dignities
           ages
           and
           qualities
           ,
           Kinges
           ,
           Quyenes
           ,
           nobles
           &
           meane
           men
           ,
           learned
           and
           ignorant
           ,
           men
           ,
           wemen
           ,
           ould
           men
           and
           babes
           ,
           poore
           and
           riche
           ,
           who
           haue
           borne
           armour
           vnder
           this
           standart
           ,
           &
           after
           the
           losse
           of
           all
           worldly
           goods
           haue
           shead
           their
           
           bloode
           with
           ioy
           to
           their
           eternall
           blesse
           ,
           because
           they
           had
           only
           Goddes
           glorie
           before
           their
           eyes
           ,
           which
           principally
           in
           this
           tyme
           so
           dangerous
           we
           should
           do
           ,
           that
           our
           vice
           be
           not
           obiected
           to
           the
           Catholik
           religion
           ,
           as
           if
           our
           faul●es
           came
           of
           that
           which
           we
           professe
           ,
           and
           not
           of
           ou●
           selues
           ;
           to
           which
           sorte
           of
           calumnies
           and
           craftie
           accusations
           ,
           our
           aduersaries
           haue
           ost
           recourse
           ,
           taking
           argumēts
           from
           ou●
           liues
           and
           behauiour
           ,
           which
           they
           can
           not
           haue
           frome
           our
           religion
           .
           We
           should
           not
           mixe
           the
           religion
           with
           matters
           of
           state
           ,
           they
           apperteine
           to
           diuerse
           magistrates
           ;
           God
           will
           haue
           vs
           here
           obedient
           to
           bothe
           ,
           because
           they
           a●
           his
           lieutenants
           ,
           established
           in
           his
           name
           and
           authoritie
           we
           should
           not
           serue
           our
           selues
           with
           the
           command
           of
           the
           one
           ,
           to
           disobey
           the
           other
           in
           his
           charge
           .
           Who
           so
           euer
           hender
           any
           of
           the
           two
           ,
           can
           not
           serue
           him
           s●lfe
           with
           excuse
           of
           the
           other
           :
           we
           must
           follow
           bothe
           their
           commands
           according
           to
           their
           place
           &
           rank
           :
           they
           at
           ordained
           by
           God
           to
           keepe
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           distroy
           each
           other
           .
           If
           standing
           to
           the
           true
           saith
           ,
           to
           the
           defence
           of
           our
           soueraigne
           ,
           we
           be
           persecuted
           either
           in
           lyf
           body
           or
           goods
           ,
           after
           the
           bataill
           ,
           we
           shal
           be
           restored
           to
           ou●
           owne
           ,
           or
           to
           meikill
           better
           .
           he
           who
           receaueth
           a
           prophete
           in
           name
           of
           a
           prophete
           ,
           shall
           receaue
           the
           reward
           of
           a
           prophete
           
           
           yea
           he
           who
           giueth
           a
           cuppe
           of
           cold
           water
           in
           the
           name
           of
           a
           Disciple
           shall
           not
           loose
           his
           reward
           ,
           what
           shall
           he
           receaue
           I
           pray
           you
           ,
           who
           willinglie
           ,
           w●en
           occasion
           se●ueth
           ,
           gifeth
           his
           lyf
           to
           God
           in
           Gods
           name
           to
           declaire
           his
           veritie
           or
           mainteine
           his
           iustice
           in
           defence
           of
           religion
           or
           his
           Prince
           ,
           so
           highly
           recommended
           to
           vs
           by
           God
           him selfe
           ?
           lat
           vs
           not
           infect
           this
           gift
           &
           oblation
           with
           our
           priuat
           plottes
           and
           passions
           ,
           he
           who
           heard
           Sainct
           Paul
           in
           his
           weaknes
           ,
           will
           graunt
           vs
           strenght
           to
           susteine
           all
           aduersities
           :
           he
           will
           say
           to
           vs
           also
           
             sufficiat
             vobis
             gratia
             mea
          
           :
           the
           more
           we
           loosse
           here
           ,
           the
           more
           we
           shall
           winne
           in
           heauen
           .
           Seing
           this
           patience
           sure
           I
           am
           that
           the
           Kinges
           Maiestie
           will
           not
           be
           so
           farre
           offend●d
           ,
           when
           he
           shall
           vnderstand
           that
           thereis
           onely
           conscience
           that
           do
           stoppe
           you
           to
           condescend
           to
           many
           thinges
           ,
           and
           no
           rebellion
           nor
           contempt
           of
           his
           lawes
           ,
           or
           ordainances
           :
           for
           in
           that
           case
           ye
           prefer
           onely
           God
           to
           him
           ,
           and
           that
           because
           your
           fi●st
           obligation
           moueth
           you
           thereto
           .
           Byding
           in
           this
           resolution
           ,
           the
           victorie
           shal
           be
           yours
           ,
           and
           ye
           shall
           obteine
           ,
           if
           not
           mans
           ,
           at
           lest
           Goddes
           fauour
           ,
           otherwise
           ye
           may
           look
           to
           loosse
           bothe
           :
           surther
           we
           may
           hope
           that
           his
           Maiestie
           being
           better
           informed
           of
           the
           matter
           ,
           wil
           be
           more
           gra●ious
           to
           his
           true
           and
           humble
           subi●cts
           then
           to
           punish
           
           them
           by
           death
           ,
           banishment
           or
           priuation
           of
           their
           goods
           in
           fauour
           of
           the
           ministers
           who
           byding
           at
           the
           ground●s
           of
           their
           doctrine
           can
           neither
           be
           good
           Christians
           nor
           true
           subiects
           as
           we
           haue
           sha●●
           alreddie
           ,
           and
           shall
           sh●w
           more
           euiden●ly
           here
           after
           if
           this
           be
           not
           thought
           sufficient
           .
           Yet
           if
           our
           sinn●s
           be
           so
           great
           that
           God
           will
           haue
           vs
           punis●ed
           with
           all
           tigour
           and
           extremitie
           in
           this
           present
           lyf
           ,
           lat
           vs
           receaue
           the
           same
           not
           onely
           with
           patience
           because
           we
           haue
           deserued
           meikill
           more
           ,
           but
           also
           with
           gladnesse
           and
           thankes
           giuing
           as
           comming
           o●
           his
           hand
           ,
           who
           will
           gif
           vs
           the
           strenght
           to
           beare
           it
           ,
           seing
           that
           his
           quartell
           is
           mixed
           with
           our
           paines
           ,
           lat
           vs
           crye
           for
           his
           helpe
           ▪
           and
           succo●re
           who
           hath
           the
           heartes
           of
           Princes
           in
           his
           hand
           ,
           that
           he
           may
           dispense
           their
           actions
           to
           his
           glorie
           ,
           to
           their
           and
           our
           saluation
           and
           publik
           peace
           and
           quietnesse
           .
           how
           that
           shal
           be
           donne
           ,
           we
           must
           leaue
           it
           to
           his
           infinitie
           wisdome
           and
           prouidence
           hauing
           alwaies
           in
           our
           heartes
           and
           mouthes
           ,
           thy
           will
           be
           donne
           in
           earth
           as
           it
           is
           in
           heauen
           .
        
         
           Now
           to
           retourne
           to
           you
           againe
           (
           good
           sites
           )
           it
           is
           not
           onely
           very
           dangerouse
           ,
           but
           also
           farre
           against
           the
           duetie
           of
           a
           good
           Christian
           man
           to
           sweare
           according
           to
           your
           desyre
           ,
           os
           reither
           command
           and
           force
           ,
           to
           
           witt
           that
           they
           
             abhorre
             and
             detest
             all
             contrario●●
             religion
             and
             doctrine
          
           (
           to
           your
           reformation
           )
           
             but
             cheiflie
             all
             kynd
             of
             papistrie
             in
             generall
             and
             particulere
             heades
             ▪
          
           Because
           the
           most
           chief
           heads
           of
           the
           Catholik
           Apostolik
           and
           Romane
           doctrine
           (
           w●ich
           ye
           of
           your
           great
           humanitie
           and
           courtesie
           doe
           call
           papistrie
           at
           all
           occasions
           and
           propos
           )
           a●
           conteined
           in
           the
           symbol
           of
           faith
           m●de
           by
           the
           Apostles
           ,
           if
           ye
           haue
           any
           thing
           to
           say
           there
           to
           ye
           may
           .
           But
           as
           to
           vs
           ,
           as
           we
           beleef
           in
           the
           symbol
           that
           there
           is
           one
           God
           omnipotente
           Fat●er
           ,
           Sonne
           ,
           &
           holie
           Ghost
           ,
           w●o
           hath
           created
           ,
           redeemed
           ,
           &
           sanctified
           vs
           by
           his
           infinite
           goodnes
           &
           mercy
           ;
           so
           do
           we
           beleef
           that
           there
           is
           one
           holie
           Catholik
           kirk
           ,
           by
           whose
           mouth
           we
           ar
           instructed
           in
           all
           theis
           thinges
           ,
           that
           we
           should
           beleef
           ,
           or
           do
           ;
           because
           shee
           is
           the
           spouse
           and
           mysticall
           body
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           ,
           of
           whome
           as
           of
           hir
           head
           shee
           hath
           grace
           and
           power
           ,
           and
           we
           command
           to
           obey
           .
           Theis
           at
           the
           generall
           heades
           of
           that
           which
           ye
           call
           papistrie
           (
           seing
           it
           pleased
           you
           so
           to
           terme
           it
           )
           where
           vpon
           ar
           biulded
           all
           particuler
           heades
           professed
           by
           the
           same
           kirk
           ,
           and
           all
           hi●
           children
           remaning
           in
           due
           obedience
           within
           hi●
           bosome
           .
           To
           detest
           and
           abhorre
           theis
           thinges
           ,
           ye
           may
           easely
           iudge
           your selues
           (
           if
           passiō
           commād
           not
           aboue
           your
           ●ittes
           )
           how
           hard
           a
           thing
           it
           wil●
           be
           to
           ●any
           
           Christian
           man
           ,
           w●o
           hath
           Christs
           spouse
           in
           good
           estimation
           and
           as
           it
           becometh
           him
           to
           haue
           hi●
           who
           is
           guided
           with
           so
           nobell
           a
           head
           :
           But
           ye
           will
           say
           that
           ye
           condemne
           not
           that
           which
           is
           good
           ,
           but
           our
           errours
           :
           I
           answeare
           to
           you
           in
           one
           word
           ,
           so
           farre
           as
           I
           can
           see
           ye
           haue
           as
           litell
           iudgement
           to
           discerne
           vpon
           an
           errour
           ,
           as
           ye
           haue
           power
           to
           condemne
           it
           .
           But
           this
           doth
           require
           a
           more
           ample
           discours
           .
           Moreouer
           to
           haue
           the
           Catholik
           religion
           in
           greater
           horrour
           and
           detestation
           then
           te
           Iewdaisme
           ,
           Turcisme
           ,
           heresie
           ,
           or
           at
           heisme
           I
           can
           not
           think
           that
           it
           cometh
           of
           a
           good
           and
           holie
           
           spirite
           ;
           but
           rather
           of
           him
           ,
           who
           vnder
           the
           figure
           &
           shape
           of
           a
           black
           dogge
           gaue
           a
           purse
           with
           siluer
           to
           the
           forger
           of
           your
           confession
           .
           But
           I
           vnderstand
           well
           how
           the
           matter
           standed
           :
           he
           who
           hath
           fled
           a
           way
           for
           knauerie
           ,
           had
           rather
           serue
           any
           man
           then
           retorne
           back
           to
           his
           owne
           maister
           .
           It
           is
           not
           my
           intent
           at
           this
           present
           to
           refu●e
           your
           negations
           of
           the
           faith
           :
           ye
           will
           gif
           occasions
           ,
           as
           ye
           haue
           giuen
           matter
           to
           answear
           by
           the
           groundes
           of
           your
           owne
           doctrine
           and
           maximes
           of
           your
           chief
           ministers
           ,
           which
           I
           graunt
           ye
           may
           deny
           ,
           as
           ye
           haue
           donne
           many
           better
           thinges
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           your
           Christian
           libertie
           ,
           where
           by
           ye
           may
           ●udge
           and
           condemne
           whome
           and
           what
           ye
           please
           if
           it
           agree
           not
           with
           the
           scriptures
           interpreted
           
           by
           you
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           with
           your
           opinion
           ▪
           where
           to
           ar
           subiect
           all
           thinges
           ,
           by
           vertue
           of
           the
           spirite
           which
           guideth
           you
           as
           supreme
           iudges
           without
           appealle
           ,
           for
           otherwise
           thinges
           can
           not
           stand
           with
           your
           credit
           :
           ye
           hold
           as
           the
           chief
           foundament
           of
           your
           detestations
           and
           refusals
           ,
           that
           the
           Pape
           is
           the
           Antichrist
           :
           which
           point
           no
           man
           of
           iudgement
           can
           passe
           with
           ,
           meikilles
           to
           subscribe
           or
           sweare
           it
           to
           be
           true
           .
           Sundry
           cunning
           and
           learned
           men
           hath
           most
           sufficiently
           confuted
           this
           blasphemous
           reuerie
           ,
           so
           I
           may
           be
           excused
           if
           I
           enter
           no
           further
           in
           the
           matter
           ,
           yet
           for
           other
           mens
           contentement
           ,
           who
           haue
           not
           seene
           ,
           or
           could
           not
           vnderstand
           these
           bookes
           ,
           I
           will
           bring
           here
           some
           reasons
           why
           that
           can
           not
           be
           .
           And
           
           first
           the
           Pape
           acknowledgeth
           not
           onely
           God
           to
           be
           aboue
           him
           ,
           to
           whome
           all
           honour
           and
           glorie
           iustly
           doeth
           apperteine
           because
           he
           is
           maker
           and
           authour
           of
           all
           thinges
           ;
           but
           also
           he
           acknowledgeth
           the
           Angels
           and
           Sainctes
           (
           although
           in
           different
           degree
           &
           maner
           ,
           God
           for
           his
           owen
           causes
           and
           them
           for
           Goddes
           cause
           )
           who
           ar
           in
           heauen
           ;
           and
           for
           that
           cause
           prayet●
           to
           them
           as
           being
           Gods
           in
           time
           and
           most
           deare
           friends
           to
           interced
           for
           him
           ;
           where
           as
           the
           Antichrist
           if
           ye
           will
           gif
           credit
           to
           Sainct
           Paul
           ,
           shall
           prefer
           him self
           to
           all
           thing
           that
           is
           called
           God
           ,
           where
           no
           exception
           is
           made
           .
           
           Secondly
           we
           reade
           of
           no
           Pape
           who
           hath
           slaine
           
           either
           Elias
           or
           Eno●h
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           excellent
           men
           indued
           with
           supernaturall
           giftes
           ,
           principallie
           at
           Ierusalem
           seing
           there
           hath
           beene
           there
           no
           Pape
           thes
           many
           hondred
           yeares
           .
           Further
           the
           Papes
           successiuely
           haue
           raigned
           
           th●s
           s●xteine
           hondred
           yeares
           not
           witstanding
           of
           the
           great
           varietie
           and
           trouble
           of
           the
           ●yme
           .
           The
           An●ichrist
           should
           reigne
           onely
           three
           yeares
           and
           an
           half
           .
           Moreouer
           there
           
           was
           never
           yet
           any
           Pape
           receaued
           by
           ●he
           Iewes
           for
           their
           true
           M●ssias
           ,
           because
           the
           Pape
           doeth
           teach
           that
           the
           true
           Messias
           is
           alreddie
           come
           :
           the
           Antichrist
           should
           be
           receaued
           ,
           
             Si
             alius
             venertt
             in
             nomine
             suo
             ●um
             recipietis
             .
          
           of
           contrarie
           there
           is
           no
           man
           they
           hate
           so
           meikill
           as
           they
           hate
           the
           Pape
           ,
           because
           he
           is
           the
           greatest
           obstacle
           thes
           1600.
           yeares
           .
           ye
           being
           yet
           
             in
             lumbis
             in●isibilis
             Ecclesiae
          
           .
           The
           Euāgell
           should
           
           be
           receaued
           through
           all
           before
           the
           Antichrist
           come
           :
           The
           Euangell
           is
           not
           yet
           receaued
           through
           all
           :
           and
           if
           the
           Pape
           be
           not
           yet
           come
           why
           preach
           ye
           against
           him
           ?
           The
           Pape
           with
           
           all
           diligence
           and
           ●a●e
           hath
           keaped
           and
           yet
           do
           keape
           
             Iuge
             saecrific●um
          
           the
           perpetuall
           sacrifice
           which
           onely
           is
           accep●able
           and
           pleasant
           to
           God
           :
           &
           therefore
           the
           Antichrist
           will
           labour
           to
           tak
           it
           away
           :
           where
           in
           ye
           trauell
           as
           ye
           can
           .
           The
           pape
           mainteineth
           the
           religion
           of
           his
           
           
           forfathers
           ,
           for
           he
           cond●mneth
           all
           thing
           as
           errour
           that
           is
           contrarie
           to
           the
           doctrine
           of
           the
           primitiue
           kirk
           and
           venerable
           an●iquitie
           ;
           because
           Iesus
           Christ
           being
           the
           veri●ie
           it self
           ,
           the
           religion
           founded
           vpon
           him
           ,
           and
           published
           by
           his
           deare
           spouse
           at
           his
           command
           ,
           can
           neither
           be
           variable
           nor
           false
           .
           the
           Antichrist
           shall
           mispryce
           the
           religiō
           of
           his
           fathers
           wherein
           
           ye
           imitat
           him
           perfectly
           well
           .
           The
           pape
           sitteth
           at
           Rome
           and
           hath
           so
           donne
           thes
           many
           ages
           .
           The
           Antichrist
           should
           sit
           at
           Ierusalem
           .
           
           The
           Pape
           adoreth
           with
           all
           humilitie
           and
           reuerence
           the
           Trinitie
           ,
           teacheth
           and
           commandeth
           all
           true
           Christians
           to
           doo
           the
           same
           .
           The
           Antichrist
           openeth
           his
           mouth
           with
           all
           sorte
           of
           blasphemie
           against
           the
           holie
           Triniti●
           .
           
           The
           Pape
           ●alleth
           him self
           
             Seruu●
             seruorum
             Dei
          
           ,
           acknowledging
           that
           the
           honour
           he
           receaueth
           of
           men
           ,
           is
           because
           of
           his
           office
           that
           he
           hath
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           is
           institute
           Pastour
           here
           in
           earth
           to
           serue
           the
           wholl
           flock
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           out
           lord
           whose
           seruant
           he
           is
           and
           chief
           minister
           :
           And
           therefor
           before
           all
           mortall
           men
           in
           dignitie
           seing
           he
           representeth
           Christ
           our
           soueraigne
           Lord
           ,
           yet
           subiect
           to
           serue
           all
           men
           ,
           helpe
           and
           assist
           them
           because
           of
           his
           office
           and
           charge
           ,
           certainely
           the
           lest
           of
           the
           realme
           is
           to
           be
           prefered
           to
           the
           greatest
           ,
           how
           lōg
           he
           represented
           the
           Kinges
           Maiesties
           
           personne
           .
           The
           Antic●rist
           shall
           call
           him self
           God.
           There
           hath
           beene
           two
           hundred
           and
           
           thirtie
           Papes
           and
           more
           :
           there
           should
           be
           but
           one
           Antichrist
           contrarie
           to
           Christ
           in
           all
           thinges
           :
           for
           we
           speak
           here
           of
           the
           great
           Antichrist
           .
           The
           religion
           professed
           by
           the
           Pape
           hath
           dured
           
           (
           with
           your
           owm
           prophetes
           confessions
           )
           more
           thē
           twalf
           hundred
           year●s
           :
           the
           religiō
           or
           rather
           impietie
           of
           the
           Antichrist
           should
           dure
           short
           space
           ,
           as
           he
           him selfe
           .
           The
           Antichrist
           
           should
           be
           an
           Apostate
           &
           go
           out
           of
           the
           kirk
           of
           God
           ,
           where
           by
           that
           his
           wickednes
           may
           be
           the
           greater
           being
           ioyned
           with
           rebelliō
           ▪
           The
           Pape
           remaineth
           yet
           still
           in
           the
           house
           of
           God.
           
           There
           hath
           beene
           great
           number
           of
           heresies
           &
           heretikes
           during
           theis
           1600.
           yeares
           that
           we
           haue
           hade
           so
           many
           Papes
           .
           But
           the
           Antichrist
           should
           be
           the
           last
           of
           the
           heretiks
           ,
           because
           all
           wickednesse
           should
           be
           compleit
           in
           him
           ,
           all
           heretiks
           seruing
           to
           him
           as
           foreriders
           ,
           where
           of
           Simon
           Magus
           was
           the
           first
           a
           detestable
           magicien
           and
           a
           traiterous
           apostate
           ,
           who
           not
           withstanding
           hath
           found
           ouer
           many
           cōpanions
           to
           follow
           him
           .
           Iesus
           Christ
           should
           
           slay
           the
           Antichrist
           with
           the
           spirite
           of
           his
           mouth
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           as
           ye
           interprete
           it
           ,
           with
           the
           preaching
           of
           the
           Euangell
           ,
           that
           hath
           he
           never
           donne
           to
           any
           Pape
           ,
           albeit
           ye
           haue
           imaginated
           to
           your selfs
           ,
           that
           ye
           haue
           slaine
           the
           Pape
           
           by
           your
           preachinges
           ,
           o●
           rather
           taillinges
           ,
           the
           Pape
           never
           hath
           had
           one
           houres
           sicknes
           for
           all
           your
           crying
           ;
           assure
           your selues
           that
           his
           infirmities
           cometh
           of
           other
           causes
           .
           Luther
           in
           spirite
           of
           prophicie
           as
           he
           thought
           made
           this
           most
           notable
           verse
           
             Pestis
             eram
             viuus
             ,
             moriens
             tu●
             mors
             ero
             Papa
             :
          
           he
           knew
           very
           well
           the
           first
           part
           to
           be
           true
           ,
           and
           therefore
           myght
           say
           it
           confidently
           ,
           the
           last
           part
           was
           lyk
           the
           authour
           ,
           false
           and
           vntrue
           ,
           he
           being
           deade
           and
           his
           doctrine
           bothe
           ,
           it
           being
           changed
           partly
           by
           him self
           during
           his
           lyf
           ,
           partly
           by
           his
           disciples
           and
           followers
           after
           his
           deathe
           ,
           where
           as
           the
           Papes
           Authoritie
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           founded
           vpon
           God
           ,
           doth
           remaine
           ,
           &
           shall
           remaine
           till
           the
           
           worlds
           end
           .
           The
           Antichrist
           should
           oppose
           him self
           to
           our
           lord
           in
           all
           thinges
           and
           abolish
           his
           name
           and
           honour
           so
           farre
           as
           he
           can
           :
           for
           so
           the
           name
           of
           Antichrist
           doth
           signifie
           .
           The
           
           Pape
           doeth
           the
           plaine
           contrarie
           .
           The
           Antichrist
           should
           come
           after
           Gog
           &
           Magog
           :
           howbeit
           that
           the
           Papes
           hath
           beene
           so
           many
           ages
           ,
           yet
           know
           we
           not
           ,
           what
           Gog
           and
           Magog
           ar
           ,
           nor
           what
           place
           of
           the
           world
           they
           dwell
           in
           .
           
           The
           Pape
           honoreth
           the
           Sainctes
           as
           Gods
           vndoubted
           friends
           and
           desyreth
           them
           to
           pray
           for
           him
           .
           Where
           vpon
           maliciously
           ye
           preach
           to
           the
           people
           that
           we
           gif
           Christs
           honour
           to
           the
           Saincts
           &
           yet
           we
           acknowledge
           them
           as
           seruants
           
           onely
           ,
           who
           hath
           credit
           to
           pray
           and
           not
           to
           command
           .
           The
           Antichrist
           should
           haue
           
           in
           his
           name
           the
           number
           of
           666.
           to
           find
           this
           number
           your
           brethren
           ,
           further
           different
           frome
           you
           in
           doctrine
           and
           discipline
           then
           in
           place
           or
           habites
           ,
           haue
           taken
           great
           paines
           tourning
           the
           Papes
           names
           ,
           but
           all
           in
           vaine
           ,
           it
           could
           not
           be
           found
           the
           holie
           spirite
           hauing
           so
           prouided
           against
           your
           calumnies
           .
           Many
           
           thousands
           ar
           saued
           in
           the
           Catholik
           kirk
           ,
           which
           ye
           call
           the
           papist
           kirk
           ,
           for
           otherwise
           all
           your
           forfathers
           ar
           condemned
           ,
           yea
           all
           the
           ancient
           fathers
           ,
           martyres
           ,
           and
           doctours
           of
           the
           kirk
           ,
           seing
           that
           they
           haue
           acknowledged
           the
           pape
           for
           their
           superior
           ,
           and
           chief
           vicare
           to
           Iesus
           Christ
           ,
           and
           a
           great
           part
           of
           you
           were
           baptised
           by
           the
           membres
           of
           the
           Antichrist
           ,
           in
           whose
           kirk
           no
           man
           can
           be
           saued
           .
           The
           Pape
           
           armeth
           him self
           &
           al
           men
           so
           far
           as
           he
           can
           for
           Iesus
           Christ
           ,
           with
           reasons
           ,
           scriptures
           ,
           generall
           counceilles
           ,
           authorities
           of
           fathers
           ,
           exēples
           of
           martyres
           ,
           consentement
           of
           the
           wholl
           Catholik
           kirk
           of
           all
           ages
           .
           The
           Antichrist
           shall
           arme
           him selfe
           and
           his
           followers
           with
           force
           and
           violence
           against
           Iesus
           Christ
           .
           The
           Pape
           conserueth
           ,
           and
           haue
           conserued
           at
           all
           
           tymes
           the
           scriptures
           :
           The
           Antichrist
           if
           he
           do
           according
           to
           his
           name
           and
           profession
           ,
           should
           destroy
           the
           scriptures
           .
           The
           Pape
           hateth
           and
           
           
           condemneth
           all
           sort
           of
           rebellions
           and
           nouelties
           in
           religion
           :
           The
           Antichrist
           should
           embrace
           them
           as
           most
           proper
           &
           conuenient
           instruments
           for
           his
           auancement
           of
           perdition
           .
           
           The
           Pape
           came
           so
           quietly
           ,
           and
           peaceablye
           (
           yea
           according
           to
           your
           owen
           ●ellowes
           saying
           )
           that
           ye
           can
           not
           yet
           goodly-tell
           ,
           when
           ,
           or
           how
           he
           first
           entred
           in
           the
           kirk
           ,
           ye
           ar
           so
           troubled
           to
           tell
           well
           your
           new
           forged
           fable
           .
           The
           Antichrist
           should
           come
           with
           sic
           trouble
           and
           mischief
           as
           neuer
           was
           since
           the
           beginning
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           where
           in
           he
           shal
           be
           more
           lyk
           to
           you
           ,
           then
           to
           the
           Pape
           ,
           seing
           we
           can
           well
           tell
           when
           ye
           came
           ,
           and
           may
           yet
           shew
           ouer
           euident
           
           markes
           of
           your
           vnquiet
           intré
           .
           And
           to
           be
           short
           the
           Antichrist
           should
           be
           
             filius
             perditioni●
          
           the
           sonne
           of
           perdition
           ,
           chief
           instrument
           of
           satan
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           so
           possessed
           and
           assisted
           with
           the
           deuill
           ,
           that
           he
           shall
           do
           all
           thinges
           in
           the
           deuils
           power
           and
           for
           his
           cause
           ,
           and
           shal
           be
           so
           perfect
           and
           accomplished
           (
           if
           I
           should
           so
           say
           )
           in
           all
           vice
           and
           iniquitie
           ,
           that
           no
           man
           can
           equall
           him
           ,
           meikilles
           to
           surpasse
           him
           ,
           and
           principallie
           in
           pryde
           ,
           as
           our
           maister
           and
           lord
           Iesus
           Christ
           did
           excell
           in
           all
           vertue
           ,
           &
           chiefly
           in
           humilitie
           
             discite
             à
             me
             ,
             quia
             mitis
             sum
             &
             hu●●lis
             corde
             .
          
           Wherefor
           not
           without
           reason
           sundry
           learned
           men
           haue
           repported
           the
           seuen
           montains
           to
           the
           seuen
           deedly
           sinnes
           which
           
           shal
           be
           in
           the
           Antechrist
           in
           most
           high
           degree
           that
           he
           may
           iustly
           answeare
           to
           his
           name
           ,
           The
           Pape
           can
           no
           wayes
           be
           thought
           so
           wicked
           :
           I
           call
           to
           witnes
           all
           sort
           of
           Protestantes
           of
           what
           so
           euer
           nation
           ,
           saction
           ,
           or
           opinion
           who
           haue
           beene
           at
           Rome
           before
           or
           since
           the
           Iubile
           ,
           and
           haue
           seene
           the
           Pape
           who
           now
           sitteth
           Clement
           the
           eight
           a
           man
           worthie
           of
           that
           name
           ,
           if
           any
           of
           them
           may
           say
           in
           his
           conscience
           ,
           that
           he
           is
           so
           wicked
           and
           desperate
           a
           mā
           ,
           as
           the
           Antichrist
           is
           described
           to
           be
           in
           the
           scriptures
           .
           Sure
           I
           am
           that
           there
           is
           none
           of
           them
           so
           far
           drounkē
           in
           the
           ministeriall
           humour
           ,
           that
           will
           say
           so
           ,
           if
           he
           speak
           according
           to
           that
           he
           hath
           seene
           .
           It
           is
           so
           far
           from
           that
           the
           Pape
           can
           be
           the
           Antichrist
           that
           his
           most
           excellente
           Maiestie
           a
           Prince
           of
           rare
           iudgement
           and
           learning
           ,
           doth
           acknowledge
           the
           Pape
           to
           be
           a
           temporall
           Prince
           ,
           to
           whom
           he
           is
           obliged
           and
           to
           whome
           in
           all
           good
           offices
           he
           wil
           be
           correspondent
           .
           ●hat
           wordes
           may
           be
           said
           to
           your
           opinion
           who
           maketh
           our
           Kinge
           to
           haue
           obligation
           from
           ,
           and
           commerce
           with
           the
           Antichrist
           ?
           I
           may
           say
           with
           your
           pardon
           and
           licence
           sessionall
           ,
           that
           he
           is
           a
           better
           &
           more
           honest
           man
           ,
           then
           any
           ministers
           that
           either
           is
           or
           euer
           was
           in
           Scotland
           without
           exception
           of
           your
           chief
           pontifs
           first
           or
           last
           ,
           Iohn
           or
           Robert.
           I
           am
           assured
           
           that
           he
           who
           knoweth
           the
           Pape
           an●
           your
           ministers
           will
           say
           the
           same
           ,
           principally
           if
           it
           were
           question
           of
           humilitie
           and
           humanitie
           :
           and
           if
           I
           be
           put
           to
           my
           proues
           ,
           I
           hope
           easely
           to
           discharge
           my selfe
           litill
           to
           you●
           honours
           .
           If
           this
           be
           true
           as
           it
           is
           most
           certaine
           why
           should
           any
           man
           sweare
           the
           Pape
           to
           be
           the
           Antichrist
           ,
           that
           is
           the
           most
           wicked
           and
           detestable
           man
           that
           euer
           was
           ,
           is
           ,
           or
           shal
           be
           ,
           seing
           that
           there
           is
           none
           of
           your
           companie
           how
           godly
           brethren
           that
           euer
           ye
           be
           ,
           but
           i●
           meikill
           worse
           ,
           then
           he
           ?
           or
           if
           they
           sweare
           a
           thing
           so
           farre
           out
           of
           all
           reason
           and
           verit●e
           as
           thinking
           it
           true
           ,
           why
           should
           they
           follow
           or
           acknowledge
           you
           for
           true
           and
           lawfull
           pastours
           sent
           by
           God
           to
           reforme
           the
           world
           ,
           if
           ye
           be
           worse
           then
           the
           Antichrist
           ,
           who
           must
           be
           the
           most
           detestable
           and
           abominable
           instrument
           that
           euer
           Satan
           hath
           employed
           ?
           If
           ye
           say
           that
           it
           is
           but
           simulation
           and
           hypocrisie
           in
           the
           P●pe
           to
           deceaue
           men
           ,
           I
           answeare
           you
           ,
           that
           if
           we
           graunt
           your
           foolish
           affirmation
           ,
           ye
           must
           also
           graunt
           to
           vs
           that
           the
           deuill
           hath
           donne
           more
           good
           with
           the
           Pape
           ,
           &
           his
           hypocrisie
           ,
           pretēded
           ,
           or
           fained
           holinesse
           ,
           then
           euer
           the
           holie
           spi●ite
           ,
           which
           is
           in
           you
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           could
           do
           by
           ●ou
           and
           your
           pietie
           and
           reformed
           Godlinesse
           :
           your
           actions
           may
           beare
           witnes
           if
           I
           lie
           .
           
             O
             Sanctas
             gentes
             quibus
             ha●
          
           
           
             ●●s●untur
             in
             ●ortis
             minima
          
           .
           Whose
           best
           workes
           a●
           so
           litill
           worthe
           .
           Certainely
           ye
           ar
           very
           greatly
           obliged
           to
           theis
           ,
           who
           will
           not
           sweare
           a
           thing
           so
           preiudiciable
           to
           your
           honour
           and
           reputation
           ,
           which
           necessarilie
           followed
           vpō
           your
           doctrine
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           once
           admitted
           .
           Truely
           I
           haue
           not
           so
           hard
           opinion
           of
           you
           :
           for
           notwitstanding
           I
           esteeme
           you
           in
           all
           degrees
           farre
           inferior
           to
           the
           Pape
           :
           yet
           think
           I
           not
           that
           ye
           ar
           so
           low
           &
           abiect
           ,
           or
           so
           wicked
           and
           abominable
           as
           the
           Antichrist
           ,
           meikilles
           to
           think
           you
           worse
           .
           Acknowledge
           the
           obligation
           ye
           haue
           to
           them
           ,
           who
           doing
           according
           to
           their
           consciences
           toward
           the
           Pape
           ,
           hath
           donne
           so
           meikill
           for
           your
           honour
           .
           But
           ye
           will
           say
           that
           ye
           ar
           not
           so
           wicked
           as
           the
           Pape
           .
           I
           doubt
           not
           but
           ye
           will
           winne
           your
           cause
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           referred
           to
           your
           saying
           or
           othe
           .
           If
           the
           boundes
           of
           this
           epistle
           wold
           suffer
           ,
           or
           if
           it
           were
           my
           principall
           butte
           to
           traict
           that
           matter
           ,
           I
           should
           mak
           a
           comparison
           betwix
           the
           Pape
           and
           you
           ,
           where
           I
           should
           mak
           you
           ashamed
           (
           if
           ye
           haue
           any
           shame
           in
           your
           forhead
           )
           of
           your selues
           ,
           the
           merueillous
           differēce
           being
           seene
           .
           I
           maruell
           how
           a
           minister
           can
           look
           to
           his
           companions
           vnlaughen
           when
           he
           seeth
           the
           people
           beleef
           a
           thing
           so
           ridiculous
           .
           And
           in
           cōsciēce
           beleef
           ye
           that
           the
           Antichrist
           shal
           be
           a
           litill
           hypocrite
           or
           simple
           heretik
           ?
           
           ●e
           shal
           be
           more
           furiouse
           then
           any
           that
           euer
           came
           to
           trouble
           the
           kirk
           .
           Because
           ye
           cannot
           shew
           that
           the
           Pape
           is
           come
           with
           force
           and
           violence
           ,
           as
           our
           Lord
           hath
           aduertised
           vs
           he
           shall
           come
           ,
           ye
           wold
           mak
           the
           world
           beleeue
           that
           the
           Antichrist
           should
           come
           to
           continue
           lyk
           a
           lamb
           .
           Iesus
           Christ
           sayeth
           the
           contrarie
           of
           him
           .
           It
           wil
           be
           an
           ill
           reformed
           faith
           to
           gif
           our
           lord
           the
           lie
           :
           how
           can
           ye
           think
           ,
           that
           he
           who
           shal
           be
           instructed
           and
           fullie
           inspired
           wi●h
           the
           spirite
           of
           Satan
           ,
           will
           in
           any
           wise
           ,
           ether
           follow
           or
           conter●ect
           our
           maister
           and
           lord
           Iesus
           Christ
           ?
           ye
           deceaue
           your selues
           and
           all
           others
           ,
           who
           credits
           you
           if
           ye
           beleef
           so
           .
           The
           heretiks
           ,
           who
           ar
           onely
           his
           foreruners
           hath
           entred
           in
           the
           kirk
           of
           God
           lyk
           Woulfes
           and
           Tigres
           ,
           and
           ye
           your selues
           came
           with
           so
           great
           modestie
           and
           quietnes
           ,
           that
           the
           earth
           did
           tremble
           and
           shake
           vnder
           your
           feete
           (
           I
           know
           nōt
           if
           it
           was
           for
           gladenesse
           of
           your
           cōming
           )
           so
           mightelye
           that
           the
           whole
           policie
           &
           publik
           buildings
           thr●ugh
           out
           all
           Scotlād
           did
           fall
           downe
           as
           if
           it
           had
           beene
           a
           generall
           earth
           quake
           .
           verelie
           according
           to
           his
           nature
           and
           dignitie
           ,
           he
           must
           be
           more
           violent
           and
           cruell
           then
           all
           the
           rest
           .
           Is
           it
           possible
           that
           ye
           think
           the
           Antichrist
           will
           vse
           onely
           persuations
           ,
           faire
           words
           ,
           &
           li●ill
           hen
           wyles
           ,
           seing
           that
           ye
           vse
           all
           s●rt
           of
           violences
           and
           compulsions
           ?
           
           he
           wil
           be
           more
           cruell
           then
           ye
           in
           all
           respectes
           ,
           more
           craftie
           and
           more
           mightie
           :
           he
           will
           bring
           with
           him
           all
           mischiefs
           that
           can
           be
           inuented
           ,
           &
           for
           that
           cause
           God
           will
           shorten
           his
           tyme.
           Think
           ye
           that
           that
           deuill
           (
           if
           I
           ●hould
           so
           say
           )
           wil
           be
           lyk
           Clemē●
           the
           8.
           
           Are
           ye
           so
           ignorant
           or
           so
           foolish
           ?
           Truely
           Pape
           Clement
           is
           so
           wicked
           ,
           that
           it
           were
           better
           haue
           ten
           thowsand
           lyk
           him
           ,
           then
           one
           lyk
           ●ny
           of
           you
           ,
           and
           his
           death
           more
           to
           be
           sorrowed
           thē
           the
           death
           of
           a
           hundred
           thousand
           of
           you
           ,
           howbeit
           ye
           haue
           a
           better
           opinion
           of
           your selfs
           .
           Think
           not
           also
           that
           the
           modestie
           that
           is
           in
           the
           Pape
           ,
           cometh
           of
           any
           feare
           he
           hath
           of
           you
           or
           yours
           .
           Ye
           slay
           him
           euery
           yeare
           with
           your
           tounges
           ,
           but
           so
           softlie
           ,
           that
           he
           perceaueth
           it
           no
           more
           ,
           then
           ye
           did
           the
           first
           Papes
           entring
           .
           How
           can
           ye
           beleeue
           that
           the
           Pape
           or
           Papes
           ,
           ar
           ,
           or
           can
           be
           the
           Antichrist
           ,
           seing
           they
           haue
           condemned
           all
           the
           heresies
           that
           hitherto
           hath
           risin
           against
           ether
           the
           diuinitie
           or
           humanitie
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           (
           as
           may
           be
           proued
           by
           your
           owen
           fellowes
           )
           yea
           they
           haue
           condemned
           the
           errours
           risin
           now
           of
           late
           yeares
           amonge
           your selues
           ,
           as
           the
           new
           heresies
           of
           
             Gentilis
             ,
             Stancharus
             ,
             Blandrata
          
           ,
           and
           other
           good
           disciples
           of
           Caluin
           ,
           against
           the
           holie
           Trinitie
           ,
           whose
           errour
           ye
           approue
           not
           although
           bred
           among
           you
           .
           How
           can
           it
           
           be
           that
           they
           shal
           be
           the
           Antichrist
           ,
           who
           so
           stoutly
           ,
           so
           constantlie
           ,
           with
           so
           great
           expenses
           and
           danger
           doeth
           defend
           the
           dignitie
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           ?
           for
           they
           onely
           whome
           ye
           in
           your
           reformed
           language
           call
           the
           Antichrist
           ,
           hath
           holdin
           ,
           approued
           ,
           &
           yet
           doth
           defend
           &
           approue
           ,
           all
           &
           wholl
           the
           generall
           councelles
           where
           Christs
           honour
           ,
           authoritie
           ,
           and
           diuine
           Maiestie
           haue
           beene
           lawfully
           defended
           and
           keeped
           :
           yet
           can
           ye
           not
           shew
           any
           sic
           thing
           donne
           by
           you
           ,
           who
           calles
           your selues
           true
           Christians
           and
           lawfull
           pastours
           .
           What
           shall
           we
           think
           of
           these
           Antichristes
           ,
           &
           of
           you
           zealous
           Christians
           ?
           They
           keept
           the
           bible
           from
           corruption
           of
           heresies
           ,
           when
           ye
           could
           not
           be
           found
           ,
           yea
           when
           none
           of
           your
           reformed
           brethren
           could
           be
           seene
           ,
           at
           what
           tyme
           your
           inuisibilitie
           excused
           you
           from
           sic
           charitable
           offices
           .
           It
           apperteneth
           to
           him
           onely
           whome
           ye
           call
           the
           Antichrist
           to
           defend
           Christs
           name
           ,
           keepe
           the
           bible
           ,
           distroy
           heresies
           ,
           confute
           errours
           ,
           conuert
           infideles
           ,
           send
           to
           all
           partes
           to
           cō●ort
           the
           faithfull
           ,
           to
           assure
           them
           ,
           who
           ar
           in
           brangle
           ,
           to
           reduce
           them
           ,
           who
           ar
           gone
           astray
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           Europe
           ,
           Asie
           ,
           and
           Afrik
           .
           Which
           is
           donne
           yet
           in
           the
           new
           found
           Ils
           ,
           where
           there
           is
           more
           Christians
           now
           ,
           then
           heretikes
           in
           all
           Europe
           ,
           yea
           a
           great
           deal
           more
           :
           O
           good
           &
           diligēt
           Antichrist
           
           who
           onely
           hath
           watched
           &
           laboured
           in
           the
           viniard
           of
           our
           Lord
           as
           it
           becometh
           a
           true
           &
           faithfull
           seruāt
           .
           And
           o
           ye
           wicked
           negligēt
           ,
           sluggish
           &
           disloyall
           pastours
           who
           haue
           sleeped
           like
           as
           many
           Endymious
           thes
           1500.
           years
           past
           in
           some
           obscure
           caue
           ,
           till
           the
           moune
           of
           false
           &
           foolish
           imaginations
           haue
           wakned
           you
           ,
           to
           embrace
           againe
           the
           cloudes
           of
           errour
           in
           place
           of
           that
           heauenly
           Iuno
           of
           veritie
           Haue
           we
           not
           iust
           occasion
           to
           wish
           of
           God
           to
           haue
           in
           your
           place
           so
           good
           and
           godly
           an
           Antichrist
           ?
           which
           if
           we
           hade
           in
           euery
           toune
           ,
           we
           should
           not
           now
           haue
           beene
           in
           paine
           to
           refell
           your
           follies
           .
           We
           may
           bouldly
           say
           that
           this
           Antichrist
           is
           meikill
           better
           reformed
           ,
           then
           your
           kirk
           ,
           and
           lesse
           to
           be
           feared
           ,
           then
           your
           reformation
           .
           I
           doubt
           not
           but
           ye
           wold
           here
           willingly
           answeare
           ,
           that
           ye
           contribu●e
           with
           no
           lesse
           good
           will
           for
           the
           diliuerance
           of
           Geneua
           ,
           which
           ye
           make
           the
           people
           beleeue
           is
           besieged
           by
           the
           Duk
           of
           Sauoye
           (
           where
           I
           will
           remark
           a
           great
           folie
           in
           you
           to
           beleeue
           a
           thing
           so
           mani●estly
           false
           ,
           &
           a
           malice
           in
           them
           ,
           who
           haue
           abused
           so
           farre
           your
           simplicitie
           and
           rash
           crudelitie
           )
           for
           their
           reformed
           faith
           .
           I
           wold
           also
           willingly
           know
           of
           you
           ,
           why
           your
           reformed
           charitie
           extendeth
           it self
           onely
           to
           sic
           as
           haue
           rebelled
           against
           their
           lawfull
           Prince
           reither
           then
           to
           
           them
           ,
           who
           round
           about
           you
           ar
           in
           great
           need
           and
           distresse
           ?
           If
           ye
           did
           helpe
           your
           holie
           citie
           because
           of
           their
           necessi●ie
           ,
           I
           wold
           think
           it
           well
           done
           ,
           if
           ye
           could
           do
           well
           with
           out
           preiudice
           to
           your
           onely
           faith
           .
           But
           to
           mainteine
           their
           rebellion
           against
           their
           iust
           and
           lawfull
           Prince
           ,
           is
           but
           an
           open
           and
           euident
           argument
           of
           that
           which
           is
           secretly
           hid
           in
           your
           breastes
           as
           we
           haue
           said
           here
           before
           .
           I
           was
           almost
           here
           deliberat
           to
           shew
           that
           a
           great
           nomber
           of
           the
           qualities
           which
           should
           be
           in
           the
           Antichrist
           may
           be
           easely
           found
           in
           you
           ,
           as
           in
           his
           sorriders
           :
           but
           I
           will
           keep
           that
           to
           your
           answere
           ,
           if
           perchance
           ye
           persist
           in
           your
           Antichristian
           opinion
           .
           For
           then
           we
           shall
           see
           God
           willing
           ,
           whither
           ye
           can
           better
           apply
           the
           markes
           to
           the
           Pape
           ,
           or
           we
           to
           you
           .
        
         
           8.
           
           Now
           to
           your
           excommunication
           ,
           a
           thing
           truely
           meikill
           to
           be
           wished
           of
           many
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           embraced
           of
           all
           men
           :
           for
           who
           should
           not
           desyre
           to
           be
           out
           of
           their
           followship
           ,
           who
           ar
           ioyned
           together
           by
           periuries
           ,
           treason
           ,
           &
           errours
           ?
           Honest
           true
           and
           faithfull
           men
           should
           seek
           by
           all
           meanes
           to
           deliuer
           them selues
           of
           sic
           companie
           if
           either
           willingly
           ,
           rashlie
           ,
           or
           by
           force
           they
           haue
           entred
           there
           in
           .
           Yet
           lat
           vs
           see
           what
           power
           ye
           haue
           to
           excommunicate
           
           any
           man.
           Onely
           true
           and
           lawfull
           pastours
           (
           which
           ye
           can
           not
           be
           ,
           lacking
           as
           ye
           do
           ,
           the
           law●ull
           vocation
           )
           haue
           power
           and
           authoritie
           to
           excommunicate
           :
           where
           vpon
           it
           followeth
           that
           ye
           haue
           no
           power
           nor
           authoritie
           at
           all
           .
           we
           haue
           brought
           manv
           reasons
           in
           our
           offer
           printed
           ,
           why
           your
           calling
           can
           not
           be
           good
           ,
           w●ich
           for
           the
           present
           we
           will
           not
           repeate
           ,
           because
           your
           owen
           reformation
           will
           furnish
           vs
           good
           store
           of
           reasons
           to
           proue
           the
           same
           ,
           which
           we
           will
           employ
           here
           because
           they
           ar
           your
           owen
           and
           that
           most
           foundamentall
           .
           Ye
           will
           graunt
           me
           if
           I
           be
           not
           deceaued
           that
           the
           office
           and
           dignitie
           of
           a
           pastour
           is
           so
           great
           and
           excellent
           ,
           that
           it
           properly
           conuiueth
           only
           to
           Iesus
           Christ
           ,
           and
           is
           cōmunicated
           ,
           to
           sic
           as
           it
           pleased
           him
           to
           call
           there
           to
           ,
           either
           by
           ordinarie
           meanes
           ,
           or
           extraordinatiely
           that
           is
           immediatly
           by
           him self
           .
           And
           for
           that
           cause
           no
           man
           should
           be
           so
           hardie
           or
           reither
           temerarie
           as
           to
           medle
           there
           with
           of
           him self
           ,
           if
           he
           wold
           not
           incurre
           the
           cryme
           of
           lesmaiestie
           diuine
           ,
           in
           taking
           the
           office
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           out
           of
           his
           hand
           .
           For
           this
           cause
           Luther
           ,
           seing
           he
           could
           not
           well
           serue
           him self
           with
           the
           ordinarie
           vocation
           of
           the
           Catholik
           kirk
           ,
           where
           he
           was
           nurished
           and
           brought
           vp
           ,
           took
           him
           to
           the
           extraordinarie
           ,
           alledging
           he
           was
           sent
           immediatly
           by
           God
           to
           
           reforme
           the
           world
           Frome
           this
           extraordinarie
           power
           g●fin
           to
           Luther
           ,
           ye
           haue
           receaued
           your
           ordinarie
           calling
           ,
           which
           I
           must
           shew
           to
           be
           false
           with
           most
           euident
           reasons
           ,
           to
           proue
           that
           ye
           haue
           no
           authoritie
           to
           excommunicate
           any
           man.
           Luther
           was
           sent
           (
           if
           we
           will
           credit
           him
           and
           you
           )
           by
           God
           him self
           to
           teach
           the
           trueth
           ,
           the
           which
           might
           serue
           vs
           for
           a
           sufficient
           warrand
           of
           his
           assured
           true
           vocation
           ,
           that
           the
           true
           doctrine
           he
           broght
           with
           him
           ,
           might
           force
           vs
           to
           acknowledge
           his
           power
           .
           I
           will
           for
           the
           present
           (
           albeit
           against
           the
           veritie
           )
           suppose
           all
           as
           true
           and
           good
           ,
           because
           out
           of
           theis
           principels
           and
           groundes
           we
           shall
           easely
           prooue
           ,
           that
           ye
           haue
           no
           lawfull
           vocation
           ,
           and
           consequently
           at
           no
           true
           Pastours
           ,
           where
           vpon
           followeth
           the
           millitie
           of
           your
           pretended
           excommunication
           .
           Luthers
           doctrine
           (
           say
           ye
           )
           was
           true
           ,
           ergo
           his
           vocation
           was
           good
           ,
           and
           he
           a
           lawfull
           Pastour
           .
           I
           say
           on
           the
           other
           syde
           (
           by
           the
           maxime
           of
           your
           owen
           doctrine
           )
           if
           his
           doctrine
           w●s
           false
           his
           vocation
           was
           not
           good
           ,
           nor
           yours
           receaued
           frome
           him
           ,
           and
           consequently
           neither
           ●e
           ,
           nor
           ye
           lawfull
           pastours
           :
           or
           if
           your
           doctrine
           be
           false
           ,
           your
           vocation
           (
           if
           ye
           hade
           any
           of
           him
           )
           is
           loste
           and
           ye
           no
           pastours
           ,
           becaus●
           the
           true
           doctrine
           onely
           (
           as
           ye
           alledge
           )
           is
           the
           sure
           proofe
           of
           true
           vocation
           .
           If
           Luthers
           
           doctrine
           was
           true
           and
           of
           the
           holie
           Spirit
           ,
           doub●les
           yours
           is
           ●alse
           ,
           seing
           ye
           teach
           doctrine
           not
           onely
           farre
           different
           frome
           his
           doctrine
           ,
           but
           also
           in
           many
           heads
           plaine
           contrarie
           as
           may
           be
           easely
           shewen
           by
           bothe
           your
           writtinges
           Heare
           ,
           I
           pray
           you
           what
           one
           
           o●
           your
           Lutherian
           breth●en
           sayeth
           
             H●nc●gitur
             inter
             omnes
             piè
             eruditos
             constat
             Luth●rum
             non
             Vertumni
             aut
             Eceboli
             instar
             in
             veritate
             semel
             agnita
             &
             professa
             varillasse
             ,
             sed
             in
             ●a
             per
             Dei
             grat●am
             vsque
             ad
             extremum
             vitae
             halitam
             permansisse
             :
             Caluinistas
             verò
             ,
             in
             hoc
             &
             alijs
             articulis
             sibi
             nunquam
             constare
             ex
             Zuinglij
             ,
             Martyris
             ,
             Bu●eri
             ,
             Philippi
             ,
             Victorin●
             ,
             Hemmingy
             ,
             profugorum
             VVitebergentium
             &
             aliorum
             libris
             &
             actionibus
             docers
             &
             d●m●nstrari
             potest
             .
          
           And
           in
           the
           inscription
           of
           the
           same
           book
           he
           speaketh
           very
           plainely
           howye
           agree
           together
           and
           with
           the
           veritie
           .
           
             Theologiae
             Caluinistarum
             libri
             tres
             ,
             in
             quibus
             ceu
             in
             tabella
             quadam
             ,
             quasi
             ad
             oculum
             plusquam
             ex
          
           223
           ▪
           
             sacramenta●iorum
             publicis
             scriptis
             ,
             pagellis
             ,
             verbis
             proprijs
             ,
             &
             auth●orum
             ●onibus
             indicatis
             ,
             demonstratur
             ,
             eos
             de
             null●
             ferè
             doctrinae
             Christianae
             articulo
             rectè
             sentire
             :
             addita
             simul
             verae
             sententiae
             ass●rtione
             ,
             &
             contrariae
             opinionis
             refutatione
             :
             collecti
             opera
             &
             studio
             M.
             Conrad●
             Schluss●lburgij
             ,
             dioeceseos
             Rareburgensis
             ,
             superintendentis
             &
             coniunctarum
             Megapolensium
             Ecclesiarum
             generalis
             inspectoris
             .
          
           In
           his
           cataloge
           of
           heretikes
           he
           cōpteth
           the
           Caluinists
           ,
           against
           whome
           he
           
           writteth
           the
           third
           book
           that
           he
           concludeth
           thus
           .
           Epilog
           .
           de
           secta
           Caluinistarū
           .
           
             Cum
             igitur
             ex
             enumeratis
             nostrae
             doctrinae
             rationibus
             ,
             &
             falsis
             sacramentariorum
             fundamentis
             conscientiam
             anxiā
             semper
             in
             dubio
             relinquentibus
             ,
             luce
             meridiana
             clarius
             apparea●
             imp●os
             &
             blasphemos
             esse
             Caluinistarum
             errores
             ;
             Nos
             secundum
             Dei
             verbum
          
           (
           ye
           see
           how
           this
           mā
           alledgeth
           against
           you
           the
           word
           of
           God
           for
           his
           warrand
           )
           
             Augustanam
             confessionem
             veterem
             ,
             scripta
             viri
             Dei
             Lutheri
             ,
             librum
             concordi●
             atque
             apologiam
             eiusdem
             ,
             à
             sacramentarijs
          
           (
           he
           speaketh
           of
           your
           sect
           )
           
             tanquam
             blasphemis
             hareticis
             nobis
             caueamus
             ,
             &
             ipsorum
             opinionem
             impiam
             tanquam
             prasentissimum
             &
             noxium
             animae
             venenum
             toto
             pectore
             execremur
             .
          
           Further
           ye
           may
           see
           what
           Hunnius
           hath
           writtin
           not
           only
           against
           all
           the
           Caluinists
           in
           generall
           ,
           but
           also
           in
           particular
           against
           Caluin
           in
           a
           book
           intituled
           
             Caluinus
             Iudai
             Zans
          
           .
           In
           the
           other
           part
           it
           will
           not
           be
           difficill
           to
           you
           to
           know
           what
           Zuinglius
           ,
           Caluin
           ,
           Beza
           ,
           Lauatherus
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           that
           band
           haue
           writtē
           against
           Luther
           and
           Lutherians
           ,
           and
           with
           what
           dispyte
           and
           iniuries
           they
           treate
           one
           another
           ,
           
             Scires
             ●
             sanguine
             natos
          
           ,
           which
           may
           euidently
           proue
           the
           diuersitie
           of
           their
           doctrine
           .
           If
           the
           one
           haue
           the
           trueth
           ,
           necessarily
           the
           other
           can
           not
           haue
           it
           ,
           seing
           they
           agree
           not
           :
           so
           if
           the
           one
           haue
           the
           true
           vocation
           the
           other
           can
           not
           
           haue
           it
           ,
           they
           being
           of
           repugnant
           doctrine
           .
        
         
           9.
           
           But
           ye
           will
           say
           that
           Luther
           did
           onely
           beginne
           the
           holie
           reformation
           which
           then
           was
           so
           necessarie
           in
           the
           kirk
           ,
           that
           God
           was
           moued
           to
           send
           him
           extraordinarily
           for
           that
           cause
           :
           yet
           hade
           he
           not
           the
           strength
           to
           performe
           it
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           needfull
           ;
           which
           worke
           Caluin
           with
           his
           followers
           ,
           but
           principally
           ye
           ,
           haue
           done
           by
           your
           reformatiō
           :
           changing
           all
           thinges
           ,
           that
           no
           thing
           can
           be
           better
           ,
           tourning
           af●irmations
           in
           to
           negations
           ,
           faire
           buildings
           in
           to
           kellyards
           or
           corne
           land
           ,
           good
           order
           in
           to
           confusion
           ,
           charitie
           in
           to
           particular
           profit
           ,
           obed●ēce
           in
           to
           rebelliō
           ,
           superioritie
           in
           to
           a
           foli
           she
           paritie
           ,
           assu●āce
           in
           to
           mistrust
           &c.
           because
           he
           &
           ye
           haue
           bene
           most
           fullie
           instructed
           with
           the
           holie
           spirite
           .
           If
           we
           receaue
           this
           for
           a
           good
           answeare
           ,
           we
           must
           say
           that
           this
           hath
           bene
           dōne
           by
           a
           n●w
           cōmission
           that
           God
           ha●h
           gifin
           to
           Caluin
           and
           you
           ,
           farre
           different
           from
           the
           commission
           gifin
           to
           Luther
           and
           his
           ●ollowers
           :
           for
           the
           Lutherians
           according
           to
           this
           saying
           ,
           hade
           only
           charge
           to
           beginne
           the
           matter
           ,
           and
           ye
           to
           end
           it
           ;
           but
           beginning
           and
           ending
           should
           agree
           to
           gether
           ,
           and
           not
           like
           
             aegri
             somnia
          
           or
           worse
           .
           They
           should
           agree
           I
           say
           ,
           if
           they
           be
           of
           one
           spirite
           ,
           except
           they
           come
           of
           that
           spirite
           ,
           who
           neuer
           yet
           could
           agree
           with
           him selfe
           .
           The
           holie
           spirite
           
           who
           is
           the
           sp●●ite
           of
           vnion
           and
           concorde
           could
           not
           haue
           condemned
           by
           your
           mouth
           ,
           which
           he
           hath
           approued
           by
           Luthers
           or
           Lutherians
           mouthes
           ▪
           I
           doubt
           not
           but
           ye
           trust
           al
           that
           ye
           haue
           the
           holie
           spirite
           ,
           yet
           the
           diuersitie
           of
           your
           opinions
           assure
           me
           the
           contrarie
           ,
           seing
           that
           the
           spirit
           ,
           who
           approueth
           and
           authoriseth
           the
           one
           and
           his
           doctrine
           ,
           condemneth
           and
           dischargeth
           the
           others
           and
           their
           doctrin
           .
           If
           ye
           say
           that
           the
           errours
           hade
           takin
           so
           deepe
           roote
           that
           it
           was
           not
           possible
           to
           take
           them
           out
           of
           mens
           hartes
           in
           short
           space
           ,
           and
           therefore
           we
           should
           not
           maruell
           if
           there
           be
           many
           ●hingis
           in
           Luthers
           doctrine
           not
           agreable
           with
           the
           veritie
           .
           But
           ,
           I
           pray
           you
           ,
           hade
           it
           not
           beene
           more
           seemely
           and
           as
           easie
           to
           Luther
           (
           if
           he
           was
           sent
           by
           God
           ,
           whose
           asistence
           he
           could
           not
           want
           in
           that
           case
           )
           to
           haue
           told
           the
           veritie
           at
           the
           beginning
           as
           to
           haue
           preached
           new
           errours
           so
           detestable
           ,
           as
           ye
           say
           ,
           and
           so
           contrarie
           to
           Godds
           worde
           and
           our
           saluation
           ?
           what
           spirite
           moued
           him
           so
           to
           doe
           ?
           If
           he
           ●ad
           winked
           at
           some
           or
           many
           of
           these
           poinctes
           that
           ye
           call
           errours
           ,
           which
           he
           found
           in
           the
           kirk
           before
           him
           because
           of
           the
           inueterate
           opinion
           cōfi●med
           by
           long
           vse
           ,
           there
           might
           be
           some
           apparent
           excuse
           in
           your
           answere
           ,
           but
           to
           bring
           in
           errour
           for
           errour
           ,
           or
           to
           put
           out
           one
           to
           take
           in
           two
           (
           the
           people
           
           being
           so
           docill
           to
           ●eceaue
           what
           so
           euer
           impression
           at
           that
           tyme
           Luther
           wold
           or
           cold
           haue
           giuen
           them
           )
           or
           to
           confirme
           obstinatly
           an
           ancient
           errour
           is
           no
           worke
           of
           the
           holie
           spirite
           ,
           who
           should
           haue
           guided
           your
           extraordinat●e
           prophete
           and
           new
           sent
           pastour
           .
           Or
           was
           the
           holie
           spi●ite
           so
           weake
           in
           Luthers
           mouth
           ,
           that
           he
           could
           not
           teach
           him
           the
           veritie
           ?
           or
           Luther
           so
           hard
           harted
           ,
           ●hat
           he
           could
           not
           receaue
           ,
           nor
           conceaue
           the
           veritie
           mekilles
           teach
           it
           to
           others
           ?
           or
           hade
           the
           holie
           spirite
           since
           that
           tyme
           found
           Caluin
           a
           more
           proper
           instrument
           to
           instruct
           the
           world
           truely
           and
           plainely
           in
           all
           thinges
           ?
           Then
           why
           was
           he
           a
           lying
           spirite
           in
           Luthers
           mouth
           ,
           seing
           it
           was
           o●
           him
           ,
           ye
           haue
           your
           extraordinarie
           calling
           ,
           which
           now
           is
           so
           ordinairie
           and
           established
           that
           no
           man
           may
           preach
           without
           it
           ?
        
         
           
           10.
           
           I
           see
           not
           what
           can
           be
           answered
           here
           .
           or
           shal
           we
           tourne
           ba●ke
           againe
           to
           the
           first
           foundament
           of
           Luthers
           extraordinarie
           vocation
           ?
           where
           of
           the
           marke
           was
           the
           true
           doctrine
           ,
           which
           ye
           ar
           constrained
           to
           denye
           and
           disauow
           ,
           if
           ye
           wold
           proue
           your
           owen
           good
           :
           for
           he
           condemneth
           you
           and
           your
           doctrine
           ,
           and
           ye
           condemne
           him
           and
           his
           doctrine
           ;
           which
           if
           ye
           denye
           
             obruam
             vos
             aduersarum
             &
             ves●rarum
             partium
             voluminibus
             scriptisque
             contrarijs
             .
          
           
           
           
           
           
           what
           shal
           become
           here
           of
           your
           vocatiō
           ?
           for
           lack
           of
           true
           doctrine
           it
           wil
           be
           null
           ,
           either
           in
           him
           ,
           or
           you
           ,
           or
           (
           if
           ye
           say
           bothe
           true
           in
           your
           mutuall
           accusation
           )
           in
           you
           both
           ?
           what
           shal
           become
           of
           your
           ministerie
           if
           this
           false
           thunder
           be
           shaken
           out
           of
           your
           hands
           ?
           ye
           will
           haue
           hard
           escapping
           out
           of
           this
           snare
           ,
           wherein
           ye
           haue
           feltred
           your selues
           ,
           fleing
           frome
           the
           Catholik
           kirk
           .
           For
           if
           ye
           say
           that
           it
           is
           ynough
           that
           ye
           agree
           in
           the
           groundes
           and
           foundaments
           of
           faith
           and
           religion
           which
           ar
           necessarie
           altogether
           for
           mans
           saluation
           ,
           and
           in
           these
           ye
           agree
           with
           Luther
           and
           Lutherians
           ,
           &
           they
           with
           you
           .
           I
           wolde
           gladly
           vnderstand
           what
           ar
           these
           groundes
           and
           foundaments
           of
           faith
           and
           religion
           necessarie
           for
           
           mans
           saluation
           .
           Is
           it
           to
           beleeue
           that
           there
           is
           but
           one
           God
           ?
           Iesus
           Christ
           to
           be
           God
           &
           Gods
           Sonne
           ?
           That
           our
           saluation
           cōsisted
           in
           Godes
           mercy
           &
           other
           sic
           thinges
           as
           sayeth
           Caluin
           ?
           Or
           in
           the
           Creed
           ,
           Lordes
           prayer
           ,
           &
           ten
           commands
           
           as
           thinketh
           Beza
           ?
           Or
           shal
           they
           be
           in
           the
           inuocatiō
           of
           our
           lord
           Iesus
           Christ
           as
           teacheth
           du
           Plessis
           ?
           Or
           shal
           these
           foundaments
           be
           the
           negation
           and
           detestation
           of
           the
           Catholik
           doctrine
           ,
           or
           (
           as
           ye
           call
           it
           )
           papistrie
           according
           to
           your
           mēswearing
           of
           the
           true
           fai●h
           ?
           If
           ye
           wil
           hold
           you
           at
           your
           owen
           groūd
           ,
           I
           say
           onely
           that
           a
           negatiue
           faith
           ,
           is
           no
           faith
           
           properly
           ,
           and
           so
           your
           negations
           wil
           neuer
           open
           the
           heauens
           to
           you
           ,
           except
           that
           ye
           think
           that
           the
           Iewes
           gentils
           Turkes
           and
           heretikes
           o●
           all
           sects
           and
           at
           hei●ts
           may
           haue
           place
           as
           well
           there
           as
           ye
           ,
           seing
           they
           can
           deny
           heads
           of
           religion
           professed
           by
           the
           Catholiks
           
           with
           noth
           lesse
           assurance
           then
           ye
           ,
           &
           a
           great
           part
           of
           the
           same
           with
           you
           .
           If
           ye
           will
           say
           any
           of
           the●s
           thinges
           which
           the
           others
           hade
           said
           I
           ask
           you
           wherefore
           came
           Luther
           ,
           seing
           theis
           thinges
           (
           as
           ye
           can
           not
           denie●
           )
           were
           beleeued
           in
           the
           Catholik
           kirk
           before
           that
           euer
           Luther
           blew
           the
           trompette
           of
           sedition
           or
           as
           ye
           wold
           call
           it
           ,
           reformation
           ,
           if
           that
           honour
           had
           not
           beene
           reserued
           to
           you
           ?
           if
           the
           puritie
           of
           theis
           pointes
           was
           requesit
           ,
           why
           came
           Luther
           ,
           seing
           he
           teacheth
           not
           that
           puritie
           ?
           For
           that
           was
           reserued
           to
           you
           onely
           as
           we
           haue
           said
           often
           tymes
           .
           It
           were
           out
           of
           purpos
           to
           say
           that
           God
           hade
           sent
           him
           to
           bring
           in
           new
           errours
           and
           confirme
           ould
           vnder
           p●etext
           of
           some
           few
           that
           he
           hath
           taken
           away
           ,
           where
           by
           an
           other
           might
           be
           sent
           .
           Was
           it
           needfull
           that
           your
           Caluin
           should
           as
           an
           other
           Sainct
           Iohn
           the
           Baptist
           
             Parare
             viam
             Domini
          
           ?
           In
           the
           meane
           tyme
           I
           will
           conclude
           (
           if
           there
           was
           so
           many
           errou●s
           in
           Luthers
           doctrine
           ▪
           that
           it
           was
           needfull
           to
           send
           another
           in
           his
           place
           to
           teach
           the
           trueth
           )
           that
           his
           extraordinarie
           vocation
           
           was
           not
           good
           ,
           or
           els
           yours
           ,
           who
           at
           come
           vpon
           a
           false
           token
           to
           gif
           him
           the
           lie
           .
           But
           
             Domini
             moderatores
          
           why
           shall
           we
           beleeue
           Luther
           in
           some
           heads
           of
           religion
           as
           hauing
           commission
           of
           God
           and
           not
           in
           others
           ,
           because
           ye
           say
           it
           ?
           According
           to
           your
           Eu●ngell
           ye
           at
           all
           equall
           ,
           not
           one
           greater
           thē
           an
           other
           :
           why
           shall
           we
           gif
           you
           more
           credit
           ,
           then
           him
           ?
           or
           if
           we
           refuse
           to
           credit
           Luther
           ,
           why
           shall
           we
           not
           re●use
           to
           credit
           you
           also
           ,
           that
           ye
           may
           remaine
           euer
           Pares
           ?
           or
           why
           shall
           we
           beleeue
           your
           ,
           when
           ye
           improue
           some
           thinges
           and
           approue
           others
           ?
           is
           it
           not
           needfull
           here
           to
           haue
           a
           new
           extraordinarie
           calling
           to
           iudge
           with
           discretion
           and
           to
           our
           saluation
           ?
           and
           if
           in
           any
           thing
           ye
           be
           gone
           wrong
           ,
           should
           there
           not
           be
           another
           extraordinarie
           prophete
           to
           correct
           you
           as
           ye
           haue
           corrected
           others
           ?
           And
           seing
           that
           the
           true
           kirk
           (
           according
           to
           your
           reformed
           opinion
           )
           may
           erre
           ,
           when
           sh●ll
           we
           haue
           lawfull
           pastours
           ?
           ye
           put
           the
           true
           doctrine
           the
           certaine
           mark
           of
           lawfull
           calling
           ,
           yet
           it
           can
           not
           be
           hade
           ,
           because
           euery
           man
           bringeth
           errour
           with
           him
           ,
           and
           the
           kirk
           is
           vncertaine
           and
           subiect
           to
           errour
           and
           so
           we
           can
           not
           trust
           hir
           .
           And
           certainely
           as
           to
           Luther
           ,
           I
           credit
           you
           ,
           when
           ye
           accuse
           him
           of
           false
           doctrine
           and
           his
           followers
           ,
           because
           he
           him selfe
           doth
           acknowledge
           his
           nature
           to
           
           be
           so
           corrupted
           and
           defiled
           ,
           that
           he
           can
           do
           no
           good
           at
           all
           .
           But
           that
           ye
           be
           not
           draw
           in
           frome
           your
           paritie
           ,
           I
           gif
           also
           credit
           to
           Luther
           and
           his
           followers
           when
           they
           accuse
           you
           of
           so
           many
           errours
           ,
           and
           your
           patriarche
           Caluin
           of
           so
           great
           wickednes
           ,
           because
           he
           acknowledges
           him self
           of
           as
           good
           nature
           and
           inclination
           as
           Luther
           ,
           and
           therefor
           can
           not
           tell
           the
           veritie
           sincerely
           ,
           as
           not
           being
           proper
           instruments
           for
           so
           precious
           a
           worke
           which
           wold
           be
           spilt
           ,
           if
           they
           touch
           it
           .
           Monsieur
           du
           Plessis
           hath
           no
           better
           opinion
           of
           mans
           nature
           in
           generall
           ,
           as
           may
           be
           seene
           in
           the
           third
           book
           of
           the
           Eucharistie
           cap.
           17.
           not
           far
           from
           the
           end
           ,
           where
           he
           seemeth
           to
           say
           that
           the
           grace
           of
           God
           can
           not
           mak
           good
           ,
           that
           cometh
           of
           vs
           ,
           because
           that
           we
           mix
           in
           with
           Goddes
           work
           some
           of
           our
           owen
           particular
           honour
           ,
           glorie
           ,
           profit
           ,
           and
           so
           that
           there
           is
           no
           good
           which
           we
           can
           do
           well
           ,
           nor
           no
           ill
           but
           we
           can
           do
           ouer
           well
           :
           for
           so
           he
           speaketh
           .
           Notwithstāding
           we
           read
           not
           that
           any
           ,
           who
           hath
           beene
           sent
           extraordinariely
           by
           God
           to
           preach
           the
           veritie
           ,
           haue
           teached
           or
           proposed
           in
           Godds
           name
           to
           be
           beleeued
           any
           false
           doctrine
           And
           it
           is
           to
           be
           supposed
           that
           God
           hauing
           sent
           Luther
           ,
           hath
           also
           sufficiently
           instructed
           him
           in
           all
           thinges
           he
           should
           say
           or
           do
           in
           that
           charge
           and
           office
           :
           for
           otherwise
           
           seing
           the
           thinges
           that
           we
           should
           beleeue
           at
           aboue
           all
           naturall
           reason
           and
           humaine
           iudgement
           ,
           how
           shall
           we
           know
           ,
           if
           he
           ,
           who
           is
           sent
           by
           God
           ,
           keep
           the
           direction
           which
           he
           hath
           receaued
           ?
           if
           he
           be
           conuict
           in
           one
           falshood
           ,
           he
           losseth
           credit
           in
           all
           the
           rest
           ,
           and
           there
           by
           disappointeth
           his
           maisters
           intent
           ,
           who
           employeth
           him
           ,
           Further
           it
           is
           certaine
           that
           God
           of
           his
           in
           finite
           wisdome
           &
           power
           ,
           either
           choshed
           or
           maked
           the
           instrumēt
           proper
           ,
           that
           he
           will
           employ
           ,
           and
           suffers
           not
           in
           theis
           great
           matters
           to
           go
           otherwise
           then
           he
           will
           &
           our
           saluation
           requireth
           .
           For
           it
           is
           impossible
           that
           man
           can
           be
           deceaued
           by
           God
           who
           is
           the
           veritie
           it self
           .
           But
           ye
           will
           say
           that
           his
           doctrine
           who
           is
           sent
           ,
           should
           be
           examined
           with
           the
           word
           of
           God
           conteined
           in
           the
           scriptures
           :
           yea
           but
           he
           is
           come
           to
           interprete
           the
           scriptures
           to
           you
           and
           not
           to
           ●ece●ue
           any
           interpretation
           of
           you
           .
           His
           vocation
           gifeth
           him
           good
           assurance
           to
           speak
           .
           If
           ye
           wold
           trie
           his
           vocation
           by
           the
           scriptures
           ,
           ye
           should
           haue
           good
           reason
           ,
           but
           to
           trie
           his
           doctrine
           hauing
           admitted
           his
           calling
           I
           see
           no
           reason
           .
        
         
           11.
           
           Moreouer
           if
           it
           be
           lawfull
           to
           call
           in
           doubt
           any
           mans
           doctrine
           who
           is
           extraordinariely
           sent
           now
           in
           our
           dayes
           ,
           why
           shall
           it
           not
           be
           lawfull
           to
           call
           in
           doubt
           the
           doctrine
           of
           all
           the●s
           ,
           that
           euer
           were
           sent
           extraordinariely
           
           by
           God
           ,
           principallie
           seing
           ye
           acknowledge
           not
           the
           Authoritie
           of
           the
           kirk
           ?
           For
           being
           doubt
           some
           and
           incertane
           in
           the
           one
           ,
           ye
           can
           not
           be
           assured
           in
           the
           others
           seing
           that
           it
           is
           that
           same
           God
           that
           sent
           them
           all
           ,
           and
           for
           that
           same
           end
           ▪
           so
           shall
           we
           haue
           the
           whole
           bible
           ,
           I
           say
           not
           subiect
           to
           triall
           ,
           but
           subiect
           to
           be
           reiected
           by
           euery
           presumptuous
           braine
           ,
           as
           hath
           beene
           donne
           by
           sund●y
           in
           our
           dayes
           &
           besore
           .
           Further
           seing
           we
           should
           receaue
           nothing
           of
           any
           extraordinarie
           Pastour
           but
           that
           which
           we
           haue
           tryed
           with
           the
           scriptures
           ,
           I
           wold
           be
           glade
           to
           know
           ,
           what
           triall
           can
           be
           made
           by
           wemen
           and
           children
           or
           ignorantes
           ?
           For
           if
           triall
           should
           passe
           before
           ,
           why
           should
           any
           man
           or
           woman
           (
           how
           ignorant
           that
           euer
           they
           were
           )
           reither
           then
           learned
           mē
           receaue
           any
           doctrine
           without
           triall
           ?
           or
           why
           force
           ye
           m●n
           to
           approue
           sweare
           and
           subscribe
           your
           negations
           before
           they
           haue
           well
           tried
           them
           to
           be
           true
           ,
           or
           reither
           seing
           they
           find
           them
           false
           .
           But
           we
           will
           keep
           the
           rest
           of
           this
           dispute
           to
           the
           triall
           of
           your
           sessions
           presbiteries
           and
           assembles
           prouincials
           and
           generals
           ,
           where
           in
           ger
           erall
           and
           particuler
           we
           shall
           ,
           God
           willing
           ,
           discusse
           this
           matter
           the
           best
           we
           can
           .
           Now
           to
           your
           calling
           ,
           which
           I
           say
           can
           not
           be
           good
           ,
           whe●her
           Luthers
           be
           good
           or
           ill
           .
           For
           if
           it
           be
           good
           who
           so
           
           euer
           ingyre
           him self
           to
           preach
           and
           teach
           in
           the
           kirk
           of
           God
           as
           being
           a
           lawfull
           Pastour
           ,
           not
           hauing
           power
           of
           Luther
           ,
           should
           be
           esteemed
           a
           priuat
           man
           and
           not
           a
           publik
           officer
           of
           Gods
           house
           ,
           a
           traitour
           and
           not
           a
           true
           man
           ,
           a
           woolf
           and
           not
           a
           hited
           ,
           ye
           and
           yours
           being
           without
           his
           mission
           and
           calling
           ,
           as
           we
           haue
           alreddie
           shewin
           ,
           I
           see
           not
           what
           ye
           can
           pretend
           for
           you
           ,
           to
           haue
           donne
           as
           ye
           haue
           .
           Which
           I
           proue
           once
           againe
           in
           this
           sort
           :
           He
           who
           is
           sent
           a
           Pastour
           and
           Doctour
           in
           the
           kirk
           of
           God
           ,
           principally
           is
           sent
           to
           preach
           the
           Doctrine
           ,
           as
           he
           receaued
           it
           of
           the
           Doctour
           who
           sent
           him
           :
           if
           he
           doeth
           otherwise
           ,
           his
           commission
           or
           procuration
           conteining
           no
           sic
           thing
           as
           he
           hade
           donne
           ,
           can
           not
           serue
           him
           :
           for
           who
           so
           euer
           cometh
           in
           the
           kirk
           with
           charge
           ,
           cometh
           as
           procurer
           ,
           and
           not
           as
           proprieter
           ,
           wherefor
           he
           should
           do
           according
           to
           his
           procuration
           ,
           (
           because
           he
           hath
           onely
           the
           handling
           of
           other
           mens
           goods
           and
           good
           )
           and
           not
           according
           to
           his
           fantasie
           ,
           as
           if
           all
           were
           his
           owen
           .
           Now
           if
           Luther
           the
           first
           of
           this
           new
           extraordinarie
           calling
           sent
           you
           ,
           it
           vvas
           to
           preach
           that
           same
           doctrine
           ,
           which
           he
           preached
           &
           hath
           deliuered
           to
           the
           world
           before
           he
           sent
           you
           .
           If
           ye
           keep
           not
           that
           doctrine
           ,
           his
           mission
           serueth
           you
           to
           no
           purp●s
           ,
           because
           ye
           haue
           not
           donne
           the
           thing
           ,
           
           wherefor
           ye
           were
           sent
           ,
           it
           not
           your
           commission
           iustly
           called
           back
           and
           ye
           declared
           euill
           officers
           ?
           As
           when
           ye
           gif
           power
           or
           commission
           to
           any
           new
           young
           scholler
           to
           gouuerne
           a
           kirk
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           without
           iniunctions
           that
           he
           shall
           teach
           that
           same
           doctrine
           ,
           that
           ye
           teach
           and
           that
           he
           hath
           heard
           of
           you
           ,
           and
           not
           a
           nother
           forged
           at
           his
           owen
           fantasie
           or
           inuented
           by
           an
           other
           .
           If
           he
           do
           contrarie
           to
           your
           command
           ,
           wold
           ye
           not
           depose
           him
           as
           not
           doing
           according
           to
           the
           power
           receaued
           of
           you
           ?
           and
           therefore
           iustly
           to
           be
           disawowed
           ,
           but
           so
           that
           he
           could
           not
           serue
           him self
           against
           you
           with
           your
           procuration
           hauing
           passed
           the
           boundes
           prescribed
           to
           him
           .
           Now
           if
           ye
           haue
           receaued
           any
           power
           of
           Luther
           or
           nor
           ,
           I
           refer
           the
           matter
           to
           you
           ,
           I
           say
           onely
           that
           ye
           haue
           preached
           and
           yet
           do
           preach
           another
           doctrine
           then
           he
           &
           his
           followers
           do
           preach
           .
           ergo
           ye
           ar
           priuat
           men
           and
           not
           publik
           officers
           or
           lawfull
           pastours
           in
           this
           new
           reformed
           kirk
           ▪
           except
           perhapes
           by
           verrue
           of
           your
           reformation
           it
           be
           lawfull
           to
           rulle
           without
           reason
           ,
           ye
           may
           call
           your selues
           pastours
           and
           sainctes
           of
           God
           ;
           ye
           will
           neuer
           persuade
           to
           men
           of
           iudgement
           that
           ye
           ar
           his
           sainctes
           as
           long
           as
           ye
           take
           vpon
           you
           ,
           the
           charge
           of
           Pastours
           without
           power
           or
           charge
           .
           Think
           not
           but
           thi●
           merites
           a
           ●u●t
           excommunication
           ▪
           
           and
           not
           a
           conterfaited
           folie
           lyk
           yours
           ,
           medling
           our selues
           with
           things
           for
           aboue
           your
           state
           ,
           being
           but
           priuat
           men
           ,
           yea
           so
           meikill
           worse
           then
           priuat
           men
           ,
           that
           your
           vsurpation
           maketh
           you
           giltie
           of
           cryme
           of
           lesmaiestie
           diuine
           .
           I●
           ye
           will
           not
           credit
           me
           ,
           go
           to
           Luther
           your
           first
           patriarche
           ,
           and
           he
           will
           declare
           ,
           w●at
           he
           thinke●h
           ,
           seing
           he
           hath
           long
           since
           excommunicated
           you
           out
           of
           his
           new
           kirk
           because
           in
           place
           of
           his
           heauenly
           doctrine
           (
           as
           he
           sayeth
           )
           ye
           haue
           teached
           your
           doctrine
           which
           ye
           haue
           brought
           out
           of
           hell
           (
           tak
           you
           to
           him
           if
           the
           words
           be
           some
           what
           sharpe
           )
           to
           prison
           the
           wordle
           ;
           and
           for
           that
           cause
           in
           the
           very
           beginning
           he
           did
           excommunicat
           Caluin
           &
           Zuinglius
           whom
           he
           called
           sacramentaries
           and
           that
           most
           iustly
           according
           to
           their
           owen
           opinion
           :
           for
           they
           acknowledging
           him
           for
           that
           new
           beginning
           of
           their
           vocation
           and
           new
           reformed
           kirk
           ,
           it
           behoued
           him
           to
           haue
           that
           power
           aboue
           them
           .
           So
           what
           doubt
           is
           but
           Luther
           hauing
           power
           to
           send
           them
           ,
           hath
           power
           also
           to
           call
           them
           back
           if
           they
           past
           the
           boundes
           of
           his
           commission
           ?
           I
           he
           hath
           called
           them
           back
           and
           broken
           the
           commission
           he
           gaue
           them
           before
           (
           as
           in
           deed
           he
           hath
           donne
           what
           he
           could
           that
           is
           in
           imagination
           as
           he
           gaue
           them
           that
           power
           )
           they
           at
           priuate
           men
           againe
           in
           
           the
           middes
           of
           their
           reformation
           ,
           and
           ye
           also
           ,
           destitute
           of
           all
           power
           and
           authoritie
           to
           excommunicat
           any
           man.
           By
           this
           although
           Luther
           hath
           neuer
           called
           backe
           his
           power
           gifin
           to
           Caluin
           ,
           yet
           could
           it
           serue
           him
           for
           no
           Warrand
           ,
           seing
           that
           Luther
           denyeth
           planely
           that
           euer
           he
           him self
           receaueth
           any
           charge
           to
           speake
           or
           write
           sundry
           thinges
           ,
           which
           Caluin
           and
           Zuinglius
           haue
           spoken
           and
           written
           since
           that
           tyme
           :
           and
           therefor
           he
           calles
           them
           heretiks
           and
           sacramentaries
           as
           I
           haue
           said
           before
           .
           Or
           if
           he
           receaued
           charge
           to
           preach
           thes
           thinges
           ,
           why
           condemneth
           he
           other
           men
           ,
           who
           preached
           them
           ?
           There
           were
           some
           excuse
           ,
           if
           he
           did
           not
           all
           ,
           but
           there
           is
           no
           excuse
           nor
           reason
           ,
           why
           he
           should
           hinder
           other
           men
           hauing
           lawfull
           power
           of
           him self
           ,
           to
           do
           that
           which
           he
           could
           not
           do
           ,
           or
           to
           condemne
           them
           ,
           who
           teacheth
           the
           veritie
           that
           being
           the
           chief
           and
           principall
           end
           of
           his
           ●xtraordinarie
           vocation
           .
           There
           is
           none
           of
           all
           ●he
           Prophetee
           ,
           Euangelists
           ,
           or
           other
           holie
           writters
           ,
           who
           haue
           written
           althinges
           ,
           which
           ●t
           hath
           pleased
           God
           to
           sh●w
           to
           the
           world
           .
           ●or
           so
           he
           hath
           though
           it
           good
           to
           distribute
           ●is
           giftes
           at
           sundry
           tyms
           ,
           to
           sundry
           person●es
           ,
           for
           sundry
           reasons
           ,
           as
           he
           thought
           it
           most
           ●xpedient
           for
           his
           glorie
           and
           our
           saluation
           .
           ●ut
           there
           is
           none
           of
           them
           all
           who
           either
           
           gaine
           sayeth
           or
           condemneth
           the
           others
           ▪
           meikilles
           stoppeth
           them
           to
           say
           or
           write
           any
           thing
           that
           they
           haue
           in
           charge
           to
           declare
           and
           publish
           to
           the
           world
           ▪
           here
           tourne
           you
           to
           what
           syde
           ye
           will
           either
           Luther
           shal
           be
           a
           false
           prophete
           or
           Caluin
           an
           Apostate
           ,
           &
           his
           vocation
           null
           and
           yours
           also
           .
        
         
           12.
           
           I
           mak
           no
           doubt
           but
           ye
           will
           reither
           forsak
           Luther
           ,
           howbeit
           first
           ,
           then
           Caluin
           your
           last
           patron
           .
           I
           may
           obiect
           here
           to
           you
           the
           honourable
           titels
           
             (
             quo
             iure
             non
             disp●to
          
           )
           that
           Caluin
           gifeth
           to
           Luther
           as
           to
           a
           true
           seruant
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           not
           as
           to
           a
           false
           prophete
           ,
           which
           were
           sufficient
           to
           close
           your
           mouthes
           if
           they
           could
           be
           closed
           .
           But
           I
           will
           passe
           this
           as
           if
           it
           were
           not
           ,
           and
           speak
           of
           Caluin
           and
           you
           ,
           because
           ye
           may
           say
           that
           Caluin
           him self
           was
           sent
           extraordinariely
           to
           performe
           that
           excellent
           worke
           ,
           in
           vaine
           and
           falsely
           attempted
           by
           Luther
           ,
           I
           will
           well
           by
           supposition
           ,
           prouiding
           that
           ye
           reformed
           brethren
           will
           stand
           there
           to
           ,
           and
           suffer
           me
           to
           examine
           the
           matter
           a
           litill
           :
           for
           we
           shall
           see
           ,
           if
           ye
           can
           fight
           better
           vnder
           this
           new
           captaine
           .
           Caluin
           or
           any
           oth●r
           ye
           will
           ,
           was
           sent
           (
           I
           suppose
           this
           now
           ,
           in
           case
           ye
           will
           not
           stand
           by
           Luther
           &
           tak
           your
           ordinarie
           calling
           of
           him
           )
           extraordinariely
           by
           God
           him self
           to
           teach
           the
           veritie
           ,
           and
           ministrate
           the
           sacraments
           according
           
           to
           the
           reformation
           ●e
           was
           to
           make
           :
           if
           he
           did
           not
           his
           duetie
           in
           this
           most
           excellent
           and
           necessarie
           charge
           ,
           ye
           should
           esteeme
           him
           ▪
           as
           he
           is
           ,
           a
           false
           prophete
           ,
           who
           being
           commanded
           by
           God
           and
           assisted
           by
           the
           holie
           Spirite
           (
           for
           sure
           I
           am
           in
           your
           opinion
           he
           lacketh
           not
           that
           ioyned
           to
           his
           charge
           )
           yet
           wold
           not
           declare
           the
           veritie
           truely
           &
           plainely
           without
           admixting
           some
           lyes
           of
           his
           owne
           by
           the
           deuils
           suggestion
           ,
           where
           by
           the
           world
           migh●
           be
           of
           new
           poysoned
           with
           false
           doctrine
           vnder
           colour
           of
           Goddes
           soueraigne
           name
           .
           If
           this
           be
           true
           he
           merites
           more
           thē
           to
           be
           slaine
           
           in
           the
           way
           by
           a
           Lyon
           for
           trāsgressing
           of
           the
           lords
           command
           ,
           not
           in
           simple
           eating
           and
           drinking
           ,
           being
           forbidden
           to
           eat
           or
           drink
           ,
           as
           did
           the
           ancient
           prophete
           ,
           but
           for
           teaching
           of
           false
           doctrine
           far
           by
           his
           cōmission
           ,
           which
           was
           to
           shew
           the
           veritie
           .
           If
           he
           did
           his
           duetie
           ●n
           all
           thinges
           ,
           where
           from
           cometh
           it
           ,
           that
           ●undry
           of
           your
           brethren
           in
           France
           &
           other
           ●laces
           ,
           yea
           your
           excellent
           Apostle-Verelian
           ●reat
           Pontif
           of
           Geneua
           M.
           Theodore
           Beze
           ●is
           owen
           good
           disciple
           ,
           dissentes
           from
           him
           ●
           many
           heads
           ,
           and
           as
           I
           think
           ,
           ye
           also
           disa●ow
           him
           not
           in
           few
           pointes
           .
           Certainely
           I
           ●aue
           not
           to
           this
           day
           found
           one
           who
           appro●eth
           him
           in
           all
           thinges
           .
           For
           when
           any
           of
           ●ours
           ar
           vrged
           with
           Caluins
           authoritie
           ,
           y●
           
           answere
           that
           ye
           acknowledge
           not
           Caluin
           ,
           but
           so
           farre
           as
           he
           agreeth
           with
           the
           scriptures
           ,
           where
           ye
           find
           that
           he
           agreeth
           with
           the
           scriptures
           ,
           ye
           will
           receaue
           him
           :
           what
           lesse
           can
           ye
           gif
           to
           Plato
           ,
           Aristotle
           ,
           Cicero
           and
           Seneca
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           profane
           writter
           ?
           will
           ye
           reiect
           them
           although
           ye
           find
           them
           agree
           with
           the
           word
           of
           God
           ?
           I
           think
           not
           .
           Truely
           Caluin
           is
           meikill
           obliged
           to
           you
           ,
           if
           ye
           graūt
           him
           that
           ,
           which
           ye
           can
           not
           refuse
           to
           an
           ould
           wyf
           .
           Is
           this
           the
           reuerence
           ye
           beare
           to
           him
           for
           his
           extraordinarie
           calling
           ?
           ar
           thes
           the
           thankes
           ye
           gif
           him
           for
           the
           vocation
           and
           pow●r
           that
           ye
           haue
           receaued
           of
           him
           ?
           shall
           not
           the
           spirite
           that
           spak
           in
           him
           haue
           more
           credit
           ,
           then
           any
           of
           you
           ?
           was
           he
           sent
           with
           that
           condition
           that
           he
           should
           haue
           no
           credit
           ,
           till
           ye
           found
           in
           the
           bible
           that
           it
           was
           true
           he
           sayed
           .
           Truely
           if
           I
           be
           not
           far
           deceaued
           ,
           it
           wil
           be
           very
           easie
           to
           mak
           you
           beleeue
           any
           thing
           ye
           please
           and
           otherwise
           impossible
           ,
           if
           the
           iudgement
           be
           re●erred
           to
           you
           poore
           Caluin
           (
           so
           far
           as
           I
           vnderstand
           by
           your
           answers
           )
           receaued
           not
           the
           spirite
           in
           the
           best
           sort
           .
           He
           receaued
           onely
           the
           spirite
           to
           tell
           you
           many
           thinges
           in
           forme
           of
           proposition
           to
           your
           holie
           assemblies
           ,
           and
           ye
           receaued
           of
           discretion
           and
           wisdome
           ,
           to
           iudge
           what
           was
           good
           an●
           what
           was
           ill
           .
           ye
           haue
           gotten
           a
           more
           mighti●
           
           inspiration
           then
           your
           chief
           prophet●
           .
           I
           am
           glade
           for
           your
           cause
           .
           we
           can
           not
           faille
           to
           go
           well
           hauing
           gottin
           you
           for
           supreme
           iudge
           to
           trie
           all
           thinges
           ,
           but
           ,
           as
           I
           think
           ,
           euery
           one
           in
           
           his
           owin
           parish
           ;
           for
           euer
           the
           further
           we
           go
           frome
           vnitie
           ,
           the
           nomber
           is
           the
           greater
           ,
           and
           Papes
           ar
           multiplied
           in
           your
           persones
           .
           I
           loue
           your
           wittes
           to
           follow
           Cesar
           ,
           reither
           first
           in
           a
           village
           ,
           then
           second
           in
           Rome
           ,
           yet
           good
           sires
           ,
           seing
           ye
           ar
           sett
           vpon
           that
           high
           throne
           lyk
           to
           as
           many
           Salomons
           ,
           that
           euery
           one
           of
           you
           &
           
             iuris
             nodos
             &
             legum
             aenigmata
             soluit
             ,
          
           be
           not
           offended
           ,
           if
           I
           ask
           some
           thinges
           at
           you
           ,
           seing
           there
           rested
           me
           yet
           some
           litill
           doubtes
           ▪
           I
           ask
           whe●her
           Caluin
           was
           sent
           extraordinariely
           to
           teach
           you
           the
           veritie
           ,
           or
           be
           to
           teached
           &
           examined
           by
           you
           ?
           If
           he
           was
           sent
           to
           teach
           you
           ,
           ye
           should
           admitt
           him
           without
           any
           further
           triall
           &
           tak
           the
           conference
           with
           the
           scriptures
           to
           confirme
           and
           strengthen
           his
           sayinges
           ,
           &
           not
           to
           confute
           thē
           :
           for
           so
           did
           the
           first
           Christiās
           read
           the
           places
           of
           the
           prophetes
           cited
           by
           the
           Apostles
           .
           If
           he
           was
           sent
           to
           be
           teached
           &
           examined
           by
           you
           ,
           why
           came
           he
           extraordinariely
           ?
           to
           what
           purpos
           was
           so
           great
           honour
           ,
           &
           afterward
           to
           be
           subiect
           to
           you
           ?
           But
           this
           for
           an
           other
           tyme
           ;
           lat
           vs
           cōsider
           once
           againe
           the
           first
           .
           If
           Caluin
           was
           sent
           extraordinariely
           vz.
           to
           teach
           you
           ,
           he
           may
           say
           with
           
           Sainct
           Paul
           :
           
             Ego
             enim
             accepi
             à
             Domino
             ,
             quod
             &
             tradidi
             vobis
             :
          
           there
           is
           no
           other
           witnes
           here
           but
           God
           and
           he
           .
           If
           ye
           of
           your
           reformed
           modestie
           will
           giue
           them
           bothe
           ,
           or
           any
           one
           of
           them
           the
           lie
           ,
           I
           can
           not
           mend
           it
           ,
           seing
           ,
           it
           is
           ye
           ,
           who
           hath
           gotten
           the
           charge
           to
           reforme
           the
           world
           ,
           and
           so
           this
           may
           be
           accompted
           as
           a
           reformed
           lie
           ,
           with
           the
           which
           no
           man
           should
           be
           formalized
           :
           yet
           with
           licence
           I
           may
           vrge
           Caluins
           pretended
           right
           .
           If
           he
           spak
           &
           writte
           according
           to
           the
           direction
           that
           he
           receaued
           of
           God
           how
           so
           euer
           thes
           thinges
           seemes
           strange
           to
           you
           ,
           yet
           should
           ye
           admitte
           them
           &
           think
           ,
           that
           they
           ar
           according
           to
           the
           scriptures
           :
           because
           God
           is
           never
           contrarie
           to
           him self
           ,
           he
           being
           but
           one
           in
           diuerse
           mouthes
           ,
           &
           not
           diuerse
           in
           one
           mouth
           .
           how
           can
           it
           be
           possible
           that
           ye
           can
           better
           know
           ,
           what
           charge
           Caluin
           receaued
           of
           God
           ,
           then
           he
           him self
           ,
           who
           was
           (
           as
           he
           and
           ye
           pretend
           )
           employed
           ?
           We
           receaue
           without
           any
           contradiction
           or
           gainesaying
           the
           writtes
           of
           the
           Prophetes
           and
           Euangelists
           with
           all
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           holie
           bible
           ,
           because
           thes
           writters
           were
           sent
           &
           assisted
           by
           God.
           If
           there
           seemeth
           any
           diuersitie
           ,
           we
           accuse
           our
           weacknes
           ,
           &
           not
           the
           scriptures
           of
           contradiction
           or
           falshood
           :
           for
           no
           sic
           thing
           can
           be
           in
           Goddes
           work
           .
           So
           if
           Caluin
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           ,
           was
           sent
           immediatly
           by
           God
           ,
           
           ye
           must
           receaue
           all
           his
           doctrine
           ,
           except
           ye
           shew
           either
           that
           he
           hath
           beene
           ill
           instructed
           &
           that
           it
           was
           
             Spiritus
             mendax
             in
             ore
             eius
          
           :
           or
           that
           he
           hath
           dōne
           besides
           his
           cōmission
           ,
           of
           which
           neither
           can
           be
           true
           if
           God
           was
           the
           authour
           .
           It
           will
           serue
           you
           for
           nothing
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           but
           a
           man
           &
           might
           erre
           .
           Because
           all
           the
           prophetes
           and
           Apostles
           were
           but
           men
           and
           might
           erre
           .
           yet
           the
           assistance
           of
           the
           holie
           Spirite
           suffered
           them
           not
           to
           erre
           in
           there
           commission
           ,
           &
           therefor
           we
           receaue
           their
           sayinge●
           as
           Goddes
           owen
           fayinges
           ,
           because
           he
           was
           the
           ●uthour
           ,
           &
           they
           onely
           the
           instrument
           .
           Why
           receaue
           ye
           not
           Caluin
           in
           this
           maner
           ?
           or
           shew
           vs
           that
           God
           hade
           sent
           any
           man
           to
           deceaue
           vs
           
             falsis
             vera
             im●isce●s
          
           .
           I
           think
           ye
           will
           find
           no
           sic
           Sinōs
           sent
           extraordinariely
           by
           God
           ,
           or
           if
           there
           be
           any
           ,
           lett
           vs
           heare
           their
           names
           .
           If
           Caluin
           was
           sent
           ,
           as
           ye
           pretēd
           ,
           ye
           should
           thinke
           that
           God
           hath
           instructed
           him
           well
           ,
           &
           hath
           giuen
           him
           good
           and
           sufficient
           directions
           (
           for
           else
           the
           fault
           shal
           be
           Goddes
           &
           not
           his
           )
           and
           suffered
           him
           not
           to
           go
           therefro
           :
           otherwise
           it
           hath
           beene
           a
           great
           vanitie
           to
           haue
           sent
           him
           .
           Ye
           will
           perhapes
           replie
           that
           God
           in
           all
           ages
           had
           raised
           vp
           Godly
           fathers
           &
           learned
           men
           to
           oppose
           them
           solues
           to
           errours
           and
           abuses
           beginning
           to
           enter
           in
           the
           kirk
           ,
           as
           S.
           Athanase
           ,
           S.
           Basile
           ,
           S.
           Augustin
           ,
           S.
           B●rnard
           &
           othe●s
           
           in
           great
           nomber
           ,
           whose
           writinges
           notwithstāding
           ar
           not
           altogether
           so
           cleene
           but
           something
           may
           be
           tried
           &
           corrected
           .
           I
           answere
           there
           be
           great
           differēce
           betwixt
           them
           &
           Caluin
           or
           any
           other
           to
           whome
           the
           reformation
           ●ath
           beene
           extraordinariely
           committed
           .
           For
           although
           these
           Godly
           and
           learned
           fathers
           were
           sent
           by
           God
           ,
           yet
           were
           they
           not
           sent
           extraordinariely
           ▪
           but
           by
           the
           ordinarie
           way
           :
           for
           they
           receaued
           their
           vocation
           and
           power
           of
           the
           Catholik
           kirk
           in
           whose
           bosome
           they
           were
           brought
           vp
           and
           ●eached
           :
           The
           doctrine
           which
           they
           had
           receaued
           of
           the
           kirk
           ,
           they
           deliuered
           to
           the
           members
           of
           the
           kirk
           ,
           where
           in
           they
           remained
           still
           as
           obedient
           children
           ,
           submitting
           all
           their
           works
           and
           writtinges
           to
           hir
           iudgement
           ,
           condemning
           as
           schismatiks
           or
           heretiks
           ,
           all
           those
           who
           left
           hir
           ,
           employing
           their
           wholl
           trauell
           and
           writtinges
           to
           defend
           and
           mainteine
           hir
           against
           all
           Satans
           insultes
           ,
           never
           making
           any
           sect
           a
           part
           ,
           never
           alledging
           any
           particuler
           commission
           to
           reforme
           others
           ,
           nor
           yet
           to
           bring
           any
           new
           thing
           .
           Caluin
           to
           the
           contraire
           left
           the
           kirk
           where
           he
           was
           conceaued
           and
           teached
           an
           other
           doctrine
           ,
           then
           he
           hath
           learned
           of
           his
           mother
           Christs
           spouse
           ,
           whome
           he
           shamefully
           foresook
           ,
           refusing
           in
           any
           wise
           to
           acknowledge
           hir
           or
           hir
           iudgement
           ▪
           
           〈◊〉
           him self
           to
           them
           ,
           whome
           he
           condem●●th
           in
           mynd
           and
           writting
           ,
           oppugning
           and
           ●u●sprysing
           hir
           ,
           who
           concea●ed
           him
           ,
           making
           a
           band
           a
           part
           ,
           because
           of
           the
           pretended
           commission
           he
           had
           receaued
           to
           reforme
           all
           these
           thinges
           merited
           a
           good
           warrand
           to
           be
           beleeued
           ,
           seing
           they
           conteine
           so
           many
           strange
           maximes
           aboue
           or
           contrarie
           to
           all
           good
           reason
           ,
           which
           can
           not
           be
           found
           in
           the
           foresade
           godly
           and
           learned
           fathers
           who
           were
           sent
           before
           .
           And
           therefore
           their
           example
           maketh
           nothing
           for
           Caluin
           and
           his
           doinges
           or
           errours
           .
           Ye
           will
           say
           for
           your
           and
           his
           defence
           ,
           that
           they
           at
           but
           litle
           thinges
           where
           in
           ye
           dissent
           frome
           him
           .
           I
           know
           that
           neither
           he
           ,
           nor
           ye
           can
           do
           a
           great
           fault
           ,
           ye
           ar
           all
           Goddes
           owen
           mignons
           ▪
           how
           soone
           that
           the
           lord
           heareth
           ,
           tha●
           it
           is
           y●e
           ,
           who
           hath
           committed
           any
           thing
           ,
           it
           is
           incontinent
           excused
           ,
           because
           of
           your
           strōge
           faith
           ,
           which
           changes
           ●nauery
           in
           good
           seruice
           .
           But
           I
           pray
           you
           how
           shall
           I
           know
           ,
           if
           his
           faultes
           be
           great
           or
           small
           ▪
           seing
           that
           ye
           will
           receaue
           no
           thing
           at
           all
           of
           his
           doctrine
           ,
           till
           ye
           haue
           had
           it
           vpon
           th●
           touchstone
           of
           your
           iudgement
           ?
           and
           so
           for
           their
           litill
           thinges
           ,
           as
           ye
           call
           them
           ,
           ye
           call
           all
           in
           doubt
           ,
           at
           lest
           with
           other
           men
           ▪
           who
           perchance
           may
           think
           meikill
           ,
           that
           ye
           think
           litill
           .
           And
           here
           vpon
           (
           good
           sires
           pardon
           me
           ,
           if
           I
           be
           so
           
           bold
           )
           I
           gi●
           you
           no
           more
           credit
           then
           ye
           gif
           Caluin
           ?
           for
           by
           your
           owen
           rule
           ,
           I
           must
           ●rye
           bothe
           his
           saying
           and
           your
           iudgement
           ,
           before
           that
           I
           receaue
           any
           thing
           ,
           yea
           I
           will
           re●●aue
           ,
           nether
           because
           he
           sayeth
           it
           ,
           nor
           because
           ye
           approue
           it
           (
           for
           that
           were
           to
           do
           w●ong
           to
           the
           spirite
           and
           Christian
           libertie
           )
           but
           ●●ca●se
           I
           think
           that
           I
           haue
           ●ound
           it
           so
           in
           ●h●●ible
           .
           For
           if
           I
           find
           it
           not
           there
           I
           will
           condemne
           and
           detest
           it
           as
           a
           plaine
           heresie
           ,
           〈◊〉
           that
           where
           i●
           ye
           agree
           no●
           with
           Caluin
           ,
           but
           all
           the
           rest
           ,
           and
           this
           (
           as
           I
           haue
           said
           )
           according
           to
           your
           owen
           rule
           and
           pretended
           C●●istian
           libertie
           ,
           where
           by
           ●uery
           man
           is
           i●●g●
           in
           all
           thinges
           within
           the
           reformed
           kirk
           .
           Further
           it
           may
           seeme
           by
           the
           forsaid
           answer
           that
           ye
           think
           a
           man
           can
           not
           receaue
           a
           de●dly
           wound
           ;
           except
           he
           be
           (
           as
           they
           say
           )
           〈◊〉
           to
           the
           teeth
           .
           Certainely
           the
           largenesse
           of
           the
           wound
           oft●ntymes
           m●keth
           no●
           the
           danger
           ,
           but
           the
           place
           and
           part
           that
           is
           wounded
           .
           A
           man
           may
           be
           strooken
           through
           the
           body
           ,
           and
           y●t
           liue
           ;
           a
           pri●k
           with
           a
           pi●n●
           in
           the
           hea●t
           or
           harnes
           myght
           bring
           certain●
           death
           ,
           which
           should
           not
           be
           mesured
           by
           the
           greatnes
           of
           the
           wound
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           lo●●e
           of
           the
           man
           :
           ye
           ar
           not
           ignorant
           how
           litill
           difference
           was
           betwix
           the
           Cat●●ol●kes
           and
           the
           A●rians
           if
           we
           will
           look
           to
           the
           lett●rs
           .
           But
           to
           
           reto●●ne
           to
           your
           Apostle
           he
           was
           sent
           to
           shew
           vs
           the
           true
           way
           ,
           yet
           hath
           he
           ledde
           vs
           by
           the
           way
           and
           deceaued
           vs
           ▪
           how
           litill
           as
           euer
           the
           mater
           be
           ▪
           his
           part
           is
           not
           good
           ▪
           Certainely
           I
           can
           not
           esteeme
           your
           Patriarche
           (
           be
           it
           Luther
           ,
           Caluin
           ,
           Z●ingli●s
           ▪
           Knoxe
           ,
           Willox
           ,
           Me●●en
           ,
           He●io●e
           ,
           Craig
           or
           what
           so
           euer
           other
           ye
           will
           for
           all
           is
           one
           in
           thes
           mater
           )
           a
           true
           prophete
           ,
           seing
           ye
           your selfes
           esteeme
           him
           a
           liar
           .
           For
           a
           litill
           leasing
           ▪
           principallie
           in
           matters
           of
           religion
           ,
           maketh
           no
           lesse
           a
           lier
           then
           a
           great
           leasing
           ,
           onely
           the
           greater
           it
           be
           ,
           he
           is
           the
           mo●e
           detestable
           who
           maketh
           it
           ▪
           Ye
           will
           perchance
           here
           reply
           to
           me
           ▪
           and
           say
           that
           God
           suffered
           him
           to
           fall
           in
           some
           thing
           ●●
           where
           by
           bothe
           he
           and
           we
           might
           knew
           that
           he
           was
           but
           a
           man.
           I
           answer
           first
           that
           it
           was
           not
           ●eed●u●l
           because
           no
           〈◊〉
           could
           haue
           taken
           him
           for
           a
           God
           ,
           although
           he
           ●ade
           said
           all
           true
           ▪
           for
           we
           beleeue
           not
           that
           the
           Apostles
           &
           Prophetes
           ar
           Gods
           ▪
           albeit
           we
           be
           surely
           persuaded
           that
           all
           is
           true
           that
           they
           haue
           said
           ,
           〈◊〉
           lest
           that
           they
           haue
           left
           vs
           by
           writt
           .
           Next
           there
           was
           no
           sic
           superna●urall
           thing
           in
           him
           as
           might
           bring
           ●s
           in
           that
           errour
           ,
           last
           of
           all
           it
           hath
           beene
           more
           prope●●or
           vs
           that
           he
           had
           said
           althinges
           〈◊〉
           wit●●●●
           any
           suspicion
           of
           falshood
           ▪
           where
           by
           we
           might
           assuredly
           haue
           knowen
           that
           God
           
           
           
           
           
           had
           sent
           him
           and
           spoken
           in
           him
           :
           and
           that
           for
           his
           cause
           ,
           who
           sent
           him
           ,
           we
           should
           receaue
           him
           as
           an
           extraor●inarie
           pastour
           come
           to
           reforme
           the
           world
           .
           It
           was
           not
           needfull
           to
           hazard
           our
           saluatiō
           to
           proue
           him
           a
           man
           ,
           but
           we
           needed
           many
           good
           arguments
           to
           proue
           ,
           that
           God
           had
           sent
           him
           ,
           and
           principallie
           an
           argument
           taken
           frome
           the
           veritie
           ▪
           As
           to
           him self
           I
           find
           him
           extreme
           proude
           in
           all
           his
           writtinges
           ,
           yet
           think
           I
           no●
           that
           he
           esteemed
           him selfe
           a
           God
           ,
           and
           sure
           I
           am
           he
           died
           not
           with
           that
           opinion
           ,
           I
           say
           no
           further
           .
           Ye
           will
           perchance
           aske
           of
           me
           here
           ,
           if
           I
           wold
           conclude
           that
           ye
           ar
           also
           false
           prophetes
           and
           liers
           ,
           if
           ye
           teach
           any
           false
           doctrine
           ,
           as
           doubtles
           ye
           do
           ?
           No
           truely
           ,
           although
           in
           some
           sense
           ,
           I
           might
           most
           iustly
           so
           conclude
           :
           for
           ●here
           is
           great
           difference
           now
           betwix
           you
           ,
           as
           ye
           professe
           your selues
           to
           be
           but
           ordinatie
           pastours
           (
           if
           perchance
           ye
           content
           your selfes
           with
           so
           humble
           and
           simple
           a
           stile
           )
           and
           Caluin
           o●
           any
           other
           ,
           whome
           ye
           acknowledge
           to
           b●
           sent
           ext●●ordinariely
           by
           God
           him self
           :
           fo●
           howbeit
           your
           power
           (
           if
           ye
           haue
           any
           ▪
           I
           vnderstand
           )
           be
           diuine
           ,
           as
           comming
           of
           God
           ,
           ye●
           your
           iudgement
           is
           but
           humaine
           ▪
           so
           that
           it
           i●
           no
           meruaill
           if
           ye
           go
           sometymes
           wronge
           i●
           high
           maters
           which
           should
           be
           called
           re●he
           an
           e●●ou●
           ,
           then
           a
           lie
           ,
           because
           ye
           w●r●
           dec●●ue●
           
           in
           your
           opinion
           as
           men
           .
           For
           this
           cause
           the
           ordinarie
           Pastour
           is
           obliged
           ▪
           to
           follow
           the
           footstopes
           of
           his
           forfathers
           ▪
           &
           make
           no
           new
           way
           to
           him self
           ,
           nor
           any
           thing
           that
           seemed
           to
           incline
           to
           noueltie
           :
           because
           humano
           iudgement
           should
           not
           be
           bold
           in
           diuine
           matters
           :
           for
           i●
           ye
           open
           the
           doore
           that
           euery
           man
           may
           iudge
           as
           he
           list
           ,
           there
           can
           be
           no
           assurance
           in
           religion
           ,
           but
           dayly
           change
           ,
           as
           spirites
           of
           men
           be
           diuerse
           bothe
           frome
           them self●s
           and
           others
           .
           But
           Caluin
           (
           or
           any
           other
           ye
           will
           )
           being
           sent
           by
           God
           him self
           ,
           came
           not
           here
           to
           tell
           vs
           his
           opinion
           as
           a
           man
           ,
           ●ut
           to
           declare
           Gods
           mynd
           and
           will
           as
           an
           instrument
           chosen
           extraordina●iely
           for
           that
           effect
           .
           So
           that
           if
           he
           haue
           failled
           ,
           it
           can
           not
           b●
           called
           
             human
             a
             mentis
             error
          
           ,
           but
           a
           per●iciouse
           lie
           against
           the
           holie
           spirite
           ,
           who
           hathe
           geuen
           him
           expresse
           charge
           to
           speak
           otherwise
           then
           he
           spak
           .
           For
           he
           lieth
           ,
           who
           in
           his
           maisters
           name
           sayeth
           thinges
           which
           his
           maister
           never
           had
           said
           ;
           
             Omnis
             enim
             debet
             sine
             ●a●o
             nucius
             ●sse
             .
          
           The
           Poetes
           haue
           fained
           the
           messengers
           of
           their
           fabulous
           Goddes
           ,
           more
           discreit
           ,
           then
           ye
           acknowledge
           the
           messengers
           of
           th●
           true
           God
           ;
           for
           ye
           shall
           not
           lightly
           find
           any
           one
           worde
           changed
           
             in
             M●rcuri●s
             Commissions
          
           ,
           he
           is
           so
           religious
           in
           doing
           his
           charge
           .
           The
           same
           may
           be
           said
           of
           Princes
           Embassadors
           in
           
           theis
           dayes
           .
           I
           think
           it
           should
           meikill
           lesse
           be
           permitred
           to
           any
           man
           to
           goe
           from
           the
           commission
           gifin
           to
           him
           by
           God
           ,
           either
           in
           eiking
           or
           pairing
           ,
           what
           shall
           I
           say
           to
           speek
           to
           contrarie
           ?
           Now
           nothwithstanding
           all
           this
           seing
           ye
           find
           errours
           in
           your
           Apostle
           ,
           where
           by
           ye
           think
           not
           your selfes
           obliged
           to
           follow
           him
           ,
           but
           with
           this
           caueat
           ,
           if
           he
           agree
           with
           the
           written
           worde
           ,
           ye
           gif
           the
           world●
           plainely
           to
           vnderstand
           that
           ye
           approue
           not
           his
           extraordinarie
           vocation
           ▪
           but
           receaues
           him
           as
           another
           man
           of
           the
           common
           so●t
           ,
           who
           may
           ●eceaue
           many
           good
           and
           true
           instructions
           of
           your
           spit●te
           ▪
           which
           is
           the
           true
           square
           and
           rule
           of
           all
           other
           spirites
           ,
           where
           vpon
           ●
           conclude
           that
           ye
           haue
           no
           calling
           of
           his
           lying
           spir●te
           (
           pardon
           me
           if
           I
           say
           so
           seing
           I
           say
           it
           after
           you
           )
           who
           could
           haue
           no
           si●
           power
           ▪
           and
           for
           that
           same
           reason
           your
           vocation
           is
           fallen
           in
           
             non
             entery
          
           ,
           because
           ye
           haue
           bene
           so
           many
           yeares
           in
           violent
           possession
           ,
           and
           can
           not
           as
           yet
           shew
           either
           yours
           or
           any
           of
           your
           forefathers
           re●oures
           :
           vpon
           theis
           ●ands
           ye
           haue
           builded
           your
           house
           ,
           yea
           erected
           your
           Kingdome
           of
           confusi
           on
           ,
           and
           established
           your
           lawes
           of
           pa●rtie
           to
           haue
           all
           men
           subiect
           to
           your
           ministeriall
           imaginations
           tending
           to
           the
           ruine
           of
           all
           superior
           powers
           .
           The
           more
           high
           your
           interpri●es
           b●
           ,
           th●
           〈◊〉
           〈◊〉
           you●
           
           tre●son
           ,
           the
           ●ust
           cause
           men
           ●at●
           ▪
           not
           onely
           to
           disobey
           you
           ▪
           but
           meikill
           more
           to
           gaine-stand
           you
           as
           ●sur●ers
           of
           Christs
           Iesus
           charge
           and
           office
           wit●out
           his
           commission
           or
           command
           ,
           and
           troublers
           of
           the
           common
           wealth
           and
           seditiouse
           subiects
           ,
           
             qui
             est
             is
             nat●
             in
             pernicie●
             Principum
             〈◊〉
             bonorum
             omnium
             ▪
          
           Bragge
           of
           your
           excōmunication
           as
           ye
           please
           it
           is
           but
           an
           vaine
           imagination
           ,
           a
           bugle
           to
           fra●
           babes
           ▪
           or
           a
           scare
           crow
           ▪
           ●
           found
           and
           a
           shew
           ▪
           without
           ●ither
           danger
           or
           profite
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           word
           i●
           is
           but
           a
           false
           ●honder
           where
           by
           no
           man
           can
           be
           made
           
             ●elp●lo
             nigrio●●●o
          
           .
        
         
           13.
           
           I
           look
           here
           for
           your
           last
           refuge
           ye
           will
           pay
           〈◊〉
           with
           your
           ordinarie
           fashion
           of
           scoffing
           ▪
           for
           some
           of
           you
           being
           asked
           where
           ye
           found
           the
           ki●k
           do●
           answer
           ,
           in
           the
           〈◊〉
           midding
           of
           Papis●rie
           ▪
           Truely
           a
           most
           meete
           and
           proper
           natiue
           so●le
           for
           so
           wor●●ie
           and
           noble
           a
           Lady
           as
           your
           ki●k
           is
           ▪
           I
           gesse
           your
           vocation
           was
           ●ound
           in
           the
           same
           royall
           palace
           .
           This
           an●wer
           as
           it
           is
           more
           neer
           to
           the
           purpos
           ,
           so
           it
           contented
           〈◊〉
           meikill
           better
           ▪
           for
           the
           Apost●●●
           priests
           ▪
           monkes
           ▪
           and
           friers
           with
           other
           dissol●te
           ●●●d
           debouched
           men
           of
           our
           ki●k
           were
           the
           first
           groundston●●
           of
           your
           re●ormed
           f●●ie
           congregation
           :
           so
           if
           we
           hade
           neuer
           had
           aposta●●●
           ,
           ye
           should
           neuer
           haue
           ●ad
           Apostles
           ▪
           Luth●r
           was
           ●
           mo●k
           ,
           C●l●i●
           a
           〈◊〉
           
           
           
           
           
           none
           ,
           Beza
           a
           Priour
           ,
           Knoxe
           a
           Priest
           .
           If
           ye
           desyre
           to
           be
           any
           further
           informed
           of
           this
           matter
           ,
           our
           country
           may
           furnish
           you
           many
           true
           histories
           of
           the
           great
           and
           charitable
           pietie
           of
           your
           primitiue
           kirk
           whē
           it
           begane
           40.
           yeares
           since
           .
        
         
           14.
           
           Now
           to
           the
           last
           head
           of
           our
           dispute
           ,
           where
           as
           the
           matter
           is
           more
           cleare
           so
           shall
           we
           be
           more
           shorte
           .
           Gising
           and
           not
           granting
           that
           ye
           hade
           good
           Calling
           and
           were
           lawfull
           true
           Pastours
           hauing
           power
           to
           bind
           and
           loose
           .
           I
           ask
           what
           iurisdiction
           ye
           can
           haue
           vpon
           them
           ,
           who
           neuer
           were
           subiect
           to
           you
           ;
           neuer
           acknowledged
           nor
           could
           acknowledge
           you
           for
           lawfull
           pastours
           hauing
           at
           altymes
           made
           profession
           of
           the
           Catholik
           religion
           which
           is
           so
           far
           different
           ,
           yea
           contrarie
           to
           that
           which
           ye
           professe
           ,
           and
           desyres
           them
           to
           embrace
           ,
           how
           can
           ye
           vrge
           theis
           men
           to
           acknowledge
           you
           ,
           or
           how
           can
           ye
           excommunicat
           and
           separate
           them
           frome
           you
           as
           rotten
           and
           spilt
           members
           frome
           the
           rest
           of
           your
           reformed
           body
           ,
           they
           neuer
           being
           of
           your
           body
           .
           Feare
           ye
           not
           that
           men
           laught
           at
           you
           and
           your
           folie
           ,
           to
           dispose
           so
           rashely
           vpon
           thinges
           neuer
           yours
           except
           perchance
           by
           a
           reformed
           imagination
           ,
           or
           dreame
           ?
           Kinges
           and
           Princes
           vses
           not
           to
           banish
           out
           of
           their
           dominions
           other
           princes
           subiects
           who
           neuer
           
           were
           within
           their
           boundes
           .
           True
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           forbid
           any
           stranger
           to
           enter
           within
           their
           empires
           ,
           and
           that
           for
           good
           and
           iust
           reasons
           ,
           yea
           for
           their
           only
           pleasure
           if
           they
           will
           so
           ,
           because
           the
           lands
           ar
           theirs
           ,
           and
           so
           may
           receaue
           ,
           or
           hold
           out
           any
           man
           as
           they
           list
           ,
           or
           punish
           sic
           as
           wold
           without
           their
           licence
           enter
           there
           in
           .
           But
           to
           banish
           men
           that
           never
           were
           within
           their
           realmes
           ,
           were
           a
           thing
           very
           ridiculouse
           ,
           that
           I
           say
           not
           ,
           foolish
           .
           And
           to
           constraine
           free
           men
           ,
           or
           other
           Princes
           subiects
           to
           gif
           them
           the
           othe
           of
           fidelitie
           and
           du●
           seruice
           were
           altogether
           against
           reason
           ,
           principally
           neuer
           being
           with
           in
           their
           iurisdiction
           .
           Lykwise
           I
           say
           to
           you
           ,
           that
           ye
           can
           not
           iustly
           force
           thes
           men
           now
           to
           acknowledge
           you
           who
           neuer
           were
           yours
           ;
           ye
           may
           in
           deed
           forbid
           them
           to
           enter
           in
           to
           your
           kirk
           ,
           or
           to
           assis●
           to
           your
           seruice
           ,
           if
           ye
           haue
           any
           ,
           or
           to
           your
           prayers
           ,
           or
           to
           take
           any
           charge
           amongst
           you
           ,
           seing
           that
           they
           ●r
           not
           of
           you●
           sto●●
           :
           but
           how
           ye
           can
           passe
           any
           further
           against
           them
           truely
           I
           see
           not
           ,
           except
           ye
           wold
           say
           ,
           that
           your
           power
           hath
           no
           other
           marches
           ,
           then
           your
           will
           and
           fantasie
           .
           An
           ample
           empyre
           truely
           if
           it
           be
           so
           .
           Ye
           will
           haue
           the
           ex●resse
           word
           of
           God
           for
           all
           thing●s
           that
           other
           ●en
           say
           .
           I
           pray
           you
           bring
           vs
           here
           some
           good
           ●nd
           euid●n●●e●●
           of
           the
           scripture
           which
           may
           
           serue
           you
           for
           bound
           &
           charter
           of
           your
           bordors●
           cite
           vs
           some
           sure
           place
           ,
           by
           whose
           authoritie
           ye
           may
           proue
           that
           it
           is
           lawfull
           to
           banish
           men
           out
           of
           your
           kirk
           ,
           who
           neuer
           were
           in
           it
           .
           Think
           ye
           not
           but
           this
           meriteth
           two
           or
           three
           passages
           of
           the
           holie
           writt
           ,
           befor
           ye
           passe
           to
           the
           execution
           there
           of
           .
           The
           Iew●s
           did
           esteeme
           the
           Gētils
           in
           rank
           of
           excommunicated
           men
           ;
           bnt
           neuer
           did
           excommunicat
           them
           :
           that
           is
           did
           hold
           them
           as
           profane
           men
           destitute
           of
           the
           grace
           and
           assistance
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           out
           of
           his
           kirk
           seing
           that
           they
           professed
           not
           that
           same
           religion
           ,
           which
           onely
           at
           that
           t●me
           was
           the
           true
           religion
           .
           But
           neuer
           did
           they
           curt
           them
           of
           their
           body
           as
           rotten
           members
           thereof
           ,
           because
           they
           were
           not
           of
           their
           body
           ,
           but
           reither
           a
           body
           a
           part
           distinguished
           frome
           them
           bothe
           in
           religio●
           and
           ceremonies
           ,
           which
           onely
           the
           I●wes
           did
           declare
           ,
           and
           could
           do
           no
           further
           ,
           C●ptaines
           vses
           not
           ,
           to
           discharge
           or
           b●ack
           out
           of
           their
           ●ands
           ,
           souldiours
           who
           neuer
           were
           vnder
           their
           banners
           .
           Christ
           Iesus
           neuer
           gaue
           ●o
           any
           sic
           exēple
           or
           command
           nor
           yet
           ,
           the
           Apostles
           ,
           y●●
           none
           of
           their
           successours
           after
           them
           ▪
           Where●
           find
           ye
           the
           Iewe●
           or
           gentils
           excommunicated
           by
           the
           Apostles
           or
           primi●iue
           ●irk
           ?
           I
           find
           ●ruell
           pors●●utiōs
           exercised
           ag●●nst
           the
           Christians
           and
           their
           great
           patience
           with
           〈◊〉
           
           and
           ●eruent
           prayer
           made
           for
           their
           persecutors
           ,
           I
           find
           not
           their
           execrations
           and
           curse●
           against
           them
           .
           ●e
           s●e
           the
           Iewes
           yet
           among●
           the
           Christians
           and
           vnconstrained
           to
           embrace
           the
           veritie
           ▪
           o●
           ye●
           excommunicated
           ,
           except
           by
           that
           generall
           excōmunication
           where
           by
           they
           ar
           all
           declared
           strangers
           in
           Goddes
           house
           and
           profane
           personnes
           ▪
           with
           whome
           notwithstanding
           we
           may
           h●●
           n●●peek
           ;
           trafik
           ,
           and
           communicat
           ●iuille
           although
           that
           our
           kirk
           doores
           and
           prayer
           places
           be
           closed
           vp
           to
           them
           .
           They
           may
           haue
           action
           in
           law
           against
           any
           man
           who
           hath
           either
           offended
           them
           ,
           or
           is
           owing
           them
           any
           thing
           ▪
           Iustice
           is
           not
           refused
           to
           them
           ,
           because
           they
           ,
           ar
           me●
           remaining
           with
           in
           the
           same
           commō
           wealth
           .
           Now
           seing
           the●s
           branches
           were
           neuer
           your●
           How
           can
           ye
           〈◊〉
           them
           of
           your
           tree
           .
           
             K●mi
             su●
             alteri●●
             arbor●s
          
           .
           If
           ye
           could
           do
           that
           ,
           ye
           might
           hardely
           va●●t
           your selues
           to
           haue
           donne
           a
           miracle
           ,
           which
           hath
           beene
           so
           often
           craued
           at
           your
           hands
           for
           your
           extraordinaire
           vocation
           .
        
         
           15.
           
           But
           ye
           will
           say
           tha●
           they
           ar
           in
           your
           Pari●hes
           ▪
           and
           therefore
           ye
           haue
           power
           vpon
           them
           as
           vpon
           the
           rest
           who
           ar
           within
           the
           same
           iurisdiction
           .
           I
           vnderstand
           well
           ▪
           ye
           ar
           ●ands
           lo●de●
           ,
           all
           is
           yours
           that
           g●owe●
           vpon
           ●he
           gro●●d
           .
           But
           good
           ●●●es
           ▪
           ye
           should
           first
           
           shew
           that
           the
           ground
           is
           yours
           ,
           and
           then
           dispose
           there
           vpon
           at
           your
           pleasour
           ▪
           we
           shall
           neuer
           op●n
           our
           mouthes
           to
           gainesay
           you
           .
           The
           iurisdiction
           that
           ye
           pretend
           is
           spirituall
           ,
           hitherto
           they
           haue
           neuer
           entred
           wi●h
           in
           your
           dominious
           ▪
           Why
           will
           ye
           now
           force
           them
           to
           land
           ,
           because
           they
           ar
           driuen
           by
           storme
           of
           wind
           vpon
           your
           costes
           ?
           They
           ar
           ●orie
           that
           your
           limites
           ar
           so
           neer
           to
           them
           .
           The
           onely
           sight
           of
           your
           realme
           hath
           disgusted
           them
           exceedingly
           :
           suffer
           them
           to
           stay
           where
           they
           ar
           and
           they
           will
           enter
           no
           further
           .
           They
           content
           them
           with
           your
           good
           will.
           The
           Turkes
           constraine
           no
           man
           to
           embrace
           their
           opinion
           ,
           except
           he
           enter
           with
           in
           their
           temple
           :
           any
           man
           may
           be
           within
           the
           countrey
           without
           any
           compulsion
           .
           ye
           require
           more
           then
           the
           most
           cruell
           tyrannes
           ▪
           If
           ye
           will
           credit
           them
           it
           shall
           not
           be
           needfull
           to
           banish
           them
           out
           of
           your
           territorie
           .
           They
           desyre
           not
           to
           enter
           .
           They
           haue
           chosen
           another
           free
           citie
           ,
           where
           they
           like
           better
           to
           be
           burgessis
           ,
           which
           they
           will
           lose
           ,
           if
           they
           enter
           with
           you
           .
           Vlysses
           was
           neuer
           more
           desyrous
           to
           be
           deliuered
           out
           of
           Polyphemu●
           cauerne
           ,
           or
           danger
           of
           Si●enes
           ,
           or
           Charibdis
           then
           they
           to
           be
           exempt
           of
           your
           communion
           .
           It
           is
           but
           in
           vaine
           ye
           excommunicat
           them
           who
           neuer
           haue
           ,
           nor
           yet
           desyre
           to
           
           communicat
           with
           you
           .
           Ye
           do
           as
           they
           tell
           the
           ●able
           of
           the
           foxe
           and
           plummes
           ,
           which
           he
           could
           not
           come
           by
           ,
           
             nigra
             sun●●olo
          
           they
           ar
           black
           (
           sayeth
           he
           )
           I
           will
           haue
           none
           of
           them
           .
           ye
           ar
           very
           liberall
           ,
           ye
           gif
           to
           others
           ,
           which
           neither
           is
           yours
           nor
           can
           ye
           haue
           ▪
           what
           extraordinarie
           reformed
           charitie
           is
           this
           in
           you
           to
           deliuer
           ouer
           to
           Satan
           Goddes
           creatures
           not
           being
           in
           your
           charge
           nor
           keeping
           ,
           meikill
           lesse
           at
           your
           gift
           ?
           But
           good
           sires
           why
           ta●
           ye
           not
           the
           paines
           to
           shew
           that
           ye
           haue
           the
           true
           kirk
           ,
           out
           of
           which
           there
           is
           no
           salu●tion
           ;
           and
           that
           ye
           ar
           lawfull
           pastours
           ,
           to
           whome
           all
           true
           Christiās
           ar
           obliged
           to
           obey
           as
           to
           Christs
           vic●i●es
           and
           lieutenants
           ▪
           This
           were
           the
           ordinarie
           and
           easie
           way
           ,
           if
           ye
           wold
           follow
           it
           ;
           for
           this
           being
           once
           sufficiently
           ●hewen
           ;
           I
           doubt
           not
           but
           they
           wold
           shew
           them selues
           very
           docil
           and
           very
           easie
           to
           receaue
           all
           your
           instructions
           ,
           because
           of
           your
           vndoubted
           authoritie
           and
           charge
           .
           Ye
           might
           then
           very
           well
           exhorte
           them
           to
           enter
           witbin
           your
           spirituall
           iurisdiction
           ,
           seing
           ye
           hade
           the
           lawfull
           power
           to
           receaue
           them
           ,
           and
           to
           enroll
           them
           among
           the
           Children
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           heauenly
           citizens
           .
           If
           they
           wold
           not
           yet
           heare
           you
           ,
           ye
           might
           according
           to
           Christs
           command
           ,
           shake
           the
           dust
           of
           your
           feete
           ▪
           and
           leaue
           their
           blood
           vpō
           their
           owen
           heades
           except
           
           perchance
           ye
           wold
           patiently
           abyde
           their
           conuersion
           to
           God
           ,
           seing
           that
           some
           ar
           called
           and
           do
           〈◊〉
           in
           the
           ●ords
           vinia●d
           ▪
           in
           the
           morning
           ,
           some
           at
           midday
           ,
           some
           in
           the
           ●uening
           ,
           and
           at
           last
           all
           ar
           new
           ●tded
           for
           their
           l●bours
           ,
           ●o
           the
           which
           none
           ar
           constrained
           ▪
           Ye
           know
           that
           faith
           is
           a
           gift
           of
           God
           ,
           it
           c●n
           not
           be
           found
           e●●ry
           where
           .
           
             Spiritu●
             vb●
             vul●
             spir●t
          
           it
           de
           pended
           〈◊〉
           vpon
           our
           will
           ,
           nor
           ●eurs
           to
           make
           men
           bel●●ue
           the
           veri●ie
           ▪
           that
           appe●●in●d
           to
           God
           onely
           .
           
             vol●ntas
             ●ogino●
             p●●est●●
          
           〈◊〉
           is
           God
           onely
           ▪
           who
           may
           change
           the
           hardnes
           of
           mens
           hea●●es
           .
           Why
           will
           ye
           force
           men
           ,
           seing
           we
           deny
           free
           will
           :
           If
           ye
           say
           as
           ye
           think
           why
           v●ge
           ye
           men
           as
           if
           they
           had
           it
           ▪
           excuse
           me
           ,
           if
           I
           propose
           sic
           thinges
           ,
           seing
           I
           do
           it
           following
           your
           h●mour
           and
           strange
           opinions
           .
           I
           〈◊〉
           some
           exemple
           either
           of
           ▪
           ou●
           maister
           ●esus
           Christ
           o●
           of
           his
           Apos●los
           ▪
           where
           either
           〈◊〉
           or
           Gentill
           euer
           was
           constrained
           to
           acknowledge
           the
           gospell
           ,
           o●
           excommunicated
           ●f
           ●he
           wold
           non
           I
           will
           graunt
           to
           〈◊〉
           very
           freely
           ▪
           that
           all
           men
           who
           will
           not
           acknowledge
           the
           true
           kirk●
           and
           lawfull
           pastour●
           a●
           with
           out
           the
           communion
           and
           pa●k●
           of
           Iesu●
           Christ
           ▪
           but
           not
           ●u●
           out
           of
           th●
           communion
           of
           〈◊〉
           park
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           :
           because
           as
           I
           haue
           said
           now
           often
           ,
           they
           were
           ne●er
           within
           i●
           ▪
           And
           therefore
           the
           Apostles
           and
           ●h●ir
           〈◊〉
           
           did
           euer
           ciuilie
           cōuerse
           with
           the
           ●othe
           preaching
           and
           teaching
           the
           ve●iti●
           (
           where
           by
           our
           for
           fathers
           were
           con●erted
           to
           God
           )
           but
           neuer
           admitted
           them
           to
           be
           present
           at
           Goddes
           s●r●ice
           till
           they
           hade
           left
           their
           errour
           &
           were
           instr●cted
           in
           the
           trueth
           ,
           and
           so
           rece●ned
           in
           the
           bosome
           of
           the
           kirk
           a●
           true
           Christians
           should
           be
           .
           If
           the
           Apostles
           had
           de●a●red
           from●
           their
           companie
           all
           men
           ,
           who
           wo●d
           not
           incontinent
           embrace
           their
           doct●ine
           ,
           I
           think
           they
           ●hold
           not
           haue
           〈◊〉
           so
           m●ny
           as
           they
           haue
           donne
           .
           In
           their
           pa●ien●e
           they
           ouercame
           the
           world
           ,
           wonn●
           the
           fa●ou●
           of
           their
           enemies
           ,
           assured
           the
           faithfull
           ,
           b●a●●gled
           the
           infidel●es
           seeing
           them
           die
           so
           co●●dgeously
           for
           the
           ve●i●ie
           that
           they
           preached
           ,
           &
           at
           last
           left
           ou●
           for
           fathers
           peaceable
           in
           the
           kirk
           of
           God
           ?
           which
           certainely
           was
           a
           heauenly
           work
           donne
           by
           naturall
           inst●un●en●es
           indued
           with
           supernaturall
           graces
           and
           vertues
           ,
           infused
           by
           the
           holie
           Spirite
           in
           the
           hear●●s
           of
           ●●ue
           and
           law●ull
           pasto●●s
           to
           confound
           all
           worldly
           wi●dome
           and
           bring
           vs
           wi●h
           simplicitie
           and
           obedience
           to
           eternall
           blisse
           .
           In
           pl●ce
           of
           which
           godly
           modestie
           and
           meeknes
           ye
           employ
           your
           reformed
           force
           and
           violence
           shewing
           that
           ye
           had
           ●e●●her
           make
           ,
           them
           ●e
           made
           martyres
           ,
           where
           in
           by
           many
           degrees
           ye
           s●●pass●
           the
           cruell
           barb●●●●
           of
           the
           Turkes
           ,
           
           impati●t
           au●
           importune
           in
           all
           your
           actiōs
           ,
           yet
           according
           to
           your
           discipline
           (
           which
           is
           against
           all
           good
           discipline
           )
           
             impellens
             quidquid
             sibi
             summa
             petenti
             obsis●it
             ,
             g●udensque
             v●am
             ●ecisse
             ruina
             .
             —
             Magnámque
             cade●●
             magnámque
             reuertens
             dat●stragem
             latè
             ,
             sparsosque
             recoll●gi●
             ignes
             .
          
        
         
           16.
           
           Thus
           faire
           for
           them
           who
           all
           wai●e
           haue
           remamed
           Catholikes
           ,
           as
           to
           others
           who
           haue
           at
           any
           tyme
           yeelded
           to
           you
           being
           ●ither
           forced
           or
           deceiued
           by
           you
           ,
           good
           reason
           requireth
           that
           they
           be
           sett
           at
           libertie
           as
           before
           .
           Doubtles
           the
           law
           will
           declare
           all
           sic
           men
           as
           free
           frome
           all
           obligation
           to
           you
           ,
           as
           they
           who
           neuer
           were
           yours
           ,
           because
           of
           the
           violence
           and
           deceit
           ye
           haue
           vsed
           ,
           principallie
           seing
           it
           is
           so
           fa●re
           against
           the
           honour
           of
           God
           ,
           the
           Kinges
           Maiesties
           servi●e
           ,
           and
           publik
           honestie
           ,
           and
           yoú
           to
           be
           punished
           as
           publik
           transgressours
           of
           diuine
           and
           humaine
           lawes
           .
           If
           ye
           will
           haue
           men
           obliged
           to
           your
           doctrine
           and
           discipline
           ,
           sett
           vp
           new
           play
           ,
           procee●
           with
           honest
           lawfull
           and
           godly
           meanes
           without
           bothe
           fraud
           &
           force
           errour
           or
           treason
           take
           an
           ordinarie
           sure
           calling
           or
           proue
           wel
           your
           extraordinarie
           ,
           and
           then
           ,
           who
           hat●
           once
           acknowledged
           you
           ,
           punish
           him
           ●
           your
           discretion
           and
           according
           to
           your
           lawes
           ,
           if
           he
           reuolt
           frome
           you
           ,
           But
           now
           as
           maters
           goeth
           ,
           although
           I
           were
           a
           zealous
           brother
           
           yet
           as
           faithfull
           Christian
           and
           true
           subiect
           ,
           I
           wold
           be
           gladd
           to
           be
           excommunicated
           out
           of
           your
           companie
           ,
           where
           treason
           and
           heresies
           ar
           confirmed
           with
           subscriptiōs
           and
           solemne
           oathes
           .
        
         
           18.
           
           Now
           to
           end
           with
           you
           ,
           I
           will
           yet
           make
           you
           an
           offer
           ,
           as
           I
           think
           very
           reasonable
           ,
           which
           is
           this
           .
           Seing
           ye
           wil
           haue
           no
           thing
           that
           cometh
           of
           the
           Catholik
           Apostolik
           and
           Romaine
           Kirk
           ,
           as
           being
           infected
           with
           superstition
           and
           Idolatrie
           ▪
           nor
           acknowledge
           the
           Pape
           ,
           because
           ye
           esteeme
           him
           the
           Antichrist
           ,
           and
           therefor
           will
           haue
           no
           counceill
           gathered
           by
           him
           :
           do
           like
           good
           &
           vigilant
           pastours
           ,
           assemble
           your selues
           by
           whose
           authoritie
           ye
           please
           ,
           hold
           an
           vniuersall
           synode
           among
           your
           reformed
           brethren
           of
           all
           sortes
           through
           out
           the
           whole
           reformed
           world
           ,
           without
           beginning
           and
           ending
           ,
           that
           there
           appeere
           no
           superiorite
           ▪
           make
           a
           round
           table
           ,
           speek
           al
           at
           once
           ;
           dispute
           vpon
           the
           controuerted
           heads
           :
           agree
           among
           your selues
           and
           we
           shall
           agree
           with
           you
           .
           what
           can
           ye
           ask
           more
           of
           vs
           ?
           if
           no
           accorde
           can
           be
           hade
           among
           you
           ,
           how
           can
           we
           agree
           with
           you
           ?
           Consenting
           with
           any
           one
           companie
           ,
           we
           shall
           haue
           all
           the
           rest
           for
           enemies
           ,
           and
           shall
           not
           be
           assured
           if
           the
           partie
           ,
           that
           we
           haue
           followed
           ,
           will
           stand
           long
           at
           his
           
           owen
           opinion
           .
           Or
           if
           ye
           think
           this
           offer
           of
           greater
           expenses
           then
           esperance
           ,
           we
           will
           make
           you
           another
           ,
           to
           agree
           with
           you
           &
           subscribe
           your
           con●ession
           of
           faith
           ,
           if
           ye
           can
           shew
           that
           euer
           there
           was
           any
           empire
           ,
           Kingdome
           ,
           canton
           ,
           citie
           ,
           toune
           ,
           village
           or
           cothouse
           ,
           yea
           any
           single
           man
           Catholik
           or
           heretik
           ,
           young
           or
           old
           ,
           lerned
           or
           ignorant
           ,
           professing
           your
           doctrine
           and
           gouuerned
           by
           your
           discipline
           before
           this
           last
           hondred
           yeares
           .
           If
           ye
           refuse
           this
           offers
           ,
           iudge
           your
           selues
           ,
           what
           the
           reformed
           flock
           may
           think
           of
           you
           .
           Abyding
           your
           answere
           I
           will
           mak
           here
           an
           end
           and
           pray
           God
           to
           gif
           vs
           his
           eternall
           blesse
           ,
           and
           to
           you
           (
           where
           by
           ye
           may
           atteine
           to
           the
           same
           )
           a
           faith
           that
           may
           stand
           with
           your
           duetie
           to
           God
           and
           Prince
           ,
           and
           with
           Christian
           charitie
           .
        
         
           Fare
           well
           .
        
         
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A01221-e60
           
             Artis
             ig●arus
             .
          
           
             Kno●
             .
          
           
             In
             his
             speech
             to
             parlament
             .
          
           
             In
             the
             sessions
             presbiteries
             synodes
             &
             generall
             coūsels
             .
          
           
             Mat.
             10
             
          
           
             Frere
             Iohn
             Crag
             fleeing
             out
             of
             Italie
             frō
             the
             Catholik●
             :
             being
             (
             as
             he
             said
             )
             in
             need
             he
             receaued
             a
             pourse
             frome
             ●
             black
             dogge
             ,
             iudge
             y●
             of
             that
             viaticum
             .
          
           
             The●log
             C.
             lu●nist
             .
             l●b
             2.
             sol
             .
             135.
             
          
           
             B●
             Za
             in
             epistol
             .
             th●olog
             .
             &
             de
             notis
             Ecc●●siae
             .
          
           
             Iust
             .
             lib.
             4
             .
             ●ap
             .
             1.
             
             ●
             .
             9.
             
          
           
             De
             notis
             Eccl●siae
             .
          
           
             Ye
             ar
             th●
             first
             that
             eu●r
             did
             propos●
             negatiō●
             for
             a
             faith
             .
          
           
             3.
             book
             the
             kinges
             cap.
             13.
             
          
           
             Semp●●
             discente●
             &
             nunquam
             ad
             sciētiam
             veritatis
             perueniente●
             2.
             ad
             Timoth
             .
             ●
             .
             7.