A reproufe, written by Alexander Nowell, of a booke entituled, A proufe of certayne articles in religion denied by M. Iuell, set furth by Thomas Dorman, Bachiler of Diuinitie: and imprinted at Antvverpe by Iohn Latius. Anno. 1564. Set foorth and allowed, according to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions

Dorman. fol. 11.

For gods sake good Christian readers, for your ovvne soules sake, and the loue that you beare therto, geue eare to no suche sedicious voices, hovve euer they be cloked

vvith the name of Christ, vvhiche the diuell then dooth most inculcat, vvhen he vvould driue vs sonest frō him.

Novvell.

I trust that all good Christian readers, for that loue that they beare to God, who is the truthe, will geue no eare to suche false fables, as M. Dorman and other aduersaries of the truthe doo publishe in suche leude liynge bookes as this is: and that vpon respect•• of the health of their soules, they will flie farre from the blouddie Butcher of Rome: who, vsinge the cloke of Christes name onely, denieth him in déede: and pla∣cing in his place his piuishe pardons, and other po∣pishe pelfrie, destroyeth as well Christian mens sou∣les by his poysoned doctrine, as he dooeth murder their bodies by the most cruell kinde of death, that the Diuell his father and he can deuise. And by the way note, that to speake truely of a foraigne false Polonish Pa∣piste, is with M. Dorman accōpted sedition: as though, because he is a Cardinall, he were therefore our laufull magistrate: whiche, wist I, were true, I would geue more reuerence to our Cardinalles in Paules churche, then I hitherto haue done. And sure I am, they deserue for their Cardinalshippe, as muche honour, as dooeth Hosius, yea and more too, were false opiniō banished, & thinges truely, as they are in déede, weighed, and estée∣med. For they yet according to their origine, minister the sacraments, & visite the sicke, as is the propre office of Curates to doo: wherunto Christian princes, once at the last I trust awaking, will bring these personate, & visered Romaine parishe priestes, from their vsurped worldly pompe and dominion: and that the said Prin∣ces will reduce the Pope himselfe likewyse, from his

phantasied supremacie ouer the vniuersall churche, to his peculiar cure of the churche of Rome. And thus I lette this Hosius, one of the greatest estates, both for learnyng and vertue, that this daye Christendome hath (for so M. Dorman saieth) for this time alone, with his Cardinals scarlet hatte, and his moile trapped according for his estate.