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If your hartes good readers bee moued vvith these heresies in the readyng, as truelie God I take to vvit∣nesse myne vvas in the vvrityng, abhorre those that teache them, shonne and auoide suche principles and groundes, as haue been the foundation not of these onelie, but of all that novve reigne in the vvorlde, and maie bee of any other hereafter, that any desperate he∣retike listeth to inuente. Sticke to those by vvhiche all
heretikes haue been and these shalbe, to ther vtter cō∣fusion vanquished. Shrinke not rashelie from that fun∣dation, vvhereon your elders and forefathers faste∣nyng thēselues, haue passed ouer so many hundred ye∣res, in the true confession of one God, one faithe, one truthe, to them that hauyng yet scarse fourtie on their backes, haue notvvithstandyng emongest them [crea∣pyng all out of the filthie neast of one Martin Luther] so many faithes and yet no faith, so many truthes, and yet no truthe, neuer a one agreyng vvith the other, as there be madde frantike heades emongest them. Geue no eare to that subtill generatiō vvalkyng in the darck like blinde Battes, vvithout a head, vvithout a Iudge, and all to the ende their iuggeling might not be espied.
O pitifull harted manne, but yet farre better Ora∣tour, then tender harted, who, when he drawyng to∣wardes an ende of this his first parte, that is to witte, That the vvhole churche must needes haue one onelie heade: and thinkyng, that he ought to haue some mat∣ter of weighte to mooue affections vpon, and findyng none in his purposed matter, bringeth in the rehearsall of the Arrians, and Anabaptistes heresies (whiche it is knowen to the worlde that we dooe moste abhorre) and vpon them, as it were vpon our heresies, dooeth this Rhetorician russhe into these vehemente affections, whiche he mooueth here, but as I thinke, stirreth no wise manne, excepte it be to laugh at his foolishenesse. Where he speaketh of desperate heretikes, sainct Cy∣prian * 1.1 so calleth all suche as thinke one Bishoppe infe∣riour to an other (as dooeth maister Dorman, and suche other Papistes) as hath been before declared. Maister Dorman adourneth the Popes chaire, or see of Rome, with many glorious titles, but nameth it not as yet,
neither a greate while after, partly for that a periphra∣sis, or circumscription was here more meete, for am∣plifications sake: and partelie, for that when he had re∣iected the scriptures, he thought it not good by and by to saie, that all heretikes (whiche by no meanes can be vanquished by the scriptures) muste bee vanquished by the see of Rome, or Peters chaire, or Popes theron sit∣tyng: but to auoide all shewe of absurditie he compas∣seth the matter, and at the laste stealeth vnto the see of Rome, vnder S. Hieromes name. That he exhorteth you to sticke to those by whom all heretikes haue been and these shalbe, to their vtter confusion vanquished, (meaning the Popes of Rome, as is afterward euidēt) I aunswere, If force, fire, and fagoties faile them not, (for other meanes to vanquishe haue not the Popes, nor knowe thei any) thei will no doubte, vse their cru∣ell furie againste vs, as thei haue dooen: (and yet haue thei, as I thinke, neither gotten any greate gaine, nor made any greate conqueste) but if Gods woorde maie bee heard, I doubte not but the Popes chaire of pesti∣lence shalbe shortly ouerthrowen, and he with all Pa∣pistes vanquished, to their vtter confusion. Where he calleth the Popes chaire (for it he meaneth, as after he dooeth declare) the foundation whereon our elders & forefathers sta••ed them selues many hundreth yeres, in the confession of one faithe and truthe &c. the con∣trarie is moste true: that the Pope hath (as muche as in him hath lien) subuerted the faithe, and truth of Christ, and destroyed Christian menne, and Christendome moste horribly, sith his false forged supremacie in these our latter daies hath gotten creadite. Our faithe and doctrine haue as many yeres on their backes, as haue the scriptures whereon thei are grounded, as hath the Primitiue Churche, and olde aunciente Doctours,
wherewith in all necessarie p••inctes of religion thei a∣grée throughly. It is the Pope, and his supremacie, and other Poperie, that is builded vpon a late and sandie foundation, and therefore shortlie to bée subuerted, and ••ooted vp. Concernyng diuersities of faithes, disagrée∣ynges, and Schismes, whiche M. Dorman so often re∣peateth, he dooeth nothyng els, but caste their owne dounge at our heades, laiyng the peculiar and proper faultes of the Papistes to our charges, accordyng as I haue at large before declared, and as I truste sullie sa∣tisfied * 1.2 the discreate reader therein. That whiche mai∣ster Dorman speaketh of franlike heades, hath allusion to his maisters case, when he forsooke the truthe, and re∣uolted to Poperie▪ The worlde knoweth wee bee not subtile, but are sore encombred with the craftie gene∣ratiō of Papistes. The woorde of God is the true light, wherein wee endeuoure our selues to our power to walke. Your vnwritten verities are more meeter for blinde Battes to flitter in. Wee haue our heade and Iudge in heauen, one Christe onelie, and in earth one prince, and other ministers, bothe ecclesiasticall and ci∣uill, to gouerne and Iudge vs accordyng to his holie woorde. To iuggle, and to coniure too, bée your owne Popishe properties: we haue nothing to doo with thē. And thus I haue answered M. Dormans asseueratiōs in this place, by shorte poinctes, which maie suffice, se∣yng he onely saith his pleasure, & proueth nothing at al.
Cyprianus l••. •• epist. 3. Pa••cis desperatis & perditis, mi∣nor esse vide∣tur authoritas episcoporum in Africa con∣stit••torū. &c.
Fol. 55. &c.