The vvarn-vvord to Sir Francis Hastinges wast-word conteyning the issue of three former treateses, the Watch-word, the Ward-word and the Wast-word (intituled by Sir Francis, an Apologie or defence of his Watch-word) togeather with certaine admonitions & warnings to thesaid [sic] knight and his followers. Wherunto is adioyned a breif reiection of an insolent, and vaunting minister masked with the letters O.E. who hath taken vpon him to wryte of thesame [sic] argument in supply of the knight. There go also foure seueral tables, one of the chapters, another of the controuersies, the third of the cheif shiftes, and deceits, the fourth of the parricular [sic] matters conteyned in the whole book. By N.D. author of the Ward-word.

THE VVARNING and admonition to Sir F. H. and his frendes, as also to his aduocate & proctor O. E. vpon the first Encounter of blessings. CHAP. XIX.

[ 1] AND now for the conclusion of this En∣counter I think is not amisse, to the end that this my answere and reioynder (which I call a Warn-word) may do his duty and per∣forme so much as the name and title impor∣teth, I am to bestow vpon the K^t. in this place a breife and frendly admonition or warning, wherby he may him-self (yf passion wil suffer him to see the truth) or others at least wayes that are more indifferent & lesse passionate in the cause then he, cōsider the difference of our manner of proceeding in this affayre, to wit, the plaine and round dealing on our side going directly to the matter, and the shifting and shufling, on his to auoyde due trial, and how that with no probability of reason or truth can he stand in the controuersy taken in hand of his blessings brought in by change of religiō, his defence wherof is so impertinent, false and from the matter, as before yow haue seene, yet for better memories sake, and for some aduer∣tisment to the K^t. to look ouer his owne faults I shal breefly heere put him in. mynd of that which hath passed in this Encounter.

First the charge of notorious flattery in brag¦ging [ 2] of so many blessings come to England by change of religion, seemeth to ly stil vpon him more heauy then before, for that he hath answered substantially to noe one argument of his aduersary to the contrary and the shift of passing ouer whole treateses and discourses of the warder (yea foure or fiue as is prooued) without any reply or mention,* 1.1 argueth great weaknes in his cause. The other shift also of excusing his flattery by the flattery of Cano∣nists (yf it were true) is very vayne and ri∣diculous.

The new ten deuised blessings are such & [ 3] so poore,* 1.2 as noe man would haue brought them in but he that eyther for lack of iudg∣ment, decerneth not, what is for him, nor what is against him, or whome necessity for∣ceth to expose him-selfe to the laughter of all men. For who wil, not laught to see vnity brought in for a blessing among protestants that cold neuer yet agree in the poynts of their religion, nor euer wil, or can, and whose badge of dissension and disagreement is so notorious aboue all other heretyks before them?* 1.3 Who wil not laugh also and bite his lip to see good woorks & abstayning from persecution assi∣gned for two other peculiar blessings, consi∣dering what passeth in England and what in other countreys. I passe our the rest as false or foolish or both, vntil I come to the tenth, that is copious generation of children, which in respect of the marriage of their friars, monks

& ministers, we yeild vnto them, but deny it to be a blessing especially to those parishes, that by force are cōstrayned to maintayne their co∣pious brood & of spring: & to this I cal to wit∣nesse the Churche-wardens & parishioners.

[ 4] This then is folly to bring in such sorts and sutes of blessings as euery chyld may see there vanity and laugh at them. But that which ensueth of frau••, fleights and deceyts is farre worse,* 1.4 which may be discouered by the variety of shifts noted in his whole discourse, as na∣mely that which was last recyted of passing ouer and dissembling all his aduersaryes prin∣cipal arguments, reasons, & allegations with∣out mention at all, or els mentioning them only in a word or two without further ans∣were; in lyke manner his not quoting places of books or chapters, of the authors which he cyteth when he wil deceaue, is a new trick neuer vsed perhaps before by any that hath written of controuersies, though the other of misalleadging, corrupting, peruerting & for∣cing them against their owne expresse mea∣ning hath (I grant) byn vsed by diuers, and cheefly by the patrons and grandsyres of En∣glish protestancy,* 1.5 Iewel and Fox whome this man principally followeth, but yet so as he out goeth his maister (yf it may be) in that art, as by the examples alleadged before of abusing S. Hierome S. Augustine, S. Bernard, & others hath in part byn seene but wil more appeare in the other incounters following, especially the se∣cond and seauenth.

The other shifts also of repeating againe [ 5] often the things before answered, as though they had neuer byn answered; of accusing others for excusing him-self; of running be∣hynd the cloath of ••tate & thrusting her Ma^ties. person and gouernment betwene him & his aduersary, his bold impudent assertions of things manifestly knowne to be false (as that the puritans and protestants are all one and that there is no difference of religion betwene them,* 1.6 and other such lyke, all these poynts (I say) haue byn sufficiently layd open before as they fel out, nor need they any new repetition here againe, but rather admonition, to wit that the K^t. would with some indifferēcy cō∣sider of these points, and enter into contem∣plation of a good conscience, reme••bring ra∣ther his eternal good, thē his tēporal honour, and therwithal these words of S. Augustine to Iulian.* 1.7 Etst coram hominibus sit dura frons tua eru∣bescat saltem coram Deo mens tua. Albeyty our forehead be hard and blush ••ot before men yet let yow mynd at least blush before God: which were noe lesse wholsome then holy counsel for him, yf he would follow yt.

And this was my exhortation and Warn∣word [ 6] to S. F. before I saw the supplement of his proctor O. E. which being much more shamelesse bytter and false then any thing vt∣tered by the K^t. I was tempted to take this sentence of S. Augustine from him and bestow yt vpon the minister, but in the end I resolued to leaue yt common to both, and to the end

yow may consider how fitly the foresaid sen∣tence as wel of a shamelesse mynd as of a sha∣melesse forehead doth fal vpon the masked minister O. E. yow must remember how he hath behaued him-selfe in the former com∣bat & how euen at his very first calling vpon the stage he shewed vs a notorious cosening trik about falsifying a place of S. Augustine,* 1.8 Stechus, Eugobinus in naming the Pope God, and at his next goying vp, he telleth certayne notorious lyes,* 1.9 which all the world cannot excuse, adding ther-vnto a lyke falsification about the counsel of Lateran,* 1.10 his impudency also, foolish inconstancy and contradiction to himself is to be remembred in his third ad∣mission to tel his tale, & further his egregious folly in setting downe his English rule of faith wherby he would exclude the a 1.11 puritans: and no lesse folly is discouered in alleadging Cath. Emperors decrees quite against himself. And his grosse ignorance is laid forth by occasion of his argument, A••••iones sunt suppositorū, therby to prooue that Catholyks receaue not their faith from the vniuersal Churche.

[ 7] Finally his atheisme and irreligious iudge∣ment is discouered and conuinced not only by that he saith the differences betwene Luthe∣rans,b 1.12 Zwinglians, Caluinists & Puritanes, not to be any essential points in matters of religiō, but also by his cōtemptible speches of the first Doctors & fathers of his owne religion, espe∣cially yf any of those two books named by me before,* 1.13 and wrytten against the Puritanes, ••

meane the Suruey of disciplinar Doctrine, and Daun∣gerous positions, were written by him (as some wil say) wherin the whole story of the de∣formed Churche of Geneua by Caluyn,* 1.14 Pharellus, Beza and others, and their actions, councels, drifts and attempts about the same are so set downe and printed by publike authority in Englād, that yf a man would study to describe notorious wicked men and catylines of their countrey without conscience, he could not set it downe nor expresse it more liuely, thē it is done in the foresaid books against the fore∣said new prophets, and their cheefest northen schollers, to wit, Iohn Knocks and his fellowes in Scotland, and Goodman and his mates in Englād, which argueth no faith or conscience in any of them but only to say and do for the tyme & as the tyme serueth, and as their proper lucar, ease, ambition and sensuality requireth: and herby may be warned the discreet reader to look to his soule and saluation, seing these men for them-selues do seeme to make that the last and least part of their care, or cogitations, feeding vs with many faire words of blessings, but filling vs with my∣seryes.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Cap. 1••.
• * 1.2

  Nevv de∣uised bles∣sings.
• * 1.3

  Vid. cap. 3.••. 5. & 6.
• * 1.4

  Variety of shifts.
• * 1.5

  Vid. cap. 9. & 10.
• * 1.6

  Admonition and conclu∣sion.
• * 1.7

  Aug. cont. Iul. lib. 5.6.7.
• * 1.8

  Vid. Cap. 3.
• * 1.9

  Cap. 13.
• * 1.10

  Cap. 15.
• a 1.11

  Cap. 16. & in annot. vpō hi•• epist. to the ••ead.
• b 1.12

  Cap 17.
• * 1.13

  Cap 6 7.
• * 1.14

  VVickednes of Caluyn Pharellus, Beza, and others.