Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.

¶The Martyrdome of Lancelot one of the kinges garde, Iohn a Paynter, and Gyles Germane.

* 1.1ABout the yeare of our Lord. 1539. one Iohn a Payn∣ter, and Giles Germaine were accused of heresy, and whilest they were in examination at London, before the Byshop and other Iudges, by chaunce there came in one of the kinges seruantes named Lancelot, a very tall man, and of no lesse godly minde and disposition, then strong & tall of body.

This man standing by, seemed by his countenaunce & gesture to fauour both the cause & the poore men his frēds. Wherupon he being apprehended, was examined and con∣demned together with them, and the next day at v. of the clocke in the morning, was caryed with thē into S. Giles in the field, and there burned, being but a small concourse or company of people at theyr death.

* 1.2In the company and felowship of these blessed Saints and Martyrs of Christ, which innocently suffered within y^e time of K. Henryes raigne, for the testimony of Gods word and truth, an other good man also commeth to mind not to be excluded out of this number, who was with like cruelty oppressed and burned in Smithfield, about the lat∣ter end of Cuth. Tonstals time Byshop of Londō: whose name was called Stile,* 1.3 as is credibly reported vnto vs by a worthy & auncient Knight, named Syr Robert Out∣red, who was the same time present himselfe at his bur∣ning, and witnes of the same. With him there was burned also a book of the Apocalips, which belike he was wont to read vpon. This book when he saw fastened vnto the stake to be burned with him, lifting vp his voyce, O blessed A∣pocalips (sayd he) how happy am I, that shal be burned with thee? And so this good man, and the blessed Apocalips were both together in the fire consumed.

ANd thus (through the gracious supportatiō of Christ our Lord) we haue runne ouer these 37. laborious yea∣res of king Henries race. Under whose tyme and gouer∣nance, such actes and recordes, troubles, persecutions, re∣cantations, practises, alterations and reformations as thē happened in the church, we haue here discoursed, with such statutes, iniunctions and proclamations, as by him were set forth in causes & matters to the sayd church appertey∣ning: Albeit not cōprehending all things so fully as might be, yet pretermitting so few thinges as we could, of suche matters as came to our handes:* 1.4 saue onely, that certayne instruments with a few other occurrentes somewhat per∣teining to the course of this kinges history, haue past our hands, as the false lying bul of pope Leo x. against M. Lu∣ther: with the forme also of the sayd M. Luthers appeale from the Pope vnto a generall counsel. All which, w^t other matters moe besides omitted, we haue differred by them∣selues hereafter to be exhibited and declared in the sequele of this present story, as in his due place shall appeare.

In the meane season, amongst other omissions here o∣uerpast,* 1.5 forsomuch as a certayne instrument of the popes sentence definitiue against K. Henries first deuorse w^t La∣dy Katherine Dowager, hath of late come to our handes, conteining matter neither impertinent nor vnmeet to be committed to history, I thought here presently to place the same, to the intent that the Reader seing the arrogant and impudent presumption of the Pope in the sayde sentence, going about by force & authority so to constrayne & cōpell kings and princes agaynst theyr willes, & agaynst right & scripture to apply to his imperious purpose, may the bet∣ter vnderstand thereby, what was the true cause & groūd why the king first began to take stomacke against the pope and to send him cleane packing out of this realme. But be¦fore I shall produce this foresayd sentence of the Pope de∣finitiue, to make the matter more plain to y^e reader, it shal not be amisse, first to discipher & rip vp the originall of such occasions as shal induce the reader to the better vnderstā∣ding of this falling out betwene the king and the Pope.

For so I finde by the letters of D. Stephen Gardener written to Cardinall Wolsey frō Rome, (at what time he & Foxe were sent Ambassadors by the king to Pope Cle∣ment the 7. about the expedition of the kings diuorce. Ann. 1632.) that the sayd Pope Clement with the counsell of the Cardinall Sanctorum quatuor and other Cardinals, at first was well willing, and very inclinable to the accomplish∣ment and satisfaction of the kinges desire in that behalfe and that for diuers respectes.

As first, for the great benefites receiued,* 1.6 and the singu∣ler deuotion of the king toward the sea Apostolicke, in ta∣king warre for the Churches cause, in surceasing warre at the Popes desire, and especially in procuring the Popes deliueraunce, whereby the Pope then thought himselfe with his whole Sea, much obliged to the king mail re∣spectes, to passe by his authority whatsoeue•• reasonable might be graunted in gratifiyng the kinges so ample me∣rites and desertes.

Secondly, for the euident reasons and substantiall ar∣gumentes in the * 1.7 kinges booke conteyned, which seemed well to satisfy the Popes liking, and to remoue away all scruples.

Thirdly, for the good opinion & confidence that y^e pope had in the excellent wisedome, profoūd learning, and ma∣ture iudgement of the king, which the Pope (as he sayd in formall words) would soner leane vnto, then to any other learned mans minde or sentence, so that the kinges reasōs (he sayd) must needes be of great efficacy and strength of himselfe to order and direct this matter.

The fourth cause mouing the Pope to sauor the kings, request, was for the quiet and tranquility of his conscience which otherwise in that vnlawful Mariage with his bro∣thers wife could not be settled.

The fift cause was for the consideration of the perils & daungers, which otherwise might happen to the realm by the pretensed titles of the king of Scottes, & other, with∣out an heyre male to establish the kinges succession: for the auoyding of which perils and also for the other causes a∣boue rehearsed, the pope shewed himselfe at that time pro∣pense and forward to promote and set forward the kinges desired purpose in that behalfe.

And thus much touching this by matter I thought here to suggest, & repeat to the reader, albeit the same is al∣so sufficiently expressed before, pag. 1057. and 1058. to the end that the studious Reader pondering these first procee∣dinges of the Pope, & comparing them with this sentence definitiue, which vnder foloweth, may y^e better vnderstād what inconstant lenity, what false dealing, what craftye packing, and what contrariety in it selfe, is in this Popes holy Sea of Rome: as by this case of the Pope may well appeare, who in short time after all this, was so clean alte∣red from that he was, that whereas before he pretended to esteme so gratefully the kinges trauell and benefites exhi∣bited to the sea Apostolicke, in his defence agaynst the Em∣peror and the Spanyardes, now he ioyneth vtterly wyth the Cesarians agaynst the king. And where before he so greatly magnified the kinges profound learning, & ma∣ture iudgement, esteming his minde & Sentence aboue al other learned mē, to be as a iudge sufficient in the directiō of this case: now turning head to the tayle, he vtterly refu∣seth to bring the matter in iudiciū orbis, but will needes de∣teine it at home. Agayne, where before he pretēded a tēder prouision for the state of this Realme: now he setteth all o∣ther realmes against it.* 1.8 And finally where he before semed to respect the quiet & tranquility of the kinges conscience: now he goeth about to commaund & compell the king a∣gaynst his will and cōscience to do cleane contrary to that, which he himselfe before in his iudgemēt had alowed, thin¦king to haue the king at his becke, and to doe and vndoe what he lifted and commaunded: as by the tenor and true copy of this his Sentence definitiue, ye may vnderstand. Which as it came newly to our hāds, I thought here to ex¦hibite vnto the world, that al mē might see what iust cause the king had, being so presūptuously prouoked by the pope to shake of his proud authority, & vtterly to exile him out of his realme. Marke, I pray thee, the maner of the popes proud Sentence how presumptuously it procedeth.

❧Anglici Matrimonij. ¶Sententia diffinitiua.

¶Lata per Sanctissimum Dominum nostrum D. Clementem Papam vij. in sacro Consistorio,* 2.1 de Reuerendissimorum. S. R. E. Cardinalium consilio, super validitate Matrimonij inter Se∣renissimos Henricum VIII. & Catherinam Angliae Reges contracti.

PRO
Eadem Serenissima Catherina Angliae Regina.

CONTRA
Serenissimum Henricum VIII. Angliae Regem.

[illustration]

Clemens Papa. 7.

CHRISTI nomine inuocato in Throno iustitiae pro tribunali sedentes & solum Deum prae oculis habentes, per hanc no∣stram diffinitiuam sententiam quam de Venerabilium Fratrū no∣strorum Sanctae Ro. Ec. Car. Consistorialiter coram nobis cōgre∣gatorū Consilio & assensu ferimus in his scriptis,* 3.1 pronunciamus, de••ernimus, & declaramus in causa & causis ad nos & Sedem A∣postolicam per appellationem, per charissimam in Christo Filiā Catherinam Angliae Reginam Illustrem a nostris & Sedis Apo∣stolicae Legatis in Regno Angliae deputatis interpositā legitimè deuolutis, & aduocatis, inter praedictā Catherinam Reginam, & Charissimum in Christo Filium Henricum VIII. Angliae Regē Illustrem, super Validitate & Inualiditate Matrimonij inter eos∣dem Reges contracti & consummati rebus{que} alijs inactis, causae & causarum huiusmodi latius deductis, & dilecto filio Paulo Ca∣pissucho causarū sacri palatij tunc decano, & propter ipsius Pau∣li absentiam venerabili fratri nostro Iacobo Simonetae Episcopo Pisau••ien. vnius ex dicti palatij causaurū Auditoribus locū tenē∣ti, audiēdis instruēdis, & in Consistorio nostro Secreto referendis cómissis, & pereos nobis, & eiusdē Cardinalibus Relatis, & ma∣turè discussis, corā nobis pēdētibus, matrimoniū inter predictā Catherinā, & Hēricū Angliae Reges cōtractū, & inde secuta quae∣cū{que} fuisse & esse validū & canonicū valida{que} & Canonica, suos∣{que} debitos debuisse & debere sortiri effectus, prolē{que} exinde su∣sceptam & suscipiēdā fuisse & fore legitimā, & praefatū Hēricum Angliae Regē teneri, & obligatū fuisse & fore ad cohabitandū cū dict•• Catherina Regina eius legitima cōiuge illā{que} maritali affe∣ctione & Regio honore tractādū, & eūdē Hēricū Angliae Regem ad praemissa omnia & singula cū effectu adimplendū, condēdan∣dū omnibus{que} iuris remedijs cogendū & cōpellendū fore, prout condēnamus, cogimus, & compellimus, molestationes{que} & dene∣gationes per eundē Henricū Regē eidē Catherinae Reginae super inualiditate ac foedere dicti matrimonij quomodo libet factas & praest••tas, fuisse & esse illicitas & iniustas, & eidē Hērico Regi su∣per illis ac inualiditate matrimonij huiusmodi perpetuū silētium imponēdū fore, & imponim{us}, eundē{que} Henricū Angliae Regē in expensis in huiusmodi causa pro parte dictae Catherinae Reginae coram nobis, & dictis omnibus legitimè factis cōdēnandū fore, & condēnamus, quarū expensarum taxationem nobis imposterū reseruamus.

Ita pronuntiamus. I. Lata fuit Romae in Palatio Apostolico publice in Consistorio die .xxiii. Martij M.D.XXXIIII.

Blosius.

¶The effect in English.

THe effect of this Sentence is as much to meane in en∣glish: That Pope Clement the vij. with the consent of his other brethrē the Cardinals assembled together in his Consistory,* 4.1 sitting there in the throne of (A) Iustice, calling vpon the name (B) of Christ, and hauing God onely before his (C) eyes, doth pronounce, define, & declare in the cause & causes betwene his dere daughter Kathe∣rine Quene of England appealing to the sea Apostolicke, & his beloued (D) sonne Henry the eight, king of England, concerning y^e va∣lidity & inualidity of the Matrimony hereto∣fore contracted betwene thē, and yet depen∣ding in the Consistory court of the said pope Clement: that the sayd Matrimony alwaies hath (E) and still doth stand firme & Canoni∣call, & that the issue proceding, or which shall proceed of the same, standeth, and shall stand lawfull and legitimate: and that the foresayd Henry king of England, is and shalbe boūd and obstrict to the Matrimoniall society and cohabitatiō with the sayd Lady Katherine his lawfull wi••e & Quene, to hold and maynteine her with such loue and princely ho∣nor, as becommeth a louing husbande, and his kingly ho∣nor to do.

Also that the sayd Henry king of England, if he shall refuse so to performe and accomplish all and singuler the premisses, in all effectuall maner, is to be condemned and compelled hereunto by all remedies of (F) 4.2 the law, & enfor∣ced, according as we do cōdemne, compell and enforce him so to do, prouiding that al molestations and refusals what¦soeuer, made by the sayde king Henry agaynst the sayde Queene Katherine, vpon the inualidity of the sayd Ma∣riage, to haue bene and to be iudged vnlawful and vniust: and the sayd king frō henceforth for euer to hold his peace, and not to be heard in any Court hereafter (G) 4.3 to speake touching the inualidity of the sayd matrimony: like as we also do here will and charge him to holde his peace, and do put him to perpetuall silence herein: Willing moreouer & adiudging the sayd king henry to be condemned and pre∣sently here doe condemne him in the expenses on the sayde Quene Katherines behalfe here in our Court, exposed & employed in trauersing the foresaid cause, the valuation of which expenses, we reserue to our selues to be limited and taxed, as we shall iudge meete hereafter.

We do so pronounce. I. At Rome in our Apostolicall palace publickely in our Consistory. 23. Mart. M.D.XXXIIII.

Blosius.

Now as you haue heard the presumptuous and arro∣gant Sentence of Pope Clement, wherein he taketh vpon him, contrary to the ordinaunce of God in his Leuiticall law (as before is shewed pag. 1025.) and contrary to y^e best learned iudgementes of Christendome, to commaund and compell the king agaynst his conscience, to reteine in Ma∣trimony his brothers wife: here foloweth in like order to be inferred, according to my promise, an other like wicked, blasphemous,* 4.4 and sclaūderous Bull of Pope Leo against Martin Luther, with the iust Appellation also of the sayd Martin Luther, from the Pope to a generall Counsell. Wherein may appeare to all men the lying spirite of the pope, both in teaching most heretical doctrine, derogating from the bloud of Christ, and also falsely deprauing & per∣uerting the sound doctrine of Luther, falsely and vntruely charging him with heresy, when he is the greater heretick himselfe. For what hereticke would euer say that the chur∣che of Rome was consecrate and sanctified by the bloud of Peter, but onely the Pope? Or who would cal this heresy, to referre al our saluation and sanctification onely and to∣tally to the bloud of the sonne of God, vnlesse he were an hereticke of all heretickes himselfe?

After the like dealing we read .3. Reg. 18. of wicked king Achab,* 4.5 who being onely the disturber of Israel him∣selfe, crieth out vpon Elias, for troubling Israel. So here in semblablewise Pope Leo, with what heape of tragicall wordes and exclamations doth he fare and rage agaynst y^e true seruant of God poore Luther, for disturbing y^e church of God, when it is the Pope onely & his fathers house that troubleth, and long hath troubled the true Church of the Lord, as by his doings all the world may see enough & to much. In the meane time read, I besech thee, with iudge∣ment this impudent & false slaunderous Bull of the Pope, with the appeale also of Luther agayn from the sayd pope. The copy wherof because they be rare to be gotten, & hath not bene hetherto commonly sene, being before omitted I thought to cōmit here to history, as I had it out of certayn Registers: the maner & tenor wherof is this as foloweth.

A copy of the Bull of Pope Leo x. no lesse sclaun∣derous then barbarous, agaynst Martin Luther and his doctrine. Leo Papa .x.

LEo Episcopus seruus seruorum Dei ad perpetuam rei memo∣riam: Exurge Domine & iudica causam tuam.* 5.1 Memor esto im∣propriorum eorum quae ab insipientibus fiunt tota die. Inclina aurem tuam ad preces nostras, quoniam surrexerunt vulpes que∣rentes demoliri veneam, cuius tu torcular solus calcasti, & ascen∣surus ad patrem, eius curam, regimē,* 5.2 & administrationem Petro tanquam capiti, & tuo vicario eius{que} successoribus instar trium∣phantis Ecclesiae commisisti. &c.

¶The sayd sclaunderous and barbarous Bull of Pope Leo the x. agaynst Luther, in English, with the aunswere of Luther ioyned to the same.

LEo Byshop, seruaunt of the seruauntes of God, for a perpetual memory hereof. Rise vp O Lord, & iudge thy

cause: Remember the rebukes wherewith we are scorned all the day lōg of foolish rebukers. Encline thy eare to our prayers:* 5.3 for Foxes are risen vp, seeking to destroy thy vine¦yarde, the vinepresse wherof thou onely hast trodē, and as∣cending vp to thy Father, hast committed the charge and regiment therof vnto Peter as chiefe head, and to thy Ui∣care and his successors. The wilde Bore out of the woode seeketh to exterminate and roote vp thy Uineyard. Rise vp Peter, and for this thy pastorall charge committed to thee from aboue entēd to the cause of the holy Church of Rome the mother of all churches,* 5.4 and of our fayth, which thou by the commaundement of God didst consecrate wyth thine owne bloud: agaynst which (as thou hast foretold vs) false lyers haue risen vp, bringing in sects of perdition, to their owne spedy destruction. Whose toūg is like fire, full of vn∣quietnes, and replenished with deadly poysō: who hauing a wicked zeale, and nourishing contentions in theyr harts do bragge and lye agaynst the verity.

Rise vp Paul also, we pray thee, which hast illuminate the same Church with thy doctrine and like martyrdome. For now is sprong vp a new Porphecy, who, as they said Porphyry then vniustly did sclaunder the holy Apostles, so semblably doth this man now sclaunder, reuile, rebuke, byte, and barcke agaynst the holy Byshops our predeces∣sors, not in beseeching them, but in rebuking them. And where he distrusteth his cause, there he falleth to opprobri∣ous checkes & rebukes, after the wonted vse of heretickes, whose vttermost refuge is this (as Hierome sayth) y^t whē they see theyr cause go to wracke, then like Serpentes they cast out theyr venime with theyr toung, and when they see themselues, neare to be ouercome, they fall to rayling. For though heresies (as thou sayest) must needes be, for the ex∣ercise of the faythfull: yet least these heresies should further encrease and these Foxes gather strength agaynst vs, it is needfull that by thy meanes and helpe, they be suppressed and extinguished at the beginning.

Finally let all the whole vniuersall Churche of Gods Saynts and Doctours rise vp, whose true expounding of holy Scripture being reiected, certayne persons (whose hartes the father of lyes hath blinded) and wise in theyr owne conceites (as the maner of heretickes is) do expoūd the scriptures otherwise then the holy Ghost doth require folowing onely theyr owne sense of ambition and vayne-glory: yea rather do wrast and adulterate the Scriptures: so that as Hierome sayth, now they make it not the gospel of Christ, but of man, or which is worse of the deuill.

Let all the holy church I say, rise vp, & wi••h the blessed Apostles together make intercessiō to almighty God, that the errors of all schismatickes being rooted & stocked vp, his holy Church may be conserued in peace and vnity.

For of late (which for sorrow we can not expresse) by cre¦dible information and also by publick fame it hath come to our eares, yea we haue seene also & read with our eyes, di∣uers and sundry errors, of which some haue bene condem¦ned by counsels and constitutions of our predecessors con∣taining expresly y^e heresies of the Greekes & of the Bohe∣mians:* 5.5 some agayn respectiuely, either heretical or false, or sclaunderous, or offensiue to good eares, or such as may se∣duce simple myndes: newly to be raysed vp, by certayne false pretensed Gospellers: who by curious pride seeking worldly glory against the doctrine of the apostle, would be more wise then becommeth them, whose babling (as S. Hierome calleth it) without authority of the Scriptures, should finde no credit, vnlesse they should seme to cōfirme theyr false doctrine euen with testimonies of the scripture, but yet falsely interpreted. Which worketh vs so much the more grief, for y^t those heresies be sprong in y^e noble nation of the Germaines, vnto the which natiō we with our pre∣decessors, haue alwayes borne speciall fauor and affection. For after the Empyre was first translated by the Church of Rome, from the Greekes vnto the Germaines, the said our predecessors and we, haue alwayes had them as speci∣all fautors & defenders of this our Church, and they haue alwaies shewed themselues as most earnest suppressors of heresies: as witnes wherof remaine yet those laudable cō∣stitutions of the Germane Emperors, set forth and confir∣med by our predecessors, for the liberty of the Church, and for expulsing heretickes out of all Germany, and that vn∣der greuous penalty and losse of al theyr goods and lands. Which constitutiōs, if they were obserued this present day both we and they should now be free from thys distur∣baunce.

* 5.6Furthermore, the heresy of the Hussites, Wicleuistes, & of Hierome of Prage, being condēned and punished in the Coūcel of Constance, doth witnes y^e same. Moreouer doth witnes the same, so much bloud of y^e Germanes spilt figh∣ting agaynst the Bohemians. To cōclude, the same also is confirmed & witnessed by the learned & true confutatiō, re∣probation and condēnation set forth by the Uniuersities of Colene and Louane in Germany agaynst the foresayd er∣rors. Many other witnesses also we might alledge, which here, least we should seme to write a story, we preterm••••.

Wherfore we for the charge of our Pastorall office cō∣mitted vnto vs, can no longer forbeare or winck at the pe∣stiferous poyson of the foresayd errors: of the which errors we thought here good to recite certayne. The tenor of whi∣che is this, as foloweth.

It is an old heresy to say,* 5.7 that the Sacramentes of the new 〈◊〉〈◊〉 doth geue grace to them, qui non ponunt obicem. i. which haue in themselues to the contrary, no let.

In a childe after his Baptisme, to deny that sinne remayneth, is to tread downe Paule and Christ vnder foote.

The origene of sinne, although no actuall sinne doe folow ••f∣ter, doth stay the soule leauing the body, from the entraunce in∣to heauen.

Vnperfite charity of a mā departing, must needes bring wyth it great feare, which of it selfe is enough to deserue the payne of Purgatory, and stoppeth the entrance into the kingdome of hea∣uen.

To say that penaunce standeth of three partes, to wit, contriti∣on, confession, and satisfaction, is not founded in holy Scripture nor in auncient, holy and Christian Doctors.

Contritiō, which a man stirreth vp in himselfe, by discussing, remembring, and detestinge his sinnes, in reuoluing his former yeares in bitternesse of soule, and in pondering the waight, num∣ber and filthinesse of his sinnes, the leesing of eternall blisse, and getting of eternall damnation: this contrition maketh a man an hipocrite and a great sinner.

It is an olde prouerbe, & to be preferred before the doctrine of all that haue written hitherto of contrition: from henceforth to transgresse no more. The chiefest and the best penaunce is a new life.

Neither presume to confesse the veniall sinnes, nor yet all thy mortall sinnes,* 5.8 for it is impossible to remember all the mortall sinnes that thou hast committed, and therefore in the primitiue Church they confessed the mortall sinnes, which onely were ma∣nifest.

While we seeke to number vp all our sinnes sincerely vnto the priest, we meane nothing els herein, but that we will leaue nothing to the mercy of God, to be forgeuen.

In confession no man hath his sinnes forgeuen, except he be∣leue, whē the priest forgeueth, the same to be remitted: yea other∣wise his sinne remayneth vnforgeuē, vnles he beleue the same to be forgeuen. For els remission of the priest, and geuing of grace doth not suffice, except beliefe come on his part that is remitted.

Thinke not thy sinne to be assoyled, for the worthines of thy contrition, but for the word of Christ: Whatsoeuer thou losest. &c. When thou art absolued of the priest,* 5.9 trust confidently vpon these wordes, and beleue firmely thy selfe to be absolued, & then art thou truely remitted.

Admit the party that is confessed were not contrite (whiche is * 5.10 impossible, or that the priest pronoūced the wordes of losing, not in earnest, but in iest: yet if the party beleue that he is absol∣ued, he is truely absolued in deed.

In the sacrament of penaunce and absolution, the Pope or bi∣shop do no more, then any inferior priest can do. Yea and where a priest is not to be had, there euery Christian man, yea or Chri∣stian woman standeth in as good stead.

* 5.11None ought to say to the priest, that he is contrite, neither ought the priest to aske any such matter.

It is a great error of them which come to the holy housel tru¦sting vpon this, that they are cōfessed, that theyr cōscience grud∣geth them of no deadly sinne, that they haue sayd theyr prayers, and done such other preparatiues before: all those do eat & drink to theyr owne iudgement▪ But if they beleeue there to obteyne Gods grace, this fayth maketh them pure and worthy.

It were good that the church should determine in a generall coūcell, lay men to cōmunicate vnder both kindes: & the Bohe∣mians so doing, be therin neither hereticks, nor schismatickes.

The treasures out of which the Pope doth graunt his Indul∣gences, are not the merites of Christ, nor of the Sayntes.

Indulgences and pardons be a deuout seducing of the fayth∣full, and hinderance to good works: and are in the number of thē which be thinges * 5.12 lawfull, but not expedient.

Pardons and Indulgences to them which haue them, auayle not to remission of the punishment due before God, for actuall sinnes committed.

They which thinke that Indulgences are wholesome and cō∣ducible to the fruite of the spirite, are deceiued.

Indulgences are onely necessary for publicke transgressions, & are onely graunted to them that are obstinate and impacient.

Indulgences and pardons are vnprofitable to 6. sortes of per¦sons. 1. to them that be dead, or lye in dying. 2. to thē that be we•••• and infirme. 3. to such as haue lawful impedimentes. 4. to thē that haue not offended. 5. to such as haue offended▪ but not publickly. 6. to those that amend and do well.

Excommunications be onely outward punishmentes, and doe not depriue a man of the publike spirituall prayers of the Church.* 5.13

Christians are to be taught rather to loue excommunication, then to dread it.

The bish. of Rome, successor of Peter, is not the vicar of Christ, ordeined by Christ and S. Peter, to haue authoritie ouer all the churches in the world.

The wordes of Christ to Peter, Whatsoeuer thou loosest, &c. Math 16. extend no further, but onely to those things, which bee bound of Peter hymselfe.

It is not in the hands eyther of the church, or of the Pope, to make articles of the fayth, yea, or lawes either of maners, or good workes.

Albeit the Pope with a great part of the church, teachyng so or so, did not erre therein: yet is it no sinne nor heresie for a man to hold contrary to them, namely in such things, which are not necessary to saluation, so long as it is not otherwise condemned or approued by a generall Councell.

We haue a way made playne vnto vs, to infringe the authori∣tie of Councels, and freely to gainestand their doyngs, and to iudge vpon their Decrees, and boldly to speake our knowledge whatsoeuer we iudge to be true, whether the same be approoued or reproued by any generall Councell.

Some of the articles of Iohn Hus condemned in the Councell of Constance, are Christian, most true and Euangelicall, whome the vniuersall Church cannot condemne.

In euery good worke the iust man sinneth.

* 5.14Euery good worke of ours, when it is best done, it is a veni∣all sinne.

To burne heretikes, is against the will of the spirit.

* 5.15To fight agaynst the Turkes, is to repugne agaynst God, visi∣ting our iniquities by them.

Freewill after sinne, is a title and name onely of a thyng, and while a man doth that which lyeth in him, he sinneth deadly.

Purgatory cannot be proued out of holy scripture, whiche is Canonicall.

Soules in Purgatory be not certaine of their safetie, at lest not all, neither is it proued by reasons or by scriptures, that they bee vtterly out of the state to deserue, or encrease charitie.

* 5.16Soules in Purgatory do sinne without intermission, so long as they seeke rest, and dread punishment.

The soules beyng deliuered out of Purgatory by the prayers of the liuyng, be lesse blessed, then if they had satisfied for them∣selues.

Ecclesiasticall prelates & worldly princes should not doe a∣misse, if they would scoure away all the bags of begging Friers.

All which errors there is no man in his right wittes, but he knoweth the same in their seueral respects, how pe∣stilēt they be, how pernitious, how much they seduce god∣ly and simple minds, and finally how much they be against all charitie, and agaynst the reuerence of the holy Church of Rome, the mother of all faythfull, and maistreesse of the fayth it selfe, and agaynst the sinews and strength of eccle∣siasticall discipline, which is obedience, the fountayne and welspring of all vertues, and without the which euery mā is to be conuinced easily to be an Infidel.

We therfore desiring to proceede in the premisses more earnestly, as behooueth in things of most importaunce and meanyng, to cut of the course of this pestiferous and can∣kered disease, lest it should spread it selfe further in y^e Lords field, like hurtfull brambles or bryers, and vsing vpon the sayd errors, and euery of them diligent triall, debatyng strait examination, ripe deliberation. And further, weying and thorowly sifting all and euery of the same together w^t our reuerend brethrē,* 5.17 the cardinals of the church of Rome, the priors of the orders regular, or ministers generall, also with diuers other professors and maisters of Diuinitie, & of both the lawes, and those the best learned: do finde the foresayd errors or articles respectiuely, as is aforesayd, not to be the catholike, nor to be taught as Catholike, but to be agaynst the doctrine or tradition of the catholike Church, a••d against the true interpretation of holy Scripture, re∣ceyued by the same: to whose author Augustine thought we ought so much to leane, that he would not (as he sayd) haue beleued the Gospell, if the authoritie of the Churche had not thereto mooued hym.

For by these errours, or at least by some of them it fol∣loweth consequently, that the same Church which is gui∣ded by the holy Ghost, now doth, & euer hath erred, which is vtterly agaynst that which Christ at the tyme of his as∣cension (as we read in the holy Gospell of Mathew) pro∣mised to his Disciples, saying: I am with you vntill the ende of the world, &c. and also agaynst the determination of the holy Fathers, against the expresse ordinances or Canons of Councels and head bishops, whom not to obey, hath al∣ways bene the cause and nurse of all heresies and scismes, as Cyprian doth witnesse.* 5.18

Wherefore by the counsaile and assent of the sayde our reuerend brethren, vpon due consideration of all and sin∣gular the premisses, by the authoritie of almighty God, & of the blessed Apostles of Peter and Paule, and our owne, we do condemne, reprooue, and vtterly reiect all and sin∣gular the Articles or errors aforesaid respectiuely, as some to be hereticall, some to be slaunderous, some offensiue to godly eares, or els seducing simple mynds, and repugnant to the catholike truth, and by the tenor hereof, we here de∣cree and declare that they ought of all christen people both men and women, to be taken as damned, reprooued, and reiected. And therfore forbidding here vnder payne of the greater curse and excommunication, loosing of their digni∣ties, whether they be Ecclesiasticall or temporall, and to be depriued and made vncapable of all regular orders & pri∣uiledges, geuen and graunted by the Sea Apostolike, of what condition so euer they be: also of loosing theyr liber∣ties to hold generall schooles, to read and professe any sci∣ence and facultie: of loosing also their tenures and feo••e∣ments, and of inhabilitie for euer to recouer the same a∣gayne, or any other: moreouer, vnder payne of secludyng from christian buriall, yea and of treason also, and incur∣ring such paynes and punishments expressed in the lawe, as are due for all heretickes and fautors of the same: wee charge and commaund all and singuler Christen people, both men and women, as well of the laitie, as of the Cler∣gie, both secular & also regular, of what order so euer they be, and brieflye all other persones, of what degree or con∣dition so euer they bee, or in what dignitie so euer they are placed, either ecclesiasticall or temporall: as first y^e car∣dinals of the holy church of Rome, Patriarkes, Primates Archbishops, Bishops, with the prelates and heads of the churches Patriarchall, Metropolitane,* 5.19 or other cathedrall Collegiate, and other small and inferiour churches: to all clerkes and other persons ecclesiasticall, as Abbots, Pri∣ors, or ministers generall or perticular, brethren or religi∣ous men, exempt and not exempt: also Uniuersities of schooles, and all other, as well secular priests, as regular, and religious persons of all orders, yea of the begging fri∣ers also. Item, kings, Electors of the Imperiall crowne, princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Barons, captains, conduc∣tors and seruitures, and all Officers, Iudges, Notaries, whether they be ecclesiasticall or secular: comminalties, v∣niuersities, dominions, cities, castles, lordships, and pla∣ces, with the inhabiters of the same: and finally all other persons whatsoeuer, ecclesiasticall or regular, dispersed in whatsoeuer places through the whole * 5.20 vniuersal world, or which shall be hereafter dispersed, but especially in high Almany, that they shall not presume publikely or priuate∣ly vnder any maner of pretence or colour, colourably or expressely, or how els soeuer, to hold, maintaine, defend,* 5.21 preach, or fauour the foresayd errors or any of them, or a∣ny such peruerse doctrine.

Ouer and besides, for so much as the foresayd errors, and many other are conteined in the bookes or writings of the foresayd Martin Luther, therefore we condemne, re∣prooue, and vtterly reiect, and hold for vtterly condemned, reprooued, and reiected the foresayd bookes, and al the wri∣tings of the sayd Martin, with his preachings, in what tongue so euer they are found, wherein the sayd errours or any of them is conteined willing and commanding vnder the vertue of holy obedience, and incurring the penalties aforesayd, to all and singular christen people, both men and women aboue rehersed, that they presume not by any ma∣ner of waies, directly, or indirectly, colourably or expresly, priuily or apertly, either in their houses, or in other pub∣like or priuate places, to read, hold, preach, print, publishe, or defend, eyther by themselues or by others, but straight wayes after the publishing hereof, they doe burne or cause to be burned the sayd errors, by their Ordinaries diligēt∣ly beyng searched out, and solemnely presented in the sight of the whole Clergy of the people, vnder all and singular the penalties aforesayd.

Now as touching the sayd Martin, O good lord, what haue we left * 5.22 vndone? what haue we left vnattempted? what fatherly charitie haue we not shewed, whereby to haue reduced him from these errours? For after that wee did cite hym, thinking to proceed with him more fauoura∣bly, we inuited and exhorted him as well by diuers trac∣tations had with our Legate, as by our owne letters, that he would relinquish the foresayd errors, or els hauing safe conduct offred to him, with money necessary for his iour∣ney, to come to vs without any feare or dread, which per∣fect charitie ought to cast out, and so after the example of our sauiour, and his Apostle S. Paule, he would speake, not in corners and in secret, but openly to our face. Which if he had done, of truth we thinke no lesse, but that refor∣myng

himselfe, he would haue recognised his errors, ney∣ther should haue found so many faults in y^e court of Rome which he beyng seduced with the rumours of malitious people, more thē he ought, doth so much reprehend. Where we would haue taught him to see more clearely then the light day, that the holy fathers of Rome our predecessors (whome he without all modestie, most iniuriously doth rayle vpon) did neuer erre in their Canons and constitu∣tions (which he so much depraueth.) For as saith the pro∣phet: Neither is there Rosine or Phisition lacking in Gala∣ao. But he hath alwayes shewed himselfe disobedient, and refused at our Citation to appeare, and yet to this present day continuing still in hys stubburne mynd and heart in∣durate, hath remayned now more then a yeare vnder our curse, yea & moreouer, adding mischiefe to mischief (which is worst of all) he hearing of this our Citation, burst out into a presumptuous appellation from vs, vnto the next generall Councell,* 5.23 against the constitution both of Pope Pius the second, and Pope Iulius the second, our prede∣cessours, which so decreed, that all they which so did ap∣peale,* 5.24 should be punished as heretikes.

In vayne also he seeketh refuge to the generall Coun∣cell, which professeth himselfe not greatly to regard such coūcels. So that now we might lawfully proceed against hym, as against one notoriously suspected of his fayth, yea a very heretike in deed, without any further citation or de∣lay, to the condemnation of him, as of an heretike, and to the seueritie of all and singuler paynes and censures afore written. Yet we notwithstandyng by the counsell of our brethren aforesayd, following the clemencie of almighty God, which wyll not the death of a sinner, but rather that hee should conuert and lyue, and forgetting all iniuries hereto∣fore done vnto vs and to the See apostolike, haue thoght good to vse all fauourable meanes toward hym that wee might, and so to worke (as much as in vs lyeth) that he by this way of mansuetude, might be brought to reformati∣on: so that he forsaking hys former errours, might be re∣ceiued as the lost chyld, and returne home againe into the lap of his mother the Church.

Wherfore in most harty wise we exhort and beseech the said Martin and all his adherents, receiuers, and fautors by the bowels of the mercy of our God,* 5.25 and by the sprink∣lyng of the bloud of our Lord Iesu Christ, in whome, and by whom, is made the redemption of mankind, and the e∣dification of holy mother church, that they will cease to di∣sturbe the peace, vnitie, and veritie of the said Church, for the which our sauior so instantly prayed to his father, and that they will absteine from such pernicious errors afore∣said. Who in so doyng shall find with vs (if they shal obey, or shall certifie vs by lawfull witnesses, to haue obeied ef∣fectually herein) the affection of fatherly charitie, and a ful fountayne opened of all mercy and clemencie: willing and charging the said Martine notwithstanding, from hence∣forth that he vtterly desist in the meane time from all prea∣chyng and office of preaching. Or els if the loue of Iustice and vertue shall not restraine the said Martin from sinne, neither the hope of our pardon shall reduce hym to repen∣taunce: to the intent that the terror of punishment and of discipline may bridle him, we require and admonish y^e said Martin and his adherents, abbettors, fautors, and recey∣uers, by the tenor hereof, in the veritie of holy obedience, & vnder incurring all the penalties aforesaid, districtly char∣ging and commaunding that within fourty days (where∣of twenty we assign for the first twenty, for the second, and the other twenty for the third & peremptory terme) imme∣diately following after the settyng vp of these present let∣ters,* 5.26 that the sayd Martin, his abettors, fautors, adherēts and receiuers aforesayd, do surcease from the foresayd er∣rors, and from the preching, publishing, mainteining and defending of the same: also from settyng out of booke or scriptures vpon the said errors or any of them: & further∣more, that they burne, or cause to be burned all and singu∣lar such bookes and scriptures as containe the foresaid er∣rors or any of them by any maner of way.

Also that the said Martin doe vtterly reuoke those er∣rors and assertions, and so to certifie vs of the reuokyng thereof by publike testimonie in due forme of lawe, signed by the handes of two prelates, to be sent vnto vs within the terme of other like xl. daies, or els to be brought by him vnto vs, if he himselfe will come (which would please vs much rather) with a full safeconduct aboue mentioned, which from henceforth we are content to offer vnto hym, to the entent that no scruple of doubt touching hys true obedience,* 5.27 should hereafter remayne.

Contrarywise, if the said Martin (which God defend) his abettors, fautors, adherents, and mainteiners afore∣said, shal otherwise do, or shal not fulfill to euery effect and purpose, all and singuler the premisses within the terme a∣foresaid, we thē folowing the doctrine of the apostle, which teacheth vs to auoyd an heretical person, after the first and second correction, as wel now as before, and as wel before as now, declaring by our authoritie the said Martin, his abettors, fautors, adherents, mainteiners, and receyuere▪ as withered braunches not remainyng in Christ, but tea∣ching and preaching contrary doctrine, repugnaunt to the Catholike faith, slaunderous and damnable, to the great offence of Gods maiestie, to the detriment and slaunder of the vniuersal church and catholike faith, and despising the keyes of the church: to be, and to haue bene notorious and obstinate heretikes, do condemne the same for such by the tenor hereof, willing and commanding them to be holden and taken for such of all christen people aforesayd.

Ouer and besides, we forbid vnder the incurring of all and singular the penalties afore expressed, in so doing,* 5.28 that no man presume by any maner of way, directly or indirect¦ly, secretly or expresly, priuily or apertly, to read, holde, preach, praise, print, publish or defend, either by thēselues, or by any other the sayd bookes and writings, not onelye those wherein the errors aforesayd are conteined, but also all others whatsoeuer haue bene or shall be set forth, writ∣ten, or made by the sayd Martin, vehemently suspected as a pernitious enemy of the Catholike faith, to the intent y^t his memory may vtterly be rooted out from the fellowship of all christian people, or rather with fire to consume them as is afore declared.

We admonish moreouer, al and singular Christes faith∣ful people, vnder the said payne of the great curse, to auoid or cause to be auoided so much as in them doth lie, the fore∣said heretikes not obedient to our commandements, and to haue no fellowship or any conuersation or communion with them or with any of them, neither to minister to thē things necessary.

And moreouer, to the more confusion of the said Mar∣tin, with his abettors, adherents, and retainers aforesayd,* 5.29 thus being declared and condemned as heretikes, after the expiring of the terme aforesayd, we command all and sin∣gular Christes faithfull people, both men and women, as Patriarchs, Archbishops, Prelates of Churches, eyther Patriarchall, Metropolitane, and other Cathedrall, Col∣legiate, and other inferiour Churches, to Deanes & Cha∣pters, and other Ecclesiasticall persons secular, and of all other orders, euen of the begging Friers also, namely, of that congregation, where the sayd Martin is professed,* 5.30 or hath his abode: also to regular, exempt, and not exempt. Item, to all and singular Princes, what dignity or calling so euer, eyther Ecclesiasticall or Temporall they be of: to Kings, Princes, Electors, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles, Barons, Captaynes, Conductors, Seruitours, Commi∣nalties, Uniuersities, Dominions, Cities, Landes, Ca∣stles and places, or the Citizens and inhabitauntes there∣of: and briefly, to all and singular other aforesaid, through the Uniuersall world dispersed, specially in Almany, that they and euery of them, vnder all and singular penalties aforesayd, doe personally apprehend the sayd Martin, hys abettors, adherents, receyuers, and fautours, and to re∣taine them being apprehended, at our instance, and to send them vnto vs (who in so doyng, for their good worke shal receiue of vs and the Sea Apostolike, condigne reward and recompence) or at least, that they vtterly driue them, and euery one of them, out of their Metropolitane, cathe∣drall, Collegiate, and other Churches, Houses, Monaste∣ries, Conuents, Cities, Dominions, Uniuersities, Com∣minalties, Castles, Landes, and places respectiuely, as well the Clergy men, as the regular and lay men, all and singular aforesayd.

Those cities, dominions, landes, castles, villages, com∣minalties, holdes, townes, and places where so euer they be situate respectiuely, Metropolitane, Cathedrall, Colle∣giate, and other Churches, Monasteries also, Priories, Couents, and religious and deuout places, or what order so euer (as is aforesaid) vnto the which it shall chance the sayd Martin to come, so long as he or they shall there re∣mayne, and three dayes after their departing from thence, we here geue ouer to the Ecclesiasticall interdiction.

And that the premisses may be knowen to all men, we commaund moreouer all Patriarches, Archbishops, Bi∣shops, Prelates of Patriarchall, Metropolitane, & other cathedral & collegiate churches, to Deanes and Chapters, and other persons ecclesiastical, & of what order els soeuer aforesaid, to regular brethren, religious monkes, exempt & not exempt aforesaid, wheresoeuer they dwell, and especi∣ally within Almany, that they and euery of thē vnder like censures and paynes, do publikely denounce, & cause and commaund to be denounced of others, the said Martin w^t all and singular his foresaid adherents, which shall not o∣bey our commandements and monitions, within y^e terme

aforesayd, vpon euery sonday, and other Festiuall dayes, within their churches, when as the greatest concourse of people shal resort to diuine seruice, to be declared and con∣demned for heretikes, and that all Christes faithful people shall auoid them vnder the said censures and penalties, as be afore expressed, and that they do set vp these presents, or cause to be set vp, or the transcript of them made vnder the forme hereafter ensuing, in their churches, Monasteries, houses, Conuents, and other places there openly to bee seene and read.

Item, we do excommunicate and curse, all and singuler persons, of whatsoeuer state, degree, condition, prehemi∣nence, dignitie, or excellencie they be, which shal procure or cause to be procured by themselues or other, priuily, or apertly, directly or indirectly, secretly or expressely, wherby these presents, or the copies transcript, or the examples of them can not be read, set vp, and published in their landes and dominions, &c.

Let no man therefore be so bold to dare, to infringe, or with rash presumption, to contrary this writyng of our damnation, reprobation, reiection, decree, declaration, in∣hibition, will, commandement, exhortation, beseching, re∣quest, admonition, assignation, graunt, condemnatiō, sub∣iection, excommunication & curse. And if any person & per∣sons dare presume to attempt the same, let him know and be sure, that he shall incurre the indignation of almightie God,* 5.31 and of his blessed Apostles Peter and Paule.

Geuen at Rome at S. Peters, an. 1520.17. Calend. Iulij, and of our Popedome, the viij. yeare.

Although it was somewhat long before this Bull a∣foresaid of Pope Leo, being sent & dispersed through all o∣ther places abroad,* 5.32 could come to the hands of Luther, yet so soone as he by meanes of his friendes, might get a sight thereof, he shaped againe an answer to the same: in such sort, as I am sure, the Pope himselfe wil say, that his Bull was neuer so baited, and so welfauoredly shaken in al his days,* 5.33 as by the handling of the matter, and reading of his answer may euidently appeare. The contentes & copy of the which answer, I thought here next after the said Bull immediatly to exhibite to the christian reader, that who so is disposed to conferre the one with the other, hauing thē both at hand,* 5.34 may iudge the better of the whole matter & cause, and also may see the true Image of the Pope out of his paynted visour appeare in his owne perfect colours. The answer now to the Bull here followeth.

IESVS. Martinus Lutherus Christiano Lectori, gratiam Christi in salutem aeternam.

FAma peruenit ad me, Christiane Lector, exijsse Bullam quan∣dam aduersum me,* 6.1 penè in omné terrá, prius quam ad me, in quem vnice fuerit, & cui maximè erat inferenda, veniret. Fortè, quod noctis & tenebrarum scilicet filia, timult lucem vultus mei. Hanc tamen ipsam noctuam, vix tandem multum adiuuātibus a∣micis, in imagine sua, datum est videre, &c.

* 6.2¶Here followeth the same aunswer of Martin Luther agaynst the execrable Bull of Pope Leo, in English.

MArtin Luther to the christiā reader, wisheth the grace of Christ to eternall saluation.* 6.3 I heard a fanie a farre of (Christian reader) that a certayne Bull was past out a∣gainst me, and sent almost ouer al the world before it came to me, against whom it was especially directed, & to whō most chiefly it appertained. For what cause I cannot tell, except peraduenture it was for that the sayd Bull like vn∣to a nightcrow, and as a bird of darkenesse hatched in the night, durst not flie in y^e day, nor abide to come in my sight. Notwithstanding the said night foule after long tyme, by helpe of friends was caught at length & brought vnto me in his owne likenes to behold. Which causeth me yet to be vncertaine what to thinke, whether my papists do dally & iest with me, in setting out such famous libels without a∣ny name against me: or whether in truth and earnest they play the mad men so against me at Rome, or no. For first, neither do I see here the stile (as it is called) nor y^e processe of the court of Rome obserued. And againe (which maketh me more to doubt) herein be brought & condemned such ar∣ticles which it is plaine and manifest to be most christian: whereby it seemeth to me most like, the said monster to be hatched by Iohn Eccius, a man wholy compact and fra∣med altogether of lies, dissimulations, errors, & heresies.

* 6.4The said suspition this also partly confirmeth, for that I heare it so bruted abroad, that y^e sayd Eccius is thought and sayd to be the Apostle of such a goodly Bull. And not vnlike, when none could be more meet an Apostle for such an Apostleship then he. And in deed I heard no lesse long since, that a Bull was in working agaynst me at Rome, partly by the workemanship of Eccius: which because (as the stile and composition therof declareth) it displeased the good and learned men there, was therefore differred and should haue bene suppressed.

But whatsoeuer the matter be, it semeth to me not vn∣like wheresoeuer this apostle Eccius beareth rule, there to be the kingdom of Antichrist, and all kind of madnes there to reigne. In the meane tyme I will so deale, that I wyll not seeme to beleue Pope Leo the x. with his learned car∣dinals to be the authors of this furious madnes: which I doe not so much for the honor of the Sea of Rome, as be∣cause I will not be puft vp to much with pride, and seeme to my selfe as one worthy to suffer such, so great, & so glori∣ous things for the veritie of God. For if it were so in deed that the bishop of Rome did so furiously rage against me, who were then so happy before God as Luther, to be con∣demned for so manifest a truth of such a proude Prelate? Wherein what were more to be wished for of me, then that I should neuer be absolued, reconciled, nor haue any part with that so doltish and vnlearned, wicked, and furious Antichrist? Happy were that day, happy were that death, and to be receiued with all ioy and thankfulnes to God, if it might be my happe at any tyme in such a cause as this is, to be apprehended and to suffer death.* 6.5 But geue the ho∣nour of this cause vnto others, and let this matter fynde his Martyr worthy for the same: I for my sinnes am not worthy to come to that honour.

Let other men therfore thinke of these Romanists what they list: Thus I thinke, that whosoeuer was the author of this bull, he is a very Antichrist, and against Antichrist, these thinges I write, to redeeme the veritie of Christ, so much as in me lieth, which he laboreth to extinguish. And first, that he shall obtayne no part of his will in any thing agaynst me,* 6.6 here I protest before God and our Lord Iesu Ehrist, and his holy angels and all the world, that I dissēt with all my hart from the condemnatiō of this bull, which Bull I also do curse and execrate as an enemy, a Churche robber and blasphemy against Christ the sonne of god our Lord. Amen.

Furthermore I hold, defend, and imbrace with the ful trust of my spirit, those articles in the said Bul condemned and excommunicate,* 6.7 and affirme that the same oughe to be holden of all faithful christians, vnder paine of eternal ma∣lediction, and that they are to be counted for Antichristes, who so euer haue consented to the sayd Bull, whom I also together with the spirit of all them which purely know, & do vtterly shun them according to the precept of our Lord Iesu Christ. Amen. And let this stand for thy reuocation, O Bulla verè Bullarum filia. i. O thou Bull which art the ve∣ry daughter of all vayne * 6.8 bubbles.

This my confession and protestation made (for witnes whereof I take all them that shall read these presents) be∣fore I proceed to defend & declare these foresaid Articles, I will first begin, with certaine arguments for the confuta∣tion of the sayd Bull: whereof the first I will take of the blind ignorāce of this blockish Antichrist.* 6.9 For the Apostle Peter so commandeth, that we should be redy to render a reason of that faith and hope which is in vs. And the apo∣stle Paule willeth a bishop to be mighty to exhort in soūd doctrine & to refute the gaynesayers. And these thinges be they, which now 3. yeres agoe, I haue desired & looked for out of Rome, or from them which take part with Rome.* 6.10 Which things also we do read to be obserued most diligēt∣ly amongst the ancient fathers, whensoeuer they condem∣ned heresies. Neither do we read that the apostles did euer decree any thing in their Counsels, but they first alledged the holy Scripture. So I also when I wayted that they would aunswer me with grapes, and to enforme me wyth true testimonies of the scripture, behold they bryng to me sower and wylde grapes, condemning me with nothing els but bare words, whereas I haue fortified my matter with playne scriptures.

I say vnto thee. O thou most vnlearned Antichrist, hast thou ioined such brain••ike rashnes together with such bar∣barous ignorance, that thou wilt presume to thinke all mē to be turned into stockes & blocks, and to thinke that thou with thy bare and naked words only canst triūph against the inuincible force and power of Gods holy worde? Hast thou learned this maner of condemning of the magistra∣lities of Colen and Louaine.

If this be the maner of the Church to damne errours, only to say. I like it not, I deny it, I will not: what foole, what patch, what asse, what block cannot condemne after this maner? Is not thy whorish face ashamed in the pub∣like sight of the church, to dare once to set the trifling vani∣ties

onely of thy naked and bare wordes against the thun∣derboirs of Gods eternall word? O impudent condemna∣tion and right seemely for Antichrist, which hath not one iote or title to bring against such euident scriptures infer∣red agaynst him, but onely with one worde commeth and sayth, I condemne thee. And why then do we not beleeue the Turke? Why do we not admit the Iewes? Why doe we not honour the heretikes which also condemne our writings as well as he, if it be enough only to condemne? vnlesse we do not therfore peraduenture geue place vnto them, because they condemne vs not vtterly without some scriptures and reasons: but these men after a new found fashion, vtterly without all scriptures or reason doe con∣demne vs. What then shall I thinke to be the cause why they proceeded against me with this their Bul condemna∣tory,* 6.11 so vaine, so ridiculous, so trifling, but only their mere blockishnes, wherby they seyng my allegations to be true and not able to abide, nor yet to confute the same, thought to terrifie me with the vayne ratlyng of their rottē parch∣ment. But I tell thee Antichrist, that Luther being accu∣stomed to warre, will not be terrified with these vayne buls, and hath learned to put a difference betwene a piece of paper, and the omnipotent word of God.

Of the like ignorance proceedeth this also, that they a∣gainst their owne conscience, durst not perticularly digest all and singular the Articles in their orders: for they fea∣red least they should note hym for an heretike, whom they were not able perhaps to conuince either to be erroneous or offensiue,* 6.12 & therefore they haue found out this Aduerbe respectiuè: & after the numbring of the articles, then come they & say that some be respectiuely heretical, some errone∣ous, and some offensiue, which is as much to say, as we suppose some to be heretical, some erroneous, & some slan∣derous, but we cannot tell qui, quales, quanti. i. Which, what maner, and how great they are. O dastardly ignoraunce, how slippery and cowardly art thou? how art thou afrayd of the light? how doest thou turne and returne all thyngs, least thou shouldst be taken lyke a Proteus: and yet for all that thou shalt not so escape, yea in thy wilynes thou shalt the rather be ouertaken and subuerted.* 6.13

Come out therefore O thou asseheaded Antichrist, and shew forth thy wisedom, and dispose thy matters in order. Tell vs if thou canst, what sayest thou or meanest thou, when thou sayest this article is hereticall, this is errone∣ous, this is offensiue. For it becommeth such a worshipful condemner to know what he condemneth. And to shame∣full it is to condemne an article for heretical, and yet cānot name the same. Neither will I be answered herewith re∣spectiuely, but I looke to be taught simply and plainly, for I am one of Occams faction which contemneth these re∣spectiues, and loue to haue all things simple & absolute.

Thou seest therefore (good Reader) the ignorant dotage of this Antichrist,* 6.14 how craftily, & yet grossely he thinketh to walke in a net vnder his aduerbe, respectiuely, who not only ••oth not teach the truth, and cause of his cōdemning, but neither also dare proue any error, nor shew forth what it is that he condemneth, and yet must he nedes condemn. Is not this trow you a proper kind of damning, to damn and cannot tell what he damneth? Is not this a fine ma∣ner of loquution, passing all Rhetorike, to speak, & yet not to know what he speaketh, what purgatories might wee wish sufficient to purge the doltish braynes of these Bull bragging bedlems? with such blindnes & doltishnes are all the aduersaries of Gods truth worthy to be plagued.

But I know wherupon all this griefe riseth. The ori∣gine whereof is this:* 6.15 Eccius mine old aduersary remem∣bring how he was put to shame enough at Lypsia when he rousing hymselfe vppon hys stage, and frothing at the mouth like a Bore, with a furious mouth called me 3. hū∣dreth tymes heretike, for the Articles of Husse, and yet af∣terward was not able to proue the same, whereas the sen∣tence condemnatory of the Councell of Constance, allea∣ged by me otherwise then Eccius loked for, noted there, no certaine article for hereticall: and also the same condemna∣tion much like to this of ours, with the like foolishnes cal∣led some of his Articles hereticall, some erroneous, & some offensiue,* 6.16 and Eccius hearyng this, beyng confounded in himselfe for his impudent rashnes: perceiued that he had called me heretike falsly and vntruly: he thought then to heale this his wound again at Rome, and there to stablish his false and impudent lying. But the lying sophister shall not preuayle by the helpe (I trust) of Christ, for I aske and require yet stil, y^t they absolutely, not respectiuely, distinct∣ly, and not confusedly, simply, & not dissemblingly, plainly and not obscurely, perticularly & not in generall, do shew what is, and what is not heretical. But when will they so do? When Christ and Beliall, or when light and darkenes shall agree together.

And what shall I do then in the meane tyme? First I will contemne these dastardly dotipoles and vnlearned Papists and apostles of Antichrist.* 6.17 And I wil scorne them as Helias did, and say: if Baal be God, let hym aunswere, pe••••••¦uenture he is drunke, or busie in hys iourney, Cry out higher, for he is a God and peraduenture heareth. For what other thyng do these Bull bragging Asses deserue els, which cō∣demne that they know not, and confesse also their own ig∣noraunce?

Secondly, I wil not be troubled nor disquieted for the matter, neither am I to be counted heretike, erroneous▪ or offensiue, so long as I shall not be prooued and plainly cō∣uicted with simple and manifest wordes in what Article I am so iudged. Neither do I here charge my Papists, these blockheds, that I will put them to their proofes, but onely that they will shew me at least my errour that is, that they wil shew me if they know what it is that they themselues do prattle of, or haue any feelyng of their owne doyngs. For so long as they assigne me no hereticall Article, I am at free liberty to deny what Article so euer they lay vnto me to be heretical, and say it is Catholike.

Agayne, what a rudenes is it in this wicked & doltishe Antichrist worthy to be laughed at, where as these drum∣medaries do distinct hereticall Articles from those that be erroneous, and the erroneous from offensiue,* 6.18 and those a∣gayne from slaunderous? By the which subtle distinction of those grosseheaded dolts, this we do gather, that that article which is erroneous, is not heretical, and if it be not heretical, what doth it then appertaine to these Ecclesiasti∣cal condemners, which ought to condemne those things only, which be hereticall. For that which is not hereticall, is catholike, as Christ himselfe saith: He that is not against vs is with vs. Yea I would wish, that these iolly Sophisters would shew me in all the Church an Article that is erro∣neous, and not heretical: for if it be erroneous, it differeth nothyng from hereticall, but onely in stiffenesse of defen∣dyng. For all things be equally either true or false,* 6.19 althogh affection in some one thing which is true or false, may be greater or lesser. Ye see therfore agayne, how these men for all theyr braggyng Buls, are not able to produce me one Article which is erroneous and not heretical,* 6.20 and yet lyke wise brainsike men, they will needs babble they know not themselues what, condemning that which they finde erro∣neous and not hereticall: which cannot stand eyther in matter or in words so that such as are the Articles: such is the condemnation.

The lyke wisedome also they shew in affirmyng that to be Scandalous,* 6.21 which is neither hereticall nor errone∣ous. That Article I would fayne see eyther in my bookes or in the words and workes of any writer els from the be∣ginnyng of the world to the latter end. What made my pa∣pists then to excogitate these so prodigious monsters, but onely their monstrous fury and madnesse? Unlesse perad∣uenture they meane those Articles so to be Scandalous, as commonly all true and Catholike Articles are wont to be. For what is more scandalous then Ueritie? Yea onely truth and veritie is scandalous to all proud and senselesse persons, and is sayd of Christ, 1. Cor. 1. We preach (saith S. Paule) Christe crucified, a stumblynge stone to the Iewes, and to the Gentiles foolishnesse. And in Luke 2.* 6.22 He is set to be the fall and rising vp of many in Israell. Wherefore, where as my Papistes do distinguish scandalous Articles from hereti∣call and erroneous, and forasmuch as that which is not hereticall or erroneous, must needes be Catholicke and true: it followeth thereof, that these scandalous Articles be vnderstanded and condēned of them for such as be very Catholike and sound. O worthy commendation & me••te for the Papists.

Marke here good Reader,* 6.23 the impietie of these blynde Bussards, whether they roll themselues, how they deride and mocke themselues, how easily they are taken in theyr owne words, how fond and foolish they are in their studies not only in not proouyng any error or slander in these Ar∣ticles, but also in goyng about only to expresse them, how they cast out things impossible and most foolishly repug∣nant to themselues. Where is then thou most presumptu∣ous and shameles Bull, thy doltish respectiue nowe be∣come? whether respectedst thou? Uerily into the bottom∣les pit of impiety, and thine owne brutish stoliditie.

The like also is to be sayd touching the Articles offen∣siue, which must be neyther slaunderous, neyther errone∣ous, nor hereticall, seyng they are distincted by such great Rabbines. Who wyll not now maruell at the depe & pro∣found wisedome of these Papistes, which could finde out that to be offensiue in the Church, which is neyther false, neyther hereticall nor slaunderous, but true, sound, Ca∣tholike and edifieng, and yet must that also be condemned? And who would not now desire & couet to be condemned

also of such harebrained Idiotes, who by their owne con∣demning do vtter themselues to approoue things damna∣ble, and to condemne things iustifiable, that is, whyche o∣penly shew themselues, to their owne great ignominy and shame, to be more senseles then stockes, rockes, or blocks. Goe ye nowe therefore, O ye impious and brainelesse Pa∣pistes, and if yee wil needes wryte: shew your selues more sober: for this Bull (it appeareth) was spued out in youre night feasts amongs other drabs and harlots, or els hud∣led vp in the Caniculare dayes or mad midsomer Moone: For neuer were there any dissardes that would shew them selues so madde.

Lette vs now retourne this dirt of Antichrist, and cast it in hys owne teethe, and of hys owne words let vs iudge hym and condemne him,* 6.24 that heereafter hee maye learne to take better heede, and be better aduised in his lyinge. For as the Prouerbe sayth, a lyer had neede to haue a good me∣morye. If some Articles be offensiue, and other hereticall, and thou condemnest him whych is no hereticke, and con∣sequently a true Catholicke, although hee be sixe hundreth times offensiue. Doth not thy shamelesse mouth then con∣demne thy selfe, not onely of heresie, but of extreeme impie∣tie, blasphemye and treason against Gods holy trueth, she∣wing thy selfe to be the manne in dede whych is the aduer∣sarye, and is extolled aboue all that which is called God, or is worshipped? Art not thou then the manne of sinne, and the sonne of perdition,* 6.25 which denieth God hys redeamer, and taketh away the loue of trueth, to stablishe the settinge foorth of his errour, for men to beleeue iniquitie, as Paule foretolde? For if the Article be not hereticall, it can not be offensiue or slaunderous, but onely to suche heretickes as Antichrist is, and Sathanistes of all pietie. See theeefore howe his shamelesse and moste foolish Bull, whiles it con∣demneth in me one thinge to be hereticall, and an other of∣fensiue, doeth manifestly declare the authours thereof to be true heretickes and the enemies of God in deede.* 6.26 So that nowe it maye appeare, that there is no knowledge nor counsell against the Lorde, seeing blinde impietie is thus caughte in the woordes of hys owne mouth: so truely it is sayd, that he whiche casteth vpp a stone on highe, it falleth downe againe vpon his owne pate.

And (whych is chiefest of all) by thys theyr wycked contradiction it commeth to passe,* 6.27 that the cogitations of theyr owne heartes be reuealed, and that they them selues chiefely do vtter and disclose their owne wickednes which they couet most to conceale, that all men may see how rea∣dy they are to condemne all veritie euen at once. For when they affirme suche Articles to be hereticall, whych neyther they can, nor knowe, nor yet dare shewe or name to be he∣reticall, what haue we thereby to vnderstand, but that they are the aduersaries of Christe from the bottome of theyr hearts, and ready to impugne all trueth, and yet notwith∣standing wyth their dampnable hypocrisie they pretende themselues to be condemners of heresies? Learne, learne, yee beetell headed Asses wyth your blustering buls,* 6.28 learne I say, what it is, Christe to be a signe of contradiction and a stone of offence. Howe soone and easily is al your inward impietie and your ignominie disclosed wyth the same co∣uert of woordes,* 6.29 wherewith in vaine yee went aboute to cloke the same? Thus then haue we heere prooued by thys first and manifest argument, that the foresayde Bull pro∣ceedeth from none other, then very Antichrist hymselfe, the chiefest aduersarye of God and of all godlinesse. And nowe let either Eckius or the Pope acknowledge if he dare, and then consider what opinion wee ought to haue of hym, or what name to geue him: in whome all cursed names, as in one heape, doe concurre together and agree, as impietie, blasphemie, ignorance, foolishnes, hypocrisie, lying, briefly, Sathan himselfe with his Antichrist.

Neither doeth thys impietie any thing lesse appeare in that also which I will nowe say. For this worshipful Bul decreeth in plaine and moste impudent woordes,* 6.30 that those Bookes also of mine ought to be burned, in the whyche are no errors contained, to the end that the memory of me may be vtterly rooted out.

Canst thou O Christian Reader, now doubte that the great Dragon of hell hymselfe speaketh in this Bull? It is an olde Prouerbe, that the Asse singeth therefore euill fauo∣redly, because hee taketh hys note to hye. So thys Bull in like manner should haue piped more tunably, if he had not sette by hys blasphemous throte so open againste heauen, so impudently and deuelishly condemning also the many∣fest and euident trueth. For hitherto Sathan when so euer hee oppressed the trueth, did it vnder the colour of trueth: but this man of sinne, the Aduersarie whyche is extolled aboue God, wythout all colour, not priuily but apeartly, and that in the open Churche of God, wythoute all shame taketh vppon hym to condemne, and commaundeth to be burned the sincere veritye of Christe,* 6.31 knowne and allow∣ed both of hym and of all others. What could be more done amongest the Turkes? What place is thys woorthy off (I praye thee) but the deepe dungeon of Hell? And are yee not afrayde yee Antichristes, wyth your brutishe Bulles, leaste stones and trees shoulde sweare wyth bloude, at the moste horrible sighte of thys your execrable impietie and blas∣phemie?

Where art thou now good Emperour Charles? Where are yee Christen Kings and Princes? Ye haue geuen your name to Christe in Baptisme, and can ye nowe abide these infernall voyces of suche an Antichriste? Where be yee Bi∣shoppes? Where be yee Doctours? Where be all yee that confesse Christe? Can yee holde your peace at these horri∣ble and prodigious monsters of the Papistes, O misera∣ble Churche of God, whyche arte made nowe so greate a scorne, and a very mocking stocke of Sathan. O miserable are all they which liue in these times. The wrathe of God is finally come vppon the Papistes, ennemies to the crosse of Christe and veritie of God, resistinge all menne, and for∣bidding the trueth of Christe to be taught and preached, as S. Paule sayd of the Iewes. Admitte I praye you, that I were suche a one in deede,* 6.32 as that curssed and malicious Bull doeth make me to be an hereticke, erroneous, schis∣maticall, offensiue, scandalous, in certaine of my bookes: yet whye shoulde the other bookes of mine be condemned, which are Catholike, Christian, true, edifying, and peace∣able? Where haue these wretched Papistes learned thys religion, that for the persones cause being euil, they should damne and burne the holy and sounde verity of God? Can ye not destroy menne, but you must also destroy the truth? Will yee plucke vppe the good wheate also with the cockle? Will yee scatter also the corne awaye together wyth the chaffe? And whye then receyue yee Origen in hys Catho∣like bookes, and doe not vtterly reiecte hym all together? Yea, whye suffer yee wicked Aristotle (in whome is no∣thyng taughte but errours) and doe not at leaste in some parte condemne hym? Why burne yee not and set on fire, the wycked, barbarous, vnlearned, and hereticall Decre∣talles of the Pope? Why doe ye not all this, I say, but on∣ly for that ye are set in this holy place, for none other cause, but onely to be that abhomination spoken of in Daniell, whiche shoulde put downe trueth and set vp lyes,* 6.33 and the operation of errour. For this thinge and none other, be∣commeth the seate of Antichrist.

Wherefore this I say to thee (Pope Leo the tenth and to you Lord Cardinals, and all other whosoeuer is in a∣nye parte or doing in that Courte of Rome) and thys I speake boldly vnto your faces, if this Bull hath come out in your name, and by your knowledge, and if ye will so acknowledge it for your owne: then wil I likewise vse my power, by the which I am made in my Baptisme, y^e sonne of God, and coheyre with Christ, being founded vppon a sure rocke which neither feareth the gates of hell, nor hea∣uen, nor earth, and say, monish and exhort you in the Lord that you will reforme your selues and take a better waye,* 6.34 and refrayne heeeafter from those diabolicall blasphemies and to much exceeding presumptuous impeties, and thys I alledge: That vnlesse ye so do, know it for certayne, that I with all them that worship Christ, doe recount youre seate, possessed and oppressed of Sathan himselfe, to be the damned seate of Antichrist, whiche we not onely do not o∣bey, and will not be subiect nor concorporate vnto, but al∣so do detest and abhorre the same, as the principall & chie∣fest enemy of Christ, being ready in this our sentence and profession, not onely to suffer gladly your fond foolish cen∣sures, but also do pray you hartily that you will neuer as∣soyle vs agayne, nor euer number vs in your fellowship, and moreouer to fulfill your bloudy tiranny, do willingly offer our selues to die for y^e same.* 6.35 And according y^e to pow∣er & might, y^t the spirite of Christ, and efficacye of our fayth can doe in these our writinges, if ye shall persist so still in your fury, we condemne you, & together with this Bull, & all the Decretall, we geue you to Sathan, to the destructi∣on of flesh y^t your spirite in the day of our Lord may be de∣liuered: in the name whiche you persecute of Iesu Christ our Lord. Amen.

For our Lord Iesus Christ yet liueth and raygneth (in whom I do nothing doubt) who I firmly trust wil short∣ly come and slay with the spirite of his mouth, and destroy with the brightnes of his comming, this man of sinne, and sonne of perditiō, for asmuch as I cannot deny,* 6.36 if the pope be the author and doer of these mishapen and monstruous doinges, but he is the true, finall, most wicked, and that fa∣mous Antichrist: that subuerteth the whole worlde by the

operation of his delusions, as we see it in all places fulfil∣led and accomplished.

But whether doth the burning zeale of charity cary me. Neither am I as yet fully perswaded this to be the popes Bull, but to proceede from his wicked Apostle Eckius, who with his fathers,* 6.37 fariously gaping at me like a gulfe, would swallow me cleane vppe: ••inging wyth the wicked thus: Let vs swallow him vp quicke and whole like hell, and like one descending downe into the pitte. For little careth this fu∣rious ma••braine,* 6.38 howe the veritie of God be extinguished (ye he would count that for a lucre) so he might ••ill his ma∣licious desire with the bloude 〈◊〉〈◊〉 his brother. O miserable state of the Churche at this time▪ worthy to be bewailed w^t teares o•• bloude. But who heareth our gronings, or who comforteth our weepings? The furie of the Lorde seemeth to be inoxorable against vs.

Ouer and besides, what a ridiculous toye, or pretie fig∣ment haue they inuented, wherby belike to sport thēselues with some merye matter amongest their earnest businesse, wryting that besides other great frendshippe, whych they haue shewed vnto me: they haue also offered to support me with mony,* 6.39 and to beare my charges with theyr liberality, in my iourney to Rome. Wil ye see what a charity is new∣ly come vpon the Citie of Rome, which after it hath pilled and polled the whole world of their money, and hath con∣sumed & wasted the same by intolerable tyranny, nowe cō∣meth, and to me onely offereth money? But this impudent lye I know with whose hōmer it was coined, Caietanus the Cardinall, a man borne and formed to lie for the whet∣stone after his worshipfull Legacie depeached in Germa∣nie comming home to Rome, there he forged & fained that he promised me mony, wheras he being at Anspurge, was there in such miserable penury, & so pinching in his house, that it was thought he woulde haue famished his familye. But thus it becommeth the Bull to be verè Bulla, that is a thing of nought, voide of all trueth and wit.

And so these great iudges & condemners after all thys, yet haue authority to commaund vs to beleeue them to say truth, when they do nothing but lie, and that they are good Catholickes, when they be starke heretickes, and that they are true Christians,* 6.40 whē they play the very Antichrist, and all by the vertue of this vniuersall: Quodcunque ligaueris. &c. i. Whatsoeuer thing thou bindest. &c. So that where no∣thing is excepted, they thinke they may do all things. Who not only do lie most loudly and manifestly, but also (which passeth all impudencie) do vaunt and commend their libe∣ralitye before y^e people to bring me more in hatred, making men falsly to beleue that they offered frendship and money vnto me: Whereas these tyrantes of Rome, if they had had any trueth, goodnesse, or godlinesse in them, shoulde haue taken some better hede in their doing and speaking, so that no aduersarye might conceiue any suspition of euil against them. But now if there were no other matter els to bring this Bull out of credite, onely this grosse & foolish lie were sufficient to declare how light, vaine, and false this Bul is. What? would Rome (thinke yee) offer money to mee? And how then commeth thys, which I knowe to be moste cer∣taine, that out of the banke (as they call it) two or three hū∣dreth crownes were assigned in Germanye to be disposed and geuen to ruffians and catchpoles,* 6.41 to murder Luther: for these be the reasons & arguments, whereby nowe figh∣teth, raigneth and triumpheth the holy Apostolicke sea, the mistres of faith & mother of al churches, y^t which long since should haue bene prooued to be the very ••eate of Antichrist, and manifold waies hereticall, if shee had fought wyth the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God: whereof she her self is nothing ignorant, & therefore because she would not be brought to that issue, thus shee fareth and taketh on like as she were madde, in the Churche of Christ, confoun∣ding and consuming all thinges wyth warres,* 6.42 murthers, bloudshed, death, and destruction, and yet for all thys they must nedes be counted most holy fathers in God, & vicars of Christ, and Pastors of his flocke.

But goe to (that I may also dally with them a while) let them, yet send me the money they speake of: for as touching their promise & safeconduct (because I will not ouercharge them) that I gladly resigne to them againe, seeing I haue no great nede therof, so that y^e moni may come to my hāds. But heere I must require so muche as may suffice mee: to wit, that I may be furnished with fifty thousand footemen, and ten thousande horsemen, to conducte me safe to Rome, and so for any other promise of safe conduct I wil not trou∣ble them. And this I requier, because of the daunger that is in Rome,* 6.43 whych deuoureth vp her inhabitauntes, ney∣ther keepeth, nor euer did keepe promise wyth any: Where these most holy fathers do slay their beloued children in the charitie of God, and brethren destroy their brethren to doe seruice to Christe, as the manner is and stile of Rome. In the meane time I will keepe my selfe free and sa•••• from the Citation of this most reuerend Bull. O ye miserable var∣lets, which are so cōfounded with the truth and with your own conscience, that neither ye can lie handsomely, neither dare ye speake the truth, and yet neither ca ye so kepe your selues quiet, to your perpetuall ignominie and confusion.

Furthermore, here in this Bull is brought in a straunge fashion of stile, not heard of before. For where Augustine would haue sayd, that he would not beleue the Gospel, ex∣cept he had ben moued by the authority of the church, now commeth in this goodly Bull, and maketh this Catholicke church to be a few reuerent Cardinals his brethren, & pri∣ours of regular orders, Masters of Diuinitie and doctors of the law, out of whose counsell the sayd Bull boasteth her selfe to be borne and brought forth, a blessed babe (forsooth) of such an vniuersall Church, O happy trauell (no dout) of this Catholike church, neuer seene nor heard of before,* 6.44 and such as Augustine the valiant impugner of sectes, if he did see, would not doubt to call it the Sinagogue of the deuill. See therefore the madnesse of their Papistes. The vniuer∣sall Church is a ••ewe Cardinals, Priours and Doctours, scarsly perhaps 20. persons in all, when also it is possible e∣nough that neuer one of them all is the mēber of one chap∣pel or altare. And whereas the Church is the communion of Saintes, as we say in the Creede, out of this communi∣on of saintes, that is, out of this vniuersal churche, all they then must needes be excluded, whosoeuer be not in the nō∣ber of these 20. persons:* 6.45 and so whatsoeuer these holye men doe thinke or iudge, by and by the vniuersal Churche must needes holde and beleeue the same, albeit they be liers, he∣retikes, and Antichristes, thinking and iudginge nothinge but that which is abhominable.

Would there euer any man thinke such doltishnesse and madnes to be in Rome? Is there any braine in these mens heads thinke ye, or hart in their bodies?* 6.46 Austen speaketh of the church dispersed throughe the whole worlde, confessing the gospel with one consent. Neither would God that any booke els should be receiued with such cōsent of the whole world as the holy scripture (as the sayd Augustine in hys confessions affirmeth) least by the receiuing of other bokes,* 6.47 schismes might take occasion to rise, according as the wic∣ked Sea of Rome hath long sought by her decrees, & hath, for a great part, brought the same to passe already. But yet the vniuersall Churche did neuer agree thereto. For in the East, West, & South ther haue ben christians, which being content only with y^e gospel, haue not regarded how Rome hath gone about of a particular church, to make her self an vniuersal church, & accuseth other churches as schismatical whē as she hath cut of her selfe from the vniuersal Church, and striueth in vaine to draw the whole vniuersall church to her, being the mother and fountaine of all schismes, and all by the meanes of this tyrannie.

Let no man therfore euer thinke that this true Catho∣like Churche aforesaide,* 6.48 will beleeue or maintaine those things which this detestable Bull heere pratleth, when as neyther that which is the very true Churche of Rome, in¦deede doth her selfe so thinke, neither taketh that by and by to be Catholicke, whatsoeuer is knowen to proceede from y^e Church of Rome. For as I saide, there is no booke which shall be called Catholike heereafter, as neither it hath bene heretofore, besides onely the holy scripture. For the church of Rome it may suffice to glory her selfe to be a little parcell or peece of the vniuersal church, and so let her vexe her selfe onely with her owne decrees.

Neither let any man thinke this to be the Bull of the catholike church, but rather to proceede out of the Court of Rome. For such wisedome and religion may well beseeme that seate of Sathan, whiche seeketh to be counted for the whole vniuersall Churche, and obtrudeth her foolishe and wicked Bulles most arrogantly and vainely to the whole world in y^e steade of sincere catholike doctrine.* 6.49 Whose pride and presumption hath growne so farre, that shee trustinge vpon her owne power, without al learning and holines of life, taketh vpon her to prescribe lawes to al men of al their doings and sayings,* 6.50 as though for dominion only and lof∣tines of spirit, she were to be counted the house and church of Christ, where as by this meanes Sathan also the prince of the worlde, or the Turke might be counted the Churche of Christ. Againe, neither the Monarchies of the Gentiles can abide mighty Princes to raigne ouer them w^tout wise∣dome and goodnes. Furthermore,* 6.51 in the Church the spiri∣tuall man onely iudgeth al things, & is iudged of no man, and not the Pope alone or the Court of Rome, vnlesse they be spirituall.

But against all this theyr rashe presumption, I boldly set the inuincible Champion of the Church S. Paule, who 1. Cor. 14. sayeth: If anye thinge be reueiled to an other that sit∣teth by, lette the firste manne holde hys peace. Heere haue yee

plainely that Pope or any other elder, what so euer he be, ought to kepe silēce, if any thyng be reueiled to other in the Church, that is inferiour. I therfore vppon hys authoritie contemning the presumptuous proceding of this swelling Bull, do confidently take vpon me to defende the Articles, caring nothing for the bare condemnation of any persone, yea of the Pope him selfe with hys whole Churche, vnlesse he shall enforme me by the Scriptures. Whereof the firste Article is this.

The Article.

* 6.52It is an hereticall sentence, and also common to saye, that Sa∣craments of the new lawe doe geue grace to them, which haue no obstacle in themselues to the contrary.

The Answere.

I acknowledge this Article to be mine, and I aske of you good maisters Respectiuistes, which make these Arti∣cles respectiuely,* 6.53 some to be hereticall, some erroneous, some slaunderous, &c. whether respecteth thys article I pray you? To heresie, to error, to slaunder and offence? Or els whether respected you in condemning the same? To the holy scripture? to the holy fathers? to faith? to y^e church? To which of these I beseech you tell me. Neither do I here put you to the labour of proouing, but onely require you to shew your iudgement what you thinke, that I may know wherein I say amisse. Will you that I should tell you (you babish in••antes and noddies) whether this Article respec∣teth? I will. This article hath ij. respects. Whereof the one respecteth the Papists the condemners heereof, amongste whome it respecteth some to be mules, some to be horses, which haue no vnderstanding and be voide of al sence, and yet notwithstanding they will nedes condemne al things. An other respect it hath to the holy Scripture, which saith. Rom. 14. What so euer is not of faith, is sinne. Whereupon consequently it followeth that the Sacraments or the new law can geue no grace to the vnbeleeuers (for so muche as the sinne of infidelitie is the greatest obstacle) but onely to the beleeuers. For onely faith putteth no obstacle: all other things be obstacles, although they put not the same obsta∣cles which the Sophisters vnderstande, meaning onely of the actuall purpose of externall sinne. I confesse therefore this article not only to be mine, but also to be the article of the Catholike and Christian veritie: and the Bull whych confesseth the same, to be twise heretical, impious, and bla∣sphemous, with all them which folow the same. Who litle regarding the sinne of incredulitie, foolishly and madly doe holde that the obstacle is taken away, if a man cease from suming, although the vnbeleuer can thinke no good thyng. But these things I haue discussed more at large in my boo∣kes, and wil more discusse if those prating Romanists dare at any time prooue their opinion and confute mine.

The 2. Article.

To denie that sinne remaineth in a childe after his Baptisme, is as much as to tread downe Christ & Paul together vnder fote.

The Answere.

I wold also require of them to shew the cause why this article is condemned, if they were not so blinded in theyr fantasticall respects, that they are not able to perceiue why they would haue this article condemned. And yet I cānot tell whether it be hereticall or erroneous. And no maruel, when as the condemners themselues cannot tell mee. I hold therfore this article also by the Apostle. Rom. 7. I my selfe in my minde do serue the law of God, and in my flesh the lawe of sinne. Heere the Apostle confesseth plainely of himselfe, that in his flesh he serueth sinne. And also 1. Cor. 1. Christ is made to vs of God our righteousnesse, our wise∣dome, sanctification and redemption. And how then doeth he sanctified them that be sanctified already, vnlesse it be as the Apoc. sayeth: He that is holy, let him be holy stil? To be sanctified,* 6.54 is as much as to be purged frō sinne. But what haue these our Respectiuists to do with the apostle Paule, seeing they are the whole vniuersall Church,* 6.55 by whose au∣thoritie Paule either standeth or falleth, being but a mem∣ber onely and a parte of the church.* 6.56 The Lorde rebuke thee Sathan, and these thy Sathanicall papists.

The 3. Article.

The originall roote of sinne, although no actuall sinne do fol∣lowe, stoppeth the soule departing out of the body, from entrance into heauen.* 6.57

The Answere.

As touching this matter, I neuer defined any thing he∣therto, but largely & probably I haue disputed hereof, nei∣ther yet to this day am I fully certain what is done w^t such a ••oule. But our papists more blind then bussardes, when they are nothing able to perceiue what cause thys Article hath worthely to be condēned, yet dare they take vpon thē to pronounce that which the whole vniuersal church is ig∣norant of.* 6.58 I yet notw^tstanding contemning this folish and fond condemnation aforsaid, doe holde this article proba∣bly to be true. For seing this original roote which I speake of, is truly sin, as I haue proued. Rom. 7. & Gal. 5. and se∣ing that sin letteth a man from entring into heauen, as it is written: No polluted thing shal enter: I suppose therefore that originall sinne wythholdeth a man from entring into heauen. Nether do I any thing at al esteme the fanta∣stical dreames of them, whereby they extenuating original sinne, doe call it only the paine of sinne, and imperfections, plainly against the manifest scriptures, whiche call it sin and teach the same to be cured by grace, which is the me¦dicine of true, and not of fained sinne.

The 4. Article.* 6.59

The imperfect charity of a man departing, necessarily carieth with it great feare, which of it selfe is enough to make the pain of Pur∣gatorie, and letteth the entrance into the kingdome of heauen.

The Answere.

This foloweth of the other going before, which in lyke maner I did not determinately affirm, although very pro∣bably I do yet holde the same, asking before a dispensation after mine owne arbitrement, euen in defiance of the Bul, which is not able to bringe foorth any other probation but this: We are the hiest powers in the Church, yea we are the church it selfe. Ergo, we are the best learned, most holiest, ful of the holy Ghost which cannot erre, although we stink like a filthy puddle to the whole worlde, polluted with all kind of sinnes, and drowned in ignorāce. But all these rea∣sons preuaile nothing with me: peraduenture they may w^t them, which feare least if my sentence should preuaile, then purgatory should be taken out of the Popes hands, & then priests and religious men hauing lost their gainful offices of vexing (of releasing I wold haue said) of the dead,* 6.60 shuld be pinched by the bellies and brought to penurye. It was time therefore for their greedy auarice here to wake & looke about, and not to suffer these their friuolous opinions, but yet very gainefull, to be ouercome with truth, and so to be ouerthrowen.

The 5. article.* 6.61

Where they say penaunce standeth of three partes, to wit, contrition, confession, and satisfaction it is not founded in ho∣ly scripture, nor in ancient, holy, and christian Doctours.

The aunswere.

This article, in what respect it is condemed, I do right well perceaue: For the respect thereof is to greedye coue∣tousnesse, and therefore I know that the probation therof hath the like respecte, which is this: if this article wer true then men would geue nothing for satisfactiō and indulgen∣ces, neither should we haue any more wherewith to vexe them with confessiōs, cases reserued, restricted, or amplia∣ted for our gayne, and so should we become beggers, and gods seruice shoulde be minished in Uigils and Masses. But it is wicked that Gods seruice shoulde be minished: therfore Luther is an hereticke: This consequent holdeth a respectu Bullae ad Papistas. 1. From the Bull to the papists and contrariwise.

I beseech thee by the Lord Iesus, whatsoeuer graue & learned reader shalt read these thinges, that thou wilt par∣don this my leuitie, and (as it may seeme) my childishnes. For thou seest how I haue to do with such mē as be twise children, and yet do brag themselues to be peeres and prin¦cipall pillers of all men. I assure you, I know it most cer∣taynly to be true, that there be many and great gouernors of people, whiche this so ridiculous and foolishe reason a∣boue recited, hath moued to y^e condemnation of my books. Unlesse I perceiued (with teares I speake it) the anger of God sharpe and fierce agaynst vs, in bringing vs vnder subiection of such effeminate children, and such dregs of the earth, and vile refuse of al other people of the whole world it would make ••e to burst for very griefe and sorrow.

My sentence is, and hath bene this, that that satisfacti∣on whiche the keyes are able to dispence withall, standeth not by the law of God. For if it did, then could it not be dis∣pensed with all by the keyes. If these Bull founders doe charg me with any other thing besides in this article, they do nothing els but as they are wont to do. For what mat∣ter or marueile is it if Antichrist do lye?

The 6. article.

Contrition whiche is gotten by examining,* 6.62 remembryng and detesting our sinnes, whereby a man calleth to mynde hys yeares past in the bitternes of his soule, in pondring the great∣nes, the multitude and filthines of his sinnes, the loosing of e∣ternall blisse, and purchasing of eternall damnation: this contri∣tion maketh an hypocrite, yea rather a manne to be more a sin∣ner.

The Answere.

O the incredible blindnes and brutishnes of these Ro∣mish bulles. This Article is truely mine, & very christian,

which I will not suffer to be wreasted from mee, for all the Popes and papists in the world.* 6.63 For thys I meant by that doctrine, that repentaunce is of no force, vnlesse it be done in faithe and charitie, whiche thinge they also teache them selues, but that they do not knowe nor teach, neither what faith nor charitie is. And therefore in condemning my doc∣trine, they condemne also their owne, foolishly repugnyng against themselues in their owne cōtradiction. I say ther∣fore that he which teacheth repentaunce in such wise & ma∣ner, that he hath not a greater regard to the promised mer∣cye of God and faith in the same, then to this afflicting and vexing of the minde, he teacheth the repentaunce of Iudas Iscarioth, he is pestilent, a deuil to mens soules, and a tor∣mentor of consciences. Read the bookes of those sophisters, where they wryte of repentaunce, and thou shalt see there no mētion made eyther of promise or faith. For these liuely parts of repētance, they cleane omitte, & onely do vexe mē with these dead contritions. But heereof we haue, and wil hereafter entreat more at large.

But what should I here stand vpon euery Article, see∣ing my bookes be abroade, wherein I haue geuen a reason of all sufficiently, and more woulde haue done, if mine ad∣uersaries also had brought to light theirs.* 6.64 For what folish∣nesse is this, that they thinke to answere me with thys one saying, that they count all my sayings as damned, wheras I did wryte to this ende onely, that they shoulde acknow∣ledge their errours, wherewith they haue so long bewit∣ched the people of God. Neither did I looke that I should be condemned, which vnderstanding & knowing the same right wel, haue iustified those things which they haue con∣demned before with sufficient authoritie, bothe of scripture and reason. Neither looked I that they should tel me what they thought (for I knew all that well enough) but that I sought of them was to knowe whether they thought right therin or not. Here looked I to be taught, and behold, none of them all durst once put foorth his head. Wherefore I see these asses nothing to vnderstand either the things that I say, or yet themselues. But they be suche blinde bussardes, that they perceiue not what it is that I seeke in my bookes. For they dreame that I haue suche an opinion of them, as though they had the truthe of their side, when there is no∣thing that I lesse thinke to be true. For I foreseeing that they had condemned al these things before, came foorth and shewed my selfe, as one not to be condemned, but as alrea∣dy condemned of them, to accuse their condemnation to be wicked, hereticall, and blasphemous, and so openly to de∣nounce them as heretikes and erroneous, vnles they she∣wed some better reason and ground of their doings & doc∣trine: where as they on the other side, like foolish minstrels harping all on one string, haue nothing else in theyr mou∣thes,* 6.65 but we condemne that we haue condemned, proouing after a newe kinde of Logike, the same thing by it selfe. O most idiote huddypeaks, and blockish condemners, where is the saying of Peter? Be alwayes ready to rēder a count of that faith and hope which is in you.

Wherefore seeing these ignorant Papists, being thus confounded, doe so flie away, from the face of the manifest veritie, that they dare not once open their mouthes in de∣fence of themselues, or of their cause, and haue blasted oute with much ado this timerous Bul of theirs: I being com∣forted with the flight of these mine aduersaries, do account this theyr dastardly damnation in sted of full allowing and iustifying of my cause, and so rebounde againe theyr owne damnation vppon their owne heads, for howe coulde they more condemne themselues, then whiles they, (fearing to be founde themselues culpable of heresie, if they shoulde be driuen to geue account of their doctrine) do flie to this mi∣serable and desperate refuge, willingly to shutte their eyes and stop their eares, and to say, I will not, I damne thee, I heare thee not, I allow thee not. If I should haue plaid any such mad part, how would they (I pray you) haue tri∣umphed against me? This dastardly feare declareth what cowardes they are.

Wherefore, not to burden the reader with any tedious prolixitie of matter in prosecutinge euery Article, I heere protest in these presents, that I * 6.66 confesse all these thinges here condemned by this miserable Bull, for pure, clear and Catholike doctrine: whereof I haue sufficiently geuen ac∣compt in my bookes which be extant abroade.

Furthermore, I wil also that the sayd my bokes being extant abroad, shalbe taken as a publike accusation against these wicked Sophisters & seducers of the people of God: so that vnlesse they shall geue a count of their doctrine, and shall conuicte me with good grounde of Scripture, I doe here as muche as in me lieth, denounce thē as guiltie of er∣rour, heresie, and sacriledge, admonishing, desiring, and in the Lorde exhorting all them which truely confesse Christ, that they will beware and take heede of their pestiferous doctrine, and not to dout, but that the true Antichrist raig∣neth by them in the world amongst vs.

And if any shal contemne thys my brotherly admoni∣tion, lette him knowe that I am pure and cleane from hys bloud, & excused frō the laste iudgement of Christe. For I haue left nothing vndone, whiche Christian charitie dyd binde me to doe.

Finally, if there be no other way whereby I may resist these babling and trifeling condemners, the vttermost and last which I haue, I will geue and bestow in the quarrell, that is, this life and bloude of mine. For better it were for me a thousande times to be slaine, then to reuoke one silla∣ble of these Articles which they haue condemned. And now as they doe curse and excommunicate me for their damna∣ble heresie, so I againe likewise doe curse and excommuni∣cate them for the holy veritie of God. Christ which is only the Iudge of all, iudge and determine this matter betwene vs, whether of these two excommunications, hys or mine shall stande and preuaile before him. Amen.

In storying the life of Luther,* 6.67 before pag. 849. it was declared, how the sayd Luther in the beginning, first being reiected of the Cardinall Caietanus, appealed from y^e car∣dinall vnto the Pope. When that would not serue, neither could not any tollerable submission of Luther to y^e pope be receiued, but that the P. with his Cardinals, contrary to all equity and conscience, wold nedes procede against him, and against the expresse truth of Gods word, thinking by meere authoritie to beare downe the veritie as he had vsed before to do. Luther folowing the iustnes of his cause,* 6.68 was then compelled to appeale from the Pope to the next gene∣rall councell, and so did, as before you may read, pag. 812. Which was 2. yeares before the Popes Bull agaynst Lu∣ther came out. The tenour of which appellation before o∣mitted, I thought here to exhibite, wherby the reader con∣sidering the great change of religion and state of the church which since hath ensued, may also perceiue y^e true originall cause and occasion, howe it first began, by what order & de∣grees it after encreased, what humility and submission first on Luthers part was shewed, and again what insolencie, wrong, and violence on the Popes part was declared. And further, where Pope Leo in his Bull aboue prefixed, see∣meth to pretend certaine conditions of fauour, charity, and money offred to Luther in the beginning, how false & vain that is, by this present appeale may appeare. The copie wherof, as it was drawen by the publike notarie and exhi∣bited, is this as in forme here followeth.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Lancelot, Iohn a Painter, Gyles Germane Mar∣tyrs.
• * 1.2

  One Style mar∣tyr burned in Smithfield with the Apocalyps.
• * 1.3

  Ex testimonio D. Rob. Outra∣di.
• * 1.4

  Pope Leo his Bull agaynst Luther

  M. Luthers ap∣peale from the Pope to a gene∣rall Councell.
• * 1.5

  The sentence definitiue of Pope Clement 7. agaynst the diuorce of king Henry.
• * 1.6

  The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 mouing 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Pope at 〈◊〉〈◊〉 first to fa∣uour the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cause of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 kinges di••uorce.
• * 1.7

  This 〈◊〉〈◊〉 called the kinges 〈◊〉〈◊〉 booke, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a certain•• treatise ••••••••cerning 〈◊〉〈◊〉 reasons 〈◊〉〈◊〉 argumen•• of diuers learned for the la••••full disso••••••tion of the kinges mar∣riage, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 aunswer•• also to the contrary obiection of Abell•••• others. And this booke the king 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sent to th•• Pope. The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cause. The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 dealing 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Pope with kin•• Henry. The Pop•• false, do••••ble and c••••••trary to himselfe.
• * 1.8

  The Po•••• how pre••sūptuous•••• he 〈…〉〈…〉 and comma••••••deth ki•••• & Princ••
• * 2.1

  〈1 paragraph〉〈1 paragraph〉
• * 3.1

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• * 4.1

  The Pope sitteth in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of iustice, with the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 & same fashiō, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 did sit in the seate 〈…〉〈…〉, & Antichrist 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Tēple of God. And sayd neuer a word. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hauing no bribes 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in his handes, nor 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Emperour in 〈◊〉〈◊〉.

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 not thys a gloryous 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that wil haue no beg 〈◊〉〈◊〉 his sonnes, & daugh∣•••••• Emperours, Kinges 〈◊〉〈◊〉?

  And why then did you 〈…〉〈…〉 to England 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the same Matri∣•••••••• before as appeareth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pag. 1••49.
• (F) 4.2

  By his owne Canon law, ••e meaneth▪ & 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by the lawe of God.
• (G) 4.3

  Here thou mayst see (good reader) howe the Pope may & doth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 lyk•• a false Prophet. For where he thought to put the king ••o si∣lence, t••e sa••e silence lighted vpon himselfe, & whereby the Pope is driuen himselfe to stand mute in Englād, & God graunt he may so stand for euer Amen.
• * 4.4

  Pope Leo his Bull agaynst Luther, and the Appellation of M. Luther from the Pope, by way of an Ap∣pendix.
• * 4.5

  The Pope play∣eth with Lu∣ther, as Achab played with E∣lias, saying, that he was the troubler of Is∣raell, when it was he himselfe and his fathers house that so did.
• * 5.1

  The Bul of pope Leo agaynst M. Luther.
• * 5.2

  Que sequntur, vide superiore aeditione Pag. 1459.
• * 5.3

  The Popes Bull in Engli••he.
• * 5.4

  Note here and marke good reader how the Church of Rome holdeth by the bloud of S. Peter, & not by the bloud of Christ.
• * 5.5

  Respectiuely.
• * 5.6

  The Germaines in olde tyme most addicted to popery aboue al other nations.
• * 5.7

  Article•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Luther.
• * 5.8

  Best rep••••••tance i•• a new lyfe.
• * 5.9

  Math. 1••.
• * 5.10

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 because 〈◊〉〈◊〉 can not 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that the fayth of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 true 〈◊〉〈◊〉 without contri••i••••
• * 5.11

  He me••••neth thi•• because as no 〈◊〉〈◊〉 knowet•• his sinn•• so no 〈◊〉〈◊〉 can be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for sufficye••••
• * 5.12

  This 〈◊〉〈◊〉 correcte•• in his A••••tiōs of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Articles sayth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Indulg•••••• be neyt•••••• lawful•••• expedie•••• And li••••••wise he recteth reuoke•••• the 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 5.13

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• * 5.16

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• * 5.17

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• * 5.18

  The articles of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 con∣demned.
• * 5.19

  Beholde how kinges come af∣ter bagges and wallets, and begging Fryers.
• * 5.20

  Here may be a doubt, whether the man in the Moone be ex∣empted wi••h his bushe of thornes on his necke out of this Bull, or not
• * 5.21

  The bookes of M. Luther con∣demned.
• * 5.22

  Let vs see here what ye haue not done: Fyrst Luther gently submitted him∣se••fe: but you reiected him: He then referred him to the iudgement of 4. Vniuersi••ies in Germ••nye, it would not be taken: he then appealed frō the Cardinal to the Pope, the Pope refused him•• then he appea∣led from the Pope to the Councell ney∣ther did the pope admit that he required to be conuinced by the Scrip∣tures, the Pope neyther would nor could so do. And yet the Pope sayeth he left nothing vndone.
• * 5.23

  Ierem. 8.
• * 5.24

  Here note good reader, that Luther appea∣led frō the pope to the Councell two yeares be∣fore this Bull: which was an. 1518.
• * 5.25

  The Popes ex∣hortation to Luther.
• * 5.26

  The Pope threatneth M. Luther with punishment.
• * 5.27

  The Popes safe conduct to Lu∣ther offered.
• * 5.28

  All the bookes of Luther both good and badde cōdēned 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Pope.
• * 5.29

  Apocal 〈◊〉〈◊〉 And he 〈◊〉〈◊〉 haue 〈◊〉〈◊〉 & cōmau••••dement v•• euery co••••pany, an•• people, a tongue, a nation, &••
• * 5.30

  The Pop•• here drea••meth of •• drye Sum••mer, thin••••ing all th•• world to subiecte v••••to him·
• * 5.31

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• * 5.32

  ••. Luther ••••swering 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Popes 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 5.33

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 Popes ••••bayting.
• * 5.34

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 Pope ••••scribed in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 colours.
• * 6.1

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 answer M. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Bull 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Latin.
• * 6.2

  〈…〉〈…〉 vide 〈…〉〈…〉 pag. ••65.
• * 6.3

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 copy of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Luthers ••••swere to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Bull of ••••pe Leo ••nglishe.
• * 6.4

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• * 6.5

  M. Luther thenketh him∣selfe not wor∣thy to suffer in so good a cause.
• * 6.6

  M. Luthers pro∣testation.
• * 6.7

  Marke here how Luther re∣canteth.
• * 6.8

  Bulla in Latin signifieth as much in English as a bubble in the water.
• * 6.9

  Titus. 1.
• * 6.10

  The Papistes will not abide the triall of the Scripture.
• * 6.11

  The popes vaine terrours cannot make M. Lu∣ther afraid.
• * 6.12

  Respectiuely.
• * 6.13

  Proteus is a certayne mon∣ster among the Poetes, which turneth himself into all colours.
• * 6.14

  The dotage of Antichrist.
• * 6.15

  Eccius.
• * 6.16

  Eccius taken with a lye.
• * 6.17

  3. Reg. 1••
• * 6.18

  The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 distinctiō 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Papi•••• between•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 articles h••••reticall, e••••roneous, sclaūdero•••• & offēsiu•• Luke. 9.
• * 6.19

  Heretica••▪
• * 6.20

  Erroneou••
• * 6.21

  Scandalo••••
• * 6.22

  1. Cor. 1▪ Luke. 2.
• * 6.23

  Offensi••••
• * 6.24

  The popes 〈…〉〈…〉 owne 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 6.25

  •• Thes. 2.
• * 6.26

  Prouerb. 12
• * 6.27

  ••he pope ••••tereth hys ••••ne wic∣••••dnes.
• * 6.28

  Luke. 2.
• * 6.29

  ••. Pet. 2.
• * 6.30

  ••he popes 〈…〉〈…〉 Luthers 〈◊〉〈◊〉 haue 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 6.31

  The papiste pretend to know and mayn¦tayne the verity of Christ, and yet cannot a∣byde it.
• * 6.32

  The pope con∣demneth as wel the good bookes of M. Luther as the other with∣out all respect of trueth or of the cause.
• * 6.33

  Dan. 9.
• * 6.34

  M. Luthers warning to the Pope.
• * 6.35

  M. Luther cur∣seth the pope.
• * 6.36

  The Pope the true Antichrist.
• * 6.37

  Eccius.
• * 6.38

  Prouerb. 1.
• * 6.39

  The Pope lyeth in his Bull, where he saith, that he offered money to Lu∣ther to come to Rome.
• * 6.40

  The Pope by the vertue of this vniuersall Quodcunque ligaueris, can do all thinges.
• * 6.41

  Men hyred by the Papistes to kill Luther.
• * 6.42

  The Popes Church flyeth the tryall of the Scripture.
• * 6.43

  What safe con∣ducte M. Luther requireth of the Pope.
• * 6.44

  A new v••••••uersall Church o•• the Pope•• making.
• * 6.45

  The vni••••••••sall Chu•••••• bound to 20. perso••
• * 6.46

  What A••••gustine 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the ••••iuersal Church▪
• * 6.47

  No vniu••••••sall Cat••••••licke 〈◊〉〈◊〉 but onel•• the scrip••tures.
• * 6.48

  The Ca∣tholicke Church, the Chu•••••• of Rome are two thinges.
• * 6.49

  The pri•••• presump••••••on of the Church Rome.
• * 6.50

  Domini•••• ••nd pow•••• maketh ••he chu••••••
• * 6.51

  1. Cor. 2
• * 6.52

  1. C••r 14. The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••••∣ticle.
• * 6.53

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• * 6.54

  Rom. 7.
• * 6.55

  ••. Cor. 1.
• * 6.56

  ••poc. 12.
• * 6.57

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 answer 〈◊〉〈◊〉 M. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the ••. article.
• * 6.58

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• * 6.59

  Aunswere of M. Luther to the 4 article.
• * 6.60

  The popes do∣ctrine gaynfull to the purse.
• * 6.61

  Aunswere of M. Luther to to the 5. article.
• * 6.62

  The answere of M. Luther to the 6. article.
• * 6.63

  The answere of mayster Luther to the 6. a••ticle.
• * 6.64

  The purpose of Luther in set∣ting forth hys articles.
• * 6.65

  •• Pet. 3.
• * 6.66

  Note here good reader that amongest these articles, certayne there be which be∣cause they see∣med somewhat to beare wyth the Pope and his pardons, Lu∣ther comming after to more knowledge that the pope was Antichrist, con∣fesseth himselfe in his 〈◊〉〈◊〉, that he vtterly calleth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the same, not 〈◊〉〈◊〉 king them as the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 would 〈◊〉〈◊〉 had him, but rather aggraua•••••• them a∣gaynst the Pope.
• * 6.67

  Rea•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pag. 849.
• * 6.68

  Read afo•••• pag. 812.