Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 2, part 2] 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.

¶Twelue new found Articles of Steuen Gardiners Creede, taught in hys booke called the examination of the hunter.

1. THe ceremonies and traditions which the Bish. of Rome hath ordeyned,* 1.1 and are now allowed in En∣gland, are the pale of the church of England, fol. 7.

2. The Popes ceremonies and traditions, are good and politike lawes, wherby God hath enclosed the kings sub∣iects vnder hys maiestie alone, ibidem.

3. As king Richard an euill man, made a good politicke law for the body & common welth of England: so can the Pope an euill man, make good lawes and wholesome doc∣trine for mans soule and Christes church, fol. 23.

4. * 1.2 Whatsoeuer is good spoken, and vsed by mā, is much more of God, then Christes doctrine, is hys fathers doc∣trine, fol. 33.

5. He that sayth that the law of the Gospell ought onely to be holden in Christes church, and is sufficient alone for it, speaketh so far out of reason, that he is not worthy to be reasoned withall. fol. 37.

6. They that hold that the crosse of siluer or golde, ought not to be worshipped with kissing of it, & bowyng & knee∣ling

to it, are enemies to Christes true crosse, & take away the meanes that might set out the glory of Christes crosse, fol. 49.

7. Neither Paule nor the crosse, can be worshipped with godly honour, fol. 61.

* 1.38. As Christ vsed clay for an instrument to heale the blind mans eyes withall, & hath saued diuers by fayth, & made it an instrument of saluation, and as God hath ordained Timothy to be an instrument of saluation both to himselfe and for other, so may the Pope ordaine holy water to bee an instrument of saluation, both of body and soule, to all them that are sprinkled with it, fol. 64.

9. No man can commit Idolatry with his body alone, & in onely kissyng of an Image or Idol, & in only kneelyng to it, can no Idolatry be committed, fol. 52.

10. For as much as God vnderstandeth them that sing in Latin,* 1.4 though they vnderstand not themselues, their prai∣er is acceptable before God, fol. 76.

11. As a father may forbid certain of his children to mar∣ry, so may a king in hys kingdom forbid certayne of hys subiects to marry, that is to lay, all y^e priests of his realme, fol. 83.

* 1.512. He that would take away the Popes ceremonies out of the church, should driue away all godlinesse and seeme∣lines, all religious and deuout behauiour out of y^e church, fol. 94.

Here hast thou (good Reder) this stout prelate of Win∣chest. with all his properties, doyngs, & qualities, as in a certaine Anatomie proportioned out vnto thee, whereby thou maiest boldly iudge (and nothing erre in thy iudge∣ment) what is to be estemed of hym by his fruits, as who neither was tene Protestant nor right papist: neither cō∣stant in hys error, nor yet stedfast in the truth: neither frēd to the Pope,* 1.6 & yet a perfect enemy to Christ: false in king Henries tyme, a dissembler in K. Edwards tyme, double periured, and a murderer in Queene Maries tyme, mu∣table and inconstāt in all tymes. And finally, where in his letters to the L. Protector and others, vsually he vanteth so much of his late soueraign lord K. Henry the 8. & of the great reputation that he was in with him, read I beseech thee, & behold in the depositions of the L. Paget in the old booke, pag. 806. col. 1. & also in the depositions of the Erle of Bedford, pag. 824. and there ye shall see the king before his death, both excepting hym out of his pardons, & quite strikyng hym out of his last wyll & testament, so detested & abhorred hym, as he did no english man more. And where as the L. Paget beyng sent in message from the K. to the bishoppe, by other words then the kings mynde and will was, of his owne dexteritie gaue to hym good & gracious words, which in deed the kyng neither knew, nor yet wer sent by hym: the B. perswading himselfe otherwise of the kings fauor towards hym, then it was in deed, was ther∣in far deceiued, and brought into a fooles paradise: wher∣of read both in the old booke before, and also in this present volume.

To describe & paint out the vnstable mutabilitie of this B. aforesaid, albeit here need no more to be added besides that which is alredy declared,* 1.7 yet notwithstanding, seyng the matter is not long, it shal not be out of the way to an∣nexe withall vnto the premisses a piece of Drianders let∣ter, written to one Crispine phisition in Oxford, sent from Antwerpe concerning the doyngs and behauiour of this B. of Winchester, whose story we haue now in hand. The copy of which Drianders letter,* 1.8 written to the sayd Cris∣pine hys friend, beginneth thus.

Notes

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  Alledged out of the booke of D. Turner in∣tituled: The reseuer of the Ro∣mish Foxe. One vsur∣per well compared with an o∣ther.
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  Note here blasphe∣mous Win∣chest▪ pre∣ferring the words spo∣ken by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 before Christes doctrine.
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  The B. of Winchester Maister of Ceremo∣nyes.
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  The B. of Winchester 〈…〉〈…〉 the 〈…〉〈…〉 of K. 〈…〉〈…〉 to∣wards him.
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  Winchester ••••••iable in 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
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