A detection of sundrie foule errours, lies, sclaunders, corruptions, and other false dealinges, touching doctrine, and other matters vttered and practized by M.Iewel, in a booke lately by him set foorth entituled, a defence of the apologie. &c. By Thomas Harding doctor of diuinitie.

Iewel. pag. 36.

That the Princes, and Free Cities of Germanie euer persecuted vs, it is vtterly vntrue, and like the rest of your tales. None of them al, no not one vvould euer suffer the same Doctrine of ours to be condemned.

Harding. That the Sacramentaries haue ben persecuted by the Princes of Germanie, and by their Do∣ctours, and by the free Cities,

* 1.1This is so grosse, and so palpable a lye, that no man b•••• you M. Iewel would euer, I thinke, haue had the harte to affirme it so constantly, and that in printe. First Caro∣lostadius* 1.2 the first professour in Saxonie of your Sacramen∣tarie heresie, was bannished out of al Saxonie by the pro∣curement of Luther in the yere. 1525. as witnesseth your owne frende Iohn Sleidan.* 1.3

Againe the yonger Princes of Saxonie, and the Coun∣teis of Mansfeld in the yere 1559. published eche of them a Write, wherein they recken vp, and condemne, the one nine,* 1.4 the other eleuen Sectes, of the whiche your Secte of the Sacramentaries by name is one. This is yet extant to be seene in print, and can not be denied. Lauatherus a Sacramentarie him selfe reporteth it.

Thirdly in the yere. 1561. though in the meeting at Numburg, by the intreatie of certaine Princes the Zuin∣glians were not condemned generally in al Germanie, as the Princes of the Confession of Ausburg would openly and solemnely haue done: yet in the same yere afterward in a Diet holden at Luneburg,* 1.5 Albert of Hardenburg a great Zuinglian was openly condemned for an heretike. Last of al in the same yere. 1561. the Frenche Caluinistes were cōmaunded, and forced by the Magistrates of Frāk∣ford, either to practise no more their manner and order of religion there, or to departe the Citie. Yet you saie you were neuer persecuted either of the Prīces, or of the free Cities in Germanie. What shal I here speake of your bre∣thren at Andwerpe, whom the Martinistes (for so they cal the Lutherans) ioining with the Catholiques, and putting them selues in armes, draue awaie, and compel∣led to flee the Citie? If ye beleeue not me, beleeue

their flight, beleeue your felow minister Hermannus the Predicant (that of late was in Norwiche, and now as I heare saie, is driuen from thence I know not whither) what fauour he and his felowes founde at the handes of the Martinistes.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The. 9. Chapt.
• * 1.2

  Carolo∣stadius.
• * 1.3

  Sleidan. Lib. 5. Histor.
• * 1.4

  Lib. con∣tra 9. Sectas. Lib. cōtra 11. Sectas. Lauathe∣rus in hi∣stor. cōtra Sacra∣ment.
• * 1.5

  Lauathe∣rus ibidē & Surius. Frāciscus Philippus in histor.