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1. Henry VIII's reign2. Dissension among mendicant orders3. Persecution of Lollards4. Richard Hun5. Lollard martyrs6. Persecution in diocese of Lincoln7. Colet, Chaucer and Gower8. Prophecies preceeding Luther9. Martin Luther10. Adrian VI11. Final years of Luther12. Swiss Reformation13. German martyrs14. French martyrs15. Spanish martyrs16. Italian martyrs17. Merindol and Cabriers18. Angrogne
K. Hen. 8. A Table of the Frenche Martyrs.
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
by might, sentence was geuen, and they burned in the sayd towne of Lyons. Being set vpon the carte, they began to sing Psalmes. As they passed by the market place, one of them with a loude voyce, saluted the people with the wordes of the last chap. to the Hebr. The God of peace whiche brought agayn from death the great pastour of the shepe, in the bloud of the eternall Testament. &c. Comming to the place, first the ij. yongest, one after the other, went vp vppon the heape of woode to the stake, and there were fastened, and so after them, the rest. Martiall Alba beyng the eldest, was the last, who likewise being stripped of his clothes, and brought to the stake, desired this petition of the gouernour, which was, that he might go about his felowes tyed at the stake, and kisse them. Whiche beyng graunted, he went and kissed euery one, saying: farewell my brother. Likewise the other foure folow- ing the same exāple, bad ech one fare well my brother. With that the fire was commaunded to be put vnto them. The hāg man had tyed a rope about all their neckes, thinking first to strangle them, but their faces beyng smered with fatte and brymstone, the rope was burned before they were strangled. So the blessed Martyrs, in the mydest of the fire, spake one to an other, to be of good cheare, and so departed. Ex Crisp. Pantal. &c. |
| ¶ Their examinations briefly touched. |
| The Frier. |
| MarginaliaSupremacie. Thou sayest frend, in thy confessiō, þt the Pope is not supreme head, of the Church. I will proue the contrary. The Pope is the successor of S. Peter. Ergo, he is the supreme head of the Churche. |
| The Martyr. |
| I denye first your antecedent. |
| The Frier. |
The Pope sitteth in the place of S. Peter. Ergo, he is the successour of S. Peter. |
| The Martyr. |
I will graunt neither of both: First because that he which succedeth in the roume of Peter, ought to preach & teach, as Peter did: Which thyng þe Pope doth not. Se- condly, although he did so preach as Peter did, he might well folow the example of Peter, yet should not he ther- fore bee the head of the Churche, but a member onely of MarginaliaThe head of the Church.the same. The head of men and Aungels, whom God hath appointed, is Christ alone, sayth S. Paule.MarginaliaEphe. 1. |
| The Frier. |
Although Christ be the head of the whole Church mi- litant and triumphant, yet his Vicar here in earth, is left to supply his rowme. |
| The Martyr. |
Not so, for the power of his diuinitie beyng so great to fill all thinges, hee needeth no Vicar or deputye to supply his absence. |
| The Frier. |
MarginaliaRegiment ciuile, Regiment spirituall.I will proue, that although Christ be king both of hea- uen and earth: yet he hath here in earth many Vicars vnder him, to gouerne his people. |
| The Martyr. |
It is one thyng to rule in the ciuile state, an other thing to rule spiritually. For in ciuile regiment, we haue kinges and princes ordeined of God, by the Scriptures, for the obseruation of publicke societie: In the spirituall regiment and kyngdome of the Churche, it is not so. |
| Then an other Frier. |
Thou sayest, that S. Peter is not the head of the Churche: I will proue he is. Our Lord said to Peter: Thou shalt be called Cephas:MarginaliaIohn. 1. MarginaliaCephas.Whiche Cephas is as much to say in Latine, as head. Ergo, Peter is head of the Churche. |
| The Martyr. |
Where finde you that interpretation? S. Iohn in his first chap. doth expound it otherwise. Thou shalt be cal- led Cephas, that is as much (sayth he) as Petr9, or stone. Thē the Iudge Vilardus callyng for a new Testamēt, turned to the place, and found it to be so. Whereupon the Frier was vtterly dashed, and stode mute. |
| The Frier. |
Thou sayest in thy confession, that a man hath no free will. I will proue it. It is written in the Gospell, how a |
| Persecutors. | Martyrs. | The Causes. |
man going from Hierusalem to Iericho, fell vpon theues, and was spoyled, maymed, and left halfe dead. &c. Tho-MarginaliaLuke. 10. mas of Aquine expoundeth this parable to meane free will, whiche hee sayth is maymed: yet not so, but that some power remaineth in man to worke. | ||
| The Martyr. | ||
| This interpretation I do refuse and denye. | ||
| The Frier. | ||
What? thinkest thou thy selfe better learned then S. Thomas? | ||
| The Martyr. | ||
I do arrogate no such learnyng vnto my self. But this I saye: this parable is not so to be expoūded, but is set forth for example, of the Lord, to cōmend to vs charitie toward our neighbour, how one should helpe an other. | ||
| The Frier. | ||
MarginaliaIustification.Thou sayest in thy confession, that we are iustified one ly by faith. I will proue, that we are iustified by workes. By our workes we do merite. Ergo, by workes we are iustified. | ||
| The Martyr. | ||
| I denye the antecedent. | ||
| The Frier. | ||
S. Paul. Heb. þe last, sayth: Forget not to do good and to distribute vnto others: Talibus enim victimis promeretur Deus. I. For by such oblations God is merited. We merite god by our works: Ergo, we are iustified by our workes. | ||
| The Martyr. | ||
The wordes of S. Paul in that place, be otherwise, & are thus to be translated: Talibus enim victimis delectatur Deus. I. With such sacrifices God is delited, or is well pleased. | ||
| The Iudge Vilard. | ||
Vilard the Iudge turned the boke, and found the place euen to be so, as the prisoner sayd. Here the Friers were meruelously apalled and troubled in their myndes: of whom, one asked then what he thought of confession. | ||
| The Martyr. | ||
MarginaliaConfessiō.To whō the Martyr aunswered, that confession one- ly is to bee made to God, and that those places whiche they allege for auricular confession, out of S. Iames and other, are to be expounded of brotherly reconciliation be twene one an other, and not of confession in the Priestes eare. And here agayne the Friers stode, hauyng nothing to say agaynst it. | ||
| A Blacke Frier. | ||
MarginaliaTransubstātiation.Doest thou not beleue the body of Christ to be locally and corporally in the Sacrament? I will proue the same. Iesus Christ takyng bread sayd: this is my body. Ergo, it is truly his body. | ||
| The Martyr. | ||
The verbe (est) is not to be taken here substantiuely, in his owne proper signification, as shewing the nature of a thyng in substaunce, as in Philosophie it is wont to be taken: but as notyng the propertie of a thyng signifi- yng, after the maner and phrase of Scripture: Where one thyng is wont to be called by the name of an other, so as the signe is called by the name of the thyng signified. &c. So is Circumcisiō called by the name of the Couenaunt, & yet is not the Couenaūt. So the Lambe hath the name of the Passeouer, yet is not the same. In which ij. Sacra ments of þe old lawe, ye see the verbe (est) to be taken, not as shewyng the substaunce of beyng, but þe propertie of beyng, in the thyng that is spoken of: And so likewise in the Sacramentes of the new law. | ||
| The Frier. | ||
MarginaliaSacramentes geue no grace.The Sacramentes of the olde law, and of the new, do differ greatly: For these geue grace, so did not the other. | ||
| The Martyr. | ||
Neither the Sacramentes of the old, nor of the new law, do geue grace, but sheweth him vnto vs which ge- ueth grace in dede. The minister geueth the Sacramēts, but Iesus Christ geueth grace, by the operation of the holy Ghost: Of whom it is said, Thys is he which Bapti- seth with the holy Ghost, &c.MarginaliaIohn. 1. | ||
| The Frier. | ||
The fathers of the old Testament, were they not par- takers of the same grace and promises with vs? | ||
| The Martyr. | ||
| Yes, for S. Paul sayth, that the fathers of the old Te- |
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