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¶The c[o]mparisonletter broken betwene the Antipus and the Antigraphe or answere therunto, with. An apologie or defence of the same Antipus . And reprehence of the Antigraphe. | |
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Nam horum contraria verissima sunt | |
AS verily as Adam created firste his God, | |
So verily he tasted not, the fruite that was forbod | |
As verily as Abell, dyd kil his brother Kayn | |
So verily the shippe made Noe, this is playne | |
5 | As verily as Isaac, his father did begette |
So verily the Sodomites remayne vnburned yet | |
As verily as the Isralites, the Egiptians dyd oppresse | |
So verily did Moyses gyue God the law doubtles | |
As verily as Sampson was slayne, of the lion rampinge was] was, 1548 | |
10 | So verily dyd Goliath distroye Dauid the Kynge |
As verily as in Babilon the meates were eate of Bell | |
So verily the dragone of brasse deuoured Daniell | |
As verily as Christe dyd crucifye the Iewes | |
So verily the Apostles the Gospel dyd refuse | |
15 | As verily as Simon_Magus the Apostles dyd confute |
So verily the Apostles dyd princes persecute | |
As verily as the deuel hath perfecte loue and hope | |
So verily goddes worde doeth constitute the pope | |
As verily as Isicles within be hote and holowe | |
20 | So verily proude prelates our maister Christe do folowe |
As verily as breade doeth make and bake the baker | |
So verily these thefes the priestes can make their maker | |
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That these are true he can not forsake | |
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25 | A Papiste he is and the popes owne knyght |
That preacheth falshed in-stead of ryght | |
He knoweth not howe to paye his dettes | |
But wyth catchinge his creditors in the Popes nettes | |
A thefe, a robber, by preachinge sedicion | |
30 | Is better regarded then the kinges commission |
Amonge Papistes. | |
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Heare of suche true thinges, | |
As ye haue ben wont | |
Nam ea audite verissima sunt | |
AS verely as Adam was create by God | |
So verely he tasted the fruite was forbode | |
As verely as Abel was killed of Cayn | |
So verely made Noy the ship, this is plaine | |
5 | As verely as Isaac was of his father gotte |
So verely was the Sodomites consumed by fire hot | |
As verely as the Egiptians God did opresse | |
So verely gaue God Moyses the lawe doubteles. | |
As verely as Sampson killed the lion rampinge, | |
10 | So verely was Golias killed of dauid the Kinge |
As verely as in Babilon the meates were not eaten of Bell | |
So verely the dragon of brasse deuowred not Daniel | |
As verely as Christe was crucified of the Iewes | |
So verely the Apostles taught vs gods word and true newes | |
15 | As verely as the deuel hath not perfecte loue and hope |
So verely consente not I to the falsenes of the pope | |
As verely as the Isickelles with-in be not hot and hollow | |
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So verely meke prelattes oure master Christe do folowe | |
As verely as breade is made of the baker | |
20 | So verely by gods worde we consecrate our maker |
As verely as gods worde did tourne Moyses rod | |
So verely gods word consecrates the body of God | |
As verely saynt Paulle with me doth well accorde | |
Who makes no difference is giltie of the body of our Lord. | |
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But only gods word no christian can this forsake | |
No papiste he is nor yet the popes knight | |
That preacheth the trueth and abhorreth the vnright | |
He willeth to paye his creditors his dettes | |
30 | Desiringe God to kepe him frome the popes nettes |
No thefe nor robber but voide of sedicion | |
A man well regardynge oure soueraignes commission | |
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You are as fare frome the Gospell as heauen is from hell | |
35 | Amende your liues and folowe charitie |
Leaue your presumptuouse and folishe vanitye | |
The misteries of God ye knowe thys is playne | |
Ye cannot conceyue in your fantasticall brayne | |
Commite your-selfes to God, and the Kynge | |
40 | And folowe holy churche to your endynge |
For vnto these three I wyll sticke | |
And neuer regarde no false hereticke false] flalse 1548 | |
But praye vnto God that I maye se hym burne | |
If he from heresy wyll not tourne | |
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45 | The breade which I wyl gyue, so cleane, so pure |
Christe sayeth is very fleshe stedfaste and suer | |
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I thinke him a beast and a moste vile noddy | |
That wyl not beleue Christ that sayth it is hys body | |
I beleue it with stedfaste herte and mynde | |
50 | As gods owne wordes doth me commaunde and bynde |
So as I beleue he made althinge of nought althinge] althinges 1548 | |
So I beleue it is the body that on the crosse me boughte | |
And the verye bloude as scripture maketh mention | |
Was shed on the crosse for mankinde[s] redemption. mankindes] mankinde 1548 | |
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¶Apologia Antipi. | |
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By your writinge, ea audite verissima sunt. | |
RIght rougheli and rashli, and wel ouer-sene | |
With ruggid reason, vnclerkly conueied | |
Ye cowcher of stones, reproued I wene | |
The proper antipus that truly had saide | |
5 | Without lyne or leuel, foundacion ye laide |
Wherfore it apereth, your worke muste decaye | |
For thinges euill-grounded, will moulder awaye. | |
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As it hath ben the costome, so wil ye stil vse | |
10 | But the trade of your trechery, shall sone be confounde |
Wher-with ye were wont, the trueth to abuse | |
Your doctryne and order, are bothe but confuse | |
To maynteyn your errours, the scripturs ye frame | |
So that ye muste be ouerthrowe with the same. | |
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It is my parte, I can it not denaye | |
Your learning and connyng, I will not omyt | |
For thoughe it be not muche, it is not very gaye | |
Paraduenture ye will thinke, this is but homly play | |
20 | So hastily your wit and learnyng to reproue |
But ther be suche occasions, as me therto moue | |
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Sythen he taxed none, but such as papistes were | |
But it most nedes be so, a fooles brayne is shittil | |
25 | And alwaies dothe showe, which way the hert doth bere |
And euyn so did you nowe, without wisdom or feare | |
That ye haue ben and be? Right earnestly expresse | |
A papist most pestilent, no man will Iudge lesse. | |
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30 | Which ye wrote to antipus, whose contraries be iust |
And yet, I thinke ye toke some other dawes deuise | |
As of some smoky Smyth, and other that ye truste | |
To the which antigraphe, an answere make I muste | |
Wherin I trust the lorde, wilbe my helpe and ayde | |
35 | To proue you an heritique, I am nothing afrayde |
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The antipus : but the contra[r]yes do declare contraryes] contrayes 1548 | |
A boy of twelue yere olde, as well coulde haue done so | |
Wherfore ye showe your wyt, to be but weake and bare | |
40 | To [e]nter in correction, of thinges that perfect are enter] inter 1548 |
But in the latter lines, greate grieffe, ye seme to take | |
Because he sayd such theues, could not their maker make | |
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That as gods worde in Egipt, made a serpent of the Rod | |
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45 | So goddes worde maketh God, ye haue a peuish brayne |
Knowe ye not ye Romayne, that the very word is god? | |
Then howe can he make him-selfe, thou heretical clodde? | |
Art thou not ashamed, suche poison to spewe yet? | |
Christe is not made, nor create, but onely was beget. | |
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I knowe well thou wilt saye, it is by concecration | |
For that is al the holde, of thy most cursed sect | |
And by that worde consecrate, came all the abhominacion | |
For as ye haue abused it ye made it execration | |
55 | A worde I saye it is inuented but by man |
Serch all the euangely and find it if ye can | |
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As light doth with darcknes whiche easely maye be spied | |
For where he speaketh of difference of the body of the Lorde | |
60 | He meaneth not as you flesh-flies do, and that shalbe tried |
The christians the bodye, so Christ the heade, he applied | |
Prouinge the pore his me[m]bers as well as the riche to be members] menbers 1548 | |
The whiche when ye regarde not no difference make ye | |
¶As when the congregation to the lordes supper shal come | |
65 | To eate the breade worthely the Lordes death to betoken |
They must accept al lyke and not some more then some | |
For all they be partakers of Christes body broken | |
This is the very meaning of that saint Paul hath spoken | |
Because this bread doth signifie the lords d[e]ath in our presence death] dath 1548 | |
70 | Betwen that bread and other neades must we make a difference |
¶To eate christes flesh and eke to drynke hys bloud | |
As so to dwel in Christ as he maye dwell in vs | |
Lo here ye maye se playne it is a spirituall foode | |
Beleue and thou hast eaten saynte A[u]gustine sayde thus | |
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75 | Christe when he gaue the breade, wyth handes so glorious |
Sayde when ye shall, do this do it remembringe me | |
He sayde not when ye do it, my body shal it be | |
¶Thys is my body sayde he, which for you shalbe geuen | |
What thinke ye, dyd he meane a body made of bread? | |
80 | No, but it that was present and was betrayed that euen, |
He sayde for them and many, sone after shoulde be dead | |
He created not an-other, no such thinges shal ye reade | |
The death of that one body, for all men is sufficient | |
So wyth his holy memory, let al men be contente | |
85 | ¶He toke the cup and sayde, this is the testament newe |
In my bloud. How thinke ye, made he his bloud of wine? | |
He gaue it for a witnesse, of his bloude-shedynge true | |
Why should you any other wise, his holy wordes define | |
Or as men nothinge spirituall to fleshelynes incline | |
90 | And take his wordes grosly after their Iwishe wayes |
As saint Iohn the euangeliste in the sixt Chapter sayes | |
¶But O thou grosse pharisey, for_go thy fleshely mynde | |
Let scripture the Illuminate, thy Iudgment is but crasse | |
A man God made the, reasonable by nature in thy kynde | |
95 | And thou by thyn vnthankefulnes wilt make thy-self an asse |
Treadinge within the trade, of the moste wicked Masse | |
Wherin thou kepest compasse, as a blind horse in the myl | |
God graunte the to se better, when it shalbe his wyll | |
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NOwe where-as ye stande in Leytons defence, | |
Papisticall actes, ye seme to commence | |
For standing by him stowtly as a champion cheife | |
It is foly to axe you, and your felowe be a thefe | |
5 | Ye haue vnder-take he shall his dettes paye |
But that shalbe the morowe after domes-daye | |
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Ye saye the kinges commission, full well he doeth regarde | |
Regarde ye it better boeth, or ye shall haue rewarde | |
With papistes. | |
10 | Your other wordes also intituled the writer |
A man maye sone perceyue sprange from some shepebiter | |
Ye cal men Gospellers, and saye they swel in Ire | |
But you be full of charitie, ye wishe them in the fire | |
Ye wyl teache men their duitie to God and to the Kynge | |
15 | Which knowe their duitie, better then you in that thyng |
Ye wil folowe holy church, ye saye to your endynge | |
The holy church of Rome, no dought is your meaninge | |
Ye saye in your Antigraphe that you forsake the Pope | |
But no thanke to you, gramercy gentyll Rope. | |
20 | In your writing of the sacrament, ye playe sir hoddy_doddy, |
In vnderstanding the scriptures as crafty as a calfe | |
He that beleueth not as you, ye call him a vile noddy | |
But you proue more a dawe, then I wold take ye by halfe, | |
I leaue ye as ye be, and make no more a_do. | |
25 | Nothinge haue you written, but ye be answered there-to. |
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¶A Mason, a Smyth, and a Paynter fyne | |
Wyth a Mugge, and a Gray, and a Perkens grosse | |
Be fooes to Antipus, at whom thei repine, | |
And hym with great anger, thei turne and thei tosse. | |
5 | As cruel as Iewes, that dyd Christ on the crosse, |
To put hym to rebuke, thei do what they may, | |
But they mysse of their purpose, and go the wrong way. | |
¶The Mason first at Babilon began, | |
Byldyng of the towre that men cal Babel | |
10 | Though he be a Babilonite, Nemprothes owne man. |
That nowe raineth in Rome, it is no great maruaile | |
Thubalkaim the first smyth, and grauer of metell, | |
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For antiquitie and frendshyp, must nedes stande hym by | |
To forge him his toles, to buylde Idolatrie. | |
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As nymble in cariyng, as is my spaniell rugge, | |
He wyll catch a lye by the ende, and wythin halfe an hower | |
Bear it a myle of, for feare it shoulde be sower, | |
20 | The Paynter shal go wyth hym, to painte the matter faire |
Whoso lacketh papistes, here he may haue a paire. | |
Then is there one Perkens, with a belly somwhat large | |
Of kin to Perken_Warbeck, as by his name appereth | |
Which for his good conditions, maye rowe in the barge, | |
25 | At good he stoppeth hys eares, but euyl he sone heareth, |
And al such as are papistes, full earnestly he chereth, | |
And Gray that badgerd, maye not be lefte behynde | |
Nor their sword-bearer of s._Mildredes who knoweth all their mind | |
In knauery. | |
30 | In heresy |
In baudry. | |
In popery. | |
Et cetera. |