name, but
what fruite followed? Nothing but bitter grapes, yea, bryers
and brambles, the wormewood of auarice, the gall of
crueltie, the poison of filthie fornication, flowing from
head to fote, the contempt of God, and open defence of the
cake idole, by open proclamation to be read in the churches
in steede of God's Scriptures. Thus was there no
reformation, but a deformation, in the time of the tyrant
and lecherouse monster. The bore I graunt was busie,
wrooting and digging in the earth, and all his pigges that
followed him, but they sought onely for the pleasant
fruites, that they winded with their long snoutes; and for
their own bellies sake, they wrooted up many weeds; but they
turned the grounde so, mingling goode and badde togeather,
sweet and sower, medecine and poyson, they made, I saye,
suche confusion of religion and lawes, that no good thinge
could growe, but by great miracle, under suche gardeners.
And no maruaile, if it be rightlye considered. For this bore
raged against God, against the Divell, against Christe, and
against Antichrist, as the fome that he cast oute against
Luther, the racing out of the name of the pope, and yet
allowing his lawes, and his murder of many Christian
souldiars, and of many Papists, doe declare and evidentlie
testifie unto us; especially the burning of Barnes, Jerome,
and Garrette, their faithfull preachers of the truthe, and
hanging the same daye for the maintenaunce of the pope,
Poel, Abel, and Fetherstone, dothe clearlie painte his
beastlines, that he cared for no religion. This monsterous
bore for all this must needes be called the head of the
church in paine of treason, displacing Christ, our onely
head, who ought alone to haue this title." _Admonition to
England and Scotland, &c._, Geneva, 1558, p. 69. Quoted by
Stapleton in his _Counter Blaste to Horne's Vayne Blaste_,
Lovan., 1567, 4to., fol. 23. Gilbie was a Protestant; upon
which Stapleton who was a rigid Roman Catholic, shrewdly
remarks in the margin: "See how religiously the Protestantes
speak of their princes!"]

[Footnote 292: Mr. Edwards informs me that he has had a copy
of the "_Assertio Septem Sacramentorum aduersus Martin
Lutherum_," &c. (printed by Pynson in 4to., both with and
without date--1521), UPON VELLU