An expositio[n] upon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians…An expositio[n] vpon the two epistles of the apostle S. Paul to the Thessalonians…

Venite ad eam omnes qui laboratis, & tribulati estis: & refrigerium & solatium dabit animabus vestris. Come unto her all ye that travel, and be heavily loaden: & she will give rest & comfort to your souls. An other saith the kingdom of god is of two parts, of justice and of mercy. He reserveth justice to himself: & the other part, that is mercy, he hath yielded unto his mother. Therefore one of them playeth the Proctor, & taketh upon him to show the difference of those ¹two courts, saying: A foro justitiae dei appellandum est ad forum misericordiae matris eius. You must appeal from the court of Gods justice, to the court of his mothers mercy. And is there not good cause, he should give us this counsel, if it be true that he hath written? Nulla gratia venit de coelo ad terram, nisi transeat per manu• Mariae. Est enim meàiatrix saluationis, justificationis, reconciliationis, communicationis. No mercy cometh from heaven to the earth, but it must pass by the hands of Mary. For she is the mediator of our salvation, of our justification, of our reconciliation, and of our participation. What is blasphemy, if this be not blasphemy? They which will seem somewhat to blush at these things, will perhaps excuse this, and call it spiritual dalliance. Unhappy are they, and heavy judgement shall abide them, that in such sort dally and scorn the price of ⟨p. 274⟩our redemption. O let us open our eyes: we are the sons of God. God hath given us eyes to see, and ears to hear, and hearts to understand. Let us judge uprightly. It is gods cause. Whosoever considereth these and such other great errors, must needs confess that the church of Rome, hath wrought that departing whereof the Apostle speaketh. In the late council of Trident, Cornelius the Bishop of Bitonto did something plainly acknowledge the great Apostasy, and departing of the church of Rome, both in matters of faith, and in conversation, and life. These be his words, Utinam à religione ad superstitionem, &c. Would God they were not gone wholly with general consent, from religion to superstition: from faith ro infidelity: from Christ to Antichrist: from God to Epicure: saying with wicked heart and filthy mouth, there is no God. Neither hath there been this great while any pastor or Pope, that regarded these things. For they all, both Pope and Cardinals and other sought their own: