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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00280	An exhortation to the byshops to deale brotherly with theyr brethren		1572 (1572)	STC 10392; ESTC S111888	14,916	22

Christ Antiquitie may deceiue vs nay we see it hathe deceiued vs I can not tell whether it wold stil deceiue it is not true to say it is old therfore it is good Sathan hath bene Lord of thys world a great while Antichrist of Rome pleadeth the continuance of many yeres I know not how many C. yeres neyther doth it follow it is new therfore it was nought it was sayd to Christ what new doctrine is thys yet it was no false doctrine so sayd the false priestes Bishops of Paules doctrine and the rest but it was not therefore naught wil you trie the old and the newe and see in deede which is the new which is the olde search the scriptures If it be found there it is olde say Bishops what they will let the Priestes call it as new as they list if it be not found there it is newe let them say what they can bring neuer so many fathers and neuer so good fathers better thē she brought I am sure they can not and yet dyd Christ preuaile and so will he still for he is the same in his worde that he was then in bodely presence the wryting of the Apostles doe paint him out truely and nothing but him If it be true that they say that this aucthoritie of Bishops churche hierarchie which they maintain come from the Pope and hath no ground but in his law and that God can not suffer to be serued according to mens pleasures in ruling of his house as though he wer such a fole that he could not set order himself or wer carelesse which is no point of wyt that he did not or that he see so little as to deuise an order which could not be for al times places so that we should haue nede of a new holy ghost for al this foloweth vpon that ground that they stand vpon away wyth that vile doctrine or what so euer ye list to terme it what incōuenience so euer wer like to ensue what antiquitie so euer be against it for you see there is a blasphemie ioyned with it which maketh our God a folish a carelesse an vncircumspect and vnprouident god Wel peraduenture they see somthing more then they say some things I am sure they would haue to be reformed which they can not bring to passe as they would therfore thinke it better with pollicie to saue the gospell then to haue it cleane shut out It is a common saying of two euils it is best to chuse the least better it is to haue a gospel of Christ ioyned with a peece of Antichriste then to haue none at all thus they persuade them selues the other doe not so they thincke it not lawful to ioyne God Belial together surely they haue some reason nay they haue greate reason for what societie hathe light wyth darknesse If all the world myght be gained with a little breache of Gods word it were not to be done better it were that the whole world should pearishe then one iote of Gods truth should be ouer slipped Pilate thought he had behaued himselfe wisely when he whipped Christe and put vpon hym a robe of scarlet thinking by that meanes making him to appeare vile to the Iewes to haue had him let goe that they might haue contented thēselues with that litle punishment so might Christ haue preached still But it is wickedly done to policie the matters of Christ after that sort Who so euer thinketh by putting a foles cote vpon Christ and clothing him with a garment which is not his owne to entertain him still thinketh he is content by such means to haue licēce to go preaching amōgst the people he deceiueth himself shal right wel vnderstand at the day of accomptes that God will not be mocked Thus in some respect you haue well to weigh the things that are put forth vnto you by the scriptures without further circumstances leaste in leauing the rule ye go out of rule But I doute not but our lords clergy wil quickly shew you whether it be wel ruled or no they haue said already in theyr sermōs to you that it is a very folish boke I trust they wil giue it vnto you in wryting that you may the better way both But before al things take hede to the word let not the shew of mā deceiue you Peraduēture some of you wil be persuaded bicause a bishop an olde mā a very learned mā saith so bicause this state hath cōtinued a great while many yeares amongst good fathers do not so that is no warrāt of the word you haue had exāples inough to shew vnto you how easie it is to be deceiued therin on the other side let not the simplicitie of men beare you away for that way also you may erre the only straight way as I haue tolde you to kepe you frō going astray is the word of god wherw t they as wel as you I trust will be cōtēt to be tried otherwise they haue no groūd against the papistes if they wil not but refuse to be iudged by the word leue thē there those pore prisoners haue the right whether they be whipped scurged or vtterly hāged assure your selues as wel of them as of your selues if they suffer with Christ they shal be glorified with Christ so shall you That we may so do god giue vs the knowledge of the truth whē we know it to stād stedfast in the truth that the loue of the world feare of mā may not more preuaile with vs then the loue of heauen and feare of god These things that I haue saide vnto you rudely I pray you take in good part good brethrē both you that are of the lerned sort you that are of the sympler I pray you lay forth the truthe as your duetie bindeth you you giue eare to the truthe Confute scismes by the scriptures iudge you thē by scriptures also as prisons be vsed so let the worde which is the armor of your warfare be practised Let not newegate be the only meanes to stay false procedings If you do so where error is redressed by the magistrate you shal be iudged because you dyd not your duety bring thē into the way if they be out or bi such good cōferēce they bring you home The which the father of al mercies graunt through his sonne Christ by our cōfortor the holy ghost FINIS 1. Cor. 12.13.14.19 15.26 Ioh. 17.22 Ioh. 15.11 13.35 Iohn 14.23.15.10.14 mat 10.35 mat 18.0 Eze. 3.17 Ioh. 6.27 Heb. 5.12 Psal. 119.105 Luk. 4.41 Tertullian lib. de spectaculis Iob. 10.12 1. re 18.17 mat 21.33 Ioh. 19.12 Acts. 4.7 1. reg 12.8 1. reg 1.21 Act. 4.19.5.30 1. re 18.22 1. reg 22.6 Iohn 3.4 Ioh. 9.30 mar 7.2.3 Ioh. 5.10 Ioh. 9.34 Ioh. 1.46 Mark. 1. Luk. 2.8 Math. 22. Mat. 28 Ioh. 20.18 Lu. 19.39 Act. 14.5 Luk. 20 20. Iohn 11 20. Mat. 10 25. Luk. 15.39 Iohn 4.20 Ioh. 14.30 Mar. 1.27 Act. 24.14 Ih. 10.1 2. Cor. 6 14. Ih. 19.1 Iohn 5.39 Act. 1.21 Rom. 8.17