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from place to place from countrey to countrey to offer to cary and bryng to them that neyther sawe nor felte but yet receauers they had that refused nothing al was fyshe that came to the net with thē these p●●feryng pilgrimages had that papisticall broode Romyshe ●able deuised for their own lukers sake which though beneficiall to themselues yet moste abhominable in the sighte of God and a playne robbyng of God of the honour and reuerence only due vnto hym wherof thoughe they were not ignoraunt yet careles Secondly touching the Masse which was their chiefe staffe to stand by howe were we by them persuaded coniured and brought to beleue the same to be a sacrifice to put away the sinnes bothe of the quicke and the dead and that by the vertue ther of as they saide they transported soules from purgatorye to paradise purchased eternall saluation ye what sore was it not a salue for or what diseases wold it not cure And after the wordes of consecration spoken then no bread nor wine to remaine but were forthwith altered and turned into the very body and bloude of Christe ye the very same proportion of body that honge on the crosse to be there foorthe commyng at their commaundemente they had hym in a strynge in suche subiection to plucke him to them and put him from them at their owne pleasure the creator to be subiect to the creature Oh abhominable blasphemye oh diuelishe detestable and shamelesse sacrificers directly denying the death of Iesu Christe to be onely sufficient But now beholde therefore what they are and what theyr owne doyngs declare them to be euen the very enemyes of Christ Iesu they kepte the symple ones ignoraunte and shewe themselues to bee euen they Ro. xvi whome Paule willed vs to be ware of who with their flatteryng woordes and sweete preachynges deceaue the heartes of the innocentes These I saye be they of that viperous generation of that fylthye broode that oure Sauiour Christ warneth vs of Math 24. Mar. xiii by the holy Euangelist Mathew * If any man say vnto you to here is Christe or there is Christe beleue them not For there shall aryse false Christes and fals prophets shal do great myracles wonders in so much that if it wer possible the very elect shold be deceiued And alas howe were we poore selye wretches and innocentes in bondage wretchedly wrapped in captiuitie of many yeares subiect to these gredy whelpes of Antichrist who without all shame and destitute of godly feare continual lye poured out vppon and in maner drouned vs with innumerable blasphemies and hipocritical superstitious ceremonies ageinst God and his truthe Thus were we by them led towardes destruction of body and soule Thus were we through that wicked Romish trayne still kepte from the bryght beames of gods holy worde And beyng thus in our chiefe extremitie at an exigent euen at the pytte brynke of pardition beholde the mercyfull goodnes of our almyghty God the God of our forefathers Abraham Isaac and Iacob beholde I say the great care of God for his people who he so derely hath bought euen with the precious bloude of his sonne Christe behold how God here tendred the workes of his owne handes ye and behold the sweete and comfortable promyses of our sauiour Christe moste louingly performed Nothyng saith he is in secrete that shall not come abrode Mar. 8. nor any thyng hyd that shall not come to light be know● For lost plesed our heauenly father of his free mercy then that his worde should be a lanterne to our feete Psal 119. Ma● ● and a lyght to our path wais where as before we walked in darkenes now dyd the blynde see and the deafe heare and to the poore was the gladde tidyngs preached Psalm 19. This woord gaue lyght and brought foorth vnderstanding euen vnto the very babes it offred an euerlasting enheritance vnto all those that with constaunt faithe did or doo imbrace it God stirred vp then his faithful ministers to pronoūce the same his wil vnto vs Psalm ●7 to winne his people vnto hymselfe Oh how mercifully dyd god then blesse vs and shew the light of his countenance vpon vs geuyng vs true and skilful shepardes to guide vs euen such as at his hands had receiued a spiritual vnderstanding They preached vnto vs the kyngdome of god to be at hand They preached vnto vs the lost shepe of Israel the gospel of the kingdom of god They preached repentance Mathe. ● * Freely they receyued euē of the good gyfte of god And freely they gaue agayn so that thorough the sounde and true doctrine of Iesu Christ taught by them we were led to the strayght and narrowe waye that leadeth vnto lyfe Mat. 7. Note therfore nowe gentyl Christian the great diuersitie in this pointe beetwene the fantasies dreames and inuentions of the perillous papistes and how much they varye and disagre with the truth of god taught vnto vs by the faythfull ministers of his most holy and inuincible worde The Romish broode taught vs that with gadding on pilgrimage and offring of money and trifles to stockes and blockes our sinnes were forgeuen vs and that those worme eaten ambassadours and painted Idoles were as mediators to take vp the matter betwene god and vs but S. Iames sayeth Iames. i●● that these bee lyers against the truth and their wisedom not to discend from aboue but is earthly naturall diuelish and therfore to be detested abhorred and vtterlye despised But the true pilgremage in dede was taughte vs by the trustye messangers of their Master Christ Pet●er 2. And which of al Christians ought continually to be obserued and followed and this it is Iame ● ● that we abstayn from sleshely lustes which fyght agaynst the soule to visit the prisoners and succourles people the fatherlesse in their aduersity to clothe and couer our nedy naked brethren with som holsom and comfortable garment c. But not to apparrell the blunt blocke that neyther feeleth heate nor colde and howe is it then possible they shoulde help vs or do vs any pleasure that cannot helpe themselues ye what neede we anye other mediatour or intercessour Iohn i. but him whome we haue alreadye to be our aduocate with the father euen Iesu Christ that righteous one And thus dydde those holy men of God teache vs they taughte vs Christ alone to be oure intercessour and aduocate and that God alone absolueth and freelye forgeueth vs for Christ his sake all our sins if we earnestly repent and beleue as witnesseth Peter we are saith he 1. Peter 1 iustified by faithe only in Christ his blood let this be sufficient in this pointe And now to the second pointe concernyng the reall presence of Christ to be in their Masse whiche the Papistes continually taught earnestly affirmed and with tooth and nayle mainteined Note now I say here the true vnderstanding thereof taught vs by Christ his
ministers which they lerned in the boke of life vppon whiche foundation the apostles and auncient fathers and doctours of the Church in this pointe haue builded as vpon a most sure and infallible rocke Hebr. ix Act. 7.17 Esay 66. Christe saith Paule is not entred into the holy places that are made with handes whiche are but similitudes of true thynges but is entred into the very heauens for to appeare now in the sight of God for vs. Euery priest is ready daily ministring and oftentymes offreth one maner offrynge Hebr. x. whiche can neuer take awaye synne but this man after he had offered one sacrifice for synnes satte hym downe for euer on the right hande of God and from hensfoorth taryeth till his foes be made his footestoole Ye shal haue poore folke always with you Math. 26. Iohn 12. Mark 14. Iohn 7. but me shall ye not haue Also Sainte Iohn in hys vii Chapiter ye shall seke me and shal not fynde me wher I am thether can ye not come Athanasius likewise in his crede sayth that Christ ascended into heauen and sytteth on the ryghte hande of God the father almyghtie from whence he shall come to Iudge the quicke and the dead And more ouer in the articles of oure fayth the thyrde daye he rose agayne from the dead he ascended into heauen and sytteth on the righte hande of God and from thence he shal come to Iudge the quicke and the dead which iudgement of the quicke and the dead if it be already past then is Christ really present as the papystes affyrme But if that dredful day be yet to com as it is the part duty of Christians to beleue although it be not farre of then is not Christ now with vs as in hys humanitye Mat. 16. Marce. 8. Luc. 9. but shal come in the glorye of hys father with hys Angels and then shall reward euery mā accordyng to his dedes at whose cōmyng God graunt we may be found readye and not slepyng Wel then for as muche as that one offrynge of Iesu Christ being all in al and onely sufficient To what entent or purpose should we haue such so many daily sacrifices for what are they but a very plain denial of Christ crucifyed to be a sacrifyce only sufficient for those that beleue to haue saluation therby And thus good Christian brethren although ther be in holy scripture many more places to bee alledged which myght be applyed and aptly serue for the satysfyeng o● Christian consciences in this point that Christ sitteth at the right hand of the father as touchyng hys humanitye Yet I praye you let these for briefnes presently bee sufficiente and hereby may ye now see how the iugglyng Masse Priests haue abused the Sacrament of the body and bloude of Christ whiche mystery of all the faythfull oughte thus to be vnderstanded and for this purpose did Christ our sauior institute ordaine and leaue it vnto vs to be vsed That thou Christian shouldest come there vnto with a penitent hart for thy former offences fullye and earnestlye purposyng through the assistance of the almighty to put vpō thee the new mā which is created after god in righteousnesse and holynes of truth stedfastlye beleuynge that through the passion bloudshed and death of Christ vpō the Crosse which the bread wyne as holy signes do represent thou hast I say obtayned full remyssion of thy synnes And in thys fayth with reuerence and humblenes of hart eate and drynke the mysteries of the body bloud of Christ And this glorious worke hath oure almyghtye and gratious God the father wrought in by his sonne Iesu Christ our sauiour for the saluatiō of as many as stedfastly beleue the same And thus is to be vnderstanded of this pure holy Sacrament and not that after the subtyl sorcerye and coniuration of the priest being finished the bodye of oure sauiour Christe to be forth with there in the ful proportion of hys humanitye For as Sainte Austen witnesseth the bodily presence of Christe concerninge his humanitye is in some one place of heauen but hys diuyne presence was is and shal be there here and in all places where it shal please hym alwaies ready to assiste those that faythfully ar gathered together in his name And agayne he sayeth as concernyng the presence of hys fleshe The Church had Christ but a fewe dayes yet nowe it holdeth hym faste by fayth though it see hym not with eyes Cirillus lykewyse wryteth that all thoughe Christe toke awaye from hence the presence of his body yet in the Maiesty of his Godheade he is euer here Also Gregory affirmeth that Christ is not here by the presence of hys fleshe and yet is absent no where by the presence of hys Maiestye And thys I take to be so playnly sayd to satysfye in thys poynt as that there nedeth no more rehearsall of any other authors But if thys suffyse the not resorte then vnto the golden booke of that worthye Cramner late Archebyshoppe of Canturburye where thou mayest haue grounde woorke and sure foundation sufficient to buyld thy faith vpon in thys poynt and then with an vpryght conscience iudge indyfferently howe muche the dyuelishe and erronious doctrine inuented by the papists dysagreeth and varyeth from the sacred woorde of God and the opinions and mynds of the fathers and the Doctors of the primatiue church Wel thus were we instructed thus had we I say the truth of god taught and opened vnto vs we were dayly fed and nourished with the liuely words of god In the settyng forth and teachyng wherof when the preachers had diligently traueled and through their zelous earnestnes in the declaration of their Master Christ hys message they had so instructed and taught vs that thereby we were somewhat trayned from the daungerous perillous pathwaies of perditiō wherin we were before blyndly led and that by the assistance of God through those hys ministers wee were broughte to some vnderstandyng and knowledge of hym and hadde some taste and swetenesse of the Gospell of Iesu Christe which is the pleasaunt path way the leadeth to eternall saluation Then seased they not but continually and louyngly exhorted vs not to bee forgetfull of the greate mercye that God hadde so louynglye shewed in the reuealynge of hys truthe vnto vs styl puttyng vs in remembrance to perseuer in the same Proue 23 applying our hartes vnto learning and our eares vnto the words of knowledge 2 Timo 3 to cōtinue in reading the holy scriptures which is able to make vs wise vnto saluation throughe the fayth whiche is in Christ Iesu Thus wer we thē taught ye infinite numbers of godly instructions were geuē vs by these schoole masters worthy of their office 1 Peter 2 These wer true instructors these were they that Peter speaketh of euen the true prophets of the chosen generation of the holy natiō peculiar people that shewed vs the vertues of him