conforte Heretofore we were taughte / that the Lordes soupper / or breaking of the bread / as The Lordes supper is a memorial of Christes deathe the Apostles terme it / is a memorial of the body breaking bloud sheading of our sauiouâ— Christ / that as we outwardly fede of the breade wyne / so we inwardly thorow fayth fede of the blessed bodye precious bloude of Iesus Christ our Lord / vnto the greate and vnspeakable conforte bothe of soule and bodye But nowe the disciples of Antichrist knowing that the whole glory of their kyngdome lygheth in the sals opinion abuse of this SacrameÌ„t / in all their sermons priuate talke / labour / swyncke / sweate and seke all meanes possible with tothe and nayle / with hande foote / wyth tunge and peÌ„ne / with fyre and faggot / with swerde and halter to perswade the people / that after they haue whyspered a fewe Latin wordes / with one breath ouer the bread and wyne / and haue blessed / crossed / coniured and handled them after their ghostely manner / there remayneth nomore breadde and wyne / althoughe we bothese / fele / and taste veâ—y bread and very wyne / yea / although the holy scripture / after the wordes of consecracioÌ„ / called the SacrameÌ„t / bread and wyne / but saye they / the bread thorowe the vertue of the wordes / whiche we holye annoynted reherse / is turned into the naturall substaunce of Christes bodye / and the wyne is chaunged into the naturall bloude O â—uglers of Christe / onely the accidentâ—s of breadde and wyne remayninge / whan notwithstaÌ„ding the holy scriptures teach vs in diuers places / that thy Christ is ascended into heauen / and sytteth on thy right hande / there shall remayne / concerâ—ing hys humanite / tyll he come too iudge the quicke and the dead Marc. 16. Luc. 24 Act. 1. Rom. 8. Ephe. 4. Colos 3. Philip. 3. Heb. 10. And after these Capernaites haue â—â—bored to perswade the people / that the Sacramentall breade is the very true / naturall / corporall / substanciall / reall / and sensible bodye of Christe / euen the selfsame that was borne of Mary the virgine / lyued vpoÌ„ the earthe / was hanged vppon the crosse / dyed for vs / than exhorte they the people with all reuerence and humilite to knowledge and beleue it too be their Lorde God / theyr maker and redemer / their Sauiour and defender / and so too falle doune before it to honoure and worshippe it / to prayse call vpon it / to fle vnto it for soccoure / and to looke for all good thinges of it / as of the very true and euerlastinge God O abhomâ— nacion By these means o heauenly father they bring away thy people thorow theyâ— vayne / fleshly and sophisticall reasons / from the honoringe of the thalone true / Imortal / muisible euerlasting God / vnto the worshippig of a pece of bâ—cad / yea / of a very idol / where as thou alone oughtest to haue al the honor glory 1. Timo. 1 Psal 98. O Lorde aryse / and lette thyne enemies be scattered / let theÌ„ also that hate the / flee before the / like aâ— the smok vanisheth / so driuâ— thou them awaye / lyke as waxe melteth at the fyre / so let the vugodly papisâ—es perish and be confouÌ„ded that thy people be no leâ—ger seduced / ledde froÌ„ the way of trueth / by their subtile and carnall imaginacions / but that thei beynge truely taughte / may know the too be the alone true God / and whome thou hast sent Iesus Christ Ioan. 17. Heretofore we had in the temples whan we came together to praye and to geue thaÌ„kes vnto the / all our prayers thankee geuing in the tuÌ„ge that we vâ—derstode / wherby we receaued great coÌ„forte / were much edified Common â—raier ought to be in that â—â—ge that all the people vnderstande But now the papistes which with thy people to be more rude thaÌ„ asses / more biynde than beâ—les / more ignorant than dastardes / that they mighte make them there ryding fooles and lauggyng stockes coÌ„trary too the vsage and practise of the primatiue Churche / yea / contrary to thy commaundemeÌ„t geuen by thyne Apostle / which willeth all thinges in the congregacion too be vttered in suche a speache as all might vnderstande and be edified / or els silence to be kept / haue brought the matter to this poâ—t / that all English seruice dryuen oute of the Churches / thei haue stablished their popish 1. Cor. 4. latin seruice / which the moste parte of thy people vnderstand nothinge at all O 〈◊〉 Aâ—d yet so cruell malicious are the papistes / that they enforce and with violence compel thy people to come vnto their Romish / superâ—â—icious / blasphemous / and idolatrous Latin seruice / to heare it / to reuerence honoure it with their presence / and too call it Gods seruice / whan they vnderstaÌ„d noâ— / whither Baals priestes that there bleate muÌ„ble / do blesse or curse / prayse or blaspheme Moste certeyn is this / that thy people are altogether without edifienge / spende theyr time in vayn / return hom agaiÌ„ / as vnlearned ignoraunte / as they came thyther Heretofore we had redde in oure temples euery sonday / and at diuers other tymes a godly and learned homely or sermoÌ„ / and certayn chapters oute of the holy Bible in the Englishe tunge / that all the people mighte vnderstande what was done or sayde / whiche gaue them occasioÌ„ to forsake â—ice / and to embrace vertue / to lyue in thy fayre / and diligently to call vpoÌ„ thy blessed name Homilies in Englishe chapterâ— of the Bible But now bothe those godly homiles and confortable chapters haue thyne enemies the papistes baÌ„nished out of the teÌ„ples vnto the great discomfort of al such as vnfaynedly â—oue the / and thy blessed worde / in the stead of theÌ„ / they haue set vp blasphe mous collacioÌ„s / synging / rynging / pyping / sensynge / holy water castinge / holy breade â—ealing / palmes and candles bearing / crosse kneling / bread worshipping / asâ—hes â—odding fyre and rapers halowing / with an infinite number of such lyke Heathen ceremonies / that the people beyng occupied with suche chyldishe trifles / lousye tradicious and beggarly Popisâ— bagâ—agâ— ceremonies / myghte forget the wholsome foode of theyr soules / whiche is thy holy and blessed worde Math. 4. Heretofore / vpon the Sondayes certayne other dayes in the weke / we had the Letanye rehersed amonge vs in oure Englyâ—hetuÌ„g / euery one of vs kneling deuoutly and 〈◊〉 callynge on the for mercy and grace The Letanâ—â—â—n Englisshâ— O heaueÌ„ly father / this was setforth in the tyme of thy seruaunte kynge Henry the eyghâ—e / and continued among vs / vntyl the
death of that most godly and verteous prynce â—ynge Edwarde the syxte / and a littel after vnto the syngulare â—oâ—e and great conforte of all godly and Christen harted people But now the subtile and fleshely papâ—stes haue soo bewyiched the Quenes eyes / that whatsoeuer her father and her brother / moste godly broughte too passe for the aâ—auncement of thy glory / for the edifyeng of thy people / that is vtterly subuerted taken for heresye / yea / and spitefullye preached agaynste in open sermons / so that this godly mooste wholsome Letanye is not onely taken awaye from vs / but in the stead thereof we are compelled to go on precession / following an Idoll / with synginge Ora pro nobis Salue festa dies or some other â—laspâ—emous songe vnto the greate sorowe and inwarde harte / breakinge of all thy faythfull Heretofore / thy Sacramentes were so ministred vnto vs / that we receaued greate conforte by them Sacramentâ— trulystred But nowe they are so ministred of thys swynyâ—he spirituall forcerers / that they are become dumme and idle ceremonies altogether withoute edyfyeng or profyt For besydes that they are ministred in an vnknowentunge / howe be they defyled with mens tradicioâ—â— / beggarly ceremonies vnto the Sacrament of Baptisme / they putte Heatenish rites and wicked coniuracions The Sacrament of Baptisme For Baals prieste / before the chylde canne be baptised / bewytcheth the water / shutteth the church doore / coniureth the deuel out of the poore youÌ„ge Infaunt / bespueth the chylde with his vile spitle and stincking slaueringe / putteth salt in theÌ„ chyldes mouth / smereth it with greasye â—â—sauer oyle / c. And withoute these apyâ—h toyes / they make the people beleue / that the baptisme is nothiÌ„g worth Ah good is this any other thing than a playâ—e laughing to scorne of thy dere soÌ„nes institutioÌ„ Do these papistes / by adding their beggarly ceremonies anye other thinge / than set thy sonne Christe to schole / and auaunce theyr owne fleâ—hly imaginacioÌ„s aboue the wysedome of the Lorde Christ The Sacrament also of thy dere sonnes body bloude / howe haue the aduersaries prophanated and defyled The SacrameÌ„t of Christes bodij bâ—â—â—de thy sonne bothe before and after the ministracion of the Sacrament preached vnto his disciples The papistes preache nothing at all Thy sonne spake the wordes of the institucion openly in that tunge / that all the disciples vnderstoode The papistes vtter all thinges in a straunge language / yea / and that so softely that they scace heare theÌ„ selfes A comparisoÌ„ betvven Christ the papistes in the ministracion of the Sacrament Thy sonne ministred the Sacramentes without putting on of any disguysed apparel The papistes decke them selfes lyke hycke scorner in game players garmentes Thy sonne ministred the Sacrament / sitting at the table with hys disciples The papistes stande at the aultare / and geue the bread and wyne to the people kneling Thy sonne gaue the SacrameÌ„tal bread to the disciples in their handes / sayeng Take / eate The papistes thrust the bread into the people mouthes / as â—hough they had not so muche witte as to fede them selfes Thy sonne ministred the Sacrament of hys body and bloude vnder bothe kyndes to hys disciples The papistes do minister it to the laye people onely vnder one kynde / and like theues steale the other awayâ— from them / and reserue it to themselfes alone Thy sonne brake the Sacramentall bread The papistes vse no breakinge of the bread / as Christe and his Apostles and all the primatiue churche did for to declare the misâ—erie of Christes bodye / breakinge on the aultare of the crosse for oure redempcion / but they putte into the peoples mouthes a littell lighte whyghte waffer cake / speaking to them a fewe wordes in Latin / whiche they vnderstande not Thy sonne did appointe the SacrameÌ„tall bread to be broken and eaten The papistes kepe it whole / and hange it vp in the pyxe / yea / and carrye it about for a pageaunte in their idolatrous / popish / pompous processions Thy sonne instituted the SacrameÌ„t to be a memortall of hys bodye breakinge and bloude shedding The papistes teache / that the bread and wyne is turned into the naturall bodye and bloude of Christe God and manne / euen the selfesame bodye that was borne of Marye the vyrgine / fleshe / bloude / and bone / so that there remayueth neither bread nor wyne / although the holy scripture affyrmeth playnely / that this is bothe bread Bread and vvyne remain in the Sacraments after the vvordes off consecracioÌ„ wyne remaining / the doctors of the Christen primatiue churche testefyed the same in their writtinges / the Greke church / eueÌ„ froÌ„ the Apostles tyme vnto this daye haue so receaued beleued / vtterly deuieng the popish artâ—kle of traÌ„ssubstaÌ„tiaciâ— / reason also all the senses of man testefye that there remayne both bread and wyne / after the woordes of consecracion / as they vse to terme them / yea / and experience teacheth / that if the Sacramentall breadde be longe reserued / it will corrupte / putrifie moulde / styncke / and bredefull of wormes / and the wyne lykewise / will chaunge the colloure and waxe soure Traâ—ssubstantiacion O heauenly father / suche corrupcion can not chaunce too thy dâ—â—e sonnes body bloud / which is vncorruptible â—mortal / sitteth on thy right-hand / raygneth with the in glory for euer euer This Antichristian doctrine / o blessed Lorde / was not knowen in thy holye Churche / vâ—tyll pope Nicholas / pope Innocent / pope Vrbane / Fryer Thomas / and suche other ministers of Sathan / partely with their tyrannye / and partelye with their sophistrye / as their apysshe adherentes doo nowe agayne in thys oure dayes / broughte it in / and compelled the Christians with fyre and swearde / to beleue thys theyr monstruous opinion / for the mayntenauÌ„ce of their bellye kyngdom / although it be neuer so muche contrarie too the artikles of oure fayth / and too the doctrine of the holy scripture / and of all the aunciente writters Thy sonne at hys supper / willed the Sacramentall bread and wyne too be eaten and droncken for a remembrauÌ„ce off that one / and alone sacrifice / whiche he offered on the altare of the crosse / for the synnes of the people The papistes in their ido latrous and abhominable masses make of the Sacrament a propiciatorie / expiatory and satisfactory sacrifice for the synnes off the people / necessary Ad saluteÌ„ affirming that their acte in the masse is of equal price / dignitie / vertue / myghte / efficacie and power before the eyes of thy diuine maiestie with the moste healthfull and swete smellyng sacrifice / that thy sonne offered on the altare of the crosse / whaÌ„ he gaue hiÌ„ self vnto the death for the synnes of
the people O intolleâ—ble blasphemie Thy sonne ordayned the Sacramente too be a signe and token of â—ouâ— / whaÌ„ the godly come together to eate all of one breadâ— to drinkâ— all of one cuppe The papistes make it 〈◊〉 Sacramente of dissencion / discorde and debate For if anye will not agree too theyr flesâ—helye / wycked and dettelyâ—â—he â—pynyon / confessynge theyr erroure off transsubstantiatioÌ„ / and affyrmingâ— that the bread and wyne is the very naturall bodye and bloude of Christe God and man / and therefore oughte too be â—neled vnto / worshipped / honored / and called vppon as the onely true / lyuynge and immortall God / they falle oute with them / they calle them heretykes / they persecute them / they apprehende them / they empresonne burne them without mercy And as the wicked papistes prophanate and vnhallowe these twoo aforesayde holy Sacramentes / so do they lyke fylthye swyne defyle all other misteries / that thy sonne Chrisâ—e hath ordayned with reuereÌ„ce to be vsed in thy church An Lorde God and oure heaueÌ„ly father / therfore we were taught too worâ—hip the in spirite and truethe / and too praye vnto the euery where / lyftinge vp pure handes without wrathe or doubtinge Ioan. 4. 1. Tim. 2. But nowe the papistes teache vs to praye vnto the and vnto all the coÌ„pany of heauen with boynge and bleatinge in the quyre / with playeng on the organs / with sayeng ladies psalters on beades / with mumblynge ouer certayne prayers / in the tunge that we vnderstande not Praâ—â—r Heretofore we were taughte / that thou alone forgeuest vs all our synâ—es / whan souer we earnestly repent / and vnfayâ—edly turne vnto the God alone forgeueth sinne But nowe the papistes teache / that they also haue power too forgeue synnes / and that oure synnes can not be forgeuen / excepte we confesse them vnto the prieste with all circumstaunces Esa 43. Marc. 2. Luc. 5. Heretofore we were taught to looke for all saluacion of the thorowe faythe in the bloude of Christe Faith onely iustefied But nowe the papistes teache vs to looke for saluacioÌ„ in our owne good workes / in the intercession of sainctes / in prayers and merites of synneful hypocrites and beastly belligoddes / in ceremonies / in wil workes / in tradicious of men / in holy bread / holy water / holy candels / holy palmes / holy asâ—hes / latine seruice / idolatrous masses / supersticious Diriges / trifelinge trentalles / popishe fastinges / belles / beades / c. Abominacions Heretofore we were taught to caste out of our temples the Idols and Mawmettes wherwith many comâ—itted spiritual whordome and raÌ„ne an whoring / and to garnish the churche with the holy scriptures / that the people might learne to know to feare the. Images not tollerable in the teÌ„ples of the Christians But now the vngodlye papistes haue brought the matter to this pointe / that the sentences of thy blessed lawe are blotted / vtterly wyped out of the temples / Idols are there placed manifestlye and directly / agaynste thy blessed commaundemente / which thy enemies call laye meÌ„s CaleÌ„ders Exod. 20 Leuit. 19. Deut. 5. 7. 12. or bokes / as though o Lorde God / the people might soner be brought vnto the knowledge of the / by looking on deformed stockâ—s stones / than by reading thy holy blessed worde Ioan. 5 Thy sonne our sauiour Christ coÌ„maundeth vs to searche the scriptures / and not to beholde Idols and Mawmettes Ioan. 8. He that is of god / saythe he / hearethe the word of god He sayethe not / he that is of god ruÌ„eth vnto Images / seeth what goodnes he caÌ„ne pycke out of theÌ„ Agayn he sayeth My shepe heare my voyce Ioan. 10 He sayeth not my shepe hath a delyghte and pleasure too beholde vayne Idols and mahounde lyke Mawmettes Psal 119. Thy seruaunt Dauid calleth them blessed / that searche thy testimonies and haue a pleasure too studie in thy lawe daye and night Psalm 1. For thy holy worde is only the boke / wherin thy people ought to looke / and not dumme Images carued Idolles / which are cursed of the in thy holy law / yea the makers of them also Deut. 27 Ah Lorde God / they that haue this procured / that thy holy worde should be wyped and blotted out of the churches / is it not to be thoughte / that their names are blotted and wypedâ— out of the â—oke of lyfe alsoâ— Yea / is it not too be thought that such Antichristes wold gladly haue bothe the / thy holy worde / yea / thy blessed name so blotted wyped out of all mens hartes / that thou mightest neuer be The holy scriptures vvyped out of the temples idols placed remembred more / but that they and theyr deueliâ—â— decrees might alone raygne / rule / ruffle and triumphe / makyng all men euen from the hyghest to the lowest their miserable captiues wretched bond slaues It maye right wel be sayde vnto them / as our sauiour Christ sayd vnto the wicked styfnecked Iewes He that is of God / heareth the worde of God Ioan. 8. Ioan. 10. Ye therfore heare it not / because ye are not of God Again / ye beleue not / because ye are not of my shepe Iere. 3. Ah Lord these chyldren of Belâ—all haue forsaken the thalone fountayne of lyuely water / they haue dygged to theÌ„ selfs puddels / yea / dyle dyrtie puddels / that are able too holde no water They are such people / as coÌ„tinually prouoke the vnto anger Esa 30. They are lyeÌ„g chyldreÌ„ / yea / such chyldreÌ„ / as will not heare the law of God They say to the preachers / loke oute of the scriptures no good lessoÌ„s for vs. And to the godly lerned they say / tel not vs those thinges that are right / neither rebuke our wickednes Idolatry / but speake vnto vs pleasauÌ„t thiÌ„ges / such as we delight too heare Tel not vs of gods aÌ„ger / iustice iudgemeÌ„t againste the stifnecked idolators / but preach vnto vs fals thinges / fables / lyes / erâ—ors / saicts liues out of the goldeÌ„ legeÌ„d / narracioÌ„s out of the festiual / exaÌ„ples out of Viâ—as patruÌ„ The doctrine of the papistes authorites out of sermoÌ„s Dormi mens tradicions / laudable ceremonies / coÌ„mendable customes / holye rites / aunciente vsages / good enteâ—tes / iustificacion of workes / transsubstantiacion / the corporall presence of Christ / in the Sacramente of the aultare / vnder the accidentes of bread / c. The propiciatory sacrifice of the masse / the receauinge of the Sacramente vnder one kynde / contrary to Christes institucion / auriculare confession / c. Treade oute of the waye / go out of the pathe / awaye with the holy one of Israel from vs. We
/ than the sacrifice / which Christe hym self offered on the altare of the crosse Our missale sacrifice / saye the massing papistes / is propiciatory / satisfactory / expiatory / and necessary Ad salutem bothe for the quicke and for the dead The people syn dayly / therefore must we offer sacrifice for the synnes of the people dayly in our masses O Antichristes What other thinge is this / o heauenly father / thaÌ„ to defye the death of thy sonne / to despyse hys moste healthful sacrifice / to set at nought his wholsome oblacion / too treade vnderfoote the bloude of the euerlasting Heb. 10. Testament / and vtterly too deface bothe the kyngdome priesthode of Christ / and to erecte / and set vp a new kyngdome and priesthode of their owne / a new sacrifice / and a straunge oblacion / inueÌ„ted of the deuel / broughte in by Antichriste / confyrmed Apoc. 13. Apoc. 21. by suche as haue receaued the beastes marke / and frequented / vsed and soughte of all / that haue their porcion in that lake that burneth with fyre and brymstone / excepte they repent and ameÌ„d Is not Christe an euerlasting priest Psal 110. Heb. 7. Heb. 10 Dothe not his priesthoode continew from generacion to generacion Hath he not with one oblacioÌ„ made perâ—ecte for euer / them that are sancâ—ifiâ— Are we not made holy by the offering vp of the body of Iesu done once for all 〈◊〉 not Christ / after he had offered one sacrifice for synnes / syt him doun for euer / on the right hande of God / and from henâ—forth tarieth tyll hys foos be made hys footestoole Is not Iesus Christ yesterday and to day / and thesame continueth foreuer Heb. 13. What haue we than to do with the saâ—rificing massemoÌ„â—ers or with their missal sacrifice O heauenly father / suffer vs not to be carryed about with diuers and straunge learninge Moreouer / heretofore we were caughte Aultarâ— noâ—â—ollerable among Christians to beate doune the Idolatrous Heathenish altars / which Antichrist of Rome enteÌ„ding to set vp a new priesthoode a strauÌ„ge sacrifice forsynne / coÌ„maunded to be buylte vp / as though calfes / goates / shepe suche other brute beastes should be offered again after the priesthoode of Aaron / for the synnes of the people / and to set in their steade Christe his Apostles the primaâ—iue church vsed tables at the ministracion off the holy coÌ„munion in some conuenient place a semely table / after the examples of Christ / to receaue together at it the holy misteries of Christeâ— bodye bloud / in remeÌ„brauÌ„ce that Christes body was brokeÌ„ / his bloud shead for our synnes But now the sacrificinge sorcererâ— shame not bothe in their priuate talke / in their open sermons spitely to call the Lordes table an Oysterborde / therefore haue they taken out of the teÌ„ples those semely tables / which we folowing the exaÌ„ples of thy derely beloued sonne / and of the primatiue church vsed at the ministracion of the holy coÌ„munion / they haue broughte in agayne their bloudy bocherly altars / vpoÌ„ those O cruel buâ—chers they sacrifice offer daily / say thei / that is / thei kyl / slea murderthy dere sonne Christ for the siÌ„nes of the people For as thy holy apostle sayeth Heb. 9 Where no shedding of bloud is / there is no remissioÌ„ forgeuenes of synnes If thorow their massing sinnes be forgeuen / thaÌ„ must the sacrifice that there is offered be sâ—ayn / the bloud thereof shead If the massemoÌ„gers therfore offer Christe vp in their masses / a sacrifice vnto God for O murthâ—rers the sinnes of the people / so foloweth it that they murder / kyl / â—lea Christe / yea / shed his bloud at their masses / so by this meaÌ„s we must nedes coÌ„fesse / that bloudy altars are more mete for such bloudy bochers / thaÌ„ honest pure tables Rom. 6 But we are taughte in the holy schriptures / that Christe once raysed from deathe / dyeth nomore Death hath nomore power ouer hym For as touchiÌ„g that he dyed / he died coÌ„cerniÌ„g sin once And as touchinge that he liueth / he lyueth vnto the god his father If Christ therfore dyeth nomore / thaÌ„ do the papistes sacrifice hym nomore Idolatrous If they sacrifice him nomore than are they â—ut iangling iuglars / their masses serue for none other purpose / but to kepe the people iâ— blyndnes / to deface the pasâ—on and death of Christe / and to mayntayne their idle and drafsacked bellies / in al pompe and honour / with the labour of â—ther mens handes / and with the sweate off poore mens browes / so farre is it of that / they with their abhominable massing and stincking sacrificing / put awaye the synnes eyther of the quicke or of the dead / as they make the vnlearned and symple people to beleue Masses vvhy thei serue Ah Lord God and heauenly father / if thou were not a God of long sufferinge and of great pacience / howe couldeste thou abyd these intollerable iniuries / to much detestable blasphemies / whiche the wicked papistes committe againste the thy sonne Christ / in their idolatrous masses / at their Heatheniâ—h aultares Heretofore we were taughte to receaue the misreries of the Lordes bodye bloude together / accordinge too the ordinaunce of Christe The faithefull oughte too receaue the Sacramente together not the prieste aloâ—e But now no communion is had / For the popish and vncharitable massemoÌ„ger / vtterly abusinge the Lordes soupper / eateth and drincketh vpÌ„ all alone at his idolatrous aultare Heretofore we were taughte to receaue the Sacrament of the bodye and bloude of Christ vnder both kyndes / according vnto Christes institucion / which sayeth Drinke of this al ye The faitheful onght to receaue the Sacramente vnder both â—yndes And as the holy apostle saieth So ofte as ye shall eate of this breade / and drinke of this cuppe / ye shall remember the Lordes death tyll he come Math. 26 1. Cor. 11. Ioan. 15. But nowe the Romish sorcerers / coÌ„trary to the ordinaÌ„ce and commaundemeÌ„t of thy sonne / the master of trueth / yea / theÌ„self trueth / and contrary to the practise vsage of the primatiue churche / like theues / robbers murtherers / cruelly take awaye froÌ„ thy people the misticall cuppe of Christes bloude / for the mayntenaunce of their deuelish decre / and minister after their sorte the Sacrament of thankesgeuinge to thy Christians onely vnder one kynde / yea / and that without the preaching of the Lordes death / repeÌ„taunce / fayth / amendement of lyfe / c. and so make they it an idle and dumme ceremonie altogether vuprofitable and withoute frute / whiche beynge rightely ministred / is to the faythfull a Sacrament of greate ioye and
foode / wherwith they pasture thy shepe / is the drowsyedreaÌ„s and idle imaginacions of Antichriste In steed of the peachyng of thy lyuely worde / the fede thy stocke wythe latin munblynges / wythe dume Images wyth Hethnyshe cerymonies wyth dayne syghtes / and suche other apysh toys In sted of the ministracioÌ„ of the holy and blessed CoÌ„munion the fede thy shepe wythe vile sâ—ynckyng / abhominable deulyshe / blasphemus Idolatryous Masses And vnto thes vnwholsome and pestilent and poysomfull pastures the dryue thy shepe / wyll they nyl they if any of thy floche refuse to come and taste of those their pestileÌ„t poysoÌ„s poisoÌ„ ful pestilences / him they accite to appere befor that greate wolfe / whose face is lyke vnto the face of a she beare that is robbed of her yonge ones / whose eyes coÌ„tinually burne withe the vnqueÌ„cheable flames of the deadly cockatrice / whose teethe are lyke to the venomous tethes The descriptioÌ„ of a certaine heade vvolfe cladde in a Bishopes rotchete Psal 9. of the rampyng lyon / whose month is full of cursed speaking bitternes / whose toÌ„â— speakithe extrem blasphemes agaynst the thy holy annoited / whose lippes at ful of deadly poisoÌ„ne / whose throte is an open sepulchre / whose breathe fomethe bloweth out threatenyng slauther agaynst the disciples Psal 5. Act. 9. of the Lorde / whose harte without ceasyng imaginethe wickednes / whose handes haue a delighte to be embrued with the bloode of the Sainctes / whose fete are swifte to shed bloode / whose whole manne bothe body soule go alwaies vp down musyng of myschyff Psalm 13. This wolfe / o Lorde / is so arrogaÌ„te / haultie and prowde / seyng the gouernemeÌ„t of the whole Realme is coÌ„mitted vnto hym / that he hathe caste awaie all feare of the. He makethe bosâ—e off hys awne witte learnyng pollecye His wayes are alwaye fylthye / thy iudgemeÌ„tes are Psal 9. farre out of his syghte / he defyethe all hys enemies For he saythe in his hearte tushe / I shal never be caste downe / theyr shall no harme happen vnto me He sytte the lurking lyke a lyon in his denne / that he maie prinely murther the innocent sucke hys bloode Whan suche / o Lorde God / as will not obeye their popish and deuelyshe proce dyngs / are broughte before that grevous wolffe / they are miserably tauÌ„ted / mocked / schorned blasphemed / as thi derely beloued sone was in Bishope Caiphas howse / and Mat. 26. Mar. 14. Luc. 22. afterwarde cruely coÌ„mitted to presoÌ„ / to the towre / to the flete / to the marshalseas / to the Kynges beÌ„che / to the Counters / to Lollardes towre / to Newgate tc Where they are kepte as shepe in a pynnefolde appointed to be slayne And as thys cruel bloudy wolf dealeth with the poore lambes / euen so do the resedue of that let cherous litture He with all other of that wolfythe kynde / hunger and thyrste nothing so greatly / as the deuouring of the bodies / and the sucking of the bloude of thy poore and innocent lambes Psal 10. Ah Lorde / whyle the vngodly haue the ouerhande / the poore are moste wretchedly haÌ„dled They are prayes vnto the wolfes Arise therefore / o Lorde God / lyfte vp thine hande / and forget not the poore / whiche geueth them selfe ouer into thy hande / and committeth hym vnto thy defence Breake thou the arme of the vngodly and malicious / search out the wickednes / whiche he hath done / that he maye shortly perish from the lande of the liuing Suffer thy shepe nomore to be thus miserably scattered / rente / torne and deuoured of these mosâ—e cruell / greuous / and insatiable wolfes Remember this thy promise Beholde / I my self will vpon the shepeherdes Eze. 34. / and requyre my shepe from their handes / and make them cease froÌ„ feding of my shepe / yea / the shepehardes shall fede them selfs nomore For I will deliuer my shepe out of their mouthes / so that they shal not deuoure them after this / c. Beholde / I Beholde I wille looke to my shepe myselff and seke them Like as a sheppherde among the flocke seakethe after the shepe that arescattered abrode Euen so wil â–ª I seke aftere my shepe and gathere them together out of all landes I will brynge theme into theire owne lande / and fede them vpon the mountaines of Israel by the riuers / and in all the places of the contre I will fede theme â—â—righte good pasturs / vpon the hye mountaynes of Israel shall their foldes be There shall there lâ—e in a good folde and in a fatte pastur shall they fede / euen vpon the mountaynes of Israel I will sede my shep my self bryng them to theyr rest / saythe the Lorde God Suâ—he as be lost / wil I seke / suche as go astraye / will I brynge agayne suche aâ—be wounded / will I bynde vp / suche as be weake / will I make stronge / suche as be fate and well lykynge / thosse will I preserue / fede them withe the shynge that is Lawful / c. I will helpe my shepe / so that they shall nomore be spoyled I will make a covenant of peace with them / dryue all euyl beastes out of the Lande / so that they maye dwelle saffely in the wyldernes / sleap in the words Good fortune and pâ—ossperite will I gyue them / â—nto all that be rounde aboute my hyll A prossperous shâ—wer rayâ—e will Iseâ—de theme in due season that / the trees in the woode maye bryng forthe theyr frutes / the ground hir increas They shall be saff in the lande and shall knowe That I am the Lorde / whiche haue broken their yoke / and delyuered them out of the handes of those / that heylde them in subieccione O Lorde God our heuenly father haue pitie on thy poor afflicted scattered flocke / accordyng to theyes thy louyâ—ge father lye promysses deale with thy people So shall all men vnderstande / that thoue arte they re Lord God and shepparde / and that they are thy people and the shepe of thy pastur / and by this meanes be occasioned to mangnifie and praysethy holy nam for ener euer Heretofore the preachers of thy holi vorde the faythfull ministers of the SacrameÌ„ts Preacharsâ— and mâ—esters hertofor reuerenced 1. Timo 5 wer had in double honor accordiÌ„g to the doctrin of the holy scripturs But nowe of all mene they are moste miserable For besides the tomoche despite full wordes / wherwith the wickid Papistes laboure to obscure and deface / somoch as lyghethe in them â—he good name of the godly minsters Howe cruelly agaynste all order of Lawe are they thrust out of theyr lyuynges / and depriued of all / that they had / insomoche that they theyrpoore