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A68446 An humble supplicacion vnto God for the restoring of hys holye woorde, vnto the churche of Englande, mooste mete to be sayde in these oure dayes, euen with teares of euery true [and] faythfull English harte. Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567. 1554 (1554) STC 1730; ESTC S110450 34,239 76

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/ 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 / thā 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 / inuēted 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 amēd 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 oblaciō made per●ecte for euer / them that are sanc●ifi● 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 hen●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 sa●rificing massemō●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 Aultar● no●●ollerable among Christians to beate doune the Idolatrous Heathenish altars / which Antichrist of Rome entēding to set vp a new priesthoode a straūge sacrifice forsynne / cōmaunded 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 prima●iue church vsed tables at the ministracion off the holy cōmunion in some conuenient place a semely table / after the examples of Christ / to receaue together at it the holy misteries of Christe● bodye bloud / in remēbraūce that Christes body was brokē / his bloud shead for our synnes But now the sacrificinge sorcerer● 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 tēples those semely tables / which we folowing the exāples of thy derely beloued sonne / and of the primatiue church vsed at the ministracion of the holy cōmunion / they haue broughte in agayne their bloudy bocherly altars / vpō those O cruel bu●chers they sacrifice offer daily / say thei / that is / thei kyl / slea murderthy dere sonne Christ for the sīnes of the people For as thy holy apostle sayeth Heb. 9 Where no shedding of bloud is / there is no remissiō forgeuenes of synnes If thorow their massing sinnes be forgeuen / thā must the sacrifice that there is offered be s●ayn / the bloud thereof shead If the massemōgers therfore offer Christe vp in their masses / a sacrifice vnto God for O murth●rers the sinnes of the people / so foloweth it that they murder / kyl / ●lea Christe / yea / shed his bloud at their masses / so by this meās we must nedes cōfesse / that bloudy altars are more mete for such bloudy bochers / thā 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 touchīg that he dyed / he died cōcernīg sin once And as touchinge that he liueth / he lyueth vnto the god his father If Christ therfore dyeth nomore / thā do the papistes sacrifice hym nomore Idolatrous If they sacrifice him nomore than are they ●ut iangling iuglars / their masses serue for none other purpose / but to kepe the people i● blyndnes / to deface the pas●on and death of Christe / and to mayntayne their idle and drafsacked bellies / in al pompe and honour / with the labour of ●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 Heatheni●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 alo●e But now no communion is had / For the popish and vncharitable massemōger / vtterly abusinge the Lordes soupper / eateth and drincketh vp̄ 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 ●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 / cōtrary to the ordināce and commaundemēt of thy sonne / the master of trueth / yea / thēself trueth / and contrary to the practise vsage of the primatiue churche / like theues / robbers murtherers / cruelly take awaye frō 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 / repētaunce / 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
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 sauiou● 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 Sacramēt / in all their sermons priuate talke / labour / swyncke / sweate and seke all meanes possible with tothe and nayle / with hande foote / wyth tunge and pēne / 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 ve●y bread and very wyne / yea / although the holy scripture / after the wordes of consecraciō / called the Sacramēt / 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 ●uglers of Christe / onely the accident●s of breadde and wyne remayninge / whan notwithstāding the holy scriptures teach vs in diuers places / that thy Christ is ascended into heauen / and sytteth on thy right hande / there shall remayne / concer●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 ●●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 vpō 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 abhom● nacion By these means o heauenly father they bring away thy people thorow they● vayne / fleshly and sophisticall reasons / from the honoringe of the thalone true / Imortal / muisible euerlasting God / vnto the worshippig of a pece of b●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 thē also that hate the / flee before the / like a● the smok vanisheth / so driu● thou them awaye / lyke as waxe melteth at the fyre / so let the vugodly papis●es perish and be confoūded that thy people be no le●ger seduced / ledde frō 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 thākes vnto the / all our prayers thankee geuing in the tūge that we v●derstode / wherby we receaued great cōforte / were much edified Common ●raier ought to be in that ●●ge that all the people vnderstande But now the papistes which with thy people to be more rude thā asses / more biynde than be●les / more ignorant than dastardes / that they mighte make them there ryding fooles and lauggyng stockes cōtrary too the vsage and practise of the primatiue Churche / yea / contrary to thy commaundemēt 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 po●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 〈◊〉 A●d yet so cruell malicious are the papistes / that they enforce and with violence compel thy people to come vnto their Romish / super●●icious / blasphemous / and idolatrous Latin seruice / to heare it / to reuerence honoure it with their presence / and too call it Gods seruice / whan they vnderstād no● / whither Baals priestes that there bleate mūble / 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 agaī / 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 sermō / 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 occasiō to forsake ●ice / and to embrace vertue / to lyue in thy fayre / and diligently to call vpō thy blessed name Homilies in Englishe chapter● of the Bible But now bothe those godly homiles and confortable chapters haue thyne enemies the papistes bānished out of the tēples vnto the great discomfort of al such as vnfaynedly ●oue the / and thy blessed worde / in the stead of thē / they haue set vp blasphe mous collaciōs / synging / rynging / pyping / sensynge / holy water castinge / holy breade ●ealing / palmes and candles bearing / crosse kneling / bread worshipping / as●hes ●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 Popis● bag●ag● 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 Engly●hetūg / euery one of vs kneling deuoutly and 〈◊〉 callynge on the for mercy and grace The Letan●●●n Englissh● O heauēly father / this was setforth in the tyme of thy seruaunte kynge Henry the eygh●e / and continued among vs / vntyl the
death of that most godly and verteous prynce ●ynge Edwarde the syxte / and a littel after vnto the syngulare ●o●e and great conforte of all godly and Christen harted people But now the subtile and fleshely pap●stes haue soo bewyiched the Quenes eyes / that whatsoeuer her father and her brother / moste godly broughte too passe for the a●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 ●lasp●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 Sacrament● trulystred But nowe they are so ministred of thys swyny●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 tradicio●● / 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 yoūge Infaunt / bespueth the chylde with his vile spitle and stincking slaueringe / putteth salt in thē chyldes mouth / smereth it with greasye ●●sauer oyle / c. And withoute these apy●h toyes / they make the people beleue / that the baptisme is nothīg worth Ah good is this any other thing than a play●e laughing to scorne of thy dere sōnes institutiō Do these papistes / by adding their beggarly ceremonies anye other thinge / than set thy sonne Christe to schole / and auaunce theyr owne fle●hly imaginaciōs aboue the wysedome of the Lorde Christ The Sacrament also of thy dere sonnes body bloude / howe haue the aduersaries prophanated and defyled The Sacramēt of Christes bodij b●●●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 thē selfes A comparisō 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 Sacramētal bread to the disciples in their handes / sayeng Take / eate The papistes thrust the bread into the people mouthes / as ●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 away● 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 mis●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 Sacramētall 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 Sacramēt 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 consecraciō wyne remaining / the doctors of the Christen primatiue churche testefyed the same in their writtinges / the Greke church / euē frō the Apostles tyme vnto this daye haue so receaued beleued / vtterly deuieng the popish art●kle of trāssubstātiaci● / 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 Tra●ssubstantiacion O heauenly father / suche corrupcion can not chaunce too thy d●●e sonnes body bloud / which is vncorruptible ●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 / v●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 mayntenaūce 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 remembraūce 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 salutē 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 / whā he gaue hī self vnto the death for the synnes of
foode / wherwith they pasture thy shepe / is the drowsyedreās 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 ministraciō of the holy and blessed Cōmunion the fede thy shepe wythe vile s●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 pestilēt poysōs poisō 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 cōtinually burne withe the vnquēcheable flames of the deadly cockatrice / whose teethe are lyke to the venomous tethes The descriptiō 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 tō● speakithe extrem blasphemes agaynst the thy holy annoited / whose lippes at ful of deadly poisōne / 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 arrogāte / haultie and prowde / seyng the gouernemēt of the whole Realme is cōmitted vnto hym / that he hathe caste awaie all feare of the. He makethe bos●e off hys awne witte learnyng pollecye His wayes are alwaye fylthye / thy iudgemētes 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 taūted / mocked / schorned blasphemed / as thi derely beloued sone was in Bishope Caiphas howse / and Mat. 26. Mar. 14. Luc. 22. afterwarde cruely cōmitted to presō / to the towre / to the flete / to the marshalseas / to the Kynges bēche / 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 hādled 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 mos●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 frō 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 ▪ 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 ●●righte good pasturs / vpon the hye mountaynes of Israel shall their foldes be There shall there l●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 Su●he as be lost / wil I seke / suche as go astraye / will I brynge agayne suche a●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 p●ossperite will I gyue them / ●nto all that be rounde aboute my hyll A prossperous sh●wer ray●e will Ise●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 louy●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 Sacramēts Preachars● and m●esters hertofor reuerenced 1. Timo 5 wer had in double honor accordīg 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 ●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
wyffes withe their yonge Childeren are not only brought to the state of pouerte but also vnto extrem beggeri without hous or harbour / without meat / drynk clothe Yea māy of them / becaus they wil not be defiled with the Idolatre of Antichrist / which is now receaneed agayne into E●glande an bowe theyr knee vnto Baal / are compelled to forsak theyr natyu contrie / their parētes / theyr frendes / theyr lyuynges / and to wander abrode in strange Realmes / ledyng moste sorowfull confortles liues / but that theyhaue the their good Lorde merciful father / which confortest them in all their tribulacyon / and leauyst non without socoure that put their trust in the. Thus seist thowe O moste mercifull father Howe miserabli the face of the chryst● comon weale of England is beyond all measure defame● The Christ● comō vveal of England● miserabl● 〈◊〉 formed Thns seist thoue / howe thygodly doctrine and most holy ordinances are vtterly abolyshed / and menes tradicions see vp in the place of them Thus seiste thowe / howe thy glorie honore that is due to the alone / is attributed and geueue to an Idoleof bread to their wicked Maumets Thus feist thowe / howe the Saluacion / whiche is thorow faithe to be hoped looked for ōlye in the glorius passion / precius deathe / triumphant Resurrecion of thy most dere so●● andour alone Sauiour Lord Iesus 〈◊〉 / is nowe reposed in the sinfull merites of●ipocrites / in the iutercession of Saintes● in ceremonies / in the obseruances of menes idle imaginacious c. Thus seist thow / how thy holy worde is set aside and / mans doctri hathe the vppermost hand Thus seist thow how thy holy mysteries are tomoch filtheli defiled of the swynyshe Papistes Thusseist thowe / howe all thynges in the temples be done without edifieng Nothyng is herad in them but boyng / bellowyng and blearing Thus seist thowe / howe the fatherli Bish oppes and faithfull pastores are vniustli put out of their cures / depriued of all that they haue / banyshed and handled like shepe appoynted to the slaughter / and in the steade offthem whyte dawbed walles / paynted Sepulckers full of all filthines abhominaciō / blynde Phareseis / subtile Hypocrites / vnlea●ned asses / Romyshe foxes / Rawenyngwolues / Lordly Tyrantes / and suche Lyke pestilences / are appoynted to rule ouer thy flocke Thus seist thowe / howe thy poore myserable thepe are most villy wrechedly handled of thes pastors / Yea Idolles / theues / Robbers / and murtherars / while they are compelled / wil they / nil they / to taste of their pestelent and poysonfull pastures / to eate of theyr phatisaicall leauen / and to drynck oftheir dirtie and myrie puddeles Thus seist thowe / how the honorable Maryage of the Godly ministers is vtterly cōdemnede as A thyng vnlawfull and vnmete for the ministerie of thy worde and Sacramentes / and a bominable whordome frely suffered / bornewithe all / and wincked at Psal 79. Thus seist thow / howe the heathen are brast iuto thyne heritage / haue defiled thy holy temple / and mad Ierusalem an heape of stones Ah Lorde sence the puttyng downe of thy holy religiō The miser●● of the ●nglishe Christians in England / we that professe thy name / and wold gladly serue the accordīg to thy blessed worde not after the fāsyes of men / which we know to be abominable in thy sighte / are become an open shame vnto our enemies avery scorne and verision vnto them / that are round about vs. They that hayte vs / spoile owre goodes Psal 44. We are eaten vp like shepe Yea so ●●tim our dere frendes neighbours abhore vs and refuse oure company so fearfull are they of liffe and goodes A Very by worde are we become among the Papistesand the vngodly people shake theire heades att vs. Owre soule is broughte lowe euen vnto the duste / and oure bely clea●eth to the grownde For thy sake are we killed all thedaye longe / are counted as shepe apoynted to be stayue Vp Lorde why sleapest thow / awake and caste vs not of for euer Whe●fore hideste ●howe thy face Wilte thowe cleane forget owr miseri and oppression Arise o Lorde helpe vs deliuer vs for thy mercie sake Ah Lorde howe / longe wilte thowe be angrye psal 79. shall thy ielousy burne like fire foreuer Poure out thyne indinguacion vpon theh eathen whiche knowe the not / vpon the kyngdomes that call not vpon thy name For they haue dewoured Iacobe / and Layde wayste his dwellyng place Oh remember not oure olde synnes but haue mercye vpon vs and that soune / for we are come to great mysery Helpe vs / o God oure Sauioure / for the glorie of thy name O delyuer vs forgyue vs oure synnes for thy names sake Wherfor shall the heathen The Papistes saye / Where is nowe their God Whereisnowe theire Gosspell Oh / let the vengeāns of thy seruautes blood that is shedde / be opēlye shewed vpon the heathen in oure sighte Oh / let the sorowsull syghiuges of the presōners come before the / and accordynge to thepowr of thyne arme preserue those that are appoynted to dye Psal 80. Steerre vp thy pawre / o Lorde / and come to helpe vs. Inrne to vs A gayne and shewe vs the lyghte of thy louyng counteuaūs / that we may be saued O Lord God of hostes / howe longe wylte thowe beangrye ouer the prayers of thy people How longe wil●e thowe fede theme that beleue in the with the bread of teares / and gyue them plentye of sorowes to drynke Howe longe●hal they be a laughing stock to the Papystes Howe longe shall thy viny●rde be rootedvp of the wylde bore / be dewoured of the / veastes of the feilde Howe longe shall ●irehedges be brokene / that they whiche go by / may plucke vp hir grapes Howe long shall it be brent withe fire and lye vais●e O turn the agayne thow God of hostes / looke doune frome heauen / behoulde and visete thy vinyarde Houlde not thy tonge / o God / kepenot silence / refrayn not thy selffe o god psal 82. For Lo / thyne enemies make a murmuryng / and they that hate the / lifte vp their heade They imagine craftely agayuste thy people / andtake councell agayns●e thy holyones Come say they / lete vs root them out from among the people / that the name of Israel maye beput out of remembrance For they haue cast their heades together withe one consente / are confederate agaynst the thy holyehword They shame not to saye / We will haue the howse of God in possessiou We will hauemene to beleue / as we liste Psal 11. Owre tong shal preuaile We are they that oughte to speake / who is Lorde ower vs As for the wordeswhiche the faithful preachars speke vnto vs in the