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A00758	A supplication of the poore commons Whereunto is added the supplication of beggers.	Fish, Simon, d. 1531. Supplicacyon for the beggers. aut; Brinkelow, Henry, d. 1546, attributed name.; Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588, attributed name.	1546 (1546)	STC 10884; ESTC S102081	30,801	66

the rule that saint Paul gaue to the Cessa lonians ii Cessaloni●… which was thys who so laboureth not let hym not eat yet was ther no tenthes payd to the ministers for Paull wrytinge to the Lorinthians i. Lorin ix desireth thē to be good to such as laboure in the ministration of the Gospell affirminge that it is but mete that suche as serue the aulter should haue a liuynge the●… by and that it were farre vndesent to m●…sell the oxe that trauaylleth all the daye in treadyng the corne out of the strawe Deutro xxv which thinge he neded not to haue done yf the tenthes of ech mans encrease had as thā ben geuē to thē for that myght haue sufficed thē well ynough onlesse they had ben as gredye as oure ministres bee whiche be neuer satisfieth yet after thys whan the christian religion was thorowly stablyshed in many congregations many men had laboured ouer the scriptures they thoughte good to prouide for the poore impotent creatures accordigne to the example of the auncient fathers of the olde lawe And bycause they were perswaded that Christ offering vp him selfe vpō the crosse had ended all sacrifice Hebre. x. so that the ministers amonge thē neded not to bee pestered with any other thing thē preaching they agreed to adde vnto the preachers an other sort of ministers which myght supplie the office of holy Steuē and the other which in the primatiue church were appoin ted to distribute the goodes of the congregation accordinge as euerye man shoulde stand in neade Actu vi To these men they gaue the tenthe of theyr yerlye encrease to the intent that they shoulde there vpō minister all necessaries as well to the preachers as to the poore impotēt membres of the churche But after that persequutiō began to sease the prechers of the worde of God liued in peace and that the people were fully bente to learne followe the doctrine of Christe they dyd by the preachers as the I sraelites wolde haue doone by Christe when he had fede so many of them wyth so lytle bread Iohn vi They made thē theyr rulers thinkynge that those men which had brought●… thē out of the darkenes of erroure and instructed thē in the true knowledge of God coulde best gouerne the pub●…ke weale And woulde walke most vpryghtly in example of lyfe cōpellinge the people ther by to embrace all godlye honest lyuinge and to detest and abhore the cōtrari This was their intēt most gracious prince whā they gaue rule to the preachers of Goddes truth and verite And in very dede the thinge proued according to their expectatiō for a season But alasse after the true shepherdes were departed out of thys lyfe there entred into the foulde most rauening woulfes of whō saint Paule gaue vs warnyng whā he said I know for a certenty that immediatly after my departinge frō you there shall enter in amōge you certē in sheppes clothing but inwardly they are rauening wolfes Act. xx The lyke thynge dyd sainte Peter forsee when he premonished the elders that they shold not behaue thēselues toward the people as mē hauing dominiō ouer thē 1 Pet●… These hierlinges intended not to mainta●… 〈◊〉 increase the spiritual treasure of the congregatiō but to fyl their owne coffers with golde and vayne treasure to bringe thē selues aboue Kinges and Emperours yea to be taken for Goddes vicars vpon earthe And that they myght the soner bringe this their purpose to passe they persuaded the people that it should be much more cōuenient that they had the tenthes patrimony of the church as they cal it thē the deacōs whō the people had elected there vnto And that it shoulde be more beseaming that the deacones were at theyr fyndinge then that they shoulde be at the deacons findinge for they woulde kepe hospitality for the poore accordinge as the institutiō of the Apostles was that they should whiche thynge they could not do onles they had wher withal to maintain it By these meanes were the peo ple sone persuaded to geue vnto thē not onely the tenth but certein possessiōs also to th entent thei might maintayne the more liberal hospitality for the relieue of the pore This done all theyr study was to set them selues so hyghe in the conscience of the peo ple that they shoulde take all theyr traditions to be of no lesse authoritie then the cōmaundement of God to do this they could find none so ready a way as to name theyr traditions the lawes of the church For yf we beleue that Christe is the heade of the churche and that he is God then muste we neades graunt that the lawes of the church be goddes lawes O diuelish subtiltie more then serpentical what subtyl fouler coulde haue diuised a more subtyl trayne to bring the poore simple byrdes into his nette Le●… tes yf al the deuels in hell had ben of theyr coūsel as we thinke they were they could not haue cōcluded vpon a more subtil imaginatiō Now haue they ynough what ne●… deth thē to seke any further now may they cōmaunde vs to buylde them goodly churches with hyghe steaples greate belles to tyng oure pence into theyr purses whē our frendes be dead Nowe may they make vs beleue that theyr masses be helpful sacrifices both for the quick and the dead Nowe must we beleue that the popes pardons do release vs both from payne and faute but Christ releaseth the faute only Now must we beleue they can make of two creatures one that is to say coniure water and ●…alte that it be made a medicine both for bodye soule and of such force that it may be able to roote out the deuell him self with all hys aungels and ministers Nowe must we beleue that repētaunce auayl●…th vs not onles we declare all our synnes with the circumstaunce therof to one of them and do such satisfaction as they shal appoint vs to do Now can we not denye but that the outra ●…iouse belowing of a sorte as sodomiticall buls myngled with the proud pipyng of organs is the seruice of God and worthy to be preferred before the redyng and preching of Gods worde Now must we beleue that God wyl not heare our praier onles we be in fauoure with some of the deade saintes which wyl be our aduocate Now must we beleue that the making and giiting of ymages building of abayse churches chaūtri●…s gyldes hermitages and gyuinge of boke bell cādelsticke basen yower crwetes pax chalyse corporate vestimētes aulter clothes curtens hanginges towels torches tapurs shepe sensoures pixese coopes cannebes runnyng on pilgrimage is more acceptable to God thē the. vii workes of mercy Now must we beleue that they cā not erre though they set vp the bloude of a ducke to be hono red for the verye bloude of Christe thoughe they made the roode of kente to wagge hys yies though they were baudes fornicators with the