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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73318	A supplycacion to our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge henry the eyght Kynge of England of Fraunce and of Irelande, [and] moste ernest defender of Christes gospell, supreme heade vnder God here in erthe, next [and] immedyatly of his churches of Englande and Irelande.	Tracy, Richard, d. 1569.	1544 (1544)	STC 24165.5; ESTC S125558	23,792	64

contynually exercyse their lustes and iniquyties As Paul saythe They be agaynste all men forbyddinge vs to speake to the people wherby they myght be saued / The .ij. that they myght fulfyll their iniquyte and synne contynually Haue not some of the byshops with their retynewe at this daye practysed their olde polycy to extinguyshe the light through all Englande / that they myght ones agayne leade vs quyetly in darckenes Is not there a lawe made through their crafte subtylte which geueth power to certayne cōmyssioners wherof the byshoppes chaunceler or cōmyssarye shal be named to be two of the cōmyssioners / which shall haue full power to take into their custodye all suche bokes wherin is conteyned any clause or artycle repugnaunte to any of the syx artycles / and the same bokes to burne and dystroye as to the discretion of thre of them shal be thoughte expedyent Marke well what they purpose by this estatute Are there any bokes which write agaynste the popes prymacie / but they also write agaynste some of the syx artycles Their coloure is to take awaye all bookes which wryte agaynste the syx artycles / but their very intēte purpose and meanyng is to take awaye all bookes whiche conteyne any godly lernynge that write agaynste the byshop of Romes prymacy Howe cruelly doo the byshops punyshe all thē which pretende to haue lernynge and specially in Godds worde Suche they call heretyques and persecute wich puttynge them to open shame / with enprysonmēte / and in conclusyō with deathe most fearefull and paynefull All this they doo to dyscorage all men from the studye of Gods worde / fearinge leaste that by suche studiouse braynes which learne Gods worde and publyshe the same their iniquyte shulde be made manyfest What studye and paynes they take to kepe the light from the people But no man which knowethe the scriptures will meruell of this their policye and crueltye Io● iij. For saynt Iohan declarethe their practyse playnely sayenge He that doth euyll hateth the light / and why because his workes whiche be euill shulde not be reproued by the light And for asmuche as oure byshops countenaūce of lyuinge / their greate possessyons / and lordely domynyons in them agreeth with Godds worde / as deathe with lyffe / God with the deuill / light with darckenes / therfore they hate the light which declarethe the same / and studye to suppresse the same by all chaft and polycye And seinge they can so craftely iuggle and haue suche frendshipe and fououre to conuey / brynge to passe / that all bookes shall come into their hande vndre the coloure of the syx artycles / it is to be feared that shortely they will by lyke crafte subtylte and frendshipe procure the Byble in Englyshe to be taken from the layete / then we shal be ledd in darcknenes by our Byshops and other blynde gydes and not Pastoures at theyr pleasure and will / whiche is the effecte of all theyr study laboure and purpose Nowe most valeaunt defender of Christ / it appearethe playnely howe many myseryes we be wrapte in / through the vngodly electyon of suche as be admytted to haue spirytuall cure and offyce to teache Godds worde / whiche not onely haue lytle lernynge / but also they be enemyes to all men whiche can and doo preache Gods worde sycerely and trewly / because they lyue contrarye to the same / as I haue before declared / And this is the origynall grownde / and cause of the abundaunce and increase of darkenes and of synne / as also of the longe contynnaunce of popishe blyndnes whiche hathe raigned in this realme so longe Wherfore yf the byshops and other elected and appoynted to be shepherdes accordinge to theyr vocacyon and callinge / be not fyrste knowen and well proued to haue suche knowleage godly doctryne / so that they can also doo instantely dyligētly preache Gods worde whiche is the light expellinge all darckenes of synne / then muste nedes synne encrease abounde without any restraynte or brydle For if the light whiche is amongest yow be darckenes / howe muche shall the darkenes be Matt. vi Youre grace and your cyuile power doo punnyshe synne / when it is done and cōmytted / accordinge to the iustyce of lawes / as to your vocatyon office of right belongethe to doo But the office and dewtye of the Pastor is to preache Goddes worde / wherby he shall conuert the hart of the synner / whiche is willinge dissposed to doo synne / so that he shall not breake fourthe to doo synne in the acte / which the cyuyle powre for the example of other by equyte and iustyce is bounde to punyshe Therfore the dyligent executyon of the office of the pastoure shal be the pryncipall meane and occasyon that lesse synne shal be cōmytted / and so the higher powers shall haue lesse occasyon to execute the extreame iustyce of lawes / and consequently many mens ly●es whiche nowe for lacke of the knowleage of Godes worde shuld be loste for cōmyttinge murder / felonye / and suche other offences / shall then be preserued that they shall not commytte suche offences / which the hygher powers by the lawes of equyte iustyce be compelled to cōdempne and to punyshe with deathe Wherfore the godly tranquyllyte reste and peace of all this your realme soueraygne lorde / and the good order of the same hangeth and resteth moche vpon the godly and dyligent executyon of the office of pastors and of the spirituall shepherds dewly called and admytted accordinge to Godes worde Therfore it behoueth the presenter of the clercke to a benefyce and cure of sowles to be cyrcumspect and well ware what clerke he doth present / and that he haue good knowleage experience and proue of his clercke before he present hym For if a pastour doo not feade the flocke of Christe cōmytted to his charge / the deathe of their sowles shal be required of his handes As the Prophete Ezechiell sayeth in the .xxxiij. Ezech. xxxiij chapi And if the patron willingely / other for kyndred / fauoure / frendshippe / seruice or money / present a clerke which he knoweth not to be so lerned in Gods worde / that he be able to instructe and teache the people cōmytted to his charge bothe with the lawe of God and withe the gospell / every suche patron cōsenteth to the deathe dāpnacion of the sowles cōmytted to the charge of suche vnlerned preste And therfore suche a Patron shall also be punyshed with lyke payne / whiche is eternall / as the Apostell sayeth Rom. i. Not onely they that doo euill / but also they whiche consent therunto shal be punyshed with lyke payne What wyse man liuynge wolde hyer a shepherde to gouerne hys beastly worldly shepe which nother wolde nor coulde feade / handle / salue nor ones see his shepe cōmytted to his charge Suche a wyse shepherde wolde shortely make his masters