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book_n	church_n	doctrine_n	write_v	3,156	5	5.6690	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68527	A godlye, and pithie exhortation, made to the iud[ges of Sussex ...] By William Ouerton, Doctor of Diuinitie, and one of the Queenes Maiesties iustices appoynted for the peace vvithin the same countie	Overton, William, 1525?-1609.	1579 (1579)	STC 18925; ESTC S107302	20,693	63

you knowe not as to moue you to the diligente consideration of those thinges whyche bée alreadye knowen vnto you and there fore néede no proufe For I will referre it to your own knowlege and conscience if you know any thing at all or haue heard any thing of God and of his word I wil referre it to your own knowledge whether it be not mamfestly true that I wil say of them And this it is that I saye that they and their matters that is to say they and the doctrine which they teach they and the bookes whiche they write do bréede and ingender discord and dissention doe bréede and ingender occasions of offences against the doctrine of the Aposeles and therefore they and theyr matters do cause all those sturs and troubles that be nowe in the Church and are the very thinges in déede whiche the Apostle here in this place exhorteth vs to beware of and to eschewe And now iudge your selues whether this be not true that I saye For as I tolde you I will saye nothing but within youre owne kenning Haue they not I pray you brought an infinite number of traditiōs into the Churche of Christe cleane contrarie to the doctrine of Christe and of his Apostles of whose deuice was priuate Masse and the propiciatorie sacrifice of the same of whose deuice was inuocatiō of saincts of whose deuice was adoration of Images who broughte in Purgatorie prayer for the deade Pilgrimage or Peregrmation to dumbe stockes or stones auriculer Confession Church chastitie Monkish vows and a thousand such other if it were worthie the time to reherse them Of al whiche notwithstanding there is not so much as one that is once named or spoken of by the Apostles much lesse commaunded or commended vnto vs by any doctrine of theirs And yet all these thinges doe they teache all these things doe they preache and write great volumes of them and by preaching and writing doe maintaine them to the vttermoste thoughe directly againste the doctrine of the Apostles Whiche thing as it is a snare to the simple and doth meruailously intangle theyr consciences that they cannot tell whych waye to turne them so it is a greate offence vnto the godly to sée it and in déede can not abyde it but reproue them for it and hereof cōmes the Discorde and dissention that is betwéene vs and them and all the whole sturres and troubles that are in the Churche But now iudge you as I saye who be the authours of al this whether we which professe the Gospell and cleaue to the onlye written word of GOD and receyue and allowe the dactrine of the Apostles or they which besides the Gospell and besides Gods worde and cleane againste the Apostles doctrine doe bring fancies and deuices of their owne and stablishe the same moste diuellishly in the Church of Christ to the great hurte of the simple as I sayde before and the grieuous offence of all that bée godlye Sure I am that by the rule here of Saint Paul you must néeds iudge them to bée the authours and workers of all this Discorde and dissention and of all stirs and troubles that are in the Church I will omitte to shewe you that they are authours also of all other troubles abroade in the worlde of Discorde and dissention betwéene Princes of ciuil warres and tumults of bloudshed and murther of priuie mutinies and open insurrections against the state although I mighte lay before your eyes manifolde examples and manifest proues hereof euen amongest our selues here in England of late dayes both by theyr Bulles whyche they sente hyther to discharge menne of they loyaltie and obedience vnto theyr soueraigne and also by moste spitefull and contumelious bookes whyche SAVNDERS and suche others his companions haue written and sente ouer into the Realme moste traytorouslye to stirre vppe the Quéenes subiectes and euen with open wordes to animate them to rebell against hir owne person Oh these be fitte guydes to gouerne the Church But I wyll omitte I saye to speake of these things vnto you I wyll referre you ouer to the Cronographers whiche haue noted the facts and gests of euery age and tune and specially to those which haue written of the practises of Popishe Prelates either by Ecciesiasticall historie or otherwise althoughe what néede you to séeke any further for the things whiche you are der youre owne eyes and whiche you are already by dayly experience welacquainted with and too well in déede if it were Gods will. Let them goe you sée well ynoughe what they are But nowe there be other sects besides these whiche doe verye muche trouble and disturbe the Churche and ciuill state as Anabaptistes Libertines and such other like which wold haue no common wealth at al but yet all thinges common whithe woulde haue no Rule nor Maiestracie amongest the people but yet woulde rule and raigne aboue Magistrates whyche woulde haue no lawes but yet woulddo what wrong they liste contrarie to lawe of which sorte are those that sticke not to teache out of open Pulpits to beare mē fondly in hande that it can not be found within the two claspes of the Bible that Christian men may goe to lawe or sue one an other And what else is this I praye you but to ouerturne all policie and gouernement and to haue no common wealth at all For if we maye not vse the lawes we must haue no laws if no laws then no Magistrates if no Magistrates then no obedience if no obedience then no order if no order then as I saide no common wealth at all but euerie manne maye liue after his owne common wil as he liste hymselfe and as his owne spirite shall moue him whyche is the stincking opinion and derie sinke in déede of al Anabaptistrie Such men therfore must be looked vpon And I am afraid least the Puritans also as you call them an other sects lately sprung vppe amongest vs doe smell shrewdly of this ill fauored smoake Of whome and of others I thoughte to haue spoken more but the time cuttes me off And of some of these sects there be amongst your selues that knows somewhat more than I doe and therefore you shall not neede mine instruction therein I will therefore drawe nowe to an end You haue hearde sufficiently as I trust whēce all Discorde and dissention commeth and who be the Authours of all stirres and troubles both in ciuill matters touching the ciuill state And also in matters of the Church touching the state Ecclesiastical The former kinde I deliuered vnto you in a summe and gaue you only a short viewe of it but yet such as doeth imply in it selfe a sufficiente consideration of youre whole charge in that behalfe The other kinde I handled somewhat more at length and declared vnto you plainlye and perticularly who be the chiefe Authours of Discord and dissention and of all sturres and trobles in the Church namely the Papistes the Anabaptistes the Lybertines the Puritanes and