Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	great_a	open_v	small_a	2,616	5	6.2322	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00718	An admonition to the Parliament	Fielde, John, d. 1588.; Gwalther, Rudolf, 1519-1586.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608.	1572 (1572)	STC 10848; ESTC S102020	41,634	60

childe in the forhead with a crosse in token that heereafter he shall not be ashamed to confesse the fayth of Christe We haue made mention before of that wycked deuorse of the worde and sacramentes We say nothing of those that are admitted to be witnesses what ill choyse there is made of them how conuenyent it were seing the children of the faythfull onely are to be baptized that the father should and might if conueniently offer present his child to be baptized making an open confession of that faith wherin he wold haue his childe baptized as is vsed in well reformed churches 9 As for Matrimonie that also hathe corruptions too many It was wonte to be compted a sacrament and therfore they vse yet a sacramental signe to which they attribute the vertue of wedlocke I meane the wedding ring which they fowly abuse and dally with all in taking it vp and laying it downe In putting it on they abuse the name of the Trinitie they make the newe marryed man according to the Popish forme to make an idol of his wife saying with this ring I thee wedde with my body I thee worshippe c. And bicause in Poperie no holy action mighte be done without a masse they enioyne the marryed persones to receiue the communion as they do theyr bishoppes and priestes when they are made c. other p●rtie things oute of the booke we speake not of as that women contrary to the rule of the Apostle come and are suffered to come bare headed with bagpipes and ●idlers before them to disturbe the congregation and that they must come in at the great dore of the church or else all is ●arred With diuers other heathnish toys in sondry countries as carying of whea●e she affes on theyr heads and ca●●ing of corne with a nūber of such like wherby they make rather a Maie game of marryage then a holy Institution of God. 10 As for confyrmation which the papists and our m● say was in times past Apostolical groūding their opinion perhaps vpon some dreame of Hierome yet as they vse it by the bishop alone to thē that lack both discretion and faithe it is superstitious not agreable to the word of God but popish peuishe As though baptim were not already perfect but neded confyrmation or as though the bishop coulde giue y holy ghost 〈◊〉 They appoynt a prescript find of seruice to bury the dead And that which is the duety of euery christian they tie alone to the minister wherby pr●ier for y dead is maintained and partly gathered out of some of the prarers where they pray y we with thys our brother all other departed in the true faith of thy holy name may haue our perfect cons●●●●ation and blisse bothe in body soule We say nothing of the threefold peale bicause that it is rather licensed by iniunction then commaunded in theyr boke nor of theyr straūge mourning by chaunging theyr garmentes which if it be not hipocritical yet it is superstitious heathnish bicause it is vsed only of custom nor of burial sermons which are put in place of trentalles wherout spring many abuses and therfore in the best reformed churches are remoued As for the superstitions vsed bothe in countrey and citie for the place of buryall which way they must lie how they must be fetched to churche the mynister meeting them at churche stile with surplesse with a companye of greedie clarkes that a crosse whyte or blacke must be set vpon the deade corpes that breade muste be gyuen to the poore and offrings in Buryall tyme vsed and cakes sent abrode to frendes by cause these are rather vsed of custome and superstition then by the authoritie of the boke Small commaundement will serue for the accomplishyng of suche things But great charge will hardly bryng the least good thyng to passe and therefore all is let alone and the people as blinde and as ignorante as euer they were God be mercyfull vnto vs and open our eyes that we may see what that good and acceptable will of God is and be more earnest to prouoke hys glory 12 Churching of women after childbirthe smelleth of Iewish purifycation theyr other rytes customes in theyr lying in comming to churche is foolishe and superstitious as it is vsed Shee muste lie in wyth a white sheete vppon her bed and come couered wyth a vaile as ashamed of some folly Shee must offer but these are matters of custome and not in the boke But thys Psalme as is noted before is childishly abused I haue lift vp mine eyes vnto the ly●ls ●rō whence commeth my helpe The sunne shall not burne th●e by day nor the moone by nyght 13 In all theyr order or seruice there is no edification according to the rule of the Apostle but confusion they ●osse the Psalmes in most places like ●ennice balles They pray that al men may be saued that they may be deliuered from thundering tempest whē no dāger is nigh That they sing Benedictus Nūc dimittis and Magnificat we knowe not to what purpose except some of them were ready to die or excepte they would celebrate the ine●ory of the virgine and Iohn Baptist c. Thus they prophane the holy scriptures The people some standing some walking some talking some reading some praying by themselues ●●tēd not to the minyster He againe posteth it ouer as fast as he can galloppe For eyther he hath two places to serue or else there are some games to be playde in the afternoone as lying for the whetstone heathnishe dauncing for the ring a beare or a bull to be baited or else Iacke an apes to ride on horssebacke or an enterlude to be plaide if no place else can be gotten this enterlude must be playde in the church ▪ c. Nowe the people sit and now they stand vp When the old Testament is read or the lessons they make no reuerēce but when the gospel commeth then they * al stand vp For why they thinke that to be of greatest authoritie and are ignorante that the scriptures came from one spirite When Iesus is named then of goeth the cap and downe goeth the knees wyth suche a scraping on the ground that they cannot heare a good while after so that the word is hindred but whē any other names of God are mentioned they make no curtesie at all as though the names of God were not equal or as though all reuerence oughte to be giuen to the syllables We speake not of ringing when Mattens is done and other abuses incident Bicause we shal be answered that by the boke they are not maintayned only we desire to haue a booke to reforme it As for organes and curious singing thoughe they be proper to Popyshe dennes I meane to Cathedrall churches yet some others also must haue them The Queenes chappell and these churches whych shoulde be spectacles of christia●… reformation are rather paternes

letters commendatorie of some one man noble or other tag rag learned and vnlearned of the basest sorte of the people to the sclāder of the gospell in the mouthes of the aduersaries are freely receaued In those daies no idolatrous sacrificers or heathnish priests were apointed to be preachers of the Gospel but we allow and like wel of popish masse mongers men for all seasons King Henries priests Queene Maryes priests who of a truth if Gods word were precisely folowed shoulde from the same be vtterly remoued Then they taught others now they must be instructed themselues and therefore like yong children they must learne cathechismes and so fyrst they consecrate them and make them ministers and thē they set them to scole Then election was made by the Elders with the common consent of the whole church now euery one picketh out for himselfe some notable good benefyce he obtaineth the next aduowson by m●ny or by fauoure and so thinketh himselfe to be suffyciently chosen Then the congregation had authoritie to cal ministers in stead therof now they run they ride and by vnlawfull sute and buying preuēt other suters also Then no minister placed in any congregation but by the consent of the people now that authoritie is giuen into the hāds of the bishop alone who by his sole authoritie thrusreth vpon them such as they many times aswell for vnhonest life as also for lacke of learning may and do istly dislike Then none admitted to the ministerie but a place was voide before hand to which he should be called but nowe bishops to whom the right of ordering ministers dothe at no hand appertaine do make 60. 80. or a 100. at a clap send them abrode into the country like masterlesse mē Then after iust triall and vocation they were admitted to their function by laying on of the handes of the company of the eldership onely Now there is neither of these being loked vnto required a surples a vestiment a pastoral staffe beside that ridiculus as they vse it to their new creatures blasphemo●s saying receaue the holy ghoste Then euery pastor had his flock and euery flock his shepheard or el● shepheards Now they do not only run fysking from place to place a miserable disorder in Gods church but couetously ioyne liuing to liuing making shipwracke of theyr owne consciences being but one shepherd nay wold to God they were shepherds and not wolues haue many flockes Then the ministers were preachers nowe bare readers And if any be so well disposed to preache in their owne charges they may not without my Lordes licence In those dayes knowne by voice learning and doctrine now they must be discerned from other by popish and Antichristian apparel as cap gowne tipper c. Then as God gaue vtterance they preached the word only Now they read homilies articles iniunctions c. Then it was painfull now gainfull Then pore and ignominious in the eies of the world now rich glorious And therfore titles liuings and offices by Antichrist deuised are geuen to them as Metropolitane archbishop Lords grace Lord Bishop Suffragan Deane Archdeacon Prelate of the garter Earl Countie Palatine honor high commissyoners iustices of peace quorum c. All which together with their offyces as they are strange vnhard of in Chrystes church nay plainly in gods word forbidden So are they vtterly with spede out of the same to be remoued Then ministers were not so t●ed to any one forme of prayers but as the spirit g moued them and as necessitie of time required so they might poure forth harty supplicatiōs to the lord Now they are bound of necessytie to a prescript order of seruice and boke of common prayer in which a great number of things contrary to Gods word are contained as baptism by women priuate Communions Ierrish purifyings obseruing of Holydaies c. potched if not all together yet the greatest peece out of the Popes portius Then feding the flocke diligently nowe teaching quarterly Then preaching inseason and out of season Now once in a moneth is thoughte of some suffycient if twice it is iudged a worke of supererogation Then nothing taught but Gods word Now Princes pleasures mennes deuices popishe ceremonies and Antichristian rites in publike pulpits desended Then they sought them Now they seeke theyrs ☞ These and a great many other abuses are in the ministerie remayning which vniesse they be remoued and the truth brought in not onely Gods iustice shall be powred forth but also Gods church in this realme shall neuer be builded For if they which seeme to be workemen are no workemen in deede but in name or els wor● not so diligently in such order as the works me from commaundeth it is not onely vnlikely that the building shall go forwarde but altogether impossible that euer it shal be perfyred The way therfore to avoid these inconueniences and to reform these deformities is this Your wisedomes haue to remoue aduousons patronages impropriations and bishops authoritie claiming to themselues therby right to ordayne ministers to bryng in y old and true election which was accustomed to be made by the congregation You must displace those ignorant and vnable ministers already placed in theyr rowmes appoint such as both can and will by Gods assystauce feede the flock You must plucke down vtterly ouerthrow wythout hope of restitution the court of faculties from whence not only licences to enioy many benefyces are obtained as Pluralities Trialities Totquote c. but all things for the most part as in the court of Rome are sette on sale licences to marry to eat flesh in tymes prohibited to lye from benefyces chargrs and a greate number besyde of such lyke abhon●●●ations Appoint to euery congregation a learned diligent preacher Remoue homylies articles iniunctions that prescripte order of seruice made out of the masse boke Take away the Lordshyp the loytering the pompe the idlenesse and liuings of bishops but yet employ thē to such ends as they were in the old church appoynted for Let a lawful and a godly seignorie loke y they preach not quarterly or monthly but contynually not for fylthy luker sake but of a ready mynde So God shal be gloryfyed your conscyences discharged and the flocke of Chryst purchased wyth hys owne bloud edyfyed Now to the second poynt whych concerneth mynystratyon of Sacraments In the olde tyme the worde was preached before they were minystred nowe it is supposed to be suffycyent if it be red Then they were minystred in publike assemblies now in priuate houses Then by ministers only now by midwiues and Deacons equally But because in treating of both the sacraments together we should deale confusedly we wyll therefore speake of them seuerallye And fyrst for the Lordes supper or holy communion They had