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A49701	The preaching bishop reproving unpreaching prelates Being a brief, but faithful collection of observeable passages, in several sermons preached by the reverend father in God, Mr Hugh Latimer, Bish. of Worcester, (one of our first reformers, and a glorious martyr of Jesus Christ) before K. Edw. the sixth; before the convocation of the clergy, and before the citizens of London, at Pauls. Wherein, many things, relating to the honour and happiness of the king (our most gracious soveraign) the honourable lords, the reverend judges, the citizens of London, and commons of all sorts, but especially, the bishops and clergy are most plainly, piously and pithily represented.	Latimer, Hugh, 1485?-1555.	1661 (1661)	Wing L576; ESTC R217646	45,387	134

unto them none be so foolish to do it to the Stock or Stone or to the Image it self but it is done to God and his Honour before the Image And though they should abuse it these Blanchers whould be ready to whisper the King in the ear and to tell him that this Abuse is but a small matter and that the same with all other Abuses in the Church may be reformed easily it is but a little Abuse say they and it may be easily amended But it should not be taken in hand at the first for fear of trouble or further Inconveniences the People will not bear sudden Alterations and Insurrection may be made after sudden Mutations which may be to the great Harm and Lofs of the Realm Therefore all shall be well but not out of hand for fear of further business These be the Blanchers that have hitherto stopped the Word of God and hindred the true setting forth of the same There be so many put offs so many put by 's so many respects and considerations of worldly wisdom And I doubt not but there were Blanchers in the old time to whisper in the ear of good King Hezekiah for the maintenance of Idolatry done to the Brazen Serpent as well as there has been now of late and be now that can blanch the abuse of Images as other like things But good King Hezekiah would not be so blinded he was like to Apollo fervent in Spirit he would give no ear to these Blanchers he was not moved with these worldly respects with these prudent Considerations with these Policies he feared not Insurrections of the people He feared not lest his people would not bear the Glory of God but he without any of these respects or Policies or Considerations like a good King for Gods sake and for Conscience sake by and by plucked down the Brazen Serpent and destroyed it utterly and beat it to powder He out of hand did cast out all Images he destroyed all Idolatry and clearly did extirpate all Superstition He would not hear these Blanchers and worldly wise men but without delay followeth Gods Cause and destroyeth all Idolatry out of hand This did good King Hezekiah for he was like Apollo fervent in spirit and diligent to promote Gods Glory And good hope there is that it shall be likewise here in England for the Kings Majesty is so brought up in knowledge vertue and godliness that it is not to be mistrusted but that we shall have all things well and that the Glory of God shall be spread abroad through all parts of the Realm if the Prelates will diligently apply their Plow and be Preachers rather than Lords But our Blanchers which will be Lords and no Labourers when they are commanded to go and be resident upon their Cures and preach in their Benefices they will say What! I have set a Deputy there I have a Deputy that looketh well to my Flock who shall discharge my duty A Deputy quoth he I looked for that word all this while And what a Deputy must he be trow ye Even one like himself he must be a Canonist that is to say one that is brought up in the study of Popes Laws and Decrees one that will set forth Papistry as well as himself and one that will maintain all Idolatry and Superstition and one that will nothing at all or else very weakly resist the Devils Plow yea happy it is if he take no part with the Devil and where he should be an enemy to him it is well if he take not the Devils part against Christ. But in the mean time the Prelates take their pleasures they are Lords and no Labourers but the Devil is diligent at his Plow he is no unpreaching Prelate he is no Lordly Loyterer from his Cure but a busie Plow-man so that amongst all the Prelates and among all the pack of them that have Cure the Devil shall go for my money for he still applieth his Business Therefore ye Unpreaching Prelates learn of the Devil to be diligent in doing your Office Learn of the Devil And if ye will not learn of God and good men for shame learn of the Devil ad erubescentiam vestram dico I speak it for your shame if you will not learn of God nor good men to be diligent in your Office learn of the Devil Howbeit there is now very good hope that the Kings Majesty being by the help of good governance of his most Honourable Counsellors trained and brought up in Learning and Knowledge of Gods Word will shortly provide a remedy and set an order herein which thing that it may so be let us pray for him pray for him good people pray for him ye have great cause and need to pray for him Amen Part of the First Sermon Preached by the Reverend Father Master Hugh Latimer before our Late Soveraign Lord of Famous memory King Edward the Sixth within the Preaching place in the Palace at Westminster 1549. the Eight of March Rom. 15. Quaecunque scripta sunt ad nostram doctrinam scripta sunt IN Taking this Part of Scripture most Noble Audience I played as a Truant which when he is at School will chuse a Lesson wherein he is perfect because he is loath to take pain in studying a new Lesson or else feareth stripes for his sloathfulness In like manner I might seem now in my old age to some men to take this part of Scripture because I would wade easily away therewith and drive my matter at my pleasure and not to be bound to a certain Theam But ye shall consider that the foresaid words of Paul are not to be understood of all Scriptures but only of those which are of God written in Gods Book and all things which are therein are written for our Learning The Excellency of this word is so great and of so high dignity that there is no earthly thing to be compared do it The Author thereof is great that is God himself Eternal Almighty everlasting The Scripture because of him is also Great Eternal most Mighty and Holy There is no King Emperor Magistrate and Ruler of what state soever they be but are bound to obey this God and to give credence unto his Holy Word in directing their steps ordinately according to the same Word Yea truly they are not only bound to obey Gods Book but also the Ministry of the same so far as he speaketh sitting in Moses Chair For in this world God hath two Svvords the one is a Temporal Svvord the other a Spiritual The King correcteth Transgresson vvith the Temporal Svvord yea the Preacher if he be an Offender But the Preacher cannot correct the King if he be a Transgressor of Gods Word vvith the Temporal Svvord But he must correct and reprove him vvith the Spiritual Svvord fearing no man setting God only before his eyes under vvhom he is a Minister to supplant and root up all Vice and

in Preaching and Studying and not be interrupted from their Charge Also it is the Kings Honour Part of the Second Sermon preached by Mr. Latymer before King Edward And when the King is set in the Seat of his Kingdom he shall write him out a Book Deut. 17. I Told you in my last Sermon of Ministers of the Kings people had occasion to shew you how few Noblemen were good Preachers I left out an History then which now I will tell you There was a Bishop of Winchester in King Henry the Sixth's daies This Bishop was a Great man born and did bear such a stroak he was able to shoulder the Lord Protector it chanced the Lord Protector and he fell out and the Bishop would bear nothing at all with him but played me the Satrapa so Was not this a good Prelate He should have been at home preaching in his Diocess with a Wanniaunt This Protector was so Noble a Godly man that he was called of every man the good Duke Humphrey He kept such a House And the Bishop for standing so stiffly by the matter and bearing up the Order of our Mother the Holy Church was made a Cardinal at Calice and thither the Bishop of Rome sent him a Cardinals Hat He should have had a Tyburne-Tippet a half peny Halter and all such proud Prelates When he sitteth upon the Throne what shall he do Shall he dance and dally banquet havvk and hunt No forsooth Sir What must he do then He must be a Student not thinking because he is a King he hath License to do vvhat he vvill as these vvorldly Flatterers are vvont to say ye trouble not your self Sir ye may havvk and hunt and take your pleasure as for the guiding of your Kingdom and People let us alone vvith it These flattering Clavv-backs are Original Roots of all Mischief and yet a King may take his Pastime in Havvking and Hunting or such like Pleasures but he must It follovveth in the Text Deut. 17. 19. He shall have it with him in his Progresse He shall read in it not once a year but all the daies of his life Where are these Worldlings novv these Bladder-puft-up vvily men Wo vvorth them that ever they vvere about any King But hovv shall he read this Book As the Homilies are read Some call them Homilies and indeed so they may be vvell called for they are homely handled For though the Priest read them never so vvell yet if the Parish like them not there is such talking and babling that nothing can be heard And if the Parish be good and the Priest naught he vvill so hack and chop it that it vvere as good to be vvithout it for any vvord that shall be understood And yet the more pity it is suffered of your Graces Bishops in their Diocess unpunished But I vvill be a Suitor to your Grace that you vvill give your Bishops charge ere they go home upon their Allegiance to look better to their Flock and to see your Majesties Injunctions better kept and send your Visitors in their Tayls and if they be found negligent in their duties out vvith them I require it in Gods behalf make them Quondams all the Pack of them But ye vvill say Where shall vve have any to put in their rooms Your Majesty hath divers of your Chaplains well learned men and of good knowlede and yet ye have some bad enough hangers on the Court I mean not these What an Enormity is this in a Christian Realm to serve in a Civility having the profit of a Provostship and a Deanry and a Parsonage But I will tell you what is like to come of it It will bring the Clergy shortly into a very Slavery I may not forget here my Scala Caeli that I spake of in my last Sermon I will repeat it now again desiring your Grace in Gods behalf that you will remember it The Bishop of Rome had a Scala coeli but his was a Masse-matter But this Scala Coeli that I now speak of is the true Ladder that bringeth a man to heaven The top of the Ladder or first Greese is this Whosoever calleth on the name of the Lord shall be saved The second step How shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed The Third Stair is this How shall they believe in him of whom they never heard The Fourth Step How shall they hear without a Preacher Now the nether end of the Ladder is How shall they preach except they be sent This is the Foot of the Ladder So that we may go backward now and use the School-Argument a primo ad ultimum Take away Preaching take away Salvation But I fear one thing Ever since the Bishop of Rome was first in authority they have gone about to destroy the Gospel but God worketh wonderfully he hath preserved it maugre all their hearts and yet we are unthankful that we cannot consider it I will tell you what a Bishop of this Realm said once to me he sent for me and marvelled that I would not consent to such Traditions as were then set out And I answered him that I would be ruled by Gods Book and rather than I would dissent one jot from it I would be torn with wild horses And I chanced in our Communication to name the Lords Supper Tush saith the Bishop What do you call the Lords Supper What new Term is that There stood by him a Dubber one Doctor Dubber he dubbed him by and by and said that this Term was seldom read in the Doctors And I made Answer that I would rather follow Paul in using his Terms than them though they had all the Doctors on their side Why said the Bishop cannot we without the Scriptures order the people How did they before the Scripture was first written But God knoweth full ill yet would they have ordered them For seeing that having it they have deceived us in what case should we have been novv vvithout it But thanks be unto God that by so vvonderful a Miracle he hath preserved the Book still It is in the Text that a King ought to fear God he shall have the dread of God before his eyes Work not by vvorldly Policy for vvorldly Policy feareth not God Take heed of these Clavv-backs these venomous people that vvill come to you that vvill follovv you like Gnato's Parasites if you follovv them you are out of your Book if it be not according to Gods Word that they counsel you do it not fo● any vvorldly Policy for then you fear not God But vvherefore shall a King fear God It follovveth in the Text that he may prolong his daies in his Kingdom Remember this I beseech your Grace and when these Flatterers and Flebergibs another day shall come and claw you by the back and say Sir trouble not your self What shall you study Why should you do this or that Your Grace

the children of light which thing was true in Christs time and now in our time it is most true Who is so blind but he seeth this cleerly except perchance there be any that cannot discern the children of the world from the children of light The children of the world conceive and bring forth more prudently and things conceived and brought forth they nourish and conserve with much more policy then do the children of light Which thing is as sorrowfull to be said as it seems absurd to be heard When ye hear the children of the world you understand the world as a father for the world is father to many children not by the first creation but by imitation and love He is not only a father but also the son of another father If you knew once his father by and by ye shall know his children for he that hath the devil to his father must needs have devillish children The devil is not only taken for father but also for Prince of the world that is of worldly folk It is either all one thing or else not much different to say children of the world and children of the devil according to that that Christ said to the Jews Ye are of your father the devil whereas undoubtedly he spake to the children of this world Then this devil being such a one as can never be unlike himself Loe of Envy his welbeloved Lemmon he begat the world and after left it with Discord at Nurse Which world after it came to mans state had of many Concubines many sons he was so secund a father and had gotten so many children of Lady Pride Dame Gluttony Mistress Avarice Lady Lechery and of Dame Subtilty that now hard and scant ye may find any corner any kind of life where many of his children be not In Court in Cowl's in Cloisters in Rochets be they never so white yea where shall ye not find them Howbeit they that be secular and lay men are not by and by children of the world not the children of light that are called spiritual are of the Clergy No no as ye may find among the Laity many children of light so among the Clergy how much soever we arrogate these holy titles unto us and think them only attributed to us Vos estis lux mundi peculium Christi c. ye are the light of the world the chosen people of Christ a Kingly Priesthood an holy Nation and such other ye shall find many children of the world because in all places the world getteth many children These be our holy holy men that say they are dead to the world when no men be more lively in worldly things then some of them be But let them be in profession and name farthest from the world most alienate from it yea so far that they may seem to have no occupying no kindred no affinity nothing to do with it yet in their life and deeds they shew themselves no bastards but right begotten children of the world as those which the world long since had by his dear wife Dame Hypocrisie and since hath brought them up and multiplied to more than a good many encreasing them too much albeit they swear by all He-Saints and She-Saints too that they know not their Father nor Mother neither the world nor hypocrisie as indeed they can semble and dissemble all things which thing they might learn wonderful well of their Parents I speak not of all religious men but those that the world hath fast knit at his Girdle even in the midst of their Religion And I marvel if there be not a great sort of Bishops and Prelates that are Brethren German unto these and as a great sort so even as right-born and worlds Children by as good Title as they But because I cannot speak of all when I say Prelates I understand Bishops Abbots Priors Archdeacons Deans and other of such sort that are now called to this Convocation as I see to intreat here of nothing but of such matters as both appertain to the Glory of Christ and to the wealth of the people of England which thing I pray God they do as earnestly as they ought But it is to be feared lest as Light hath many of her Children here so the world hath sent some of his whelps hither I know there can be no agreement betwixt these too as long as they have minds so unlike and so contrary Affections and Judgments so utterly divers in all points But if the children of this world be either moe in number or more prudent than the children of Light what then availeth us to have this Convocation Had it not been better we had not been called together at all For as the children of the world be evil so they breed and bring forth things evil and yet there be moe of them in all places or at least And as now I much pass not how you were ingendred or by what means ye were promoted to those dignities that ye now occupy so it be honest good and profitable that ye in this your consultation shall do ingender The end of your Convocation shall shew what ye have done the fruit that shall come of your Consultation shall shew what generation ye be of For what have ye done hitherto I pray you these seven years and moe What have ye ingendred What have ye brought forth What fruit is come of your long and great Assembly What one thing that the people of England hath been the better of an hair or your selves either accepted before God or better discharged toward the people committed unto your cure For that the people is better learned and taught now than they were in time past to whether of these ought we to attribute it to your Industry or to the Providence of God and the foreseeing of the Kings Grace Ought we to thank you or the Kings Highness Whether stirred other first you the King that ye might preach or He you by his Letters that ye should preach ofter Is it unknown think you how both ye and your Curates were in a manner by violence enforced to let Books be made by prophane and Lay Persons and sold abroad and read for the Instruction of the People I am bold with you but I speak Latine and not English to the Clergy not to the Laity I speak to you being present and not behind you backs God is my witness I speak whatsoever is spoken of the good will that I bear you God is my witness which knoweth my heart and compelleth me to say that I say Now I pray you in Gods name what did you so great Fathers so many so long a season so oft assembled together What went you about What would you have brought to pass two things taken away The one That ye which I heard burned a dead man The other that ye which I felt went about to burn one being alive Him because he did I cannot tell how in

may answer them thus and say What Sirra I perceive you are a weary of Us and our Posterity Doth not God say in such a place that a King shall write out a Book of Gods Law and read it Learn to fear God And why That he and his might reign long I perceive now thou art a Traytor Tell him this Tale once and I warrant you he will come no more to you neither he nor any after such a sort And thus shall your Grace drive such Flatterers and Claw-backs away You have heard how a King ought to pass the time He may learn at Solomon What was Solomons Petition Lord said he Da mihi cor docile he asked a docible heart a wise heart and wisdom to go in and to go out So your Grace must learn how to do of Solomon You must make your Petition now study now pray Now when God had given Solomon wisdom he sent him by and by occasion to occupy his Wit For God never gave a Gift but he sent occasion at one time or other to shew it to Gods Glory As if he send Riches he sendeth poor men to be helped with them One Word note here for Gods sake and I will trouble you no longer Would Solomon being so Noble a King hear two poor women They were poor for as the Scripture saith they were together alone in a House they had not so much as one servant betwixt them both Would King Solomon I say hear them in his own person Yea forsooth And yet I hear of many matters before my Lord Protector and my Lord Chancellor that cannot be heard I must desire my Lord Protectors Grace to hear me in this matter That your Grace would hear poor mens Suites your self Put them to none other to hear let them not be delayed The Saying is now that Money is heard every where if he be rich he shall soon have an end of his Matter Hear mens Suites your self I require you in Gods behalf put it not to the hearing of these Velvet-Coats these Up-skips I cannot go to my Book for poor Folkes come to me desiring me I walk somtimes in my Lord of Canterburies Garden looking in my Book as I can do but little good at it but somthing I must do to satisfie this place I am no sooner in the Garden anon my man cometh and saith Sir there is one at the Gate would speak with you When I come there then it is some one or other that desireth me that I would speak his matter may be heard that he hath lien thus long A Gentlewoman came to me There is a poor VVoman that lyeth in the Fleet. I beseech your Grace that you will look to these Matters hear them your self view your Judges and hear poor mens Causes And you proud Iudges hearken what God saith in his Holy Book Audite illos ita parvum ut magnum Hear them saith He the small aswell as the great the poor aswell as the rich Regard no person fear no man why Quia Domini judicium est the judgment is Gods Mark this saying thou proud Iudge The Devil will bring this Sentence at the day of doom Hell will be full of these Iudges If they repent not and amend They are worse then the wicked Iudge that Christ speaketh of that neither feared God nor the world Our Iudges are worse then this Iudge was for they will neither hear Men for Gods sake nor fear of the world nor importunateness nor any thing else Yea some of them will command them to ward if they be importunate I heard say that when a Suitour came to one of them he said what fellow is this that giveth these folk counsel to be so importunate he would be punished and committed to ward Marry Sir punish me then it is even I that gave them counsel I would gladly be punisht in such a cause And if ye amend not I will cause them to cry out upon you still even as long as I live I will do it indeed But I have troubled you long Beati qui audiunt c. Part of the Third Sermon of Mr. Hugh Latimer preached before King Edward A Preacher hath two Offices 1 To Teach true Doctrine 2 To confute Gainsayers VVhy you will say will any body gainsay true Doctrine VVas there ever yet Preachers but there were Gainsayers Ieremy was the Minister of the true VVord of God Elias had Baals Priests supported by Iezebel to speak against him Iohn Baptist and our Saviour Christ. The Apostles had Gainsayers Acts 28. 22. This Sect is every where spoken against In the Popish Masse time there was no gainsaying So long as we had in adoration the Popish Masse we were then without gainsaying VVhen Sathan the Devil hath the guiding of the House he keepeth all in peace VVhen he hath the Religion in possession he stirreth up no sedition I warrant you How many dissentions have we heard of in Turky look whether ye hear of any Heresies among the Jews And if ever concord should have been in Religion when should it have been but when Christ was here Ye find fault with Preachers and say they cause sedition VVe are noted to be rash and indiscreet in our preaching yet as discreet as Christ was there was diversity There was never Prophet to be compared to him and yet there was never more dissention then when he was and preached himself This day I must do somewhat in the second Office But first I will make a short rehearsall to put you in memory The peevish people in this Realm have nothing but the King the King in their mouths when it maketh for their purpose As there was a Doctor that preached the Kings Majesty hath his Holy water he creepeth to the Cross and then they have nothing but the King the King in their mouths These be they my good people that must have their mouths stopt but if a man tell them of the Kings proceedings now they have their shifts and their put ofts saying we may not go before a Law we may break no order These be the wicked Preachers their mouths must be stopt these be the gainsayers Now to my confutation There is a certain man that shortly after my first Sermon being ask't if he had been at the Sermon that day Answered yea I pray you said he how liked you him Marry said he as I liked him alwayes a seditious Fellow Oh Lord he pinched me there indeed nay he rather had a full bit at me Yet I comfort my self with that that Christ was noted to be a Stirrer up of the People It becometh me to take it in good part I am not better then He was In the Kings dayes that dead is a many of us were called together before him to say our minds in certain matters In the end one kneeled me down and accused me of sedition that I had preached seditious Doctrine A heavy salutation and a hard

Sons would have been so corrupted they felt the smack of this world A perillous thing It is a perillous thing a dangerous state to be a Judge I have told you of scala coeli This I am sure is scald inferni the right way to Hell to be covetous and take bribes and pervert justice If a Judge would ask me the way to Hell I would shew him this way First let him be a covetous man let his heart be poisoned with covetousness then let him go a little farther and take bribes and at the last pervert judgment Lo here is the Mother and the Daughter and the Daughters Daughter Avarice is the Mother she brings forth bribe taking and bribe taking perverting of judgment There lacks a fourth thing to make up the Messe which so God help me if I were Judge should be Hangum Tunum a Tiburn Tippet to take with him and it were the Judge of the Kings Bench my Lord chief Judge of England yea and it were my Lord Chancellor himself to Tiburn with him One will say you speak unseemly so to be against the Officers for taking of rewards in doing pleasures You consider not the matter to the bottom their Offices be bought for great sums how should they receive their money again And is it so trow ye are civil Offices bought for money Lord God! who should have thought that God fore-fend that ever any such enormity should be in England that civil Offices should be bought And if ye be a selling civil Offices ye are as they which fell their benefices and so we shall have omnia venalia I marvel the ground gapes not and devours us Surely it is the great lemity of God that suffers it O Lord in what case are we There was a Patron in England that had a benefice faln into his hand and a good Brother of mine came to him and brought him thirty Apples in a dish and gave them to his man to carry them to his Master it is like he gave one to his Man for his labour to make up the game and so there was thirty one This Man cometh to his Master and presented him with the dish of Apples saying Sir such a man hath sent you a dish of fruit and desireth you to be good unto him for such a benefice Tush tush quoth he this is no Apple matter I will none of his Apples I have as good as these or as he hath any in my own Orchard The Man came to the Priest again and told him what his Master said Then quoth the Priest desire him yet to prove one of them for my sake he shall find them much better then they look for He cut one of them and found ten pieces of gold in it Marry quo●h he this is a good Apple The Priest standing not far of hearing what the Gentleman said cryed out and said they are all one Apples I warrant you Sir they grew all on one Tree and have all one tast Well he is a good Fellow let him have it quoth the Patron Get you a Graft of this Tree and I warrant you it shall stand you in more stead then all St. Pauls learning Well let Patrons take heed Part of the sixt Sermon of Mr. Latimer preached before King Edward I Intend this day to intreat of a piece of Scripture out of the first Chapter of Luke v. 1. 2 3 c. I am occasioned to take this place by a Book sent to the Kings Majesty that dead is by Master Pool It is a Text that he doth greatly abuse for the Supremacy he racks it and violents it to serve for the maintenance of the Bishop of Rome The Text saith the people pressed upon him so that Christ was in peril to be thrust into the Pond A wonderous thing what a desire the people had to hear our Saviour preach VVhere read you that a great number of Scribes and Pharisees and Bishops followed him There is a Doctor that writeth of this place his name is Dr. Gorrham Nicholas Gorrham I knew him to be a School Doctor a great while ago but I never knew him to be an interpreter of Scripture till of late he saith thus Major devotio in laicis vetulis quam in clericis There is more devotion saith he in lay folk and old wives and in these simple and vulgar people then in the Clarks they be better affected to the Word of God then the Clergie I marvel not at the Sentence but I marvel at such a Sentence in such a Doctor If I should say so much it would be said to me it is an evil Bird that defiles his own nest Our Saviour had said Luke 4. 43. That he must preach the Kingdom of God to other Cities also For therefore am I sent Is it not a marvellous thing that our unpreaching Prelates can read this place and yet preach no more then they do I marvel that they can go quietly to bed and see how he allureth them by his example to be diligent in their Office The preaching of the Gospel is the power of God to salvation to every one that Believeth Rom. 1. 15 16. Beware beware ye diminish not this Office for if ye do ye decay Gods Power Christ saith Jo. 3. 3. Except a man be born again What is this Regeneration it is not to be Christned in water as these fire brands expound it and nothing else How is it to be expounded then Saint Peter sheweth 1 Pet. 1. 23 24 25. It is the circumstance and collation of places that make Scriptures plain We are born saith he not of corruptible Seed but of incorruptible by the Word of God By the Word of God by the Word of God preached and opened Thus cometh in our new birth Here you may see how necessary this Office is to our Salvation This is the thing that the Devil wrastleth most against It hath been all his study to decay this Office he worketh against it as much as he can he hath prevail'd too much too much in it He hath set up a state of unpreaching Prelacy in this Realm this seven hundred years a stately unpreaching Prelacy he hath made unpreaching Prelates He hath stirred up heaps to persecute this Office in the title of Heresie he hath stirred up the Magistrates to persecute it in the title of sedition And he hath stirred up the people to persecute it with exprobrations and slanderous words And with Impropriations he hath turned preaching into private Masses if a Priest should have left Masse undone on a Sunday within this ten years all England would have wondred at it but they might have left off the Sermon twenty Sundaies and never have been blamed And thus by these Impropriations private Masses were set up and preaching of Gods word trodden under foot But what doth he now he stirs men up to outragious rearing of rents that poor men shall not be able to find their children at the