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book_n	lesson_n	morning_n	prayer_n	2,086	5	9.7686	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03087	A simple, and religious consultation of vs Herman by the grace of God Archebishop of Colone, and prince Electour. [et] c. by what meanes a Christian reformation, and founded in Gods worde, of doctrine, administration of the deuine sacramentes, of ceremonies, and the hole cure of soules, and other ecclesiastical ministeries may be begon among men committed to our pastorall charge, vntil the Lorde graunt a better to be appoynted either by a free, and Christian cou[n]sayle, general, or national, or elles by the states of the empire of the natio[n] of Germanie, gathered together in the holye Gost; Einfaltigs Bedencken, warauff ein christliche in dem Wort Gottes gegrünte Reformation an Lehr, Brauch der heyligen Sacramenten un Ceremonien, Seelsorg und anderem Kirchendienst, biss auff eines freyen, christlichen, gemeinen oder nationals Concilii, oder dess Reichs Teutscher Nation Stende, im Heyligen Geyst versamelt, Verbesserung, bei denen so unserer Seelsorge befohlen, anzurichten seye, English	Wied, Hermann von.; Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560.; Bucer, Martin, 1491-1551.	1547 (1547)	STC 13213; ESTC S103980	258,817	620

shall be present in theyr exammation and conuersion But if anie refusyng godlie admonition and doctrine shall obstinately continue in theyr impietie the officer of that place muste brynge theyr cause before an higher magistrate He shall punishe suche accordynge to the state of the personne and erroure wyth banishmente or other sore paynes after the law of the empire and the tēporal cōstitutiō decreed set forth cōceruyng these matters For we wyll that thys be knowen to all men that none in our dominions or places subiecte to our rule shal be suffered that dareth alowe one or more of the Anabaptisticall errours We wyl haue the same maner vsed with all them whiche steare vp spreade abrode or allowe anie false doctrine that fighteth with the receyued articles of our fayth ¶ Of the administration of religion that is to saye of the handlynge and dispensation of the doctrine Sacramentes and discipline of Christ in the churche And fyrste of the maner and ordre of holy sermons ON the sondaies and holie daies the preachers shal reherse and declare to the people the wonted lesson of the Gospell betwene the administration of the Sacramente as the custome is and out of that lesson they shal teache the people admonishe and argue those thinges which they shall perceyue to be moste necessarie and profitable for christian lyfe And forasmuch as al the lessons of the holy scripture preache vnto vs of God to be acknowledged in Christe of his almightines and mercie of repentaunce and forgyuenes of synnes in the name of Christe a wyse and faithful preacher shal easely chose that thing chiefely out of euerie lesson that shall make to the health and edification of the present congregation Wherfore the pastours must haue great care of the people and trye at certeyne tymes howe muche euerie one hath profited in religion in what partenerie one staggereth and is readie to fal whether it be in the doctrine of fayth or concernynge the trust of Gods mercie or in the feare of the iudgement of God or in patience loue or orderynge of maners that timelie and holesome remedies maye euer be brought out of the worde of God as out of a plentifull apothe caries shop and layed to the greuous diseases and vices of the people The lessons of the scripture beinge recited in the begynnynge of sermons muste be diligently declared to the people and that whole togither For the worde of God must be propouned to the people that they maye learne it and be enstructed to godlines therby Wherfore so muche shal be declared as was reade to the people that they maye receyue some fruite of godlines thereby But the preachers and ministers of the cōgregations shall labour diligently herein that the doctrine and exhortation whiche they wyll vse before the lessons euer be referred to those thynges wherein the people is weakeste and they shall instantly beate in the thynges whiche they shall perceyue to further the amendemēt of the people and holesome institution whiche thynge we se that the holy fathers dyd also which fyrst declared in ordre the lesson that was recited and afterwarde taryed in those places chiefely in teachyng exhortyng and reprouyng that semed moste to further the institution admonition and correction of the people But bycause all doctrine and exhortation is then ryghtly perceyued and lette to sinke deeper into the mynde if it be deriued out of certaine principles knowen before as fundacion and cōcluded in the same the preachers muste referre all doctrine and exortation in theyr sermones to some place of a Catachisme or institution as to the ten commaundementes to the articles of our faithe the Lordes praier the Sacramentes and suche lyke principall poyntes of our religion And bycause that the whole christiane doctrine and what so euer perteyneth to godlines consisteth in these sūmaries and be meetelie well knowē to the people it bringeth great light to the doctrine and it moueth the people the more if the sermons shal be referred to these poyntes as to a certeyne marke and they shall shewe the people to what parte of the catechisme that that they teache perteyneth Thys thynge shall healpe muche to thys purpose that the people maye dayly growe more and more in all godlines fayeth in Christe and loue towarde theyr neighbour The pastoure muste also teache the people the common offices and dueties of thys lyfe accordynge to euerie mannes vocation as the office of maried folke one towardes an other the office of the parentes towarde theyr chyldrē and cōtrary wise What maisters owe to their seruaūtes and seruauntes to theyr maisters Howe the officers oughte to be estemed and all other gouernours howe greate reuerence we owe them howe we oughte to lyue wyth oure superiours equalles and inferiours These thynges must be often propouned and repeted in sermons chiefely on the holie dayes when a greate cōpany of people resorteth togyther And the prayses of ciuile lyfe muste be diligētly beaten into mē and chiefely the youth muste be accustomed wyth great diligence and arte to learne to haue a reuerent opinion of the officers of the lawes and of al politike thinges This reuerence is profitable to the common weale and is the nurse of great vertues On the sundayes and holie dayes at the euenyng prayers some exhortation muste be made which shal be chosen out of the epistle of the sundaye or holie day whiche the preachers when it is reade to the people shal interprete diligently They may if they wyll declare to the people the actes of the Apostles or one of the euangelistes or some epistle of Paule or the Psa●ter in ordre But let none of the preachers take in hāde to declare the bokes of Moyses the histories of the olde Testamente the prophetes but they to whom the Deanes shal committe that matter We wyll also that vpon the sundayes and holie dayes aswel in the mornynges as eueninges holie assembles be vsed holie lessons be propouned and prayers be made if there be ministers inowe and if muche people come thereunto For so seruauntes and other of the common people shall be better prouided for which can not euer come to the principall assembles of the churche In the mornyng let the catechisme be declared if it maye be if not let it be declared at euentide when the people resorte togyther For a certeyne houre on the holie dayes muste be appoynted for the ruder sorte and the youth to haue the Catechisme declared And that houre for the Catechisme shal be appoynted that is moste conuenient for the people And A Catechisme is an introductiō institution and instruction of the vnlearned in the wicke dayes two dayes or one at the leste muste be appoynted for the Catechisme from Marche to Nouember From that tyme vnto the spryngtyde the Catechisme maye be omitted on the workynge dayes by reason of youge chyldren whiche can not be present for the great colde In euerie congregation suche ministers must be chosen to the handling of

doctrine most diligētli and that it be lerned and kept perpetualy And this is a singular benifit of God that he preserueth hys worde beinge sette furth in certayne bokes from the beginning vnto the ende of the worlde wherein we haue a sure knowlege and doctrine of hym to lyue godly and blisfully and by the same we maye lerne the beginning the growynge furth and the spreadinge abrode of thys doctriue in to the hole worlde Thys benifite I saie of God is right excellent and verie inestimable wherefore that studie and care wherewith mē labour that this boke of lyfe and euerlaystinge saluacion maye be kepte sincere and faythfully taught and declared to men that they maye lerne thereby the true knowlege of God is vndoubtedly an office of godlines a seruice of god most acceptable For which cause God instituted the kyngedome of Iuda and mainteined it wonderfully so manye hundred yeres name ly that there mighte be a people a monge whome this booke shoulde be rightly kepte and a monge whom there shoulde remayne sure testimone is of God and of his wyl towardes vs vnto the cominge of Christ So God preserued also after the comminge of Christe and shall euer preserue some kyngdomes and cōmen weales where this boke shal be kepte to the ende of the worlde Seinge than that God and our father regardeth so much that this boke be religiousli kepte taught and lerned it is surely the office of all princes and of them that ministre the commē weale to erecte Scholes and so to prouide mete teachers for the same and such maner of teaching the youth of Christ that thys heauenlie doctrine comprehended in the holie Byble maye euer be kepte pure and faythfully taught in the congregacion For thys cause it is well knowen that at the beginning the Apostles euer instituted scholes in the congregations There be moreouer other liberal sciēces right goodlie giftes of God whereby great commodites are procured to the commē lyfe of men and preserued whyche also be verie necessarie for the ciuile administracion of the worldly matters It is than expediēt that the youth be enstructed herein Wherfore if we shall suffer schooles to fall downe and the studie of lerninge to perishe in shorte tyme the congregations shall want pastours and teachers and professours of other good sciences and the commen weale shall lacke gouerners whereby both the congregations and the common weale must nedes vtterly perishe and be ouerthrowen Wherefore we wyl that in euerie towne aswel smale as great latine scholes be erected for the behofe of the youth as the condion of euerie place wyll suffer And that the scholemasters and such as shal worcke with them in scholasticale labour may haue theyr rewarde and wages with lesse charge of the people we wyll by thaduise and assente of oure diosesanes after that we haue tried the cōmodite thereof depute certaine vicarages and other prebēdes to this vse Neuertheles the children shal also paie parte of the stipēd to the maisters namely such as nede not the almes of the congregacion Which rewarde euerie scholmaster shal equally dyuide with his assistantes Further more what order shal be kepte in euerie schoole what fourmes there shal be what howres shal be appoynted to teach the youth the scholmaster shal so order as it shal seme moste conuenient for the teachinge of children after that he hath consulted wyth the pastour and suche as we shal make visitours or ouerseers of this matter peculierly For as in other thynges so in schooles also a conuenient order is of greate importaunce The sholemasters and theyr fellowes shall haue theyr office inioyned vnto them by the consul of euerie place the pastour beinge present To these persōs the scholemasters shal promise that they wyll applye theyr office faythfully teach the youth after thys sorte First that they wyll teach the chyldren of the lowest fourme to reade and write and for that purpos they shal vse latyne bookes wherein is the Lordes praier the crede the ten cōmaundementes and such like thynges pertainyng to the institution of chyldren in religion so that wyth the first letters they may acquaynte theym selues wyth the preceptes of godlines Hereunto they shall adde the reading of Donate And the scholemasters shall prescriebe to these children certayne latine wordes or sentences daily in the eueninge whyche they shal render the next daye in the moringe They whiche haue lerned to reade and beginne to assaye to write shal be remoued to another fourme And the boke of Cato shal be red vnto them and thei shal be sette to lerne Donate wythout boke whom whan they haue learned some commen grammer shal be sette before thē which they shall also lerne wythout booke in order worde bi worde And the high procuratours of scholes shall principaully haue a regarde hereunto that the childrē lerne some certaine and regular grammer For that is necessarie for manie causes But bicause greate labour and continuall repeticion is requisite to the printinge of grammaticall rules in childrē and the children themselues abhorre from thys labour the most parte of sholemasters neglect the rules of grammar or teache thē negligently and make haste to the readinge of poets and Tullie and such like authors whyche is pleasaunter both to the teachers and heares than the perpetual repeticion of the rules of grammare is But by this preposterous maner of teachinge the youth is greatli hindred for thei neuer lerne to speake certaineli and purely whan they be not accustomed to certayne rules of speakynge Wherefore the sholemasters must be enioyned with singular diligence and bounde by an other to teache a certayne accustoumed and reguler grammer and certayne preceptes of speakinge to beate in the same with cōueniēt interrogaciones and answeres that they maye be grammarians and knowe acertayne way to speake latine In thys companie than of the seconde fourme the childrē shal be reteined so lōg til they haue perfectly lerned Donate and al grammar rules And herwyth besides Cato Aesopes fables and some dialoges of Mosellane or Erasmus shal be expouned and such other good for exercises and preludies And the thynges that shal be interpreted vpon one daye aboute eueninge they thē selues shall interprete the same the nexte daye with the declinacion and cōiugacion of some nownes and verbes wher rules of the gendre case preterperfectetens supine shal be demaunded of thē as al good scholmasters know they must do and wil do also diligently Further more this fourme must be daily exercised in writinge and euerie one shall delyuer to the master some enioyned writinge After the children haue lerned the Etimologie or rules of grammare metely well a thirde fourme shal be appointed of suche as haue profited so far in learninge To these children the masters shal expoune Tirence and the Aeneis of Virgil and they must procure that they learne perfectly the rules of construction which the masters shal declare with plaine and euident exemples Further in the repetion of