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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01657	A godly inuectiue in the defence of the Gospell against such as murmure and woorke what thei can that the Bible shoulde not haue free passage, veray necessary to be red of euery faythfull Christian.	Gerrard, Philip.	1547 (1547)	STC 11797; ESTC S103091	27,823	80

vnto al them that beleue it It is not long sythen we called on Sainctes for diseases and all folyshe fantasies nowe we be taught that in all our extreme miseries we shuld flee vnto Ihesus the only appoincted mediatour betwyxt God the father and vs Once we wer not ashamed to rūne barefooted and barelegged to bowe our selfes vnto Images before whom we cōmitted wonderful Idolatrye a thyng most cursed dampnable in the sight of god And if men woulde iustly weie pondre the maruelouse Ipocrisy Idolatrie dampnable supersticiō which of late dayes were stifly defended and mainteined of the Clergy for pompe and dignitie vayne glorye and aduauntage sake they cannot but triumphe for this so Godly a change excepte they be priuie enemies vnto England and shamefull rebels vnto christes holy religion for by this chaunge we haue lyght for darkenes true religion for supersticion remission of our synnes by the bloud of Christ in stead of Papisticall and deceitful Pardonnes And yf we would call to memory howe imperfecte and corrupted oure faythe was by the reason of poperye howe ignorantly we walked yea and what disobedyence reygned emongest vs then surely if we be not shamelesse and destitute of all grace wee cannot but giue hearty thankes for this most gloriouse chaunce And euen nowe is full tyme yf the state and value of thynges be wel cōsidered to shew our selfes reuerent deuout and symple to receiue the gloriouse testamēt of christ yea and to repente and make our eies sore with sobbing and wepyng that euer we wer so disceiued with popery Ipocrisie such other pelfe And how to vse our selfes in readyng the bible let vs all take our exaumple of vertuouse kyng Iosias whiche was a man indued with such a singuler grace and of so feruēt zeale toward the word of God that after he had once redde the boke of the lord he so lamented al wiked doynges false doctrine that he rent his clothes and sayd The wrath of God is kendeled on vs because our fathers haue not hearkened vnto the wordes of this booke to do in al puinctes as it is written therein O happy people of Englād if your dull vnderstandyng wold reache to cōsider how worthy wordes these wer for so noble a kyng wold god the mindes of al kinges princes were so stable in the law of the Lorde as his was for he ceased not with al his power to throw doun al kynd of idolatrie as tēples hi laulters groues the .xxii. chro cōtrarily again wicked Manasses his sōne Amō obserued dismael daies made Images bowed vnto thē what vile estimaciō this brought thē vnto the holy scrypture witnesseth in the booke of the kynges Where thou maiest reade also of diuerse kynges whose hyghe glory and worthinesse is tourned into shame for that thei refused the woord of God and gaue them selfes vnto Idolatrie and vtterly cast awaie the cōmaundementes of God And for an example How pitiefully I pray the did the lord smite kyng Iehoram he was inuaded of his enemies and lost al his goodes he was plagued with diuerse diseases his end was most miserable greuouse to beholde for his bowelles rotted within hym and fell out of his bealy yea and to be brefe for his mischefe he was not buryed in the sepulcres of the kynges but is left vnto vs as a memory of wickednes the .xxii. Chronicles This kyng was thus wōderfully plaged for that he forsoke the word of god and defiled himself with Idolatrie against the law of the Lord And be ye wel assured that he and his people wer not worse defyled in those dayes then wee were of late with Romyshe doctrine Oure truste was as all men know in masses of Scala celi wee enbraced blynd pardones and louyngly buried them with vs we kneled bowed and becked vnto Idolles false doctrine bare the hole swaie the truthe cleane shut vp it was kept vnder locke and coulde haue no libertie What Godly minde woulde not abhorre to thyncke on this With these and many mo abhominacions we wer sore and deadly woūded And none so good a meane can now be foūd to cure oure olde diseases as to flee vnto the blessed testament of Christ which wil quickely healpe suche as desyre remedie confessynge their greefes and lamentyng their myserable blyndnesse The great grace and benignite of god is nowe soo preste that thou maiest yf thou wylte drynke a draughte freelye of the syncere worde of God that most pure fountain and holsome water of lyfe whiche wyll cause the to spewe vppe all that thou hast dronke of that foule stinkyng and Papistycal podel And yf thou nowe geue no eare to it but fondly wylte folowe other by pathes whiche cōmonly bee thicke thornie and cūbersome to iourney in and hast a desire to straie abrode thus wilfully thou knowest not whither dysdainyng to folowe the doctrine of the Byble where God sheweth howe and whiche waye al his should walke thē forsoth it is an euident token and significacion that thou arte the childe of wrath a counterfaited Christian yea and a ryght inheritour to Hell And if thou be mynded to tary still in Ignoraunce and wilte not bee moued from thy miserable condicion whyche soo blyndeth the that thou haste no grace to discerne the contrariete of these .ii. doctrines doe no more then but reade Sermones discipuli Legenda Aurea vitas Patrum and the olde Chronicle of Romyshe Byshoppes afterwarde reade the Testament Then thou shalt soone espie how the glory of God hathe ben defaced and what abhominable lyes and fables haue been taughte in the steade of the Gospell This shal bee a meane yf any meane be to make thine hearte relente this shall make the to crie out vpon all false doctrine yea this shall alter the from a styffe and a stubburne ignorant to be a pleasaunt sacrifice before GOD. That is thou shalte bee pourged in conscyence from Idolatrie Ipocrisie supersticion mennes constitucions newe kyndes of worshyppynges this and that fourme of liuyng colde ceremonies and such other pelfe as hath been added of late vnto Chrystes doctryne then thou wylte quickely refuse the shadowes of the lawe of Moyses and folowe the Testament whiche is the lyghte and full perfection of Christes holy religion for there thou shalte fynde all thynges playnely set forthe vnto the whiche apperteigne to get euerlastyng lyfe And if thou wilt now endeuour thy self to attain the knowledge of it then forsoth thou trauelest for pure ornamētes treasures iuels and laborst to a purpose for in comparison of it al other studies be but vain vanities and fātasies most fond And that thou mayest be more spedily prouoked to the word of God consyder howe sore sainct Paule as a true and faithfull minister was charged with thoughtes for the Congregacion He was so earnestly bēt to haue it goe forewarde that he coulde not suffre in no wyse to haue it hyndered or put backe but would haue it knowen vnto all kynd