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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77488	The true coppy of the complaint of Roderyck Mors, sometime a gray Fryer, unto the Parliament House of England, about an hundred yeares agoe, when the Bishop of Rome being banish'd out of the realme, the Bishops of England acted his part by power of the old Romish canon, newly translated into English law.; Complaynt of Roderyck Mors. Chapter 23.	Brinkelow, Henry, d. 1546.	1642 (1642)	Wing B4696; Thomason 669.f.4[41]; ESTC R210695	4,713	1

The true Coppy of the Complaint of Roderyck Mors Sometime a Gray Fryer unto the Parliament Hsouse of England about an hundred yeares agoe when the Bishop of Rome being Banish'd out of the Realme the Bishops of ENGLAND acted his part by power of the old Romish Canon newly Translated into English Law Let the Reader take notice that in that day when the Roman Wolf was Metamorphosed into an English Fox the Prelats that in our first reforming Parliament of this latter age cryed out fearefully the destruction of the Church and the ceasing of the glory of the Kingdome 1530 at least for their livings sake joyn'd in law-making and wrote and swore solemnly against that Roman jurisdiction 1534. Being yet bound by their own cords and when they would have King and State beleeve that both Pope and Popery were banish'd even in the same day both by word and letter at home and ●broad took all occasions to draw backe K. Henry the 8. his Highnesse from Reformation and on the other hand procur'd Injunctions and Articles 1540. with penalties attended in which even dealing against Transubstantion was to be considered as Treason And themselves sate in Commission and were cheiefe prosecutors of such as withstood them Their attempts against the Queen Katharine Parrs own life are they not on record How saith our Church History came the Noble Courtier and so lamented of the King Earle Cromwell to his untimely end How were diverse Londoners and others Ministers and People cast into the burning flame in the same both place and time that others perished for adhering to the Roman Bishop And since the last Banishing of the forraign● power in the end of the Marian times what publique persecutions Murthers Prison-murders Gondemnation to death Banishment Torture and Spoyle by means of those cruell Canons and usurped Offices hath bin so sore and long endured who seeth not when the publique slate hath so discerned In this day when the advancement hath bin so faire for a renewd Patriarchat or Popedome within our selves we may lesse wonder the condition of the Land to be as it is though the Prelats protest against Romes Supremacie Cannot they be a blocke to the expedition for Ireland and designes of the Major part in Parliament for Reformation and our safety and agree in vote with the Popish Lords and boast how they could settle the present distraction in quietnesse troubling only some which they call Sectaries and yet keep close to the rule of Romish government shared among themselves thus still letting and like to doe till they be taken out of the way For the further discovery of this order of Men to every eye that is but halfe open and regulated well by common sense the judgement of the godly learned on the contrary side in the day of our begun escape from the Romish Wolfe in this Propheticall admonitory Lamentation being the Title and words of the 23. Chapter of his Book Printed in Anno 1545. is annexed A Lamentation for that the Body and Tayle of the Pope is not banished with his Name OH mercifull Father of heaven I can never lament enough to heare the Gospell thus blasphemed to be named a thing causing Sedition when it is the only cause of concord and peace in Conscience unto the faithfull Yet these Bishops Deanes and Canons of Colledges with other the Popes shavelings according to their old wont shame not to blaspheme this holy Word by all the subtile meanes that can be devised How busie were they to stay the putting forth of the great Bible and to have had the Bible of Thomas Mathew called in but the Lord strengthned the heart of the Prince to set it forth against their wills yet how shamefully have they and their members in many places of England driven men from reading the Bible yea and Bonner Bishop of London shamed not in the yeare a thousand five hundred and forty to Prison one Porter and other for reading in the Bible which if it be not Heresie to GOD then what is Heresie And if it be not treason to the King to deface his Injunctions then what is treason And againe if it be not theft to the Common-wealth to steale from them their spirituall food then what is robbery and theft And even in the beginning of the last Parliament in the yeare a thousand five hundred and forty one how did they blaspheme rage and bely the Holy Ghost saying It is not rightly translated and that it is full of Heresies and that they would correct it and set out one rightly Sooner can they find faults than amend it Who perceiveth not your wicked intentions that in the meane time ye looke for the death of the King whom GOD preserve to his pleasure O ye blind Phylistians the Scripture is full of sentences which teach men to know you and to beware of you I cannot blame you though ye fight against GOD and his Word to shut it up from his People For why Whosoever readeth or heareth the Contents of that Booke and beleeveth the Holy Ghost shall plainly see that ye be the very enemies of GOD and so shall cast you out of their Conscience where ye have long sitten in the place of God whereby also ye should lose your great riches and authority which maketh you to roare like Lyons and teare like Beares and to bite like cruell Wolves and to sting like Adders No doubt one Bishop one Deane one Colledge or House of Canons hath ever done more mischiefe against Gods Word and sought more the hinderance of the same than 10 houses of Monks Friers Chanons or Nunnes ever did The Kings grace began well to weed the Garden of England but yet hath he left standing the more pitty the most foulest and stinking weeds which had most need to be first plucked up by the roots that is to say the pricking Thistles and stinking Nettles which still standing what helpeth the deposing of the petty members of the Pope and to leave his whole body behind which be the pompous Bishops Canons of Colledges Deanes and such other Surely it helpeth as much as to say I will goe kill all the Foxes in S. Iohans Wood because I would have no more Foxes bred in all England We say we have cast the Pope out of England how so I aske you seeing he came never in England how can he be cast out therfore Some will say yes his tributes and other pollages be taken from him Well thanks be to God we be somwhat eased of our temporall and bodily burthen But there be greater things in this matter than that which well pondered we may say and lye not that the Pope remaineth wholly still in England save only that his Name is banished For why his body which be the Bishops and other shavelings doth not only remaine but also his tayle which be his filthy traditions wicked Laws and beggerly Ceremonies as S. Paul called them yea and the whole body of his pestiferous