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A22061 The letters which Iohan Ashwel priour of Newnham Abbey besids Bedforde, sente secretely to the Bishope of Lyncolne in the yeare of our lord M.D.xxvii. Where in the sayde priour accuseth George Ioye that tyme beinge felawe of Peter college in Cambridge, of fower opinio[n]s: with the answer of the sayed George vn to the same opinions. Joye, George, d. 1553.; Ashwell, John, d. 1541? 1531 (1531) STC 845; ESTC S109050 30,257 49

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cure they might wel see hī obserue it into their owne cōdemnacion if they did other wise accuse hī as eny transgressour therof as they dyd not with standinge at the laste their owne consciencis witnesinge agenste them And euen of the violēt wrestinge and false interpretinge of this one texte to serue for our spiritual belyes and their ambiciouse impery men maye gather and see plainly many other placis and textis of holy scripture to be like wise peruerted and torne in to their tradicions But God avenge deliuer once his pure holy worde frome the captiuite of these pestelent skorners gloriouse glosing hipocritis Amen ¶ Of pilgrimages and worshiping of Images THen you saye that I wolde haue men in derision that wente on pilgrimage for what cause it came not then into your minde loke you can call the cause yet into your minde who tolde you this for I can tell you full well ād who cōspired with you to obserue me to write my sainges to cōceyue siche secrete letters but the lorde will se to it avenge Exo. 5. Sir I mocked thē not but he that sitteth in heauen hath thē in derisiō It is the lorde that scornethe thē Psal. 2. and that worthely because they forsake him the liuinge god alone for all sufficient and euer ready to helpe all that call vpon him in faith and verite and will runne aftir straunge goddes into hilles wodes and solitary places there to worshipe stockes stones ye patauēture to do worse thinges of mānes making Ar not these men to be laughed at or rather to be lamented that maye ād oughte to worshipe god at home in their chamber and yet will farsake wife childerne and housholde whose presens they behoue and spende both bodye and goodes in longe and wearye trauelinges to fall downe and worshipe a stocke or a stone made with mannis hande Are not these the people scatred so brode thorowe al the lande of Egypte to seke chaffe Exodi in the 5. chapter Reade the seconde precepte as it standeth Exodi in the. 20. chapter reade the lawe the Prophetes and the newe testament and loke howe greuously God threateneth these godgoers ād saincte sekers that shulde have but one God him only to honour and to serue as Christ testified in the. 4. chapter of Mattheu and that in spirit and truthe euen at home in their hartes Stāde it not writen Exodi in the. 22. chapter He that offereth to eny Goddis that is to saye vnto eny image save vnto the lorde only let him dye with oute redemption He abhorred straunge goddes so sore that he forbade his people to name them Exod. in the. 23. Chapter Heare what I saie saith in the .65 chapter I haue stretched forth my handes al this longe time paste vnto a nacion that forsaketh me and seketh straunge goddes which nacion gothe not the right waye that is to saye not aftir my minde and commaundementes Vvhich nacion exaspereth and angreth me beynge present and yet go they forth to offre in groues and wodes doinge sacrifices there at autares of stone sittinge and knelinge by toumbes and shrynes sleaping in chirches full of images let the schole men excuse this falling dome before Images kissinge of their fete kneling praing holding vp of hādes steking vp of candles and geuinge them giftes c. callinge for their helpe in sikenes ād perel making their vowes vnto them Let them cloke their worshipe with Dulia and Hyperdulia and yet shal it be Idololatria when they haue made the beste for them that they can God will not be worshiped with our inuencions but as he him selfe hath commaunded he forbode euen the making of Images For he se that they shulde steale a waye his worshipe Thus said he Isaie in the. 42. chapter I am he that is called the lorde which geue not my glory to eny other creature nether yet my prayse to eny karuen Images Except you be ashamed of your stockes and ▪ Idoles in wodes and hilles in whom you delighted and leaue your groues and gardens which ye chose for your selues you shal be like okes whole leaues fall a vaye and like a garden with oute water For the glistering glorie of these Images shal be turned into stubble and the makers of them in to sparkes of fyer and both of them shal be burnte vp to gither noman quenchinge them Isaye in the firste chapter Reade him also in the ende of the seconde chapter And heare what the Prophet Baruch saith of these Idolotres in the. 6. cap. Th●yr goddes verely haue goldē crownes vpon their heades frome whom the prestes fetche golde and sil●er and bestowe it vpon their selues Also they geue of the same golde and Iwels to hores and make ●aye their harlettes their with and aftir that these harlettes have o●●rede them agene they re●●●ave them and decke their goddis with the same And yet ar not these goddis cleane frome rouste ●●wormes althoughe they be kouere● ād dect with purple they must wype a waye the duste frome theyr faces for their houses ar full of duste c. Reade the. 44. Chapter of Isaye AT laste you put your most Reuerēde father in minde for forgeting saing But I besech your lordship that no creature may know that I or eny of mine do shew you of these thīgis for thē I shal lese the fauour of many ī my countrye c. Oh yuel fauourde oules backis night rauens that thus feare the light O negociū perambulās in tenebris O preuey p●yson walkīge in derkenes Fered you men more then god Had you leuer lese the fauour of God then of men Is this the zele you bare to gods worde Had you leuer let it lye stil strangled with heresie then you shuldbe disclosed ād lese the fauour of mē What Christē mā wolde with drawe you his fauour for avenginge gods truthe frome heresie These ar the godly spirituall that take so grete paine in persecuting presoning putting to deth with so grete labours study the poore innocent soules membres of Christe for the pure zele they haue to god to his worde secretly they dare acc●●se but not opēly In d●rkenes dare they stāde shoteforthe their arows dipped in venome but not in the light They thinke to make the truthe a lyer which saith in his gospel there is nothinge so secr●etly done but it shal be disclosed But it is your owne glorie your own honour and ydle belis ●uste tha● you seke ●ont for so gredely and not to deliuer Gods truth from heresies for it is his trwe worl● the very liuely mēbres of his poore chirch that you yet persecute so cruelly Vvhich abhominable blindnes if you wil not knowe repent you at so many daily exhortacions warningis thretening is by Goddis own worde both in Latine ād in Englisshe so mercifull offred you loke for no nother but the vengeaunce and wrath of god now hanging ouer your headis shortly to be powerd downe ●●pon you Plages daily ar sent into your kingdome and euen the Popis hed which is Antichriste is now broken Babilon is fallen in dede and all hir karuen and grauen goddis ar braste agēst the grounde I saie in the. 21. chapter Fle you therfore out of Babilon ād let euery man saue his life Ieremie in the. 51. chapter For there ar many thingis that threten an heuy fall change to your Popishe kingdome Thē lorde of powrs hath decrede to abate the pride of all stoutenes to pluk downe all the grete gloriouse of therthe I saie in the. 23. chapter It is the worde of God I tell you yet agene that thei and you persecute so cruelly It is Christe whō you fight agenst invayne so vlindely and it is the breath of his mouth that is to saie his almighty worde that shall destroye you But wherfore wolde you not that eny creature shuld knowe that you accused me Verely Christe declareth the cause in the thirde chapter of Iohan saing Men loued the derkenes more then the light because their workis were euil for euery man that both euil hateth the light nether cometh he to the light leste his werkis be reproued God be praysed which like as at the beginninge he drewforth the light of derkenes now causeth the truthe to comforth thorow your false opinions and letters Amen your spirituall father was negligent in kepinge your letters Maledictus ●omo qu● confidit in homine carnem facit brachium suum Ieremie in the. 17. Chapter ¶ Nowe Master Priour if you canne declare your opinions otherwise and confirme them by holy scripture trulye and purely vnderstonden shewe forth your minde in the name of God and I shall gladly make answer agen ther vnto but in the meane ceason as right is and besemeth euery christē I submitte this my answer to your letters vnto the tyrall of Boddis worde and to his chirch that canne and wil iuge it aftir the scripture by the spirit of God Qui miscreatur benedicat tibi Iliuminet vultum suum super te vt cognoscas in terra viam suam in omnibus gentibus salutare suum Amen ¶ yours to his litel powr George Ioye ¶ The storie of my state aftir the Bishop had receaued the priours lettres ON the Saterdaye sevennyght before aduent sondaye the yeare of our Lorde M.D.XXVII there were letters sent as frome the Cardinall by on of his officers to Cambridge delyuerde to the vice Canceller called Doctour Eadmonds master of Peter college where I was then felawe In whiche letters he was commaunded to sende me vp to appere at Vvestmynster the wedensdaye folowinge at .ix. of the clok with B●lney and Arture for certayne erroneus opinions c. Our master sent for me on the morowe in to the cōtrye and I came to him on the mondaye He shewed me the letters I red them and sawe the Cardinals signe manuall subscribed in great letters and his scale I gote me horse when it snewed and was colde and came to Londen so to Vvest mynster not longe aftir my hower when Bilney and Arture were in examinacion Vvhich thinge when I harde of and knew but those two poore shepe emonge so many cruell wol●●s I was not ouer hastye to thruste in emōge them for there was
me wherby you might thꝰ Juda●ly betraye me so do your spiritual father other sich a secrete sacrifice Suerly I had neuer beleued although it was tolde me of mani that you had thꝰ accused me had I not sene your own hande which letters I wolde haue winked at as I do yet at other mennis false reportis on me if I had bene but giltye al thīges as I am not whiche you do īpute vnto me ī thē I wolde haue let your letters lye stil in derkenes aftir your desyer Or if they had ben but ōly harmfull vnto my bodie name which I am bounde to defende yet I wolde haue suffred softe silēcs paciēs to haue ben my patrones defends before god neuer to haue āswerd you cōfortīge my selfe in my god the god of al counfort now expulsed my natiue lāde thorow your letters lesinge my poore liuīg forsakīg al my kīne frendes being ī grete pouertye kare in the which al you haue sette me for that I wold awoided the cruel tirānye of your spiritual father of other incenste by your letters I wolde I saye haue conforted my selfe and do daily as god geueth me grace with this one cōfortable saīg of my sauiour Mat. 5. Blessed or you when men caste rebukes ād sclaunderouse reuilinges vpō you persecutīg you and reporte al maner of euel agenst you belyinge you for my sake Reioyse be glad for grete is your rewarde in heauē This one sentēce is enough to answer for me to cōforte me agenst al sclaunders and false reportis and euen agenst your letters as touchinge my persone fame But in that your letters opiniōs ar sclaunderouse blasphemouse agenst god his truthe I maye not suffer them to be bidde in derkenes as you desyerd your moste Reuerend father to kepe them Wherfore I shal by goddis grace auenge delyuer his truthe frome your false opiniōs that by his true worde that yet if thꝰ it wolde please god to opē your eyes shewe you his truthe cal you to repētaūce ¶ First you saye that one opinion was that I helde that as grete as large powr to binde to lose was geuen of god to a simple preste as to a byshope or to the bishope of Rome which is more Which entēt opinion you saye I proued by these wordis of Christ saing Go your ways in to the worlde ād preache the Gospel c. for as my father hath sente me so sende I you c. Syr firste ye shal knowe that what so euer the scripture affirmeth I holde it for no opiniō but I beleue it to be true for there is grete difference betwene faith opiniō And as for these textis which you saye that I alledged to proue my entent loke you whether they make for your opinion of bindinge and losinge in secrete confession aftir your vnderstādinge or rather to pertaine to the open preachinge of the worde of God And turne to Mark in the. 16. Chap. loke whether this your texte Quia sicut misit me pater c. foloweth as you allege it Ite in mundū vniuersum with a coniunction causale as you falsely bringe it in to shewe the cause of the sentēce before But turne to Iohan cap. 20. there shal you se it stande with oute a Quia as a propositiō first propounded of Christ in a cōparison or similitude ād aftirwarde there disposed the cōparison declared both in the geuinge of the holygost ād powr to forgyue ād to holde sinnes Nether dyd I allege these textis as you do at rovers so confusely confoundinge one Euangelist with a nother to confute your false opinion nor yet added I eny scilicetiu plurali numero for Solomon warneth Prouer biorū 30. that we adde nothinge to goddis worde leste we be reproued founde lyers And Christe spake his wordes in the plural nōbir at the geuinge of his kayes to al his apostles as ye maye se Ioh. 20 with oute eny scilicet if you knowe a verbe of the plural noumbir frome the singulare But I passe ouer your ignorāce and shal prepare me to confirme the truthe into the cōfutacion of your false opinions of the which The firste is that a bishope or the bishope of Rome by whō you vnderstande the Pope hath a greter larger powr to binde and to lose geuen them of god then a simple preste That the truthe of goddis worde might be deliuerde frome your false opinions aud losed frome your violente wrestinge of holy scripture that it apereth verily by your opinion that you knowe not what Christe ment bi the keyes of the kingdome of heauen nether yet what is vnderstandē bi binding losing ye shal knowe that when Christe asked his disciples Matt. 16. Whō saie you that I am Peter as the mouth of thē al answered that thinge which thei al beleued euē thꝰ Thou arte Christe the sonne of the liuinge God That thei al beleued thꝰ as Peter openly confessed the texte folowinge declareth For euen contenently he warned not only Peter but al them whō he asked the question that thei shulde not tell eny mā that he was Jesus Christe This Johan declareth in the. 6. chap. Vhere Christe asked his disciples And wil you go awaye to Peter answerde as the mouthe for them all Lorde to whom shal we go thou haste the wordis of euerlastīge life we beleue he said not I beleue alone●● knowe that thou arte Christe the sonne of the liuinge god Here Peter answerd for thē al the same thinge that he cōfessed Mat. 16. vpō this therfore so faithful a knowlege beliefe sene in thē all he promised thē Mat. 16. the keyes of the kīgdome of heauen for where he sawe like faith there wolde he geue like office And as Bede saith in the Homelie of the same texte Vvhē al were asked in general Peter alone for al answerde so that the same thinge that Christe answerd Peter he answerde to them al in Peter saing Blessed arte thou Simon bar iona c. ād to the shal I geue the keyes of the kīgdome of heauē that what so euer thou shalt lose ī the erthe it shal be losed in heauen And what so euer thou shalt binde in earth it shal be bounde in heauē That he promised thē al these keyes it is manifeste in the performinge of thē Johan 20. ca. Vvhere it is tolde when these keyes here promised were geuen to whō they were geuen and what he ment bi thē Mark in the. 16. Luc in the. 24. both to telling the same storie They were geuen the same daye that Christe rose frome dethe at the caveninge the disciples gatherd togyther in an house for feare the dores shitto thē vnto whom Christe entred in saluting them saing Peace be with you But firste let vs se what christe mēt by these keyes your opinion is that these keyes ●r the autorite or power