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A01759	The epistle of Gildas, the most ancient British author who flourished in the yeere of our Lord, 546. And who by his great erudition, sanctitie, and wisedome, acquired the name of sapiens. Faithfully translated out of the originall Latine.; Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae. English	Gildas, 516?-570?; Abingdon, Thomas.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 11895; ESTC S103163	93,511	458

man adorned not given to wine no fighter but modest not contentius not covetous O lamentable change O horrible contempt of the heavenly Commandements And doe ye not continually use the force of your words and actions for the overthrowing or rather overwhelming of these for whose defence and confirmation if neede had required yee ought to have suffered paines yea and to have lost your very lives But let us see what followeth Well governing saith he his house having his children subjected with all chastity Imperfect therefore is the chastity of the Parents if the children be not also indued with the same But how shall it be where neither the father nor yet the sonne as depraved by the example of his evill parent is found to be chaste But if any one knoweth not how to rule over his owne house how shall hee imploy his care over the Church of God These are the words that with apparant effects shold be made good and approoved Deacons in like manner that they should be chast not double tongued not overgiven much to wine not followers of filthy gaine having the mystery of faith in a pure conscience and let these also be first approoved and so let them administer having no offence And now trembling truely to make any longer stay on these matters I can for a conclusion affirme one thing certainely which is that all these are changed into contrary actions in so much that Clarkes which not without griefe of heart I doe here confesse are shamelesse and deceitfull in their speeches given to drinking covetous of filthy commodity having faith or to say more truely unfaithfulnesse in an unpure conscience ministring not upon probation of their good workes but upon foreknowledge of their evill actions and being thus defiled with innumerable offences they are notwithstanding admitted unto the holy function ye have likewise heard on the same day wherin ye should with farre more right and reason have beene drawne to prison or punishment then preferred unto Priesthood when our Lord demanded whom his Disciples supposed him to be how Peter answered Thou art Christ the Sonne of the living God and our Lord in respect of such his confession said unto him Blessed art thou Simon Ba●jonas because flesh and blood hath not revealed unto thee but my Father who is in Heaven Peter therefore instructed by God the Father doth rightly confesse Christ but ye being taught by the devill your father doe with your lewd actions wickedly deny our Saviour It is said to the true Priest Thou art Peter and upon this rocke will I build my Church But ye are resembled unto the foolish man who hath builded his house upon the sand And verily it is to be noted that God joyneth not in workemanship with the unwise when they build their house upon the deceitfull uncertainty of the sands according unto that saying They have made Kings unto themselves and not by me Semblably that which followeth soundeth in like sort speaking thus And the Gates of hell whereby the infernall sins are to be understood shall not prevaile But of your fraile and deadly frame marke what is pronounced The floods came and the winds blew have mainely dashed upon that house and it sell and great was the ruine thereof To Peter and his successors our Lord doth say And I will give unto thee the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heaven But unto ye I know yee not depart from me ye workers of iniquity that being separated with the goates of the left hand ye may together with them go into eternall fire It is also promised unto every good Priest What soever thou shalt loose upon earth shall be likewise loosed in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt binde upon earth shall be in like sort bound in Heaven But how shall ye loose any thing that it may be loosed also in Heaven since your selves for your sins are severed from Heaven and hampred in the bands of your owne hainous offences As Solomon saith With the cords of his sins every one is tyed And with what reason shall ye binde any thing on this earth that above this world may be likewise bound unlesse it be your only selves who intangled in your iniquities are so detained on this earth as ye cannot ascend into Heaven but without your conversion unto our Lord in this life will fall downe into the miserable prison of hell Neither yet let any Priest flatter himselfe upon the knowledge of the particular cleannenesse of his owne body since their soules over whom he hath government shall in the day of Iudgement be required at his hands as the murtherer of them if any through his ignorance ●loth or fawning adulation have perished because the stroke of death is not lesse terrible that is given by a good man then which is inflicted by an evill person Otherwise would the Apostle never have said that which he left unto his successors as a fatherly Legacy I am cleare and cleane from the blood of all for I have not forborne to declare unto ye al the counsell of God Being therefore mightily drunken with the use and custome of sinnes and extreamely overwhelmed with the waves as it were of encreasing offences seek ye now forthwith the uttermost endeavours of your mindes after this your shipwrake that one borde of pennance which is onely left whereby ye may escape and swimme to the land of the living that from yee may be turned away the wrath of our Lord who saith I will not the death of a sinner but that he may bee converted and live And the same Almighty God of all consolation and mercy preserve his few good Pastors from all evill and the common enemy being overcome make them free inhabitants of the heavenly City of Ierusalem which is the congregation of all Saints grant this O Father Sonne and Holy Ghost to whom be honor and glory world without end Amen FINIS The cause why Gildas alledgeth almost only the Scriptures Gildas citeth Scriptures not after the vulgar Translation The reasons why Britaine was at this time so defiled with vices The excuse of the invective of Gildas against the Scottish and Irish. The excuse of his seveare censuring of the English How the Kings Majestie is descended of the blood royall of these three Nations How the Saxons and Britaines are united in this Realme How other Kingdomes have increased by Vnions How united nations have beene called by one generall name How conveniently the name of Britaine agreeth to the Kingdome of the whole Island The Conclusion * Moses Num. 20.12 * Levit. 10.1 * Num. 14.28 * Exod. 14.22 * Exod. 16.14 * Exod. 17.6 * Exod. 17.11 * Num. 21.6 * Num. 14.45 * Deut. 1.45 * Num. 11.1 * Iosu. 3.16 * Ios. 6.20 * Ios. 21.24 * 2 Sam. 21.1 * Ieremies foure Lamentations written with the order of the Hebrew Alphabet * Thren 1.1 * Thren

which are faithfully contained in the same so as it may be plaine and apparant unto all that everlasting torments are reserved for them that they are not Priests or the servants of God who doe not with their uttermost power follow and fulfill these instructions and precepts Wherefore let us hearken what the Prince of the Apostles Saint Peter hath signified about this so weighty a matter saying Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who through his mercy hath regenerated us into the hope of eternall life by the resurrection of our Lord Iesus Christ from the dead into an inheritance which can never corrupt never wither neither be defiled conserved in heaven for yee who are kept in the vertue of God Why then doe ye fondly violate such an inheritance which is not as an earthly one transitory but immortall and eternall And somewhat afterwards For which cause be ye girded in the loynes of your minde sober perfectly hoping in that grace which is offered ye in the revelation of Iesus Christ Examine ye now the depths of your hearts whether yee be sober and doe perfectly conserve the grace of Priesthood which shall bee duely discussed and decided in the Revelation of our Lord. And againe he saith As children of the benediction not configuring your selves to those former desires of your ignorance but according unto him who hath called yee holy be ye also holy in all conversation For which cause it is written Be ye holy because I am holy Which one of ye I pray hath with the burning desire of the-whole minde so pursued sanctitie that he hath earnestly hastened as much as in him lay to fulfill the same But let us behold what in the second lesson of the same Apostle is conteined My deerest saith he sancti●ie your soules for the obedience of faith through the spirit in charitie in brotherhood loving one another out of a true heart perpetually as borne againe not of corruptible seede but of incorruptible through the Word of God living and remaining for ever These are truely the Commandements of the Apostle and read in the day of your ordination to the end ye should inviolably observe the same but they are not fulfilled by ye in discretion and judgement nay not so much as duely considered or understood And afterwards Laying therefore aside all malice al deceipt dissemblings and envie and detractions as infants now newly borne reasonable and without guile covet ye milke that ye may thereby grow to salvation because our Lord is sweet Recount yee also in your mindes if these sayings which have sounded in your deafe eares have not often likewise bin troden by ye underfoote And againe Ye truely are the chosen linage the royall Priesthood the holy nation the people for adoption that ye may declare his vertues who hath called yee out of darkenesse into that his so mervoilous light But truely by yee are not onely the vertues of God not declared and made more glorious but also through your wicked examples are they by such as have not perfect beleefe despised Ye have perchance at the same time likewise heard what is read in the lesson of the Acts on this wise Peter arising in the middest of the Disciples sayd Yee men my brethren it is expedient the Scripture be fulfilled which the holy Ghost hath by the mouth of David foretold of Iudas And a little after This man hath therefore purchased afield of the reward of iniquitie This have yee heard with a carelesse or rather blockish heart as though the reading thereof had nothing at all apperteined unto your selves What one of yee I pray yee doth not seeke the fielde of the reward of iniquitie For Iudas robbed and pilled the purse and yee spoyle and waste the sacred gifts and treasures of the Church together with the soules of her children Hee went to the Iewes to make a Market of God ye passe to the Tyrants and their father the Devill that ye may despise Christ. He did set to sale the Saviour of the world for thirty pence and yee even for one poore half-penny what neede many words The example of Matthias is apparently layd before yee for your confusion who was chosen into his place not by his owne proper will but by the election of the holy Apostles or rather the judgement of Christ wherat ye being blinded doe not perceive how farre yee run astray from his merits while yee fall wilfully and headlong into the manners and affection of Iudas the traytor It is therefore manifest that he who wittingly from his heart tearmeth ye Priests is not himselfe truely a worthy Christian. And now I will assuredly speake what I thinke This reprehension might have beene framed after a milder fashion but what availeth it to touch onely with the hand or dresse with a gentle oyntment that wound which with impostumation or stinking corruption groweth now in it selfe so horrible as it requireth the searing iron or the ordinary helpe of the fire if happily by any meanes it may bee recured the diseased in the meane while not seeking a medicine and the Physitian much erring from a rightfull remedy O yee enemies of God and not Priests O yee traders of wickednesse and not Bishops O yee betrayers and not successours of the holy Apostles O ye adversaries and not servants of Christ Yee have certainely heard at the least the sound of the words which are in the second lesson taken out of the Apostle Saint Paul although ye have no way observed the admonitions and vertue of them but even as statues that doe neither see nor heare stood that day at the Altar while both then and continualy since he hath thundred in your eares saying Brethren it is a faithfull speech and worthy of all acceptance Hee called it faithfull and worthy but ye have despised it as unfaithfull and unworthy If any man coveteth a Bishopricke he de●ireth a goodworke Ye doe mightily covet a Bishopricke in respect of avarice but not upon occasion of spirituall commoditie and for the good worke which is convenient for the place ye want it It behoveth therefore such an one to be voyde of all cause of reprehension At this saying we have more neede to shed teares than utter words for it is as much as if the Apostle had sayd He ought to be of all others most free from occasion of rebuke The husband of one wife which is lkewise so contemned among us as if that word had never proceeded from him Sober Wise Yea which of ye hath once desired to have these vertues ingrafted in him Vsing hospitality For this if perchance it hath beene found among ye yet being neverthelesse rather done to purchase the favour of the people then to accomplish the Commandement it is of none availe our Lord and Saviour saying thus Verely I say unto yee they have received their reward Moreover A