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A16116 A compendious olde treatyse, shewynge howe that we oughte to haue ye scripture in Englysshe Ullerston, Richard, d. 1423.; Purvey, John, 1353?-1428?, attributed name.; Barlow, Jerome, fl. 1527.; Tyndale, William, d. 1536.; Roy, William, fl. 1527-1531. 1530 (1530) STC 3021; ESTC S104619 9,417 18

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putt a bylle by thassent of .ij. archebysshoppes of the clergy to adnulle the byble that tyme trāslated into englyshe with other englysshe bookee of thexposiciō of that gospels whiche whē it was harde seyn of lordes of the comōs The duke of lācaster Ihon̄ answered ther to tyght sharply saying this sentēce we wyll not be refuse of all other nacions For sythe they have godes lawe whiche is the lawe of ower belefe ī ther owne lāgage we wyll have owres in englysshe who so ever saye naye ●●pocrisie is the nature of all bisshoppes And this he affer●●●● with a greate othe Also Thomas Arūdell ar●●●bysshoppe of Caunterbury said in a sermō at west mester or that buryeng of Quene Anne that it was more ioye of her thā of any womā that ever he knewe For she an alien borne hadde in englysshe all ye. 〈◊〉 gospels wyth the doctors vpō them And he said that she had sent thē to hym to examyn ād he said that they were good and trewe And he blamyd in that sermon sharply the negligence of the prelats and other mē In so moche that he saide that he wold leave vppe the office of Chaunceler and forsake wordly busynes and gyue hym to fulfyll his pastorall office for that he hade seyn and redde in tho bookes Neuer trust bishop as lōge as he kepeth his possessions And after this promyse he became the most cruell enemy that myght be agaynst englyshe bookes And therfore as many men sayne god smot hym with a cruest ' dethe as he didde also Rycherd flemyng byshoppe of lyncolne And yet ower bysshoppes ben so indurate and so farre strayed from god that they have no grace one to beware of another but prowdly agaynst all reasons and euidēce of gods lawes and doctors sentences they brenne goddes wordethe whiche hathe brought thys realme to vndoynge for ever but if godes grace be the more Wher is that aunciēt blode that was in england in these dayes for thys cruell deade is cause of pestilence hungers warres and that also thys realme shal be conqueryd in short tyme as sainct Edward the kyng and confessor prophesyethe in his booke that begynnith thus Sāctus Edwardus rex vidit spiritualibus oculis ercete And therfore it were good to the Kyng and to other lordes to make some remedy agaynst this cōstitucyon of Antechrist that saythe it is vnlawfull to vs englyshe men to have in englyshe goddes la●●●●d therfore he brennythe and sleythe thē that ●●●●teyne thys good deade Et nūc reges intelligite erudimini qui iudicatis rerram and that is for default that the kyng and lordes knowē not ne wyll not knowether owne office in meātenāce of god hys lawe For as sainct Austen saithe the Kyng with hys knyghtes representyn the godhede of Christe and prestes the manhode of Christe Rex est vicartus diuinitatis et sacerdos est vicarius Christi humanitatis hec Augustinus in de questionibus veteris et noue legis ca xci And if the kyng wold desyer to knowe perfetly his office he maye fynde mē to shewe to hym bookes that truely and perfetly shall informe hym to doo his office to the plesaunce of god But thys canne not he lerne of byshoppys for they enforme hym after Antichristes lawe and ordenaunce for hys lawes nowe reignen Bishops will notte ache against their God their bely Yet agaynst thē that sayn the gospell in englyshe wold make men to erre wore they well that we fynde in latyn lāgage more he retykes then of all other langages for the decre saythe .xxiiij. xciij Quidam autem heretici that there be founden syxty laten heretykes And if mē shuld hate any lāgage for heresy thē must they hate latē But gode forbede that any lāgage shuld be hated for heresy sythē manye heretykes wer of the disciples of the Appostles For sainct Ihon̄ saithe they have gon̄ owt of vs but they were not of vs. And Paule saithe it behovythe heresys to be How Antichrist is cause of al heresies ātichrist makythe many mo heretykes then there shuld be for he stoppythe so the knowyng of godes lawe punysheth so them that he knowyth that have it that they dare not comen therof openly to have trewe informacion and thys makyth laye men that desyrē lovē to knowe godes law to goo to gy●●●● in pryvyte and conceyven by theyr owne w●●●●● many tymes heresys the whiche heresies in 〈◊〉 tyme shuld be destroyed yf men myght have free comenyng openly and but if this maye be hade moche of the people shall dye in heresy for it lyethe 〈◊〉 in Antichristes power to destroye all englysshe bookes for as fast as he brennethe other men shall drawe and thus the cause of heresy and of the people that dyethe in heresy is the frowardnes of byshoppes that wyll not suffer men to haue opyn comounyng and fre in the lawe of gode and therfore they be cowntable of as many sowlys as dyen in thys default and are traytors to gode in stoppyng of his lawe the whiche was made in saluacion of the people Is not this turninge the rotys of the tres vpward And nowe they turne his lawe byther cruell constitucyons into dampnacion of the people as it shal be provyd apon them at the daye of dome for godes lawe saithe Stabūt iusti in magna constancia aduersus eos qui se angustianerūt et qui abstulerunt labores eorum c. For that that other men laborē they brennē Reade Sapien vi and vij and if owre clergy wold study well this lessen of sapiēce to that ēde they shuld mowe rede therin theyr oune dampnacion but if they amend this defaulte with other defaultes Saithe not the holy man Ardemakan in the booke of questions that the wurshupfull sacramēt of the alter maye be made in eche comē langage For he saithe so diden the appostles But we covett not this but that Antechrist geue vs leaue to haue the lawe of ower beleue in englishe Also they that haue comonyd moche with the Iewes saye that they haue in every lande that they be borne in the byble in ther mother tounge that is Ebrewe And they be more practyse therin than annye men ye 〈◊〉 the lewde men as the prestes But it is redde in ther synagoges amonges the people of ther prestes to fulfyll ther prestes office and to the edification of the poraile that for worldly busines and slew the maye not studye it Also the .iiij. evangelistes wrote the gospell in diverse langages as Mathewe in Iurye Marke in Italy Luke in Achaie and Ihon̄ in Asie And all these wrotte in the langages of the same contr●ys also Thobye saithe Chap. xiij that gode disperged spred or scaterid that Iewes abrode among the hethen people that they tellynge vnto they in the merveylles of godde they shuld knewe that there were none other gode but gode of Israell And