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A00721 Certaine articles, collected and taken (as it is thought) by the byshops out of a litle boke entituled an admonition to the Parliament, with an answere to the same. Containing a confirmation of the sayde booke in shorte notes; Admonition to the Parliament. Selections. Fielde, John, d. 1588, attributed name.; Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603, attributed name.; T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608, attributed name. 1572 (1572) STC 10850; ESTC S112584 10,574 18

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❧ CERTAINE Articles collected and taken as it is thought by the Byshops out of a title boke entituled an Admonition to the Parliament wyth an Answere to the same Containing a confirmation of the sayde Booke in shorte notes Esay 5.20 Woe be vnto them that speake good of euill and euill of good whych put darknesse for light and light for darknesse that putte bytter for sweete and sweete for sower The Prynter to the Reader Thys worke is fynished thankes be to God And he only wil keepe vs from the searchers rod. And though master Day and Toy watch warde We hope the liuing God is our sauegarde Let them seeke loke and we now what they can It is but inuentions and pollicies of man. But you wil maruel where it was fynished ended And you shal know perchance when domes day is Imprinted we know where and whan Iudge you the place and you can I. T.I.S TO THE Prelacie IF men be dumbe sure stones shall speake God wyll hys truthe preuaile Let men resist it forceth not It standes when they shall quaile When it of men is most opprest Then God doth set in foote You Prelates knowe how true thys is Thinke then what best may boote You that can councell other men Your selues be councelled God will correct you knowe it well where it is well deserued Yeelde reason why none good you haue Gods churche God 's orders lacke Not God the cause he them requires Your Lordships keepe them backe Thinke on the time reformde to be Your selues which chiefly ought You may else kicke you wot who sayth It s hard auayling nought Repent amende shewe forth your loue You which afflicte your owne And we your best who le Antichriste May quite be ouerthrowne By helpe of God by helpe of Prince Whome God long saue and blesse With prosperous life and earnest zeale At last heauen to possesse ¶ A viewe of the Churche that the Authors of the late publyshed Admonition would haue plauted wythin thys realme of Englande containing such Positions as they hold against the state of the sayd Churche as it is nowe A Reprouse of thys viewe made as it is thought by the Bysheps and a Confirmation of the booke in short notes WE are charged by the apostle to speake truth euery one to hys neighbor which precepte I take to extende to the whole life of man as well in matters concerning the worshyp of God and hys religion an in them that cencerne the common lyfe 〈◊〉 vse of man And to be faultie in it as it is a thyng worthy reprehension in all men so especiallye in the ministers of God and such as are or ought to be by their callyng leaders and conductors of other I speake not thys to carpe or maliciously to bite any man but to warne them brotherly of their faulte that they may amend whych haue erred and cōmitted a scape in thys behalfe Some when they sawe these Articles sayde in thys wylt As they are in all their doings shifters so haue they in the Collection of these Articles shewed them selues to be no lesse vntrue dealers then their causers vaine naught bothe for vouching thyngs out of the Booke which are not in the boke and also in purtyng for the moste true propositions as paradoxes Fol. 3. li. 1. pa. 2. First they holde and affirme that wein England are not yet come to the outward face of a church agreeable to Gods word In this first Allegation there lacketh this word scarse which is in both copptes first and last wherin if they had meant plainly and truely to haue dealt wyth the world they myght haue put it downs as it is in the boke Let then thynke of them as they list but to make a lie in the beginning is foule shameful 2. lin vlt. They will haue the ministers to be called allowed and placed by the people This Article is vtterly falsthed For it is in the Admonition the election was made by the Elders with the common consent of the whole church And so if they condempne the making of ministers what do they else but open their mouthe against God and against the truthe Act. 14.23 3 Fol. 4. li. 7. pa. 13. They wil haue none made minister vnt the minister of some one certain parishe A perillous crroure Loke Paul ad Tit. 1.5 I thynke we haue no Apostles made now a dayes but pastors onely but if you think the contrary I pray you shew me whether such as you make be bounde in conscience to goe unto Turcia Barbaria and such like places or no or why rather they should be boūd to England more then to those places and take hed● heere o●a Popes reason 4 lin 9. They holde that a byshop at no hand hath authoritie to ordaine ministers No not alone but as part of the consistorie and eldership and member of the church as Act. 1. And a byshop as ours are that is Romish byshops creatures of the Canon law by no meanes 5. lin 17. They say for a byshop to say to the minister Receiue the holy ghoste is blasphemous and ridiculous Is this put downe as an error in dede it is erroneous if the holy ghost proceede from them but the let them consider of Caluu Io. 20.22 6 lin 28. They will haue the ministers at their owne pleasure to preach wythout lycence Thys is also falsifyed the boke hath it if any be so wel disposed to preach in their owne charges they may not wythout my Lordes licence A shamefull corruption Any reasonable man would haue known by the second Article that no man can be a preacher at hys owne pleasure but by the admission of the cōgregation but as afore so say we againe A Romish bishop hath nought to do to geue licence and hys is as good to preache by as the Popes calfe was that Felton set vp 7 lin 13. Fol. 17. li. 6. pa. 1. They will haue the ministers discerned from others by no kind of apparell and the apparell appoynted they terme antichristian the apparell appoynted by the Prince disobedyence against the Prince Thys also is falsifyed they speake of the simple kinde of setting for the the sacraments of Christe and afterward in the purer churches compare it wyth the pelfe of beaurifying it as they woulde haue it seeme only found out and appoynted by popes from Paganes The wordes are these they ministred the sacramentes plainly we pompously wyth synging piping surplesse and coape wearing so I finde it in Fol. 4. pa. 2. lin 15. Whether the appared be Antichristian or no it is no time here to debate but lette them shew from whence they had it and le● thē not be ashamed to professe hys name whose cognisance they weare Eyther let them speake as they are apparelled or lette them apparell themselues as they speake But I cry them mercy they do so now and neuer so plainly I am sure they haue put forth here articles whych they shall neuer be able
not rightly to be sayd to be hys who first inuented it Because that prynces haue takē thys into their lawes that whosoeuer committeth wilfull murther shall die the death is it ●●●fore Gods law Because the lawes of the Grekes were translated into the Romaine Empire therfore were they not the lawes of the Grecians because the a●●s of Iustinian be come nowe to be practised in Fraūce Germanie other places therfore are they not Iustiniās lawes But be it the because Papitius hath gathered all the lawes together the whole be called Ius Papirianum yet are the lawes theirs so shal be called whose they were if in thys it be so why should the Canon lawe lose his name to be called the Popes law because that princes haue confirmed it As who should say the chaunging of the name ●●tereth eyther the nature of the law or else of other thyng whatsoeuer It is not sayd or thought the because Adrianus or Bonif●cu●s or whosoeuer was called Pope of Rome therefore whatsoeuer lawe he ●●●●e was naught to be reiected but because he 〈◊〉 apope that is as antichrist made it hauing no groūd in Gods word but rather the contrary therfore it is sayd to be popishe and therfore deuelish who le name ●o euer it put vpon it But there is a further matter in it How may any ●●●ce geue one man authoritie to be byshop ouer a p●ouince or a diocesse more then the Emperor maye geue it to any priest to be ouer all Chriscendome either by hym selfe or by the content of other princes For so some wryte that hys supremacie came by the donation of Constantine and see then how farre this differeth from Antichrist From Antichrist I saye in taking that which they know cānot be so giuen and they condempne the takyng of it in the byshop of Rome for therfore they call hym Antichriste They haue sayd and we say that iure diuino by the lawe of God he hathe no more authoritie and h●gher place ●●en any other byshop they say true And because ●t taketh it vpon hym iure humand they call hym ●●tichriste It can not be then but that they she●ee ●●●selues herein to folowe the trace of Antichriste ●●pecially seeing they haue it uire humano and that ●ure pontificio 11 pag. 2. clin 14. They will haue euery minys●● to haue full iurisdiction in hys owne parishe It were a tyrannie if he had it alone I say in 〈◊〉 parishe but forsoth not so in a diocesse 12 lin 28. They holde that the ministers at th●● day enter not in by Christe but by a popy she a●● vnlawfull vocation Absurde for Antichrist is Christe and the Canon la● scripture It wil be hard for you to shew the contrar● 13 lin 28. They holde it is vnlawfull for one m●● to preach in another mannes Church or any m●● to preache out of hys owne Churche Tanquam ex officio vt cordigeri Iacobita● It is true he oughte not as of his office and dueti● as the Cordigers and Iacobites and whē it may shewed out of the scriptures we will say as you sa● 14 Fol. 18. pa. 1. lin 13. They will haue all cath●drall churches pulde downe wych Deaneries a●● Prebendaries c cleane taken away and call t●●● dennes of leytering lubbers A daungerous matter if men stoode vnder t●● walles and seeing the statute of vagabondes why●● is so straight And I praye you what are they el●●● but loytering lubbers Shewe what profyte co●meth by them to the Church of Christ and how a●● they occupied for the place of clearkes whyche th● wrongfully keepe The state of the church at thys day they call t●● raigne of Antichrist It is spoken of the Romishe iurisdiction befo●● mentioned They haue iust cause to say so for wh●● is it else No ground can be giuen out of gods wo●● for any of those positions whyche they putte dow● heere as reprehending and reprouing the booke 〈◊〉 the aduersaries of the booke thincke to stryue wythe weapons of Antichriste agaynste them we ha●● to beholde the conflict wyth patience for we shal 〈◊〉 their faule to their shame and smarte If it wer● 〈◊〉 thyng to be tollerated in the seruice of God and th●● ●●re is in the whole gouernment of hys house to ●●rowe aduise of the ennenyes of God whye was 〈◊〉 so precyse wyth hys people of Israell by Moises ●●s seruaunt in appoynting hys seruice and euerye ●●●e pertayning to the priesthode and temple that he ●ould not haue the least rag that myghte be from the ●aganes hys ennemies was it not because he wold ●●t haue that to be any meanes or occasyon of fami●●ritye wyth them or any lykenesse whereby they ●yght be moued to folowe them Comunitie of mā●●rs and lykenesse of conuersation in matters of re●●yō especially is a greate cause of further acquain●●nce and familiaritie Therfore that they shuld not ●●eme to allowe as from hym and by hys meanes ●●eyr manner of doings and that should not be done 〈◊〉 hym that was done to straunge Gods he inuen●●d and appoynted an order aparte wherby he word 〈◊〉 worshypped The same trace did Christ followe ●e neyther read nor fynde that he borrowed ought 〈◊〉 the Gentiles and that more is because no doubte 〈◊〉 would haue vs leaue of all Iewishe ceremonies 〈◊〉 commended not hys owne and hys fathers for●er lawes to hys Apostles to be obserued And ●●y then should we take ought from hys ennemye ●●e childe of perdition and synne the Antichriste of ●ome who hathe bene and is the greatest waster of ●●s church Nay they should rather take that way ●herby it myght be hardly heard amongst oure po●●erity what manner of beast that was They shuld ●ake away bothe from the eyes and eares of all men as well as from their heartes all sygnes and to●●ens wherby that childe of synne myghte come in●● remembraunce O that we must still holde vp the ●●ead of that beast whych is worthely by Gods spi●●ie and iudgement cast downe into hell O that bre●●ren our brethren I say whych haue already bene ●ersecuted and are lyke agayne to be persecuted if God doe not in mercy loke vpon hys poore afflycted Church shuld stand is stoutly with their brethren in whome they can fynde no reproofe but the hatre● of Antichriste in thys ouerflowing of the bloude o● our brethren in Fraunce whych is yet greene befo●● our eyes and yet lyeth vppon the face of the streate● and fieldes of that curssed land should stande I sa● so stoutly for that wherfore all those theyr brethren haue bene so cruelly and agaynste all godlynesse an● nature murthered and which al their other brethr●● else where haue iustly condempned and caste away and the godly here grone with the burden of it Ma● it please thee O Lord to open their eyes that th●● seekyng thy glory may see to the safetye of this po●● Churche yet standyng as a little braunche but looking daily by thy iust iudgement for our not vprigh● walkyng to be spoyled of those bloud thirsty and deceytfull men Geue them heartes O Lord that the● may forsee the day of their destruction nay oure destruction Good Lorde plucke of the vayle of they vnderstandyng that they be not taken in their syn and we wyth them bee cutte of in thy displeasure Truthe it is Lord that we haue wel deserued th● contrary and our synnes we confesse haue ben som●● occasyon of the cuttyng of of oure brethren yet for thy name sake be mercyfull vnto vs that the ennemy● and bloude thirstie man may not triumph and saye where is nowe theyr god Faultes escaped Pre. lin 4. not to much pag. 63. lin 25. or to much pag. 41. lin 29. after Ashwedensday seruice should followe good Fridayes seruice And in thys other Treatise in some bookes pa. 13. lin 14. read it is not sayd for it is sayd pag. 14. lin 4. so is for so in the cause of whych faultes good Christian reader and some other things not publyshed whych we meant and minde to publyshe God wylling is the importunate search of Day the Printer and Toy the Bokebinder assysted wyth a pursyuaunt and some other offycers at the appoyntment of the bishops wherin they are very earnest of both sides the one sorte belike hath Demetrius the siluer Smithes disease they wold be loth to lose their owne profit for the churches profit and the other side would be lothe we had such a meane to publishe any thing agaist thē or their āswer But ther is 12. hours in the day
to shewe any ground for vnlesse they take it from the Pope And thys I say to al good Christians let them take hede that they haue not the supremacie of the Pope maintayned heere whilest a fewe white coates stande for hundred poundes I say not thousandes For thys viewe which they put forthe drawing so many articles out of that small boke absurde as they seeme to put them forthe containeth in it so many false articles cleane agaynst the truthe and the booke as are by them put downe 8 Fo. 4. li. 1. pa. 2. They will haue all Archbyshops bishops archdeacons chaunceilors and all other ecclesiasticall officers together with their titles iurisdictions courtes and lyuings cleane taken away and wyth speede remoned Falsifyed in part They haue slily left out that that they could nor but be ashamed of if they had any shame as Lords grace Iustice of ●eace Quorum whych haue no ground nor warrant in Gods boke But I doubt not when they come to 〈◊〉 the boke or put ●owne the confirmation of their 〈◊〉 to continue these absura●●c● we shall see good 〈◊〉 9 lin 9. They will 〈◊〉 haue the ministers 〈◊〉 as they terme i● to any iourn●● of 〈…〉 ●●●ted by man but as ●he spiri●e moueth them so to make their prayers and there●● as they 〈◊〉 be un●●o n● pr●●●pt other of pray●●● so ●●●l they haue the boke of 〈…〉 Vtterly 〈…〉 There is 〈…〉 ●hut there s●●●ld be 〈…〉 but that this of th●●rs ought nor 〈…〉 A 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 ●hey deny not Nay we do vse 〈◊〉 ●ure congrega●●● and the same that all re●●●●ed churches 〈◊〉 but their patched Por●●●● is 〈◊〉 to be all●wed the causes ●an not be denyed there are ●pan● vil●●h●ngs 10 Fo. 4. lin 〈◊〉 They 〈◊〉 haue 〈…〉 ▪ sons patronages ●pan● and orda●●ing o● the ministers to be r●●●ned A fore matter g●eat error It is to be thought that any reaso●●●● m●n would 〈◊〉 for ●●ese as though it were a● absu●●●e to say they ought to be taken away why not a Card●●ll at ●●●er●●burye as well as an ab●●●onage 〈…〉 place As for the byshops makyng of ministers other wise then refore when they can 〈…〉 we will yeede thys is absurde 11 Fol. ● li. 15.16.21.17 They will haue no hon●●●es red in the Churche no● articles nor in●●et o●● set out nor vsed ●or in no wise Sacraments muustred in any house nor in no wyse the word red but preached only A ha●ous error ●te predicate Math. 28. goe and preach Et quo●●●●que con●●●●●s ali●● alium expeca●te 1. Cor. 11. So oft as ye come together tarye one for another Priuate houses are not m●●e for sacramentes to be ministred in when there is an open cōgre●●tion They haue no cause to think of our most gracious Queene so wickedly as that they shuld be driuen to maintaine that absurb and disorderous order Thankes be to God all chu●ch dores are open and god long preserue her maiestie among vs by whose intants they are open Why shuld that be tollerated which is a cōfirming of their popish hoasling and the priuate midwiues baptising 12 They will not haue the Epistle and Gospell red and whatsoeuer is sayde before they vtterly mislike and call it a Popes entraunce Where else had yet it and such patching was neuer taken but fro Rome shew authoritie if they cā 13 pa. 2. li. 17.10 They cannot abide to haue the Crede red at the Communion No not as a peece of your masse yet we vse it in all our churches in euery sermon it is not done for the contempt of the Crede I would ye knew it 14 Pa. 1. lin 20. They wil haue the Communion receiued at the table sitting without further reuerence kneeling they say is vtterly vnlawful Christ vsed it sytting Antychrist kneling whether is better to haue Moises or a Calfe 15 lin 14. They mislyke of these woordes the bodye of our Lord Iesus Christe c. Why cōtent you not your selues with Christes words and the Apostles Eyther folysh Paule and wyse you or folysh you and wyse the Apostles 16 lin 15. They mislyke of Gloria in excelsis Not euery thing that is good is to be patched into the Communion because that christians ought not to make quidlibet ex quolibet of a rede a rammes horne 17 lin 12. They will haue no other words nor circumstance made then Christe vsed 17 lin 12. Falsifyed the words are we synfully mixed wyth mannes inuentions Speake truthe if thou can and shame the deuill 18 Fol. 6. pa. 1. lin 12. They will haue no Papiste neyther wyth hys will nor constrayned to receyue the Communion Ah Paule what mentest thou Probet seipsum homo 1. Cor. 11. Let a man examine hymselfe I tell you the sacramentes are too muche abused by men wyllingly Adde not more synnes to cause the Lords wrathe to be more hotte against vs. 19 line 16. They will haue no Godfathers nor Godmothers Vtterly falsifyed 20 Fol. 6. lin 6. pag. 1. They wyll haue all ministers equall Christe in deede erred in thys therefore we recant inter vos autem non sic It shall not be so among you Luke 22. 21 lin 10. They mislike all collectors for the pore And would haue Deacons placed whose offyce it is Act. 6. Rom. 12. 22 Fol. 8. in fine They say that there may be yet a more perfect forme order of a church drawne and that thys is but an entraūce to a further matter promising that they wil yet go further therin Falsifyed Sed audin verbum vnum caue de pleniore Christo ne ad morbum hoc etiam Yet see howe these men are troubled euen as legio was to heare of Christes cōming It greueth them to heare that Christ shuld be ful amongst vs and not by patches and peeces Out of the seconde treatise called a viewe of popishe abuses remayning Note three Articles omitted And why these more then the rest if it be for that you are ashamed of your vngodly dealyng with your fellow brethren whome you and the rest of the hygh Commissioners at Lambeth put from their liuings and ministerie for refusyng to subscribe to your traditions it is well if it be for that you see them so suffyciently confuted as you haue nothing to reply you are to be borne wythall in hope of amendement 1 Fol. 10. pag. 1. lin 33. Reading of seruice or homelies in the Churche they say is as euill as playing on a stage and worse too Falsifyed and yet marke I pray you their reason and comparison not for the thing it selfe but for the persons them selues For the players can saye their partes without booke these for the moste parte can but read theirs and that scarse too 2 Fol. 12. pa. 2. lin 10. Touching mariage they A mislike the wedding ring they are angrye wyth B taking of it vp and laying of it downe They will not haue she Trinitie named therein They say we make the man to make an idol of his