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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

❧ 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