lawes of the Pope / Bulles / aÌ„d seales not one way graunt heven to them that put to theire helpinge handes / and to the foundars / here are ye taught to trust in youre workes Here are in numerable tresures gadered to gether for the house of god / here the greater / the more gorgeous / the richer / and better garnisshed houses they bild / the more christe they are And they do better as they saye which geve their almes to that / theÌ„ they which distribute it to the poore and nedy Nother bild they that it may be a mete place to here the word of god But that they may be sene of god and men They bild a house for god which sith that on s he did denye by sanct StephaÌ„ in the .vij. of the Actes / Actes vij 〈◊〉 â—e â—iâ—i and longe before him by Natan and David to dwell in temples made with mannes hand / yet now like an outlawe he beggeth of vs houses for him silf and his sanctes And oure most holy father the Pope with his Busshoppes doth not only confirme the vayne and folish mindes of the people with his halowinges / blissinges / fredoms and protections j. Timot. iiij But also pursueth / and condemned / with curses aÌ„d imprecations with threatninges / and great sentences them that violate / despise / and abvse these phaÌ„tasyes / as it well decuÌ„meth the godlines of these faces Thus he moveth entiseth men to it Out of this springeth not a small part of his most holy lawe which vexeth the world with folish and scrupulous coÌ„scieÌ„ces marked with an hort yeroÌ„ In the meane ceason what is done concerninge the word of god and the faith Let god take hede to that in his kingdome of trueth As for this kinge must se his kingdome of faces well ordered / and see it a loft with all the craftes and streÌ„gth he may Tell me what is worshuppiÌ„ge of wodde stones if this be not it truely god coÌ„mauÌ„ded not these superstitious ceremonyes / but rather these thiÌ„ges that he commavnded by these are transgressed and destroyed The .vj. face The sext is not one face but a hole foreste of faces / touchinge all the holy workes that are done in the temples for lukere / and avaÌ„tage Here are mateÌ„s / prime / and houres / rored out and mumbeled vppe with greate labour / so that they are never prayed How be it they are encreased dayly with other houres of the blessed virgin aÌ„d of the holy crosse / with the noyse of those verses which god in the prophete said he wold not heare Amos. v There is no ende / who caÌ„ reherse with how many lawes that is to say authors of sinne scrupulosite of coÌ„scieÌ„ce this one worke vexeth is vexed There are added voices songes of infinite kind variete For the organes all iÌ„strumeÌ„tes of musike serve for this face I will nat speke of chaleses images / aÌ„d vessels that they vse of gold silver wodde / then / vailes / copes and vestimentes and soch other ornameÌ„tes with out mesure and numbre Lightes / lampes / and soch like The sacrameÌ„tes are encreased And to be shorte here have they encreased the sacramentes / Confirmation / Orders / Matrimonye / aÌ„d Anelinge / good lord / what a whorlepole have they made to devoure mony / meÌ„nes soules / who can bere in memorye the lawes which are made that these thinges may be exequuted religiously And these thinges thinke they so expediente and nedefull to the Christen / that they will soner forgeve advoutrye then one of the offences which is committed against the leste of their holy lawes faces Yf oure most holy father hade left these and all the other faces fre accordiÌ„ge to the gospell had lefte vs all equal / we shuld have had none of these iÌ„numerable sinnes / for where is â—o lawe there is no traÌ„sgression But now he abvsinge oure scrupulous conscieÌ„ces hath ordened and made infinite lawes / and thorow them infinite sinnes and condemnations / and this is the cawse that Paule calleth him the man of sinne / ij Tess ij and sonne of perdition / that is to say a wilfull maker of lawes / and most vngodly in thinges that were made fre by Christ to all faithfull Here shall I be condemned of the sodiars and company of this holy father and shall be called a fautor of WaldeÌ„ and Wiglefe / how be it Daniel conforteth me which saith in the .xj. against Antichrist on this maner / Dani. xi he shall worshippe in his bildinge the God of Maozim / and the god whom his fathers did not know shall he honour with gold silver / precyous stones and other glorious riches And he shall labour to stablish Maozim with the straÌ„ge god whom he knowith not / and he shal encrease glory / aÌ„d geve theÌ„ power on many thinges / and shall divied the erth frely It is sufficient for me to know that all these thinges are fre and not necessary for my health / therfore that they are nother necessary preceptes nother yet profitable / but only so fained by most cruell wekednes and tyraÌ„nie of Antichrist to th eÌ„tent that sinnes and coÌ„deÌ„nations might be multiplied / they are but faces not the very body The seventhe face may be called the hole abvse of the masse wyth his soleÌ„nites / The .vii. face The abvse of the masse with vigilles / with year mindes / foundatioÌ„s / buâ—rialles / and the hole besines that is done for the deade / for what is in it but a face aÌ„d cloke of godliÌ„esse which deceaveth the people aÌ„d swaloweth vp theyr mony we have now adays no masse for th entent to be partakers of the altare and to heare the gospell / yet this is the cheffe cause of the masse / but we vse theÌ„ as good workes rather for them that are departede then for the qwicke / reserved that qwicke prestes gett them a substaÌ„ciall levinge by this office / finally we vse it as thowgh it pertayned no thinge to communion They kepe the sacrament / after masse to ministre to the seake / and bere it a boute in mynion pixes as thowgh it were a thinge to wonder at All these are the inveÌ„tioÌ„s of maÌ„ and were never commauÌ„ded of god / nother are they necessary / but rather weked aÌ„d forbed / chefly those that pertayne to the masse But this most holy fontayne of sinne / and perdition causeth them to be necessary In so moch that he shal be counted an heretike that will once qwinche against it The viij face Fastes The .viij. face / is the choyse of meate and fastinge which are indifferent for ech day But now a dayes men fast on the maner not that the flesch shuld be mortified / but bicawse it is a good worke to have fasted this day / to have abstayned froÌ„ meate this day
to be more holy then a comen house Doth not the Pope here make synne in vsinge of those places / in the which christ maketh none but dimitteth vs fre Doth not the Pope make a scrupelous coÌ„science / wher as Christ setteth vs at libertie Doth not the pope ordeÌ„ thorow his doctrine / boÌ„dage / feare / captivite / snares ioperdeys where as christ settethe sure coÌ„fideÌ„ce fredoÌ„ Is not theÌ„ the Pope Antichrist / the author of sinne and consciences / by his tryfelinge / folissh / vnprofitable / aÌ„d weked lawes what nedeth any christeÌ„ these lawes observaÌ„ces vnto iustice O this deceauinge childissh illusioÌ„ which is worthy to be laughed 〈◊〉 yet is it of soch strength might that it causeth great sinne and perdition Christ teacheth the iustice or his worshupe coÌ„sisteth not in these places Actuum vii Ioannis iiij But the pope saieth the it is iustice worshupe of god to bild chirches / to halow theÌ„ / to preferre theÌ„ above comeÌ„ houses for the holines which is geven vnto theÌ„ O what a worthy religion is this for this idolle how mete coÌ„veniently did Christ provide / that the coÌ„secratioÌ„ of chirches belles shuld oÌ„ly pertaine to bisshopes truely it is even a mervelous mete office for a bisshoppe For soch as the bisshopes are soch shuld also their workes be And they are nothinge but idolles / and visars while that they set aparte their office of preachinge and are only Bisshoppes in titles apparell Therfore it was not convenieÌ„t that they shuld sancrifie the faithfull soules that is to saye the verye chirch of God with their worde and prayer / but rather to anoynt and sprintell with holy water belles / wodde / and stones / in which myse / spiders / and birdes might dwell / not Christ So a stocke doth consecrate stockes / a stone stones / a blocke blockes / a painted visare / visars / and an ydolle idolles / and in all poyntes he him silf is like that he haloweth And yet in reachinge / kepinge / aÌ„d garnisshinge these thiÌ„ges / good lord / what lawes and glosses are there / inveÌ„ted / what scrupulosite of coÌ„scieÌ„ce what cases reserved / what penance satisfactions are there imagined for the traÌ„sgression of theÌ„ And our most revereÌ„d father doth very hardly forgeve these fayned synnes I tell you not with out monye / he will soner a great deall remitte advoutrye and the most mischivous offences that caÌ„ be against god / yee and rather then fayle maynteÌ„ you in theÌ„ forthermore with what great pardons doth he reward these iustices And it is verye well ordered / for soch sinners are worthye soch remissions And soch rightuousmen ought to be crowned with soch rewardes so that the indulgences and absolutions must be as true / as are the synnes and iustices O this abominable abomination Likewisse Christ did put no difference in meaâ—tes and dayes as the apostle teacheth in many places Galath iiij Nether wold he that in the vse of any meate or any daye there shuld be synne / for in the gospell the vse of meate is not reproved / but only the concupiscence of meate But this most holy adversarye of Christ / nothinge regardinge the concupiscence doth forbed thorow the authorite of god and vnder his name / the vse of flesshe / Milke / egges / butyre and soch other / thorow all the lente / and other certaine dayes which he hath prescribed to be fasted / makinge and ordeninge his folisshe faste not in refrayninge the concupiscence / but in forbeddinge the vse / i. Timo. iijj as Paule in the .iiij. of the first epistle to Timothe did prophesy vpon him sayenge Forbigginge to mary / and coÌ„maundinge to abstaine from meattes / which God hath created to be receaved with gevinge thankes wherfore here also are sinnes made thorow the weked will of this maÌ„ of synne / where as of their nature they were fre and with out synne And he bindeth to these thinges / mennes consciences / and vexeth them with folisshe lawes In so moch the the rude people now a dayes do abhorre nothinge so vehemently as the transgression of these fastinge dayes And put their confidence so moch in no thinge as in this fast of the Pope / for they count it a thowsand times lesse faute / to kille to do adoutrye aÌ„d to stele / then for to have eaten egges / butâ—re / milke or flesshe in the lent ceason Nether is this master of the chirches / the fontayne of lawes and rightuousnes / the shepard of the hole congregation / aÌ„d hed of the catholike chirch / moved any whitte to mercye aÌ„d coÌ„passioÌ„ / by cause the faith is thus suppressed / weke coÌ„scieÌ„ces thus wickidly brought in to errours / but rather reioyseth in this destruction of soules / and corruptinge of faith / yee and calleth vpon them aÌ„d constrâ—yneth theÌ„to it Nether will he ever forgeve the transgression of one of his lawes vntill he be well moyned Sith theÌ„ the pope doth make synne / where Christ taketh it away / and ordeneth iustice where Christ sayeth is none And doth bind and snare coÌ„scieÌ„ces where Christ doth set theÌ„ fre And doth all thinges clene coÌ„trarye / puttinge synne in the stedde of grace and the lawe in sted of the faith / dost thou yet doute whether he be the very antichrist and abomination standinge where it ought not stond Are not these contarye / Christ sayeth here is no sinne / the pope sayeth yes here is sinne Christ sayeth here is no iustice / bâ—th the pope sayeth yes here is iustice Yf he wold suffer them indifferent or els only wold exhorte men vn to them / he shuld not be antichrist / but now be cause â—e commaundeth it in in the name of Christ though he lye and doth exacte it vnder the payne of dedly synne / he doth vtterly corrupte the chirch / suppresse the faith / avaunce synne destroy the consciences of the christen Of this kind are all the worshuppinges of vesturs / vessels / relikes / where of springe a fayer sorte of sinnes Yf a nunne / â—ouch the superaltare or the corpores / as they call it there is a synne committed / to touch the chalice it is a great transgression / to saye masse with an vnhalowed chalice is a grevous offence / to do sacrifice in vestimentes which are not consecrated is a carefull crime / It is also reputed for a synne yf in ministeringe any sacrament / he lacke any ornameÌ„t that pertayneth therevnto Yf he call a child or speake in the wordes of the canon He offendeth also that doth stammer or stutte in the wordes of the canon / he synneth that toucheth the holy relikes of saintes / And he that toucheth the sacrament of the altare other with haÌ„d or singer though it be for necessite to plucke it from the rouffe of his mouthe coÌ„mitteth soch vilonous
iniquite / the they will scrape aÌ„d shape of / the quicke flesshe of the parte which did touch it / so that very madnes it self can not be more out of order and resone / I think at the length they will flee the tonge / the rouffe of the mouth the throte / and the bely because they touch the sacrament But to hurte thy neghbure / or prevelye to convay away any of his good / or not to helpe him in his nede / is in a maner nether counted for synne / nor yet regarded / But what nedeth me to reherse any of these abominations / sith the hole world is replenisshed with his iniquite What moÌ„struous abominatioÌ„s doth not he with his adherentes bring to passe / which are not only superstitious / But also deâ—sye in the hed furious / and foles of extreme madnes Finally / thorow the authorite of the pope in a maner all the creatures of god and all the vse of them is made synne / for Christ wold that in none of these shuld be any synne nother yet iustice / the cause was paraveÌ„ture be cause he onlye was holy How be it it was coÌ„venient for the most holye vicare of Christ / that he resistinge Christ shuld here multiplye and encreasse synnes aÌ„d iustices / and replenisshe the world corruptinge the christen libertye and suppressinge the faith with folisshe / fearfull / erromous and perisshinge coÌ„sciences Behold now who is the man of synne and sonne of perditioÌ„ Nether yet have I enumbered the thicke swarme / and infinite hoste that depend on him / as cardinalles / bisshoppes / prestes / monkes / fryers / nunnes / decanes / subdecanes / and other shavelinges which bost theÌ„ silf fre froÌ„ the lawe For these thorow their shavinges / vesturs / houres / and behaveours / abound with as many synnes / as the duns meÌ„ with relatioÌ„s / or thomistes with their realites / yet put they so manye of them in every thinge / as there are creatures in the world / and consideracions in them Good lord / All this wretched multitude of men is nothing but synne / for he is counted a very apostata and breker of his religion / which is not shaven / if he read not his prescribed houres / yf he be not clothed with a prestly colour / yf he were not a hode or a coule / yf he be not appareiled with purpull and silke / or els chaunge any of those thinges which are appointed him to do / who wold not iudge a religious man to be an apostata / if he went in a laye maÌ„nes aparell / or wold not be shaven in due time But for to playe the apostata departe from the faith is nothinge regarded / In traÌ„sgressinge the hyghe decrees the popes awne dispensationis scant counted ynough / though it be redemed with never so moch monye all though for a litle try full he will remitte any offence to wardes god / yee and somtime offer the remission for nought So depe entereth the tyrannye of his lawe in to our wretched consciences Therfore Daniel doth verye well saye / that he shall corrupt mervelous thinges / for what is it that he leveth vncorrupte yee aÌ„d so he dothe corrupte them that they can not be repayred / for the consciences are so weaked and brought into bondage In so moch that I am in doute / if the pope wold abrogate all his lawes / whether that by those meanes this scrupulosite might he weded out of mennes hartes / so that their conscieÌ„ces might be heled / so cruell and incurable is this plage of the people / which is sowen among them Yf I may vse Esaias wordes of this kinge Assure â—â—e x. Here hast thow the fruete of these faces and rydles / which is the corruption / of the chirche / of the faith / of Christes libertie / of the sprete and trueth / and of all the goodnes which are geven vs of god / This is the true Antiochus in the .viij. of Daniel / which there was named to be a figure / of this kinges faces / Danie vij This is he which was exalted against the strength of heven / and did cast donne of the streght / and of the sterres / aÌ„d did trede them vnder his feate / prevailed vntill he cam vnto the prince of strength / and toke of him a great sacrifice that is to say faith And caste doune his holye place that is meÌ„nes coÌ„sciences he hade streÌ„ght geveÌ„ him against the greate sacrifice because of synne / the trueth in the erth shal be felled cast doune / And he shall prosper do Doth not the pope fulfill all these thinges avauncynge his faces ridles against the trueth faithe Marke well what sathan speaketh by their moutes / They saye that all thinges were not sette in a perfayte order of Christ but were lefte to the iudgement of the Chirch to be ordered / syth Christ ordened that there shuld be no synne but vnbeleffe and no iustice but faith As he sayeth in the xvj of Ioan. he shall rebuke the world of synne / because they beleve not in me / And agayne He that beleveth not shal be coÌ„demned / All thinges that are with out a man do not defile man but are clene fre / except we offend against them with an evill concupiscence which cometh from with in How be it the Pope defileth the hole world by these outward thinges / and is nothinge moved with the inward pollusioÌ„s Be hold how playne Christes wordes are / and yet we will not se this his adversary and corrupter of the faithe Besides thes maners of synnes perditions / the pope hath ordened other traÌ„sgressions first the false trust of soch workes / which is duble iniquite / for they which obey the pope in his preceptes / eschew soch thiÌ„ges as the pope coÌ„mawndeth / do thinke with hyghe presumptioÌ„ yee also are counted of other that they have done well desâ—roed heveÌ„ And this is the other pernicious instrumeÌ„t of corruptioÌ„ which rageth thorow the hole world / Be cause the with this trust coÌ„fideÌ„ce the faith of Christ caÌ„ not coÌ„sist / forthermore be cause they are so oppressed lade with the multitude of lawes / that they fulfill them only with the outward worke for their willes are clene coÌ„trary wold resist them / As we se by experieÌ„ce in the trobleous besines / of vigilles / masses / aÌ„d houres which both must be sayd aÌ„d songe / In the which they labour with soche weryenes / that now adayes no laboure is more tedyous Yet neverthelesse the heddes masters cruell exactores of these most hard workes compell vs to worke soch thinges with out ceassinge / which before god are nothiÌ„ge but grevous synnes / all though before men they be good workes / and counted for the service of god / here are inveÌ„ted thentismentes of the senses thorow
of Paule coÌ„plaineth that manye shall departe from the faith ij Timo. iiij And for this folissh conscience / mennes tradititions be pernicious and noysome / the snares of soules / hurtinge the faith / the libertye of the gospell / if it were not for this cause they shuld do no hurte Therfore the devill thorow the Pope abvseth these coÌ„scieÌ„ces to stablissh the lawes of his tyrannie / to suppresse â—â—e with and libertye / and to replenisshe 〈◊〉 worlde with errours / vngodlines / synnes and perditions And well doth Paule calle those coÌ„sciences marked with an hotte yeroÌ„ / by cause they are not so of their awne nature / nother yet of the sprete / but are marked against nature with the hotte yeron of mannes traditions and doctrines / Paule teacheth that there is nothinge to be refused i. Timot. iiij And the vicare of Christ saith / yes butyre / and whitmeates most be refused ever on certayne prescripte dayes Christ in the .x. of luke said Luc. x Latinge and drinkinge soch as they have But his vicare saith / eare no flessh nor egges Christ suffereth all maner of garmentes frely and indifferently But his vicare commaundeth one maner of rayment to the laye men and taketh a nother maner to him silf and his adherentes / and that vnder deadly synne and precepte of the chirche And in all these thinges they make them selfe a scrupulous conscience as though they did well in kepinge them and synned deadly in transgressinge / though it be nothiÌ„ge so Therfore truely soch conscieÌ„ces are violently made / yet neverthelesse they be sore hurte as we have said in the transgression of these payne preceptes for soch a kinge / soch a lawe Soch a lawe / soch synne and merite and soch a conscieÌ„ce also reserved that as I said of a folishe vayne synne is made a true synne / thorow the erroure of the coÌ„scieÌ„ce / this is the hort yeron which doth marke him It foloweth And his strength shal be stablisshed / and not in his awne might and power Danie viij ¶ This third propertye of this moÌ„struous kingdome is also mervelous and vnlyke all other imperies / by cawse it shal be streÌ„ghted stablisshed with a straÌ„ge power For who hath harde any soch thinge in all other kiÌ„gdoms The imperye of Rome was gotten / encreased / mayntened thorow his awne strength The hole scripture doth rebuke the horses aÌ„d flessh of Aegipte and other kingdoÌ„s / in the which the Iewes did put their trust and confidence / forthermore the kingdome of Christ doth more consist in his awne powre then any of the other For the trueth of it silf is stronge ynowgh And only this kiÌ„gdome is stablisshed with others streÌ„gth Strength in this place doth signifye the power / which oure philosophers do call the power to worke vtwardly / which is not of the soule / iii. Reg. xix Gene. xxxj but of the meÌ„bers So Ezechias in the xix of the fourth boke of kinges The childreÌ„ came to the birth / the mother had no power to deliver them And in thâ— xxxj of Genesis I have served youre father it 〈◊〉 all my power And Iob. I counted fâ—â— hinge the power of their handes / thuâ—â— to say that they were able to do In the Hebrew tonge it was called â—uth / and the Apostle in the greke toÌ„ge calleth it energeran And the interpreter called it in the latin tonge / efficaciam / and in the englissh toÌ„ge it must be called might and power as in the .ij. to the Galathians / he that was mighty in Peter in the apostleshippe over circunsition / the same was mighty in me amoÌ„ge the geÌ„tils Gala. ij Therfore the power of this kinge sith it stoÌ„deth not in armure / nor in the gospell of Christ / must nedes be raysed vp by his awne doctrines and stablisshed by the power of other Marke this goodly order / first are faces And then lawes / and both are fained and clene alien at from the trueth After theÌ„ cometh his power / which is not staâ—lisshed by him silf But with other strange powers and strenghtes / for truely a lye can not endure by his awne power And so hath the kiÌ„gdome of Antichrist of Rome prospered / that even in the apostles time it began to lene sticke to workes Afterward the chirch as they call it was endewed aÌ„d garnisshed with certayne ceremonies And at the length the Pope patched theÌ„ all to gedder made aswere sawce / and thorow them suppressed all liberty / turninge theÌ„ into most strayre 〈◊〉 lawes In so moch that it is with out 〈◊〉 â—â—re a greater offence to transgresse these lawes and ceremonyes / then the preceptes of god So of these faces are sproÌ„ge lawes / of the lawes the streÌ„gth / of the streÌ„gth greate power authoryte as it shall folow / for as maners make a lawe / so of the lawe ryeseth a strength to confirme the maners And of the strengthe springeth powre and authoryte Therfore let vs coÌ„sidre with what power this king of perdition is strengthed and stablisshed ij Thessa ij The Apostle in the .ij. of the second pistell to the ThessalonyaÌ„s doth attribute applye it vnto sathan sainge Whose cominge shall be thorow the operation of Sathan in lyeinge and mervelous signes / for eveÌ„ as Christ did trulye stablissh the faith his worde by signes miracles thorow his awne vertue power Even so this counterfettinge Ape / and adversarye of Christ / shall stablissh his faces and lewde lawes / thorow lyeing signes of others that is to say Sathans power The first operation of Sathan in his signes and illusions is this / that the chirch of Rome hath had perpetuall contention with the chirch of the GreciaÌ„s / yet being weked and vniust hath ever prevailed though it were defeÌ„ded / with false causes wrested scriptures so prevailed that she hath exalted coÌ„firmed her self to be the lady mestres of the faith mother of all chirches Besides 〈…〉 subderved all men with mervelâ—â—â— good chaunce aÌ„d prosperyte were he next also greate / learned holy which ever hath resisted her lawes / statutes / iudgementes glorious pleasurs Who will not iudge that these were mightye signes mervelles / that no maÌ„ did ever attribute to any / but to god which did fight for the holye chirch of Rome As though god did not vtterly abhorre this abominable and pernicyous doctrines of men with the arrogante pride of these faces Now to this pointe is it brought that kinges / princes / and Bisshopes / which other hurte the holy decrees / libertes or patrimonyes of the chirch of Rome or els do not honour and prefere them above the preceptes of god / shall perisshe by the stroke of the terrrible swerd of excommunication ExcoÌ„munication In so moch that the hole world is in
organes / musike / and diversite of songes / but these are nothinge to the sprete / which rather is extincte thorow these waÌ„tan trifels Ah Christe / with what violeÌ„ce / with what hoste and power are they driven heddelinge to synne and perisshe / thorow â—his abomible abomination / It is an â—â—â—rible / tremblinge and feare to loke in â—o these cruell whorlp oules of consciences / which perisshe with soch great paynes and labour xi Reg. xxi O what light and childisshe offeÌ„ces are these / wherin Manasses and other weked kinges synned by doing sacrifice with their awne children and progenye Truely the cursed sacrifices of the most rude gentils / no not of the lestrigones / Maâ—h xij may be compared vn to oures / The sayeinge of Christ may be verified in vs seven more weked spretes make the end worsse then the beginninge / for I saye that we gentiles are worsse seven times theÌ„ we were before we knew Christ And that we may be shorte concerninge this corruptioÌ„ / and that thow maiste perceave that there is nothing in the pope but synne and perdition Marke well / not only his lawes are synes / but also all the workes that folow them and not those alone which are fained and done with werynes as I saide before yee and the rewardes are the greatest synnes of all / So that the lesse sinnes are rewarded with the greater Thow will axe me how I will tell the. They are not contente to binde and destroy Iesus but also they let go Barrabas the theffe / that is to say / he doth exempte thorow his privileges the hole multitude of his clargye / from the burdeÌ„s and labours of all men / that they may lyve in idelnes and riches / regardinge nothinge to committe the abomination of Zodom Gomorrha Nether is it lawfull for any maÌ„ to reprove / accuse or correcte them wheÌ„ they transgresse But only the pope / which nether will do it / nether yet caÌ„ yf he wold here spriÌ„ge out of fatte their iniquites By these meanes abound / defloueringe of virgins / advoutrye / fornicatioÌ„ / vnclennes / covetuousnes / soreltye / deceate / and the hole cloude of wekednes / yee and not only abound / but also raigne vnpunisshed / with out feare of god or man And if any maÌ„ rebuke or checke theÌ„ he is reputed a weked transgressor of the popes privileges / and is giltye for hurtinge his mageste To this pertaine the most holy lawes and decrees / de foro competenti And all those in the which the clergye is exempte from the accusation / iudgement / and punishmeÌ„t of the laye men yee and their possessions finally / this most holye adversarye of Christ hath made vsurye / sotiltye / and rape / lawfull vn to them / while that he doth admitte to the encreasse of the honour and worshuppe of God / vniust restoringes vnlawfull bargaynes / and despenseth graciously with pety bryebrye / geving thapostles benediction to be pertaker with them As for the abstayninge from matrimonye we have spoken of it bot / he how Sathan was the author that it was forbede / and what synnes and perditions are entered / yee aÌ„d daylye encreassed thorow the forbedinge of it Have we any ende of this bottomlesse pitte and hell Were not only the othes where with he bindeth / bisshopes / prestes / moÌ„kes / princes aÌ„d vniversites / sufficient to make him the man of synne and sonne of perdition For who is able to recite the periuryes / syth there is in a maner no maÌ„ that swereth with his will / and yet is he compelled to swere / where as is no necessite of the faith or of his neghburs profite / wherfore thow takist the name of god in vayne / for that which is not done with the affect and mind of the harte / is done vaynly and with synne So that this kingdome of faces hath not only prevayled to corrupte the fayth / but also to destroy good maners In so moch that he hath lefte nothinge But it is attaynted aÌ„d in a maner putrified And yet hath he cloked and covered these cursed moÌ„stres with soch a fyne aÌ„d beutyfull colour of faces / and hath so defended theÌ„ against every power both of vertue wepon / that this kinge of faces was most mete to be the laste monstre in the end of the world / prepared against the great cominge of Christ / that Christ might shew his great vertue and power / in the greatnes of this monstre / here speake I nothinge of the infinite evilles by the which he transgresseth the iiij.v.vij and viij commaundmentes / for he taketh awaye thobedience which the children owe to their parentes / sturringe vp and arminge the sonnes against the fathers as it is sene en HeÌ„rie the .iiij. and manye other / Henry the iiij emperoure for he will that he be hard above / and afore all other Also that he replenissheth the world with bloude and murther / makinge debate at his awne plesure be twixte kinges and princes / beinge the occasion of great warres and coÌ„tentions So that a man may doute / whether sathan him silf if he raigned presently among vs might bring soch thinges to passe as the Pope doth Now doth this mighty these invade aÌ„d subdew hole kingdoÌ„s and dukedoms And devoreth bisshoprickes benefices / aÌ„d all the goodes movable immovable in the hole world / thorow subsidyes bulles / and other infinite craftes very sotle / craftye and lyeinge / knittinge / and vnbindinge all thiÌ„ges / according to his pleasure And this man of synne and sonne of perditioÌ„ / conveyeth his matters on that facyon / that he denieth them to be synnes / yee and affirmeth that it is synne if any man resist or laughe at them And that so abominable synne that no hell is sufficient to punissh it And he hath drawen vn to him in to this weked mind and sentence all though not the hole world yet truly at the lest the hole hepe of the clergye / and a great parte of the laye people / destroyng them that consente vnto him perpetuallye / so that not by one maner of waye / but by all wayes he corrupteth and destroyeth all thinges / and may well be called a corrupter of mervelous thinges The sacrament of the altare But let vs procede to the greatest most abominable mischeffe of all other / concerninge the sacrament of the altare and baptime or repentance First he hath taken from the chirch the holy misterye of the masse And so hath corrupte it concerning the laye people that he hath clene taken awaye the one parte from them / and not only takenie awaye / but also made it sinne / yee aÌ„d extreme heresye if any man according to the ordenance of Christ vse both the kindes O lyvinge immortall god / what presumptuous boldnes hath this weked abominatioÌ„ If Christ had forbeden any of the kindes /