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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12945	A preface to the Kynges hyghnes; Exhortation to the people, instructynge theym to unitie and obedience	Starkey, Thomas, d. 1538.	1536 (1536)	STC 23236; ESTC S104591	84,228	171

intollerable tyrannye these auncient maysters of Christis doctrine as moche as they maye of a tradition say affirme such a place to be wherin mans sowle shall be purged from alle spottes of worldly affection printed therin by the immoderate loue and pleasure had in worldly conuersation before the tyme it may attayn the eternal fruition of euerlastynge thinges and with aungelles to inioye the heuenlye meditation But of this sorte to be as in our dayes it is of many folyshely affyrmed amonge the olde authors there is no mention none of them iudge it to be suche a place out of the whiche any popes power may delyuer mans sowle at his pleasure This thyng semethe to be an inuention of man of late yeres of the olde fathers no tradition wherfore after that maner it to deny I thinke were none errour at all but the thynge vtterly to take awaye semeth to come of moche arrogancy and greatte lacke of iudgement and reasone for that thynge to deny constantly wherof there is noo certayne grounde nor sure is playne foly and lacke of discretion For as to affirm purgatorie to be there is no grounde of suretye so it to denye hath moche lesse certaynte for scripture giueth sure argument to nother of them both wherfore as to affirme hit to be as an artycle of the faythe and to the saluation of man to be of necessite I think it great folye so to deny it to be a holsome tradition to the conseruation of the christian lyfe moche conuenient I iuge it to be playn arrogancy specially considerynge that to the assercion therof we haue the consent of many auncient greatte lerned holy and vertuous men whose example and iugement I wold rather moue you to leane vnto moste christian people and to their sentence rather to be conformable than to certayn lyght wyttes nother fourmed with lernyng nor iugement and whiche is chiefe of all voyde of vertue to assente and to them to be plyable whose lyghtnes both in this and many other thynges hath benne a great occasion to the corruption of some of your iugementes and hereafter excepte you be ware shall be moche more For vnder the colour of bryngynge in lyberte from bondage of tradition they wolde induce you to admitte only fete the whyche of somme of his disciples was nothynge approued he taughte vs a greatte grounde for the admission of all suche inwarde and aboundant deuotion though the outwarde deede appere to the worlde a superfluouse operation And as for prayinge to saintis is a thinge whiche hath ben long and many yeres receiued both of the greke churche and latyne not as a thyng to the whiche we are bounden by the expresse cōmaundement of god but as a thyng consequent therto for in scripture exaumple we haue one to desyre an other to praye for hym whiche sayncte Poule dyd ofte and many tymes wherof is gathered consequently to be a thyng lykewyse conuenyent to desyre theym whose vertues are of Christe approuyd to praye for vs that we al together as membres of one bodye maye receyue grace of our heuenly heed And thus to praye to saynctes in no parte dothe derogate the honoure of god For the praying thus to them is to praye to god and is nothynge differente in effecte but to praye to them as of whom we shulde truste as of authors and gyuers of that thynge whiche we by prayer demaunde and desyre to gette and obtayne This were by the honour of theym to plucke downe the honour of god and playne ydolatrie and this is forbyd in holy scripture as the other maner is as a thynge agreable therto conueniently receyued though it be not of high necessite And so brefely to conclude in this matter to haue in honour images of saintes as thinges wherby you may be put in mynde and stired to the folowynge of their vertues bothe in lyfe and maners to expresse the same is no poynte of idolatrye but amonge christen men a thynge of great conueniency to be receyued lyke as pilgremage and prayenge to them also is not to be condemnyd but as a thynge wherby we hyghly honour god to be admyttyd therby declarynge to hym our humble and meke hartes ful of charite where euery membre requiring the helpe of eche other hangeth vpon that comon heed and fountayne of all goodnes After this maner prayeng to sayntes hath euer ben receyued of all the antiquitie from whose steppes christen people let vs not in euery thinge lyghtly slyppe but rather folowe them in suche thynges as be good and conuenient than without iugement to reiect al thinges whiche be of nature indifferent approuyng onely them whiche be of hye necessitie and by the expresse word of god to vs in his doctrin taught as many of vs doo whiche is as I haue often sayde as a common fountayne of the corruption of our iugementes to the takynge awaye of many suche thynges which haue ben of many good men and wyse stablyshed to the settynge forth of Christis doctrine with charytable vnytie For of this ground it spryngeth also that some men forbydde vtterly to praye for theym the whiche be deed bycause it is not in scripture conteyned expressely and bycause whan they departe they go incontinent eyther to heuen or to helle howe be hit of that they be not sure nor to the denyinge of purgatorie as I said before of scripture there is noo certayne grounde but to scripture after the sentence of holye fathers the contrarye is rather agreable But lette it be that there were noo purgatorye at all Thynke not you deere frendes that it is a conueniente thynge and to charitie conformable that euery man shulde desyre after deathe good to his frende and by prayer to god to open his louynge mynde that he boothe in lyfe and also after his deathe constantlye euer beareth toward his brother There was neuer nation so rude and barbarous that wolde forbydde one to wysshe good to an other bothe a lyue deed Wherfore amonge vs christen menne whiche are sure that our frendes after deathe shall remayne other to peyne or pleasure amonge vs I saye to raygne any suche opinyon that we shoulde not praye for theym and wyshe theym to be partetakers of the good and not of the euylle apperethe extreme maddenesse and mooste rude vnkyndenesse specyally seynge that we haue no certaynetye whether hit pleasethe god to take theym other to payne or to pleasure And thoughe that this be trewe that to the one certaynly they are by the prouydence of god determyned and appoynted yet we therof beynge vncertayne in desyrynge and wyshynge to them the best can not doo but wel in as moch as we declare therby to god the charitie of our hartes ye and ferther I shall saye to you thoughe the prayer that we make for theym that be deede shoulde not be to theym profytable at all for as moche as they be other in state of grace or damnation yet