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A16858	The complaynt of Roderyck Mors, somtyme a gray fryre, vnto the parliament howse of Ingland his natural cuntry for the redresse of certen wicked lawes, euel customs ad [sic] cruell decreys. A table wherof thou shalt fynde in the nexte leafe.	Brinkelow, Henry, d. 1546.	1542 (1542)	STC 3759.5; ESTC S106579	46,602	126

howse in making su●h ●●yperos actys as the beast of Rome neuer made him selfe for the pope neuer made the mariage of prystes to be death and such other Thus by your sotiltes and most crafty wyles ye make the peple to abhorre the name of the pope for a face and compel them to walk in all his wicked lawys And the word of god which we say we haue receyuyd is not nor can not be sufferyd to be preached and taught purely and sincerely without mixyng it with your inuented tradycyons and seruyce For who so euer doth stōding faythfully vnto it he shal dye for it Thus ye may se that the thing which we say that we haue cast of we receyue cherissh maynteyne and walke therein And agayn that thing whi●h we say we haue receyued by the craft and tyranny of the bysshops is abhorred despysed takē for a sedycyos thing called newe lernyng and men be dreuyn frō it for feare of losse of goodys of ponysshmēt of body and danger of death so weake and frayle is our flessh What a lamentable thing is this that men shuld be dryuyn from the gospel of Christ the glad tydings that bringeth peace in conscyence to the faythful that is forgeuenesse of synnes in Christes blode By these frutys all men may knowe that thei be more natural to their wicked father the pope than any child can be to his natural father And that shal the reame fele at the chāge of a prynce or at such tyme as thei loke for vnlesse god of his mere mercy breake the wicked councels of them What is the cause that the bisshops be so dilygent to sytt so often vpon the .vi. wycked artycles But only that thei be a stablysshing of the popys auctorite be thow sure Now therefore that same god wich gaue grace to Achab to harken vnto the ●oyce of Elyah the .iij. of the kings the .xviij. to the cōfounding of the false prophe●ys gyue our noble king that same grace ●f it be h●s godly wil of Rome I wyl recyte certē doctrynes of the scrypture manifestly taught by the holy goost the prophetys apostyls and by Chryst Iesus hymselfe And compare them with the doctrines of the bysshops and thou shalt manyfestly se that their doctryne is as directly agaynst the holy goost as is lyght agaynst darcknes First the scripture teacheth one god only thorout the byble and the apostles refused to be worshipped as the .xiiij. chapter of the actes of the apostels doth manifestly declare where Pawl and Barnabas rent their clothys cryeng vnto the peple Why do ye thys we be mortal men lyke vnto yow turne from these vanytes vnto the liuyng god c. lyke wyse the angel refused to be worshipped of man Apocalypse the .xxij. with dyuerse other testymonyes as the .xx. of Exody the Psal. lxvi and lxxxvi And agayne Imagys are forbydden thorow the scripture hated of god which commandeth us that we shuld not ones bowe vnto them Exodi the .iiij. and .xx. Leuiticus xxvi And Salomon curseth both the Image and the maker theroff sayng the sekyng of thē to be the begynnyng of whoredome in the xiiij chapter of the booke of wysdom Further more reade the .xliiij. chapter of Esay and I dowt not but if thou beleuyst in god thow wylt not worship nor knele afore an image for all the goodys in the world But now contrary to thys doctryne our forkyd chananytes the pompos bisshops teach us to worship many goddys If any man aske me how I proue that I answer what a multytude of holy dayes haue thei made vnto sayntes as to the Virgyn Mary Pawl Peter Iamys Iohan corpus Christi cet For what purpose do thei hold those holy dayes but only to honore thē as goddes do thei not make men to fast their euyns as though thei were goddes do thei not teach us to pray to them and to crye to them for helpe Come to the labor of a woman that is a pharysy and thow shalt heare hir crye call for help more vpon the virgyn Mary than shal will vpon the euerly●yng god who is the only creator and sauyor of the virgyn yea and that most blasphemosly sayng our lady haue mercy vpon me And lyke wyse vpon other of goddys creaturys Now in these dayes thei wil say haply we teach not to worship them as goddes but as mediators 〈◊〉 the that is also a false and a deuelyssh doctryne For the scripture sayth there is but one mediator betwene god and man Iesus Chryst the. ● to Tymothy the .ij. chap. Hebruys the .iiij the .ij. of Iohan. the .ij. chap. the Ephesyans the iij. S. Paul dyd wel to name Christ that we may know who it is though the bysshops wil not for their offerings sake and therfor thei wold haue many mediators It is euydent also that thei teach men to worship Imagys for euery church is ful and specyally s ▪ mary ouerys in so●hwarke for gylded imagys And although by the vertu of the kyngs iniunccyons ▪ dyuerse Idollys be taken away yet Bonar ●isshop of lond●n by the cowncel of cole his trayteros popyssh chanceler one of poolys ryght scolars although he came from hym vnder a presēce to be his depute as his frutys declare if thei indifferently were loked vpon by his deuelyssh councel I say hys master shamed not contrary to the same iniunccyons to set vp other in their placys as in the body of Powlys church where as stode an Idol of the virgyn Mary of his feruent charyte toward the mayntenāce of Idolatry that it shuld not vtterly decay and of hys cold loue and fauor toward the kyngys iniunccyons set vp in the same place another Idol of S. Iohan baptyst And Wynchester at his beyng a Ratyspone caused an Image to be gyldyd and payd for the gylding of an Idol named the schone Mary that men of all nacyons being there might se what fauor he bare toward hys pryncys iniunccyons Do thei not by these and such actys cōdemne the kyngs deposyng of Idols as moch as in them lyeth Oh pry●ytraytors and opē Idolators Ye wyl say thei be bokys for the vnlerned and therfor necessary But how can that be necessary why●h the holy gost so diligently forbyddeth vtterly as before is sayd Answere me cole wyth thy po●yssh canon lawe Agayne god in the old lawe appoynted the seuynth day to be kept holy called the sabbate day for the which we hold the sunday whych our fore fathers ordeyned in the steade of the satterday that the peple shuld come together to the tempyl to heare goddys word preached in their mother tong wherby thei were edifyed to walke in the amendment of lyfe and to bryng forth the frutys of our fayth that is good workys appoynted in the scrypture only to goodys honor and the profyght of our neyhbore but yet not to kepe it so Idylly that after we haue heard gods word but that we myght doo any nedeful busynesse vpon the sunday as

best made to cloke their wickednesse It were hard to say whether thei were the auctors of the commocyon in the north or no. I thynck it is as well possyble for the ocyane se to be without water as it is for them to cease musyng of myschefe A lamentacyon for that the body and tayle of the pope is not banisshed with his name The .xxiij. Chapter OH mercyful father of heauyn I can neuer lament inough to heare the gospel thus blasphemyd to be namyd a thing causyng sedicyon whan it is the only cause of concord and peace in conscyence vnto the faythful Yet these bysshops deanys and canons of collegys with other the popys shauelings acording to their old wont shame not to blaspheme this holy word by all the sotle meanys that can be dyuysed How besy were thei to stey the puttyng forth of the great byble and to haue had the byble of Thomas mathy called in but the lord streng●h●yd the hart of the prynce to set it forth agaynst their willys yet how shamefully haue thei and their membres in many placys of England dreuyn men from readyng the byble yea Boner bysshop of london shamyd not in the yere a thowsand fyue hundreth and forty to preson one porter and other for readyng in the byble which if it be not h●resy to god than what is heresy And if it be not treason to the kyng to deface his iniunccyons than what is treason And agayne if it be not th●ft to the comon welth to steale from thē their sprytual fode than what is robry and theft And euyn in the begynnyng of the last parlament in the yere a thousand fyue hundreth and .xli. how dyd thei blaspheme rage belye the holy goost saing it is not ryghtly translated and that it is ful of heresys and that thei wold correck it and set out one ryghtly soner can thei fynd fautys thā amend it Who perceyueth not your wickyd intent ys that in the meane tyme ye loke for the death of the kyng whom god preserue to his plesure O ye blynd phylistyans the scripture is ful of sentencys which teach men to knowe you and to beware of you I can not blame you though ye fyght thus agaynst god and his word to shutt it vp from the peple For why who so euer readyth or hearyth the ●ontentys of that boke and byleueth the holy goost shal playnly se that ye be the very enemyes of god and so shal cast you out of their ●onscyence where ye haue long sytten in the place of god wherby also ye shuld lose your gret ryches and auctorite which makyth you to roare lyke lyons to teare lyke bearys and to byte lyke cruel woluys and to styng lyke adders No dout one bisshop one deane one college or howse of canōs hath euer done more mischeffe agaynst gods word and sought more the hynderāce of the same thā .x. howses of monkys fryers chanons or nunnys euer dyd The kyngs grace began wel to wede the garden of Ingland but yet hath he left stondyng the more pytye the most fowlest and stynkyng wedys which had most nede to be first pluckyd vp by the rootys that is to say the prycking thistels and stingyng nettels which styll stondyng what helpyth the deposyng of the pety membres of the pope and to leaue his whole body behynd which be the pompos bisshops canons of collegys deanys and such other surely it helpyth as moch as to say I wyl go kyll all the foxes in s. Iohans wodde because I wold haue no more foxes bred in all England We say we haue cast the pope out of Ingland how so I aske ye seyng he came neuer in Ingland how can he be cast out thereof some wil say yes his tributys and other pollagys be taken from him Wel thankys be to god we be some what eased of our tēporal and bodyly burden But there be gretter things in this matter than that which wel ponderyd we may say and lye not that the pope remayneth wholly styll in Ingland saue only that his name is banisshed For why his body which be the bisshops and other shauelings doth not only remayne but also his tayle which be his filthy tradicyons wicked lawys and beggarly ceremonyes as s. Paul called them yea and the whole body of his pestiferos canon lawe acording to the which iudgement is geuyn thorow the reame and men condemnyd to death after the prescrypt of it so that we be styll in Egypt and remayne in captyuyte most greuosly laden by obseruyng and walking in his most filthy drosse aforsayd which is a mysty and endles maze And so long as ye walke in those wicked lawys of antichrist the pope and maynteyne his knyghtes the bisshops in soch inordynate riches and vnla●ful auctoryte so long say I ye shal neuer banyssh that monstruos beast the pope out of Ingland Yea and it shal be a meane in processe of tyme to bryng us in to a tēporal bondage also agayn and to haue him reygne as he hath done lyke a god And that know our forked cappys ryght well which thing makyth them so boldly and shamelesly to fyght in their gods quarel agaynst christ his word The bysshops of England neuer toke so gret paynes to defend the pope and his kyngdome as they haue done syns the kings grace toke rightfully from him his accustomyd pollagys which vsurpedly he had out of this reame To proue this to be true what blood haue thei shed syns that tyme of the belouyd seruantes of the euerlyuing god for preching teaching writing and walking in the truth as Tewkysbery Baynam ●ryth Bylney Barnys Garet Ierom with diuerse other in kent salysbery and dyuerse other placys And Wyllm Tyndal the apostle of Ingland although he were burnt in Brabance yet he felt the bisshops blessing of Inglād which procured him that death which he loked for at their handes Neuertheles I dowt not but that all these be of the nomber of them that s. Iohā spekyth of in the Apocalipse which lye vnder the altar till the nomber of their brethern be fulfilled which shal be slayne for the gospels sake I reherse not their namys for anye prayse to be geuyn to them but that the cōgregacyon of Christ may laude and prayse the euerliuyng god for geuing them grace to stād so faythful in the lord to the end leauyng vs the victory which is part of your spyrytual comfort For god promyseth the preachers mynysters of his word no other reward in this life And thorow the preaching of these poore wretchys but out castes in the sight of the world as s. Paul sayth he hath wrought this that where as the kyng was before but a shadow of a kyng or at the most but halfe a king now he doth wholly raygne thorow their preaching wryting and suffryng But now to the tyranny of the bysshops onys agayne which besydes the murderyng of these sayntes how haue thei bewitched the parlament