/ than the sacrifice / which Christe hym self offered on the altare of the crosse Our missale sacrifice / saye the massing papistes / is propiciatory / satisfactory / expiatory / and necessary Ad salutem bothe for the quicke and for the dead The people syn dayly / therefore must we offer sacrifice for the synnes of the people dayly in our masses O Antichristes What other thinge is this / o heauenly father / thaÌ„ to defye the death of thy sonne / to despyse hys moste healthful sacrifice / to set at nought his wholsome oblacion / too treade vnderfoote the bloude of the euerlasting Heb. 10. Testament / and vtterly too deface bothe the kyngdome priesthode of Christ / and to erecte / and set vp a new kyngdome and priesthode of their owne / a new sacrifice / and a straunge oblacion / inueÌ„ted of the deuel / broughte in by Antichriste / confyrmed Apoc. 13. Apoc. 21. by suche as haue receaued the beastes marke / and frequented / vsed and soughte of all / that haue their porcion in that lake that burneth with fyre and brymstone / excepte they repent and ameÌ„d Is not Christe an euerlasting priest Psal 110. Heb. 7. Heb. 10 Dothe not his priesthoode continew from generacion to generacion Hath he not with one oblacioÌ„ made perâ—ecte for euer / them that are sancâ—ifiâ— Are we not made holy by the offering vp of the body of Iesu done once for all 〈◊〉 not Christ / after he had offered one sacrifice for synnes / syt him doun for euer / on the right hande of God / and from henâ—forth tarieth tyll hys foos be made hys footestoole Is not Iesus Christ yesterday and to day / and thesame continueth foreuer Heb. 13. What haue we than to do with the saâ—rificing massemoÌ„â—ers or with their missal sacrifice O heauenly father / suffer vs not to be carryed about with diuers and straunge learninge Moreouer / heretofore we were caughte Aultarâ— noâ—â—ollerable among Christians to beate doune the Idolatrous Heathenish altars / which Antichrist of Rome enteÌ„ding to set vp a new priesthoode a strauÌ„ge sacrifice forsynne / coÌ„maunded to be buylte vp / as though calfes / goates / shepe suche other brute beastes should be offered again after the priesthoode of Aaron / for the synnes of the people / and to set in their steade Christe his Apostles the primaâ—iue church vsed tables at the ministracion off the holy coÌ„munion in some conuenient place a semely table / after the examples of Christ / to receaue together at it the holy misteries of Christeâ— bodye bloud / in remeÌ„brauÌ„ce that Christes body was brokeÌ„ / his bloud shead for our synnes But now the sacrificinge sorcererâ— shame not bothe in their priuate talke / in their open sermons spitely to call the Lordes table an Oysterborde / therefore haue they taken out of the teÌ„ples those semely tables / which we folowing the exaÌ„ples of thy derely beloued sonne / and of the primatiue church vsed at the ministracion of the holy coÌ„munion / they haue broughte in agayne their bloudy bocherly altars / vpoÌ„ those O cruel buâ—chers they sacrifice offer daily / say thei / that is / thei kyl / slea murderthy dere sonne Christ for the siÌ„nes of the people For as thy holy apostle sayeth Heb. 9 Where no shedding of bloud is / there is no remissioÌ„ forgeuenes of synnes If thorow their massing sinnes be forgeuen / thaÌ„ must the sacrifice that there is offered be sâ—ayn / the bloud thereof shead If the massemoÌ„gers therfore offer Christe vp in their masses / a sacrifice vnto God for O murthâ—rers the sinnes of the people / so foloweth it that they murder / kyl / â—lea Christe / yea / shed his bloud at their masses / so by this meaÌ„s we must nedes coÌ„fesse / that bloudy altars are more mete for such bloudy bochers / thaÌ„ honest pure tables Rom. 6 But we are taughte in the holy schriptures / that Christe once raysed from deathe / dyeth nomore Death hath nomore power ouer hym For as touchiÌ„g that he dyed / he died coÌ„cerniÌ„g sin once And as touchinge that he liueth / he lyueth vnto the god his father If Christ therfore dyeth nomore / thaÌ„ do the papistes sacrifice hym nomore Idolatrous If they sacrifice him nomore than are they â—ut iangling iuglars / their masses serue for none other purpose / but to kepe the people iâ— blyndnes / to deface the pasâ—on and death of Christe / and to mayntayne their idle and drafsacked bellies / in al pompe and honour / with the labour of â—ther mens handes / and with the sweate off poore mens browes / so farre is it of that / they with their abhominable massing and stincking sacrificing / put awaye the synnes eyther of the quicke or of the dead / as they make the vnlearned and symple people to beleue Masses vvhy thei serue Ah Lord God and heauenly father / if thou were not a God of long sufferinge and of great pacience / howe couldeste thou abyd these intollerable iniuries / to much detestable blasphemies / whiche the wicked papistes committe againste the thy sonne Christ / in their idolatrous masses / at their Heatheniâ—h aultares Heretofore we were taughte to receaue the misreries of the Lordes bodye bloude together / accordinge too the ordinaunce of Christe The faithefull oughte too receaue the Sacramente together not the prieste aloâ—e But now no communion is had / For the popish and vncharitable massemoÌ„ger / vtterly abusinge the Lordes soupper / eateth and drincketh vpÌ„ all alone at his idolatrous aultare Heretofore we were taughte to receaue the Sacrament of the bodye and bloude of Christ vnder both kyndes / according vnto Christes institucion / which sayeth Drinke of this al ye The faitheful onght to receaue the Sacramente vnder both â—yndes And as the holy apostle saieth So ofte as ye shall eate of this breade / and drinke of this cuppe / ye shall remember the Lordes death tyll he come Math. 26 1. Cor. 11. Ioan. 15. But nowe the Romish sorcerers / coÌ„trary to the ordinaÌ„ce and commaundemeÌ„t of thy sonne / the master of trueth / yea / theÌ„self trueth / and contrary to the practise vsage of the primatiue churche / like theues / robbers murtherers / cruelly take awaye froÌ„ thy people the misticall cuppe of Christes bloude / for the mayntenaunce of their deuelish decre / and minister after their sorte the Sacrament of thankesgeuinge to thy Christians onely vnder one kynde / yea / and that without the preaching of the Lordes death / repeÌ„taunce / fayth / amendement of lyfe / c. and so make they it an idle and dumme ceremonie altogether vuprofitable and withoute frute / whiche beynge rightely ministred / is to the faythfull a Sacrament of greate ioye and
conforte Heretofore we were taughte / that the Lordes soupper / or breaking of the bread / as The Lordes supper is a memorial of Christes deathe the Apostles terme it / is a memorial of the body breaking bloud sheading of our sauiouâ— Christ / that as we outwardly fede of the breade wyne / so we inwardly thorow fayth fede of the blessed bodye precious bloude of Iesus Christ our Lord / vnto the greate and vnspeakable conforte bothe of soule and bodye But nowe the disciples of Antichrist knowing that the whole glory of their kyngdome lygheth in the sals opinion abuse of this SacrameÌ„t / in all their sermons priuate talke / labour / swyncke / sweate and seke all meanes possible with tothe and nayle / with hande foote / wyth tunge and peÌ„ne / with fyre and faggot / with swerde and halter to perswade the people / that after they haue whyspered a fewe Latin wordes / with one breath ouer the bread and wyne / and haue blessed / crossed / coniured and handled them after their ghostely manner / there remayneth nomore breadde and wyne / althoughe we bothese / fele / and taste veâ—y bread and very wyne / yea / although the holy scripture / after the wordes of consecracioÌ„ / called the SacrameÌ„t / bread and wyne / but saye they / the bread thorowe the vertue of the wordes / whiche we holye annoynted reherse / is turned into the naturall substaunce of Christes bodye / and the wyne is chaunged into the naturall bloude O â—uglers of Christe / onely the accidentâ—s of breadde and wyne remayninge / whan notwithstaÌ„ding the holy scriptures teach vs in diuers places / that thy Christ is ascended into heauen / and sytteth on thy right hande / there shall remayne / concerâ—ing hys humanite / tyll he come too iudge the quicke and the dead Marc. 16. Luc. 24 Act. 1. Rom. 8. Ephe. 4. Colos 3. Philip. 3. Heb. 10. And after these Capernaites haue â—â—bored to perswade the people / that the Sacramentall breade is the very true / naturall / corporall / substanciall / reall / and sensible bodye of Christe / euen the selfsame that was borne of Mary the virgine / lyued vpoÌ„ the earthe / was hanged vppon the crosse / dyed for vs / than exhorte they the people with all reuerence and humilite to knowledge and beleue it too be their Lorde God / theyr maker and redemer / their Sauiour and defender / and so too falle doune before it to honoure and worshippe it / to prayse call vpon it / to fle vnto it for soccoure / and to looke for all good thinges of it / as of the very true and euerlastinge God O abhomâ— nacion By these means o heauenly father they bring away thy people thorow theyâ— vayne / fleshly and sophisticall reasons / from the honoringe of the thalone true / Imortal / muisible euerlasting God / vnto the worshippig of a pece of bâ—cad / yea / of a very idol / where as thou alone oughtest to haue al the honor glory 1. Timo. 1 Psal 98. O Lorde aryse / and lette thyne enemies be scattered / let theÌ„ also that hate the / flee before the / like aâ— the smok vanisheth / so driuâ— thou them awaye / lyke as waxe melteth at the fyre / so let the vugodly papisâ—es perish and be confouÌ„ded that thy people be no leâ—ger seduced / ledde froÌ„ the way of trueth / by their subtile and carnall imaginacions / but that thei beynge truely taughte / may know the too be the alone true God / and whome thou hast sent Iesus Christ Ioan. 17. Heretofore we had in the temples whan we came together to praye and to geue thaÌ„kes vnto the / all our prayers thankee geuing in the tuÌ„ge that we vâ—derstode / wherby we receaued great coÌ„forte / were much edified Common â—raier ought to be in that â—â—ge that all the people vnderstande But now the papistes which with thy people to be more rude thaÌ„ asses / more biynde than beâ—les / more ignorant than dastardes / that they mighte make them there ryding fooles and lauggyng stockes coÌ„trary too the vsage and practise of the primatiue Churche / yea / contrary to thy commaundemeÌ„t geuen by thyne Apostle / which willeth all thinges in the congregacion too be vttered in suche a speache as all might vnderstande and be edified / or els silence to be kept / haue brought the matter to this poâ—t / that all English seruice dryuen oute of the Churches / thei haue stablished their popish 1. Cor. 4. latin seruice / which the moste parte of thy people vnderstand nothinge at all O 〈◊〉 Aâ—d yet so cruell malicious are the papistes / that they enforce and with violence compel thy people to come vnto their Romish / superâ—â—icious / blasphemous / and idolatrous Latin seruice / to heare it / to reuerence honoure it with their presence / and too call it Gods seruice / whan they vnderstaÌ„d noâ— / whither Baals priestes that there bleate muÌ„ble / do blesse or curse / prayse or blaspheme Moste certeyn is this / that thy people are altogether without edifienge / spende theyr time in vayn / return hom agaiÌ„ / as vnlearned ignoraunte / as they came thyther Heretofore we had redde in oure temples euery sonday / and at diuers other tymes a godly and learned homely or sermoÌ„ / and certayn chapters oute of the holy Bible in the Englishe tunge / that all the people mighte vnderstande what was done or sayde / whiche gaue them occasioÌ„ to forsake â—ice / and to embrace vertue / to lyue in thy fayre / and diligently to call vpoÌ„ thy blessed name Homilies in Englishe chapterâ— of the Bible But now bothe those godly homiles and confortable chapters haue thyne enemies the papistes baÌ„nished out of the teÌ„ples vnto the great discomfort of al such as vnfaynedly â—oue the / and thy blessed worde / in the stead of theÌ„ / they haue set vp blasphe mous collacioÌ„s / synging / rynging / pyping / sensynge / holy water castinge / holy breade â—ealing / palmes and candles bearing / crosse kneling / bread worshipping / asâ—hes â—odding fyre and rapers halowing / with an infinite number of such lyke Heathen ceremonies / that the people beyng occupied with suche chyldishe trifles / lousye tradicious and beggarly Popisâ— bagâ—agâ— ceremonies / myghte forget the wholsome foode of theyr soules / whiche is thy holy and blessed worde Math. 4. Heretofore / vpon the Sondayes certayne other dayes in the weke / we had the Letanye rehersed amonge vs in oure Englyâ—hetuÌ„g / euery one of vs kneling deuoutly and 〈◊〉 callynge on the for mercy and grace The Letanâ—â—â—n Englisshâ— O heaueÌ„ly father / this was setforth in the tyme of thy seruaunte kynge Henry the eyghâ—e / and continued among vs / vntyl the
wyffes withe their yonge Childeren are not only brought to the state of pouerte but also vnto extrem beggeri without hous or harbour / without meat / drynk clothe Yea maÌ„y of them / becaus they wil not be defiled with the Idolatre of Antichrist / which is now receaneed agayne into Eâ—glande an bowe theyr knee vnto Baal / are compelled to forsak theyr natyu contrie / their pareÌ„tes / theyr frendes / theyr lyuynges / and to wander abrode in strange Realmes / ledyng moste sorowfull confortles liues / but that theyhaue the their good Lorde merciful father / which confortest them in all their tribulacyon / and leauyst non without socoure that put their trust in the. Thus seist thowe O moste mercifull father Howe miserabli the face of the chrystâ— comon weale of England is beyond all measure defameâ— The Christâ— comoÌ„ vveal of Englandâ— miserabl◠〈◊〉 formed Thns seist thoue / howe thygodly doctrine and most holy ordinances are vtterly abolyshed / and menes tradicions see vp in the place of them Thus seiste thowe / howe thy glorie honore that is due to the alone / is attributed and geueue to an Idoleof bread to their wicked Maumets Thus feist thowe / howe the Saluacion / whiche is thorow faithe to be hoped looked for oÌ„lye in the glorius passion / precius deathe / triumphant Resurrecion of thy most dere soâ—â— andour alone Sauiour Lord Iesus 〈◊〉 / is nowe reposed in the sinfull merites ofâ—ipocrites / in the iutercession of Saintesâ— in ceremonies / in the obseruances of menes idle imaginacious c. Thus seist thow / how thy holy worde is set aside and / mans doctri hathe the vppermost hand Thus seist thow how thy holy mysteries are tomoch filtheli defiled of the swynyshe Papistes Thusseist thowe / howe all thynges in the temples be done without edifieng Nothyng is herad in them but boyng / bellowyng and blearing Thus seist thowe / howe the fatherli Bish oppes and faithfull pastores are vniustli put out of their cures / depriued of all that they haue / banyshed and handled like shepe appoynted to the slaughter / and in the steade offthem whyte dawbed walles / paynted Sepulckers full of all filthines abhominacioÌ„ / blynde Phareseis / subtile Hypocrites / vnleaâ—ned asses / Romyshe foxes / Rawenyngwolues / Lordly Tyrantes / and suche Lyke pestilences / are appoynted to rule ouer thy flocke Thus seist thowe / howe thy poore myserable thepe are most villy wrechedly handled of thes pastors / Yea Idolles / theues / Robbers / and murtherars / while they are compelled / wil they / nil they / to taste of their pestelent and poysonfull pastures / to eate of theyr phatisaicall leauen / and to drynck oftheir dirtie and myrie puddeles Thus seist thowe / how the honorable Maryage of the Godly ministers is vtterly coÌ„demnede as A thyng vnlawfull and vnmete for the ministerie of thy worde and Sacramentes / and a bominable whordome frely suffered / bornewithe all / and wincked at Psal 79. Thus seist thow / howe the heathen are brast iuto thyne heritage / haue defiled thy holy temple / and mad Ierusalem an heape of stones Ah Lorde sence the puttyng downe of thy holy religioÌ„ The miserâ—â— of the â—nglishe Christians in England / we that professe thy name / and wold gladly serue the accordiÌ„g to thy blessed worde not after the faÌ„syes of men / which we know to be abominable in thy sighte / are become an open shame vnto our enemies avery scorne and verision vnto them / that are round about vs. They that hayte vs / spoile owre goodes Psal 44. We are eaten vp like shepe Yea so â—â—tim our dere frendes neighbours abhore vs and refuse oure company so fearfull are they of liffe and goodes A Very by worde are we become among the Papistesand the vngodly people shake theire heades att vs. Owre soule is broughte lowe euen vnto the duste / and oure bely cleaâ—eth to the grownde For thy sake are we killed all thedaye longe / are counted as shepe apoynted to be stayue Vp Lorde why sleapest thow / awake and caste vs not of for euer Wheâ—fore hideste â—howe thy face Wilte thowe cleane forget owr miseri and oppression Arise o Lorde helpe vs deliuer vs for thy mercie sake Ah Lorde howe / longe wilte thowe be angrye psal 79. shall thy ielousy burne like fire foreuer Poure out thyne indinguacion vpon theh eathen whiche knowe the not / vpon the kyngdomes that call not vpon thy name For they haue dewoured Iacobe / and Layde wayste his dwellyng place Oh remember not oure olde synnes but haue mercye vpon vs and that soune / for we are come to great mysery Helpe vs / o God oure Sauioure / for the glorie of thy name O delyuer vs forgyue vs oure synnes for thy names sake Wherfor shall the heathen The Papistes saye / Where is nowe their God Whereisnowe theire Gosspell Oh / let the vengeaÌ„ns of thy seruautes blood that is shedde / be opeÌ„lye shewed vpon the heathen in oure sighte Oh / let the sorowsull syghiuges of the presoÌ„ners come before the / and accordynge to thepowr of thyne arme preserue those that are appoynted to dye Psal 80. Steerre vp thy pawre / o Lorde / and come to helpe vs. Inrne to vs A gayne and shewe vs the lyghte of thy louyng counteuauÌ„s / that we may be saued O Lord God of hostes / howe longe wylte thowe beangrye ouer the prayers of thy people How longe wilâ—e thowe fede theme that beleue in the with the bread of teares / and gyue them plentye of sorowes to drynke Howe longeâ—hal they be a laughing stock to the Papystes Howe longe shall thy vinyâ—rde be rootedvp of the wylde bore / be dewoured of the / veastes of the feilde Howe longe shall â—irehedges be brokene / that they whiche go by / may plucke vp hir grapes Howe long shall it be brent withe fire and lye vaisâ—e O turn the agayne thow God of hostes / looke doune frome heauen / behoulde and visete thy vinyarde Houlde not thy tonge / o God / kepenot silence / refrayn not thy selffe o god psal 82. For Lo / thyne enemies make a murmuryng / and they that hate the / lifte vp their heade They imagine craftely agayuste thy people / andtake councell agaynsâ—e thy holyones Come say they / lete vs root them out from among the people / that the name of Israel maye beput out of remembrance For they haue cast their heades together withe one consente / are confederate agaynst the thy holyehword They shame not to saye / We will haue the howse of God in possessiou We will hauemene to beleue / as we liste Psal 11. Owre tong shal preuaile We are they that oughte to speake / who is Lorde ower vs As for the wordeswhiche the faithful preachars speke vnto vs in the
thou woldest not haue done / if the marryage of priestes had bene soo vile and detestable a thinge in thy sight / as the wicked fylthy papistes make it In the newe lawe also the men / whome thy welbeloued sonne did chose in this vale of misery to be his disciples and apostles / to be the preachers of his glorious Gospell / and the administratours of his holy Sacramentes / were not fleshely votaries / as the papistes are / but honest and godly married men / lyuinge with their wyues / according to thy holy ordinaunce / ud bringynge vp their chyldren in thy feare / and after the doctrine of thy blessed worde Neyther dyd the apostles put awaye their wyues / after they were called vnto the ministery / as the lyenge papistes for a colour of their synful lyfe do moste falshly fayne / but they continued with their wyues louingly faythefully / tyll death departed them / as we may se in auncient histories / and as it may easly be gathered of the manifest woordes of the holy scriptur Haue not we power / saieth the apostle / to lede about a syster to wyfe / 1. Cor. 9. as wel as other apostles / as the brethren of the lorde and Cephas Ether only I and Barnabas haue not poure this to do Here is it evident / that thapostles of Criste did not oÌ„ly not put away their wyues after the were called vnto the ministerre / as the fals Papistes fable but they also led their wyffes about with them / as theye went abrode preachyng the gospell of crist Eccl. hist lib. 3. ca. 30. Rede we not that S. peter continued withe his wife vntyl her dyeng day / and that whan she was ledde vnto the place of execution to suffer deathe for coÌ„fessyng Christe to be God / S. Peter her husbond folowed her / exhorted her to be stronge in the faythe of Christe / sayde vnto her O wyfe / remeÌ„ber the Lorde oh wythe whatforheade dursie Peter have exhorted men to dwel in howse together 1. Pet. 3. withe theyr wyffes accordyng to their knoulege / if he contrary to his knowledge had putte awaye his wyffeâ— Wythe what face coulde thapostle Philip. 4 s Paule haue made meÌ„cion of his wyffe / callyng her his faithe full yoke fellowe / desyryng her to healpe the wemen / whiche laboured withe hime in the gospel / if he beyng vnfaythefull had putte awaye his wyffe coÌ„trary to his promise the lawe of God If thapostles had putte awaye theyr wyffes after they were called vnto the ministery and preachyng of howe durste Paule haue bene so bolde / as 1. Cor. 9. to wryghte vnto the Corithians / that thei ledde theyr wyffes aboute wihe theme Yea / iff thapostles had putte awaye theyr wyffes / howe coulde they haue exhorted other men accordyng to the lawe of God / to forsake father mother to cleue vnto Gen. 2. Mar. 19. Mat. 5. theyr wyffes / no man to forsake his wife for any cause excepte it befor fornication This their for is but a shadowe of the filthye Papistes to blynd the eyes of the simple and ignoraÌ„te Furthermore all the holy Bishoppes and ministers of the primatiue chirche were marryed mene / or at the least were at libertie to marrye / if they wolde Agayne / the Priestes among the Grekes even from thappostles tyme vnto this day haue euer bene at libertie to marrye / neytheyr is theyr ministerye theffror the les estemed of the godly / whiche are persuaded by the worde of God / that wedlocke is honorable Hebr. 13. among all mene the bedde vndefyled The maryage of Priestes was neuer for bydden in any place tyll Antichriste off Rome broughte it to passe / partely by the tiraÌ„ny of the seculare power / and partely by flatteryng wordes grauÌ„tyng Priestes coÌ„cubines whoresin stead off their lawefull wyffes / whoÌ„ for aÌ„ yerely peÌ„sioÌ„ they may at their pleasure etheyr kepe stil or putte awaye / take anewe But o heauenly father / as thy faithful seruaunt Paule prophecied longe before / soo is it come to passe 1. Tim. 4 The spirite speaketh euidently / sayeth he / that in the latter dayes / some shall departe from the faythe / shall geue hede vnto spirites of errour and deue lish doctrine of them / whiche speake fals Paules prophecie fulfilled thorowe hypocrisye / and haue their conscieÌ„ces marked with an hâ—te yron / forbiddinge to marrye This prophecye is fulfylled in that Antichriste of Rome / and in his whorish generacion For they alone forbid marryage / which thing neyther Jew / nor Turke nor any Iufidel besydes dothe Neyther can the papistes thyfte of this prophecye / from them vnto certayn hereâ—ykes / which vtterly condemned marryage For the holy Apostle prophecieth of such as forbidde marryage / and not of them that vtterly caste away condemne marryage as a thing altogether vncleane and vnmete for a Christen man They therfore that forbid the marryage of priestes are by the iudgement of the mooste worthy apostle / yea / of the holy Ghoste / departed from the saythe / and geue hede too the spirites of errour and deuelish doctrine of them / whiche speake false thorow hypocrisye / and haue their conscience marked with an hote yron / be they Popes / Cardinalles / Bishoppes / Emperours / Kynges / Quenes / Dukes or any other Swifte daÌ„nacion bring all suche vpon themselfes / except they shortely repent Heretofore / we had suche shepehardes / Godlij Bisshops and faithfull preachers as were tender fosters of thy flocke They cheryshed and made much of thy thepe For suche as were weake / they tenderly cherisshed / the syke they healed / the broken they bounde vp together / the outcasâ—es suche as ranne astraye / they louingly broughte home agayne / the loste they diligently soughte / and resâ—ored them too the shepefolde None of thy shepe did they willingly suffer to perishe Euen as a nurse amoÌ„g her chyldren / so lyued they amonge thy people Not with the soure leauen of the Phariseys / but with the heauenly Manna of thy blessed worde did they fede thy flocke Neither did they geue thy thepe drincke of the stincking and dyrtie puddels of mens tradicioÌ„s / but of the fountayne of that lyuing water / which springeth vnto euerlasting life But now the shepehardes / yea / rather the wolfes Ioan. 4. Vvâ—lâ—ishâ— shepehardes / which are braste into thy shepefolde / with violence haue vniustly thrust out the faythfull and fatherly pastores out of their tures / are lordely / cruel / bloudthyrstye / malicious and spyteful agaynste thy shepe They are such wolfs as spare nâ—t the flocke but scatter destroye the flocke They are theues / robbers / murtheras soule slears Act. 20. Ioan. 10. Ezec. 34. thei fede theÌ„ selues with the fattest clothe theÌ„ selues wythe the fyneste wolle / but thy flocke thy noryshe not the
Take away from vs the Romish latin seruis / which the sineâ—ed shauliÌ„ges muÌ„ble in the teÌ„ples befor thy people with out all EdifieÌ„g â— Cor. 14 â—oan 4. restoruÌ„to vs our acustoÌ„ed coÌ„on praiers in the English â—ong that we may know what we pray / by this meaÌ„es worshyp the in spryt truth Masse Banyshe out of the coÌ„gergacioÌ„ that most vile stinking Idoll the Masse / restore vnto vs the holy blesed CoÌ„muÌ„ioÌ„ / that we eating â— Cor. 10. together of one bread driÌ„aing of one cupe may remeÌ„ber the Lordes death bethaÌ„kfull / to the. Pourge oure temples of all popyshe abhomynacions ecremonies / of CerimoÌ„ies / of Images / of allters / of copes / of vestmeÌ„tes / of pixes / of croses of sensers / of holi vater bucketes / of holi bread basketes / of Chrismatorâ—â— / aboue all of Idolatrus priestes vngodly ignoraÌ„te curates The propiciatori sacrifis of the popish Masse Akominaâ—ons / the wicked opiyâ—n of the corporal presence of Christ in the SacrameÌ„tal bread / the receauiÌ„g of the SacrameÌ„t vnder on kind / the iÌ„tercesioÌ„ of Sayntes / the doctriÌ„e of the IustificacioÌ„ ofworkes / the popysh purgatory / the wicked tradicioÌ„s of the Elders / with all vngodly custoÌ„es strange doctriÌ„es take thoue / o good Lorde / awaye from vs / teache vs vy thy holy Sprite Deut. 4. 6. 12. Proue 30 â–ª Esa 30. Luc. 1. to walke oÌ„ly in that waye / that thow haste apoiÌ„ted / by no meaÌ„es to turne neyther on the righte haÌ„de nor on the lefte / but all blynd zeles and good eÌ„tentes layde aside / gyue vs grace toserue the oure Lorde God in suche holynes Ryghtousnes as is accepted before the / all the-dayes of owre lyffe O heaueÌ„ly father moste mercifull Lordepreserue and saÌ„ctâ—fye with thy holy spirite thy vniuersall coÌ„gâ—egaâ—ioÌ„ / â—aÌ„ly the faythful coÌ„gregacioÌ„ of EnglaÌ„d / that as in their baptime they haue giuen them selues ouer wholy vnto the / Gods coÌ„grâ—gacione forsakyng the dewill / the worlde and the fleshe withe all their workes / poÌ„pes / lustes vaÌ„ities / haue sworne to serue the with all that they ar able to mak / euen so they thorow thy grace maye aÌ„swere to their professioÌ„ liue according to their promyse made in their baptime / eâ—taÌ„g them selues withe no new / couÌ„terfaiÌ„cte and strange religioÌ„ / nor yet defilyng them selues withe any vnrighteousnes / but walkyng inthat only waye that thowe hayst apoynted And suche as thorowe the strenghe of thy Spirite abide full constaÌ„te stedfaste in the Stronge inChriste coÌ„fesioÌ„ of thi truth befor the worldli tiraÌ„tes and belâ—â—de hipocrites / o Lorde coÌ„firm them in thy truthe thorowe the holy Gooste / and giue theme grace to persiste and coÌ„tinwe in it vnto the ende / that thowe mayste be glorifyed by them / and that the truthe of thy holy Psal 17. worde maye the more earnestly be receauyd / embraced and beleued of the ChristeÌ„ weaklynges O howld thow vp their goynges in thy pathes / that their foote steppes slipe not Thow haste deliuered them from stinkyng Sodome / suffer them no more to look backe towarde it Thow by the mightie powre out streached arme hast brought them out of sinfull Egepte / haste fedde them withe the HeueÌ„ly mana / suffer them nomore somoche as ones to haue a luste to returne vnto thatlande of boÌ„dage / nor to haue a desire to sitte amoÌ„ge the greasy fleshe pottes of Egepte / to eate of the fishes / melons / cowcuÌ„bers / garleke / oÌ„yones / lekes / c / wherwith the filthe EgepciaÌ„s are fedde They haue visited sene Christ thy SoÌ„ne oure Kinge Math. 2. suffer them nomor to return vnto wicked Kinge Herode They haue put theyr hande to the ploughe / graunt that they neuer looke backe agayne Luc. 9. / but preserue coÌ„tine we go forwarde vntothe ende They haue escaped from the filthenes of the world thorow the knowleg of the of our Sawyour Iesu Christ / suffer them nomor to be entaÌ„gled therin owercooÌ„e / lest the latter ende be worse theÌ„ the begynnyng For it had bene better not to haue knowuethe 2. Pete 2. waye of rightousnes / thaÌ„ after they haue knoweÌ„ it to turne froÌ„e the holy coÌ„maÌ„ndemeÌ„t that is geuen them So myght it be saide ofthem accordinge to the true prouerbe Thedogge is tuked to his vomite agayne and the sowe that was washede to hire walowingein Prouerb 26. the myre The weakeliÌ„ges and suche as are not yet vveakliÌ„ges Ruges perfectly stablyshed in thy true relygeoÌ„ / but-like redes wauer with euery wind of doctriÌ„ / o Lord coÌ„firm thow mak them thorowly stroÌ„g in the knowledg of thy truth that they withe a coÌ„staÌ„te faythe lustie courage maye both beleue coÌ„fesse the befor the tyraÌ„tes of the world / that thow alou art the Lorde and that ther is no truth necessari vnto saluacioÌ„ / but that only / whiche is contayned in thy-holy Scriptures Gods profoÌ„ners To them that are in bondes for the coÌ„fessiou of thy truthe gyue thowe grace / o moste louyng Lorde / to reioyse / that they be couÌ„ted worthy of thy fatherly goodnes to suffer Rebuke / iufamy / epresoÌ„meÌ„t / losse of goodes c Acto 5. / for the name of the Lorde Iesu / to be persuaded that the affliccioÌ„s of this liffe are not woâ—thi of the glori / which shal be shewed vpon Roma 8. the SoÌ„nes of God in tyme to come / notwithstaÌ„dyng that their trouble / whiche is / shorte lighte preparethe an excedyng andeternall 2. Cor. 4 waighte of glory vnto them / whiche looke not on the thynges which are seâ—e / but on the thynges whiche are not sene Agene / that if they dye withe Christ / they shall allso lyue withe 2. Timo 2 Christ / and if they suffer witheChrist / they shall also reigne withe Christ And as for them that for fear of liff or loss of goodes / or els for pleasyng the hyâ—â— powresare Back sliders for â—â—are outwardly gone frome thy true relygioÌ„ / and withe their bodyes serue Baal / yea and that agenst their owne coÌ„scieÌ„ce / whaÌ„ in their heartes they wishe all Idolatrous strange worshippinges vtterly to be abolyshed / thatthowe alone mightest be glorified honored we moste humbly beseche the to pardoÌ„ their imperfeccioÌ„s / and to forgiue their iÌ„firmetes / which by the prophet speaketh of thi SoÌ„ne coÌ„cerÌ„ynge the weake feareful on thys maÌ„ner Esa 42. A brâ—osed Reed shall he not breake / and flaxe that begynnthe to burne / he shall not / quenche Math. 12. Marc. 9. O Lorde healpe their vnbeleffe Encrease their faythe Make them stroÌ„ge with thy holy / Spirite / that that whiche they in wardly beleue theim ay outwardli confesse worke accordyngly
/ thoughe losse bothe off goodes and lyffe do enseue Syue theme grace allwayes to haue before theire Eyes theis sayenges of thy dere Sonne and oure louyng Sauyoure Christe Iesu Math. 16. If any man will folowe me / lete hime forsake hime selffe and take vp his crosse and followe me For whoso euere will saue hys lyffe / shall losse it And who so euere shal loose hys lyffe for my sake / shall fynde it What shall it proffyt a man thoughe he shuld winne all the whole world / yf he lese hys oun soul or what shall a man giue to redeme / hys soule agayne with all Marc. 10 Item / uerely I saye vnto youe / there is no man that forsake the howse / or brethern or sisters / or father or mother / or wiffe or children / or landes / for my sake and the Gosspeles / whiche shall not receaue an hondered foulde / nowe in this lyffe / howses and bretherne / and sisters / and mothers and childreÌ„ and landes / withe persecucions / and in theworlde to come euerlastyng lyffe Ageyn / who so euer shall confesse me befor menne hyme will I confesse allso before my fathere whiche is in heauen Math. 10 But who so euere shal be ashamed of me and of my wordes among Marc. 8. thys aduouterous and synnfull genaracion of hyme shall the Sonne of man be ashamed whan he comethe in the glory of hys father withe the holy Angeles Nowe as touchyng the enemies of thy worde / wherof some synne of ignorance and Enemies to the Gospâ—ll for lacke of Knovuleâ—g for lacke of knowleg / some agayn of obstynat malyce and pretensed hate and make warre agaynste thy true relygeon / we moste humbly beseche the for Christis sake fauorably to beholde theme that ignorantly and of a blind zeale toward the tradicions of their Elders and not of a malicious hearte hate the Gospell of thy dere Sonne and persecut the Preachers of the saine Bryng theme / O Lorde / into the knowlege of their erroures and blyndnes / that they maye repent / beleue and amende / which madest Saul of a wolff a lambe / of a persecutore a Preacher / and of a Tyrante an Apostele Act. 9. Make theme of the enemyes of thy truthe / erneste louers and feruent embrasers of thy truthe Esechi Turne their harde and stony hearte in to a fleshlye softe and gentle hearte Matsh 9 Make theme uwe bottles apte to receaue then we / swete / and pleasaunte wine of the Gospel Make them as zelous in settyng forthe the truthe of thy worde / as they haue hertofore bene in the a vauncement of the blynde and vnfrutefull tradicions of mene Be merciful vnto them blesse theme / and lyghten thy countenauns vpon theme / that they may know thy waies Psal 67. and thy sauyng healthe Replynyshe theme / withe thy holy spirite and withe the graces of the same / that as they are thy creatures withe vs / so they maye be saued withe vs. But those / O Lorde / whiche are thy sworne enemyes and of a sett purpose euen Enemies to the Gospell of set malicâ— ageynste their owne conscience and contrary to their knowlege persecute the gloryus Gosspell of thy derely beloued sonne and the tru fauourers of the same / and will by no meaÌ„es be reconciled / nor leane vnto the truthe / but go for the dayly more and more to hinder the fre and ioyefull passage of thy holy wored / to withdrawe so many as they can frome beleuyng / receauyng and embrasyng the same i Ioan. 5. seyng they synne the synne vnto deathe and are not to be conuerted O Lorde / haiste the to root theme vp from the face of the Earthe that they be nomore stomblyng blockes to the weake Christians Destroie thow them O God / let them peryshe thoroughe theyr owne imaginacions Psal 5. Caste them out in the multitud of thier vngodlynes / for they haue rebelled ageynste the. Rayne thowe snares fyre / brimston / storme and tempeste / vpon them / let this be their porcion to drincke Psal 11. Let them be confounded and put to shame / that seke after the lyues of the faithfull O let them be turned backe and broughte to confusion Psal 37. / that imagine mischefe ageynste theme Let them be as duste befor the wynd / and the Angel of the Lord scatteriÌ„g them Let their way be dark and slippery / and let thy Angel o Lord / persecut them Yea let soden distruccion com vpon them vnwares / and the netes that they haue layde preuely / cathe them selues / that they maye faull into theye own myscheff Let the swâ—rdes that they drawe / out go thorowe their owne heartes / and the howe 's that they haue beÌ„ded slea them selues Let the armes of the vngodly be broken / let the wicked peryshe and consume as the / fatte of lambes / yea as smoke let them consume awaye psal 52 Destroye them for euer / and / plucke the out of their dweliÌ„g and root them out of the lande of the liuyng psal 59 Breake their teethe O God in their mouthes / smyte the chawe bones of the Lions / o Lorde / let them faullawaye lyke water that rune the apace / and whane they shout arowes / let them be rooted out / let them consume awaye lyke a snayle / and be lyke the vntymly frute of a / womane / and let them not se the Sunne Stande vp o Lorde God of hostes / thowe / God of Israel / to visite all heathen / and be / Psal 59. not mercifull vnto them / that offend of malicious wickednes psal 69. Poure out thyne indingnacion vpon them / and let thy wrathfull displeasure take houlde of them Let them be / combred with shame and dishonore that seke psal 71. to do thy people euill Do thowe to them as vnto the Madianets / vnto Siseraand vnto psal 33. Iabin at the broke of Kison / which perished at Endor / became as the dong of the earthe In fin Psal 129. Let them be confounded and turnned backwarde / as many as haue euill will at SioÌ„ Let them be euen as the grase growyng vpon the howse toppes / whiche withe rethe afore it be plucked vp But let al those that loue the and thy blessed worde / be ioyfull / mery and glade Let them continwe / prossper / floryshe and tryumphe in the their Lorde God for euere Let their ioy mirthe be founde and euerlastyng / euen suche ioye mirthe as no man shall be able to take away from them Let stinkyng Babilon faull downe / and let the newe and heuenly Ierusalem be buylte vp ageyn Apoc. 18. Let the venomus dragon / that filthy beasie / that fals Prophet and that purpled whore of Babilon shortly come to confusion / that all the glory may be gyuen to the Lambe that sittehe with the in the throne Apoc. 12 13. 19. 21. Kill Antichriste that Sonne off perdicion withe the breathe of thy mouthe / that thow alone mayst be knowen to be the Lorde Apoc. 7. O moste louyng Lorde and owre heuenly father / whan thow shalte deliuere psal 53. thy people out of captiuitie / then shall Iacob reioyse and Israell be ryghte glade 2. thess 2 Yea then shall the mowthe of the faythfull be â—illed / withe laughter / and their tonge withe ioye we therfor most humbly beseche the o Lord psal 126. to turne oure captiuitie as the riuers in the Southe / that they whiche sowe in teares / may reape in ioye Turne the agen / o Lorde at the laste / be gracious vnto thy seruaÌ„tes Psal 90. O satisfye vs withe thy mercye that sone so shall we reioyse be gladde all the dayes of oure lyffe Comforte vs agen nowe after the tyme that thow haste plaged vs / and for the yeres wherin we haue suffred aduersite So shall we withe ioyfull heartes mery voices syng coÌ„tinuall prayses to thy glorious blissed name / which with thy only begotteÌ„ SoÌ„ne Iesu Christ oure alone Sauioure and withe the holy Ghoste that moste swete CoÌ„fortour lyuest reignest one / alone / true / lyuyng / imortall and Euerlastyng God worlde withe oute ende AMEN Psal 70. Let all suche / o Lorde / as delyghte in thy saluacioÌ„ / saye allwaye THE LORD BE PRAYSED