Heere you see manifestly faith entereth into the strait gate which is Christ This faith is not idle for it maketh vs to stand that is to say to perseuere and walke in the narrow way by loue which is the third thing that faith worketh in vs and therfore it followeth Not that onely but also we reioyce in tribulations knowing that tribulation bringeth patience patience bringeth experience experience bringeth hope and hope maketh not ashamed because the loue of God is shedde abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost which is giuen vnto vs. No thanke then vnto our faith no thanke vnto our loue but all thanke and praise and glory be giuen vnto God whose holy spirit worketh fayth loue hope patience and altogether in vs. Fayth that worketh by loue is much worth before God which loue is the second note of the holy Catholike church fayth fetcheth this loue of the great loue of God which first so loued vs that hee gaue his onely begotten sonne Iesus Christ to the end that all that beleeue in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting Of this loue speaketh Paule saying Walke in loue euen as Christ loued vs and gaue himselfe for vs an offering and sacrifice of a sweete sauour to God This loue Paule learned of his master our sauiour Iesus Christ commanding and saying A newe commandement I do giue vnto you that ye loue together as I haue loued you Iesus Christ so loued vs that he gaue himselfe for vs for he was obedient vnto God the father for vs vnto death yea vnto death vpon the crosse This loue so warmeth the heart with hope and assurance of euerlasting life for we are saued by hope that it putteth away all seruile feare I say not all feare for there remaineth and abideth in the heart an holy reuerend feare or dread of displeasing God or lothnesse to loose God and his holy spirit which if a man taste is rather a reuerend ioy and a glad loue than feare therefore is it truely said Perfect loue casteth out feare that is to say Iesus Christ by his holy spirit possessing the heart of man through fayth pntteth cleane away the feare of shame losse of goodes or friends the feare of torments enemies and prisonment yea the feare of sinne death the deuill and hell So that the office of true faith setteth not onely before our eyes the vilenesse of sinne that caused Christ to die but it also bringeth vs Iesus Christ the attonement maker betweene God and vs for our sinne whereof commeth loue In the which loue is manifest the third note of the holy Catholike church for now we feare God no more as a terrible iudge but thorow his holy spirit we loue him as a most gentle louing father whereof speaketh Paule saying thus Ye haue not receiued the spirit of bondage to feare any more but you haue receiued the spirit of adoption whereby we crie Abba Father Abba is as much in English as Dad or Deare father it is the Syrian speech left vntranslated both by the Latine men also English men to the intent I suppose that it should also be English for this I know that the first word that an English Christian childe beginneth to speake is Abba commonly long before he can speake any thing else which Christian babe in his innocencie is a witnesse with Paule that God is a deare father vnto Christians through his holy spirit by his sonne Iesus Christ Thus you may easily perceiue by those scriptures that faith loue and the spirit of God doe go together and be together in euery true Christian as sure notes and seales of his saluation Faith entring the gate of saluation sticketh to the word of God and taketh it onely to be the rule of life and doctrine Loue cleaueth vnto Christ and maketh faith knowen as the fruits do the tree and putteth away feare The spirit of God quieteth the conscience and bringeth with a reuerend dread ioy and gladnesse ineffable If you know this you be a very true member of the holy Catholike church and in the strait gate and narrow way vnto eternall life If you know not this I say no more but God haue mercy vppon you For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat Heere me thinketh I do heare an idle braine say that these signes and notes be of mine owne inuention which do rather confoūd dim the church than make it knowen Vnto whom I doe answere If it be dim and hid it is hid vnto them that perish but vnto the children of light it is manifest enough Also these notes be not mine but rather Gods books there I do finde them Of the first Christ saith Euery tree is knowen by his fruites Which words be made plaine by these sayings of Paule To beleeue with the heart iustifieth to knowledge vvith the mouth maketh a man safe Faith then is not dead in the heart if it be dead it is not faith faith is knowen by the mouth as the tree is knowen by the fruits for of the treasure of the heart the mouth speaketh A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that vvhich is good Of the second Iohn saith God is loue and hee that dvvelleth in loue dvvelleth in God and God in him He then cannot be hid in whome God dwelleth And Hee that loueth his brother abideth in the light and there is no occasion of euill in him The light therefore must needs be seene Heere is to be noted that as faith without godly works is a dead faith and therefore no faith so loue without the same good weeks also is not loue but naturall affection For vvho so hath these vvorlds goods seeth his brother hath need and shutteth vp his compassion from him hovve dvvelleth the loue of God in him Thus is loue manifestly knowen by the good worke Our fauiour Iesu Christ appointing this to be the notable signe of the church faith vnto them By this shall all men knovv that ye are my disciples if ye haue loue one to another Of the third note which is the spirit of God Paule writing to the Romanes hath these wordes If any man haue not the spirit of Christ the same is none of his And a little after he speaking of himselfe and other of the church of Christ saith The same spirit certifieth our spirit that we are the children of God If the spirit of God certifieth a mans conscience that he is the childe of God then hee may be sure that hee is of the church of Christ Heereby you perceiue that these notes are appoynted by Gods booke not of mine inuention to be vnfallible signes of the holy Catholike church and of euery member of the same which be all of one faith
contrarie both to the kinges maiesties statutes and iniunctions and also contrary vnto his maiesties proclaimation made the xxvii day of December in the first yeare of his moste gratious raigne Wherein the name of masse is plainly forbidden if y e same proclaimation be truly constured notwithstanding in y e booke of cōmon praier his maiestie somewhat yet beareth with the weake learning of the multitude which commonly calleth the Lords supper by the name of masse after their olde woont which thing me thinketh should giue no man occasion to sticke stiffely to euill custome In a statute made the fourth day of Nouember of the same first yeare of his maiesties raigne and in the xiiii Chapter the offering of the sacrament for the dead which is there called masses satisfactory to be done for them is plainly condemned as a vaine thing tending to the derogation of Christes death Also by his maiesties iniunctions chap. 28. the altar of the same sacrifice for the dead is taken away for so much as it is a monument of the superstition of the popish masse So that for anie thing I can perceaue they that so fayne would holde vp their altars against them that goe about to put them downe both by law and order meane none other thing but to maintain a monument of superstition and idolatrie in spight both of the kinges lawes and iniunctions To the ende I meane to allure the people the more to their monie sacrifice and to make them beleeue the better in the God that they doe make vppon their altar or altar-stone Without the which they I wote can make no God Ah where was this their God before the altar and altar-stone was made This may well be that God vnto whome they thinke to doe good seruice in breaking of wedlock and rayling against marriage but sure I am that this is not that God that made both heauen and earth and all thinges in them because the altar and the altar-stone be some thinges Albeit least perhappes they should thinke that I would onely answere them with scoffes though theyr shamelesse obstinacie deserueth none other I will rehearse a few wordes out of Gods booke to stoppe their mouthes withall And when they haue answered and truely confuted them I will forsake Gods booke and the christian faith as truely as I haue forsaken them and all their iugling castes In the 7. Chapter to the Hebrues it is written The Lord sware and will not repent Thou art a priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech And for that cause was Iesus a stablisher of a better testament These words doe proue that Iesus Christ our euerlasting Priest and mediatour hath stablished a better testament then the testament of the olde law The priestes in the olde law offered vp sacrifice first for their owne sinnes and then for the sinnes of the people But whereon did they offer their sacrifice verily Vpon an altar Iesus Christ vnto whome God the father sware Thou art a priest for euer c. Offered vp himselfe once by hys own bloud suffering death for our sinnes and with that his owne oblation hee hath made perfect for euer them that are sanctified This is the better testament that Iesus Christ hath stablished for vs not by often offering of himself by the hands of sinners for then must hee haue often suffered since the world began But as it is appoynted vnto all men that they should once die and then commeth the iudgement euen so was Christ once offered For as touching that he died he died once saith Paul to take away the sinnes of manie By these Scriptures wee may conclude that Iesus Christ offering himselfe by death vppon the crosse once for our redemption made a full perfite and sufficient sacrifice oblation and satisfaction for the sinnes of all them that beleue in him And that this oblation was done vppon the crosse and not vpon anie altar witnesse Math. 27. Marke 15 Luke 23. Iohn 19. and Peter in the second of his first Epistle saying Christ suffered for vs leauing vs an example that we should follow his steppes which did no sinne neither was there guile foūd in his mouth which when he was reuiled reuiled not againe when he suffered he threatned not but committeth the vengeance to him that iudgeth righteously Which his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his body on the tree that wee being deliuered from sinne should liue vnto righteousnesse Howbeit he onely saith Esay chap. 53. Hath taken on him our infirmities and borne our paines hee was wounded for our offences and smitten for our wickednesse for the chastisement of our peace was layd vpon him with his stripes wee are healed What is it to be healed with his stripes but that by his death and resurrection he hath obtained for vs righteousnesse euen forgiuenesse of our sinnes euen forgiuenesse of our sinnes according to the sayinges of the Apostle Peter that by him all that beleeue are iustified from all thinges And vnto him giue all the prophetes witnesse that thorow his name whosoeuer beleeueth in him shall receaue remission of sinnes This is the couenant that is betweene God vs now euen that we beleeue in his sonne Iesus Christ to haue remission of sinnes in his name thorowe hys death and resurrection This article hath the holy ghost so surely graued in our heartes and written in our minds that wee cannot but say We beleue the remission of sinnes Which also is surely grounded vppon Gods holy word that sayth This is the testament that I will make vnto them after those daies saith the Lord I will put my lawes in their hearts and in their mindes will I write them and their sinnes and iniquities will I remember no more And where remission of these things is there is no more offering for sin So long as the sacrifice and offering for sinnes tooke not away sinnes neither brought perfect remission of sins there remained in the Church of God altars and continuall sacrifice or oblation for sinnes But when Christ had once offered himselfe vppon the crosse by death and by that his one oblation once offered had obtained remissiō of sinnes and finished all things that was due for man to pay saying It is finished giuing vp the Ghost thorough the which eternall spirite hee gaue himselfe to God without spot in a sweet sauour Then was finished according to his owne saying a perfect sacrifice for sinne and all things due for the same And also all sacrifice and oblations for sinnes totally ended as it is aforesaid Where remission of sinnes and iniquities is there is no more offering for sinne if no offering for sinnes then no altar to offer vpon Therefore either let them prooue Gods word to be false that saith Where remission of c. the Holy ghost a liar that promised to write the same in
in thee and that they also may be one in vs that the vvorld may beleeue that thou hast sent me Iesus Christ knewe right well that the greater number would not enter this gate by faith and therefore he said I pray not for the world He would haue all saued and come to the knowledge of his trueth but they will not beleeue the trueth but hate and persecute the trueth And therefore he knowing the great danger that his smal slock were in and should be in amongest the wicked and their small strength also in sauing themselues from their tyrannie prayed for them that they might be one in faith and loue hauing the spirit of trueth dwelling in them Whereby they euer haue in possession that pretious pearle and hidden treasure that the worlde can neyther taste nor finde because hee that will haue and taste it must in finding it therewith renounce and giue for it all that hee hath or else hee looseth it Whiche thing onely the electe that haue the Spirite of trueth whome the worlde cannot haue doe and none else And thereby they haue yea and feele in theyr great afflictions that peace of conscience that Christ gaue vnto them saying Peace I leaue vvith you my peace I giue vnto you not as the world giueth giue I vnto you Let not your hearts be grieued neither feare From the which neither losse of friends and goods neither losse of good name and fame nor shame of the world neither threatnings nor prisonment nor scourginges and tormentes nor yet death it selfe could separate them that had once entred felt and tasted how sweete the Lord is This made Peter Andrew Iohn Iames and the other apostles to forsake all things esteeming it to be more woorth then goodes friendes or life in this world Paul being in this gate and tasting the sweetnesse thereof with a vehement spirit sayth Who shal separate vs frō the loue of God Shal tribulation or anguish or persecution either hunger either nakednes either peril either sword Who saith I am sure that neither death nor life neither angels nor rule nor povver neither thinges present nor things to come neither high nor lovv nor any other creature shalbe able to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesu our Lord For this the holy Catholike Church suffereth and euer shall suffer all kindes of torments vntill Christ commeth againe to deliuer her as euer hitherto they haue suffered whereof some were mocked some scourged some prisoned some hamshed some drowned some sawen some hewen in pieces some burned some racked and some stened to death Which holy Catholike Church may well say according to the scriptures Thou O God makest vs to be rebuked of our neighbours to be laughed to scorne and had in derision of them that be round about vs. And For thy sake are vve killed all day long and are counted as sheepe appointed to be slaine These be the few that do finde the narrow gate these be the righteous that doe finde and enter the same these be they that Christ so louingly prayed for whose prayer without faile because of his reuerence was heard these be they that be one in faith and loue euen of one heart and one minde in one house the holy catholike church vnite and knit together with one spirit the spirit of trueth that cannot erre Moreouer euery one that is of this holy Catholike church may say with the Prophet Thy vvord O Lord is a lanthorne vnto my feet and a light vnto my paths For they stablish theyr faith by the word of God and study to forme theyr life to fashion theyr maners by the same who he knowen by three notable signes by faith by loue and by the spirit of God He that lacketh any one of these is not in the strait gate but wide gate he walketh not in the narrow way but broad way he is not of the church of Iesus Christ but of the church of Antichrist Faith is a sure confidence of things vvhich are hoped for and a certaintie of thinges vvhich are not seene This faith bringeth vs the knowledge of God and maketh vs to vnderstand our owne sinfull nature and weakenesse for Paule sath Through faith we vnderstand that the world was ordained by the word of God and that thinges which are seene are made of thinges which are not seene c. Of our owne infirmitie by sinne we haue example in him that brought his sonne vnto Iesus to be healed which with teares sayd Lord I beleue helpe thou my vnbeliefe This man vndoubtedly saw by faith great imperfections in himselfe euen his sinne as it were ouerwhelming his faith and therefore he wept and sayd Lord helpe thou my vnbeliefe Likewise the Apostles considering theyr great burden of sinne and frailenesse said vnto the Lord Increase our faith This is the first thing that faith worketh in vs it bringeth vs the knowledge of our sinne and vilenesse of the same and maketh vs to crie to God for helpe and seeke remedie for our sinne which is Iesus Christ that gaue himselfe to death vpon the crosse for our sinne as is aforesaid Thus wrought faith in the penitent publican that thought himselfe vnworthy to lift vp his eyes vnto heauen but smote himselfe vpon the brest saying God be mercifull to me a sinner Thus fayth wrought in the Centurien or petie captaine which iudged himselfe vnworthy of Christes presence saying Lord I am not worthie that thou shouldest enter vnder my roufe wherefore I thought not my selfe vvorthy to come vnto thee but say thou the word and my seruant shal be whole c. Such a lowe estimation did faith worke in Peter when he said Lord goe from me for I am a sinfull man And least anie man should contend herein y t this faith which thus bringeth vs knowledge of God of our owne sinful nature weaknesse should be a fayned faith a dead faith or a deuils faith heare y e praise therof by him y t cannot flatter nor lie y e truth who saith of the same I say vnto you haue not found so great a faith no not in Israel Note Christ calleth this a great faith Verily it so great that it bringeth vs our iustification and peace with God which is the second thing that faith worketh in vs. That faith bringeth vs the righteousnesse of Christ our iustification is already plainely prooued by the scriptures and writings of Paule who goeth further and saith Because therfore that we are iustified by faith wee are at peace with God And to declare the very gate dore and way wherby we enter into this peace and fauour of God hee addeth saying Through our Lord Iesus Christ by whom also it chanced vnto vs to be brought in through faith vnto this grace wherein we stand and reioyce in the hope of the glory of the children of God
false thorow hypocrisie and haue their conscience marked with an hote iron forbidding to marrie and commaunding to abstaine from meates vvhich God hath created to be receaued vvith giuing of thankes of them which beleeue and knevve the trueth Now ioyne these two prophecies together and note diligently the cause maner increase and force of Antichrists kingdome and then it shall be the better perceaued The cause why God permitteth the wicked to deceiue the people was for that they did not receaue the law of the trueth but loathed Gods word when they had it They writ it not in their heartes neither brought forth the fruits of the spirite but of the flesh To speake all in one worde They had as we haue much godly teaching and brought foorth much vngodly liuing Of verie duetie godly liuing must followe godly teaching otherwise Gods plague and vengeance followeth his word where and when soeuer it be taught But amongest all the plagues of God this is the greatest that he taketh away his word from the people and suffereth them to be fed with lies and Canterburie tales or fables After which sorte and maner the wicked haue come and entered into the Christian generation yea and haue sit in the holy place and seate of Moyses pretending to teache the holy word of God They haue set I say in the seate of Moyses not by teaching the law and the prophets but by name and place whereby the people not able to discerne the true session from presumptuous vsurpation haue bene deceiued with false myracles lying powers and wonders By the which feates they haue increased and growne into the greater number For when by the helpe of the deuill with their coniurations charmes and diuers other false fleightes they wrought myracles and wonders in diuers and sundrie places Then the people regarding not the simple word of God forsooke their faith and ranne a gadding from place to place to gaze vpon signes and wonders Manie beleeued lies because many taught lies Lying powers were on their side few durst speake the trueth and the simple lacked good instruction some therefore departed from the faith The sorce of Antichristes kingdome is well noted of Paul in that hee saith his comming shalbe with all lying power in that they shall forbid mariages command to abstaine frō meats and c. y t is to say After that the multitude hath bin well pampered and fed with their lies blinded with their coniurations and stablished with false miracles then shall they be able to make lawes in the defence of their deuilishe doctrines and openly to withstand and resist the trueth and Gospel as Iannes and Iambres Pharaoes coniurers withstoode Moyses Men they are sayth Paul of corrupt mindes and lewd as concerning faith Peter witnesseth with Paul saying They shall purely bring in damnable sects euen denieng the Lord that hath bought them bring vpon themselfes swift damnation many shal follow their damnable waies by whome the way of trueth shall be euill spoken of No maruaile for hypocrisie and outward shew of holynesse hath seemed so gay in the simple folkes eyes yea and yet doth to some so that as the trueth saith if it were possible the verie elect should be deceiued Iude also beareth record to the trueth with Paule and Peter shewing that they be deceaued with dreames defile the fleshe despise rulers and speake euill of them that be in authoritie murmurers complainers walking after their owne lustes whose mouthes speake proud thinges These saith he are makers of sectes fleshly hauing no spirite Conferre these same now together with the popish antichristian church of Rome and beholde if you can see the kingdome of Antichrist anie where so manifest and plaine Hath anie power in all the world since Christes ascention into heauen lift vp it selfe so high into the temple of God and aduanced it selfe as God like vnto this vsurped premacie and tyrannie of Rome Who hath more oppressed Gods booke resisted the Gospel and slandered the way of trueth then the pope and his rable Who hath wrought with suche deceaueable signes and myracles who hath fed vs with more lyes then that false prophet of Rome Read a leafe or two of Legenda aurea or the booke called Festinale and you shal finde good stuffe I warrant you Which bookes were woont to be read and taught vs moste principally concerning matters of religion Yea almost wee had no other in English I speake that I haue knowne heard and seene Within these xxiii yeares they were alledged in Sermons and read in the churche openly and had in more price amongest vs and better receaued then the holy Scriptures be of some Also they were then better studied and more willingly taught of curates in some places then Gods booke is now of manie of them Forget not I pray you to call to memorie how we were deceiued with images pilgrimages reliques false myracles iuglinges charmes witchcraftes coniurations iubilies stations holy water fire ashes palmes palme crosses saint Iohns Gospel images of waxe Walsinghame broches saint Iames shelles saint Priarke his staffe maister Iohn Shornes bat saint Cornelius horne pardons pardon beades beades Ladies Psalters dyrges treutals Requiem Masses c. Who denied the Lord that had bought then more manifestly then they that taught these romish dreames Whosoeuer denieth the death of Iesus Christ to be a whole perfect oblation sufficient for all sinne denyeth the Lord that hath bought them But they that taught or beleeued the aforesaid dragges and such like to be expedient for the obtaining of Gods fauour remission of sins denieth Christ and his death to be sufficient Wherefore so long as men sought remission of sinnes and Gods fauour in such phantasticall deuises of men it cannot be denyed but in so doing they denied the Lord that bought them To say trueth men little remembred the oblation of Christ by deathe vppon the crosse For not manie yeares agone euen when Masses satisfactory florished to affirme Christes oblation by death vpon the crosse once offered for all to be sufficient for remission of sinnes to all them that beleeue was so farre out of memorie that it was counted abhominable heresie because Masse and it could not stand together In time of anguishe trouble or sickenesse was Christes death sought to for quietnesse of conscience No our Lady of Wilsdon our Lady of Walsingham maister Iohn Shorne and confession to some holy fryer some holy relique Masse of Recordare or masse of the v. wounds For vnto these masses bishop Clement and Bishop Boniface had giuen great vertue through pardons and candels if the deuill transforming himselfe vnto Raphael the arch-angel be a true messenger Also if death approched then was Masse of Scala coeli Trentals Aniuersarijs and masse of Requiem with our Lady Masse ready to be sold for mony and song to send the soule to the Deuill with
our hearts c. and take away this article of our faith I beleeue the remission of sinnes or else away with their altars and oblations vpon the same I meane their mony sacrifice the masse Which altar and sacrifice be nothing else but witnesses of their infidelitie idolatrie and Iewish hearts Of their infidelitie in that they do not beleeue remission of sinnes through the onely oblation of Christ once offered vpon the crosse Of their idolatrie in that they set vp another sacrifice and propitiation for sinnes then God hath appoynted Wherein surely they shewe themselues to bee more than Iewish For in their sacrificing and massing they denie Christes death and reproue God of periurie The prophesie of Christes death is this With his stripes we are healed By his paines and merites our paines are taken away as touching damnation and our sinnes couered Or by his death wee are healed from eternall death By hys oblation our sinnes are healed for hee hath purchased vs perfect remission of the same But this hath he not done if there be anie sinnes taken away by the masse The which sinnes at the least he left vnhealed And therefore hee hath not if this be true as yet suffered For heauen and earth shall faile before these wordes be false With his stripes we are healed Or by his death our sinnes are forgiuen Ergo he hath suffered and we wholly healed Or els if we be not wholly healed he hath not yet suffered Againe almightie God promised with an othe vnto hys sonne Iesus Christ saying Thou art a priest for euer That is to say Iesus Christ hath offered himselfe vppon the crosse by death vnto God the father once And by that one oblation once offered hee hath made perfect for euer them that are sanctified as it is before by the scriptures euidently proued For this one oblation once offered perfect for euer Iesus Christ is called and is indeede a Priest for euer Whose sweet oblation remaineth in the bosome of God to our great comfort for euer But he himself now offereth no more for he denieth no more but liueth for euer on the right hand of God the father making intercession for vs. Seeing then his oblation is perfect for euer serueth for euer and hee himselfe making intercession for vs liueth for euer He is therefore according to the othe of God Priest for euer But this hee were not if it could bee proued that his oblation were vnperfect as it must needes be if monie sacrifice the masse obtaineth remission of sinnes or anie part thereof By these fewe Scriptures and sayings grounded vpon the same it madifestly appeareth howe blasphemous the money sacrifice the masse is Namely it robbeth vs of our most comfortable articles of our faith which is I beleeue the remission of sinnes it taketh away the veritie of Gods Scriptures which doe proue Christs oblation vpon the Crosse to bee perfect whole and sufficient it maketh Christ a lyer when he sayd It is finished It adnihillateth his merites and taketh away his passion from vs and it condemneth God of periurie If there can bee any great blasphemous and more abominable heresies then these let all the world iudge Of all the which the popish altar is a monument and as it were an hand to leade the people vnto from Christ and his merites wherefore all good men hauing but one sparke of grace with knowledge will not onely be content with the taking downe of them but also will I trowe helpe the best they can euery one according to his vocation to the same Moreouer if the money sacrifice the masse had bene so necessarie and vnto God so acceptable as the people haue beleeued it to be woulde Christ haue giuen no commandement thereof no example of it no word concerning it what not one word Of preaching he gaue a special commandement saying Feede Feede feede my lambes And againe Goe ye in to all the world and preach the Gospel to al creatures Yet this office of preaching is counted amongst many scant necessarie and the messengers thereof so well looked to that they may studie their breake fast pray yea beg for their dinner and weepe out their supper as many other poore soules doe which thing God will shortly plague if speedie remedie bee not prouided or else his worde is not true which saith For the miserable calamitie of the poore oppressed and for the sighing and weeping of the poore that doe lacke I will vp saith the Lord. Many are sore offended thorough the outragiousnesse of vice slime and iniquitie increasing on euery side a fewe I meane doe studie for amendement and some wonder what should be the cause thereof At whome I doe not a litle maruaile For if the plough man fallowing his ground turneth it vp and letteth it lye and neither stirreth haroweth nor soweth it what marueile is it though it bring him no corne but weedes England is but yet fallowed with the plough of Gods word yet scant fallowed what marueile is it then that weedes growe faster then the corne It must needes be so vnlesse Gods worde be better sowne For manie that shoulde will not A fewe would and cannot and some that can may not because they that should will not To remedie it albeit I know I cannot but this I know and am sure of Where the worde of God is not preached the people perish Of masse we haue not so much as one tote or title of God Christ or his Apostles giuen vs. Notwithstanding how haue the people cared for Masse Masse Masse onely with Masse they haue bene satisfied Why doe they not cry now as much for preaching of the worde of God without the which they perish Nay why doe they crie so much against it Oh what murmuringes and complaininges haue they made since their masse decayed what lyes haue these idle braines inuented what slanders haue they imagined and what false rumours haue they sprinckled abroad in the worlde against them that haue sincerely preached the Gospell How conspire they against good Christian ministers whiche according to their vocation attend their flockes What tumultes vprores and rebellions haue they raysed against their superiours to the great hinderance of Gods holy worde May not a man manifestly beholde in them the monstrous beast that fighteth against the lambe and word of God No doubt as the deuill brought vp his Church at the beginning and increased it So would he now if he could vphold maintaine and defend the same That is not by preaching but by massing not by feeding but by loytering not by the regall authority that proceedeth from God but by tyranny by authority vsurped euen by a monstrous beast I call it a monstrous beast that is either without an head or else hath many heads Subiects vsurping the sword of iustice and executing vengeance vpon theyr superiours be a body without an head or else with many heads and therefore
doe hope by the increasing of sinne to bring the word of God in hatred and them selues in estimation 1. Tim. 4. The fift note of Antichrist The carracter of Antichrist The occupation of Antichrists brood Psal 83. 73. The sixt note of Antichrist With their good friday masse priests serue both the Pope and Gods people Dan. 9. The abhomination of desolation in the holie place Masse forbidden by proclaimation Masse for the dead condemned by act of parliament The altars taken away by the kinges maiesties iniunctions The papistes deserue nothing but scoffes Leuit. 9. The newe testament Heb. 7. 10. Heb. 9. 1. Pet. 3. Heb. 10. Heb. 9. Rom 6. Heb. 9. Christ made a perfect oblation for sinnes once and that vppon the crosse and not vpon an altar 1. Pet. 2. Christ bare our sinnes on his owne body Christ with his death hath wholly healed vs. Act. 13. Act 10. 43. Our couenant with God is to beleue remission of our sins thorow the death of his sonne Iâ—sus Christ Heb. 10. 16. 17. 18. How long the altars ought to haue continued Iohn 19. 30. Heb. 9 Ephes 5. The finall end of all sacrifice for sinnes What the altars and sacrifice for sinne now doe testifie Esay 53. Heb. 7. 17. Psal 10. 4. Heb. 7. 8. To maintaine the masse and altars is great blasphemie and abhominable heresie Iohn 21. 15. Marke 16. 15. Mat. 28. 19. Psal 12. Prouerb 29. Reuel 17. 14. A monstrous Reuel 17. The seuenth note of an The kings authority is next vnto Gods lâ—ft only to his correction Psal 109 Numb 16. Psal 54. Treason will out Eccles 10. This text is after the traÌ„slation of the Hebrues by Iohn Campâ—â—se Rom. 13. 1. 2. Gods word condemneth all them that rebell in word or thought against the king Math. 7. 15. Mat. 15. 14. Mat. 16. 4. Mat. 12. 34. Mat. 23. 27. The 8. note of Antichrist The 9. note of Antichrist The 10. note of Antichrist The 11. note The 12. note The 13. note The 14. note Coloss 2. And the 15. note of Antichrist A true prophecie prouing Antichrist to be come Act. 20. 29. Mat. 7. 13 14. Habac. 2. 5. Luke 9. Note Iohn 10. Iohn 14 6 1. Iohn 5. Psal 118. 1. Iohn 1. 1. Iohn 2. Habbak 2. Rom. 1. Heb. 10. Luke 12. Mat. 10. Psal 32. 1. Cor. 1. Mat. 3. Rom 3. Rom. 4. Mat. 1. Iohn 10. Ephes 2. Gen. 6. cen 12. Gen. 18. Iohn 1. Iohn 1. Math. 16. Iohn 17. Math. 13 Luke 14. Iohn 14. Rom. 8. Psal 44. Rom. 8. Heb. 5. Psal 119. Three sure signes of the holy catholike church Faith Heb. 11. Heb. 11. Markâ— 9. Luke 17. The first thing that faith worketh in vs. Luke 18. Luke 7. Luke 5. Luke 7. The second thing that faith worketh in vs. Rom. 5. Rom. 5. The third thing that faith worketh in vs. Loue. Gal. 5. Ephes 5. Iohn 13. Hope feare Rom. 8. 1. Iohn 4. The office of true faith The spirit of Christ Rom. 8. Faith loue the spirit of God be together in euery true Christian Math. 7. 2. Cor. 4. Luke 6. The first note of Christes church Rom. 10. Luke 6. The second note of Christes church 1. Iohn 4. 1. Iohn 2. 1. Iohn 3. Iohn 13. The third note of Christes church Rom. 8. The sure signes of the holy Catholike church be gathered out of Cods booke Manifest signes of the church The first maâ—…est note of Christes church Mat. 10. 28. Marke 6. 6. Iohn 21. Math. 28. Luke 12. Iohn 14. Marke 16. Luke 10. The Gospel is a witnesse to all the world Dan. 12. Mat. 24. Iohn 3. A plaine token of the holy catholicke Church Actes 2. When the deuill had men fast by false faith hee cared not for their euill life The second manifest note of Christes Church Math. 10. Luke 12. Christ propheciyng of the discord that would be thorow the preaching of the gospel taketh vpon him the salt of others Math. 26. Luke 22. The banner of Christ goeth euer with his Church as the shadow goeth with the body Mat. 10. Luke 9. 2. Tim. 3. Mat. 10. Iohn 15. The third manifest note of Christes Church