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A73318	A supplycacion to our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge henry the eyght Kynge of England of Fraunce and of Irelande, [and] moste ernest defender of Christes gospell, supreme heade vnder God here in erthe, next [and] immedyatly of his churches of Englande and Irelande.	Tracy, Richard, d. 1569.	1544 (1544)	STC 24165.5; ESTC S125558	23,792	64

helpe to resyst synne / but onely by gods worde / as our sauiour christ dyd / wherin he must fyxe a sure and constāt faythe Mat. .iiii. Faythe causeth vs and all ours / to be acceptable in the syght of God Roma xiiij For a conclusiō / whatsoeuer is not of fayth that same is synne And wtowte a constante and sure fayth / it is impossyble to please God Heb. xi All men maye well perceyue / that by the lawes and by the iuste execution of them / although synne may be for a tyme cohybyted and restrayned / yet it can not be suppressed and abholyshed / but onely through fayth For there was neuer more godly lawes made for the punyshmente of synne / nor neuer more iuste and godly executyon of lawes admynistred / and yet there was neuer more synne raygnynge For cyuyle lawes made by man / can not be of greater effycacye or strength / nor worke greater perfectyon vertue and good wyll in man / than the lawe of god but the lawe of God not onely worketh no obedyence or vertue / but rather through occasyō takē of the infirmyte of the fleshe / steareth vp synne / as sayethe Paul Ro. vij I knowe not what luste dyd meane / except the lawe had sayed thow shalte not luste But synne toke an occasyon by the meanes of the commandemente / and wrought in me all maner of cōcupiscence / for verely wtoute the lawe / synne was dead I ones sayth Paul / lyued wtout lawe But when the cōmandement came / synne reuyued / and I was dead / and the very same commaundement which was ordeyned vnto lyffe / was founde to be vnto me an occasyon of deathe Ro. vij But nowe graciouse lorde / for asmoche as it appeareth / that the lawe of God was not geuen to take awaye synne / but rather to declare and to punyshe synne moche lesse any lawe made by man / can auoyde and put away synne But faythe is the true Instrument appoynted by God / wherby synne is ouercome exiled Act. xv As the scripture sayeth / that God through faithe / dothe puryfye make cleane all hartes Io. xv Also Christ sayethe / nowe are yow cleane / by the meanes of the wordes / whiche I haue spoken vnto you This faythe shall cause / noryshe and breade / true obeydyence / and all other vertues in your graces subiectes hartes / wherby they shall be enforced to laboure not onely to obserue kepe Godes lawes / but also all your graces ordynances commaundementes and lawes / without grudge or murmuracyon This faythe as the Apostle sayeth commethe by hearinge of Gods worde preached / wherof Byshops Parsons / Vicars / suche other called to haue spirituall cure / be or shulde be dylygent mynisters / to whose vocatyō iustely parteyneth to declare and publyshe Gods worde syncerely truely / to all the people cōmytted to their spirituall charge Rom. x. Most myghty Prynce wherfor if the Pastours appoynted to preache teache Gods worde / wtin this your graces realme / doo not dyligētly instructe teache the people cōmytted to their spirituall charge with the sayd worde / accordinge as they be cōmaunded in the scriptures Act. xx i. Pe. v. Mal. ij Proue xxix Act. xx i. Pet. v. and Malache xx all kyndē of synne shall increase and abounde / the people vtterly be devyded As sayethe the holy ghoste When the worde of God is not preached the people perysheth Also the Wyse mā sayethe Sa. xiij All men be vayne in whom there is not the knowleage of god Wherfore without any doubt the wāte and lacke of preaching of godes worde syncerely and truely hathe bene the very originall grounde and cause of all the insurrection / cōmotiō / dyscention / which hathe rysen or begone within this your graces real me or any parte therof For through the want of preachyng of Godes worde syncely haue entered in all popyshe blyndenes / vayne dead ceremonyes / mēnes tradycyons be crept into the conscyences of the symple innocentes in the steade of the lawe of God Yea ydolatrye and all hypocrysye with detestable superstycyon for lacke of the lyght of Godes worde / is become Gods seruyce And yet notwtstandinge this wante lack of knowleage in Godes worde the euyll which cōmethe manyfestly therof / the more it is to be lamented / there be many popishe monckes which late were Abbottes to whom not onely vnworthely / but also vniustely / were geven greate pensyons and many of their covent mo●…kes hauinge nother lernynge nor other godly qualytyes apte meate or convenyent to be in spirituall pastours be nowe admytted to haue cure of soules And some suche which ded neuer knowe what is a soule / nor yet be able to haue cure ouer one soule / be nowe admytted to haue charge ouer an hundreth and many moo / to the increase of all yngnorācye and all popishe blyndnes / the hyghe waye meanes to let in all kynde of synne / to the vtter dampnacion of all the soules commytted to their spirituall charge Alas doo nother the patrones of suche benefyces / nor yet the incumbentes pōder or regarde Gods threatenyngs by his Prophete Ezechiell sayeng / As truely as I lyue sayeth the lorde for asmuche as my shepe are robbed and deuowred of the wilde beastes of the felde hauynge noo shepeherde / and seing that my shepherdes take noo regarde of my shepe / but feade them selues onely / and not my shepe Ezech. xxxiiij Therfore here the worde of the lorde o ye shepherdes / thus sayeth the lorde God Beholde I my selfe will vpon the shepherdes / and requyre my shepe from their handes / and make them cease from feadinge of my shepe Yea the shepherdes shall feade them selues nomore / for I will delyuer my shepe owte of their mowthes / so that they shall not deuoure them after this If this threatenynge be not suffycient warnynge monycion to suche blynde shepherdes / yet at the lest let them feare Goddes curse pronownced in the same chapiter agaynst suche neglygent and ingnorāt shepherdes / sayenge Woo be to the shepherdes of Israell that feade them selues / shulde not the shepherdes feade the flocke / yow haue eaten vp the fatt / yow haue clothed yow with the wolle / the best fedd haue youe flayne / but the flocke haue yow not noryshed / heauen and erthe shall muche rather perishe / than these wordes wherwith God threatened suche pastours shal be found vntrue / That is / I will requyre my flocke of the handes of the shepherde Suerly most myghty prynce it is to busye an office / tomuche and laborouse for one spirituall shepherde althoughe he were very expert and connynge to guyde ordre / and kepe / two or thre flockes of shepe / specially beyng so farre dystāt one from an other / that the sayd shepherde can not be dayly present with them / to

contynually exercyse their lustes and iniquyties As Paul saythe They be agaynste all men forbyddinge vs to speake to the people wherby they myght be saued / The .ij. that they myght fulfyll their iniquyte and synne contynually Haue not some of the byshops with their retynewe at this daye practysed their olde polycy to extinguyshe the light through all Englande / that they myght ones agayne leade vs quyetly in darckenes Is not there a lawe made through their crafte subtylte which geueth power to certayne cōmyssioners wherof the byshoppes chaunceler or cōmyssarye shal be named to be two of the cōmyssioners / which shall haue full power to take into their custodye all suche bokes wherin is conteyned any clause or artycle repugnaunte to any of the syx artycles / and the same bokes to burne and dystroye as to the discretion of thre of them shal be thoughte expedyent Marke well what they purpose by this estatute Are there any bokes which write agaynste the popes prymacie / but they also write agaynste some of the syx artycles Their coloure is to take awaye all bookes which wryte agaynste the syx artycles / but their very intēte purpose and meanyng is to take awaye all bookes whiche conteyne any godly lernynge that write agaynste the byshop of Romes prymacy Howe cruelly doo the byshops punyshe all thē which pretende to haue lernynge and specially in Godds worde Suche they call heretyques and persecute wich puttynge them to open shame / with enprysonmēte / and in conclusyō with deathe most fearefull and paynefull All this they doo to dyscorage all men from the studye of Gods worde / fearinge leaste that by suche studiouse braynes which learne Gods worde and publyshe the same their iniquyte shulde be made manyfest What studye and paynes they take to kepe the light from the people But no man which knowethe the scriptures will meruell of this their policye and crueltye Io● iij. For saynt Iohan declarethe their practyse playnely sayenge He that doth euyll hateth the light / and why because his workes whiche be euill shulde not be reproued by the light And for asmuche as oure byshops countenaūce of lyuinge / their greate possessyons / and lordely domynyons in them agreeth with Godds worde / as deathe with lyffe / God with the deuill / light with darckenes / therfore they hate the light which declarethe the same / and studye to suppresse the same by all chaft and polycye And seinge they can so craftely iuggle and haue suche frendshipe and fououre to conuey / brynge to passe / that all bookes shall come into their hande vndre the coloure of the syx artycles / it is to be feared that shortely they will by lyke crafte subtylte and frendshipe procure the Byble in Englyshe to be taken from the layete / then we shal be ledd in darcknenes by our Byshops and other blynde gydes and not Pastoures at theyr pleasure and will / whiche is the effecte of all theyr study laboure and purpose Nowe most valeaunt defender of Christ / it appearethe playnely howe many myseryes we be wrapte in / through the vngodly electyon of suche as be admytted to haue spirytuall cure and offyce to teache Godds worde / whiche not onely haue lytle lernynge / but also they be enemyes to all men whiche can and doo preache Gods worde sycerely and trewly / because they lyue contrarye to the same / as I haue before declared / And this is the origynall grownde / and cause of the abundaunce and increase of darkenes and of synne / as also of the longe contynnaunce of popishe blyndnes whiche hathe raigned in this realme so longe Wherfore yf the byshops and other elected and appoynted to be shepherdes accordinge to theyr vocacyon and callinge / be not fyrste knowen and well proued to haue suche knowleage godly doctryne / so that they can also doo instantely dyligētly preache Gods worde whiche is the light expellinge all darckenes of synne / then muste nedes synne encrease abounde without any restraynte or brydle For if the light whiche is amongest yow be darckenes / howe muche shall the darkenes be Matt. vi Youre grace and your cyuile power doo punnyshe synne / when it is done and cōmytted / accordinge to the iustyce of lawes / as to your vocatyon office of right belongethe to doo But the office and dewtye of the Pastor is to preache Goddes worde / wherby he shall conuert the hart of the synner / whiche is willinge dissposed to doo synne / so that he shall not breake fourthe to doo synne in the acte / which the cyuyle powre for the example of other by equyte and iustyce is bounde to punyshe Therfore the dyligent executyon of the office of the pastoure shal be the pryncipall meane and occasyon that lesse synne shal be cōmytted / and so the higher powers shall haue lesse occasyon to execute the extreame iustyce of lawes / and consequently many mens ly●es whiche nowe for lacke of the knowleage of Godes worde shuld be loste for cōmyttinge murder / felonye / and suche other offences / shall then be preserued that they shall not commytte suche offences / which the hygher powers by the lawes of equyte iustyce be compelled to cōdempne and to punyshe with deathe Wherfore the godly tranquyllyte reste and peace of all this your realme soueraygne lorde / and the good order of the same hangeth and resteth moche vpon the godly and dyligent executyon of the office of pastors and of the spirituall shepherds dewly called and admytted accordinge to Godes worde Therfore it behoueth the presenter of the clercke to a benefyce and cure of sowles to be cyrcumspect and well ware what clerke he doth present / and that he haue good knowleage experience and proue of his clercke before he present hym For if a pastour doo not feade the flocke of Christe cōmytted to his charge / the deathe of their sowles shal be required of his handes As the Prophete Ezechiell sayeth in the .xxxiij. Ezech. xxxiij chapi And if the patron willingely / other for kyndred / fauoure / frendshippe / seruice or money / present a clerke which he knoweth not to be so lerned in Gods worde / that he be able to instructe and teache the people cōmytted to his charge bothe with the lawe of God and withe the gospell / every suche patron cōsenteth to the deathe dāpnacion of the sowles cōmytted to the charge of suche vnlerned preste And therfore suche a Patron shall also be punyshed with lyke payne / whiche is eternall / as the Apostell sayeth Rom. i. Not onely they that doo euill / but also they whiche consent therunto shal be punyshed with lyke payne What wyse man liuynge wolde hyer a shepherde to gouerne hys beastly worldly shepe which nother wolde nor coulde feade / handle / salue nor ones see his shepe cōmytted to his charge Suche a wyse shepherde wolde shortely make his masters