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A19216	The humble and vnfained confessio[n] of the belefe of certain poore banished men grounded vpon the holy scriptures of God, and vpo[n] the articles of that vndefiled and onlye vndoubted true Christian faith, which the holy Catholicke (that is to say vniuersal) Churche of Christ professeth. Specially concerning, not only the worde of God, and the ministerye of the same: but also the church and sacramentes therof. Which we send moost humbly vnto the Lordes of Engla[n]d, and al the commons of the same. ... Lorde increase our faith.; Humble and unfained confession of the belefe of certain poore banished men.	Ponet, John, 1516?-1556, attributed name.	1554 (1554)	STC 5630; ESTC S111154	26,257	72

vnto Christes wordes do also practise the same in their life and cōuersaciō plaiing the partes of wisemen whiche against stormes for to come build their house vpon the rocke and sure foundation Of this blessed felowship are thei that endurynge stedfast vnto the ende and fearyng God more thē mē take vp theyr crosse and follow Christ beyng wel content to ieopard all that thei haue their life also for his sake These in al their aduersitie resorte vnto the Lorde takyng his yoke vppon them and lernyng of him to be meke and lowly in heart fynd ease and rest vnto their soules Of thys holy congregation and Churche are thei vnto whom it is geuen to knowe the misteries of the kyngdom of heauē whose eyes are blessed for they se and lykewyse their cares for thei beynge children of Gods kyngdome the good seede sowne in the fortunate grounde do not onely heare the word of God but also vnderstand it and bring furth plentiful fruit some more some lesse accordyng to the measure of such giftes as he hath geuen them These are the Lordes owne shepe whych knowing Hom their shepherd his voice folowe not a straunger but flye from him for thei knowe not the voice of strangers It is the Lordes only voice that thei herken vnto and hym they followe who knoweth them and geueth them eternal life so tha they shal neuer perish neither shal any manne plucke them out of his hand The father of heauen who hath geuen this holye flocke and Congregation vnto Christ his sone is greater then al and no man is able to plucke them out of his heauenly fathers hande Nowe is God the father and Christ his sonne all one to the endles comforte of this his vniuersal Church This flocke of Christ this holy congregation is that blessed Church whose vnrightousnes is forgeuen and whose sinnes are couered and not imputed Yea in this Church hath the Lord himself ordayned appointed the heauēly ministracion of continuall remission and forgeuenes of sinnes to al such as vnfainedly repente of their former wicked lyfe and truelye conuerte vnto hym ▪ For vnto this Church hath he geuen the keyes of heauen that whatsoeuer thei bynde vpon earth shalbe bounde in heauen and whatsoeuer they lose in earth shalbe losed in heauen Vnto this Church hath he geuen his holye gost ▪ so that whose synnes soeuer they forgeue the same are forgeuen And whose sinnes so euer thei retayne the same are retained In this church is the pure word of God and al the worthye exercises of his true Religion the holy Sacramētes praiers thankesgeuynge ecclesiasticall discipline c. duelye and faythfully ministred And thoughe the particuler members of this church maye erre as many both perticuler persons also perticuler churches haue erred and som do at this day while thei are compaced with fleshe and bloud Yet shall not one shepe perishe that is of this holy vniuersall flocke neither the fayth or foundation of this Catholike Churche fayle This holy vniuersall church as the sōne in brightnes hath beames of light whereof it commeth to passe that there be also particuler Churches or congregations Where thoughe there be but two or thre gathered together in y e name of Christe He is in the myddes amonge theim For thoughe we confesse and knowledge that the holy Catholike or vniuersal churche of Christ is inuisible suche as our Crede teacheth vs to beleue y t such a church there is Though no mortal man can se the regeneratiō of the spirit and the fayth of Christ in it selfe Yet a good tre mai be knowne by his fruts Like as the beames then that procede of the Sūne are testimonies and partakers of the lyght therof Euen so what church or congregation soeuer professeth the name Religiō of Christ hauyng and exercising the pure and sincere doctrine of hys Gospel of his Sacraments and of al his dissipline accordyng to his holye institutiō y e same do we take vndoutedly for Christs church For bi mās wordes and dedes we mai discerne to alowe or disalowe theim True Prophetes also from false may we know by their fruites The heart God only seeth and iudgeth Notwithstandyng to build vpon we are throwli perswaded that as the sayd blessed vniuersal Church and cōgregation of Christ is the pillor and ground of the truth for greate is the misterye of godlines that it teacheth Euen so in such wonderful deuersitie of doctrines sectes and sondry religions of the worlde we should neither haue com to the true knowledge and beliefe of the Gospel neither shoulde we be satisfied in our selues or surelye fixed to continewe and abyde still in in y e sayth therof as we be God haue the praise against al herisies and false opinions If the authoritie of the said holy vniuersal and catholike churche of Christ had not wholly fully moued stirred prouoked admonished and taught vs so to do But whan we considered with S. Augustine the estimation and dignitie the worthines and authoritie of the sayde vnyuersal church and howe vniformally the mēbers of that mistical body accordeth and consenteth together in the vnitie of the holy gost and in the ministracion of heauenly thinges our conscience with al thanful obedience with obedient thākfulnes doth most cherfully and gladli agree aswel to learne what the said church teacheth vs and to beleue gods word that it preacheth vnto vs. As to be warned by the coūsailes that it geueth vs and to folowe the instructions lessons and ensāples that it sheweth vs. For sure we be as we haue cōfessed alredy that the foūdation of this Church is fyrme fast Herein hath the Lord set vp his owne lyght that hath no darknes in it Here is the truth that desceiueth no man the lyfe that kylleth no man and the kynges hye way that bringeth euery man righte to his iourneies ende As for a perticuler mā a perticuler church or Congregation as we sayd before they maye erre thei may be disceiued in one thyng or other at one tyme or other The consideration wherof as it appeareth did moue S. Augustine to haue most prīcipal regard to y e church vnyuersall although the particuler churches of Aphrica in his time were not defiled and poysoned as they be nowe O that mē were so circumspect this day as to builde vppon so sure a ground For though we maye safely geue credence to ani perticuler church whan it followeth the wholesome doctrine wherin the holy gost by his Apostle did stablish the Churche of the Ephesians of the Philippians of the Colossians of the Tessalonians c. Yet if any such Church do shute at another marke we shall but loose oure game in doyng therafter As for ensample what sound doctrine what wholsome religion what good and vpright discipline is there at this present day in any of the said particular Churches

bewayle theyr manyfold offences to acknowledge and confesse thē vnto God hartely to cal on him for mercye wholy to conuert vnto hym and louingly to reconcile thēselues wit● their neighbours afore they presume to aproche vnto the table of the Lord. And doo they not yet fall into it lyke Hogges walowing styl in the filthenes of their abhominable liuing with out any iust remorce of conscience w t out any true repentaunce or amendement of lyfe wythout suche charytable recon●iliacion as was wont to be among the worthy Cōmunicātes of Christes holy Sacrament The Priest ought so to minister in such a language y t the people might vnderstād what he saith But he hudling it vp in a corner by hym self mūbleth we can not tel what His dutye is sēsibly to declare vnto vs the Lordes death that we therby myghte be styrred vp aswel to remember taste the swetenes of this mistery of our redemption as to be thankful vnto the Lord for the same But the Prest speaking to the wal not vnto vs kepeth vs stil in blynde ignoraunce So that as we cannot consider what the Lord hathe done doth or offereth to do for vs so is it no maruayle that we remayne styl vnthankful We should at the ministracion and recept of the Sacrament haue good natural bread but in stede thereof we haue printed waifers and suche starched stuffe as is not pure perfecte bread nor lyke vnto that whych was vsed in the eating of the Lordes holy Supper at the first The Lord biddeth his disciples take the breade but oure lay people whō we trust yet to be the Lords disciples are forbiddē to touch it The Lord saith Take ye eate ye he saith not take thou it alon and let no mā els eate with the. He saith take and eate he saith not lift it vp aboue your heades But nowe the Priestes take and lyft it vp an high He sayeth Take and eate and saieth not hang it vp But now it is taken hanged vp by a lyne or cord He sayth Take and eate and saith not take and worshyp it as God But now men crouch and kneele vnto it honour and worship it as theyr maker The Lord saith Take eate He saith not put it vp in store or kepe it in a boxe tyl another tyme But now it is reserued caried about in procession and in the streetes that the people may fal downe yea when they se it not knocke theyr breastes worship it The Lord saith Do this in remembraunce of me He sayeth not do it in remembraunce of others but now the Priestes do theyr Masse in remembraunce of the quicke deade in remembraunce of Angels saints they make an oblacion sacrifice of it for the soules departed for beasts and Catfel for syknesses and diseases c. The Lord willeth al the Disciples that were with him to drinke of the Cup and the Euangelist saith ▪ that they al dranke of it But now the part of the Sacrament is takē from the lay people as though Christ had not shed his bloud for thē as wel as for others What can we then iustly looke for at the Lordes hand to be partakers of in this worthy Sacrament when we so vnworthely disdaine think scorne to minister receaue and vse it according to the Lordes most holy institucion but chop and chaunge adde and minysh after the pleasures imaginacions and fond fantasies of men not after the word of the Lorde nor after the rightful practise of hys primitiue and most pure Church Because the Corinthians did so vnworthely behaue them selues aboute thys holy Sacrament by reason of these and such like abuses as we haue now spoken of and for that thei made no difference of the Lordes body that is to say because thei so litle regarded not only his mistical body the church and congregacion but also the death and merites of his natural blessed body that suffred and was crucified for them therfore saith the Apostle many are weake and sicke among you and many sleepe And what thing els vnder the Sunne hathe more prouoked the wrath and indignatiō of god ouer vs or is a greater occasion why he withdraweth his grace holy spirit from vs and otherwise also sēdeth his sondrye plages amongst vs Yea what hath bene or is at thys daye a greater cause of his displeasure thē is the most filthy and abhominable idolatry and supersticion of theyr masse the blinde and wylfull abusing of the Sacramēt when neither the doctrine of the Lord is trulye taught nor beleued neither those worthye fruites of repentaunce folow that so godly florished in the primitiue churche that so vertuously shuld appeare in euerie one that receaueth y e holy cōmunion But now to conclude for our own part This worthy Sacrament of our Lord and only sauiour Iesus Christ we so honour and reuerence that we are fully resolued and perswade● by the testimony of hys holy word that it is a synguler and precious Iewell ▪ which the Lorde himselfe by hys last wyl and testament hath moste graciously cōmitted and left to hys owne holy congregacion and church to the intent that the same worthye Sacrament which he ordayned to be a special renewing of hys gracious couenaunt with vs and an vndoubted testimony and seale of his louing mercy towardes vs should be also a continual and frutful exercise of our faith loue hope to himward a myghtye prouocaciō vnto charity and al good workes among our selues So as we fyrst duely examining our owne consciences and then assembling our selues orderly to that solempne memorial of our redemption hearing there the death of the Lorde declared vnto vs callyng the same in special and all other hys benefites in general moste thankfully to remembraunce lamenting bewailing and repēting vs earnestly of our sinnes knowledgyng cōfessing them vnto God ●euoutlye calling vpō him for mercy professing a new vertuous life conuertynge vs wholy vnto him forgeueing one another in brotherly reconsiliacion frō the botome of our hartes shoulde in the vnity of the holy Ghost aproche reuerently vnto the table of the Lord and worthely receiue such notable increase of heauenly cōfort spirituall repaste in our consciēces as He there for that purpose by the cōmuniō and felowship that we haue with hym in his precious body bloude most louinglye doth offer vnto vs euen clothing vs as it were wyth a newe power and strengthe frō aboue that we being armed a freshe with hys owne weapons may frō hence●orthe fyght themore valeauntly vnder his baner against the flesh y ● world the Diuel whiche to do he graunt vs hys grace and holy spirit Amen ¶ From Wittonburge by Nichola● Dorcastor Ann. M.D.Liiii the .xiiii. of May. Roma i. Mat. xxiiii i. Pet. iiii ii Tim. iii. i. Iohn ii iii.iiii Luke xiiii Mat. vii i. Cor. ii Ephe. ii Psa. cxvii Mark xii i. Pete ii Esa. xxviii Esay x. i. Pet. v. Math. vi Luke xi Apoc. vii i. Cor. xi Psa. cxviii Apo. ii Math. v. i. Tim. vi Iob. i. ii Math. vii Mat. xxvi Psalm v● i. Cor. iiii Esay xl Genes iii. Luke xii Mat. xvi Esay lix Iosu. vii ii Esdr. Thre i. Math. ix Ioel. ii Mat. vii Luke xi Ephes. iiii Col. iii. iiii ●i Tim. iii ii Pet. i. ●● Iohn i Math. vii Col●o ii Gala. i. Collo ii i. Tim. vi ii Tess. ii Esay xxix Math. xv Mar. vii Psa. lxxxi Psal. cxix * Iosu. xxiii Deut. xi Deut. iiii xii Pro. xxx Apo. xxii The Byshops of England in theyr booke to king Henrye ▪ y e .viii. circa An. M.D.XXXviii ▪ De doct Christia lib. iii. ca. In lib. ad Orosin cōtra Priscilliam et Origenis Rom. xii i. Cor. xii ▪ ii Tim. iii ▪ * Ez. xxxvii Cant. vi Iohn x. * Act. ii iiii Eph. iiii * Ez. xxxvii Ioh. xiiii xvi i. Iohn ii Eph. iiii * i. Ihon. i. Heb. ix Ephes. v. * i. Pet. i. * Mat. xvi i. Cor. xiii * Es. xxviii * i. Pet. ii i. Tim. iii. Ephe. i. Collos. i. Psal. xlv Eph. v. Titus iii. Ephe. iiii Roma xii i. Cor. xii Ephe. iiii Hebr. xiii Ephe. ii Heb. xii Iohn iiii Luke i. Psa. i. iii Math. v. Math. vi Mat. vii Math. x. Math. xi Mat. xiii Luke xi Iohn ● Psa. xxxii Rom. iiii Mat. xviii Iohn xx Act. i. ii.iiii i. Cori. xi x.iii Titus ii Iohn x. Math. xvi Mat. xvii● ▪ Mat. vii Mat. xii vii iii. Re. viii i. Tim. iii. Cōtra epistolam fundamenti cap. v. Iohn xii Psa. xxvi Roma iii. Iaco. iii. Ephe. v. Philip. ● ▪ Collo ii i. Tessa i. Rom. xvi Hebru i. Mar. xvi Madateu saie Mat. xxviii Iohn xx Luk. xxiiii Roma xii i. Cor. xii i. Cor. iiii ii Cor. iii. ii Cor. viii ii Cor. iiii ii Cor. iiii ii Cor. v. Luke x. Iohn xiii Mat. x. Luke x. Actes i. Mat. ix.x. Act. xx Titus i. i. Pet. v ▪ i. Cor. iii. i. Cor. iiii i. Tim. iii. De●o● Christian. lib. iii. cap. xii The misterye Gene. i. ii Genes ii Genes iii. Roma ● Gen. xvii Roma iiii Exod. xii Heb. xi Exod. xvi Iohn vi Ad Ianu●rium Rom. iiii Roma v. Iohn vi Gala. v. Ephes v. Gene. iii. Heb. ii Iohn vi Iohn vi i. Iohn i. i. Corin. ● Ephes. v. Mat. xxvi Mar. xiiii Luke xxii i. Cor. xi Gen. xvii Exod. xii ma. xxviii Ma● xvi Iohn iii. Actes ii Titus iii i. Cor. xi mat xxvi Luke xx i. Cori. xi What things ar requyred afore the holy communion The order to be kepte at y e holye cōmunion The name of thys holy Sacrament i. Cor. x. xi i. Cor. xi Ye shal se shortlye a boke whē eueri part of y e masse began

we trust to the glory of God and your edifying For these and such cōsideracions we haue therfore set forth this humble vnfained confession of our belefe that is to say how we in conscience ar perswaded by the infallible testimony of the scriptures concerning the word of God written and the ministery of the same his Church also and sacramēts therof For as these are the principall pointes of the fayth and true Religiō which is builded only vpon Christ so if our mindes by the witnes of the holy Gost in his word be fully resolued herein then by the grace of the same most holy spirite neyther our vnderstandynge nor good wylles neyther yet oure bodyes shall be stopte nor hindred from praier ●r fastynge frō pacience or obedyence from peace or Christian quietnes from doynge our duties to God and man or from e●ercisyng of those good works that are comprehended in his holy preceptes and cōmaundementes And thus most hertely prayng you to kepe you stil in the Arke with Noah his housholde We assure you in the word of the Lorde that so dooinge the fludde shal not drowne you nether shal the wrath to come ouer take you Amen FIrst because we mind not to build vppon a weke foundation we are stedfastly perswaded and do reuerētly beleue al the Articles of the christē fayth comprehended in thre Eredes commonly called Simbolum Apos●olicum Simbolum Nicenum and simbolum Athanasii Item We do stedfastli beleue end reuerence euen from the botome of our hartes al the holy Scriptures of Gods b●oke which is the sacred ●yble con●teinyng the Olde and Newe-testament being fullye perswaded 〈◊〉 our conscience accordyng to the testimony of the holy gost that the same holy Scripture is able to make men learned vnto saluation throughe the faith which is in Christ Iesu And that like as the sayd holy Scripture was geuen by inspiration of God whose gracious blessed spirit was the worker therof and is profitable to teach to improue to refourme and to instruct in righteousnes that the man of God may be perfect and prepared vnto al good works euen so is it the ●ure word of prophecie very lighte that shineth in a darke place so that who so taketh hede therūto doth wel vntil the day dawne and til the daye starre arise in his heart Item We beleue that whosoeuer transgresseth or ouer passeth and abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ hath not God so that if any mā com vnto vs ▪ and bring not this learny●● of Gods holy word we ought not to receiue him into our house nether to welcome him but rather to beware of such false prophetes as beynge inwardlye rauenynge wolffes woulde spoile vs through philosophy and de●eifull vanitie after the tradicions of men and after the ordinaunces of the world and not a●ter Christ. Item Our stedfast beliefe is that like as if an Angel from heauē or the Apostles them selues should preache vnto vs any other Gospel or doctrin concerning Religion contrary to that thei haue taught alredy we ought to holde them accursed Euen so we are bound to beware least any man with vayn traditions or coloured holines cause vs to shote at a wronge marke or leade vs out of the ryght way Item We beleue verely that whosoeuer doth wilfully follow or teach such doctrin as is contrary to the holy scriptures of God The same for y t he agreeth not vnto the holsome wordes of oure sauior Iesus Christ is a proud ignoraunt person and a verye wast brain And that vnto those which wil not receiue the loue of the said deuine truth and holye scriptures to their saluation ▪ Almyghtie God doth most iustli send strōg delusiō suffring thē to beleue lies to y e damnatiō of al such as disdainīg to geue credēce vnto y e truth haue plesure in vnrightousnes Item Our beleif is that for al our liplabour and outwarde apperaunce or shewe of Religion ▪ Yet so longe as we ●epe vs not to the rule of the holy scripture but wilfully folowe the corrupt tradicions doctrines preceptes and lawes of men we worship Go● in vain and serue him not in such vpryght sort as we ought to do Item Our conscience is fully perswaded that because men are so stubbourne and disobedient so hard herted froward that thei thinke scorne to herkē vnto the voyce of God and wilfully refuse to be ordred by the teaching of his holye worde and scriptures God therfore geuing them vp to their owne heartes lust and sufferyng them to folowe their owne imaginations doth most iustly take part against them powrynge vpon theim such great and horrible pla●es as the prophet Moses speaketh of Item Our stedfast beleife is that whatsoeuer the almightie and euerliuyng God commaūdeth vs by his word which he hath appointed to be the Lanterne vnto our feete lyghte vnto our pathes like as we ought to haue the same in such reuerence that we bowe not aside therfrom neither to the ryght hand nor to the left and that we do not suche thinges as seme good in our own eies but only that which is right in the sight of the Lord adding nothinge vnto his wordes least he reproue and plage vs least we be found liars Euen so we should not take away or minish ought from his words least he take awaye from vs our porcion out of the boke of life Item Like as our beleife is that y e sayd holy word and scripture of God alone sheweth mē y e right path to cōe to god to se him to know him to loue hym to serue hym so to serue hym as he most desireth so ar we fulli perswaded according to s. Austines coūsail y t it is our boūden dutie aswel to yelde and consent to the authoritie of holy scripture which neither can disceiue nor be desceiued As also in the vnderstanding therof diligētly to obserue the circumstaūces of the places times and persons ▪ and to take good hede not oneli what but also of whō any thing therin contained is spokē And here with this humble confesion of our fayth in Christ we do euē from the botome o● our hartes right sore lament and bewaile the present miserable decay of Christes true Religion the manyfold inconueniences the great harme and horrible abuses that are entred in among the generations of men of al sortes and degrees through addyng vnto the sayd holye Scripture throughe minishing of it and for not duely consideryng the circumstances therof That is to say for not regarding for not obeiyng and for not folowyng the infallible truth of the same moost reuerende word of God The curssed and vnhappy contempt wherof vndoubtedli hath brought into this worlde al wickednes aswel of false doctrine as of vngodly and sinful liuyng To the subuerting of al good ordre not oneli in matters of Religion but also in thynges concernyng our