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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08471	The acquital or purgation of the moost catholyke Christen Prince, Edwarde the .VI. Kyng of Englande, Fraunce, and Irelande &c. and of the Churche of Englande refourmed and gouerned under hym, agaynst al suche as blasphemously and traitorously infame hym or the sayd Church, of heresie or sedicion.	Old, John, fl. 1545-1555.	1555 (1555)	STC 18797; ESTC S101902	35,373	96

tyme. The .vii. Chapter THerfore the gospellers churche dothe not cal euery one at auēture tagge ragge to be ministers of Goddes holy worde Ministers of the gospellers churche but suche men as be furst exerciced in the holy scriptures and in the catholyke vnderstādyng of faythe wyth the churche For ther be chosen vnto the holy ministerie of the churche men of sounde doctrine and vpryght lyfe accordyng to the Apostles rules And lyke as saynt Paule whan he ordeyned Timothee to be bishop byndeth hym as it were wyth an othe 2. Timo. 5. to preathe the Gospel syncerely sayeng I charge the in the syght of God and our Lorde Iesus Christ and of the chosen holy angels that thou kepe and obserue thys with out rashenesse of iudgement 2. Timo. 4 And eftsones he sayeth I charge thee before God our Lorde-Iesus Christ whych shal iudge both the quicke the deade at hys appearing and in hys kyngdome preache the worde be feruent and reproue in season and out of season c. Euen so doth the Gospellers churche bynde theyr ministers by an othe that they make no newe gloses nor exposicions of theyr owne heades nor vtter in theyr docerine any thing against the scripture and the true catholike vnderstandyng of fayth but euery where and in euery point both to respecte onely folowe the canone and rule of faythe And in the yearely conuocacions which the gospellers churche vseth there is diligent inquisicion and searche made vpon the pastours and vpon the lyfe and doctrine of euery minister whether it be soūde and vpryght or not least the sorer fal of the minister should make a good parte of the churche cōmitted to hys spiritual charge to fal miserably into euil wyth hym The lyke ordre was appointed set furthe by kyng Edwarde the .vi. to hys churche by hys publyke commission cōmaundement onely the fault of not executyng the same was in some of hys corrupte doublefaced dreamyng counsailours and traiterous harted Popishe Bishoppes and ordinaries by whom the vertuous good Kyng was deluded And so in thys mater againe we are most farre of from the heretikes churche by al meanes For the heretykes bothe Papistical and Anabaptistical lyke as they renne whan no man sendeth them nor haue any regarde to the sayd general rule inasmuche as they be a rule and a lawe to them selues euen so maye they in no wyse abyde any reformacion or correction Of the chief principles of our faithe and religion In dede the Gospellers churche dothe most religiously kepe the catholyke vnderstandynge of the churche and the chief principles of the true catholyke religion and doctrine Our congregacion beleueth and embraceth the fyrst promise that the eternal almyghty God hym selfe made pronounced in Paradise sayeng Ge. 3. I will set enemitie betwene the and the woman or that specially appointed woman and betwene thy sede and her sede It shall treade downe thy head and thou shalt tread vpon hys heele For we knowe acknowlage that the furst and principall groūde workes of our faythe and saluacion were sattled and cōprised in thys promyse For we are lost through our owne synne but we are saued by the mere mercie of god through christ in whō like as God hathe frely chosen vs frō euerlasting euen so he openeth vnto vs by hys worde whā it is best tyme in his sight bothe for his owne glorie and our cōmoditie that we through hys grace should beleue in Christ the sonne of the most souerayne hyghe God and of that excellent woman Hebr. 2. the most blessed virgine Marie and so be saued For Christ by hys painfull passion hathe brokē and stamped vnder fote the head or kingdome of the Deuil in that he hathe conquered deathe abolished synne despeched damnacion quyte out of the waye frō all faithfull christianes ¶ The .8 Chapiter VVe and oure Gospellers churches do beleue and religiously embrace that only and eternal couenaunt that God made to Adam The coue●aunt of ●od with ●en furst in Paradise afterwarde many tymes renewed and playnly compacted with the holy fathers as Noe and singularly wyth Abraham the father of the beleuers adding therto the Sacrament of Circumcision For the Lorde appeared vnto Abraham 〈◊〉 17. and sayd vnto hym I am El Saddai a myghty strōg God euery where present and omnisufficiently fillyng all wyth all good thynges Walke before me and be perfite and I shal rayse vp that is I shal repayre my couenāt betwene me and thee and betwene me and thy sede after thee in theyr generations with an euerlastyng couenaunt that I may be thy God thy sedes after thee Al these sayenges we applye also vnto vs ●ala 3. in that the Apostle sayd yf you be of Christ than in dede ye are the sede of Abrahā and heyres according to the promise in that Baptisme was geuen vnto the churche in stede of Circumcision and also in that we haue receaued Iesus Christ our Lord the ende and accomplishement of all the promyses Our churches do religiously embrace the most holy tables of thys eternal couenaūt The tables of the couenaunt grauen wyth the very fyngre of our almyghtye souerayne Lorde God in two tables of stone with great mysterie and to thintent they should the longer indure and geuen to the churche of the Israelites of al faythfull beleuers throughout al the hole worlde of God hym selfe by hys most blessed seruaunt Moses In the which as it were in a certain hādsom short sūme and yet most fully expounded we haue recyted and conteyned al mystical maters perteynyng to godlynesse and the most sure testimonie of Goddes good wil towardes vs and the most perfite rule of al out offices and dueties These tables I saye that were written wyth the fyngre of God and proclaymed beforehande wyth Goddes owne mouth in that great church at the mount Synai we kepe entier perfite sounde vncorrupte we take awaye nothyng we altre nothyng we putto nothyng we leaue out nothyng we thrust in nothyng contrarye to Christes mynde we chaunge nothynge at al. From the botome of our hartes therfore we abhorre Idolatrye whiche we se also condemned so zelously and so earnestly of the prophetes and Apostles And therfore we should thynke it abhominable wyckednesse in case ther be sene in our tēples dedicated only vnto God any Images eyther of God hym selfe or of hys sayntes muche more of prophane men or women S. Paule reasonyng with the most wyttye learned Brekes of Athenes Act. 17. sayeth For asmuche as we are the generacion of God we ought not to iudge that the alwelding God is lyke vnto golde or syluer or stone craftely grauen or vnto the inuencion of man By meanes wherof we reade also that S. Iohn the Apostle and Euangelist charged Christes Churche sayeng Babes beware of Images ● Io. 5. which wordes the auncient writour Tertullian in hys boke De corona militis expoundeth

thynke honourably of Princes and magistrates that they are the ministers of God and therfore they ought to be obeyed and to haue theyr duetie We cōdemne nothyng in the political or ciuile states that is not repugnaunt wyth godlynesse We forbydde not meates whych God hathe made to faythful folkes vse We forbydde not mariage to any ordre or state eyther of man or woman Fornicacion wyth al vncleanes intemperaunce we vtterly deteste Specially we commende charitie to be kepte towardes al mē We serue God with willyng liberalitie to our power We do paciently beare the crosse that is layde vpon vs for the name of our Lorde Iesus Christes sake that abydyng constaūt in the felowship of the body of the churche we maye receaue rewarde wyth al the sayntes whyche from the begynnyng of the worlde haue suffred persecucion for ryghteousnesse sake Ther is no newe fangled stuffe in the gospellers churche all is of the olde sorte doctrine of Fayth Belefe the Keyes Prayer the Sacracramentes and all together It departeth not fom the head Christ it is not torne from the membres that is from the cōmunion of sayntes These true markes of the true right tatholike churche of Christ whan thou fyndest in the gospellers church why doubtest thou to cal and frely acknowlage it to be the true right catholike churche of Christe Why doutest thou to forsake al them as lyers traitours and slaunderous railours that reporte it to be an heritical schismatical sedicious church I do not nowe nor in all this hole treatise speake of them that goo on wyth theyr religion vpon a certayn zeale and speake euil of vs rather through instigacion of other thā vpon theyr owne mynde beyng not yet so fully skilled as to knowe how pure and syncere our religiō is God lightē theyr hartes But I speake of those specially whych are called learned men and the leaders of the common sorte and are not ignoraunt of our doctrine and doynges and for that cause they most doggedly and falsely slaunder vs of enuye hatred and malice against the truthe yea rather of couetousnes thā ignoraunce and yet they cā make non ende of theyr false slaunderous railing Now forasmuche as it is more cleare than the light at none dayes hauing wyped and dryuen awaye all the mystye darke clowdes of all our aduersaryes that the gospellers churche is the true right catholike churche of christ it shal be our partes doubtles to contynue constauntly in thys true gospellike churche of God and to goo on forewarde chearefully in the waye of the lorde which we haue once allready entred in to If thys worlde condemne and persecute vs we knowe that the lorde hym self in tymes past tolde vs before hande of non other of no pleasaūter of no better for the world first persecuted him If the rable of mytred maisters of mischief which vaunt them selues to be the general counsail laufully assembled to gether in the holy goost doo accurse vs let vs considre that the lord hym selfe was condemned before vs of the highe bishop college of priestes and elders Let vs remembre that our God dothe blesse them that blesse the sede of Abraham and dothe curse them that curse it and that we for our true faithe in Christ are the true sede of Abraham In the meane tyme let vs contynually make our hartye earnest prayers to GOD our father by Iesus Christ our lord and saueour without whom we can doo nothyng that he wold graūt vs streynght to perseuer constauntly to continue in the blessed truthe of hys gospel to abyde stil in the right catholike churche of Christ Amen Truthe hathe the victorie 3. Esdr 4. This is the victorie that ouercomethe the worlde euen our faithe 1. Io. 5. ☞ Emprinted at Vvaterford the .7 daye of Nouembre 1555. ☞ *