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A68446	An humble supplicacion vnto God for the restoring of hys holye woorde, vnto the churche of Englande, mooste mete to be sayde in these oure dayes, euen with teares of euery true [and] faythfull English harte.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1554 (1554)	STC 1730; ESTC S110450	34,239	76

consyder thyne owne glory / the halowinge of thy blessed name / the auauncemente off thy glorious kyngdom / the accomplyshmēt of thy heauēly wil / the honour of thy only begottē sonne / the settingforth of hys holy Gospel / the purenes of the Christen religion / the syncere preachinge of thy lyuely worde / the true administraciō of thy wholsome sacramentes / the saluacion of suche as thy derely beloued sonne hathe boughte from the tyranny of sathan / with the pryce of hys moste precious and dere hart bloud These thinges / these thinges o heauenly father do we poore wretches craue and begge at thy merciful hande These thinges / these thinges ▪ euen with sorowfull groninges lamētable teares do we miserable captiues desyre the to consyder / and not so to suffer thine aduersaries to triumphe / as thoughe there were no God at all / no Christe / no Gospell / no faythe / no true religion / but whatsoeuer pleaseth the hypocrites to cōmaunde thy people to beleue Thou callest thy self a ielous God / why than doest thou Exod. 20 suffer thy people / thy congregacion / thy flocke / thyne heritage / to be thus seduced ledde awaye from the vnto all kynde of spiritual fornicacion / and abhominable whordome by that Antichriste of Rome / ●hat greate Baal / that stoute Nemroth / that Pestilences of the Christen cōmon vvealte fals prophet / that beast / that whore of Babylon / that sonne of perdicion / and by hys abhominable adherentes / Cardinalles / Archebischoppes / Bischoppes / Suffraganes / Archedeacons / Deanes / Prouostes / Prebēdaries / Commissaries / Parsonnes / Vicares / Purgatorierakers / Priestes / Monkes / Friers / Chanons / Nonnes / Anckers / Anckresses / Pardonners / Proctors / Scribes / Officialles / Sōners / Lawers / Massemongers / Can●nistes / Papis●es / Antichr●stes / Māmonistes / Epicures / Libert●●es / With all the table of beas●lye hypocrytes that haue receued the beastes mar● / which do not hing els than seke / how they may establishe their Antichristian kyngdom / by suppressinge thy holy worde / and leadinge thy people into all kynde of ●lyndenes / errours and lyes Thou callest thy self a Lorde / and thou sayeste / that thou wilt gyue thy glory to none other / nor thy prayse vnto grauen Imag●s / howe commeth it than to passe / that thou suffrest thy glory so too decaye in the realme of Englande / so many to steale awaye thy prayse and ●onoure / by sayenge their idolatrous and deuelishe masses / by Ab●omina●●lons ministeringe a sorte of Heythenish and Iewishe cerem●nies / by prayenge vntoo ●ead sainctes / by blottinge oute of the temples / thy holy lawe there written / according to thy commaundement / for the edifyenge of thy people / and by settinge vp in the steade therof Idols and Mawmettes / clea●e contrary Deut. 4. Heb. 12. to thy blessed worde Thou callest thy self a Lyō a cōsumīgfyre / threatenes● vtter destrucciō vnto thin aduersaries / whi suffereth thou thā these Antichristes thus to ryse / ro●e / rage / agaīst the testamēt of thy most dere sonne / to beat doune thy trueth / to call thy holy lawe heresy / to banishe the preachinge of the Gospel / the true ●se of the Sacramentes / to seke the destrucciō of so many as vnfaynedly loue the and thy blessed worde Thou promiseste / that so many as hate Psal 129. Syo● / that is to saye / thy faithfull congregacion / shal be confounded and broughte to noughte / howe cometh it thā to passe / that the wicked now florish like the grene olyue tree / liuing in all wealth / pompe and pleasure / and thy people / whome thou hast sealed with thy holy spirite vnto euerlasting lyfe / are moste miserablye entreated / some bannis●●ed / some in pryson / some cruellye murthered / but all in moste sorowfull miseries / and miserable sorowes Thou promises●e / that thou wilt deliuer Ezec. 34. thy flocke from the hande of the wicked shepehardes / and that thou thy selfe wilte fede them in moste pleasaunt and swete / pastures ah good God / how cometh it thā to passe / that wher as before thy shepe were f●dde with the confortable meate of thy glorious gospel / by the ministerie of the godly learned preachers / the faithfull shepehardes are driuen awaye / and a rable of rauening Acto 20 wolfes are bras●e into the shepefolde / which spare not the flocke / but cruelly murder / not ouly their bodies by ●mpr●sonning hanging / heading and brenning them / but their soulc● also by teaching them wicked and pestilent doctrine Thy moste dere sonne / bothe promised prophecied / that euery plante / whiche thou the heauenly father haste not planted / ●hal be plucked vp by the rootes / but we se it otherwise Math. 15. come to passe in the realm of Englande For suche plantes / as the deuill and hys chaplens had planted / were thorowe the diligence and godly zele of thy seruauntes kynge Henry the eyghte / and kyng Edward the syxte / moste blessedly plucked vp / and thy holy ordinaunces agayne planted vnto the greate ioye and vnspeakeable conforte of all the faithfull But now / thorow the tyranny and blynde zele of certayne / are thy blessed statutes plucked vp by the rootes / and set in agayn / are the damnable decrees / and crocked constitucions of Antichriste / vnto the excedinge greate griefe / sorow and pensyuenes of all faithfull Christians Ah Lorde God / seme these thinges matters of s●al importans / before the eyes of thy diu●ne maiestie Can these outragious thīges be done in earth / thou wincke at them in heauen Arte not thou he / that kepeth Israel Psal 121. Esa 59. But he neither sleapeth nor slombreth / sayeth the Psalmographe / that kepeth Israel Aryse therfore / o Lord / why sleapest thou Is thy eare so stopped / that thou canste no more heare And is thy hāde so shortened / that it can nomore healpe O Lord / arise for thy mercies sake / helpe vs. Haste the to deliuer vs for thy name sake / for great are oure troubles / intollerable are oure miseries Ah Lorde / vouchesafe once again to looke dounefrō heauen / cōsyder the lamentable state of the realme off England / of the godly inhabitaūtes therof / which desyre nothing so greatly / as to se thy true honour perfectly setforth / thy holy worde truly preached / the Christen religion hyghly aua●nced / and thy holy name sanctified / praysed / magnified commended for euer Ah Lorde God / heretofore in the time of Kinge Hēry the ●yght● thy blessinge / thou gauest to the realme off Englande a man to reygne ouer it / vnder whome the churche was purged of many enormities great abuses / the true religion began to haue good successe And whā it

was thy godly pleasure too call hym frō this vale of misery / vnto thy heauēly kingdome / thou gauest vnto vs his sonne to be Kyng Edvvarde the sixte oure Kynge / a Prince / althoughe yonge in yeares / tender in age / yet auncieut in the knowledge of the / of thy sonne Christ / of thy holy worde / as another Iosias / altogether bent vtterly to wedeout al fals religion / supersticiō / hypocrisye / papistrie / c. after a moste perfect manner / to set vp thy holy religion / to auaūce the har●y fauourers of thesame / vnto the great wōderful exāple of all Christen princes But alas for sorow / this most goodly godly Impe / this moste Christē kyng / this noble yōge Iosias was for oure vnthankefulnes wicked lyuing taken awaye from vs / before the tyme vnto our great sorow vnspeakable hartes disease Whose death was the beginning / is now still the cōtinuaūce of all our sorowes / griefes miseries For in the steade of that verteous prince / thou haste set to rule ouer vs an womā / whom nature hath formed 1. Tim. 2. to be in subiecciō vnto mā / whō thou by thyne holy Apostle cōmaundest to kepe silēce / not to speake in the cōgregaciō Ah Lord / to take away the empire frō a mā / to gyue it vnto a womā / semeth to be an euidēt tokē of thyne āger toward vs Englishmen Esa ● For by the Prophet● / thou beyng displeased with thy people / threatnest to sette womē to rule ouer thē / as people vnworthy to haue lawful / natural mete gouernors to reign ouer thē And verely though we fynd / that womē somtime bare rule amōg thy people / yet do we rede / that suche as ruled were quenes / were for the moste part wicked / vngodly / supersticious / geuē to idolatry / to al filthy abhominaciō / as we may se in the histories of quene Iesabel / 3. Reg. 19. 4. Reg. 11 quene Athalla / quene Herodias / such like Ah Lorde God / we dare not take vpon vs Math. 14 to iudge anye creature / for vnto the alone are the secretes of all hartes knowne / but of this are we sure / that synce she ruled / whyther of her owne disposicton / or of the prouocacion of a certayne wylde bore / successor Psal 80. Acto 23. too Ananias that whygh●ie daubed waulle / we know not / thy vineyarde is vtterly rooted vp and layde waste / thy true religion is bannished / and popishe supersticion The clo●e of papistes too deceaue the simple hath preuayled / yea / that vnder the coloure of the catholicke churche / and the olde auncient fayth / whan notwithstanding darkenes is not more contrary to light / nor colde vnto heate / than their procedinges are cōtrary to the trueth of thy holy worde if the practise and doctrine of the true catholicke churche / we speake of the Patriarches and Prophetes / of Christe and hys Apostles / and of so many godly people / as lyued from Adam vnto the tyme that Antichrist / the bisshop of Rome set vp his kyngdome 2 Thes 2. / and auaūced hym self aboue all that is called God might be the iudge / go for payment For besydes the geuinge of the kyngdome / vnto the rule of a woman / O Lorde / we mos●e humbly beseche the / to cōsider that outragious floudes of moste greuous enormities / haue braste in and ouerflowed the realme of Englād / vnto the vtter subuersion of thesame / except thy merciful goodnes do the shortly helpe Ah Lord God / heretofore vnder the rule Psal 50 Rom. 10. of that moste Christen kinge Edwarde the ●yxte / we were ●aught accordīg to thy word to fle with oure prayers vnto the alone / in all our troubles and necessities / as a Lorde plētefully ryche for so many as call on the. God alone is to be called on But nowe the Antichristiane Preachers teache / that we muste also praye to creatures that are dead / that they maye pray for vs / or els we praye vnto the invayne / and oure prayers shal neuer be hearde Heretofore we were taught / that Christ 1. Tim. 2. 1. Ioan. 8. Roma 2. Christalene is oure mediator aduocate and intercessour God and man is oure alone mediatoure / aduocate and intercessore But now the priestes of Baal teach / that Mary / Iames Peter / Ihon / Paule / Andrew / we know not who / are also oure mediators / aduocates and Intercessoures / and that we muste call vppon them in oure troubles and aduersities / whan soeuer we will haue to do with the / namely if we will haue our matter go forwarde Heretofore we were taughte / that the 1. Ioan. 1. Apoc. 1. Christes bloud is the alo●e Purgatory off the faithful precious bloude of oure sauioure Christe is the alone and sufficient Purgatory for the synnes of all them that repēt beleue But now the papistes teache / that there is a purging place after this lyfe / where the soules of the faithful shal be mise●ably tormented with fyrye f●ames / tyll eyther they them selfes haue made satis●accion for all their synnes / by suffering dew punishment or els other in this world haue made amēdes for them / by prayeng / by synging of trē talles / by goyng on ●ylgrimage / by dealeng monye / by ●yenge the pepes pardons for their redempcion / and suche lyke / whan the holy scripture contrariwise teacheth / that Sap. 3. Apoc. 14 the faythful so sone as they departe frome this lyfe / go streyghtwayes vnto glorye / ●he vnfaythful vnto euerlastinge payne damnacion / as we maye se in the historie of the ryche glotton / and of the poore man Lazarus Luc. 16 Heretofore we were taught / that Christ Christis one and alone sacrifice sufficith foreuer and euer Esa 53. Heb. 7. 9. 10. 1. Pet. 2. Apoc. 1. thy sonne and oure alone Sauiour / made vpon the aultare of the crosse / whan he suffered and dyed for vs / so sufficient / perfect / absolute and consummate oblacion / and sacrifice for the synnes of the people / that by that one / and alone sacrifice / grace / fauour / mercy / forgeuenes of synnes euerlastinge lyfe / is for euer and euer plentefully obtayned of the / for so many as repent beleue But now a dayes / those Baali●e massemongers are not ashamed to reproue that swete smelling sacrifice of Christe / and too saye / that it is not so perfect / but that they also muste offer Christ vp againe dayly in their masses for the synnes of the people / that their oblacion is a propiciatory sacrifice / and of no les vertue / strength / efficaci● might and power / than the pashon death of Christ