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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

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A supplycacion to our moste soueraigne lorde Kynge Henry the eyght / Kynge of England of Fraunce and of Irelande / moste ernest defender of Christes gospell / supreme heade vnder God here in erthe / next immedyatly of his churches of Englande and Irelande Matthei .ix. The harweste is greate but the laborers are fewe Wherfore praye the lorde of the harweste to sende forthe laborers into his harweste A supplication to our moste soueraigne Lorde Kynge Henry the eyght Kynge of England / of Fraunce / and of Irelande c. MOst dreade Soueraigne lorde most christen Prynce / whē I remembre the lamentable wonderfull great blyndnes wherin the most parte of all Englāde not onely of the layete called the temporaltie / but also of the Clergie / haue pytuousely erred and wandered many hundereth yeres / acceptinge / reputynge / most vngodly / erronyousely / and blyndely / estemynge the Bysshop of Rome to be supreame head ouer aboue all christen congregatiōs and in dyuerse other poyntes suche as be touchynge the necessarye articles of our faithe I coulde not but meruell how and by what meanes suche pestilent errours and horrible darke blyndenes coulde or myght entre / Invade ouerflowe this your realme / to contynewe so longe in the same / not espied / perceyued / nor repelled Consideringe that by all that tyme and space this your Realme as the most parte of men dyd then iudge and esteame was well endowed / replenyshed / and furnyshed with many profounde lerned clerkes / wherof some were Bysshops Archedeacōs / Deanes / Prebendaries / Parsons / Doctours / Bachelars in deuinite / other profounde lerned clerkes in bothe the vniuersytees which were / graue / sage / auncyent fathers Contemplatinge and reuoluinge these things in my mynde not a lytle moued / troubled / and vexed with the same / I applyed me with all my powre dyligence exquysytely to serche to knowe the originall grounde cause therof And in cōclusyon amōgest other things it chaunced me to reade in the .v. chapiter of Ezay a proposition that muche lamenteth the captyuite and bondage which cōmeth groweth to all people for lacke of knowleage in godds worde / Sayeng / Therfore cōmeth my flocke also into captyuite / because they haue not vnderstandinge / their glory is famyshed with hunger / their pryde marred with chyrste Therfore gapeth hell and openeth her mouthe meruelousely wyde By this text graciouse lorde it appeareth that all myserable blyndenes captyuite bondage vnder synne / cōmeth for lacke of knowleage in Gods worde Mar. xij I had forgotten at that tyme / that Christ reproued the Pharasees / sayeng / You erre not knowinge the scriptures Which reproue and rebuke shulde haue ben a suffycient admonyciō and doctryne to me and to all other wherby we myght haue knowen that all erroure commeth for lacke of vnderstandinge knowleage in the scriptures But by what reason then coulde there be suche erroure and blyndenes for lacke of knowleage in Gods worde in this your realme most gracyouse lorde / seing there were suche profounde clerkes auncyent fathers / Bysshops and studentes in the same / which dyd teache preache vnto the people cōtynually The Apostle Paul in the .vi. chapiter to Timothe descrybeth two kyndes of doctrynes / the one he calleth a godly doctryne a doctryne of helth / the other he calleth a proude doctrine full of vnprofitable questions / stryuynge more for wordes than for godly knowleage / wherof spryngeth envy / stryffe / raylings / euyll surmysyngs / vayne dysputacions of mē with corrupte myndes destytute of the trueth / which thinke that lucre is godlynes This kynde of lernynge and subtle dysputacyons vnto this daye we call scole matters / from the which Paul commaundeth all christyans to separate thē selues ij Ti. iij Soche clerkes sayeth Paul / be euer lernynge / but neuer atteyne to the knowleage of the trueth With suche wayne vngodly and vnprofitable lerninge / this your realme most redoubted soueraigne was ouer moche replenyshed through the preachinge and teachinge of suche scole men subtyll disputers / otherwise called deceyuers Which was one of the causes of our myserable blyndnes / and of dyuerse errours and abuses spronge vp and crept in to this your graces realme For certeynely if the clerkes of this your graces realme / had bene endowed with true knowleage of Gods worde / and had also syncerely preached the same / althoughe suche errours and blyndnes had entered into this realme / yet they shulde neuer haue so longe contynewed in the same / but we shulde haue bene delyuered through the worde clerely from them As Christe saieth Io. viij If you continewe in my wordes / then are you my very disciples / shall knowe the trueth / the trueth shall delyuer yow / and make you free Therfore most dread soueraigne lorde / seinge that all erroure / spyrytuall blyndnes / myserable captyuite / and seruyle bondage vnto synne commeth for lacke of knowleage and syncere vnderstādinge in the holy scriptures / and of the cōtrarye parte / through the knowleage syncere vnderstandinge of the holy scripturs we knowe god our father and his sonne Ihesus Christ our lorde / which is eternall liffe / we be also become free frō all condempnation of synne Io● v. Io. xvij And through the syncere and true knowleage of the worde we be newly regenerate become the childerne of god / the habitacle and dwellinge place of the holy ghoste / which moueth steareth vs euer to mortefye the fleshe / all her synfull lusts and concupiscence / to abhor and resyst vice What is then so necessary good and profitable for the christian people bothe spirituall and cyuile wealthe / as the worde wherby we receyue faithe / by faithe the holy ghoste What troubleth all commen wealthes / but treason / murder thefte / couetuousnes / adulterye / extorcion / whordome / dronckenes / periurye / suche other synne / as saythe the holy ghoste Prouer. xiiij Iustice and rightuousnes maketh the people wealthy / but synne maketh the people most myserable And all these the faithfull through the true and syncere vnderstādinge of gods worde / doo euer studye and labour to ouercome / and vtterly to abholyshe by faythe As Paul sayeth Gal. v. They which be Christes / doo crucyfye the fleshe with her lustes and concupiscence All good workes and counceyles encreased and stablyshed through faythe There is no study / striffe / nor laboure agaynst synne but through faithe All conscyences that be quyet from synnes / onely through faythe be made quyet Rom. v As Paul sayeth / Because we are iustyfyed by faithe / we are at peace with god through our lorde Ihesus Christ What counforte hathe any Christian man in aduersytyes / temptacions / desperation / but onely by fayth in Gods worde The Christyan man hathe noo refuge nor