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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00718	An admonition to the Parliament	Fielde, John, d. 1588.; Gwalther, Rudolf, 1519-1586.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608.	1572 (1572)	STC 10848; ESTC S102020	41,634	60

childe in the forhead with a crosse in token that heereafter he shall not be ashamed to confesse the fayth of Christe We haue made mention before of that wycked deuorse of the worde and sacramentes We say nothing of those that are admitted to be witnesses what ill choyse there is made of them how conuenyent it were seing the children of the faythfull onely are to be baptized that the father should and might if conueniently offer present his child to be baptized making an open confession of that faith wherin he wold haue his childe baptized as is vsed in well reformed churches 9 As for Matrimonie that also hathe corruptions too many It was wonte to be compted a sacrament and therfore they vse yet a sacramental signe to which they attribute the vertue of wedlocke I meane the wedding ring which they fowly abuse and dally with all in taking it vp and laying it downe In putting it on they abuse the name of the Trinitie they make the newe marryed man according to the Popish forme to make an idol of his wife saying with this ring I thee wedde with my body I thee worshippe c. And bicause in Poperie no holy action mighte be done without a masse they enioyne the marryed persones to receiue the communion as they do theyr bishoppes and priestes when they are made c. other p●rtie things oute of the booke we speake not of as that women contrary to the rule of the Apostle come and are suffered to come bare headed with bagpipes and ●idlers before them to disturbe the congregation and that they must come in at the great dore of the church or else all is ●arred With diuers other heathnish toys in sondry countries as carying of whea●e she affes on theyr heads and ca●●ing of corne with a nūber of such like wherby they make rather a Maie game of marryage then a holy Institution of God. 10 As for confyrmation which the papists and our m● say was in times past Apostolical groūding their opinion perhaps vpon some dreame of Hierome yet as they vse it by the bishop alone to thē that lack both discretion and faithe it is superstitious not agreable to the word of God but popish peuishe As though baptim were not already perfect but neded confyrmation or as though the bishop coulde giue y holy ghost 〈◊〉 They appoynt a prescript find of seruice to bury the dead And that which is the duety of euery christian they tie alone to the minister wherby pr●ier for y dead is maintained and partly gathered out of some of the prarers where they pray y we with thys our brother all other departed in the true faith of thy holy name may haue our perfect cons●●●●ation and blisse bothe in body soule We say nothing of the threefold peale bicause that it is rather licensed by iniunction then commaunded in theyr boke nor of theyr straūge mourning by chaunging theyr garmentes which if it be not hipocritical yet it is superstitious heathnish bicause it is vsed only of custom nor of burial sermons which are put in place of trentalles wherout spring many abuses and therfore in the best reformed churches are remoued As for the superstitions vsed bothe in countrey and citie for the place of buryall which way they must lie how they must be fetched to churche the mynister meeting them at churche stile with surplesse with a companye of greedie clarkes that a crosse whyte or blacke must be set vpon the deade corpes that breade muste be gyuen to the poore and offrings in Buryall tyme vsed and cakes sent abrode to frendes by cause these are rather vsed of custome and superstition then by the authoritie of the boke Small commaundement will serue for the accomplishyng of suche things But great charge will hardly bryng the least good thyng to passe and therefore all is let alone and the people as blinde and as ignorante as euer they were God be mercyfull vnto vs and open our eyes that we may see what that good and acceptable will of God is and be more earnest to prouoke hys glory 12 Churching of women after childbirthe smelleth of Iewish purifycation theyr other rytes customes in theyr lying in comming to churche is foolishe and superstitious as it is vsed Shee muste lie in wyth a white sheete vppon her bed and come couered wyth a vaile as ashamed of some folly Shee must offer but these are matters of custome and not in the boke But thys Psalme as is noted before is childishly abused I haue lift vp mine eyes vnto the ly●ls ●rō whence commeth my helpe The sunne shall not burne th●e by day nor the moone by nyght 13 In all theyr order or seruice there is no edification according to the rule of the Apostle but confusion they ●osse the Psalmes in most places like ●ennice balles They pray that al men may be saued that they may be deliuered from thundering tempest whē no dāger is nigh That they sing Benedictus Nūc dimittis and Magnificat we knowe not to what purpose except some of them were ready to die or excepte they would celebrate the ine●ory of the virgine and Iohn Baptist c. Thus they prophane the holy scriptures The people some standing some walking some talking some reading some praying by themselues ●●tēd not to the minyster He againe posteth it ouer as fast as he can galloppe For eyther he hath two places to serue or else there are some games to be playde in the afternoone as lying for the whetstone heathnishe dauncing for the ring a beare or a bull to be baited or else Iacke an apes to ride on horssebacke or an enterlude to be plaide if no place else can be gotten this enterlude must be playde in the church ▪ c. Nowe the people sit and now they stand vp When the old Testament is read or the lessons they make no reuerēce but when the gospel commeth then they * al stand vp For why they thinke that to be of greatest authoritie and are ignorante that the scriptures came from one spirite When Iesus is named then of goeth the cap and downe goeth the knees wyth suche a scraping on the ground that they cannot heare a good while after so that the word is hindred but whē any other names of God are mentioned they make no curtesie at all as though the names of God were not equal or as though all reuerence oughte to be giuen to the syllables We speake not of ringing when Mattens is done and other abuses incident Bicause we shal be answered that by the boke they are not maintayned only we desire to haue a booke to reforme it As for organes and curious singing thoughe they be proper to Popyshe dennes I meane to Cathedrall churches yet some others also must haue them The Queenes chappell and these churches whych shoulde be spectacles of christia●… reformation are rather paternes