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A briefe discourse against the outwarde apparell and ministring garmentes of the popishe church
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Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.
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vpon an another point wher he is sure to finde sea rome ynough And shall we that be lodes men the shippe of Christ to trye our cunning creepe so neare the flattes or rocks the we put our whole charge in daunger of perishing by falling vpon them God forbydde That wise politike gouernour of Gods shippe S. Paule woulde not venter so farre But seing daunger in the vse of indifferent thinges he sayth Omnia mihi licent sed non omnia conducunt Omnia mihi licent sed non omnia aedificant 1. Cor. 10 It is leeful for me a to doe al things meaning of things indifferent but all things doe not profit It is leefull for me to do all things but al things do not edifie Againe he sayth Bonum est non manducare carnem non bibere vinum neque quicquam in quo frater tuus impingit aut offenditur aut infirmatur Ro. 14 It is good sayth S. Paule not to eate fleshe nor to drink wine nor to do any other thing wherat thy brother doth stumble or is offended or made weake Yea and the same S. Paule exhorting the Corinthes to set them selues free from all the superstitions of the Heathen saith thus vnto them Eandem autem habentes remunerationem tanquam filiis dico dilatemini vos 2. cor 6. Nolite iugum ducere cum infidelibus You also hauing the same rewarde with me I speake as vnto mine owne children set youre selues at libertie be not willing to drawe in one yoke with the infidelles What confort can there be betwixte righteousnesse vnrighteousenesse Or what fellowship hath light with darkenesse And what agreement is there betwene Christe and Beliall Or what parte can a faithfull man haue with an infidell And howe agreeth the temple of God with Images You are the temple of the lyuing God as sayth God I will dwel in them I will walk amongst them I will be their God and they shall be may people Wherfore get ye out from amongst them Esaie 52 and separate your selues from them sayth the Lorde And see that ye touch no vncleane thyng and I will receyue you And I will be your father Iere. 32. and you shall be my sonnes and daughters sayth the Lorde almightie These places of scriptures doe moue as to flye from al suche thinges as haue bene brought into the church of Christ eyther contrary or besides the worde of God And to embrace vse those things onely which are commaunded or haue good grounde in the holy worde of God Not despising the auctoritie that God hath giuen to Princes and other Potentates but preferring the commaundement of him that is the giuer of auctoritie before the comaundement of those that haue none auctoritie of themselues but haue receyued theyr auctoritie at hys hande and shall aunswere to hym for the vse therof And herein we follow the cōmaundement of God and the example of all good men The seruaunt of God Moses hath sayde Non addetis ad verbum quod ego vobis loquor Deut. 4 nec auferetis ex eo Custodite mandata Domini Dei vestri quae ego praecipio vobis Ye shall not adde any thing vnto the worde that I speake vnto you neyther shall ye take any thing from it Kepe the commaundements of the Lorde your God which I doe commaunde you And againe he sayth Non declmabitis neque ad dexteram neque ad sinistram Deut. 5. sed per viam quā praecepit Dominus Deus vester ambulabitis vt vi uatis bene sit vobis protelentur dies vestri in terra possessionis vestrae You shall not bow neyther to the right hande nor to the left but by the waye that the Lorde your God hath commaunded you shall ye walke that ye may lyue and prosper that your dayes may be long in the land of your possessiō King Saule walked not in this waye 1. Re. 15. but bowed to the right hande of his owne good intent And therefore he prospered not but was rooted out with al his offspring and one set vp in his place that had a pleasure to walk in that way 3. Re. 12 King Roboham walked not in this waye but bowed to the left hand of his owne malitious tyrannie and therefore ten of the twelue kindreds of Israel were taken from him and giuen to his neighbour 4. Re. 20. King Ezechias walked in this way and therefore in his trouble he founde fauour helpe at the Lordes hande and when he was sicke he found health and had .xv. yeares added to his life ended his life in the Lord. As many as haue walked in this waye haue done it bicause they haue had and assured hope of a farre better lyfe and more blessed estate after this lyfe Heb. 11. And therefore the trouble that they sustayned here hath not bene greuous vnto them for they had the rewarde alwayes before their eyes The true Prophets The true Prophets woulde neuer pleasure Princes by addyng to the commaundements of God nor yet by taking anithing therefor by bowing to the right hande or to the lefte But they dyd alwayes walke straight forth in his cōmandemēs although they did oftentimes sustayne great displeasure at Princes handes for so doing false prophetes But the false Prophets did alwayes marke the inclinacion of Princes fashion them selues to the pleasure of Princes For they were al brought vp in Gnatoes schoole and had learned to say Aiunt aio negant nego If they say it then I say it too If they doe denye it then doe I denie it also Such were the false prophetes in the dayes of King Achab who being in number foure hundreth did with one consent prophecie that the King should prosper in the warres that he purposed to take in hande against Ramoth in Galaad But the true Prophet Michea could not flatter for he had not bene brought vp in flatterers schoole 3. Re. 22. And therfore he saide Vidi cunctum Israel dispersum in montibus sicut oues non habentes pastorem Et ait Dominus non habent isti dominum Reuertatur vnusquisque in domum suam in pace I sawe all Israell scattered abrode in the mountaines as sheepe without a shepheard And the Lorde sayd These men haue no master let euery one retourne into his owne house in peace This plaine man that coulde no skill of flattering was striken and cast into prison and threatened a worse tourne but the false Prophets were highly esteemed tyll theyr prophecie was proued false Micheas prophecie true It hath alwayes bene the maner of the true prophetes to be sure that they might truely saye Eze. 13. Haec dicit dominus Thus saith the Lord but the false Prophetes could neuer truely say so For they vsed allwayes to prophecie out of their owne fantasies Mat. 15 Our Sauyour Christ taught none other thing than the will of his heauenly
price 3s 4d A briefe discourse against the outwarde apparell and Ministring garmentes of the popishe church psalme 31. I haue hated all those that holde of superstitious vanities 1566. ¶ The Booke to the Reader THe Popes attyre whereof I talke I knowe to be but vaine Wherfore some men that wittie are to reade mee will disdaine But I woulde wishe that such men shoulde with iudgement reade me twise And marke how great an euill it is Gods Preachers to disguise I knowe a cocks combe can not take from wise men any wit So doe I knowe that such attyre is for no wise man fit Good mindes can not but much mislike to see good men displaste But better mindes woulde sorrowe more to see such men defaste Their persons if ye do respect the matter is but small But on their office if ye looke then are they guides of all The Preacher is a messanger sent from no worldely wight But from that Prince that pearlessâ— is and made all by his might King Dauid coulde not take it well but thought himselfe dispisde When Hanon sent his seruauntes backe dishonorde and disguisde And shall not God thinke you reuenge himselfe vpon that route That to deface or else displace his Preachers goe about Yes doubtlesse for the mighty God will not long tyme endure The spite of such as so doe seeke to worke him displeasure All wise men therfore will beware How they doe such men wrong As haue such one to take their parte as for all is to strong God graunt that all men may once see on which side truth doth stande And pray to him for such as be made Rulers of the lande That they hauing before their eyes the feare of God aboue May seeke to set Gods worde in place and all vayne toyes remoue FINIS A declaration of the doings of those Ministers of Gods worde and Sacraments in the Citie of London which haue refused to weare the outwarde apparell and Ministring garmentes of the Popes church COnsidering how hurteful a thing it is to a christian coÌ„mon weale to haue the ministers of Gods worde despised and brought into coÌ„temt we haue thought it our dutie briefly to declare in writing to set forth to be seene of al men some parte of the reasons groundes of our doings in refusing to weare the outwarde apparel ministring garments of the popes church First we consider that the power that God hath giuen to his Ministers is giuen them that they should therby edifie or build vp the Church of Christ not destroy it or pul it downe according as S. Paule writeth to the Corinths 2. Cor. 13. Of which edifying or building of the church of Christ the same S. Paule speaketh in that Epistle that he wrote to the Ephesians It were to long to cite all his words in order we will therfore set downe certaine sentences referringe the Reader to the places where the same are written by S. Paule in that his Epistle First he saith thus I am non estis hospites c. Ye are not nowe straungers and forreners but ye are Citizens togither with the saints and of the housholde of God being builded vpon the foundation of the Apostles Prophets Eph. 2. Iesus Christ being the Head stone in the corner In whom whatsoeuer building is encreased it groweth into an holy temple in the Lorde These wordes doth S. Paule write to signify that the church of Christ which is builded of liuing stones timber taken out both from among the Iewes and the gentiles must be builded vpoÌ„ the firme sure foundation Iesus Christ not vpon any other for he was that foundatioÌ„ that the Apostles Prophets builded vpon and that the building which is set vpon that foundation doth growe in to an holy Tempell in the Lorde The builders must not suffer it to decay but they must still labour diligently that it may growe into an holy temple and that till it be as large as beautiful as it is possible for it to be in this vale of misery So farre of woulde S. Paule haue all the builders of gods temple to be from the pulling downe or defacing any parte therof Againe the same S. Paule sayth in the same Epistle Idem dedit alios quidem Apostolos c. Eph. 4. The same hath giuen vs some to be Apostles some to be Prophets some to be Euangelists some to be Shepheardes and some to be teachers to furnishe the Saintes vnto the work af administration for the building vp of the body of Christ till we doe all come into the vnitie of fayth the acknowledging of the sonne of God That we may be a perfect man and come into the measure of the ful age of Christ That we be no more babes to wauer and to be caryed about with euery winde of doctrine through the craftinesse and wylinesse of men wherby they set vpoÌ„ vs to disceiue vs. c. And afterwarde in the same chapter he saith I speake and testifie these things euen on the Lordes behalfe that ye should not walke as other nations doe in the vanitie of their owne mindes By these wordes S. Paule doth plainely teache â—â—e dutie 〈◊〉 a faithâ—ll preaâ—â—er that al such as are appointed to minister in the Church of Christ must be still occupied in building and neuer in pulling down neither in staying the reast froÌ„ going forwarde with the building they haue begonne And that such shoulde not be so babishe that they may be caryed away with euery straunge Doctrine or deceyued with euery subtile persuasion nor walke in the vanitie of their owne mindes but be stayde by the holy worde of God and in all things acknowledge the sonne of God by exercising their Ministeries according to his institution so nere as possibly they may vtterly renouncing forsaking all those vnprofitable ceremonies rytes that men haue deuised without sure grounde in Gods holy word in following the vanity of their owne mindes We therefore knowing that we haue receiued power to edifie and not to destroy that a day will come wherin we shal be sure to receyue at his handes whose builders we are according to our doings eyther in building or plucking downe or in staying hindring of that which should haue bene builded by others dare not be so bolde as to admit the outwarde ministring apparell of the popes church til it may manifestly appeare vnto vs that the same may helpe forwarde and not pull downe staye or hinder the building vp of the Lordes temple which is his Church or congregation purchased bought with so deare a price as the heart bloud of his most derely beloued and only begotten Sonne Christ Iesus We woulde not therfore in these dayes refuse them if we might but conceiue an hope that the vse of them might helpe forwardes with the Lordes building but forasmuch as we see playnely the contrary we may in no case admit them Wee graunt