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A16588 The hurte of hering masse. Set forth by the faithfull seruau[n]t of god [and] constant marter of Christ. IhonĖ„ Bradforth, whe[n] he was prisoner in the Tower of London Bradford, John, 1510?-1555. 1561 (1561) STC 3494; ESTC S109668 38,185 86

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more then apon thursdaye c. then vsed they ● rightlye Now lett vs see their .viii. reason It is Anabaptisticall saye they to absteyne from the ministerie and temple because of others mennis faultes rather men shulde proue and trye them selues then others The preists ilnes or the papistes errour can not hurte vs it wee in hart consēt not to their euil or alowe it This reason is lyk the rest For the mynisterie of goddes worde and the mans at two thinges the one meor repugnāt to the other and destroyers the one of y e other he doth wickedlye whiche with y e Anabaptistes or Donatisses thynke y t the faulte of y e minister or people shulde empaire christes ministerie or sacramētes and y e vertue and efficacie therof to him wardes In vsyng goddes ordinaūces let vs trie our selfes and not others But syr what ordinaūce of god c●l yea the masse who taught to praye publikelye in an vnknowen tonge who caught christes supper to be a priuate supper but of this looke more before Now will I dispatch their .ix. and .x. reasons 9.10 Bicause god beholdeth the harte and not y t outwarde apperaūce .1 re 12 because the eyes of god looke for faith Heremi .v. Bicause the bewtie of godds churche is with in psal xiv Therfore y e outward dede of going to masse forceith not if so be inwardlie it be not aproued To theis I aunswer y e indede it is true god looketh on the harte but yet so that he beholdeth the words and workes also Malach. His eyes looke on faithe But so that he casteth his eyes on mennys factes also psal And therfore the scrypture sayeth that godd wyll iudge after our workes and sayings rede Mat. 25 and .12 of the wordes thou shalt be iustefyed c. Theis therfore conclude not as theye gather but rather teach vs godds priuiledge which wee must not meddle with all ●nelie we must know the tra● by the tru●es the which frutes if at anie tyme they deceyue vs yet god can they neuer deceyue for he knoweth y e harte be knoweth y e fath and whether y e fruts springe therof or noe yea this sentence well wayed doch gyue vs occasion to set the popishe churche to be no churche in goddes sight as doith the sentence they alledge for theyr tenthe reasons of the bewtie of the Kyngges daughter that is the churche withe in For if we be holde the face of the popishe churche in respect of christes true churche whose bewtie in dede is al inward being replenished with the spirite of christ and the frutes of y e same outwardlie being but symple for she wyll adde nothinge to christes commandementes in goddes seruice and religion otherwise then for orders sake it I saye we beholde the face of the popishe church lord how it glistereth gorgiouse it is in cōparisō or christes true churche which is deformed in theis dayes but by the word of god trulye preachyd the sacramentes purelye minestred and sume discipline nothing so much as hath bene might be shuld be where as the popishe church wantes nothing to set hir selfe forth to the shew as he that considereth y e persones Pope Cardinalles Legates Archbisshoppes bissheppes suffraganes Abbores Priores Deanes Prebendarres archedeacons Canons Monkes Friers Persones Vicares Paryshprystes Masse prystes Nonnes susters nonices Deacones subdecones c. and a thousande moe the pore ryches honors promotions landes houses fare seruice as singing sayeng ringing playeng sensing c Impelmentes Crosses Chalices relykes Iewels Basens copes cruettes Vestimētes Bookes Belles candelles c. He I saye that considereth theis thinges he cannot but with Samuel thinking Eliab had bene he whom god had chosen Thynke this to be the catholike church and spouse of christ But this sētence sayeth the bewtie of goddes paramor is within and therfore this maye be suspected to be the rose colored whore S. Ihon speketh of in the Apocalipse For whome her ministers watch nyght daye how to mantaine theyr mystres whore madame with indowinge her w t the riches power and pleasures of y e earth where as the ministers of christs true churche watche and labour howe to enryche and bewtifie goddes people wyth Heauenlye ryches euen wythe the knowledge of god and hys chryste and ther fore they vse daylye preaching and publike prayeing and vsing the sacrament so as maye edifie They vrge men to repentaūces to begī a new life they wold haue men to horde by theyr treasures in heauen c. And this gayre they worlde lyketh not But murmureth at the ministers contemptneth thē pilleth them that for pouertye and lyuinges sake thee myght speake to please as experience hath taught hearin Englād But to make an ende of this matter I wold wyshe that they whiche vse suche sentences as theys be to hyde theyr manyfest ydolatrie and fornicatiō at y e masse wold know that theyr spouse is gelyouse and wyll aswell be angrye with them whoring so in their bodyes as they wold be yf ther wiues were taken in bodelye acte withe others wolde they take this excuse yf the wyfe shulde saye forsouth husbande this is no matter for I promise you no bodye but you alone hath myne harte c. God for hys mercies sake in chryste open our eyes hartes to se know loue his wyl y t wee maye serue hym there after God power into our harts the sence of chrystes sweete sacrifyce made for our sinnes in hys owne persone and by his owne selfe Thē suerlye we cānot but earnestlye detest thys masse wyiche is moste enemy● there ageinste and that not onnelye in spirite inwardelie but also in bodie outwardlye euen as all honest women can not but be sore greued in harte or bodelye acte to departe frome there husbandes The gretter loue in harte the wyfe hard to her husband the more pure wyl her bodie be kepte from the fellowship● of others And so it goeth with vs herein le●t vs therfore praye god to engraft his loue in our hartes and then vndoubtidlie we wyll neither do nor saye enyething that shall displease hym Let his worde be the lanterne vnto our feet none other waye to go then we shal see it giue lyght before vs. Let his word so lye and remayne in our hartes that it maye be as a leuen in vs to chaung y t fauor of all our wordes and workes to be therafter Let vs hyde goddes words in our hartes that we synne not Let vs kepe our feete from all enyiwayes that we maye kepe goddes lawes testimonies And here I wyll write an historye not vntill for this purpose as I thinke Ther was in y e time of Sapores king of Persia which cruellie persecuted the Christians a certayne Archebysshoppe Selenchya Etesiphon called Symon which was called before y e king diuerse tymes but at the last bound like a thefe for christes gospelles sake howbeit all preuailed nothyng constant he was
Iohn and bringe not this doctrine with him you shal not so much as great hym lest you be pertakers of hys euell And what doctrine is more contrarye to god and his gospell then is the masse The masse sayers then and approuers shulde not wee seke to which maye not receiue them if they shuld seke vnto vs excepte we wolde comunycate wyth theyr euyll 11 No man that putteth his hand to the plough and looketh backe is mete for gods kingdome muche moore then are we vnmeate therfore if wee I saye not loke backe but runne and go backe to see and heare that whiche iustlye we haue forsaken 12. What happened to Core and his allowers that he shuld take on hym the preisthode withoute callyng and wyll nothing happen to our arrogante massers that without callyng take vpō thē Christes preisthode to such as allowe and seme to allowe them Rede the historye Numery 16 13. Ihon the Euangelyst durst not tarye in the house where Cerinthus y t Heretike was whiche denyed chrystes manhod and indede the house fell and flewe hym all that euer remayned in the house with hym And shall not wee feare goddes vengaunce to be in companye at Masse with her mynions which denye christ both god and man making ther owne handie worke as good as he yea he hym selfe saye theye 14 Oh deafe eares that wyl not hear the blast of y e Angells trompe warning vs to come frō amonges theis whorishe Babylonians bellie god massemōgers lest we peryshe with them 15 Lothes wyfe looked but backe and was turned in to a salte stone And so are the hartes of our popishe protestaūtes I feare me hardened from fearyng god in that that they looke yea go backe agayne to theyr sodomiticall minion 16. The good father Mathathias wold in no poynt dissemble as though he had worshipped but our Masse Gospellers are farre vnlike to hym 17. We praye to be delyuered frō euel Libera nos a malo and yet we knowing the masse to be euell resort vnto it 18. What so euer is not of faith is sinn but to goo see or hear masse though but in bodye is not of faith for fayth hangeth on goddes word and goddes word is not herefore Therfore it is synne 19. Happie is he that condemneth not hym selfe in that thing which he alloweth marke by the cōtrarie whether our masse gospellers are not vnhappye and accursed by Paules iudgement 20. Halting sayeth the Apostel hindereth yea bringeth out of the waye And what other thing is it to go to masse in bodye and to be awaye in spirite but a playne haltynge a seruinge of two masters whiche noone can doo if Chryste be trew 21. Yf Iohn were iudge theis bodelie Massers shuld drinke w t theyr brethern the Baalites Read the historye and see whether he iudged not of their outward comming whose seruaūtes they were 22. Ae that denieth christ before men shalbe of hym denyed before god But masse hearers denye christe before men in faict dede although in tongue they professe otherwise Therfore I aduise them to take better heede rede Titus 1 and there shall you see y e denyeng christ is in faicte as well as in wordes 23. S. Paule to the beleife of the hart requireth the confession of the mouth houbeit our popishe protestauntes thinke this nedes not But yet Christe saith he that is asshamed of me that is of my true religion gospell before this faith lesse generation I wylde asshamed of hym before the Angelles of god in heauen Oh heauy sentence 24. He that toucheth pitche shalbe defiled ther with saieth Salomō And shal not there bodyes be somthyng smytted with the fylthynes of the masse that honest it with theyr presence 25. If in thold lawe the touching of a carion defyled hym that touched it at the least for a dayes space In that ther is noo caryon so stynkynge in goddes syght as the Masse let them that goeth to it how soeuer he be mynded knowe y t he is defiled so foule that all y e holye water in Rome Parys and London cannat purge hym ther from 26 Vnto these our Popishe protestātes I can not but saye as Helias sayd how long wil you halte on both knees if god be god folow him if the Masse be god goddes ordynaunce followe it 27 When Helias lamented y t all was gone a straye but he all were defyled w t Baal although in hart ther were many hated bal as thei thought wold haue cōfessed if Iezabell had not bene God said y t he had left .7000 which had not vowed ther knee to Baal he saith not which in harte hate Baal but which hath not bowed their knee to baall of y e outward signe demonstratinge his seruauntes And so now let vs not thinke good brotherne any to be his true worshipers but suche as not onelye in hart but also in dede deteste the Masse 28 S. Paule willeth vs to seperat ourselues from such as teach other doctrin and wyll not consent to the sounde doctrine of our sauiour Iesus christ wherfore in that the Massers teache an other doctrine thē christ or his Apostles euer taught and by theyr Massinge departe from the sound doctryne of Iesus christ by godddes commaundemēt we must separate our selues from them as no part of christes catholike church bragge thei therof neuer so muche 29 Peter wold that we being an holie people shulde be pure not in a peece but in all our conuersacion Paule wolde that we shulde absteiue ab omni specie mala from al apparaunce of euel being as light or Lanternes in the meddest of a froward generatiō and not darkenes as y t be And how maie this be for south by holding fast the worde of god and folowing it for so he teacheth there Rede the place 30 Azarias his .ii. companions knew they could not but displease god if with any owtwarde shewe they shulde haue semed to allowe the Idol Nabugodonozer caused to be set vp and therfore hazarded the fyer which our Masse gospellers will not doo to altar and turne the Quenes harte as by theys .iii. not obeyng Nabugodonozers precept god turned his harte 31 The bodye shal not be partaker of y e sentence geuen to the soule in iudgemēt of that wherof in this lyef it is not partaker with the spirite and soule This is Tertullians reason liber de resurrrexcione earnis 32. Yf thyne eye be single and trewe fayth in thyne harte then all thy bodye and actions can not but be pure But if they be darke it is a token thine eye and light with in thee to be darkenes This argueth saith to faith in thē which file theyr bodies in beyng presēt at the masse for as it is impossible light to be in an house and not to shewe it selfe at the slyfiers doore and wyndowes