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A13091	The second part of the anatomie of abuses conteining the display of corruptions, with a perfect description of such imperfections, blemishes and abuses, as now reigning in euerie degree, require reformation for feare of Gods vengeance to be powred vpon the people and countrie, without speedie repentance, and conuersion vnto God: made dialogwise by Phillip Stubbes.; Anatomie of abuses. Part 2	Stubbes, Phillip.	1583 (1583)	STC 23380; ESTC S112627	103,282	240

of this our age as in a glasse shalt see Be warnd therefore thy life amend while thou hast time and space That in the end in heauen blisse thou maist haue thy solace Thine in the Lord. I.S. THE DISPLAY OF corruptions requiring reformation for feare of Gods iudgements to be powred vpon the people and country without speedie amendement The speakers THEODORVS and AMPHILOGVS GOD blesse you my friend and well ouertaken Amphilogus You are hartilie welcome good sir with all my hart Theod. How farre purpose you to trauell this way by the grace of God Amphil. As far as Nodnol if God permit Theod. What place is that I pray you and where is it scituate Amphil. It is a famous citie and the chiefest place in Dnalgne haue you not heard of it Theod. No truely For I am a stranger and newly come into these countries onely to sée fashions and to learne the state and condition of those things whereof I am ignorant Amphil. What country man are you I pray you if I may be so bold as to aske Theod. I am of the country and nation of the Idumeans a cruell fierce and seruile kind of people Amphil. I haue béene in those countries my selfe ere now and therefore it is maruell that you knowe me not Theod. Me thinke I should knowe you but yet I cannot call your name to remembrance Amphil. My name is Amphilogus somtime of your acquaintance though now you haue through tract of time which is Omniū rerum edax A deuourer of al things forgot the same But notwithstanding that you haue forgot me yet I remember you very well is not your name Maister Theodorus Theod. Yes truly my name is Theodorus I neither can nor yet will euer denie the same Amphil. What make you in these countries if I may aske you without offence Theod. Truly I came hither to sée the country people and nation to learne the toong and to sée as I told you the state generally of all things Amphil. You are most hartily welcome and I hauing béene a traueler borne in these countries and knowing the state thereof in euerie respect to congratulate your comming will impart vnto you the substance and effect therof in as few words as I can Theod. I praie you then giue me leaue vnder correction to aske you such necessary questions as are incident to my purpose and which may serue for my better instruction in all the foresaide premisses Amphil. Go to then aske on in the name of God and I will addresse my selfe to satisfie your reasonable requests in any thing I can Theod. What be the inhabiters of this countrie Be they a vertuous godlie and religious kinde of people or other wise cleane contrarie Amphil. Surely they are as all other countries and nations be for the most part inclined to sinne and wickednes drinking vp iniquitie as it were water but yet I am persuaded that albeit all flesh hath corrupted his way before the face of GOD yet is there not any nation or countrey vnder the sunne that for pride whoredome droonkennes gluttonie and all kinde of oppression iniurie and mischiefe may compare with this one country of Dnalgne God be mercifull vnto it and hasten his kingdome that all wickednes may be done away Theod. Then as in all other countries where euer I haue trauelled so in this also is verified the old adage namely that the first age of the world was called Aurea aetas the golden age for that men liued godlie in the feare of God the second age was called Argentea aetas the siluer age for that men began somewhat to decline and fall from their former holinesse and integritie of life to sinne and wickednes the thirde and last age which is this that we are fallen into is and may iustlie be called Ferrea or Plumbea aetas the yron or leaden age in as much as now men are fallen from all godlinesse whatsoeuer and are as it were wedded to iniquitie committing sinne without any remorse and running into all kinde of abhomination and impietie without restraint All which things dulie in the good hart of a faithful christian considered weied may easilie persuade a wise man to think their destruction to be at hand except they repent Amphil. You saie verie well Therfore I would wish them to take héed to themselues and to leaue their wickednes before the Lords wrath be gon out against them for let them be sure that when the measure of their wickednesse is full then will the Lord cut them off from the face of the earth if they repent not and truely turne to the Lord. The wise man saith that a little before destruction come the hart of man shall swell into pride and wickednes Our sauiour Christ saith when men flatter themselues and saie peace peace al things are well we néede not to feare any thing then euen then shall sudden destruction fall vpon them as sorrow commeth vpon a woman trauelling with childe and they shall not escape bicause they would not knowe the Lord nor the day of his visitation Which thing we sée to be true through al the histories of the sacred Bible for when the Sodomits and Gomorreans had filled vp the measures of their iniquitie and faciate themselues in sinne then came there fire and brimstone raining from heauen vpon them and their citie and consumed them all from the vpper face of the earth When all the worlde in the daies of Noah was giuen ouer to sinne and wickednes immediatelie came the floud of Gods vengeance and destroied them all eight persons to wit Noah his wife his thrée sonnes and their wiues who serued the Lord in true simplicity of hart onelie excepted The Hierosolimitanes when their sinne was ripe were they not confounded and put to the edge of the sworde When Pharao the king of Egypt his sinne was ripe did not the Lord harden his hart to pursue the Israelits and so drowned him and all his retinue in the read sea Herod and Nabuchadnezer swelling in sinne and rising vp against the maiestie of God in the malice of their harts was not the one stroken dead in a moment and eaten vp with worms the other deposed from his kingdome and constrained to eate grasse with the beasts of the earth with the like examples which for the auoiding of prolixitie I omit By all which it appeareth that when destruction is néerest then are the people the securest and the most indurate and frosen in the dregs of their sinne and being so the sequele is either confusion in this life or perdition in the world to come or both And therefore I beséech the Lord that both this country and all others may repent amende euerie one their wicked waies to the glorie of God and their owne saluation Theod. Is this country fruitfull and plenty of all things or barren and emptie Amphil. There is no nation or country in the world that for store and abundance of all

preaching of Christ Iesus truelie that his kingdome might dailie bee increased their consciences discharged and the Church edefied which Christe Iesus hath bought with the shedding of his precious hart bloud Theod. Maie a pastor or a Minister of the Gospell forsake his flocke and refuse his charge for the wearing of a surplesse a cappe tippet or the like as manie hane done of late daies who being inforced to weare these garmentes haue giuen vp their liuings and forsaken all Amphil. Those that for the wearing of these garments being but the inuentions the traditions the rites the ceremonies the ordinances constitutions of man will leaue their flocks and giue ouer their charges not caring what become of the same doe shew themselues to be no true shepheards but such as Christ speaketh of that when they sée the Wolfe comming will flie away leauing their flocke to the slaughter of the gréedie wolfe They giue euident demonstration also that they are not such as the holie Ghost hath made ouerseers ouer their flocke but rather such as being possessed with the spirite of pride and ambition haue intruded them selues to the destruction of their flocke If they were such good shepheards as they ought to be and so louing to their flocke they would rather giue their life for their shéepe if néede required than to runne from them leauing them to the bloodie téeth of the mercilesse wolues Is hee a good shepheard that watcheth dailie vppon his flocke or hee that runnes from them for euerie light trifle I thinke we would count him a verie negligent shepheard And shall wee thinke him a diligent or a good pastor and one that would giue his life for his shéepe as a good pastor should doe that for such trifles wil estrang himselfe from his flocke for euer Therefore I beséech God to giue them grace to looke to their charges and to let the other trifles alone being no part of our saluation or damnation Theod. But they saie they refuse the wearing of these garments because they are offensiue to the godlie a scandall to the weake brethren a hinderaunce to manie in comming to the Gospel an induration to the papists hardning their hearts in hope that their trumperie will once come in again to their singular comfort Amphil. It is an old saying Better a bad excuse than none at all And truly it séemeth they are driuen to the wall and sore graueled that will flie to these simple shifts But whatsoeuer they say or affirme certain it is that offensiue to the godly they cannot be who haue already learned to distinguish betwixt the things abused and the abuses themselues And who know also how to vse things mere indifferent to good ends and purposes And therfore this question thus I shut vp in few words that the wearing of these garmentes béeing commaunded by a Christian Prince is not offensiue or scandalous to anie good Christians and to the other it mattereth not what it be For they are such as the Lorde hath cast off into a reprobate sence and preiudicate opinion abusing all things euen the truth it selfe to their owne destruction for euer excepte they repent which I praye God they maye doe if it bee his blessed will Theodo I pray you why doe they weare white in their surplesses rather than any other colour and why a forked cappe rather than a rounde one for the Papistes if they were the authors of these garmentes haue their misteries their figures their representations in all things Wherfore I desire to know your iudgment herein Amphil. You say the truth for the Papistes haue their misteries in all thinges after their maner Therfore thus they say that white doth signify holines innocency al kind of integrity putting them in mind what they ought to be in this life and representeth vnto them the beatitude the felicitie and happines of the life to come And thys they prooue ab exemplis apparitionum from the example of apparitiōs and visions in that aungels and celestial creatures haue euer appeared in the same colour of white Therefore forsooth they must weare white apparell The cornered cappe say these misterious fellows doth signifie and represent the whole monarchy of the world East West North South the gouernment whereof standeth vpon them as the cappe doth vppon their heades The gowne saye they doth signifie the plenary power which they haue to doe all things And therefore none but the Pope or hée with whome hee dispenceth maie weare the same euerie where bicause none haue plenariam potestatem plenarie power in euerie place but Beelzebub the Pope Yet the Ministers saith he maie weare them in their Churches in their owne iurisdictions ' because therein they haue full power from him Thus foolishlie do they deceiue themselues with vaine shewes shadows and imaginations forged in the mint of their owne braines to the destruction of manie But who is he that because these sottishe Papistes haue and doe gréeuouslie abuse these thinges will therefore haue them cleane remoued If all thinges that haue beene abused should be remooued because of the abuse than should we haue nothing left to the supply of our necessities neither meat drinke nor cloth for our bodies neyther yet which is more y e word of God the spirituall food of our soules nor any thing els almost For what thing is there in y e whole vniuersall world that eyther by one Hereticke or other hath not béene abused Let vs therfore take the abuses away and the things maie well remaine still For may not we christians vse these thinges which the wicked Papists haue abused to good ends vses and purposes I see no reason to the contrarie And therefore in conclusion I beséech the Lorde that wee may all agrée togither in one truth and not to deuide our selues one from another for tris●es making schismes ruptures breaches and factions in the church of God where we ought to nourish peace vnitie concord brotherly loue amitie and frendship one amongst an other And seeing we do all agree togither and iump in one truth hauing al one God our father one Lord Iesus Christ our sauiour one holy spirit of adoption one price of redemption one faith one hope one baptisme and one and the same inheritance in the kingdome of heauen Let vs therefore agree togither in these externall shadowes ceremonies and rites For is it not a shame to agree about the marow and to striue about the bone to contend about the karnell to vary about the shell to agree in the truth and to brabble for the shadow Let vs consider that this contention of ours among our selues doth hinder the course of the Gospell from taking such deepe roote in the heartes of the hearers as otherwise it would doe And thus for this time brother Theodorus we will breake off our talke concerning this matter vntill yt please God that we may meete againe Which if it please God we doe I promise you in an other woorke to discourse of the same more at large In the mean time let vs giue our selues to fasiing and prayer most humbly beséeching his excellēt maiesty to blesse our noble Quéen and to kéepe hir grace as the apple of his eie frō all hir foes to maintaine his word and gospell amongst vs to plant vnity and concord within our walles to increase our faith to graunt vs true and vnfained repentaunce for our sins and in the end eternall life in the kingdome of heauen thorow y e precious death passion blood-shedding and obedience of Christe Iesus our Lord and onely sauiour to whom with the father and the holy ghost one true and immortal God be al honor praise power empire and dominion throughout all congregations for euermore And thus brother Theodorus I bid you farewell in the Lord till I do sée you againe Theodo And I you also good brother Amphilogus beséeching the Lord that if we méete not vpon earth we maye meete yet in the kingdome of heauen there to rest in perfect felicitie for euer Amphil. The Lord grant it for his mercies sake Amen FINIS LONDON Printed by Roger Ward for William Wright and are to be solde at his shop ioyning to Saint Mildreds Church in the Poultry being the middle shop in the row 1583.