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A08472 A confession of the most auncient and true christe[n] catholike olde belefe accordyng to the ordre of the .xij. articles of our co[m]mon crede, set furthe in Englishe to the glory of almightye God, and to the confirmacion of Christes people in Christes catholike olde faith. By I.O. Old, John, fl. 1545-1555. 1556 (1556) STC 18798; ESTC S113446 30,820 82

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serue God For God requireth the hole mā to serue him with all the soule and powers of man or elles he reckoneth it not only for no seruice at all but also taketh it for very enemytie And therfore he saythe He that is not with me is against me The body go the not to Masse with out the company and consent of the soule And therfore it must nedes be graunted that the soule is caryed with the body to serue the deuil at Masse not the body caried awaye by the soule from that most stinking idolatrie and supersticion to the pure seruice of God Bicause Christ died for theternal saluacion aswel of the body as of the soule the holy goost commaundeth vs also to beare and glorifie God in our bodyes and that euery one should possesse The gaynes of going to Masse and vse the vessel of his body in holynesse and in honour And to bestowe our bodies vpon the seruice or presence of the synfull filthie Masse is not to possesse the vessell of the body in holynesse and honour but to defile the hole man with filthynesse and dishonestie to breake wedlocke with Christ our husbande to offēde the weake for whom Christ died to comfirme the wicked in their popery and so to prouoke the vengaūce of God vpō bothe the body and the soule Saint Iames saithe that a double mynded man is incōstaunt in al his waies and maye not loke to obteyne any thing of the Lorde wher so euer he praieth muche lesse wil God graūt his peticiones which he makteh in that temple wher God by the same peticion makers presēce is dishonoured and the congregacion which is the right temple of Christ in dede is defiled The scriptures teache vs that at the great iudgement euery one shall receaue according to the dedes that are done by the bodie And at the general resurreccion the body and the soule shal be ioyned together perpetually to abide either ioye or sorowe so that the bodye must nedes goo to hell for defiling it self with the abominable Masse and other popery And the soule can not chose but goo with the body and take suche parte as the body dothe For God wil not parte stakes with the deuill Therfore it is but a vayne pretense and a very mocking of God to saye that the harte and soule serueth God seing the body ioyned with the soule serueth the deuil in the sight of God and men So it semeth manifest that suche gospellers as be masse hearers are not spiritual gospell folowers but carnall gospell slaunderours and walke after the fleshe vpon whome the holy Goost geueth sharpe sentence sayng Yf ye lyue after the fleshe you shall dye Considre brothren that we are now after our syncere gospelling ledde of the holy goost in to wildernesse as Christ was after his baptisme to be tempted of the deuil Therfore we must either take the deuilles counsail and so distrusting the might mercifull prouidence of God make stones stockes and idolatrous popishe Masses bread to poisō our selues withall or throwe our selues downe headlōg from the highe pynnacle of Goddes temple the celestial Ierusalem in to the botomles pitte of all errous infidelitie and hell or fall to the deuilles fete and take him for our good Lorde Or elles contrary wise sticking fast to the scriptures and gospel of Iesus Christ bidde the deuil auaunt Satan with all his mummyng Masses and styncking supersticion We wyll non of thē though we neuer haue breade though we be torne in pieces for it Euery cowherde will for couetousnesse of wages and fee be glad to be reteyned in garison and set the better legge before as though he wolde be a good souldiour while no daungier of batail is at hande and while ther is peace take all one parte And so in blessed king Edwardes daies euery wan almost pretended frendeship forewardenesse to the doctrine of the gospell and englishe churche seruice seing the Magistrates multitude layne to that syde some of consciēce som of flattery but the most men for the commodious gayne that they founde by churche landes goodes not mynding to amende their lyues towardes God by the gospel but vnder colour therof to augment their lyuinges and pelfe in this worlde But like as if a souldiour rūne frō the armye of his souerayne liege Lord to the enemies side although he saye his harte was with his soueraine stil and that he ranne awaye only for feare must nedes be demed a traitour a cowhearde and rennagate euen so shal euery one that professeth the name and religion of Christ to be one of his souldiours for our life is a very warfare vpon earthe be demed and conuicte of highe treasō against his most natural souerayne liege Lorde Iesus Christ king of all kinges which in tyme of his spirituall warres for the gospelles sake renneth awaye frō his standarde and garison in to the deuilles campe to take parte with popishe massemongers the most deadly foes of Christes gospell and bloodshead Now is the fielde pitched now our enemies bende their ordinaūce agaīst vs face to face now they see the campe of gospellers weakened and lye open vnto their municiones They see som fall to their side som speake faire som dissemble and fewe are glad to abide the bickering that maketh the cruell papistes to make so thicke Larūmes and to com on so lustily with their hotte skyrmishes on euery side against Christ our captaī al his armye roial Howbeit seing Christ hathe the victorie and shall make al his enemies his foote stole and seing also he promiseth patentes of so large honourable fee wages to such his souldiours as by pacient suffring of persecuciōs stande māfully to his standarde and abyde the ende of the fraye as he by his heraulde of armes thapostle Paule maketh open proclamacion in his coate armour sayeng Yf we dye with Christ here we shall lyue with him 2. Tim. 2 ▪ euerlastingly Yf we suffre with him here we shall reigne with him in his eternal glorious heauenly kingdom And on the cōtrary parte forasmuche as the same proclamacion declareth the payne of suche of vs as rēne away frō Christes ensigne or stādarde sayeng Yf we denye or forsake him he wil also denye forsake vs. And whā the general mustre and paye daye cometh wher the constaunt souldiours shal be crowned with glorie and honour in the eternal heauenly kingdom Christ the captain and iudge shal saye vnto suche shrinking traytours and cowheardly rennagates Auaunt you workers of wickednesse I knowe yow not Get you hence you cursed in to euerlasting fyre which is p̄pared for the deuil and his angelles I thinke therfore it is necessary good and very highe tyme for vs to arme our selues cappe a pee as the same Heraulde of armes Paule commaundeth vs in king Iesus name Ephe. 6. and for our owne sauegarde vauntage to kepe batail raye through persecucions troubles rebukes and slaūders of the worlde and
wil some saye God is merciful It is true His mercie is on thē that feare him throughout al generacions But wittingly and willingly to heape synne vpō synne in hope of goddes mercy is most shamelesly to abuse the goodnes of God and stampe vnder foote the graces of his spirite according to the hardnesse of the hart that can not repent to laye wrathe together in stoare against the daye of wrathe at the open declaracion of the iust iudgement of God which shall rendre to euery one according to this dedes Neuertheles I say not this to dryue myne olde neighbours and countrey men in to desperacion for setting vp or hearing of that wicked Masse but to moue them vnto earnest repētaūce to powre out their continual hūble hartie praiers greuous gronynges before the throne of Goddes grace aswel for pardon of their deserued euil as for the repulse of this massing mischief out of the realme to thintent thei may also haue a good hope of god des mercie that he for his sonne Christes sake will defende and deliuer his persecuted flocke by sō doughty Daniel as he did Susanna according to his promise by the prophet Dauid Now for the comfortles troubles safe of the Psal 12. nedy and bicause of the depe sighing of the poore I will vp saithe the Lorde Alas whā was ther more comfortles trouble Whā was ther more nede Whā was ther more cause of depe sighing than now Repēt therfore for Goddes sake repent and praye And forasmuche as we nother knowe nor acknowlage any other Purgatory purgacion or purgatorie clensing awaye of synnes but only the blood of Iesus Christ I haue euer taught and still doo affirme that the soules of thē which be departed this life are pourged or scowred no where elles nother in any purgatory fire nor popes scalding house but I saye that the powches of them that be alyue are rather emptied and scowred by purgatorie purgacion through these false lyeng lickepeny dreames A faithfull mannes soule as sone as it departeth from the body go the straight to heauen and the vnfaithfull mannes soule straight to hell as it shall anon be declared more plainly In like maner the religious life of cloystre men and women is not to be compted meritorious for the remission Cloistre religion of synne nor among the states of an holy life as it is vsed vnder the papacie but rather an idle supersticious and an Antichristian life a very enemye to the religiō and doctrine of Christ and his apostles and good for no honest vse in the common weale as their filthy dedes foūde in the kinges visitacion are not yet out of remembraunce Concerning the eleuenth Ariticle Th● 11. Article I beleue and confesse that these our bodies wherin we doo worke in this worlde either good or euil shal ryse agayne from the deade and non other for them nor in their stede that is to saye that this same fleshe of ours being raysed vp at the later daye shal by the power of God risepfitly in dede and that dead folkes soules being returned thā to their raised bodies shal-be ioyned and coupled to them again that all maner of folkes be the good and badde shall ryse and appeare accordig to S. Paules sayeng We must 2. Cor. 5. nedes be all presented before the iudgement seate of Christ that euery one may receaue the workes of his body according to that he hathe done in the body whether it be good or badde Neuerthelesse the righteous shall after thexample of their head Christ be gloriously clarified in their bodies vnto vncorrupcion eternal lyfe and euerlasting ioye that no tongue can expresse Than shal the righteous shyne lyke the sūne in the kingdome of the father where cōtrary wyse the vnfaithfull folkes shall not be clarified but shal be made immortal vncorruptible that they may endure eternal sorowes paines heauynesse tormentes worlde without ende But this resurrecciō of the dead shal be in the last daye whan our Lord shal come as we said before to iudge bothe the quicke the deade Finally as to the .xii. Article I beleue confesse that after this our transitorie The. 12. Article lyfe ther shal an eternal euerlasting lyfe folowe which God of his owne mere grace fauour prepared for mankynde before the beginning of the worlde hathe promised it in Christ to al them that be faithful and wil bothe truly faythfully performe bestowe it vpō thē So that whā a faithful persone departeth his soule goeth nother into any iudgemēt nor into any fire ne into the slaughterhouse of any maner of payne nother doth it fall on siepe for it can not slepe nor dyeth t the bodie for it cā not dye but only it departeth frō the body is by the power of Christ takē vp receaued into euerlasting ioye blisse And cōtrarywise almightie god of his iustice hath p̄pared ordained after this lyfe eternal death also that is to saye eternal euerlasting payne eternal tormētes sorowes euerlasting dānacion for al them that are vnfaithfull and can not repent so that whan an vnfaithfull person dieth out of the fauour of Christ and perisheth in his sinnes his soule also as sone as it is out of the bodie is straight caried to hell and put in to euerlasting sorowes and tormentes And albeit the vnfaithfull mannes soule shall at the resurreccion of the dead returne to his bodye and be ioyned again vnto it yet it shal be dryuen away with the body and with the deuil him self frō the sight and presence of God in to euerlasting paynes euē as the faithfull people shall at the last daye be receaued bothe bodye soule in to euerlasting ioye Amen Lo my good brothren and louing frendes This is my belief this is my faithe this is the pith and sūme of the chief most maters that I euer taught among my parisheners and neighbours during the tyme of my ministerie And I am sure that this is no new fangled nor erroneous doctrine neither any kīde of heresie but the most vndoubted true the very catholike christen faithe and the most aunciēt and substauntical learning and doctrine beleued and preached by the prophetes and apostles as they receaued learned it of the Lorde God him selfe And although tyrānes and papistes with other phantastical spirites of errour do conspire conuent murther emprison racke rage neuer so craftily neuer so maliciously neuer so slaunderously and neuer so furiously against the preachers and ministers of this faithe yet the deuil him self and the gates of hell shall neuer preuaile against it Therfore seing it hathe pleased our most mercifull God to geue vnto me most vnworthy wretche his gracious light of this faithe and particular charge in this ministerie Considering also that Iesus Christ wolde not that the candelles appointed to serue his householde with their light shoulde be shoued vnder a bushell but