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B08002	A commemoration of the inestimable graces and benefites of God, infused through the bryght lyght of the knowledge of his holy word, in our most dradde soueraigne lorde Henry the eyght, by the grace of God kyng of Englande and of Fraunce, defender of the the fayth, lorde of Irelande, and in erth the supreme heed next and immediate vnder Christe of the Churche of Englande, with hartye prayse and thankes gyuyng vnto God for the same, / composed uppon the glad prophecy and ioyefull psalme of Benedictus dominus deus Israel. &c..	Pylbarough, John.	1540 (1540)	STC 20521; ESTC S94811	17,194	36

scriptures and by his holy worde be sanctifyed strengthed in hym and spirituallye cured through the blod of our redemer Christ we may ryght well aptly be callyd Israelites a people seing god a people sanctified and strengthed with Esai 62. Et uocabunt eos populus sanctus re dempti a domino Titum 2. goddis worde cured with Christis bloud For the grace of god our sauyour hath appered vnto vs and openynge the eyes of our vnderstandyng hath taught vs to see and knowe Christe Fantasies nor dremes mens inuentions do not nowe blynde or deceyue vs any longer For the brode busshell of hypocrisye whiche ouerwhelmed the bryght candell goddis worde is nowe taken away and we see all ouer the house of our owne consciences and we se thauctour of light and the very lyght it selfe that lyghteneth with diuersitie of graces all resonable creatures cōmynge Ioan. 1. into this worlde And whom although he was in the worlde we beinge seduced and led blyndefulle by vanities coulde not perceyue or knowe tylle nowe at the laste whyle we were a people wandrynge in darknes of ignorance and dwellers in the shadowes of dethe which is syn accompanyed with deathe the greate lyghte of goddis most holy word dyd appere vnto vs and Esai 9. Roma 13. our redemption was nerer thā we were aware And where we were before in darknes a people ignorant of god we be nowe inlyghtened with Ephes 5. the bryghtnes of knowledge in our lorde god who hath commanded the lyght to shyne out of darknes whiche hath shyned in our hartes for to gyue the lyght of the knowledge of the glorye of god in the face of Iesus Christ that is in the Matt. 16. faithe whiche Peter and his felowe apostles by hym one answerynge for all confessed in Christ to be the sonne of the lyuynge god Vpon which Christ and fayth in hym and vpon or in none other our catholyke congregation immediatly is firmely settled Lette vs therfore nowe hauynge receyued this lyght of god imprynte the memoriall therof in our hartes with perfect belefe therof magnifie god therfore that it may fructifie in vs good workes and make vs blessed through the same before all nations as was the holy virgyn Mary by Elisabeth saying vnto her Blessed arte thou amonge women and Luc. 1. blessed is the fruite of thy wombe For bycause thou haste mekely receyued the holye worde of god and gladde tydynges by his angell Those same thynges shall be perfourmed in the accordynge as the same aungell hath sayde vnto the. And also by example of Zachary who bycause he beleued not the possibilitie of goddis worde whiche the aungell dydde shewe vnto hym was Luc. 1. made specheles for a tyme but whan he saw the perfection therof beinge sory for his infidelitie dydde receyue ageyne by goddis goodnesse his speche augmented with the grace and spirite of prophecienge and thankes gyuynge vnto god for the same being repentant and detestyng that we haue ben so longe mysbeleuyng of the word of god shewed and set forthe vnto vs by goddis holy doctours and prechers whom the Sathan of Rome hath dyuellishly tormented burnt and slayne to kepe vs faithles and make vs dumbe that we shulde not blowe out his errours and abuses nor kynges temporall rulers shulde be lerned of their godly auctorities ouer their subiectes whyche the same Sathan had vsurped let vs nowe not lyke as the tenne whiche were Luce. 17. healed of their leprie wherof one onely came ageyn to gyue thankes to God but holly and entierly togythers euen as the thre whiche were in the forneys of fyre lauded and glorifyed god as Daniel 3. it had ben with one mouth brast out like the day spryng the lyght of the faythe that is in vs and reioysyng in the byrth of Iohn that is in the holy gospell newe rysen amongest vs by the grace of god prayse and thanke most hartily with Zachary our lorde god of Israell whiche hath visyted Benedictus dominus de us Israel qui a uisitauit fecit ●edem ptionem ple bis suae vs illumynyng our feble ignorant hartes with the knowlege of his most holy word Wher by he hath caused the redemption of vs his peculyar people from our thrall captiuitie of our gostely ennemy the deuyll and our both goostly and bodyly ennemye the bysshop of Rome and his complyces ET erexit cornu salutis nobis in domo Dauid pueri sui ANTICHRIST of Rome hath longe dissimuled with vs foodynge vs forthe with vanities As pardons pilgrimages bulles neuer ryght calued supersticions counterfeite religion feyned relyques and suche other innumerable sort of trashes haberdashery ware and all for money For the old prouerbe Omnia venalia Rome sayd by the Pagans long before Christ Salustius was incarnate is not lefte vnpractised by the sayde Antichrist our moste holy father as they call hym his cardinalles and byshoppes wherof the chiefe marchaunt of myschiefe is the sayd holy father I praye you what thynge was and yet is not sale kynde at Rome sauinge our englyshe soules for the whiche we haue nowe of late founde a better marte And that whiche is most abhorred of god the sayd Antichriste and moste aduersary of Christ had brought vs into the gētils worshipping of fals goddis Oh god of Israel for thy tender mercy into what blynd fantasies of madde myschiefe were we thy selye creatures brought by the hydynge and shutting vp of thy holy worde from vs And what iniuries dyd thy moste faythfull ministers and yet for the most parte do susteyne to be so arrogantly depriued of theyr princely regymentes vnder the by thambycious wrastyng of thy sayd word to the mayntenaunce of a dyuellyshe power agaynst thy ryght power wherby the due obedience of subiectes was conuerted into rebellion and the concord of commonties dissolued Thou layest good god as thou haddest ben a slepe and dyd suffer vs to dreame by the Euen as thou dyddest from Adams fall vnto the tyme thy only sonne became incarnate wherof zachary prophecied a lyttell before saying That thou haddest raysed vp an horne for our helthe meaning Et erexit cornu salutis nobis In domo Dauid pue●i sui that Chryst shuld be borne the vniuersal strēgth power and glorye of our saluation and that in the house of kynge Dauid thy electe seruaunte But nowe through the lyght whiche is sprong in vs vpon thy holy worde agaynst an vsurped power and reigne of Lucifer moste vntruely counterfayte vpon thy most vndouted trewe worde thou hast raysed vp to vs thy peculyas people a godly dewe power of helthe our naturall most soueraygne lorde kynge HENRY the VIII by thy grace which is also a true strength and ryghtfull kyngedome apperteynyng to the moste noble house of his moste famouse progenitours for our great consolation tranquillite and holsome safetie bothe of our bodyes and soules to Whose maiestie we recognise and beleue

1. Cor. 3. and other the appostels call them selfes in holye scriptures but minysters and theyr power a mynisterye And accordyng to this Peter was obedyent in mynistrynge at the cōmandement of the Galath 2. other apostelles to goo to Samarie with Iohn And also Peter was appoynted to be a preacher amonge the Iewes and Iohn and Iames with hym Paule and Barnabas with hym among the gentyles And Paule bosteth that Peter and Iohn gaue hym their right handes And Paule sayth also that he blamed Peter openly bycause he folowed not the trouthe of the gospel And innumerable mo auctorities of scripture are to be rehersed hereof But nowe leste I shoulde seme to longe in this place let this lyttell pretye piece though it were moche lesse cut out of the ryghte large true wrought and moste beautyfull cloth goddis holy scriptures concerning the Iudaical Antichrist of Rome and his adherentes whyche stande best in their owne pernyciouse conceytes lyke the Iewes whose blyndnes caused them to beleue Iohn Baptist better then Christ not with standyng the greate nomber of sygnes and prophecies whiche they had witnessing that he was come be sufficiēt to lay before them for a patron to stayne and vtterly shame all their counterfayt clothes of fals interpretations and coloured gloses of their feyned gospel And thanke our lorde god of Israel that he hath so clered our syght that we haue now at the last found a right Paul our sayd most souerayn lord the kyng to comptroll abolyshe Peters dissimuled successours counterfayte gospell and to auaunce and preferre goddis owne most true and faythfull gospell Salutem ex inimicis nostris de manu omnium qui oderunt nos OVR AVNCIENT enmy who bycause he had ben so high a creature aboue other and become from an angell of highe heauen a deuyll Esai 14. in depe hell for that that he wold haue ben equal with the highest neuer ceassed after to stryue ageynst god and his best beloued creature mankynde In so moche that so sone as euer he perceyued the fyrst parentes were formed and setlyd in the pleasant place of Paradyse that god had bounde them to a certayne obedience he infected Gen. 3. them with his pestilent pride of disobedience ageynst god for the whiche they were exyled that place and both they and theyr posteritie brought to rume and captiue bondes of the same ennemy and his innumerable sort of euyll angels which contynually laye in awayte of theym vntyll the birth of Christe who was and is the vnyuersall horne power strength and glory for the helth of mankynde against the sayd enemy and his sayd aungelles whiche yet neuerthelesse desisteth not day and nyght nor neuer wyll accordynge to his olde custome by a thousand ingyns and meanes to plant debate betwene god and man betwene man and man power and power euery where causeth disobedience and rebellion of subiectes ageynst their souerains ledeth mankind by fantasies illusions from one mischiefe to an other vntyll he brynge them to forgette god and vnto what order they were appoynted fyrst by god as by experic̄ce amongest our selfes here in Englād we haue cause best to perceyue For what by oure sayd enmye the deuyll and what by our ennemy the byshoppe of Rome his traditions and fals doctrynes his vanities and dreames his hypocrisie and fayned relygion the dyuels snares we were brought in case that we dyd set more by thē than by god or any part of his doctrine ana feared more the bysshop of Romes curse than goddis vengeaunce whiche began to come in hande apace by the moste contagious plagues of commotions and rebellions amōgest our selfes But Salutem that god whiche is the inlyghtner of the harte of man and the helthe of mans soule of his inestimable mercy and goodnes raysed vp for vs his power of helth of glory and of strēgth our godly Iosias and moste soueraygne lorde the kynges maiestie to wake and consyder vs his corrupt wandrynge flocke and hauynge receyued by the handes of his ryght vertuous scrybe Saphan 2. Par. 34. euen the grace of god the boke of the law of god long hid did set forth the same with al diligence by which our ignorant darknes is become a perfect knowlege of lyght And we perceyue clerely that we dyd abuse our selfes in disobedience both ageynst god and our sayd souerayn lorde whom god hath ordeyned oure Michaell our Dauyd Ex inimicis nostris and our only helth in erth ageynst the pompous Lucifer and monstruous Golyath of Rome and all our enemyes of euery sort and who is an able power and strengthe by god to defende and preserue Et de manu omniū qui oderūt nos Psal 88. vs from the handes of all theym that hate vs. For god sayth of him I haue put helpe in the power and man of myghte and haue auaunced whome I haue chosen among my people I haue founde Dauid myn owne seruant whom I haue annoynted with my holye oyle And therfore my hande shall helpe hym and myn arme shall confirme hym his ennemye shall not preuayle at all in hym and the chyld of iniquitie shall not prease to hurt hym I shal make his enmyes fall downe by heapes before his face and shall put to flyght suche as hate hym my trouth and mercy shall be euer with hym and in my name shal his horne of of glory power and helth be exalted Lo this is most comfortable helth consolation reioyce and glorie of all faythfull louynge hartes and moste terrible feare quakynge dreade and vtter confusion of all vntrue malicious and hatefull traytours whiche are goddis and our moste detestable and abhorrible ennemies and haters Ad faciendam misericordiam cum patribus nostris memorari testamenti sui sancti Iusiurandum quod iurauit ad Abraham patrem nostrum daturum se nobis ZACHARIE PRAYSETH GOD that by the horne of power and helthe whiche he hath raysed vp for vs in the house of Dauid as is before mencioned he shulde do and shewe his mercy with the fathers Abraham Isaac Iacob Ad facien dā misericordiā cū patribus nostris and all the other of the olde testamente that they beinge deade before Chrystes commynge shulde be part takers with theyr children and folowers of the benefytes of his passion wherin they had perfyte hope whyle they lyued And he byndeth god thervnto in the true performance of his most Genes 15. Et memo rari testamenti sui sancti Ius iuran c. holy couenaunt that he promysed Abraham The mooste blessed vyrgine Marie beinge conceyued with Chryste also as in the same fyrste chapyter of Luke is rehersed magnifieth god most humbly for the same after this maner That all that is in her doth magnifie god bycause he hath beholde the mekenes of his hande mayde whom al nations shall blesse For his myghte hath doone Luc. 1. great thynges to her and therfore

his name is holy and his mercy is infinite for he hath not on ly shewed it in her but frome generation to generation suche as feare hym he hath taken vp his seruaunt Israel beinge remembred of his holye couenante accordyng as he promysed Abraham and his seede for euer more Whiche Mary and zacharie bothe enforce vs nowe also as trewe Israelytes and seers of god to magnyfie and prayse our lorde god of Israel for his great mercy and holy couenant late shewed and performed in vs. For lyke as it is also wrytten That there fel an heuy slepe vpon Abraham and gret darkenes Genes 15. fell vpon hym And the lord sayde vnto him knowe this of a suertye that thy seede shall be a straunger in a lande that is not theyrs And they shall make bondemen of them and intreate them euyll foure hundred yeres but the people whom they shall serue wyll I iudge afterwarde they shall go forthe with great substaunce Euen soo was it come to passe with vs for our fathers and also we beinge seduced and led blynde with fantasies and mens inuentions by the subtyle practise of the ambicyouse Romanyste Lucifer and his complices were caste into an heuy slepe and great darkenes of ignoraunce in god and his mooste holy worde and therby also were we as subtylly and slylye conueyed and made captyue straungers at Rome bycause we had of ryghte nothynge to do in that citie or lande and therfore were we euyll intreated of them with theyr myschiefes and abhominations accordyngelye And as men vse theyr bondemen soo vsed they vs. For they set vs besyly and vylye a worke to clyme the ladder to brynge them word what god dyd in heauen but the more we dydde clyme the farther downe we wente And then we must seke this saynte and that saynte this blocke and that stocke this toye and that toye offer here and offer there and kysse here and lycke there tylle it was tyme to reste for werynes The Egipcian tirannye was neuer more laborous to our forefathers And what so euer we coulde get or gather together was shortly after theyr owne good and had nothing therfore but cleane remissiō of thrift And neyther wold they manumise one of vs but take our cheuage and let vs go tyll a nother time gather more And this cōtinued more thē foure hundred yeres vntyll our lorde god of Israell whose inestimable mercy and goodnes whose inenarable ryghtuousenesse and trouth excedeth al thynge that is vouchedsafe of late tyme to illumyne moste graceousely our sayd darkenes with his holy word wherby we haue perceyued Christ the auctour of our lyght and our onely sauiour to be as it were newly come and incarnate for vs and that throughe the fayth whiche we haue in hym we be as Paule sayth reputed iustified as Galath 3. Roma 4. was our father Abraham whose chyldren adoptiue and multiplication of his sede by faythe we nowe also be And the very partetakers with our sayde forefathers Abraham Isaac Iacob and al the remanaunt of the olde testamente and newe bothe and they with vs of the merytes of Christes bloud promysed by god to Abraham and his sayde sede for euermore to whom the bloudde of a lambe was a figuratiue saluation in Egypte Exod. 12. And we perceyue also by the illumination of the sayde holy worde that the byshoppe of Rome to whose tyranny we were thus as is sayde thrall is iudged of god to be Chrystes vtter aduersary and the vsurper of the ryghtful power of kynges and prynces goddes ryghte mynisters ouer his people And we newely adoptiue Israelites from Exod. 12. 13. 14. the sayde thraldome of the sayd byshop through the same worde also no lesse wonderfully delyuered into great welthe and ioye by our most godly captayn the kynges highnes then were our forefather Israelites from the captiuitie of the tyran nous Pharao into the plesaunt land of promission by theyr holy prophete and leader Moyses Vt sine timore de manu inimicorum nostrorum liberati seruiamus illi In sanctitate iusticia coram ipso omnibus diebus nostris SITHENS through thonly inestimable goodnes Vt sine timore de manu inimicorum nostrorū liberati mercy and loue of god towarde vs and not by any part of our deseruyng towardes him we be thus graciously carclesse and without any feare delyuered from the handes of our before rehersed ennemies and are become the seers of god and the adoptyue chyldren of Abraham by faythe through the illumination of his most holy worde in vs and conuerted from the nyght in to the daye that is from the darkenes of the ignorant knowlege of god to the bryght knowlege Seruiamꝰ illi of hym it behoueth vs with all our mynde with all our harte with all our soule and with al that which is or may be in vs to loue and dreade him and with pure and sincere holynes and faythfull In sanctitate iusticia ryghtuousenes serue and honour hym lyke as Paule sayth god hath not called vs to lyue impurely Roma 12. but to lyue holyly not to fasshion our selfes vnto this worlde but to be changed through the renewyng of our mynde And therfore Paule Ephes 5. byddeth vs to be the folowers of god as mooste derely beloued chyldren and to walke in loue as Chryste loued vs. And puttynge vs in remembraunce that we were sometyme darkenes and nowe lyght in our lorde god biddeth vs to walke as chyldren of the lyght for the fruite of the spyrite is all maner of rightuousnes and trouth and to proue what is pleasynge vnto the lorde And haue no felowshyp with the vnfruitefull workes of darkenes but rather rebuke them And Peter also comfortyng vs in our chosen generation our 1. Petri. 2. holy nation and that we be a peculiar peple willeth vs that we shuld shewe the vertues of him whiche hath called vs frome darkenes vnto his merueylouse lyght Euen we whiche are nowe a people of god whiche sometyme were not so and whiche nowe haue obteyned mercy whiche some tyme we had not and commaundeth vs to sette a syde all vice that they whiche backebyte vs for euyl doers maye se our good workes and prayse god in the day of visitacion And he there subioyneth dyuers rules of good workes of the which the fyrste is that we shoulde submytte our selfes vnto all creatures for goddes sake whether it be vnto the kyng as vnto the chiefe heade and most excellent aboue other or vnto any other his substitute rulers and deputies which ar sent by him for the punishement of the euyl and prayse of the good for soo is the wyll of god And briefely amongest other he compileth this lesson Honour all men loue brotherly felowshyp feare god and honour the kynge And our auctour of lyghte Chryste saythe of hym selfe I am the lyght of the Ioan. 8. world and who that foloweth me walketh not in darkenes but shall