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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69356	A Copie of a lettre sent to preachers		1548 (1548)	STC 9181.5; ESTC S397	2,350	16

❧ A COPIE OF A LETTRE SENT TO PREACHERS The copie of a letter sent to all those Preachers whiche the Kynges Maiestie hath licensed to preache from the Lorde Protectors grace and others of the Kynges Maiesties moste honorable counsaill the .xxiii. daie of Maie in the seconde yere of the reigne of our soue reigne Lorde Kyng Edward the VI. AFter our right hartie commēdacions Aswell for the conseruacion of the quietnes and good ordre of the Kynges Maiesties subiectes as that theishould not by euill vnlearned Preachers be brought vnto supersticiō erxor or euil doctrine or otherwise bee made stubborne and disobedient to the Kynges Maiesties Godly procedynges his highnes by our aduise hath thought good to inhibite all maner of Preachers who hath not suche licence as in the same proclamation is alowed to Preache or stirre the people in open and cōmon Preachynges or Sermones by any meanes that the deuoute Godly Homilies might the better in the meane whyle sincke into his subiectes hartes and be learned the soner the people beeyng not tossed to and frō with sedicious and contencious preachyng while euery man accordyng to his zeale some better some worse goeth about to sette out his awne phantasie and to draw the people to his opinion Neuertheles it is not his Maiesties mynde hereby clerely to extinct the liuely teachyng of the woorde of God by Sermones made after suche sorte as for the tyme the holy ghost shall put in to the preachers mind But that rashe contencious hote and vndiscrete Preachers should bee stopped and that thei only whiche be chosen and electe discrete and sobre menue should occupie that place whiche was made for edificacion not for destrucciō for the honor of God and peace and quietnes of conscience to be set forward not for priuate glorie to bee auaunced tappeace to teache to instruct the people with humilitie paciēce not to make theim contencious and proude to instill into theim their duetie to their heddes and rulers obedience to Lawes and ordres appointed by the superiors who hath rule of God not that euery man should runne before their heddes hath appoynted theim what to do and that euery man should chose his awne waie in religion The whiche thyng yet beyng dooen of some menne and thei beyng rather prouoked ther to by certain preachers then dehorted from it it was necessarie to set a stay therein And yet forsomuche as wee haue a greate confidence and trust in you that you will not onely preache truly and sincerely the worde of God but also wil vse circumspeccion and moderacion in youre Preachyng and suche Godly wisedō as shal bee necessarie and moste cōuenient for the time and place we haue sent vnto you the Kynges Maiesties licence to Preache but yet with this exhortation and admonishement That in nowise you dooe stirre and prouoke the people to any alteracion or innouacion other then is already set furthe by the kynges maiesties Iniunccions Homeltes or Proclamacions But contrariwise that you do in all your sermones exhort menne to that whiche is at this tyme more necessarie that is to the emendacion of their awne lifes to the obseruaunce of the commaundementes of god to humilitie pacience and obedience to their heddes and rulers Confortyng the weake and teachyng thē the right waie and to flee all old and erronious supersticiōs as the confidence in Pardons Pilgrymages Beades Religions Images and other suche of the bisshoppe of Romes Tradicions and supersticiōs with his vsurped power the whiche thinges be here in this realme moste iustly abolished and straightly rebukyng those who of an arrogancie and proude hastines wil take vpon them to runne before thei be sēt to go before the rulers to alter and chaunge thinges in religiō without auchoritie teachyng theim to expecte and tary the tyme whiche God hath ordeined to the reuealyng of all truthe and not to seeke so long blyndly and hedlynges after it till thei bryng al ordres into cōtempt It is not a priuate mannes duetie to alter Ceremonies to innouate ordres in the Churche nor yet it is not a Preachers part to bryng that in contempte and hatered whiche the Prince doth either alowe or is content to suffre The Kynges highnes by oure aduise as a Prince moste earnestly geuen to the true knowledge of God and to bryng vp his people therein dooth not ceasse to labor and trauaile by all Godly meanes that his realme might bee brought and kept in a moste Godly and Christian ordre who onely maie and ought to doo it why should a priuate manne or a Preacher take this royall and kyngly office vpon hym and not rather as his duetie is obediently folow hymself and teache likewise other to folow and obserue that whiche is commaunded What is abolished taken awaie reformed and commaunded it is easie to se by the Actes of Parliament the Iniunccions Proclacions and Homelies The whiche thynges moste earnestly it behoueth all Preachers in their Sermones to confirme and approue accordynly in other thynges whiche be not yet touched it behoueth hym to thynke that either the prince doth allowe them or els suffre theim and in those it is the part of a Godly manne not to thinke hymself wiser then the Kynges Maiestie and his counsail but paciently to expect and to conforme hymself therto and not to entermedle farther to the disturbaunce of a realme the disquietyng of the Kynges people the troublyng of mennes consciences and disordre of the Kynges subiectes These thynges wee haue thought good to admonishe you of at this tyme because wee thynke you will set the same so forward in your preachyng and so instructe the kynges maiesties people accordyngly to the mooste auauncement of the glory of God and the kinges maiesties moste Godly procedynges that we do not doubt but muche proffite shall ensue thereby and greate conformitie in the people the whiche you do instructe and so wee praie you not to faile to dooe and hauyng aspeciall regarde to the weakenes of the people what thei may beare and what is moste conuenient for the tyme in no case to entermeddle in youre sermones or otherwise with matters in cōtencion or controuersion Except it be to reduce the people in them also to obedience and folowyng of suche ordres as the Kynges Maiestie hath all redy sette furth and no others as the kinges Maiestie and our trust is in you and as you tendre his highnes will and pleasure and wil answere to the cōtrarie at youre perill Fare you well Imprinted in London the first daie of Iune in the second yere of the reigne of our souereigne lorde kyng Eduuard the VI by Richard Grafton printer to his mooste royall Maiestie in the yere of our lorde M.D.XLVIII CVM PRIVILEGIO AD IMPRIMENDVM SOLVM SVSCIPITE INSITVM VERBVM IACO I.