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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57276	An account of a disputation at Oxford, anno dom. 1554 with A treatise of the Blessed Sacrament / both written by Bishop Ridley, martyr ; to which is added a letter written by Mr. John Bradford, never before printed all taken out of an orig[i]nal manuscript.	Ridley, Nicholas, 1500?-1555.	1688 (1688)	Wing R1451; ESTC R29318	43,457	78

My dearly Beloved the time is now come wherein Tryal is made of Men which have professed Christ and would have been counted keepers of his Testimonies but weale away the tenth person persevereth not The more part do part stakes with the Papists and Protestants so that they are become mangy Mongrels to the infecting of all the Company with them to their no small peril for they pretend outwardly Popery going to Mass with the Papists and tarrying with them personally at their antichristian and Idolatrous Service but with their Hearts say they and with their Spirits they serve the Lord and so by this means they save their Pigs which they would not lose I mean their worldly Pelf So they would please the Protestants and be counted with them for Gospellers yea marry would they But mine own beloved in the Lord flee from such persons as from men most perillous and pernicious both before God and Men for they are false to both and true to neither To the Magistrates they are clean contrary to God they are most untrue giving him but a piece which should have the whole I would they would tell me who made their Bodies Did not God as well as their Spirits and Souls And who keepeth both Doth not he still And alass shall not he have the service of the Body but it must be given to serve the new-found God of Antichrist his Inventions Did not Christ buy both our Souls and Bodies And wherewith with any less price than with his Precious Blood Ah wretches then that we be if we will defile either part with the rose colour'd Whore of Babylon her filthy Mass Abominations It had been better for us never to have been washed than so to wallow our selves in the filthy puddle of Popery It had been better never to have known the Truth than thus to betray it Surely surely let such men fear that their latter end be not worse than the beginning Their own Conscience now accuseth them before God if so be they have any Conscience that they are but Dissemblers and Hypocrites to God and Man For all the Cloaks they make they cannot avoid this but that their going to the Church and to Mass is of self-love that is they go thither because they would avoid the Cross They go thither because they would be out of trouble They seek neither the Queens Highness nor her Laws which in this point cannot bind the Conscience to obey because they are contrary to Gods Laws which bid us often to flee Idolatry and worshipping him after mens devices They seek neither I say the Laws if there were any neither their Brothers Commodity for none cometh thereby neither Godliness or good Example for there can be none found in going to the Mass c. but horrible offences and woe to them that give them But they seek their own selves their own ease their escaping the Cross. When they have made all the Excuses they can their own Conscience will accuse them that their going to Church is only because they seek themselves for if there would no trouble ensue for tarrying away I appeal to their own Conscience would they come thither Never I dare say Therefore as I said they seek themselves they would not carry the Cross and hereof their own Conscience doth accuse them Now if their Conscience doth accuse them at this present what will it do before the Judgment seat of Christ. Who will excuse it when Christ shall appear in Judgment and shall begin to be ashamed of them then which here now are ashamed of him Who I say then will excuse these Mass-gospellers Conscience Will the Queens Highness She shall then have more to do for her self than without hearty and speedy repentance she can ever be able to answer tho' Peter Paul Mary James John the Pope and all his Prelates take her part with all the singing Sir Johns that ever were are and shall be Will the Lord Chancellor and Prelates of the Realm excuse them there Nay nay they are all like then to smart for it so sore that I would not be in their places for all the whole World Will the Laws of the Realm the Nobility Gentry Justice of Peace c. excuse our Gospel Mass-mongers Conscience then Nay God knoweth they can do little there but fear tremble and quake for the heavy Vengeance of God like to fall upon them Will their Goods Lands and Possessions which they by their dissembling have saved will these serve to excuse them No no God is no Merchant as our Mass-Priests be Will Masses or Trentals and such Trash serve No verily the hunters of this Geer shall be then horribly ashamed Will the Catholick Church excuse Nay it will most of all accuse as will all the good Fathers Patriarchs Apostles Prophets Martyrs Confessors and Saints with all the good Doctors and good General Councils All these already condemn the Mass and all that ever use it as it is now being of all Idols that ever was the most abominable and blasphemous to Christ and his Priesthood Manhood and Sacrifice for it maketh the Priest that saith Mass Gods fellow and better than Christ for the Offerer is always better or equivalent to the Thing offered If therefore the Priest take upon him there to offer up Christ as they boldly affirm they do then must he needs be equal with Christ. O that they would shew but one jot of Scripture of God calling them to this Dignity or of their Authority to offer up Christ for the Quick and Dead and to apply the benefit and vertue of his Death and Passion to whom they will Surely if this were true as it is most false and blasphemous prate they at their pleasure to the contrary then it made no matter at all whether Christ were our Friend or no for he can apply us Christs Merits by his Mass if he will and when he will and therefore we need little to care for Christs Friendship They can make him when they will and where they will Lo here he is there he is say they but believe them not saith Christ Believe them not believe them not saith he For in his Humane Nature and Body which was made of the substance of the Virgins Body and not of Bread in this Body I say he is and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty in Heaven from whence and not from the Pix he shall come to judge both the Quick and Dead In the mean season Heaven saith St. Peter must receive him And as Paul saith He prayeth for us and now is not seen elsewhere or otherwise seen then by saith there until he shall be seen as he is to the Salvation of them that look for his coming which I trust be not long to For if the day of the Lord drew near in the Apostles time which is now above fifteen hundred years past it cannot be I trust long hence now I trust our Redeemer his coming