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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18079	A second admonition to the parliament	Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603, attributed name.	1572 (1572)	STC 4713; ESTC S110798	53,046	74

that crue nor yet of rouing preachers which preach quarter sermons nor of stipendarie curates that vnbrideled vntituled cleargye I shoulde say but that the liuings of the former might be ●estowed vpon the maintenance of the righte ministerie and the latter to be no longer an vnprofitable burden to the churche And further such prouision being made there shal be no nede of such dignities as they call them nor of qualifications for many beneficēs as pluralities trialities totquors and I wot not what conferring of benefices or prebends vpon bishops to amende their liuings forsothe All thys good commeth of the erecting of a right ministerye besides the faithfull discharging of so greate a charge as the feedyng of Chrystes flocke is And also thys I say it is so farre of that anye can take vyon him the charge whych our Lord Bishops do as they say one of them to be parson pastor they seme to meane of a whole diocesse moste diocesses containing diuers shires yea and some one of a prouince containing many diocesses that in de●de it is in manner too much for one to take charge of one only parish and to say truth if euery parysh were able as it wold be prouided for by restoring impropriations by augmenting of the liuings by ioyning moe paryshes in one if euerye paryshe I say were by some suche meanes made able it were meete euery paryshe had two pastors at least bothe for the common charge that lyeth vpon the shoulders of the pastors and for sondry vses that theyr congregations haue to employ them vpon or cheefely bicause in the sycknesse of the one the other myght supplye And the pastor or pastors being ryghtly called maye not be put away but for such causes and in such sort as was sayd before nor he or they maye not leaue their charge for he or they haue a necessyty * of tarying on theyr charge laide vpon them with their charge except by the good order o● the churches it be thought expediēt or when the shepe are wolues so they dryuē to flie frō them so y our resignatiōs wil not stād with y word of god m●ch lesse wil our non residēts abide y triall both seruing the couerousnesse of gredy bellied wolues the one to fleece wythout care of feedyng excepte it be themselues eyther in some chaplams roume or in some other stye to spare theyr labor where they should entende The other serueth hym that euer gapeth for a greater pray or to make mony when other shyftes sayle And further I wyll not excuse all those that eyther resygne or suffer them selues to be depryued to auoyde further trouble wythout consyderation of theyr flocke if the same conspire not generally against them seeing they oughte to giue theyr lyues for their flocke But thys is not thought to be so needefull nor in deede were so nedefull if to reade the scryptures the homilyes and the course of oure booke of common prayers were mough for then a boy of ten yeares olde may do the ministers office for the substance of their offyce is not in the yeares but in the reading And in deede boyes and sencelesse asses are oure common minysters for the moste parte for but common reason may serue thys turne and doe thys feat well mough It is in deede les●● busye then popyshe priestes seruyce bycause the kalender and the rubrikes of the booke are fewer and playner then his portuise and pie were so that lesse clarkes then popyshe priestes whych had but some blinde Latin in their b●lly may serue for our store therfore in deede the blindest bussarde of them if hee wyll keepe hys conscience to hymselfe nay he is not so narowly loked vnto if he wyll subscribe to our Articles of Christian religyon before hys ordinarye and blindely reade them at hys benefyces he shall not onely be seruing priest I vse their owne termes but he may haue one Benefyce or moe and nothyng shall nor may be sayde against hym and so he proui●● hys quarter sermons or pay his Ordinarie for that default and suche lyke he is as good a Pastor as the ●●st And yet I thynke verely the laste Parliament saue thys meant very well in this respecte by a statute prouided in this case so that many a leud Priest of them if the Ordinarie had bene good not being corrupted by bribes or by their bribed offycers and seruaunts would haue bene remoued and the benefyces readye for better pastors but I can heare of none of few so badde but he is where he was and my Lorde Byshoppe hys great frende commonly for it seemeth by some of them that they sin●ll my Lords the Byshoppes meanyng is to make their hande nowe and to money themselues nowe and prouide for their wyfe and children somewhat honestly I will not say pompously for fear of after claps against a rainye day whatsoeuer tyme or change come and thys humoure these Priestes and all other Time seruers f●e●● full handsomely and it serueth their purposes in deede fullye No no thys is not that mynisterie whych we haue ne●●e of and whych God erected in hys churche reading an Homilie is Popishe and s●nd whether they ●●●edes homilies or anye other auncient wryters homilies whych in tymes past vpon the lyke erroure were 〈…〉 sed so supplie the lyke lacke of preaching a● thoughe afterward they red them or sung them in an vn 〈…〉 tongue or they ●● our bishoppes homilies in oure owne tongue for fayth commeth by hearing and hearing not by homilies but by the * worde of God in deede readyng of the word is as good and better preaching then readyng of homilies but the ministerie of faythe is the preaching of the same oute of the woorde of God by them that are sent of god How cā they preach except they be * sent as it is wrytten howe beautifull are the feete of them whych bryng good tidings of peace they must be sent of God endued wyth the gyftes of God furnyshed wyth hys graces vnto that ministerie that they may be able to bring the good tidings of peace and good thyngs to their congregations that their feete may be beautifull to them that they may knowe that they are iewels of God bestowed vpon hys churche that euerye churche may be assured they haue a treasure of their minister or ministers Thys is the ryghte way to bryng y ministerie into credyte and estimation their giftes giuen them of God theyr paynfulnesse and honest lyfe amongst their congregations not to make some of them Lordes Graces Earles Prelate and Register of the Garter Barons Suffraganes some of them ryche Deanes Archdeacons masters of Colledges Chauncellors Pre●●ndes rych persons and vicares and thoughe some of them be poore inoughe to gette them credite by their rochets hoodes cappes clokes tippets and gownes or suche lyke implements vsed by the * Phariseis whyche claimed hyghe roumes and made large borders

❧ A SECOND Admonition to the Parliament Ieremie 26. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Then spake the Priestes and the Prophets vnto the Princes to all the people saying thys man is worthye to dye for he hathe prophesyed agaynst this Citie as yee haue heard with your eares Then spake Ieremiah vnto all the princes and to the people saying The Lorde hathe sent me to prophesie against this house and againste this Citie all the things that yee haue heard Therfore nowe amend your wayes and workes and heare the voyce of the Lorde your God that the Lorde maye repent hym of the plague that he hathe pronounced agaynste you As for me beholde I am in your handes doe wyth me as you thinke good and ryghte But knowe yee for certaine that if you putte mee to deathe yee shall surely bring innocent bloud vpon your selues and vpon thys Citie and vpon the inhabitants therof for of a truthe the Lorde hath sent me vnto you to speake all these words in your cares To the godly readers Grace and peace from god c. THe treatyse ensuing Christian Reader being in dede purposely meant as the tytle pretendeth to be a seconde Admonition to the Parliament as yet not being not dissolued cannot chuse I am sure but be read of diuers that are not of that honourable assembly at thys tyme so that though the treatise is principally directed to them yet the knowledge of the matters as it must needes passe further so are they necessary to be further known and they are the liker to take good effect by meanes of the general consent of those that like them and especially by meanes of the faythful prayers whych many good men shall poure forthe to God for hys gracious good blessyng therin wherfore some thyng was to be sayd in a Preface as me thought which might be direc●ed to thee christian reader whosoeuer thou art that lightest vpon thys boke to read it And world to God many moe myght read thys boke then are lyke bycause muche worse will be sayd against it by them whych shall speake of it by heare say then could or would be said if all read it that will speake of it whereof we haue had too much experience in the former Admonition But we haue cast our accompts whych do bend ourselues to deale in these matters not onely to abyde hard wordes but hard and sharpe dealings also for our laboure and yet shall we thynke oure laboure w●ll bestowed it by God hys grace we attayne but to thus much to giue some light of that reformation of religion whych is grounded vpon Gods boke and somewhat to haue opened the deformities of oure English reformation whych hyghly displeaseth our eternall god Neuerthelesse if it might be we wold be sory to offend any but especially any good Christian man for our purpose is not if we may chuse to ●urchase more hatred or get vs more enenmies for vndeserued we haue of that and them far too much already and to offend the godly man is farre from our meaning for God knoweth we altogether so●ke to do such good But what is ther in our bokes that should offend any that be or would seeme to be godly ●nd yet some man may say either there is muche amisse in our bokes or else we haue a great deale of wrong offered vs and that by suche men as woulde seeme to be the fathers of all true godlynesse for the authors of the former haue bene are hardly handeled to be sent close prysoners to Newgate next dore to hangyng and by some of no meane estimation it hath bene sayd as is reported that it had bene well for them if they had beene sente to Bedlem to saue their lyues as though they had bene in ●earill of be 〈…〉 hanged and another lykely prelate sayde if they were at hys orderyng Newgate should haue beene their sure●●e and fetters their bondes And yet now that they haue had the law and I thynke wyth the most too y they were close prisoners they are found nether to haue ben traytors nor rebels and if it had bent tryed by Gods law they should not haue beene found to haue offended agaynst that lawe at all but to haue deserued prayse of that lawe and of the church of God as ryghtly that learned man mayster Beza sayth they deserue which oppose themselues against such endeuours as they doe in that little booke farre worse then those whych he calleth a manifest falling away from Christ And I pray the● gentle Reader marke these words wel of that great learned godly M. Beza and it shall answer for them to two men principally that haue ernestly declamed against that admonition and the authors therof The one sayd ●t was a folyshe boke the other sayd the authors were to rashe in setting it forth wythout a councell and I wot not what allowance before it wer de 〈…〉 ed. But thys learned man answereth them bothe wyth one word that it is a commendable work and deserueth no disprayse And whatsoeuer the declaimer saythe they shal be circumspect enough that shall auouche vndoubted truthes out of the scriptures though they wait not for the consent of a fewe no nor yet of many for maister Beza dare say it is a manifest falling away from Christe to maintaine pluralities of benefices licences for non residence c. though he heare not that any coūcel hath agreed vpon it in England sor he knoweth it is a resolued truth in all ryght reformed churches and especially in the scriptures And what I pray you haue they done amisse but the declamer also offended in it if it be an offence They haue published in Print that the ministerie of England is out of square he hath published at Paules crosse that the bishops of England haue bene vncircumspect in making of ministers and that hathe he publyshed before any councell in England had determined it Woulde to God he had neuer done worse faulte nay woulde he had not more offended there whych he craued pardone for when he had done it and yet so as he sayd he cared not thoughe they pardoned hym not for he thinketh of lyke that he neede not care for offending the poore members of Iesus Christ and for as muche as he spake agaynste them two in Newgate he shall neuer goe to Newgate for saying the byshops were vncircumspect I coulde wishe such to be more circumspect what they saye to offend simple and pore mēbers of Christe Let such men remember the penaltie threatned better a milstone tied about their necks and they drowned in the depth of the sea Nowe I neede not aske what they haue aunswered to that boke for they haue answeared nothyng but the it is a folysh booke c but wyth godly wyse men I trust that will not be taken for a sufficient answere as in deede it is not ▪ They saye there is an