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prayer_n	ceremony_n	church_n	rite_n	2,015	5	9.5563	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11935	The declaracio[n] made at Poules Crosse in the cytye of London the fourth Sonday of Aduent by Alexander Seyton and Mayster Willyam Tolwyn, persone of S. Anthonynes in the sayd cytye of London, the yere of our Lord God M.D.XLJ.	Seton, Alexander, d. 1542.; Tolwyn, William.	1542 (1542)	STC 22249.5; ESTC S2331	5,609	17

as by ryches of whose mercy we haue both grace frewyll / wherewith to worke yet neuerthelesse god to set forth the trouth of excellence of the lyberty of our frewyl wroughte by hym in Christ / by whō we are deliuered calleth in his scripture also truly those good works done by good men / theyr workes as truely done by them made able and strengthned by god so to do therfore such fantasys as hath ben spred abrode / entred into rude mēs eares as though god shuld worke in mā and the workes to be only Goddes / and man only an instrument to worke by / or a vessell to worke in / is pernycyous detestable to be abhorred / for suche places of scripture as speke of gods workynge in vs are to be vnderstanded as they may agre with the rest of scrypture / wherein be innumerable places to declare / that god maketh his seruauntes in Christ so rych as they may by the plenty strēgth there of / be good trees and brynge forth frute worke And as Christ sayd / Qui credit in me / opera que ego facio / faciet et maiora horum faciet which saynt Austyn wrytynge on the same place very fieth to be spoken of a synner in his iustificacyon And moreouer I do lykewyse beleue and confesse / that the good workes of a Chrysten man be by gods wyll / orderynge them to be done / and his acceptyon merytorious / a meane or helping towards remission of our synnes vnto our saluacynu yea further I say and beleue that all though our sauyour and redemer Iesus Christ sent by God the father to fulfyll his wyll / hath accordyng vnto the same by his lyfe and passyon in erth appesed the wroth of god towardes man sufficientlye and purchased for man great fauor and fredom / wherby he may be able to please God obtayne remyssion of synnes / and do such workes as God of his goodnesse wyll rewarde with eternal lyfe ▪ yet we must know and vnderstande that accordynge to the teachynge of Christ declaryng the word of God vnto vs / all those shal by the mene of Christ only be deliuered from goddes anger that come to Christ and in fayth both professe his trouthe / receyuynge the Sacrament of Baptyme / and also worketh suche good workes to fulfyll gods wyll as tyme occasyon doth permyt thē to worke / for in these only / god is pleased / for Christ as scripture sayth / to these only is promysed euerlastyng lyfe / and therfore such vayne opynions as hath entred percase into the hedes of some ignorant people in the estymacion of mēs good workes that the same may be accompted no maner of helpe to saluacyon / or remyssion of synnes / lest therby we shuld make .ii. menes or .ii. sauyours where as in dede scriptur speketh but of one meane and sauyour This fonde feare I saye is to be remoued and taken away by knowledge of trouth / which testifieth / that by workes of penaunce we come to Christ / when we beyng preuented by god and called are by the fyre of charyte which god kyndleth in vs / such as come at his callynge / beleue in him ioyned in Christes mystycall body / and made one with hym / and so by hys mene he beynge the only hed / we begyn here a heuenly lyfe / and shall fynally enioye it in him our only sauyour Iesu Christ / in whom we here worke the wyll of god / therfore our workes be not another mene / or another sanyour / but wrought in Christ by the grace purchased of god by Christ and by him requyred of vs / not as any other straunge thyng or seed to supply any imperfection in him which were blasphemye and madnes to be thoughte or sayd / but because it is the wyll of god who hath for our profyte ordeyned the regeneraciō of man / in this wyse / which can not be but the best without discussiō and because it is / his wyll is the best so to be folowed and obserued of all that haue hope in their calling / to enioye goddes promysses made only to those that fulfyll his wyll / which my saynges and opinyons in these poyntes especyall I do proteste euen from the botom of my hert / that I do beleue they are true Euē as now I haue declared them vnto you and that also in all my sermons and teachynges here after I wyll and entend after the same sort to declare vtter them vnto the people and none otherwyse ¶ Ita est Alexander Seyton manu propria ¶ Here begynneth the declaracyon made the fourth sonday in Aduent / the yere of our lorde god a thousand v. hūdreth xli by master Wyllyam Tolwyn / person of saynt Anthonines in the cytye of London GOOD people / so it is / that I Wyllyam Tolwyn / maister of Arte / and person of saint Anthonynes within this Tyte and Dyocese of London / haue ben laufully denounced / detected presented to my Lorde bysshop of London / that I haue ben and am a man vehemently suspected / noted and enfamed of heresy and erronyous / heretycall sedicyouse opynyons agaynst the Catholyke fayth of our holy mother the churche / and also a gret fauourer / defender / maynteynour receptour of heretykes / accustomed also to haue in my custody / bokes of heresy / other vnlauful workes forbydden by the kynges maiesties proclamations ordinaunces / and also contrary to the decree and inhthytion of myne Ordynary And moreouer that I haue not a customed to obserue kepe the laudable ceremonyes / rytes customes of this catholyke churche of Englande / comenly obserued and kepte by other that is to say / neither in goyng of Processyon vpon saturdays at Euynsonge / nor in the vsage and maner of makyng of holy water and holy bred / nor in makyng my confessyon or sayeng of Masse / Matens or Euynsonge / as I shuld and ought to haue done Whiche denunciation / detectyon presentation hath ben partly by my nowne confession and partly by sufficient wytnes record in that behalfe suffyciently proued And albeit for myne offence in so doyng I knowledge to haue deserued no small punyshment yet I haue found such charytable goodnes and mercy in my Lorde bysshop of London / vpon my submissiō and sute vnto him / that vpon only this declaration here made of my offeus vnto you / with promyse that I wyll endeuer my selfe to the best of my power to lyue as a Catholyke man ought and shuld do hereafter And that I doo not hereafter preach or teach any Heresyes / Errours or noughtye opinyons / contrary and agaynst the Catholyke fayth of our holy mother the Church / but as moch as can lye in my power to mayntayne / defende and auaunce the sayde Catholyke fayth and vtterly to detest / abhorre and auoyd all and all maner of Heresyes / Errours and noughty opinyons / with the fauourers / mayntaynours / defendours or abbeters of them or any of thē durynge my lyfe / his lorshyp is content to respyt the rest of my penaunce / and vpon my good deseruynge and doyng accordyng to my seyd promyse to forgyue all togyther / besechyng therfore you that be my fryndes to gyue hym most herty thankes for the same / to take example by me to auoyd the lyke daunger ¶ Here after foloweth the names of the bokes / whiche the sayd person of s Anthonines was detected and presented with GOod people / these bokes contayned here in this bagge or sachel are erronyous / hereticall and noughty bokes and were remaynyng and founde in my house and custody what tyme I was denounced / and detected to my Lorde bysshop of London / the names of the sayd bokes are these / A boke of Frythes / a boke called Thorpe and Olde castell / the Olde god and the New / Rydleys comentaryes vpon saynt Poule to the Ephesiās / Venatorious vpō Timothe / Swyn glyus of gods prouydence / Cathecysme of Melancton / the Cathecysme of Vrbanus / the cathecysme of Pacymontanus / the cathecysme of Sarcerius / West more vpon the concylyacion of fathers / the boke of the counterfayt bysshop / the cōfessyon in Englysh with the Apology Postylles vpon the Epistels gospels / a boke of prayer made by Luther / the Dore of holy scrypture / the Postelles of Coruynus / two old wrytten bokes / the one for scolers / and thother taken out of Frythes bokes In which bokes are cōtayned many sundry errours and blasphemous / detestable / and abhominable heresyes / not onely agaynst the blessed sacrament of th aulter with other sacramentes of Chrystes church / but also agaynst the fre wyll of man / makyng god thautor of syn / And moreouer agaynst good workes / specially fastyng / prayer / almys dede / agaynst auriculer confessiō agaynst the vow of chastyte / and for the maryage of preestes / agaynst the rytes ceremonyes of the churche / comparyng the maner of weddyng / and maryeng of Vyrgens / vnto the bestyall facyon of a sawte bytch Agaynst mens lawes tradicyons / agaynst Cōmunyon or housellyng at Ester vnder one kynd / agaynst inuocations of sayntes / agaynst Masse Matens Euynsonge / agaynst the geuyng of an Oth before a iudge / fynally to haue althing comē among the people ¶ It a est Wilhelmus Tolwyn manu propria ¶ Imprinted at London in saynt Sepulchres parysshe / in the Olde Bayly / by Rychard Lant Ad imprimendum solum