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A12582 Here begynnyth a traetys callyde the Lordis flayle handlyde by the bushops powre thresshere Thomas Solme Some, Thomas, b. ca. 1510. 1540 (1540) STC 22897; ESTC S105011 35,764 80

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his secte hath longe dishoneryd his name / in kepinge true hedis vnder his fytte If sente Peter of whom he claym his primacy dyd obay kyngis and rulers as owre sauyure Christ do cōmaūd and dyde beynge a chylde and a man as it is playn in scripture wher lerne he thys pryd whare hath he his auctorite to clayme hold his primacy ouer al the worlde Luc. 2. Math. 9. Truly he hathe it of the world and deuell / This herde perchance sum papist wyll say / that I speke agenste cherite / by cause he toke his auctorite by counsente of the cherche / grett Constantyne beynge Emporore of Rome / as the scripture of the cherche do testify Answere Two scripturs To this I answere / that there is two scripturs / that is / the scripture of God and scripture of man / the Lordis is immutabyl / and dampnabyl to the brekers / mans is mutabyl and not dampnabyl to the brekers / the on that is Godis must nedis be the othere if it wornet it wore the better The scripture of God is so necessary that it can not be augmentyd ne mynischede as scripture testify with owt dampnaciō of body and sowle / The scripture of mane is mynischyd augmentyd euery day after the ymaginacion of mās brayne / whych nott kepte puryfyth the sowle / bet ofte tymes bryngeth dethe to the body / of whych scrypture Polle byd vs take hyd / callynge it the doctrine of deuels falfs antichristis / wherfore to this false scripture christen men ere nott bownde / but to the scripture of God ye we must kepe al thyngis that er wryttne ther in with al the possibilite that we can / for in it is wrytting and showde althyngis necessary for owre redempciō / accordinge to the prophicy of the holy goste spekinge by the psalmiste of the spiritual Syon / that is of the true speculacion of God and his Christ / saynge The Lord shall showe / vnderstande all thyngis pertayninge to his true honor of his Christe / in scripturs of pepyll and princes whiche haue byne in it in the true contemplacion of Godis worde / and that is the olde Testament and nwe / he say not / The Lorde shall showe in the scripturs of pepyll and princis that nowe be in Syon / but in the scripturs of them that hate byne / in it Therfor by chause we er cōmaundyd in meny placis of scripture to obay owr princis / and can fynde in no place the Pope / therfor we may affirme al kyngis with they re ministers to be the true electe hedis vnder God / the Pope and his secte to be very ennymes of the crose of Christ very Antichristis agenst God and name Scripture comman̄de vs to obay owrekynge but not the Pope Therfore lett all men be obedient to they re princis / and we in speciall to owre kynge Henry the .viij. most excelente and faythfull myke paciente and mercy full / beynge a moge vs as the Lorde commaunde as on of vs / always wyllynge and cōmaundinge that thynge in his cherche and subiectis / which is to the glory of God and Iesu Christe / always cōmaūding that which is to the commoune and not to his proper welthe / but god knoweth he hath meny a slowe workere in fulfylling this his wyll Agene howe marcyful he is agenst his rebellers What stody what payne do his grace take dayly to sett forte God glory In what ieberdy hate is he of the worlde for the loue of Godis worde Othere kyngis take stody to incresse theyr subiectis with ryches worldly ☞ Our kynge do not incresse his cōmoūs with worldly ryches only / but also chefely with the worde of God which is better then gold and precyuus stons What infideles wold rebel and be false agenst such a prince hauynge the qualitys and vertws that he hath we owt therfore to be true and louynge to him and his / by nature and kynde / ye and much more by the laue of God / by the which lawe also he hath bowde vs / ye we haue all sworne in the holy name of owre lorde God to be true to him his laufull hayers / to the grett glory of Godis name tranquilite of hys reme Therfor to cōclud lett all men take hede ☜ vnto they re othe / which euery man may laufully vse as Paul dyd in affirmyng the dignite of the gospelle and glory of Godis name / and lett them instructe theyr chyldren in tyme of youte / that they may laerne to know God and they re Prince / and no more to be blyndly lede as they haue byne a fore this tyme / in rebelling agenst they re Prince Roma 1. By this cōmaundement also we er bownde to cal a pone non othere name whan necessite shal compell / but a pon the name of Gode / for it pertayn only to his glorye / that he be had an vnicall wyttnes and record of verite / which is the vnical and eternall helthe verite we er bownde to sware only by God for the trwth Therfor a way with owre ladyse bedysmen / Augustinis / Dominickis / Benedictis Frāciscans / Basylighttis / the .v. discordis of the cherch as Tomystis do say / a way with thes and all other sectis the dropingis of the deuylis tayll / the vpholsters of Antichrist the son of perdicion / And that he myght the better inculke to vs this cōmaundement dyd adde thes wordis / that he wold reuenge him self fe agenst all them which dyd take his holy name in vayne ¶ The fowrth cōmaundment Remember the Sabott day / that thou sanctify thesam / sex days thoue shalte worke / and shal do all thy besynes / the .vij. day is the Sabott day of the lorde God / Thow shalt do non of they workes / thow and thy sonne / and dowghter / thy seruant and handmayd / thy best and pylgram whych is in thy portis / For in .vj. days thy Lord dyd make heuen and erth / the see and al thyngis gis which er in them / and the .vij. day he dyd rest / therfor he dyd blyssyt and sanctify the same THe obseruacion of the Sabott day do pertayn also to the honore and worshope of God / in as much it is contaynid vnder the fyrste tabyl and is nominate the sanctificacion of the day / Wherfor God dyd require neuer nothynge more strayghtlye to be kepte / And whan he wold signify by Prophettis al religiō subuerst / and good lyuinge sett parte / he dyd euer say his holydays to be polutyd / on halowyd / vyolatyd / not kepte / not sanctifyd / as thowght this obedience omittyd and lefte / nothynge remaynyd be syde / in which he myght be honoryd Exod. 31. Nume 15. Iere. 17. Truly ther is no dowght but that this precepte was a shadowe / and cōmaundyd
to the Iuys for the tyme of ceremonys / that it myght represente the spiritall worshype of God / vnder the externall obseruacion to them / Wherfor in the commynge of Christ / which is the ende and the lyght of shadowes / the truth of figurs this cōmaundement was distryde / as other shadows of Moysis lawe / lyke as Paull do testify euidētly Gala. 4. Colos 3. But neuerthelesse we the ceremonys distryde / the externall coustome / by which in the berke of the lawe / that is / in the letter the Iuys fayth was excersisyd do hold the truthe of this precepte / which te lorde wyl to be perpetuall / and cōmune to the Iuys and vs / which truthe is this to f●re loue God a boue all thynge / to pute owre confidence and quiettnes only in him / which then shal be doune whā we shal refrayn with owt colore from owre concupiscencys yll deseyris / which do nothynge els / but breke the mende from God / ver and turmoyll owr spryth The kepinge of the holy day Also whan we selfe from the vnprofitabyll workis of owre fleshe / that is whicher spronge of owre concupiscence and wrechydnes of nature / ye to be shorte whan we refrayn from all workiscōtrary to the spryte of Gode / althowgh they bere be fore them sū similitude of mans prouidens / and wytte / For thes manner of workis be all seruiall / from which the lawe byd vs to sesse in the sabotday / that God myght dwell in vs / worke that good is and gouerne vs by the mens of his holy spryt by whos mens he geuyth the rem / pece / tranquilyte of conschiens Iesa 35.58 Heb. 3. q. 4. Mans inuencions is bondage Ihon. 14. Ephe 3. 1. Corin. 3. Roma 1. This truly is the true Sabott day / whos forme shadowe was thesame iudaycall The Sabott day is to haue the spryt of god in owre hertes Therfor it was assinyd to the .vij. day which numbere hath significacion of perfection in scripture / wherby we ere towght God to cōmende and geue a pertuell Sabat day to vs / which shal ende by no terme or tyme / also that lyuinge we shall not sanctifyth plentuusly and after a iuste māner / on tyll the seuenth day / which is the last and eternall day / for althowgh we haue begone to enter in to his sabott day by fayth / hyt we shall not cū to the plentuusnes ther of / tyl the resurrection of owre mortall bodys / and whan we shall se God face to face as he is The trwe Sabot day is not yn this lyffe Hebreo 4. Roma 8. 1. Ihon. 4. Nowe therfor by fayth we haue begone owre quiettnes in God / in which also we do dayly make progresse / that then at the laste we may profytte whan thesame of Isay is fulfyllid in which a day of reste from a day of reste is promissyde to the cherch of God / that is / wher now they se him by speculacion of fayth / thē they shal se him in ded / wher nowe we hold his shadowe thē we shal possesse his substaunce Isa 66. 1. Corin 15. Gene. 2. The sōday is not made to be halowid wither clamacion● but wyth the Lordi● worde Gala. 4. Colos 3. That which partayn to the sonday / which we do obserue nowe is not instytute therfor that we shuld sanctify the same a boue other days / and thynkyt more holy / for all holynes is the singulere prerogatyue of God only / which dyd honor all days a lyke But that the cherche myght cōtogethere in that day to prayers and lawdis of God / to here the worde of God / to vse the Sacramentis in rygijt order which as it er owt of order in which thyngis that we myght the beter apply al owre stody / we shuld sesse from manual workis / and from al impedimēttis / which pertayn to the reson of his lyffe / that whā the worde of God is prechyd purly and syncerly as it is but of fewe then we myght resayue the same with a quiete mend and a faythfull hert / w erby we myght mortify / the workis of the olde Adā / sanctifynge not only that day / but also euery day in the wek e / And ye shall not that we whiche ere faythfull owt not to discerne by twyne day and day / but for the cause of commune polysy as is showde before Discerninge of days is forbyddynge Therfor holy days er not ascribyd and ordainyd / that we shuld honore God by sesynge of workis whereby men gett they re bodyly sustinans / iustly and after Godis cōmaundement / but by cause the cherich shulde cōtogether in sum day to lerne in herynge Godis worde howe to fede the sowle / Which thynge not towght men were better to kepe they re bysynes at home accordinge to they re vocacions / that is rulers to stody for the commune profytte poore men to labore for theyr lyuinge / then for to cum to the persons barne / and there cōmyt ydolitre in mayntenynge his ambision / If Godes worde be not towght mēwere better to worke thē to cū to cherch pride / and bestly lyuinge Nobyl statis were better to hunte the bull here / hert or ony othere thynge lyke intendinge to suckure the powre with the mette / thē to here sere Ihon singyl sowle stombel a payer of mattēs in latē / slynge holy water / curse holy brede / and to play a caste kyke yack an napes in a foles cotte But I wold God all men were as redy to do / to folowe and here the worde of God / which is very Christ Iesue / accordynge to Godis cōmaundement and owre Princes / as they er to do / folowe and here the word of Antichrist which is the deuyll himselffe / cōmaundyd by the Lord of the worde and sone of perdicion And ye shal knowe this day ordinyd for a godly polysy / is nowe vsyd to the grett dishonore of God / so that it were better to be vsyd neuer a dell / ye not to be had in remembraunce / wherby men myght worke / then to vse it as they do for the most parte The body of Christ is mad the body of an hee lott for lake of true techynge Nowe the worde of God is not purly syncerly towght / but in fewe placis / nor can not be truly towght it is so snarlyd by popysche losels / and with they re popysche ceremonys / Nowe meny men and women for lake of good techynge do prepare the selues mor for to be sene then to lerne / shoynge themselues in the holy cōgregacion more lykere veneriall persons thene true mēbers of Christ / and makytt more lykere a fayer and pray fore the deuell then a body sekynge the glory of they re hede Christ Iesue / suppose that