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A05038	A treatyse made by Johan Lambert vnto kynge Henry the .viij. concerynge hys opynyon in the sacrame[n]t of the aultre as they call it, or supper of the lorde as the scripture nameth it. Anno do. 1538	Lambert, John, d. 1538.; Bale, John, 1495-1563.	1548 (1548)	STC 15180; ESTC S103829	24,775	66

A treatyse made by Iohan Lambert vnto kynge Henry the. viij concernynge hys opynyon in the sacramēt of the aultre as they call it or supper of the lorde as the scripture nameth it Anno do 1538. Meritum Christi Spes The waye of the ryghteouse is indged to be vtter desirnctyon but they are in rest And though they suffer payne before mē Yet is their hope full of immortalyte Sapi. 3. Iohan Bale to the christen reader AS Moses described the prymatyue churche for the first ij ages of Adam and Noah most gentyll reader he neyther omytted the malycyouse murtherer Cain nor yet the hatefull scorner Cham but set them both fourth in their lyuely colours of reprobate uessels and wylfull persecuters of the same Luke in like case with the other Euangelystes forgate neyther Iudas nor yet the hypocrytysh clergy of the Iewes as he worte the Gospell Actes whose wretched hartes vnsacyatly thursted for tho se innocētes bloude whych purely confessed the lorde A lyke maner in writynge obserued Egesippus Eusebius other historyanes i the dscripcyō of that lyuely churche whych folowed immedyatly after the Apostles tyme as is euident to them that hath redde their workes Whych godly maner of writynge the vyolēce of Sathā wolde in no case sufferse to procede or contynue least the mad mastryes of hys mody mynysters were therby perceyued and darkenesse so knowne for darkenesse Yet was not the currysh nature of that Cainysh generacyon churlyshly reiectyn ge the gentyll uoyce of God for the ages folowynge all hyd to thē whych had both eyes and syght of the lyuely scripres But they wele perceyued at all tymes that they were both spyghtfull mur therers and theues for all their counter fett colours of holynesse prelacy preste hode chastyte ghostlynesse and soch other dregges the deuyll in the kynde that they vsed them If the congregacyon of God do now fynde such ernest writers as the seyd Moses Luke and Eusebius were whych wyl not in these dayes rocke the cradle of Iesabel Apoca. 2. or flatter the prelates tyrauntes in all their idolatrouse whoremōgynges they maye wele thynke they haue no lesse godly treasure than they were thē to the worlde tyme for tyme and age for age For what els seaketh the greatter nombre of men lerned but to lawde for ●uere to prayse for pleasure and to please for aduauntage encoragynge the wycked tyraūtes of Sodome in all their blas phemouse euyls Yea and a wonderfull matter is it to se ▪ as the lawes are wycked how the prestes the lawers I spea ke not of the godly and the wytlesse ma gystrates sturre about them to haue the tyrāny of thē in all poyntes perfourmed They stāpe they leape they runne they backbyte they cōplayne they accuse they hate they reuyle they slaūdre they why sper in that care that care sūtyme geue fytlhy rewardes to brīge their cruel purpose aboute to depryue the īnocētes of lyfe But whan the lawes are ryghteou se than is it no worlde for them but they kepe sylence as monkes were wont to do They dwell at hōe they slepe they drea me and vtter nothynge at all ▪ They lurke lyke the foxe that feareth the whyppe and lyke the wolfe that doubteth the shepeherde or hunter For their nature is not to maynteyne the ryghteousnesse of the lawe but busyly to call vpon to sturre vp to quycken the tyranny therof For they are the naturall mynysters of tyranny and in that peruerse offyce the fearce promoters of Antichrist and cruell slaues of the deuyll Of thys spyghtfull rable of rude rashe ruffyanes was he cytie of Norwych yet neuer clere in the whych thys persecuted seruaunt of God Iohan Lambert otherwyse called Iohan Nycols was borne from thēs exyled for hys christen beleues sake I haue reddein the chronycles of that cytie that it hath bene dyuersly oft plaged for the slaughter of innocētes And in the yeare of our lorde a. M. S. and. vi● I behelde it in effect most wonderfull beyng than but a ladde of xi yeares of age As their blynde byshopp clergy by their full consent had brent a yonge man there aft●r the most tyrannouse ma ner I thynke that euer was seane only for hauynge the lordesprayeri Englysh and for not allowynge that prayer in latyne idolatrously to besayd to their dead sayntes neyther folowed in them nor yet in their clergy repentaunce for that cru ell slaughter No neyther lent fastynge fyshe eatynge shryft palme sonday good fryday clyppe clappes crosse crepynge easter daye nor yet the receyuynge of their maker as they call it whych all im medyatly succeded coulde brynge them ones in remembraunce that they had therin done amys But se what folwed by the ryghtfull hande of God On tuysdaye in Easter weke whych was than opon saynt Markes daye soch a fyre sodenly kyndled in the stretes of their cytte as in fyue dayes as manye nyghtes folowynge coulde scarsely be quenched The euydent sygnes of that destructyon are yet to thys present houre to be seane there in dyuerse places the people neuer knowynge from whens that fyre came And yet styll they by the blyndenesse of their curates not only remayned without repentaunce but also consented to murther vpon murther as apered in sir Thomas of Eccles in an ol deman of Bongay and in mastre Bylney whom they put to cruell deathe also for their christen beleues If they haue borne them the boldar for that they haue seane their prestes not moch harmed by that fyre or no lesse ther after to prospere than afore they fowly haue deceyued thēselues through ignoraunce of the scriptures For God only chasteneth here in thys lyfe those whom he loueth and intendeth to saue Hebre. 12. As for the prestes whych commenly witholde the truthe of God in vnryghtcousnesse God hath geuen them ouer to themselues Roma i. whych is the most terryble plage vpon earthe They are the sede ofsprynge of that wycked one re serued to the lattre vengeaunce whom Christ shall destroye in hys lattre commynge for beleuynge lyes and fordoynge here the operacyon of errour 2. Thes. 2. Moreouer Christ hath terrybly thrette ▪ ned that it shall be moch worse with that generacyon of infydeles in that last iudgement day than with Sodome and Gomor or Tyre Sydon luce 10. whych had sore ponnyshmentes here How many the afore named cytie hath spirytually slayne by vniustly withol dynge the scriptures of God whych only mynystreth lyfe to the sowle the lorde of beauen knoweth and wyll to their confu syon make it open at that lattre iudgement daye Therfor I counsell them to re pent in due season and from hens fourth towashe theîr handes cleane from inno cent bloude not with Pylate but with Paule whych after hys conuersyon apered nomore a persecuter of christianes ▪ And as concernynge their cytiezen suntyme