can not erre nor commaūde any vnrightuousnes Sainte Paul right honorable lordes setteth forth a nother doctrine of deuels the abstinence from meates in certen tymes and dayes and for conscience sake supposinge the meate to be prophane and vngodly and againste Gods wil and pleasure to be eaten Soch abstinence from meates Paul calleth the doctrine of deuels because it is mere contrary to Christes wordes and the holy scriptures For meate sayeth Paul commendeth vs not to God 1. Cor. 8. nether yf we eate be we the better nether yf we eate not be we the worse Math. 15. For that which entreth in to the mouth defileth not the man but that which procedeth out of the hearte sayeth Christe Also Sainte Paul exhorteth all men that they regarde not soch ordinaunces made by men lyke as the ordinaunces made by God sayenge Collo 2. Let no man trouble youre conscience aboute meate and drinke Wherfore if you be deed with Christe sayeth he from the ordinaunces of the world whic as though ye yet lyued in the world are ye leed with man traditions Touche not tast not handle not All which perishe thorow the veraye abuse after the commaundement doctrines of men Which thinges outwardlye haue a similitude of wysedome by superstitiō humblenes by hurting of the body in that they do the fleshe no worship to the nede therof S. Peter also thought it not meete for hym to eate certen meates that were forbidden in Moses law to be eaten as thinges that were vncleane Act. 10. To whome in a vision was answer geuen that he should not saye that thinge to be comen and vncleane that God had purified thorow his eternall worde Hebr. 13. It is therfore good sayeth Paul to stablish oure heartes in grace and not in meates which profited not them that walked therin 1. Cor. 10. Doutles honorable lordes Sainte Paul wold not haue commaunded generally that we shuld eate of all kinde of meates that come to be solde in the shambles askinge no thinge what they be for conscience sake yf it had not ben lawfull by Gods lawes to eate of all kindes of meates and that in all tymes and dayes so that they be eaten temperatly for the necessitie of the bodie and not for wanton lust to please the flesh and also eatē with out offence of the weake brethrē eatē with thākes geuyng for the same to God that feadeth al thinges But who right honorable lordes hath forbodē these flesh meates and whit meates to be eaten in Lent other prescript tymes Euen he that hath vsurped power to make offences synne of that which God nor his Apostles taught to be synne or offence Of whōe S. Paul warneth you to beware to marke them decline frō them For soch sayeth Paul Rom. 13. sserue not our Lorde but their belies And by pleasaūt wordes blessinges they seduce begyle the heartes of innocentes But wherfore hath our holy father made restraint of meates to be eaten in certayne tymes for conscience sake so manifest contrary to the doctrine of them that he bosteth to be his predecessours Verely that he might set forth his vsurped power And also that as S. Peter sayeth he might make marchaundise ouer vs in couetousnes 2. Pet. 2. For money he will geue licence to eate what you wil to do what you will And therfore all his lawes made of restrainte forbiddyng of those thinges that God lefte free are but a playne arte and crafte deuyse made to begyle the people of their money This moste honorable Lordes I haue sette forth two of Antichristes false doctrines not after myne awne fātesie but as Paul nameth them the doctrine of deuels that you might not be any furder deceaued by the preachers of them And also that you maye assuredly certifie youre consciēces that al they that preache and defende the same doctrines ben vnfaynedly Antichristes disciples which be spirites of erroure that haue departed from the faith or els the Apostles doctrine is erronious and false But that cā not be true Also oure master Christe admonisheth vs to beware lest any mand deceaue vs. For many shall come sayeth Christe in my name sayenge Mat. 24 I am Christe shall deceaue many Who is he that cometh in Christes name sayeng I am Christe None doutles who be they that saye they be Christ but he that vsurpeth to hym Christes office power holynes which no man doeth but the Romish Antichrist and his sluttish secte Euen they that vsurpe absolute power geuen to them to remitte and to forgeue synnes to the people Against thē that vsurpe Christes power and place whiche is the onlye power grace and office of Christe and not of any man Wherfore that man that vsurpeth vpon hym that office of Christe is the very same that sayeth I am Christe that is so anoynted and authorised of God that I haue absolute power geuen me from God to forgeue synnes as Christe hath For euē in soch maner of speaking all his filthy secte sittinge in their whorish confessions boost them selfes that they sit in Gods stydde and rowme to forgeue the synnes of soch as confesse their sinnes to them sayenge in their false absolutions in a tonge that the confessed vnderstandeth not By the authoritie of Peter and Paul and by the authoritie to me committed I forgeue the thy synnes to me confessed But nether Peter ne yet Paul did forgeue synnes by their awne authoritie grace or power but only by the preaching of the gospel Act. 4. As Peter sayeth ther is no nother name vnder heauen geuen vnto men nether is ther any other by whom we must be saued Act. 10 but the name of Iesu Christe For to hym all the prophetes beare witnes sayeth Peter remission of synne to be had thorowe his name Also sayeth Paul be it knowen vnto you men and bretherne Act. 13. that thorow this mā meaning Christe remission of synnes is preached and that by hym all that beleue are iustified from all thinges from the which ye could not be iustified by the law of Moses For he is the lambe of God that taketh awaye the synnes of the people / sayeth Ioan baptiste Ioh. 1. And euē so sayeth the Angell to our lady Math. 1. that he shall saue his people from their synnes Wherfore nether by the authoritie of Peter / nor of Paul ne yet by any absolute autoritie to them committed excepte by the autoritie of preachinge of the gospel to the people that trulie repente beleuinge constantly to haue remission of their synnes by the deeth and bloodshedinge of Iesu Christ hath other bisshop or priest any autoritie to forgeue synne Lamente therfore my Lordes the miserable state of this realme consideringe that there can be no remission of synnes geuen but onlye thorow the preaching of the gospell which none of oure priestes thorow all the realme do practise
in their whorish confessions nor yet know they what is a gospel moch lesse caÌ„ they preach the gospell Halas by what meanes do these beastes of the bely geue remission of synnes to the people when they speake not one worde of Christe that the confessed doeth vnderstande or perceaue But in their absolutions they geue penaunce to the confessed fastinge certen dayes lyplabour in sayenge of thinges they vnderstande not masses to be sayed and almes to be geuen for the satisfaction of their sinnes Thus burye they Christes passion and deeth and bloodshedinge which only be oure satisfaction for oure synnes And no nother can be And although God by his prophete Esai commaundeth all pastours that haue the spirituall charge of soules Esai 43. to shew vnto his people their synnes sayenge Crie and cease not Lyft vp thy voyce as a trumpet Esai 58. shew my people their synnes Notwithstandinge this commaundemente of God geuen to all them that haue spirituall charge of soules Antichriste myndinge to shew to the world that he thinketh him selfe wiser theÌ„ God and that he can make more godly and holsome prouision for soule health then God hath made a law that all people of euery kinde once in the yere at the leest shal confesse and shew their synnes to their awne Pastour or curate God commaundeth that the pastoure shall shew to the people theyr synnes But Antichriste commaundeth cleane contrary that the people shall shew their synnes to their curates By these meanes the people for the most parte beleue that they haue remission of their synnes because they haue nombred their synnes in to the eares of their confessoure Or els for what cause shulde we confesse theÌ„ to our curates For euery man knoweth what is synne that he shal be damned yf he forsake not his synne yf the priestes execute the commaundemente of God geueÌ„ by Esai Esai 58. But the simple people thinke verely that when the curate pronounceth a certen sownde and voyce of wordes ouer their beedes which they thinke is an absolutioÌ„ froÌ„ their sinnes although they vnderstande not one worde what he sayeth yet beleue they that the wordes that he speaketh hauinge his hande vpon their heedes haue vertue and power to forgeue to them their synnes euen because the priest sitting in Gods stede as they thinke and as the priestes boaste them selfes to do pronounceth and speaketh them Wherin all be deceaued lamentablye Assured meanes wherby euery man maye haue remission of sinnes But doutles he that earnestly repenteth his sinfull life fully mynded neuer after to returne to the same theÌ„ trusteth coÌ„stantly to Gods promise made of remissioÌ„ of sinnes to hym for the passion deeth of oure sauioure Christe / the same hath remissioÌ„ of his synne althouth he neuer nombre them in to the eare of any preist And then yf he fealinge and perceauinge true repentaunce and faith in his hearte will resorte to any prieste to receaue absolution and remission of his synnes wherof he is assured by Gods promise the same declareth hymself to mistrust Gods promise made to hym of remission of his synnes and then is he an infidele that by no meanes can haue remission of his synnes And if he be not fully mynded to forsake his former euill lyfe and neuer to retorne to the same againe then can he not haue any trust to haue remission of his synnes because that is promised to them only that for euer forsake their synnes And therfore if he mindeth not to forsake his synnes he goeth in vayne to his curate to haue remissioÌ„ of his synnes And if he repenteth his synnes and beleueth as I haue said then doeth he euyll to fatch remission of his synnes wherof he is assured already by Gods promise to be forgeuen And therfore his goinge to his curate to be confessed is veraye vayne and a poynte of infidelitie Oh that the curates of EnglaÌ„de wold theye and obserue Gods commaundemente geuen to them by the mouth of his prophete Esaia But that will they neuer 〈◊〉 But their master Antichristes coÌ„maundementes wyll they deligently obeye although they bringe no commoditie spirituall or temporall to any man sauinge to their fylthie paunches Euery man maye well perceaue wherfore they be so gready to holde and to maynteyne this whorish confession Th causes why the clergie so earnestlie maynteyne auriculer confession and authoritie to heare testamentary causes c. Ouer besydes that they prouide for them selfes in their confessions where they maye be sped of a whore or two all the yere after Yet by these their coÌ„fessioÌ„s the chiefe Antichrist kepeth his sluttish secte of perdition in estimation with the comen people in whose coÌ„scieÌ„ces they sitte as God and execute Antichristes office that is to fill hell with soules And so in their confessions be euer ready to worke sedition and treason against both Emperoure kinge and al other gouernours of that Empire realme and dominion that ether coÌ„tendeth or striueth with their holy father Antichriste or speaketh against his vsurped power his false and craftie deceated wicked doctrines wherby he seduceth begyleth all men for the most parte leading them with a false confidence and fayth to haue remission of their synnes because they declare them to his filthy generatioÌ„ of serpentes And by these meanes innumerable soules be leâ—… 〈◊〉 to hell And moch sedition and treason is wroughte wherby moch bloodshedinge and murther is broughte to passe to the vtter subuersion and destruction of many Realmes As the last sedicion stirred vp in the North in Somerset shire Deuonshire and in other partes of this Realme be most miserable monimeÌ„tes and witnesses And this is not their only comen practise practised with vs in EnglaÌ„de but also the like practise was practised with the Princes of Germany that will neuer suffer their treasoÌ„s to be out of maÌ„s memory Wherfore this whorish confession wherof procedeth so moch euyll and mischefe to all realmes which also bringeth no profite with it but seduceth and begyleth many ought to be banished and abolished although they saye that they caÌ„not well gyue medicine or plaister that shal be holesome or profitable excepte they also know the particuler disease and grief Which answere oure holy father hymself desproueth For he geueth cleane remission a prenaet a culpa that is from peyne and synne to theÌ„ that neuer shewed their offences to hym and healeth all sickenesses and sores with this one plaister that is all that be truly sory and penitente for their synnes and be confessed to a priest haue cleane remission As for faith in our sauioure Iesus Christe it forceth not so thou be confessed it maketh no matter whether thou beleue in Christe or no. And yet without Christ are we all for euer remidiles damned Why do ye right honorable lordes / admit this blasphemous doctrine of remission of synnes without faith in Christ All that be truly sorry for their synnes
entendinge thorow Gods helpe / neuer to retorne to the same and put their trust and faith in Christes blood for the remissiō of their synnes haue a generall pardō graūted vnto them by God hym selfe by his promise though they neuer come to priestes eare which is a sure bull nor sealed with lead but with the bloodshedinge of Iesus Christe And therfore if oure english priestes wolde truly preach the law to the people openly thē shuld they shewe the people their sinnes accordinge to Gods commaundemēte and geue them the generall plaister that is they must vtterly forsake their sinnes and trust to Christes satisfaction made for the same This maye they do without carish confession And this is the only true waye to forgeue sinnes and of it selfe sufficiente Awaye therfore with this blasphemous care confession and compell youre priestes to preach the law and the gospel And so maye youre lordships auoyde many euyls and moch wickednes that ensueth this whorish confession And good my Lordes beware of them that saye I am Christe that is so anoynted of God with grace that euery man maye haue of me the same benefite that they may haue of Christ For they that come so in the name of Christe sayenge Math. 24 I am Christe shal deceaue many sayeth Christe who can not speake vntruly Beware therfore my lordes of a nother of Antichristes false doctrines and practise A nother of Antichristes false doctrines A nother false doctryne of Antichriste is that he hath inuented and erected the new sacrifice to be made in the ydolotrous Masse for the soules of the quycke and of the deed 2. Petr. 2 By the which sacrifice they make marchaundise of mens soules for money But for as moch as Christ hath offred hym self vpon the crosse to God his father and become for vs a perfite He. 7. et 9 whole and sufficiente sacrifice for oure sinnes ones for euer wherwith he hath taken awaye oure sinnes By what meanes can oure false sacrificers / with their false sacrifice made in their ydolotrose masse neuer commaunded of God to be made for the synnes other of the quycke or of the deed take awaye oure sinnes Cōsideringe that Paul sayeth Hebr. 10 where is remission of sinnes there neadeth no forther sacrifice to be made for sinnes but Christe with his only one sacrifice made to God his father for vs hath taken awaye oure synnes as all the holy scriptures beare manifeste witnesse And in the articles of oure crede we confesse the same Wherfore this sacrifice made in the ydolotrouse masse is most wicked and sinfull can not by any meanes take awaye oure sinnes but is one of Antichristes false craftes and subtile deuises therby to maynteyn his sluttish generation of infideles to lyue ydly proudly and lecherously And by this their false sacrifice made in their ydolotrouse masse they robbe Christ not only of his honour of oure redemption and of the thankes dew for the same But also they make many to haue a false confidence and trust to haue their synnes to be taken awaye thorow their false sacrifice made in their masses Wherin they be lamētably deceaued And also they robbe vs of oure money be the selfe same robbers that Christe sayeth do deuoure widowes houses vnder the coloure of longe prayers Mat. 23. Marc. 12. and also that make marchādice of oure soules in couetousnes 2. Pet. 2 These be the same Antichristes that cōfesse not Christ to be comē in the flesh denye the Lorde that bought them 1. Ioan. 4 The selfe same sacrificers righte honorable lordes take vpon them to be mediatours and aduocates with God for the people not for loue An other of Antichristes false doctrines as one man is boūde to praie for an other But these holy mediatours and aduocates will not praye but for money That the comō prouerbe maye be verified in them Where is no pēny ther is no Pater noster Prayer Prayer is of all thinges most spirituall And no man can praye truly except God teach hym Math. 6 As it appeareth by the Apostles that desired Christ to teach thē to praye And also Paul sayeth Rom. 8. we can not praye as we oughte to praye Therfore if our clergies sacrifices and prayers were spirituall as in dede they be but veraye liplaboure and most deceatful bablinges they shuld committe Symonie for takinge for a spiritual office a tēporal rewarde But moneye all other thinges be spiritual when̄ they medle with them They in them selfes be so spiritual But mediatours aduocats wil they be although the holy scriptures saye the cōtrarie And that Christ is our only mediatour aduocat as it appereth Ioan. 14 ▪ 17. 1. Tim. 2. and. 1. Iaan 3 Yet will oure wicked priestes vsurpe vnto them the only office of Christe to be mediatours and aduocates And therby saye that they be Christe But beware of them honorable lordes For Christ biddeth you beware of them For they shal deceaue many sayeth Christe Beware therfore of a nother of Antichristes false doctrines All christen men be bounden to beleue that oure sauioure Christe in his naturall body is ascended in to heauen and ther sitteth on the righte hande of God the father acccordinge as both Peter and Paul haue taughters 1. Petr. 3. Coloss 3. And accordinge to oure comē crede But Antichriste and his adulterous generation of infideles haue taughte a nother doctrine sayenge Here is Christe and there is Christe But none saye here is Christe and there is Christe but these Masmongers which saye that they thorow their speakinge of foure wordes scz this is my body do make Christes body of bred ther to be really and bodely presente vpon euery altare in one instāte that thei might offer him once againe for a sacrifice made for money but not for sinne This doctrine is to be moch suspected to be a false doctrine because that Christ commaundeth you not to beleue them that so teach or saye And Peter sayeth that he is in heauen and that the heauens shall there reteyne hym vntill all thinges be fulfilled c. Act. 3. Consideringe that he in his bodely presence is in heauen and his bodie is lyke to oure bodies in al naturall thinges except onlye sinne And oure bodies can not be in diuerse places at one tyme therfore nor Chrifles body cā be in diuers places at one tyme. Wherfore good my lordes be not any more ignoraunte who be false deceauers wicked prophetes Christes body is in secrete places that is in euery pixt and lienge masters the natural broode of Antichriste The same secte sayeth that Christ is in secret places which be all they that saye Christes natural body is in euery pyxe hāginge ouer euery altare beware of them For Christe sayeth that by these wordes they shall deceaue many Which doctrines our English priestes dayly do preach Now I will reherse a nother of his
false and wicked doctrines Yet a false doctrine inuented only therby to maynteyne a nomber of ydle harlottes and to lead innumerable soules thorow a false fayeth and vayne trust in to hell This is his doctrine of purgatorie the pyke purse of all Christendome And although the holy gooste sayeth / that by mercy and sayth synnes be purged Yet Yet hath this Antichrist fouÌ„de out a prison Purgatorye which he calleth Purgatorie therin to punysh soules vntill other he or some of his marke must make a sacrifice for his soule in his ydolotrous masse But it were no good policie to trust to moch to their sacrifice because ther is no mention therof made in any place of the holy scripture Nor yet is it wisdome to trust moch to their prayers because the prophete sayth that the prayer of the wicked is not wel hearde of God Psa 108. but rather to synne Wherfore it is beste for a christen man to trust vnto Gods mercy and not to popish sacrifices nor prayers which be nother mercy nor faith And we be sure that nother the mercy of God nor faith in Christe be in the Popes haÌ„des to distribute where it pleaseth him Wherfore he can not purge soules neither of their sinnes nor of the peynes dew for the same by Gods iudgemente It belongeth only to God to purge soules froÌ„ their sinnes As the prophete sayeth Psal 48. No maÌ„ can delyuer his brother nor make agreamente for him to God for it costeth more to redeme their soules so that ye must let that alone for euer Ioan. 3. Ioan. 1. Ro. 8. Christe sayeth he that beleueth hath now eternal lyfe is the sonne of God coheire with Christe to whome God hath promised remission of synnes frely for Christes sake Therfore the Pope shall do him to moch wronge to ponish him for his sinnes to whoÌ„ God hath forgeueÌ„ theÌ„ And if he were a true vicar to God Christe he wold not so cruelly ponish his masters childern nor louinge seruantes But that we maye not trust vnto this popish purgatory wherof ther is no mention made in the scriptures Let vs resorte vnto the holy scriptures wherin we may heue a sure hope of a true purgation of oure sinnes S. IoaÌ„ sayeth 1. Ioh. 1. If we walke in the lighte eueÌ„ as he is in the light theÌ„ haue we felowship with him And the blood of Iesu Christe his sonne clenseth vs froÌ„ al sinne Here maye all ChristeÌ„ meÌ„ haue sure coÌ„fideÌ„ce that if they walke in the lighte of Gods worde that theÌ„ Christes blood purgeth theÌ„ froÌ„ al their sinnes But many persons the more it is to be lamented so walck in the darkenesse of sinne trust to haue helpe thorow sacrifices made masses that they can neuer come to Purgatory but go assuredly to hel wher no purgatioÌ„ of sinne can be because Christes senteÌ„ce iudgement is geueÌ„ that he that beleueth not is alredy coÌ„deÌ„ned And the holy scriptures saye where the tree falleth there he shal lye whether it be at East west North or South Eccle. 11. Be not therfore deceaued honorable lordes nor trust to this false doctrine of purgatorie that sinnes shuld be purged with fyre A Christen man wold not put fyre in the stede of Christes blood where with oure sinnes be purged only As Paul sayeth Hebr. 1. Christe is the brightnes of the glorie of his father and veray ymage of his substaunce bearinge vp all thinges with the worde of his power that hath in his awne person purged oure sinnes Excepte therfore oure holy father will proue himselfe to be the natural sonne of God euen Christe hymselfe he purgeth not oure sinnes Apo. 1. It is Christe that so loued vs that he washed vs in his hearte blood sayeth Sainte Iohn Considering right honorable lordes that I haue called to youre memories certen of Antichristes false doctrines which I of myne awne herd do not name to be doctrines of deuels doctrines of lyenge masters and of subtile deceauers and of them that departe from the faith but out master Christ and his apostles to whom all christen men 〈…〉 geue credit calleth them so the preachers of the same false Apostles and soch as with their false doctrines shall deceaue many Of whoÌ„ Christe admonisheth you to beware Mat. 24. and the Apostle desireth you to marke well to take hede of them and to decline or departe from them For they serue not Christ the Lorde but their belly Ro. 16. And yet notwithstandinge these louinge admonitions and warninges geuen vnto you not by lighte preachers but by Christe hymselfe and by his Apostles thesame doctrines be dayly taughte preached / alowed and malitiouslye defended with you Therfore haue I accordinge to my boundeÌ„ dutie set theÌ„ forth that you might beware of them and of the preachers of them So that ye maye auoyde the plage of God that hangeth ouer vs for oure departinge from Christe and from his true doctrines vnto the seruice and obedience of Antichriste and of his false doctrines / which be mere and plaine contrary to Christe and his doctrines By the which condition and sure marke youre lordships maye well knowe them euer And bycause I haue rehersed so many of Antichristes false doctrines that al men maye wel discerne and iudge the residue of his false doctrines by them that I haue here written I will now directe my penne to expresse and declare a certen assured signe and token geuen by Daniel and also by Christe of the tyme wherin Antichrist shuld come and rage againste Christe Mat. 24. Christe warneth vs to loke for him when we shall se abhomination of desolation stande in the holy place For the true declaration of the which texte it is to be noted honorable lordes that the Apostle calleth vs the temple of God sayenge 1. Cor. 3. The temple of God is holy which be you Consideringe that we be the temple of God and the holy place What more abhomination of desolation can ther be in the holy place then to exile God out of his temple and holy place not only by the workinge of manifolde sinnes fylthynes and detestable wickednes wherof was neuer moare plentie vsed but also in the stede of God to receaue Antichriste the men of synne and childe of perdition as Paul nameth hym Is not this to put man in Gods stede wheÌ„ we trust to receaue remission of sinnes and eternall lyfe of the Romish Antichriste and that in perchmeyne sâ—â—â—nes coÌ„sideringe that we heare not him preach any gospell to vs wherby oure sinnes shuld be forgeuen vs nor yet knoweth he any of our sinnes If he can forgeue vs oure sinnes without hearinge oure sinnes nombred vnto him and without speakinge with vs wherfore wyl not our priestes forgeue vs oure sinnes excepte they must heare them tolde in to their eares Is not this abomination of desolation standinge in the holy place To geue ouer
oure trust and confidence that we oughe to haue of remissioÌ„ of oure sinnes at Gods handes for Christes sake only and now to haue confidence to haue it at Antichristes handes for a litle money that is most contrary to God to Christe in all thinges Oh most abomination of desolation staÌ„dinge in mans coÌ„scieÌ„ce that shulde be the teÌ„ple of God and the dwellinge place of the holy goost Is it not a foule abomination of desolation staÌ„dinge in the holy place In the stede of Christes only one sacrifice which he made of himselfe to God his father for vs vpon the crosse now to set vp a new sacrifice to be made to God for vs of a pece of bread and a cuppe of wyne and to lyfte vp them to be shewed to the people to be gased vpon and to be worshipped and not to be receaued and to be eaten droÌ„ken accordinge to Christes institution and commaundemente Is it not abhomination of deÌ„solation staÌ„dinge in the holy church of God in the stede of the gospell to be preached and declared vnto the people in soch maner that they mighte receaue comforte and hope therby to haue the gospell and other partes of the holy scriptures / to be read songe in a speache nether vnderstanded not knowen of the hearers of them Rom. 15. Sainte Paul sayeth / what so euer was written was written for our doctrine and learninge that thorow patience and consolatioÌ„ of the holy scriptures we mighte receaue hope But Antichrist hath ordeyned a payne sownde to occupie the eares of the people callinge it the gospell although therbe no interpretation or declaration therof made to the people Ephe. 5. For he his filthie secte well knowe that the Apostle sayeth that all thinges that be declared opened bringe lighte Which Antichriste his filthy generation maye not suffer nor abydes because their workes Ioan. 3. which be al wycked and done in darkenes shuld by the lighte he made manifest and openly knoweÌ„ to the world For euen as Christe came an to the world to geue light to the world Euen so is Antichriste came in to the world to take awaye from the people the light that Christ broughte in to the world 1. Cor. 14. The Apostle commaundeth that what so euer be done in the church that it should be done to the instruction and edificatioÌ„ of the congregation For sayeth he yf any man speake with tonges let it be by two or thre at the moste and that by order let one interpretate or declare And yf ther be no man there to let him kepe sileÌ„ce and speake not to the congregacion Do not your lordships perceaue plainly how Antichriste his filthy generation study and laboure with policy to subuerte all godly and profitable ordinaunces made by Christ and by his Apostles Wherfore coÌ„trary to Paules doctrine and the godly ordinaunces receaued do ye suffer our priestes to reade a synge the holy scriptures dayly in the churches to the people in a tonge that they vnderstande not nor perceaue that is spoken calling it Gods seruice coÌ„pelling the people to come to heare it Who vnderstaÌ„deth or is taught any thinge therby They mocke the people with a vayne souÌ„de wherby they haue no lust nor commoditie nor profite Is not this Antichristes ordinaunce of the holy scriptures to be reade in a tonge or speche nor vnderstande nor perceaued of the people Collos â—â— coÌ„trary to the scripture that commaundeth that the worde of God shuld dwel in vs abundauntly that we mighte teach the one the other A woÌ„derfull crafty abomination of desolation standing in the holy place depriuinge the people of the vnderstandinge of holy scriptures And where Christe hath ordened certen Apostles certen prophetes some Euangelistes and doctours to fynish a nomber of the electe and to buylde the misticall body of Christe In the stede of which ministers of Christe by Antichriste are entred in theues that receaue and take greate reuenuwes and profites of the benefices but they do no thinge the office that Christe appointed and assigned vnto the office to be done Euen raueninge wolfes that nether spare nor fauoure the flocke of Christe And no meruayl it is for in that they take the profites of their benefices and do not the office ther vnto belonginge by Christes senteÌ„ce they be theues by daye and by nighte Ioan. 10. Whose office and cominge is not to feede and to fauoure the flocke sayeth Christ but to steale to kyll and destroye as your lordships haue therof to moch experience and most certen profe Is it not therfore abomination of desolation standinge in the holy place to see a thefe and a murtherer stande in the church of God in the steade of a true and diligente pastoure and godly feader or bisshop Is it not abomination of deslation standinge in the chief cytie of Englande to sea franked fat Boore sittinge at euery sermoÌ„ preached at Pauls crosse and thesame not be founde ones in the yere in the same pulpet feadinge the flocke committed to his spirituall charge Is it not abominatioÌ„ of desolation staÌ„dinge in the holy place to se the holy scriptures in oure natiue English tonge writteÌ„ vpon euery wall in the churches now to be by commaundemente blotted out and in the stede therof erected kerued ymages of wood and of stone by Gods owne sentence accursed and all they that make the same And how they that cause theÌ„ to be set vp shall escape the same curse I know not They also vpon palmes sondaye lifte vp a cloth and saye hayle oure kynge to a Roode made of a wooden blocke Doutles a worthy kinge for soch a people Now right honorable Lordes I trust ye be not ignorante of the tyme wherin Antichriste shall come regne and rage againste God and Christe Euen verely now when there was neuer moare abomination of desolation standing in maÌ„s conscience and erected and set vp in the temple and church of God Where as in the stede of a constante fayth in Christ is planted a most wicked faith trust in the man of sinne And in the place of Christes only one sacrifice made vnto for vs for euer sufficiently is erected and set vp a sacrifice made of bread and wyne daylye to be made a sacrifice for vs. And in the stede of the holy scriptures to be declared that the people might vnderstaÌ„de the sence and meaninge therof is erected and ordeyned the gospels and holy scriptures to be read and spoken in a tonge and speache that the people which heare the voyce â—aâ—e no profite or comforte therby By this pointe of abhomination of Desolation all the clergie for forth them selfes that they abhorre no thinge moare then the lighte of Gods worde Ioan. 3. Which no man doeth but he that doeth euill sayeth Christe that lyeth not In the stede of pastours and spiritual teachers be entred in theues and most cruel murtherers And in the stede of