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A68098	A pleasant dialogue, betweene a souldior of Barwicke, and an English chaplaine Wherein are largely handled & laide open, such reasons as are brought in for maintenaunce of popishe traditions in our Eng. church. Also is collected, as in a short table, 120. particular corruptions yet remaining in our saide church, with sundrie other matters, necessary to be knowen of all persons. Togither with a letter of the same author, placed before this booke, in vvay of a preface.	Gilby, Anthony, ca. 1510-1585.	1581 (1581)	STC 11888; ESTC S109674	76,666	200

no part of your dutie Is not this theft robberie Doth not Christ call them al Theeues that enter not in by him but for their own gain to rob and to steale And will not they and all men count him as a theefe good Bernarde that taketh great wages of a towneship to keepe their Kyne their Swine or their Sheepe and suffreth their cattle to sticke in the myre to perish in the ditches their sheepe to rot and to run astray where they list and pulleth their fleeses of from their backes and spendeth all that he can scrape from the flock vppon his owne bellie Bern. Yes marie that were a theefe indeede Mil. O Bernard Bernard this spiritual theefe is worse by farre who robbeth soules and bodies and by his euil example maketh the poore sheepe to think that there is none other world no God to punish and therfore as he robbeth from them so they may without peril rob frō him al others That filthy Rome is called the spiritual Sodom Egipt and Babilō whom we should abhor from whom we must flie so that we may touch no vnclean thing that cōmeth from thence But what are all your policies in Religion but patches plucked foorth of that Puddle Your Lordely Bishops in names in manners in attires and all their offices fetche all their pompe from thence Your Deanes Archdeacons Subdeacons Chauncelors Officials your Curats al their deckings and doings all your courts consistories depend of popish lawes Your fasting and your feast daies smel of that old superstitiō and idolatrie the prophets strengthen the hands of the wicked that none can turne frō his wickednesse They are all vnto mee as Sodome and the inhabitauntes thereof as Gomorrah sayth the Prophet Ieremiah They are not ashamed of their sinnes they hide them not yea they publish them and boast of thē sayth Esaiah yea they cal them good policie so did Sodoma Take heede A great light shineth vnto Englande Beware least it be not more easie at the day of iudgemēt to the Sodomits then to the English mock-gospellers But whereas you sayd Sir Bernard that you do all for policie I will tell you what me think were a good point of policie The Pope the papists count him an Apostata and a renouncer of their faith Religion that weareth not such attire as they prescribe for the priest secular and regular Therefore seeing the priestes and people of England do professe with mouth that they renounce the Popes religion this seemeth right policie to cast away these garmentes in signe of full detestation that both worde and deede may consent together Thus haue good men before vs giuen vs a paterne of perfect policie And what a policie woulde they that haue Abbeyes call this if the Friers and the Monkes should come agayne to their houses in their olde popish apparaile and clayme their landes and liuinges and saye they would be no papistes they would saye their Mattins Euensong in English as the secular priestes doe how woulde many of them like of this policie Bern. My Lorde my Maister wil like it neuer a whit Mil. What if the crosse Candlestickes the Images and the Banners and other popish trash which are no worse then these things which you haue alreadie shuld be offered you vnder y e name of policy were this ani other thā to bring in an english popery Bern. Nay the Bishops will neuer suffer this Mil. That olde Doctor Turner reuerende in other nations abroad for his great learning and amongste the Godly at home for his great zeale his trauailes his perils so long sustayned and his great constancie did almoste thirtie yeares ago espie and bewray vnto the worlde the crafte of Satan that laboured to make poperie policie and so to goe aboute to cure the wounde of the beast which being in it self vncurable shold yet in another beast be cured who shoulde doe all thinges that the first beast could doe before him and so after a sort shoulde cause men to worship the first beast whose deadly wounde was in this seconde healed His inuention was pretie and pleasaunte of the croppeeared Foxe who now was become the Kinges beast and the Kinges game that no man might hunt it wherein he worthilie reproued that foolish policie Steuen Gardiner in his booke of diuelishe Sophistrie maketh the substaunce of popishe religion to stande vpon Garments and such other Popishe inuentions euen as the riche Merchauntes substaunce standeth vpon farthinges Is it a good policie I aske thee Bernard to maintain the Popes substance and to defie the Pope Bern. Nay fie on that policie Mil. The Pontifical which is the booke whereby the Priestes were made calleth these garmentes vestitum religionis Not only putting holinesse in the garmentes but also meaning that hee receaueth that Religion whose garmentes hee weareth But our religion lefte vs by Christ and practised by his Apostles is none suche It standeth not in Visars shewes nor garmentes but in the power of Gods spirite and the faithfull vttering of his holy worde The beautie of Christe his Churche is inwarde his Priesthoode is spirituall the Ministration of his Sacramentes must bee simple withoute pharisaicall shewe as hee and his haue lefte them vnto vs by writing Bern. But Miles I pray thee Is it not a comelie thing to haue some faire and costlie garmentes in the ministration of the Sacramentes Mil. No Bernarde for that were either Iewishe or Idolatrous And in these outwarde shewes they both would exceede vs for their riches wealth and because they put therein their holinesse which wee may not doo But we must followe our Maister and not goe before his wisedome The garmentes and Ceremonies which once were glorious and commendable in the Churche because they were appointed of God for a time did our Master Christe abolish at his cōming and appointed another manner of worshippe than was eyther in Idolatrous Samaria or amongest the Iewishe at Ierusalem And where doeth hee giue leaue to Peter or to Paule or to man or Angell to appoynte newe garmentes to serue him in or to minister his Sacramentes therein And if hee giue no leaue to any in his Churche whome hee will haue to bee kept as a chaste Spouse to him selfe to adde or to diminish his doings in ceremonies or garmentes who is hec that dare take leaue to himselfe but a companion of the Romish Antichrist Neither canne these thinges rightly be called meere policie which were a part of the popishe religion and nowe is counted causa sine qua non in the ministerie and in the sacramentes the cheefe poyntes of our religion Are not all depriued of the Ministerie that will not be thus disguised May any other man minister the sacramēts but in this popishe apparaile Is not the course of Gods worde stopped that these may haue place Doe not the people think that neither Mariage nor Baptisme neyther the supper of

paines in trauailes in perils and diligence M. Examinator whosoeuer hee was should not thus against reason haue railed on such whome their very enemies the papistes doe reuerence for their payns their care and diligence Aske at the Churches of Antline Peter Bartholmewe and at other Churches also what painefull trauailes from time to time they haue sustayned what perils in the plague they aduentured Haue not the poore sick persons and prisoners by them bin comforted and the people most diligently instructed If this be true as it is most true for the reuerence of him whose seruants they are they should haue bin more gently handled and more brotherly aunswered then thus to haue bin called fooles at y e first word though in some pointes they had fayled as men and not satisfied the great wisedome of M. Examinator Nether doth the Rhethoricall Arte of your M. teache him thus rudely to begin with them whome he shoulde perswade neither Christian charitie if either of you were euer entred into that Schoole doeth permitte you to call your Brother Foole as you may reade in our Sauiour Christ his firste Sermon Math. 5. which hee beginneth with blessing and not with brauling Bern. Maister Examinator is a wyse Gentleman and he sawe some cause why he called them fooles I warraunt you Mil. I graunt that it is counted a faulte amongest the wise of the worlde to bee so earnestlie and diligentlie occupied in preaching And for this cause the wise kinsmen of Christ called him madde would needs binde him and therfore your high Priests who are the accusers Iaylors and Iudges to these persecuted persons preache so seldome But the Spirite of God giueth an other commaūdement saying I charge thee therefore before God and his sonne Iesus Christ which shall iudge the quicke the dead at his appearing and in his kingdome Preache the worde bee instant in season and out of season improue rebuke exhorte with all long suffering and doctrine This and such like commaundements of God hath caused these good men and many others of their sorte to take theyr liues in their hands as Iob speaketh some to lose their liues and all to yeoparde theyr liues in that late plague of London when you Foure horned Gentlemen fled from your cures and hyred Iornemen in your places At what time these men shewed thē selues the good sheepheardes ieopardinge their liues for the sheepe and you were foūd hyreliuges taking stil the gayne but flying from the perilles Is this say you the cause Or is it rather for that they rebuked Poperie Idolatrie all kinde of sinne so sharpely were so feruent and zealous With the which earnestnes against sinne superstition and hypocrisie the halting gospellers and luke warme worldlinges must needes be offended and count them fooles and mad men as Festus did Paule and the olde worlde the Prophetes For the wisedome of God in his seruaunts hath euer in this poynte by y e world bin counted follie And alwayes the politike wise gentlemen count it their safetie to be like in religion with the multitude And therefore are bolde to mixe together many religions of Christ and Antichrist of God and the Deuill yea and some of them dare saye that both were good and both in their tymes to bee obeyed O miserable blindnes that nowe when light is come into the worlde men will not caste awaye the workes and fruites of darknesse and repent of them Either is this the cause that when the people haue bin taught these thirtie yeares in Englande that the Pope is the Romane Antichrist whose name ought not to remain in our bookes nor to bee spoken with our mouthes vnlesse it were in detestation now after so long trauaile against this enemie of Christe by their fathers their Brethren and themselues they seeing few or none going forwarde to roote out the remnaunts of Antichrist but many stande at a stay many casting away their weapons so that the Enemie gathereth courage many souldiors to shrinke backe not onely wearing Antichristes liueries but following that Romish Balaams couetousnesse and that old popish pompe with other his cursed conditions these faithfull Ministers will not be partakers of their sinnes least they receaue part of their plagues Loe this is the crime this is the fault lo this is the foolishnesse wherwith your wise and prudent Examinator is able to charge these true and faithfull Ministers of God If I knew what your proctor were whether he be a priest of y e popish order or of the English order or a man of the lay and lewd sort as the papists are wont to tearm them I could shew in him greater lewdnesse and more follie than you or he can proue in thē But because I doe not know his person I will answere the cause of Christs seruants and let him and you alone to your Lord and Maister giuing you both warning that you shall giue an answere before y e great Iudge for that which you doe or say agaynste these his little ones whome you call fooles But to the matter aunswere me playn Is it not meete that they which should bring others to the obedience of Christ should firste practise in themselues the same obedience and that they shoulde doe nothing without the warrant and commaundement of Christ that so not only by doctrin but also by their example of obedience they may teach their auditors only to depend vpon Christ Bern. No man will denie this thing to be meete and reasonable Mil. This is the summe of the request and supplication of the Godly Ministers of London as farre as I can heare that after so long preaching of Christ in London almost these thirtie yeares they may put in practise the doctrine of Christ and minister his holy sacraments in that simplicitie that Christ and his Apostles hath left thē without the ceremonies and garmentes abused by the papistes the enemies of Christs his Gospell which cannot in any wise make for edification in Christ that seeing their Fathers and Brethren and they with their own mouthes haue so long cried out against all popish Ceremonies as kneeling before the sacrament whereby much idolatrie hath bin and is committed as the ministration in the wafer cake whereby the people hath bin brought into vayne imaginations and haue not felt the comforte that our Sauiour Christ would haue sensibly to be presented in the vsual bread of many graines and many crummes making one body and being the vsuall foode as also against other monumentes of superstition and idolatrie as the garments of the popish priesthoode and of the popish Masse Nowe I say at the length after so many yeares teaching and so much blood of Gods Saintes sheade for the abolishing of Antichrist they themselues should not be compelled to giue any signification in their owne persons and bodies that they haue any concorde or agreement with that Romane Antichrist but that they go before their flocke to practise in worke

the moste foolish Apes of all other who hauing Christe and his Apostles liuelie set before their eyes still yet will followe counterfeites forfaking light for darkenesse Finallie if anie honour be obteyned it is this that the ignoraunt people is made to beleeue that the olde blasphemous Priesthoode with their Masse and the Englishe priesthood with their communion are both one And so it doeth mainteine the honour and dignitie of the Popishe Priestes and their Sacrifice but it dishonoureth Christes true Ministers and Sacramentes Christe our Sauiour and perfecte scholemaster forbiddeth his to seeke honour by pharisaicall shewes And must our Ministerie seeke honour and credite by popishe shewes garments As for Christes holie Sacraments they can bee made more honourable by no mans inuentions much lesse by suche garmentes whereby they haue bin so dishonoured and defaced by the papistes Bern. Though they bring none honour to our priesthoode whiche I must needes confesse conuicted by thy argumentes yet canst thou not denie I trowe but that they bring a comelie order Miles Thou and thy fellowes can nothing skill of Christes Religion whose decencie and order is not outward in pompe in garmentes and in outwarde shewes as is the Papistes ordure to vse Souldiours Frenche for then naked Christ in y e cradle his poore Baptisme in the Riuer his poore last Supper of so fewe dishes with his poore Apostles his naked hanging vppon the crosse should be without order and despifed and so they are contemptible to y e sence of the fleshe iudgement of the world But the comelines in Christs religion my friend Bernard stādeth in y e renouncing of al y e garish shewes of the vain world in an inward holines of y e minde which bringeth forth a modestie and sobernes towards our Brethren and a zeale feruencie diligence in doing our duties towardes all men without anie confusion or tumulte as our vocation place serueth And our maister Christ therefore taketh awaye all those outwarde trifles that were before his time as things vncomelie and vnmeete for his religiō For what a thing were this to put on a glorious coape for decencie or a fine rotchet of rains when a man must goe to prison or burning Christes Apostles and his true seruauntes are euer readie to suffer with Christ sharpe bondes and therefore will not mocke the matter with silken tippettes and stoles about theyr neckes as do the papistes So that I doo much maruaile what decencie comelines or order you do cal it y t the Maister must be tied with hempen coardes and the seruauntes must iette vp and downe in flaunting silkes and sarcenettes I praye thee Bernarde aunsweare of thy cōscience Had this bin a comely sight to see Christ on the crosse or tyed to a piller with hempen coardes mourning for our sinnes and Peter and Iohn shaken their silken coapes rotchettes and tippettes in the winde and saying Loe wee are Christes Disciples and Scholers Bern. Nay as thou sayest that had bin a madde sight and men would rather haue thought them to haue bin Iewish priestes Scribes or Pharisees Mil. Thou sayest true For these onely were they that sought comelines by outwarde shewes to please the foolishe worlde which euer delighteth in trifles they were against Christe because hee spake against such thinges Bern. Yet must they be borne with all for a space hereby to giue milke vnto children say they Mil. O my frend al is poyson that plucketh vs from the simplicitie in Christe his pouertie Therfore is al poperie not milke but poyson the roote the stalke and braunches Therefore it must bee cleane weeded forth of Christes garden or else wil it grow againe and choake the good hearbes as we haue to much experiēce And we haue borne so longe that Englande waxeth worse and worse in life and in religion Bern. Paule did be are yet w t the Iewes a long season Mil. It is a good saying to this purpose that the olde mother Synagogue was to be buried with honour But we owe no such honour to the Romane Antichrist God did appoynt Circumcision and other Ceremonies to the Iewish church but that where of Babylon that made all the Kings of the earth druncken with hir golden cupp and paynted colours appoynted these trifles to hir bastardlie broode And yet Paule rebuked Peter for vsing these ceremonies with y e Iewes and he him self refused to circumcise Titus when the false brethren sought to restraine his libertie to bring him into bondage To such would he not giue place one houre Gal. 2. 11. And must Christes Ministers giue place thirtie yeares to Antichrist in his traditions or yeelde so many yeares to them that labor to heale his wound God forbid And Paule did neuer yeeld nor Peter neither to any Idolaters whom they cōuerted to Christe to weare their garlandes or other priestlie attire to winne any of thē but alwayes cried We come to call you from these vanities to turne to the liuing God and to Christ crucified and to the receauing of the spirite that ye waske no longer in carnall ceremonies concision or other beggerlie workes elementes of this worlde preceptes of men c. And the waye to winne the Idolaters is as Augustine sayth and experience teacheth in many places to forsake their solemnities and let go their toyes Then if they agree not to our trueth let them he ashamed of their fewnes Thus haue they worne out the papistes in manie reformed Churches and their garmentes also where by oure staggeringe stayes nowe forwarde nowe backewarde thei that beare the faces of papists swarme amongest vs and drawe many backwarde to their madnes Bern. But this seemeth a straunge thing to many that men make this crime so grieuous now whereas in K. Edwardes dayes this apparell was vsed of godlie men Mil. That was but the firste shewe of the light whereof thou talkest Wee muste growe to further perfection How bee it euen then good menne also dyd refuse it as Hoper and Latimer Bradforde and many others though not so famous And Ridley him selfe which for a space by simplicitie was deceiued as he in parte confesseth in his Epistle to Bishop Hoper at his death calleth them abhominable and foolishe to fonde for a vice in a playe And howe violently and disdainefullie were all good men by disgrading turned forth of those ragges so soone as the patched Papistes came in place Agayne the maner of faste which Iohns disciples vsed becing good men though it were not Idolatrous as these things are was not therefore to be exacted of Christes disciples But rather for that it was an obseruation of mans deuise corruptelie abused by the Pharisees no more meete for the sinceritie of the Gospell than olde barelles for newe wine or newe clothe for an olde garment our Mayster Christ did reiect it So nowe the filling in and clowting vp of olde popish apparell to the newe purenes of the Gospell must eyther

this geare All is not golde that glittereth But I pray thee tell mee howe thou doest proue them preceptes of men as thou waste about to doo Mil. I say they haue no ground of gods worde therefore they are preceptes of men God neuer limited anie seuerall garment for his Ministers to bee knowne by in the newe Testament therefore they are playne preceptes of men and plantes by the heauenlie Father not planted The papistes them selues wil graunt them to be precepts of men Me thinke therefore the gospellers should not denie it Bern. They denie that they are such preceptes of men as Christ speaketh of to be brought in for Gods seruice in religion Mil. Amongest the papistes they were brought in and are vsed for his seruice in religion as their owne bookes and doinges do testifie Nowe the papistes are men who according to y e diuersitie of their sectes Regulare and irregulare appointed the diuersitie of garmentes some for the church some for holy water as the Surplesse Stole or Tippet some for censing the Idolls as the Copes black for the dead redde for y e Martyrs white for the Virgins Nowe all these superstitious trifles are preceptes of euill men therefore of men Bern. But not in Gods seruice religiō Mil. I do graunt For God will not be serued by such thinges neither will Christe allowe them in his Religion And therefore are they preceptes of men hauing no allowaunce of Gods worde nor of Christes Gospell who neither careth for these garments nor any other popishe shewes in the ministration of his holie Sacramentes or anie action of his Religion Neyther doe they sette forth the glorie of GOD nor his worde nor profitte but hinder the soules of men from the true seruice of God in Spirite and trueth And as alwayes wicked men haue most vrged their owne preceptes so at this daye these preceptes are more vrged than Gods holie commaundementes Would to god there were not to manie exāples both in the Cities in the Countries to proue this matter true To weare a vestiment is a precepte of men And why not a Cope An Albe is a precepte of men and why not a Surplesse A Stole is a precept of men and why not a Tippet c. Al patches of Poperie are preceptes of menne Therefore the priesthoode being taken away as the Authour to the Hebrewes sayeth it is of necessitie that the lawes pertaining to the Priesthoode shoulde be taken awaye So that if this were a lawe pertayning to the popishe priesthoode to weare a Surplesse at the ministration of the Sacramentes and at the saying of their Mattins or their Euensonge in their religion nowe should it cease from amongest them which haue renoūced that popish blasphemous priesthoode and that false religion whose body and substaunce if they wholie hate they muste needes abhorre all the patcheries that appertaigne to y e same religiō For the popishe priesthoode is like the lowsie and patched cloake of a filthie begger Nowe what a fondnes were this for two wise men or for thee and mee that pytying a poore begger had pulled off his patched cloake from him to giue him a better and afterwarde we twayne should fall together by the eares and the one caste the other in prison for the refusing to weare those lowsie ragges Bern. Surelie I would be loth to bee in thy companie if thou shouldest weare anie patches of that lowsie geare therefore I would be loth to cōpel thee to it by prisons Mil. Loe here is the strife betwixt our Gospellers They haue put downe that patched popishe Masse yet will they haue lowsie patches of it For the Surplesse is a Massing garment by the Papistes owne bookes They haue put down that Antichristian priesthoode and they will fight for his coates They are farre more foolishe than our fellowes the souldiours that when they had killed Christ caste lottes for his coate And I tell thee Bernarde thou sayest that thou shouldest loth my companie if I dyd weare the lowsie patches of some begger and so I tell thee playnelie that I doo lothe thee and all thy companie when I doo see you in the lowsie ragges of poperie Yet do I not hate you for thē would I let you alone But I tell you my minde plainely because I loue you and seeke to do you good Bern. Fellow Miles I thanke thee hartilie for I truste thou haste done me good I haue marked some things that I shal neuer forgett which I neuer heard nor vnderstoode before But how doest thou proue the thirde Minor that these garmentes giue offence Mil. Diddest thou not heare me say that they cause me to loth thy companie and so be sure they do offende many others who so soone as they see you in these garmentes their bloud is vpp remembring howe they burned the booke of God and that such thei were that burned their brethren of late and murthered y e soules of their fathers before Bern. Tushe this is but your heate and the offence is taken by you not giuen by vs. Mil. Yes yes You giue offences in faith and offences in charitie also Bern. Howe proue you that Mil. You drawe men from the stabilitie in Christe and frō the synceritie of the Gospell whylest you cause the ignoraunt to beleeue that Christes appoyntement of his Ministerie Sacramentes are not decent ynoughe without some of the Antichristian leauē Agayne thou boldenest others to occupie other patches of poperie while it thou vsest these and buyldest them vpp to superstition agayne And ye giue them to thinke that you do not abhorre that blasphemous Idolatrous priesthoode whose garmentes ye weare Yea the Bishoppes com●el men to weare these thinges against their consciences and therefore sinning thus against their brethren and wounding their weake consciences they sinne against Christe as Paule sayeth to the Corinthians and giue great offences Again your offences in charitie are manifest For besides the men that you spoyle of their liuings howe many women and children haue cause to be offended with your cruell cōmaundement about this geare And all that be growen to ful strēgth in the gospel haue their senses exercised to y e discretion of good euil are grieuously offended when they see them that haue so long a tyme bin teachers and preachers agaynst Antichriste not onelie weare suche superstitious apparell but compell others by tyrannie to come into the same bōdage Moreouer you giue offences both of faith and charitie when as you stablishe the Papistes in their olde erroures and cause them to saye That the Gospellers can not minister their Sacramentes nor haue anie ministerie at all but of their leauinges And as Hardinge testifieth to the Queenes Maiestie It hardeneth their hartes and causeth them to looke for more at our handes Euen as it is reported that Butcher Boner saide They beginne to taste of our Pottage they will shortelie fall to the flesh Thus they are moste offended with this Popishe ware

5. de consecra cap. De his verò is writtē that in the yere 310 Clemens primus brought in Confirmation or Bishopping of children This Pope Clement affirmed that he was no christian that wilfullie left this vndone Pope Melciades came after affirmed it to be a more worthie sacrament than the sacrament of Baptisme Volateranus Platina Sabellicus Polidorus these do write that in the yeere 404 Pope Anastasius brought in Standinge at the Gospell Platina D. Barnes H. Pantateon these doo write that in the yere 530 Pope Bonifacius ordained To deuide the Chauncel from the body of the church Platina Durand D. Barnes H. Pātateon these do write that in the yere 603 pope Sabinian brought in Belles Vertue attributed to Belles First they stirre men to deuotion Secondlie they preserue the fruites Thirdly they keepe both the mindes and bodies of the faithfull from al daungers Fourthly they put to flight the hoastes of our enemies and dispatche all the subtilties of their euill willers Fifthlie they cause the boysterous windes hayle and all sharpe stormes the violent tēpestes the terrible thūdrings to cease Sixtly they driue away all wicked spirits and Deuilles Chronica Chro. Volateranus Platin. these do write that in the yere 653 Pope Vitalianus broght into y e church Orgānes Christianus Massaeus Chro. mundi these do write that in the yere 796 pope Adriā ordeyned the Surplesses Durandus Platina Volateranus Polidorus these do write that in the yeere 653 pope Gelasius brought in Prickesong pope Gregorie Playnesong pope Vitalianus Descant Platina Sabellicus Polidorus Gratianus these do write that in the yere 119. pope Alexander ordeyned vnleauened breade or rounde Cakes small saying this oblation the lesse it is the better is it Also why it is rounde like a penie Antonius saieth Because Christe was solde for thirtie pen. Durandus saith that it is made rounde because the earth is rounde And another sayth that the outwarde signe may signifie him that wanteth both beginninge ending Durandus Polidorus Pantateon these do write that in the yeere 375 pope Damasus brought in the church The firste prescript order for the seruice in the Quier Durandus Chroni Chron. these do write that in the yeere 1073 pope Gregorie the seuēth brought in The prescript nūber of psalmes and lessons Platina Massaeus Polidorus Pantateon these do write that in the yere 444 pope Leo or as some write pope Hillarius ordeyned the Gange dayes or Rogation weeke Durandus sayeth that pope Gregorie or Gelasius ordeyned the Collectes ordinarie Chroni Achil. Fasciculus temp these say that in the yeere 737 pope Zacharias ordeyned priestes Gownes Tippettes and Foure horned Cappes Haue at our Englishe prelates of pride Sabellicus writeth that in the yeere 251 pope Stephanus ordeyned Coapes and Vestimentes This man appointed no garmentes to be vsed in the church but hallowed garmentes In Chroni Graftoni is written that in the yeere 871 Pope Nicholas Conciliū did forbid Mariage in Lent and at all other times Paule calleth it the doctrine of Deuils Decreta lib. 3. titul 1. cap. 10. Pātateon they saye that in the yeere 1214 Pope Honorius ordeyned Kneeling to the sacrament Here the sacrament was made an Idoll as Iewell saith in his first booke against Harding Sabellicus Polidorus Lib. Conciliorum Eusebius these do write that in the yere 139 Pope Telesphorus ordeyned Lent to be fasted before Easter Distinct 76. cap. Tenui Platina Sabellicus Polidorus D. Barnes these do say that in the yeere 206 pope Calixtin ordeined Imber fastes Platina and Volateranus do write that in the yeere 315 Pope Bonifacius ordeyned Wednesdayes Frydayes and Saterdayes fastes Polidorus and Pantateon these do write that in the yeere 425 Pope Bonifacius ordeyned Saintes eues fasted Mat. 26. 63. saith that Caiaphas the high Priest would haue Othes ex officio to wit to make men sweare to accuse them selues When Caiaphas could not get that which would suffise him at the false witnesses mouthes to put Christ to death then hee adiured him by the liuing God to tell if he were Christ Thomas Rudb and Iohan. Capg these do write that in the yeere 1098 Pope Vrbanus ordeyned Caunturburie to be the chiefe patriarchal Seate All popishe holy dayes had the like beginning as by Thomas Beacons booke of Reliques is to be seene All these Popes were Antichristes one after another and there are none of these Ceremonies and Monumentes of Idolatrie but came all from these Antichristes besides the Lordlie gouernement of Bishoppes Popishe Excommunications and Absolutions Pluralities Trialities Tot quots with such other Dispensations and Licenses Institutions Inductions Proxies and Senages c. These all fill the purse and were deuised of Antichriste to holde vp his kingdom All these do the Tradicioners still mainteyne directlie agaynste the commaundementes whiche Samuell as before is saide doeth affirme to bee wickednesse and Idolatrie The true Discipline by Gods word without the whiche no true Religion can be and which true reformed Churches doe holde and mainteyne haue the Traditioners vtterly excluded And therefore they can not truelie affirme and saye That they doe deteste all Antichristian Idolatrie neyther yet that they consent in all pointes of true doctrine with all godlie reformed churches whē these mischiefes are mainteined true discipline banished which of necessitie must be ioyned ¶ A Prayer for the Faythefull O Lord God most mercifull Father we beseeche thee for the honour of thy holy Name to defende vs from that Antichrist of Rome and frō al his detestable enormities manners lawes garments ceremonies Destroye the counsel of al Papistes and Atheistes enemies of thy Gospell of this realme of Englād Disclose their mischiefes and subtill practises confounde their deuices let them be takē in their own wylinesses and strēgthen all those that maintayne the cause and quarell of thy Gospell with inuincible force and power of thi holie Spirite so that though they bee destitute at anie tyme of worldlie ayde and comforte that yet they fayle not to proceede and goe forward towardes that true godlinesse commaunded in thy holie worde with all simplicitie and sinceritie to thy honor and glorie the comforte of thine electe and the cōfusion of thine enemies through Christ our Lorde and Sauiour Amen Amen And say from the harte AMEN FINIS A good desire Too true Our B. are Foxes Mat. 15. Phil. 3. Zacha. 13. 1. Reg. 12. 2. Reg 16. Daniel 3. Note this A perilous heresie 2. Tim. 4● 2. A lamentable defectiō The request of the godly ministers 1 Cor. 1. 19. 25. 26. 27. Esa 55. 8. 9. Pro. 1. 22. Pro. 1 29. 30. 31. ● Cor. 11. 19 23. 11. Psal 19. 7. Psal 119 9. Fevv such Souldiers Marke this O ye Conformatistes Marke this 2. Pet. 2. Note this ye Magistrates Looke to this O yee Magistrates in time 2. Cor. 6. 17. Esa 52. 11. 1. Pet. 5. 2. Good stuffe for the Popes church 1. Pet. 5. 2. 3. Luk. 22. 26. Marke this good Reader praye for the same vvith vs. As Dios Grauet and such like Such as Parson Taylor Parson Buffin suche like Marke this prety stuffe Marke well Spirituall theeues the vvorste theeues Be vvarned O England Good coūsell and the best policy The name of D. Turners Booke Note The more is the pitie Marke this O ye christian Magistrates and frame your policie to christianitie Note this Looke in the ende of this Booke Act. 4. 19. Marke vvell this and beare it avvaye Those that knovve not God his vvill bee blinde and see nor knovve no-nothing Vnlesse mē vvill bee blinde they must confesse this Psalm 16. Gen. 3. 14. Marke this ye Vniuersitie men Outvvarde notes to knovve Papistes The Surples may be vsed for a Porters vveede or such like necessarie garment Remember Qu. Maries daies O England and repent in time Looke to this O ye L. Bishops Marke this O yee Gentlemen Mark these similitudes Looke into all other reformed churches VVhat is this but hypocrisie 2. Cor. 6 14 15. 16. Examples of holy mē vvhiche detested Idolaters and their fashions and rites Iohn 2. 15. One principal question Reade the Tables in the ende of this booke Reue. 18. 4. 1. Cor. 10. 21. No Idolator or his Garmentes to be suffefered To many of this opinion God graūt vve may do this frō our hartes These Popish Garmentes refused in K. Edvvardes time Those that haue eies to see let them see Old Robert Bishop of Lincolne They svvarme throughout the lād God redres it vvhen his vvill is All vpright men cōfesse this to be true Of indifferent things note A Christian aunsvvere and ought to be practised of al true Preachers The Apostles neuer sought to bring any estimation to theword by apparell The defenders of thes ceremonies haue their ovvn cōsciences to vvitnes these things to be true None cā be to earnest in a good cause for God his Church Papists and the veriest asses moste redie to the ragges of Rome Christes church can not avvaye vvith names of Idolatries muche lesse vvith their ceremonies Indifferent thinges made intollerable four vvayes 1 2 3 4 Note this 1 2 Tvvo sorte of Idolothites 1 2 Nota. Good intenrs vvithout vvarrāt displease God These traditions more vrged then God his cōmaūdementes Patcheries of popishe remnaunts a●…to be cast off vvith the Pope him selfe