be destroyed by his deuine potency and myght Item to all those which for the loue and obedyence they do owe vnto god wyll visitt them that are imprysoned the sicke the desolate widdowes and poore orfanes and according to theyr power and habilitie with pittie do relieue and helpe them he doth graunt vnto them a confirmation of that hope which they haue to inioy his holy and blessed kingdome which is prepared for them from the beginning of the world Item to those that with charity doe prouide for mainteine helpe succoure and comfort the needefull hungry and naked and that doth lodge the poore straunger he doth graunt a confirmation vnto them of the same hope that is help vnto them in their like necessities Item to all those that with a chrystian effect do teach the ignoraunte and comfort them that be heauy in mynde for good and righteous thinges he doth graunt Indulgentia plenaria Item to all those that are superiours and masters if they do make a christian profession in gouernment and that they with theyr inferriours and seruantes doe with equality in their degréese kéepe a christian lyfe lyke seruauntes of our lord almighty as redeemed a like by the blood of Christe he doth graūt vnto them Indulgentia plenaria Item to al those that accoumpt them selues dispensers or stewardes of spirituall and temporall goods and riches which they haue receaued of God if they distribute them to gloryfie hym and to helpe their neighboures he doth graunt vnto them a multiplication of the same goods and ryches so distributed and therewyth Indulgentia plenaria Item to all those that haue not firmly stoode to and loued the truth but haue beene beguyled and deceaued by the blynde doctryne of Antichrist and his mynysters and induced to followe the doctryne of Deuils whych are tradicions of men in place of the gospell and that now with a true feruent and harty desire are willingly reduced to trowe and deuyne obedyence and do know by the light of godly scriptures the errors superstitions guyles deceites idolatrise and other abhominations in the which they haue béene and doo renounce them withall their harts and hould the trwe god for theyr god do worship him in spirite and truth and let their whole trust depend and be vpon him his goodnesse and promise his high holynesse doeth graunte vnto thē such like pardon general because they may freely performe the same without feare of foule Antechristes excommunications of his inquysitors or other his mynisters because that for all them or any other sensor of theyr church whatsoeuer that is thondred out and doth flame agaynste them hys hollynes doth also graunt them absolution and doeth freely restore them to his fatherly grace that they in his Church maye haue a place for name and being of his faythfull children and that they liue in hope to possesse inioy the immortall inheritaunce not contaminated but incorruptible which is conserued and kept for them in the heauens Item to as many as be and desire to be faythfull seruauntes and disciples of Iesus Christ his deuyne maiesty and most reuerent holynes doeth graunt that with a stoute harte wythout feare of the aforesayd excōmunications or other decree whatsoeuer made by the said antichrist or his ministers that they may do reade in the Spanish French Italien English or other mother tongue or language the bookes of the olde and new testament and all other bookes of trwe and sound doctrine for that they may knowe howe to gouern themselues to liue hollily to know him and so to haue life euerlasting and herewith he doeth expressely commaund that they suffer not them selues to be depryued of this liberty vnder the paine of death perdition and damnation together with the enemies of his grace that do rebell agaynste his holy will and commaundements and that haue made the sayd excōmunication and decreese Item the same Lord Iesus Christ trwe interpreter of no wil of our most holy Father doth declare by these presents that all excōmunications and such lyke as be proceede from the sayd Antichrist chiefe and high priest of the man of same the sonne of perdition or from his inquisitor and false butcherly Bushops are trystes and of no validity nor effect because the offyce nor power to excōmunicate is not geuen to one that is blynd nor to a blynd and apotestaticall church embrewed with the blend of faithfull martirs and the sainctes of god our Lord and gouerned by the doctryne of desperation such as are the traditions of men but that office doth belong to such a one and to such a Church whose head is Iesus Christ to the apostles in his name and to all such as be their trew successors guided by the spirite of truth and that doe teach and liue by the trew doctrine of the gospell so pure as possible the rule lock and key to open and cōmunicate the kingdome of heauen to all beleeuers and to shut it agayne to all that do not beleeue and to the vnfaithfull rebels proceeding from and lyke vnto the Deuill and his members for whatsoeuer excōmunications they bee if they come not from the trwe courte or offyce which is Christes church if they be thondred out with booke bell and candell neuer so fiersly if they bee forged and formed by the free will and forsight of them that haue the name of pastors and yet in truth are very Idols and rauening wolues neuer so firmely yet it is not ratified nor allowed in the kingdom nor by the faithful of Christ but condemned and that with iust reason good right The Scribes and Pharisies were set in Moyses chayre and did set at naught the excomunications that Christ and his Apostles did preach and pronounce vnto and agaynst them yet we are taughte by the holy Ghost to abhorre them their examples and the like examples by whom soeuer they be shewed much more the examples of those Antechristes which are now the mockers of God and euen now do sit not in the chayre of Moyses but in the chayre of pestylence to entrap blinde and be the perdition of the people of Christ if they could and to be the trwe members mynisters of Sathan and enemies to the glory of Christ and of the bloud of the new testament To all those that do renounce these and such lyke false religions of perdition inuented by mē and with all their hartes doe imbrace the true healthfull saludable and celestiall religion that our Lord and holy Father Iesus Christ doth teache and by his spirite the Patriarcks apostles and Prophetes he doth graunte vnto them plenaria indulgentia and that they do inioy all the benefites moste blessed that are herein contayned Item all those that according to the church of God that he taught by the fathers of our faith the holy apostles and Prophetes doe beleeue that for all our sinnes veniall
because hee might liue in and by him and herein consisteth the charity and loue not that we haue loued God but that he hath loued vs and sente his sonne to make an attonement for our sinnes Item he doth commaund that repentaunce and remission of sinnes shoulde be preched in his name throughout the whole world Item S. Iohn Baptist doth point vnto hym wyth hys finger and sayth Ecce illi◠hae illi behold ther the lambe of god which taketh awaye the sinnes of the world Item he that beléeueth in Iesus Christ the sonne of God shal haue life euerlastyng Item verily verily I say vnto you he that doth heare my word and beleue in him that sent me shal haue life euerlasting and shal not come into damnacion but is escaped from Death vnto lyfe Item as Moyses lifted vp the Serpent in the wildernesse Euen so shall the sonne of man be lifted vp because that all that beleeue in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting for god so loued the world that he gaue his onely begotten sonne that al which beleued in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting for God sent not hys sonne to condemne the world but that the world through him shoulde bee saued Item if any man sinne we haue an aduocate wyth our Father euen Iesus Christ the iust and righteous and hee it is that obtained grace for our sinns and not onely for ours but for the sins of all the world Item Sainct Iohn in his reuelation sayth that he did loue vs and dyd washe vs from our sinnes in hys bloud Item sainct Paule doth witnesse that Iesus Christ did make purgation for our sinnes and for the sinnes of all the world Item Sainct Peter sayth that it is Christ Iesus by whome wee haue remission of our sinnes and that by faith in him our hartes are purified made cleane from all kinde of wickednes Item the Augell Gabriell did pronounce vnto the holy virgin Mary that she shoulde conceaue and beare a sonne whose name shee shoulde call Iesus for that he shold saue his people from their sinnes and deliuer them from the condempnation the which they were in Item forasmuche as our eternall highe Priest is the onely wisdome of god and doth knowe the infinit vallew of these pardons and that we our selues cannot buye their for any thinge wee haue or can doe for that a thinge of such vallew infinit may not be bought the will of his Sacred Maiestie is to cōmunicate them most graciously and louingly vnto al sinners that féele their necessities and call to him for mercy without leuinge or takinge any mony for them for if that euerie one of vs were Lord of or ouer the whole world or such like if one would graunt his seigniory or Lordship for the least benefite contained in the same yet it could not be boughte for the valewe of the world may be known and the valewe thereof is vnspeakcable but for that he dothe knowe the greate pouertie and miserie in which wee liue yet by the greate and vnualuable riches of his mercy and for that he doth knowe our necessities better then we our selues and of his aboundant leue dothe commande for the health of our soules all his cōmissaries and officials the Prophetes Euangelistes and mynisters of peace that with great Instancie and earnesty they doe call to all people and cōmaund that they receyue this Iubily of grace without geuing for it any pēny of mony or other thing that perisheth By the Prophet Esay he doth publiquely cōmaūded in this maner all those that thirst let them come vnto the waters and those which haue no siluer let them make hast and come let thē buy and 〈◊〉 come and buy without siluer or any thinge this chaunge wyne for milke you spend and wast your mony but not in breade you spende your trauaile and receue no hire nor rewarde And because hee will that the immutabilitie of his truthe and the loue that hee hath towardes vs should be notorious he doth desire and cōmaunde that all the graces graunted in this Iubilie be for euer irreuecable with a priuilege sempiternall to as many as receiue the same and that it be not derogated by any other priuiledge or decree what so euer neither in death nor lyfe but that it haue alwayse full force effect and vertue to deliuer al them which receue the same from all euils presently and in the ende to deliuer them into the possessiō of the eternall and euerlasting riches of his heauenly kingdome But forasmuch as you Nom. my officials haue receued the grace of me by the gyfte of my holy Ghoste and haue geuen credit to my promisses and worde and haue receued my sonne Iesus Christ for your reconcilyatoure by the fayth that you haue in hym and his blondshedding which is the priuie signet and seale of my church the which I doe put to these presentes whereby I doe graunte vnto you all the graces pardons dispensations Indulgences priuiledges in this Iubily contayned In wittnesse whereof I haue cōmaunded these presentes to bee firmed with myne owne name and sealed with my seale as aforsayde and therefore for a signe that you haue receued the same you shall beare in your hartes the loue that you doe owe and that is due vnto your neighbours and shewe the same by your worckes Iehouah Item our most holy Father doth condempne all and as many as doe rebell and gainsaye any thing herein contained or that doeth the contrary and more ouer doth excommunicate them for euer from and out of his moste holy heauenly kingdome Here followeth the tenor of the excōmunication and cursse that the sprite of god which into say the holy Ghost doth pronounce against them their familliers fautors somnors and doers The holy ghost by the Prophet Dauid to all the enemies of the grace glorie of Christ that by any maner of meane or way what sooner doe defende stoppe and let the publicatiō of these pardons or the priuiledges therein contayned which are the onely fruites of the Gospell he doth cursse excōmmunicate and perpetually enclude the out of his kingdome in this maner O Lorde shed thy wrath vpon them and let the fury of thine Ire comprehende them there habitations be brought lowe and let no man dwell in theire tabernuckles let theire tables bee made a mare vnto themselues and let those thinges which shoulde haue bene for theire welth bee vnto them an occasion of fallynge let theire eyes be blinded that they see not and euer bowe thou downe theire backes let them fall from one wickednes to another and let them not enter into thy righteousnes let them be wipped out of the booke of the lyuinge and let them not be writtē in the booke of the righteoues constitute and set thou an euell Prince ouer them and let Sathan be still at
and others that the bloud of Iesus Christ is the onely maker cleane the clenser and purgatory purger of them and that there is not cannot nor may not be any other and that we haue no neede of any other but he vnto them and such lyke is graunted by our almighty most holy Father indulgentia plenaria and that they receyue the benefite of his passion and so made cleane of all theire sinnes Item to all those that are studious and desirous to heare and so worcke according to the word of God whych is the onely rule for to please him by to knowe the trwe Church to bee enioyned incorporated with Chryst his moste mighty holynes dothe graunte vnto them that they shal be blessed for euermore Item to all those that notwithstanding the excōmunications Barbarian and Turkish defenses and decreese and other tyrannicall and Pagan cruelties of antechrist and his ministers do and will loue receiue incurre cōmunicate defend helpe with counsell sustenance and charitable intreatise the faythfull members of Iesus Christ and whiche by the mercy that they haue receaued at his handes doe acknowledge him to be their onely health and saluation and be immitators and followers of him in lyfe and doctrine doe ronne away from the errors and other abhomynable abuses in the which they haue lyued contrary to the gospell and for the same be and haue bene abhorred and persecuted by the children of darcknes and of the world his almighty holines and deuyne magnificence doeth promyse and graunt vnto them that they shal be beloued receiued gwarded kept comforted prospered deliuered from their ennemies holpen in all their troubles and necessities and at the last day alowed and accepted before the father and his holy Aungels for faithfull confessoures of his truth and righteousnes and in the end of al enriched with the eternall riches of his celestiall blessednesse Item to all those that doe and wyll beleeue in Iesus Christ with all theyr hartes and all their powers and wyll lyue with doing worckes of fayth with a firme hope and trust in Christes merites and righteousenesse as is commaunded by the gospel he doth graunt vnto them millions of millions yeres of pardon for all their sinnes A pena et culpa and also peace and rest in conscience with promyse that after their departure out of this world they shal presently enter into a full possession of the eternall kingdome of Christ Iesus Item to all and euery one and to whatsoeuer parson or parsons that wil imbrace Christ and his righteousenes with a trwe fayth and hope therein if they be in the article of death whether it be by signes tokens or wordes so it be from the bottome of their hartes and doe faythfully beleeue that Christ Iesus made a full satisfaction to God the Father for the sinnes of all mankynde his most high holinesse doeth grant vnto them Plenissima indulgentia a most free pardon remission and absolution from all their sinnes and are set at libertie fully for all paynes and punishmentes due for the same Item because the sainctifier of al men is of nature mercifull and doth loue and wil the saluation of all these which he did redeeme with his moste precious blood He doth graunt and it is his almightines moste holy wyll that if it chaunce that any such parson or parsons so in tharticle of death do not dye at that instant time wherein they so called them selues to their duties that for their so pure hartes and mindes towardes him they shall not onely inioy thabsolution aforesayd but also for euer after during life be continued in the same with health of body and soule in this world and in the world to come life euerlasting for God our holy Father is not onely so redy to pardone at the hower or article of death but also at euery hower whensoeuer his seruants will call vpon him with a penitent and pure hart Item to all those which by vsurping vsury by vnsaciable gayne in buying and selling by fraudulent deuises or any other vnlawful meanes haue obteined and gotten into their handes the goods and riches of this world if those vsurping vsurors insaciable gayners fraudulent deuisors and vnlawfull doers being abhomynable sinners doe from the bottom of their hartes repent for the same and professe in their lyues and doctryne amendment of life and doe seeke to make some restitution eyther by rendring back againe or reconsiliation to them which they haue so hindred he doth graunt vnto them that they shall rest in his tabernacle and dwel in his holy hill for S. Augustine sayth Non dimittitur peccatum nisi restituatur oblatum sinz are not to be forgeuen without restitucion ¶ The witnesses of the old and new Testamente to testify the truth and strength of this Iubily In the booke of Genesis and in many other places of the Law and testamente of scriptures Moyses and others doe restify that al nations of the earth shold be blessed saued by Iesus Christe the sonn of Dauid of the seede of Abraham and that they shoulde receyue by hym an eternal and celestial benediction or blessing Item saynt Peter doth testify that al the Prophetes beare testimony of Iesus Christ and that whosoeuer beleeueth in him shal receue remission of sinnes in his name Item S. Mathewe doth testify that Iesus Christ did say of himselfe my comming into the world was not to be serued or ministred vnto but to serue and minister vnto others and to gyue my lyfe for the redemption of many Item Ecce hae aqui behold this is my blood which is shed for the remission of sinnes and vnto one that was sicke of the Palsy he sayd thy sinnes are forgeuen thee for that I see there is faith in thee Item to a woman that was a sinner goe thy wayes in peace thy sinnes are pardoned also to a woman that was sick to a leper to many other he saide the same Item vnto the father which had a chylde possessed with a dombe spirite if thou couldeste beleeue all thinges were possyble vnto thee for vnto him that beleeueth all thinges are possible Item saincte Luke in many places doth testefy the like in effect and in the firste chapter he sayth Blessed be the Lord God of Israell for he hath visited and redeemed his people and hath raysed a mighty saluation for vs in the house of his seruant Dauid as he spake by the mouth c. Item the Aungels doe witnesse the same saying feare not to the Shéepheards Ecce hae aqui behould I bring and preach vnto you glad tidinges and great ioy which shal be to all people for this daye is borne vnto you a sauyour whiche is Iesus Chryste the Lorde Item S. Iohn sayth in this is the loue and charity of God shewed vnto vs in that he doth send his only begotten sonne into the world
theire righte hande let them be as duste before the winde and the Aungell of the Lorde scattering them let theire wayes be darcke and slippery and let the Aungell of the lord persecute them when they go to receue Iudgement let them come forth condempned and let theire praiers bee tourned into sinne let their dayes bee shortened and let another take theire charge let the extorcioner consume all that they haue and let the stranger make spoyle of their trauailes let them cloth themselues with curssynges and let it come into their bowels like water and into theire bones like oyle let curssing be vnto them as a cloake and like a girdle wherwith they girde theire loynes and let them perishe for euer in thy presence like as did Coran Bathan and Abiram enemies of thy truth and righteousenes also to thy saintes and holy ministers Amen The fourme of the absolution graunted to al those that receue this holy Iubily and rather fear god then men Misereatur tui omnipotens Deus c. I The minister of God the Father by his auctority in that behalfe to me committed and to all graunted also by Iesus Christ the onely good and trwe pastor or sheepehearde of the shape that he did redeeme with his moste pretious bloud on his behalf by the vertue efficacy strength of the gospel of eternal most gracious recoÌ„siliatioÌ„ â–ª the which with your harts you haue beleeued I absolue you from all your sinnes vemall and others which you haue committed agaynst his most greate holynesses deuyne maiestie so that you be penitente for the same can finde in your harts to amend your liues I doe restore you to the Church constituted for the liuing members of Iesus Christ the head and espouse therof and to the participation of the two true sacraments which are the sacrament of baptisme and the sacrament of the true supper of our lord and doe assure you of all the aforesayde graces pardons and priuileges and do pronounce that it is his fatherly wyll and pleasure that you do enioy them with an assuraunce of life euerlasting In the name of the father of the son of the holy ghost Amen go in peace sin no more Iohn â— I am the good shapheard that doth geue my lyfe for my sheepe I doo know my sheepe and they heare my voyce and followe me and I doo geue them lyfe eternal sayth Iesus Christ our sauiour ¶ The .x. Commaundements of Almightie God published by Moyses vvith a short explanation of the effect thereof The first Table HArken O Israell I am the lord thy God which haue brought thée out of the lande of Egipt and out of the house of bondage The first Commaundement Thou shalt haue none other gods but mee THere is no more gods but one in whome it is very hard for vs to put our trust onely in not for that he is vntrusty but bicause we are so corruptible in our fleshe that of our selues we cannot but geue credit vnto vanity for whosoeuer putrech his trust many thiÌ„g maketh a strange god of the same that he putteth his truste in so that a man 〈◊〉 many strange gods as are the thinges wherein he trusteth and herevppon it did rise at the 〈◊〉 the worshipping of dombe Idolls Images so condempned of God by the Prophets but to accomplish and fulfill this comâ—â—◠〈◊〉 it is necessary to haue a constant faith and confidence in God that is a perfect loue feare reuerence and hope and to let all our trust depend onely vppon him the which is to worship him in spirit and truth this commaundemeÌ„t is a fountaine from wheÌ„ce doeth spring the whole Lawe and the obseruance thereof The second Commaundement ¶ Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image nor the likenes of any thing that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath or in the water vnder the earth thou shalt not bowe downe to them nor worship them for I the Lord thy God am a gellous god and visit the sinne of the fathers vppon their children vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shew mercy vnto thousandes of them that loue me and keepe my commaundements BEcause God is a spirite he doth forbid vs heare to represent him in the likenes of any corporal or bodily thing as though he were in it or like it wherfore those that will worshippe visible thinges and maintaine the same contrary to the worde of God are threatned here as Idolatoures and breakers of the lawe because the honoure which they doe owe vnto God they doe vse it vnto his creatures The third commaundement ¶ Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vayne for the Lord wil not hold him guiltles that taketh his name in vayne HE doth commaunde that with our tongue we should testefy that wee haue a God almighty whome wee ought to feare to reuerence and to loue and not to sweare by his name in any light thing nor by his creatures to couer a lie but if we doe sweare we must doe it to his glory our saluation and the helpe of our neighebors in good thinges and then must we sweare onelie by the name of the liuinge god The fourth commaundement ¶ Remember thou kepe holy the Saboth day Sixe dayes shalte thou labor and doe all that thou hast to doe but the seuenth day is the Saboth of the Lorde thy God in it thou shalte doe no maner of worcke thou nor thy sonn nor thy daughter nor thy manseruant nor thy mayd seruaunte nor thy cattel nor thy stranger that is within thy gates for in Sixe dayes the Lorde made heauen and yearth the Sea and al that is therin and rested the seuenth day wherefore the Lorde blessed the Seuenth day and hallowed it The ceremony of keping of the saboth day did finishe and ende with the cerymonies and shaddowe of the lawe by the death of Iesus Christ but the substaunce therof doth remain to this day and perpetually that is to kepe the saboth spiritually to cease from labour worldly worke that god may worke in vs and that in al thinges that wee do we geue him the glory god graunt we may seeke the same for euer AmeÌ„ AmeÌ„ The Commaundements of the second table and so the first and fyfte in order Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy dayes may belong in the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee It is commaunded vnto vs by this commaundement that wee reuerence and honoure our carnall fathers euery one in his place that is to say our superiors in eache estate and degree from the lowest to the highest and so backe againe to helpe them in necessitie according to our habilities to honour reuerence and obey them for that they are called to theyr places by god to draw vs vnto it to doe it according to hys word he doth