the people O intolleâ—ble blasphemie Thy sonne ordayned the Sacramente too be a signe and token of â—ouâ— / whaÌ„ the godly come together to eate all of one breadâ— to drinkâ— all of one cuppe The papistes make it 〈◊〉 Sacramente of dissencion / discorde and debate For if anye will not agree too theyr flesâ—helye / wycked and dettelyâ—â—he â—pynyon / confessynge theyr erroure off transsubstantiatioÌ„ / and affyrmingâ— that the bread and wyne is the very naturall bodye and bloude of Christe God and man / and therefore oughte too be â—neled vnto / worshipped / honored / and called vppon as the onely true / lyuynge and immortall God / they falle oute with them / they calle them heretykes / they persecute them / they apprehende them / they empresonne burne them without mercy And as the wicked papistes prophanate and vnhallowe these twoo aforesayde holy Sacramentes / so do they lyke fylthye swyne defyle all other misteries / that thy sonne Chrisâ—e hath ordayned with reuereÌ„ce to be vsed in thy church An Lorde God and oure heaueÌ„ly father / therfore we were taught too worâ—hip the in spirite and truethe / and too praye vnto the euery where / lyftinge vp pure handes without wrathe or doubtinge Ioan. 4. 1. Tim. 2. But nowe the papistes teache vs to praye vnto the and vnto all the coÌ„pany of heauen with boynge and bleatinge in the quyre / with playeng on the organs / with sayeng ladies psalters on beades / with mumblynge ouer certayne prayers / in the tunge that we vnderstande not Praâ—â—r Heretofore we were taughte / that thou alone forgeuest vs all our synâ—es / whan souer we earnestly repent / and vnfayâ—edly turne vnto the God alone forgeueth sinne But nowe the papistes teache / that they also haue power too forgeue synnes / and that oure synnes can not be forgeuen / excepte we confesse them vnto the prieste with all circumstaunces Esa 43. Marc. 2. Luc. 5. Heretofore we were taught to looke for all saluacion of the thorowe faythe in the bloude of Christe Faith onely iustefied But nowe the papistes teache vs to looke for saluacioÌ„ in our owne good workes / in the intercession of sainctes / in prayers and merites of synneful hypocrites and beastly belligoddes / in ceremonies / in wil workes / in tradicious of men / in holy bread / holy water / holy candels / holy palmes / holy asâ—hes / latine seruice / idolatrous masses / supersticious Diriges / trifelinge trentalles / popishe fastinges / belles / beades / c. Abominacions Heretofore we were taught to caste out of our temples the Idols and Mawmettes wherwith many comâ—itted spiritual whordome and raÌ„ne an whoring / and to garnish the churche with the holy scriptures / that the people might learne to know to feare the. Images not tollerable in the teÌ„ples of the Christians But now the vngodlye papistes haue brought the matter to this pointe / that the sentences of thy blessed lawe are blotted / vtterly wyped out of the temples / Idols are there placed manifestlye and directly / agaynste thy blessed commaundemente / which thy enemies call laye meÌ„s CaleÌ„ders Exod. 20 Leuit. 19. Deut. 5. 7. 12. or bokes / as though o Lorde God / the people might soner be brought vnto the knowledge of the / by looking on deformed stockâ—s stones / than by reading thy holy blessed worde Ioan. 5 Thy sonne our sauiour Christ coÌ„maundeth vs to searche the scriptures / and not to beholde Idols and Mawmettes Ioan. 8. He that is of god / saythe he / hearethe the word of god He sayethe not / he that is of god ruÌ„eth vnto Images / seeth what goodnes he caÌ„ne pycke out of theÌ„ Agayn he sayeth My shepe heare my voyce Ioan. 10 He sayeth not my shepe hath a delyghte and pleasure too beholde vayne Idols and mahounde lyke Mawmettes Psal 119. Thy seruaunt Dauid calleth them blessed / that searche thy testimonies and haue a pleasure too studie in thy lawe daye and night Psalm 1. For thy holy worde is only the boke / wherin thy people ought to looke / and not dumme Images carued Idolles / which are cursed of the in thy holy law / yea the makers of them also Deut. 27 Ah Lorde God / they that haue this procured / that thy holy worde should be wyped and blotted out of the churches / is it not to be thoughte / that their names are blotted and wypedâ— out of the â—oke of lyfe alsoâ— Yea / is it not too be thought that such Antichristes wold gladly haue bothe the / thy holy worde / yea / thy blessed name so blotted wyped out of all mens hartes / that thou mightest neuer be The holy scriptures vvyped out of the temples idols placed remembred more / but that they and theyr deueliâ—â— decrees might alone raygne / rule / ruffle and triumphe / makyng all men euen from the hyghest to the lowest their miserable captiues wretched bond slaues It maye right wel be sayde vnto them / as our sauiour Christ sayd vnto the wicked styfnecked Iewes He that is of God / heareth the worde of God Ioan. 8. Ioan. 10. Ye therfore heare it not / because ye are not of God Again / ye beleue not / because ye are not of my shepe Iere. 3. Ah Lord these chyldren of Belâ—all haue forsaken the thalone fountayne of lyuely water / they haue dygged to theÌ„ selfs puddels / yea / dyle dyrtie puddels / that are able too holde no water They are such people / as coÌ„tinually prouoke the vnto anger Esa 30. They are lyeÌ„g chyldreÌ„ / yea / such chyldreÌ„ / as will not heare the law of God They say to the preachers / loke oute of the scriptures no good lessoÌ„s for vs. And to the godly lerned they say / tel not vs those thinges that are right / neither rebuke our wickednes Idolatry / but speake vnto vs pleasauÌ„t thiÌ„ges / such as we delight too heare Tel not vs of gods aÌ„ger / iustice iudgemeÌ„t againste the stifnecked idolators / but preach vnto vs fals thinges / fables / lyes / erâ—ors / saicts liues out of the goldeÌ„ legeÌ„d / narracioÌ„s out of the festiual / exaÌ„ples out of Viâ—as patruÌ„ The doctrine of the papistes authorites out of sermoÌ„s Dormi mens tradicions / laudable ceremonies / coÌ„mendable customes / holye rites / aunciente vsages / good enteâ—tes / iustificacion of workes / transsubstantiacion / the corporall presence of Christ / in the Sacramente of the aultare / vnder the accidentes of bread / c. The propiciatory sacrifice of the masse / the receauinge of the Sacramente vnder one kynde / contrary to Christes institucion / auriculare confession / c. Treade oute of the waye / go out of the pathe / awaye with the holy one of Israel from vs. We
thou woldest not haue done / if the marryage of priestes had bene soo vile and detestable a thinge in thy sight / as the wicked fylthy papistes make it In the newe lawe also the men / whome thy welbeloued sonne did chose in this vale of misery to be his disciples and apostles / to be the preachers of his glorious Gospell / and the administratours of his holy Sacramentes / were not fleshely votaries / as the papistes are / but honest and godly married men / lyuinge with their wyues / according to thy holy ordinaunce / ud bringynge vp their chyldren in thy feare / and after the doctrine of thy blessed worde Neyther dyd the apostles put awaye their wyues / after they were called vnto the ministery / as the lyenge papistes for a colour of their synful lyfe do moste falshly fayne / but they continued with their wyues louingly faythefully / tyll death departed them / as we may se in auncient histories / and as it may easly be gathered of the manifest woordes of the holy scriptur Haue not we power / saieth the apostle / to lede about a syster to wyfe / 1. Cor. 9. as wel as other apostles / as the brethren of the lorde and Cephas Ether only I and Barnabas haue not poure this to do Here is it evident / that thapostles of Criste did not oÌ„ly not put away their wyues after the were called vnto the ministerre / as the fals Papistes fable but they also led their wyffes about with them / as theye went abrode preachyng the gospell of crist Eccl. hist lib. 3. ca. 30. Rede we not that S. peter continued withe his wife vntyl her dyeng day / and that whan she was ledde vnto the place of execution to suffer deathe for coÌ„fessyng Christe to be God / S. Peter her husbond folowed her / exhorted her to be stronge in the faythe of Christe / sayde vnto her O wyfe / remeÌ„ber the Lorde oh wythe whatforheade dursie Peter have exhorted men to dwel in howse together 1. Pet. 3. withe theyr wyffes accordyng to their knoulege / if he contrary to his knowledge had putte awaye his wyffeâ— Wythe what face coulde thapostle Philip. 4 s Paule haue made meÌ„cion of his wyffe / callyng her his faithe full yoke fellowe / desyryng her to healpe the wemen / whiche laboured withe hime in the gospel / if he beyng vnfaythefull had putte awaye his wyffe coÌ„trary to his promise the lawe of God If thapostles had putte awaye theyr wyffes after they were called vnto the ministery and preachyng of howe durste Paule haue bene so bolde / as 1. Cor. 9. to wryghte vnto the Corithians / that thei ledde theyr wyffes aboute wihe theme Yea / iff thapostles had putte awaye theyr wyffes / howe coulde they haue exhorted other men accordyng to the lawe of God / to forsake father mother to cleue vnto Gen. 2. Mar. 19. Mat. 5. theyr wyffes / no man to forsake his wife for any cause excepte it befor fornication This their for is but a shadowe of the filthye Papistes to blynd the eyes of the simple and ignoraÌ„te Furthermore all the holy Bishoppes and ministers of the primatiue chirche were marryed mene / or at the least were at libertie to marrye / if they wolde Agayne / the Priestes among the Grekes even from thappostles tyme vnto this day haue euer bene at libertie to marrye / neytheyr is theyr ministerye theffror the les estemed of the godly / whiche are persuaded by the worde of God / that wedlocke is honorable Hebr. 13. among all mene the bedde vndefyled The maryage of Priestes was neuer for bydden in any place tyll Antichriste off Rome broughte it to passe / partely by the tiraÌ„ny of the seculare power / and partely by flatteryng wordes grauÌ„tyng Priestes coÌ„cubines whoresin stead off their lawefull wyffes / whoÌ„ for aÌ„ yerely peÌ„sioÌ„ they may at their pleasure etheyr kepe stil or putte awaye / take anewe But o heauenly father / as thy faithful seruaunt Paule prophecied longe before / soo is it come to passe 1. Tim. 4 The spirite speaketh euidently / sayeth he / that in the latter dayes / some shall departe from the faythe / shall geue hede vnto spirites of errour and deue lish doctrine of them / whiche speake fals Paules prophecie fulfilled thorowe hypocrisye / and haue their conscieÌ„ces marked with an hâ—te yron / forbiddinge to marrye This prophecye is fulfylled in that Antichriste of Rome / and in his whorish generacion For they alone forbid marryage / which thing neyther Jew / nor Turke nor any Iufidel besydes dothe Neyther can the papistes thyfte of this prophecye / from them vnto certayn hereâ—ykes / which vtterly condemned marryage For the holy Apostle prophecieth of such as forbidde marryage / and not of them that vtterly caste away condemne marryage as a thing altogether vncleane and vnmete for a Christen man They therfore that forbid the marryage of priestes are by the iudgement of the mooste worthy apostle / yea / of the holy Ghoste / departed from the saythe / and geue hede too the spirites of errour and deuelish doctrine of them / whiche speake false thorow hypocrisye / and haue their conscience marked with an hote yron / be they Popes / Cardinalles / Bishoppes / Emperours / Kynges / Quenes / Dukes or any other Swifte daÌ„nacion bring all suche vpon themselfes / except they shortely repent Heretofore / we had suche shepehardes / Godlij Bisshops and faithfull preachers as were tender fosters of thy flocke They cheryshed and made much of thy thepe For suche as were weake / they tenderly cherisshed / the syke they healed / the broken they bounde vp together / the outcasâ—es suche as ranne astraye / they louingly broughte home agayne / the loste they diligently soughte / and resâ—ored them too the shepefolde None of thy shepe did they willingly suffer to perishe Euen as a nurse amoÌ„g her chyldren / so lyued they amonge thy people Not with the soure leauen of the Phariseys / but with the heauenly Manna of thy blessed worde did they fede thy flocke Neither did they geue thy thepe drincke of the stincking and dyrtie puddels of mens tradicioÌ„s / but of the fountayne of that lyuing water / which springeth vnto euerlasting life But now the shepehardes / yea / rather the wolfes Ioan. 4. Vvâ—lâ—ishâ— shepehardes / which are braste into thy shepefolde / with violence haue vniustly thrust out the faythfull and fatherly pastores out of their tures / are lordely / cruel / bloudthyrstye / malicious and spyteful agaynste thy shepe They are such wolfs as spare nâ—t the flocke but scatter destroye the flocke They are theues / robbers / murtheras soule slears Act. 20. Ioan. 10. Ezec. 34. thei fede theÌ„ selues with the fattest clothe theÌ„ selues wythe the fyneste wolle / but thy flocke thy noryshe not the
Take away from vs the Romish latin seruis / which the sineâ—ed shauliÌ„ges muÌ„ble in the teÌ„ples befor thy people with out all EdifieÌ„g â— Cor. 14 â—oan 4. restoruÌ„to vs our acustoÌ„ed coÌ„on praiers in the English â—ong that we may know what we pray / by this meaÌ„es worshyp the in spryt truth Masse Banyshe out of the coÌ„gergacioÌ„ that most vile stinking Idoll the Masse / restore vnto vs the holy blesed CoÌ„muÌ„ioÌ„ / that we eating â— Cor. 10. together of one bread driÌ„aing of one cupe may remeÌ„ber the Lordes death bethaÌ„kfull / to the. Pourge oure temples of all popyshe abhomynacions ecremonies / of CerimoÌ„ies / of Images / of allters / of copes / of vestmeÌ„tes / of pixes / of croses of sensers / of holi vater bucketes / of holi bread basketes / of Chrismatorâ—â— / aboue all of Idolatrus priestes vngodly ignoraÌ„te curates The propiciatori sacrifis of the popish Masse Akominaâ—ons / the wicked opiyâ—n of the corporal presence of Christ in the SacrameÌ„tal bread / the receauiÌ„g of the SacrameÌ„t vnder on kind / the iÌ„tercesioÌ„ of Sayntes / the doctriÌ„e of the IustificacioÌ„ ofworkes / the popysh purgatory / the wicked tradicioÌ„s of the Elders / with all vngodly custoÌ„es strange doctriÌ„es take thoue / o good Lorde / awaye from vs / teache vs vy thy holy Sprite Deut. 4. 6. 12. Proue 30 â–ª Esa 30. Luc. 1. to walke oÌ„ly in that waye / that thow haste apoiÌ„ted / by no meaÌ„es to turne neyther on the righte haÌ„de nor on the lefte / but all blynd zeles and good eÌ„tentes layde aside / gyue vs grace toserue the oure Lorde God in suche holynes Ryghtousnes as is accepted before the / all the-dayes of owre lyffe O heaueÌ„ly father moste mercifull Lordepreserue and saÌ„ctâ—fye with thy holy spirite thy vniuersall coÌ„gâ—egaâ—ioÌ„ / â—aÌ„ly the faythful coÌ„gregacioÌ„ of EnglaÌ„d / that as in their baptime they haue giuen them selues ouer wholy vnto the / Gods coÌ„grâ—gacione forsakyng the dewill / the worlde and the fleshe withe all their workes / poÌ„pes / lustes vaÌ„ities / haue sworne to serue the with all that they ar able to mak / euen so they thorow thy grace maye aÌ„swere to their professioÌ„ liue according to their promyse made in their baptime / eâ—taÌ„g them selues withe no new / couÌ„terfaiÌ„cte and strange religioÌ„ / nor yet defilyng them selues withe any vnrighteousnes / but walkyng inthat only waye that thowe hayst apoynted And suche as thorowe the strenghe of thy Spirite abide full constaÌ„te stedfaste in the Stronge inChriste coÌ„fesioÌ„ of thi truth befor the worldli tiraÌ„tes and belâ—â—de hipocrites / o Lorde coÌ„firm them in thy truthe thorowe the holy Gooste / and giue theme grace to persiste and coÌ„tinwe in it vnto the ende / that thowe mayste be glorifyed by them / and that the truthe of thy holy Psal 17. worde maye the more earnestly be receauyd / embraced and beleued of the ChristeÌ„ weaklynges O howld thow vp their goynges in thy pathes / that their foote steppes slipe not Thow haste deliuered them from stinkyng Sodome / suffer them no more to look backe towarde it Thow by the mightie powre out streached arme hast brought them out of sinfull Egepte / haste fedde them withe the HeueÌ„ly mana / suffer them nomore somoche as ones to haue a luste to returne vnto thatlande of boÌ„dage / nor to haue a desire to sitte amoÌ„ge the greasy fleshe pottes of Egepte / to eate of the fishes / melons / cowcuÌ„bers / garleke / oÌ„yones / lekes / c / wherwith the filthe EgepciaÌ„s are fedde They haue visited sene Christ thy SoÌ„ne oure Kinge Math. 2. suffer them nomor to return vnto wicked Kinge Herode They haue put theyr hande to the ploughe / graunt that they neuer looke backe agayne Luc. 9. / but preserue coÌ„tine we go forwarde vntothe ende They haue escaped from the filthenes of the world thorow the knowleg of the of our Sawyour Iesu Christ / suffer them nomor to be entaÌ„gled therin owercooÌ„e / lest the latter ende be worse theÌ„ the begynnyng For it had bene better not to haue knowuethe 2. Pete 2. waye of rightousnes / thaÌ„ after they haue knoweÌ„ it to turne froÌ„e the holy coÌ„maÌ„ndemeÌ„t that is geuen them So myght it be saide ofthem accordinge to the true prouerbe Thedogge is tuked to his vomite agayne and the sowe that was washede to hire walowingein Prouerb 26. the myre The weakeliÌ„ges and suche as are not yet vveakliÌ„ges Ruges perfectly stablyshed in thy true relygeoÌ„ / but-like redes wauer with euery wind of doctriÌ„ / o Lord coÌ„firm thow mak them thorowly stroÌ„g in the knowledg of thy truth that they withe a coÌ„staÌ„te faythe lustie courage maye both beleue coÌ„fesse the befor the tyraÌ„tes of the world / that thow alou art the Lorde and that ther is no truth necessari vnto saluacioÌ„ / but that only / whiche is contayned in thy-holy Scriptures Gods profoÌ„ners To them that are in bondes for the coÌ„fessiou of thy truthe gyue thowe grace / o moste louyng Lorde / to reioyse / that they be couÌ„ted worthy of thy fatherly goodnes to suffer Rebuke / iufamy / epresoÌ„meÌ„t / losse of goodes c Acto 5. / for the name of the Lorde Iesu / to be persuaded that the affliccioÌ„s of this liffe are not woâ—thi of the glori / which shal be shewed vpon Roma 8. the SoÌ„nes of God in tyme to come / notwithstaÌ„dyng that their trouble / whiche is / shorte lighte preparethe an excedyng andeternall 2. Cor. 4 waighte of glory vnto them / whiche looke not on the thynges which are seâ—e / but on the thynges whiche are not sene Agene / that if they dye withe Christ / they shall allso lyue withe 2. Timo 2 Christ / and if they suffer witheChrist / they shall also reigne withe Christ And as for them that for fear of liff or loss of goodes / or els for pleasyng the hyâ—â— powresare Back sliders for â—â—are outwardly gone frome thy true relygioÌ„ / and withe their bodyes serue Baal / yea and that agenst their owne coÌ„scieÌ„ce / whaÌ„ in their heartes they wishe all Idolatrous strange worshippinges vtterly to be abolyshed / thatthowe alone mightest be glorified honored we moste humbly beseche the to pardoÌ„ their imperfeccioÌ„s / and to forgiue their iÌ„firmetes / which by the prophet speaketh of thi SoÌ„ne coÌ„cerÌ„ynge the weake feareful on thys maÌ„ner Esa 42. A brâ—osed Reed shall he not breake / and flaxe that begynnthe to burne / he shall not / quenche Math. 12. Marc. 9. O Lorde healpe their vnbeleffe Encrease their faythe Make them stroÌ„ge with thy holy / Spirite / that that whiche they in wardly beleue theim ay outwardli confesse worke accordyngly