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A19143	The sermo[n] of doctor Colete, made to the conuocacion at Paulis; Oratio habita a D. Ioanne Colet ad clerum in convocatione. English	Colet, John, 1467?-1519.; Lupset, Thomas, 1495?-1530.	1530 (1530)	STC 5550; ESTC S111695	9,978	44

heretykes men mad with marueylous folysshenes but the heresies of them are nat so pestilēt and pernicious vnto vs and the people as the euyll and wicked lyfe of pristes the whiche if we beleue saynt Barnard is a certeyn kynde of heresye and chiefe of all and most perillous For that same holy father in a certeyne conuocation preachynge vnto the pristes of his tyme in a certayne sermon so he sayde by these wordes There be many catholyke and faithfull men in speakynge and preachynge the whiche same men are heretykes in workyng For that that heretikes do by euyll teachynge that same do they throughe euyll exaumple they leade the people oute of the ryght way and brynge them in to errour of lyfe And so moche they are worse than heretyckes howe moche theyr workes preuaile their wordes This that holye father saynt Barnarde with a great and a feruent spirite sayde agaynste the sect of euyl pristes in his time By whiche wordes he shewethe playnly to be two maner of heresyes the one to be of peruerse teachynge and the tother of naughty life Of whiche this later is worse and more peryllous the whiche raygneth nowe in the churche in pristes nat lyuynge pristly but secularly to the vtter and miserable distruction of the churche wherfore you fathers you prestes and all you of the clergie at the laste loke vp awake from this your slepe in this forgetful worlde And at the laste beynge well awaked here Paule crienge vnto you Be you nat conformable vnto this worlde And this for the first part Nowe let vs come to the seconde The seconde parte of reformation BUt be you reformed in the newnes of your vnderstandynge The seconde thynge that saynt Paule commandeth is that we be reformed in to a newe vnderstandynge that we smelle those thynges that be of god Be we reformed vnto those thynges that are contrary to those I spake of euen nowe that is to saye to mekenes to sobernes to charite to spirituall occupation That as y e sayd Paule writeth vnto Titus Renyenge al wickednes worldly desires we lyue in this worlde soberly truely and vertuously This reformation and restoring of the churches estate muste nedes begynne of you our fathers and so folowe in vs your pristes and in all the clergye you are our heedes you are an example of liuing vnto vs. Unto you we loke as vnto markes of our directiō In you and in your lyfe we desyre to rede as in lyuely bokes howe after what facion we may lyue wherfore if you wyll ponder and loke vpon oure mottis fyrste take awaye the blockes out of your eies Hit is an olde prouerbe Phisition heale thy selfe you spirituall phisitions fyrst taste you this medicine of purgation of maners and thā after offre vs the same to taste The waye where by the churche maye be reformed in to better faciō is nat for to make newe lawis For there be lawes many inowe and out of nombre as Salomon saith Nothyng is newe vnder the sonne For the euils that are nowe in the churche were before in tyme paste and there is no faute but that fathers haue prouyded very good remedies for hit There are no trespaces but that there be lawes against them in y e body of the Canon lawe Therfore hit is no nede that newe lawes and constitutions be made But that those that are made all redye be kepte wherfore in this your assemble let those lawes that are made be called before you and rehersed Those lawes I say that restrayne vice and those that furder vertue Fyrst let those lawes be rehersed that do warne you fathers that ye put nat ouer soone your handes on euery mā or admitte vnto holy orders For ther is y e well of euils that the brode gate of holy orders opened euery man that offereth hym selfe is all where admytted without pullynge backe Therof spryngeth and cometh out the people that are in the churche both of vnlerned and euyll pristes Hit is nat inough for a priste after my iugement to construe a collette to put forth a question or to answere to a sopheme but moche more a good a pure and a holy life approued maners metely lernynge of holye scripture some knowlege of the sacramentes Chiefly aboue all thyng the feare of god loue of the heuenly lyfe Let the lawes be rehersed that commaunde that benefices of the churche be gyuen to those that are worthy And that promotions be made in the churche by the ryghte balance of vertue nat by carnall affection nat by the acception of persones wherby hit happeneth nowe adayes that boyes for olde men fooles for wise men euyll for good do reigne and rule Lette the lawes be rehersed that warreth agaynst the spotte of Symonie The whiche coruption the whiche infection the whiche cruell odible pestilence so crepteth nowe abrode as the canker euyll in the myndes of prestes that many of them are nat aferde nowe a dayes both by prayer and seruice rewardes and promesses to gette them great dignities Lette the lawes be rehersed that commaunde personall residence of curates in theyr churches For of this many euils growe by cause all thinges nowe a dayes are done by vicaries and parysshe prestes ye and those foolysshe also and vnmete and often tymes wicked that seke none other thynge in the people than foule lucre wherof cometh occasion of euyl heresies and yll christendome in the people Lette be rehersed the lawes and holy rules gyuen of fathers of the lyfe and honestie of clerkes that forbydde that a clerke be no marchant that he be no vsurer that he be no hunter that he be no cōmon player that he beare no weapon The lawes that forbyd clerkes to haunte tauernes that forbydde them to haue suspecte familiaritie with women The lawes that cōmaunde sobernes and a measurablenes in aparayle and temperāce in adournynge of the body Let be rehersed also to my lordes these monkes chanons and religious men the lawes that commande them to go the straite way that leadeth vnto heuen leauyng the brode way of the worlde that commandeth them nat to turmoile them selfe in busynes nother secular nor other That commaunde that they sewe nat in princis courtes for erthly thynges For it is in the coūcell of Calcidinens that monkes ought onely to gyue them selfe to prayer and fastyng and to the chastynge of their fleshe and obseruyng of theyr rules Aboue all thynges let the lawes be rehersed that pertayne and concerne you my reuerent fathers and lordes bysshops lawes of your iuste and canonical election in the chaptres of your churches with the callynge of the holy goste For bycause that is nat done nowe a dayes And bycause prelates are chosen often times more be fauour of men than by the grace of god Therfore truly haue we nat a fewe tymes bishops ful lytell spirituall men rather worldly than heuenly sauouryng more the spirite of this worlde than the spirite of Christe Let the