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A01759	The epistle of Gildas, the most ancient British author who flourished in the yeere of our Lord, 546. And who by his great erudition, sanctitie, and wisedome, acquired the name of sapiens. Faithfully translated out of the originall Latine.; Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae. English	Gildas, 516?-570?; Abingdon, Thomas.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 11895; ESTC S103163	93,511	458

Heare now likewise what fell upon the two sacrilegious Kings of Israel even such as ours are Ieroboam and Baasa unto whom the sentence and doome of our Lord is by the Prophet in this sort directed For what cause have I exalted thee a Prince over Israel in regard they have provoked me in their vanities Behold I will stirre up after Baasha and after his house and I will give over his house as the house of Ieroboam the Sonne of Nebat whoso of his blood shall dye in the City the dogges shall eate him and the dead carkasse of his in the field shall the foules of the aire devoure What doth hee also threaten unto that wicked King of Israel a fellow souldier of the former band by whose collusion and his wives deceit innocent Naboth was for his Fathers Vineyard oppressed talking by the holy mouth of that Elias yea the selfe-same mouth that was instructed with the fiery speech of our Lord. Thou hast killed moreover likewise thou hast possessed and after these thou wilt adde yet more Thus saith our Lord in this very place wherein the dogges have licked the blood of Naboth they shall lick up thy blood also Which that it fell out afterwards in that very sort we have certaine experience But least perchance according as it befell unto the aforesaid Achab The lying spirit which pronounceth vaine things in the mouthes of your Prophets may seduce ye harken ye to the speeches of the Prophet Michaias Behold God hath suffered the spirit of lying to poss●sse the mouths of all thy Prophets that doe here remaine and our Lord hath pronounced evil against thee For even now it is certaine there are some Doctors replenished with a contrary spirit preaching and affirming rather naughty pleasure then truth whose words are softer then oyle and the selfe same are darts who say peace peace and there shall be no peace to them who persevere in sinnes as the Prophet in another place on this wise speaketh It is not for the wicked to rejoyce saith our Lord. Azarias also the sonne of Obed did speake unto Asa who returned from the slaughter of the Army of ten hundred thousand Ethiopians saying Our Lord is with yee while ye remaine with him and if yee will seeke him out he will be found by ye and if ye will leave him he will forsake ye For if Iehoshaphat but yeelding assistance unto a wicked King was thus reproved by the Prophet Iehu the sonne of Anany saying If thou givest aid to a sinner or lovest them whom our Lord doth hate the wrath of God doth therefore hang over thee what shall become of them who are fettered in the proper snares of their owne offences whose sinnes but not whose soulēs we must of necessity hate if wee will fight in the Army of our Lord the Psalmist saying Hate ye evill who love our Lord. What was said to the sonne of the afore rēcited Iosaphat named Ioram that most horrible murtherer who being himselfe a bastard slew his noble brethren that hee might possesse the throne in their place by the Prophet Elias the wagon and wagoner of Israel Thus speaketh quoth he the Lord God of thy Father David Because thou hast not walked in the way of thy Father Iosaphat and in the waies of Asa the King of Iudah but hast made thy passage through the wayes of the Kings of Israel and in unsensiblenesse according to the behaviour of the house of Achab and hast moreover killed thy brethren the sonnes of Iosaphat men farre better then thy selfe behold our Lord shall strike thee and thy children with a mighty plague And a little afterwards And thou shalt be marveilous sicke of a disease of thy belly until the entrailes of thy belly shal together with the malady it selfe from day to day passe forth away from thee And listen also what the Prophet Zachary the sonne of Ioiades menaced to Ioas the King of Israel leaving our Lord even as ye now do who arising spoke in this manner to the People Thus saith our Lord why doe ye transgresse the Commandements of our Lord and doe not prosper Because ye have left our Lord he will also leave you What shall I mention of Esay the first and chiefe of the Prophets who beginneth the proeme and enterance of his Prophesie or rather vision saying in this sort Heare O yee Heavens and O thou earth conceive in thine eares because our Lord hath spoken I have nourished children and exalted them but they themselves have despised me The Oxe hath knowne his owner and the Asse the manger of his Master but Israel hath not knowne me and my people hath not understood And after a few words framing threatnings answerable to so great a folly he saith The Daughter of Sion shall be uterly left as a shelter in the Vineyard and as a hovell in the Cowcumber Garden and a City that is sacked And especial-conventing and accusing the Princes he saith Heare the word of our Lord O yee Princes of Sodome perceive ye the Law of our Lord O yee people of Gomorrah Where truely it is to be noted that unjust Kings are tearmed the Princes of Sodome for our Lord forbidding sacrifices and gifts to be offered unto him by such where we with greedy covetousnesse receive those offerings which in all Nations are displeasing unto God and to our owne destruction suffer them not to be bestowed on the poore and needy speaketh to them who laden with abundance of riches are likewise given to the filth of offences on this wise Offer not any more your sacrifice in vaine your incense is abomination unto me And againe he denounceth And when yee shall stretch out your hands I will turne away mine eyes from ye and when ye shall multiply your prayers I will not heare And hee declareth wherfore he doth this saying Your hands are full of blood And likewise showing how he may be appeased he saith Be ye washed be ye cleane take away the evill of your thoughts from mine eyes leave of to deale perversly learne to doe well seeke for the judgement succour the oppressed doe justice to the pupill or Orphan And then assuming as it were the part of a reconciling appeaser he adding saith If your sinnes shall be as scarlet they shall be made white as Snow if they shal be as red as the little worme they shall be as white as wooll If ye shall be willing and will heare me ye shall feede on the good things of the Land but if ye wil not and shall provoke mee unto wrath the sword shall devoure ye Receive ye heare the true and publike avoucher witnessing without any falshood or flattery the reward of your good and evill not like the soothing humble lippes of your Parasites whispering poysons into your eares And also directing his sentence against ravenous judges he saith thus

but a famine in hearing the word of God and waters shall be mooved from sea even to sea and they shal run over from the North even unto the East seeking out the word of our Lord and yet shall not find it Let holy Micheas also pierce your eares who not unlike a certaine heavenly trumpet soundeth shrilly forth against the deceitfull Princes of the People saying Hearken now yee Princes of the house of Iacob is it not for yee to know judgement who hate goodnesse and seeke after mischiefes who plucke their skinnes from off men and their flesh from their bones Even as they have eaten the flesh of my people and fl●yed of their skins from them broken their bones to peeces and hewed them small as meate to the pot they shall cry to God and he will not heare them and in that season turne his face away from them even as they before have wickedly behaved themselves in their inventions Thus speaketh our Lord of the Prophets who seduce my people who bite with their teethes and preach against them peace and if a man giveth nothing to stoppe their mouthes they raise and sanctifie a war upon him Night shall therefore be unto yee in place of a vision and d●rkenesse unto ye in l●we of divination and the sunne shall set upon your Prophets and the day shall waxe darke upon them and seeing droames they shall be confounded and the diviners shall be derided and they shall speake ill against all men because there shall not be any one that will heare them but that I myselfe shall doe mine uttermost strongest endeavour in the spirit of our Lord in judgement and in power that I may declare unto the house of Iacob their impieties and to Israel their offences Hearken therefore unto these words ye Captaines of the house of Iacob and ye remnants of the house of Israel who abhorre judgment and overthrow all righteousnesse who build up Sion in blood and Ierusalem in iniquities her rulers did judge for rewards and her Priests answered for hire a●d her Prophets did for money divine and rested on our Lord saying And is not our Lord within us evils shall not fall upon us For your cause therefore shall Sion be ploughed up as a field and Ierusalem as a watch cabbin of a garden and the mountaine of the house as a place of a wooddy wildernesse And after some words ensuing Woe is me for that I am become as ●e that gathereth stubble in the harvest and a cluster of grapes in the Vintage when the principle branch is not left to be eaten Woe is me that a soule hath perished through earthly actions the reverence of sinners ariseth even reverencing from the earth and hee appeareth not that among men correcteth All contend injudgement for blood and every one with tribulation afflicteth his neighbour for mischiefe hee prepareth his hands Listen ye likewise how the famous Prophet Sophonias debated also in times past with your fellow banqueters for hee spake of Ierusalem which is spiritually to be understood the Church or the soule saying O the Citty that was beautifull and set at liberty the confident Dove hath not obediently hearkened to the voyce nor yet entertained discipline she hath not trusted in our Lord and to her God she hath not approached And he sheweth the reason why Her Princes have beene like unto roaring Lyons her Iudges as Wolves of Arabia did not leave towards the morning her Prophets carrying the spirit of a contemptuous despising man her Priests did prophane what w●s holy and dealt wickedly in the law but our Lord is upright in the middest of his people and no unjust morning will he make in the morning will he give his judgement But heare ye also blessed Zachery the Prophet in the Word of God admonishing yee For thus saith our Almighty Lord Iudge ye righteous judgement and worke yee every one towards his brother mercy and pitty and hurt yee not thorough your power the Widdoow or Orphan or stranger or poore man and let not any man remember in his heart the malice of his brother and they have beene stubborne not to observe these and have yeelded their backes to foolishnesse and made heavie their eares that they might not hearken and framed their hearts to be not perswasible that they might not listen to my law and words which our Almighty Lord hath sent in his spirit through the hands of his former Prophets and mighty wrath hath beene raised by our Almighty Lord. And againe Because they who have spoken have spoken molestations and diviners have uttered false visions and deceitfull dreames and given vaine consolations in respect hereof they are made dry as sheepe and are afflicted because no health was to bee found my wrath is heaped upon the Shepheards and upon the Lambes will I visite And within a few words after The voyce of lamenting Pastors because their greatnesse is become miserable The voyce of roaring Lyons because the fall of Iordan is become miserable Thus saith our Almighty Lord who have possessed have murthered and yet hath it not repented them and who have sold them have sayd Our Lord is blessed and we have beene enriched and their Pastors have suffered nothing concerning them For which I will now beare no sparing hand over the inhabitants of the earth saith our Lord. Heare ye moreover what the holy Prophet Malachy denounceth unto yee saying Yee Priests who despise my name and have sayd Wherein doe we despise thy name in offering on mine Altar polluted bread and yee have sayd Wherein have we polluted it In that ye have sayd The table of our Lord is as nothing and have despised such things as have beene placed thereupon because if yee bring what is blind for an offering is it not evill If ye set and apply what is lame or languishing is it not evill Offer therefore the same unto thy governour if he will receive it if he will accept of thy person saith our Almighty Lord. And now doe ye humbly pray before the countenance of your God and earnestly beseech him for in your hands have these things beene committed if happily he will accept of your persons And againe And out of your ravenous theft ye have brought in the lame and languishing and brought it in as an offering Shall I receive the same at your hands saith our Lord Accursed is the deceitfull man who hath in his flocke one of the male kinde and yet making his vow offereth the feeble unto our Lord because I am a mighty King saith our Lord of hosts and my name is terrible among the Gentiles And now unto yee appertaineth this Commandement O yee Priests if yee will not heare and resolve in your hearts to yeeld glory unto my name saith our Lord of hosts I will send upon ye poverty and accurse your blessings because ye have not setled these things on your hearts Behold I will extend out

Thy Princes are unfaithfull companions of theeves all love gifts hunt after rewards they doe no justice to the Orphan the widowes cause entreth not unto them For this saith our Lord God of hosts the strong one of Israel Alas I will take consolation upon my foes and be revenged upon mine enemies and the hainous sinners shall be broken to powder and offenders together with them and all who have left our Lord shall be consumed And afterwards The eyes of the lofty man shall bee brought low and the heighth of men hath bowed downe And againe Woe be to the wicked evill be fall him for he shall be rewarded according to his handy workes And a little after Woe be unto ye who arise earely to follow drunkennesse and to drinke even to the very evening that ye may vapouring fume with Wine The Harpe and the Lyra and the Taber and the Pipe and Wine are in your banquets and the worke of our Lord ye respect not neither yet consider ye the workes of his hands Therefore is my people led captive away because they have not had knowledge and their Nobles have perished with famine and their multitude hath withered away with thirst Therefore hath hell enlarged and dilated his spirit and without measure opened his mouth and his strong ones and his people and his lofty and glorious ones shal descend down unto him And afterwards Woe be unto ye who are mighty for the drinking of wine and strong men for the procuring of drunkennesse who justifie the wicked for rewards and deprive the just man of his justice For this cause even as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubbell and as the heate of the flame burneth up so shall their roote be as the ashes and their branch shall rise up us the dust For they have cast away the law of our Lord of hosts and despised the speech of the holy one of Israel In all these the fury of our Lord is not turned away but as yet his hand is stretched out And somewhat after debating of the day of judgement and the unspeakeable feare of offendors he saith Howle ye out because the day of our Lord is neere at hand if then neere what shall it now be thought to be in regard destruction shall proceed from God For this shall all hands be dissolved and every mans heart shall wither away and be bruised small tortures and dolours shall hold them as a woman in labour so shall they be grieved every man shall at his neighbour stand astonished burned faces shall be their countenances Behold the day of our Lord shal come cruell and full of indignation and of wrath and fury to turne the earth into a desert and breake her sinners in small peeces from off her because the starres of Heaven and the brightnesse of them shall not unfold their light the Sunne in his rising shall bee covered over with darknes and the Moone shall not shine in her season and I will visite upon the evils of the world and against the wicked their owne iniquity and I will make the pride of the unfaithfull to cease and the arrogancy of the strong I will bring full low And againe Behold our Lord will disperse the earth he will strip her naked and afflict her face and scatter her inhabitants and as the people so shall be the Priest and as the slave so shal be his Lord as the handmaid so shall be her Lady as the purchaser so shall be the seller as the usurer so shall be he that borroweth as he who demandeth so shall be he that oweth With dispersing shall the earth be scattered and with sacking shall she be spoyled For our Lord hath spoken this word The earth hath bewailed and hath fleeted away the world hath run to nothing she is weakned by her inhabitants because they have transgressed lawes changed right brought to ruine the eternall truce For this shall malediction devour the earth And afterwards They shall lament all of them who doe in heart rejoyce the delight of the timbrells hath ceased the sound of the glad●some shall be silent the sweetnesse of the Harpe shall be hushed they shall not with singing drinke their wine bitter shall the potion be to the drinkers thereof The Cittie of vanitie is wasted every house is shut up no man entring in an outcry shall be in the streetes upon wine all gladnesse is forsaken the joy of the land is transferred solitarinesse is left in the town and calamitie shall oppresse the gates because these things shall be in the middest of the land and in the middest of the people And somewhat afterwards Swarving from the truth have they wandred out of the right way with the stragling of transgressors have they gone astray Feare and intrapping falls and a snare upon thee who art the inhabitant of the earth And it shall come to passe Who so shall flye from the voyce of the feare shall tumble downe into the intrapping pit and who so shall deliver himselfe out of the downefall shall bee caught in the intangling snare because the flood-gates from aloft shall be opened and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken With bruising shall the earth be broken with commotion shall she be moved with tossing shall she be tottred like to a drunken man and she shall be taken away as if shee were a pavilion of one nights pitching and her iniquitie shall hang heavie upon her and she shall fall done and shall not attempt to rise againe And it shall be that our Lord in the same day shall visit on the warfare of heaven in the high place and on the Kings of the earth who are upon the earth and they shall be gathered together in the bundle of one burthen into the Lake and shall there be shut up in prison and after many dayes shall they be visited And the Moone shall blush and the Sunne be confounded when our Lord of hosts shall raigne in mount Sion and in Ierusalem and be glorified in the sight of his Seniors And after a while yeelding a reason why hee threatneth in that sort he saith thus Behold the hand of our Lord is not shortned that he cannot save neither yet is his eare made heavy that he may not heare But your iniquities have divided betweene ye and your God a●d your offences have hid his face from yee that he might not heare For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquitie Your lippes have spoken lying and your tongue uttereth iniquity There is not who calleth on justice neither is there he who judgeth truely but they trust in nothing and speake vanities and have conceived greefe and brought forth iniquity And a little after Their workes are unprofitable and the worke of iniquity in their hands their feete runne into evill and make haste that they may shed the innocent blood their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts spoyle and

God Because thou hast beene disobedient to the mouth of our Lord and not observed the precept which thy Lord God hath commanded and hast returned and eaten bread and drunke water in this place in which I have charged thee that thou shouldest neither eate bread nor drinke water thy body shall not be buried in the Sepulcher of thy forefathers And so saith the Scripture it came to passe that after he had eaten bread and drunke water he made ready his Asse and departed and a Lion found him in the way and slew him Heare yee also the holy Prophet Esay how he speaketh of Priests on this wise Woe be unto the ungodly evill befall him for the reward of his hands shall light upon him Her owne exactors have spoyled my people and women have borne sway over her O my people who tear me thee blessed they themselves deceive thee and destroy the way of thy footesteps Our Lord standeth to judge and standeth to judge the people Our Lord will come unto judgement with the elders of the people and her Princes Ye have consumed my Vine the spoile of the poore is in your house Why doe ye breake in peeces my people and grinde the faces of the poore saith our Lord God of Hosts And also Woe be unto them who compose ungodly lawes and writing have written injustice that they may oppresse the poore in judgement and worke violence unto the cause of the lowly of my people that widdowes may be their prey and they make s●●ile of the Orphans what will ye doe in the day of visitation and calamity approching afarre of And afterwards But these also in regard of wine have beene ignorant and in respect of drunkennesse have wandered astray the Priests have not understood because of drunkennesse and have beene swallowed up in wine they have erred in drunkennesse they have not knowne him who seeth they have beene ignorant of judgement For all tables are filled with the vomit of their uncleannesse in so much as there is not any free place to be found Heare therefore the Word of our Lord O ye men ye deceivers who beare authority over my people that 〈◊〉 in Ierusalem For ye have sayd we have entred into a truce with death and with hell we have made a covenant The overflowing scourge when it shall passe forth shall not fall upon us because we have placed falshood for our hope and by lying we have beene defended And somewhat after And haile shall overthrow the hope of lying together with the defence Waters shall overflow and your truce with death shall be destroyed and your covenant with hell shall not continue when the overflowing scourge shall passe forth yee shall also be troden under foote whensoever it shall passe along thorough yee it shall sweepe ye away withall And againe And 〈◊〉 Lord hath sayd Because this people aproacheth with their mouth and with their lippes glorifie me but their heart is farre removed from me behold therefore I will cause this people to admire with a great and amazed wonder For wisedome shall decay and fall away from her wisemen and the understanding of her sages shall be concealed Woe be unto yee that are profound in heart to conceale counsell from our Lord whose workes are in darkenesse and they say who seeth us And who hath knowne us for this thought of yours is perverse And somewhat afterwards Thus saith our Lord Heaven is my seate and the earth the foote stoole of my feete What is this house that ye will erect unto me and what place shall be found of my resting repose all these things hath my hand made and these universally have beene all created saith our Lord on whom truely shall I cast mine eye but on the humble poore man and the contrite in spirit and him that dreadeth my speeches he that sacrificeth an Oxe is as he that killeth a man he that slaughtereth a beast for sacrifice is like him who beateth out the braines of of a dogge he that offereth an oblation is as he that offereth up the blood of an hogge he that is mindfull of frankincense is as he that honoureth an Idoll Of all these things have th●y made choice in their wayes and in their abominations hath their soule beene delighted Listen ye also what Ieremy that Virgin and Prophet speaketh unto the unwise Pastors in this sort Thus saith our Lord What iniquity have your fathers found in me because they have removed themselves farre off from me and walked after vanitie and are become vaine And somewhat after And entring in ye have defiled my Land and made mine inheritance abomination The Priests have not sayd Where is our Lord and the Rulers of the Law have not knowne mee and the Pastours have dealt treacherously against me Wherefore I will as yet contend in judgement with you saith our Lord and debate the matter with your children And a little afterwards Astonishment and wonders have beene wrought in the land Prophets did Preach lying and Priests did applaud with their hands and my people have loved such matters What therefore shall be done in her last and finall ends To whom shall I speake and make protestation that he may heare me behold their cares are uncircumcised and they cannot heare Behold the word of our Lord is uttered unto them for their reproach and they receive it not because I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the earth saith our Lord. For why from the lesser even unto the greater all study avarice and from the Prophet even unto the Priest all worke deceit and they cured the contrition of the daughter of my people with ignomy saying Peace Peace and peace there shall not be Confounded they are who have wrought abomination but rather they are not with a confusion confounded and have not understood how to be ashamed Wherefore they shall fall among those who are ruinating in the time of their visitation shall they rush headlong downe together saith our Lord. And againe All these Princes of the declining sort walking fraudulently being brasse and iron are universally corrupted the blowing bellowes hath failed in the fire the Fi●er of mettals in vaine hath melted their malicious acts assuredly are not consumed ●all them refuse and repro●ate silver because our Lord ●ath throwne them away And after a few words I ●m I am I have scene saith ●ur Lord. Goe your wayes to ●y place in Shilo where my ●ame hath inhabited from ●he beginning and behold ●hat I have done thereunto 〈◊〉 the malice of my people of ●srael And now because ye have wrought all these works saith our Lord and I have spoken unto yee arising in the morning and talking and yet ye have not heard me and have called yee and yet yee have not answered I will so deale towards this house wherein my name is now called upon and wherein ye have confidence and to this place

which are faithfully contained in the same so as it may be plaine and apparant unto all that everlasting torments are reserved for them that they are not Priests or the servants of God who doe not with their uttermost power follow and fulfill these instructions and precepts Wherefore let us hearken what the Prince of the Apostles Saint Peter hath signified about this so weighty a matter saying Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who through his mercy hath regenerated us into the hope of eternall life by the resurrection of our Lord Iesus Christ from the dead into an inheritance which can never corrupt never wither neither be defiled conserved in heaven for yee who are kept in the vertue of God Why then doe ye fondly violate such an inheritance which is not as an earthly one transitory but immortall and eternall And somewhat afterwards For which cause be ye girded in the loynes of your minde sober perfectly hoping in that grace which is offered ye in the revelation of Iesus Christ Examine ye now the depths of your hearts whether yee be sober and doe perfectly conserve the grace of Priesthood which shall bee duely discussed and decided in the Revelation of our Lord. And againe he saith As children of the benediction not configuring your selves to those former desires of your ignorance but according unto him who hath called yee holy be ye also holy in all conversation For which cause it is written Be ye holy because I am holy Which one of ye I pray hath with the burning desire of the-whole minde so pursued sanctitie that he hath earnestly hastened as much as in him lay to fulfill the same But let us behold what in the second lesson of the same Apostle is conteined My deerest saith he sancti●ie your soules for the obedience of faith through the spirit in charitie in brotherhood loving one another out of a true heart perpetually as borne againe not of corruptible seede but of incorruptible through the Word of God living and remaining for ever These are truely the Commandements of the Apostle and read in the day of your ordination to the end ye should inviolably observe the same but they are not fulfilled by ye in discretion and judgement nay not so much as duely considered or understood And afterwards Laying therefore aside all malice al deceipt dissemblings and envie and detractions as infants now newly borne reasonable and without guile covet ye milke that ye may thereby grow to salvation because our Lord is sweet Recount yee also in your mindes if these sayings which have sounded in your deafe eares have not often likewise bin troden by ye underfoote And againe Ye truely are the chosen linage the royall Priesthood the holy nation the people for adoption that ye may declare his vertues who hath called yee out of darkenesse into that his so mervoilous light But truely by yee are not onely the vertues of God not declared and made more glorious but also through your wicked examples are they by such as have not perfect beleefe despised Ye have perchance at the same time likewise heard what is read in the lesson of the Acts on this wise Peter arising in the middest of the Disciples sayd Yee men my brethren it is expedient the Scripture be fulfilled which the holy Ghost hath by the mouth of David foretold of Iudas And a little after This man hath therefore purchased afield of the reward of iniquitie This have yee heard with a carelesse or rather blockish heart as though the reading thereof had nothing at all apperteined unto your selves What one of yee I pray yee doth not seeke the fielde of the reward of iniquitie For Iudas robbed and pilled the purse and yee spoyle and waste the sacred gifts and treasures of the Church together with the soules of her children Hee went to the Iewes to make a Market of God ye passe to the Tyrants and their father the Devill that ye may despise Christ. He did set to sale the Saviour of the world for thirty pence and yee even for one poore half-penny what neede many words The example of Matthias is apparently layd before yee for your confusion who was chosen into his place not by his owne proper will but by the election of the holy Apostles or rather the judgement of Christ wherat ye being blinded doe not perceive how farre yee run astray from his merits while yee fall wilfully and headlong into the manners and affection of Iudas the traytor It is therefore manifest that he who wittingly from his heart tearmeth ye Priests is not himselfe truely a worthy Christian. And now I will assuredly speake what I thinke This reprehension might have beene framed after a milder fashion but what availeth it to touch onely with the hand or dresse with a gentle oyntment that wound which with impostumation or stinking corruption groweth now in it selfe so horrible as it requireth the searing iron or the ordinary helpe of the fire if happily by any meanes it may bee recured the diseased in the meane while not seeking a medicine and the Physitian much erring from a rightfull remedy O yee enemies of God and not Priests O yee traders of wickednesse and not Bishops O yee betrayers and not successours of the holy Apostles O ye adversaries and not servants of Christ Yee have certainely heard at the least the sound of the words which are in the second lesson taken out of the Apostle Saint Paul although ye have no way observed the admonitions and vertue of them but even as statues that doe neither see nor heare stood that day at the Altar while both then and continualy since he hath thundred in your eares saying Brethren it is a faithfull speech and worthy of all acceptance Hee called it faithfull and worthy but ye have despised it as unfaithfull and unworthy If any man coveteth a Bishopricke he de●ireth a goodworke Ye doe mightily covet a Bishopricke in respect of avarice but not upon occasion of spirituall commoditie and for the good worke which is convenient for the place ye want it It behoveth therefore such an one to be voyde of all cause of reprehension At this saying we have more neede to shed teares than utter words for it is as much as if the Apostle had sayd He ought to be of all others most free from occasion of rebuke The husband of one wife which is lkewise so contemned among us as if that word had never proceeded from him Sober Wise Yea which of ye hath once desired to have these vertues ingrafted in him Vsing hospitality For this if perchance it hath beene found among ye yet being neverthelesse rather done to purchase the favour of the people then to accomplish the Commandement it is of none availe our Lord and Saviour saying thus Verely I say unto yee they have received their reward Moreover A