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A68446 An humble supplicacion vnto God for the restoring of hys holye woorde, vnto the churche of Englande, mooste mete to be sayde in these oure dayes, euen with teares of euery true [and] faythfull English harte. Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567. 1554 (1554) STC 1730; ESTC S110450 34,239 76

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was thy godly pleasure too call hym frō this vale of misery / vnto thy heauēly kingdome / thou gauest vnto vs his sonne to be Kyng Edvvarde the sixte oure Kynge / a Prince / althoughe yonge in yeares / tender in age / yet auncieut in the knowledge of the / of thy sonne Christ / of thy holy worde / as another Iosias / altogether bent vtterly to wedeout al fals religion / supersticiō / hypocrisye / papistrie / c. after a moste perfect manner / to set vp thy holy religion / to auaūce the har●y fauourers of thesame / vnto the great wōderful exāple of all Christen princes But alas for sorow / this most goodly godly Impe / this moste Christē kyng / this noble yōge Iosias was for oure vnthankefulnes wicked lyuing taken awaye from vs / before the tyme vnto our great sorow vnspeakable hartes disease Whose death was the beginning / is now still the cōtinuaūce of all our sorowes / griefes miseries For in the steade of that verteous prince / thou haste set to rule ouer vs an womā / whom nature hath formed 1. Tim. 2. to be in subiecciō vnto mā / whō thou by thyne holy Apostle cōmaundest to kepe silēce / not to speake in the cōgregaciō Ah Lord / to take away the empire frō a mā / to gyue it vnto a womā / semeth to be an euidēt tokē of thyne āger toward vs Englishmen Esa ● For by the Prophet● / thou beyng displeased with thy people / threatnest to sette womē to rule ouer thē / as people vnworthy to haue lawful / natural mete gouernors to reign ouer thē And verely though we fynd / that womē somtime bare rule amōg thy people / yet do we rede / that suche as ruled were quenes / were for the moste part wicked / vngodly / supersticious / geuē to idolatry / to al filthy abhominaciō / as we may se in the histories of quene Iesabel / 3. Reg. 19. 4. Reg. 11 quene Athalla / quene Herodias / such like Ah Lorde God / we dare not take vpon vs Math. 14 to iudge anye creature / for vnto the alone are the secretes of all hartes knowne / but of this are we sure / that synce she ruled / whyther of her owne disposicton / or of the prouocacion of a certayne wylde bore / successor Psal 80. Acto 23. too Ananias that whygh●ie daubed waulle / we know not / thy vineyarde is vtterly rooted vp and layde waste / thy true religion is bannished / and popishe supersticion The clo●e of papistes too deceaue the simple hath preuayled / yea / that vnder the coloure of the catholicke churche / and the olde auncient fayth / whan notwithstanding darkenes is not more contrary to light / nor colde vnto heate / than their procedinges are cōtrary to the trueth of thy holy worde if the practise and doctrine of the true catholicke churche / we speake of the Patriarches and Prophetes / of Christe and hys Apostles / and of so many godly people / as lyued from Adam vnto the tyme that Antichrist / the bisshop of Rome set vp his kyngdome 2 Thes 2. / and auaūced hym self aboue all that is called God might be the iudge / go for payment For besydes the geuinge of the kyngdome / vnto the rule of a woman / O Lorde / we mos●e humbly beseche the / to cōsider that outragious floudes of moste greuous enormities / haue braste in and ouerflowed the realme of Englād / vnto the vtter subuersion of thesame / except thy merciful goodnes do the shortly helpe Ah Lord God / heretofore vnder the rule Psal 50 Rom. 10. of that moste Christen kinge Edwarde the ●yxte / we were ●aught accordīg to thy word to fle with oure prayers vnto the alone / in all our troubles and necessities / as a Lorde plētefully ryche for so many as call on the. God alone is to be called on But nowe the Antichristiane Preachers teache / that we muste also praye to creatures that are dead / that they maye pray for vs / or els we praye vnto the invayne / and oure prayers shal neuer be hearde Heretofore we were taught / that Christ 1. Tim. 2. 1. Ioan. 8. Roma 2. Christalene is oure mediator aduocate and intercessour God and man is oure alone mediatoure / aduocate and intercessore But now the priestes of Baal teach / that Mary / Iames Peter / Ihon / Paule / Andrew / we know not who / are also oure mediators / aduocates and Intercessoures / and that we muste call vppon them in oure troubles and aduersities / whan soeuer we will haue to do with the / namely if we will haue our matter go forwarde Heretofore we were taughte / that the 1. Ioan. 1. Apoc. 1. Christes bloud is the alo●e Purgatory off the faithful precious bloude of oure sauioure Christe is the alone and sufficient Purgatory for the synnes of all them that repēt beleue But now the papistes teache / that there is a purging place after this lyfe / where the soules of the faithful shal be mise●ably tormented with fyrye f●ames / tyll eyther they them selfes haue made satis●accion for all their synnes / by suffering dew punishment or els other in this world haue made amēdes for them / by prayeng / by synging of trē talles / by goyng on ●ylgrimage / by dealeng monye / by ●yenge the pepes pardons for their redempcion / and suche lyke / whan the holy scripture contrariwise teacheth / that Sap. 3. Apoc. 14 the faythful so sone as they departe frome this lyfe / go streyghtwayes vnto glorye / ●he vnfaythful vnto euerlastinge payne damnacion / as we maye se in the historie of the ryche glotton / and of the poore man Lazarus Luc. 16 Heretofore we were taught / that Christ Christis one and alone sacrifice sufficith foreuer and euer Esa 53. Heb. 7. 9. 10. 1. Pet. 2. Apoc. 1. thy sonne and oure alone Sauiour / made vpon the aultare of the crosse / whan he suffered and dyed for vs / so sufficient / perfect / absolute and consummate oblacion / and sacrifice for the synnes of the people / that by that one / and alone sacrifice / grace / fauour / mercy / forgeuenes of synnes euerlastinge lyfe / is for euer and euer plentefully obtayned of the / for so many as repent beleue But now a dayes / those Baali●e massemongers are not ashamed to reproue that swete smelling sacrifice of Christe / and too saye / that it is not so perfect / but that they also muste offer Christ vp againe dayly in their masses for the synnes of the people / that their oblacion is a propiciatory sacrifice / and of no les vertue / strength / efficaci● might and power / than the pashon death of Christ
Take away from vs the Romish latin seruis / which the sine●ed shaulīges mūble in the tēples befor thy people with out all Edifiēg ● Cor. 14 ●oan 4. restorūto vs our acustōed cōon praiers in the English ●ong that we may know what we pray / by this meāes worshyp the in spryt truth Masse Banyshe out of the cōgergaciō that most vile stinking Idoll the Masse / restore vnto vs the holy blesed Cōmūiō / that we eating ● Cor. 10. together of one bread drīaing of one cupe may remēber the Lordes death bethākfull / to the. Pourge oure temples of all popyshe abhomynacions ecremonies / of Cerimōies / of Images / of allters / of copes / of vestmētes / of pixes / of croses of sensers / of holi vater bucketes / of holi bread basketes / of Chrismator●● / aboue all of Idolatrus priestes vngodly ignorāte curates The propiciatori sacrifis of the popish Masse Akomina●ons / the wicked opiy●n of the corporal presence of Christ in the Sacramētal bread / the receauīg of the Sacramēt vnder on kind / the ītercesiō of Sayntes / the doctrīe of the Iustificaciō ofworkes / the popysh purgatory / the wicked tradiciōs of the Elders / with all vngodly custōes strange doctrīes take thoue / o good Lorde / awaye from vs / teache vs vy thy holy Sprite Deut. 4. 6. 12. Proue 30 ▪ Esa 30. Luc. 1. to walke ōly in that waye / that thow haste apoīted / by no meāes to turne neyther on the righte hāde nor on the lefte / but all blynd zeles and good ētentes 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 heauēly father moste mercifull Lordepreserue and sāct●fye with thy holy spirite thy vniuersall cōg●ega●iō / ●āly the faythful cōgregaciō of Englād / that as in their baptime they haue giuen them selues ouer wholy vnto the / Gods cōgr●gacione forsakyng the dewill / the worlde and the fleshe withe all their workes / pōpes / lustes vāities / haue sworne to serue the with all that they ar able to mak / euen so they thorow thy grace maye āswere to their professiō liue according to their promyse made in their baptime / e●tāg them selues withe no new / coūterfaīcte and strange religiō / 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 constāte stedfaste in the Stronge inChriste cōfesiō of thi truth befor the worldli tirātes and bel●●de hipocrites / o Lorde cōfirm them in thy truthe thorowe the holy Gooste / and giue theme grace to persiste and cōtinwe 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 Christē 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 Heuēly mana / suffer them nomore somoche as ones to haue a luste to returne vnto thatlande of bōdage / nor to haue a desire to sitte amōge the greasy fleshe pottes of Egepte / to eate of the fishes / melons / cowcūbers / garleke / ōyones / lekes / c / wherwith the filthe Egepciās are fedde They haue visited sene Christ thy Sōne 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 cōtine 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 entāgled therin owercoōe / lest the latter ende be worse thē the begynnyng For it had bene better not to haue knowuethe 2. Pete 2. waye of rightousnes / thā after they haue knowē it to turne frōe the holy cōmāndemēt 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 weakelīges and suche as are not yet vveaklīges Ruges perfectly stablyshed in thy true relygeō / but-like redes wauer with euery wind of doctrī / o Lord cōfirm thow mak them thorowly strōg in the knowledg of thy truth that they withe a cōstāte faythe lustie courage maye both beleue cōfesse the befor the tyrātes of the world / that thow alou art the Lorde and that ther is no truth necessari vnto saluaciō / but that only / whiche is contayned in thy-holy Scriptures Gods profōners To them that are in bondes for the cōfessiou of thy truthe gyue thowe grace / o moste louyng Lorde / to reioyse / that they be coūted worthy of thy fatherly goodnes to suffer Rebuke / iufamy / epresōmēt / losse of goodes c Acto 5. / for the name of the Lorde Iesu / to be persuaded that the afflicciōs of this liffe are not wo●thi of the glori / which shal be shewed vpon Roma 8. the Sōnes of God in tyme to come / notwithstādyng 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 se●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 hy●● powresare Back sliders for ●●are outwardly gone frome thy true relygiō / and withe their bodyes serue Baal / yea and that agenst their owne cōsciēce / whā 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 pardō their imperfecciōs / and to forgiue their īfirmetes / which by the prophet speaketh of thi Sōne cōcer̄ynge the weake feareful on thys māner Esa 42. A br●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 strōge with thy holy / Spirite / that that whiche they in wardly beleue theim ay outwardli confesse worke accordyngly