was thy godly pleasure too call hym froÌ„ this vale of misery / vnto thy heaueÌ„ly 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 / supersticioÌ„ / hypocrisye / papistrie / c. after a moste perfect manner / to set vp thy holy religion / to auauÌ„ce the harâ—y fauourers of thesame / vnto the great woÌ„derful exaÌ„ple of all Christen princes But alas for sorow / this most goodly godly Impe / this moste ChristeÌ„ kyng / this noble yoÌ„ge 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 coÌ„tinuauÌ„ce of all our sorowes / griefes miseries For in the steade of that verteous prince / thou haste set to rule ouer vs an womaÌ„ / whom nature hath formed 1. Tim. 2. to be in subieccioÌ„ vnto maÌ„ / whoÌ„ thou by thyne holy Apostle coÌ„maundest to kepe sileÌ„ce / not to speake in the coÌ„gregacioÌ„ Ah Lord / to take away the empire froÌ„ a maÌ„ / to gyue it vnto a womaÌ„ / semeth to be an euideÌ„t tokeÌ„ of thyne aÌ„ger toward vs Englishmen Esa â— For by the Prophetâ— / thou beyng displeased with thy people / threatnest to sette womeÌ„ to rule ouer theÌ„ / as people vnworthy to haue lawful / natural mete gouernors to reign ouer theÌ„ And verely though we fynd / that womeÌ„ somtime bare rule amoÌ„g thy people / yet do we rede / that suche as ruled were quenes / were for the moste part wicked / vngodly / supersticious / geueÌ„ to idolatry / to al filthy abhominacioÌ„ / 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 whyghâ—ie daubed waulle / we know not / thy vineyarde is vtterly rooted vp and layde waste / thy true religion is bannished / and popishe supersticion The cloâ—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 coÌ„trary 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 auauÌ„ced 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 mosâ—e humbly beseche the / to coÌ„sider that outragious floudes of moste greuous enormities / haue braste in and ouerflowed the realme of EnglaÌ„d / 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 â—yxte / we were â—aught accordiÌ„g to thy word to fle with oure prayers vnto the alone / in all our troubles and necessities / as a Lorde pleÌ„tefully 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 aloâ—e Purgatory off the faithful precious bloude of oure sauioure Christe is the alone and sufficient Purgatory for the synnes of all them that repeÌ„t beleue But now the papistes teache / that there is a purging place after this lyfe / where the soules of the faithful shal be miseâ—ably tormented with fyrye fâ—ames / tyll eyther they them selfes haue made satisâ—accion for all their synnes / by suffering dew punishment or els other in this world haue made ameÌ„des for them / by prayeng / by synging of treÌ„ talles / by goyng on â—ylgrimage / by dealeng monye / by â—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 / â—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 Baaliâ—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 / efficaciâ— might and power / than the pashon death of Christ
consyder thyne owne glory / the halowinge of thy blessed name / the auauncemente off thy glorious kyngdom / the accomplyshmeÌ„t of thy heaueÌ„ly wil / the honour of thy only begotteÌ„ sonne / the settingforth of hys holy Gospel / the purenes of the Christen religion / the syncere preachinge of thy lyuely worde / the true administracioÌ„ of thy wholsome sacramentes / the saluacion of suche as thy derely beloued sonne hathe boughte from the tyranny of sathan / with the pryce of hys moste precious and dere hart bloud These thinges / these thinges o heauenly father do we poore wretches craue and begge at thy merciful hande These thinges / these thinges â–ª euen with sorowfull groninges lameÌ„table teares do we miserable captiues desyre the to consyder / and not so to suffer thine aduersaries to triumphe / as thoughe there were no God at all / no Christe / no Gospell / no faythe / no true religion / but whatsoeuer pleaseth the hypocrites to coÌ„maunde thy people to beleue Thou callest thy self a ielous God / why than doest thou Exod. 20 suffer thy people / thy congregacion / thy flocke / thyne heritage / to be thus seduced ledde awaye from the vnto all kynde of spiritual fornicacion / and abhominable whordome by that Antichriste of Rome / â—hat greate Baal / that stoute Nemroth / that Pestilences of the Christen coÌ„mon vvealte fals prophet / that beast / that whore of Babylon / that sonne of perdicion / and by hys abhominable adherentes / Cardinalles / Archebischoppes / Bischoppes / Suffraganes / Archedeacons / Deanes / Prouostes / PrebeÌ„daries / Commissaries / Parsonnes / Vicares / Purgatorierakers / Priestes / Monkes / Friers / Chanons / Nonnes / Anckers / Anckresses / Pardonners / Proctors / Scribes / Officialles / SoÌ„ners / Lawers / Massemongers / Canâ—nistes / Papisâ—es / Antichrâ—stes / MaÌ„monistes / Epicures / Libertâ—â—es / With all the table of beasâ—lye hypocrytes that haue receued the beastes marâ— / which do not hing els than seke / how they may establishe their Antichristian kyngdom / by suppressinge thy holy worde / and leadinge thy people into all kynde of â—lyndenes / errours and lyes Thou callest thy self a Lorde / and thou sayeste / that thou wilt gyue thy glory to none other / nor thy prayse vnto grauen Imagâ—s / howe commeth it than to passe / that thou suffrest thy glory so too decaye in the realme of Englande / so many to steale awaye thy prayse and â—onoure / by sayenge their idolatrous and deuelishe masses / by Abâ—ominaâ—â—lons ministeringe a sorte of Heythenish and Iewishe ceremâ—nies / by prayenge vntoo â—ead sainctes / by blottinge oute of the temples / thy holy lawe there written / according to thy commaundement / for the edifyenge of thy people / and by settinge vp in the steade therof Idols and Mawmettes / cleaâ—e contrary Deut. 4. Heb. 12. to thy blessed worde Thou callest thy self a LyoÌ„ a coÌ„sumiÌ„gfyre / threatenesâ— vtter destruccioÌ„ vnto thin aduersaries / whi suffereth thou thaÌ„ these Antichristes thus to ryse / roâ—e / rage / agaiÌ„st the testameÌ„t of thy most dere sonne / to beat doune thy trueth / to call thy holy lawe heresy / to banishe the preachinge of the Gospel / the true â—se of the Sacramentes / to seke the destruccioÌ„ of so many as vnfaynedly loue the and thy blessed worde Thou promiseste / that so many as hate Psal 129. Syoâ— / that is to saye / thy faithfull congregacion / shal be confounded and broughte to noughte / howe cometh it thaÌ„ to passe / that the wicked now florish like the grene olyue tree / liuing in all wealth / pompe and pleasure / and thy people / whome thou hast sealed with thy holy spirite vnto euerlasting lyfe / are moste miserablye entreated / some bannisâ—â—ed / some in pryson / some cruellye murthered / but all in moste sorowfull miseries / and miserable sorowes Thou promisesâ—e / that thou wilt deliuer Ezec. 34. thy flocke from the hande of the wicked shepehardes / and that thou thy selfe wilte fede them in moste pleasaunt and swete / pastures ah good God / how cometh it thaÌ„ to passe / that wher as before thy shepe were fâ—dde with the confortable meate of thy glorious gospel / by the ministerie of the godly learned preachers / the faithfull shepehardes are driuen awaye / and a rable of rauening Acto 20 wolfes are brasâ—e into the shepefolde / which spare not the flocke / but cruelly murder / not ouly their bodies by â—mprâ—sonning hanging / heading and brenning them / but their soulcâ— also by teaching them wicked and pestilent doctrine Thy moste dere sonne / bothe promised prophecied / that euery plante / whiche thou the heauenly father haste not planted / â—hal be plucked vp by the rootes / but we se it otherwise Math. 15. come to passe in the realm of Englande For suche plantes / as the deuill and hys chaplens had planted / were thorowe the diligence and godly zele of thy seruauntes kynge Henry the eyghte / and kyng Edward the syxte / moste blessedly plucked vp / and thy holy ordinaunces agayne planted vnto the greate ioye and vnspeakeable conforte of all the faithfull But now / thorow the tyranny and blynde zele of certayne / are thy blessed statutes plucked vp by the rootes / and set in agayn / are the damnable decrees / and crocked constitucions of Antichriste / vnto the excedinge greate griefe / sorow and pensyuenes of all faithfull Christians Ah Lorde God / seme these thinges matters of sâ—al importans / before the eyes of thy diuâ—ne maiestie Can these outragious thiÌ„ges be done in earth / thou wincke at them in heauen Arte not thou he / that kepeth Israel Psal 121. Esa 59. But he neither sleapeth nor slombreth / sayeth the Psalmographe / that kepeth Israel Aryse therfore / o Lord / why sleapest thou Is thy eare so stopped / that thou canste no more heare And is thy haÌ„de so shortened / that it can nomore healpe O Lord / arise for thy mercies sake / helpe vs. Haste the to deliuer vs for thy name sake / for great are oure troubles / intollerable are oure miseries Ah Lorde / vouchesafe once again to looke dounefroÌ„ heauen / coÌ„syder the lamentable state of the realme off England / of the godly inhabitauÌ„tes therof / which desyre nothing so greatly / as to se thy true honour perfectly setforth / thy holy worde truly preached / the Christen religion hyghly auaâ—nced / and thy holy name sanctified / praysed / magnified commended for euer Ah Lorde God / heretofore in the time of Kinge HeÌ„ry the â—yghtâ— thy blessinge / thou gauest to the realme off Englande a man to reygne ouer it / vnder whome the churche was purged of many enormities great abuses / the true religion began to haue good successe And whaÌ„ it
conforte Heretofore we were taughte / that the Lordes soupper / or breaking of the bread / as The Lordes supper is a memorial of Christes deathe the Apostles terme it / is a memorial of the body breaking bloud sheading of our sauiouâ— Christ / that as we outwardly fede of the breade wyne / so we inwardly thorow fayth fede of the blessed bodye precious bloude of Iesus Christ our Lord / vnto the greate and vnspeakable conforte bothe of soule and bodye But nowe the disciples of Antichrist knowing that the whole glory of their kyngdome lygheth in the sals opinion abuse of this SacrameÌ„t / in all their sermons priuate talke / labour / swyncke / sweate and seke all meanes possible with tothe and nayle / with hande foote / wyth tunge and peÌ„ne / with fyre and faggot / with swerde and halter to perswade the people / that after they haue whyspered a fewe Latin wordes / with one breath ouer the bread and wyne / and haue blessed / crossed / coniured and handled them after their ghostely manner / there remayneth nomore breadde and wyne / althoughe we bothese / fele / and taste veâ—y bread and very wyne / yea / although the holy scripture / after the wordes of consecracioÌ„ / called the SacrameÌ„t / bread and wyne / but saye they / the bread thorowe the vertue of the wordes / whiche we holye annoynted reherse / is turned into the naturall substaunce of Christes bodye / and the wyne is chaunged into the naturall bloude O â—uglers of Christe / onely the accidentâ—s of breadde and wyne remayninge / whan notwithstaÌ„ding the holy scriptures teach vs in diuers places / that thy Christ is ascended into heauen / and sytteth on thy right hande / there shall remayne / concerâ—ing hys humanite / tyll he come too iudge the quicke and the dead Marc. 16. Luc. 24 Act. 1. Rom. 8. Ephe. 4. Colos 3. Philip. 3. Heb. 10. And after these Capernaites haue â—â—bored to perswade the people / that the Sacramentall breade is the very true / naturall / corporall / substanciall / reall / and sensible bodye of Christe / euen the selfsame that was borne of Mary the virgine / lyued vpoÌ„ the earthe / was hanged vppon the crosse / dyed for vs / than exhorte they the people with all reuerence and humilite to knowledge and beleue it too be their Lorde God / theyr maker and redemer / their Sauiour and defender / and so too falle doune before it to honoure and worshippe it / to prayse call vpon it / to fle vnto it for soccoure / and to looke for all good thinges of it / as of the very true and euerlastinge God O abhomâ— nacion By these means o heauenly father they bring away thy people thorow theyâ— vayne / fleshly and sophisticall reasons / from the honoringe of the thalone true / Imortal / muisible euerlasting God / vnto the worshippig of a pece of bâ—cad / yea / of a very idol / where as thou alone oughtest to haue al the honor glory 1. Timo. 1 Psal 98. O Lorde aryse / and lette thyne enemies be scattered / let theÌ„ also that hate the / flee before the / like aâ— the smok vanisheth / so driuâ— thou them awaye / lyke as waxe melteth at the fyre / so let the vugodly papisâ—es perish and be confouÌ„ded that thy people be no leâ—ger seduced / ledde froÌ„ the way of trueth / by their subtile and carnall imaginacions / but that thei beynge truely taughte / may know the too be the alone true God / and whome thou hast sent Iesus Christ Ioan. 17. Heretofore we had in the temples whan we came together to praye and to geue thaÌ„kes vnto the / all our prayers thankee geuing in the tuÌ„ge that we vâ—derstode / wherby we receaued great coÌ„forte / were much edified Common â—raier ought to be in that â—â—ge that all the people vnderstande But now the papistes which with thy people to be more rude thaÌ„ asses / more biynde than beâ—les / more ignorant than dastardes / that they mighte make them there ryding fooles and lauggyng stockes coÌ„trary too the vsage and practise of the primatiue Churche / yea / contrary to thy commaundemeÌ„t geuen by thyne Apostle / which willeth all thinges in the congregacion too be vttered in suche a speache as all might vnderstande and be edified / or els silence to be kept / haue brought the matter to this poâ—t / that all English seruice dryuen oute of the Churches / thei haue stablished their popish 1. Cor. 4. latin seruice / which the moste parte of thy people vnderstand nothinge at all O 〈◊〉 Aâ—d yet so cruell malicious are the papistes / that they enforce and with violence compel thy people to come vnto their Romish / superâ—â—icious / blasphemous / and idolatrous Latin seruice / to heare it / to reuerence honoure it with their presence / and too call it Gods seruice / whan they vnderstaÌ„d noâ— / whither Baals priestes that there bleate muÌ„ble / do blesse or curse / prayse or blaspheme Moste certeyn is this / that thy people are altogether without edifienge / spende theyr time in vayn / return hom agaiÌ„ / as vnlearned ignoraunte / as they came thyther Heretofore we had redde in oure temples euery sonday / and at diuers other tymes a godly and learned homely or sermoÌ„ / and certayn chapters oute of the holy Bible in the Englishe tunge / that all the people mighte vnderstande what was done or sayde / whiche gaue them occasioÌ„ to forsake â—ice / and to embrace vertue / to lyue in thy fayre / and diligently to call vpoÌ„ thy blessed name Homilies in Englishe chapterâ— of the Bible But now bothe those godly homiles and confortable chapters haue thyne enemies the papistes baÌ„nished out of the teÌ„ples vnto the great discomfort of al such as vnfaynedly â—oue the / and thy blessed worde / in the stead of theÌ„ / they haue set vp blasphe mous collacioÌ„s / synging / rynging / pyping / sensynge / holy water castinge / holy breade â—ealing / palmes and candles bearing / crosse kneling / bread worshipping / asâ—hes â—odding fyre and rapers halowing / with an infinite number of such lyke Heathen ceremonies / that the people beyng occupied with suche chyldishe trifles / lousye tradicious and beggarly Popisâ— bagâ—agâ— ceremonies / myghte forget the wholsome foode of theyr soules / whiche is thy holy and blessed worde Math. 4. Heretofore / vpon the Sondayes certayne other dayes in the weke / we had the Letanye rehersed amonge vs in oure Englyâ—hetuÌ„g / euery one of vs kneling deuoutly and 〈◊〉 callynge on the for mercy and grace The Letanâ—â—â—n Englisshâ— O heaueÌ„ly father / this was setforth in the tyme of thy seruaunte kynge Henry the eyghâ—e / and continued among vs / vntyl the