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A16858	The complaynt of Roderyck Mors, somtyme a gray fryre, vnto the parliament howse of Ingland his natural cuntry for the redresse of certen wicked lawes, euel customs ad [sic] cruell decreys. A table wherof thou shalt fynde in the nexte leafe.	Brinkelow, Henry, d. 1546.	1542 (1542)	STC 3759.5; ESTC S106579	46,602	126

myght admytte them to come in to the company of the whole peple agayne Reade the .xiij. and .xiiij. of Leuiticus and thow shalt perceyue the same Christ healyd the people of dyuerse other diseasys as of the palsy blody flyxe possessed with deuyls and such other yet he neuer sent none to the prystes but the lepers only which he dyd bycause it was so appoynted of god in Moises lawe Item Chryst teacheth us how we shuld pray not with moch bablyng as the hethyn doo thinkyng to be heard for their moch bablyng sake Mathew the .vi. yet ought the prayer of a Christyane to be contynuall as he shewyth by an example of the lendyng of .iij. loauys luke the .xi. agayne by the parable of the iudge luke the .xviij but we must pray in lyfting vp our myndes vnto god and we must regard that our mouth spyryt and hart be eleuated to gether myndfully in fayth for god is a spyryte and wyl be worshypped in spyryt and truth Iohan the .iiij. This teacheth the scripture but our forked Hypocrytes teach us to nomber our prayers to say so many ladys Psalters with long ma●tens euynsonges and that all in latyne Which the lay peple vnderstond not How can we pray or worship god aryght ▪ whan our hartes knowe not whether our mouth laudyth god for his benefightes allready receyued or els that we demawnd any peticyon agaynst soch kynd of prayng S. Paul fygh●y●h with the sword of the spyryt in the ●iiij to the Corynth And also the Proph●te Esay in the .xxix. chap. sayng In vayne doth this people approch vnto me with their lyppes their hart beyng farre awaye from me cete But our shauelyngs teach yea and command their shauelyngs that thei be bownd to ouer ronne their seruyce from the begynnyng to the end and than good inowgh wherso euer the hart be but 〈◊〉 there lacke but one verse vnsayd thei haue a grudge of conscyence and meane that all their labor is lost for the which cause I my selfe in my dayes haue sayd many tymes .ij. hundreth and fifty aues to one ladys Psalter because I wold be sure to say inowe Forsoth it may well be called lyplabor Item the scripture teacheth what true fast is and how to fast in the .lviij. of Esay that is to say to lett them out of bondage which be in danger to breake the oth of wicked bergans to let the oppressed goo fre to deale thy bread to the hungry to bring the poore fatherles to thy house to couer the naked ce For soch fast Christ offeryth us the kingdome of his father Mathew .xxv. Which teacheth us also that whā we fast we shuld not fast to be sene of men but vnto the father Mathew the .v But our belly goddes teach yea command us a contrary fast appoynting us dayes to absteyne from flessh To the which fast not only the strong lusty and helthy parson is bownd but also the sycke poore and nedy which hath scant nature to beare the body And though he hath not eatyn a good meale in .viij dayes before yet must he fast their appoynted dayes And that not only to the honor of god but also for the honor of the sayntes his creaturys yea and some also for the honor of the pope as the Imbryng dayes so lo●h be the bysshops that their fa●hers antichrystes rememberance shuld decay or be forgoten And where as christ techy●h not to fast to be sene of mē thei wyl haue all the world to knowe whan thei fast for thei proclayme it openly always in the church the sunday before sayng such a day ye shal fast in the worshyp of this or that saynt And yet though he eate abundance of fyssh so that he surfet or drynck tyl he be dronken th●t 〈◊〉 not nor their lawe reprouyth hym not ▪ But as before is sayd though very necessyte constrayne a poore man to eate a morsel of flessh vpon their appoynted dayes he is an 〈◊〉 and must do penance And if he wil 〈◊〉 to it that he may so doo by gods lawe as he may in dede he shal dye therfor Is not this a miserable thing No man denyeth this that if any man fele his flessh prone and ready to wickydnes it is necessary for hym to abstayne from meates not only flessh but all other meates that may prouoke him to any concupiscēce vntyl he hath mortifyed his flessh and made it subiect and obedyent vnto the spiryte But this must not be done onely on the fryday or vpon certē appoynted dayes but euery day thorout his life whan so euer he shal fele his flessh so enclyned and bent And this fast shal be a remedy to swage the ragyng of his flessh And it is good to be vsed of syngle parsons and of such as be absent frō their yockfelows prycked to fylthynes And this is the fast which S. Paul speaketh of vnto the Colossyans Mortyfye your membres vpon erth c. but to teach that mē are bownd to forbeare or absteyne from meatys more one partycular day than another or more from one kynd of meate than from another seing god hath created all to be receyued with thanckys geuing of thē which byleue and know the truth it is a deuyllissh doctryne as S. Paul witnesseth i. Tymot .iiij. Item Christ sayd vnto his apostles which were bisshops of his church that thei shuld be seruantes and mynisters and not Idols as ours be saing The kinges and lordes of the gētyles raygne ouer them and thei are called gracios lordes but ye shal not be so but he that wil be grettest among yow shal be your mynister and he that wil be chefe shal be seruant vnto all For the son of mā came not to be ministred vnto but to minister vnto other And agayne christ sayth that foxes haue holes the birdes of the ayer haue nestys but the son of man hath not where to rest his head Soch possessionars were the bysshops of the primatyue church Now ye may opēly se that our lordly apostateys frō christ be nothing lesse than ministers or Euangelical bisshops For thei be masters gouernors rulers lordes yea and most greatest lordes And thei wil be cōmyssyonars in maner in euery tēporal matter And thei be also of prynces and kynges councels and embassytors for princes But woo is vnto that cyte town contry or reame where thei rule in councel And comēly it spedeth vnhappyly to that reame where thei be embassytors shortly after For some mischefe foloweth more or lesse or els thei fayle of their purpose as some dyd with in these .ij. yerys thanckys be vnto god only therfor And where as christ had not where in to hyde his heade how contrary be thei vnto hym and to his apostels also whose successors thei wil be called whan thei be not thing lesse What lordes haue more gorgyos houses than thei haue yea fewe lordes lyke them What a cockatryse syght was it to se such an abhomynable