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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
/ than the sacrifice / which Christe hym self offered on the altare of the crosse Our missale sacrifice / saye the massing papistes / is propiciatory / satisfactory / expiatory / and necessary Ad salutem bothe for the quicke and for the dead The people syn dayly / therefore must we offer sacrifice for the synnes of the people dayly in our masses O Antichristes What other thinge is this / o heauenly father / thā to defye the death of thy sonne / to despyse hys moste healthful sacrifice / to set at nought his wholsome oblacion / too treade vnderfoote the bloude of the euerlasting Heb. 10. Testament / and vtterly too deface bothe the kyngdome priesthode of Christ / and to erecte / and set vp a new kyngdome and priesthode of their owne / a new sacrifice / and a straunge oblacion / inuēted of the deuel / broughte in by Antichriste / confyrmed Apoc. 13. Apoc. 21. by suche as haue receaued the beastes marke / and frequented / vsed and soughte of all / that haue their porcion in that lake that burneth with fyre and brymstone / excepte they repent and amēd Is not Christe an euerlasting priest Psal 110. Heb. 7. Heb. 10 Dothe not his priesthoode continew from generacion to generacion Hath he not with one oblaciō made per●ecte for euer / them that are sanc●ifi● Are we not made holy by the offering vp of the body of Iesu done once for all 〈◊〉 not Christ / after he had offered one sacrifice for synnes / syt him doun for euer / on the right hande of God / and from hen●forth tarieth tyll hys foos be made hys footestoole Is not Iesus Christ yesterday and to day / and thesame continueth foreuer Heb. 13. What haue we than to do with the sa●rificing massemō●ers or with their missal sacrifice O heauenly father / suffer vs not to be carryed about with diuers and straunge learninge Moreouer / heretofore we were caughte Aultar● no●●ollerable among Christians to beate doune the Idolatrous Heathenish altars / which Antichrist of Rome entēding to set vp a new priesthoode a straūge sacrifice forsynne / cōmaunded to be buylte vp / as though calfes / goates / shepe suche other brute beastes should be offered again after the priesthoode of Aaron / for the synnes of the people / and to set in their steade Christe his Apostles the prima●iue church vsed tables at the ministracion off the holy cōmunion in some conuenient place a semely table / after the examples of Christ / to receaue together at it the holy misteries of Christe● bodye bloud / in remēbraūce that Christes body was brokē / his bloud shead for our synnes But now the sacrificinge sorcerer● shame not bothe in their priuate talke / in their open sermons spitely to call the Lordes table an Oysterborde / therefore haue they taken out of the tēples those semely tables / which we folowing the exāples of thy derely beloued sonne / and of the primatiue church vsed at the ministracion of the holy cōmunion / they haue broughte in agayne their bloudy bocherly altars / vpō those O cruel bu●chers they sacrifice offer daily / say thei / that is / thei kyl / slea murderthy dere sonne Christ for the sīnes of the people For as thy holy apostle sayeth Heb. 9 Where no shedding of bloud is / there is no remissiō forgeuenes of synnes If thorow their massing sinnes be forgeuen / thā must the sacrifice that there is offered be s●ayn / the bloud thereof shead If the massemōgers therfore offer Christe vp in their masses / a sacrifice vnto God for O murth●rers the sinnes of the people / so foloweth it that they murder / kyl / ●lea Christe / yea / shed his bloud at their masses / so by this meās we must nedes cōfesse / that bloudy altars are more mete for such bloudy bochers / thā honest pure tables Rom. 6 But we are taughte in the holy schriptures / that Christe once raysed from deathe / dyeth nomore Death hath nomore power ouer hym For as touchīg that he dyed / he died cōcernīg sin once And as touchinge that he liueth / he lyueth vnto the god his father If Christ therfore dyeth nomore / thā do the papistes sacrifice hym nomore Idolatrous If they sacrifice him nomore than are they ●ut iangling iuglars / their masses serue for none other purpose / but to kepe the people i● blyndnes / to deface the pas●on and death of Christe / and to mayntayne their idle and drafsacked bellies / in al pompe and honour / with the labour of ●ther mens handes / and with the sweate off poore mens browes / so farre is it of that / they with their abhominable massing and stincking sacrificing / put awaye the synnes eyther of the quicke or of the dead / as they make the vnlearned and symple people to beleue Masses vvhy thei serue Ah Lord God and heauenly father / if thou were not a God of long sufferinge and of great pacience / howe couldeste thou abyd these intollerable iniuries / to much detestable blasphemies / whiche the wicked papistes committe againste the thy sonne Christ / in their idolatrous masses / at their Heatheni●h aultares Heretofore we were taughte to receaue the misreries of the Lordes bodye bloude together / accordinge too the ordinaunce of Christe The faithefull oughte too receaue the Sacramente together not the prieste alo●e But now no communion is had / For the popish and vncharitable massemōger / vtterly abusinge the Lordes soupper / eateth and drincketh vp̄ all alone at his idolatrous aultare Heretofore we were taughte to receaue the Sacrament of the bodye and bloude of Christ vnder both kyndes / according vnto Christes institucion / which sayeth Drinke of this al ye The faitheful onght to receaue the Sacramente vnder both ●yndes And as the holy apostle saieth So ofte as ye shall eate of this breade / and drinke of this cuppe / ye shall remember the Lordes death tyll he come Math. 26 1. Cor. 11. Ioan. 15. But nowe the Romish sorcerers / cōtrary to the ordināce and commaundemēt of thy sonne / the master of trueth / yea / thēself trueth / and contrary to the practise vsage of the primatiue churche / like theues / robbers murtherers / cruelly take awaye frō thy people the misticall cuppe of Christes bloude / for the mayntenaunce of their deuelish decre / and minister after their sorte the Sacrament of thankesgeuinge to thy Christians onely vnder one kynde / yea / and that without the preaching of the Lordes death / repētaunce / fayth / amendement of lyfe / c. and so make they it an idle and dumme ceremonie altogether vuprofitable and withoute frute / whiche beynge rightely ministred / is to the faythfull a Sacrament of greate ioye and