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A89682	An apology for the service of love, and the people that own it, commonly called, the family of love. Being a plain, but groundly discourse, about the right and true Christian religion : set forth dialogue-wise between the citizen, the countreyman, and an exile : as the same was presented to the high court of Parliament, in the time of Queen Elizabeth; and penned by one of her Majesties menial servants, who was in no small esteem with her, for his wisdom and godliness. With another short confession of their faith, made by the same people. And finally some notes & collections, gathered by a private hand out of H.N. upon, or concerning the eight beatitudes.	Niclaes, Hendrik, 1502?-1580?	1656 (1656)	Wing N1122; Thomason E1610_1; ESTC R210332	24,412	73

lye one with anothers wife desiring to have all mens goods in common likewise some say you would have no Magistrates and that you account whoredom murder poysoning c. to be no sin as likewise that you deny the resurrection of the flesh and the immortality of the soul Others say you justifie your selves by your works without Christ and that you condemn the Scriptures and would not have them used as also that you say you live without sin yea and some say you are against the State And moreover that you will obey Turke Pope or any other of what Religion whatsoever under whom you dwell as likewise whatsoever you say when you are commanded by a Magistrate to render an account of your Faith or Religion you use to dissemble and mean not the same that you say with hundreds more too much here to recite Exile O Almighty and most merciful Father thou which alwaies shewest mercy to such as love Thee and keep thy Commandements thou knowest our Religion is only to love Thee as chief our neighbour as our selves according to thy holy word To obey our Governors and to live under their Laws not once calling in doubt that this Church is now in subjection under heathenish Magistrates which command the things that thou hast forbidden Look down O Lord we beseech thee and behold our misery let us not now be driven away from our dutiful obedience which we owe to thee and to these thy Magistrates and Governors for any manner of fear tyranny and false brutes of such as live not under thy Law Alas Countrey-man alasse we are indeed grossly abused by some that teach men disobedience to Magistrates and Laws falsly citing that piece of Scripture It is better to obey God then men by that drawing the peoples hearts from obedience to fantasies and which of all is most dangerous when even their own company are by the high powers dealt withal herein then their teachers say of us Those be they that will have no Governors c. Thus grievously slandered are we as thou hast said So while they set all men to wonder at us for the thing wherein they are guilty themselves and not we they have the more is the pitty sufficient opportunity to perform their malice and to establish their purpose which God grant that the Magistrates may at last though now very late discern throughly Notwithstanding if these their false brutes should be credited of the Magistrate as God forbid then alas we were without remedy or hope of justice at their hands and must be condemned yea although we were never heard Countrey-man Be of good chear Exile and let no such things astonish thee for be sure thou shalt finde the Magistrates not only wise honorable and learned but also such as will gratiously hear every ones cause with justice and reform in time that which is amiss Wherefore I pray thee yet further shew me the cause where out such brutes are raised and proceed against you Exile It cometh to passe hereout forasmuch as many in reading the Books of H. N. out of which Books we also are charged to have gathered Heresies will take upon them contrary to all justice and equity to judge determine and expound our mind and understanding therein according to their sinister conceiving of the matter And thereupon have not only thrown us into dungeons and prisons to our great losse and hinderance but also have published forth such like innumerable lyes and most horrible defamations against us reporting the same notwithstainding to the people and that out of their preaching places for an infallible truth whereas many of them never as yet talked with any of us whereby they might first know what Heresies we hold and have gathered out of the said Books and so are these their unjust brutes and slanders believed of many and published abroad for an infallible truth and no marvel for will you see the devil who would have thought I pray you or supposed that the learned Preachers of these days could have spoken forth whether it were out of report of of malicious envy so many horrible lyes and blasphemies against so harmless a people which never as yet gave them not any man else any cause thereto Countrey-man Yet hast thou not fully satisfied me as what manner of people those be that thus shamefully use to blasphem and persecute you wherefore I pray thee tell me that Exile Mark my words and I shall tell you a great and dangerous matter and also satisfie your demand what they be that now chiefly seek thus injuriously to deal with us Understand there are by her Majesty and her good Laws appointed for every spiritual promotion and office within her dominion chosen men to perform all that function as Bishops Deans Parsons Vicars Prebendaries Preachers c. Besides which Officers and spiritual Governors there are crept in also some by the favour of one man and some by another certain others which are scattered almost the land through which also have gotten great stipends out of mens Benevolence And these preach without either order from her Majesty or any publick Authority yea supposed to be to the number of four or five thousand note moreover these pay no Tenths nor Subsidies and yet impoverish them that should Also they cry out against al spiritual Offices and Officers although they be found meet for that function by learned men and thereto have authority by Laws and Statutes confirmed They say notwithstanding teach others to call them dumb-dogs and sleeping-hounds with such like names which thing to redress her Majesty hath granted Commission But wot you what those for whose reformation the same was graunted have so prettily handled the matter that they either by substitution of Commission or else by some other trick have now to deal in the Commission themselves by their own hands and so compel men to yield to these dangerous attempts by whom also now we are thus strangely handled Now see Countrey-man whether this be not a strange Metamorphosis when the offenders against all Laws are made Judges over the true observers of all good Laws and reverence●s of all Authority let all wise honorable and courteous hearts consider advisedly hereof for it is high time Countrey-man But yet although they be not able to recompence you touching such injuries as you have sustained at their hands may not they all notwithstanding possibly repent them thereof and amend and so you and they henceforth joyn together in one heart of godly love viz. To love God above all and your neighbour as your selves to obey the Queen and Governors and to live under her 〈◊〉 and Ordinances as likewise to use all reasonable dealing and friendliness amongst all men like as becometh true Christians to do according to the Scriptures and Service of Love Exile Yea verily the possibility thereof is of the Lord to all and among all that stand good willing thereunto and can believe And that

iniquity and with all Hypocrites receive their portion in the hellish condemnation consider advisedly of it for it is very true Citizen But wilt thou say that all those and such like are no Christian Exile Yes verily by signe or outward show and name they be Citizen And must not such preach the truth notwithstanding shew forth the many high knowledges and secret mysteries out of the Scriptures Exile Yea all what they heart spoken or chance to read in any writing that can they readily speak out againe But not like as all those true prophets of God and disciples of Christ have alwayes done out of any Godly understanding through the holy Spirit of God or Christ for that were impossible because the same Spirit is not with them For allbeit they have the Scriptures and the Godly witnesses wherethrough they mean to be understanding and wise yet forasmuch as they give not all their understanding over as captive under the obedience of the love of Christ and his holy word as under that same Being or life whereunto the Scripture witnesseth but run still forth with the knowledge so have they verily neither light truth spirit nor being of God Christ nor of his word And therefore they neither know nor yet understand any thing at all rightly of that whereof they then praie or speak forth unto others Citizen If all such as thou hast here spoken of were libertines having neither light truth nor spirit of God or Christ then God be mercifull unto us for then were it all in vain for many a one in these dayes to stand up or teach in a Congregation notwithstanding I cannot be perswaded as yet although I most needs grant that for the most part they do not live the same which they do teach to others like as they themselves have confessed but that they neverthelesse preach unto the people both Gods word the truth out of the right spirit be they themselves never to evil else God forbid And I pray you Sirs did not Judas amongst the rest of the apostles go and preach the Gospel and yet was not he a wicked one and betrayed his master And did not Peter which denied his master preach Gospel also And it is written The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses seat or Chair what they bid you observe that observe and do But as they do do you not for they sayd and do nor Therefore why may not wicked men preach the truth Exile Let us consider advised by of the Scriptures and be no longer deceived Forasmuch as it standeth written that Christ is the light of the world the Heavenly truth the right spirit yea and the word of God it self Then how were it possible that those which are void of Christ should preach or prophesie aright the true to inde or word of God contained in the holy Scriptures the whilst I say that the same spirit of truth is not in them for it is written that the Scripture never came by the will or mind of man but holy men of God did speak as they were inspired by the holy Ghost And it is written also that the naturall or fleshly minded man perceaveth not the things of God c. And again wisdom will not dwell in a froward soul nor yet in a body that is subdued to sin For where wickednesse hath the upper hand the holy Ghost doth flie from thence And yet note then moreover that after such time that man hath once entred into Judas he preached not 〈◊〉 Peter perceaving afterward what he had done he wept bitterly wherefore I am not against any one that will weep with Peter And as for such as sit in Moses seat or chair which teach the law uprightly I have not once touched I speak onely of them that sit in their own chair of pestilence which reach their own law or Imagination of their fleshly parts and good thinking but not the holy lan● of the Lord which is spirituall and containeth the truth the life or Christ it self And therefore for want of the true spirit of understanding there ariseth in these dayes great contention about the Scriptures Citizen The more is to be lamented But yet I pray thee answer me herein for I am not resolved in this matter Have we not now the truth amongst us Is not now the Gospel preached sincerely and received of all people thankfully to their salvation where through the bonds of Antichrist which is the Pope of Rome that had us long in captivity are now broken and we all by that means set at liberty Exile We have no doubt the holy Scriptures which bear witness of the truth and therein the minde or meaning of the truth is contained amongst us So have we many wholsome Sermons preached and declared unto us notwithstanding had we the truth amongst us so had we Christ amongst us and had we Christ amongst us so world we no doubt lo●e him or his word and neither would persecute him nor his members And then had he once a form or shape in us so should he likewise manifestly appear out of us in our good conversation and holy walking For it is written If Christ be in you then is the body dead or mortified concerning sin And again Whosoever hath not the spirit of Christ the same is none of his And were the Gospel preached sincerely out of the truth that is out of the spirit of God or Christ through a good conversation under the obedience of the word in all meek-mindedness and godly love so would many thousands in this land doubtless have repented them of their former life and amended their ways upon the preaching of the same Gospel and would have moreover followed the footsteps of such godly Preachers or Prophets as had even so imitated Christ and so then in very deed the people should have received the Gospel thankfully to their salvation and by that means should the bonds of Antichrist which is the sin the devil or will of the flesh which hath long time held us captive be broken in us and we then rightly through Christ should have been delivered there-from and set at liberty Notwithstanding how many in these days are set at liberty or have taken to themselves at liberty to do all manner of uncomliness both against God and man I refer that to the Testimony of their own Consciences Citizen I perceive then thou art not against any godly Preachers that walk forth in all obedience of the word and in whom Christ doth live and dwell which also do shew forth through the same meek-minded spirit all due obedience to God and Governours as likewise an upright lovely peaceable and brotherly life towards all men and that preach forth the same word of truth and life which they as then have both felt handled and tasted of unto others moe Exile No verily but I do reverence in the Lord all such as the true ministers and distributers of the heavenly riches and

treasures of God and Christ and only to such is that high office of preaching or prophecying committed and to none other for such will not resist the godly life in the Love whereunto we are all out of grace undeservedly and lovingly called and warned in the service of Love now in these last days of our preservation Citizen I think no less but that thou hast expressed unto me thy mind aright herein but yet tell me Wilt thou then say the Pope is not Antichrist Exile I know not the man notwithstanding to say what I conjecture of him I do not otherwise imagine of him but that he is or may be possessed with the spirit of Antichrist which is the will of the flesh or of the devil the contrary anointed one and enemy to Christ rhrough which spirit many ignorant ones in these perilous days as well among the high learned as among the ignorant have taken to themselves a freedom to work all manner of blasphemies oppressions persecutions with all other uncomely abuses both against God and men But yet such a freedom and liberty understand doth not the Gospel of Christ bring in or teach but rather the Devil and that spirit of Antichrist Citizen Thou hast doubtless made me afraid and also astonied at these thy wonderful answers so that I dare scarce demand any more matter of thee lest haply any one should ly in waite in some secret place and over-hear us and so carry this our communication to some of our learned that now be in authority for then we all haply if they might find us should sing a Counter note unless we did recant all the same and yet hast thou spoken an unconfutable truth Exile The case is lamentable the whilst the truth may not be spoken freely notwithstanding if you have ought else to demand of me either touching naturall or Heavenly things ask of it freely and I under permission and according to my understanding will answer as the Lord shall give me in minde for as much as all things needfull both naturall and spirituall are expressed at large unto us in the Service of Love Citizen Of fellowship then shew me a little of thy understanding touching the naturall creatures that are earthly and elementish how and in what manner they live move and have their course of being for that my dull capacity might the better conceive of the Lords workes in the Spirituall creatures Exile I find out and perceave according to my simple understanding that the Lord the maker of Heaven and earth hath ordained and set all things naturall that they should remain in the upright form and order and that likewise the whole masse of the earth as man beast fish foule hearb tree with all else that is earthly and elementish which is under the Sun is to be beheld and considered of him in five parts of the which four be elements viz. Ayr Earth Fire and Water of whose substances every particular living creature is partaker The fifth part is a naturall living Being wrought through the almighty power of the heavenly word whereby every creature is sustained and liveth in his naturall kind or being and bringeth forth likewise thereout his fruit or increase And there is no visible substance or creature being earthly and elementish that is not or hath not been partaker thereof And allbeit now that this whole masse hath from in the beginning of Creations increased it self mightily in many creatures on the earth yet do we see in as much as every element so soon as the life is taken away from the creature or the creature from it claymeth or taketh him his own viz. the fiery element his the ayry his the watery his and so leaveth to the earthly onely his own yet the earth is not therefore any whit the bigger the water not any whitt the more increased the ayre never the fuller or larger ne yet the fire any thing at all augmented thereby And why Like as the same increase out of Gods workmanship hath proceeded from them in the life even so doth every element at the departure of the life claim again to himself no more but his own like as is said c. Citizen I perceive more by these thy words then ever I could consider of before For I see now that God hath ordained or set the natural creatures and every one in his course for to remain in a comely order to an everlasting praise of his holy name But yet I pray thee like as thou hast spoken some what of thy understanding things natural so let me also hear a little of thee concerning the spiritual and heavenly workmanship of God in man for his preservation in Christ Jesus Exile The great mercifulnesse of God the Father concerning his gracious workmanship in the man and how he hath in the beginning formed him according to his own Image and similitude is to be beholden or considered in an heavenly or spiritual manner viz. in the very like being of his God-head in perfect righteousness and holiness Notwithstanding now the man being fallen away through Adams transgression from this his former glorious estate wherein he was set so is there no way or mean for him to come again to be brought therunto but through faith in Jesus Christ and that only by his death and passion blood-shedding and resurrection when we as Christians become turned clean about viz. When we out of Gods grace upon the founding forth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ do repent us unfainedly of our sins past amend our lives take up our cross daily on us against the sin and even so crucifie the flesh with the lusts and desires thereof c. according to the Scriptures and also like as we are raught and counselled thereunto at large in the Service of Love To this end and to the mans preservation will the Almighty God now in the end of the world prepare him his Angels or Ministers And all what is gone out from God enranged would gladly return to him again the same shall they now through the sounding forth of his Gospel or last trump gather together as good wheat All those shall be brought again through Christ unto God And contrarywise all middle walls ignorant knowledges false wisdoms wicked imaginations which are not proceeded of God but are risen up out of the bottomless pit of darknesses together with all whatsoever hath handfast it self or holden fellowship therewith and will not have any better shall be in like manner gathered together as unprofitable weeds yea all those shall be found as incorporated members to the iniquity and thrown soul and body into the bottomless pit of the everlasting condemnation as likewise into the hellish fire which is prepared for the Devil and his Angels from the beginning Lo thus shall every one claim his own The bottomless pit of the condemnation from whence all evil doth proceed shall through the sounding forth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ claim

his And the mighty God from whom all good doth proceed shall through his Christ claim unto him all godlinesses or vertues which are proceeded from him together with all whatsoever separateth it self from the iniquity hath handfast it self or held fellowship with the godlinesses all those as incorporated members to the godlinesses and godded or spirited with God in one spirit shall go to God again and shall reign with God and Christ soul and body in the kingdom of heaven and live in joy everlastingly It is very true Citizen But is there not some Predestinate unto preservation and again some predestinate unto condemnation as also elected thereto from the beginning Exile Yes verily there are two with their members that are predestinated or preordained thereunto from the beginning The one is Christ the man of God predestinate unto preservation and with him all his incorporated members The other is the man of sin Antichrist predestinate unto condemnation and in him all his incorporated members As for any other predestination then this come it out of Turkey or else where I know not of it Citizen Thou hast told me the truth and also fully answered me to all things natural and spiritual which I have demanded of thee What shall I ask more God be merciful unto us and unto all such as err of ignorance and give them eys of understanding and ears of pure hearts that they seeing in what estate they yet do stand and hearing also which is the right way to come out might repent them turn from their wickedness believe rightly and so come to the knowledge of truth and be saved Amen Now Countrey-man thou hast heard this fellow and his wonderful answers what sayest thou to it for I am almost at my wits end and marvellously astonied Countrey-man Doubtlesse Citizen he is in great Heresies and misbelief or else I may tell to thee in counsel in any of the learned in these days are far out of the way that leadeth to life and also ignorant of the ground of the heavenly truth wherefore I think it not amiss that thou examine him concerning his belief in God the Father in Jesus Christ the Son and in the Holy Ghost the Comforter and whereupon he hath grounded his Religion how he came by this understanding what he thinks of our learned Preachers in these days as also of other matters as thou shalt think meet lest haply we might be seduced through some subtil heretick infidel or disobedient person which perchance might be against the Queens Religion or else pretended to bring confusion over the Land Citizen Thy counsel is very good but then I pray thee rather talk with him thy self for I am brought into such a trembling perplexity and sorrow of heart since I have heard him and that as well for mine own cause as also for others which I yet see going astray that I dare ask no more questions Countrey-man Very well then I will talk with him my self Come hither Exile shew us I pray thee whereon thy belief and thy religion standeth grounded Exile I protect before God and man That my belief is in God the Father in Jesus Christ the Son and in the Holy Ghost the Comforter and is grounded on the Faith of the Holy Fathers Prophets and Apostles mentioned in the holy Scriptures also according to the common Apostolick Creed the Creed of Athanasius and the Nicene Creed to even so far forth as I may obtaine grace and power thereto of the Lord. Secondly I acknowledge there is no other way or mean either of remission of sins or of salvation for us to be had or yet mercy to be obtained at Gods hand but alone in by and through the death passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour And that he hath offered once for all upon the Altar of His Cross a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice and oblation for the sins of all the whole world Thirdly I do acknowledge that none shall be partakers thereof but only such as upon the publishing forth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ do shew forth an unfained repentance for their sins past and walk in new obedience or in a new life according to the requiring of the Gospel also such as believe aright in God and Christ and are even so baptized into the death of Christ Such as are regenerate of the water and of the spirit and forsaking themselves and their own lives do take up their cross on them and follow after Christ in death and sinful lusts and desires and so stand as those that are waking and waiting for the coming of their bridgroom ready prepared having both oyl in their vessels and light in their Lamps Such as love God and his Christ and as his very disciples keep his Commandements and walk in all love towards God and their neighbour and in all dutiful submission and allegiance towards their Governors and also live obediently under all their manly Ordinances And finally such as in whom Christ liveth and dwelleth or those that incline themselves under the obedience of the love of Jesus Christ and of his holy word with all diligence thereunto Now as touching my Religion this I say so often as I call to mind and consider the great love and kindness of God the Father shewed on me unworthy one in that he hath created me like unto his own Image and given me also his Law for that I might live therein And which is much more hath out of his meer love and mercy and of our part undeserved sent his sonne Christ to be a Saviour of the world c. So stand I Religatus or bound again that is to say Religious to love my Lord and God which loveth me so intirely with all my soul heart and might and for His loves sake to love my neighbour as my self To love my Prince and all that bear authority under her to live as a subject under her Laws and humane Ordinances And finally to walk uprightly peaceably and brotherly among all people in all love And this is only to be obtained at Gods hand by prayer and humble submission under the obedience of Gods holy word through the comforting of the Holy Ghost or Spirit of Love of which spirit God hath promised to shed forth upon his sons and daughters plentifully now in these last days like as is manifest in the Service of Love And therefore I acknowledge that whosoever now shall refuse to incline or indeavour himself for to walk in the same small or narrow way being called or warned thereto out of love by the Gospel of Jesus Christ to live in such a groundly faith of Jesus Christ in such a true Religion and upright obedience to God and Governors and in all subjection under Gods holy Laws and manly Ordinances and likewise in such a brotherly love towards his neighbour and peaceable life towards all men as I have here rehersed and likewise as is more at large expressed

in the holy Scriptures and in the Service of Love He is doubtless out of the true faith of God and Christ and erreth very much and shall not neither now nor hereafter unlesse they repent in time find mercy with God or yet through Christ obtain remission of his sins inherit the kingdom of heaven or yet become saved It is very true therefore consider advisedly of it in time Countrey-man Tell me how comest thou by this understanding or by what means was it made manifest unto thee Exile Through the obedience of the word of God the Father ministred out of the love of Jesus Christ through the holy Spirit of love and in the Crosse of Jesus Christ c. out of which ministration all things needfull to be known so well things natural as spiritual are at large laid open the true discipline frequented all grounds of Religion with all manner of errors nakedly declared the truth manifested And also all people both Christian and Heathen Jew or Gentile or of what Nation or Religion whatsoever c. are lovingly called and warned to repentance and reformation of life likewise fore-warned of the great plagues unlucky misery and wo that will speedily and unawares come upon all unrepenting sinners and licentious Scripture-learned to their utter condemnation in the fire of hell among whom I have been chief and now what am I poor sinner that I should not submit my self to such a gracious warning and repent ere ever Gods heavy wrath and indignation in his righteous judgement fall upon me to my utter destruction Countrey-man But what thinkest thou of our learned Preachers in these our days whilst many of them haply have not heard or read of such a ministration out of love as thou speakest of here or else if they have heard of it they have not perhaps so well considered thereof as it seems thou hast done art thou against them Exile I am against no learned Preacher which advertizeth the people to repentance godlinesse peace obedience and love and so long as they love God and his righteousness they have I suppose all heard of the ministration of Love and have many read and seen of the Books though perhaps they have not understood them effectually or rightly considered the mind of the Author therein for had they so done then would they not verily have spoken so much evil of them as they have done unlesse as I cannot so think as yet they did obstinately hate God and abhor all righteousnesse peace and love neither yet would they have imprisoned not so shamefully slandered so many simple souls which upon admonition from the destruction given them in the Service of Love have had an unfained desire to repent and amend their lives although some of them haply are in certain points through ignorance or fear Countrey-man Wilt thou then take part with and justifie the Author and his Books and so condemn our learned Preachers Exile I will neither take part with nor yet justifie the Author nor yet any of his Bookes but will leave them to answer for themselves neither do I meddle with things therein which are above my capacity Notwithstanding all what I finde therein written or else where that advertiseth me to repentance godliness of life obdience to God and Governours love towards God and my neighbour and peace towards all men according to the Scriptures that must I needs think well of Nevertheless if he or his Books be not able to answer for themselves so then will not I answer for them neither will I before a Law-judge condemn any whether learned or unlearned but leave that unto those unto whom judgement doth belong Countrey-man I cannot mislike thy Answers yet notwithstanding some may haply gather of such like words as thou hast here spoken unto us That the Author of those aforesaid Books with all you that are now tearmed of the Family of Love go altogether about to put down that Religion which her Majesty hath now set up and allowed and to bring it to nought And in so doing forasmuch as she is chief Governess of the same Church c. it may be imaged that ye are so against the State yea and perhaps such like matters have been put either into her Majesties head or else into some of her honorable Counsellors heads And thereupon it is come to passe that you are by some of our learned Preachers tearmed for Libertines yet all this notwithstanding I will not give any rash credit or judgement therein until I have first heard thee speak of it Exile I give you most hearty thanks therefore Then first of all I beseech you let me know what you call the Religion that is set up or at the least wise willed so to be by her Majesty and allowed so shall I the better give you an answer therein according to my simple skill Countrey-man It is to preach the Gospel plainly and sincerely out of Gods holy Spirit that all people learned or unlearned may so well by their life as by their Doctrine understand the same to their endless comfort and salvation and so to express a true belief in God the Father and in Christ our Saviour to expel all idolatry to abandon and abolish all forreign powers to administer the Sacraments and Ceremonies of the Church uniformly in their right Order To obey the Queens Majesty and live under her Laws and humane Ordinances acknowledging her as chief Governess in all causes c. here under Christ in this Realm of England and Ireland c. Exile This certainly is a good Religion were it once generally put in ure notwithstanding whatsoever men list to imagine of us that may they we cannot let them But hear me and I will tell you as it shall be found in the truth Were all his Books of whom we spake rightly considered of with indifferency so should they be found assistances in all to this aforesaid Religion and not hinderances For did the Preachers first and then the people according to his writing and admonition in the Service of Love viz. repent them and follow such counsel as is expressed by him in the same so should no doubt the Gospel then be sincerely preached according to her Majesties mind and the true belief published to the salvation of many All idolatry and forreign power as well inwardly as outwardly expulsed and driven away The Sacraments and Ceremonies of the Church should then be rightly administred The Queens Majesty obeyed not for fear but rather out of love and acknowledged as chief Governess in all causes c. as is meet And which is more the Lords heavy wrath whereof he hath often warned us in the Ministration of Love and alas which also I fear me is at hand for our wickedness cause should then be easily appeased And then yet moreover whereas many times it happeneth that the Prince is taken away for sins cause of the people her Majesty should then reign prosperously amongst us in all