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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07664	A short treatyse of certayne thinges abused in the Popysh Church longe vsed: but now abolyshed, to our consolation, and Gods word auaunced, the lyght of our saluation.	Moone, Peter.	1548 (1548)	STC 18055; ESTC S104271	6,638	16

✚ A short treatyse of certayne thinges abused In the Popysh Church longe vsed But now abolyshed to our consolation And Gods word auaunced the lyght of our saluation Matthew vii Euery tree that bringeth not forth good frute shalbe hewen downe cast into y e fyre Psalm cxxiii Our soule is escaped euen as a byrd out of the snare of the foular the snare is brokē and we are delyuered Mat. xv All plantes y t my heauenly father hathe not planted shall be plucked vp by the rofes Psal. cxviii It is tyme O Lorde to laye to thyne hande for they haue destroyed thy lawe Cum Priuilegio ad Imprimendum solum Preserue me O god for in the do I truste Psalm xv GRace whiche is the mercy fauor and acceptation Of God our heauenly father be geuen to this audience Peace from Iesu Christ our helth and satisfaction Whiche is the true tranquilite of a quiet conscience Be ministred vnto you with a more relyced sentence Than all tonges be able to make declaration My intente is to declare yf a while ye will kepe scilence How goddes worde is florisshed the light of our saluatiō We haue bene drowned with dreames as our forefathers haue bene Lyuinge in wilfull ignorance not searching for y e verite Beleuing to haue syght whan we haue not sene But heapinge synne vpon synne committing iniquite For lacke of godly knowledge brought into captiuite So y t y e blind leade y e blind as Christ maketh demonstratiō And bothe fell in y e lake of vtter darkenes or tenebre But now goddes word is florisshed y e light of our saluation The shepeheardes that should fede the flocke as Ezechiel doth say And hath famysshed them for fode wo vnto them all That thus suffereth y e shepe to perisshe going a stray From y e handes of suche blind guydes y e lord doth vs call The sicke haue they not healed y e weake haue they let fall But chuclishly and cruellye be they had in estimation Come away good people from their doctrine diabolicall For now goddes word is florisshed y e light of our saluatiō A gret colour of holines in y e Popes church hath ben vsed The which is playne wickednes as goddes word proueth ryghte To mainteyn the old customes of most men now refused The verite cleane banisshed truth put to flight yf god had not bene mercyfull all men had lost the light Blynde was the cerimony for all the sainctification But now it is euident to euery christen wight How goddes word is florisshed the light of our saluation In y e stede of goddes word we had holy bread water Holy palmes holy asshes holy candles holy fyer Holy bones holy stones holy crewittes at the aulter Holy censars holy bannars holy crosses holy atyer Holy wax holy pax holy smoke holy smyer Holy oyle holy creame holy wyne for veneration Holy coope holy canepy holy reliques in y e quier Thus gods word could not florissh y e light of our saluatiō We haue had belles christened vestimentes consecrated Chalices anointed high altares wasshed and halowed Images tabernacled dead mens bones shryned Coniured Crosses censed spittled and spattled With turne and half turne the people was deceyued Seist me or seist me not and moche more abhominacion Feattes of legerdemayne by these iugglers inuented That goddes worde shulde not florysshe the lyght of oure saluacion Upon the high holy euennes as they do them call They range all the belles a solempne noys to heare There had we euensong complyne salue w t all Of y t was song or sayd them selues were neuer the nere For it was in a foren tonge as it doth well apere Nother to them nor vs was there edification For it was all lippe labor song they neuer so cleare Syldome preache they christ to be the light of our saluatiō The nexte day folowing we had matynes with prime and howres holy Many a deus in adiutorium all in the latten tonge Coniuring of holy water folowed then immediatly Procession after ydolles all the churche yarde long Hygh masse with deuout sensinges ruffling it in priksong Then ranne we to take holy bread withoute signification These plantes be pluct vp be they neuer so stronge They were not graffed on goddes worde the light of our saluation With these old customes such lyke god is displeased sore As in the first of Esay ther is demaunded playne Who required these of you suche thinges I do abhor your Sabothes and your solempne dayes your fastinges are in vayne Newe holydayes fastinges from my hart I do disdayne God saith he is wery both of you and your oblacion He byddeth you labour in his vyne yarde and therin take payne To teach the people Gods word the light of our saluacion Sone it is sene what paynes in this vyneyarde they dyd take For euery quicke sprynge that brought forthe the frute of Gods verite They cryed out on him heretike burne him at a stake He speaketh againste oure Ceremonyes and therfore shall he dye Throwe suche wretches in prison and let the caytyfes lye And yf they be not willinge to make their recantation Famysh them for fode or murther them pryuely They speake agaynste tradycions the lyght of oure saluacion Than scourged they the simple soules with their whyp of correction And there on hanged .vi. strynges surely fastened with a lawe This whyp was very mete for their pestilent complection For thorow suche tyranny the peoples hartes were rawe Thus many faithfull membres frome the truth dyd draw Untyll our noble kynge of his mercy and compassion Brake this cruell whyp that kept the people in awe And hath aduaunced Goddes worde the lyght of our saluacion Bewayle doth our Balamytes disclosynge their owne nature Euen as vnshamefaste shauelynges threteninge Christes pore shepe Saynge yf the sworde were on our sydes be ye sure As it hath bene before than wolde ye not ones pepe But now that ye thinke all good ordre is layde downe to slepe ye make a braggynge and a boastinge of your exaltation Now who but ye gospellers that Christes flocke dothe keape ye teache the people gods worde the lyght of our saluatiō Thus was their handes defyled with bloud their fingers with vnrightuousenes Deuouringe vp the gospellers in euery towne and citye From their lyppes proceded lyes their tongues aduaunced wyckednesse Without respecte to the trewth they iudge nothing treuly Thei hatched Coccatrice egges as we haue sene it plainly And weaued spyders webbes by their cruell consultatiō Now he that eateth of their egges shal not escape but dye Or be an ennemy to the truthe the light of our saluacion The chiefest thinge they set by is almost fallen awaye I meane their masking Masse by so many Popes deuysed For thorow it the Lordes supper hath bene in great decay And the right institution blasphemously blemysshed Thus in the Popysh churche it hath bene longe abused But

now verite will haue the matter in examinacion He saith playnly suche abusion shall no more be vsed It shal be tryed by Gods worde the light of our saluacion This Masse as they supposed was alone sufficient To pacify Goddes wrathe for our wretched mysery Free forgyuenes of synnes beinge neuer so vnpenitent Myght be receyued at the Masse this was their doctrine dayely No smale tyme were we blynded with suche Popysshe peltry Makinge vs to paye for the holy consecration Lyke theues that were vnsaciat they robbed soule body Without the feare of Goddes worde the lyght of our saluacion Christ held not the bread ouer his head it is not in the Scripture But brake it and deuyded it to his Apostels all Christ bad them not knele to it of this ye may be sure yf ye do searche the Scriptures fynde it so ye shall Christ willed them to reseeue it in the memoriall That his body for our synnes suffred payne and passion To pacify the fathers wrath when we in synne do fal Thus was he offred ones for all the light of our saluacion Marke how blyndly we were fed w t our popysh gētylinen Marke how w t false doctrine they haue bleared our eyes Marke how craftely we were fedde w t Phariseys leauen Marke also how they repyne y e gods worde sholde aryse Marke what deuylish doctrine these dreamers did deuise Marke how cruell they haue bene to Christes cōgregatiō Marke howe moche they haue maynteyned phantasyes and lyes Nothing regarding gods word the light of our saluation Of longe tyme haue they caused vs cōmyt abhominatiō Robbyng god of the honor which to hym is dewe By inuenting false goddes of their Imagination Makyng therof a sacrifice and yf they proue this trewe They must confesse thei crucify gods sonne againe a newe For yf their bread be Christe by transubstanciation Than offre they in sacrifice this muste nedes insewe God and man fleshe and bloude the lyght of our saluation Doth not scripture say into heauen Christ ascended And dwellyng not in temples made with mannes hande But sat him downe for euer vntyll the worlde be ended Makinge intercession both for free and bonde That vnto his godly promyse faithfully do stonde This shoulde be to the Idolatres an honest reformation To driue them from Idolatry for feare they be fonde Enemyes vnto gods worde the lyght of our saluation Christ is the bread of lyfe which descended from y e deite yf any tate of that bread he shall lyue euermore Christ alone the sonne of God maketh vs free And from all our synnes clearely doth vs restore Christ for all penytent hartes hath layd vp mercy in store Christ dyed for our synnes and rose for our iustification We beleue to fynde hym a mercyfull sauiour For god hath chosen hym to be the light of our saluation Now seing we haue Christe to be our onely aduocate In whom God the father hath a speciall delight Let vs heare him for he alone doth inuocate And of our synnes cleane forgyuenes we haue in Goddes syght What nede we than to seke helpe at any other wyght But euen onely in the merites of Iesu Christes passion Bewaylinge our great mysery desyringe daye and night To fynde him a mercyfull God the light of our saluacion All we haue offended and haue nede of Goddes glory No man is founde righteous and pure in his presence yet thorow his sonne Christ we be forgyuen frely For he hath made a sacrifice for our synnes and offence He is our reconciler peace maker and defence He it is that shed his bloud onely for our redemption And wolde haue all men saued this is his pretence Thus are we cleansed by Christ the light of our saluaciou No small cause haue we to reioyce yf we do consyder How our mercyfull God hath for his flocke prouyded Replenyshinge vs with meat that endureth for euer I meane his eternall word frome which we were deuided By waye of persecution abhorred and deryded But thankes be to the lyuinge God whiche for our consolacion Hath ouerthrowen the ennemyes that thus enterprysed To persecute the Gospell the light of our saluacion And where we lyued in feare to confesse the verite By hydinge our talent as seruauntes vnprofytable Now is that yoock broken and we set at libertie Plenteously to publyshe the truth without fable Let vs therfore beware we be not founde variable But laye a sure holde to the ploughe with harte and cogitation Continuinge vnto the ende stronge stedfaste and stable In no wyse to renounce the truthe the lighte of oure saluacion Forsake the whore of Babylon and the marke of the beast Forsake her marchantes all for they be most pestelent Forsake the wares that she solde frome the mooste to the least Forsake her holy holynes that she estemed excellent Forsake the deuelysh doctrine that she dyd inuent Forsake and flee vtterly from her abhominacion For Kynges and Princes were disceyued that to her dyd consent Persecuting Gods worde the light of our saluacion Let vs forsake all ceremonies that to Scripture be not consonaunt Tradicions of forefathers wherin we haue ben lead And with the lyuely worde of God let vs now be conuersaunt For therin shall we se with what baggage we were fead Wanderinge in the Popes lawes forsakinge Christ oure head Heapinge vpon our selues the more greatter damnacion Thus were Tradicions and Ceremonies maintayned in the stede Of Gods true and syncere worde the light of our saluaciō Let vs earnestly therfore desire w t an harte vnfayned That in all thinge we do God may haue the glory yea and imbrace this heauenly worde whiche we haue receyued Not in talke nor to receyue it as a carnall liberty But to bringe forth the frutes of the spirit so that therby It maye apeare manifest in our Godly conuersacion To be a light vnto the worlde forsakinge all iniquite And to perseuer in the truth the light of our saluacion And doubte not all that the heauenly father hathe not planted He will plucke vp by the rotes they shall no more endure This in his eternall worde he hath it promysed Therfore be not vnfaithfull for his couenaunt is full sure Heauen and earth shall perysh this is without recure But his worde shall neuer passe by no determination Untyll all thinge be ended therfore I you allure To trust wholy in his worde the light of our saluacion Honger and thurst for righteousnesse than shall ye be satisfyed Mortify the flesh with the dedes therof also Let no fylthye communication oute of youre mouthes procede But as it becometh sayntes euen so loke ye do Blessed be he to whom synne is not imputed to Neither in his spirite is there founde dissimulacion Suche shall inioye the heauenly ioyes knowinge no kynd of woo But haue the fruicion of Goddes sight the