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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
consyder thyne owne glory / the halowinge of thy blessed name / the auauncemente off thy glorious kyngdom / the accomplyshmēt of thy heauēly wil / the honour of thy only begottē sonne / the settingforth of hys holy Gospel / the purenes of the Christen religion / the syncere preachinge of thy lyuely worde / the true administraciō 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 ▪ euen with sorowfull groninges lamētable 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 cōmaunde 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 / ●hat greate Baal / that stoute Nemroth / that Pestilences of the Christen cōmon 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 / Prebēdaries / Commissaries / Parsonnes / Vicares / Purgatorierakers / Priestes / Monkes / Friers / Chanons / Nonnes / Anckers / Anckresses / Pardonners / Proctors / Scribes / Officialles / Sōners / Lawers / Massemongers / Can●nistes / Papis●es / Antichr●stes / Māmonistes / Epicures / Libert●●es / With all the table of beas●lye hypocrytes that haue receued the beastes mar● / 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 ●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 Imag●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 ●onoure / by sayenge their idolatrous and deuelishe masses / by Ab●omina●●lons ministeringe a sorte of Heythenish and Iewishe cerem●nies / by prayenge vntoo ●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 / clea●e contrary Deut. 4. Heb. 12. to thy blessed worde Thou callest thy self a Lyō a cōsumīgfyre / threatenes● vtter destrucciō vnto thin aduersaries / whi suffereth thou thā these Antichristes thus to ryse / ro●e / rage / agaīst the testamēt 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 ●se of the Sacramentes / to seke the destrucciō of so many as vnfaynedly loue the and thy blessed worde Thou promiseste / that so many as hate Psal 129. Syo● / that is to saye / thy faithfull congregacion / shal be confounded and broughte to noughte / howe cometh it thā 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 bannis●●ed / some in pryson / some cruellye murthered / but all in moste sorowfull miseries / and miserable sorowes Thou promises●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 thā to passe / that wher as before thy shepe were f●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 bras●e into the shepefolde / which spare not the flocke / but cruelly murder / not ouly their bodies by ●mpr●sonning hanging / heading and brenning them / but their soulc● 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 / ●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 s●al importans / before the eyes of thy diu●ne maiestie Can these outragious thīges 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 hāde 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 dounefrō heauen / cōsyder the lamentable state of the realme off England / of the godly inhabitaūtes therof / which desyre nothing so greatly / as to se thy true honour perfectly setforth / thy holy worde truly preached / the Christen religion hyghly aua●nced / and thy holy name sanctified / praysed / magnified commended for euer Ah Lorde God / heretofore in the time of Kinge Hēry the ●yght● 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 whā 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 sauiou● 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 Sacramēt / in all their sermons priuate talke / labour / swyncke / sweate and seke all meanes possible with tothe and nayle / with hande foote / wyth tunge and pēne / 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 ve●y bread and very wyne / yea / although the holy scripture / after the wordes of consecraciō / called the Sacramēt / 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 ●uglers of Christe / onely the accident●s of breadde and wyne remayninge / whan notwithstāding the holy scriptures teach vs in diuers places / that thy Christ is ascended into heauen / and sytteth on thy right hande / there shall remayne / concer●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 ●●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 vpō 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 abhom● nacion By these means o heauenly father they bring away thy people thorow they● vayne / fleshly and sophisticall reasons / from the honoringe of the thalone true / Imortal / muisible euerlasting God / vnto the worshippig of a pece of b●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 thē also that hate the / flee before the / like a● the smok vanisheth / so driu● thou them awaye / lyke as waxe melteth at the fyre / so let the vugodly papis●es perish and be confoūded that thy people be no le●ger seduced / ledde frō 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 thākes vnto the / all our prayers thankee geuing in the tūge that we v●derstode / wherby we receaued great cōforte / were much edified Common ●raier ought to be in that ●●ge that all the people vnderstande But now the papistes which with thy people to be more rude thā asses / more biynde than be●les / more ignorant than dastardes / that they mighte make them there ryding fooles and lauggyng stockes cōtrary too the vsage and practise of the primatiue Churche / yea / contrary to thy commaundemēt 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 po●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 〈◊〉 A●d yet so cruell malicious are the papistes / that they enforce and with violence compel thy people to come vnto their Romish / super●●icious / blasphemous / and idolatrous Latin seruice / to heare it / to reuerence honoure it with their presence / and too call it Gods seruice / whan they vnderstād no● / whither Baals priestes that there bleate mūble / 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 agaī / 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 sermō / 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 occasiō to forsake ●ice / and to embrace vertue / to lyue in thy fayre / and diligently to call vpō thy blessed name Homilies in Englishe chapter● of the Bible But now bothe those godly homiles and confortable chapters haue thyne enemies the papistes bānished out of the tēples vnto the great discomfort of al such as vnfaynedly ●oue the / and thy blessed worde / in the stead of thē / they haue set vp blasphe mous collaciōs / synging / rynging / pyping / sensynge / holy water castinge / holy breade ●ealing / palmes and candles bearing / crosse kneling / bread worshipping / as●hes ●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 Popis● bag●ag● 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 Engly●hetūg / euery one of vs kneling deuoutly and 〈◊〉 callynge on the for mercy and grace The Letan●●●n Englissh● O heauēly father / this was setforth in the tyme of thy seruaunte kynge Henry the eygh●e / and continued among vs / vntyl the
the people O intolle●ble blasphemie Thy sonne ordayned the Sacramente too be a signe and token of ●ou● / whā the godly come together to eate all of one bread● to drink● all of one cuppe The papistes make it 〈◊〉 Sacramente of dissencion / discorde and debate For if anye will not agree too theyr fles●helye / wycked and dettely●●he ●pynyon / confessynge theyr erroure off transsubstantiatiō / and affyrming● that the bread and wyne is the very naturall bodye and bloude of Christe God and man / and therefore oughte too be ●neled vnto / worshipped / honored / and called vppon as the onely true / lyuynge and immortall God / they falle oute with them / they calle them heretykes / they persecute them / they apprehende them / they empresonne burne them without mercy And as the wicked papistes prophanate and vnhallowe these twoo aforesayde holy Sacramentes / so do they lyke fylthye swyne defyle all other misteries / that thy sonne Chris●e hath ordayned with reuerēce to be vsed in thy church An Lorde God and oure heauēly father / therfore we were taught too wor●hip the in spirite and truethe / and too praye vnto the euery where / lyftinge vp pure handes without wrathe or doubtinge Ioan. 4. 1. Tim. 2. But nowe the papistes teache vs to praye vnto the and vnto all the cōpany of heauen with boynge and bleatinge in the quyre / with playeng on the organs / with sayeng ladies psalters on beades / with mumblynge ouer certayne prayers / in the tunge that we vnderstande not Pra●●r Heretofore we were taughte / that thou alone forgeuest vs all our syn●es / whan souer we earnestly repent / and vnfay●edly turne vnto the God alone forgeueth sinne But nowe the papistes teache / that they also haue power too forgeue synnes / and that oure synnes can not be forgeuen / excepte we confesse them vnto the prieste with all circumstaunces Esa 43. Marc. 2. Luc. 5. Heretofore we were taught to looke for all saluacion of the thorowe faythe in the bloude of Christe Faith onely iustefied But nowe the papistes teache vs to looke for saluaciō in our owne good workes / in the intercession of sainctes / in prayers and merites of synneful hypocrites and beastly belligoddes / in ceremonies / in wil workes / in tradicious of men / in holy bread / holy water / holy candels / holy palmes / holy as●hes / latine seruice / idolatrous masses / supersticious Diriges / trifelinge trentalles / popishe fastinges / belles / beades / c. Abominacions Heretofore we were taught to caste out of our temples the Idols and Mawmettes wherwith many com●itted spiritual whordome and rāne an whoring / and to garnish the churche with the holy scriptures / that the people might learne to know to feare the. Images not tollerable in the tēples of the Christians But now the vngodlye papistes haue brought the matter to this pointe / that the sentences of thy blessed lawe are blotted / vtterly wyped out of the temples / Idols are there placed manifestlye and directly / agaynste thy blessed commaundemente / which thy enemies call laye mēs Calēders Exod. 20 Leuit. 19. Deut. 5. 7. 12. or bokes / as though o Lorde God / the people might soner be brought vnto the knowledge of the / by looking on deformed stock●s stones / than by reading thy holy blessed worde Ioan. 5 Thy sonne our sauiour Christ cōmaundeth vs to searche the scriptures / and not to beholde Idols and Mawmettes Ioan. 8. He that is of god / saythe he / hearethe the word of god He sayethe not / he that is of god rūeth vnto Images / seeth what goodnes he cāne pycke out of thē Agayn he sayeth My shepe heare my voyce Ioan. 10 He sayeth not my shepe hath a delyghte and pleasure too beholde vayne Idols and mahounde lyke Mawmettes Psal 119. Thy seruaunt Dauid calleth them blessed / that searche thy testimonies and haue a pleasure too studie in thy lawe daye and night Psalm 1. For thy holy worde is only the boke / wherin thy people ought to looke / and not dumme Images carued Idolles / which are cursed of the in thy holy law / yea the makers of them also Deut. 27 Ah Lorde God / they that haue this procured / that thy holy worde should be wyped and blotted out of the churches / is it not to be thoughte / that their names are blotted and wyped● out of the ●oke of lyfe also● Yea / is it not too be thought that such Antichristes wold gladly haue bothe the / thy holy worde / yea / thy blessed name so blotted wyped out of all mens hartes / that thou mightest neuer be The holy scriptures vvyped out of the temples idols placed remembred more / but that they and theyr deueli●● decrees might alone raygne / rule / ruffle and triumphe / makyng all men euen from the hyghest to the lowest their miserable captiues wretched bond slaues It maye right wel be sayde vnto them / as our sauiour Christ sayd vnto the wicked styfnecked Iewes He that is of God / heareth the worde of God Ioan. 8. Ioan. 10. Ye therfore heare it not / because ye are not of God Again / ye beleue not / because ye are not of my shepe Iere. 3. Ah Lord these chyldren of Bel●all haue forsaken the thalone fountayne of lyuely water / they haue dygged to thē selfs puddels / yea / dyle dyrtie puddels / that are able too holde no water They are such people / as cōtinually prouoke the vnto anger Esa 30. They are lyēg chyldrē / yea / such chyldrē / as will not heare the law of God They say to the preachers / loke oute of the scriptures no good lessōs for vs. And to the godly lerned they say / tel not vs those thinges that are right / neither rebuke our wickednes Idolatry / but speake vnto vs pleasaūt thīges / such as we delight too heare Tel not vs of gods āger / iustice iudgemēt againste the stifnecked idolators / but preach vnto vs fals thinges / fables / lyes / er●ors / saicts liues out of the goldē legēd / narraciōs out of the festiual / exāples out of Vi●as patrū The doctrine of the papistes authorites out of sermōs Dormi mens tradicions / laudable ceremonies / cōmendable customes / holye rites / aunciente vsages / good ente●tes / iustificacion of workes / transsubstantiacion / the corporall presence of Christ / in the Sacramente of the aultare / vnder the accidentes of bread / c. The propiciatory sacrifice of the masse / the receauinge of the Sacramente vnder one kynde / contrary to Christes institucion / auriculare confession / c. Treade oute of the waye / go out of the pathe / awaye with the holy one of Israel from vs. We