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A03087	A simple, and religious consultation of vs Herman by the grace of God Archebishop of Colone, and prince Electour. [et] c. by what meanes a Christian reformation, and founded in Gods worde, of doctrine, administration of the deuine sacramentes, of ceremonies, and the hole cure of soules, and other ecclesiastical ministeries may be begon among men committed to our pastorall charge, vntil the Lorde graunt a better to be appoynted either by a free, and Christian cou[n]sayle, general, or national, or elles by the states of the empire of the natio[n] of Germanie, gathered together in the holye Gost; Einfaltigs Bedencken, warauff ein christliche in dem Wort Gottes gegrünte Reformation an Lehr, Brauch der heyligen Sacramenten un Ceremonien, Seelsorg und anderem Kirchendienst, biss auff eines freyen, christlichen, gemeinen oder nationals Concilii, oder dess Reichs Teutscher Nation Stende, im Heyligen Geyst versamelt, Verbesserung, bei denen so unserer Seelsorge befohlen, anzurichten seye, English	Wied, Hermann von.; Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560.; Bucer, Martin, 1491-1551.	1547 (1547)	STC 13213; ESTC S103980	258,817	620

waye the fayth of Christ is confirmed in vs that God wyll also be good vnto vs accordynge to our portion and there is a desire steared vp in vs to folowe their exemples Thus the olde church worshypped the sayntes which thing appeareth by certayne soleme prayers called collectes For thus the churche prayeth ¶ In the memorie of the Apostles Petre and Paule Gd whiche haste consecrated thys daye wyth the martyrdome of thine apostles Petre and Paule graunt to thy churche to folowe theyr precepte in all thynges by whō it receyued the begynnyng of religion thorowe Christe our Lorde ¶ On the feast of S. Iohn Baptist God whiche hast giuen vs thys present day honourable in the natiuitie of blessed Iohn graunte thy people the grace of spirituall ioyes and guyde the mindes of al the faithfull into the waye of euerlastynge lyfe thorowe Christe our Lorde ¶ On the natiuitie of S. Stephane Graunt vs we beseche the Lorde to folowe the thynge that we haue in reuerence that we maye learne to loue euen oure enemies for we celebrate his natiuitie whiche coulde praye euen for his persecutours thorowe Christe our Lorde ¶ In the cōmemoration of saynt Laurence Graunt we besech the almightie God that we maye quenche the flames of oure vices whiche gauest the blessed Laurence thy martyre to ouercome the fyer of his tormentes thorowe our Lorde Iesus Christe ¶ In the memorie of S. Agatha God whiche amonge other miracles of thy power gaueste the victorie of martyrdome euen in a fraile kynde graunte mercifully that we maye walke vnto the by hyr exemples whose natiuitie we celebrate thorowe Christe our Lorde ¶ In the cōmemoration of S. Cecilie God which makest vs merie with the yerely solemnitie of thy martyr blessed Cecilie graunt that we may folowe hyr in exemple of godlie conuersation whom we reuerence wyth humanitie Of thys sort be all suche prayers that be anie thinge olde In other made longe afterwarde though there be somewhat mengled of the merites and intercessions of sayntes yet they be not called vpon as Lordes they be not spokē to they be not desired that they wyll offre theyr owne merites for vs to the father or that they wil healpe vs with their intercessions but God onely the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe is called vpon and desired that he wyl vouchsafe to recompēce the good dedes euē of his sayntes in vs and that he wyll both steare vp and make effectuous theyr intercession for vs thorow our Lorde Iesus Christ not by the vertue of the sayntes The thirde abuse is when the wordes of a prayer otherwyse godlie and christian are drawen to an vngodly and vnlawfull ende as when thorowe the Lordes prayer we wil staunche bloude or dryue awaye wolues that they deuoure not our sheepe As some go about to wrest the Psalme xxxv To auoyed woundes Of whiche kinde innumerable superstitiōs and impieties are vsed of vngodlie enchaunters Therefore the preachers shal warne the people diligently how greuous a synne it is howe great wydkednes to abuse the word of god to such witchcraftes and enchauntmentes Which abuse is pernitious and abhommable no lesse thē the abuse of other false and idolatrious doctrine The fourth abuse is when the ende of prayer is peruerted when men reherse the wordes of the prayers wyth thys opinion that they thynke they do acceptable seruice to God and to the sayntes euen wyth thys worke of rehersyng whereas we must pray to God not to do hym some seruice wyth that worke but that we may call for the free healpe of God being in daunger of perils and euyls whiche we haue deserued or that being vnworthie we may receyue benifittes whiche we haue not deserued And that we maye praye wyth a fuller feelynge both of our owne miserie and of the diuine goodnes of Christe and wyth feruenter desire of Goddes healpe we muste vse holy wordes in our prayes But the comon people hath ben brought into thys errour longe sithens by vnfaythfull pastours that they offre the wordes of the Lordes prayer of the Angels salutation of the Psalmes and other prayers to God the blessed virgin other sayntes as some acceptable seruice or gift wherby they thinke they deserue muche of God and sayntes that they purge their synnes and obtayne the benifittes of God Which abuse of praying doth not onely fyght with the worde of God but also is folishe and mad euen by the iudgemente of reason and it may easely be taken away if the people be so enstructed of prayer as we haue shewed before The fyrst abuse in prayinge and no lesse to be reproued and corrected is thys that men communely beleue that theyr prayer is more commended to God and soner hearde by reason of places of whiche they thynke some to be more holy then some as if the prayers be made at certaine grauen stockes or relikes of sayntes or other places wherevnto men go on pilgrimage whiche is a greate dispitefull wronge to the grace and merite of our Lorde Iesu Christe by whom onely our prayers be acceptable vnto God in what place so euer they be made as he hym selfe promised Iohn xv What soeuer ye aske the father in my name he shall gyue it you And moreouer he sayed to the womā of Samarie Woman beleue me the houre cometh when ye shall worshippe the father neither in thys hille nor at Hierusalē God is a spirite and they that worship him must worshippe hym in spirite and truth Iohn iiij And Mathew xviij He sayeth If two of you consente togyther vpon the earth of anie thynge what so euer they aske it shal be done vnto them of my father whiche is in heauen For where two or three are gathered togyther in my name there am I in the middest of them Lo here the Lorde promiseth that we shall be hearde if we consent in prayer and that he wyl be a meane betwene vs and obtayne al thynges for vs of the father whē so euer and where so euer we shall come and agree in his name These promises al they diminishe that thynke they shall be hearde more certaynly and soner in anie place for the respect of grauen stockes or relikes of sayntes or some other outward prerogatiue of the place Howebeit it becometh vs to come to the temples and cōmon places and it healpeth to praye more deuoutly for this cause that the congregation cometh togyther in those places to prayer and bycause we are there more steared vp to praier thorowe the ministerie of the worde and other holie exercises and thorowe the very cōpanie of men prayinge togyther wyth vs. So priuate places haue thys comoditie to prayer that in them we maye praye wyth a more attentiue minde and more lifted vp to God For in these places there chaūce fewer thynges to call our myndes frō the thinges that we go about in our prayers For thys cause we reade that the Lorde Iesus prayed often in mountaynes and gardines as he comaunded vs

worke God would haue no honour gyuen to them Frō whiche Idolatrie the Apostle also draweth vs wrytyng to the Cor. Neither be ye worshippers of Images as some of them were Item flee from the worshippynge of Images i. Cor. x. And. i. Iohn v. My little chyldrē beware of Images Further they which attribute some secrete power of God to Images as men are wonte to attribute vnto those Images to whiche they go on pilgrimage they make them selues Goddes of Images and committe that moste grosse wyckednes whiche God cōdemneth euerie wherein the scriptures also in the seconde sentence of the ten cōmaundementes where he forbiddeth vs to haue and to worshyppe straunge Goddes for whiche also in tyme paste after the moste earnest threates of the prophetes he punished wyth extreme calamities the Iewes and other nations and draue them out of the lande of his promise and bountuousnes In this vngodlines they stycke also whiche make theyr prayers turnyng them selues and bowing before Images and grauen stockes for thys cause that they truste that they shall so be more effecttuouse Therefore the preachers shall wyth all possible studie call back dissuade and fraye awaye the people from thys so detestable and moste noysome superstitions wycked worshppynges and Idolatries which haue longe time horribly reigned thorow all people of christendome And for thys purpose they shall often rehearse and declare vnto thē what terrible punishmentes God in the law and the prophetes hath threatened and throwen vpon them whiche had wrapped them selues in thys abominable acte of Ilatrie They must also diligently admonishe the people of the daunger of vngodlines which is euer ioyned with the vse of images chiefly of those by whiche thynges and men hauing some commendation of holines are represēted For mannes nature is merueilous prone to Idolatrie Wherefore we ought to suspecte so great diligence of makyng Images and grauen stockes and settynge them in temples whiche thynge though it were only done for an ornament to prouoke the mindes of the beholders to good thoughtes yet the greate coste whiche is spent aboute suche Images and grauen wodde that feele nothynge and be the workes of men is drawen from the lyuely Images the membres of Christe whiche are Goddes creatures And moreouer there wanteth not a sore occasion of the abuse it selfe Wherefore saynt Epiphanius whose epistle saynte Herome added to his wrytynges agaynste Iohn byshoppe of Hierusalem testified thus They haue iudged that it is agaynst our religion and the authoritie of the scriptures to haue Images in temples And thys he wrote as the common sentence of the churche wherof no man shoulde doubte Therefore the preachers shall exhort the people that they rather gette them the holy Bible whiche thynge they maye do better cheape then images that they diligētly read the same and that they learne to acknowledge wondre at remembre and worshyppe the diuine maiestie out of the creation of all thynges and merueylous gouernaunce of God and preseruation and protectiō of the godly from the begynynge and punishmētes of the wicked which the bible setteth before vs rather than to learne the same in carned stockes Further that they be present in the holy assembles heare the treatyng of the worde of God religiously receyue the Sacramentes godly and praye faythfully For God hym selfe hath layed these thinges before vs for thys entent that we should gette preserue and encrase in vs thereby knowledge loue and zeale of hym Wherefore whyle we rightly vse these instrumentes of religion we are sure that the encrase of the holie goste is present and all perill of superstition is away whereas in the vse of Images daunger wanteth not as in an inuention of mā and the holy goste can not be present wyth them For howe much so euer the diligence of setting Images in temples and the admonition of holy thynges which they assigne to those Images be decked wyth wordes and paynted forth yet it can not be denied but that what so euer can be brought for settynge forth of Images and carned wodde in temples is but the inuētion of mē whiche somuch is not grounded vpō Gods worde that God forbadde the olde people suche vse of Images and the holy fathers in the new people suffered it not whiche thing appeareth playnely out of the deede and wrytyng of saint Epiphanius whereof we made mention before Wherefore the preachers shal diligently teache and warne the people that it is tyme that we worshippe and honour God in spirite and truth and that we godly vse those instrumentes whiche he hym selfe hath gyuen vs to steare vp thys worshypping with religious readynge and hearynge the holy scriptures and sermons whereby the same scriptures are declared openly or priuately moreouer wyth religious vsyng of the Sacramētes cōtinuaunce of holy prayers and also wyth a godly cōsideration and cōtemplation of the workes and iudgementes of God whiche euer offre them selues to oure eyes to oure handes to oure myndes and whiche we euer enioye and take fruite of them of whiche stearynge of oure myndes towardes God and kendlynge of studie to all the offices of godlines we haue spoken a lytle before in the exposition of the seconde commaundement The godlie preachers shal also adde this thynge and printe it in the people diligently about thys place that what outwarde goodes so euer God hath gyuen vs we muste bestowe the same vpon the lyuely Images of Christe our neighbours the membres of Christe that we may feede Christe in them gyue hym drynke cloth hym harbour hym cure hym and comforte hym beinge sycke and succour hym being in bondes And that we caste not awaye oure goods in makyng deckyng clothyng and honouring Images and carued stockes whiche haue no lyfe no feelynge namely wodde stones metalles vayne workes of our owne handes Finally vpon thynges that be abominable to God as he often wytnesseth in his prophetes Which in the laste iudgement when he shal testifie that to be done or not done to hym what so euer we dyd or omitted to do to the leste bretherne that lyued with vs vndoubtedly he shal speake terribly vnto thē which neglecting his membres the lyuely Images in pouertie penurie and miseries haue poured out not theyr owne goodes but his vpō carued stockes and Images whiche haue no feelyng of suche benifittes Therfore the preachers shall diligently go about vtterly to roote out of the mindes of christiā people this errour also of praying before Images and stockes and the rest which we haue noted For they fight against the chiefest pointis of the ten commaundementes And they shal teach and declare and prynt in alwaies those thynges out of which the people may learne al deuotion to praye to God religiously and effectuously and that they accustome them selues and stycke fast to that holesome exercise of godlines so that what euyl so euer chaunce to them or hange ouer them or what so euer good thynge they desire they go euer forthwyth and the ryghte waye to the heauenly

a lesson these two exercises must be diligently retained namely that the childrē do euer declare the constructiō of the text and also adde the rules so that they recite the coniugations and declinations and shewe the rules of the same In this exercise of repetinge and examininge a lerned and faithful master shal teach how manie waies the same sentence maye be spoken in latine with such declaracions of the propriete and elegancie of the latine toung they shal cause more plentious fruit than may be here fully expressed But this matter consisteth altogether in the faythfulnes and dexterite of the master Wherfore men thoroughly learned faythfull and prompte in teachinge must be sought furth to haue the gouernance of scholes cheifely in greate townes In thys fourme there shal be a certayne howre appoynted euerye weeke at whyche howre the childrē shal reherse wythout boke the rules of grammar that they forget them not The masters maye also change thir lectures and in the howre deputed to virgil expoune Tullies epistles In thys furme also euerie childe shall write and delyuer euery weeke a latine Epistle that together thei may learne both to speake to write latyne The fourth fourme shal be of thē whiche haue lerned theyr grammare rules and construction and haue attained a metly good latyne toung To thē afterwarde some logike shal be red as the logik of Cesarius Philip or Sturmius and some easie accentinge as of Murmelius or some other lyke In thys fourme more ouer some bookes of Ouides Metamorphosis de Pōto and Tullies offices shal be red The childrē of this fourme shal also be sterred vp to write verses which they shall deliuer to the master euerie month But forasmuch as manie be of that nature that thei lern to mak verses with much difficultie the shole master shal vse such moderacion in requiringe thys studie that he maye exercise euerie one in that that he shall perceyue the nature of euerie one to preuaile in Howe be it he shall exhorte the dulle also to this arte that thei do not vtterly caste a waie thys art for the greate profite which it hath vndoubtedly But they shall stirre them to trauaile furth as much as they canne and to write some verses though they be but fewe For this exercise maketh perfite grammarians and putteth the youth in remembraūce of manie necessarie thinges of figures of sōdrie wayes to speake latine and fedeth maruailously copie of latine speach Two howres a weeke shal suffice for the readinge of logike But whan it is ended it must be begonne a gayne At other howres the master shal interprete to theim to whom logike is red the greke grammare if they be fitte for that purpose whan he hath ended the grammare he shal expoune Hesiodus or Phocilides or some like thinge as a wise master shal percieue to be profitable for the children But the exercises of grammar rules and construction shal not be omitted in thys fourme but shal be vsed in the repeticion of Ouide These be the lectures whiche maye conuenently be reade the seconde thirde fifte and sixte daye of the weke For seinge that christiā scholes ought chifely to serue for the mainteinaunce and furtheraūce of the knowlege of God among men and to retaine and promote the doctrine of Christe and the hole true Christian religion we wyll and commaund that vpon the furth daie of the weke the schole cease frō other lectures and exercises and that thys daye be bestowed vpon teaching the catechisme and demaūde what the chilhren canne saye therein And we wyll do oure endeuoure that some commē and vniforme Catechisme shal be vsed thorought the hole diocese For we must not graunte to the scholemasters that euerie one shall make a newe catechisme but we wyll that they all vse the receyued whiche they shal so decylre and beate in to children that the youth maye be kepte and euer furthered in the syncere knowlege of Christ in fayth and communion of the congregacion And the selfe same doctrine must be taught in the scholes and in the cōgrgaciōs Which thinges the ouerseers of the congregacions shal cheifly loke to Furthermore the scholemayster shal exhorte his elder sholars to the communion of the Lords supper but let him first enstructe them diligently of this sacrament and examen them Finally in this fourth daye of the weke whan the catechisme shabe handled let eueri childe of the lowest fourme be hearde whether he can faye in latine and in hys mother toung the partes of the catechisme that is to saye the Lordes praier the crede the ten commaundmentes the wordes of baptisme and of the Lordes supper and of discipline and christian correction as they are wrytten Math. xviij Vpon the same day the schole master shal grammatically interprete to hys elder sholers and to suche as canne attaine to it the Gospel of the sondaye nexte folowyng and shal declare the sume of that lesson to them and shewe them what thinges are touched therein concerninge faith and other vertues that the scholemaster and the youth may accustome them selues to knowe more certainly and to serch out more religiousli the thiuges that be taught in the Gosples lette the Saturday be bestowed vpon Musike that vpon that daye the rules of Musike may be taught and the yong men enstructed and exercised to singe cheifely those songes which vpon the nexte sondaye shal be sounge in the temple For scholemaysters and scholars must not only be present at the songes in the congregacions befor other but they must al so beare the cheifeste stroke not only vpon holie dayes but also vpon other dayes whā there shal be holye assembles as it shal be appointed after the cōdicion and commodites of euerie place In this mater suche moderacion must be kept that the childrens heath be not hurted in the winter thorought colde if they be deteined to long in the temple and that they be not so occupied in singinge that theyr study of lerninge be hindred It pertaineth also to the maintenaunce and encrese of grauite and religion in temples that to sondrie and longe songes be not vsed But these thinges and suche other that pertaine to the dignitie of holie assembles edificaciō of the people of Christ the visiters shal appoint accordinge to the oportunitie of euerie place ¶ Of the schole of deuinitie But for maiteinaunce of Christean doctrine and holesome administration of churches those firste beginninges are not onely required whyche be gotten in the scholes of children but furthermore it is necessarie that men giuen theym selues altogether to lerne perfetly the vniuersal scripture of the prophetes and the Apostles and to excusse al the hearde questions whyche haue exercised the churche from the begninge Item to knowe the waye and meane whereby the holy fathers in theyr time defēded the Lordes truth in the cōgregacion and kepete the same pure vnto vs and finallye howe we maye in our time defende and retaiue the same That there maye bee