the people O intolleâ—ble blasphemie Thy sonne ordayned the Sacramente too be a signe and token of â—ouâ— / whaÌ„ the godly come together to eate all of one breadâ— to drinkâ— all of one cuppe The papistes make it 〈◊〉 Sacramente of dissencion / discorde and debate For if anye will not agree too theyr flesâ—helye / wycked and dettelyâ—â—he â—pynyon / confessynge theyr erroure off transsubstantiatioÌ„ / and affyrmingâ— that the bread and wyne is the very naturall bodye and bloude of Christe God and man / and therefore oughte too be â—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 Chrisâ—e hath ordayned with reuereÌ„ce to be vsed in thy church An Lorde God and oure heaueÌ„ly father / therfore we were taught too worâ—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 coÌ„pany 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 Praâ—â—r Heretofore we were taughte / that thou alone forgeuest vs all our synâ—es / whan souer we earnestly repent / and vnfayâ—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 saluacioÌ„ 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 asâ—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 comâ—itted spiritual whordome and raÌ„ne 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 teÌ„ples 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 meÌ„s CaleÌ„ders 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 stockâ—s stones / than by reading thy holy blessed worde Ioan. 5 Thy sonne our sauiour Christ coÌ„maundeth 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 ruÌ„eth vnto Images / seeth what goodnes he caÌ„ne pycke out of theÌ„ 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 wypedâ— out of the â—oke of lyfe alsoâ— 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 deueliâ—â— 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 Belâ—all haue forsaken the thalone fountayne of lyuely water / they haue dygged to theÌ„ selfs puddels / yea / dyle dyrtie puddels / that are able too holde no water They are such people / as coÌ„tinually prouoke the vnto anger Esa 30. They are lyeÌ„g chyldreÌ„ / yea / such chyldreÌ„ / as will not heare the law of God They say to the preachers / loke oute of the scriptures no good lessoÌ„s 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 pleasauÌ„t thiÌ„ges / such as we delight too heare Tel not vs of gods aÌ„ger / iustice iudgemeÌ„t againste the stifnecked idolators / but preach vnto vs fals thinges / fables / lyes / erâ—ors / saicts liues out of the goldeÌ„ legeÌ„d / narracioÌ„s out of the festiual / exaÌ„ples out of Viâ—as patruÌ„ The doctrine of the papistes authorites out of sermoÌ„s Dormi mens tradicions / laudable ceremonies / coÌ„mendable customes / holye rites / aunciente vsages / good enteâ—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
name of the Lorde / we will in no wise heare theme / but what so euer goethe out of oure awne mowihe / that will we do Iere. 44 Wewill do sacrifice and offer oblacions to the / quene of heauen / lyk as we our forfathers / owre kinges and owre heades haue done inthe cities of Iuda and in the stretes and feldes of Ierusalem For theâ—r had we plentiusnesof vitailes Then weare we in prossperite / no misfortune came vpon vs. But sence we least to offer to do sacrifice vnto the Quen of heauen we haue hade scaccenes of all thinges pery he with swerd and honger It is but loste laboure to serue God O Lorde kep / preserue vs frome this generacion for euer Malach. 3 Psal 11. For they are a sinfull people / which are ouerladen withe blaspehmies / a froward generacion and wicked childern They haueforsaken the their Lorde God / they haue / prouoked the holy one of Israel vnto anger are gone backwarde Esa 1. There is no truthe intheir mouthes Their throte is an open sepulckere / with their tonges thei disceaue / the Psal 5. poysone of adders is vnder their lippes / ther fete are swift to hâ—de iÌ„nocent bloode They eate vp and dewoure thy people as it weare breade Distruccion and vnhappynes is in al theire doynges / but the waye of peace theyknowe Psal 14. not / for ther is no feare of God befor ther eies O Lord God our moste mercyful fath ere looke downe frome thy holy hill and coâ—sydere oure miseries Saue thy people o Lorde / and blesse thine heritage â—sal 28. Gouernetheme withe thy holy spiâ—ite / and lifte them vpe aboue theire enimies for euere Ryse vpe o Lorde / and haue pitie on Sion / for it is tyme / yea it is hye tyme for the tohaue pitie on hire psal 102. O Lord lete it be thy plea sure to deale fawarably with Sion / that the walles of Ierusalem may be duylte Psal 51. Builde vpe o Lorde / that spirituall howse with lyuynge stones / wherof thy Sonne Christ is the foundaycion heade cornere stone 1. Pete 2. Be that same good Lorde and mercifull God to thycongregacion / that thowe haiste euere promised to be Esa 66. Comforte hire / as the louyng mothere cheriâ—hethe hire tender babes As a naturall mother can not forgett hire yonge one / but that she muste nedeâ—e haue pitie on the-childe of hire wombe Esa 49. Euen so / o Lord / petie thowe the congregacion of England / and by no meanes sâ—ffer the godly people therof to fall out of thy remâ—brancs And although oure liffe be suche / that it rather deseruethe punishment than reconcilement / anger than fawour / destruckcioâ—â—h an preseruacion / yet o Lorde God / we moste humbly beseche theto forgyue vs dwâ—â—sâ—â—es / and for thy names sak yea for thy dere Christis saâ— haâ—e mercy on vs and deale with vs accordynge to tâ—yâ— olde accustomed goodnes We haue nothing to offer vnto thâ— fatherly gentelâ—es / but oÌ„ly owre RepentanÌ„s / oure broken heartes andtrowbled The Christâ— Sacrifice sprites / oure â—eares / oure â—igh 〈◊〉 / oure most sorowfull supplycacionâ— Thes Psal 51. we poure out before the mercifull throne of thy deuine maiestie / in the name of Iesus-Christe oure alone mediature and aduocate / moste humbly besechyng the for his sake / for his dignite and innocencie to haue mercie on the Godly Inhabitauntes of England / and on so many as vnfaynedly reuereÌ„ce thy holy name / and withe true hearte loue the coming of oure Lorde Iesus Let it suffice / o Lordethat sence the deathe of owre most ChristenKinge Edwarde the sixte / thy faythfull seru ante vnto thys daye / thow haiste for oure vn thankfulnes and wicked lyffe taken awayefrome vs the holy and glorius gosspel of thy dere sonne Christe / and suffered hypocritesto fede vs / yea rather to choke strangle vs / withe the pestilent doctryne of menes tradicions Looke vpon thyn holy annoyted / and for his sake haue mercye on vs / blesse vs / and lighten thy cherful counteÌ„ance vpon vs / that we Englythe men here on the earthe mayeones againe knowe thy blessed wayes thy / sauyng healthe among all nacions Psal 67. Let therealm of EnglaÌ„d be ful of the knowleg of the Lord Iesus / euen as though the water of the sea ouerflowed the earth Esa 11. Let thy word rune swyftly thorowe out all the borders of England Psa 148 Iere. 3. Esa 12. Let the people therof drinke nomore of / the dirtie and myrie puddels of the swynyshe Papistes filthye Hypocrites / but let theme withe ioye drawe water out of the wellesof that alone Sauioure / whiche saithe Iona. 7. Apoc. 21 Ioan. 4. Iff any man thirst / let hyme come vnto me and drinke I will gyue to hyme that is athirst of the well of water of lyffe frely And whoso euer shall drinke of the water that I shal giue hyme / shall neuer be more a thirst / but thewater that I shall gyue / shall be in hyme a / well of water / springyng vp vnto euerlasting lyffe And that thy blessed worde maye haue the more fre passag / take away from vs those Idolatrus Massmongers / those idle latyne Preachars Humblers / those shauen Madianites / those Lordly loyterers / those Wolues / those Theues / Robbers / and Murtherars / whiche do nothyng elles than poyson thy flocke / whome thy moste dere Sonne purchased withe hys moste Precious dere hearte bloode / and mak hawocke of thy sely simple shepe by leadyngthem awaye frome the thorowe their vayne sophistrie vnto the Dewill the pope / from thy holy worde and blessed ordenances vntothe trifeling tradicions croked yea cankred constitucious of Hipocrites And in the steadof them place thow godly Byshopes / learned Preachers / ChristeÌ„ ministers / Faithful teachers / True spirituall Fathers / Louyng pastors / euen suche as will diligently seke vpe the Ezech. 3. Ioan. 10. Act. 20. loste shepe / whom the woulyshe Papistes in the tyme of their tiraÌ„ny haue most wrechedli scattered abrode louyngly laye theme on his shoulders / and faithfully brynge them home Luc. 15. Math. 24 Tiâ—us 1. agayne vnto the â—â—epe foulde / gyue thy howshoulde meate in due season / be able to erhorte withe wholsome doctryne / also to coÌ„uince and ouercome them that speake ageâ—nste it / breÌ„n with aferueÌ„t uÌ„faied zele toward the settyng forthe thy glorye and the healthe ofthy people SacrameÌ„tes Send vs ageyn to the true ministracion off thy blessed SacrameÌ„ts / that we maye know what they are what they signifi preach vnto vs / yea that without the corupcioÌ„ of meÌ„es tradicioÌ„s / wherwith at this present they are most uÌ„wortheli defiled of thes suinish filthi â—atin seruic papistes
Take away from vs the Romish latin seruis / which the sineâ—ed shauliÌ„ges muÌ„ble in the teÌ„ples befor thy people with out all EdifieÌ„g â— Cor. 14 â—oan 4. restoruÌ„to vs our acustoÌ„ed coÌ„on praiers in the English â—ong that we may know what we pray / by this meaÌ„es worshyp the in spryt truth Masse Banyshe out of the coÌ„gergacioÌ„ that most vile stinking Idoll the Masse / restore vnto vs the holy blesed CoÌ„muÌ„ioÌ„ / that we eating â— Cor. 10. together of one bread driÌ„aing of one cupe may remeÌ„ber the Lordes death bethaÌ„kfull / to the. Pourge oure temples of all popyshe abhomynacions ecremonies / of CerimoÌ„ies / of Images / of allters / of copes / of vestmeÌ„tes / of pixes / of croses of sensers / of holi vater bucketes / of holi bread basketes / of Chrismatorâ—â— / aboue all of Idolatrus priestes vngodly ignoraÌ„te curates The propiciatori sacrifis of the popish Masse Akominaâ—ons / the wicked opiyâ—n of the corporal presence of Christ in the SacrameÌ„tal bread / the receauiÌ„g of the SacrameÌ„t vnder on kind / the iÌ„tercesioÌ„ of Sayntes / the doctriÌ„e of the IustificacioÌ„ ofworkes / the popysh purgatory / the wicked tradicioÌ„s of the Elders / with all vngodly custoÌ„es strange doctriÌ„es take thoue / o good Lorde / awaye from vs / teache vs vy thy holy Sprite Deut. 4. 6. 12. Proue 30 â–ª Esa 30. Luc. 1. to walke oÌ„ly in that waye / that thow haste apoiÌ„ted / by no meaÌ„es to turne neyther on the righte haÌ„de nor on the lefte / but all blynd zeles and good eÌ„tentes layde aside / gyue vs grace toserue the oure Lorde God in suche holynes Ryghtousnes as is accepted before the / all the-dayes of owre lyffe O heaueÌ„ly father moste mercifull Lordepreserue and saÌ„ctâ—fye with thy holy spirite thy vniuersall coÌ„gâ—egaâ—ioÌ„ / â—aÌ„ly the faythful coÌ„gregacioÌ„ of EnglaÌ„d / that as in their baptime they haue giuen them selues ouer wholy vnto the / Gods coÌ„grâ—gacione forsakyng the dewill / the worlde and the fleshe withe all their workes / poÌ„pes / lustes vaÌ„ities / haue sworne to serue the with all that they ar able to mak / euen so they thorow thy grace maye aÌ„swere to their professioÌ„ liue according to their promyse made in their baptime / eâ—taÌ„g them selues withe no new / couÌ„terfaiÌ„cte and strange religioÌ„ / nor yet defilyng them selues withe any vnrighteousnes / but walkyng inthat only waye that thowe hayst apoynted And suche as thorowe the strenghe of thy Spirite abide full constaÌ„te stedfaste in the Stronge inChriste coÌ„fesioÌ„ of thi truth befor the worldli tiraÌ„tes and belâ—â—de hipocrites / o Lorde coÌ„firm them in thy truthe thorowe the holy Gooste / and giue theme grace to persiste and coÌ„tinwe in it vnto the ende / that thowe mayste be glorifyed by them / and that the truthe of thy holy Psal 17. worde maye the more earnestly be receauyd / embraced and beleued of the ChristeÌ„ weaklynges O howld thow vp their goynges in thy pathes / that their foote steppes slipe not Thow haste deliuered them from stinkyng Sodome / suffer them no more to look backe towarde it Thow by the mightie powre out streached arme hast brought them out of sinfull Egepte / haste fedde them withe the HeueÌ„ly mana / suffer them nomore somoche as ones to haue a luste to returne vnto thatlande of boÌ„dage / nor to haue a desire to sitte amoÌ„ge the greasy fleshe pottes of Egepte / to eate of the fishes / melons / cowcuÌ„bers / garleke / oÌ„yones / lekes / c / wherwith the filthe EgepciaÌ„s are fedde They haue visited sene Christ thy SoÌ„ne oure Kinge Math. 2. suffer them nomor to return vnto wicked Kinge Herode They haue put theyr hande to the ploughe / graunt that they neuer looke backe agayne Luc. 9. / but preserue coÌ„tine we go forwarde vntothe ende They haue escaped from the filthenes of the world thorow the knowleg of the of our Sawyour Iesu Christ / suffer them nomor to be entaÌ„gled therin owercooÌ„e / lest the latter ende be worse theÌ„ the begynnyng For it had bene better not to haue knowuethe 2. Pete 2. waye of rightousnes / thaÌ„ after they haue knoweÌ„ it to turne froÌ„e the holy coÌ„maÌ„ndemeÌ„t that is geuen them So myght it be saide ofthem accordinge to the true prouerbe Thedogge is tuked to his vomite agayne and the sowe that was washede to hire walowingein Prouerb 26. the myre The weakeliÌ„ges and suche as are not yet vveakliÌ„ges Ruges perfectly stablyshed in thy true relygeoÌ„ / but-like redes wauer with euery wind of doctriÌ„ / o Lord coÌ„firm thow mak them thorowly stroÌ„g in the knowledg of thy truth that they withe a coÌ„staÌ„te faythe lustie courage maye both beleue coÌ„fesse the befor the tyraÌ„tes of the world / that thow alou art the Lorde and that ther is no truth necessari vnto saluacioÌ„ / but that only / whiche is contayned in thy-holy Scriptures Gods profoÌ„ners To them that are in bondes for the coÌ„fessiou of thy truthe gyue thowe grace / o moste louyng Lorde / to reioyse / that they be couÌ„ted worthy of thy fatherly goodnes to suffer Rebuke / iufamy / epresoÌ„meÌ„t / losse of goodes c Acto 5. / for the name of the Lorde Iesu / to be persuaded that the affliccioÌ„s of this liffe are not woâ—thi of the glori / which shal be shewed vpon Roma 8. the SoÌ„nes of God in tyme to come / notwithstaÌ„dyng that their trouble / whiche is / shorte lighte preparethe an excedyng andeternall 2. Cor. 4 waighte of glory vnto them / whiche looke not on the thynges which are seâ—e / but on the thynges whiche are not sene Agene / that if they dye withe Christ / they shall allso lyue withe 2. Timo 2 Christ / and if they suffer witheChrist / they shall also reigne withe Christ And as for them that for fear of liff or loss of goodes / or els for pleasyng the hyâ—â— powresare Back sliders for â—â—are outwardly gone frome thy true relygioÌ„ / and withe their bodyes serue Baal / yea and that agenst their owne coÌ„scieÌ„ce / whaÌ„ in their heartes they wishe all Idolatrous strange worshippinges vtterly to be abolyshed / thatthowe alone mightest be glorified honored we moste humbly beseche the to pardoÌ„ their imperfeccioÌ„s / and to forgiue their iÌ„firmetes / which by the prophet speaketh of thi SoÌ„ne coÌ„cerÌ„ynge the weake feareful on thys maÌ„ner Esa 42. A brâ—osed Reed shall he not breake / and flaxe that begynnthe to burne / he shall not / quenche Math. 12. Marc. 9. O Lorde healpe their vnbeleffe Encrease their faythe Make them stroÌ„ge with thy holy / Spirite / that that whiche they in wardly beleue theim ay outwardli confesse worke accordyngly