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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00718	An admonition to the Parliament	Fielde, John, d. 1588.; Gwalther, Rudolf, 1519-1586.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608.	1572 (1572)	STC 10848; ESTC S102020	41,634	60

letters commendatorie of some one man noble or other tag rag learned and vnlearned of the basest sorte of the people to the sclāder of the gospell in the mouthes of the aduersaries are freely receaued In those daies no idolatrous sacrificers or heathnish priests were apointed to be preachers of the Gospel but we allow and like wel of popish masse mongers men for all seasons King Henries priests Queene Maryes priests who of a truth if Gods word were precisely folowed shoulde from the same be vtterly remoued Then they taught others now they must be instructed themselues and therefore like yong children they must learne cathechismes and so fyrst they consecrate them and make them ministers and thē they set them to scole Then election was made by the Elders with the common consent of the whole church now euery one picketh out for himselfe some notable good benefyce he obtaineth the next aduowson by m●ny or by fauoure and so thinketh himselfe to be suffyciently chosen Then the congregation had authoritie to cal ministers in stead therof now they run they ride and by vnlawfull sute and buying preuēt other suters also Then no minister placed in any congregation but by the consent of the people now that authoritie is giuen into the hāds of the bishop alone who by his sole authoritie thrusreth vpon them such as they many times aswell for vnhonest life as also for lacke of learning may and do istly dislike Then none admitted to the ministerie but a place was voide before hand to which he should be called but nowe bishops to whom the right of ordering ministers dothe at no hand appertaine do make 60. 80. or a 100. at a clap send them abrode into the country like masterlesse mē Then after iust triall and vocation they were admitted to their function by laying on of the handes of the company of the eldership onely Now there is neither of these being loked vnto required a surples a vestiment a pastoral staffe beside that ridiculus as they vse it to their new creatures blasphemo●s saying receaue the holy ghoste Then euery pastor had his flock and euery flock his shepheard or el● shepheards Now they do not only run fysking from place to place a miserable disorder in Gods church but couetously ioyne liuing to liuing making shipwracke of theyr owne consciences being but one shepherd nay wold to God they were shepherds and not wolues haue many flockes Then the ministers were preachers nowe bare readers And if any be so well disposed to preache in their owne charges they may not without my Lordes licence In those dayes knowne by voice learning and doctrine now they must be discerned from other by popish and Antichristian apparel as cap gowne tipper c. Then as God gaue vtterance they preached the word only Now they read homilies articles iniunctions c. Then it was painfull now gainfull Then pore and ignominious in the eies of the world now rich glorious And therfore titles liuings and offices by Antichrist deuised are geuen to them as Metropolitane archbishop Lords grace Lord Bishop Suffragan Deane Archdeacon Prelate of the garter Earl Countie Palatine honor high commissyoners iustices of peace quorum c. All which together with their offyces as they are strange vnhard of in Chrystes church nay plainly in gods word forbidden So are they vtterly with spede out of the same to be remoued Then ministers were not so t●ed to any one forme of prayers but as the spirit g moued them and as necessitie of time required so they might poure forth harty supplicatiōs to the lord Now they are bound of necessytie to a prescript order of seruice and boke of common prayer in which a great number of things contrary to Gods word are contained as baptism by women priuate Communions Ierrish purifyings obseruing of Holydaies c. potched if not all together yet the greatest peece out of the Popes portius Then feding the flocke diligently nowe teaching quarterly Then preaching inseason and out of season Now once in a moneth is thoughte of some suffycient if twice it is iudged a worke of supererogation Then nothing taught but Gods word Now Princes pleasures mennes deuices popishe ceremonies and Antichristian rites in publike pulpits desended Then they sought them Now they seeke theyrs ☞ These and a great many other abuses are in the ministerie remayning which vniesse they be remoued and the truth brought in not onely Gods iustice shall be powred forth but also Gods church in this realme shall neuer be builded For if they which seeme to be workemen are no workemen in deede but in name or els wor● not so diligently in such order as the works me from commaundeth it is not onely vnlikely that the building shall go forwarde but altogether impossible that euer it shal be perfyred The way therfore to avoid these inconueniences and to reform these deformities is this Your wisedomes haue to remoue aduousons patronages impropriations and bishops authoritie claiming to themselues therby right to ordayne ministers to bryng in y old and true election which was accustomed to be made by the congregation You must displace those ignorant and vnable ministers already placed in theyr rowmes appoint such as both can and will by Gods assystauce feede the flock You must plucke down vtterly ouerthrow wythout hope of restitution the court of faculties from whence not only licences to enioy many benefyces are obtained as Pluralities Trialities Totquote c. but all things for the most part as in the court of Rome are sette on sale licences to marry to eat flesh in tymes prohibited to lye from benefyces chargrs and a greate number besyde of such lyke abhon●●●ations Appoint to euery congregation a learned diligent preacher Remoue homylies articles iniunctions that prescripte order of seruice made out of the masse boke Take away the Lordshyp the loytering the pompe the idlenesse and liuings of bishops but yet employ thē to such ends as they were in the old church appoynted for Let a lawful and a godly seignorie loke y they preach not quarterly or monthly but contynually not for fylthy luker sake but of a ready mynde So God shal be gloryfyed your conscyences discharged and the flocke of Chryst purchased wyth hys owne bloud edyfyed Now to the second poynt whych concerneth mynystratyon of Sacraments In the olde tyme the worde was preached before they were minystred nowe it is supposed to be suffycyent if it be red Then they were minystred in publike assemblies now in priuate houses Then by ministers only now by midwiues and Deacons equally But because in treating of both the sacraments together we should deale confusedly we wyll therefore speake of them seuerallye And fyrst for the Lordes supper or holy communion They had

depriued of pastors and foundations laide of moste horrible confusion by the pastors forsaking of theyr congregations then to see ministers otherwise without fault to vse rather thys then that apparell and that in some places there shoulde rather be no supper giuen to the hungrie sheepe then that kneling should be omitted Which things if they shuld be there done amongste you as God forbidde that I should thinke that they are done surely they would be beginnings not of former but of far greter calamities Againe I beseeche you reuerende father that if I offend heerein you would paciently bear with me so offending not of ambition or malice but as the Lorde knoweth of rudenes and vnskilfulnes If it be true that is commonly reported and I am not yet persuaded that baptisme is priuately permitted to women amongst you I can not tel what is to go backe from the gole to the barriers if this be not For first of all from whence sprang this most filthy error but from a grose ignorance of the matter of the sacrament Who so euer is not washed in water is condemned say they which are the patrones of this prophanation of baptisme If it be so the saluation of infants shall come not from the couenaunt of god which notwithstanding is the endoubted ground of our saluation but from the seale annexed vnto the conenaunte and that not to make it more certaine in it selfe but rather to certify vs of it And that more wicked is the saluation of infants shal wholely consist in the diligence or negligence of y parents But seeing y excellent seruaunt of God D. Peter Martyr as you right well knowe reuerend father a good while a goe disputed of this matter at large in his commentaries wrytten to that godly king Edwarde and that as I thinke with the consent of the whole Englishe churche in those dayes I woulde not now at large discourse vppon this matter This only I say if that reporte shoulde be true it were greatly to be lamented to see them now to tourne back as it were to the barryers which shoulde haue rather bene come euen to the gole especially hauing had suche guides and masters But if those things shall be true whiche seeme not to me probable that Metropolitanes practise and put in vre those most filthy abuses which are more intollerable then ought else in the church of Antichrist as pluralities of benefices licences of not resydences to contracte Matrimonie and for eating of fleshe and suche like as it were surely not a corruption of christianitie which I speake with horror but a manifest falling away from Christ and therfore they were not to be condemned but rather to be praised which would oppose them selues against suche endeuors Moreouer by what right whether ye respect the word of God or all the olde Canons may either the ciuil Magistrate by himself where congregations are already erected and established bring in vppon them any new rites or abrogate the olde or the Bishoppes wythoute the iudgement and consent of theyr Eldership of duetie ordaine any thing I haue not yet learned But bicause I see that these two plagues that is to say the dishonest and ambitious flattery of former Bishops partly abusing the vertuous Princes and partly seruing theyr euil affections and vices haue vtterly vndone the Church vntil the matter came to this passe that the mightyest of the Metropolitanes of the West by the iuste iudgemente of God so punishing Magistrates and Bishops had scratched and rauished vnto himselfe all matters bothe diuine and humane I must needes confesse that I am astonished amased so often as I think of these things and I forsee that eyther the same or more greeuous punishmēts do agayne hang ouer the most part of people which at the first with great affection embraced the gospel and now by little and little fall from it And I dout not but the good in what place so euer doe in like sort lament whome the Lord heare and for his sonne Iesus Christes sake giue vnto Kings Princes a true godly and religious mind and graunt them good and stout counsellors to the gouernors of his church especially his holy spirite most aboundant knowledge and zeale moreouer increase and preserue the people which haue already professed the true fayth in sinceritie of doctrine and rites and godly manners You see reuerende father howe farre this heate as it were hathe enforced me ▪ But I beseeche you for ▪ and accordinge to youre good nature to take this my doinge in good parte and consider that it is the token of good loue that suche as loue one another are full of care and pensiuenes for theyr frendes euen then when they seme to be in best case But nowe of these matters too muche It remayneth that I commend in most instant wise vnto your worthye and fatherlie goodnesse the Frenche Churche whiche next vnto God and hir maiestie is moste bounde vnto yow that if so be the ennemies of the Gospell being to passe that in all places and by all meanes possible they do maliciously go aboute the poore banyshed maye yet at the leaste haue some refuge succoure amongest yow I had thought to haue wrytten letters to the same purpose so bolde some tyme I am in my follies to other bothe Ecclesiasticall also noble men of the realme of England and peraduenture to hir owne maiestie but I with helde my selfe for manye considerations If peraduenture yow shall perceaue that this my little labor may profite I wil not be afrayd God willyng not only to venture my estimation but my life also rather then omitte any occasion whereby the kingdome of Christe may either be preserued or encreased Farewell reuerend father and as you were w●nt continue your loue prayers for me and this whole Church and schole Geneue ● Cal. Iul. M.D.lxvi Yours most assured in the Lord Theodore Beza minister of the word in the Church of Geneue England repent Bishops relent returne while you haue space Time is at hand by truth to stand if you haue any grace Ioyne now in one that Christ alone by scepter of his word May beare the stroke least you prouoke his heauy hand and sword