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baptised and receyued faythe in Christ long before they receyued the gyfte of the holy gost as we reade in the Actes the .viii. chapiter c. the xix a. Howe be it their knoweledge was alwayes vnperfecte vntyll that tyme they were regenerate wyth the Spirite of christ i. cor iii. a. viii a. For his Spirite is the oyle whiche the wise Uirgins shal take in their lampes of fayth to meete with the trwe Bridegrome Christ Mat. xxv a. And is also y e oyntmēt which techeth vs all godly knowledge Ep. Ihō ii d. wherfore s Iames. v. c. wold that the people which wer disesed shuld anointed ther with which ointment cometh most comenly vpō the elect people of God by praier in fayth and by laiyng on of handes of the electe ministers of God in Christ in lyke maner as we reade Act. viii chapter c In which chapiter is also mencioned the request of one Simō which offered the Apostles money to haue had lyke power to haue geuen the Holy Ghoste to whom he woulde by the laiyng on of his handes Notwithstandyng the Apostles refused hys money and also declared vnto him that he had no part of that ministraciō Neuertheles synce that tyme our markte mōsters hauynge the full power of the Beast in theim haue ordeyned other thynges in stede therof to minister to sycke people aske y e ministers of Christ no leaue And doo vse also to minister to theim in chyldhod a certayne oyle or grease which is cōmenly called the Confirmacion of their Baptysme makynge the ignorant people to beleue that that is the gyft of the holy gost lyke as Mahomet made the people to beleue that the holy gost in the lykenes of a doue taught hym what doctrine he shoulde teache the people Howbeit the delusion of Mahomet ꝭ preestes now at this present tyme is not so muche to be merueyled at as the delusiō of our markte men because Machometes preestes doo liue according to their profession also th 〈…〉 doctrine is agreable to those Scriptures whiche bee written vnto them but our marked mē liue cleane contrary to the true professiō of the gospell and contrary to the example of Christ of all his Apostles also ministreth crafty doctrine cōtrary to the holy Scriptures written Wherfore the acceptyng of them as trew ministers of the Gospell is not onely a declaracion of ignorance in godly knowledge but also a declaracion of blyndnesse of naturall reason For howe may reason conceyue truthe to be in them in whome so muche falshed is founde Wherefore what worldly affectiōs so euer we haue to them we ought only to be ruled by the worde of God written vsyng them but lyke as natural mē do vse the membres of their naturall bodyes For a natural man which hath rotten teethe in hys head that dothe neuer rest from paynfull ache wyll seeke a remedy but if he canne haue none he wyll haue hys rotten teethe drawen out of his head rather then to haue all his bodye continuallye disquyeted And euen so lykewyse our Marked men are lyke vnto rotten teeth for they can not minister the woorde of God as they ought to doo And as for the spiritual ache which al godli people haue bi them we see playnly that the hyghe powers haue soughte as muche the reformaciō of them as may be yet they be as craftye as euer they were disguisyng themselfe with sophisticall hipocrisy either new or olde as fast as euer thei did the deuyl is as familier with them as euer he was Wherfore God send vs remedy of them shortly Howbeit most men be in lyke case with theim as women bee with their Parrottes for women vse muche diligence to make theire Parrottes to speake yet with all their diligence they canne not make them to talke so reasonabli as a resonable creature can And no more can no man make those ministers which be onely appoynted by mē to declare the true meanyng of the woorde of God so playnly and truly as it ought to be whatsoeuer be deuised for them For the true vnderstandyng of the holy scriptures is as dyffuse to theim as the wordes of a clasped booke which no man openeth Esaie xxix c. For God hath sent them strong delusiō that they should beleue lyes because they receyued not the loue of the truthe but had pleasure in vnrighteousnesse ii Thess ii chap. c. For they ar cloudes without water trees withoute fruyte at gatheryng tyme beig twise dead wherfore god shal plucke them vp by the rootes For they are lyke the ragynge waues of the sea fomynge oute theire owne shame They ar the wandering starres to whome the myste of darkenesse is reserued for euer Iude. d. For in so much as God promysed but one Ihesus to be Christ Gala. iii. c. A full satisfaction redemption and sustificacion of all his electe people from synne Ebrues x. c. As is before mencioned all men may see and perceyue playnly what shamelesse Antechristes all our Markte men bee whiche haue taughte the people to beleue in others satisfactions other instificacions and other remissiō of syn deniyng also the power of the Holy Ghost saiyng that the spirite of Christ was insufficient without outwarde learnyng to discerne the true meanyng of the holy Scriptures when the electe people of God dyd heare them or reade them whiche is an open blasphemy of the holy gost which Christ saith shall neuer be forgeuen Mat. xii c. Marke iii. b. Luke vii b. Wherfore whosoeuer trusteth vpon their conuersion sheweth himselfe to mistrust the trew literall sence of the holy scriptures spoken by Christ written for our instruction For lyke as God is mercifull accordyng to his promyse so is he righteous accordyng vnto his worde and thereby shall iudge the worlde Ihon. xii g. And by his worde declareth also al thinges nedefull to be knowen to his people before it come to passe Amos. iii. b. iiii d. Whiche the worlde canne not perceyue For what worldly man in the Primatiue Church dyd beleue that it was the wyl of god that al his elect people in Christ should be persecuted hated of all nacions of men vntyll that tyme wherin God wyll glorifie the gospel whiche tyme is also manifestly declared in the holy scriptures both by the Prophetes and also by the Apostles neuertheles all worldly people bothe learned other are as ignoraunt therof as the hygh learned Scribes Phariseis were of Christ For the deuyll being chaunged into the likenes of an Angel of light bath geuē his power vnto marken men hys ministers Apoca. xiii a. By whome all earthely people haue bē disceiued whose incorporacion and power the holy scripture calleth the beast because the spirituall whore of Rome which corrupted all the people of the earth with her fornicaciō dyd syt vpon their doctrine was maintayned therby Apo ca. xvii a. Whose abhominacion God hathe disclosed to dyuerse Kynges and hyghe powers and hathe put in their
¶ THE HARVEST IS AT HAND VVHERIN THE TARES SHALL BE BOVND AND cast into the fyre and brent Math. xiii D. G VUherfore here the worde of the Lorde O ye gentiles preache in the iles that lie farre of and saie he that hath skatered Israel shall gether hym together againe and shall kepe him as a sheperde doeth his flocke for the lorde hath redemed Iacob tidde hym from the hand of the violent they shall come and reioyce vpon the hils of Syon and shall haue plentiousnesse of goodes whiche the lorde shall geue theim and their conscience shal be as a well watered garden for they shall no more be hungrie and whan it is new builded and set vp on this facion it shall neuer be broken nor cast downe any more Ieromi 31. B. B. Neuerthelesse wo be vnto them that calle euill good and good euill whiche make darkenesse lyghte and light darkenesse Esaie the .v. D. The contentes of this voke wherin is mēcioned the policy of popyshe Prestes what wee oughte to pray fore and a comparison betwen them the prestes of baal also diuers textes and sentēses of the holy scripturs to put mē in remembraunce of the wrath of god to com agaynst al vngodly people declarynge also what man is of him selfe in the olde Adam what y e Lawe is wherfore it was geuen what Christ hath done for vs what promys he hath made and to whom and who be the true ministers of his gossple and also who be the deceyuers of the people and an hūble peticion desyred of y e kynges maiestie and a discouerynge of titud of antichristes likwise abrefe declaracion of y e Ioyfull tyme to come with ageneral absolucion for oure fayned speritualtie whome I doo most cōmonly name in the proces here of markt mene or marckt mōsters not onely because they are marcked in their bodies somtimes weare disguysed mōstrus garmētes but because their doctrine is marked also for y t that they wold haue the people to beleue part of the holy scriptur as it was spoken and writtē vnto vs and som other partes therof they wolde not haue them to beleue in the true litterall sence but wolde haue the people to beleue it receiue it only as they do marke it appoynt it out vnto thē and wher as soumtimes do also name them marked mōsters it is because they are soo shamles so far waxen in their abhomynacions that they dare do al vnspekable myschefe Ose vi c. wherfore because no man knowyng the word of god may iustly withe out offence name thē to be any of y e people of god therfore I name them by suche names as be moste agreable to their conuercaciō know ynge y t all they whiche hath bene of the marke and be nowe truly cōuerted perceiueth this to be true wherfore none of them whiche knoweth true godlynes ☞ wylbe offended ☜ ☞ To the reader ☜ Grosely compyled withoute any clearkly Eloquēce by Iohn Champneys an vnlearned laye mane borne in the countie of Somerset alytyl besydes brystowe haueynge more affection in the playne settynge fourth of y ● troth then in alonge Sophystycall Ipocrystishe tale craftily vttered wherfore I desyre you to beare with my rudenes in that y t I haue so grosly gathered certayne places of y e holy scriptures and haue euen so lykewyse written thē herein to put such men in remēbrance as be of god and yet dothe not muche excersyse thē selfues neither in readyng nor hereyng of the holy scriptures that by the mean hereof I mai partli moue them to vse more diligence ther in and also to be more earneste to god in their faythful prayer for the assistaunce of his grace both to attayne spiritual power therby to lyue acordenge to the true relygiō of y e gosple of christ and also to haue the true vnderstandynge of his worde by the gyft of the holy goste in aperfyt fayth beynge establyshed in anvndouted hope of all thynges promysed therein and not to be of awauerynge mynd and so be desceaued by the sophistical ipocrytishe doctrine w t our markt monstres of their owne mindes doth set forth but vtterly to abhōre and dyspyse it gal Lyke as all men which be of god moueth and procureth one another to seke the true knowleage of all godly leuynge onely of god by assistaunce of his grace in y e holy scriptures other in hearynge or readynge therof accordyng to y ● cōmānde ment of god both in the old testament and also in the new Esai xxxiiii Iere. ii f. Iohn v. c. Col. iiii d. Tim. ii a. and iiii b. So likewise our shameles mōsters wolde haue men to beleue that their clerkly sophistical doctrīe should sufficiently instructe the people in the knowlage of the holy scriptures for they them selues know not what the regeneracion of y e spirite of christ is but what the deuel and the subtiltie of mans wit by out warde nynge knoweth y t many of thē be perfect in and therby they set foorth their doctrine Wherfore I haue rudly in this litill botke set furth the trouch as it is written in the holy scriptures in a witnes against their clerkly sophistical cōueiaunce knowyng perfectly y t all people whiche be of the elect of god regenerate in christ doth delit more in eueri part of the truth being neuer so rudely writen or spoken then they doo in aclerkly sophisticallye although he be neuer so pleasantly vttred how be it our markte men set them foorth apase for now that they perceiue y t the highe powers wyll not suffer them to vse their old abhominacions they set foorth newe Ipochritish doctrin to bringe their children aslepe and so to kepe them out of the way how be it if the childern did knowe perfetly what nurscis thei be that rocke them they wolde slepe no more in their cradels but wolde rather ly in y e bare playn groūd w t the electe people of god i christe amōg whom god sayth bi y e prophite Esai xxxiii c. ye shall not se people of astrange tounge to haue so diffuse alangauge that it may not be vnderstande neyther so strange aspeche but that it shal be perceued for al that be the true ministers of christ and haue his sperite in thē as saint paule and wother the appostles had dispise their out warde holynes and clerckly lernynge as saint paul did philipp iii. b. for sainct paul beynge lerned wold in no wise precahe or wryte any thynge cōsernynge the gosple of christ after y e maner of outward lernynge i cor iib. and gala i. c Wherfore be ware of y ● doctryne that is be syde this for to make mani bokes it is an ēdles work preacher xii d. but all scripture geuen by inspiration of god is profitable to reach to improue to amend to instruct in rightuousnes that the mane of god may be perfite prepared vnto all good workes the
what to beleue more of it for because that then diuerse men might make diuerse interpretacions as thei haue doone in tymes past And few of them agree one with another yet euery man coloured his opiniō with the holy scriptures And he that had most sophistical conueiaunce temporall power to maintain his opinion with all was best beleued So that our marked men hauyng the vpper hand supprest the truth alway by terible imprisonmente and death For they made the fyer to defend them agaynst al those people which professed the true religion of the gospel of Christ Wherefore whosoeuer beleueth any part of their doctrine to be good godly in any thīg which is contrary to that that is written within the holy scriptures after the playne literall sence thereof is clearely destitute of al true belefe For no man hath aucthoritie to alter the literall sence of the holy scriptures contrary to y e other manifest scriptures written For that was the inuention of the deuyll and executed by our marked men other such his ministers wherby they deluded all people For of the holy scriptures there is but oue true sence whiche is directly plainly expressed in the letter thereof beyng compared together so that ther is no part of it repugnant one agaynst another But because that naturall men can not do that which the scripture cōman̄deth in the letter therfore they beleue not that the literal sence is always true For thei eonsider uot that there is a new creacion by God aboue nature and y t euery man whiche in Christ is a new creature ii Corin. v. Chapiter d. shapen and fourmed in righeteousnesse and trew holynesse to the Ephesians the .iiii. Chapiter c. And that thereby they doo that which the letter of the holye Scripture cōmaundeth For they vnderstande not that Article of their faythe that the true catholyke people in Christ do the wyll of God by the power of the holy gost Ihō iiii c. And that onely by that lawe of the spirite of lyfe Christ hath delyuered vs from the lawe of syn death Roma viii a. Neither they perceyue not the deuision betwene the spirite the flesh because y e spirit of Christ is not in theim For it is not possible for any mā to discerne the operaciō of that which he knoweth not of Wherfore that was the most principallest parte of our markte mēs doctrine to make the people to beleue that there was no such spirite geuen vnto man wherby he should remaine righteous alway in Christ the Epistle of Ihon. iiii a. Whiche is the most deuelysh error that maye be because it breedeth a a doubte in all them that be infected there with whether the Holy Scripture be true or not beyng written by men hauyng but the very selfe same Spirite of Christ that all other reasonable people hath whiche shall be euer lastingly saued in christ Act. ii f. the first Corin. xii b. Notwithstandyng in outward ministracion the Apostles had power to doo that whiche other membres of the same misticall body of Christ can not doo as in doyng of miracles other thynges Lyke as in a corporal bodye euery membre hathe not one office neither one membre can doo the offece of an other neuertheles euery liuely mēbre of a corporall bodye hath lyfe felyng in them And euen so lywyse euery membre of the misticall body of Christ hath one spirite one intelligence of the worde of God and one purpose of herte in all godlynesse the fyrst to the Corinthiās the xii chapiter d. Ephesians the .iiii. a. c. Ezechiell xi d aud xxxvi f. So that aduisedly willyngly they dooe nothyng agaynst the wyll of god the Epistle of Ihon the .iii. chapiter v. Therfore the holy Scriptures in the trewe literall sence is sufficiente for their outwarde instruction in all godly doctrine For within the letter of the New Testamēt there is sufficient instruction concernyng the true Religion of the gospell among all them which beleue it to be true in the literall sence And who so euer dothe not so beleue it beleueth nor knoweth nothynge that is good Luke xvi g. i. Tim. vi a. but may goloke for vnwritten veryties among these vnnedefull ministers oure Marked Preesthod For what lesse deuelish presūption is it to thinke the holy scripture vnsufficient or vnperfect in the literal sence for all godly instruction but euen a playne deniall of Christ For Christ is included in the worde and the word in Christ Ihon the fyrst chap. a. Wherefore to thynke the worde insufficient is to thynke Christ is insufficient also the holy gost to be vnperfect which wrought alwayes in them that wrote it by whō also it hath ben alwaies preserned shal be to y e worldes ende Ihō xv c. Act. i. a. Ro. x. d. Which scripture doth also manifestly plainly declare vnto vs that the Apostles lefte nothynge vnwritten whiche was proffitable to oure faythe but haue declared the whole coūsell of God beyng nedefull for vs to know act xx d. e. g. neuertheles lyke as wee haue promyses of mercy in Christ so haue we war nyng by Christ Math. xxiiii Marke xiii Luke xxi that many should come in his name saiyng I am Christ shoulde disceiue many cet Wherfore note this that Christ ment not that many shoulde name them selues Christ as it wer by their proper names but this worde Christ hath this significacion to be anoynted of GOD or to haue a godly power For Iesus was anoynted of god and had also the godlye power in hym Wherfore he is called Ihesus Christ an only sauyour anoynted of God for the iustificacion of all his elect people from syn Mat. i. So that all those men which hath taken vpon them any parte of his office in remission of synne saiyng they haue power geuē them so to do hath in so saiyng said thei were christes theim selues because they take that vpō them which was appoynted by GOD onely for Christ to doo Neuerthelesse by the regeneracion of the spirite of Christ all the electe people of God haue power to knowe to declare whose synnes GOD hath forgeuen in Christ also whose synnes he dothe retayne to iudgement For the Spirite of Christ is the onely key of the Kyngdome of Heauen whiche was promysed to the faythe of saynt Peters confession Mat. xvi c. For fayth is the gyfte of God maketh vs righteous And the gyfte of the holy ghost which is the Spirite of Christ maketh vs perfecte bothe in knowledge and power to dooe the wyll of God in spirite But faythe of it selfe hathe neither perfecte knowledge of the holy Scriptures neither power to doo that whiche the Scripture cōmaundeth for that cōmeth onely by the gyfte of the holye ghost after fayth sometime immediatly as we reade Act. x. g And of the good theife Luke xxiii d. and some tyme longe after For there were dyuerse congregacions in the Apostles tyme whiche were
hertes to abhorre dispyse her Neuerthelesse they haue geuen her kyngdome and power vnto the Beast vntyll that tyme the wordes of god be fulfilled Apo. the .xvii. d That is nowe in the dayes of the voyce of the seuēth Angell whiche begynneth to blowe in which tyme the mistery of God shal be openly publysshed as he preached by hys seruantes the Prophetes Apo. x. chap. b. That is that the elect people of God shall onely with the spirite of Christ the worde of God written clearely confute and confound the abhominable cauteilous delusion of all markte men ii Thes ii chap. b. Whose power ascended oute of the bothomlesse pytte and shall nowe be distroyed with all the glori therof for the whole beast shall be taken and confounded and come to nought Esaye the xxviii a. and the Apocalipses the .xix. Chap. d. So that they shall be hated and abhorred of all flesh Esaie the .lxvi. g. For the tyme is come that God wyll vtterly distroye theim because they haue distroyed the godlye people of the earth the Apoca. the .xi. chap. d. Wherfore they shal be cast into the great wyne fat of the wrathe of almightye god Apo. xiiii d. For their cauteilous delusion shall preuayle no longer but shall be vttered to all men the seconde of Tim. the seconde Chapter v. For the lyght of Israell shal be the fier and his Sanctuary shall be the Flame and it shall kyndle and burne vp his thornes bryers in one day Esaie x. d. That is that the spirite of Christ which is the onely true lyght of all the electe people of GOD shall so lyghten and kyndle knowledge in his electe high powers ministers that with the holy scriptures written whiche is their onely sanctuary thei shal clerely confute and confounde all imaginacions of Marked men which is signified by the bryers and thornes because thei be the most noious vn pfitable trees that groweth lyke as Marked men be the most falsest and deuelish people that lyueth And where it is said that they shal be burned in one daye that signifieth that they shall be vtterly confoūded now at this present tyme in the appearaunce of the second comyng of Christ accordyng to the saiyng of s Paule ii Thess ii chap. b. And also agreyng to the other scriptures before mēcioned in that he half so that iniquitee shal be taken a way out of the earth and righteousnesse shall reigne amonge the people the .iiii. of Esdras xvi e Psal xlvi b. lxxvi a. For God sayth by the Prophet Esai ii chap. a. and Micheas iiii a. In the later dayes it wyll come to passe that the hyl of the Lordes house shall be set vp hygher then any moūtaynes or hylles yea the people shall preasse vnto it and the multidude of the Gentyles shall hast theim thyther saiyng Come let vs go vp to the hyll of the Lorde and to the house of the God of Iacob that he may teach vs his ways and that we may walke in his pathes This shall the Heathenysh markte men see and be a shamed Micheas vii c. For the earth shal be full of the knoweledge of the Lordes honor Abucuc ii c. And all the Ilandes of the people shall worship him euery man in his place Sophony the .ii. c. And God wyll make his people to haue a good name and a good reporte amonge all people of the earthe Sophony iiii d Therfore thus sayth the Lorde of hostes let your handes be strōg you that now here these woordes by the mouthe of the Prophetes and be lyuynge in the earth in those dayes zachari viii v. For the power only of the spirite of Christ shall reigne ouer al the earth so that ther shal be none other sauyour named vpon the earth but only Christ Wherfore men shall go about the whole earth as vpon a fielde zachary the .xiiii. chapiter c. And as for all rule power and myght that is vnder heauen it shall bee geuen to the holye people of the moste hyghest whose kyngdome is enerlastynge yea all powers shall serue and obey hym Danyell the .vii. Chapiter g. For God wyll make his people glorious for euer and euer and ioyfull thoroughoute all posterities Esaie lx c. Thus shall the hand of the lorde be knowen amongest his electe people and his indignacion among hys enemyes Esaie lxvi e. For all maner of people which by grace haue gotten the victorye of the beast of his image and of his marke of nombre of his name shal syng the song of Moses the seruaunt of God and shall also syng the song of Christ saiyng Great and merueilous are thy workes lord God almigty iust trew ar thy wayes thou king of sayntes who shall not feare the o lord glorify thy name Apo xv a. For al thendes of the world shal remembre themselues be turned vnto the lorde al naciōs shal worship before hi Psal xx f. Wherfore be glad ye righteous and reioyce in the lorde be ioyfull all ye that be of a true hert Psalme xxxii c. For the Temple of God shal be open and the Arke of his Testament seene therin Apo. xi d. That is that the people shall conuerte to the Gospell haue cleare consciēce to god hauyng his worde for a wytnesse which is the Arke of Christes Testament For vnto theim whiche haue the Lorde before theire eyes strength shal be increased Esay xl g. Wherefore God sayth also by the Prophet Esay to all Markte men the .xli. f. Stand at your cause and bring furthe your strongest grounde shew openly what scriptures ye haue in the true literall sence to deferde your doctrine and cōuersacion with all For your subtyl argumentes maye take no longer place because the scripture sayeth the fyrste of Timothie the .vi. chap. d. your study therin is a false science and nought and so be al you that vse it in any thynge concernynge the doctryne of the holye Scriptures Wherefore nowe shewe your selues as cōfirmable to the plaine truthe of the holye Scriptures written when ye shall fortune to comen thereof as the deuyll your fyrst prouincial dyd when he was confuted by christ mat iiii v. For in so muche as he beyng the aucthor of that profession of your incorporacion dignitee and power confessed the truthe of Christ of his Apostles Mat. viii d. Luke viii d. Actes xvi d. after that he was ones confuted with the scriptures written Be not you no longer more comberous and obstinate agaynst the truthe therof now then the deuil was at that tyme and alleged other thynges to be ment in the holy scriptures then is expressed in the true literall sence therof For if ye do all men wyl know shortly that you ar worse more worthy of condempnacion then the deuyll is for belyke he had not so muche falshed orels he was not so folyshe when he tempted Christ by the scriptures to allege other meanynges therin then was expresse in the letter therof neither he defended not his owne imaginaciōs agaynst the holy scriptures written as all you markte men haue done a longe tyme. Wherefore nowe frō hencefurth suffer the people of God wholly to pourge oute your olde rottēleuen for other wise we can not be new dowe in Christ for a lytle of your leuen sowreth a great peece of dowe i. Corin. v. b. For your salte hathe lost his saltnes wherfore there may nothing be seasoned therewith for it is neither good for the lande nor yet for the donghyll Luke xiiii g. That is that all you markte men which haue taught and affirmed doctrine agaynst the power of the spirite of Christ whiche all the electe people of God dothe receyue shal not be forgeuen neither in this lyfe nor in the lyfe to come Mat. xii d. Mark iii. d Luke xii cha b. Which is ment by youre salte that hathe loste his saltenesse And where the Scriptures sayeth that it is neither good for the lande nor for the donghyll By the lande is signified doctrine for the people and by the donghyll is signified temporall worldly businesse so that your doctrine counsell is not good nor meete to be receiued amōg the people neyther in the doctrine of the gospell for their instructiō neither yet in temporall matters For Christ sayth Mat. v. b. It is good for nothynge but to be cast out and trodden downe of men For who so euer fauoreth any of you which blasphemeth the spirit of christ is a partaker of your yll ii Epist of Ihon. c. Wherfore God cōmaundeth all his electe people to departe out of your company to seperate them selues clearely from you and not to touche any of youre vnclennesse Esaie lii c. ii Cor. vi c. the first Timo. vi b. Apo. xviii b. For your shame shall be discouered and your preuye abhominable delusiō shal be sene For God wyll aduenge hym on you and wyll shew no mercy to you as he doth to other people Esaie xlvii a. For you are the people whom god hath appointed to his wrath within the Ilādes of this part of the world wherby the name of the Lorde myghte be feared Esaie lix b. Wherfore we ought to haue no more in nombre of you to remayne as ministers of the gospeil but euen so many as Elias suffered of Baals Prophetes to liue when he had confounded them by offeryng of Sacrifice the thyrd of the Kynges xviii g Howe be it it is to be thought that Baals Prophetes had not so much sophisticall conueiance to make theire excuse at that tyme as you Markte men haue now orels subtyll excuses were les regarded at that tyme then they be nowe for your abhominacion crafty delusion dothe farre excede and is much more then hath ben found in any maner of people synce the begynnyng of the worlde The particulers partly wherof by Gods assistence shal be more playnly expressed in another booke here after this Finis The worde of the Lorde remayneth for euer ☞ ✚ ☜ God saue the Kyng my Lord Protector the Nobilitie and all those which vnfainedly loueth the gospel The grace of our Lorde Iesus Christ be with vs all Amen Imprintyd at London by Humfrey Powell dwellyng Aboue Holburne Londuit Cum priuilogio ad imprimendum solum AN. Do. 1548. Man Lawe 〈◊〉 Knowsege Pelicion Ioyfull tyme. N●t● Ab●osucion