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A68831	The vvhole workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs, and principall teachers of this Churche of England collected and compiled in one tome togither, beyng before scattered, [and] now in print here exhibited to the Church. To the prayse of God, and profite of all good Christian readers.; Works	Tyndale, William, d. 1536.; Barnes, Robert, 1495-1540. Works. aut; Frith, John, 1503-1533. Works. aut; Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments. Selections.	1573 (1573)	STC 24436; ESTC S117761	1,582,599	896

it foloweth c. S. Paul saith it is profitable to learne with and you say that it is dawnable good to learn herises with S. Paule sayth it is good to improoue heresyes and you say it engendereth heresyes S. Paule sayth it is good to informe and to instruct righteousnes and you say to enforme heresies S. Paule sayth that the man of God may be perfect by it and you say that the Priestes al onely shal haue it so that you play ouerthwart with S. Paule in all thinges Also S. Paule sayth you may all interpretate scripture one by one that all men may learne and all men may haue comfort but let your wynes kéepe sylence in the congregation Marke how that all men may prophesye which S. Augustine doth declare for interpretating Scriptures Therefore it belongeth not all onely to priestes Also hée sayth that women must hold their peace which hée néede not to cōmaund if they were vnlearned Furthermore hée will that womē shall learne of their husbāds at home How shall their husbandes learne them if they bée vnlearned thēselues Also S. Paule geueth testimony of Tymothy that hée was learned in holy scriptures from his childhode the which were able to instruct hym vnto saluatiō by fayth that is in Christ Iesu Here you not how Tymothe was learned in holy scriptures béefore hée was eyther priest or byshop yea being but a childe the which as S. Paule sayth weare able to enstruct hym and you say they bée able to condemne mē Is not this cleane cōtrary against S. Paule are you not ashamed What works shall Antichrist doe more cōtrary to Christ thē these bée let all christē men write the déedes of Antechrist they must all agrée in this that hée shal condemne scripture But that shall be not doe without some colour of right and of holynes and you condemne it hauyng no colour nor no shadow of holynes but all onely reason of fleshlynes and of starke madnes Thinke you if the great Turk would receaue such reasons as yours bée yea and a great deale better agaynst hys Mahomet that hée coulde raigne so long as hée hath done Nay doubtles and yet you loke to bée alowed agaynst Christ the ryght sonne of God yea and that of Christen men which coulde not bée hard agaynst mahomet Also our M. Christ commaundeth his Apostles that they should preach y ● Gospell vnto all creatures as Mathew sayth that they should teach mē to kéepe all manner of things that hée hath cōmaunded them Marke that the Gospell must bée preached to all manner of men not to priestes onely the Apostles must also learne to kéepe all thinges of the Gospell which they can not doe without they know them no if these thinges that the Apostles dyd learne should ingender or be any occasion of heresies then the holy Apostles were occasion by theyr doctrine of heresies Yea and that at the commaundement of our M. Christe what néede the Apostles to learne vs any thing that might bée occasion of heresie were wée not in heresie béefore they came were wée not all disposed of our nature vnto all maner of mischiefe and yet after your learning they come and learne that thing that is occasion of heresie But of your conscience are you not ashamed thus damnably to blaspheme the heauenly worde of God thus shamefully to cōdemne Gods worde thus presumptuously to vndertreade the gifte of y e holy ghost yea and that vnder the pretēce of holynes of Christēdome as though you dyd fauour Christ Will you make Christ an auctor of heresy and that vnder the name of holynes will you by your holynes and your damnable hipocresye condemne our M. Christ the auctor of all goodnes But brieflye if you woulde teach nothing but that which our M. Christ hath left to bée taught we should not haue so many heretykes as we haue For nowe men bée no heretykes for speking agaynst Scripture for you graunt that men speak scripture but for speaking agaynst your law for y e cause bée they made heretykes and by y e bée they proued heretykes Now let euery Christen man Iudge in hys conscience if this bée right or lawfull Is not this a merueilous thing let a man liue in fornicatiō in whoredome in theft in murther drunkennes in extortyon in bribery briefly in all māner of mischyfe and you will haue nothing to doe with thē you will scarsly reproue hym yea hée shall bée a great officer vnderneath you greatly in your fauour But let a man come and preach y e very true Gospell of Christ and thereby reprooue your damnable lyuy●g and thē béegynneth hée to bée an heretycke it shall cost you great labour if you make hym not an heretyke in déede And yet haue you nothing that you can reprooue in hym as concerning hys lyuyng but all onely that hée preacheth the Gospell Is not thys a merueilous heretyke whose lyuyng you must néedes graunt to bée good And also you can not prooue but that his learning is of Christ but all onely that it pleaseth you not no you dare not take in hand to prooue it false but all onely by vyol●ce you will condemne it Thinke you that God will thus suffer remember what hée sayth by the holy Prophet Thou hast reproued the vnfaythfull people hast destroyed the wicked and takē away their name for euer The Lorde hath prepared his trone of Iudgmēt doubt you not but hée shal shortly reprooue you His trone is set to the Iudgemēt must you come where you shall neuer bée able to defēd this cause but you must perishe for euer But here will you say that you preach the Gospell to the people and that is inongh for they néede not to haue it in Englyshe I aunswere I pray you when was there any lawe that euer men were bounde to kéepe but that it was geuen them in wrighting I will not say that you doe not teach them the right Gospell for you know it not But how are they able to beare away that thing y e they doe but heare And if they may heare it of you why may they not also reade it But looke on S. Luke that wrot his Gospell that men might know for a certayne those thinges that they were informed of Moreouer why did y ● Apostle write yea and that vnto lay men séeyng that they were so diligent in preachyng I dare boldly say as you bée ▪ But let vs sée howe lay men were forbydden to read holy Scripture in the Apostles tyme The noblest of Thessalonia whiche receiued the worde searched the Scriptures dayly whether those thinges that Paule preached were so or not here haue you playne that lay men searched Scriptures to knowe whether Paules doctrine were true or not and also how they read dayly Scriptures And now come you and say that lay men shall read no Scriptures but alonely receiue thē of your

in the kyngdome of God Christ nor any felyng therof And who shall take those diseases from them God onely through his mercy for they cā not put of that complection of them selues vntill they be taught to beleue and to fele that it is damnable and to consent vnto the contrary liuing And vnto the second part I aunswere that in respect of God we doe but suffer onely and receaue power to do all our deedes whether we do good or bad as Christ aunswered Pylate that hee could haue no power agaynst him except it were geuen him from aboue and no more could Iudas neither But in respect of y e thing wherin or wherwith we worke and sheade out agayne the power that we haue receaued we woorke actually As the axe doth nothyng in respect of the hād that heweth saue receaue but in respect of the tree that is cut it worketh actually powreth out agayne the power that it hath receaued M. Item that God is author of good and euill as wel of the euill will of Iudas in betraying Christ as of the good will of Christ in sufferyng his passion Tyndall The power wherewith we do good and euill is of God the will is of God As y e power which the murtherer abuseth and wherewith he killeth a man vnrighteously is of God the will wherewith he willeth it But the wickednesse of his wil and crokednesse or frowardnesse wherewith hee sleath vnrighteously to auēge him selfe to satisfie his owne lustes the cause why he knoweth not the law of God and consenteth not to it whiche law should haue informed his will and corrected the crokednesse therof and haue taught him to vse his will his power right is his blindnesses fault onely and not Gods Whiche blindnesse the deuill hath poysoned him with M. Item matrimonie is no Sacramēt Tyndall Matrimonie is a similitude of the kyngdome of heauen as are many thynges mo like as it appeareth by Christ in the Gospell But who institute it to be a Sacrament Or who at his mariage was taught the signification of it Who was euer bound to receaue it in the name of a Sacrament I would to Christes bloud that ye wold make a Sacrament of it vnto all men and women that be maryed and vnto all other and would at euery mariage teach the people to know the benefite of Christ through the similitude of Matrimony And I affirme that in the popes Churche there is no Sacrament For where no signification is there is no Sacrament A signe is no signe vnto him that vnderstādeth nought therby as a spech is no spech vnto him that vnderstādeth it not I would to Christes passion that ye would let them be Sacramentes which Christ institute ordeined for Sacramentes And then if ye make of your own braynes fiue hūdred therto I would not be so greatly greued though I would not geue my consent vnto so great a multitude partly for the bondage and specially lest we should in tyme to come the significations of them lost fall into Idolatrie agayne and make holy workes of them after the exāple of the blindnesse wherin we be now but I would haue the woorde euer liuely preached out of the playne text M. Item that all holy orders bee but mens inuention Tyndall The office of an Apostle Byshop Priest Deacon and Widow are of God But as concerning the shanyng the oylyng and diuersitie of rayment and many degrees sence added therto proue that they be but mens traditions But and ye will make Sacramentes of the oylyng shanyng sheryng and garmentes put their significations vnto them and let the kyngs grace compell them to keepe them and I admitte them for Sacramentes and vntill that tyme I hold them for the false signes of hypocrites M. Itēm that euery man and woman is a Priest and maye consecrate the body of Christ Tyndall In bodyly seruice if the officer appoynted be away euery other person not onely may but also is boūd to helpe at neede euen so much as hys neighbours dogge How much more then ought men to assiste one an other in the health of their soules at al times of nede if the man be away the womā may and is bound to Baptise in tyme of nede by the law of loue which office perteineth vnto the priest onely If she be Lady ouer the greatest ordeined by God that she may Baptise why shuld she not haue power also ouer the lesse to minister the ceremonies whiche the Pope hath added to as his oyle his salt his spitell his candle and cresomcloth And why might she not pray all the prayers except that Idole the pope be greater then the very God if womē had brought a child to Church while the Priest other men taryed the child were in ieoperdy might they not baptise him in the font if there were no other water by And if other water were by yet if that holpe better one mite loue requireth to baptise him therin And then why might not women touch all their other oyle If a woman learned in Christ were driuen vnto an I le where Christ was neuer preached might she not there preach and teach to minister the Sacraments and make officers The case is possible shew thē what should let that she might not loue thy neighbour as thy selfe doth cōpel Nay she may not consecrat Why If the pope loued vs as wel as Christ hee would finde no faulte therewith though a womā at nede ministred that Sacrament if it bee so necessary as ye make it In bodyly wealth he that would haue me one ace lesse then hymselfe loueth me not as well as himselfe how much more ought we to loue one an other in thynges pertainyng vnto the soule M. Item that the host is no sacrifice Tyndall Christ is no more killed It is therfore the Sacrament signe memoriall of that sacrifice wherewith Christ offered his body for our sinnes and commaūded saying this do in the remembraunce of me We be not holpe with any visible deede that the Priest there doth saue in that it putteth vs in remembraunce of Christes death passion for our sinnes As the garmentes and straunge holy gestures helpe vs not but in that they put vs in remembraunce of thyngs that Christ suffered for vs in his passion Euen so the shewyng breakyng and eatyng of the host the shewyng and drinkyng of the cup of Christes bloud and the wordes and the consecration helpe vs not a pinne nor are gods seruice saue onely in that they styrre vp our repentyng fayth to call to mynde the death and passion of Christ for our sinnes And therfore to call it a sacrifice is but abused speach as when we call one that is new come home to breakfast and set a Capon before him and say this is your welcome home meaning yet by that speach that it is but

haue submitted thy self vnto thy father and mother agayne If thou obey though it be but carnally either for feare for vayne glorie or profite thy blessyng shal be long lyfe vpon the earth For he sayth honour thy father and mother that thou mayest liue long vpon the earth Exod. xx Contrarywise if thou disobey them thy life shal be shortned vpon the earth For it foloweth Exod. xxj He that smiteth his father or mother shal be put to death for it And he that curseth that is to say rayleth or dishonoured hys father or mother with opprobrious woordes shal be slayne for it And Deut. xx● If any man haue a sonne stubburne and disobedient which heareth not the voyce of his father and the voyce of hys mother so that they haue taught hym nurtoure and he regardeth them not then let his father and mother take hym bryng him forth vnto the Seniours or elders of the Citie and vnto the gate of the same place And let them say vnto the Seniours of that Citie this our sonne is stubburne and disobedient He will not harken vnto our voyce he is a rioter and a dronkard Thē let the men of the Citie stone hym with stones vnto death so shall ye put awaye wickednesse from among you and all Israell shall heare and shall feare And though that the temporall officers to their owne damnation be negligent in punishing such disobedience as the spirituall officers are to teache it and winke at it or looke on it thorough the fingers yet shall they not scape vnpunished For the vengeance of God shall accōpanie them as thou mayst see Deut. xxviij With all misfortune and euill lucke shall not depart from them vntill they be murdered drownde or hanged either vntill by one mischaunce or an other they be vtterly brought to nought Yea the world often tymes hangeth many a man for that they neuer deserued but God hāgeth them because they would not obey and harkē vnto their elders as the consciences of many well finde when they come vnto the galowes There can they preach and teach other that whiche they thē selues would not learne in season The Mariage also of the children perteineth vnto their elders as thou mayst see i. Cor. vij and throughout all the Scripture by the authoritie of the sayd commaundement child obey father and mother Whiche thyng the heathen and gentiles haue euer kept and to this day keepe vnto thee great shame and rebuke of vs Christē in as much as the weddyngs of our virgins shame it is to speake it are more lyke vnto the saute of a bitche then the mariyng of a reasonable creature Se not we dayly three or foure calengyng one woman before the Commissary or Officiall of whiche not one hath the consent of her father and mother And yet hee that hath most money hath best right and shall haue her in the despite of all her frendes and in deffiaunce of Gods ordinaunces Moreouer when she is geuen by the iudge vnto y t one party also maried euen then oft tymes shall the contrary party sue before an hyer iudge or an other that succedeth the same for money deuorce her agayne So shamefully doth the couetousnes and ambition of our Prelates mocke with the lawes of God I passe ouer with silence how many yeares they will prolōg the sentence with cauillations and suttletie if they be well monyed on both parties and if a damsel promise ij how shamefull Councel they will geue the second and also how the religious of Sathan do separate vnseperable matrimonie For after thou art lawfully maryed at the commaundemēt of father and mother and with the consent of all thy frendes yet if thou wilt be disgised eke vnto one of them and sweare obediēce vnto their traditions thou mayst disobey father and mother breake the othe which thou hast sworne to God before his holy congregation and withdraw loue and charitie the hyest of Gods cōmaundements and that dutie and seruice which thou owest vnto thy wife whereof Christ can not dispence with thee For Christ is not agaynst God but with God and came not to breake Gods ordinaunces but to fulfill them That is hee came to ouercome thee w t kindnes and to make thee to do of very loue the thyng which the law cōpelleth thee to doe For loue onely and to do seruice vnto thy neighbour is the fulfillyng of the law in y t sight of God To be a Monke or a Frier thou mayst thus forsake thy wife before thou hast lyne with her but not to be a seculare priest And yet after thou art professed the Pope for money wil dispence with thee both for thy coate and all thy obedience make a seculer Priest of thee likewise as it is simonie to sell a benefice as they call it but to resigne vpon a pension and thē to redeine the same is no simony at all Oh crafty iugglers and mockers with the word of God ¶ The obedience of wiues vnto their husbandes AFter that Eue was deceaued of the Serpent God said vnto her Gene. iij. Thy lust or appetite shall perteyne vnto thy husband and he shall rule thee or raigne ouer thee God whiche created the woman knoweth what is in that weake vessell as Peter calleth her and hath therefore put her vnder the obedience of her husband to rule her lustes and wanton appetites i. Peter iij. exhorteth wiues to bee in subiection vnto their husbandes after the ensample of the holy wemen whiche in old tyme trusted in GOD and as Sara obeyed Abraham and called hym Lord. Whiche Sara before she was maried was Abrahams sister and equall with him but as soone as she was maried was in subiection and became with out comparison inferior For so is the nature of wedlocke by the ordinaunce of God It were much better that our wiues folowed the ensample of the holy wemen of old time in obeyeng their husbands then to worshyp them with a Pater noster an Aue and a Credo or to sticke vp candles before their images Paul Ephe. v. sayth wemen submitte your selues vnto your own husbādes as vnto the Lord. For the husband is the wiues head euen as Christ is the head of the congregation Therfore as the congregation is in subiection to Christ likewise let wiues be in subiectiō vnto their husbādes in all things Let the woman therfore feare her husband as Paul sayth in the sayd place For her husband is vnto her in y t stede of God that she obey him and wayte on hys commaundementes And hys commaundementes are Gods commaundements If she therfore grudge agaynst him or resiste hym she grudgeth against God and resisteth God ¶ The obedience of Seruauntes vnto their Maisters SEruauntes obey your carnall masters with feare and tremblyng in singlenesse of your hartes as vnto Christ not with seruice in the eye sight as mē pleaseres but as the

to mary and commaūding to absteine from meates which God hath created to be receaued wyth geuing thākes Which two thynges who euer did saue y e Pope Rochesters God makyng sinne in the creatures which God hath created for mās vse to be receaued wyth thankes The kyngdome of heauē is not meate and drinke sayth Paule but righteousnes peace and ioye in the holy Ghost For whosoeuer in these thynges serueth Christ pleaseth God and is alowed of men Rom. xiiij Had Rochester therfore not a cōscience marked wyth the hote yron of malice so that he can not consent vnto the will of God and glory of Christ he woulde not haue so alleaged the texte which is contrary to none saue themselues He alleageth an other text of Paule in the second chapter of his second epistle to the Thessalonians Erit dissessi● primum that is sayth Rochester before the comming of Antichrist there shall be a notable departing from the fayth And Paule sayth The Lord commeth not except there come a departing first Paules meaning is that the last day commeth not so shortly but that Antichrist shall come first and destroy the faith and sit in the temple of God and make all men worship him and beleue in hym as the Pope doth and then shal Gods worde come to light againe as it doth at thys tyme and destroy hym and vtter his iuggling and then cōmeth Christ vnto iudgement What say ye of this crafty cōueyar Would he spare suppose ye to alleage to wrest other doctours pestilently which feareth not for to iugle wyth y ● holy scripture of God expounding y ● vnto Antichrist which Paule speaketh of Christ No be ye sure But euen after this maner wise peruert they the whole scripture and all doctours wresting thē vnto their abhominable purpose cleane contrary to the meaning of the text to the circumstaunces that goe before and after Which deuelishe falshod lest the lay men should perceaue is the very cause why y ● they will not suffer the Scripture to be had in the Englishe tounge neither any worke to be made that should bring the people to knowledge of the truth He alleageth for the Popes authoritie Saint Ciprian Saint Augustine Ambrose Hierome and Origene of which neuer one knew of any authoritie that one Bishop should haue aboue an other And Saint Gregory alleageth he which would receaue no such authoritie aboue hys brethren when it was profered hym As the maner is to call Tully chiefe of Oratours for hys singular cloquence and Aristotle chiefe of Philosophers and Virgill chiefe of Poets for thir singular learnyng and not for any authoritie that they had ouer other so was it the maner to call Peter chiefe of the Apostles for his singular actiuitie and boldnes and not that he shoulde be Lord ouer his brethren contrary to hys owne doctrine Yet compare that chiefe Apostle vnto Paule and he is found a great way inferior This I say not that I woulde that any man shoulde make a God of Paule contrary vnto hys owne learning Notwithstāding yet this maner of speaking is left vnto vs of our elders that when we say the Apostle sayth so we vnderstand Paule for hys excellency aboue other Apostles I would he would tel you how Hieroin Augustine Bede Origene and other doctours expound this texte vpon this rocke I wyll builde my congregation and how they enterpret the keyes also Thereto Pasce pasce pasce which Rochester leaueth without any Englishe signifieth not Pol● shere and shaue Vpon which texte beholde the faithfull exposition of Bede Note also how craftely he would enfeoffe the Apostles of Christ with their wicked traditions and false Ceremonies which they themselues haue fayned alleaging Paule ij Thessal ij I aunswere that Paule taught by mouth such things as he wrote in his epistles And his traditions were the Gospell of Christ and honest maners liuing and such a good order as becommeth the doctrine of Christ As that a woman obey her husband haue her head couered keepe silence and goe womanly and christenly apparelled that children and seruauntes be in subiection and that the younge obey their elders that no man eate but he that laboureth and worketh and that men make an earnest thing of Gods word and of hys holy Sacramentes and to watch fast and pray and such lyke as the Scripture commaundeth Which thynges he that woulde breake were no christen man But we may well cōplayne and crye to God for helpe that it is not lawful for the Popes tyranny to teach y ● people what prayer is what fasting is and wherefore it serueth There were also certayne customes alway which were not commaunded in paine of hell or euerlasting dānatiō as to watch all night and to kysse one an other which as soone as the people abused then they brake thē For which cause the Byshops myght breake many thynges now in lyke maner Paule also in many thynges which God had made free gaue pure and faythfull coūcell without tangling of any mans cōscience and without all maner commaundyng vnder payne of cursing payne of excommunication payne of heresie payne of burnyng payne of deadly sinne payne of hell and payne of damnatiō As thou mayst see i. Cor. 7. Where he counceleth the vnmaried the widowes and virgines that it is good so to abyde if they haue the gift of chastitie Not to winne heauē therby for neither Circumcision neither vncircumcision is any thyng at all but the kepyng of the commaundementes is altogether But that they might be without trouble and might also the better wayte on Gods worde and s●elyer serue their brethren And sayth as a faithfull seruaunt that he had none authority of the Lord to geue them any commaundement But that the Apostles gaue vs any blynd ceremonies wherof we should not know the reason that I denye and also defie as a thyng cleane contrary vnto the learnyng of Paul euery where For Paul commaundeth that no man once speake in the Church that is in the congregation but in a toung that all men vnderstand except that there be an interpreter by he cōmaundeth to labour for knowledge vnderstandyng and feelyng and to beware of superstition persuasions of worldly wisedome philosophy and of hypocrisie and ceremonies and of all maner disguising to walke in y ● playne and open truth Ye were once darkenes sayth he but now are ye light in the Lord walke therefore as the children of light Ephe. v. how doth Paul also wish them encrease of grace in euery Epistle How crieth he to God to augment their knowledge that they should be no more children waueryng with euery winde of doctrine but would vouchsafe to make them full men in Christ and in the vnderstandyng of the mysteries or secretes of Christ so that it should no be possible for any man to disceaue them with any entisyng reasons of worldly wisedom or to beguile them with blind

teaching other to pray to them None of them also which taketh vpon them to saue other wyth their prayers trusteth to be saued thereby themselues but hyre other to pray for them Moyses taketh recorde of God that he tooke not of any of the people so much as an Asse neither vexed any of them Numeri xvj Samuell in y t fyrst booke of kynges the xij chapter asked all Israell whether he had taken any mans Oxe or Asse or had vexed any man or had taken any gift or rewarde of any man And all the people testified nay yet these two both taught the people and also prayed for them as much as our prelates doe Peter j. Peter v. exhorteth the elders to take the ouersight of Christes flocke not for filthy lucre but of a good will euen for loue Paul Act. xx taketh the Priestes or elders to recorde that he had taught repentaunce and fayth and all y ● councell of God And yet had desired no mans golde siluer or vesture but fedde himselfe with the labour of hys handes And yet these two taught and prayed for the people as much as our Prelates doe wyth whom it goeth after the common saying no penny no Pater noster Which Prelates yet as they teach not but beate onely so wote they not what prayer meaneth Moreouer the lawe of loue which Christ left among vs is to geue and not to receaue What prayer is it then that thus robbeth all the world cōtrary to that great commaundemēt which is the ende of all commaundementes and in which all other are conteyned If men should continue to buie prayer foure or fiue hundred yeares moe as they haue done there would not be a foote of grounde in Christendome neither any worldly thyng which they y ● will be called spirituall onely shoulde not possesse And thus all shoulde be called spirituall Wo be to you Lawyers for ye lade men wyth burdēs which they are not able to beare ye yours selues touch not the packes wyth one of your fingers saith Christ Luke xj Our Lawyers verely haue laden vs a thousand tymes more What spirituall kynred haue they made in baptime to let matrimonie besides that they haue added certaine degrees vnto the law naturall for the same purpose What an vnbearable burthen of chastitie do they violently thrust on other mēs backes and how easely beare they it themselues How sore a burden How cruell a hāgman How greuous a torment yea how paynefull an hell is this eare confession vnto mens consciences For the people are brought in beliefe that with out that they can not be saued In so much that some faste certayne dayes in the yeare and pray certayne superstitious prayers all their lyues longe that they may not die without confession In perill of death if the Priest be not by the shippemen shriue themselues vnto the Mast If any be present they runne then euery mā into his eare but to gods promises flye they not for they know them not If any man haue a deathes wounde he cryeth immediatly for a Priest If a man die without shrift many take it for a signe of damnation Many by reason of that false beliefe die in desperation Many for shame keepe backe of their confession xx xxx yeares and thinke all the while that they be damned I knew a poore woman with childe which longed and being ouercomen of her passion eate fleshe on a Friday which thing she durst not confesse in the space of xviij yeares and thought all that while that she had ben damned and yet sinned she not at all Is not this a sore burden that so weyeth downe the soule vnto the bottome of hell What shoulde I say A great booke were not sufficient to rehearse y ● snares which they haue layde to robbe men both of their goodes and also of the trust which they shoulde haue in Gods worde The Scribes and Phariseis do all their workes to be sene of men They set abroade their Philacteries make long borders on their garmentes and loue to sit vppermost at feastes and to haue the chiefe seates in the synagoges that is in the congregations or councels and to be called Rabby that is to saye maisters sayth Christ Math. xxiij Beholde the deedes of our spiritualtie and how many thousand fashions are among them to be knowen by Which as none is like an other so loueth none an other For euery one of them supposeth that all other polle to fast and make to many captiues yet to resiste Christ are they all agreed least they shoulde be all compeld to deliuer vp their prisoners to hym Beholde the monsters how they are disguised with miters croses and hatt●s with crosses pillers and pollaxes and wyth thre crownes What names haue they my Lord Prior my Lord Abbot my Lord Byshop my Lord Archbishop Cardinall and Legate if it please your fatherhod if it please your Lordship if it please your grace if it please your holines and innumerable such like Beholde how they are esteemed and how hie they be crept vp aboue all not into worldly seates onely but into the seate of God the hartes of men where they sit aboue God himselfe For both they whatsoeuer they make of their owne heades is more feared and dread then God and his commaundements In them and their deseruinges put we more trust then in Christ and hys merites To their promises geue we more fayth then to the promises which God hath sworne in Christes bloud The hypocrites say vnto the kings and Lordes these heretickes would haue vs downe first and then you to make of all cōmon Nay ye hypocrites and right heretickes approued by open Scripture the kinges and Lordes are downe already that so low that they can not go lower Ye treade them vnder your feete and lead thē captiue and haue made them your bonde seruaunts to waite on your filthy lustes and to auenge your malice on euery man contrary vnto the right of Gods word Ye haue not onely robbed them of their lād authoritie honour and due obediēce which ye owe vnto them but also of their wittes so that they are not without vnderstādyng in Gods word onely but euē in worldly matters that pertaine vnto their offices they are more then children Ye beare them in hand what ye will and haue brought them euē in case like vnto them which when they daunce naked in nettes beleue they are inuisible We would haue them vp agayne and restored vnto the rowme and authoritie which GOD hath geuen them and whereof ye haue robbed them And your inward falsehode we do but vtter onely with the light of Gods word that your hypocrisie might be sene Be learned therfore ye that iudge the world lest God be angry with you and ye perish from the right way Wo be to you Scribes and Phariseis hypocrites For ye make cleane y t vtterside of the cuppe and of the platter

cōmyng of Christ as it is to see in the Gospell contrary vnto M. Mores deceitfull Poetry And agayn God reserued hym a litle flocke euer in Israell and had euer Prophets there some time openly and some time in persecution that euery man must hide hym selfe and keepe hys fayth secret and euen in the houses of the euill kynges both of Iewry and also of Israell he had good people and that among the hyghe officers but secretly as Nicodemus among the Phariseis So that the very Churche was euery where ofttymes in captiuitie and persecution vnder their brethren as we bee vnder ours in the kyngdome of the Pope Then he putteth no ieopardy to worshpp an vnconsecrated hoste But with what worshyp men should woorshyp the consecrated doth he not teach neither the vse of that Sacrament or any other nor how ought may be worshipped but teacheth onely that all thynges may be worshypped and sheweth not the right worshyp from the false Then he noteth Paul 1. Cor. 1. how he exhorteth vs to agree onely but not on the truth or on the good but onely to agree a great multitude together O this deepe blindnesse Dyd not Paule first teach them the true way And did hee not instruct them a new in the true way and in the said Epistle rebuke the false confidence that they had in men the cause of all their dissention and all errours that were among them Then he sayth the Iewes had Saintes in honour as the Patriarkes and Prophetes We teach to dishonour none But the Iewes prayed to none More Christ rebuked not the Phariseis for garnishyng the sepulchres of the Prophetes but for that they folowed the cōditions of thē that slew them Tyndale Yes and for their false trust in suche woorkes as we do you And ye Syr thinke that ye deserue heauen in worshyppyng the Saintes bones and be as ready to slea them that beleue teach and lyue as the Saintes dyd as your fathers were to slea thē besides that ye worshyp Saintes that folowed Christ after the example of your holy Cardinall of whom I doubt not but that ye will make a God in processe of tyme also Then repeateth he for forgettyng how Eliseus bones raised vp a dead body That was to confirme his preachyng onely For the Israelites as wicked as they were neither prayed to hym neither kissed his bones nor offered nor sticked vppe candels before hym Whiche thyng if they had done in the kyngdōe of y ● Iewes I doubt not but that some good kyng wold haue burnt his bones to ashes as wel as the brasen Serpent that was as great a relique as dead bones And Christ shewed miracles at the findyng of the crosse That was to stablish the faith of Christes death and that it should be a memory of his death not that we shuld trust in the wood as we do For which false abuse y t whole land where Christ dyd his miracles is destroyed Then he alledgeth the woman that was healed through touching of Christes coate because we should worshyppe it When Christ sayd her fayth hath made her whole not in the coate but in Christ And the miracle was shewed to prouoke to the worshyppyng of the preachyng and not of the coate Though to kepe the coate reuerently in the memoriall of the deede to prouoke vnto the fayth of Christ were not euill of it selfe And Paule by your doctrine sent hys napkin to heale y t sicke that mē should shrine his sneueled napkin and not to beleue his preachyng The x. Chapter THe x. chapter of Saint Walary is meete for the auctor and his worshipfull doctrine The xi Chapter IN the xi he iuggleth wyth thys misticall terme Latria I answere God is no vayne name but signifieth one that is almighty all mercifull all true and good which he that beleueth will goe to God to hys promises and Testament and not follow his owne imaginations as M. Mores doctrine teacheth He sayth that bodely seruice is not Latria No but bodely seruice done referred vnto hym ▪ which is a spirite is Idololatria He trusteth that men know the Image from the Saint I aske M. More why God did hide Moses body diuers other The Iewes would haue knowen y t Moses had not bene God and that Moses bones had not bene Moses And they knew that the brasē serpent was not God and that y t golden calues were not God that wod and stone were not God But Syr there is euer a false imagination by The world because they can not worship God in the spirite to repent of euill and to loue the lawe and to beleue that he wyll helpe at al neede therfore runne they vnto their owne imaginations and thinke that God for such seruice as they do to Images will fulfill their worldly desires for godly cā they nought desire Now God is a spirite and wil be worshipped in hys woorde onely which is spirituall and wil haue no bodely seruice And the ceremonies of the olde law he set vp to signifie his word onely and to keepe the people in mynde of hys testament So that he which obserueth any ceremony of any other purpose is an Idolater that is an Image seruer And when he sayth if men aske women whether it were our Lady of Walsingam or Ipswich that was saluted of Gabriel or that stoode by Christ when he hung on the crosse they wyll say neyther nother Then I aske hym what meaneth it that they say our Lady of Walsingam pray for me our Lady of Ipswich pray for me our Lady of Wilsdō pray for me in so much y ● some which recken thēselues no small fooles make them roules of halfe an houre long to pray after that maner And they that so pray thou mayst ●e sure meane our Lady that stoode by the crosse and her that was saluted therto Then he rehearseth many abuses and how that womē sing songes of ribaudry in processions in cathedral churches vnto which abhominatiōs yet our holy church that cānot erre cōsent wyth full delectatiō For on the one side they will not amende the abuse And on the other side they haue hyred M. More to proue with his sophistry that y e things ought not to be put downe Then he bringeth in how the wilde Irish and the Welch pray when they go to steale And asketh whether because they abuse prayer we should put all praying downe Nay M. More it is not like Prayer is Gods commaundement where fayth is there must prayer needes be cannot be away How be it thynges that are but mens traditions and all indifferent thynges which we may be as well without as wyth may well be put downe for their dishonouring of God thorow y ● abuse We haue turned kissing in the Church into the Pax. We haue put downe watching all night in the church on saintes eues for

that dare moste boldelye and with least shame depose Princes without a cause hée is best able to bée pope He that can by any trayne craft or subtyltye bring vnder hym any byshop or any spirituall person or inuent any newe clausein their othe hée is to bée alowed afore other Moreouer hée y e kéepeth fewest women and hath most of them that you wote of hée is holyest apte to bée head of your church And hée y e can most tyranously burne mē for preaching of y e Gospel and hée hym selfe to take no labours therein Item to burne priestes y e mary wiues and hée hym selfe to liue in all myschefe whordome yea in such abhominablenes as no man may with honestye speake you knowe what I meane this man I say hath a good testimony afore his spirituality that hée is a lawfull man to that office Furthermore hée that is a whores sonne as our holy father is now and can finde the meanes that 12. men will forswere them selfe that hée is lawfully borne as this holy Clement dyd This is a fitte father for such children Finally hée y e can geue most mony and bye y e greatest part of cardinales of hys syde hée is best worthy to bée called Pope to sit on Peters stoole For it can not bée vnknowen to you how y e Thomas Woulcy an holy piller of your Church woulde haue béene Pope whē this Clement was chosen and did offer for it a resonable peny But Clement dasshed hym out of consayte with 20000. li. more then hée offered and so hée was iudged best worthy and entered in lawfully and regularly and vnto him our bishops bée sworne and obedient And why because they will haue such a head as they bee members for how coulde els their kingdome stand For if one should bee chosen after the rule of blessed S. Paule or els after the lyuynge of these newe heretykes which bée simple and poore and care not for no dignityes nor will neuer swere nor fyght and would rather mary a wyfe of their owne then take other mens and alwayes studying preaching Gods worde séeking onely the honour of God and the profyt of his neighbour and will bée subiect and obedient in all thinges desiring none exception to his prince This man I say shoulde bée vnlawfull not eligible for hée were able to destroy y e whole kingdome of y e papistes and not worthy to receiue an othe of my Lordes y e byshops which will not gladly be periured for such a mās sake For he were able to destroy y e whole church of Rome vnto the which our Byshops haue béene before sworne It foloweth in your othe I shall not consent in counsell or in déede that they shoulde lose eyther lyfe or member or that they shoulde bée taken or trapped by any euill meane What néede you to sweare thus vnto the Pope doth not the order of charitie binde you thus to vse your selfe towarde all men that is to say neither to hurt them nor to harme them neither to intrappe them nor betraye them But all men must bée betrayde and with crafte and subtiltie vndone for the mayntenaunce of thys one wretched person The truth is that neuer man spake against this popet but you destroyde him and betrayde him But this popet hath blasphemed and betrayde all potestates and yet you were neuer against hym And why because you be sworne to hym And you will kéepe your othe bée it right or wrong But in your last othe which hath béene newely made is added thys clause That no man should lay violent bandes vpon them in any wyse or any wrong shoulde bee done vnto them by any maner of colour This part is newly brought in since the fleshe of the Pope hath béene so holy that no man might touch it but harlottes Christen men must patiently suffer iniuries and wrōges but your head will forsweare that point and mayntaine himselfe through your power against all men How neare that this is the Apostles liuing all Christen men can well iudge It foloweth in your othe Their counsell that shal bée shewed vnto mée either by theyr letters or by their messengers I shal open to no man to their hurte or damage Let Princes beware whan the pope sendeth coūselles vnto you for the meaning is to betraye them For all the worlde knoweth that the pope and you doth litle regarde what the beggars of the worlde doth handle But what Emperours kyngs and Dukes doth handle that must you let and destroye For that is the Popes counsell And you may shewe it to no man No not to your kyng And why because you are sworne to the pope But what say you to your othe made vnto your prince wherein you sweare that you shall be faithfull and true and beare vnto him aboue all creatures loue and fauour to lyue and to dye with hym and to open vnto him all maner of counselles that may bée hurtful vnto his grace Now is it well knowne that the pope hath done and dayly doth handle such coūselles as bée against our princes honour and conseruation And yet you may neyther tell it to your prince nor let it And why because you be sworn to the pope and for sworne to your prince Tell me when any thyng was opened vnto our prince by you that the pope had handeled in counsell agaynst our prince Of this thing I will take recorde of his noble grace whether I say true or false And yet must I bee accused of treason And why because you are sworne to the pope And I am true to the kyng It foloweth I shall helpe to defend and mayntaine the papistry of Rome against all men sauing myne order And in your new othe now in oure dayes made is added The regalles of Saint Peter What and in all mē bée contained your prince you must néedes defend him And why because ye bée sworne to the pope forsworn to your prince For your othe to your prince is to defend him with all your wit reason against all men Now must you forsake one of them And your practise hath béene alwayes to forsake your prince and sticke to the pope For of your othe made to your prince you haue béene oftentimes assoiled And as your lawe sayth the Church of Rome is wont so do doe But of your othe made vnto y e pope there is no absolution neither in heauen nor earth Neither was it euer redde heard nor séene that there could bée any dispensation for it Let mée bée reported by all y e bookes that euer were written and by all the bulles that euer were graunted and by all the experience that euer was vsed And if I bée found false let mée bée blamed And yet I am sure many mē will recken that I speake vncharitably But I would faine learne of all y e charitable mē in England with what other English wordes I coulde