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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00721	Certaine articles, collected and taken (as it is thought) by the byshops out of a litle boke entituled an admonition to the Parliament, with an answere to the same. Containing a confirmation of the sayde booke in shorte notes; Admonition to the Parliament. Selections.	Fielde, John, d. 1588, attributed name.; Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603, attributed name.; T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608, attributed name.	1572 (1572)	STC 10850; ESTC S112584	10,574	18

❧ CERTAINE Articles collected and taken as it is thought by the Byshops out of a title boke entituled an Admonition to the Parliament wyth an Answere to the same Containing a confirmation of the sayde Booke in shorte notes Esay 5.20 Woe be vnto them that speake good of euill and euill of good whych put darknesse for light and light for darknesse that putte bytter for sweete and sweete for sower The Prynter to the Reader Thys worke is fynished thankes be to God And he only wil keepe vs from the searchers rod. And though master Day and Toy watch warde We hope the liuing God is our sauegarde Let them seeke loke and we now what they can It is but inuentions and pollicies of man. But you wil maruel where it was fynished ended And you shal know perchance when domes day is Imprinted we know where and whan Iudge you the place and you can I. T.I.S TO THE Prelacie IF men be dumbe sure stones shall speake God wyll hys truthe preuaile Let men resist it forceth not It standes when they shall quaile When it of men is most opprest Then God doth set in foote You Prelates knowe how true thys is Thinke then what best may boote You that can councell other men Your selues be councelled God will correct you knowe it well where it is well deserued Yeelde reason why none good you haue Gods churche God 's orders lacke Not God the cause he them requires Your Lordships keepe them backe Thinke on the time reformde to be Your selues which chiefly ought You may else kicke you wot who sayth It s hard auayling nought Repent amende shewe forth your loue You which afflicte your owne And we your best who le Antichriste May quite be ouerthrowne By helpe of God by helpe of Prince Whome God long saue and blesse With prosperous life and earnest zeale At last heauen to possesse ¶ A viewe of the Churche that the Authors of the late publyshed Admonition would haue plauted wythin thys realme of Englande containing such Positions as they hold against the state of the sayd Churche as it is nowe A Reprouse of thys viewe made as it is thought by the Bysheps and a Confirmation of the booke in short notes WE are charged by the apostle to speake truth euery one to hys neighbor which precepte I take to extende to the whole life of man as well in matters concerning the worshyp of God and hys religion an in them that cencerne the common lyfe 〈◊〉 vse of man And to be faultie in it as it is a thyng worthy reprehension in all men so especiallye in the ministers of God and such as are or ought to be by their callyng leaders and conductors of other I speake not thys to carpe or maliciously to bite any man but to warne them brotherly of their faulte that they may amend whych haue erred and cōmitted a scape in thys behalfe Some when they sawe these Articles sayde in thys wylt As they are in all their doings shifters so haue they in the Collection of these Articles shewed them selues to be no lesse vntrue dealers then their causers vaine naught bothe for vouching thyngs out of the Booke which are not in the boke and also in purtyng for the moste true propositions as paradoxes Fol. 3. li. 1. pa. 2. First they holde and affirme that wein England are not yet come to the outward face of a church agreeable to Gods word In this first Allegation there lacketh this word scarse which is in both copptes first and last wherin if they had meant plainly and truely to haue dealt wyth the world they myght haue put it downs as it is in the boke Let then thynke of them as they list but to make a lie in the beginning is foule shameful 2. lin vlt. They will haue the ministers to be called allowed and placed by the people This Article is vtterly falsthed For it is in the Admonition the election was made by the Elders with the common consent of the whole church And so if they condempne the making of ministers what do they else but open their mouthe against God and against the truthe Act. 14.23 3 Fol. 4. li. 7. pa. 13. They wil haue none made minister vnt the minister of some one certain parishe A perillous crroure Loke Paul ad Tit. 1.5 I thynke we haue no Apostles made now a dayes but pastors onely but if you think the contrary I pray you shew me whether such as you make be bounde in conscience to goe unto Turcia Barbaria and such like places or no or why rather they should be boūd to England more then to those places and take hed● heere o●a Popes reason 4 lin 9. They holde that a byshop at no hand hath authoritie to ordaine ministers No not alone but as part of the consistorie and eldership and member of the church as Act. 1. And a byshop as ours are that is Romish byshops creatures of the Canon law by no meanes 5. lin 17. They say for a byshop to say to the minister Receiue the holy ghoste is blasphemous and ridiculous Is this put downe as an error in dede it is erroneous if the holy ghost proceede from them but the let them consider of Caluu Io. 20.22 6 lin 28. They will haue the ministers at their owne pleasure to preach wythout lycence Thys is also falsifyed the boke hath it if any be so wel disposed to preach in their owne charges they may not wythout my Lordes licence A shamefull corruption Any reasonable man would haue known by the second Article that no man can be a preacher at hys owne pleasure but by the admission of the cōgregation but as afore so say we againe A Romish bishop hath nought to do to geue licence and hys is as good to preache by as the Popes calfe was that Felton set vp 7 lin 13. Fol. 17. li. 6. pa. 1. They will haue the ministers discerned from others by no kind of apparell and the apparell appoynted they terme antichristian the apparell appoynted by the Prince disobedyence against the Prince Thys also is falsifyed they speake of the simple kinde of setting for the the sacraments of Christe and afterward in the purer churches compare it wyth the pelfe of beaurifying it as they woulde haue it seeme only found out and appoynted by popes from Paganes The wordes are these they ministred the sacramentes plainly we pompously wyth synging piping surplesse and coape wearing so I finde it in Fol. 4. pa. 2. lin 15. Whether the appared be Antichristian or no it is no time here to debate but lette them shew from whence they had it and le● thē not be ashamed to professe hys name whose cognisance they weare Eyther let them speake as they are apparelled or lette them apparell themselues as they speake But I cry them mercy they do so now and neuer so plainly I am sure they haue put forth here articles whych they shall neuer be able