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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68446	An humble supplicacion vnto God for the restoring of hys holye woorde, vnto the churche of Englande, mooste mete to be sayde in these oure dayes, euen with teares of euery true [and] faythfull English harte.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1554 (1554)	STC 1730; ESTC S110450	34,239	76

was thy godly pleasure too call hym froÌ„ this vale of misery / vnto thy heaueÌ„ly kingdome / thou gauest vnto vs his sonne to be Kyng Edvvarde the sixte oure Kynge / a Prince / althoughe yonge in yeares / tender in age / yet auncieut in the knowledge of the / of thy sonne Christ / of thy holy worde / as another Iosias / altogether bent vtterly to wedeout al fals religion / supersticioÌ„ / hypocrisye / papistrie / c. after a moste perfect manner / to set vp thy holy religion / to auauÌ„ce the harâ—y fauourers of thesame / vnto the great woÌ„derful exaÌ„ple of all Christen princes But alas for sorow / this most goodly godly Impe / this moste ChristeÌ„ kyng / this noble yoÌ„ge Iosias was for oure vnthankefulnes wicked lyuing taken awaye from vs / before the tyme vnto our great sorow vnspeakable hartes disease Whose death was the beginning / is now still the coÌ„tinuauÌ„ce of all our sorowes / griefes miseries For in the steade of that verteous prince / thou haste set to rule ouer vs an womaÌ„ / whom nature hath formed 1. Tim. 2. to be in subieccioÌ„ vnto maÌ„ / whoÌ„ thou by thyne holy Apostle coÌ„maundest to kepe sileÌ„ce / not to speake in the coÌ„gregacioÌ„ Ah Lord / to take away the empire froÌ„ a maÌ„ / to gyue it vnto a womaÌ„ / semeth to be an euideÌ„t tokeÌ„ of thyne aÌ„ger toward vs Englishmen Esa â— For by the Prophetâ— / thou beyng displeased with thy people / threatnest to sette womeÌ„ to rule ouer theÌ„ / as people vnworthy to haue lawful / natural mete gouernors to reign ouer theÌ„ And verely though we fynd / that womeÌ„ somtime bare rule amoÌ„g thy people / yet do we rede / that suche as ruled were quenes / were for the moste part wicked / vngodly / supersticious / geueÌ„ to idolatry / to al filthy abhominacioÌ„ / as we may se in the histories of quene Iesabel / 3. Reg. 19. 4. Reg. 11 quene Athalla / quene Herodias / such like Ah Lorde God / we dare not take vpon vs Math. 14 to iudge anye creature / for vnto the alone are the secretes of all hartes knowne / but of this are we sure / that synce she ruled / whyther of her owne disposicton / or of the prouocacion of a certayne wylde bore / successor Psal 80. Acto 23. too Ananias that whyghâ—ie daubed waulle / we know not / thy vineyarde is vtterly rooted vp and layde waste / thy true religion is bannished / and popishe supersticion The cloâ—e of papistes too deceaue the simple hath preuayled / yea / that vnder the coloure of the catholicke churche / and the olde auncient fayth / whan notwithstanding darkenes is not more contrary to light / nor colde vnto heate / than their procedinges are coÌ„trary to the trueth of thy holy worde if the practise and doctrine of the true catholicke churche / we speake of the Patriarches and Prophetes / of Christe and hys Apostles / and of so many godly people / as lyued from Adam vnto the tyme that Antichrist / the bisshop of Rome set vp his kyngdome 2 Thes 2. / and auauÌ„ced hym self aboue all that is called God might be the iudge / go for payment For besydes the geuinge of the kyngdome / vnto the rule of a woman / O Lorde / we mosâ—e humbly beseche the / to coÌ„sider that outragious floudes of moste greuous enormities / haue braste in and ouerflowed the realme of EnglaÌ„d / vnto the vtter subuersion of thesame / except thy merciful goodnes do the shortly helpe Ah Lord God / heretofore vnder the rule Psal 50 Rom. 10. of that moste Christen kinge Edwarde the â—yxte / we were â—aught accordiÌ„g to thy word to fle with oure prayers vnto the alone / in all our troubles and necessities / as a Lorde pleÌ„tefully ryche for so many as call on the. God alone is to be called on But nowe the Antichristiane Preachers teache / that we muste also praye to creatures that are dead / that they maye pray for vs / or els we praye vnto the invayne / and oure prayers shal neuer be hearde Heretofore we were taught / that Christ 1. Tim. 2. 1. Ioan. 8. Roma 2. Christalene is oure mediator aduocate and intercessour God and man is oure alone mediatoure / aduocate and intercessore But now the priestes of Baal teach / that Mary / Iames Peter / Ihon / Paule / Andrew / we know not who / are also oure mediators / aduocates and Intercessoures / and that we muste call vppon them in oure troubles and aduersities / whan soeuer we will haue to do with the / namely if we will haue our matter go forwarde Heretofore we were taughte / that the 1. Ioan. 1. Apoc. 1. Christes bloud is the aloâ—e Purgatory off the faithful precious bloude of oure sauioure Christe is the alone and sufficient Purgatory for the synnes of all them that repeÌ„t beleue But now the papistes teache / that there is a purging place after this lyfe / where the soules of the faithful shal be miseâ—ably tormented with fyrye fâ—ames / tyll eyther they them selfes haue made satisâ—accion for all their synnes / by suffering dew punishment or els other in this world haue made ameÌ„des for them / by prayeng / by synging of treÌ„ talles / by goyng on â—ylgrimage / by dealeng monye / by â—yenge the pepes pardons for their redempcion / and suche lyke / whan the holy scripture contrariwise teacheth / that Sap. 3. Apoc. 14 the faythful so sone as they departe frome this lyfe / go streyghtwayes vnto glorye / â—he vnfaythful vnto euerlastinge payne damnacion / as we maye se in the historie of the ryche glotton / and of the poore man Lazarus Luc. 16 Heretofore we were taught / that Christ Christis one and alone sacrifice sufficith foreuer and euer Esa 53. Heb. 7. 9. 10. 1. Pet. 2. Apoc. 1. thy sonne and oure alone Sauiour / made vpon the aultare of the crosse / whan he suffered and dyed for vs / so sufficient / perfect / absolute and consummate oblacion / and sacrifice for the synnes of the people / that by that one / and alone sacrifice / grace / fauour / mercy / forgeuenes of synnes euerlastinge lyfe / is for euer and euer plentefully obtayned of the / for so many as repent beleue But now a dayes / those Baaliâ—e massemongers are not ashamed to reproue that swete smelling sacrifice of Christe / and too saye / that it is not so perfect / but that they also muste offer Christ vp againe dayly in their masses for the synnes of the people / that their oblacion is a propiciatory sacrifice / and of no les vertue / strength / efficaciâ— might and power / than the pashon death of Christ

death of that most godly and verteous prynce â—ynge Edwarde the syxte / and a littel after vnto the syngulare â—oâ—e and great conforte of all godly and Christen harted people But now the subtile and fleshely papâ—stes haue soo bewyiched the Quenes eyes / that whatsoeuer her father and her brother / moste godly broughte too passe for the aâ—auncement of thy glory / for the edifyeng of thy people / that is vtterly subuerted taken for heresye / yea / and spitefullye preached agaynste in open sermons / so that this godly mooste wholsome Letanye is not onely taken awaye from vs / but in the stead thereof we are compelled to go on precession / following an Idoll / with synginge Ora pro nobis Salue festa dies or some other â—laspâ—emous songe vnto the greate sorowe and inwarde harte / breakinge of all thy faythfull Heretofore / thy Sacramentes were so ministred vnto vs / that we receaued greate conforte by them Sacramentâ— trulystred But nowe they are so ministred of thys swynyâ—he spirituall forcerers / that they are become dumme and idle ceremonies altogether withoute edyfyeng or profyt For besydes that they are ministred in an vnknowentunge / howe be they defyled with mens tradicioâ—â— / beggarly ceremonies vnto the Sacrament of Baptisme / they putte Heatenish rites and wicked coniuracions The Sacrament of Baptisme For Baals prieste / before the chylde canne be baptised / bewytcheth the water / shutteth the church doore / coniureth the deuel out of the poore youÌ„ge Infaunt / bespueth the chylde with his vile spitle and stincking slaueringe / putteth salt in theÌ„ chyldes mouth / smereth it with greasye â—â—sauer oyle / c. And withoute these apyâ—h toyes / they make the people beleue / that the baptisme is nothiÌ„g worth Ah good is this any other thing than a playâ—e laughing to scorne of thy dere soÌ„nes institutioÌ„ Do these papistes / by adding their beggarly ceremonies anye other thinge / than set thy sonne Christe to schole / and auaunce theyr owne fleâ—hly imaginacioÌ„s aboue the wysedome of the Lorde Christ The Sacrament also of thy dere sonnes body bloude / howe haue the aduersaries prophanated and defyled The SacrameÌ„t of Christes bodij bâ—â—â—de thy sonne bothe before and after the ministracion of the Sacrament preached vnto his disciples The papistes preache nothing at all Thy sonne spake the wordes of the institucion openly in that tunge / that all the disciples vnderstoode The papistes vtter all thinges in a straunge language / yea / and that so softely that they scace heare theÌ„ selfes A comparisoÌ„ betvven Christ the papistes in the ministracion of the Sacrament Thy sonne ministred the Sacramentes without putting on of any disguysed apparel The papistes decke them selfes lyke hycke scorner in game players garmentes Thy sonne ministred the Sacrament / sitting at the table with hys disciples The papistes stande at the aultare / and geue the bread and wyne to the people kneling Thy sonne gaue the SacrameÌ„tal bread to the disciples in their handes / sayeng Take / eate The papistes thrust the bread into the people mouthes / as â—hough they had not so muche witte as to fede them selfes Thy sonne ministred the Sacrament of hys body and bloude vnder bothe kyndes to hys disciples The papistes do minister it to the laye people onely vnder one kynde / and like theues steale the other awayâ— from them / and reserue it to themselfes alone Thy sonne brake the Sacramentall bread The papistes vse no breakinge of the bread / as Christe and his Apostles and all the primatiue churche did for to declare the misâ—erie of Christes bodye / breakinge on the aultare of the crosse for oure redempcion / but they putte into the peoples mouthes a littell lighte whyghte waffer cake / speaking to them a fewe wordes in Latin / whiche they vnderstande not Thy sonne did appointe the SacrameÌ„tall bread to be broken and eaten The papistes kepe it whole / and hange it vp in the pyxe / yea / and carrye it about for a pageaunte in their idolatrous / popish / pompous processions Thy sonne instituted the SacrameÌ„t to be a memortall of hys bodye breakinge and bloude shedding The papistes teache / that the bread and wyne is turned into the naturall bodye and bloude of Christe God and manne / euen the selfesame bodye that was borne of Marye the vyrgine / fleshe / bloude / and bone / so that there remayueth neither bread nor wyne / although the holy scripture affyrmeth playnely / that this is bothe bread Bread and vvyne remain in the Sacraments after the vvordes off consecracioÌ„ wyne remaining / the doctors of the Christen primatiue churche testefyed the same in their writtinges / the Greke church / eueÌ„ froÌ„ the Apostles tyme vnto this daye haue so receaued beleued / vtterly deuieng the popish artâ—kle of traÌ„ssubstaÌ„tiaciâ— / reason also all the senses of man testefye that there remayne both bread and wyne / after the woordes of consecracion / as they vse to terme them / yea / and experience teacheth / that if the Sacramentall breadde be longe reserued / it will corrupte / putrifie moulde / styncke / and bredefull of wormes / and the wyne lykewise / will chaunge the colloure and waxe soure Traâ—ssubstantiacion O heauenly father / suche corrupcion can not chaunce too thy dâ—â—e sonnes body bloud / which is vncorruptible â—mortal / sitteth on thy right-hand / raygneth with the in glory for euer euer This Antichristian doctrine / o blessed Lorde / was not knowen in thy holye Churche / vâ—tyll pope Nicholas / pope Innocent / pope Vrbane / Fryer Thomas / and suche other ministers of Sathan / partely with their tyrannye / and partelye with their sophistrye / as their apysshe adherentes doo nowe agayne in thys oure dayes / broughte it in / and compelled the Christians with fyre and swearde / to beleue thys theyr monstruous opinion / for the mayntenauÌ„ce of their bellye kyngdom / although it be neuer so muche contrarie too the artikles of oure fayth / and too the doctrine of the holy scripture / and of all the aunciente writters Thy sonne at hys supper / willed the Sacramentall bread and wyne too be eaten and droncken for a remembrauÌ„ce off that one / and alone sacrifice / whiche he offered on the altare of the crosse / for the synnes of the people The papistes in their ido latrous and abhominable masses make of the Sacrament a propiciatorie / expiatory and satisfactory sacrifice for the synnes off the people / necessary Ad saluteÌ„ affirming that their acte in the masse is of equal price / dignitie / vertue / myghte / efficacie and power before the eyes of thy diuine maiestie with the moste healthfull and swete smellyng sacrifice / that thy sonne offered on the altare of the crosse / whaÌ„ he gaue hiÌ„ self vnto the death for the synnes of

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