owne knowledge who both heard him sweare that he would cut his owne throat and also knew how he brake promise by hanging himselfe In the same yeare also that is 1533 one Doctour Foxford chancelour to the Bishop of London and a cruell persecutor and butcher of God his Saints vnder Bishop Stokesly died suddenly and fearefully 〈◊〉 in his chaire his bellie breaking and his guttes falling out before his owne eyes 3 Next to these let be considered that of William Gardiner an English marchant most cruelly martyred at Lishbone in Portugal for snarching the host with one hand and beating the chalice with the other out of both the hands of a Cardinoll before the King and all his nobles the Lords daie after a solemne marriage of the saide King his sonne with the daughter of the King of Spayne anno Dom. 1552. and in the raigne of King Edward the sixt of most blessed memorie Let I say be here also remembered the iudgement of God following the execution of that most holy martyr by the Portugalls at Lishbone for the cause before mentioned For how did they by whose authoritie he was so executed escape The same night he was burned one of the sparkes of the fire where with he was burned by God his prouidence beeing conueied amongst the King his shippes lying in the hauen fired one of them and burned itâ— within halfe a yeare after the young Prince then married died and the King himselfe also within another halfe yeare after that and so within one yeare both the king and his sonne died 4 An other example we haue of one Alexander the keeper of Newgate not much vnlike to Alexander the coppersmith of whoÌ„ the Apostle complaineth this Alexander dealt most cruelly with those that were committed to his custodie in new gate for the gospel But what became of him he died most miserably being both swolne more like a monster then a man so eaten also within that no man could abide the smell of him Yea further the Lord his wrath was kindled also against his sonne for he being left very rich was giuen ouer to such a â—iotous mind that he wasted all within three yeares and beeing sometime asked how he could spend so much in so little time he would answer that euill gotten must be as euill spent Shortly after also as he walked in newgate market he fell downe suddenly and so died fearefully 5 Another example there is also registred of a Sheriffe of Suffolke his man that attending vpon his master at the martyrdome of one Iames Abbes at S. Edmonds Burie and hearing the fald Iames Abbes exhort the people to stande in the gospell which he would in their presence seale with his blood bad the people not beleeue him because he was a madde man spake he knew not what But marke good reader This rayling and rauing Papist as soone as fire was put to Iames Abbes was immediately before all the people stricken with madnes so that he cried out as much in commendation of Iames Abbes as before he railed on him condemning also himselfe and saying Iames Abbes is a good seruant of God and saued but I am damned This note he sung vntill his dying daie railing also on the priest that his master sent for to housle him a little before his ende yea not onely railing on the priest but also on papists and poperic charging them to be the cause of his damnation Another example we haue of God his iudgement vpon Fisher Bishop of Rochester and Syr Thomas More knight these had beene persecutors of the Protestants especially they had procured the death of Iohn Frith Bayfield and Baynham Therefore the Lord cried also quit with them for themselues also were publikely executed at Tower hill 6 Worthie also of remembrance is that which M. Fox likewise writeth of one Vanderwarfe of Antwerp who as he was of great place and authoritie in that citie so also was he of great malice against the Protestants most cruelly persecuting all and drowning many men and women to his great praise among other of that cruell generation For this also he was called a blood-hound or bloodie dogge But God in whose eyes the death of all his Saints is alwaies right pretious forgot not his crueltie for this Vanderwarfe hauing gotten great riches and therefore left Antwerp liuing in the countrey at his case at a certaine time came in a waggon with his wife and some other to make merrie at Antwerp where hauing recreated himselfe he returned againe towarde the countrie As soone as he was out of the citie beeing to goe ouer a wooden bridge built as should seeme but for a shift and for a time hauing barres and rayles on both sides the horse in the waggon stoode still and would not goe forwarde by any meanes of the waggoner Vanderwarfe his bloode beeing vp and prouoked against the waggoner bad him driue forward in a thousand deuills names Immediately vpon this there arose suddenly a mightie whirle winde all being calme before which tost the waggon with this gentleman other passengers ouer the bridge and so they fell into the water The rest beeing saued and takeÌ„ vp aliue for the present though his wife died within three daies after himselfe onely was drowned as he had drowned many before What also shall I say of the miserable desperate death of Steuen Gardiner the great blood-sucker of this land for at his death another Bishop coÌ„ming vnto him as it seemeth finding him in a desperate minde put him in remembrance of Peter his denying Christ But he sauouring no comfort therein answered that he had denied Christ with Peter but neuer repented with Peter 7 What also shal I saie of Henrie the second of that name King of France had he not committed certaine great persons to prison for religion and threatned one of them to see him burnt with his owne eyes yet behold the worke of God herein Shortly after he had not eyes to see it for the very same daie that the King was in the greatest rage against the foresaide prisoners and had examined the Presidents counsellers of the Parliament against them after dinner addressing himselfe to runne at the tilt and indeede performing that acte very honourably with the breaking of many staues to his great commendation by all the beholders He not satisfied with that which he had done but tickled with the former commendation and desirous of more according to the nature of ambition which thinketh no praise sufficient vrged the Countie of Mountgommer to runne an other course with him This Countie had before receiued the former prisoners from the Constable of France vpon the Kings commandement and carried them to prison Notwithstanding now when the King vrged him to runne an other course he kneeled downe and craue pardon as thinking the king to haue done inough for one daie but the King preuailing more by commanding then the other could doe by intreating at the last this
Countie addressed himselfe to this last course which indeede was the last course of that daie and for cuer to the king for the staues beeing broken and the King his vizzard suddenly falling off so doth the Lord worke to bring his iudgements to pasle one of the shiuers pearsed his head vnto the braines and suddenly so festered that no surgeons could cure the same Thus the King lost one of those eyes where with he threatned to haue seene the burning of those persoÌ„s died also of that hurt 8 Neither may we here well omit the death of Charles the ninth of that name King of France in whose time by whose meanes that bloodie massacre before mentioned was done in Paris and in many other cities of France For as the King had delighted himselfe in the blood of his Saints so himselfe also in his youth at the age of 25. yeares died of a most grieuous bleeding Many other the like examples are recorded by M. Fox both of our owne countrie and also of other nations of some that were stricken with madnes of some that did hang or drowne themselues and of other that died in despaire most fearefully and that in such manner as that all the world might see the iust iudgement of God against them both for their religion and also their malicious persecuting of such as were of our religion 9 To these will I adde an other example not yet written by any but yet as trew as any of the former whereof not with standing some are knowne to all the world and also no lesse worthie the writing then the former At great Wenham in Suffolke in the daies of King Henrie the eight there dwelt one M. Cardinal whose wife hauing heard one M. Worthe a godly man good preacher preach at Hadley about some three myles from thence at her returne home entreated her husbande one daie to request M. Worthe to come and preach with them Master Cardinall though at the first fearing some danger of law yet at the last yeelded and indeede proceeded and procured M. Worth to come thither The parson of the saide Wenham beeing popish withstood M. VVorth beeing come saying that no such should preach there M. Cardinal intreated but the parson denied beeing like â—o the dogge in the manger that wil neither eate â—aie himselfe nor suffer the horse at the racke to eate any So I saie this parson as some also doe â—n these daies neither would nor could doe good himselfe neither would suffer any other â—o doe any At length M. Cardinall seeing the parson so wilfull and obstinate saide that M. VVorth should preach doe the parson what he could to the contrarie and come what daunger would come In fine they went all to Church and many other vpon knowledge of M. VVorth his preaching were assembled Now when M. VVorth should begin his sermon the parson according to his froward word for the disturbing of him went toward the high altar to saie masle VVhat followed a most worthie example of God his iustice For presently before all the people assembled the Lord smote this popish parson for dead for the time drawing his mouth vp to his eare and so made him past saying of masse Notwithstanding beeing carried out of the church for auoiding further trouble of the congregation he was within little time recouered of his life yet neuer recouered his witts and senses but liuing long after continued a foole all the daies of his life and turned the spit 〈◊〉 was imploied vpon some other seruice in the saide M. Cardinall his house euer after I haue heard this of many very credible persons who had often heard it from M. VVorth long time after euen in this Queenes daies viccar of Dedham in Essex and of many other that were present at that sermon and were eye witnesses of the iudgement Some also are yet liuing about VVenham aforesaid that knew it 10 I might adde many other examples of God his iudgements against like persons for like cause but these shall be sufficient For by these who seeth not that hath any eyes at all to see in what account poperie is with the Lord Let all men therefore by these examples take heede that they deceiue not themselues Let not them blindfold their owne eyes that they may not see the things thus manifest Let them not disgrace the reports of M. Fox sith many things written by him are also written by other before him from whome he borrowed that which he did write Some things of his are samous and knowne to all men I am not ignorant that M. Fox in writing some things vpon the report of others might sometime erre And although his slippe in such things be taken great hold of by the Papists who there by take occasion to disgrace all the truth he hath written to couer their owne crueltie to conceale God his iudgements to harden themselues in poperie and the more easily to draw other to be of this minde yet let the wise and true Christian consider that it was by the deuills great policie to mooue some no doubt in colour of synceritie and pretending a minde of helping M. Fox in that worthie worke to informe him with some vntruths that by his writing of them vpon such information all the rest of his writing might be in disgrace as being in like manner vntrue This no doubt was the subtiltie of the old serpent and of his viperous litter so to disgrace that noble worke and so to obscure those euident examples of Gods disalowance of their religion as though he had written no truth when the most of the things by him chronicled are as cleare as the sunne is in the midst of the brightest sommer day But albeit some be giuen ouer in the iust iudgement of God to beleeue truthes to be lies because they haue embraced lies for truthes yet I hope that such as belong vnto the Lord though perhaps by such deuises they haue beene abused will now make better vse of these examples that I haue set downe and the like Thus much for those works of God against poperie and Papists whereby he hath as it were immediately testified his dislike of both THE FOVRTH BRANCH OF the tenth argument touching the workes of God for our religion NOwe although by the former workes God hath also testified his approbation of our religion yet let vs nowe further consider and marke diligently what he hath directly done for our religion the professours thereof Truly such haue beene the great and mightie works of God for our religion that as the Prophet saith God is knowne in Iudah his name is great in Israel psal 76. And againe The Lord loueth the gates of Sion aboue all the habitation of Iacob glorious things are spoken of the citi of God psal 87. 2 3. So also it may be said of many particular persons that haue boldly professed and stoutly maintained our religion and chiefly of those cities countries and kingdoms
Princes as haue done and doe daily speake and doe so much for Christ in his gospel and in his members that they giue great incouragement to all persons of place fitte to haue accesse vnto them without feare to put them in continuall remembrance of further honouring of Christ If he were so bold for Christ Iesus beeing deade how much bolder ought all men to be for Christ Iesus raised vp from the dead yea verily he is twise risen againe once touching his bodie out of the sepulchre into which the same Ioseph did honourably lay him and againe touching his gospel out of the graue of poperie wherein it had lien twise so many hundred yeares at the least as his bodie had lien daies and nights in the former sepulchre How zealous therefore ought men to be for the honouring of the gospel of Christ Iesus with true honour wherein Christ Iesus himselfe thus raised vp and glorified cannot but be likewise honoured As such men ought to be thus zealous in speaking for Christ and his gospel at all times so especially then ought they to be most zealous when any speciall occasion requireth the same or when any speciall opportunitie is offered thereunto Salomon saith How good is a word spoken in due season Prov. 5. 25. He speaketh this by question and admiration and thereby teacheth that he himselfe the wisest that euer was Christ onely excepted could not well expresse how good a word was spoken in due season Therefore he saith againe A word spoken in his place is like apples of gold with pictures of siluer Prov. 25. 11. Such therefore as the Lord hath aduaunced to such place either in Church or in commonwealth as wherein at any time by word or deede they may further this religion in this booke thus cōmended I wish to watch all opportunitie of doing further good and any beeing offered not to neglect the same but wisely to take and follow it to the vtmost of their power Where any noble honourable or other great person seeth any conuenient time where his word may doe good to further religion thereby to aduance God his glorie let him thinke with himselfe as Mordecaie spake vnto Ester Ester 4. 14. who knoweth whither the Lord hath thus aduanced me for this time 2 Neither let any such person feare the losse of their labour touching themselues in speaking in such causes God whose religion ours is hath saide by his Prophet 1. Sam. 2. 30. Them that honour me I will honour and he is faithfull that hath promised Hebr. 10. 23. This is manifest by many of the examples before mentioned The fruit indeede of such labour doth not alwaies appeare presently yet God is not vnrighteous that he should forget the worke and labour of such loue towardes his name c. Hebr. 6. 10. but he taketh such a note thereof yea of the least word spoken this waie that it shall most certenly be remembred to such persons themselues or to their posteritie euen in this life and touching the benefites thereof when all the world shall thinke it buried and euen as it were wholly consumed to ashes in the graue of obliuion It was not much that Iethro the father in law of Moses did called also Keni Iudg. 1. 16. and of whome descended the Kenites it was not much I say that this Iethro or Keni did for the Israelites For he did but onely giue counsaile to Moses his sonne in law for the better gouernement of the Israelites Exod. 18. 19. yet note what note the Lord kept of this small matter After the death of Moses after the death of Ioshua and the elders that ouerliued Ioshua after the death of Othniel Ehud Shamgar Debora Gedeon and the rest of the Iudges that iudged Israel mentioned in the whole booke of Iudges after the death of Eli and his sonnes after the gouernment of Samuel resigned into the hands of Saul after all this euen foure hundred yeares after the former counsell giuen by Iethro to Moses did the Lord thinke vpon this kindnes and recompenced it tenne fold to the Kenites the posteritie of Iethro Yea rather then it should not be recompenced he raised vp Saul to recompence the same euen vnnaturall vnthankfull and most cruell Saul that had sworne the death of his owne sonne Ionathan 1. Sam. 14. 44. who had saued Israel and would indeede haue killed him had not the people rescued him that afterward did daily hunt for the life of Dauid as for a partridge in the mountaines 1. Sam. 26. 20. who had notwithstanding killed the great Goliah whome all Israel durst not looke in the face 1. Sam. 17. 24. and gotten many other victories of the Philistims and married Saul his owne daughter that also killed all the Lord his priests at once 1. Sam 22. 18. euen this bloodie man did the Lord raise vp to recompense the kindnes of Iethro and to saue the liues of all the Kenites Yea though this Saul were a man most vnmercifull vnto them to whome he owed much mercie and other loue yet the Lord so wrought his heart for the recompencing of that that Iethro had done to Moses and for Israel that he was very earnest with the Kenites for the withdrawing themselues from the Amalakites that he might not destroy them with the Amalakites Therefore he saith not onely Goe but also depart yea also he addeth Get ye downe from among the Amalakites least I destroy you with them And why is he thus mercifull vnto them for saith he ye shewed mercy to all the children of Israel when they came vp from Egypt 1. Sam. 15. 6. Certenly this mercie whereof such a streame did flow from Saul towards the Kenites was onely of the Lord not of Saul himselfe Saul of himselfe as we haue heard was as the stonie rocke in the wildernes which notwithstanding the Lord made to giue drinke plētifully to the Israelites and their cattell Numb 20. 8. Saul of himselfe had neither the religion nor the manners to consider greater things done by those that were of his owne blood for himselfe and for the present generation of the Israelites Shall we then thinke that he had religion or manners to remember such olde good turnes done so many yeares before for the old forefathers of the Israelites Nowe what doth this example teach vs but that the Lord is iust to remember the like kindnes when all men shall thinke it vtterly forgotten yea to make such to consider the same as from whome in respect of their contrarie disposition no such matter can in reason be hoped for but rather the contrarie feared 3 But what shall I neede to call as it were so loud vnto antiquitie so farre off for an example whereby to iustifie the righteousnesse of God in honouring them that honour him Is not Queene Elizabeth yet liuing and many yeares more O blessed God may shee liue and raigne to thy glorie is not is not this our most noble gracious and Christian
20. the which was so fully executed by Iehu according to the word of the Lord that they paid most deerely for Naboth his vineyard 2. King 9. 27 33. 10. 6. Though Ioash king of Iuda committed many sinnes after the death of good Iehoiada the high priest yet his putting to death of the Prophet Zechariah the sonne of the same Iehoiada is onely mentioned as the chiefe cause why his owne seruants conspired against him and murthered him 2. Chron. 24. 25. Though Haman had not fully effected his bloodie purpose against Mordecai and the other Iewes yet we know that the same measure by the righteous iudgement of God was measured vnto him that he had onely intended to haue measured vnto Mordecai Est 7. 10. 3 Here especially let vs remember how God dealt with the Amalekites onely for withstanding the Israelites as they came out of the land of Egypt Exod. 17. 8. First although the Lord did discomfort them before the Israelites at the praier of Moses whē they first came out against Israel yet did not the Lord satisfie himselfe with their ouerthrow of that daie but presently he spake further against them vnto Moses vers 14. saying Write for a remembrance in the booke and rehearse it to Ioshua for I will vtterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from vnder heauen and again v. 16. The Lord hath sworn that he will haue warre with Amalek from generation to generation Afterward also the Lord opened the mouth of Balaam whome Balak sent for to curse Israel the Lord I saie opened his mouth with a curse of destruction against the Amalekites Nomb. 24. 20. Yea but perhaps these were but words Words indeede they were but yet afterward when that generation of the Amalekites which then liued and foure other at the least were dead and rotten those words were fulfilled For as long after this as before we heard that God remembred the kindnes of the Kenites for their good the same God also remembred that sinne of the Amalekites to their ouerthrow For he sendeth Samuel with this mandate and commission to Saul against Amalek 1. Sam. 15. 2. I remember what Amalek did to Israel how they laide waite for them in the way as they came vp from Egypt now therefore goe and smite Amalek and destroy all that pertaineth vnto them and haue no compassion on them but stay both man and woman both infant and suckling both oxe and sheepe both camell and asse This was foure hundred yeares after the former sinne committed A man therefore would haue thought that God had not nowe any more thought vpon it for all his former note of remembrance But the Lord remembereth when men forget and thinke also all to be forgotten Yea the Lord did so remember this sinne and doth so remember other the like sinnes as that if he forbeare the punishment for a time yet at the last he commeth in also for arrearages For in the former commission giuen to Saul we see with what seueritie the Lord will haue Saul to proceede against the Amalekites Yea afterward in the same chapter when Saul had beene too remisse in the execution of that commission the Lord raised vp Samuel to doe or see that to be done against Agag the king of Amalek that Saul had neglected 4 If therefore there shall be any such Papists or Atheists as by no meanes will be reclaimed and drawne to our religion in this treatise commended and prooued to be of God and acceptable vnto him yet at the least let them take heede and beware of speaking the least word and doing the least deede against it or against any that loue and maintaine the same for louing and maintaining thereof Let them not flatter themselues God is the same now that euer he was And the more himselfe hath spoken or done for commendation and iustifying this religion the more that others raised vp and also directed by him haue spoken written or done in the same behalfe the greater shall be the iudgement in the ende of all such as shall not regard the same 5 Now the successe of all that I haue written in this cause I commit to him that is onely able to giue a blessing thereunto The Lord therefore make vs all that doe alreadie professe this religion thankfull vnto him for that he hath in his abundant mercie vouchsafed vs the glorious light the rich benefit and the sweete comfort thereof The Lord confirme and strengthen vs to continue therein vnto the ende The Lord enrich vs more and more daily with the faith knowledge loue and feare of God with the righteousnes mercie and all other vertues touching God or men that it commendeth The Lord fill the hearts of all great persons with more zeale to speake and doe more for the aduancing it especially any speciall opportunitie beeing offered The Lord thereunto animate incourage and inable all his owne Worthies to defend it against all aduersaries thereunto with all honourable successe The Lord preserue aduance and honour them that haue aduanced and honoured it Especially O Lord preserue aduance and honour thy seruant our dread Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth yea O Lord as thou hast set her higher then all other in her kingdomes so stil magnifie thy mercy towards this Church and other Churches which as it were sucke of her breasts that neuer gaue suck in making her elder then any of her owne people especially then any of thine and he◠aduersaries The Lord open both the eyes of such as haue not regarded our religion to see the glorie of it and also their hearts to embrace it Finally touching such as be incurable the Lord restraine them from doing that to the hindrance thereof which Satan by them endeauoureth and in the ende doe with them and to them that which shall be right in his owne eyes Amen AN ADDITION OF CERTAINE DAINties of Poperie collected partly out of their popish seruice bookes and partly out of the writings of some princi pall Doctours of speciall account in the popish church when poperie it selfe was at the highest HAuing in my former generall treatise against poperie and in defence of our religion charged poperie to be a religion maintained and vpheld by vnlawfull means and whereof both matter and forme are contrarie to that religion which the Scriptures commend to be acceptable vnto God yea to be a religion maintaining open blasphemies against God and Christ Iesus and wherein there is scarse any worship of God at all Hauing also charged it to be a religion wherein nothing is done to God his glorie but all things almost referred to the glorie of the Pope of Saints of the woodden stonie golden or painted crosse c. of reliques of saints of men c. Hauing affirmed it to be a religion that teacheth no obedience to the ten commandements of almightie God but that alloweth disobedience vnto euery one of them and that therefore it is a religion altogether licentious loose and full of carnall
he seeth thee O height of the crosse which neuer height touched and O depth which neuer depth vndermined and O breadth which neuer breadth did containe deliuer me thy seruaÌ„t from all the sleights of the deuill and from the euill things which remaine in me Auoid thou deuill from me that I may not know thee And as thou art cut off from heauen so the holy Ghost cut thee off me and as thou art farre from all felicitie so be farre from me And as thou neuer desirest God so neuer desire to come to me Auoid deuill from me the seruant of God by the signe of the holy crosse Behold the lion of the tribe of Iuda the root of Dauid hath gotteÌ„ the victorie Praise the Lord. And the blessing of God the father almightie and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost The crosse of Christ descend vpon me and abide with me for euer Amen Our Father Haile Marie 9 To this epistle let me adde a praier to the crosse out of the houres of the virgin Mariâ— according to the custome of the church of Yorke in the 165. leafe in manner and forme following Signum sancte crucis defendat â—e a mortis preteritis presentibus futuris interioribus exterioribus Signum sancte crucis a persecutione diaboli omnium inimicorum meorum liberet me hoc signaculo persternantur omnes aduersarij mei fugiant per hoc signum sancte crucis a periculis mundi liberet me dominus that is The signe of the holy crosse defende me from euills past present and to come inward and outward the O forgetfull S. Paul which intreating of christian armour didst neuer think vpon the signe of the crosse signe of the holy crosse deliuer me from persequution of the deuil and all mine enemies By this little signe let all mine aduersaries be laid prostrate and put to flight By this signe of the holy crosse the Lord saue me from the perills of the world 10 In the former houres of the virgin according to the vse of Salisburie in the 69. leafe B. there is this title ouer the head of a praier to God This prayer was shewed to S. Augustine by reuelation of the holy Ghost and Make much of this praier for it is something worth if all be true that is promised in the title who that deuoutly say this praier or hyre red or bereth about them shall not perish in fire or water neither in battell nor iudgement and he shall not die of sodden death and no venym shall poison him that day and what he asketh of God hiâ— shall obtaine if it be to the saluation of his soule and when thy soule shall depare from thy body it shall not enter to hell 11 In the same booke the 71. leafe Aâ— there is this title ouer a praier to Christ This praier made the worshipfull Sâ—Beda of the 7. last wordes which our saeuâ—our Jesus Christ spake hanging on the crosse who that saith it kneeling deuoutly neither the deuill nor wicked men shall not hurt him and he shall not die without confession 12 In the next leafe A. there is this title and praier following These 5. petitions and praiers made saint Gregorie and hath graunted to all them that deuoutly say these 5. praiers with 5. pater noster 5. aue Maria and acredo in deum 500. yeares of pardon oratio Aue manus dextra Christi perforataplaga tristi nos ad dextram iube sisti quos per crucem redemisti pater noster Aue Maria. Aue plaga Jesu leua sic confixa manu sâ—ua nos ab eo malo leuâ— quos perduxit mater Eua. pater noster Aue Maria. Aue latus lanceaium vnde fluxit flumen gratum prebe nobis conducatum ad eterne vite statum pater noster Auâ— Maria. Aue vulnus dextri pedis cellam mentis pietedis Dum adeum sepe redis esto nobis spes mercedis pater noster A. â—e Maria. Aueplaga leue plante qua virtutum crescunt plante nos ab hoste supplantante contuere post ante pater noster In all this rithme they doe nothing but salute the right and left hand as also the right and left foote of Christ pierced with nailes and likewise his side thrust through with a speare They doe onely I say salute these members of Christ thus wounded for vs with an All haile Then which what can be more ridiculous For not to speake how childish a thing it is to speake any thing vnto these members of Christ his materiall bodie thus seuerally considered and that without any the like examples of the Apostles euen when they did see Christ bodily present after his resurrection both whilst he was conuersant and also when he ascended vp into the heauens before them it is also a very toye to bidde all haile either vnto them or vnto any other thing in the heauen For what is the meaning of All haile truly either it is a phrase of wishing well vnto that whereunto it is spoken or it exhorteth to reioyce and be merrie In which therefore of the significations shall it be applied to those members of Christ or to any other thing alreadie aduanced vnto heauen 13. In the same leafe B. there is this title following ouer a praier to all the members of Christ This praier shall ye say in the worship of all the members of Christ deuoutly and ye shall haue 300. daies of pardon for euery salue Then followeth the praier it selfe in latin But because I finde it somewhat enlarged in a new manuell seruice booke pretended to be reformed by the authoritie of the late councell of Trent and published by the commandement of Pope Pius the fift anno dom 1580. I will therefore here set it downe in that ample manner in which there I finde it The inscription of the praier in that book page 318. the volume beeing in 16º is this Salutationes ad omnia membra Christi suiipsius adeum commendatio that is The salutation of all the members of Christ and the commendation of himselfe vnto him The praier it selfe in latin Salve tremendum cunctis potestatibus caput Domini Iesu Christi saluatoris nostri pro nobis spinis coronatum arundine percussum Salue speciocissima saluatoris nostri Iesu Christi facies pro nobis sputis alapis caesa Saluete benignissimi Iesu Christi saluatoris nostri oculi pro nobis lacrymis perfusi Salue mellifluum os gutturque suauissimum Domini nostri Iesu Christipro nobis felle aceto potatum saluete aures nobilissime Domine Iesu Christi saluatoris nostri pro nobis contumeliis opprobrijs affectae salue collum humile Iesu Christi pro nobis colophizatum dorsumque sanctissimum pronobis flagellatum Saluete venerabiles Domini nostri Iesu Christi manus brachia pro nobis in cruce extensa salue pectus mitissimum domini nostri Iesu Christi saluateris nostri pro nobis