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england_n	church_n	head_n	supreme_a	4,494	5	9.0477	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05045	The ryght and trew vndersta[n]dynge of the Supper of the Lord and the vse therof faythfully gathered out of ye holy Scriptures worthely to be embrased of all Christen people. Perused [and] alowed by dyuerse godly lerned men to the comfort of al ye trewe congregation of Christ.	Lancaster, Thomas, d. 1583.	1550 (1550)	STC 15188; ESTC S108242	28,145	88

¶ The ryght and trew vnderstādynge of the Supper of the Lord and the vse therof faythfully gathered out of the holy Scriptures worthely to be embrased of all Christen people Perused alowed by dyuerse godly lerned men to the comfort of al the trewe congregation of Christ ¶ Beati qui ad cenam nuptiarum agni vocati sunt Apo .xix. ¶ To the most puesaunt myghty Prince Edward the .vi. by the grace of God Kynge of England Fraunce and Ireland defender of the fayth and of the Churche of England and also of Ireland in earth the supreme head your most humble obediente Seruaunte Thomas Lancaster hartely wyshith all grace and peace frō god with longe Reigne honor helthe and prosperite GRace be with your Maiestye and peace from god our father from our Lord Iesus christ Amen And it please your Maieste for this cause haue I dedicate this my simple laboure vnto your grace Fyrst because I perceaue that god hathe called your Maiestie to be apreferrer of his holi and blessed worde as by another Iosias whiche Lord of power prosper your most excellēt Maiestie in al your diuine affayres godly enterprises Secondarily because ther is found many diuers sectes vnder Christes name at thys preasēte as Papistes Lutherians Swyngliās Anabaptestes Laudiās with other mo lyke as ther was among the Iewes as Hasbutri Hemero Baptista Essei Saducei Pharesei c. And euery one of them bostid thē of the lordes word wold be Christians althought that the most parte of these fore rehersed sectes hath not reaceauyd nether word nor sprit nor no christian lerninge therfore ar they so ready to persecute them that hath the word sprite life but what helpes it it hath bene thus from the begynnyng that the spiritual chyldryn of God muste suffer of the fleshelye as Abell of Caine Isaac of Ismaell Iacob of Esau and the spiritual chyldren of Israell of the fleshely For before it pleased God to restore in to thys Realme by youre graces most noble father and nowe by your maiestie the Gospel Ioyfull tydinges of hys dearly beloued sonne our sauyor Iesu Chryst Infidelytie as chefe Ruler reyngned in our hartes Hipocrisie as a vayne glorious Emperesse beare dominiō superstition Idolatrye false sectes mens traditions confidens reposed in mens inuentions Pilgrimages offerynges Bulles Pardons Dispensations Masses marchaundice for merites and workes bieng sellynge of the deuine misteres wyth other abhomenable baggage more was crept into the great disquietnes of thys your holy Chatholike Churche of Englād but without doubte they shal no longer preuayle for the daye of the Lorde is at hand which shal breke Satās heed and destroy both him and al his ministers wyth the breathe of his mouth For he wil no longer suffer thys great wickednes and abhomynacion he wyll be knowen for the God and sauyoure alone he is the Lorde whiche alone wylbe exalted and al Idoles shal be vtterly brōken in peaces Esaie .ii. He is that God whiche wyll no longer suffer hys glorye to be geuen to other He is that lauer which wyl expulse the darkenes of mens tradicions that fyght wyth hys infallible veryte brynge in the gloryous lyght of his most holy worde To be shorte he wyll ouerthrowe all the Idollys the obscure his glorye and set vp hys blyssed name to be praysed for euer and euer Amē Of this his holy wyl haue we experyens euē at this tyme in whiche it hath plesed hym to send vs your Maiestie his derely beloued seruaunte oure most vertuous lawful and godlye kynge to ouerthorowe not aparte but all Antychrystes kyngdome by your diuine polecy and godly enterpryses So that the greate hore of Babilon Apo. xvii the mother of all Hordome and abhominacions of the earth Hath loste her chefe glorye and renowne And is nowe become so vyle that she is made the habytacion of Deuelles the Holde of all fowle spyrites Apo. xviii Esaie .xii. Iore xv Apo. xiiii ps xiiii iiii Psa i. xvi A cage of all vncleane and hathefull Byrdes so that no man nowe wyll once by any of her marchādes And wythout doubte the time is by goddes prouidence and your graces that Babylon hath in this realme suche a faule that it shall not after this tyme at any tyme be repaired For the mouth of the Lorde hath spoken it whiche is faythfull in all his wordes and whose truthe abideth for euer and euer neyther can this Prophecy of Chryst by made frustrate by any humayne polyce Euery plant that my heauēly father hath not plāted shal be plucke vp by the rotes Math. xv whoso reioyseth not to heare these thynges yea who tryūphes not to se thē Blessed ar we your subiets to whom it hath chaunced not only to here these thīges Ioyfully but also to se thē so plentyfully put in vre by your Maiestie so that al your faithfull subiectes beinge no papistes do faythfullye reioyse And although we be occasioned diuers wayse to geue god immortal thākes for dyuers gyftes yet we thynke that we are most hyghly bounde to be thankefull for the restitution of hys holy worde in thys your graces dayes And woo worth them that be vnthankeful to hym in thys behalfe disobediente to your Maiestie except they repent and amēd Wherfore I desyre your Maiestie for the loue of god that your grace reade it and iudge it wyth the Lordes worde cause it to be Iudged of them that ar godly lerned not of suspected Papistes And yf they can confute it I wyl gladly be lerned But I haue the truthe and not they I desire your grace for the tender mercy of god and as ye wyll answer afore god at the daye of Iudgement that ye wyl protecte defēde it acording to your office that youre louīg subiectes because of wekenes of the fleshe be not cōpelled to come from Christ to Antichrist frō truth to falsed from euerlastynge lyfe to euerlasting dethe I knowe wel and it please your Maiesty that ther shal be kyckyng agaynst the prycke Esay .xl. notwithstāding I passe not the truth may no lenger be hid i. Pet. i Esay xiiii Iude. i the truth may not come to nowght because of the lye gods word remaynes euerlastyng Was the good Angels worse because of Lucifers prynde what hyndreth it the .xi. Appostles that Iudas was a traytour euery mā shall beare his owne burthyne the father shal not beare that vnryghtwysnes of hys sonne nor the sonne the vnryghtwysnes of his father But the soule that sinneth shal dye Was the pure cleane lerning of the .xii. Apostles worse that the theyr was so manye damnable sectes in theyr tyme vnder Chrystes name whiche sectes were no lesse then .vii. The fyrst learned Circumsicion the seconde that there was no resurrectyon The thyrde as Philetus and Himeneus that the Resurrectiō was al past The fourth that the daye of the Lord is at hande The fyrte the Nicholaitans