of the Lord waxe whotte against you to destroy thee sodainely And Ahab the sonne of Omri did worse in the sight of the Lord then all that were before him for was it a light thing for him to walke in the sinnes of Ieroboam the son of Nebat except hee tooke Iesabell also the daughter of Ethbaal King of the Sidonians to wife and went and serued Baal and worshipped him Chap. If the youth haue any wit or any care of himselfe this may serue to make him take heed whom hee matcheth The fifteenth Chapman THen you may depart that I may haue your place Salt What lacke you Chap. I would haue some Salt to season certaine seruants which are negligent froward vntrusty and â—arelesse in their maisters businesse especially in their Maisters absence when they ought to bee most diligent and carefull Salt These are fowle faults much hurt hath bene done in this land by negligence though not so much as was intended by diuellish diligence and likely to haue béene effected had not our good God by their own letters reuealed it seruants and other haue béene too carelesse in looking to their fire and candle Chap. Indeede as you say there hath beene a diuellish diligence of Popish pyoners and bloudy vnder-miners in their lurking working more then monstrous mischiefe their words smoother then Oyle Charity Charity but their deedes sharper then swords Crucifie Crucifie pleasant names Catholicke Catholicke piercing natures Caine-like Caine-like but God turne their hearts But whereas you sayd much hurt hath beene done in this land by such as haue beene so carelesse in looking to their fire and candle many haue found it too true Some sticke their candle vpon a wall and so fall asleepe before they put it out some goe to seeke this or that where there is straw flaxe or powder and because they more minde the thing they looke then the candle they looke with on a soddaine marre all some laying a heape of straw in the Kitchin making fire vnder a pan being called away in haste make great waste in that they forget to make all sure before they goe others being drowsie standing by vndo their maisters and many others Salt If they had water it would little auayle if they haue so little wit that they put by the haire-cloth thinking by their so doing to saue a little malt for the flame flyeth vp to the thacke which not being lined with lath and lime is soone set on fire Chap. There is also much hurt done by carrying fire in wispes of straw or dishes not couered especially when the winde is busie some Stewards which haue kept Courts haue set downe penaltties for such negligence it were well if all would doe so Salt Wel whatsoeuer faults the Seruants haue it shall be good for them to taste of this which now I deliuer vnto you A discreete seruant shall haue rule ouer a lewd sonne Prou. 17.2 and hee shall diuide the heritage among the brethren Who then is a faithfull seruant and wise whom his maister hath made ruler ouer his houshold Mat. 24 4â— to giue them meat in due season blessed is that seruant whom his Maister when he commeth shall finde so doing 46 Verily I say vnto you hee shall make him ruler ouer all his goods Chap. This may seeme to encourage a discreete and diligent seruant to continue in well doing I would haue salt to season such as bee not so quicke and diligent for if they were they should not need quickening for that horse which of himselfe will stirre needes not bee quickened with the spurre Salt Why then take this apply it where néed requireth But if that euill seruant shall say in his heart Mat. 24.48 My Maister doth deferre his comming and begin to smite his fellowes 49 and to eate and drinke with the drunken That seruants maister will come in a day when hee looketh not for him 51 and in an houre that hee is not ware of and will cut him off and giue his portion with hypocrites there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Seruants be obedient vnto them that are your maisters according to the flesh Eph. 6 5. with feare and trembling in singlenesse of heart 6 as vnto Christ not with seruice to the eye as men-pleasers but as the seruants of Christ doing the will of God froÌ„ the heart 7 with good will seruing the Lord and not men And know yee that whatsoeuer good any man doth that same shall hee receiue of the Lord 8 whether hee bee bond or free Let seruants be subiect to their maisters and please them in all things Titus 2 9. not answering againe neither pickers but that they shew all good faithfulnesse that they may adorne the Doctrine of God our Sauiour in alll things Chap. This is a good lesson for our country seruants which bee euer gadding to games and wandring to wakes and that on the Lords day where either they play away their money at Nine-holes or else cudgell one another so long till some of them go home with broken pates or losse of an eye and then if their Maisters find fault with them and tell them that they spoyle their horses by letting them stand so long without water and meate they will giue a snappish answere and at Midsommer giue them warning to prouide themselues of another against Michaelmas and how little care they haue to adorne the doctrine of God appeareth both by this that they will be couered in the Church as if they were aged or sickly and also by this that of all places by their good will or rather bad will they would not dwell where there is Catechising Salt If may be when their owne rodde or cudgell hath well beaten them they will become better and in the meane time stand more in awe if Minister Maister Constable or Church-wardens do their duties and so you may depart The sixteenth Chapman GLad am I. Salt And tell me why Chap. Because I haue stayed a good while I am weary with standing so long heere was no place to sit Salt Come you for your selfe or for others Chap. I come not for my selfe but for Traytors Salt I haue not for you you must go to the Tower Chap. I haue heard indeed that there is good rough Salt it will search into the bones and through the bones but that Salt is cast vpon them that be conuicted vnlesse there bee some pardon vpon vnfaigned repentance I would haue some Salt as is good to preserue men from becomming such vnsauory monsters as stinke of gunpowder weresoeuer they goe Salt I thinke I haue some heere fit for that purpose if it bee well mingled with herbe-grace Cursse not the King no not in thy thought Eccle. 10.20 neither cursse the rich in thy bed-chamber for the foule of the heauen shall carry the voyce and that which hath wings shall declare the matter Chap. The Lord cause one of the chiefest
those Posts in the the land of Ephraim Manasseth and Zabulom Salt Some laughed them to scorne and mocked them and some submitted themselues and came to Ierusalem Chap. And what did they of Iudea Salt The hand of God was in Iudah so that he gaue them one heart to do the commandement of the King and of the Ruler according to the word of the Lord and when it shall please the same God that gaue them one heart to giue vs in this land one heart also wee shall doe the Commandement of our King and Rulers according to the word of the Lord for if wee had all that heart if there were vnity then as they in Iudea came into the house of the Lord to serue him and to kéepe the Passouer vnto him so should all wee in this land go to the Church serue God and in communicating shew forth the death of our Sauiour with thankes-giuing vntill hee come 1. Cor. 11.26 Wee should not be some in the Church and some in the chamber Some doing that which Christ commanded to bee done in remembrance of him some knéeling before some worke of Mans hand Luke 22 1◠Some hearkening to the preaching of Christ crucified some contenting themselues with hearing a Masse and looking on a Crucifixe Some through faith féeding in Christ which is aboue sitting as Paul saith at the right hand of God Col. 3.1 Heb. 1.3.8 Ca. 8.5.1 which to the Hebrues is called the right hand of Maiesty in the highest places and other some after certaine words spoken and grossely vnderstood séeking for him in forme of bread as if our Sauiour when hee said This is my body had either two bodies or else one and the same body at one and the same time seene and heard at the Table and hid and silent in the bread Chap. I wonder that they holding a bodily presence will themselues bee bodily absent Salt They absent themselues from our Church not only in body but also in Spirit they haue no minde to vs nor to our congregations Chap. It may be they thinke there be as many things that need clensing as needed clensing in Ierusalem when Hezechiah began to reigne at which time as I haue heard there were many things amisse Salt Indéed that godly King found high places images and groues all which hee tooke away and when hee had brought the Priests and Leuites into the east stréet hee said vnto them Heare me you Leuits sanctifie your selues 2 King 18 4 3. Cro. 29.5 and sanctifie the house of the Lord God of your Fathers and carry forth the filthinesse out of the Sanctuary For our Fathers haue trespassed and done euill in the eyes of the Lord our God and haue forsaken him and turned away their faces from the Tabernacle of the Lord and turned their backes 7 The haue also shut the doores of the porch and quenched the Lampes and haue neither burnt Incense nor offered burnt offerings in the Sanctuary vnto the God of Israel Chap. I thinke our Recusants haue Lamps and Incense still Salt They haue or would haue and Images too but they forget that those lamps and those offerings were signes of our Sauiour Christ which is called the light of the world and was once offered to take away the sinnes of many Heb. 9.28 as they may reade in the Epistle to the Hebrues where also they shall finde that the Priests Heb. 8.4 according to the Law offered guifts which serue vnto the Patterne of heauenly things Reu. 8.3 And in the Reuelation they may reade of an Angel that had a golden Censer much odours were giuen vnto him that hee should offer with the praiers of all Saints vpon the golden Altar c. Whereby wee are giuen to vnderstand that euen the prayers of the faithfull are no other waies accepted then through the sweete smelling merits of our Sauiour Christ who hauing brought the light of the Gospell giuen himselfe to death for vs and finished whatsoeuer in the Law was figured Lamps incense and burnt offerings and such like must now cease Chap. May not the Preachers of the truth be called Lamps and Lights Salt Yes so long as they leade vs to Christ which is the true light of the world and many such Lampes were put out not quenched with water but consumed with fire in the Bonerian daies God grant all Princes to take héed how they put out such lamps as shew the way to life eternall The same Spirit that said Touch not mine annoynted said also Do my Prophets no harme Psa 105.5 the learned know who are meant by annoynted in that place Chap. Doe not you thinke that many of the superstitious Catholickes for by that word I distinguish them from such Catholickes as are sincere did not murmure in the daies of our late Soueraigne when they saw the pictures of Lions Dragōs painted where they were wont to see such pictures as bare the names of Christ Mary and Iohn Salt I know not whether they did or no but if they did they had no reason for it sith the Armes of Princes which professe the Gospell with the supporters whether they be Lyons Dragons or Vnicornes being painted in Churches do signifie that the Prince whose Armes those are is a defender of the faith and of the pure worship of the liuing God and that hee is supreme Gouernour in all causes and ouer all persons not onely Ciuill but also Ecclesiasticall next and immediately vnder Christ in his owne Dominions who knowes not the simple people are more easily drawne to make Idols of the pictures of Saints then of beasts and therefore the remouing of their pictures and the placing of Arms in their roome is no sufficient cause to kéepe them from Church as if Christian Princes were to be reckoned amongst those that set vp their banners for tokens Psal 74.4 Chap. Sure I thinke some of them could frame themselues to come to Church notwithstanding the want of Images but that they haue beene away so long Salt This is no good excuse for a man to say I cannot doe this or that because I haue not done it in a great time for then Israel and Iudah might haue made that excuse for not comming to Ierusalem to keepe the Passeouer in the second Moneth for that it is said they had not done it in a great time as it was written 2 Chro. 30 Chap. I will trouble you no more about this matter Salt My good friend talke not of troubling mee it is the King and those that gouerne vnder his Maiesty that are troubled they see there be sundry opinions and that the fauourers of each would bee tollerated to haue their owne way which if it should be granted then the land though it haue a godly King should appeare as if it had none But wise and godly Kings which make much of them that are knowne to feare the Lord suffer not euery man especially
saued for I am God and there is none other Woe vnto them for they haue fled away from me Hosea 7.13 destruction shal be vnto them because they haue transgressed against mee though I haue redeemed theÌ„ yet they haue spoken lies against me God is very greatly to bee feared Palme 89.7 in the â—ounsell of the Saints and to be had in reâ—erence of all them that are about him â— O Lord God of hostes who is like vnto â—hee thy truth most mighty Lord is on eueâ—y side O Lord the hope of Israell all that forâ—ake thee shall be confounded they that deâ—art from thee shall be written in the earth â—ecause they haue forsaken the Lord the founâ—aine of liuing waters Chap. This Salt is fit for such as fal away â—rom God Salt If they bee confounded that fall â—rom God then there is a God and the same 〈◊〉 terrible God to such as forsake him Chap. Go on then Salt Their words haue beene stout aâ—ainst me saith the Lord Mal. 3.13 yet yee say what â—aue wee spoken against thee â—â— Yee haue said it is in vaine to serue God â—nd what profit is it that wee haue kept his â—ommandements and that we walked humâ—ly before the Lord of Hostes This first vnderstand that there shal come â—n the last dayes mockers which will walke â—fter their lusts 2. Peâ— 3.3 And say where is the promise of his â—omming for since the fathers died all things continue alike from the beginning Thou beléeuest that there is one God the dost wel the diuels also beleeue it and tremble whereby wee learne that they which beleeue not so much are worse then diuels Behold the Lord commeth with thousands of Saints Iud. 14.15 to giue iudgement against all men and to rebuke all the vngodly amongst them of all their wicked deedes which they haue vngodly committed and of all their cruell speakings which wicked sinners haue spoken against him God will bring euery worke to iudgement â—ccle 13.14 and euery secret thing whether it be good or euill The Lord will try the righteous Psalme 11.5 but the wicked and him that loueth iniquity doth his soule hate 6 Vpon the wicked hee shall raine snares fire and brimstone and stormy tempest this is their portions of the cups In flaming fire rendring vengeance to them that do not feare God â— Thes 1.8 Chap. If any of this biting salt or the like should moue either the Atheist which saith in his heart there is no God or the Epicure which denieth his prouidence or any of the wicked to come into the Church and there by hearing of Gods iudgements thundred out against them begin to tremble and quake is there any softer salt or any ware to bee had at Bible-Spring that may serue to keepe them from dispairing Salt When by preaching of the word and feruent prayers of the righteous which as Saint Iames saith auaileth much they bee brought to a true feeling of their sinnes and through the grace of God which is giuen to the humble haue that godly sorrow that causeth repentance not â—o be repented of and some measure of a sound faith in our Sauiour Iesus Christ in whose name for that he is the mediator betweene God and man we ought to pray when I say they are thus farre reformed let them either publickely confesse their sinne in such sort as authority shall appoint or else priuately say these or the like words O Lord God which art great and fearefull A prayer and keepest couenant and mercy towards them that loue thee and keep thy commandements Dan. â— wee haue sinned and haue committed iniquity and haue done wickedly yea we haue rebelled and departed from thy precepts and from thy iudgments O Lord righteousnesse belongeth vnto thee and vnto vs open shame O our God wee are confounded and ashamed to lift vp our eyes to thee our God Ezra 9.6 Psalme 51. for our iniquities are increaâ—ed ouer our head and our trespasse is growne vp into the heauen create in vs cleane hearts o God wash vs thereby from our iniquities cast vs not away from thy presence Turne thou vs vnto thee O Lord and we shall bee turned Lame 5.21 Hosea 14 2. Psal 32 5.6 7 take away all our iniquity and saue vs graciously O Lord we doe finde in thy word which is written for our learning that thy seruant Dauid confessed his sinnes vnto thee and thou forgauest him and that euery one that is godly maketh his prayer vnto thee in a time when thou maist bee found and that as a father pittieth his owne children so thou art mercifull vnto them that feare thee Psa 103.13.145.18 and thou art neere to all them that call vpon thee faithfully we pray thee therefore for Iesus Christ his sake to heare vs now with sorrowfull hearts confessing our Epicurisme Atheisme our grosse impiety wicked infidelity wherby we became worse theÌ„ the diuels for they beleeue there is a God and tremble but wee fâ—ared no God at all we were so led by our owne lust and so followed the fashions of the world that wee had no minde to call vpon thee but forsaking thee and thy word to keepe company with the wicked wee were defiled in their pitch corrupted in their wayes and sate downe in the scornefull seate wherein wee so oft and so offensiuely scoft at al Religion and all shew of deuotion that now through thy great mercy hauing some feeling of the burthen of our sins we do wonder that we with our houses haue not long since felt that fearefull fiery vengeance which Sodom and Gomorah felt or that hell did not swallow vs vp quicke as the earth did Corah and his company Num. â—6 â—2 O Lord what haue they done that we haue not done we know not what to say but that thy iustice appeareth in destroying them and thy vnspeakeable mercy is shewed in sparing vs which sparing of vs beeing now through thy grace for which we giue thee praise so sensibly felt doth put vs in hope that as thou hast begunne to worke a new birth in vs so thou wilt sanctifie vs more and more with thy holy spirit and neuer leaue vs till by the fruits of a sound faith thou doe assure vs we are effectually called and so are of the number of those that bee elected in Christ to eternall life Wherefore wee pray thee deere father sithence of thy goodnes thou shast taught vs and we haue learned not only that there is a God but also that thou which art immortall inuisible and onely wise art the onely true God whom wee ought to feare and in whom wee must beleeue and that thou art about our path about our bed spiest out al our waies knowest all our words as being so resident euery where by thy spirit that wee can goe no where from thy presence we pray thee haue mercy vpon vs to forgiue vs all that is
the idolaters to do what seemeth good in their own eyes but do what in theÌ„ lyeth that first God by whom they raigne bee purely worshipped and then that the land be quietly gouerned and as they no doubt pray for their subiects after the example of Ezekiah who praying for such as were not throughly cleansed said The good Lord be mercifull towards him that prepareth his whole heart to seeke the Lord God of his fathers 2. Chron. 30.18.19 though hee bee not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary So ought all louing and faithfull subiects heartily to pray for their Princes that it would please the Almighty to direct their wordes thoughts and déeds to his glory and good of the Church and to giue them wisedome whereby they may discerne betwixt those that prepare their hearts to serue God in sincerity according to his word though they haue their faults as who hath not too many and those that serue him superstitiously according to their owne fantasies though they haue heard or might haue heard a thousand times that whatsoeuer is not of faith is sin Rom. â—4 23 and that we must not be wise in our owne opinions Chap. For my part I haue so prayed and by the grace of God will pray so still and I beseech him for his sake that shed his most precious bloud for vs on the crosse to frame such obedience in vs all first towards his owne diuine Maiesty and then to our good King as shall bee most acceptable in his sight that such as be in authority for whom we are bound to pray may gouerne vs with comfort and not with griefe and thus I leaue you because here is one looketh as if he thought vs long The third Chapman I Haue thought you long indeed Salt Your long tarrying shall bee recompensed with a quicke seruing what would you haue Chap. I would haue salt to season some which seeme not to giue so good eare to Sermons as they haue done Salt How doth that appeare Chap. By there talking and sometimes sleeping in time of the Sermon prayers Salt When one beginneth to shrinke from that whereto God hath called him hée shall haue meanes ready at hand to further him therein If Ionas will flye to Tarshish he shall find a ship ready at Iapho to carry him from the presence of the Lord that is from presenting himselfe to the place whether the Lord sent him to cry against it otherwise as appeared by the mighty tempest hee could not flye from the presence of him that is euery where Tell mee I pray are the men you come for any thing learned Chap. Yes they can read well Salt Then they know what Salt is good in such a case Chap. Wee haue haue not alwaies that in remembrance which we know Salt Indéed I remember S Paul saith to the Romanes Neuerthelesse brethren I haue somewhat boldly Rom. 15.15 after a sort written to you as one that putteth you in remembrance c. Saint Peter also seemeth to be of that opinion â— Pet. 12 1â— saying Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you alwaies in remembrance of these things though yee haue knowledge and bee established in the truth for I thinke it meete so long as I am in this Tabernacle to stirre you vp by putting you in remembrance And our Sauiour Christ though he knew that they to whom he spake were not ignorant of that which is written of Lots wife how after he looking backe shee was turned into a pillar of salt Yet he said remember Lots wife Chap. If some Recusant were heere he or she would say this of Lots wife is a good watch-word for vs to take heed of you and your Salt Salt If I or any other would haue them looke backe with an affection to any thing that God doth abhorre they should do well to take heede of such looking backe but for as much as the going backe from grosse superstition is a going forward in a sincere religion they neede not feare the Salt which I or any other shall bring to that end Chap. For my part I feare not your Salt but I feare I shall be called foole of those for whom I fetch it Salt He that is faint-hearted before hée comes to the battell were better to stay at home then go to discourage others plucke vp your heart man and remember that wise men suffer fooles gladly if a wisemans foote should slip and some simple fellow should stay him from falling would that wiseman thinke you frowne vpon the poore man that thought him no hurt but good Chap. Since you so incourage mee let me see what I shall carry Salt Take heed that no man fall away from the grace of God 〈◊〉 Cor. 10.12 Heb. 5.15 10.38 if any with-draw himselfe my soule shall haue no pleasure in him My sheepe heare my voyce Ioh. 10. Heare my doctrine ô my people Prou. 5.1 incline your eares vnto the words of my mouth There are many disobedient and vaine talkers â—â—r 1.10 cheifly they of the circumcision Chap. I do not thinke that the Apostle in those words findeth fault onely with such as by their vaine talke goe about to deceiue mens mindes at Sermons Salt Neither doe I cite that place as if I so thought but thus I gather from those words if such deserue reproofe and to bee shunned as labor to deceiue mens minds at any time then cheifly such as doe so in time of Sermon or reading of the holy Scriptures which are meanes to reforme not to deceiue Chap. Well go on Salt Behold a Sower went forth to sow Math. 13.38.4 as he sowed some fell by the waies side and the Fowles came and deuoured â—hem vp c. I haue somewhat against thee Reu. 2.4 because â—hou hast lost thy first loue Remember therefore from whom thou â—rt fallen and repent c. No man that putteth his hand vnto the â—low Lam 9.62 and looketh backe is apt to the kingdome of God Finally my brethren bee strong in the Lord Ephe. 6.10 and in the power of his might put on the whole armour of God that yee may be able to stand against the assaults of the Diuell Chap. They are not acquainted with this armour which arme themselues to destroy the Lords annoynted Salt No indéed Chapman for their loines be not girded with the verity but with vanities superstition and idolatrie they haue not put on the breast plate of righteousnes but of sin wickednes Psal 124.6 they be armed with volumus hos spoliare with the pride of nolumus hunc regnare the would giue the crowne the foile to the end they might come to the spoyle but praised be the Lord yea an hundred thousand tunes blessed bee his holy name which hath not giuen his Maiesty his Progeny his Nobility other faithfull Subiects as a prey vnto the teeth of such blouâ— thirsty men whose
féete be not shod with preparation of the Gospell of peace but wiâ—â— a masse of massacres battle and bloud theâ— haue not the shield of faith to quench the fieâ—â— darts of the wicked but of some Popish diâ—pensatioÌ„ or of some fond imaginatioÌ„ vnto 〈◊〉 which while the trusted thinking therby to bâ— aduanced they threw theÌ„selues down head long into perpetual confusion many thingâ— are laid to the charge of such as wish Papish gone with bag baggage as yâ— they are a with soning crue quarrelsome sectaries agrée with the Annabaptists c. but for ought yâ— I caâ— sée they are so far from thinking on any such hellish stratagems that for the defence of our right déere Soueraigne the Gospell their country they would spend each drop of bloud in their bodies God grant all those that professe the Gospell sincerely so to loue one another that if néede require we may fight together against the common enemy Chap. Alasse how should they fight that haue lost their liuings though a man had mony to buy him a weapon yet if his body bee weake for want of nourishment hee will scarce bee able to kill a frog Sal. It were good they had maintenance â—nd weapons too to defend themselues â—om their Enemies I know the Lord is â—ur best Buckler he is onely our support Psal 23. â—hat Horses Bowes and Swords can not â—â—ue men yet he that saide so 1. Sam. 40.45.47 had a Sling â—nd a Stone though he trusted not in them â—ut in the Lord of Hostes who the very â—ame day that the Philistine had thought to â—aue giuen Dauids flesh vnto the Foules of â—â—e Heauen and to the Beastes of the field â—losed him in Dauids hands and so his owne â—ead was cutte off with his owne Sword Such as make pittes for such as feare God â—oe oft-times fall ints the same themselues Chap. But how fell wee to talke of this from talking of such as talke in time of Sermon Sal. I cited that place in Saint Paule where he biddeth the Ephesians put on all the Armour of God and so we digrest to the Armour of the wicked who if they made any reconing of the Scriptures they would â—reade them oftner then they doe and in reading note that Dauid was touched in his heart when he had cut off but the â—lappe of Saules Garment that though Amon worshiped his Fathers Idols yet by the iust iudgement of God 2. King 21 2â—.23 the people of the Land slew all those that conspired againsâ— him and that though King Pekaiah did euilâ— in the sight of the Lord yet Captaine Pekaâ—â— that slew him to raigne in his steed waâ— himselfe slaine by Hosea the Sonne of Elaâ— If these wicked Walkers for I haue donâ— with the Church talkers hoping I shalâ— neede to say no more of that matter would remember those histories and the fall oâ— Traytors in all ages and how that thâ— Lord hath not only forbidden to touch wilâ— bloudy hands his Annointed and the heriâ—tage of his Prophets but also threatneâ— that the bloudthirstie and vngodly menâ— whom he abhorreth shall not liue out halfâ— their dayes they would not imagine sucâ— mischitfe vpon their beds and conceiue much lesse bring foorth such monstrouâ— fruite Alar Lib. vniuer iuri Histor desâ—â—ip pag. â—5 The day in which proude Tarquiâ—â— was banished was called Regifugium Iâ— were well if the fifth of Nouember werâ— called Papae-fugium for that I wishe 〈◊〉 raigned no longer in any mans hart here 〈◊〉 these be theire fruites Chap. If they escaped not that conspired against bad Kings how shall they be freâ— that rise vp against a good King which by his calling of a Conference and by his Proclamations and by his Bookes hath mad◠〈◊〉 knowne to all that will not be willfuly â—gnorant that he hath great care that all things may be wel ordered both in Church and Common wealth If any haue Popish Pardons for such pestilent plots they came not from the Chaire of Peter who sayeth euen in that translation which they most esteeme Feare God honour the King But from some other bloudy bench where Sathan hath a throne I thinke few of these we speake of come to our Churches Sal. I thinke so to but if they would come with a minde desirous to finde the trueth and pray from their hearts that it would please God to deliuer them from whatsoeuer offendeth his Maiestie If they would call afterknowledge Pro. 2.3.4 and cry for vnderstanding If they would search for her as they would for siluer and treasure then as Salomon sayth they should vnderstand the feare of the Lord and finde the knowledge of God Chap. The Lord for his tender mercies graunt that both we and they may so seeke for the true knowledge of God and of his true worship as that we may find it and finding it may hold it fast vnto the end and so I leaue you making roome for the next Chapman The 4. and 5. Chapmen VVEE would be the next if wee might Sal. What would you haue Chap. Wee would haue Salt for two Shepheards Sal. Shepheards vse Tarre and not Salt as I thinke Chap. As Tarre is good for some Sheepe so is this Salt which you bring good for the Shepheard Sal. How knowe you that before you haue tryed it Chap. They say that your Salt is Canonicall and that being sound must needs be good Sal. True if it be well vsed but what is amisse in the Shepheard for whom you come Chap. The one is either so lame or so lither that he will not feede his Flock And the other though he fodder his Sheepe yet he doth not looke well to his way and that makes him stumble very much Sal. If I thought they would estéeme of it and take it in good part and not snuffe at it as if you sought and brought this Salt rather to frecte them to their heart then to whet them for their good I would gladly helpe you to that you come for but I meruaile you seeke not first for your selfe but beginne with your Shepheards Chap. I am perswaded that if they were sound we should all doe the better Sal. You do well to seeke to haue your Shepheard sound so that you remember there was neuer any perfectly sound but one called Archipoimen The chieâ— Shepheard who gaue his life for his Sheepe 1. Pet. 5.4 and fitteth now at the right hand of Maiesty in the highest place Chap. That Shepheard was peerelesse Reu. 1.5 for as some write of him he washed them in his owne bloud But our Shepheard I feare me hath more fellowes though some say a lame Shepheard hath no fellowe Sal. Not onely your Shepheard but my selfe for I am a Shepheard also and all Sepheards haue their infirmities more or lesse and it were to be wished we could and would all of vs take as great paines for the good of the Flocks coÌ„mitted to our charge as did Iacob
Moses Dauid and those Shepheards to whom the Angell of the Lord on a time brought tidings of great ioy The first of these Gen. 30.29 to witte Iacob sayth thus to Laban his Wines Father Thou knowest what seruice I haue done thee and in what taking thy Cattle haue beene vnder me for the little that thou hadest before I came is increased vnto a multitude and the Lord hath blessed thee by my comming c. This twenty yeeres haue I beene with thee Gen 31.38.39.40 thine Ewes and thy Goates haue not cast their young and the Rammes of thy Flockes haue I not eaten c. I was in the day consumed with heate and with frost in the night and my sleepe departed from mine eyes Moses â—â—od 2 17. â—1 after he had succoured the seuen Daughters of the Priest of Midian defending them from the downish and clubbish Shepheards that would not suffer them to mater their Fathers Sheepe at the Troughs which they themselues had â—â—iled marryed one of those Sisters and hauing agreed with Iethro his Father in law to look to his Sheepe he did not to the ende he might follow his owne pleasure or prosâ—ite committe them to a carelesse and vnskilfull Ladde but followed them himselfe through the desert and that a long time enduring many stormes no doubt eare he came to the mountaine of God Exod 31. Horeb. Chap. And what say you of Dauid Sal. He sayth of himselfe to King Saule Thy Seruant kept his Fathers Sheepe 1. Sam. 17.34 and theâ—e came a Lyon and likewise a Beare and tooke a Sheepe out of the flocke and I went out after him smote him tooke it out of his mouth when he arose against me I caught him by the beard and smote him and slew him So thy Seruant slew both the Lyon and the Beare Chap. It should seeme that this Dauid was a couragious and a carefull Shepheard Sal. The Seruants of Saule sayd He was strong valient and a Man of warre wise in matters and a comely person and that the Lord was with him Chap. Was it his trusting to his strength then that made him leaue his sheepe with a Keeper and goe within the compasse of the Host Sal. I did not say he trusted to his strength though he were strong yet he was the least of his Brethren And Saule in comparison of Goliah thought him but a Boy He left not his Sheepe as he himselfe sayd without a cause for his Father sent him the Lord no doubt had decreed that he though vnllkely in mans iudgement should kill that great man of warre 1. Sam. 17.46 47. that all men might know that Israell had a God Psal 78.70 and that the battle is the Lords This is that Dauid of whom it is sayd in the Psalme that God Tooke him from the Shepe-foldes euen from behind the Ewes with young brought he him to feede his People in Iacob and his inheritance in Ifraell so he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart and guided them by the discretion of his hands Cha. This was a great prefermeÌ„t to come from feding of sheepe to gouerne Israell a greater blessing of God that he had wit will to guide theÌ„ so well But what haue you to say of those other Shepheards to whome the Angell brought such ioyfull tydings Sal. Saint Luke sayth Luk. 2.8 They abode in the field and kept watch by night because of theire flocke Cha. I promise you these Shepheards were worthie to be wel rewarded whom neither the night which is vncomfortable nor the Beare which roareth nor the Lyon which deuoureth could driue froÌ„ their flocks We of our town would be glad if our shepheard were halfe so painefull and couragious Sal. It is meruaile if he want paine being lame but what may I call the Towne where you dwell Chap. It is called Little-taught a pretty Towne if it were well taught Sal. If it had neuerso much teaching it were neuer the better except there be following Chap. True but rather the worse because it should be beaten with more stripes but I pray you let me haue some sharpe Salt that may stirre vp our Sepheards to feede vs and I doubt not if God blesse his labours you shall finde vs in better plight when you come this way againe Sal. What will you doe with the Salt when you haue it Chap. I will carry it to him and pray him to lay it to his eyes or if any of this kinde hath beene layed to them heeretofore that he would now at length lay it to his heart Sal. On yâ— conditioÌ„ the you wil do the like wheÌ„ he shall wish you I will serue you presently Chap. I hope I shall Sal. Hold then as I deliuer it with good-will so do you carry it which goodwill I pray god to stir vp your shepheard according vnto that which shall be measured vnto him to feed you with goodwill Chap. Amen Sal. Thus sayth the Lord God vnto the Shepheards Ezek. 34. â— Woe be to the Shepheards of Israell that feede themselues should not the Shepheards feede the flockes Yea eate the Fatte and ye cloath you with the Wollâ— yea kill them that are fed 3 but ye feede not the sheepe The weake haue ye not strengthned the sicke haue ye not healed neyther haue you bound vp the broken 4 nor brought againe that which was driuen away neither haue sought that which was lost but with crueltie and rigor haue you ruled them 5 And they were scattered without a Shepheard and when they were dispearsed they were deuoured of all the Beasts of the field Chap. I perceiue a shepheard hath work enough to keepe him from idlenesse he had not neede be lame or lasy that must feede strenghthen heale bind vp the broken bring againe sheepe that bee driuen away and seeke about for such as be gone astray but if I should desire to know who they be that feede and cloth themselues and do not that which is here required would you not do so much as tell me Salt If other Chapmen will stay so long you shall heare not what I say but what I find in a booke that beareth the name of an ancient and famous shepheard Aug. dâ— pastoribus that liued in Africa more then twelue hundred yeares ago how say you my Maisters are you conent to stay while I shew what I finde here Other Chap. Yes if you stay not too long as one forgetting that wee come for that which is Canonicall Salt If I bring any that agréeeth not with that you may leaue it where you find it In the first chapter of that booke hee asketh this question Aug. de Pastoribus cap. Where are they which feede themselues and answereth All that seeke their owne and not the things that are of Iesus Christ for we saith he whom the Lord according to his vouchsafing and not according to our
snátch away their goods to maintaine their owne diet and rayment that they kill the fat when they lay heinous matters and capitall crimes to the charge of the richer sort that so they may come by their substance that they feede not the flock by example of good life with the word of sound doctrine that they strengthned not the weake when they laboured not to hinder those which are prone apt to vice the they healed not the sicke when they did reuoke call backe such as were accustomed to euil the they bound not vp such as were broken through impatiency wheÌ„ they did not kindly comfort them that they caused not such as went astray to returne when they brought not againe to the true worshipping of God that which was driuen away from it by idolatry that they sought not that which was lost when they did not raise vp such as despared by promising them parâ—on through the mercy of God that they ruled them with cruelty when they laid such burthens vpon them as they were not able to beare that the Shéep were dispersed without a Shepheard when they were scattered through diuers vices wanting good gouernment teaching that they were deuoured of all the beasts of the field when they became a prey for diuels cruell aduersaries such as were the Assirians and Chaldeans Chap. I see diuers men haue diuers expositions Salt They may so and all profitable so long as they swerue not from the Analogy of that faith and doctrine which is taught in holy writ but if you will haue any more 〈◊〉 Ezechiels salt here it is Thus saith the Lord God Eze. 34.10 Behold I come against the Sheepheards and will require the sheepe at their hand and cause them to cease from feeding the sheepe Chap. Stay salter stay Salt Why so Chap. Tell mee I pray thee why doth the Lord say hee will cause them to cease from feeding if they feede themselues and not the flocke they need not be stayed but rather spurred Salt If one should take vpon him to make you a watch which when you haue tryed it you finde to bee starke nought would not you say this man shall make me no more watches Chap. Yes Sal. But your meaning is hee should marre you no more for though he tooke vpon him to make a good one yet hee made 〈◊〉 had one and that is marring Chap. True Salt So many stand in the place of watchmen which winke when they should wake and many in the roome of féeders which rather serue then féede the meaning therfore of the Lord is this he wil not suffer them to féede his Shéepe in such sort any longer Chap. Answere 〈◊〉 to one question more then I wil trouble you with no more questions In the foresaid Chapter as I remember the Lord saith And yee my sheep the sheepe of my pasture are men are all men the Lords sheep Salt Hearken what hee himselfe hath said by the mouth of his onely Sonne Io 10 27 28 My sheepe heare my voyce and I know them and they follow me Chap. No doubt but it shall go wel with such sheepe Salt Marke what followeth And I will giue vnto them eternall life and they shall neuer perish neither shall any man plucke them out of my hand Chap. I see then if one will bee a true member of Christ and enioy life euerlasting he must heare Christ his voyce and follow him But what if some Iudas preach must I follow him Salt Sée you forget your selfe you told mee you would trouble mee with no more questions take heed you be not one of those that are more forward in asking questions then obeying precepts They which heard Iudas were not to follow him in treason Math. 10.4 Mat 14.17 he wrought to his owne condemnation but in the doctrine he taught for their saluation for he was sent 〈◊〉 â—â—ch as well as Peter Math. 6.16 who was not to be followed when hee cursed and sware that hee knew not the man but in confessing Christ to be the sonne of the liuing God Chap. If Peter bee not to bee followed when he did euill why should wee follow any man that is a Deputy for the Diuill If any man dispensed with this late pestilent practise with powder hee deserueth rather to be called a searcher for salt-peter then a successor of Peter and not a Vicar of Christ but an aid to Antichrist but let these Salt-peter-men goe or rather shut them vp lest they worke our woe and let me haue some more of that salt for which I came Salt You shall I will giue you pastors according to mine heart Iet 3 15 they shall féede you with knowledge and vnderstanding happy are they friend Chapman that haue such Pastors These are not like those watchmen and Pastors which are pictured by the Prophet Isaiah Isai 56 10. where hee saith their Watchmen are all blinde 11 they haue no knowledge they are all dumbe dogges they cannot barke they lye and sléepe and delight in sléeâ—ing and these gréedy dogges can neuer haue inough and these Shepheards cannot vnderstand for they all looke to their owne way euery one for his aduantage and for his owne purpose Chap. If any man in the feare of God in a charitable sort should cast this salt vpon any to season them being drowsie dumbe and too greedy ought any man in anger to call him barking dogge and to reckon him in the number of those whom the Apostle meaneth when he saith Beware of Dogges Salt To this I answere that I feare me there is too much doggishnesse euery where For God for his tender mercies sake giue vs more charitable hearts one towards another Loue which is the badge of Christianity is lost wee had néed make haste to séeke it lest the anger of God take vs away before we can finde it Chap. You say well but let mee haue a little more Salt Take heede therefore vnto your selues Act. 10 2â— and to all the flocke whereof the holy Ghost hath made you ouerseers to seede the Church of God which he hath purchased with his owne bloud Let no man despise thy youth but be vnto theÌ„ that beleeue an example in word 1. Tim. 4 1â— in Conuersation in Life in Spirit in Faith and in purenesse Till I come giue attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine take héede vnto thy selfe vnto learning continue therein for in so doing thou shalt saue thy selfe and them that heare thee Chap. If it bee so it is good for a Pastour to bee painefull and carefull to bring men to Christ which saueth but go on Salt I charge thee therefore before God and before Iesus Christ 2. Tim. 4. â— which shall iudge the quicke and the dead at his appearing and in his Kingdome Preach the word be instant in season to the willing saith the former booke de Pastoribus and out of season that is to
then take to themselues those garments or that the flock should omit the publicke fodder rather then heare the Pastors so cloathed I thinke some had rather yeeld to such cloathing then to crossing because there be some that do worship that signe and say they will doe so still but that I came for an other haue troubled you so long I would faine haue some Salt for such Sal. The second Commandement forbiddeth such kinde of bowing and worshipping for that is to make an Idole of an Image and if we may not make an Idole of an Image why should we make an Idole of the Crosse Chap. Some say Loue me and loue my Hounde Salt True but the Hound is louing to his Maister and doth him no hurt but rather in hunting helpeth to recreate him after he hath wearyed himselfe aboute such matters as his calling hath tyed him to But the Hammer Nailes and Crosse were no louing Hounds to Christ vnlesse they be louing that hunt one to death Chap. Though Christ felt great paine there and thereon ended his life yet we haue a great benefite thereby Sal. True but tell me this If a man by treason hath deserued death and a friende of his whome the Kings Maiesty fauoureth intreateth or pardon and the King graunteth the Rebell his life on this condition that he which sued for his pardon would loose his right hande would you haue the Rebell or Traytor to kisse and to thanke the Axe and him that chopt with it or his Friende that felt the paine and lost his hande Chap. Me thinkes a man should haue little list to kisse the Axe or the Chopper but rather with all thankefulnesse imbrace such a deere Friend vnlesse such a Friende would haue such a man to esteeme such an Axe more then an other Sal. Let our blessed Sauiour then which gaue his life for vs haue the honoure let neyther the Nailes wherewith nor the Crosse wherevnto he was fastned nor Iudas that betrayed him nor he that entred into that Traytor nor they that saide crucifie him robbe this our Redemer of any part of his honour and glory And note this that as the signe of the Crosse was much in vse and much regarded amongst the auneient Christians whereby they declared that they were not ashamed of that crucified Christ whome the Heathen scorned So sometimes they giue the name of the Crosse to the sufferings of Christ and sometimes the name of blood to the Crosse For when Augustine vpon Iohn sayeth Last of all he chose a kinde of death Aug. in â—â— 8 tract 43. that is sayth he to hange on the Crosse and â—ould fasten the crosse in theire hearts that the Christian might say God forbid that I should reioyce but in the Crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ c. It is not to be thought that by fastning the Crosse in the heart and by reioysing in the same is ment the wodden Crosse it selfe whereon our Sauiour Christ was fastned but rather that which he suffered thereon Againe when he sayth Aug in â—â— 12. tract 50. Sanguine occisi pecoris Iudeorum postes signati sunt sanguine Christi frontes nostrae fignantur The postes of the Iewes were signed with the bloud of the same lambe our foreheads are signed with the bloud of Christ Doth he not there call the signe of the Crosse Christ his bloud yes no doubt for they signed themselues with that signe and not with his bloud but because his precious bloud was shed on the crosse therefore he giueth it the name of his bloud as the sacramentall wine representing his bloud is called bloud in the Supper Chap. It should seeme then that in Saint Augustines time the Christians did vse that signe but were they all good Catholickes or sound Christians which so signed their foreheads Salt Saint Augustine saith no for some there were whom hee calleth Agitatores which signifieth driuers vexers or troublesome fellowes which saith he facile habent in fronte signum Christi corde non recipiuÌ„t verbum Christi haue easily the signe of Christ in their forehead and receiue not the word of Christ in their heart Aug 10.12 tract 50. But how doe you know that some doe worship the Crosse Chap. Besides those that haue written in defeÌ„ce of it whose doings are in print there came of late into my hands a wild welcome home set downe in Meeter by some that are to willfull as it should seeme in this Crosse-worship regarding that more it is to be feared then the booke of God wherein the true worship of God is taught and the sufferinges of Christ our Sauiour at large sette foorth Sal. I pray you let me see it Chap. Heere it is To the Parson of Enborne our hearty commendation Wishing him a Catholike minde or no saluation NOw Maister Parson for your welcome home Reade ouer these Lynes you know not from whome A holy Crosse for an outward token and signe And remembrance onely of that religion of thine And of the profession the People doe make For more then this comes to thou dost it not take Yet holy Church tels vs of holy Crosse much more Of power and vertue to heale sicknesse and sore Of holynesse to blesse vs from all enill From foule fiende fend vs and saue vs from Diuell And of many a miracle which holy Crosse hath wrought And which into light holy Church hath brought Wherefore holy Church holy worship doth it giue And sure so will we so long as we liue Thou then saist it is idolatrie and superstition Yet we know it is holy Churches tradition Holy church then disgrace not but bring it to renowns For vp shall Holy-crosse and you shall go downe And now what we are if any will know Catholiques we are and so do anow Thy seruice booke here scattered all Is not diuine but hereticall So is thy Bible of false translation To â—ut it and mangle it is no damnation Thy Register also if so we it serue We giue it no more then it doth deserue For why should new heretickes be thus inâ—old With good Catholikes being dead of old Out with new Hereticques hence let them goe Register good Catholiques and register no moe For Catholiques be worthy onely of record And into Church-register to bee restord To the Parson of Enborne giue this with speed The carrier is paid already as much as he looks for And so it shall cost you nothing but the reading And would you haue it better cheap Chap. Haue you framed any answere to this wel come home Salt Yes but not as one that cannot away with that signe but as misliking such as make an Idoll of it Chap. I pray you let meee see it Sal. If you will giue it the reading heere it is To Maister Mar-bible One that fauoreth the Bible wisheth a Christian minde that he may come to saluation IF Maister Parson retourned well home to his house He hath cause to thanke God and not wanton
of his most precious bloud hath purchased for all them that repent and through a liuely saith bring forth fruites of true repentance cleaue stedfastly to him vnto the end Chap. Freind Salt-man you forget your selfe Sal. Why my good Chapman Chap. I came not to heare you Preach but to haue some Canonical Salt fit for the men you wot of Salt If you had not interrupted mee you had beene gone ere this take now the rest of the Salt say nothing till you haue sufficient What haue I to do with the multitude of your sacrifices 〈…〉 saith the Lord I am full of the burnt-offerings of Rarâ—s and of the fat of fed beasts and I desire not the bloud of Bullocks nor of Lambs nor of Goates 12 When you come to appeare before mee who required this of your hands to tread in my Courts 13 Bring no more oblations in vaine Incense is an abhomination vnto me I cannot suffer your new Moones nor Sabboths nor solemne dayes it is iniquity nor solemne Assemblies 14 My soule hateth your new Moones and your appointed Feasts they are a burthen to me I am weary to beare them â—â— And when you shall stretch out your hand I will hide myne eyes from you and though you make many prayers I will not heare for your hands are full of bloud 16 Wash you make you cleane take away the euill of your workes from before mine eyes cease to do euill 17 Learne to do well speake iudgement relieue the oppressed iudge the fatherlesse and defend the widdow 18 Come now and let vs reason together saith the Lord though your sinnes were as crimson they shall be made white as snow though they were red like skarlet they shall be as wooll 19 If yee consent and obey yee shall eate the good things of the land 20 But if yee refuse and bee rebellious yee shall bee deuoured with the sword for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it See also Esai 58. what Fast pleaseth God see also Ieremy 7.9.10 against stealing murder c. and such men standing in Gods-house and Ier. 22.15 Did not your fathers c. Whosoeuer then heareth of mee these words and doth the same saith our Sauiour I liken him to a wise-man Mat. 7.24 which hath builded his house on a rock 25 and the rayne tell and the flouds came and the windes blew and beate vpon that house and it fell not for it was grounded on a rocke 26 But whosoeuer heareth these my words and doth them not shal be likened to a foolish man which hath builded his house vpon the sand and the raine fell the flouds came 27 the winds blew and beate vpon that house and it fell and the fall thereof was great Then beganne hee to vbraide the Citties wherein most of his great workes were done Mat. â—â— â—â— 21 Woe bee to thee Corazin woe bee to thee Bethsaida for if the great workes which were done in you had bene done in Tirus Sidon they had repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes c. O Hypocrites 〈◊〉 â—9 7 Esaias prophycied well of you saying This people draweth neere vnto me with their mouth 〈◊〉 29 1â— and honoureth mee with their â—ippes â—ath â—â— 3 but their hearts is farre from mee Bee ye doers of the word and not hearers onely 〈◊〉 â— â—2 Pure religion and vndefiled before God euen the Father is this to visite the fatherlesse and widdowes in their aduersity to keepe himselfe vnspotted of the world Chap. This shall suffice for this time but I pray you tell me why doth the Lord reiect â—hose oblations and say their feasts were a burthen vnto him were they not appointed by the Law Salt Yes but the Lord doth hate this pleasing of our selues with outward shews and ceremoniall seruice for when there is no inward reformation The sacrifice of the wicked is an abhomination Prou 27 21. Therefore I may well say To kill an harmelesse beast and nourish hurtfull sinne To keepe a solemne feast and no sound saith within To come with fat of Rams and make the poore look leane To offer vp yong Lambs with bloudy hands vncleane In sight to fast and pray and make the Tenant cry To heare the word all day and put the widdowes by Such incense hath a smell like brimstone burnt in hell Chap. I would aske you one question more if I might Salt What is that Chap. Why doth the Lord say wash you make you cleane can we cleanse our selues Act. 2.40 Salt Saint Peter saith to some in the Acts of the Apostles Saue your selues from this froward generation And Saint Paul after he had exhorted Timothy to take héed vnto himselfe 1. Tim. 4.10 and vnto learning and to continue therein saith For in doing this thou shalt both saue thy selfe and them that heare thee By which places we are giuen to vnderstand that as such as teach if in their calling they labour to bring men to Christ their Sauiour may assure themselues to bee in the way to saluation if they beléeue and haue a care to follow that word of God which they set before others So if others also which bee exhorted to wash and saue themselues shall after such exhortations through the grace of God by which as the Apostle saith we are made safe reason thus with theÌ„selues 〈…〉 wee vse to wash that which is soule and cleause places that are filthy surely whatsoeuer cleaueth to mee that the Lord which is onely perfectly pure and holy hath forbidden in his word and in iustice from time to time punished threatning eternall death and destruction to such as dy vncleansed that must needes bee foule and filthy in his sight till it be washed away but he hath forbidden threatned and punished idolatry witchery blasphemy periury contempt of the Sabboths treason resisting authority wilfull-muether filthy fornication adultery incest theft fraude wrong lying couetousnes such like therfore these with all their branches and rootes are most foule filthy in Gods sight If thus I say they reason with theÌ„selues being pricked in their hearts through the féeling of their owne filthinesse humbly fall downe before the Almighty iudging coÌ„demning themselues confessing the to theÌ„ belongeth shame confusion death and damnation for that they haue sinned against heauen and earth and shall therewithall pray to God to haue mercy on theÌ„ according to his louing kindnesse and according to the multitude of his mercies to do away theiriniquities to wash and cleanse them thorougly from them in the bloud of his Sonne to create in them a new heart and to renew a right spirit within them hauing therewithall a stedfast purpose to walke in newnesse of life thus if they do they may be said after a sort to wash themselues because as people earnestly defiring to serue God from hence-forth in newnesse of life they haue vsed the means
fellow euen as I had pitty on thee So his maister was wroth and deliuered him to the Iaylors till hee should pay all that was due to him So likewise shall my heauenly Father do to you Note except you forgiue from your hearts each one to his brother their trespasses Blessed bee the mercifull Math. 5.7 for they shall obtaine mercy Be ye courteous one towards another Eph. 4 3â— tender hearted forgiuing one another euen as God for Christs sake forgaue you Whatsoeuer you would that men should doe vnto you euen so doe yee to them for this is the Law and the Prophets If you doe forgiue men their trespasses your heauenly father will also forgiue you your trespasses Math. 6 14 â—â— But if you do not forgiue men their trespasses no more will your father forgiue you your trespasses Now therefore as the elect of God â—ol 3.11 holy and beloued put on tender mercy kindnesse humblenesse of minde meeknesse long suffering Forbearing one another and forgiuing one another 1â— if any man haue a quarrell to another euen as Christ forgaue euen so doe yee â—4 And aboue all things put on loue which is the bond of perfectnesse The twelfth Chapman NOW come I. Salt For whom Chap. For one that is very curious in washing his hands and in cleansing the outsides of all his vessels but if one looke into the inside of them he shall finde them so foule and filthy that it would loath a man to eate any thing that commeth out of them Salt I haue some for you besides that which I deliuered to the eight Chapman that is this Woe bee to you Scribes and Pharisies Mat. â—3 25 hypocrites for yee make cleane the vtter side of the cup and platter but within they are full of bribery and excesse 26 Thou blind Pharisie cleanse first the inside of the cup and platter that the outside of them may be cleane also Wo be to you Scribes and Pharisies 27 hypocrites for you are like vnto whited tombes which appeare beautifull outward but are within full of dead-mens bones 28 of all filthinesse so are yee also for outward yee appeare righteous vnto men but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquity yee lay the commandements of God apart and obserue the traditions of men Mark 7.28 Chap. This is somewhat a byting Salt Salt It is such as is fit for the men you come for therefore if you like it take it and giue place to another Chap. I like it well but I would haue some more of it for such men cannot haue too much of this kind of Salt Sal. Then you make a great difference betwixt this Salt and that which is commonly set on the Table the which although it be commodious and necessary for many things yet S. Augustine saith thus of it Salem immoderatius acceptum De moribus Manicheorum cap. 8. quis non venenus esse clamauerit who cryeth not that salt immoderately taken is poyson Chap. But store of Canonicall Salt well giuen and well taken doth not poyson but season therfore I pray you let me haue some more Salt Euery one will deceiue his friend Ier. 5.4 and will not speake the truth for they haue taught their tongues to speake lies and take great paines to do wickedly c. Therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts behold I will melt them 7 and try them c. 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shut out and speaketh deceit one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth but in his heart he layeth waite for him 9 Shall I not visite for these things saith the Lord or shal not my soule be aduenged on such a nation as this Chap. Past grace bee they that make light of this Salt but I will giue place The thirteenth Chapman I am glad I haue his roome Sal. You would bee more glad if you had all Rome Chap. What it hath bene in times past I know not but since I can remember I can see no such good come from thence as should moue any wise-man to bee in loue with it I cannot bee perswaded that superstition idolatry gazing on babies roarinig Buls conspiracies vndermining of states monstruous cruelty c. come from Peters chaire such Babylons cannot but fall and come to confusion the English pillars of it begin to totter already thanks bee to God God grant that the Preachers and professors of the Gospell may loue one another and that euery one may keepe his standing as contented in his place to helpe what hee may to beare vp the roofe of so much of the Lords house as is here amongst vs. Salt Chapman I will bee your Clarke this once and say Amen to your praier but tell me now what you come for Chap. I would haue Salt to season one that trusteth to his riches and is so carryed away with couetousnesse that he thinketh corne is neuer deere enough Salt Take this Iam. 3 24. The Lord is my portion saith my soule therefore I will hope in him 25 The Lord is good to them that trusteth him and to the soule that seeketh him 26 It is good both to trust and to waite for the saluation of the Lord. If riches increase set not your hearts vpon them Psal 62 10 Doublesse man walketh in a shadow Psal 39.6 and disquieteth himselfe in vaine he heapeth vp riches and cannot tell who shall gather them And hee that receiueth the seed among thornes Mat. 1â— 22 is he that heareth the word but the care of this world and the deceitfulnesse of riches choake the word and he is made vnfiuitfull Children Mark 10.24 how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the Kingdome of God Riches auaile not in the day of wrath Pâ—ou 11.4 but righteousnesse deliuereth from death The liberall person shall haue plenty 〈◊〉 â—â— 25. and he that watereth shall also haue raine Hee that withdraweth the corne the people will cursse him Prou. but blessing shall bee vpon the head of him that selleth corne The graue and destruction can neuer be full 22.9 so the eyes of men can neuer bee satisfied He that hath a good eye he shall be blessed for he giueth of his bread to the poore 27.20 Heare this ye that swallow vp the poore Amos. 8.4 that ye make the needy of the land to faile Saying 5 when will the new moneth beginne that we may sell corne And the Sabboth that wee may set forth wheate and make the Ephah that is the measure small and the Shekell that is the price great and falsefy the waights of deceite That wee may buy the poore for siluer 6 and the needy for shewes yet sell the refuse of the wheate The Lord hath sworne by the excellency of Iacob surely 7 I will neuer forget any of their workes Shall not
But what do you call this Man Mad. We call him Maister Guide-well Ro. I pray you Maister Guide-well talke with my Cousin a little Guid. May I be so bold Sir as to craue your name Tract My name is Tractable Guid. If your nature be answerable to your name I hope I shall not finde you obstinate Tract Obstinacie is a Companion of Heresie I may erre but I would not be an Heretike Guid. If you may erre then a Catholike may erre Tract An auncient Catholike saide so Guid. The Catholike you name was auncient learned indéed but if his owne Bookes be discerned from those which are fathered on him wrongfully as some hold you shall finde him differ in many thinges from your selfe and such other latter superstitious Catholicks Tract Doth any man doubt of any bookes that beare the name of Saint Augustine M. Guid. As the learned do hold many of those bookes to bee dubij M. Perk. in Prob. Pa. 28. such as are to bee doubted of so do they affirme many of theÌ„ to be spurij plaine bastards and not onely do they doubt of many bookes that beare his name but of many that carry the name of ancient Christians namely Dionysius and if you list to see what reasons are set downe to proue those works of the heauenly Hierachy c. not to be framed by Dionysius Aerop read M. Perkins his Prob. I name this Dionysius Pag. 8.9.10 because I haue heard some find great fault with such as deny those Hierarchies to be his See P. Mart. on Iud. c. 1. confer R. Pag. 485. vvhit in disp Pag. 432. Mad. I pray you talke of those matters some other time I requested you to come hither with mee to helpe to make peace betwixt these two woemen which haue iarred a long while about Churching and other matters appertaining to woemen M. Guid. If it be woemens matters I hope you Madam being a graue Matron and not altogether vnlearned may serue to end this quarrell without me Mad. My learning is little yet this I reâ—ember I haue learned of Salomon Prou. 6 16. that â—â—ere be seueÌ„ things which God abhorreth â—â—rst haughty eyes secondly a lying tongue â—â—irdly hands that shedde innocent bloud â—â—urthly a heart that imagineth wicked enâ—erprises fiftly feete that bee swift in runâ—ing to mischiefe sixtly a falfe witnesse that â—â—eaketh lies seuenthly a rayser of contenâ—ions among brethren Now by the last of â—hese seuen I gather that if the Lord abhor â—uch as raise contentions among brethren â—r Christians which as S. Paul saith should â—oue as brethren then no doubt hee fauouâ—eth and blesseth such as labour to make â—hem friends according to that saying of â—ur Sauiour Blessed are the Peace-makers Math. 5.9 c. I therefore beleeuing this to bee true â—o for my part exhort you both if I may be â—o bold in the presence of our Minister to â—emember that as God is one so he would haue vs to be one and not rent in sunder Ezek. 11.19 He doth promise this as a blessing to giue â—his people one heart and a new spirit 2 Cor 13 11 And the Apostle biddeth vs to be of one minde and to liue in peace that the God of loue and peace may be with vs But yet you must note neighbour Romana that we cannot be of one mind with you if you do any thing that is contrary to the Lords minde wee cannot agree with you therein Esai 56.7 Mat. 21.13 Psal 100.4 The Lord calleth the place where his people assemble to heare his word to praise him for his mercy and to call vpon his name c. the house of prayer And we are coÌ„manded to enter into his gates with praise sith then we go to Church to heare his word to call vpon his name to shew our selues thankful for his blessings c. What should hold you or any other from ioyning with vs in such holy exercises or how can you finde fault with Cathara for going thither with one or two when your selfe goes thither neither with few nor many or with what conscience can you finde fault with her for omitting some trifles when as you omit matters of weight Do not you thinke you may ere as well or rather as much as your kinsman Maister Tractable or if you thinke you may erre why do you not come and pray with vs that it would please God to bring into the way of truth all such as haue erred and are deceiued Rom. Haue they such prayers cozen Tract So they say Rom. But what should I heare if I came among you Guid. That Christ his Sheepe heare his voyce Ioh. 11. Rom. I would heare that voyce from his Vicar the Pope Mad. Did you euer heare him or do you thinke you shall euer heare him Rom. No but I haue heard them that came from him as they say Mad. If God send his word home to vs what need wee goe beyond seas to fetch it why do you iudge so hardly of our Ministers as to think they will not tell you what Christ said Rom. Why what did he say Guid. He said I am the way the truth Ioh. 14.6.12.36 and the life he said while you haue light beleeue in the light that you may bee the children of the light He said as Moses lifted vp the Serpent in the wildernesse 3.14.15 so must the Sonne of man bee lift vp that whosoeuer beleeueth in him should haue euerlasting life and I will raise him vp at the last day This is the will of him that sent me 6.40 that euery one that seeth the Son and beleeueth in him should haue euerlasting life c. Cath. To my remembrance I heard one Preacher say that to see in that place doth signifie plainely to know and that the obedience of faith is ioyned in the children of God with that feeling which they haue of the diuine power in Christ Rom. I thinke Maddam Make-peace and you dame Cathara do spend as much time in reading the Bible and hearing of Sermons as my cozen and I do in reading Sir Thomas Moores bookes against Frith and his Vtopia wherein hee girdeth at such as maintaine Sheepe to deuoure men Guid. Our Sauiour Christ said search the Scriptures for they testify of me Ioh. 5 39 and to the Sadduces which deny the resurrection he said Mat 22 29 yee are deceiued not knowing thâ— Scriptures Saint Luke saith he opened their meaning his Disciples vnderstanding Luk 24.45 that they might vnderstand the Scriptures and before in the 27 verse that he beganne at Moses and at all the Prophets and intâ—rpreted vnto them that is to Cleophas and his companion in all the Scriptures the things which concerned him And Saint Iohn saith Ioh. 20 31 These things are written that yee might beleeue that Iesus is the Christ the Sonne of God and that in beleeuing yee might haue life through his name S. Paul saith
Rom. 22 9. Eph. 2.10 Tit. 2.11.22.13 wee teach with the Apostle that euery one that calleth on the name of Christ must depart from iniquity abhorre euill and cleaue to good for that God hath ordained good workes that we should walke in them and that the grace of God that bringeth saluation to all men hath appeared and teacheth vs that we should deny vngodlinesse and worldly lustes and that we should liue soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of the mighty God and of our Sauiour Iesus Christ therefore neighbour doe not thinke thâ—t we shut out good workes from the life of a Christian or that we commend that kinde of dead faith whereof S. Iames speaketh that beléeueth there is a God but will do no good for Gods sake doe not condemne vs before you heare vs. Rom. I haue heard that you Protestants discerne the iust from the vniust by the law of Faith nnd not of workes did euer any of the ancient Catholiques so discerne the one of these from the other Guid. Hearken what Saint Augustinesaith Nostra Fides c. that is saith hee the Catholique faith discerneth the iust from the vniust not by the law of works Contra duas epistolas pelag ad BonifaciuÌ„ lib. 3 cap. 5. Abac 2 but by the very law of faith because the iust liueth by faith By the which discerning it commeth to passe that a man liuing without Man-quelling without Theft without False-witnesse without coueting that is another mans rendring due honour to his parents bee so chaste that hee conteineth from all coupling euen in wedlock be very liberall in giuing Almes suffering iniuries with all patience which not onely taketh not away which belongeth to another but requireth not his owne being taken from him or hauing sold all that he hath and giuen it to the poore possesseth nothing of his owne yet with all these his laudable manners as it were if hee hold not the right Catholique faith towards God he may depart out of this life to be damned Now there is another which hath indéed good workes out of a right faith which worketh by loue but yet hee is such a one as matcheth not the other in manners hee sustaineth his incontinency with the honesty of marriage hee rendreth and requireth the debt of carnall copulation not onely for propagation 1. Cor. 7. but also for pleasure so as yet he lyeth with his onely wife which thing the Apostle granteth to the married secundum veniam according to leaue yet hee beareth not iniuries patiently but in his anger is caried with a desire of reuenge yet so as being requested he forgiueth that he may say Math. 6. As we forgiue our debters hée possesseth goods and of them giueth Almes not so largely as the other hee taketh not away that which is another mans but séeketh to haue his owne though not at the Common Law Ecclesiastico iudicâ—o non forensâ—â— yet by iudgement Ecclesiasticall This man though hee seeme inferiour to the other in maners yet for the right Faith which he hath in God by the which Faith hee liueth and according vnto which he accuseth himselfe in all his faults prayseth God in all good workes giuing ignominie to himselfe glory to him and receiuing from him both pardon of sinnes and loue of well-doing hee departeth to bee deliuered from this life and to bee receiued into the fellowship of such as are to reigne with Christ Why but for Faith the which all-be-it it saueth none without works for that is no reprobate faith which worketh by loue yet by it also sinnes are loosed Abac. 2 because the iust liue by faith but without it euen those workes which séeme good are turned into sinne Rom. 14. For all that is not of faith is sinne Thus farre Saint Augustine where wee finde him twice citing the Prophet Abacuk to proue that euen the iust man doth liue by Faith and that the Catholique Faith in his time and which hee calleth our Faith discerneth the iust from the vniust by the Law not of works but of Faith Tract Yet that faith which which he speaketh of worketh by loue Guid. True for if it were idle or dead it could not apprehend Christ which is our righteousnes nor assure vs that we are especially called to Saluation through him Rom. You haue brought all this out of Saint Augustine to moue me to make more account of faith and to that end belike you would haue me to bee one of your hearers but if I should frame my selfe or rather if God should moue mee to hearken to your doctrine you must haue a care that your life be answerable thereto otherwise if you preach against swearing tipling dicing whooring couenant-breaking vnmercifulnesse c. and bee stained with any of these fowle spots your selfe I assure you though I make some account of Cappe and Surplesse and such like yet I shall thinke that you deserue to be depriued rather for being blotted with these deformities then for omitting these formalities Tract All your talke is to mee and my Cozen to haue vs come to Church but you say nothing to Cathara which hath no minde to be churched to knéele at Communion to the Ring in Marriage nor to haue her child crost after baptisme Cath. How doe you know what I doe your selues not beeing seene in the Church of a long time I beleeue if Tom Piper would play there once in seuen daies with his puplets we should haue you there weekly Rom. How say you by that loe your good word is ready at all times Madam Well let this prying into one anothers doing passe and pray God to giue you charitable hearts one towards another and remember that when the Lord saith he will giue his people one heart as you haue heard he doth promise it a blessing pray therefore that you may haue an vnity in the verity We liue here God be praised vnder a Christian magistrate which no doubt is greeued to see his subiects thus diuided he would faine haue an vnity and the same declared by an vniformity and that in some externall things In which though hee doe not yet your Priests seeme to put a kinde of holinesse and religion and all as I thinke to draw you to feede on matters of better quality that will indeed nourish But wee see by a fearefull experience that the more our church yeeldeth to the formal coats the readier some are to cut our throats whether wee mourne or pype you will neither weep nor daunce with vs God turne your hearts if it be his will that you may come pray and praise God with vs. Truly Mistresse Romana your Papists are in a drowsie dreame you thinke you see S. Peter whom some of you make porter stand ready to let you into Heauen for being so willing to destroy those which say with him speaking of Iesus Christ there is no other
these such like ought to praise God for his mercies but none of all these are appointed to kneel neere the Minister to heare that Psal read or any thanks to be giuē for their deliuerance there are indeed in the latter cōmunion booke generall thanks-giuing for raine for faire weather for plenty for peace and victory and for deliuerance from the plague all which are fit and due Mad. If this were commanded to bee done for those you speake of I meane the Marchant the Souldier and the sicke man vnto whom you may adde if you list such as be crept out of debt and such as be come out of prison they had no cause to refuse I say nothing of the Minister for if he be appointed to giue thanks for others I hope he will not forget himselfe Cath. If he may giue thankes for himselfe why not we for our selues Mad. We may priuately but sith wee are not allowed to do it publikely I meane to reade aloude that Psalme and such prayers as the Minister is appointed to reade we shall do well to be quiet and to shew our selues obedient because we are not called to make lawes but to obey them it is more fil we should consider what is commanded vs then what is or is not commanded to other Cath. But the woman that goeth to her thanks-giuing must offer the accustomed offerings and that me thinkes is somewhat Leuiticall Mad. Alasse neighbour that is but some little helpe towards the Ministers maintenance You know in some places they payd two pence halfe-peny and a crisom for both which some Ministers take some sixepence and so the woemen are not troubled to buy crisoms Cath. If there should be no crisom some would thinke all is not well Guid. Such as be ignorant and superstitiously addicted to externall things might be weaned from their fond opinions if they would come where they might bee taught you for your part know that the booke saith nothing of crisoms vailes comming with many or few nor of making any dinner wise and modest woemen will haue a care of their health howsoeuer they come and if neighbours that haue mourned with her that trauelled wil reioyce with her also whē time serueth and accompany her going forth to declare her thankefulnesse in the Church which is required in the said book thrre is no cause why any should be offended therewith Cath. But these Churching dinners pincheth the poore sort their husbands labour some three-weekes or a month to get some noble and that must be spent vpon one dinner to keepe custome and because they will do as others do and so after they haue done groning their husbands must grone too Mad. If any forgetting their owne abillity will striue to bee as plentifull as such as bee farre beyond them in wealth they deserue the coat with foure elbowes whether they dwell in towne or country in some places the wealthier wiues send the poore woman at such times in a manner sufficiēt for that dinner so that vnlesse they will play the foole shee need charge herselfe but little and whereas Mistris Rosamond hath espied some washing of bucks and fetching of fier very spéedily that might bee remedied if one poore neighbour at such times especially would help another it becommeth woemen to bee modest and shamefast in all their behauiour Rom. Now let Maister Say-well chide her for not kneeling at Communion Guid. I had more neede chide you for nicke-naming me and for not comming thither at all you know nothing what she doth but by heare-say Rom. I heare say shee despiseth your order Cath. That is not true I despise none of the order Guid. It is euill to despise order I meane any good order Beza in the treatise of the true and visible note of the Catholicke Church some graue and well-learned Diuines say whosoeuer where there is place for order despiseth that order he declareth by this very thing that hee is not of God and therefore not to be heard Cath. I take it hee meaneth despising through pride Guid. But to say something touching kneeling you know neighbour Cathara that when the Minister deliuereth vnto you the Sacramēt of Christ his body which was crucified for vs he prayeth thus The body of our Lord Iesus Christ which was giuen for thee preserue thy body and soule into euerlasting life which is all one as I take it with this The Lord Iesus Christ which suffered for thee in the flesh preserue c. Ioh. 3 16. Surely hee himselfe saith So God loued the world that hee gaue his onely begotten Sonne to the end that whosoeuer beleeueth in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting if then the Minister in saying the body of our Lord Iesus Christ c. prayeth that Christ which was giuen to the death for you preserue your body and soule c. may you not say amen to it and giue thankes kneeling you know when the Minister saith Lift vp your hearts the people answere not wee lift them vp to the boord but to the Lord neither doth hee afterwards say glory bee to Christ in forme of bread but glory bee to God on high Cath. To receiue a Sacrament is one thing and to pray is another thing wee doe not kneele but stand when the Minister saith I Baptize thee c That seruice which hath no probable reason why it should bee done may seeme blind obedience Mad. It shall well beseeme vs neighbour kneeling before an outward shew of the reuerend regard we haue of that Sacrament and being so straightly required and commanded by some as make no idoll of the same to frame our selues to obedience and enterprete all things to the best The Minister deliuereth vnto vs from the Lord a pledge of his loue a Sacrament to confirme our faith in the crucified Christ on whom the soule feedeth and to whom the knee boweth hee being in glory Cath. The Popish sort when they saw the Sacramēt thought their maker to be really present in forme of bread in a grosse manner by meanes of transubstantiation and so bowed and knocked at the fight therof And therefore I haue refrained knéeling at that time not as thinking wee can bow too much or too oft to God but because I would bee loath to do any hurt by mine example Guid. In time of Popery the Priests taught the people so to do I meane to worship Christ in forme of bread but the Ministers of the Gospell teach their charge to worship him sitting in the glory of the Father If Catechising and Preaching cannot turne the minds of the wilfull your sitting or standing cannot do it Cath. But what say you to the ring giuen in solemnizing of Matrimony and to these words With this ring I thee Wed and with my body I thee worship Guid. That also must haue a fauourable interpretation I meane wee ought to construe this to the best That which is there spoken briefly and in few words if a-any
out of Rome in the end when hee saw death approach hee made his confession to one of his Cardinals that he abused his Pastorall office that hee had troubled mankind with malice and mischiefe by the counsell of the diuell Tract It seemeth strange to me that the Cardinall should reueale that which the Pope confessed to him on his death-bed Guid. It may be he was moued in conscience to do it to the end that such Popes as succeeded might beware by his example Tract Well go on Guid. Pope Honorius was a Monothelite Confer R. 〈◊〉 H 90 Maister Harding himselfe doth not deny this and others of this matter haue written thus Then were two meetings of Byshops in Constantinople which doe beare the name of the fixt Councell the former vnder the Emperour Constantinus the fourth about the yeare of Christ sixe hundred and eighty the latter vnder his sonne Iustinian towards a thirty yeares after The former was assembled against the herisie of the Monothelites the Byshops of the West Church as of the East The Monothelites said that Christ had but only one will so by consequent but one nature were present and they with one consent did all condemn Honorius If you Maister Tractable be not acquainted with these matters you may reade more at your leasure of Boniface the eighth who is said to haue entred like a Fox raigned like a Lyon and to haue dyed like a Dog Conf R. H 229 240 and of Alexander the sixt which Pope is said to haue bought the voyce of many Cardinals c. His couetousnesse is called vnsatiable his ambition vnmeasurable Onuph in Alexâ— his eruelcy more then barbarous and that hee had a most feruent desire of aduauncing by what meanes soe-euer his children of whom hee had many c. Such a Serpent held the seate of Saint Peter for the space of tenne yeares vntill his owne venome killed him Rom. How I pray you Guid. I will tell you how I finde it set downe by others When he and his sonne heire the Duke of Valence had purposed to haue poysoned a Cardinall whom they were to sup with as commonly they vsed not onely their enemies but also their friends yea neerest friends which had riches that themselues might bee enriched with their spoyle the Duke had sent thither Flagons of wine poysoned by a seruant whom hee made not priuy to the matter but willed him to giue them no man The Pope comming into the Cardinals before supper time the weather being hot he thirsty called for wine Now because his owne prouision for supper was not come from the Pallace yet the seruant of the Duke gaue him of that wine which he thought his Maister had willed to bee kept for himselfe as the best wine of which while hee was drinking his sonne the Duke came in and thinking the wine to be his fathers owne he drunke of it too so the Pope was carried sodainely for dead home to the Pallace and the next day hee was carried dead after the manner of the Popes into Saint Peters Church blacke swollen and vgly most manifest signes of poyson Rom. If this be true I must needs say it was Gods iust iudgement vpon them But what were those heresies ye spake of before of Arrius and Nâ—storius Guid. Saint Austin saith Aug. de 〈◊〉 ad quod that the Arrians would not haue the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost to bee of one nature and essence c. Nestorius Vni Lyr. ad verâ—haer as Vincentius salth fayning to distinguish two substances in Christ on a sodaine bringeth in two persons and by a wickednesse vnheard of would haue two Sonnes of God two Christs c. Rom. If my cozen had made these things knowne vnto mee I thinke though diuers laboured to keepe mee from going to Church yet I should haue kept in some froward speeches as namely this that I would be torne in peeces with wilde horses ere I would come to Church Guid. I haue heard that many haue vsed that desperate speech but I would wish all those which minde not to prouoke Gods wrath to their own woe to aske themselues what should moue them so to say Doe they think that God will be offended with them for hearing the Minister say Enter not into iudgement with thâ—â— seruants ô Lord c. or the a sorrowful spirit is a sacrifice to God despise not ô Lord humble contrite hearts or that it is a sinne to make a generall confession of our sinnes to say the Lords prayer to heare the Psalmes and chapters read to pray in the Letany among other things that it would please God to bring into the way of truth all such as haue erred and are deceiued or to be present where all estates degrees are prayed for yea that it would please God to haue mercy vpon all men to forgiue our enemies at the end of the commandements to say Lord haue mercy vpon vs and write all these thy lawes in our hearts wee beseech thee Or when we come to the congregation to say kneeling O almighty God Father of our Lord Iesus Christ iudge of all men we acknowledge bewaile our manifold sinnes and wickednesse which we from time to time most griueuously haue coÌ„mitted against thy Diuine Maiesty by thought word and deed prouoking most iustly thy wrath indignation against vs we do earnestly repent bee heartily sorry for these our mis-doings c. After the Communion to heare the Minister reade any of the prayers containing thanksgiuing as in the booke are appointed or to sing with the rest of the thanksgiuing in Méeter which beginneth The Lord be thanked for his gifts And mercy euermore That he hath shew'd vnto his Saints To him be laude therefore The reading or finging of this thaÌ„ksgiuing doth edifie coÌ„mfort the faithfull humble coÌ„municant far more then the hearing of an 100 Masses in a strange tongue by which indeed the vnlearned hath no edifying at al. Mad. What say you to these things Mi. Romana is there any thing heere that should hinder you from praying with vs Rom. Aske my cozen Guid. Aske your cozen aske your owne conscience What if your cozen should tell you that Peter brought men to the worship of Christ by magicall Arts and bad feates as some fayned before S. Austins time who wrot more then 1200 yeares ago Aug. de ciuit li 18 c 53 54 would you beleeue it to be so if your cozen should say so Tract I would you should well know Maister Guide-well that I am so far from hauing that opinion of Peter that I hold him for a true Teacher and for that Shepeheard whom Christ appointed to feede his Sheepe Guid. If you meane by Sheepheards the onely Sheepeheard I may not yeeld to you vnlesse I should dissent from S. Austin who on the tenth of Iohn saith Et quidem fratres c. And verily brethren in that hee