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A04926	A faythfull admonition made by Iohn̄ Knox, vnto the professours of Gods truthe in England whereby thou mayest learne howe God wyll haue his Churche exercised with troubles, and how he defendeth it in the same.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1554 (1554)	STC 15069; ESTC S108127	51,531	126

and of London had for their false doctrine and traito●…ous actes suffered death when they iustly deserued the same then woulde errant Papistes haue alledged as I and other haue herde them do that they were men reformable that they wer mete instrumētes for a cōmō wealth y t they were not so obstinate malicious as they were iudged neither that they thristed for the bloude of any man And of Ladye Marye who hath not herde that she was sober mercyful and one that loued the cōmon wealth of Englande Bad she I saye and suche as now be of her pestilent counsel ben sent to hel before these dayes thē should not their iniquitie and crueltie so manifestlye haue appeared to y e worlde For who coulde haue thought that suche cru eltie could haue entred into the hert of a womā and into the hert of her that is called a virgine y t she would thirst the bloud of innocētes and of suche as by iuste lawes and faythful wytnesses can neuer be proued to haue offended by them selues I fynde that Athalia through appetite to raigne murthered the seed of the kynges of Iuda And that Berodias daughter at the desyre of an hooryshe mother obteyned the heade of Iohn the Baptiser But that euer a woman that suffred her selfe to be called the moste blessed virgine caused so muche bloud to be spilt for establishyng of an vsurped authoritie I thynte is rare to be founde in Scripture or historie I fynde that Iesabel that cursed Idolatres caused the bloud of the prophetes of God to be shedde And Naboth to be murthered vniustly for his owne vineyard but yet I thinke she neuer erected halfe so many gallowes in al Israel as myscheuous Marye hath done within London alone But you Papistes wyl excuse your Marye the virgine wel let her be your virgine and a goddes mere to maintaine such Idolatrers yet shal I ryghtlye laye to her charge that which I thyncke no Papist within Englande wyl iustifie nor defende And therfore O ye Papistes here I wyl a lytle turne my penne vnto you Answere vnto this question O sede of the Serpent Would any of you haue confessed two yeres ago that Mary your mirrour had bene false dissembling vncōstant proud and a breaker of promyses Excepte suche promyses as she made to your god the Pope to the great shame dishonoure of her noble father I am sure you would full lytle haue thought it in her And now doth she not manifestlye shewe her selfe to be an open traitoresse to the Imperiall crowne of England contrary to the iuste lawes of the realme to brynge in a straunger and make a proude Spaniarde kynge to the shame dishonoure and destruccion of the nobilitie to the spoyle from them and theirs of their honoures landes possessions chiefe offices and promocions to the vtter decaye of the treasures commodities ●…auie and fortifi catiōs of the realme to the abasyng of the yomanry to the slauery of the communaltie to the ouerthrowe of Christianitie and Goddes true religion and finally to the vtter subuercion of the hole publicke estate and common wealth of Englande Let 〈◊〉 ●…uffolke let her owne promyse and proclamacion let her fathers testament let the cytie of Lō don let the auncient lawes Actes of parliamentes before establyshed in Englande be iudges betwixte myne accusacion and her moste tray tourus iniquitie Fyrst her 〈◊〉 and proclama cion dyd signifie declare that neither she would 〈◊〉 in neither yet mar●… any straunger 〈◊〉 and ●…uffolke and the cytie of London doth testifie and wytnesse the same The aūcient lawes and actes of par liament pronounceth it treason to transferre the crowne of Englande into the handes of a forreyn nacion And the othe made to obserue the sayd statutes cryeth out that al they are periured that consent to that her traitorous facte ●…peake now O ye Papistes defende your monstrous maistres and deny yf ye can for shame that she hath not vttered her self to be borne Alasse therfore to the ru yne and destruccion of noble Englande Oh who would euer haue be leued I wryt nowe in bytternesse of herte that suche vnnatural crueltie should haue had dominion ouer any reasonable creature But the saying is to true that the vsurped gouernement of an affeccionate woman is a rage without reason Who would euer haue thought that the loue of that realme whiche hath brought forth which hath nurryshed so noblye mayntayned that wicked woman should not 〈◊〉 haue moued her herte with 〈◊〉 Who seeth not nowe that she in all her doynges declareth moste manyfestlye that vnder an Englyshe name she beareth a Spaniardes herte If God I say had not for our scour ge suffred her and her cruell counsell to haue come to auctoritie than could neuer these their abhominacions crueltie and treason agaynst God agaynste his saynctes and agaynst the Realme whose liberties they are sworne to defende so manifestly haue bene declared And who euer could haue beleued that gloriouse Gardener and trecherouse Tunstal whome al papistes praysed for the loue they bare to theyr countrey could haue become so manifest traytoures that not only agaynst theyr solēne othes that they shuld neuer consent nor agre vnto that a foren straunger shuld raygne ouer Englād but also that they wold adiudge y e Imperial croune of the same to appertayn to a Spaniarde by Enheritaunce and lyneal dissent O traytours traytours how can yow for very 〈◊〉 shewe youre faces It commeth to my mynde vpon Christemas daye in the yere of oure lorde 1552. preachinge in new Castle vpon tyne and speakinge agaynste the obstinacie of the papistes I made this affirmaciō That who so ouer in his herte was enemie to Christes gospel and doctrine which then was preached within the realme of Englande was enemy also to God and secrete traytours to the croune and common wealth of Englande For as they thristed nothinge more than the Kinges death which their iniquitie wolde procure so they regarded not who shuld raign ouer them so that their idolatrie myght be erec ted agayn Howe these my wordes at that tyme pleased mē the crymes and accion intended agaynste me dyd declare But let my veray enemies nowe saye their conscience if those my wordes are not proued true And what is the cause that wynchester and the reste of his pestilent secte so gredely wold haue a spaniarde to raygn ouer England The cause is manifest For as that hel nacyon surmounteth al other in pride and whordome so for idolatrie and vayne papistical deuellysh Ceremonies thei may rightly be called the veray sonnes of supersticion And therfore as they foūde and iudged by the progeny of Antichriste most apte instrumētes to maynteyn establysh and defende the Kingdom of that cruel beast whose head and wounde is lately cured within England Which alasse for pitie must nowe be brought into bondage and thraldome that pestilent papistes maye raygne

against hym was sent Esay the Prophet to assure him by Goddes promise that his enemyes should not preuaile against hym and to confirme him in the same the prophete requyred him to desire a signe of God either from the heauen or beneth in the depe but suche was the deadly desperacion of him that alwayes had despised Goddes prophetes and had moste abhominably defiled him selfe with Idolatrye that no consolation could entre into his herte but desperatlye and with a dissemblyng and fained excuse he refused all the offers of God And albeit God kept touch with that hipocrite for that tyme whiche was not done for his cause but for the saftie of his afflicted Churche yet after escaped he nat the vengeaunce of God The lyke we rede of Zedechias the wretched and laste kynge of Iuda before the destruccion of the citie of Ierusalem who in his great fear and extreme anguyshe sente for Iere mie the prophet and secretly demaū ded of him howe he myght escape the great daūger that appearedwhā the Caldees beseged the citie And the prophete boldly spake and commaūded the kynge yf he would saue his lyfe and the cytie to render and geue vp him selfe into the handes of the kinge of Babylon But the myserable kynge had no grace to folowe the prophetes counsel because he ne uer delyted in y e sayd prophetes doctrine neither yet had shewed vnto hym any frendly fauoure But euen as the enemies of God the chief pre stes and false prophetes required of the kynge so was the good prophet ●…uel intreated somtymes caste into prison and somtymes iudged condempned to dye The moste euident testimonie of the wilfull blyndynge of wicked Idolatrers is writtē and recited in the same prophete Ieremye as foloweth After that the cytie of Ierusalem was brente and destroyed the kynge ledde awaye prisoner his sonnes chiefe nobles slayne and the hole vengeaunce of God powred out vpō the disobedient Yet ther was lefte a remnaunt in the lande to occupie possesse the same who called vpon the prophete Ieremye to knowe con cernyng them the will and pleasure of God whether they should remain styl in the land ●…f Iudea as was ap pointed and permitted by the Caldees or yf they shoulde departe and flye into Egypt To certifie them of this their doute they desyre the pro phete to praye for them vnto God Who condescendynge and grauntyng their peticion promised to kepe backe nothing from them which the Lorde God should open vnto hym And they in lyke maner taking God to recorde and witnesse made a solempne vowe to obey what so euer the Lorde should aunswere by hym But when the prophete by the inspi ration of the spirite of God and assured reuelacion and knowledge of his wyll cōmaūded them to remain stil in the lāde that they were in pro mysyng them yf they so would do that God would there plante them and that he would repent of all the plages that he had brought vppon them And that he would be wyth them to delyuer them from the handes of the kynge of Babilon But contrarywyse yf they would not obeye the voyce of the Lorde but would agaynst his cōmaundement go to Egypte thynkinge that there they should lyue in reste and aboundaunce without any feare of warre and penurye of vic●…ualles then the veray plagues whyche they feared shoulde come vppon them and take them For sayeth the prophet it shal come to passe that all men that obstinatlye wyll go to Egypte there to remayne shall dye either by sworde by honger or pestilence But when the Prophete of God hadde declared vnto them thys playne sentence and wyl of God I praye you what was their aunswere the texte decla reth it saying Thou speakest a lye neither hath the Lorde our God sente thee vnto vs commaundyng that we shoulde not go into Egypte but Baruch the sonne of Neriah prouoketh thee agaynste vs that he maye gyue vs into the power of ●…aldeys that they myghte kyll kyll vs and lead vs prisoners vnto Babylon And thus they refused the counsail of God folowed their owne fantasies ●…ere maye be espied in this peo ple great obstinacie and blyndnes For nothyng which the Lord had be fore spoken by this godlye Prophete Ieremie had fallen in vayne Their owne eyes had sene the plages and myseries which he had threatened take effecte in euery point as he had spoken before yea they were yet grene and freshe both in mynde and pre sence for the flāme and fyre wherewith Ierusalem was consumed and brent was then scantly quenched yet could they not b●…leue his threate ninges then spokē neither yet could they folowe his fruteful counsail ge uen for their great wealth and sauegarde And why so ▪ Bycause they ne uer delyted in Gods trueth neither had they repented their former Ido latrie but stil cōtinued and reioyced in the same as manifestly appereth in the. xliii●… chapter of the same prophete And therfore would they and their wyues haue bene in Egypte where all kynde of Idolatrie and su perstition ●…bounded that they wyth out reproche or rebuke they myghte haue their bellies full therof in despite of Goddes holy lawes and prophetes In wrytinge hereof it came to mynde that after the death of that in nocent and moste godlye kynge Edwarde the sixte whyle that great tu multe was in Englande for the esta blysshyng of that moste vnhappye wycked womans authoritie I mean of her that nowe raigneth in Goddes wrath entreatinge the same argument in a towne in Buckingham shyre named ●…ammershame before a great congregacion with sorowful herte and wepynge eyes I fel into this exelamaciō D Onglande ●…ow is Boddes wrath kyndled againste thee ●…owe hath he begonne to punyshe as he hath threatened●… a longe whyle by his true Prophetes and messengers ●…e hath taken frō thee the crowne of thy glorie ánd hathe lefte thee without honoure as a bodye without a heade And this appeareth to be onely the begynnynge of sorowes whiche appeareth to encrease For I perceaue that the herte the tounge and hande of one Englyshe man is bente agaynst another and deuision to be in the hole realme whiche is an assured signe of de solacion to come O England ●…uglande doest thou not consider that thy common wealth is lyke a shippe sailyng on the Sea yf thy maryners and gouernour●…s shall one consume another shalte thou not suffer shipwracke in shorte processe of tyme O Englande Englande ●…lasse these plages are powred vpon thee for that thou woldest not knowe the moste happy tyme of thy gentle visitacion But wylte thou yet obey the voyce of thy God and submitte thy selfe to his holye wordes truely yf thou wilt thou shalte fynde mercye in his syght and the estate of thy cōmon wealth shall be preserued But O Englande Englande Yf thou obstina●…ly wilt returne into Egypte that is yf thou contracte