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

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

are weary of hym It greueth vs to remember hym We can neyther abyde hys word truly preached / nor yet his lawes writtē in our churches Oute with the scriptures / in wyth the Idols and Mawmettes Psal 79. O Lord God / are not these the Heathen / that haue braste into thyne heritage / that haue defyled thy holy temple / and made Ierusalem an heape of stones haue mercy on vs / o Lorde / haue mercy on vs. Heretofore The confirmation of chyldren we were taughte so to bring vp oure chyldren in the principles of Christen religion / that whan they should come to be confirmed of the bis●hop / they mighte be able to saye the articles of the fayth / the Lordes prayer / and the ten commaundemētes / and to aunswere to such questions / as are contayned in that shorte Catechisme / which was apointed to be learned of euery chylde / before he were brought to be cōfyrmed But now the papistes saye to such as are witnesses of the chyldes baptisme Ye are bounde by the order of our mother the holy church to se / that this chylde be cōfyrmed soo sone as is possible / or assone as ye heare that the bisshop cometh within seuē myles of this towne / without any furder delaye Of the thinges contayned in the godly Catechisme / for the righte instituciō of the chylde / they make no mencion And what is the confyrmacion of the chyldren / that is vsed at thys present / but playn sorce rye / deuelerye / wytchcrafte / iuglinge / leger demayne / and all that nought is The Bisshop mumbleth a fewe latin woordes ouer the chylde / charmeth hym / crosseth hym / smeareth hym with stinckinge popish oyle / and tyeth a lynnen bonde about the chyldes necke / and sendeth hym home O Lord God / what a confirmacion of the chyldes fayth is this Yea / rather what a delusion ann mocking is this of the godly auncient custome / in confirming chyldren Heretofore / we were taughte too bringe vp oure chyldren in the knowledge of the thy sonne Christ / that euen from the very cradles they might be enstructed in thy holye misteries / learn to feare the / to beleue The Ca●echisme both in Latin in English in the / to love the / to pray vnto the / to be thanckfull vnto the / to frame theyr whol lyffe accordyng to thy blessed law● / that they myght serue the theyr lorde god in holynes ryghteousnes all the dayes of theyr lyfe And for thys purpose had we setforthe a godly learned catechisme bothe in latin in Englysse / wherin owr longe ones wer moste vertuously brought vp vnto the greate ioy of theyr parentes / the singulare confort of al godly Christianes / the wonderful encrease bothe of thy glory of all godlynes vertue But now the wicked Papistes / wyche alway deale extremly wythe the ryghteous and take away theyr laboures Sap. 5. / haue condemned that Christen Chatechisme as heresye / haue procured certayu Catechisme condemned for heresi Articles frō the Quene Antichristiane articles from the Quene / wherin among to many other / a streyght cōmandement is geten / that children shuld so be brought vp / that they myghte learne to healpe the Prieste say masse wych mass is the very fonntayne and heade sprynge off all īdolatrye and spirituall whordome Ah lorde God / shy servannts bothe in the olde and newe testament broughte vp theyr chyldren farre other wyse / as the hestories Exēples of bringing vp children of Abraham / Isaac / Jacob / Daniel / Tobie / Mathathiae / the Parentes of Susanne of Timothe / Philippe the Euāgeliste / and suche other do declare / And thy holy cōmādemēt is not / that Parētes shuld bryng vp theyr children in learnynge to healpe and Ilatrous Prieste to say his abhominable blasphemous masse / but to knowe the their lorde God / to beleue in the / to feare loue the / to callvpō thy blessed name / to bethāckefull vnto the / and to fasson theyr lyffe accordyng to thy holy worde cōmandemēt Heyrtofor we wer taught / that it is law Of the marage of Prii●tes full for euery maue / be he Byshoppe / Priste / Deacon / Monke / Fryer / Chauon / Here mite / or ani other / that haue not the gifte of continencye / to take vnto hym a ffaythe full yoke fellowe / and with her to marrye in thy feare / and to possese his owne vessel 1 Thes 4 1 Cor. 7. Heb. 13. in holynes honore / as thyne holy apostle saythe / to auoyde fornication let every māhaue his awne wyffe / every woman her awne husbond Agayn / maryage is honorable amonge all mene and the bedde vnde fyled But whormongers and adulterers God shall iudge But now the wycked Papistes those lecherous lubers / those fyl thy fornicatours / these abhominable adulterers / those srynckyng Sodemites / those Papistes canckred corruptours of maydes / wyffs / wydowes / those debylyshe despisers of all shamefastnes / chastite honeste / those mōstrous maītainers of all licētious lyuyng / whordome deshoneste / C. 4. and and those synnefull synckes of all fylthy lothesome abhominacions haue broughte the godly and lawefull marriage of ministers / and their wyues vnto thys poynt / that it is now countēd whordome The faythfull housbandes are taken for whoremongers / and their honest wyues for whores The tirānij of the cruell papistes in deuorcinge priestes and their vvijues Yea / vnto suche an heyghte is their furious madnes and madde furye groune / that they againste all right and conscience / against all trueth and honestie / do not only moste wickedly deuorce them / but they also cruelly compell dyuers of the ministers / whiche are faynteharted / and where / as it semeth / but tymelinges / seruing rather the time as the manner of the worldlinges is than maryeng in thy feare / to do open penaunce before the people / and to confesse o the to much corrupt manners of this synnefull worlde that their marriage was no marriage / but playn whordome Repente ye vvic●ed blasphmers of honorable marriage tabelour vvijues againe vnto iou And there those fylthye dogges / whiche are returned vnto their vomite / moste wretchedly couche and knele doune before the people / and desyre them to forgeue them / and promise that they will neuermore come in their wyfes company / but frō hensforth / lyue like good and catholike men / accordinge to the order of their holy priesthoode / that is to saye / abstayne from honorable wedlocke / defyle them selfes with all kynde of whordome / vnclennes and dishonestie Leuit. 21. Eze. 44. Ah Lorde God / thou commaundest thy priestes in the olde lawe / not onely too marrye / but thou also appointest them / what wyues they should marrye / whiche thinge