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A08472	A confession of the most auncient and true christe[n] catholike olde belefe accordyng to the ordre of the .xij. articles of our co[m]mon crede, set furthe in Englishe to the glory of almightye God, and to the confirmacion of Christes people in Christes catholike olde faith. By I.O.	Old, John, fl. 1545-1555.	1556 (1556)	STC 18798; ESTC S113446	30,820	82

waye to turne thē Let them runne on their rageing race vntil they bring them selues out of breathe And on the other parte Fyre fagottes hempe galowes stockes fetters prison make vs like to the ymage of the sonne of God and the suffring of deathe for the gospelles sake is the fulfilling Col. 1. of that is behinde of the passiones of Christ in our bodies to beare witnesse against tyrannes and wicked papistes and to be an example and encourageing of the hole congregacion The deathe of suche as suffre for the gospell is so precious in the sight of God that it is the ende of al troubles and sorowes and the begynnyng and entraunce of suche ioye and treasures as no eye hathe sene no eare hath ●o 5. 1. Cor. 2. hearde nor any harte is hable to perceaue This is most certainly true which as it is easily spoken or writtē but very harde for the cowardly fleshe to beleue it or to thinke on it whan the very pynce of trouble and persecucion cometh as I knowe by myne owne fearful experience ynough and to muche euen so I beseche God to lighten our hartes and remembraūces with his holy spirite that whan the howre and fytte of sorowe and veracion cometh we maye cōstauntly willingly ioyously laye the crosse on our sholders marche forewarde lustyly to the batail that is pitched against vs folowing the same trace that our captain and saueour Iesus Christ hathe ledde vs the waye so as by many tribulations and the straite Math. 7. waye which fewe fynde we maye entre in to the kingdom of heauen and receaue the crowne of eternal glorie that neuer shall fade awaye And be not deceaued my brethren with the doublefaced doinges and toyeng trades of those politike subtil sleightye wise men and nyggardly nyppe crustes which lyke as they fauour and haue set vp the Masse with al diligence some not only for auncient custome and opinatyue deuociones sake as draffe is good ynoughe for swyne but also for pretensed obedience and nien pleasing regarden the masse which is the deuilles inuēcion and the workemanship of Antichrist more than they doo the syncere worde and sacramentes of God ministred according to Christes owne institucion so doo they loue and care more for their faire Abbeyes riche wealthe of ecclesiastical possessiones than they doo either for the masse or for any other religion as by their fyne frutes if they were forced to make restrituciō it wold most euidētly appeare for al their deuout masse hearing But aboue al other abhorre blisse you frō the participaciō cōpany of the Diuorced priestes kynde of dānable dryuelles the priestes which in king Edwardes tyme coupled them selues in mariage som to auoide suspiciō of popery som to hyde the shame of their filthy doinges som for men pleasyng som to do as other did som for one respect som for an other And nowe whā the doctrine of deuils is set vp againe the popishe powers of the world fauour not that chaste cōdition of lyfe these dryuelles not only ex●sse their faithlesse heartes in breaking the inseperable knotte bōde of lawful mariage forsaking casting of their wyues wherby it is euident that their intent was only to couer their fleshely hoorishe lustes with the clooke of mariage without any inwarde cōscience to lyue in a chaste maried lyfe but also to shewe them selues the right Nu. 21. 2. Pe. 2. successours of Balaam the sonne of Bosor and to make their blasphemy and damnacion more notorious they renoūce recant and abiure their mariage at Antichristes cōmaundemēt and lyke damned dogges whom the eternal burning galowes of hell grone for they are returned to their vomite of massing and other Romishe religion crucifyeng afreshe and making Hebre. 6. Matth. 12 a mocke of the sonne of God most shamelesly blaspheme the holy goost wherof they shal be forgeuē nother in this worlde nor in the worlde to come Let them take their tyme whyle it lasteth for seyng they haue forsaken to be the membres of Christ and seyng they are made the membres of the harlot of Rome and become the temples of sathan to beare hell about with them and to glorifie the deuil in their bodies and in their bodily doinges Their finall damnacion is surely at hande At that tyme they shall knowe that it had ben better for thē to haue ben made lyke vnto the ymage of Christ in suffring the losses and reproches of the worlde for a littell whyle and shortlye after to be made partakers of his glorious resurrectiō eternal blisse than for a litel beastly bely cheare that shal sone haue an ende to suffre afterwarde perpetual paines and tormētes with their predecessour Iudas Iscarioth world wtout ende Neuertheles I wishe them repentaunce euen from the very botom of my hearte Nether doo I speake this vpon any displeature or vncharitable affeccion conceaued agaynst any mānes person or worldly quietnes but only that it greueth the very harte roote of me to see the institucion of God so horribly dishonoured the honourable state of mariage so shamefully slaundred the congregacion of Christ so greuously offended the abominaciō of Antichrist so beastly obeyed and the holy goost so desperately blasphemed Alas why doo they not considre how haynons a synne it is to geue such an occasiō of slaūdre ruine to the church of God how smal a gayne it is to wynne a smal pelting ꝓmociō of worldy liuing for a shorte space to cast awaie the price of Christes precious blood in vtterly dānyng their owne soules bequeathing thēselues to the deuil for euer more For if Baalams mortal blynde asse rebuked that blynde ꝓphetes folye muche more shal the immortal worme of these Asses nay Iudases consciences rebuke accuse thē of their blasphemie shameful slydig from the truthe at suche tyme as being past repentaūce they shall curse the daye that they were borne in the very howre wherin they were begotten These men be of that company vnto whom the holy goost biddeth vs not to saye so muche as God spede nether to eate nor drinke with them Finally good brethren be not partakers Masse hearing goss pellers of the example and faynt carnal excuse of those that saye although they goo to the churche and be present at the Masse yet they worship none but the lyuing God in their hartes hate the Masse as muche as we do Which sayeng is muche vnlike to be true but semeth rather a vayne pretensed fantasie and preposterous wrasting of some textes of scripture wherwith the Deuil deludeth the senses soules of many tendre carpet gospellers at this present tyme of tryall to bring them past repētaunce For Christ our saueour saithe No man can serue two maisters So it foloweth that forasmuche as the body which is the one parte of a man serueth the deuil the soule which is the other parte and ioyned with the body cānot possibly

A confession of the most auncient and true christē catholike olde belefe accordyng to the ordre of the xii articles of our cōmon Crede set furthe in Englishe to the glory of almightye God and to the confirmacion of Christes people in Christes catholike olde faith By I. D. Psal 116. I beleue and therfore haue I spoken Roma 10. The belefe of the hearte iustifieth and the mouthe confesseth to saluacion ☞ Imprinted in Sothewarke by Christophor Truthal Cum priuilegio Regalj In April 1556. To the vnfayned fauourours louers of the pure worde and Gospell of Iesus Christ enhabiting within the cities and diocese of Couentrie and Lichfelde and in all other places where it hathe chaunced me to haue occupied the rowme of a Preacher Grace mercye and peace ioyned with earnest repentaūce and constaunt faithe in the doctrine of the Gospell frō God the father and his sonne Iesus Christ the cōmon only saueour of the worlde MY most sounng frendes and brethrē concerning our cōmon faith in Christ our Lorde where of late dayes I am contemptuously and slaunderously reported and named among some to be an erroneous felowe one of the new learning an heretike one of Latimers secte I wotte not what Be it knowen to the worlde that I am none other thā a true christian man regenerate instructed nowe in my middle age in the blessed schole of Goddes most holy Bible and Testament thankes be to his fatherly bounteous mercy therfore sythence I haue not folowed the secte of any earthy man nether grounded myne opinion faithe or doctrine vpō any newe learning or heresie but vpon the most certaine pure vnfailing true worde and learning of almightie God sent downe reuealed taught from the seate of his Maiestie preached at his cōmaūdement by the fathers and prophetes by Christ his sonne and his holy Apostles and also regestred and specified in the rolles euidēces of the holy sacred scriptures to be the foūdacion rule and lawe for the true catholike churche of God to be builded vpon and ruled by from the begynning of the worlde vnto the laste daye of iudgement And here vpon only haue I set the building of my faythe Iesus Christ hym self beyng the head corner stone Ephe. 2. and according thervnto I haue diligently and faythfully taught and instructed my parisheners and neighbours as vnto my vocacion I consydered it iustlye to apperteyne Notwithstādyng like as S. paule reporteth that Apollo he were ministers 1. Cor. 3. by whom the Corinthiās beleued as God distributed vnto euery one euen so doo I acknowlage from the botome of my harte vnfeynedly confesse that the reuerende father of blessed memorie Hugh Latimer was to the Hugh Latymer very death a right worthy instrumēt minister of God by whose most holsome doctrine syncere exāple of godly lyfe and constaūt frendship towardes me it hathe pleased thalmighty Lord to open vnto me among many other the most vnworthy the true christian faithe to cal me out of the damnable darkenesse of Antichristes iniquirie in to the true light of Christes gospelles veritie And like as the people of Berrhoe by diligent reading and examining Act. 17. of the scriptures foūde that Paules doctrine was bothe right true and certainly good euen so do I vndoubtedly credite plainly testifye the doctrine aswel of the glorious martir of Iesus Christ Hugh Latimer concernyng Iustificacion other articles of the christen faithe as also of the most reuerende father in God and right constaunt confessour of Christ Iesus Thomas Cranmere Archebishop of Cantorbury concerning the blessed sacrament Thomas Cranmer of Christes precious body bloud most catholikely and syncerely set furthe in print not being sedde by any carnall affeccion towardes their persones nether for worldly promocion but bicause I haue perfitly proued their doctrine to be conteyned in the holy sacred scriptures by testimonie and waraunt wherof they and other ministers of Christes gospell haue taught and set furthe the true catholike doctrine worde of mānes saluacion accordingly And forasmuche as I esteme them men which without sure holde of the scriptures might both haue deceaued and ben deceaued therfore I and all other that be knytte together in one true vntō and knotte of Christes spirite laye our foundacion grounde worke not vpō fleshe bloud that is to saye vpō no mannes worde of what power vertue wisdome learning autoritie estate or cōdiciō so euer he be but vpō the vnfailing true worde of the almightie euerlyuing Lorde God In the meane while yf any man can teache me better more truly by the holy canonical scripture I am cōtent as reason is gladly hartily to folowe him willingly geue him place with cōdigne praise great gramercies But as for any other doctrine of faith besides the scriptures or contraryr to the autoritie of the scriptures either elles by violent wrasting and wrythyng of the scriptures out of of their owne sēse or right meanyng I shall by the assistence of goddes merciful helpe neuer suffre my selfe to be plucked awaye frō the simple plaine apostolike true faithe bicause man is frely iustified by this saith and euery fayth contrary to this is a dead fruteles faithe euery doctrine not foūded vpon or cōtrarie to Goddes holy boke Ro. 3. 4. Iac. 2. Gal. 1. the Bible is to be holde accursed yea although it were preached set furthe or cōmaūded by an Angel of heauen muche more by any mortall creature thoughe it be neuer so great a Kyng Quene gouernour or potentate And cōcerning the holy canonicall The holy canonical Scriptures scripture I among other poore ministers of the Gospel hauing charge of soule folowing the exāples of other christiā churches teachers haue beleued taught my parisheners and neyghbours so stil beleue and testifie on this maner of waye folowing The canonical scripture I meane the holy Bible which is the true vnfailing declaracion of the eternal wil of God deliuered by the holy Goost preached diligently declared vnto the worlde vnto mākinde I meane by the holy prophetes chosen apostles is of al other the most aūcient most perfite most excellēt doctrine cōprehēding teaching absolutly fully al that is necessarely required to the holsome know lage of God to true faithe the true worship of God to true christian righteousnesse and to the framyng ordring of honest blessed holy lyfe And forasmuche as the Canonical scripture the Bible I saye is the selfe same worde that the eternal God him selfe hath spoken and taught and therfore endureth permanent to be a lanterne vnto the fete a light vnto mēnes fotesteppes ꝓcedinges for euermore it hath fidelitie autoritie certaitie truthe estimaciō perfectiō pleinteously ynough in it self so as it ought not to be made authentike again by the churche or by autoritie of the wytnesse of men either yet to be pice●●… and patched