¶ A declaration of thee power of God's word, concerning the holy supper of the Lord, confuting all liars and false teachers, which maintain their masking mass invented against the word of God, and the Kings Majesties most godly proceeding compiled Anno dni  
M. D. XLVIII  Ezechi. two, ¶ Their fathers have broken my covenant even to this day, and they to whom I send, they are children without all shame & of such an heart as cannot be reclaimed,  


Saint Thom saith, y● worl● malignaune  
Is sore infected, & in great ●eoperdyt  
through vainglory, which is repugnant  
To gods precepts, his law and verity  
For people they be, of such malignity  
and corrupt minds seducig what the● may  
All godly proceedings utterly to delay   

Marvel not you bishops, & prelate's of dig nitie  
Though in the zeel of Phynes, & also Helias  
I stomock your sturdines, so full of impiety  
thus stubbornly to stand against our josias  
which to reform his church & brig it as it was.  
To her primer state, yet seduce ye what ye may  
His godly reformation, utterly to delay   

This practise you that spitful generation  
Under cloaked hypocrisy your grauntshire to maintain,  
much after your brother judas is your● conversation  
with your lousy ●urkig, to play legerdemayn  
your craft is perceived, because ye convey not clean,  
Yet are ye not ashamed, seducing what ye may  
His godly reformation, utterly to delay   

What conscience had your forefathers to put in their treasury,  
the. thirty. silver plates, which was for blood the price,  
But no conscience at all, had those beasts so bloody  
To murder the son of god, according their practise,  
such like are our spiritual leaders ● their devise  
Which be not ashamed, seduce what they may  
his godly reformation, ●●terli to delay   

Sought they not by all means utterly to quench,  
The faith of Christ's most glorious resurrection  
and as the damosel, the inquisitive wench  
to have trapped peter, she asked him a question  
do not these biting bears, so full of cō●ē●iō  
without all shame, invent what they may  
His godly reformation utterly to delay   

These waged soldiers, they should surmise a lie,  
That christ was stolen, they being a sleep  
this exercise our ministers doth use & oc●p●  
by their hyrede sophisters to blemish & keep  
this heauēl● verity, from us hungry sheep  
And as shameless liars, seduce what they may  
His godly precedings, utterly to deley.   

Great is the diligence, labour & study  
of these whorish apostals (apostles I should say  
which under the similitude, of virtue ●o holy  
like popish hypocrites, craftily do they play  
yet of their double deling ashamed are not they  
by all subtle means, to seduce what they may  
His godly procedings utterly to deley   

But truly they labour & travel in vain  
Like besheles of gods wrath, to kyck spew and spurn  
yet shall the truth have his passourth plain  
though they would kill, head hang & burn  
for the word of god shall not in vain turn  
but shall work gods will seducet what they may▪  
His godly precedinge utterly to deley   

Christ saith the tree is known by the fruit  
Then must ye be judged, at the eye imminent  
By your subtle sleights, though ye seam mute,  
Yet work ye heythny she laws and rites pestelente.  
maintaining mysteries of madness bitorment  
And tyrable terrors, seducing what ye may  
His godly reformation, utterly to delay   

A plant set was in the corrupt council  
Of your alic●ēt grant sire of such laudation  
That if all your rugling, should you yet fail  
That should bring you to your estimation  
this captive you men's consciences by collusion  
With your venomous vanities, seducing what ye may,  
This most godly reformation utterly to delay   

Go little book, god send the good success  
In their harres & minds which will the puse  
and not to be blamed because thou dost express  
theypocrisi of such as god's word doth abu se  
Thy name manifest here thou dost refuse  
Yet in this mitre, who that applieth his mind,  
Thy holy name written therein shall he find    

To the high excellent and most gracious Prince Edward Duke of Somerset, earl of Hertforthe viscount bean Campe. Lord Semer, governor of the Kings Maiesteis person, and Protector of all his realms, his leavetenaun te general of all his armies, boht by land & by sea, treasoroure and Earl marshal of England, Governor of the Ills of Gernsey & jersey and knight of the most noble order of the garter  
¶ John Mardeley wisheth grace peace & abundance of knowledge in gods truth security of body with long life in the living God. Thorough Christ jesus our only saviour.  
considering redupted and most noble prince, how prone and ready the malig ners of gods verity ●e with all their exact diligence, to deprave and say ill, aswell of the true doctrine of that infallible and syncier truth, as all so of thee teachers & preachers of the same, it hath in manner compelled me foundering the great dysceatfulnesse and sturdiness of the see wicked wordlings which be so pernyscyously bend to blind the people of god with lies & old wy fe ●●ables to depress & hold dow ne the gospel of christ, and still to uphold and maintain man's inventions, dreams & traditions. Thus most gracious lord hath in manner coharted me, to set fourth th●s simple work, touching the most holy body and blood of christ which is the food of our souls and comfortable pledge of our salvation, sertyfyenge the true believers to be made heirs of eternal life, and the partakers of all Christ's merits. Death and resurrection, the which most sacred mystery, hath been both learnedly and pithily, by sundry notable clerks, and learned men, devulgated unto the congregation as well in their Sermoones as in writings therein confuting all errors and false opinions which the ungodly malygners have seduced thee people in, and yet do both by writing and preaching, contrary unto the institution of Christ the simple meanings of the Scriptures and the Kings Majesties most godly 
beholdoye children of Zion and rejoice in the Lord you● god for he hath given you ● teacher of rights ousnes Io. l. ●●  proceedings, where of your grace is a fortherer of the same I have most redoupted lord as one most unworthy and inding, without profound knowledge of learning confess me far unable to enter in the discussing of so high a matter yet albeit I have according unto the talent which I have received not hiding it in the ground as did that evil servant, but to the measure and understanding which I have received of god by the gift of his spirit I will like unto ruth the mohabite, grain some part aswell upon the land of scripture as upon ancient Doctors approved, and then so gathered as it were in a bundle together, the true understanding of this mystical meat of Christ's body & blood Declaring the right use thereof as by the word of God shallbe plain lie approve, and for because as yet this holy mystery hangeth as it were in a balance, and not the true weigh thereof as yet received of the multitude I have dedicated this simple work into your noble grace, unto whom God hath not only committed the guard and defence of this politic and civil realm, But also the setting forth and ratifycation of Gods most infallible word which hath many years sustayved open & manifest wrong, in this holy mystery. And because I cannot so exactly prefer this urgent matter to so prudent and myhhty a Prince as your grace is, yet I trust my good will and diligence is accepted of God, and though it be but very little that I can do, yet I hope likewise that for the declarati on of this simple and manifest ve ritie▪ your grace will pardon my bold euterpryse and accept this power work of my s●are hours in good part, which shall encora ge your prayerman, to the more continuance of study here after. Thus god the eternal father for the death and blood shedding of his only son jesus Christ our saviour preserve the Kings majesty, your most noble grace with all his most honourable counsel, and the hole realm to god's glory.  
Amen.  
¶ Your most humble orator John Mardeley Clerc of the Kings majesties mint called suffolk house.   

The power of god's word  
considering 
prover, if wake in the ● aye and keep the path of the right teous, for thee just full ●w●l in the land and the innocentes shall remain in it, But the ungodly shallbe to t out of the land and the wicked doers shallbe taken out of it.  thee wonderful mutation of man's judgements, and also what great hurt● and danger of soul ens●yth by the educatyon and teaching of foch corrupt doctrine, to the congregacious, as rather is to be feared supersty cyousse than Godly, for many their Bee, that thinketh the Gospel of christ, In these days to be wrested more after the fantasses of men, than according unto the cen●yre truth, of the same: as sundry persons which of malicious minds, be not ashamed both so to say, & speak, & also boldly doth affirm, without all shame, that the rites and ceremonies used in the Church, which cannot be proved by the Scriptures, ought to be taken for the word of God unwritten, and that we ought to believe them as thee holy word of God, con tayned in thee sacred Bible, and thee Testament of christ, full well considered the Prophet Isaiah. These kind of men, where 
Esay, ii●.  he saith, Your lips speak leasings, and your tongue setteth out wickedness. No man regardeth truth, nor righteousness, and no man judgethe truly, every man hope●h in vain things, and ym●gineth deceit: And therefore to paint out such lygi●tmate children of Satan, the father of all liars, whose sons natural the●e sh: y●ckynge Children be, which seek council, but not at me sayeth thee LORD▪ which take a web in hand, but not after my will, That they may heap one sin upon another. These hallting generation, which of froward hearts, will not walk in the testimony of Ihesu But tread fourth still in thee damnable Doctrine of lies, and men's doctrine of lies, and men's traditions, unto whom it is said. three Regum. xviii. Chapter. How 
iii regum xviii.  long will ye halt on both parts, If the Lord be God, follow him, If Baal be God, follow him Oh how doth these wicked Edomites, defend the kingdom of Antichrist the eldest son of the devil, By whose dying and most damnable doctrine, they have seduced the people into blindness and error, against the verity of the manifest truth of the scriptures and most godly proceedings of the kings Majesties: The ho lie Prophet David in the. lii. psal. 
psam. lii.  Maketh great exclamatyon of these Uyperous liars (saying) wherefore enforcheth that thy tongue to mischief, forging deceit like a new set razor, wherefore lovest thou malice rather than honesty rather to lie, then to say truth, for thou delyghtest in perviciouse speech. Oh fraudulent tongue, these blind teachers, God shall utterly rote up by the roots, and destroy them, he shall throw them down out of their tabernacles, and consume them utterly, for so many as make or love leasings, 
●po, xxii  shallbe cast among murderers, and Idolaters, in the lake of hell burning with fire and ●r●m stone. What else be all those which goeth about to teach the doctry ne of men and such sacraments and lousy ceremonies, as be not once mentioned, or taught us by the word of God. What else I say be these. But liars, viperous whelps, and the children of Satan, which brought fourth the fyrstlye (for it is said) Set lying 
gene. iii, ●●o viii. E●he iiii C●●lo, iii.  a side, let every man speak the truth unto his neighbour, for as much as we be members together and lie not one to another. Esay lix. Chap. Hier. These dreamers 
Esay. iix,  allegeth for the stablishing of this their damnable doctrine, the words of S. John, which saith that jesus did many things, which be not written, and also S. Paul commanded certain 
two, thess, two  unwritten traditions and ceremonies, to be observed of the Thessalonians and kept. And that Paul himself preached not the scriptures only. But also the traditions of the elders (these I say) & such like doctrine, many of the se belly beasts, goeth about to teach & instruct the people, to be the gospel of Christ, and by the same, would stablish, not only certain sacraments, and ceremonies used in the church, but also their God of the altar, to be very flesh and blood rially (yea, the very same body, that was borne of the virgin Mary and suffered upon thee cross, which is blasphemious doctrine, and most necessary to be confuted amongst all matters. Now being in reformation, these manner of teachers saith S. paul are always false liars, wicked beasts, and slow belys, These hypocrites do affirm, that the church (as they say the bishops (as they understand hath power to judge over the Scripture and to examy ne it, and authority to allow or to r●fuse the Gospel. To dispense with the tene Commandments to alter the form of baptism, and to make new articles of our faith, besides those, which are contained in the Scriptures. This detestable error and blindness of such teachers. Whose malicious obstenacye, where thorough they blaspheme God, and his word is to be lamented, the thing being so manifest from the which to stablish the hearts and minds of the godly, which believeth the word written, to be sufficient for their salvation and to contempe and abhor these douting dreamers of these malygnau●●t ministers, I will recite certain testymonyes which evidently shall approve the written word of God▪ to be the only and unremovable foundation of our faith and that all the articles of our salua●yon ought to be proved by the holy Scriptures, and not by thee Gloss of men, bishops laws, or man's traditions, rites or ceremonies, which are received in the church, and not contained in the scriptures, which they say is the word of God unwritten. The first prove is the fourth of 
deu●●, iiii  Deuter●. Where it is said, ye shall not add unto the word, which I speak unto you. Neither mynishe from it, note these words, if they were ever expounded to be understand of the unwritten word, which these lying deceivers affirm, but aught to be understand of the written scripture only, so that plainly they which imagine, that theridamas should be any other unwrytten verity, be clearly against Boddes' truth, for in the sixth of the same beke is written. 
duty, vi  What I chmaund you, that shalt thou do only, unto the Lord thou shalt neither add, nor minish, any thing. And in the last chap. of the apocalypse, who so ever addeth any thing unto this. The Lord shall send him the plagues, which be written in this book. Which place the Duns men even Duns himself, grauntethe that this saying ought to be understand of the whole scripture. Then do not these false teacher's sin manifestly, against the command dementes of god, which doth affyr me, that their is any other word of god unwritten, as they do why ●he expound the scriptures after their own fantasses, giving judgement of the will of god, without the word of God written, and is it not a develiysshe lie, to say, the scripture cannot be under stand without men's commentaries or gloss, because the scripture is so obscure dark and doubtful, that it may be else applied to con 
deu. xxviii  firm heresies what benedictyons be appointed of sundry kinds unto them that keepeth those things, which be written in the book of the law, And in the. xxii. of the 
duty xxii  same book, doth not Moses say manifestly thus. Set and fix your hearts upon all the words which I testify unto you this day, that ye may command your children to keep & obscure all things which are written in the book of the law, for they be not given, and commanded unto you in vain: But that every one of you should live after them Oh mark what these words importeth, that here is everlastring life promised unto all them why●h keep these things, which at wryeten in the scripture So that by these words ye may clearly understand, that Moses, he a●opnteth this to be the final e●●● & only cause why. That god would have his word to be writ ten, that all men, of what degree so ever they be (might be saved) by the word of god, and then the sequel must follow to be a plain blasphe my, to affirm and say, that we may be saved, or dampened by any traditions of man's inventyons, being not expressed, in gods book, are not all those very idiots, and fantastycal, which doth ascry be this ignorance and negligence unto god (as though) he either ●●l●t not, or else would not, Deter mine all articles necessary, unto o●●e salvation: to be oppressed by wrytyn●e within the holy Scripture, (or else) they declare them selves, to be ignorant of the final cause, why, the Scripture was given unto us, he hath not given unto us, a patched, or a work unperfect, but a full and a whole glass see, wherein the parfyght imagine of his deity, which Saince Paul calleth the print of his substaun ●e should a●●e●● fully therein, Also S. John say●●e that this word doth shine in darkness, and that is the light which shineth in men's hearts, blinded of the devil, thorough sin: and that Christ doth open unto us, the will of GOD thorough his gospel. Therefore it is not only thee ignorance of man, that the word of God is thus blasphemed, But thorough thee malice of thee devil, for the devil never ceaseth to dysfygure this word, which is the testy money of thee Son of god, wh● he despised, before thee world was made, and shall fight with fight with him, even with all his power, until the day of judgement This book, the King is command ded to have always in his hands and in his sight, the book of the law and to read out of it, all the days 
deut▪ xvii  of his life, for this purpose, that he should learn to fear h●s Lord god, and he delygentlye to apply his study, therein. And then this promise is made him, that he shall live long and many of his proge vy, & lineage, shall enjoy his kingdom, after him, would ●nto God, all Christian kings, and princes, would regard the reading of this book, and think it to be one part of their offycie, to be sometimes occupied in the reading thereof, that they may learn the will of God, how he will be feared by his word only, and not by any popy 
duty thirty  she laws and man's traditions, for it is wrytt● in the. thirty. of Deuteronomium. The command dement which I give unto thee, is not above thy power, neither far from thee, it is not set in heaven neither it is beyond the sea, but the word is night unto thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart. Mark what Moses saith here, Remember saith he I have ●et it before thy eyes, that thou mayes●e read in that book and understand it also: For in this book, he forbidden death all manner of honour, and condemneth all manner of worship and service, to be invented other done unto god, after the will, come mandments, trady●yons and doctrines of men, contrary to his word or otherwise then his word appointeth, or that which is not ordained by the same or commanded, for these services must be learned out of the word of god both what will please him, & what pleaseth him not: These things be know● only, by the holy written scripture, and if ye believe not this, be sure heaven and earth at the latter day shall witness against us, if we follow these false dying Prophets of the false chri stes, which imagine a new word and a new christ, as to be bound to certain appointed places, day ●s meats, vows, to abstain from the lawful creatures ordained of god, for S. peter putteth a diffe rinse between thee Prophetical scripture, and an interpretation which is made, and invenced of man's own brain, and s●ch traditions which are made and en●oyned at man's commandment calling all manner of doctrines, which be not contained in the scripture of the holy ghost. Ca●cyos and deceitful fables, exhorting all men diligently to try by this candle of prophetical scripture, the doctrine, of the false lying pro phete●, which imagine a new prophesy, or scripture, and a new word, for by that means saith h●▪ ●hall be ●●●●ed out the devils subty●●ie and ●●l●●o●e, Calling all m●●● doctrines not contained in the scripture, very darkness, and the scripture only to be thee true light and lantern as David called it saying) thy word is a lantelme unto my feet. and the light unto my path wa●es: Paul in both his epistle to Tymothy, and in his epistle to Tyte also doth ear nestly warn us to be ware of the blasphemies, which should be in this last time, o● these lying teachers which should lay upon our necks new and wicked opinions, and buld and confyr me, with their doctrine and laws, not con fyrmed by the word of God, and the prophets, but by false signs and lying miracles, to blind and deceive the unfaithful and such as have not received the truth of god's word, and he monisheth us so earnestly of these things, that he calleth heaven and ●arth, to witness with him, that be ●yd premo nyshe and declare to us before, of these Antichrist's that should come Declaring thereby what care and sorrow, he taketh for us, and how sore he lamenteth, that we should be thus seduced and deceived, by such blasphemous antichrists, as these be, which would appoint us another Gospel, of their own brains to feed us, with dreges of their invented Sacraments and lousy Ceremonies which they patched unto thee word of word of God, as necessary unto our salvation, having not the scrip ●ures for the stablyshement of the same, and it would then compel the people of God as well to receive them with asmuch reverence as those sacramente● & other ordina● ces instituted by the word of god, These blinds guides, the Prophet Isaiah threateneth the everlasting night of infidelity or unbelief, and unto them also that be leave either any new revelatyons or else any apparitions of dead sp● rites without the word of God the words be these, shall the people seek counsel of their God: or shall they ask counsel of the dead, for the living, shall they not rather look and search thee law of thee Lord, and take the testimony of god unto counsel, for if they tell you not (saith he) according unto this word. They shall have no morning light, Oh merciful lord what sore and grievous, saying (is this) yea it is a threatenyug, unto them that understand what this voice is, and what darkness this signifieth, this morning light saith Esay (is Christ) the light o● the world as he saith himself bid ding us walk in the light while ye have it, that no darkness come pass you, thy light the prince of all darkness stolen first from mankind thoro we infidelity, & rob us of thee true knowledge of God, and brought us into aldarkenes of errors, and superstition, by these dying prophets which would bring v● to infydelitye by their dark doctrine of unwritten veryt●es, but it so pleased the son of righteousness to restore this light unto the world again, and his coming was unto us thee bright morning which the prophet speaketh of in this place But alas it is no marvel that we have so long walked in this darkness, for we have been taught by Balant prophet, a new christ and have for saken the word of God. and sought this light in the devils doctrine, and men's traditions, having our confidence in fantasies, that we have believed dead spirits, & made new articles of our faith, as that there is a purgatory after this ●y●● out of the which souls may be redeemed thorough the sacrifice of the mass, which the antychriste of Ro●● & his lying shavelings make to be a sacry●yce for the quick & the dead ●●trarye to the institution & ordayna●ce of christ. Having not one word of the scripture ●or the establishment of these their dreams. A●d ●●t the● conti●ue in the ministration outpass daily against the kings mai●●●●e● most● godly procead●●g●s, ●y ●cca●yon whereof the people commit idolatry, alas it is to be ●●●●●ied to ●e the sturdiness of these babylon papists which will not give place to the truth, but shall still continued in their masking, & contrary to the word of god, o most execrable antichrists which take upon you, to offer up a sign for a saviour, which is made by the hands of a wicked man and bring m● to worship bread & wine in stead of the eternal God which are to false god● (as they are used, by your lifting up, where find you in the word of god that ye ought so to do but only by your Romish father's appointment, Christ never commanded his word to be preached unto bread & wy●e which are but two dead things, but to such people as had faith to believe & follow the same, he bade that faithful believers of this holy supper, to take & eat this bred & not to kneel to it, & to worship it as god. For S. Augu, & the old doctors calleth it a sacrament, a mystery & mystical meat which is not eaten with to the & belly, but with ears & faith, & as touching honour & worship to be done to it, it is plain idolatry. This most odious veneration was added by your pope, not with out the perpetual ●urse of god, as appeareth in Deut. xii. & Apo. xxii. For in your pope's mass nether is the lords death set out to be understand or preached nor yet his body & blood frutfully therein received, neither are the hearer's there of ●swaded to continual thanks giving, nor yet christianli exhorted to a mutual love & concord, but the devoutest that cometh to the mass of yours, one ha●eth another, one disdaineth another, one troubleth another, one robbeth another, besides the abominable suꝑsticious & ydo latries which are daily therein committed, this your abominable by so many pestilent pope's dunsed which were perverters and stin●kinge Sodomites not regarding the saying of the holy Apostle S. S. Paul, but perverting the scriptures for the maintenance of their 
Rom, xv.  bellies and for lucre sake, which said. Ro. xv. I dare not speak of any of those things, that christ hath not wrought by me. O shameless beasts than how dare ye be so bold as contraay to gods holy word, invent and make the vytuperable mass, wherein is the glorious sup per of the Lord (which was his own institution) most blasphemously blemished, and brought clean out of remembrance, in the christian church, wherefore a remembrance of christes death to his congregation was that heavenly sup per first ordained, and a universal thanks giving for the most fruitful benefit of the same. In that holy and sacred supper are the mutual members of Christ's mystical body there gathered together and knit perfeyghtly together to their head with the joints of faith, and sinews of love, where as it is truly ministered. But in your popish mass their is no such godly order, did not jesus christ in the institution of this sacrament crament all bread simply say unto his apostles (take & eat) he said not, behold and worship, did ever any of the Apostles provoke any man to such worshipping as these Idolaters do. Mark how far these tals prophets of Baal, swerver from the doctrine of S. paul, as abhomis able scorners & thieves which pra ctyse nothing else but the utter destruction of souls & inventors of tumult & sedicid amongs the peo ple. Brethren saith he I beseech you 
Rom. xvi  mark them that make division and give occasions of evil, contrary to the doctrine that ye have learned and avoid them, for they that are soch serve not the lord jesus Christ but their own bellies & with swe te preachings & flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocents, what may be more plainly spo ken against this your new invented sacrifice of the mass as ye● call it, than that ye be sowers of division enemies to your King hurters of the public whelth & breakers of the commandments both of god and the magistrates, now whose subjects be you (neither gods nor the Kings, but obedient ministers to your father the great anthichrist of rome, it manifestly appeareth why hold ye not up the eternal testament of god to be worshipped in the which is christ con teyned both really & substantial lie, no, that were nothing for your proffect & comodytie, this blindness of men & obstenate malice where thorough the blaspheme God & his word is rather to be lamented, than to be convict by the word of God the thing is so vituperable, Ye blid buzzards where have ye one joint of the word of god to make this holy supper a sacrifice either for to be worshipped but only ye received that doctrine of the wicked lanfraneus the great enemy of god's truth & true religion and papa innocencius which added this transubstantion this unkno wen god whereunto ye cause thee people to commit idolatry. Christ saith math. xxviii. Teach them to 
mat xxviii  keep all things that I have come manded you, and I hon in the, viii chap. of his gospel saith, if ye 
Ihon. viii  abide in my word, ye are my disciples in deed, and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free, he that is of god, he heaxeth the words 
Ihon. nineteen.  of god, and every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice, now to worship here by love any visible thing, declareth plainly ye hear not the voice of God, for he hath not so commanded you (for 
John, ●●v.  thus saith christ) if ye keep my commaundementes maundementes, ye shall abide in my love, & ye are my friends, if ye do those things that I commanded you, But and if ye leave the commandments 
mar●, vix.  of god, & maintain your own constitutions, & cast aside the commandments of God to keep your own traditions, them are ye false dying Prophets, of whom Hieremy would have us to be ware ●●. Where he saith, take 
Heir. seven  heed saith he, ye trust not in counsels that beguile you, and do● you no good, and further he also saith 
Hi●x, xxiii  hear not the words of the Prophets that preach their own dreams, and the prophet Ezechiel both 
●ze xviii xxxiii.  in the. xviii. &. xxxiii●. of his book saith, h●are o ye house of Israel saith the lord/ is not my way right or are not your ways rather wicked. The children of thy people of thy people say (tu●●he) the way of the lord is not right, where as their own way is rather unright, what can be more plainly set forth to declare your abhominaci on not only concerning the abuse of the holy supper of the Lord, in these thiges before spoken, but also your 
ma●. xvii.  old leaven wherewith ye have so soured & poisoned the verity of god's word, by your beggetly tradi●●●s & unwritten verities, that thereby ye have spoiled & rob the people of the true ministration of thee Sacraments, as unlawful 
Ihon. two Luke. nineteen mar●, xi math. xxi.  buyers, and sellers of gods mystery Like robbers & thieves idolaters & murderers which ought to be driven out of god's church with whips, for dysceaving the people as ye long have done, & yet do to this day, they be not ashamed both to writ and preach, that the very natural body of christ, both in quantity, and quality is contained ●yally under the form of bred in the sacrament, and is a daily oblation both for the quick and the dead and must also be taken for a sacrifice, of no less value & effeca●ye, than the body which christ himself offered upon the cross, & who that believeth not this, shall be an heretic, what abominable thieves, and mockers be these which teach the doctrine, they practise nothing else, but utter destruction of souls, what a● these else, but spiritual thieves, seysmatiques and soul murderers. Rebeles, & trey tours, to god, and to man. Never did cruel pharaoh, hold the people of Israel in so wicked captivity as doth these superstitious ge neration these idle Sodomyties, hold the most dearly redeemed heritage of the Lord, If any thing under the heavens, hath need of reformation, let all men that mine death any godliness, think this to be one, let us beware of these transgressors of gods commandments, 
math. xvi.  for their own traditions, for these be they, whom S. paul doth admonish us of, in his first epistle to Time, ●he. vi. chapter. If any man teach otherwise and is 
i, Tim, v●.  not content with the Doctrine of godliness, he is puff up, & nothing, but wastethe his brains, about questions, and strife of words, whereof spring envy railings, evil ●urmy●ynges and ha●ne, disputations, of men, with corrupt minds and destitute of the truth▪ which think that lucre is godliness, from such separate thyself. And say not John in the second pystie the first chapter saith, 
●i, Ihon. i.  Whosoever transgresseth and abye death not in the doctrine of christ, hath not god, He that endureth in the doctrine of christ, hath both the father and the son, If there come any to you, the bring not this lear ●ynge with him, receive not him to your house, neither bid him god spade, for he that biddeth him god speed is partaker of his evil deeds and Hebre. xiii. be not carried about with diverse and strange 
Hebre. xiii  learning, here is to be perceived, Whether thee teaching of these mermaids song be sweet, & according to the scriptures, or else full of poison (are not) to them that give hearing to this their damnable meolody which leadeth to death the hearers thereof. But yet never was Gnato unready of his flattering seats, to compass his cloaked ●olusiōs, where he fyndethyching cares, by his ypocrytical speech but now to prove by gods infallible word, whether Christ's natural body, be in the sacrament as they say & would make you to believe, or not, you shall not perceive by the scriptures, nether by the ordinance of Christ, nor yet by any reason, it can so be, & now let us hear what witness christ himself the everlasting word of god giveth of his scriptu re, The high doctors disputed here of even in christes time, which thought that the scripture without the traditions of th'elders was not suf fycient for their salvation, and for the instruction her of, one of those doctors came unto christ, & said. May stir, what may I do, to inherit everlasting life, Christ answered this curious doctor sending him to thee scripture, s●yinge what is written in the law, or what dost y● red therein, as though he should say thinkest y● that god is a changeling or a waverig red, which will alter his mid every hour, as men change their laws, & imagine daily new opinions of god thou shalt well understand that the word of god continueth for ever. Therefore do thou nothing but even the self same thing (one lie) that thou findest written in the law and prophets, do that & thou shalt live, he saith not how thine kast thou, or how dost thou here, the Pharisees, and the scribes, pray and teach, go to their doctrine, but he biddeth go search the scripture, & albeit the scribes & doctors, patched their laws & traditions unto the word of god, as our hypocrites, and doctors do, in this holy Sacrament, of Christ's body and blood, and would also prefer their drowsy dreams, before the word of god, as christ showeth in the. xv. and. xxii. of Mathew, Yet amongs all dying pro 
math▪ xv xxii.  phetes, the true Church, had one judgement, and belief: that the will of god must be known by the scriptures only, and that all articles must be judged and examined by it, as christ declareth, where as he saith, unto the jews. Search the scriptures, for ye believe surely, to have everlasting life in them, by these words, Christ testifyethe plainly that the opinion of the old church, was that all men should judge all articles of the saith, necessary unto salvation, by that on lie, and where he biddeth them examine his preaching by the scripture, he showeth evidently the whole gospel to be contained in the old scripture. Therefore now let us ser che the gospel, what Christ teacheth, concerning this mystery of his body & blood, whether we can find it to be naturally, transubstancially, and rially in the sacrament, as they say, or not. These Papists have preached, put in writing, & taught, that after they have blown and spoken over thee bread which they hold between their fingers, and breathed over the wine in the chalice. That their remaineth nether bread nor wine, but by transformation, or as they say transubstantion, thee natural body, of jesus christ: under the accidens of the bread, is their invisybly hid, and the blood also, under the accidens of wine: If this doctrine be not both against the verity of holy scripture and reason, you shall see it manifest lie proved, for this sophistical determination, proceedeth of the vanity of dreams, & clearly against the doctrine of S. paul, & the holy evan gelistes, & all the ancient doctors as S, Augustyn, Cyprian, & other old writers, as briefly I shall declare▪ 
●. corin. xi,  & first S. paul, saith thus to the Corinth, our lord jesus christ the same night in which he was betrayed took bread, and giving thanks, break it, and said, take & eat this is my body: which is bro ken for you, S. mathewes words 
math x●vi  be these and as they supped, jesus took bread, blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, & said take and eat, this is my body, S. 
marc, xiiii. Luke. xxii  Mark. and S. Luke, affirmeth the same words, written in their gospels, expressly naming it bread and not the substance of bread, S. Paul in this place, saith man 
i. corin xi,  approveth himself, and so eateth of this bread, and drinketh of this chalice: he saith not eat ye thee body of christ which is hid under the accidens of bread, and drink ye his blood hid under the accidence of wine, But openly and simply, said he, (eat of this bread) These words certainly declareth the scripture to use no feigning, nor does ceyt, & here it doth approve, what bold and presumptuous teachers this be, which durst define and determine, against this doctrine of S. Paul, & the evangelists that there is nether bred nor wine, but the similitude of bread and wine where as it is also written, in the 
act. xxviii  Acts of the Apostles, on a Sabbath day, when we were assembled, to break bread, here it is not said of the likeness of bread, and S. Paul 
i, Corin. x  saith also, the bread that we break is it not the participation, of the body of jesus christ, by these scriptures, it is perceived plainly to all true believers, that it is expressly pronounced to be bread & not a shap likeness or appearance of bread these scriptures ought every chri stian to believe upon: pain of eternal damnation, for the holy scripture useth no feigning, and truly every faithful christian man, well understanding thee mystery of of this sacrament, doth take it to be a sacramental bread, and not as comyne and usyall bread, a bread sanctified, and ordained to divine uses, because that in this most holy action, the spirit, and soul, of the faithful, should be nourished united, and knit to christ by faith by that invisible sign, in this mortal life, which in the life to come, shallbe openly showed to his elects, without any sacrament, or covering, (at all) which our redeemer, and high bishop, hath ordained for a memory all of his death, unto the consummation of the world, and as the faithful receive that bread into their belly, by eating it, so undouptedly, their ceave the fruit of his death, into their souls by thee believing in him, for a remembrance, importeth the thing, to be absent, and therefore this holy mystery, being but a remembrance of christ. Than can he not be here present, for truly 
Barthran priest  if the mystery be▪ done, under no figure, than do we nought, to call it a mystery, for that cannot have the name of a mystery, wherein no thing is hid, where nothing is removed, from our corporallen cis where nothing is covered, with any veal, But that bread which by the mystery of the word is made the body of Christ, & doth show one thing to thee extern senses, and another thing soundeth to the inward mind of faith, for outwardly, the bread remaineth bread still, as it was before, the same shape is evident, the same colour is seen, the same taste is tasted, But within is a thing much more precious, moche more excellent, that is to say, the body of christ showed, not with the senses of the flesh, but with the eyes of a faithful mind, is seen received or eaten, the wine also which by the consecration of the priest, is made the sacrament of the blood of christ, which setteth forth one thing, outwardly & containeth another thing within, for what other thing is superfycially looked upon, but the substance of wine, Taste and it savoureth▪ wine, smell & it smelleth wine, look on it, and the colour doth argue wine, but if a man do consider it inwardly, them not the liquor of wine, but of the blood of Christ, it savoureth to the believing people, when it is tasted now that no man can deny thes things to be true, it is manifest that the bread & the wine be called the body and blood of christ figuratively, for notwithstanding after the mystical consecration, bread is not called bread, nor the wine, wine, but the body and blood of christ, yet after that which is s●ne, ne there is their any kind of flesh known in the bread, nor in the wine any drop of blood, for if nothing were taken here figuratively, than should here be no place for the working of faith, because that nothing shuldbe spiritually done, but what soever it be, we should take it after a fleshly intellectyon, and what faith is, by the sentence of S. paul is an argument of things that appear not, that is not of these sub sta●nces, which are seen, but of though see which are not seen, yet shall we here take nothing, according to faith, for what so ever it be, we may see and discern it, after our corporal senses, and what I pray you can be more foolish to take bread for flesh, & call wine blood and a mystery we cannot call it, where no hid or secret thing is she shed▪ here is to be understand, in this holy supper of the lord, that it representeth to us an invisible grace, and therefore it is not alone thing, that is seen, and that is believed, for these things that be seen, do only feed the corruptible body, being corruptible themselves. But these things why cheer not seen, do feed the immortal souls, they being immortal themselves. Our fathers in the desert, by a spiritual meat, and a spiritual▪ drink, did eat Chri stes body and drink his blood as thee Apostle doth witness, our fathers saith he, have eaten the same spiritual meat, & dron ken the same spiritual drink, as ye would say, So could he in the desert, turn the manna, and the the water of the roke into his flesh and blood. notwithstanding his flesh was hanged on the cross for us, long after, and his blood shed, and here you shall consider what is meant by these words spo ken▪ by christ, except you shall eat the flesh of the son of man, and drike his blood, you shall not have life in you, he said not that his flesh which hanged on the cross should be cute in pieces, and eaten of his Apostles, nor that his blood which he shed for the redemption of thee world, should be given his disciples to drink, for it were a wicked thing if his flesh should be eaten and his blood drunken, as the capharnetes and infidels took it, being offended with his sayings, therefore he said to his disciples, if you shall see the son of man ascending thither where as he was before. etc. (as though he should say) You may not think my flesh, to be eaten of you corpo rally, neither my flesh, to be devy deed into pieces, for as much as after my resurrection, ye shall see me vysyhly ascend into heaven, with the fullness of my hole body and blood Then ye shall perceive my flesh is not to be eaten of these that believe as the infidels think. But that the bread and the wine changed by a mystery into my body & blood, is to be received of the faith full, for he saith consequentelye. The spirit is he that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing, after any such sort as the unfaithful understand, but otherwise it giveth life as the faithful take it by a my sterye. So in this mystery of the body and blood of christ her is spiritual operation, which giveth life, without the which ope ration, the mysteries be unprofitable, for well may they feed the body, but the soul they cannot, here the papists say, that those things be done in verity, but not in a mystery, wherein they repuge against the writings of the holy 
● i●. three d● doctryna christians  fathers. S. augustin saith. Except ye eat saith our saviour, the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye shall have no life in you, (he seemeth saith he) to command a wicked thing. Therefore it is a figure commanding us to be communicators of his passion, this is profitable to print in our memories, that his flesh was wounded and crucified for our sakes. S. au gustyn doth thus affirm the mystery of the body & blood of christ to be a figure, for it is no point of religion saith he, but rather in● quitie to take his flesh and his blood carnally as they did which understood not Christ's words spiritually, but carnally, and went back therefore and departed from hi. Now, here is plainly se● forth unto you, that this holy sacrament of the body and blood of Christ's, is a mystery certifying thy weak conscience, that as that sacramental bread is broken, ●o was Christ's bo die broken, for your sins if ye be faithful, abiding in christ & he in you, but if you be wicked & unfay thful, ye do not eat his flesh nor drink his blood, although ye eat the sacrament of so great a thing, These be beads words upon the. i. epistle to the Corinth. the. x. chap. 
i, Corin, x  Now where as these dasing dreamers & lousy locusts, doth teach that the presents of christes natu ral body is holy, contained in the sacrament that is easier said, than proved For this saith S. aug. to high to. his body wherein he rose must be in one place, but his truth is di dispersed in all places. & also writing unto Dardamun doth prove that the natural body of christ, must needs be in one place only) & also that his soul can be but in one place, at ones, & further saith, if we should grant christ to be in all places, as touching his manhood, we should take away the truth of his body for he plainly affirmeth, as touching his godhead he is in every place, & as touching his manhood he is in heaven, as this doctrine of christ doth plainly prove, spokento his disciples, sayig, yet a little why 
Ihon. vi  le I am with you, & then I depart to him that sent far, & he said again, it is expedient for you, that I depart, 
John, vi.  for except that I depart, that comforter shall not come unto you. And yet he saith further, & forsake the world, & go to my father/ & more fully to touch this matter/ he also saith 
math. x●v mar● xiiii John xii.  poor men ye shall ever have with you/ but me you shall not ever have, here it appeareth as touching his godhead, he forsook not the world, when he ascended, unto his father, and therefore it must needs follow, that as touching his flesh, and manhood he forsake the world, as all the old doctors and faithful fathers define that christ meant not that his natural flesh, should be present in the sacrament to be eaten with our teeth, and therefore whoso believeth his body natural, to be their, is beguiled, and is rob of the true believe therein, with their crafty conveyances & unwrytten truths, by which they bring the people into bondage, and captive their consciences, in blindness/ to the utter destruction of soul & body. Teaching them a strange doctrine, contrary unto the gospel. But every plant that my heavenly father 
math. iv.  hath not planted, shallbe plucked up by the roots, saith christ, and now according to my first part and preposition of this matter, I say, that ther is sufficient scriptures written, for our salvation. and for the probation thereof, I will lay this sentence of the old church confirmed of christ against these blasphemous teachers, of these unsavoury sacrifices of Baal and Bel of their holy fathers of rome invented contrary unto the censer word of god, which is written in the▪ xii. of Ihon. The word why 
John xii.  che I have spoken, shall judge them in the last day, saith christ. Now then these envious Edomites, which teach the people a new found doctrine made of their own brains, as this is, to cause the people to believe that the natural body of christ is in the sacrament, or to make it an oblation propiciotorie, or expietorie, and to be worshipped, this teaching, is not found in the scripture of god, but in their own imaginations, and private inter pretation, for the maintenance of their own bellies. S. Peter saith, that the scripture is not expounded after the appetite of any private person, but even as it was given by the spirit of god, & not by manes will, so must it be declared, by the same spirit, full well knew the Apostle S. Paul when he said to the Thessalonians. The 
●. ●hes. two,  mystery of iniquity, even now beginneth to work, and also prophesied what should follow after his time, saying. Take ye heed to 
actu, xx  yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the holy ghost, hath put you oversears to feed the congregation of God, which be purchased with his own blood, for I know this well, that after my departing, shall enter in grievous wolves among you, which shall not spare thee flock, and even of yourselves, shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw disciples after them, and therefore watch. etc. What more evident to ken can be given of you, & set forth by Paul, are ye not ravening wolves, what else do you, but spoil and rob the people of God, when ye teach and instruct them, contrary to the verity of the gospel to follow your lying signs and beggarly ceremonies, as S. Paul 
gala, iii.  calleth them, to rehearse them it shall not nead, but touching this holy mystery of Christ's body and blood, which ye have so sore deformed, blemyshed & spotted by your straunsubstanciatyon, and other abuses to the destruction of the people, & first institution of christ I must of very sorowfulness, of heart, approve you by thee scripture to be very thieves, murderers, and deceivers, and where I have already declared and approned, by the word of god, and thee old writers, whose sayingee I have in manner but gleyned, with ruth the mohabite, as the history maketh mention, what that most holy & blessed sacrament of the body & blood of our lord is, it is to be believed but as a mystery, & fyfygure representing to the eyes of our faith, the death and passion of christ, crucified for our sins and rose again for our justification, & as verily as that bread is broken emonges us, so vetriye was Christ's body broken for our sins, & as verily as we receive that sacramental bread into our belly, thorough eating it, so verily do we receive the fruit of his death & meretes into our souls, by believing in him, so that the body of christ in this sacrament, is not corporal but spiritual, and the blood of chri ste is not there corporal, but spiritual. So that nothing is to be ta ken in this holy mystery, but spiri tually, Here is the body of christ, but not corporally, here is the blood of christ, but not corporally. These be the▪ words of Barthram, a learned Priest, written. Lvii yea res hear tofore, so now, this is proved sufficient to stablish the faith of all men I trust in this point. And as to the worshipping thereof, or to be a sacrifice, as they say, You shall have the scriptures to confute that doctrine, sufficiently, first the supper of thee Lord, aught to be done after thee ordinances of christ, as appeareth the first epistle to the Corinthi. 
1, Corin i●  the. xi. chap. And upon those words, to it is a memorial of the death of Christ. which brought saluaci on, and not a sacrifice, but a remen brance of the sacrifice, that was once offered up upon the cross, for therein is a promise made, as appeareth in the. C. and. it. Psal. Christ 
psal, ●. it,  shallbe our bishop, for evermore or dayned of the father, and this promise is performed, for christ hath entered once into the holy place, by an oblation making perfect for evermore, so that we nead not 
heb. ix. ●▪ x  to have him offered up for us again, the which dieth no more, We know that the oblation which Moses made, was for sins, as appeareth in the levitical law, when the oblation did sanctify, & thee blood did wash Then if this one sacrifice (in the which christ did offere up himself) did satisfy for the sins of the whole world, according to the saying of Isaiah. 
Esay▪ iiii  He did bear our sins, & he was torn for our wickedness, As S. John saith, he is our satisfaction 
John, two.  and so forth so that all oblations which are besides this, is but vay ne, as to rear an new oblation, and to set little by the first, to make god a liar and to deny Christ, which bought us after the words of S. Peter, For if the sins be released 
●●. p●it. two.  and forgiven in the sacrifice of the mass, it followeth that, that on lie sacrifice of the cross did not sa tisfye, for all sins, & is not that to deny the lord, which did redeem us, not with corruptible things, as with gold and silver, but with his own precious blood, so that this holy sacrifice, which is jesus christ, the very lamb, and most holy Enocent, & without 
John, i.  spot. The which alone taketh away the sins of the world hath offered for us, to God the father, himself, hath given his life, and shed his blood, for our redemption▪ Making an end and consummation, of all outward and visible sacrifices, and S. Paul to the Hebreus writeth, it is convenable 
Hebre. seven  to have a bishop holy, innocent. separate from sinners, & higher than the skies, and in the. ix. chap 
Hebre. ix.  ter of the same epistle, is said thus christ the bishop of goodness, came in presence, by a greater and a perfiter tabernacle, not made with have des, not by the blood of goats, or of calves, but by his own precious blood is once entered into the sanctuary, & hath found eternal redemption, here is plain & evident that for our salvation, & redemption, we have no need of any other sacrifice, or daily offering. for themselves, and for us Except we will have them our redeemers, and to renounce the oblation of jesus christ, and yet further 
Hebre ix  it is said, in the same chapter. Ie sus is not entered into the sanctu arye, made with hands, but chief lie in heaven, to th'end that now he may appear for us before the face of his father. & not by ●au●e that he offered not himself often times and after he ●ayth, he should have suffered often, ●y●he the beginning of the world. This sexte doth clearly express, that jesus christ, offereth not himself many times or that he should die many times, for jesus christ to die, and to be offered unto his father, is all one Now shall he never die more, whereby he shall never be sacrificed and in sacrifice, he will never offer himself more, than it followeth that no man can offer and sacrifice him again, for if he offer not himself, show may other offer him, for certainly sith the death death of christ, all visible sacrifices, is ceased, and the state of sacri fyces is appeared, wherefore they a● vain seductors, beguilers & liars & may be known to be fools, unwitty, unhappy, & void of brain Now ●or a more ampie probation 
Hebre. x.  pounder well the. x▪ chapter of the same epistle, which maketh mention, thoroughly of this sacry●yce, 
psal. xclii  of jesus christ, the which hath made an end of all visible sacrifices, so that none doth abide for sin. Behold I come lord god, to th'end, that I may do thy will, by the which will we be sanctified, by the oblations made, by jesus Christ, for by one oblation, he hath made the sanctified, that is, the faith full perfit, for ever eternally, for after he saith, I shall have no more mind of their sins, and of their iniquities, and where there is remission of them, there is no more oblation for sin. But S. Paul declareth unto us, what sacrifice we should offer, let us follow his divine, 
Rom▪ xii,  & council, I pray you my brethren, by the mercy of god, that ye offer your bodies, in a lively sacrifice holy and pleasant to god. etc. To offer this sacrifice We be all ordained of God Kings, and priests, without any such disguised, shaven, shorn, ceremonies, for we be to vile, & unworthy to offer unto god, any new sacrifice for sin, for asmuch as christ hath offered up himself to his father for us, as touching to worship the sacrament, In the whole scriptures, neither by any writing of the old holy fathers, & doctors, as S. Augustyne, Ambrose, Hierome, Cyprian, Chrisostome, Fulgencius, and such other, never taught men to worship it, for if these holy fathers, had taken these texts before recited carnally, as they took it spiritually, then in their works they would have taught men to worshipped it, but they never taught men to worship this sacrament, because they took it spiritually, and therefore to worship it, it is damnable idolatry, for god will give his honour to non other, for this holy supper of the lord, is taking for a pledge of ever lasting life, which the faithful desire most humbly to receive, with a manifest participation, even that thing which we touch in the Image of the sacrament, which is the pledge and the Image, of another thing (that is to say) they represent another thing, but not themselves, yea they which is showed unto the believers, the death of christ inui●ybly, for a perpetual remembrance of his passion, for christ saith in the gospel, Do this in my remembrance and S. paul expoundeth it thus. So oft as ye eat of this bread, and drink of this wine, you shall show the death of the lord, till he come. Thus we be taught, both of jesus Christ, and S. Paul. That the bread, and the wine, is set forth to our eyes for a figure, or a memory of the lords death, (That) as often as we shall receive this holy supper, of the lord, it may put us in remembraunce, in this time present, what Christ hath done for us in times passed, that we may be made mind full of his painful death, & passion, which he suffered for us: & that we may be made also worthy partakers, of that godly communion, by the which we are delyve red from death, and knowing that after this life, we shall come to the vision or Christ, where we shall have no need of any such instruments, to put us in remembrance any more, by any external sign, what cor●st ●●the ●o●● for ●s, for we looking of him face to face, shall not be a●moni●●ed by any out ward or iemporall things out only to be fully certy●yed by the contemplation of the truth itself and to give glory● and praise to the author of our health▪ for ever 
Note.  Now it is to be noted that the faith full receiveth not the thing looked upon with our carnal eyes, in the mystery: of this sacrament but that which is believed for the meat is spiritual, and the drink is spiritual, and fead●th the soule spiritually, and that g●ueth euerla sting life to the believers secretl●e, as ●●●e ●a●youre saith him sel●e, ●●e spirit is he that quyckeneth. The ●●easshe profiteth nothing 
●h●n. vi.  proffeteth nothing. Here briefly have I declared unto you, the true understanding of the most blessed sacrament, of the body & blood of christ, both by the mind of christ himself. S. Paul, the evangelists and the old fathers, and holy doctors, as here is recited, and if any will diligently read the scriptures they shall find and clearly perceive, that for the space of. L. ix. years, all the doctors to affirm this sacrament to be a mystery, & never knew of this transubstantiation of the bread and wine, as the see devilish dreamers doth teach, therefore believe them not, for they are blind leaders of the blind, so that the leader, & the follower, shall fall both into the pit, And as it is mentioned in the. i. of Sapience, 
Sapien i  what a terrible sentence they shall give against themselves, in the latter day of judgement, in horrible fear, shall they confess openly before re the high judge jesus Christ, to whom is general power both in heaven, and earth, that all hath been damnable follyshenes, that they have gone about, that they have erred from the truth, & have been wilfully ignorant, and that they have tired themselves, in thee way of wickedness & destruction and so forth. Thus these ungodly teachers, of their own dreams shall why she the great mountains to over whelm them, in that dreadful day, therefore hear what S. 
galathi. i.  Paul saith. Though we our selves, or an angel from heaven, preach any other Gospel, unto you, then that we have preached unto you, hold him accursed: Now hath paul preached unto you as ye have hard, (and we) saith he (that is) all those which hath preached the same gospel. But these lordly lubbers, as glorious glottones, have preached unto you, (and do) The Gospel of their father the Antichrist of Rome, that is a great tab bell, of ceremonies as ringing, sin ging, kneeling/ kissing/ mocking mowing/ dying/ and selling the holy sacraments/ as it is written none may sell or buy/ but he have the 
apoc. xiii.  mark of the beast▪ these be the lycherouse locusts/ of Egypte, thee upholders of Sodom & Gomor/ The pope's own cattles, tokened with his own mark, I cannot term them as they ought to be, do you consyded that ye● notwithstanding, the word of god is now so p●●●y ●en●yrly & simply caught as thanks be unto the living god and our young David & your grace it now is. And that it hath pleased the Kings Majesty, and his ho norable council to set it fourth ac cordynglye, and specially in this high mystery of the supper of the Lord, whereof we simple souls, have long been rob of th●ne part of that holy sacrament, that now it should be restored unto us hole, and not thee priests, to eat by the hole themselves, as they yet daily do contrary unto the word of god, and the Kings godly pro ceadinges, & in as much as in them lieth, doth not only seduce the people still, to follow their masking mass, which was not known in the church of the faithful (as Be da saith) which was four score & x. years after the death of Gregory then such masking was not known till monckerye of benedictes rule came in, and than began private masses, a scripture of the pope's in ventyon, an unwritten verify: which they would make us to believe, as an article of our faith, But hear what christ saith, search the scriptures for they bear witness of me, and S. Peter saith also, all the Prophets do witness with him, that God forgiveth all thee sins of them, which believe and put their confidence in christ And now to make an end, I will resy te two faithful witnesses, against this devilish cavillatyon, that these false prophets teach the people concerning this mystery, afore spoken of, as upon all other there damnable doctrine which they ground upon mane traditions, which S. Peter and S. Paul confuteth. Peter in his first epistle, ●aileth such blasphemers, as do imagined a new word of god besides that which is written, and he calleth them lying prophets, which teach any thing contrary to this prophetical and Apostolical prophecy/ and a rule whereby we should avoid all manner of lies/ and to have a special eye unto the candle which is the word of the prophetical scripture which driveth out and banesheth away/ all darkness and lies of the devil and his Doctors/ these be his words. I write unto you this second pistle/ to prick you up & to quyckene your hearts/ that ye might remember the words which have been told you before by the holy prophets/ and also the words of our message/ and commandment which be the apostles of the lord our saviour/ for ye must know/ that in the latter days, there shall come mockers, they shall bring in saith he) pernicious and damnable sects. And now S. paul saith they shall speak lies in hypocrisy/ under the colour and pretence of holiness/ forbidding to marry/ & to abstain from meats which god hath created/ to be received of the faithful with thanks giving/ and they shall deny the lord saith he which hath bought and redeemed them, and thee way of the truth shall they slander, & revile, do not our papists even so now a days, Let all men that know God judge, and they shall find both their doctrine, & living, like as these two holy Apostles hath painted them unto the world, I could have declared things more of the saying of these Apostles, to have been more circumspect of these damnable bypers, which were superfluus. but the whole world hath thanked be God, received knowledge by the word of God, to know them, and to beware of their leaven, and here with S. Paul, I commit you unto the word of grace which is able to edify you, & to give you an inheritance with all them that be sanctified  
SO BE IT.  joel. it ¶ Turn to the Lord your God, for he is gentle and merciful, patient and of moche kindness: and ready at all times to forge we wickedness. Math. xx. ¶ The labourers in the Lords vinyeard, that came last of all received their penny so well as they that came in the morning Nether had one more than another  

A complaint against the stiffnecked/ made by the author of this book.  

ALas I lament the dull abused brain  
the insatrike fantasses, & witless wilfulness  
of one & other, that at truth have disdain  
They say such parables, they cannot express  
some saith they be realers, at riot reckless  
and some say but little, & think much in thought  
well, this process I speak of, is not for nought   

Oh woeful chance most infortunate  
So suddenly making, this great alteration  
For sith the world, was first created  
Was never seen any such division  
How much is truth, had in derision  
For falsehood feigneth fables, full maliciously  
The truth to drown, alas so piteously   

Much malice is ministered, under holy precence  
Most men be moved, lying signs to uphold  
False jammes, & jambres, be placed in presence  
To wound Mycheas, as in regum is told pashur ponisheth hieremy, demetrius is bold  
Baal & Bells ministers, rage furiously  
To drown the truth, alas full piteously   

Helyas, & Daniel, be in woeful case  
By false Alchimus, that wicked counselled  
Christ cruelly crucified, by Pilate & caiphass  
Paul envy, by hermogenes, doth appear  
Peter by symond Magus, & Menaunder  
The apostles proved, with payves spitefully.  
To drown the truth, alas full piteously   

Custom craftily cloaked, truth beareth no feal  
Doing is doubtful, & dare not for fear  
Pluck bake pnsumption, which proudly prevail  
poor keketh silence, & seeth not such gear  
Blindness is bragging ●eking here & there  
To spew spytful poison, blasphemously  
To drown the truth, alas full piteously   

The rude rudely learned, blind as an ass  
Doting in dreams, despising obedience  
wilful without wisdom, of nothing doth pass  
As rebel ribalds, without intelligence  
defending their god mazyne with much violence  
Against the prick, to spurn unseemly  
To drown the truth, alas bookful piteously   

Hatred hateth honesty, a whoring to go  
M●●yce maketh men, masing in madness  
penury pincheth pryue●y, with pain & woe  
Prelletes pra●e papisticallye, with boldness  
Lewd lousy lying, lu●keth in darkness  
false feigning flattery, friendship doth ampliffy  
To drown the truth, alas bookful piteously   

Who blameth blas●heme●s, boldly to brag  
Of their doting doctrine, drowned in lies  
Tearig truth a sounder, like a torn ●agge.  
Blinding men's hearts, & blering their eyes  
Like lurking lowtes, & lecherous spies  
As subtle serpents, working perniciously  
To drown the truth, alas bookful piteously   

The witless wllfully, walk their ownway  
not following salomons sapience, but Baales posterity,  
In fantastical phantasses, let truth say what he may  
yet slothfully will they sleep, infect with inpuritie  
Supposing themselves sure, to s●and in security  
stablished in s●yffenes, pu●t up arogantly  
To drown the truth, alas full piteously   

These stoule sturdy stomachs stand stiffly  
As biting wolves, craftily clostering  
Like members mal●gnaunt stick stubbornly  
to uphold proud hamone, the shaveling  
yet power pincheth not for all their murmuring  
And greedy gasping, by sleight pnsumptuously  
To drown the truth, alas full piteously   

Might is amazed, & will not shewtte  
At witless wilfulness walking at e●se  
wisdom will not willingly make the alke● mewtte,  
Reason remembreth not what shall displease  
Perel is present, where poverty doth disease  
the wind bloweth a loft & no man willingly  
Stoppeth the blast, that soundeth so behemently.   

These wicked betmyne, & worms subtile  
like wy●ie wolves, of the serpent's generation  
When will ye leave treading on Christ's hele,  
shall gods son be to you still a sign of contra distion  
when shall his verity with all veneration  
Be received & used amongst you reverently  
And not still to drown it alas this piteously   

When walk ye from wantonness, of worldly vanity  
when stablish ye steadfastness to be parmanent  
when seek ye rest, and mutual amity  
when shout you sharply at the viper pestilent  
when put ye poison, from the innocent  
when stoppeth the stream, that floweth abundantly  
That drowneth the truth, alas this piteously   

Shall nature work things unnaturally  
shall false for truth be still preferred  
shall power punish with cause cruelly  
shall wrong for right be maintained  
shall darkness for light be revealed  
shall Mammon for god be taught religiously  
To drown the truth alas this piteously   

If right spoileth, wrongs usurpation  
if truth doth falsehood, eyect out of place  
if power punish ill with godly reformation  
if light doth darkness utterly deface  
if god throw down mammon by his word of grace,  
if man be fed with the verity of manna heauēly  
Why then is the truth drowned alas so piteously   

A wake from your wilfulness unfyle your eyes  
open your oppression, & faults execrable  
drown your drou●y doctrine of vain ceremonies▪  
pluck away your crooked canon laws detestable,  
stably she the two Testaments of god so venerable  
embrace the verity with heart & mind willingly  
And drown the truth no more alas this piteously   

Else Thoby laketh his liking for want of his son,  
Rachel is ruefully raged and like to catch cold  
Mo●●che the mawment the game hath won  
Lacove laugheth thereat, & beareth him bold,  
Io●e phat the gentle, is bought & sold  
Yet Ruth the mohabyte gleyneth full busily  
To pnse rue this truth drowned so piteously   
FINIS.   

¶ Imprinted at London in saint Andrew's parish in the Aware drop By Thomas Raynald.  
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