❧ A WARNING TO ENGLAND TO REPENT, AND TO Turn to god from idolatry and popery by the the terrible example of Calece, given the 7. of March. Anno. D. 1558.  
BY BENTHALMAI OUTIS.  HEBR. 13. 
brethren abide the word of exhortation.  JOEL. 2. 
Turn unto me with all your heart, in fasting, weeping, and lamentation.  
¶ Imprinted Anno. D. 1558.   

IF GOD ALMOST BY MIRAcle hath cast so terrible lightnings upon Calece, as make, either all men's ears to glow, & tingle, or their hearts to tremble, & quake, that hear how sore that town is suddenly plagued, what mayest thou look for, o England, whose most detestable, and most abominable horrible vices, so far exceed the vices of Calece, as Sodom ever passed Sion in villainous tragical acts. For to consider this matter thoroughly, and to begin with the chiefest, the governor of Calece did bear in deed with idolatry, and false religion, & therefore is justly brought in to a captives wretched state. But thy ruler England with raging madness, and open tyranny at her first entrance restored in haste idolatry and false popish religion, being before luckily beaten dounne, through out the hole realm, and now continueth a shameless advancer, and bloody maintainer of the same. The governor of Calece ioied not to see the people defile themselves with vile popery, with idolatrous mass hearing, with crouching to dumb stocks, & stones, with kissing of canferd crosses, with sprinkling of enchanted and exchaunted waters upon their forloren bodies, with eating of charmed bread, in stead of Christ's holy sacrament: Thy ruler compelleth all men to those, and many other like horrible abominations, with thundering threats, and most violent flames of fire. The governor of Calece earnestly bewailed in his heart, the decay of sound doctrine graciously renewed and repaired in the days of holy king Edward. Thy ruler rejoiceth, and triumpheth in treading, and stamping it under her feet. The governor of Calece reverently spoke, and thought of true religion. Thy ruler most blasphemously raileth upon it, and most deadly hateth it. The governor of Calece kept his hands pure from shedding of innocent blood. Thy ruler hath bathed herself, and swimmeth in the holy blood of most innocent, virtuous, and excellent personages. Let the bloody body of the courteous, modest, godly, wise, and well learned Lady jane, and of the gilteles lord Giltford come forth for witnesses. In noble Thomas Wyatt perchance, and his company thy ruler may have some pretence, and yet that valiant captain, & right virtuous man, with the rest of that band, without doubt put on armour, and rose up in defence of their country, which than began to be betrayed. And the like may be said of the good duke of Suffolk, and of that worthy man my lord Thomas Gray his brother.  
Of whom if any thing were done amiss, thy ruler was the very author, headspring, and principal cause of it, and therefore stained herself with blood in kill them, whose fault, if there were any, she herself caused, bred up, & brought forth. But what colour, or cloak can she have, if I call for the  bones & ashes, of the sober learned, and holy martyr Thomas grammar archbishop of Canterbury? of the excellent, wise godly, and skilful man Nicolas Ridleie bishop of London, of sundry other virtuous and learned bishops, and ministers of god's word, and of a number of good, simple, very innocent, harmless, and right godly men, and women, whom she hath most cruelly roasted, and fried in flames for maintaining the open truth, and keeping of their conscience upright before god. So that if thou compare her with the old persecutors of god's truth Nero, Decius, Diocletian, Domitian, Maximine, and such other thou shalt perceive, that she hath matched the outrageous cruelty of them, & that her extreme tyranny hath dured longer than the tyranny of the most part of tother, & in some points is gone farther. For none of those persecuted the bones, & ashes of dead men, nor sought the further affliction, and famishment of such as by them were already driven out of their native countries, as this, furious tyranness hath done most greedily unnaturally, and unmercifully. But to proceed in our former comparison, whereby thy state shallbe better known, the governor of Calece never condemned any, whose cause he had not heard before, and perfectly understanded. Thy ruler hath cast in to raging fires more than three hundred virtuous, innocent, godly men, whose cause she never heard, never undrestode, never laboured to know thoroughly. Yea lest her conscience should condemn her of most horrible murder, and lest her bloody desire might be dulled, she obstinately refuseth once to look upon the books of excellent good men, which plainly prove, that only the open truth hath been the matter, for which so many holy personages must suffer most cruel death. The governor of Calece maintained an honest family, godly servants both men, & women.  
Thy ruler hath about her raveners, snatchers, flatterers, effeminate , Alcinoes' youth, and among her women very strumpets, and to well known bawds, and witches. The governor of Calece what so ever is now forged to cloak the queens treachery, and to blear the people's eyes, bore a singular love to the town, and procured the wealth of it to his power. Thy ruler not only being warned of imminent danger left that town purposely spoiled of good soldiers, and warlike strong men, to make a way to her lust in meaning to give it up to another, but hath also studied these 4. years to betray the o England in to the hands of a stranger, and of a nation most defamed in all the world for pride, and cruelty. She hath sought means to make the fight against thyself▪ whereby being enfeebled and weakened, thou mightest be less able to resist the force of the spaniard. She began war with a mighty king, where peace was sought, and desired, only to satisfy her wilful head, to increase the force of the spaniard, & to maimme the of thy best captains, & soldiers. She hath spoiled the of thy artillery, of thy treasure, and jewels sent in to a foreign country, I think no more, for the love of the stranger, than for the hate, that she beareth against thy people. For because she hath begun a thing nawghtely upon her own head, she will now proceed wickedly without stay and extremely hateth all them, as either like not her doings, or by them stand in danger of destruction. And she is so bereft of wit, that she thinketh it better, to do madly, and nawghtely still a pease, than to seem to have done madly, and nawghtely at the beginning thorough wilful desire, & she is now sunk so far in folly, that she weeneth, that she may wipe away the blot of her first madness with continual pursuit of the same Finally the governor of Calece, his cloaking, and dissembling of god's truth except, was a good man, gentle, loving, courteous, harmless, plain, temperate sober, honest, and virtuous. Thy ruler is thoroughly spotted with papistry, & idolatry, a stock worshipper, a cakeworshipper, a bold blasphemer of the true Christ, whose blessed body is gloriously placed in heaven, and not pined in pope's pixes. Thy ruler is disdainful, and so proud, that to be the wife of an emperor's son, & for hope that she shall once be called my lady empress, she is content not only to make the as bare as a birds tail, but also unnaturally to betray the her native country, & make the subject to a popish proud, unmerciful, and ungodly nation. She is despiteful, cruel, bloody, wilful, furious, gileful, stuffed with painted processes, with simulation, & dissimulation, void of honesty, void of upright dealing, void of all seemly virtues. I speak not this of hatred god I call to record, nor for any lust to recount others loathsome evils, but only to call her to speedy repentance, by the ugle sight of her most horrible sins. I judge surely that of all other I ought most to lament her, as the most unfortunate woman, that ever was. For whereas besides these detestable open, and well known vices, and other more secret fowl sores, she is guilty of the blood, & damnation of all those that have perished, daily perish and shall perish through the most abominable gross idolatry, and false religion, that she hath set up, and through want of the true knowledge of Christ, which she hath by all means possible quenched, and oppressed, yet she hath not one that will warn her, of the most miserable, and most terrible state that she standeth in. Wherefore sith all her friends, and lovers, shavelings, and other slaves of the poleshorem swarm with silence, and closed lips, see her run headlong in to the lake, that burneth with unquenchable fire, I thought it my duty to do good for evil, and by opening, and laying corrosies to her pitiful festered sores, to prepare them to a farther cure, that she perish not everlastingly. And I beseech god most heartily to bring my desire to effect, which is surely none other, but that her soul, through the great mercies of god, and her humble knowledging, hating, and renouncing of her sins in time, may be saved from helfier. It may well be that for this my warning, she will seek my death, but she shall surely seek the death of him, that loveth her better, and would do more for her perpetual safety, than all the fat fed priests, and papists either in the court, or in the country. And if she knew as much as I do she would be gladder of the wounds that I have given her, than of all the kisses that ever she had in all her life, first, or last. For what should it avail her, if with the loss of her soul for ever, she might a while possess in this world all the joys together, that are contained therein. Nothing earthly would be bought with everlasting torment, which shall as certainly come upon her, as god liveth, and is true of his word, unless before corporal death she repent her of these most detestable abominations, that I have now laid forth, and turn 〈◊〉 time from the false pope, & patched popery to the true Christ, and true religion, & be purged, and sanctified, not by conjured waters, and men's fantastical devices, but by the holy spirit of god. Which grace if god of his infinite goodness shall grant her, I will seek no greater reward of my travail. But let us proceed in our consideration, and come now to the counsel of Calece, one of the chiefest whereof, the greatest sembler, & dissembler, the subtlest flatterer that liveth, called to another office in the court by the death of a vile nonnish papist, was absent at the subduing of the town. That Ulysses I say, the deviser of mischief was absent, not to avoid, but to run in to a more horrible plague, unless he prevent it with speedy repentance. This is he who in king Edward's time put on a mask, and visor of a protestant, and with his melie mouth, and fleering looks crept in to good men's bosoms. This is he, who through craftiness of wit, and by the help of a mad calf beguiled the good lord wentworth, & drew him from a better purpose, and so was the occasion of all the mischief, and miseries, that have ensued sithence. Besides this false traitor to god, to his srendes, and to his country, who as I said, was away at the ruin of the tounne, the rest of the counsel of Calece, were not notoriously naughty men. In the most part of them, a man cold desire nothing, save more zeal to the truth, that they knew, more strength of mind, more fear of god than of a woman. For this in deed was a common fault among them all, & worthy many deaths, and utter destruction, that they stood not to the known truth, but for fear, and to satisfy the will of an ignorant wilful woman, suffered themselves to be defiled with abominable mass idolatry, and were content with grudge of conscience to seem to drink in again all the pope's filthy dregs. Certain of them were papists to, I wot well, and yet they retained some civility, and outward honesty. Turn thine eyes now to thy counsel England, how fierce tigers, how cruel wolves, how ravening bears, how lecherous goats how wily foxes, or to speak plainly without figure, what perjured traitors to god, and to thee, what murderers, what oppressors of the poor, what voluptuous Sardanapales, what adulterers, how vile flatterers shalt thou find among them? It were a small fault, and a very peccadulian in them to dissemble the truth of religion. They rail upon it, they toss it with scoffs & mocks, they bloodily, & tyrannously persecute it. It might be wicked at, if they took bribes, only to oppress the cause of a few poor men, they take bribes to betray the hole realm. It might be passed over with silence if they had murdered but one man a piece, the blood of innumerable saints crieth up to heaven against them & the groanings of many thousands oppressed are heard every where. It might perchance be pardoned, if they spent but some weeks in pleasures, they wallow continually in vile voluptuousness, and wanton dalliance, and waste all their unhappy days in beastly delights, neither can change of women, nor women only satisfy their filthy abominable desires. Briefly there be no vices in the world whereof you may not see great buds, or rather great bounnies, and bunches in them. Here I may not let scape the priests of Calece, a foul brood of thy hen. Papists they were and very furies of hell. But if they be compared to thy prelate's and priests, they were but demipapistes, and demidivels. For he that would discover the fowl inward parts of thy shavelings, and filthy smeared flock, should seem to rake up the bottom of hell, yea he that would show the outward parts of them naked, should show the foulest sight, that ever was seen in the world. For what idolatry, what pride, what covetousness, what cruelty, what lechery, what sodomitry, was ever heard of in any age, that they have not far exceeded? Thou canst not name a bishop, but thou shalt see his tongue swollen with blasphemy, his fingers dropping with the blood of innocentes, his body spotted with most filthy villainy, & the rest of thy Egyptian shavelings, strive which shall pass other farthest in all kinds of beastly abomination. And to speak as I think, among them, Weston, who hath worn, and wearied himself in whoredom, these twenty years, and now for his late chaste behaviour is judged to lose his stones, may be counted an honest man. So manifold, so execrable, so outrageous is their filthiness, and wickedness. Who can think on that bloody beast Bonner, but a most grisly, ugle, & horrible monster shallbe presented before his eyes, such a one as no Polyphemus in boisteousnes, no furies of hell with their snaky hears in all points of mischief, no Cerberus in blasphemous roaring, no find in raging, in tearing, and in devouring innocentes, can overmatch. But I will leave that bottomless sea, of most filthy stinking vices, & pass farther. The commons of Calece consisted partly of papists, and partly of men reform in religion. The papists were there, as they be every where, murmurers against god greedy scrapers, envious, lecherous, full of secret vices, but they were few in number, and less besprinkled with innocent blood. The Christianes' were weaklings, dissemblers, quenepleasers, worldlings, riotous, wanton, & given to all fleshly lusts for the most part. I come now to thy commons England, of which some be gentle men, & those either papists, or protestants. The papistical gentle men are slaves to poleshorne priests, to execute their butchery, following therein part of thy nobility, in bloody cruelty worse than Shythians, in oppressing the poor Nero's hellish offspring, in greedy convetousnes very Harpies, in malice, and envy young devils, traitors to their country, open deceivers, vile flatterers, filthy lechers, herteles cowards, shameless bragger's, godless Epicures. The gentle men ptotestantes for the most part differ from tother in knowledge only, and not in life, in words, and not in works. The life convetousnes, the like malice, and envy, the like craftiness, the like cowardice, and unfaithfulness in defending their country, the like flattery, the like lechery, the like drunkenness in fleshly pleasures, the like lying is found in both sorts. And the common people to be short so countrefaite the beastly, and abominable manners of their superiors, that they may be counted their own children, their own broad aswell as their countrymen, I speak of the great multitude. For I know that in every sort, and condition of men, there be some that truly fear god. But in the order of thy nobility all the godly may be graven in one ring. Among thy prelate's, and priests I know not one, and yet I exclude not all of that most filthy swinesty. Among thy gentlemen there be so few, that would god the tithes, yea the twentithes, yea the hundrethes might be sanctified to god, as men endued with some little spark of fear towards him. Among the common people undoubtedly there be more, but they are oppressed, and drowned in the huge multitude, & infinite swarms of naughty wicked men. Sith than that beiond number, and measure thou exceedest Calece in outrageousness, and multitude of most mischievous facts, & horrible vices, what thought canst thou have to escape the present dradful vengeance of god, which thou hast so many ways deserved, and daily provokest to be powered upon the. For thou art not so witless, and stark mad, as to think that wealth, artillery, or force of men can drive back the vehement tempests of plagues, that hast to hurl the down. For what power can stay god, when he will strike, or any thing at all draw back his heavy hand. And besides that, though riches, and force might help, as they can not, yet thou art altogether unfurnished. For thou art brought to very beggary. Thy best ordinance is lost, given, or conveyed away. Thy captains are purposely murdered, or pined away through thought of thy ruin. Thy noble men are either stark cowards, or stark fools for the most part, and more meet for their effeminateness to handle a spindle, than to bear a spear, Thy common people through poverty, and continual misery are heartless more ready to bear burdens, and packs on their wretched shoulders, than harness on their manly backs. What remaineth then o most miserable country? Can any other thing be looked for, but wasting of fruitful fields, burning of cities, & towns, slaughter upon slaughter, murdering of infants in their mother's wombs, death before life, deflowering of virgins ravishing of wives, a worse life than death itself in them that shall remain unmurdered, haling, harrying, & tugging hither, and thither by the hear of the head, miserable captivity, vile slavery, and all kinds of extreme, and most intolerable oppressions. O yet notwithstanding the infinite heap of thy detestable deserts, hear what thy god saith. For thus he speaketh unto thee, unto the I say, if thou wilt yet give ear by the mouth of his holy prophet jeremy in 3. chap. Return thou back slidden Israel, & I will not make mine anger to fall upon the. Some times thou wast goddess Israel, gods holy congregation, and sanctified people. For the pure word of god sounded every where in thee, his sacraments were rightly administered, image service, superstition, & all piled pestilent popery was clearly banished, newness of life, and the goodly fair blosomes of god's spirit in many were well seen. But now thou art slidden, and hast taken a fowl fall. For in stead of god's word thou hast now men's doting dreams, in stead of Christ's sweet gospel the pope's sour draff, instead of Christ's reverend supper, the pope's toiy shapes play and monkisshe munming mass, in stead of gods true service, thou hast stock service, bone service, and wafer service. For right holiness of spirit, thou hast a countrefaite popeholines, that standeth in butter forbearing, in fish feasting, in flesh flying, with mouth, not with mind, in wimple wearing, in grey coat gatting, in lowering, in whimpering, in howling, in prating to painted posts, in buying of blasphemous bulls, briefly for all virtues, thou hast embraced all vices. The witty poets feign, that Ixion would adulterously have lain with juno, which thing jupiter her husband perceiving turned a cloud in to her likeness, which cloud Ixion hasted with great fond joy, to embrace in stead of his paramour.  
Hath not the like, or a thing far worse happened unto thee? Hast not thou catched after clouds, and vain shadows in stead of the truth not only whereby thou hast made thyself a lawghing stock to all the world as Ixion, but also most furiously pulled upon thee, the heavy indignation of almighty god. Thou hast in deed gone a whoring and committed adultery with stocks and stones, & thin weerisch bread, while thou wouldest seem to follow the true spouse, & to seek his spiritual embracings, and, thereby thou hast deserved confusion, and everlasting damnation. And yet for all this thy god, and most loving husband, biddeth the turn again to him, and he will stay his just indignation. O refuse not, as a desperate mad woman, to hear his sweet comfortable, and gracious voice. Repent, and detest thy unkindness, thy filthiness, & beastly abomination, Away with thy wafergoddes, with thy masking masses, with thy latin mumbling, with thy lost liplabor.  
Away with thy lies, and false sacrificing for the quick & the dead, the greatest abomination before god that ever was devised. Away with thy conjured water, and charmed bread. Away with thy proud pompous pope, and all his pestiferous popery.  
Away with thy stinking lechery, bocherlie cruelty, greedy catching, wretched sparing. Away with thy pride hatred, envy, and malice, that mass of a mischief, that hangeth on thy flesh, & turn at the last to thy most gracious husband whose favour is as the due in the morning to dry withered herbs, whose displeasure is most doleful death. Dimness, & darkness desperation, and anguish, all horrible miseries, and calamities, death and destruction draw fast on, which all thou mayest yet avoid, if thou wilt turn at the loving calling of thy most merciful lord. Calece was called, and would not hear, and therefore is beaten low, and sore pressed with god's plague, and shalt thou escape, if thou despice the like calling, in so great appearance of destruction. For there was no such likelihood of misery hanging over Calece, when she was called, as there is now a full sight of utter ruin hasting towards the. Thou art now warned by me, and wast long sithence warned by the notable prophet of god master Latimer, and thou art most lively warned by the terrible oppression of Calece. The cup than must needs be double mixed, that thou shalt drink up dregs and all, and in comparison of thy misery the beating of Calece shall seem a benefit.  
Look upon stories, and thou shalt find, that those realms have ever been sorest plagued that were most warned, and would not repent Nether the cryings of the prophets, nor the ruin of Samaria, cold call jerusalem to repentance. Wherefore the plagues, sorrows, and miseries that reigned down by heaps upon jerusalem, were incomparable, and exceedingly passed the cacalamities of Samaria. Thou then o England, if thou have any pity on thyself, on thy grave headed fathers, on thy grave matrons, on thy sweet children, on thy seemly maidens, and towardly youth, shake of all sluggischnes, seek no vain shifts flatter not thyself in thy wickedness, hear not the blasphemous blustering of those hellhounds, that impute the loss of Calece to the neglecting of popery, as the heathen in S. Augustine's times affirmed, that the forsaking, and despicing of their old gods, and goddesses, was the cause of the decay, and ruin of the empire. Which their shameless, and abominable affirmation, god incontinently revenged, with the overthrow, sacking, and burning of Rome the imperial city. The like talk now I wot well streameth out of the fowl mouths of thy babylon prelate's. For where as they through their treachery have, ever wrought the destruction & utter ruin of towns cities, & countries, as the loss of all Asia, and of a great part of Africa, & Europe doth overmuch testify, they yet please themselves in their outrageous mischief, and will rather fight against god, & ascribe the miseries of the world to god's fault, than that they will acknowledge the very cause of all plagues in deed, namely their own extreme horrible wickedness.  
And it is no marvel, if they would have the professing, and preaching of the gospel to seem the cause of the realms shame, loss and decay. For they hate no poison in the world so much, as they hate, and abhor god's word, and his truth. For that bewrayeth their hypocrisy, their idolatry, their false doctrine, their fine devices their traitorous counsels, briefly all their secret abominations. That undermineth their pope's throne, pulleth their mitres from their heads, breaketh their crociars▪ chaseth them not only out of kings counsels, where they occupy the chief places, the aunciaunt nobility being hoisted out, but also from house, and home, and maketh them detestable to all the world. And therefore they care not by what means they defame it. But hear not thou their blasphemous bellowing, and hellish roaring, considre rather thy woeful state, and measure thyself with thine own foot, look upon thy faults with thine own eyes, and not with their false spectacles, acknowledge as the truth is just causes of all misery to be in thyself, not for receiving, but for leaving true doctrine once plainly preached unto thee, not for renouncing of vile popery, but for eating of it in eftsoons, when thou hadst once cast it up, not for thy swimming out of the mire of filthy vices, but for thy returning, and wallowing in to the same again. Heap not sin upon sin with shameless shifting. Nether yet for all this let thy ruler fall to desperation, when she shall see no colour of excuse, no starting hole in so great a multitude of furies meeting her in every corner. Let her not say in her heart, who shall wasche my bloody hands? Who shall cleanse my soul full of leprosy? Who shall wipe away the spots of my idolatry, witchcraft, sorcery, traitorous devices, proud thoughts, filthy desires, long continued hatred, malice, and envy? How shall I escape the vengeance to come, how shall I abide the face and presence of god, whose saints I have partly burnt to ashes, partly tormented in prisons, partly rob of their lands, and goods, & sundry wise cruelly afflicted, whose spirit I have dotingly accused of heresy, whose word I have defamed, & railed upon, as new doctrine, & chased out of all churches, whose people generally I have defrauded and spoiled of the bread of life, and have caused them to be miserably fed with the pope's sluttisch unsavoury sops, with stinking mingle mangle, and deadly dregs. Let not thy nobility, & commons say, our sins are greater than that they may be forgiven. Let thy ruler set king Manasse before her eyes, of whom it is first written that he builded up chapels of idolatry, that he caused his own son to pass through fire, that he maintained sorcerers, witches, and enchanters, that he filled all the corners of jerusalem with innocent blood, and nevertheless afterward this followeth of him in the 33. cha. of the 2. book of chro. When Manasse was in distress, he entreated the face of the lord his god, and humbled himself exceedingly in the sight of the god of his fathers. And when he prayed to him, he was entreated, & appeased, and he heard his prayer, and restored him to his kingdom, & Manasse acknowledged, that jehova was god. Let this example comfort the sinful heart of thy ruler.  
Let thy nobility, and commons remember the Ninivites, which were all heathen, all idolaters, and therefore all wicked men, and yet repenting upon the preaching of jonas they escaped the imminent plagues of god, and present destruction. If thy priests and prelate's, or any other have persecuted the known truth, of very malice, and despite against god, and so sinned against the holy ghost, let them die in their sins, & perish everlastingly. Let the rest think this spoken unto them: thou hast committed whoredom with many companions, but turn unto me, saith the lord. Turn unto me back slidden children, and I will be your lord, I will receive you, and bring you to Zion. Let them than with all spedines, and humility of heart fall dounne flat before the lord, hold up their hands to heaven, ask mercy, and turn to their loving lord to the true Christ, who calleth them not out of a cankered brazen box, or out of a piece of foistie starch, but from his glorious celestial palace, let them embrace his goodness graciously offered. Let them kiss the son of god, lovingly coming towards them, and after their unnatural behaviour, after their exceeding great unkindness, after their long continued adulteries, bending down his heavenly head, and offering his sweet divine mouth unto them. Let them reverently receive him, let them reverently receive him, I say, lest his anger shortly kindle, and they perish, be stricken with lightnings from heaven, and confounded for ever.   

¶ A WARNING TO THE READER.  
WHo soever thou art, whose lot it shallbe to read this admonition, think not fond that the author hereof, would serve his affections in reproving men's vices, or thereby delight himself, or other men's ears, or procure hatred to any state, or any person, and blow a trumpet to malice. For so without doubt thou shalt foully beguile thy self, displease god highly, and lose the fruit of his travail in writing, and of thy time in reading. But assure thyself, that he hath spared no condition, and state in this great, and weighty matter, for none other purpose, save only to move all sorts to repentance, seeing plainly the hole stay of the realm now shaking, and threatening a fall, to rest thereupon. And if thou shalt use this needful warning to any other end, than to amend thyself, and to stir other to amendment of life, and to the advancement of god's glory, thou shalt torment the heart of the writer, disturb the holy desires of the gdolie, & pull the vengeance of god upon thine own head. Nether on tother side be thou so weak, as to think that the author should have forborn to have uttered all that he either knew himself to be true, or had learned of other, because of the nobility of the personages, but consider that it becamme him in god's cause, and in a matter touching the safety, or utter ruin of his country, to have regard rather to the wealth, & preservation, than to the honour of the persons, with whom if they continue in their wickedness, the hole realm must certainly come in danger of god's wrath, and unrecoverable destruction. Walk thou therefore uprightly, & be neither to worldly wise, nor to worldly foolish, neither hasty to hate, nor slack to redress both thyself, and other, but pray with this writer that god of his infinite goodness will vouchsafe to convert thee, thy ruler, thy nobility, and all other thy countrymen from wickedness of life, & from all popish superstition, and idolatry unto himself that yet his people may be harboured in England, that yet his gospel may sound, and have free course in England, that yet his holy name may there be magnified, and advanced in peace, and quietness.  
FIN.   
LUKE 13. 
THINK YE THAT THESE GALILAEANS WERE SINNERS ABOVE ALL OTHER BECAUSE THEY HAVE SUFFERED SUCH THINGS. NO I SAY UNTO YOU, BUT UNLESS YOU REPENT YOU SHALL ALL PERISH LIKE WISE ETC.   

 printer's device (not in McKerrow) of a tree with a serpent, a crucifix, a field of corn or wheat, and a figure below a banner with Greek lettering  
¶ Imprinted Anno Domini 1558.