❧ An humble supplication unto God/ for the restoring of his holy word/ unto the church of England/ most meet to be said in these our days/ even with tears of every true & faithful English heart. ❀ Esa. 59 ☞ Behold/ the lords hand is not so shortened/ that it can not help/ neither is his ear so stopped/ that it may not hear. (❀) ¶ Imprinted at Strasburgh in Elsas/ at the sign of the golden Bibell/ In the month of August. the year of our LORD. 1554. The supplication. O Most dear/ gentle, Gen. 1. Sap. 8. joan. 1. Psal. 95. Prou. 21. loving and merciful father/ maker/ ruler/ conserver/ and disposer of all things/ both in heaven & in earth/ without whose will/ ordinance and commandment nothing is done that is done/ in whose hands all the coasts of the earth and the hearts of princes and of all other thy human creatures are/ to be ruled/ ordered and bend/ as thy godly wisdom doth appoint/ from whom also/ as from a most righteous judge/ cometh prosperity and Eccles. 11. Deut. 28. Psal. 148 Amos. 8. Math. 9 adversity/ health and sickness/ wealth & s●asones/ peace and trouble/ blessings and plagues/ the gift of the holy word/ and the taking away of the same/ the sending of faithful workman into thy harvest/ & the displasinge of them again/ the apointement Eccle. 10. job. 34. of godly magistrates/ and setting up of hypocrites and tyrants for the punishment of the disobedient/ ungodly and stiff-necked people: We feel/ we feel/ yea/ we English men feel/ (O father of mercies/ and God 2. Cor. 1 of all consolation) so great a dongehis● of jere. 17. sin within us/ such vileness/ such corruption/ such unthankfulness/ and such disobedience against the and thy blessed will/ that except thou hadst given us a commandment to pray/ and also joined unto Prai●r. the same/ a faithful and loving promise that thou wilt hear us/ when soever we call on thee/ in the name of jesus Christ thy dearly beloved son ouxe Lord/ and our alone saviour/ we never durst so much/ as once too lift up our eyes unto thee/ and to approach unto the gracious and merciful throne of thy divine majesty/ for a redress of those evils/ wherewith at this present (alas for sorrow) we are miserably/ yet worthily plagued/ punished and tormented. But o heavenly father/ and our most benign and gentle Lord/ thou graciously considering both our vileness and weakness of conscience/ hast notwithstanding given us a commandment by thy servant ●auid not to fear/ but frankly too i'll unto thee/ as unto a most strong mighty and invincible bulwark/ by fervent prayer in all our troubles/ and hast also promised/ not for any works of righteousness that Titus. 3. we have done/ but for thine exceeding great and unspeakable mercy's sake/ to hear us and to satisfy our requests/ saying: Ca● on me in the day of thy trouble/ and I will Psal. 50. deliver thee/ and thou shalt honour me. Here have we poor wretches unto our great comfort/ both a commandment of the to pray/ & also a promise that thou wilt hear● us. And thy most dear and only begotten Math. 7. Luce. 11. son commandeth us not only to ask/ too seek/ and too knock/ but he also promiseth/ that whosoever will axe/ the same shall receive/ whosoever will seek/ the same shall find/ and to him that knocketh/ it shall be joan. 14. opened/ yea/ his promise is/ that whatsoever we axe of the in his name/ thou wilt give it us. We being encouraged/ and as it were underpropped with this thy gracious commandment to pray/ and loving promise too be heard/ be bold at this present/ in the name of Christ too come unto the merciful throne of thy godly majesty/ and before the same too poor ou● the sorrowful griefs of our most sorrowful hearts/ most humbly beseeching the for thy mercy's sake/ for thy promises sake/ for thy name's sake/ yea/ for thy dear Christ's sake/ that thou turning away thine eyes from our sins/ wilt behold thin holy anointed/ whom 1. Tim. 2. 1. joan. 2. Math. 17 Marc. 9 thou hast made our media ●or & advocate for whose sake thou hast openly declared even from the heavens/ that thou art well pleased with and for his dignity and worthiness graciously Luc. 9 2. Pet. 1. hear the lamentable petitions & humble requests of our bruised hearts/ and troubled consciences. Ah most dear father/ great are our miseries/ but greater are our sins/ grievous are our troubles/ but more grievous are the wickednesses/ which we most wretched sinners have committed against thy fatherly goodness/ intolerable are the plagues/ that be laid upon us/ but those thorough our unthankfulness and wicked lyninge (we freely confessed) have we most worthily deserved/ which have so oft deseru●d the very torments of hell fire/ alas wretches that we are/ and yet are we compelled even of necessity (for vain is the jere. 17. help that cometh from man/ yea/ cursed be he/ that putteth his trust in man/ & maketh flesh his arm) to i'll for succour unto thee/ whom we have so oft & so grievously offended/ whose righteousness notwithstanding in punis●hinge sinners when we behold/ we begin to despair and too cast away all hope/ but whann we behold thy mercy/ setforth in the precious blood of thy most dear son Christ jesus our Lord/ we take a good heart unto us/ and setting before our eyes thy most loving/ sweet and fatherly promises/ in hearing us for Christ's sake/ we are encouraged to believe/ that although our sins be never so great and grievous/ never so abominable and intolerable/ & we were never so wicked and filthy sinners/ yet for thy mercy's sake/ for thy promise sake/ for thy name's sake/ yea/ for thy dear Christ's sake thou wilt mercifully hear us/ and grant us our earnest requests/ yea/ and that so much the more/ because the matter is not only ours/ but thine also/ again/ saying we come not unto the to desire long life/ gold and riches with the wicked wordlynges/ nor yet to crave at thy hand wealth & pleasure/ bishoprics and benefices/ Deaneries/ prebends and such other worldly promotions with the swinish and beastly Epicures/ whose God their belly is/ but our Phil. 3. The Christian man's desire. humble supplication/ our earnest request/ our hearty desire is/ only that thou wilt consider thine own glory/ the hallowing of thy blessed name/ the avauncement off thy glorious kingdom/ the accomplishment of thy heavenvly will/ the honour of thy only begotten son/ the settingforth of his holy Gospel/ the pureness of the Christian religion/ the sincere preaching of thy lively word/ the true administration of thy wholesome sacraments/ & the salvation of such as thy dearly beloved son hath bought from the tyranny of sathan/ with the price of his most precious and dear heart blood. These things/ these things (o heavenly father) do we poor wretches crave and beg at thy merciful hand. These things/ these things▪ even with sorrowful groanings & lamentable tears do we miserable captives desire the to consider/ and not so to suffer thine adversaries to triumph/ as though there were no God at all/ no Christ/ no gospel/ no faith/ no true religion/ but whatsoever pleaseth the hypocrites to command thy people to believe. Thou callest thyself a jealous God/ why then dost thou Exod. 20 suffer thy people/ thy congregation/ thy flock/ thine heritage/ to be thus seduced & led away from the unto all kind of spiritual fornication/ and abominable whoredom by that antichrist of Rome/ ●hat great Baal/ that stout Nembroth/ that Pestilences of the Christian common wealte. falls prophet/ that beast/ that whore of Babylon/ that son of perdition/ and by his abominable adherentes/ cardinals/ Archebischoppes'/ Bischoppes'/ suffragans/ archdeacon's/ Deans/ provosts/ Prebendaries/ Commissaries/ Parsonnes/ vicars/ Purgatorierakers/ priests/ Monks/ friars/ canons/ nuns/ Anckers'/ Anckresses/ Pardonners/ Proctor's/ Scribes/ officials/ sumners/ layers/ massmongers / Can●nistes/Papis●es Papis●es/Antichr●stes/ Mammonistes/ Epicures/ Libertines/ With all the table of beas●lye hypocrites that have received the beasts mar●/ which do not hang else than seek/ how they may establish their Antichristian kingdom/ by suppressing thy holy word/ and leading thy people into all kind of blindness/ errors and lies? Thou callest thyself a Lord/ and thou sayest/ that thou wilt give thy glory to none other/ nor thy praise unto graven Images/ how cometh it than to pass/ that thou sufferest thy glory so too decay in the realm of England/ so many to steal away thy praise and honour/ by saying their idolatrous and devilish masses/ by Ab●omina●●lons. ministering a sort of Heythenish and jewish ceremonies/ by praying unto ●ead saints/ by blotting out of the temples/ thy holy law there written/ according to thy commandment/ for the edifying of thy people/ and by setting up in the stead thereof Idols and mammets/ clea●e contrary Deut. 4. Heb. 12. to thy blessed word? Thou callest thyself a Lion & a consumingfyre/ & threatenes● utter destruction unto thin adversaries/ why suffereth thou than these Antichristes' thus to rise/ ro●e/ & rage's/ against the testament of thy most dear son/ to beat down thy truth/ to call thy holy law heresy/ to banish the preaching of the Gospel/ & the true ●se of the Sacraments/ & to seek the destruction of so many as unfeignedly love the and thy blessed word. Thou promiseste/ that so many as hate Psal. 129. Syo●/ that is to say/ thy faithful congregation/ shallbe confounded and brought to nought/ how cometh it than to pass/ that the wicked now flourish like the green olive tree/ living in all wealth/ pomp and pleasure/ and thy people/ whom thou hast sealed with thy holy spirit unto everlasting life/ are most miserably entreated/ some bannis●●ed/ some in prison/ some cruelly murdered/ but all in most sorrowful miseries/ and miserable sorrows? Thou promises●e/ that thou wilt deliver Ezec. 34. thy flock from the hand of the wicked shepherds/ and that thou thyself wilt feed them in most pleasant and sweet/ pastures: ah good God/ how cometh it than to pass/ that where as before thy sheep were fed with the comfortable meat of thy glorious gospel/ by the ministery of the godly learned preachers/ the faithful shepherds are driven away/ and a rabble of ravening Acto. 20 wolves are brass into the sheepfold/ which spare not the flock/ but cruelly murder/ not only their bodies by ●mpr●sonning hanging/ heading and brenning them/ but their soulc● also by teaching them wicked and pestilent doctrine? Thy most dear son/ both promised & prophesied/ that every plant/ which thou the heavenly father haste not planted/ ●hal be plucked up by the roots/ but we see it otherwise Math. 15. come to pass in the realm of England. For such plants/ as the devil and his chaplains had planted/ were thorough the diligence and godly zeal of thy servants king Henry the eight/ and king Edward the sixth/ most blessedly plucked up/ and thy holy ordinances again planted unto the great joy and unspeakable comfort of all the faithful. But now/ thorough the tyranny and blind zeal of certain/ be thy blessed statutes plucked up by the roots/ and set in again/ are the damnable decrees/ and crocked constitutions of antichrist/ unto the exceeding great grief/ sorrow and pensiveness of all faithful Christians. Ah Lord God/ seem these things matters of seal importans/ before the eyes of thy diu●ne majesty? Can these outrageous things be done in earth/ & thou wink at them in heaven? Art not thou he/ that keepeth Israel? Psal. 121. Esa. 59 But he neither sleepeth nor slombreth/ sayeth the psalmograph/ that keepeth Israel. Arise therefore/ o Lord/ why sleepest thou? Is thy ear so stopped/ that thou canst no more hear? And is thy hand so shortened/ that it can no more help? O Lord/ arise for thy mercy's sake/ & help us. Haste the to deliver us for thy name sake/ for great are our troubles/ & intolerable are our miseries. Ah Lord/ vouchsafe once again to look dounefrom heaven/ & consider the lamentable state of the realm off England/ & of the godly inhabitants thereof/ which desire nothing so greatly/ as to see thy true honour perfectly setforth/ thy holy word truly preached/ the Christian religion highly aua●nced/ and thy holy name sanctified/ praised/ magnified & commended for ever. Ah Lord God/ heretofore in the time of King Henry the ●yght●. thy blessing/ thou gavest to the realm off England a man to reign over it/ under whom the church was purged of many enormities & great abuses/ & the true religion began to have good success. And when it was thy godly pleasure too call him from this vale of misery/ unto thy heavenvly kingdom/ thou gavest unto us his son to be King Edward the sixth. our King/ a Prince/ although young in years/ & tender in age/ yet auncieut in the knowledge of thee/ of thy son Christ/ & of thy holy word/ & as another josias/ altogether bend utterly to wedeout all false religion/ superstition/ hypocrisy/ papistry/ etc. & after a most perfect manner/ to set up thy holy religion/ & to advance the har●y favourers of the same/ unto the great & wondered example of all Christian princes. But alas for sorrow/ this most goodly & godly Imp/ this most Christian king/ this noble young josias was for our unthankfulness & wicked living taken away from us/ before the time unto our great sorrow & unspeakable hearts disease. Whose death was the beginning/ & is now still the continuance of all our sorrows/ griefs & miseries. For in the stead of that virtuous prince/ thou hast set to rule over us an woman/ whom nature hath form 1. Tim. 2. to be in subjection unto man/ & whom thou by thine holy Apostle commandest to keep silence/ & not to speak in the congregation. Ah Lord/ to take away the empire from a man/ & to give it unto a woman/ seemeth to be an evident token of thine anger toward us Englishmen. Esa. ●. For by the Prophet●/ thou being displeased with thy people/ threatenest to set women to rule over them/ as people unworthy to have lawful/ natural & meet governors to reign over them. And verily though we find/ that women sometime bare rule among thy people/ yet do we read/ that such as ruled & were queens/ were for the most part wicked/ ungodly/ superstitious/ & given to idolatry/ & to all filthy abomination/ as we may see in the histories of queen jesabel/ 3. Reg. 19 4. Reg. 11 queen Athalla/ queen Herodias/ & such like. Ah Lord God/ we dare not take upon us Math. 14 to judge any creature/ for unto the alone are the secrets of all hearts known/ but of this are we sure/ that since she ruled/ whither of her own disposicton/ or of the provocation of a certain wild bore/ successor Psal. 80. Acto. 23. too Ananias that whygh●ie daubed waulle/ we know not/ thy vinyeard is utterly rooted up and laid waste/ thy true religion is banished/ and popish superstition The clo●e of papistes, too deceive the simple. hath prevailed/ yea/ & that under the colour of the catholic church/ and the old ancient faith/ when notwithstanding darkness is not more contrary to light/ nor cold unto heat/ than their procedings are contrary to the truth of thy holy word if the practice and doctrine of the true catholic church/ (we speak of the patriarchs and Prophets/ of Christ and his Apostles/ and of so many godly people/ as lived from Adam unto the time that Antichrist/ the bishop of Rome set up his kingdom 2 Thes. 2. / and advanced himself above all that is called God) might be the judge/ & go for payment. For besides the giving of the kingdom/ unto the rule of a woman/ O Lord/ we mos●e humbly beseech thee/ to consider that outrageous floods of most grievous enormities/ have burst in and overflowed the realm of England/ unto the utter subversion of the same/ except thy merciful goodness do the shortly help. Ah Lord God/ heretofore under the rule Psal. 50 Rom. 10. of that most Christian king Edward the mixed/ we were ●aught according to thy word to i'll with our prayers unto the alone/ in all our troubles and necessities/ as a Lord plentefully rich for so many as call on the. God alone is to be called on. But now the Antichristiane Preachers teach/ that we must also pray to creatures that are dead/ that they may pray for us/ or else we pray unto the in vain/ and our prayers shall never be heard. Heretofore we were taught/ that Christ 1. Tim. 2. 1. joan. 8. Roma. 2. Christalene is our mediator, advocate and intercessor God and man is our alone mediator/ advocate and intercessore. But now the priests of Baal teach/ that Marry/ james Peter/ John/ Paul/ Andrew/ & we know not who/ are also our mediators/ advocates and Intercessoures'/ and that we must call upon them in our troubles and adversities/ when soever we will have to do with thee/ namely if we will have our matter go forward. Heretofore we were taught/ that the 1. joan. 1. Apoc. 1. Christ's blood is the alo●e Purgatory off the faithful. precious blood of our saviour Christ is the alone and sufficient Purgatory for the sins of all them that repent & believe. But now the papists teach/ that there is a purging place after this life/ where the souls of the faithful shallbe miserably tormented with fiery f●ames/ till either they themselves have made satisfaction for all their sins/ by suffering dew punishment or else other in this world have made amends for them/ by praying/ by singing of trens tales/ by going on pilgrimage/ by dealeng money/ by ●yenge the pepes' pardons for their redemption/ and such like/ when the holy scripture contrariwise teacheth/ that Sap. 3. Apoc. 14 the faithful so soon as they depart from this life/ go straightways unto glory/ ●he unfaithful unto everlasting pain & damnation/ as we may see in the history of the rich glutton/ and of the poor man Lazarus. Luc. 16 Heretofore we were taught/ that Christ Christis one and alone sacrifice sufficith forever and ever. Esa. 53. Heb. 7. 9 10. 1. Pet. 2. Apoc. 1. thy son and our alone Saviour/ made upon the aultare of the cross/ when he suffered and died for us/ so sufficient/ perfect/ absolute and consummate oblation/ and sacrifice for the sins of the people/ that by that one/ and alone sacrifice/ grace/ favour/ mercy/ forgiveness of sins & everlasting life/ is for ever and ever plentifully obtained of thee/ for so many as repent & believe. But now a days/ those Baalite massmongers are not ashamed to reprove that sweet smelling sacrifice of Christ/ and too say/ that it is not so perfect/ but that they also must offer Christ up again daily in their masses for the sins of the people/ & that their oblation is a propitiatory sacrifice/ and of no les virtue/ strength/ efficacy might and power/ than the passion & death of Christ/ than the sacrifice/ which Christ himself offered on the altar of the cross. Our missal sacrifice/ say the massing papists/ is propitiatory/ satisfactory/ expiatory/ and necessary. Ad salutem, both for the quick and for the dead. The people sin daily/ therefore must we offer sacrifice for the sins of the people daily in our masses. O Antichristes'. What other thing is this/ o heavenly father/ than to defy the death of thy son/ to despise his most healthful sacrifice/ to set at nought his wholesome oblation/ too tread underfoot the blood of the everlasting Heb. 10. Testament/ and utterly too deface both the kingdom & priesthood of Christ/ and to erect/ and set up a new kingdom and priesthood of their own/ a new sacrifice/ and a strange oblation/ invented of the devil/ brought in by antichrist/ confirmed Apoc. 13. Apoc. 21. by such as have received the beasts mark/ and frequented/ used and sought of all/ that have their portion in that lake that burneth with fire and brimstone/ except they repent and amend? Is not Christ an everlasting priest? Psal. 110. Heb. 7. Heb. 10 Doth not his priesthood continue from generation to generation? Hath he not with one oblation made perfect for ever/ them that are sanctify? Are we not made holy by the offering up of the body of jesus done once for all? 〈◊〉 not Christ/ after he had offered one sacrifice for sins/ sit him down for ever/ on the right hand of God/ and from henceforth tarrieth till his foes be made his footstool? Is not jesus Christ yesterday and to day/ and the same continueth forever? Heb. 13. What have we than to do with the sacrificing massemō●ers or with their missal sacrifice? O heavenly father/ suffer us not to be carried about with divers and strange learning. Moreover/ heretofore we were caught Altars no●●ollerable among Christians. to beat down the Idolatrous & Heathenish altars/ which Antichrist of Rome intending to set up a new priesthood & a strange sacrifice forsynne/ commanded to be built up/ as though calves/ goats/ sheep & such other brute beasts should be offered again after the priesthood of Aaron/ for the sins of the people/ and to set in their stead Christ, his Apostles & the prima●iue church used tables at the ministration off the holy communion. in some convenient place a seemly table/ & after the examples of Christ/ to receive together at it the holy mysteries of Christe● body & blood/ in remembrance that Christ's body was broken/ & his blood shed for our sins. But now the sacrificing sorcerers shame not both in their private talk/ & in their open sermons spitely to call the lords table an Oysterborde/ & therefore have they taken out of the temples those seemly tables/ which we following the examples of thy dearly beloved son/ and of the primative church used at the ministration of the holy communion/ & they have brought in again their bloody & bocherly altars/ & upon those O cruel butcher's. they sacrifice & offer daily/ say they/ that is/ they kyl/ slay & murderthy dear son Christ for the sins of the people. For as thy holy apostle sayeth: Heb. 9 Where no shedding of blood is/ there is no remission & forgiveness of sins. If thorough their massing sins be forgiven/ than must the sacrifice that there is offered be swayn/ & the blood thereof shed. If the massmongers therefore offer Christ up in their masses/ a sacrifice unto God for O murderers. the sins of the people/ so followeth it that they murder/ kyl/ & ●lea Christ/ yea/ & shed his blood at their masses/ & so by this means we must needs confess/ that bloody altars are more meet for such bloody bochers/ than honest & pure tables. Rom. 6 But we are taught in the holy schriptures/ that Christ once raised from death/ dieth no more. Death hath no more power over him. For as touching that he died/ he died concerning sin once. And as touching that he liveth/ he liveth unto the god his father. If Christ therefore dieth no more/ than do the papists sacrifice him no more. Idolatrous If they sacrifice him no more then are they ●ut jangling iuglars/ & their masses serve for none other purpose/ but to keep the people i● blindness/ to deface the pas●on and death of Christ/ and to maintain their idle and drafsacked bellies/ in all pomp and honour/ with the labour of ●ther men's hands/ and with the sweat off poor men's brows/ so far is it of that/ they with their abominable massing and stinking sacrificing/ put away the sins either of the quick or of the dead/ as they make the unlearned and simple people to believe. Masses why they serve. Ah Lord God and heavenly father/ if thou were not a God of long suffering and of great patience/ how couldst thou abid these intolerable injuries/ & to much detestable blasphemies/ which the wicked papists commit against the & thy son Christ/ in their idolatrous masses/ at their Heathenish altars? Heretofore we were taught to receive the misreries of the lords body & blood together/ according too the ordinance of Christ. The faithful ought too receive the Sacrament together, & not the priest alo●e. But now no communion is had/ For the popish and uncharitable massmonger/ utterly abusing the lords supper/ eateth and drinketh up all alone at his idolatrous aultare. Heretofore we were taught to receive the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ under both kinds/ according unto Christ's institution/ which sayeth: Drink of this all ye. The faithful ought to receive the Sacrament under both ●yndes. And as the holy apostle saith: So oft as ye shall eat of this bread/ and drink of this cup/ ye shall remember the lords death till he come. Math. 26 1. Cor. 11. joan. 15. But now the Romish sorcerers/ contrary to the ordinance and commandment of thy son/ the master of truth/ yea/ themself truth/ and contrary to the practice & usage of the primative church/ like thieves/ robbers & murderers/ cruelly take away from thy people the mystical cup of Christ's blood/ for the maintenance of their devilish decree/ and minister after their sort the Sacrament of thanksgiving to thy Christians only under one kind/ yea/ and that without the preaching of the lords death/ repentance/ faith/ amendment of life/ etc. and so make they it an idle and dumb ceremony altogether vuprofitable and without fruit/ which being rightly ministered/ is to the faithful a Sacrament of great joy and comfort. Heretofore we were taught/ that the lords supper/ or breaking of the bread/ as The lords supper is a memorial of Christ's death. the Apostles term it/ is a memorial of the body breaking & blood shedding of our saviour Christ/ & that as we outwardly feed of the bread & wine/ so we inwardly thorough faith feed of the blessed body & precious blood of jesus Christ our Lord/ unto the great and unspeakable comfort both of soul and body. But now the disciples of Antichrist knowing that the whole glory of their kingdom lieth in the sals opinion & abuse of this Sacrament/ in all their sermons & private talk/ labour/ swink/ sweat and seek all means possible with tooth and nail/ with hand & foot/ with tongue and pen/ with fire and faggot/ with sword and halter to persuade the people/ that after they have whyspered a few Latin words/ with one breath over the bread and wine/ and have blessed/ crossed/ conjured and handled them after their ghostly manner/ there remaineth no more breadde and wine/ although we bothese/ feel/ and taste ve●y bread and very wine/ yea/ & although the holy scripture/ after the words of consecration/ called the Sacrament/ bread and wine/ but say they/ the bread thorough the virtue of the words/ which we holy anointed rehearse/ is turned into the natural substance of Christ's body/ and the wine is changed into the natural blood O ●uglers. of Christ/ only the accidents of bread and wine remaining/ when notwithstanding the holy scriptures teach us in divers places/ that thy Christ is ascended into heaven/ and sitteth on thy right hand/ & there shall remain/ concer●ing his humanity/ till he come too judge the quick and the dead. Marc. 16. Luc. 24 Act. 1. Rom. 8. Ephe. 4. Colos. 3. Philip. 3. Heb. 10. And after these Capernaites have ●●bored to persuade the people/ that the Sacramental bread is the very true/ natural/ corporal/ substantial/ real/ and sensible body of Christ/ even the self-same that was borne of Mary the virgin/ lived upon the earth/ was hanged upon the cross/ & died for us/ than exhort they the people with all reverence and humility to knowledge and believe it too be their Lord God/ their maker and redeemer/ their Saviour and defender/ and so too fall down before it to honour and worship it/ to praise & call upon it/ to i'll unto it for succour/ and to look for all good things of it/ as of the very true and everlasting God. O abhom● nation. By these means (o heavenly father) they bring away thy people thorough they● vain/ fleshly and sophistical reasons/ from the honoringe of the thalone true/ Imortal/ muisible & everlasting God/ unto the worshippig of a piece of b●cad/ yea/ of a very idol/ where as thou alone oughtest to have all the honour & glory. 1. Timo. 1 Psal. 98. O Lord arise/ and let thine enemies be scattered/ let them also that hate thee/ flee before thee/ like a● the smoke vanisheth/ so drive thou them away/ & like as wax melteth at the fire/ so let the vugodly papists perish and be confounded that thy people be no le●ger seduced/ & led from the way of truth/ by their subtle and carnal imaginations/ but that they being truly taught/ may know the too be the alone true God/ and whom thou hast sent jesus Christ. joan. 17. Heretofore we had in the temples when we came together to pray and to give thanks unto thee/ all our prayers & thankees giving in the tongue that we v●derstode/ whereby we received great comfort/ & were much edified. Common craier ought to be in that ●●ge that all the people understand. But now the papists (which with thy people to be more rude than asses/ more biind than be●les/ more ignorant than dastards/ that they might make them there riding fools and laugging stocks) contrary too the usage and practice of the primative Church/ yea/ contrary to thy commandment given by thine Apostle/ which willeth all things in the congregation too be uttered in such a speech as all might understand and be edified/ or else silence to be kept/ have brought the matter to this po●t/ that all English service driven out of the Churches/ they have established their popish 1. Cor. 4. latin service/ which the most part of thy people understand nothing at all. O 〈◊〉. A●d yet so cruel & malicious are the papists/ that they enforce and with violence compel thy people to come unto their Romish/ superstitious/ blasphemous/ and idolatrous Latin service/ to hear it/ to reverence & honour it with their presence/ and too call it God's service/ when they understand no●/ whither Baal's priests that there bleat & mumble/ do bless or curse/ praise or blaspheme. Most certain is this/ that thy people are altogether without edifying/ spend their time in vain/ & return hom again/ as unlearned & ignorant/ as they came thither. Heretofore we had red in our temples every sunday/ and at divers other times a godly and learned homely or sermon/ and certain chapters out of the holy Bible in the English tongue/ that all the people might understand what was done or said/ which gave them occasion to forsake ●ice/ and to embrace virtue/ to live in thy fair/ and diligently to call upon thy blessed name. Homilies in English & chapter● of the Bible But now both those godly homiles and comfortable chapters have thine enemies the papists banished out of the temples unto the great discomfort of all such as unfeignedly ●oue thee/ and thy blessed word/ & in the stead of them/ they have set up blasphemous collacions/ singing/ ringing/ piping/ sensing/ holy water casting/ holy bread ●ealing/ palms and candles bearing/ cross kneeling/ bread worshipping/ ashes ●odding fire and rapers hallowing/ with an infinite number of such like Heathen ceremonies/ that the people being occupied with such childish trifles/ lousy traditious and beggarly Popish baggage. ceremonies/ might forget the wholesome food of their soul's/ which is thy holy and blessed word. Math. 4. Heretofore/ upon the Sundays & certain other days in the week/ we had the tyranny rehearsed among us in our Engly●hetūg/ every one of us kneeling devoutly and 〈◊〉 calling on the for mercy and grace. The Letan●●●n Englissh●. O heavenvly father/ this was setforth in the time of thy servant king Henry the eyghte/ and continued among us/ until the death of that most godly and virtuous prince ●ynge Edward the sixth/ and a little after unto the singular ●o●e and great comfort of all godly and christian hearted people. But now the subtle and fleshly pap●stes have so bewyiched the queens eyes/ that whatsoever her father and her brother/ most godly brought too pass for the a●auncement of thy glory/ & for the edifying of thy people/ that is utterly subverted & taken for heresy/ yea/ and spitefully preached against in open sermons/ so that this godly & most wholesome tyranny is not only taken away from us/ but in the stead thereof we are compelled to go on precession/ following an Idol/ with synginge Ora pro nobis, Salue festa dies, or some other blasphemous song unto the great sorrow and inward heart/ breaking of all thy faithful. Heretofore/ thy Sacraments were so ministered unto us/ that we received great comfort by them. Sacrament● trulystred. But now they are so ministered of this swyny●he spiritual forcerers/ that they are become dumb and idle ceremonies altogether without edyfyeng or profit. For besides that they are ministered in an unknowentunge/ how be they defiled with men's traditions/ & beggarly ceremonies? unto the Sacrament of Baptism/ they put Heatenish rites and wicked conjurations. The Sacrament of Baptism. For Baal's priest/ before the child can be baptized/ bewytcheth the water/ shutteth the church door/ coniureth the devil out of the poor young Infaunt/ bespueth the child with his vile spittle and stinking slaveringe/ putteth salt in them child's mouth/ smereth it with greasy & ●●sauer oil/ etc. And without these apy●h toys/ they make the people believe/ that the baptism is nothing worth. Ah good is this any other thing than a play●e laughing to scorn of thy dear sons institution? Do these papists/ by adding their beggarly ceremonies any other thing/ than set thy son Christ to school/ and advance their own fleshly imaginations above the wisdom of the Lord Christ? The Sacrament also of thy dear sons body & blood/ how have the adversaries prophanated and defiled? The Sacrament of Christ's bodij & b●●●de. thy son both before and after the ministration of the Sacrament preached unto his disciples. The papists preach nothing at all. Thy son spoke the words of the institution openly in that tongue/ that all the disciples understood. The papists utter all things in a strange language/ yea/ and that so softly that they scace hear themselves. A comparison between Christ & the papists, in the ministration of the Sacrament. Thy son ministered the Sacraments without putting on of any disguised apparel. The papists deck themselves like hycke scorner in game players garments. Thy son ministered the Sacrament/ sitting at the table with his disciples. The papists stand at the aultare/ and give the bread and wine to the people kneeling. Thy son gave the Sacramental bread to the disciples in their hands/ saying: Take/ eat. The papists thrust the bread into the people mouths/ as ●hough they had not so much wit as to feed themselves. Thy son ministered the Sacrament of his body and blood under both kinds to his disciples. The papists do minister it to the lay people only under one kind/ and like thieves steal the other aways from them/ and reserve it to themselves alone. Thy son broke the Sacramental bread. The papists use no breaking of the bread/ as Christ and his Apostles and all the primative church did for to declare the misserie of Christ's body/ breaking on the aultare of the cross for our redemption/ but they put into the people's mouths a little light whyghte waffer cake/ speaking to them a few words in Latin/ which they understand not. Thy son did appoint the Sacramental bread to be broken and eaten. The papists keep it whole/ and hang it up in the pyx/ yea/ and carry it about for a pageant in their idolatrous/ popish/ pompous processions. Thy son instituted the Sacrament to be a memortall of his body breaking and blood shedding. The papists teach/ that the bread and wine is turned into the natural body and blood of Christ God and man/ even the self-same body that was borne of mary the virgin/ flesh/ blood/ and bone/ so that there remayveth neither bread nor wine/ although the holy scripture affirmeth plainly/ that this is both bread Bread and wine remain in the Sacraments after the words off consecration & wine remaining/ the doctors of the Christian primative church testefyed the same in their writings/ the Greek church/ even from the Apostles time unto this day have so received & believed/ utterly devieng the popish art●kle of trāssubstātiaci●/ reason also & all the senses of man testefye that there remain both bread and wine/ after the words of consecration/ as they use to term them/ yea/ and experience teacheth/ that if the Sacramental bread be long reserved/ it will corrupt/ putrefy mould/ stink/ and bredefull of worms/ and the wine likewise/ will change the colour and wax sour. Tra●ssubstantiacion. O heavenly father/ such corruption can not chance too thy d●●e sons body & blood/ which is uncorruptible & ●mortal/ sitteth on thy right-hand/ & reigneth with the in glory for ever & ever. This Antichristian doctrine/ o blessed Lord/ was not known in thy holy Church/ v●tyll pope Nicholas/ pope Innocent/ pope Urban/ Friar Thomas/ and such other ministers of Satan/ partly with their tyranny/ and partly with their sophistry/ as their apysshe adherentes do now again in this our days/ brought it in/ and compelled the Christians with fire and sword/ to believe this their monstrous opinion/ for the maintenance of their belly kingdom/ although it be never so much contrary too the artikles of our faith/ and too the doctrine of the holy scripture/ and of all the ancient writers. Thy son at his supper/ willed the Sacramental bread and wine too be eaten and drunken for a remembrance off that one/ and alone sacrifice/ which he offered on the altar of the cross/ for the sins of the people. The papists in their ido latrous and abominable masses make of the Sacrament a propitiatory/ expiatory and satisfactory sacrifice for the sins off the people/ necessary Ad salutem, affirming that their act in the mass is of equal price/ dignity/ virtue/ might/ efficacy and power before the eyes of thy divine majesty with the most healthful and sweet smelling sacrifice/ that thy son offered on the altar of the cross/ when he gave him self unto the death for the sins of the people. O intolle●ble blasphemy. Thy son ordained the Sacrament too be a sign and token of ●ou●/ when the godly come together to eat all of one bread● & to drink● all of one cup. The papists make it 〈◊〉 Sacrament of dissension/ discord and debate. For if any will not agree too their fles●helye/ wicked and dettely●●he ●pynyon/ confessing their error off transubstantiation/ and affyrming● that the bread and wine is the very natural body and blood of Christ God and man/ and therefore ought too be aneled unto/ worshipped/ honoured/ and called upon as the only true/ living and immortal God/ they fall out with them/ they call them heretics/ they persecute them/ they apprehend them/ they empresonne & burn them without mercy? And as the wicked papists prophanate and unhallow these two aforesaid holy Sacraments/ so do they like filthy swine defile all other mysteries/ that thy son Chris●e hath ordained with reverence to be used in thy church. An Lord God and our heavenvly father/ therefore we were taught too worship the in spirit and truth/ and too pray unto the every where/ lyftinge up pure hands without wrath or doubting. joan. 4. 1. Tim. 2. But now the papists teach us to pray unto the and unto all the company of heaven with boing and bleatinge in the choir/ with playing on the organs/ with saying ladies psalters on beads/ with mumbling over certain prayers/ in the tongue that we understand not. Pra●●r. Heretofore we were taught/ that thou alone forgivest us all our syn●es/ when sooner we earnestly repent/ and vnfay●edly turn unto thee, God alone forgiveth sin. But now the papists teach/ that they also have power too forgive sins/ and that our sins can not be forgiven/ except we confess them unto the priest with all circumstances. Esa. 43. Marc. 2. Luc. 5. Heretofore we were taught to look for all salvation of the thorough faith in the blood of Christ. Faith only justified. But now the papists teach us to look for salvation in our own good works/ in the intercession of saints/ in prayers and merits of sinful hypocrites and beastly belligoddes/ in ceremonies/ in will works/ in traditious of men/ in holy bread/ holy water/ holy candles/ holy palms/ holy ashes/ latin service/ idolatrous masses/ superstitious Diriges/ trifling trentals/ popish fastings/ bells/ beads/ etc. Abominations. Heretofore we were taught to cast out of our temples the Idols and mammets wherewith many committed spiritual whoredom and ran an whoring/ and to garnish the church with the holy scriptures/ that the people might learn to know & to fear the. Images not tolerable in the temples of the Christians. But now the ungodly papists have brought the matter to this point/ that the sentences of thy blessed law are blotted/ & utterly wiped out of the temples/ & Idols are there placed manifestly and directly/ against thy blessed commandment/ which thy enemies call lay men's Calendars Exod. 20 levit. 19 Deut. 5. 7. 12. or books/ as though o Lord God/ the people might sooner be brought unto the knowledge of thee/ by looking on deformed stocks & stones/ than by reading thy holy & blessed word. joan. 5 Thy son & our saviour Christ commandeth us to search the scriptures/ and not to behold Idols and mammets. joan. 8. He that is of god/ saith he/ heareth the word of god. He sayeth not/ he that is of god runeth unto Images/ & seeth what goodness he can pick out of them. Again he sayeth: My sheep hear my voice. joan. 10 He sayeth not my sheep hath a delight and pleasure too behold vain Idols and mahounde like mammets. Psal. 119. Thy servant David calleth them blessed/ that search thy testimonies and have a pleasure too study in thy law day and night. Psalm. 1. For thy holy word is only the book/ wherein thy people ought to look/ and not dumb Images & carved Idols/ which are cursed of the in thy holy law/ yea & the makers of them also. Deut. 27 Ah Lord God/ they that have this procured/ that thy holy word should be wiped and blotted out of the churches/ is it not to be thought/ that their names are blotted and wyped● out of the ●oke of life also● Yea/ is it not too be thought that such Antichristes' would gladly have both thee/ & thy holy word/ yea/ & thy blessed name so blotted & wiped out of all men's hearts/ that thou mightest never be The holy scriptures wiped out of the temples, & idols placed. remembered more/ but that they and their develice decrees might alone reign/ rule/ ruffle and triumph/ making all men even from the highest to the lowest their miserable captives & wretched bond slaves: It may right well be said unto them/ as our saviour Christ said unto the wicked & stiffnecked jews: He that is of God/ heareth the word of God. joan. 8. joan. 10. Ye therefore hear it not/ because ye are not of God. Again/ ye believe not/ because ye are not of my sheep. jere. 3. Ah Lord these children of Bel●all have forsaken the thalone fountain of lively water/ & they have digged to them selfs puddels/ yea/ dyle & dyrtie puddels/ that are able too hold no water. They are such people/ as continually provoke the unto anger. Esa. 30. They are lying children/ yea/ such children/ as will not hear the law of God. They say to the preachers/ look out of the scriptures no good lessons for us. And to the godly learned they say/ tell not us those things that are right/ neither rebuke our wickedness & Idolatry/ but speak unto us pleasant things/ & such as we delight too hear. Tell not us of gods anger/ justice & judgement against the stiff-necked idolaters/ but preach unto us falls things/ fables/ lies/ errors/ saicts lives out of the golden legend/ narrations out of the festival/ example's out of Vi●as patrum, The doctrine of the papists. authorities out of sermons Dormi mens traditions/ laudable ceremonies/ commendable custom's/ holy rites/ ancient usages/ good ente●tes/ justification of works/ transubstantiation/ the corporal presence of Christ/ in the Sacrament of the aultare/ under the accidents of bread/ etc. The propitiatory sacrifice of the mass/ the receiving of the Sacrament under one kind/ contrary to Christ's institution/ auricular confession/ etc. Tread out of the way/ go out of the path/ away with the holy one of Israel from us. We are weary of him. It grieveth us to remember him. We can neither abide his word truly preached/ nor yet his laws written in our churches. Out with the scriptures/ & in with the Idols and mammets. Psal. 79. O Lord God/ are not these the Heathen/ that have burst into thine heritage/ that have defiled thy holy temple/ and made jerusalem an heap of stones? have mercy on us/ o Lord/ have mercy on us. Heretofore, The confirmation of children. we were taught so to bring up our children in the principles of Christian religion/ that when they should come to be confirmed of the bishop/ they might be able to say the articles of the faith/ the lords prayer/ and the ten commandments/ and to answer to such questions/ as are contained in that short Catechism/ which was appointed to be learned of every child/ before he were brought to be confirmed. But now the papists say to such as are witnesses of the child's baptism: Ye are bound by the order of our mother the holy church to see/ that this child be confirmed so soon as is possible/ or assoon as ye hear that the bishop cometh within seven miles of this town/ without any further delay. Of the things contained in the godly Catechism/ for the right institution of the child/ they make no mention. And what is the confirmation of the children/ that is used at this present/ but plain source rye/ develerye/ witchcraft/ juggling/ leger demayne/ and all that nought is? The Bishop mumbleth a few latin words over the child/ charmeth him/ crosseth him/ smeareth him with stinking popish oil/ and tieth a linen bond about the child's neck/ and sendeth him home. O Lord God/ what a confirmation of the child's faith is this? Yea/ rather what a delusion ann mocking is this of the godly ancient custom/ in confirming children? Heretofore/ we were taught too bring up our children in the knowledge of the & thy son Christ/ that even from the very cradles they might be instructed in thy holy mysteries/ & learn to fear thee/ to believe The Catechism both in Latin & in English. in thee/ to love thee/ to pray unto thee/ to be thankful unto thee/ & to frame their whole life according to thy blessed law●/ that they might serve the their lord god in holiness & righteousness all the days of their life. And for this purpose had we setforth a godly & learned catechism both in latin & in Englysse/ wherein our long ones were moste virtuously brought up unto the great joy of their parent's/ the singular comfort of all godly Christianes'/ & the wonderful increase both of thy glory & of all godliness & virtue. But now the wicked Papists/ which always deal extremely with the righteous and take away their labours Sap. 5. / have condemned that Christian Chatechisme as heresy/ & have procured certayu Catechism condemned for heresi. Articles from the Queen Antichristiane articles from the Queen/ wherein among to many other/ a straight commandment is gotten/ that children should so be brought up/ that they might learn to help the Priest say mass who mass is the very fonntayne and head spring off all indolatrye and spiritual whoredom. Ah lord God/ shy servannts both in the old and new testament brought up their children far other wise/ as the hestories examples of bringing up children. of Abraham/ Isaac/ Jacob/ Daniel/ Toby/ Mathathiae/ the Parents of Susanne & of Timothe/ Philippe the evangelist/ and such other do declare/ And thy holy commandment is not/ that Parents should bring up their children in learning to help and Ilatrous Priest to say his abominable & blasphemous mass/ but to know the their lord God/ to believe in thee/ to fear & love thee/ to callupon thy blessed name/ to bethanckefull unto thee/ and to fasson their life according to thy holy word & commandment. Heyrtofor we were taught/ that it is law Of the marage of Prii●tes. full for every mave/ be he bishop/ priest/ Deacon/ Monk/ Friar/ Chavon/ Here mite/ or any other/ that have not the gift of continency/ to take unto him a ffaythe full yoke fellow/ and with her to marry in thy fear/ and to possess his own vessel 1 Thes. 4 1 Cor. 7. Heb. 13. in holiness & honore/ as thine holy apostle saith/ to avoid fornication let every manhave his own wyffe/ & every woman her own husband. Again/ marriage is honourable among all mean and the bed undefiled. But whormongers and adulterers God shall judge. But now the wicked Papists those lecherous lubers/ those fill thy fornicators/ these abominable adulterer's/ those sryncking Sodemites/ those Papists. cankered corruptours of maids/ wyffs/ & widows/ those debylyshe despisers of all shamefastness/ chastity & honest/ those monstrous maintainers of all licentious living/ whoredom & deshoneste/ C. 4. and and those sinful synckes of all filthy & loathsome abominations have brought the godly and lawful marriage of ministers/ and their wives unto this point/ that it is now countend whoredom. The faithful husband's are taken for whoremongers/ and their honest wives for whores. The tiramnij of the cruel papists, in devorcinge priests and their wijues. Yea/ unto such an height is their furious madness and mad fury groune/ that they against all right and conscience/ against all truth and honesty/ do not only most wickedly divorce them/ but they also cruelly compel divers of the ministers/ which are faynteharted/ and where/ as it seemeth/ but tymelinges/ serving rather the time (as the manner of the worldlings is) than marrying in thy fear/ to do open penance before the people/ and to confess (o the to much corrupt manners of this sinful world) that their marriage was no marriage/ but plain whoredom. Repent ye wicked blasphmers of honourable marriage, & tabelour wijues again unto iou. And there those filthy dogs/ which are returned unto their vomit/ most wretchedly couch and kneel down before the people/ and desire them to forgive them/ and promise that they will nevermore come in their wife's company/ but from henceforth/ live like good and catholic men/ according to the order of their holy priesthood/ that is to say/ abstain from honourable wedlock/ & defile themselves with all kind of whoredom/ uncleanness and dishonesty. levit. 21. Eze. 44. Ah Lord God/ thou commandest thy priests in the old law/ not only too marry/ but thou also appointest them/ what wives they should marry/ which thing thou wouldest not have done/ if the marriage of priests had been so vile and detestable a thing in thy sight/ as the wicked & filthy papists make it. In the new law also the men/ whom thy well-beloved son did chose in this vale of misery to be his disciples and apostles/ to be the preachers of his glorious gospel/ and the administrators of his holy Sacraments/ were not fleshly votaries/ as the papists are/ but honest and godly married men/ living with their wives/ according to thy holy ordinance/ ud bringing up their children in thy fear/ and after the doctrine of thy blessed word. Neither did the apostles put away their wives/ after they were called unto the ministry/ as the dying papists for a colour of their sinful life do most falshly feign/ but they continued with their wives lovingly & faithfully/ till death departed them/ as we may see in ancient histories/ and as it may easily be gathered of the manifest words of the holy scripture. Have not we power/ saith the apostle/ to lead about a sister to wife/ 1. Cor. 9 as well as other apostles/ & as the brethren of the lord and Cephas? Ether only I and Barnabas have not pour this to do: Here is it evident/ that th'apostles of Criste did not only not put away their wives after the were called unto the ministerre/ as the false Papists fable but they also led their wifes about with them/ as they went abroad? preaching the gospel of christ. Eccl. hist. lib. 3. ca 30. Reed we not that S. peter continued with his wife until her dying day/ and that when she was led unto the place of execution to suffer death for confessing Christ to be God/ S. Peter her husband followed her/ exhorted her to be strong in the faith of Christ/ & said unto her: O wife/ remember the Lord? oh with whatforheade dursie Peter have exhorted men to dwell in house together 1. Pet. 3. with their wifes according to their knowledge/ if he contrary to his knowledge had put away his wyffe● with what face could th'apostle. Philip. 4 s. Paul have made mention of his wife/ calling her his faith full yoke fellow/ & desiring her to help the women/ which laboured with hime in the gospel/ if he being unfaithful had put away his wife contrary to his promise & the law of God? If th'apostles had put away their wifes after they were called unto the ministry and preaching of how durst Paul have been so bold/ as 1. Cor. 9 to wright unto the Corithians/ that they led their wifes about wihe theme? Yea/ if th'apostles had put away their wifes/ how could they have exhorted other men according to the law of God/ to forsake father & mother & to cleave unto Gen. 2. Mar. 19 Mat. 5. their wifes/ & no man to forsake his wife for any cause except it before fornication. This their for is but a shadow of the filthy Papists to blind the eyes of the simple and ignorant. Furthermore all the holy Bishops and ministers of the primative church were married mean/ or at the least were at liberty to marry/ if they would. Again/ the Priests among the Greeks even from thapostles time unto this day have ever been at liberty to marry/ neytheyr is their ministry theffror the les esteemed of the godly/ which are persuaded by the word of God/ that wedlock is honourable Hebr. 13. among all mean & the bed undefiled. The marriage of Priests was never for bidden in any place. till antichrist off Rome brought it to pass/ partly by the tyranny of the seculare power/ and partly by flattering words granting Priests concubines & whoresin stead off their lawful wifes/ whom for Turrian yearly pension they may at their pleasure etheyr keep still or put away/ & take anew. But o heavenly father/ as thy faithful servant Paul prophesied long before/ so is it come to pass. 1. Tim. 4 The spirit speaketh evidently/ sayeth he/ that in the latter days/ some shall depart from the faith/ & shall give heed unto spirits of error and due lish doctrine of them/ which speak falls Paul's prophecy fulfilled. thorough hypocrisy/ and have their consciences marked with an h●te iron/ forbidding to marry. This prophecy is fulfilled in that antichrist of Rome/ and in his whorish generation. For they alone forbidden marriage/ which thing neither Jew/ nor Turk nor any jufidel besides doth. Neither can the papists thyfte of this prophecy/ from them unto certain heretics/ which utterly condemned marriage. For the holy Apostle prophesieth of such as forbid marriage/ and not of them that utterly cast away & condemn marriage as a thing altogether unclean and unmeet for a Christian man. They therefore that forbidden the marriage of priests are by the judgement of the most worthy apostle/ yea/ of the holy Ghost/ departed from the saith/ and give heed too the spirits of error and devilish doctrine of them/ which speak false thorough hypocrisy/ and have their conscience marked with an hot iron/ be they Pope's/ cardinals/ bishops/ emperors/ Kings/ queens/ Duke's or any other. Swift damnation bring all such upon themselves/ except they shortly repent. Heretofore/ we had such shepherds/ Godlij Bishops and faithful preachers. as were tender fosters of thy flock. They cherished and made much of thy thepe. For such as were weak/ they tenderly cherished/ the sick they healed/ the broken they bound up together/ the outcasts & such as ran astray/ they lovingly brought home again/ the lost they diligently sought/ and restored them too the sheepfold. None of thy sheep did they willingly suffer to perish. Even as a nurse among her children/ so lived they among thy people. Not with the sour leaven of the Pharisees/ but with the heavenly Manna of thy blessed word did they feed thy flock. Neither did they give thy thepe drink of the stinking and dyrtie puddles of men's traditions/ but of the fountain of that living water/ which springeth unto everlasting life. But now the shepherds/ yea/ rather the wolves joan. 4. W●l●ish● shepherds. / which are burst into thy sheepfold/ & with violence have unjustly thrust out the faithful and fatherly pastors out of their tures/ are lordly/ cruel/ bloudthyrstye/ malicious and spiteful against thy sheep. They are such wolves as spare n●t the flock but scatter & destroy the flock. They are thieves/ robbers/ murtheras & soul slears. Act. 20. joan. 10. Ezec. 34. they feed themselves with the fattest & cloth themselves with the finest wool/ but thy flock thy nourish not the food/ wherewith they pasture thy sheep/ is the drowsyedreans and idle imaginations of antichrist. In steed of the peaching of thy lively word/ the fede thy stock with latin munblynges/ with dume Images with Hethnyshe ceremonies with deign sights/ and such other apysh toys. In stead of the ministration of the holy and blessed Communion the feed thy sheep with vile s●ynckyng/ abominable deulyshe/ blasphemus & Idolatryous Masses. And unto thes unwholesome and pestilent and poysomfull pastures the drive thy sheep/ will they nil they. & if any of thy floche refuse to come and taste of those their pestilent poisons & poison full pestilences/ him they accite to appear before that great wolf/ whose face is like unto the face of a she bear that is rob of her young ones/ whose eyes continually burn with the unquenchable flames of the deadly cockatrice/ whose teeth are like to the venomous tethes The description of a certain head wolf clad in a bishops rotchete. Psal. 9 of the ramping lion/ whose month is full of cursed speaking & bitterness/ whose tō● speakithe extreme blasphemes against the & thy holy annoited/ whose lips at full of deadly poisonne/ whose throat is an open sepulchre/ whose breath fomethe & bloweth out threatening & slauther against the disciples Psal. 5. Act. 9 of the Lord/ whose heart without ceasing imaginethe wickedness/ whose hands have a delight to be imbrued with the blood of the Saints/ whose feet are swift to shed blood/ whose whole man both body & soul go always up & down musing of myschyff. Psalm. 13. This wolf/ o Lord/ is so arrogant/ haughty and proud/ seeing the government of the whole Realm is committed unto him/ that he hath cast away all fear of the. He maketh bos●e off his own wit learning & policy. His ways are alway filthy/ thy judgements are Psal. 9 far out of his sight/ he defyethe all his enemies. For he saith in his heart: tush/ I shall never be cast down/ their shall no harm happen unto me. He sit the lurking like a lion in his den/ that he may prinely murder the innocent & suck his blood. When such/ o Lord God/ as will not obey their popish and devilish proce dyngs/ are brought before that grevous wolf/ they are miserably taunted/ mocked/ schorned blasphemed/ as thy dearly beloved son was in bishop Caiphas' house/ and Mat. 26. Mar. 14. Luc. 22. afterward cruelly committed to prison/ to the tower/ to the fleet/ to the marshalseas/ to the Kings bench/ to the Counters/ to Lollardes' tower/ to Newgate & tc. Where they are kept as sheep in a pynnefolde appointed to be slain. And as this cruel & bloody wolf dealeth with the poor lambs/ even so do the resedue of that let cherous litture. He with all other of that wolfythe kind/ hunger and thirst nothing so greatly/ as the devouring of the bodies/ and the sucking of the blood of thy poor and innocent lambs. Psal. 10. Ah Lord/ while the ungodly have the overhand/ the poor are most wretchedly handled. They are prays unto the wolves. Arise therefore/ o Lord God/ lift up thine hand/ and forget not the poor/ which giveth themself over into thy hand/ and committeth him unto thy defence. Break thou the arm of the ungodly and malicious/ search out the wickedness/ which he hath done/ that he may shortly perish from the land of the living. Suffer thy sheep no more to be thus miserably scattered/ rent/ torn and devoured of these mos●e cruel/ grievous/ and insatiable wolves. Remember this thy promise: Behold/ I myself will upon the shepherds Eze. 34. / and require my sheep from their hands/ and make them cease from feeding of my sheep/ yea/ the shepherds shall feed themselves no more. For I will deliver my sheep out of their mouths/ so that they shall not devour them after this/ etc. Behold/ I Behold I will look to my sheep myselff and seek them. Like as a sheppherde among the flock seakethe after the sheep that arescattered abroad. Even so will▪ I seek after my sheep and gathere them together out of all lands. I will bring theme into their own land/ and fede them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers/ and in all the places of the country. I will feed theme ●●righte good pasturs/ & upon the high mountains of Israel shall their folds be. There shall there l●e in a good fold and in a fat pasture shall they fede/ even upon the mountains of Israel. I will seed my shep myself & bring them to their rest/ saith the Lord God. Such as be lost/ will I seek/ such as go astray/ will I bring again such a●be wounded/ will I bind up/ such as be weak/ will I make strong/ such as be fate and well liking/ thosse will I preserve/ & fede them with the shing that is Lawful/ etc. I will help my sheep/ so that they shall no more be spoiled. I will make a covenant of peace with them/ & drive all evil beasts out of the Land/ so that they may dwell safely in the wilderness/ & sleep in the words. Good fortune and p●ossperite will I give them/ & ●nto all that be round about my hill. A prossperous sh●wer & ray●e will Ise●de theme in due season that/ the trees in the wood may bring forth their fruits/ & the ground her increase. They shall be saff in the land and shall know. That I am the Lord/ which have broken their yoke/ and delivered them out of the hands of those/ that heylde them in subieccione. O Lord. God & our heavenly father have pity on thy poor afflicted & scattered flock/ & according to theyes thy louy●ge & father lie promises deal with thy people. So shall all men understand/ that thou art their Lord God and shepherd/ and that they are thy people. and the sheep of thy pastur/ and by this means be occasioned to mangnifie and praysethy holy name for ener & ever. Heretofore the preachers of thy holy vorde & the faithful ministers of the Sacraments Preachars● and m●esters hertofor reverenced. 1. Timon 5 were had in double honour according to the doctrine of the holy scriptures. But now of all mean they are most miserable. For besides the toomuch despite full words/ wherewith the wicked Papists labour to obscure and deface/ somoch as lyghethe in them ●he good name of the godly ministers? How cruelly & against all order of Law are they thrust out of their livings/ and deprived of all/ that they had/ insomuch that they & theyrpoore wifes with their young children are not only brought to the state of poverty but also unto extreme beggeri without house or harbour/ without meat/ drink & cloth. Yea many of them/ because they will not be defiled with the idolater of Antichrist/ which is now receaneed again into E●glande an bow their knee unto Baal/ are compelled to forsak their natyu country/ their parent's/ their friends/ their livings/ and to wander abroad in strange Realms/ leading most sorrowful & comfortless lives/ but that theyhave the their good Lord & merciful father/ which confortest them in all their tribulation/ and leavyst none without succour that put their trust in the. Thus seist thou (O most merciful father) How miserabli the face of the chryst● common weal of England is beyond all measure defame●. The Christ● common weal of England● miserabl● 〈◊〉 form. Thns' seist thou/ how thygodly doctrine and most holy ordinances are utterly abolished/ and means traditions see up in the place of them. Thus sayest if/ how thy glory & honore that is due to the alone/ is attributed and geveue to an Idoleof bread & to their wicked Maumets. Thus feist if/ how the Salvation/ which is thorough faith to be hoped & looked for only in the glorius passion/ precius death/ & triumphant resurrection of thy most dear so●● andour alone Saviour & Lord jesus 〈◊〉/ is now reposed in the sinful merit's of●ipocrites/ in the iutercession of Saintess in ceremonies/ in the observances of means idle imaginacious etc. Thus seist thou/ how thy holy word is set aside and/ man's doctri hath the uppermost hand. Thus seist thou how thy holy mysteries are tomoch filtheli defiled of the swynyshe Papists. Thusseist thou/ how all things in the temples be done without edifying. Nothing is herad in them but boing/ bellowing and blearing. Thus seist if/ how the fatherli Bish oppes and faithful pastors are uniustli put out of their cures/ deprived of all that they have/ banished and handled like sheep appointed to the slaughter/ and in the stead offthem white daubed walls/ painted Sepulckers full of all filthiness & abomination/ blind Phareseis/ subtle Hypocrites/ vnlea●ned asses/ romish fox's/ Rawenyngwolues/ Lordly tyrants/ and such Like pestilences/ are appointed to rule over thy flock. Thus seist if/ how thy poor & miserable thepe are most villy & wretchedly handled of thes pastors/ Yea Idols/ thieves/ Robbers/ and murderers/ while they are compelled/ will they/ nil they/ to taste of their pestilent and poisonful pastures/ to eat of their phatisaicall leaven/ and to drynck oftheir dirty and miry puddeles. Thus seist if/ how the honourable Marriage of the Godly ministers is utterly condemned as A thing unlawful and unmeet for the ministery of thy word and Sacraments/ and a bominable whoredom freely suffered/ bornewithe all/ and winked at. Psal. 79. Thus seist thou/ how the heathen are braced iuto thine heritage/ have defiled thy holy temple/ and mad jerusalem an heap of stones. Ah Lord. sense the putting down of thy holy religion The miser●● of the english Christians. in England/ we that profess thy name/ and would gladly serve the according to thy blessed word & not after the fancies of men/ which we know to be abominable in thy sight/ are become an open shame unto our enemy's a very scorn and verision unto them/ that are round about us. They that hayte us/ spoil hour goods. Psal. 44. We are eaten up like sheep. Yea so ●●tim our dear friends & neighbours abhor us and refuse our company so fearful are they of life and goods. A Very by word are we become among the Papistesand the ungodly people shake their heads at us. Hour soul is brought low even unto the dust/ and our belly clea●eth to the ground. For thy sake are we killed all thedaye long/ & are counted as sheep appointed to be stayve. Up Lord? why sleepest thou/ awake and cast us not of for ever. Wherefore hidest show thy face? Wilt though clean forget our miseri and oppression: Arise o Lord help us & deliver us for thy mercy sake. Ah Lord how/ long wilt though be angry? psal. 79. shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever? Pour out thine indinguation upon the heathen which know the not/ & upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name. For they have dewoured jacobe/ and Laid wayste his dwelling place. Oh remember not our old sins but have mercy upon us and that son/ for we are come to great misery. Help us/ o God our saviour/ for the glory of thy name. O deliver us & forgive us our sins for thy name's sake. Wherefore shall the heathen (The Papists) say/ Where is now their God? Whereisnowe their Gospel? Oh/ let the vengeamns of thy servants blood that is shed/ be openly showed upon the heathen in our sight. Oh/ let the sorowsull syghiuges of the presonners come before thee/ and according to thepowr of thine arm preserve those that are appointed to die. Psal. 80. Steerre up thy pawre/ o Lord/ and come to help us. Inrne to us A gain and show us the light of thy loving countevauns/ that we may be saved. O Lord God of hosts/ how long wilt though beangrye over the prayers of thy people? How long wil●e thou fede theme that believe in the with the bread of tears/ and give them plenty of sorrows to drink? How longe●hal they be a laughing stock to the papists? How long shall thy viny●rde be rootedup of the wild bore/ & be dewoured of thee/ veastes of the field? How long shall ●irehedges be brokene/ that they which go by/ may pluck up her grapes? How long shall it be brent with fire and lie vais●e? O turn the again thou God of hosts/ look down from heaven/ behold and visete thy vineyard. Hold not thy tongue/ o God/ kepenot silence/ refrain not thyself o god. psal. 82. For Lo/ thine enemies make a murmuring/ and they that hate thee/ lift up their head. They imagine craftily agayuste thy people/ andtake council against thy holy-ones. Come say they/ let us root them out from among the people/ that the name of Israel may beput out of remembrance. For they have cast their heads together with one consent/ & are confederate against the & thy holyehword. They shame not to say/ We will have the house of God in possessiou. We will havemene to believe/ as we list. Psal. 11. Hour tongue shall prevail. We are they that ought to speak/ who is Lord ower us: As for the wordeswhiche the faithful preachars speak unto us in the name of the Lord/ we will in no wise hear theme/ but what so ever goeth out of our own mowihe/ that will we do. jere. 44 Wewill do sacrifice and offer oblations to thee/ queen of heaven/ lyk as we & our forefathers/ hour kings and hour heads have done inthe cities of juda and in the streets and fields of jerusalem. For the●r had we plentiusnesof victuals. Then wear we in prossperite/ & no misfortune came upon us. But sense we least to offer & to do sacrifice unto the Quen of heaven we have had scaccenes of all things & perish with sword and hunger. It is but lost labour to serve God. O Lord keep &/ preserve us from this generation for ever. Malach. 3 Psal. 11. For they are a sinful people/ which are overladen with blaspehmies/ a froward generation and wicked children. They haveforsaken the their Lord God/ they have/ provoked the holy one of Israel unto anger & are gone backward. Esa. 1. There is no truth intheir mouths. Their throat is an open sepulckere/ with their tongues they deceive/ the Psal. 5. poison of adders is under their lips/ there feet are swift to h●de innocent blood. They eat up and dewoure thy people as it wear bread. Distruction and unhappiness is in all their doings/ but the way of peace theyknowe Psal. 14. not/ for their is no fear of God before their eyes. O Lord God & our most merciful faith ere look down from thy holy hill and co●sydere our miseries. Save thy people o Lord/ and bless thine heritage. ●sal. 28. Governetheme with thy holy spirit/ and lift them up above their enemies for ever. Rise upe o Lord/ and have pity on Zion/ for it is time/ yea it is high time for the tohave pity on hire. psal. 102. O Lord let it be thy plea sure to deal fawarably with Zion/ that the walls of jerusalem may be duylte. Psal. 51. Build upe o Lord/ that spiritual house with living stones/ whereof thy Son Christ is the foundaytion & head corner stone. 1. Pete. 2. Be that same good Lord and merciful God to thycongregation/ that though haiste ever promised to be. Esa. 66. Comfort hire/ as the loving mother cheri●hethe hire tender babes. As a natural mother can not forget hire young one/ but that she must nede●e have pity on the-childe of hire womb: Esa. 49. Even so/ o Lord/ petty though the congregation of England/ and by no means s●ffer the godly people thereof to fall out of thy rem●brancs. And although our life be such/ that it rather deserveth punishment than reconcilement/ anger than fawour/ destruckcio●●h an preservation/ yet o Lord God/ we most humbly beseech theto forgive us dw●●s●●es/ and for thy names sak yea for thy dear Christis sa● ha●e mercy on us and deal with us according to t●y● old accustomed goodness. We have nothing to offer unto th● fatherly gentel●es/ but only hour Repentanns/ our broken hearts andtrowbled The Christ● Sacrifice. spirits/ our ●eares/ our ●igh 〈◊〉/ & our most sorrowful supplycacion●. Thes Psal. 51. we pour out before the merciful throne of thy divine majesty/ in the name of jesus-christe our alone mediature and advocate/ most humbly beseeching the for his sake/ for his dignity and innocency to have mercy on the Godly Inhabitants of England/ and on so many as unfeignedly reverence thy holy name/ and with true heart love the coming of our Lord jesus. Let it suffice/ o Lordethat sense the death of hour most ChristenKinge Edward the sixth/ thy faithful seru ante unto this day/ thou haiste for our unthankfulness and wicked life taken awayefrome us the holy and glorius gosspel of thy dear son Christ/ and suffered hypocritesto feed us/ yea rather to choke & strangle us/ with the pestilent doctrine of means traditions. Look upon thine holy annoyted/ and for his sake have mercy on us/ bless us/ and lighten thy cheerful countemance upon us/ that we Englythe men here on the earth mayeones again know thy blessed ways & thy/ saving health among all nations. Psal. 67. Let therealm of England be full of the knowledge of the Lord jesus/ even as though the water of the sea overflowed the earth. Esa. 11. Let thy word run swiftly thorough out all the borders of England. Psa. 148 jere. 3. Esa. 12. Let the people thereof drink no more of/ the dirty and miry puddles of the swynyshe Papists & filthy Hypocrites/ but let theme with joy draw water out of the wellesof that alone saviour/ which saith: jona. 7. Apoc. 21 joan. 4. Iff any man thirst/ let him come unto me and drink. I will give to him that is athirst of the well of water of life freely. And whoso ever shall drink of the water that I shall give him/ shall never be more a thirst/ but thewater that I shall give/ shall be in him a/ well of water/ springing up unto everlasting life. And that thy blessed word may have the more free passag/ take away from us those Idolatrus Massmongers/ those idle latin Preachars Humblers/ those shaven Madianites/ those Lordly loiterers/ those Wolves/ those thieves/ Robbers/ and murderers/ which do nothing else than poison thy flock/ whom thy most dear Son purchased with his most Precious dear heart blood/ and make hawocke of thy silly simple sheep by leadyngthem away from the thorough their vain sophistry unto the Dewill & the pope/ from thy holy word and blessed ordinances untothe trifling traditions & crooked yea cankered constitucious of Hypocrites: And in the steadof them place thou godly bishops/ learned Preachers/ Christian ministers/ Faithful teacher's/ True spiritual Father's/ Loving pastors/ even such as will diligently seek up the Ezech. 3. joan. 10. Act. 20. lost sheep/ whom the woulyshe Papists in the time of their tyranny have most wrechedli scattered abroad lovingly lay theme on his shoulders/ and faithfully bring them home Luc. 15. Math. 24 Ti●us. 1. again unto the ●●epe fold/ give thy howshoulde meat in due season/ be able to erhorte with wholesome doctrine/ & also to convince and overcome them that speak age●nste it/ & brenn with aferuent & unfaied zeal toward the setting forth thy glory and the health ofthy people. Sacraments. Send us again to the true ministration off thy blessed Sacraments/ that we may know what they are what they signify & preach unto us/ yea & that without the coruption of means traditions/ wherewith at this present they are most unwortheli defiled of thes suinish & filthy ●atin seruic papists. Take away from us the Romish latin servis/ which the sinewed shaulinges mumble in the temples before thy people with out all edifying ●. Cor. 14 ●oan. 4. & restorunto us our acustoned common prayers in the English ●ong that we may know what we pray/ & by this means worship the in sprit & truth. Mass banish out of the congergation that most vile & stinking Idol the Mass/ & restore unto us the holy & blessed Communion/ that we eating ●. Cor. 10. together of one bread & drinaing of one cup may remember the lords death & bethankfull/ to the. purge our temples of all popish abominations ecremonies / of Ceremonies/ of Images/ of allters'/ of copes/ of vestments/ of pixes/ of croses of sensers/ of holy vater bucketes/ of holy bread basketes/ of Chrismator●●/ & above all of Idolatrus priests & ungodly ignorant curates. The propiciatori sacrifis of the popish Mass Akomina●ons. / the wicked opiy●n of the corporal presence of Christ in the Sacramental bread/ the receiving of the Sacrament under on kind/ the intercesion of Saints/ the doctrine of the justification ofworkes/ the popish purgatory/ the wicked traditions of the Elders/ with all ungodly customs & strange doctrines take thou/ o good Lord/ away from us/ & teach us by thy holy Spirit Deut. 4. 6. 12. Prove. 30▪ Esa. 30. Luc. 1. to walk only in that way/ that thou haste appointed/ & by no means to turn neither on the right hand nor on the left/ but all blind zeles and good intents laid aside/ give us grace toserue the our Lord God in such holiness & righteousness as is accepted before thee/ all the-dayes of hour life. O heavenvly father & most merciful Lordepreserue and sanctify with thy holy spirit thy universal cōg●ega●iō/●āly the faithful congregation of England/ that as in their baptism they have given themselves over wholly unto thee/ God's cōgr●gacione. forsaking the dewill/ the world and the flesh with all their works/ pomps/ lusts & vanities/ & have sworn to serve the with all that they are able to make/ even so they thorough thy grace may answer to their profession & live according to their promise made in their baptism/ e●tāg themselves with no new/ counterfaincte and strange religion/ nor yet defiling themselves with any unrighteousness/ but walking inthat only way that thou hast appointed. And such as thorough the strength of thy Spirit abide full constant & steadfast in the Strong inChriste. confession of thy truth before the worldly tyrants and bel●●de hypocrites/ o Lord confirm them in thy truth thorough the holy ghost/ and give theme grace to persist and continwe in it unto the end/ that though mayst be glorified by them/ and that the truth of thy holy Psal. 17. word may the more earnestly be received/ embraced and believed of the Christian weaklings. O howld thou up their goings in thy paths/ that their foot steps slip not. Thou haste delivered them from stinking Sodom/ suffer them no more to look back toward it. Thou by the mighty power & out stretched arm hast brought them out of sinful Egepte/ & hast fed them with the Heavenly mana/ suffer them no more so much as ones to have a lust to return unto thatlande of bondage/ nor to have a desire to sit among the greasy flesh pots of Egepte/ & to eat of the fishes/ melons/ cucumbers/ garlic/ onyones/ lekes'/ etc./ wherewith the filth Egepcians are fed. They have visited & seen Christ thy Son & our King, Math. 2. suffer them nomor to return unto wicked King Herode. They have put their hand to the plough/ grant that they never look back again Luc. 9 / but preserve contine we & go forward untothe end. They have escaped from the filthenes of the world thorough the knowledge of the & of our Sawyour jesus Christ/ suffer them nomor to be entangled therein & owercoone/ lest the latter end be worse than the beginning. For it had been better not to have knowuethe 2. Pete. 2. way of righteousness/ than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment that is given them. So might it be said ofthem according to the true proverb: Thedogge is tuked to his vomit again and the sow that was washed to hire walowingein Proverb. 26. the mire. The weakelinges and such as are not yet weaklinges Ruges perfectly stablished in thy true relygeon/ but-like reeds waver with every wind of doctrine/ o Lord confirm thou & make them thoroughly strong in the knowledge of thy truth that they with a constant faith & lusty courage may both believe & confess the before the tyrants of the world/ that thou alou art the Lord and that there is no truth necessari unto salvation/ but that only/ which is contained in thy-holy Scriptures. God's profonners. To them that are in bonds for the confessiou of thy truth give thou grace/ o most loving Lord/ to rejoice/ that they be counted worthy of thy fatherly goodness to suffer Rebuke/ iufamy/ epresomment/ loss of goods etc. Acto. 5. / for the name of the Lord jesus/ & to be persuaded that the afflictions of this life are not wo●thi of the glori/ which shall be showed upon Roma. 8. the Sons of God in time to come/ notwithstanding that their trouble/ which is/ short & light preparethe an exceeding andeternall 2. Cor. 4 weight of glory unto them/ which look not on the things which are se●e/ but on the things which are not seen: Agene/ that if they die with Christ/ they shall also live with. 2. Timon 2 Christ/ and if they suffer witheChrist/ they shall also reign with Christ. And as for them that for fear of liff or loss of goods/ or else for pleasing the hy●● powresare Back sliders for ●●are. outwardly gone from thy true religion/ and with their bodies serve Baal/ yea and that against their own conscience/ when in their hearts they wish all Idolatrous & strange worshippings utterly to be abolished/ thatthowe alone mightest be glorified & honoured: we most humbly beseech the to pardon their imperfections/ and to forgive their infirmetes/ which by the prophet speaketh of thy Son concerning the weak & fearful on this manner: Esa. 42. A bruised Reed shall he not break/ and flax that begynnthe to burn/ he shall not/ quench. Math. 12. Marc. 9 O Lord help their unbelief. Increase their faith. Make them strong with thy holy/ Spirit/ that that which they inwardly believe them ay outwardli confess & work accordingly/ though loss both off goods and life do enseve. syve theme grace always to have before their Eyes these sayings of thy dear Son and our loving saviour Christ jesus: Math. 16. If any man will follow me/ let hime forsake hime self and take up his cross and follow me. For whoso ever will save his life/ shall loss it. And who so ever shall lose his life for my sake/ shall find it. What shall it profit a man though he should win all the whole world/ if he lose his oun soul? or what shall a man give to redeem/ his soul again with all? Marc. 10 Item/ verily I say unto you/ there is no man that forsake the house/ or brethren or sisters/ or father or mother/ or wife or children/ or lands/ for my sake and the Gosspeles/ which shall not receive an hondered fold/ now in this life/ houses and brethren/ and sister's/ and mothers and children and lands/ with persecutions/ and in theworlde to come everlasting life. again/ who so ever shall confess me before men him will I confess also before my father which is in heaven. Math. 10 But who so ever shall be ashamed of me and of my words among Marc. 8. this adulterous and synnfull genaration of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his father with the holy Angeles. Now as touching the enemies of thy word/ whereof some sin of ignorance and Enemies to the Gospel's for lack of Knovule●g for lack of knowledge/ some again of obstinate malice and pretenced hate and make war against thy true relygeon/ we most humbly beseech the for Christis sake favourably to behold theme that ignorantly and of a blind zeal toward the traditions of their Elders and not of a malicious heart hate the Gospel of thy dear Son and persecute the Preachers of the sane. Bring theme/ O Lord/ into the knowledge of their errors and blindness/ that they may repent/ believe and amend/ which madest Saul of a wolff a lamb/ of a persecutore a Preacher/ and of a Tyrant an Apostele. Act. 9 Make theme of the enemies of thy truth/ earnest lovers and fervent embrasers of thy truth. Esechi. Turn their hard and stony heart in to a fleshly soft and gentle heart. Matsh. 9 Make theme uwe bottles apt to receive than we/ sweet/ and pleasant wine of the Gospel. Make them as zealous in setting forth the truth of thy word/ as they have heretofore been in the a vauncement of the blind and unfruitful traditions of mean. Be merciful unto them bless theme/ and lighten thy countenauns upon theme/ that they may know thy ways Psal. 67. and thy saving health. Replynyshe theme/ with thy holy spirit and with the graces of the same/ that as they are thy creatures with us/ so they may be saved with us. But those/ O Lord/ which are thy sworn enemies and of a set purpose even Enemies to the Gospel of set malic● against their own conscience and contrary to their knowledge persecute the glorious Gospel of thy dearly beloved son and the true favourers of the same/ and will by no means be reconciled/ nor lean unto the truth/ but go for the daily more and more to hinder the fire and joyful passage of thy holy wored/ & to withdraw so many as they can from believing/ receiving and embracing the same i, joan. 5. seeing they sin the sin unto death and are not to be converted) O Lord/ haiste the to root theme up from the face of the Earth that they be no more stumbling blocks to the weak Christians. Destroy thou them O God/ let them perish thorough their own imaginations. Psal. 5. Cast them out in the multitude of their ungodliness/ for they have rebelled against the. Rayne if snares fire/ brimston/ storm and tempest/ upon them/ let this be their portion to drink. Psal. 11. Let them be confounded and put to shame/ that seek after the lives of the faithful. O let them be turned back and brought to confusion Psal. 37. / that imagine mischief against theme Let them be as dust before the wind/ and the Angel of the Lord scattering them. Let their way be dark and slippery/ and let thy Angel o Lord/ persecute them. Yea let sudden destruction come upon them unwares/ and the netes that they have laid privily/ cathe themselves/ that they may fall into they own myscheff. Let the sw●rdes that they draw/ out go thorough their own hearts/ and the howthat they have bended slay themselves Let the arms of the ungodly be broken/ & let the wicked perish and consume as thee/ fat of lambs/ yea as smoke let them consume away. psal. 52 Destroy them for ever/ and/ pluck the out of their dwelling and root them out of the land of the living. psal. 59 Break their teeth (O God) in their mouths/ smite the chaw bones of the Lions/ o Lord/ let them faullawaye like water that run the apace/ and whane they shout arrows/ let them be rooted out/ let them consume away like a snail/ and be like the untymly fruit of a/ woman/ and let them not see the Sun. Stand up o Lord God of hosts/ though/ God of Israel/ to visit all heathen/ and be/ Psal. 59 not merciful unto them/ that offend of malicious wickedness. psal. 69. Pour out thine indingnation upon them/ and let thy wrathful displeasure take hold of them. Let them be/ cumbered with shame and dishonore that seek psal. 71. to do thy people evil. Do thou to them as unto the Madianets/ unto Siseraand unto psal. 33. jabin at the broke of Kison/ which perished at Endor/ & became as the dung of the earth In fin. Psal. 129. Let them be confounded and turnned backward/ as many as have evil will at Sion. Let them be even as the graze growing upon the house tops/ which with rethe afore it be plucked up. But let all those that love the and thy blessed word/ be joyful/ merry and glad. Let them continwe/ prossper/ flourish and triumph in the their Lord God for ever. Let their joy & mirth be found and everlasting/ even such joy & mirth as no man shall be able to take away from them. Let stinking Babylon fall down/ and let the new and heavenly jerusalem be built up again. Apoc. 18. Let the venomus dragon/ that filthy beasie/ that falls Prophet and that purpled whore of Babylon shortly come to confusion/ that all the glory may be given to the Lamb that sittehe with the in the throne. Apoc. 12 13. 19 21. Kill antichrist that Son off perdition with the breath of thy mouth/ that thou alone mayst be known to be the Lord. Apoc. 7. O most loving Lord and hour heavenly father/ when thou shalt deliver psal. 53. thy people out of captivity/ then shall jacob rejoice and Israel be right glade. 2. thess. 2 Yea then shall the mouth of the faithful be ●illed/ with laughter/ and their tongue with joy. we therefore most humbly beseech thee (o Lord) psal. 126. to turn our captivity as the rivers in the south/ that they which sow in tears/ may reap in joy. Turn the again/ o Lord at the last/ & be gracious unto thy servants. Psal. 90. O satisfy us with thy mercy & that soon so shall we rejoice & be glad all the days of our life. Comfort us again now after the time that thou haste plagued us/ and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity So shall we with joyful hearts & merry voices sing continual praises to thy glorious & blessed name/ which with thy only begotten Son jesus Christ our alone saviour and with the holy Ghost that most sweet Confortour livest & reignest one/ alone/ true/ living/ immortal and Everlasting God world with out end AMEN. Psal. 70. Let all such/ o Lord/ as delight in thy salvation/ say alway. THE LORD BE PRAISED. (?)