¶
I
hearde
a
voyce
from
heauen
sayinge
vnto
me
:
Write
.
Blessed
are
the
dead
that
dye
in
the
lord
straight
waye
.
IN
a
matter
of
dowt
,
here
beholde
the
dyuersyte
betweyne
the
learnynge
of
God
,
and
the
lerninge
of
man
.
The
lernynge
of
man
wythout
iudgement
,
knoweledge
,
and
grace
:
wyll
compell
and
force
them
what
lyue
to
beleue
there
frendes
soules
departed
to
be
broyled
in
Purgatory
.
Desyre
them
to
giue
you
a
reason
why
?
Aunswere
haue
they
none
,
but
that
ye
muste
so
beleue
,
or
els
be
accompted
for
an
Heretike
.
So
that
rather
they
wil
force
menne
wyth
dowte
to
abyde
in
sorowe
:
then
with
iugement
of
Goddes
worde
happylye
to
conforte
them
wyth
ioye
.
Blessed
therfore
,
be
the
God
of
mercy
that
hathe
in
thys
case
,
put
vnto
vs
an
infallyble
truethe
and
doctrine
to
warraunte
the
troubled
mynd
of
the
liuing
for
the
state
of
the
deade
.
And
amonge
other
places
of
most
certayne
trueth
,
here
in
this
place
he
playnelye
sheweth
them
to
be
blessed
that
die
in
the
lord
:
that
is
to
say
:
Optaine
the
end
that
man
was
created
vnto
eternal
felicite
and
ioy
euerlasting
.
For
a
proue
of
the
same
against
reasonne
and
mannes
doctrine
.
Saynt
Jhon
sayth
:
I
harde
a
voice
from
heauen
.
As
though
he
had
sayde
.
It
is
so
true
:
it
can
be
no
waye
false
,
for
it
is
from
heauen
.
And
because
it
shoulde
instructe
the
afflycted
of
oure
tyme
and
assertaine
vs
of
the
state
and
condicionne
of
the
deade
,
aswell
as
it
did
saint
Johne
,
and
them
of
hys
tyme
,
and
for
euer
tyll
the
worldles
ende
:
the
Aungell
byd
Sainct
Johne
wryte
the
same
,
saying
:
Wryte
.
Blessed
are
the
deade
in
the
Lorde
.
Although
al
men
indifferently
wyshe
and
couete
to
be
blessed
aftre
there
deathe
yet
all
menne
come
not
to
the
thynge
they
moste
wyshe
for
.
Because
they
lyue
contrarye
vnto
the
wyl
of
God
that
solie
geuethe
the
blysse
eternall
,
as
Sayncte
Paul
sayth
Ephe.
5.1
.
Cor.
6.
No
fornicatoure
,
couetous
man
shall
haue
any
heretayge
in
the
kyngedome
of
Christ
,
and
God
.
And
as
Paul
excludeth
from
heauen
the
doars
of
the
fruytes
of
infidelite
,
so
doth
S.
John
exclude
for
infidelite
it selfe
.
Joan.
3.
He
that
beleueth
not
the
sonne
of
God
,
shall
se
no
lyfe
,
but
the
Ire
of
God
tarieth
vpon
him
.
True
it
is
then
,
that
al
men
obtaine
not
thys
blyssinge
of
GOD
after
death
.
And
euen
as
the
places
before
shewe
who
shall
misse
of
thys
Joyfull
felicite
:
so
S.
Johan
,
in
this
place
sheweth
who
shall
come
vnto
it
,
saying
:
Blessed
are
they
that
dye
in
the
Lord
.
They
onely
therfore
be
blessed
that
dye
in
the
Lorde
.
And
seyng
a
death
in
the
Lord
is
the
gate
to
eternall
life
:
We
wyll
more
at
large
declare
what
it
is
to
dye
in
the
Lord
.
To
dye
in
the
Lorde
is
to
dye
in
the
sayeth
of
Christe
,
whom
he
sente
into
the
worlde
for
the
redemption
therof
.
Joan.
3.
which
is
done
when
foure
thinges
is
obserued
.
¶
Fyrst
yf
the
seykeman
in
hys
sekenes
call
vnto
hys
remembrance
what
he
hath
done
all
his
lyfe
tyme
against
the
first
&
seconde
table
of
the
Lordes
commaundementes
.
The
seconde
if
vpon
his
examination
he
find
his
brothere
and
neyghboure
hurt
by
him
in
goodes
,
or
fame
,
he
studye
vnfaynedlye
to
satisfye
him
as
nere
as
he
can
again
in
both
.
The
thirde
,
that
the
seyke
man
aknowlege
vnto
the
Lorde
,
asmuche
as
he
hath
offended
agaynst
the
commaundementes
of
the
fyrste
table
:
wyth
a
detestation
of
them
all
.
The
fourth
,
that
he
aske
of
god
for
the
death
of
Christe
remission
of
them
all
.
But
he
that
wyl
assuredlye
truste
to
optayne
this
forgeuenes
,
had
nede
to
haue
redye
and
prompte
,
many
places
of
the
scripture
,
that
sheweth
in
Christe
,
the
father
of
heauen
to
remit
the
syke
mannes
offences
.
Gene.
3.
Esa.
53.
Matthew
.
1.11
.
Joh.
1.3.4.5
.
Romano
.
3.4
.
1.
Johan.
1.2
.
The
assurance
of
faith
by
grace
optayned
:
it
is
the
sekemannes
parte
,
and
as
many
as
be
wyth
hym
,
religiouslye
to
praye
,
for
the
perseueraunce
of
the
same
sayeth
.
And
also
to
hys
poure
,
to
help
the
nedefull
wyth
hys
almes
,
that
they
also
may
pray
to
the
Lorde
for
hym
.
Then
thus
commended
hym selfe
vnto
God
,
Let
him
commende
all
his
lykewise
wyth
some
exhortation
that
they
diligentlye
lyue
in
the
feare
of
God
as
the
scripture
teacheth
.
Gene.
49.
Deuter.
31.
Josua
.
23.
3.
Re.
2.
He
that
thus
dyeth
,
dyeth
in
the
Lorde
,
and
therfore
blessed
as
this
texte
teacheth
.
And
as
it
is
taught
in
the
.5.
of
S.
John
.
Uerely
,
verely
,
I
say
vnto
you
,
He
that
heareth
my
word
,
and
beleue
in
him
that
sent
me
,
hath
euerlastinge
life
,
and
shall
not
come
into
iudgemente
,
but
passe
from
death
to
life
.
He
can
not
dye
a
wycked
death
that
is
blessed
&
sanctifyed
in
the
bloud
of
Christe
.
As
he
muste
nedes
be
,
that
in
his
seykenes
seketh
health
by
this
medicine
prescribed
by
S.
John
.
That
by
four
wordes
helpeth
the
greateste
and
damigerouse
desperation
,
If
credite
and
fayeth
be
geuen
vnto
them
.
The
firste
word
is
:
I
harde
a
voyce
.
The
seconde
:
from
heauen
.
The
thyrde
:
Wryte
,
The
fourth
:
Blessed
be
the
deade
that
dieth
in
the
Lord
.
If
ye
learne
it
well
,
it
shall
not
only
make
you
blessed
at
the
hour
of
death
:
But
also
moderate
the
sorowes
&
murninges
(
whiche
otherwyse
)
ye
shall
suffre
while
yelyue
here
,
for
youre
frendes
that
dye
.
Lykewyse
it
shall
assuyre
you
of
the
state
and
condicion
of
your
frendes
departed
that
they
haue
the
fauoure
and
presence
of
God
.
And
better
at
ease
in
heauen
wyth
God
,
then
ye
be
in
the
earth
with
menne
.
Learne
to
dye
well
therfore
,
by
this
lesson
,
ye
mortall
men
.
And
leaue
not
the
medycyne
prescrybed
and
taught
by
God
the
father
,
made
and
tempered
wyth
the
bloude
of
Christe
,
minystred
in
to
the
soule
of
man
by
the
holye
ghoste
,
broughte
from
heauen
by
an
Angel
,
writen
vpon
and
to
the
people
of
the
earthe
by
holye
Sayncte
John
.
For
the
medycynes
appoynted
by
manne
,
as
Masse
,
Dirige
,
Peregrinacions
,
Pardons
,
other
mennes
merytes
when
ye
be
gone
,
Tryntalles
,
Anniuersaries
,
Inuocation
,
&
prayers
of
and
to
sayntes
departede
,
Auriculare
confessyon
,
and
suche
other
mennes
inuentiones
whyche
cannot
ease
nor
quyet
the
conscience
of
the
poore
sekemanne
.
But
the
more
of
thys
trysles
is
promysed
vnto
the
conscience
of
the
afflicted
man
,
the
more
wretched
creatoure
he
desyreth
.
As
youre
conscyence
shall
knowe
at
the
tyme
and
houre
of
your
sekenes
and
daunger
.
And
then
shall
ye
fele
when
all
othere
thynges
be
to
lytle
,
that
the
precyouse
bloude
of
Christe
is
ynoughe
and
where
as
wythoute
dowte
youre
owne
conscyens
shall
bare
you
recorde
(
do
you
and
all
othere
men
for
you
whatsoeuer
may
be
done
)
ye
are
culpable
and
worthye
deathe
euerlastynge
.
So
shall
Christes
spyryte
if
he
be
in
you
by
fayth
bayre
record
with
youre
spyryte
,
that
yeare
for
Christes
sake
onelye
,
the
heyres
of
eternall
lyfe
.
This
is
the
only
way
to
quyete
euerye
trouble
and
afflicted
conscience
in
the
daye
of
death
.
As
Saint
John
sayeth
,
Blessed
are
the
dead
that
dye
in
the
Lord
.
But
seynge
the
deuell
can
not
bare
this
doctrine
,
A
man
to
be
saued
in
Christ
,
for
the
promes
of
Goddes
sake
:
He
goeth
aboute
to
persuade
thys
word
of
God
to
be
false
that
sayeth
:
He
that
dyeth
in
the
Lorde
is
blessed
.
And
so
wyth
the
moste
parte
of
men
he
subuerteth
this
Godly
consolation
.
Ether
he
maketh
the
syke
to
dispare
of
his
saluation
for
the
greatnes
of
his
sinne
:
Ether
causeth
hym
to
seke
vnsufficiente
and
vnlawfull
meanes
to
remoue
his
synnes
.
And
that
you
and
I
be
subiecte
vnto
this
temptacion
:
Read
Mathewe
.
.27
.
Luke
.
23.
And
se
what
the
deuell
aduentured
to
persuade
vnto
Christ
himselfe
.
And
wolde
haue
borne
hym
in
hande
he
was
not
the
sonne
of
God
:
nether
that
God
caryde
for
hym
seinge
he
suffered
hys
enemyes
thus
to
preuale
agaynste
hym
.
And
the
same
temptationne
he
burdened
the
holy
prophete
Dauid
wyth
all
,
Psal.
3.
If
he
coulde
obiect
and
bourdeyn
the
sonne
of
God
with
argumentes
that
he
could
not
be
blessed
that
dyed
in
the
lord
:
How
muche
more
doth
he
,
yee
or
maye
he
:
not
onelye
swade
&
attempte
,
but
also
perswade
&
ouercome
oure
myserable
and
weake
condycyonne
:
I
le
preparyd
God
knoweth
of
a
thowsande
sorttes
of
temptationne
to
sustayne
of
them
the
leste
.
Wherefore
learne
by
tyme
,
or
tyme
deceaue
yow
,
how
to
lyue
withoute
tyme
,
of
none
ye
may
learne
so
wel
as
by
the
lyfe
and
death
and
also
the
doctryne
of
the
Patryarkis
,
Prophetes
,
Christe
,
&
the
Apostles
.
Whose
example
yf
ye
follow
not
here
:
incase
hereaftre
ye
neuer
come
where
they
be
,
thanke
youre selues
.
And
that
ye
take
vpon
you
to
vse
another
remedys
(
yea
and
as
manye
men
sayeth
bettre
)
to
warraunte
&
stonde
at
the
tyme
of
deathe
agaynste
the
tyrannye
of
syne
,
hell
,
the
deuel
and
the
wordle
.
If
after
youre
departure
from
hens
it
be
worse
wyth
yow
then
it
is
wyth
them
:
blame
none
but
youre selues
.
And
the
bettre
blame
worthy
be
ye
,
so
many
tymes
admonyshede
,
yet
not
a
dele
the
bettre
.
Juge
other
men
as
they
lyste
,
thus
I
beleue
.
He
that
dyeth
as
an
Apostle
,
shall
hereaftre
lyue
lyke
an
Apostel
.
And
he
that
beleueth
as
an
Apostle
,
shal
be
saued
lyke
an
Apostle
.
Understonde
what
I
saye
.
It
is
of
theyr
doctryne
&
suffycient
lernynge
that
I
speake
of
,
whyche
is
fully
&
suffycientlye
able
to
leade
a
man
in
to
all
treuth
.
2.
Tymo
.
3.
Augu.
lib.
confess
.
6.
Cap.
5.
If
any
Counsale
general
,
or
prouyncyall
:
If
anye
lernynge
of
man
coulde
shewe
you
,
how
bettre
to
lyue
,
&
more
godlye
to
dye
,
then
the
wryttynges
of
the
Prophetes
,
and
the
Apostles
in
whose
wrytynges
ye
haue
aplate
bothe
of
there
lyfe
,
&
also
of
there
death
.
I
woulde
comede
it
vnto
you
.
But
you
know
,
there
is
none
.
Seynge
ye
be
thys
perswaded
of
them
,
&
alow
so
muche
there
holynes
&
name
:
dyseable
not
there
doctryne
leste
peraduenture
those
that
ye
now
accompte
to
be
youre
frendes
:
here
after
shal
be
testes
and
recordes
of
youre
Juste
damnatyon
,
bycause
ye
comende
there
name
and
persecute
there
blode
in
suche
as
offeryth
you
there
doctryne
.
The
ignorancye
of
thys
trew
doctryne
to
teache
men
to
lyue
and
dye
well
,
hath
broght
in
that
false
&
vntrewe
opinione
of
fayned
purgatory
.
The
whyche
inducyd
foure
greate
Iles.
The
fyrste
,
it
causeth
the
deathe
of
a
mannes
frynde
to
be
more
paynefull
.
The
seconde
it
abolysheth
one
of
the
chief
artykles
of
our
e
belyefe
.
Whyche
is
,
I
beleue
the
remission
of
synne
.
The
thirde
is
that
it
brought
the
workes
and
deseruynges
of
men
into
greater
estymatione
then
the
merites
of
Christe
.
The
fourthe
:
it
causeth
men
to
lyue
in
a
greater
securyte
,
&
libertye
of
lyfe
:
Bycause
there
opynione
is
,
that
there
freyndes
doynges
for
them
after
deathe
:
shall
helpe
to
there
saluatione
.
Beware
therfore
of
this
doctryne
of
purgatorye
as
of
a
moste
pestilente
I
le
,
and
seyng
all
oure
saluatione
restethe
in
thys
that
we
dye
in
the
Lord
:
whyles
we
be
in
helthe
,
let
vs
learne
thys
doctryne
well
,
and
exercyse
the
same
.
It
is
not
a
Christians
part
to
slepe
in
synne
as
an
I
le
souldyer
tyll
the
trompe
blowe
.
Nether
yet
to
prouyde
for
weapone
tyll
hys
enymye
be
vpon
hym
.
But
to
haue
it
readye
that
it
serue
as
tyme
and
necessyte
requyreth
.
And
so
we
be
admonyshed
to
do
by
the
horryble
example
of
the
fyue
folyshe
vyrgynes
,
in
the
.25.
chap.
of
S.
Mathew
.
that
neglectyng
there
oune
bounde
dewtye
to
know
and
lyue
well
,
and
trustynge
to
the
helpe
of
others
were
shut
out
of
the
Joye
eternall
.
For
whyles
they
wer
a
byinge
other
mennes
merites
they
loste
there
owne
saluation
.
The
aduersaries
of
the
trueth
dothe
vse
to
obiecte
agaynste
thys
doctrine
of
God
,
that
such
as
dye
in
the
Lorde
shoulde
strayghtway
be
blessed
wyth
hym
in
heauen
,
&
say
we
denye
not
but
they
be
blessed
:
but
it
is
in
hope
to
come
&
not
wyth
present
Joye
and
felicytie
for
they
muste
suffre
the
paynes
of
purgatorye
and
so
entre
the
place
appoynted
.
To
the
whyche
obiectione
S.
Johne
,
in
thys
place
ansureth
,
&
denyeth
anye
deferrynge
of
tyme
betywyxe
the
deathe
of
a
Christyane
and
hys
acceptatione
into
the
fruycione
of
God
,
and
sayth
by
and
by
not
to
go
fyrste
into
purgatorye
&
then
aftre
into
heauen
.
And
so
saythe
Chryste
hymselfe
.
John
.
5.
The
same
teacheth
vs
the
parable
of
Lazarus
soule
streyghwaye
vpon
his
death
that
was
taken
into
Abrahams
bossome
.
Luc.
16.
Where
as
ye
maye
learne
the
state
of
the
soules
departed
.
And
here
S.
John
,
sheweth
the
cause
why
the
soules
that
dye
be
not
drawen
through
purgatorye
nor
passeth
through
no
suche
paynes
to
come
to
heauen
.
Because
sayth
he
they
maye
reste
from
there
laboures
,
that
is
to
saye
from
the
paynes
dew
for
synne
,
and
from
all
other
myseries
of
right
annexed
and
layde
vpon
men
for
synne
.
If
the
Christyane
soules
go
into
purgatorye
they
be
not
quyt
from
there
labours
but
put
vnto
more
laboures
.
From
a
hote
feuere
into
a
hote
fyre
,
frome
paynes
tollerable
,
to
the
paynes
that
be
(
as
there
doctryne
saythe
)
as
greuouse
as
the
paynes
of
hell
.
So
the
deathe
of
manne
were
not
the
ende
of
hys
myseryes
,
but
the
begynnynge
.
Nether
were
not
deathe
as
S.
Paull
saythe
.
1.
Corin.
15.
The
laste
enemye
of
manne
,
but
purgatorye
were
.
Nether
were
it
trewe
that
he
sayth
:
Ebre
.
9.
chapt
.
That
manne
receyueth
hys
iudgement
after
hys
death
:
but
after
he
is
fyrste
dead
,
and
then
sufficyently
purged
in
Purgatorye
.
Wherof
ye
haue
no
Example
in
the
newe
Testamente
nor
in
the
olde
:
ye
haue
neyther
anye
commaundemente
to
praye
for
the
dead
,
nor
yet
promyse
that
God
wyll
heare
youre
prayer
,
when
ye
praye
.
Who
taughte
you
to
bryng
any
religion
into
the
churche
of
God
withoute
Goddes
commaundemente
,
and
the
decrees
of
the
vniuersall
churche
,
whyche
is
the
churche
of
the
Patriarches
,
Prophetes
and
the
Apostles
,
whose
fayth
,
lyfe
,
deathe
and
doctryne
is
&
oughte
to
be
,
the
grounde
and
foundacyon
of
Christiane
relygyon
,
as
Saynct
Paule
wryteth
Ephe.
2
.
Neyther
in
the
worde
of
God
is
there
anye
more
mencyon
then
of
two
places
,
the
ryght
hand
for
the
good
in
Christe
:
the
lefte
hande
for
the
i
le
.
Abrahams
bosom
for
the
one
a
place
of
ioye
,
hel
for
the
other
a
place
of
payne
.
Let
the
aduersaryes
of
the
truethe
shewe
by
the
scrypture
(
whyche
we
esteme
ful
sufficient
to
make
a
perfecte
man
in
all
thynges
)
a
thyrde
place
,
and
then
we
wil
as
we
be
bounde
geue
place
vnto
them
,
but
sure
we
be
,
the
scripture
Canonical
which
is
suffycyent
hathe
no
suche
thynge
:
but
of
this
shal
be
more
spoken
here
after
.
For
in
this
texte
I
mene
to
teach
&
not
to
dispute
.
Lerne
therfore
here
of
S.
Jhon
to
know
that
al
miseyries
endythe
wyth
the
christianes
,
at
there
death
,
&
seing
the
word
of
god
putyth
them
in
ioy
,
let
not
vs
put
them
in
payne
.
Nor
those
that
the
scryptures
saueth
,
let
not
vs
condemne
:
yf
the
scrypture
say
they
be
straight
ways
blessed
that
dye
in
the
lord
;
let
vs
not
putte
them
vnder
the
curse
of
the
painfull
fyre
of
purgatory
.
It
is
not
the
part
of
a
good
scoler
to
find
fault
at
his
maysters
doctrine
,
vntyl
such
time
as
he
be
better
learned
then
hys
mayster
,
neyther
before
he
hath
or
can
,
lerne
the
elementes
&
principles
of
gods
law
:
to
ad
vnto
his
masters
ruls
Nor
to
better
the
thing
that
is
perfectly
good
of
it self
with
any
wit
of
his
,
which
is
perfectly
naught
Nor
to
say
his
masters
doctrin
is
not
sufficient
:
when
al
the
worlde
knoweth
the
contrary
.
For
the
best
lerned
men
hath
come
out
of
his
masters
scole
:
&
yet
neuer
added
neyther
diminyshed
one
iote
to
that
there
masters
taught
them
.
Behold
the
auncyent
stole
of
the
Patriarches
,
Prophetes
,
and
the
Apostelles
whyche
lyuyd
vertuously
,
and
dyed
holyly
:
yet
neuer
added
to
the
soules
anye
thirde
place
,
or
paines
of
fyre
,
but
were
contented
with
the
two
places
that
God
had
appointed
,
one
for
the
good
,
the
other
for
the
I
.
Wherefore
it
is
my
belyfe
that
the
doctryne
that
sufficyd
them
,
sufficyth
vs
and
the
fayth
that
saued
them
in
Christ
sauethe
vs
.
Excepte
God
be
changed
,
and
hath
made
newe
wayes
to
heauen
sence
their
deathe
.
Eyther
they
arred
,
and
knewe
not
what
was
suffycyente
to
lede
to
eternall
life
:
or
these
dreamers
of
Purgatory
arre
.
For
the
one
goeth
as
contrary
in
this
article
,
to
the
other
,
as
black
is
contrarye
vnto
whyte
:
and
the
catholycke
churche
of
Christ
,
to
the
smerm
and
multytude
of
Antichriste
,
and
asfer
from
the
priuatyue
church
of
the
Apostles
,
as
goddes
worde
is
,
from
the
supersticion
of
man
,
and
the
doctryne
and
life
of
S.
Peter
(
that
was
but
a
recorde
of
Christ
,
and
his
doctryne
.
Actu.
1
)
from
the
life
and
doctryne
of
Boniface
the
eyghte
,
whyche
is
wryten
post
sextum
decretalium
:
better
therfore
it
is
to
belyue
with
Saint
Johne
,
and
the
catholycke
churche
,
that
the
deade
be
at
reste
:
then
with
the
scole
of
the
gentles
and
multytude
of
men
to
iudge
them
in
payne
.
But
let
vs
heare
what
more
the
holye
ghost
sayth
vnto
S.
John
.
Their
worckes
folow
them
.
By
thys
texte
we
learne
two
thynges
.
Fyrste
,
howe
these
that
dye
in
the
Lord
be
not
,
nor
canne
not
be
hurte
by
the
obloquye
and
slaunderous
reporte
of
ile
spekers
.
Seing
the
world
for
the
most
part
accompted
the
verye
christianes
of
God
to
be
heretikes
,
&
sedicious
persones
therfore
saith
the
holy
ghost
,
they
depart
hence
with
their
owne
workes
:
which
sayinge
shoulde
cause
vs
to
beare
stronglye
the
peruerse
iudgement
of
the
world
for
the
iudgement
of
God
is
iust
,
and
iudgeth
not
after
the
face
,
but
according
to
the
truth
.
Let
al
vs
therfore
lament
&
bewail
our
sinnes
past
,
presently
begin
a
better
life
,
and
here
after
beware
in
Christ
of
the
like
falle
,
them
let
the
world
say
what
it
wyl
.
The
seconde
doctrine
here
,
of
Saynt
Johne
repugneth
and
ouerthrowethe
the
opynyon
of
manye
ignoraunte
and
supersticious
persones
that
whyles
they
yet
lyue
here
them selues
,
passeth
lytle
,
what
faythe
,
religyon
,
or
workes
commaundyd
by
god
they
do
,
but
in
the
tyme
of
death
they
thinke
to
redeme
all
their
synnes
by
other
mennes
workes
after
deathe
:
with
masse
,
pylgrymayge
,
perdones
and
othere
.
Folyshe
be
they
that
sell
this
abhomynacyon
,
but
more
foules
be
the
byers
seynge
Christe
ones
caste
suche
sellers
oute
of
the
temple
.
But
those
hathe
the
Pope
and
hys
receyued
in
agayne
wyth
both
handes
.
And
as
Chryste
beate
them
oute
wyth
scurges
:
So
the
Pope
and
his
adherences
wyth
whyppe
and
fyre
betyth
as
manye
as
call
the
people
from
thys
merchaundise
,
and
no
meruel
,
for
he
is
Christes
aduersarye
.
Because
therefore
this
erroure
hathe
so
muche
auayled
in
manye
mennes
conscyens
,
that
it
is
verye
diffycyle
to
remoue
it
(
partlye
because
they
that
selie
,
waxe
ryche
by
the
meanes
,
partlye
because
the
marchaundyse
semeth
good
to
the
bier
,
that
trustethe
to
apese
the
ire
of
God
wyth
monye
)
I
wyl
reherse
testymonies
of
the
scripture
to
proue
that
no
man
is
the
better
for
an
other
mannes
worckes
,
when
he
is
dead
.
Christe
Matthei
.
25.
asketh
of
the
same
he
gaue
hys
talentes
vnto
,
accompte
of
the
same
man
agayne
,
for
the
vse
of
hys
talentes
and
there
vnto
constraynythe
eche
of
his
credeatours
.
In
the
same
chapiter
sittynge
in
the
last
iudgement
as
it
were
,
requyrythe
accompt
of
souche
workes
as
were
done
by
them
that
shal
be
iudged
whiles
they
were
yet
alyue
.
I
was
an
hungred
and
ye
gaue
me
mete
,
a
thyrst
and
ye
gaue
me
drinke
:
&
so
forth
,
rede
the
place
.
In
the
olde
testament
and
in
the
newe
is
wryten
manye
tymes
that
the
iuste
God
wyll
yeue
vnto
euerye
man
after
hys
owne
workes
.
So
sayth
S.
Paule
Gal.
6.
and
to
the
Corinth
.
as
he
soweth
so
shall
he
repe
,
and
that
saithe
he
also
.
2.
Corint
.
5.
Euery
man
shall
receaue
as
he
hathe
done
in
hys
bodye
be
it
good
,
or
Ille
.
And
be
myndfull
of
the
fyue
folyshe
virgynes
that
teache
vs
how
dangerous
a
thynge
it
is
to
truste
vnto
boughten
merites
.
When
they
were
waked
out
of
the
slepe
to
go
mete
the
bridegrome
,
&
had
not
oyle
sufficient
in
there
lampes
,
they
went
vnto
there
marchauntes
to
bye
.
But
in
the
meane
tyme
whyles
they
were
agreynge
vpon
the
pryce
the
gate
was
shut
,
&
the
miserable
virgyns
excludyd
,
&
kept
out
from
the
eternall
Joys
.
After
the
same
sort
men
beyng
ignoraunt
of
the
truythe
of
Godes
word
vsith
in
the
tyme
of
there
sicknes
with
the
vnlerned
prystes
.
Whyles
the
miserable
and
afflictyd
sicke
man
is
crucifyed
and
tormentyd
wyth
the
fier
of
hell
in
hys
agony
and
passion
of
deathe
askyng
counsel
of
his
curate
,
when
hys
curate
shuld
perswade
the
sicke
man
to
the
restitution
of
hys
neyghbours
goodes
and
fame
,
yf
ony
suche
wronges
were
commyttyd
,
&
then
perswade
him
of
all
myghtye
godes
mercye
in
Christe
,
in
who
is
bloud
he
foryeuethe
all
offences
Gene.
3.
Esa.
53.
Ephe.
2.
and
makyth
the
synner
more
whitter
then
the
snowe
.
Esa.
1.
then
the
vngodlye
Curate
settythe
forthe
hys
marchaundes
to
sale
:
Messes
,
Ryngyng
,
lightes
,
peregrinations
,
wyth
other
lyke
.
The
wreachyd
syke
man
thoughe
hys
conscience
barith
hym
record
these
thynges
satisfye
not
,
nor
remouyth
the
greatnys
of
hys
temptacion
yet
seinge
he
knowyth
no
better
,
and
hath
lernyd
no
farther
then
the
opynyon
of
man
hathe
taughte
:
he
begynnythe
to
intreat
with
the
priste
vpon
the
pryce
of
hys
marchaundes
and
manye
tymes
before
they
be
fully
at
apoynt
the
byer
&
seller
:
the
poore
sicke
byer
dieth
,
and
the
gate
of
saluation
is
shut
in
,
and
thus
for
the
loste
of
fayuyd
purgatorye
that
the
scripture
of
God
ferith
noman
with
all
,
he
fyndyth
vnfaynyd
hell
(
eternall
damnation
)
from
whense
nether
the
lyuynge
,
nether
the
deed
can
relese
him
.
And
thus
I
wil
yet
adde
incase
there
were
ony
Purgatorye
,
yet
could
not
the
soules
be
delyueryd
by
these
remedys
that
supersticion
hath
prescribyd
seinge
there
remedies
for
the
moste
part
be
blasphemye
agaynst
God
:
as
the
Masse
a
prophanation
of
the
Lordes
supper
,
holye
water
with
other
souche
like
:
&
other
of
there
remedies
be
folyshe
,
&
to
be
mockyd
at
,
as
the
Ryngynge
of
belles
to
ease
the
payne
of
the
deed
with
other
.
I
beseche
you
all
brether
in
the
dere
blud
of
Christe
to
leaue
byinge
of
Godes
grace
,
and
the
merites
of
men
that
cannot
meritte
inough
for
themselues
.
Youre
owne
goodes
thus
be
stowyd
,
shall
worke
your
own
damnation
.
Remembre
thys
sayng
of
Saynct
John
.
There
workes
folowe
them
.
Lyue
here
after
verteuslye
that
ye
maye
dye
godlye
.
He
fyghtithe
not
manfullye
,
that
is
brought
vp
all
wayes
delicatelye
.
In
the
houre
of
deathe
is
lyke
to
be
our
hardyst
assault
&
greatest
danger
.
The
bocke
of
oure
consciens
shal
be
openyd
.
The
deuyll
wyl
agrauat
&
yeue
al
the
strenghe
he
can
to
our
synne
and
will
(
if
god
suffre
him
)
other
extenuat
and
diminishe
the
mercye
of
God
,
or
clene
cause
vs
to
despere
:
hell
then
will
gape
&
open
his
mouth
vpon
vs
.
Make
redy
therfore
whyl
ye
haue
time
for
your selfes
in
the
bloud
of
Christ
and
study
amendement
of
lief
.
Besydes
the
scripture
here
what
S.
August
.
saieth
.
Tract.
49.
super
Jo.
Vnusquisque
cum
causa
sua
dormit
,
&
cum
causa
sua
resurget
.
That
is
.
Euerye
man
slepeth
wyth
hys
owne
cause
,
and
shall
ryse
wyth
hys
owne
cause
.
In
oure
sykenes
let
vs
therfore
do
these
.
2.
thinges
,
reconcile
ourselfes
to
our
neyghbours
.
The
second
,
lette
vs
crye
vnto
the
Lorde
in
Christ
saying
:
I
beleue
remissyon
of
synne
.