The
acquital
or
purgation
of
the
moost
catholyke
Christen
Prince
,
EDwarde
the
.
VI.
Kyng
of
Englande
,
Fraunce
,
and
Irelande
&c.
and
of
the
Churche
of
Englande
refourmed
and
gouerned
vnder
hym
,
agaynst
al
suche
as
blasphemously
and
traitorously
infame
hym
or
the
sayd
Church
,
of
heresie
or
sedicion
.
They
are
gone
to
Baal
Peor
,
and
runne
awaye
from
the
Lorde
to
that
shamefull
Idole
,
and
are
become
as
abominable
as
theyr
louers
.
Ephraim
flyeth
lyke
a
birde
,
so
shall
theyr
glorye
also
.
Ose.
9.
¶
To
the
nobilitie
and
to
the
reste
of
the
charitable
christen
laytie
of
Englande
,
Iohn
Olde
wisheth
grace
and
mercy
from
god
the
father
,
and
from
Iesus
Christ
the
common
and
only
saueour
of
the
worlde
,
with
the
gifte
of
perfite
faithe
&
earnest
repentaunce
.
FOrasmuche
as
the
preachers
in
Englande
now
promoted
and
set
vp
in
throne
by
the
Quenes
highnesse
,
aswell
at
Paules
crosse
as
commonly
in
open
pulpittes
(
in
place
of
Christes
syncere
gospel
)
spewe
out
with
scolding
,
roaring
,
and
railing
,
the
abominable
poison
of
Antichrists
tradiciones
,
as
holsom
medicine
for
the
soul
:
infamyng
therwith
the
order
,
forme
,
and
vse
of
preaching
,
prayer
,
&
administracion
of
the
holy
sacramentes
,
set
furthe
and
exerciced
by
common
autoritie
in
the
churche
of
Englande
refourmed
vnder
the
gouernement
of
the
most
christen
King
and
mayntenour
of
Chrystes
catholyke
faythe
,
King
Edwarde
the
.vi.
and
most
vilie
slaundering
his
famous
father
King
Henry
the
.viii.
for
banyshing
the
violent
vsurped
power
and
supremacie
of
the
Romyshe
auncient
Antichrist
,
for
being
dyuorced
from
his
brothers
knowne
wyfe
,
and
for
takyng
iustly
vpon
him
the
title
&
estate
of
supremacy
incident
and
aperteynyng
(
by
the
vndoubted
ordinaunce
of
God
)
to
his
Regal
office
&
emperiall
crowne
:
So
that
euery
indifferent
harte
enlumyned
eyther
with
the
spirite
of
God
by
the
instruction
of
his
holy
worde
and
gospel
,
or
with
any
common
vnderstanding
of
natural
loue
and
ciuile
duetie
of
obedience
to
his
souerayne
liege
lordes
,
Goddes
lieutenauntes
vnder
Christ
vpon
earthe
,
perceaueth
those
false
prophetes
and
prowde
paunched
praters
to
be
therin
not
only
horrible
blasphemers
of
the
holy
goost
,
enemies
of
christes
crosse
,
tearours
of
his
seameles
coate
,
defylers
of
his
blessed
ordinaunces
,
comptrollers
of
his
holy
Apostles
and
primatyue
true
catholike
churche
,
and
moste
bloody
furious
rauening
wolnes
among
his
sely
shepe
,
but
also
most
harde
harted
heretikes
,
moste
haynous
traitours
against
the
crowne
and
their
countrey
,
most
sedicious
rebelles
against
the
vnitie
of
peace
and
tranquillitie
of
the
realme
,
most
periured
pestilent
papistes
,
and
most
wauering
wethercockes
:
like
as
in
their
further
frutes
they
are
notoryously
knowne
to
be
holowe
harted
hooremongers
,
most
sawcye
shamelesse
sodomites
,
the
manciples
of
myschief
,
and
very
slaues
of
Satan
,
and
(
if
they
repent
not
the
more
spedily
)
the
most
fitte
fyre
brandes
of
the
perpetual
flamyng
fornace
of
hell
.
Albeit
no
fewe
in
Englande
haue
most
faithfully
resisted
the
babling
blasphemye
&
false
forged
fables
of
the
mytred
maskers
and
shauen
swarme
of
shameles
sodomites
,
not
only
in
suffring
honger
,
tolde
,
pouertie
,
vnquietnesse
,
and
paynfull
prysone
,
but
also
in
pacient
bearing
of
the
crosse
of
fyre
,
galowes
&
sweorde
euen
vnto
the
deathe
,
to
the
comforte
and
streynghtenyng
of
Christes
weake
flocke
,
to
the
conuertyng
of
many
that
were
wofully
wrapped
in
popishe
errours
,
and
to
the
confusion
of
the
lusty
railing
reprobates
them selues
and
all
their
trayne
:
Yet
considering
it
the
bounden
duetie
of
euery
true
harted
subiecte
to
defend
with
all
his
possible
power
,
the
innocencie
and
truthe
of
his
natural
souerayne
against
the
traitorous
talke
&
enuious
iniurie
of
railing
reporters
,
and
specially
in
Christes
cause
(
whose
ministers
and
officers
all
Princes
&
Kinges
ar
)
whose
worde
and
lawe
al
chrystianes
are
most
straytly
dette
bounden
not
only
to
embrace
,
with
the
belefe
of
the
harre
,
but
also
to
confesse
it
openly
with
mouthe
a
mydde
mong
the
aduouterous
synfull
generacion
of
rule
and
power
of
this
worlde
,
and
spirituall
wyckednesse
in
heauenly
thinges
:
I
haue
thought
it
no
lesse
than
my
duetie
,
being
a
naturall
englishe
man
,
and
sworne
to
the
loyaltie
and
obedyence
of
those
worthy
famous
christen
kinges
against
the
sodomitical
Syre
of
Rome
,
and
all
forayn
powers
(
as
all
those
periured
wetherrockes
the
shauen
sorcerers
were
)
to
answerre
the
forsworne
swarme
and
rable
of
railing
rutterkines
,
in
defense
and
purgacion
of
christes
catholike
flocke
,
And
now
folowyng
his
moste
godly
and
singular
good
example
(
and
vsyng
the
helpe
,
ordre
,
and
almoste
the
very
wordes
of
a
certayn
notable
profounde
learned
Pastour
,
who
hath
done
the
same
in
latine
,
in
defence
and
purgation
of
the
christen
gospellike
flocke
&
churche
committed
to
hys
spiritual
charge
)
seyng
I
am
barred
out
of
place
and
tyme
(
as
an
abiecte
out
of
my
natural
countrey
)
so
that
I
can
not
possibly
answere
to
all
theyr
odious
obiections
in
ordre
&
one
by
one
singularly
by
them selues
,
I
shal
yet
by
the
helpe
of
God
,
do
myn
endeauour
to
declare
and
set
before
all
mennes
eyes
(
by
the
waye
of
translation
,
rather
myne
owne
edicion
)
that
whyche
is
moste
chief
and
generall
mater
in
thys
cause
,
wyth
the
moste
cleare
and
playne
argumentes
that
I
can
:
that
is
to
wete
,
that
the
Churche
of
Englande
refourmed
and
gouerned
vnder
Kyng
Edwarde
the
.vi.
was
no
heretical
,
schismatical
,
nor
sedicious
Church
:
and
that
all
other
Churches
embraceyng
the
Gospel
in
assemblable
wyse
,
are
no
heretical
nor
schismatical
Churches
,
but
the
vndenyable
churche
of
Iesus
Christ
bothe
true
,
faythfull
and
catholike
.
Wherfore
I
beseche
you
ryght
honourable
lordes
,
ryght
worshipfull
gentilmen
,
and
the
rest
of
my
charytable
chrysten
countreymen
,
for
the
loue
and
loyaltye
the
you
bare
and
owed
to
your
most
christen
and
moste
louyng
souerayne
liege
lorde
and
maister
Kyng
Edwarde
the
.vi.
reade
or
heare
thys
simple
shorte
treatyse
paciently
and
gentlye
,
inasmuche
as
I
shal
do
my
diligence
as
euidentlye
and
in
as
fewe
wordes
as
I
possibly
can
,
to
speake
not
of
all
thynges
,
that
myght
be
alleged
in
thys
behalfe
,
but
suche
reasons
onely
,
as
chiefly
and
principally
concerne
thys
present
cause
.
The
fyrst
Chaptre
.
FYrst
where
Christ
our
Lorde
sayeth
,
Melito
,
Origene
,
and
Eusebius
Caesariensis
,
and
of
the
Latines
Cipriane
and
Ierome
haue
affirmed
by
theyr
owne
hande
wrytynges
,
to
be
taken
and
reputed
of
the
auncient
fathers
,
yea
euen
from
the
begynnyng
,
for
the
vndoubted
true
Canonical
scriptures
.
¶
The
seconde
Chapter
.
AS
touching
the
truthe
and
perfyte
integritye
of
these
bokes
,
De
doctrina
Christiana
,
he
saythe
:
Latini
homines
&
duabus
alijs
ad
scripturarum
diuinarum
cognitionem
opus
habent
,
Hebraea
scilicet
&
Graeca
,
vt
ad
exemplaria
praecedentia
recurratur
,
si
quam
dubitationem
attulerit
latinorum
interpretum
infinita
varietas
.
Latine
men
(
sayeth
he
)
had
nede
of
two
other
tongues
also
to
the
perfyte
knowlege
of
holy
scripture
,
that
is
to
saye
,
the
Hebrue
and
Greke
,
that
they
maye
haue
recourse
vnto
the
original
copyes
,
in
case
the
infinite
diuersytye
of
latine
interpretours
haue
caused
any
doubt
Thus
muche
saithe
Austen
,
whyche
hathe
taught
vs
to
be
more
fauourable
vnto
the
sondry
translaciones
of
the
Bible
,
and
to
iudge
more
purely
of
the
authentike
boke
being
written
in
hys
owne
language
,
than
those
mennes
wonted
maner
is
,
whych
takyng
vpon
them
to
haue
the
holy
goost
,
bynde
all
the
churche
vniuersally
vnto
the
common
receaued
latine
translacien
contrary
to
the
iudgement
of
all
the
auncient
doctours
of
the
churche
:
and
condemine
all
godlye
and
faythfull
interpretours
of
the
Bible
fowlly
of
ingratitude
.
¶
The
.iii.
Chapiter
.
We
of
the
churche
of
England
refourmed
and
gouerned
vnder
Kyng
Edwarde
the
The
,
iiii
.
Chapter
.
ALso
where
S.
The
menyng
of
the
scripture
.
2.
Pe.
1.
Petre
pronounceth
in
playne
wordes
,
that
propherye
,
that
is
to
saye
,
the
declared
scripture
was
not
brought
by
the
wyl
of
man
,
but
the
holy
men
of
God
beyng
enforced
spake
as
the
holye
Goost
taught
them
,
and
that
therfore
the
scripture
(
whych
is
the
worde
of
prophecye
)
is
not
of
mannes
priuate
interpretacion
:
furthermore
where
Paule
accordyng
to
S.
The
.v.
Chapter
.
IN
thys
case
we
do
in
no
wyse
reiecte
nor
contemne
the
disputacions
,
reasons
,
That
is
,
we
ought
not
to
repute
any
mennes
reasons
and
sayenges
,
though
they
be
catholyke
and
prayse
worthye
men
,
as
we
ought
to
do
the
canonical
scriptures
:
as
thoughe
we
myght
not
(
sauyng
the
reuerence
due
vnto
those
men
)
improue
and
reiecte
any
thyng
in
theyr
wrytynges
,
yf
we
chaunce
to
fynde
that
they
meane
otherwyse
than
the
truthe
hathe
,
whether
it
be
vnderstanden
by
the
helpe
of
God
of
vs
or
of
others
.
As
I
am
in
the
wrytynges
of
other
,
suche
wolde
I
haue
to
be
vnderstanders
of
myne
.
The
same
S.
Austen
dothe
more
largely
expounde
thys
hys
iudgement
in
his
epistle
to
S.
Ierome
,
&
in
the
5.
chap.
of
his
.
11.
boke
Contra
Faustum
,
and
in
hys
.
48.
epistle
Ad
Vincentium
,
and
in
the.
3.
chap.
of
hys
.
2.
boke
,
De
Baptismo
Donatistas
.
Furthermore
he
reasoneth
vpon
generall
Counsailles
wyth
Maximinus
bishop
of
the
Arianes
in
hys
.
3.
boke
,
and
among
other
thinges
sayeth
:
Sed
nunc
non
ego
Nicenum
,
nec
tu
debes
Ariminense
,
tanque
praeiudicaturus
,
proferre
consilium
:
nec
ego
huius
au
thoritate
,
nec
tu
illius
detineris
:
scripturarum
authoritatibus
non
quorumque
propriis
,
sed
vtrisque
communibus
testibus
,
res
cum
re
,
caussa
cum
caussa
,
ratio
cum
ratione
concertet
.
But
now
ought
not
I
(
sayeth
s
.
Austen
)
to
allege
the
Counsail
of
Nice
,
nor
thou
the
counsail
of
Arimine
,
as
though
to
haue
that
vpperhande
ther
by
:
but
by
the
autorities
of
the
scriptures
not
by
euery
mannes
owne
authoritie
,
but
both
sydes
hauyng
common
witnesses
,
let
mater
pleade
wyth
mater
,
cause
wyth
cause
,
&
reason
with
reason
.
Here
you
see
S.
Austen
calleth
vs
from
counsailles
,
yea
euen
from
the
moste
sacred
couunsail
of
Nice
,
vnto
the
autoritie
of
the
scriptures
.
Panormitanus
therfore
(
a
writour
of
late
dayes
)
semeth
not
to
speake
fondly
nor
falsly
,
wher
he
sayeth
,
There
is
more
credence
(
sayeth
he
)
to
be
geuen
to
one
laye
man
that
bringeth
furth
scriptures
,
than
to
a
general
Counsail
,
whych
representeth
the
hole
vniuersal
churche
,
yf
they
bring
not
furth
scriptures
.
Therfore
yf
the
sayenges
or
iudgementes
of
fathers
or
expositions
of
the
scriptures
varye
from
the
canonical
scripture
&
the
rule
of
fayth
,
ther
is
no
cause
why
any
man
should
laye
agaynst
vs
,
that
the
fathers
were
ryght
famous
learned
men
,
singular
holy
men
and
men
of
reuerend
antiquitie
.
For
the
prophetes
and
apostles
of
Christ
were
greater
learned
,
more
holy
,
&
of
more
auncient
antiquitie
than
they
.
Nother
is
ther
any
cause
why
any
man
should
charge
vs
with
the
multitude
of
churches
,
that
haue
agreed
in
thys
or
that
meanyng
,
or
in
thys
or
that
exposition
.
For
the
consent
of
Christes
prophetes
,
Apostles
and
Patriarkes
is
worthy
muche
hygher
reputacion
in
syncere
religion
and
godly
understanding
of
religion
,
manifestly
reuealed
vnto
vs
by
the
scriptures
.
And
yf
a
man
wolde
recken
vs
vp
thus
many
and
thus
many
great
realmes
and
hole
countreyes
that
are
of
thys
iudgement
or
that
,
we
wyl
cheoke
hym
wyth
the
trauailes
of
one
man
,
euen
poore
Paule
,
whych
filled
all
places
full
wyth
the
playne
sense
and
simple
vnderstandyng
of
the
Gospel
from
Ierusalem
and
the
coastes
lyeng
rounde
about
vnto
Illiricum
.
The
.vi.
Chaptre
.
NOtwythstandyng
in
thys
behalfe
I
maye
not
saye
naye
,
Cerdon
,
Mercion
,
and
Manicheus
in
their
fonde
fables
flirted
out
the
mater
.
Also
wher
we
reade
that
God
worketh
al
in
al
thinges
:
the
catholike
sence
of
faith
chargeth
vs
,
that
we
take
not
God
to
be
the
autor
of
synne
.
For
we
bring
and
commytte
synne
(
as
it
were
by
enheritaunce
)
euen
of
our
owne
original
vicious
poisoned
nature
.
And
the
holy
people
(
while
they
lyue
in
this
worlde
)
are
endaungered
to
synne
,
&
are
saued
by
the
mere
mercy
&
free
pardone
of
God
,
&
not
by
theyr
owne
merites
.
Furthermore
where
the
scripture
speaketh
of
God
,
and
calleth
hym
the
Father
,
the
sonne
,
&
the
holy
goost
:
the
catholyke
sense
of
faith
&
of
the
church
byddeth
vs
vnderstand
,
that
God
is
one
in
substaunce
,
&
three
in
persones
.
And
wher
the
scripture
affirmeth
Christ
to
be
very
perfite
God
&
very
perfite
man
:
the
catholike
sense
of
the
church
byddeth
vs
vnderstande
Christ
to
be
&
abyde
in
diuerse
natures
but
not
confused
in
them
selues
,
&
yet
in
one
inseperable
persone
.
Praxeas
and
Sabellius
confounde
&
iomble
the
persones
together
.
Arius
denyeth
the
sonne
to
be
very
God
consubstancial
wyth
the
father
.
Valentinus
denyeth
the
sonne
to
be
very
man
of
al
one
substaunce
wyth
vs
.
Nestorius
disseuereth
hys
persone
.
Eutyches
&
Timotheus
make
the
natures
of
hys
Godhead
&
manheade
al
one
.
But
the
catholike
churche
alwayes
reteyneth
her
owne
true
ryght
vnderstandyng
of
the
scripture
:
whych
for
all
that
the
holy
fathers
in
theyr
written
workes
&
disputacions
against
heresies
haue
declared
&
confirmed
by
that
scriptures
.
For
that
cause
the
holy
fathers
haue
euer
obiected
the
catholyke
mynde
of
the
churche
to
heritikes
,
howbeit
they
dyd
strayght
wayes
confirme
and
declare
the
same
by
the
scriptures
,
and
deduced
it
religiously
out
of
the
chief
principles
of
our
fayth
.
As
I
shal
anone
speake
of
these
maters
more
at
large
.
And
thys
selfe
same
catholyke
sense
&
vnderstandyng
of
the
scriptures
,
the
gospellers
churche
kepeth
diligently
perfite
,
&
sounde
euen
at
thys
daye
,
as
Kyng
Edward
the
.vi.
and
the
churche
of
Englande
dyd
in
hys
tyme
.
The
.vii.
Chapter
.
THerfore
the
gospellers
churche
dothe
not
cal
euery
one
at
auenture
(
tagge
&
ragge
)
to
be
ministers
of
Goddes
holy
worde
,
The
lyke
ordre
was
appointed
&
set
furthe
by
kyng
Edwarde
the
.vi.
to
hys
churche
by
hys
publyke
commission
&
commaundement
,
onely
the
fault
of
not
executyng
the
same
was
in
some
of
hys
corrupte
doublefaced
dreamyng
counsailours
,
and
traiterous
harted
Popishe
Bishoppes
and
ordinaries
,
by
whom
the
vertuous
good
Kyng
was
deluded
.
And
so
in
thys
mater
againe
we
are
most
farre
of
from
the
heretikes
churche
by
al
meanes
.
For
the
heretykes
(
bothe
Papistical
and
Anabaptistical
)
lyke
as
they
renne
whan
no
man
sendeth
them
,
nor
haue
any
regarde
to
the
sayd
general
rule
,
inasmuche
as
they
be
a
rule
and
a
lawe
to
them selues
,
euen
so
maye
they
in
no
wyse
abyde
any
reformacion
or
correction
.
¶
The
.8
.
Chapiter
.
We
and
oure
Gospellers
churches
do
beleue
and
religiously
embrace
that
only
and
eternal
couenaunt
that
God
made
to
Adam
,
El
Saddai
,
a
myghty
strong
God
,
euery
where
present
and
omnisufficiently
fillyng
all
wyth
all
good
thynges
.
Walke
before
me
and
be
perfite
,
and
I
shal
rayse
vp
,
that
is
,
I
shal
repayre
my
couenant
betwene
me
and
thee
,
and
betwene
me
and
thy
sede
after
thee
in
theyr
generations
with
an
euerlastyng
couenaunt
,
that
I
may
be
thy
God
&
thy
sedes
after
thee
.
Al
these
sayenges
we
applye
also
vnto
vs
,
Our
churches
do
religiously
embrace
the
most
holy
tables
of
thys
eternal
couenaunt
,
These
tables
(
I
saye
)
that
were
written
wyth
the
fyngre
of
God
,
and
proclaymed
beforehande
wyth
Goddes
owne
mouth
in
that
great
church
at
the
mount
Synai
,
we
kepe
entier
perfite
,
sounde
&
vncorrupte
:
we
take
awaye
nothyng
,
we
altre
nothyng
,
we
put
to
nothyng
,
we
leaue
out
nothyng
,
we
thrust
in
nothyng
contrarye
to
Christes
mynde
,
we
chaunge
nothynge
at
al.
From
the
botome
of
our
hartes
therfore
we
abhorre
Idolatrye
,
whiche
we
se
also
condemned
so
zelously
and
so
earnestly
of
the
prophetes
and
Apostles
.
And
therfore
we
should
thynke
it
abhominable
wyckednesse
,
in
case
ther
be
sene
in
our
temples
(
dedicated
only
vnto
God
)
any
Images
eyther
of
God
hym selfe
or
of
hys
sayntes
,
muche
more
of
prophane
men
or
women
.
S.
Paule
reasonyng
with
the
most
wyttye
learned
Brekes
of
Athenes
,
Lactancius
,
scholemaister
)
but
ther
is
no
religion
,
whersoeuer
an
ymage
is
.
And
S.
Austen
in
hys
Cataloge
,
wherin
he
rehearceth
al
the
heresies
of
hys
tyme
,
reckoneth
among
them
,
one
Marcella
,
a
woman
of
Carpocratia
,
whych
worshipped
the
ymages
of
Iesus
Christ
,
of
Paule
,
of
Pythagoras
and
of
Homere
,
wyth
makyng
addracion
and
incensing
to
them
.
For
the
holy
martir
S.
Ireneus
in
the
24.
chap.
of
hys
fyrst
boke
Contra
haereses
reporteth
that
the
heretikes
called
Gnostici
dyd
worship
the
expresse
lyuely
painted
ymage
of
our
saueour
Christ
,
the
paterne
wherof
they
sent
vnto
Pilate
the
lieutenaunt
of
Iewrie
who
founde
the
meanes
to
haue
Christ
,
set
furthe
(
as
an
heathen
man
)
by
ymage
lyke
vnto
hym selfe
whan
he
was
alyue
,
by
singular
connyng
payntours
and
caruers
.
And
yet
that
bishop
and
martir
inueyed
to
the
vttermost
of
his
power
agaynst
that
ymage
,
whyche
the
Gnostici
set
so
muche
price
by
:
But
thys
Bishop
was
not
a
seuere
earnest
persecutour
and
enemye
of
ymages
and
ymage
seruice
alone
:
for
it
is
knowen
to
all
men
what
Epiphanius
the
Bishop
of
Salamine
Cyprus
dyd
,
Epiphanius
also
sawe
a
vaile
hanging
in
a
certain
churche
dore
stained
and
paynted
,
and
hauyng
an
ymage
as
it
hade
ben
of
Christ
orsom
saynt
.
But
he
plucked
it
by
the
ende
,
In
tomo
Hiero.
3.
fo.
73.
b
and
rent
it
downe
thinking
it
vnworthy
that
the
image
of
a
man
should
heng
in
the
churche
of
Christ
,
contrary
(
as
he
saithe
playnly
)
to
the
autoritie
of
the
scriptures
.
And
he
exhorteth
Iohn
bishop
of
Ierusalem
,
to
charge
the
elders
&
ministers
of
that
place
,
the
they
should
heng
vp
no
such
vailes
,
whych
come
against
the
religion
of
Christ
.
For
he
sayd
it
was
more
besemyng
the
duetie
of
a
bishop
,
to
see
that
such
scrupulositie
(
for
so
he
termeth
the
vse
of
images
in
temples
)
should
be
taken
out
of
the
waye
,
whych
is
not
worthy
of
the
churche
of
Christ
.
Now
ther
is
no
good
grounde
for
the
papistes
to
obiecte
vnto
vs
the
sentences
and
decrees
of
Gregorie
B.
of
Rome
,
Damascene
the
greke
wrytour
(
Bardiners
great
clearke
)
and
of
the
seuenth
Synode
,
whych
they
call
the
Synode
of
Nice
,
agaynst
these
so
cleare
and
so
substauncial
authorities
.
For
these
that
I
haue
alleged
are
of
muche
more
auncientie
&
certayntie
than
theyrs
be
.
Therfore
who
so
euer
reporteth
vs
to
be
heretikes
,
bycause
we
lacke
ymages
,
let
them
fyrst
proue
the
lawe
of
god
heresie
,
let
them
prone
the
testimonies
&
iudgementes
of
the
Prophetes
and
Apostles
heresie
,
and
let
them
proue
the
sayenges
and
doynges
of
Ireneus
,
Tertullian
,
Lactantius
,
Epiphanius
,
Austen
,
and
Ierome
to
be
heresie
,
and
whan
they
haue
done
so
,
let
them
com
and
condemne
vs
of
heresie
also
.
And
so
they
wyl
do
one
day
,
whan
they
can
.
But
yf
they
spare
them
,
let
them
be
good
to
vs
also
,
Now
wil
we
returne
to
our
purpose
.
Our
churche
(
called
the
gospellers
churche
)
dothe
religiously
holde
and
confesse
that
most
excellent
and
most
true
godly
belief
called
Symbolum
apostolicum
or
the
apostles
Crede
.
S.
Cipriane
in
the
exposicion
of
thys
apostles
Crede
saythe
,
that
this
greke
worde
Simbolum
is
a
declaracion
,
a
collacion
or
a
gatheryng
of
sondry
maters
together
into
one
forme
.
And
for
thys
cause
thys
same
declaracion
is
set
and
compacte
together
by
conference
of
the
apostles
doctrine
,
that
therby
it
myght
be
knowne
,
who
confessed
Christ
truly
according
to
the
rules
of
the
apostles
.
The
holy
Martir
Ireneus
after
the
rehearsal
of
the
apostles
Crede
,
saythe
:
Li.
con●
haereses
.
Ca.
3.
Forasmuche
as
the
church
dispersed
throughout
the
hole
vniuersal
worlde
hathe
receaued
thys
confession
and
Crede
,
it
obserueth
it
diligently
,
as
though
the
hole
churche
were
dwellyng
all
in
one
house
,
and
preacheth
and
confesseth
it
after
all
one
consonaunt
sort
,
as
if
al
the
churche
had
but
one
mouthe
.
For
albeit
the
speches
in
the
worlde
be
vnlike
,
yet
the
vertue
and
power
of
the
declaring
therof
,
is
but
all
one
&
the
self
same
one
.
And
nother
the
language
that
is
in
Spayne
,
nor
the
speche
that
is
in
Fraunce
,
ne
the
languages
that
are
in
the
east
countreyes
,
ne
yet
the
Egipcians
tongue
,
nor
the
Lybianes
speche
,
nother
the
languages
that
are
vsed
in
the
mydle
partes
of
the
world
:
but
as
the
sunne
of
goddes
makyng
is
but
one
and
the
selfe
same
one
in
all
the
hole
vniuersall
worlde
,
so
dothe
the
light
&
preaching
of
the
truthe
shyne
euery
wher
&
lighteneth
all
folkes
that
are
willing
to
com
to
the
knowlage
of
the
truthe
.
And
nother
the
bishop
of
the
churche
hym self
that
hath
the
best
vtteraunce
,
speaketh
any
thyng
elles
but
these
articles
,
nother
doth
he
that
is
of
slenderer
vtteraunce
,
speake
any
lesse
.
For
seyng
ther
is
but
one
and
the
selfe
same
one
faythe
,
nother
dothe
he
that
is
hable
to
vttre
it
at
large
,
speake
any
more
,
nor
he
that
can
not
vttre
the
mater
so
plenteously
,
speake
any
lesse
.
Thus
muche
hath
Ireneus
.
Therfore
it
is
most
certainly
out
of
perauenture
,
that
the
ful
forme
of
belefe
,
is
most
fully
comprehended
in
the
Apostles
Crede
,
and
he
that
constauntly
and
purely
continueth
therin
to
the
ende
,
shall
doubtles
obteyne
euerlastyng
lyfe
,
as
Athanasius
sayeth
:
who
so
euer
wyl
be
saued
,
before
al
thinges
it
is
necessary
that
he
hold
the
catholike
faythe
,
whych
fayth
except
euery
one
doth
kepe
holly
and
vndefyled
,
wyth
out
doubt
he
shall
peryshe
euerlastyngly
.
Nother
dothe
Christes
churche
of
the
gospellers
cleaue
supersticiously
&
frowardly
vnto
the
wordes
,
neclecting
the
holy
sense
&
ryght
meaning
:
and
therfore
it
ioyfully
receaueth
all
declaracions
and
conferences
of
faith
(
called
in
our
common
speche
,
Credes
)
whether
they
be
set
furthe
by
the
holy
fathers
or
true
faithful
counsailes
,
though
in
mo
and
more
copious
wordes
,
yet
nothyng
varieng
in
sentences
nor
conteynyng
any
contrarye
mater
.
Therfore
we
receaue
and
reuerence
the
Crede
of
Nice
&
of
Athanasius
,
and
the
seconde
set
furth
Crede
,
called
Symbolum
Constantinopolitanum
,
and
all
other
good
definitions
of
faythe
agreing
to
those
same
.
And
so
we
reproue
and
reiecte
al
heresies
,
and
holde
accursed
al
heretikes
condemned
by
the
holy
scripture
eyther
in
the
Counsailes
or
out
of
the
counsailes
.
And
so
we
condemne
Symon
Magus
wyth
al
Symonye
,
Basilides
,
Valentinus
,
Marcion
,
Braxeas
,
Artemon
,
Montanus
,
Nouatus
,
Sabellius
,
Appollinaris
,
Arius
,
Eunomius
,
Macedonius
,
Manicheus
,
Nestorius
,
Eutyches
,
Priscillianus
,
Donatus
,
Pelagius
,
Heluidius
,
the
Monothelites
,
and
all
other
of
the
lyke
leuen
.
So
that
the
churche
of
gospellers
is
not
a
congregacion
of
heretikes
,
nor
a
swarme
of
schismatikes
,
as
the
Papistes
and
settaries
do
wyckedly
and
falsly
lye
vpon
vs
,
but
a
true
christian
and
catholike
churche
of
Iesus
Christ
.
The
.x.
Chapter
.
THe
very
cyuile
lawe
it self
doth
also
recken
vs
among
the
catholikes
.
For
the
Emperours
Gratianus
,
Valentinianus
,
and
Theodotius
wrytyng
to
the
people
of
Constantinopole
geue
them
thys
decreed
commaundement
.
We
wil
that
al
people
whom
our
imperial
clemencie
hathe
the
gouernement
of
,
lyue
in
that
religion
,
whych
S
Petre
the
apostle
set
furthe
to
the
Romanes
,
as
the
religion
that
he
him self
maketh
mencion
of
,
beareth
recorde
euen
vnto
thys
daye
:
the
whych
it
is
euident
that
bishop
Damasus
&
Petre
bishop
of
Alexandria
(
a
man
of
apostolike
holynesse
)
did
also
folowe
.
That
is
to
saye
,
that
we
should
according
to
the
apostles
discipline
&
doctrine
of
the
Gospel
,
beleue
one
Godhead
of
the
father
and
the
sonne
and
the
holy
gost
vnder
like
Maiestie
and
holy
Trinitie
.
Those
that
folowe
this
lawe
,
we
commaunde
to
take
vpon
them
and
embrace
the
name
of
christian
catholikes
:
and
the
rest
as
(
witles
and
madde
folkes
)
we
iudge
to
beare
the
infamye
of
hereticall
learnyng
.
&c.
If
any
man
be
ignoraunt
what
was
the
faythe
that
the
holy
fathers
Damasus
and
Peter
B.
of
Alexandria
professed
,
let
hym
learne
of
the
ecclesiastical
histories
.
They
varied
not
one
tote
from
the
apostolike
and
Nicene
Crede
.
Therfore
seing
we
beleue
them
wyth
all
our
hartes
,
we
are
purged
cleane
from
the
slaunder
of
heresie
,
which
our
aduersaries
goo
about
wickedly
to
discredite
and
blemyshe
vs
withall
.
But
I
knowe
well
inough
,
they
wyl
charge
vs
,
that
we
doo
not
only
not
receaue
the
tradiciones
of
the
apostles
,
but
also
contemne
them
and
vtterlyreiecte
them
:
and
that
therfore
it
is
but
lost
labour
for
vs
to
pretende
an
vncorrupte
sounde
faythe
,
specially
forsomuche
as
the
imperfection
of
the
doctrine
of
the
apostolike
scripture
is
most
fully
perfyted
by
vnwrytten
tradicion
by
worde
of
mouthe
,
&
for
that
cause
the
vnwrytten
tradicions
to
be
of
equal
authoritie
wyth
the
apostolyke
holy
scriptures
.
And
seyng
we
reiecte
the
tradicions
,
it
foloweth
that
our
doctrine
and
faith
is
not
perfyte
.
Now
in
asmuche
as
our
aduersaris
the
Papistes
make
these
the
toppe
and
roote
of
al
theyr
maters
,
as
they
them selues
reporte
in
theyr
open
decrees
and
bokes
:
we
wyl
talke
a
lytel
(
as
sortenesse
of
tyme
shall
suffre
)
of
the
traditions
of
Apostles
&
Fathers
.
I
fynde
thys
worde
Tradicion
many
tymes
in
the
holy
Apostles
wrytynges
.
Contra
Valentinianos
,
sayeth
:
we
knewe
not
how
our
saluacion
was
bestowed
vnto
vs
by
any
other
men
,
than
those
by
whome
the
gospel
came
vnto
vs
:
whyche
they
at
that
time
preached
vnto
vs
,
and
after
ward
by
the
wyl
of
God
they
delyuered
vnto
vs
in
scripture
,
that
is
,
in
wrytyng
,
to
be
the
foundacion
&
piller
of
our
fayth
.
Nother
can
we
safely
say
,
what
they
preached
,
before
they
had
parfyte
knowledge
.
And
Papias
in
Eusebius
Caesariensis
sayeth
:
Eccl.
histo●●i
.
3.
Ca
,
●lt
.
Marke
(
whan
he
was
Petres
interpretour
)
dyd
diligently
put
in
writyng
what
so
euer
he
kept
in
memorie
,
as
necessitie
required
.
For
thys
one
thyng
he
thought
vpon
,
that
he
would
leaue
out
nothyng
that
he
had
hearde
.
The
Apostles
therfore
wrote
al
that
was
necessarie
vnto
the
saluacion
of
al
faythful
beleuers
:
As
Iohn
the
Apostle
reporteth
in
the
ende
of
hys
gospel
most
manyfestly
the
he
hath
done
.
Therfore
we
are
certainly
assured
that
we
haue
the
declaracion
or
tradicion
,
which
the
apostles
taught
concernyng
the
saluacion
of
faythful
beleuers
,
sufficiently
and
fully
comprehended
in
the
scriptures
.
Touchyng
thys
tradicion
the
apostle
Paule
making
mencion
in
the
furst
to
the
Corinthianes
,
sayth
,
Eusebius
reporteth
,
that
the
olde
fathers
:
vnderstode
these
wordes
of
Paule
(
according
to
my
gospel
)
of
the
gospel
of
Luke
.
And
in
dede
Paule
hym selfe
in
the
.1
.
and
15.
Chapters
to
the
Romanes
,
testifyeth
that
he
preached
the
Gospell
to
the
Romaynes
in
hys
wrytten
epistle
plaine
to
al
mens
vnderstandyng
.
For
in
his
epistles
he
treateth
of
the
mater
more
briefly
beyng
absent
,
whyche
when
he
was
present
wyth
them
he
had
taught
more
at
large
,
reformyng
by
his
written
epistles
those
errours
in
the
churche
,
whych
the
false
Apostles
had
sowed
abroad
,
the
tyme
while
he
was
absent
:
and
admonished
al
men
of
theyr
duetie
,
and
refourmed
yf
any
thyng
were
diminished
.
And
for
asmuche
as
ther
remayne
foure
consonaunt
bokes
of
the
Gospel
,
and
fourtene
Epistles
of
Paule
(
as
I
wyll
not
speake
of
other
Apostles
epistles
)
who
could
doubt
,
that
the
tradicion
or
doctrine
of
the
Apostles
is
not
fully
delyuered
and
registred
vnto
vs
?
In
the
Actes
of
the
Apostles
we
reade
that
Luke
made
mencion
of
the
Apostles
decrees
,
Surely
thys
decree
(
whych
is
a
right
Apostolike
decree
in
dede
)
dothe
by
al
meanes
contrarye
the
tradicions
falsely
called
the
Apostles
tradicions
,
wherwith
faythful
christians
are
greuously
burthened
in
the
churche
at
this
present
.
For
the
true
Apostles
of
Christ
saye
:
It
semeth
good
to
the
holy
goost
and
vs
,
to
charge
you
wyth
nomore
.
Lo
,
to
charge
you
wyth
no
more
,
saye
they
.
For
Paules
aduersaries
,
against
whom
the
hole
conuocacion
house
of
the
Apostles
and
elders
geueth
sentence
,
Loke
Socrates
in
eccle.
histo.
Li.
15.
ca.
22.
contended
that
christians
must
nedes
be
circumcised
,
and
obserue
the
lawe
of
Moses
.
And
made
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
autors
of
that
theyr
false
doctrine
.
As
in
our
tyme
also
many
vnder
the
pretence
of
the
Apostles
tradicions
,
do
laye
heauy
burthens
vpon
free
faythful
folkes
neckes
wyth
opinions
and
ceremonies
.
But
what
is
the
Apostles
sentence
of
them
?
We
gaue
them
(
saye
they
)
no
suche
commaundement
.
They
went
furth
from
vs
,
but
they
were
not
sent
of
vs
.
They
are
distourbours
of
the
congregacions
.
Out
of
the
whyche
apostolike
sentence
Saint
,
Paule
dyd
doubtles
borowe
hys
wordes
,
whyche
we
reade
in
the
begynnyng
of
hys
epistle
to
the
Galathians
,
in
thys
wyse
:
In
the
.15
.
Now
as
touchyng
the
fathers
,
Contra
Valentinianos
,
sayeth
:
whan
heretikes
be
reproued
by
the
scriptures
,
they
fal
straight
wayes
to
accusyng
of
the
scriptures
,
as
though
they
were
not
wel
,
or
were
not
of
autoritie
,
and
that
they
be
spoken
after
diuerse
vnderstandinges
,
&
that
suche
as
knowe
not
Tradicions
,
can
not
fynde
the
truthe
by
the
scriptures
.
For
tradicions
were
not
geuen
in
wryting
but
by
lyuely
worde
of
mouthe
.
Thus
muche
sayeth
Ireneus
.
And
what
don
the
Papistes
obiecte
elles
vnto
vs
nowe
a
dayes
,
when
we
laye
for
vs
most
euident
cleare
scriptures
?
They
are
come
to
suche
a
wyckednesse
and
shamelesnesse
,
that
they
sticke
not
to
pronounce
in
theyr
open
bokes
,
that
the
chief
fountaine
of
al
errours
is
to
receaue
nothing
but
only
that
whych
is
conteyned
in
the
scriptures
.
For
they
saye
,
ther
is
an
other
kynde
of
doctrine
besydes
,
whych
they
cal
tradicions
,
wherin
yf
a
man
be
not
wel
skilled
,
he
can
nother
go
vpryghtly
in
the
scriptures
,
nor
haue
any
perfection
or
certaintie
in
the
onely
scriptures
.
Whych
sayeng
,
as
it
is
not
spoken
without
great
reproche
of
the
eternal
truthe
,
euen
so
they
take
no
hede
,
but
receaue
those
tradicions
also
at
auenture
wythout
weyeng
of
them
,
which
the
holy
fathers
themselues
ser
out
for
the
Apostles
tradicions
.
For
I
see
that
the
tradicions
which
they
set
furthe
,
be
not
of
al
one
kynde
.
For
ther
are
,
whyche
they
cal
the
fathers
tradicions
,
but
not
directly
the
Apostles
tradicions
.
Ther
are
also
whych
they
wolde
haue
to
seme
all
together
apostolike
tradicions
.
And
ther
is
a
diuersitie
in
these
also
.
For
ther
are
some
that
be
vtterly
historical
tradicions
,
that
rehearse
what
Christ
,
&
what
Christes
Apostles
haue
sayd
or
done
:
of
whyche
sorte
Eusebius
reporteth
that
Papias
rekoned
vp
many
.
Eccl.
histo
i.
3.
ca.
39.
And
the
same
wrytour
clouteth
in
other
maters
,
as
though
they
had
ben
tolde
hym
by
lyuely
worde
of
mouthe
,
and
certayn
straunge
parables
and
doctrines
of
our
saueour
,
wyth
dyuers
flyme
flammes
besydes
.
And
concernyng
the
tradicion
of
Iohn
the
Apostle
touchyng
the
age
of
our
Lorde
Iesus
Christ
(
whych
Ireneus
speaketh
of
)
he
that
seeth
not
it
to
be
a
vayne
flamme
flewe
,
The
tradicion
of
Policarpus
,
Eccl.
hist.
li.
3.
ca.
28
that
Iohn
ranne
awaye
from
the
bayne
,
wherin
Cerinthus
the
heretike
was
,
least
he
should
fal
,
agreeth
gayly
with
the
scripturely
doctrine
of
the
Apostles
.
Let
vs
therfore
in
thys
kynde
of
tradicions
holde
that
is
to
be
holden
in
al
pointes
,
proue
al
thynges
,
holde
that
whych
is
good
.
Ther
are
also
tradicions
set
furthe
of
rites
and
opinions
,
De
peccat
.
meritis
&
remiss
.
li.
1.
ca.
20.
but
yet
they
are
not
in
al
pointes
lyke
,
nother
obserued
nor
receaued
of
al
men
S.
Typriane
and
S.
Austen
reherse
a
tradicion
,
wherby
the
communion
was
vsed
to
be
ministred
vnto
yong
chyldren
vnder
bothe
kyndes
,
as
a
necessary
mater
vnto
saluacion
:
but
who
medleth
wyth
that
tradicion
at
thys
daye
?
Epiphanius
contra
Aerium
wryteth
it
to
be
a
tradicion
of
the
Apostles
,
that
folkes
should
.vi.
dayes
before
Easter
eate
nothyng
but
bread
and
salt
,
Eccl.
hist.
li.
5.
ca.
24.
but
Ireneus
reporteth
that
all
churches
obserued
not
that
,
as
Eusebius
telleth
the
tale
.
In
an
other
place
it
was
said
,
Damaseen
Ang.
de
Bap.
contra
.
Dona.
li.
2.
ca.
7.
l●●
.
ca.
42
li.
5
ca.
23
&
de
cura
pro
mort
.
that
the
Apostles
commaunded
the
Passeouer
to
be
celebrated
after
the
maner
of
the
Iewes
.
But
Socrates
the
historie
writer
in
the
.22
.
chap.
of
the
.5
.
boke
Eccl.
histo
.
speaketh
agaynst
them
.
Epiphanius
Contra
Valesianos
,
sayeth
that
the
wyueles
lyfe
of
ministers
,
is
a
tradicion
.
In
an
other
place
it
is
read
that
the
Apostles
commaunded
by
tradicion
,
that
folkes
should
pray
and
offre
for
the
deade
:
whyche
onlesse
it
be
vnderstanden
of
thankes
gening
,
who
is
it
,
Contra
valentinianos
,
Ca.
2.
&
.3
.
and
hys
.3
.
boke
the
.4
.
chap.
In
bothe
places
he
dothe
agreably
rehearse
the
articles
of
fayth
in
ordre
one
by
one
,
&
whan
he
hath
done
,
he
plainly
calleth
thys
profession
of
the
faithe
,
a
tradicion
.
Of
thys
tradiction
spake
Constantine
the
myghty
Emperour
in
his
Epistles
,
whyche
Eusebius
maketh
reporte
of
almoste
in
the
ende
of
hys
.3
.
boke
De
vita
Conslantini
.
Thus
farre
therfore
the
gospellers
churches
wythout
any
busynesse
embrace
the
tradicion
that
I
haue
now
spoken
of
:
but
as
for
other
tradicions
,
whether
they
be
Apostles
or
fathers
tradicions
,
they
lay
them
to
the
rule
of
Goddes
worde
,
&
as
they
agree
or
disagree
,
they
eyther
reiecte
them
or
receaue
them
,
accordyng
to
Christ
our
Lordes
owne
commaundement
,
Math.
15
.
and
Col.
2
.
Wherof
I
haue
already
spoken
before
.
And
I
pray
you
,
wherin
thynke
you
the
gospellers
churche
offendeth
in
thys
behalfe
?
Herein
it
hath
nothing
adoo
wyth
heretikes
,
who
hade
deuised
to
teache
false
opinions
vnto
suche
as
were
to
symple
,
vnder
pretense
of
tradicions
,
and
contrarywyse
to
teare
in
pieces
,
corrupt
,
yea
and
to
denye
and
stampe
vnder
fote
the
true
tradicion
,
that
is
,
the
Apostles
Trede
.
In
thys
behalfe
I
coulde
dryng
furthe
a
great
deale
against
our
aduersaries
,
who
recken
thys
predense
of
tradicions
of
muche
force
agaynst
the
very
scriptures
and
the
simplicitie
of
tradicion
,
yea
&
for
the
affirmyng
or
confutyng
of
any
mater
what
so
euer
it
be
.
But
I
wyl
kepe
thys
in
store
tyl
a
better
and
a
further
leasure
.
Hitherto
I
haue
treated
as
briefly
as
I
could
,
of
the
most
certain
and
pfytest
principles
of
the
Christian
faith
.
Wherby
I
trust
it
dothe
specially
appeare
,
the
the
Englyshe
Churche
vnder
King
Edward
the
.vi.
&
the
rest
of
the
gospellers
churches
haue
deuysed
no
newe
doctrine
of
fayth
,
but
enibrace
&
confesse
the
olde
faythe
wyth
all
theyr
hartes
:
and
that
they
reiecte
no
point
of
syncere
doctrine
,
whether
it
be
proued
by
the
scriptures
,
or
by
tradicions
consonaunt
to
the
scriptures
:
and
therfore
we
are
most
farre
of
from
newe
fangled
felowes
,
and
obstinate
heretikes
.
The
.xi.
Chapter
.
SO
the
poore
gospellers
church
beyng
confirmed
by
this
true
doctrine
of
the
true
faythe
,
We
attribute
not
that
vnto
mannes
merites
and
mannes
workes
,
whych
we
knowe
is
due
onely
vnto
fayth
,
naye
,
vnto
Christ
our
redemer
,
and
to
the
fre
grace
of
God
.
Thys
doctrine
of
grace
and
merites
,
of
fayth
and
workes
hath
no
smel
of
heresie
.
And
so
it
eftesones
clearely
appeareth
that
the
gospellers
churche
is
the
true
churche
of
Christ
.
And
if
they
laye
to
our
charge
,
that
our
doctrine
is
iustlye
condemned
,
bicause
we
constauntly
affirme
,
that
man
is
iustifyed
by
only
faythe
:
thys
is
to
answer
them
,
that
we
haue
feyned
no
newe
kynde
of
speakyng
in
thys
behalfe
,
nother
doo
we
alone
affirme
,
that
faythfull
beleuers
are
iustifyed
by
only
faythe
.
For
we
borowed
that
maner
of
speakyng
of
the
very
scriptures
of
the
apostles
and
euangelistes
,
and
of
certain
doctours
of
the
churche
,
that
are
no
heretikes
but
true
catholikes
.
For
I
haue
allready
shewed
playnly
ynough
,
that
we
contende
not
by
thys
our
sayeng
,
that
faythe
is
alone
,
that
is
to
saye
,
vnfruteful
,
The
.xii.
Chapter
.
THe
same
poore
Gospellers
churche
denyeth
not
absolucion
to
such
as
haue
fallen
,
Now
it
appeareth
agayne
in
thys
place
,
that
we
ymagine
no
newe
doctrine
of
penaunce
in
the
churche
of
God
.
It
is
newe
fangled
stuffe
that
is
feyned
of
synnes
to
be
confessed
(
except
a
man
wil
be
damned
)
not
only
to
God
,
but
also
to
hys
owne
prieste
,
by
all
circumstaunces
euen
to
the
vttermost
smal
thoughte
.
It
is
newe
founde
marchaundise
that
is
feyned
of
cases
Papal
and
episcopal
reserued
,
And
on
this
facion
we
reade
that
the
Apostles
vsed
the
keyes
of
the
kyngdome
of
heauen
,
Lactantius
whych
was
neuer
noted
of
errour
in
treating
vpon
penance
,
Therfore
seyng
thys
holsome
medecine
is
not
wanting
in
the
gospellers
churche
,
wherin
desperacion
is
also
singularly
beaten
downe
,
&
sure
hope
faste
fixed
and
confirmed
,
who
can
doubt
that
the
gospellers
churche
is
the
true
churche
of
Christ
?
The
.xiii.
Chapter
.
FVrthermore
ther
is
in
oure
church
brotherly
admonicion
,
Ther
is
two
maner
of
disciplines
,
the
one
of
the
clergie
,
and
the
other
of
the
laitie
.
The
gospellers
churche
by
keping
of
conuocacions
and
other
conuenient
meanes
in
Germany
kepeth
the
cleargie
in
ordre
to
do
theyr
dutie
.
And
so
Kyng
Edwardes
wyl
and
commaundement
was
,
to
haue
hys
cleargie
.
as
for
the
discipline
of
the
laytie
,
it
confisteth
in
good
lawes
,
and
diligent
execucion
of
them
.
And
how
that
is
vsed
among
the
Germanes
,
let
other
men
reporte
:
As
for
me
I
knowe
nothyng
,
but
heare
that
it
is
godlye
handled
.
And
though
al
is
not
so
perfite
as
it
should
be
,
&
that
theyr
sharpe
roughe
censure
dothe
not
thwyte
awaye
all
offenses
at
once
,
yet
euery
good
man
knoweth
that
many
thinges
are
reserued
to
be
plucked
vp
by
the
rootes
in
that
iudgemet
to
come
:
euery
godly
persone
acknowlageth
his
fault
,
and
is
sory
for
it
,
as
often
as
he
dothe
lesse
than
he
perceaueth
the
Lorde
requyreth
hym
to
do
.
I
could
demaunde
of
the
Papistes
,
to
shewe
theyr
discipline
whyche
they
haue
in
theyr
churche
:
but
bycause
I
knowe
them
as
shameles
as
wylde
coltes
wythout
discipline
,
I
hade
rather
defende
the
innocencie
of
the
gospellers
churche
,
wherof
I
am
an
vnworthye
membre
,
than
at
thys
tyme
to
cast
other
men
in
the
tethe
with
theyr
faultes
:
I
leaue
that
to
the
discussyng
of
better
learned
and
fyner
wytted
men
than
I
am
.
Thus
farre
I
trust
the
chief
markes
〈…〉
founde
in
the
poore
gospellers
churche
,
and
therfore
we
haue
nothyng
a
doo
wyth
the
churches
of
heretikes
&
schismatikes
.
The
.xiiii.
Chaptre
.
Ther
is
vsed
and
exercised
in
the
Bospellers
churche
(
and
so
it
was
also
vnder
King
Edwarde
)
the
true
inuocacion
and
callyng
vpon
the
true
almyghty
God
,
with
due
thankes
geuyng
for
the
gyftes
&
benefytes
that
we
haue
and
do
receaue
of
hym
.
And
that
inuocacion
we
kepe
syncere
and
pure
.
For
we
vse
our
vulgare
common
knowen
tongue
in
all
thynges
,
whether
we
syng
,
or
praye
wythout
syngyng
.
For
who
knoweth
not
that
it
is
free
eyther
to
syng
or
not
syng
in
churches
,
as
is
requisite
or
not
requisite
for
the
congregacions
?
We
call
vpon
God
alone
,
our
most
mercyfull
alknowyng
and
almyghty
father
,
yea
and
we
call
vpon
hym
,
as
he
hym selfe
hathe
taught
vs
,
by
Iesus
Christ
our
Lorde
.
As
for
creatures
,
we
call
vpon
none
of
them
,
nother
in
stede
of
the
creatour
nor
wyth
the
creatour
.
We
call
vpon
hym
,
Come
to
me
(
sayeth
Christ
aloude
)
all
ye
that
labour
and
are
heauy
laden
,
What
offence
now
doth
the
gospellers
churche
in
thys
case
,
whych
in
obeyeng
the
preceptes
recorded
in
the
Euangelistes
and
Apostles
wrytynges
,
goeth
the
strayght
hygh
waye
vnto
Christ
,
and
desyreth
to
be
commended
vnto
God
by
his
only
intercession
?
It
is
not
readde
in
any
place
of
the
scriptures
,
that
any
of
the
holy
Apostles
,
whyle
they
lyued
here
vpon
earthe
,
requyred
the
intercession
or
helpe
of
any
Patriarke
,
Prophete
,
or
Martyr
.
They
dyd
all
cal
vpon
God
by
Iesus
Christ
alone
.
Why
should
we
than
folowe
straunge
examples
?
Thys
is
the
true
and
pure
callyng
vpon
God
,
this
is
the
true
seruing
of
God
,
and
a
sacrifice
to
God
most
acceptable
,
Super
epist.
Io.
canonicam
.
1.
Io.
2.
we
haue
an
aduocate
wyth
the
father
Iesus
Christ
the
righteous
,
sayeth
:
Iohn
dronke
the
secretes
of
hydden
mysteries
out
of
the
Lordes
brest
.
He
(
for
al
he
was
suche
a
man
)
sayd
not
,
you
haue
an
aduocate
with
the
father
,
but
we
haue
an
aduocate
.
He
sayd
not
,
you
haue
,
nor
you
haue
Christ
,
but
he
put
in
Christ
&
not
hym selfe
:
and
he
sayd
,
we
haue
,
&
not
you
haue
.
He
rather
put
hym selfe
in
the
nombre
of
synners
,
to
haue
Christe
hys
aduocate
,
than
put
hym selfe
an
aduocate
in
Christes
stede
,
&
be
founde
among
the
proude
damned
.
Brethren
,
we
haue
Iesus
Christ
the
righteous
an
aduocate
wyth
the
father
,
he
is
the
mercye
seate
of
our
synnes
.
He
that
hath
holden
thys
,
hathe
done
no
heresie
:
he
that
hath
holden
thys
,
hath
done
no
schisme
nor
sedicion
.
Thus
sayeth
Austen
.
Than
seyng
we
folow
the
commaundement
of
the
Apostle
,
which
did
nother
heresie
nor
schisme
,
and
seyng
we
call
not
vpon
Iohn
now
lyuyng
wyth
Christ
in
heauen
to
be
our
aduocate
,
but
vpon
Iesus
Christ
alone
,
we
may
not
be
iustly
called
either
heretikes
or
schismatikes
.
The
.xv.
Capter
.
YEt
for
all
thys
the
Gospellers
churche
contemneth
not
the
sayntes
in
heauen
,
We
loue
them
as
brethren
,
we
prayse
them
as
teachers
and
examples
of
faythe
,
we
defende
them
agaynst
railers
and
wycked
wretches
,
as
faythfull
persones
and
worthy
of
eternall
glorye
,
we
acknowlage
them
as
dere
frendes
and
brethrem
of
the
sonne
of
God
,
we
preache
of
them
as
of
the
excellent
instrumentes
of
God
,
by
whome
he
hathe
wrought
bothe
our
saluacion
and
wonderful
weyghtye
great
maters
besydes
.
Now
I
trust
no
man
wyll
saye
,
that
we
are
enemyes
to
the
sayntes
raignyng
wyth
Christ
in
heauen
,
seyng
we
attribute
thus
muche
vnto
them
of
a
syncere
and
reuerent
vnfeyned
hart
,
geuyng
to
God
that
is
Goddes
,
and
to
hys
sayntes
,
that
is
theirs
.
The
.xvi.
Chapter
.
A
Gayn
,
Therfore
the
Churche
of
Englande
vnder
Kyng
Edwarde
the
.vi.
hade
not
,
By
thys
baptisme
we
beleue
that
all
are
baptised
to
be
one
body
throughe
the
spirite
of
Christ
,
So
are
we
therfore
the
true
membres
of
Christes
churche
,
The
.xvii.
Chapter
.
We
do
also
participate
and
fede
of
al
one self
same
table
of
the
Lorde
wyth
all
sayntes
through
out
the
hole
churche
of
Christ
rendring
thankes
for
the
vnspeakeable
benefite
of
our
redemption
.
Drynke
of
thys
all
,
and
communicate
vnder
bothe
kyndes
?
Wyll
our
aduersaries
condemne
vs
of
heresie
bycause
we
worship
Christ
the
sonne
of
God
and
of
Mary
syttyng
on
the
fathers
ryght
hande
,
and
not
hidden
vnder
the
kyndes
of
bread
and
wyne
?
wil
our
aduersaries
condemne
vs
as
heretikes
,
bycause
we
acknowlage
Christ
to
be
the
only
priest
,
and
that
the
one
only
sacrifice
of
hys
body
only
once
offred
vpon
the
crosse
,
is
euer
of
sufficient
&
perfyte
efficacie
in
God
the
fathers
syght
to
clense
the
peoples
synnes
:
and
bycause
we
obserue
the
mystical
supper
for
a
remembraunce
of
the
sacrifice
,
that
was
offred
for
vs
on
the
crosse
once
for
all
?
Than
let
them
furst
condemne
Christ
hym self
,
whych
instituted
these
maters
none
otherwyse
:
let
them
condemne
his
Apostles
,
whyche
haue
taught
vs
so
to
beleue
and
so
to
do
.
But
yf
they
thinke
it
wyckednesse
to
thynke
any
suche
thyng
,
than
let
them
ceasse
to
charge
the
gospellers
church
wyth
the
cryme
of
heresie
,
whych
thynketh
nothyng
herein
,
whych
doth
nothyng
herein
,
but
as
it
hathe
receaued
of
Christ
our
Lorde
hym selfe
,
and
learned
of
hys
holy
Apostles
.
The
.xviii.
Chaptert
THe
Apostle
S.
Petre
speakyng
of
wycked
teachers
,
Obedience
to
Prince
.
&
magistrates
.
2.
Pe.
2.
sayeth
:
They
despyse
autoritie
,
they
are
presumptuous
,
and
stubborne
,
whyche
feare
not
to
rayle
vpon
them
that
excelle
in
honour
.
&c.
we
therfore
abhorryng
that
kynde
of
doctrine
,
&
condemning
that
ambicious
,
stubburne
,
presumptuous
,
and
raylyng
rebellion
of
those
men
,
doo
hartely
honour
Princes
and
magistrates
;
and
teache
all
other
to
doo
the
like
,
allegeing
S.
Petres
lesson
:
Feare
God
,
We
teache
folkes
also
to
flee
ydlenesse
,
The
.xix.
Chapter
.
THe
Apostle
S.
Paule
by
the
holy
spirite
of
God
prophe
cieth
,
The
difference
of
me
ates
.
1.
Timo.
4
that
in
the
later
tymes
ther
shal
come
most
corrupt
men
,
whych
shall
geue
hede
vnto
deceauable
spirites
,
and
do●●●●nes
of
deuilles
,
for
byddyng
mariage
,
and
commaundyng
to
absteyne
from
meates
,
whych
God
hathe
created
to
receaue
wyth
thankes
geuyng
vnto
the
faythful
.
And
so
we
preache
sobre
fastyng
,
and
yet
we
bryng
no
meate
into
an
euil
name
,
but
alwayes
graunt
free
vse
of
meates
.
Howbeit
we
teache
,
that
abstinence
is
to
be
kept
for
a
tyme
,
from
al
meates
,
what
so
euer
we
perceaue
do
make
the
fleshe
ouer
stoute
,
so
that
it
obeyeth
not
vnto
the
spirite
.
As
for
mariage
we
forbidde
it
vnto
none
,
eyther
ordre
or
lawfull
age
,
〈◊〉
that
Christiane
charitie
is
the
most
propre
right
marke
of
faihtfull
christians
,
Chur●●e
&
workes
of
mercie
.
Ioh.
13.
Math.
25.
as
our
saueour
saithe
:
In
this
shall
all
men
knowe
that
you
are
my
disciples
,
yf
you
haue
loue
one
to
an
other
.
Therfore
we
condemne
malicious
manslaughters
,
furious
bloodsheading
of
Kynges
and
Princes
,
vniust
warres
,
treasones
,
murthers
,
wytchcraftes
.
&c.
For
we
knowe
that
mercye
and
gentilnesse
is
more
acceptable
before
God
,
Nowe
hereof
it
commeth
,
that
seyng
we
be
constitute
in
the
same
body
that
all
the
holy
sayntes
of
God
are
,
we
suffre
for
thys
faythe
and
for
this
doctrines
sake
,
the
selfe
same
persecucion
,
that
all
that
haue
confessed
the
same
faythe
that
we
do
,
haue
suffred
sence
the
dayes
of
Abel
vnto
this
present
.
For
all
though
we
be
synners
,
and
doo
all
amysse
in
many
thinges
,
yet
this
maye
we
iustly
reioyte
in
,
that
our
aduersaries
hate
vs
not
for
synnes
sake
,
but
for
godlynesse
and
syncere
professing
of
Christes
religion
.
For
we
should
haue
ben
a
great
deale
better
taken
of
many
a
one
,
yf
we
wold
fall
in
to
the
same
ryotous
losenesse
and
in
to
all
filthynesse
of
religion
and
maners
that
they
doo
.
〈…〉
vs
vp
theyr
olde
song
,
Here
vnto
we
make
thys
answere
at
fewe
wordes
.
Aboue
all
thynges
it
is
to
be
weyghed
and
consydred
,
whiche
a
one
the
true
churche
of
Christ
is
,
and
wher
it
is
.
Not
al
that
are
called
Israel
(
sayrth
the
Apostle
)
are
Israel
:
And
how
cometh
it
to
passe
that
the
gospellers
churche
is
called
a
newe
fangled
churche
;
which
haue
theyr
relacion
from
hence
to
the
begynnyng
of
the
worlde
:
whych
haue
Christ
the
eternal
sonne
of
God
to
be
theyr
foundacion
,
and
acknowlage
the
Apostles
and
Prophetes
to
be
her
founders
,
and
sheweth
in
her selfe
all
the
tokens
of
the
true
churche
in
the
sight
of
all
men
?
That
is
not
an
headlesse
churche
,
whych
acknowledgeth
and
reuerenceth
Iesus
Christ
the
sonne
of
God
,
the
same
,
I
meane
,
whom
the
Apostles
name
the
heade
,
and
the
saluacion
,
the
king
&
chief
hygh
priest
of
the
church
.
Nother
is
the
gospellers
churche
without
continual
succession
of
bishoppes
,
seyng
it
hathe
her
relacion
euen
vnto
the
Apostles
of
Christ
.
Christ
hade
the
continual
rable
of
bishoppes
and
pristes
in
the
cathedral
churche
of
Ierusalem
euer
agaynst
hym
.
The
same
was
agaynst
the
apostles
also
.
But
yet
who
wyll
therfore
denye
,
that
the
Apostles
churches
are
the
true
churches
?
Who
wyl
reproue
Christes
doctrine
and
hys
Apostles
of
lyeng
,
excepte
it
be
a
man
to
wycked
to
tel
of
?
Besydes
thys
I
coulde
tell
,
what
a
maner
one
the
succession
of
bishoppes
of
Rome
is
,
namely
of
them
,
that
haue
made
theyr
neste
in
that
Satanicall
seate
for
these
fyue
hundred
yeares
,
yf
I
wolde
do
as
Suetonius
dyd
:
and
yf
I
lusted
(
as
he
disclosed
the
most
shameful
filthy
lyues
of
Emperours
)
to
blase
out
the
cursed
false
partes
and
abominable
wyckednesses
of
many
bishoppes
of
Rome
,
and
yf
I
lusted
to
expound
thys
sayeng
of
Paul
:
Ther
shal
starte
vp
from
among
you
,
Nother
is
the
gospellers
churche
buylded
vpon
obscure
men
and
holden
accursed
,
but
of
Christes
owne
Apostles
,
which
were
most
famous
notable
men
in
all
the
worlde
.
For
albeit
the
preaching
of
the
gospel
was
brought
vnto
vs
by
those
mennes
ministeries
,
who
are
of
most
hygh
commendacion
among
the
godly
,
yet
we
geue
not
thankes
for
the
begynnyng
of
so
precious
a
Iewel
vnto
men
,
but
vnto
Christ
the
sonne
of
God
.
Paule
was
the
furst
that
preached
the
Gospel
to
the
Corinthianes
,
but
for
all
that
he
wolde
not
haue
them
called
Paulinianes
,
but
he
wolde
haue
them
called
Christianes
.
If
Christ
whych
is
the
true
lyght
of
the
worlde
,
yf
the
Apostles
whych
are
the
lyght
bear
ours
of
the
worlde
,
be
obscure
men
and
accursed
,
we
graunt
that
our
doctrine
came
of
obscure
and
accursed
men
.
But
I
am
sure
,
they
that
go
about
to
bryng
them
into
that
slaunder
,
shal
haue
light
ynough
(
and
to
spare
)
in
theyr
kyngdom
,
wher
hel
fyre
shal
be
theyr
light
.
They
also
make
a
most
open
lowd
lye
,
in
sayeng
the
the
gospellers
church
of
Christ
abateth
and
slaketh
euery
daye
more
and
more
.
Sure
they
prate
that
,
bycause
Germanye
was
so
lately
assaulted
and
afflicted
wyth
warres
,
&
bycause
of
the
horrible
alteracion
in
Englande
.
And
do
not
the
lyeng
wretches
see
,
that
as
Bermanye
was
tryed
as
golde
is
in
the
fyre
,
euen
so
is
Englande
by
martires
blood
?
The
Lorde
said
to
Petre
:
Symon
,
Symon
,
Satan
hathe
desyred
to
sifte
you
,
We
do
paciently
beare
the
crosse
that
is
layde
vpon
vs
,
for
the
name
of
our
Lorde
Iesus
Christes
sake
,
that
abydyng
constaunt
in
the
felowship
of
the
body
of
the
churche
,
we
maye
receaue
rewarde
wyth
al
the
sayntes
whyche
from
the
begynnyng
of
the
worlde
haue
suffred
persecucion
for
ryghteousnesse
sake
.
Ther
is
no
newe
fangled
stuffe
in
the
gospellers
churche
:
all
is
of
the
olde
sorte
,
doctrine
of
Fayth
,
Belefe
,
the
Keyes
,
Prayer
,
the
Sacracramentes
,
and
all
together
.
It
departeth
not
from
the
head
Christ
:
it
is
not
torne
from
the
membres
,
that
is
,
from
the
communion
of
sayntes
.
These
true
markes
of
the
true
right
tatholike
churche
of
Christ
,
whan
thou
fyndest
in
the
gospellers
church
,
why
doubtest
thou
to
cal
and
frely
acknowlage
it
to
be
the
true
right
catholike
churche
of
Christe
?
Why
doutest
thou
to
forsake
al
them
(
as
lyers
traitours
and
slaunderous
railours
)
that
reporte
it
to
be
an
heritical
,
schismatical
&
sedicious
church
?
I
do
not
nowe
(
nor
in
all
this
hole
treatise
)
speake
of
them
,
that
goo
on
wyth
theyr
religion
vpon
a
certayn
zeale
,
and
speake
euil
of
vs
rather
through
instigacion
of
other
,
than
vpon
theyr
owne
mynde
,
beyng
not
yet
so
fully
skilled
,
as
to
knowe
how
pure
and
syncere
our
religion
is
,
God
lighten
theyr
hartes
:
But
I
speake
of
those
specially
,
whych
are
called
learned
men
,
and
the
leaders
of
the
common
sorte
,
and
are
not
ignoraunt
of
our
doctrine
and
doynges
,
and
for
that
cause
they
most
doggedly
and
falsely
slaunder
vs
:
of
enuye
,
hatred
,
and
malice
against
the
truthe
,
yea
rather
of
couetousnes
than
ignoraunce
,
and
yet
they
can
make
non
ende
of
theyr
false
slaunderous
railing
.
Now
forasmuche
as
it
is
more
cleare
than
the
light
at
none
dayes
,
hauing
wyped
and
dryuen
awaye
all
the
mystye
darke
clowdes
of
all
our
aduersaryes
,
that
the
gospellers
churche
is
the
true
right
&
catholike
churche
of
christ
,
it
shal
be
our
partes
doubtles
,
to
contynue
constauntly
in
thys
true
gospellike
churche
of
God
,
and
to
goo
on
forewarde
chearefully
in
the
waye
of
the
lorde
,
which
we
haue
once
allready
entred
in
to
.
If
thys
worlde
condemne
and
persecute
vs
,
we
knowe
that
the
lorde
hym self
in
tymes
past
tolde
vs
before
hande
of
non
other
,
of
no
pleasaunter
,
of
no
better
:
for
the
world
first
persecuted
him
.
If
the
rable
of
mytred
maisters
of
mischief
,
which
vaunt
them selues
to
be
the
general
counsail
laufully
assembled
to gether
in
the
holy
goost
,
doo
accurse
vs
:
let
vs
considre
,
that
the
lord
hym selfe
was
condemned
before
vs
of
the
highe
bishop
&
college
of
priestes
and
elders
.
Let
vs
remembre
,
that
our
God
dothe
blesse
them
,
that
blesse
the
sede
of
Abraham
,
and
dothe
curse
them
that
curse
it
:
and
that
we
for
our
true
faithe
in
Christ
,
are
the
true
sede
of
Abraham
.
In
the
meane
tyme
let
vs
contynually
make
our
hartye
earnest
prayers
to
GOD
our
father
,
by
Iesus
Christ
our
lord
and
saueour
,
without
whom
we
can
doo
nothyng
:
that
he
wold
graunt
vs
streynght
to
perseuer
,
&
constauntly
to
continue
in
the
blessed
truthe
of
hys
gospel
,
&
to
abyde
stil
in
the
right
catholike
churche
of
Christ
.
Amen
.
Truthe
hathe
the
victorie
.
3.
Esdr.
4.
This
is
the
victorie
,
that
ouercomethe
the
worlde
,
euen
our
faithe
.
1.
Io.
5.
☞
Emprinted
at
Waterford
the
.7
.
daye
of
Nouembre
.
1555.
☞
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