An Humble Supplication Unto God for Restoring His Holy Word

The supplication.

O Moste dere / gentle, loving and merciful father / maker / ruler / conseruer / 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 bent / as thy godly wisdom doth appointe / from whom also / as from a most righteous judge / cometh prosperity and adversity / health and syckenesse / wealth & s • asones / peace and trouble / blessings and plagues / the gift of the holy word / and the taking away of the same / the sendinge of faithful workman into thy harvest / & the displasinge of them again / the apointemēt of godly magistrates / and setting up of hypocrites and tyrants for the punishment of the disobedient / ungodly and stiffnecked people: We fele / we fele / yea / we English men fele / (O father of mercies / and God of all consolacion) so great a dongehis • of sin within us / such vileness / such corrupcion / such unthankfulness / and such disobedience against the and thy blessed will / that except thou haddest given us a commandment to pray / and also joined unto the same / a faithful and loving promise that thou wilt hear us / whan soever we cal on the / in the name of Jesus Christ thy dearly beloved son ouxe Lord / and our alone savior / we never durst so much / as once too lift up our eyes unto the / 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 moste benign and gentle Lord / thou graciously considering both our vileness and weakness of conscience / haste notwithstanding given us a commandment by thy servant • auid not to fear / but franckely too flee unto the / as unto a most strong mighty and invincible bulwark / by fervent prayer in all our troubles / and haste also promised / not for any works of righteousness that we have done / but for thine exceeding great and unspeakable mercies sake / to hear us and to satisfy our requests / saying: Ca • on me in the day of thy trouble / and I will deliver the / and thou shalt honor 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 moste dere and only begotten son commandeth us not only to ask / too seek / and too knock / but he also promyseth / that whosoever will axe / the same shall receive / whosoever will seek / the same shall find / and to him that knocketh / it shall be 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 / are bold at this present / in the name of Christ too come unto the merciful thron of thy godly majesty / and before the same too poor ou • the sorrowful griefs of our most sorrowful hearts / most humbly besechīg the for thy mercies sake / for thy promises sake / for thy names sake / yea / for thy dere Christ's sake / that thou turnīg away thine eyes frō our sins / wilt behold thin holy anoīted / whō thou hast made our media • or & aduocat for whose sake thou hast openlie declared evē frō the heavens / that thou art well pleased with and for his dignity and worthiness graciously hear the lamentable petitions & humble requests of our broosed hearts / and troubled consciences.

Ah moste dere father / great are our miseries / but greater are our sins / grievous are our troubles / but more grievous are the wickednesses / which we moste 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 often 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 help that cometh from man / yea / cursed be he / that putteth his trust in man / & maketh flesh his arm) to flee for soccoure unto the / whom we have so often & so grievously offended / whose righteousness notwithstanding in punis • hinge sinners whan we behold / we begin to despair and too caste away all hope / but whann we behold thy mercy / setforth in the precious blood of thy moste dere son Christ Jesus our Lord / we take a good heart unto us / and setting before our eyes thy moste 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 abhominable and intolerable / & we were never so wicked and filthy sinners / yet for thy mercies sake / for thy promise sake / for thy names sake / yea / for thy dere 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 / seeing we come not unto the to desire longe life / gold and riches with the wicked wordlynges / nor yet to crave at thy hand wealth & pleasure / bishoprikes and benefices / Deanries / Prebendes and such other worldly promocions with the swinishe and beastly Epicures / whose God their belly is / but our humble supplication / our earnest request / our hartye desire is / only that thou wilt consider thine own glory / the halowinge of thy blessed name / the auauncemente off thy glorious kingdom / the accomplyshmēt of thy heavenly will / the honor of thy only begot̄ son / the settingforth of his holy Gospel / the pureness of the Christian religion / the sincere preaching of thy lively word / the true administraciō of thy wholesome sacraments / & the salvation of such as thy dearly beloved son hath boughte from the tyranny of Satan / with the price of his moste precious and dere 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 groninges & 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 than doest thou suffer thy people / thy congregation / thy flock / thine heritage / to be thus seduced & led away from the unto all kind of spiritual fornicacion / and abhominable whoredom by that Antichrist of Rome / • hat great Baal / that stout Nemroth / that falls prophet / that beast / that whore of Babylon / that son of perdition / and by his abhominable adherents / Cardinals / Archebischoppes / Bischoppes / Suffragans / Archdeacons / Deans / Prouostes / Prebēdaries / Commissaries / Parsonnes / Vicares / Purgatorierakers / Priests / Monks / Friers / Canons / Nuns / Anckers / Anckresses / Pardonners / Proctors / Scribes / Officialles / Sōners / Lawers / Massemongers / Can • nistes / Papis • es / Antichr • stes / Māmonistes / Epicures / Libert •• es / With all the table of beas • lie hypocrites that have receued the beasts mar • / which do not hing else than seek / how they may establish their Antichristian kingdom / by suppressinge thy holy word / and leadinge thy people into all kind of • lyndenes / errors and lies? Thou callest thyself a Lord / and thou sayeste / that thou wilt give thy glory to none other / nor thy praise unto graven Imag • s / howe cometh it than to pass / that thou suffrest thy glory so too decay in the realm of England / so many to steal away thy praise and • onoure / by saying their idolatrous and deuelishe masses / by ministeringe a sort of Heythenish and Jewish cerem • nies / by prayenge unto • ead saints / by blottinge out of the temples / thy holy law there written / according to thy commandment / for the edifyenge of thy people / and by setting up in the stead thereof Idols and Mawmettes / clea • e contrary to thy blessed word? Thou callest thyself a Lyō & a cōsumīgfyre / & threatenes • utter destrucciō unto thin adversaries / whi suffereth thou thā these Antichrists thus to rise / ro • e / & rage / against the testament of thy most dere son / to beat down thy truth / to call thy holy law heresy / to banishe the preaching of the Gospel / & the true • se of the Sacraments / & to seek the destrucciō of so many as unfeignedly love the and thy blessed word.

Thou promiseste / that so many as hate Syo • / that is to say / thy faithful congregation / shall be confounded and brought to nought / howe cometh it thā to pass / that the wicked now flourish like the grene olyue tree / living in all wealth / pomp and pleasure / and thy people / whom thou hast sealed with thy holy spirit unto everlasting life / are moste miserablye entreated / some bannis •• ed / some in prison / some cruelly murdered / but all in moste sorrowful miseries / and miserable sorrows?

Thou promises • e / that thou wilt deliver thy flock from the hand of the wicked shepehardes / and that thou thyself wilt feed them in moste pleasant and sweet / pastures: ah good God / how cometh it thā to pass / that where as before thy sheep were f • dde with the comfortable meat of thy glorious gospel / by the ministry of the godly learned preachers / the faithful shepehardes are driven away / and a rabble of ravening wolves are bras • e into the shepefolde / which spare not the flock / but cruelly murder / not ouly their bodies by • mpr • sonning hanging / heading and brenning them / but their soulc • also by teaching them wicked and pestilent doctrine?

Thy moste dere son / both promised & prophesied / that every plant / which thou the heavenly father haste not planted / • hal be plucked up by the roots / but we se it otherwise come to pass in the realm of England. For such plants / as the devil and his chaplens had planted / were thorough the diligence and godly zeal of thy servants king Henry the eyghte / and king Edward the syxte / moste 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 / are thy blessed statutes plucked up by the roots / and set in again / are the damnable decrees / and crocked constitucions of Antichrist / unto the excedinge great grief / sorrow and pensyuenes of all faithful Christians. Ah Lord God / seme these things matters of s • all 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? But he neither sleapeth nor slombreth / saith the Psalmograph / that keepeth Israel. Aryse therefore / o Lord / why sleapest 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 mercies 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 dounefrō heaven / & cōsyder the lamentable state of the realm off England / & of the godly inhabitaūtes thereof / which desire nothing so greatly / as to se thy true honor 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 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 whā it was thy godly pleasure too call him frō this vale of misery / unto thy heavenly kingdom / thou gavest unto us his son to be our Kynge / a Prince / although young in years / & tender in age / yet auncieut in the knowledge of the / of thy son Christ / & of thy holy word / & as another Josiah / altogether bent utterly to wedeout all falls religion / supersticiō / hypocrisye / papistry / &c. & after a moste perfect manner / to set up thy holy religion / & to auaūce the har • y favorers of the same / unto the great & wonderful example of all Christian princes. But alas for sorrow / this most goodly & godly Impe / this moste Christ̄ king / this noble yōge Josiah 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 cōtinuaūce of all our sorrows / griefs & miseries. For in the stead of that verteous prince / thou haste set to rule over us an womā / whom nature hath formed to be in subiecciō unto mā / & whō thou by thine holy Apostle cōmaundest to keep silence / & not to speak in the cōgregaciō. Ah Lord / to take away the empire frō a mā / & to give it unto a womā / seemeth to be an evident tokē of thine anger toward us Englishmen. For by the Prophet • / thou being displeased with thy people / threatnest to set womē to rule over thē / as people unworthy to have lawful / natural & mete governors to reign over thē. And verily though we find / that womē sometime bare rule among thy people / yet do we rede / that such as ruled & were quenes / were for the moste part wicked / ungodly / superstitious / & givē to idolatry / & to all filthy abhominaciō / as we may se in the histories of queen Jezebel / queen Athalla / queen Herodias / & such like. Ah Lord God / we dare not take upon us to judge any creature / for unto the alone are the secretes of all hearts known / but of this are we sure / that since she ruled / whither of her own disposicton / or of the prouocacion of a certain wild bore / successor too Ananias that whygh • ie daubed waulle / we know not / thy vineyard is utterly rooted up and laid waste / thy true religion is bannished / and popish superstition hath prevailed / yea / & that under the color of the catholic church / and the old ancient faith / whan notwithstanding darkness is not more contrary to light / nor cold unto heat / than their procedinges 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 / and auaūced him self 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 the / to consider that outrageous floods of moste grievous enormities / have braste 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 of that moste Christian king Edward the • yxte / we were • aught according to thy word to flee with our prayers unto the alone / in all our troubles and necessities / as a Lord plētefully rich for so many as call on the. But now the Antichristiane Preachers teache / that we must also pray to creatures that are dead / that they may pray for us / or else we pray unto the invayne / and our prayers shall never be heard.

Heretofore we were taught / that Christ God and man is our alone mediatoure / advocate and intercessore. But now the priests of Baal teach / that Mary / 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 / whan soever we will have to do with the / namely if we will have our matter go forward.

Heretofore we were taught / that the precious blood of our savior Christ is the alone and sufficient Purgatory for the sins of all them that reap̄t & believe. But now the papists teache / that there is a purging place after this life / where the souls of the faithful shall be mise • ably tormented with fyrye f • ames / till either they them selves have made satis • accion for all their sins / by suffering dew punishment or else other in this world have made amēdes for them / by prayeng / by synging of treē talles / by going on • ylgrimage / by dealeng money / by • yenge the pepes pardons for their redemption / and such like / whan the holy scripture contrariwise teacheth / that the faithful so sone as they depart from this life / go straightways unto glory / • he unfaithful unto everlasting pain & damnation / as we may se in the history of the rich glotton / and of the poor man Lazarus.

Heretofore we were taught / that Christ thy son and our alone Savior / made upon the altar of the cross / whan 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 / favor / mercy / forgiveness of sins & everlasting life / is forever and ever plentefully obtained of the / for so many as repent & believe. But now a days / those Baali • e massemongers 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 propiciatory sacrifice / and of no les virtue / strength / efficaci • might and power / than the pashon & death of Christ / than the sacrifice / which Christ him self offered on the altare of the cross. Our missale sacrifice / say the massing papists / is propiciatory / satisfactory / expiatory / and necessary. Ad salutem, both for the quick and for the dead. The people syn daily / therefore must we offer sacrifice for the sins of the people daily in our masses. What other thing is this / o heavenly father / thā to defye the death of thy son / to despise his moste healthful sacrifice / to set at naught his wholesome oblation / too tread underfoot the blood of the everlasting Testament / and utterly too deface both the kingdom & priesthood of Christ / and to erecte / and set up a new kingdom and priesthood of their own / a new sacrifice / and a strange oblation / invented of the deuel / brought in by Antichrist / confyrmed 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? Dothe not his priesthood continue from generation to generation? Hath he not with one oblaciō made per • ecte forever / them that are sanc • ifi • ? 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 forever / on the right hand of God / and from hen • forth tarrieth till his foos be made his footstool? Is not Jesus Christ yesterday and today / and the same continueth forever? What have we than to do with the sa • rificing massemō • ers or with their missal sacrifice? O heavenly father / suffer us not to be carried about with diverse and strange learning.

Moreover / heretofore we were caughte to beat down the Idolatrous & Heathenish altars / which Antichrist of Rome entēding to set up a new priesthood & a strange sacrifice forsynne / commanded to be buylte 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 in some convenient place a semely table / & after the examples of Christ / to receive together at it the holy mysteries of Christ • body & blood / in remembrance that Christ's body was brokē / & his blood shed for our sins. But now the sacrificinge sorcerer • shame not both in their private talk / & in their open sermons spitely to call the Lord's table an Oysterborde / & therefore have they taken out of the temples those semely tables / which we following the examples of thy dearly beloved son / and of the primative church used at the ministracion of the holy communion / & they have brought in again their bloody & bocherly altars / & vpō those they sacrifice & offer daily / say thei / that is / thei kyl / slay & murderthy dere son Christ for the sins of the people. For as thy holy apostle saith: Where no shedding of blood is / there is no remissiō & forgiveness of sins. If thorough their massing sins be forgiven / thā must the sacrifice that there is offered be s • ayn / & the blood thereof shed. If the massemōgers therefore offer Christ up in their masses / a sacrifice unto God for the sins of the people / so followeth it that they murder / kyl / & • lea Christ / yea / & shed his blood at their masses / & so by this meās we must needs confess / that bloody altars are more mete for such bloody bochers / thā honest & pure tables. 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 / thā do the papists sacrifice him no more. If they sacrifice him no more than 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 honor / with the labor of • there men's hands / and with the sweat off poor men's brows / so far is it of that / they with their abhominable 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. Ah Lord God and heavenly father / if thou were not a God of long sufferinge and of great patience / howe couldeste thou abyd these intolerable injuries / & to much detestable blasphemies / which the wicked papists committee against the & thy son Christ / in their idolatrous masses / at their Heatheni • h aultares?

Heretofore we were taught to receive the misreries of the Lord's body & blood together / according too the ordinance of Christ. But now no communion is had / For the popish and uncharitable massemōger / utterly abusing the Lord's soupper / eateth and drincketh up̄ all alone at his idolatrous altar.

Heretofore we were taught to receive the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ under both kinds / according unto Christ's institution / which saith: Drink of this all ye. And as the holy apostle saith: So often as ye shall eat of this bread / and drink of this cup / ye shall remember the Lord's death till he come. But now the Romish sorcerers / contrary to the ordinance and commandment of thy son / the master of truth / yea / thenself truth / and contrary to the practice & usage of the primative church / like thieves / robbers & murderers / cruelly take away frō thy people the mystical cup of Christ's blood / for the maintenance of their devilish decree / and minister after their sort the Sacrament of thankesgeuinge to thy Christians only under one kind / yea / and that without the preaching of the Lord's death / reap̄taunce / faith / amendment of life / &c. and so make they it an idle and dumb ceremony altogether vuprofitable and without fruit / which being rightely ministered / is to the faithful a Sacrament of great joy and comfort.

Heretofore we were taught / that the Lord's soupper / or breaking of the bread / as the Apostles term it / is a memorial of the body breaking & blood sheading of our sauiou • Christ / & that as we outwardly feed of the bread & wyne / 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 lygheth in the sals opinion & abuse of this Sacrament / in all their sermons & private talk / labor / swyncke / sweat and seek all means possible with tothe and nail / with hand & foot / with tunge and pēne / 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 wyne / and have blessed / crossed / conjured and handled them after their ghostely manner / there remaineth no more breadde and wyne / although we bothese / fele / and taste ve • y bread and very wyne / yea / & although the holy scripture / after the words of consecraciō / called the Sacrament / bread and wyne / but say they / the bread thorough the virtue of the words / which we holy annointed rehearse / is turned into the natural substance of Christ's body / and the wyne is changed into the natural blood of Christ / only the accident • s of breadde and wyne remayninge / whan notwithstanding the holy scriptures teach us in diverse places / that thy Christ is ascended into heaven / and sytteth on thy right hand / & there shall remain / concer • ing his humanity / till he come too judge the quick and the dead. 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 selfsame that was borne of Mary the virgins / lived vpō 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 Savior and defender / and so too fall down before it to honor and worship it / to praise & call upon it / to flee unto it for soccoure / and to look for all good things of it / as of the very true and everlasting God. 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 honor & glory. O Lord arise / and let thine enemies be scattered / let thē also that hate the / flee before the / like a • the smok vanisheth / so driu • thou them away / & like as wax melteth at the fire / so let the vugodly papis • es perish and be confounded that thy people be no le • ger seduced / & led frō the way of truth / by their subtle and carnal imaginacions / but that thei being truly taught / may know the too be the alone true God / and whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ.

Heretofore we had in the temples whan we came together to pray and to give thankes unto the / all our prayers & thankee giving in the tūge that we v • derstode / whereby we received great comfort / & were much edified. But now the papists (which with thy people to be more rude thā asses / more biynde than be • les / more ignorant than dastardes / that they might make them there ryding fools and lauggyng 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 / thei have stablished their popish latin service / which the moste parte of thy people understand nothing at all. A • d yet so cruel & malicious are the papists / that they enforce and with violence compel thy people to come unto their Romish / super •• icious / blasphemous / and idolatrous Latin service / to hear it / to reverence & honor it with their presence / and too call it God's service / whan they understand no • / whither Baals priests that there bleate & mūble / do bless or curse / praise or blaspheme. Moste certain is this / that thy people are altogether without edifienge / spend their time in vain / & return hom agaī / as unlearned & ignorant / as they came thither.

Heretofore we had red in our temples every Sunday / and at diverse other times a godly and learned homely or sermō / and certain chapters out of the holy Bible in the English tunge / that all the people might understand what was done or said / which gave them occasiō to forsake • ice / and to embrace virtue / to live in thy fair / and diligently to call vpō thy blessed name. But now both those godly homiles and comfortable chapters have thine enemies the papists bānished out of the temples unto the great discomfort of all such as unfeignedly • oue the / and thy blessed word / & in the stead of thē / they have set up blasphe mous collaciōs / synging / rynging / pyping / sensynge / holy water casting / holy bread • ealing / palms and candles bearing / cross kneeling / bread worshipping / as • hes • odding fire and rapers halowing / with an infinite number of such like Heathen ceremonies / that the people being occupied with such chyldishe trifles / lousye tradicious and beggarly ceremonies / might forget the wholesome food of their souls / which is thy holy and blessed word.

Heretofore / upon the Sondayes & certain other days in the week / we had the Letanye rehearsed among us in our Engly • hetūg / everyone of us kneeling devoutly and 〈◊〉 calling on the for mercy and grace. O heavenly father / this was setforth in the time of thy servant king Henry the eygh • e / and continued among us / until the death of that most godly and verteous prince • ynge Edward the syxte / and a littel after unto the syngulare • o • e and great comfort of all godly and Christian hearted people. But now the subtle and fleshely pap • stes have so bewyiched the Queens eyes / that whatsoever her father and her brother / moste godly brought too pass for the a • auncement of thy glory / & for the edifyeng of thy people / that is utterly subverted & taken for heresy / yea / and spitefullye preached against in open sermons / so that this godly & most wholesome Letanye 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 • lasp • emous song unto the great sorrow and inward heart / breakinge of all thy faithful.

Heretofore / thy Sacraments were so ministered unto us / that we received great comfort by them. 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 vnknowentunge / howe be they defiled with men's tradicio •• / & beggarly ceremonies? unto the Sacrament of Baptism / they put Heatenish rites and wicked coniuracions. For Baals priest / before the child can be baptized / bewytcheth the water / shutteth the church door / coniureth the deuel out of the poor yoūge Infaunt / bespueth the child with his vile spitle and stinking slaueringe / putteth salt in thē chyldes mouth / smereth it with greasye & •• saver oil / &c. 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 dere sonnes institutiō? Do these papists / by adding their beggarly ceremonies any other thing / than set thy son Christ to school / and auaunce their own flee • hly imaginaciōs above the wisdom of the Lord Christ?

The Sacrament also of thy dere sons body & blood / howe have the adversaries prophanated and defiled? thy son both before and after the ministracion of the Sacrament preached unto his disciples. The papists preach nothing at all. Thy son spake the words of the institution openly in that tunge / that all the disciples understood. The papists utter all things in a strange language / yea / and that so softely that they scace hear thē selves. Thy son ministered the Sacraments without putting on of any disguysed apparel. The papists decke them selves like hycke scorner in game players garments. Thy son ministered the Sacrament / sitting at the table with his disciples. The papists stand at the altar / and give the bread and wyne to the people kneeling. Thy son gave the Sacramētal 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 them selves. 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 away • from them / and reserve it to themselves alone. Thy son brake the Sacramental bread. The papists use no breakinge of the bread / as Christ and his Apostles and all the primative church did for to declare the mis • erie of Christ's body / breakinge on the altar of the cross for our redemption / but they put into the people's mouths a littell light whyghte waffer cake / speaking to them a few words in Latin / which they understand not. Thy son did appointe the Sacramētall bread to be broken and eaten. The papists keep it whole / and hange it up in the pyxe / yea / and carrye it about for a pageaunte in their idolatrous / popish / pompous processions. Thy son instituted the Sacrament to be a memortall of his body breakinge and blood shedding. The papists teache / that the bread and wyne is turned into the natural body and blood of Christ God and man / even the selfsame body that was borne of Mary the vyrgine / flesh / blood / and bone / so that there remayueth neither bread nor wyne / although the holy scripture affyrmeth plainly / that this is both bread & wyne remaining / the doctors of the Christian primative church testefyed the same in their writtinges / the Greke church / evē frō the Apostles time unto this day have so received & believed / utterly deuieng the popish art • kle of trāssubstātiaci • / reason also & all the senses of man testefye that there remain both bread and wyne / after the words of consecracion / as they use to term them / yea / and experience teacheth / that if the Sacramental breadde be longe reserved / it will corrupt / putrefy moulde / styncke / and bredefull of worms / and the wyne likewise / will change the colloure and wax sour. O heavenly father / such corrupcion cannot chance too thy d •• e sons body & blood / which is incorruptible & • mortal / sitteth on thy righthand / & raygneth with the in glory forever & ever. This Antichristian doctrine / o blessed Lord / was not known in thy holy Church / v • till pope Nicholas / pope Innocent / pope Urbane / Friar Thomas / and such other ministers of Satan / partly with their tyranny / and partelye with their sophistrye / as their apysshe adherents 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 mayntenaūce 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 wyne too be eaten and droncken for a remembrance off that one / and alone sacrifice / which he offered on the altare of the cross / for the sins of the people. The papists in their ido latrous and abhominable masses make of the Sacrament a propiciatorie / expiatory and satisfactory sacrifice for the sins off the people / necessary Ad salutē, 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 moste healthful and sweet smellyng sacrifice / that thy son offered on the altare of the cross / whā he gave hī self unto the death for the sins of the people. Thy son ordained the Sacrament too be a sign and token of • ou • / whā the godly come together to eat all of one bread • & to drink • all of one cup. The papists make it 〈◊〉 Sacrament of dissencion / discord and debate. For if any will not agree too their fles • helye / wicked and dettely • • he • pynyon / confessynge their error off transsubstantiatiō / and affyrming • that the bread and wyne is the very natural body and blood of Christ God and man / and therefore ought too be • neled unto / worshipped / honored / and called upon as the only true / living and immortal God / they fall out with them / they call them heretykes / they persecute them / they apprehend them / they empresonne & burn them without mercy? And as the wicked papists prophanate and vnhallowe 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 heavenly father / therefore we were taught too wor • hip the in spirit and truth / and too pray unto the everywhere / lyftinge up pure hands without wrath or doubtinge. But now the papists teache us to pray unto the and unto all the company of heaven with boynge and bleatinge in the quyre / with playeng on the organs / with saying ladies psalters on beads / with mumblynge over certain prayers / in the tunge that we understand not.

Heretofore we were taught / that thou alone forgeuest us all our syn • es / whan souer we earnestly repent / and vnfay • edly turn unto the, But now the papists teache / that they also have power too forgive sins / and that our sins cannot be forgiven / except we confess them unto the priest with all circumstances.

Heretofore we were taught to look for all salvation of the thorough faith in the blood of Christ. But now the papists teache us to look for saluaciō in our own good works / in the intercession of saints / in prayers and merits of synneful hypocrites and beastly belligoddes / in ceremonies / in will works / in tradicious of men / in holy bread / holy water / holy candles / holy palms / holy as • hes / latin service / idolatrous masses / superstitious Diriges / trifelinge trentalles / popish fastinges / belles / beads / &c.

Heretofore we were taught to caste out of our temples the Idols and Mawmettes wherewith many come • itted spiritual whoredom and rāne an whoring / and to garnish the church with the holy scriptures / that the people might learn to know & to fear the. But now the ungodly papists have brought the matter to this pointe / 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 mens Calēders or books / as though o Lord God / the people might sooner be brought unto the knowledge of the / by looking on deformed stock • s & stones / than by reading thy holy & blessed word. Thy son & our savior Christ commandeth us to search the scriptures / and not to behold Idols and Mawmettes. He that is of god / saith he / hearethe the word of god. He saith not / he that is of god rūeth unto Images / & seeth what goodness he canne pycke out of thē. Again he saith: My sheep hear my voice. He saith not my sheep hath a delyghte and pleasure too behold vain Idols and mahounde like Mawmettes. Thy servant David calleth them blessed / that search thy testimonies and have a pleasure too study in thy law day and night. For thy holy word is only the boke / wherein thy people ought to look / and not dumb Images & carved Idolles / which are cursed of the in thy holy law / yea & the makers of them also. 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 wiped • out of the • oke of life also • Yea / is it not too be thought that such Antichrists would gladly have both the / & thy holy word / yea / & thy blessed name so blotted & wiped out of all men's hearts / that thou mightest never be remembered more / but that they and their deueli •• 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 savior Christ said unto the wicked & styfnecked Jews: He that is of God / heareth the word of God. Ye therefore hear it not / because ye are not of God. Again / ye believe not / because ye are not of my sheep. Ah Lord these children of Bel • all have forsaken the thalone fountain of lively water / & they have dygged to thē selfs puddels / yea / dyle & dyrtie puddels / that are able too hold no water. They are such people / as continually provoke the unto anger. They are liēg chyldrē / yea / such chyldrē / as will not hear the law of God. They say to the preachers / loke 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. Tel not us of gods anger / justice & judgment against the stiffnecked idolaters / but preach unto us falls things / fables / lies / er • ors / saicts lives out of the gold̄ legēd / narraciōs out of the festiual / examples out of Vi • as patrū, authorites out of sermons Dormi men's traditions / laudable ceremonies / commendable customs / holy rites / ancient usages / good ente • tes / justification of works / transsubstantiacion / the corporal presence of Christ / in the Sacrament of the altar / under the accidents of bread / &c. The propiciatory sacrifice of the mass / the receauinge of the Sacrament under one kind / contrary to Christ's institution / auriculare confession / &c. Treade out of the way / go out of the pathe / away with the holy one of Israel from us. We are weary of him. It greueth us to remember him. We can neither abide his word truly preached / nor yet his laws writ̄ in our churches. Oute with the scriptures / & in with the Idols and Mawmettes. O Lord God / are not these the Heathen / that have braste 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, we were taught so to bring up our children in the principles of Christian religion / that whan they should come to be confirmed of the bis • hop / they might be able to say the articles of the faith / the Lord's prayer / and the ten commaundemētes / 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 cōfyrmed. But now the papists say to such as are witnesses of the chyldes baptism: Ye are bound by the order of our mother the holy church to se / that this child be cōfyrmed so sone as is possible / or assone as ye hear that the bishop cometh within seuē miles of this town / without any further delaye. Of the things contained in the godly Catechism / for the righte instituciō of the child / they make no mention. And what is the confyrmacion of the children / that is used at this present / but plain source rye / deuelerye / wytchcrafte / iuglinge / leger demayne / and all that naught is? The Bishop mumbleth a few latin words over the child / charmeth him / crosseth him / smeareth him with stinckinge popish oil / and tieth a lynnen bond about the chyldes neck / and sendeth him home. O Lord God / what a confirmation of the chyldes 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 enstructed in thy holy mysteries / & learn to fear the / to believe 〈1 page duplicate〉 〈1 page duplicate〉 in the / to love the / to pray unto the / to be thanckfull unto the / & to frame their whole lyffe 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 setforthe a godly & learned catechism both in latin & in Englysse / wherein our longe ones wer moste virtuously brought up unto the great joy of their parents / the singular confort of all godly Christians / & the wonderful increase both of thy glory & of all godliness & virtue. But now the wicked Papists / wyche always deal extremely with the righteous and take away their labors / have condemned that Christian Chatechisme as heresy / & have procured certayu Antichristiane articles from the Queen / wherein among to many other / a straight commandment is geten / that children should so be brought up / that they might learn to help the Prieste say mass wych 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 of Abraham / Isaac / Jacob / Daniel / Toby / Mathathiae / the Parentes of Susanne & of Timothy / Philippe the Evēgeliste / and such other do declare / And thy holy cōmandemēt is not / that Parētes should bring up their children in learning to help and Ilatrous Prieste to say his abhominable & blasphemous mass / but to know the their lord God / to believe in the / to fear & love the / to callvpō thy blessed name / to bethāckefull unto the / and to fasson their lyffe according to thy holy word & commandment.

Heyrtofor we wer taught / that it is law full for every maue / be he Byshoppe / Priste / Deacon / Monk / Friar / Chauon / Here mite / or ani other / that have not the gift of continencye / to take unto him a ffaythe full yoke fellow / and with her to marry in thy fear / and to possese his own vessel in holiness & honor / as thine holy apostle saith / to avoid fornication let every manhave his awne wyffe / & every woman her awne husbond. Again / marriage is honorable among all mene and the bed vnde fyled. But whormongers and adulterers God shall judge. But now the wicked Papists those lecherous lubers / those fill thy fornicators / these abhominable adulterers / those srynckyng Sodemites / those canckred corruptours of maids / wyffs / & widows / those debylyshe despisers of all shamefastness / chastity & honest / those monstrous maȳtainers of all licētious 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 count̄d whoredom. The faithful housbandes are taken for whoremongers / and their honest wives for whores. Yea / unto such an heyghte is their furious madness and mad fury groune / that they against all right and conscience / against all truth and honesty / do not only moste wickedly deuorce 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 maryeng 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. And there those filthy dogs / which are returned unto their vomit / moste wretchedly couche and knele down before the people / and desire them to forgive them / and promise that they will neuermore come in their wyfes company / but frō hensforth / live like good and catholic men / according to the order of their holy priesthood / that is to say / abstain from honorable wedlock / & defile them selves with all kind of whoredom / uncleanness and dishonesty. Ah Lord God / thou commaundest 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 administratours of his holy Sacraments / were not fleshely votaries / as the papists are / but honest and godly married men / living with their wives / according to thy holy ordinance / ud bringynge 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 lying papists for a color of their sinful life do moste falshly fain / but they continued with their wives lovingly & faythefully / till death departed them / as we may se in ancient histories / and as it may easily be gathered of the manifest words of the holy scriptur. Have not we power / saith the apostle / to lede about a syster to wife / 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 the apostles of Criste did not onlie not put away their wives after the were called unto the ministerre / as the falls Papists fable but they also led their wyffes about with them / as theye went abroad? preaching the gospel of crist. Rede we not that S. peter continued withe his wife until her dyeng day / and that whan she was led unto the place of execution to suffer death for cōfessyng Christ to be God / S. Peter her husbond 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 withe their wyffes according to their knoulege / if he contrary to his knowledge had put away his wyffe • Wythe what face could thapostle. s. Paul have made mencion of his wyffe / calling her his faith full yoke fellow / & desyryng her to help the women / which labored withe hime in the gospel / if he being vnfaythefull had put away his wyffe contrary to his promise & the law of God? If the apostles had put away their wyffes after they were called unto the ministry and preaching of howe durst Paul have been so bold / as to wryghte unto the Corithians / that thei led their wyffes about wihe theme? Yea / iff the apostles had put away their wyffes / howe could they have exhorted other men according to the law of God / to forsake father & mother & to cleue unto their wyffes / & 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 ignorāte. Furthermore all the holy Bishops and ministers of the primative church were married mene / or at the least were at liberty to marry / if they would.

Agayne / the Priests among the Greeks even from thappostles 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 honorable among all mene & the bed undefiled. The marriage of Priests was never for bydden in any place. till Antichrist off Rome brought it to pass / partly by the tyranny of the seculare power / and partly by flattering words graūtyng Priests cōcubines & whoresin stead off their lawful wyffes / whō for ā yearly pēsiō they may at their pleasure etheyr keep still or put away / & take anewe.

But o heavenly father / as thy faithful servant Paul prophesied longe before / so is it come to pass. The spirit speaketh evidently / saith he / that in the latter days / some shall depart from the faith / & shall give hede unto spirits of error and deue lish doctrine of them / which speak falls thorough hypocrisye / and have their consciences marked with an h • te iron / forbiddinge to marry. This prophecy is fulfilled in that Antichrist of Rome / and in his whorish generation. For they alone forbid marriage / which thing neither Jew / nor Turk nor any Iufidel besides doth. Neither can the papists thyfte of this prophecy / from them unto certain here • ykes / which utterly condemned marriage. For the holy Apostle prophecieth of such as forbid marriage / and not of them that utterly caste away & condemn marriage as a thing altogether unclean and unmeet for a Christian man. They therefore that forbid the marriage of priests are by the judgment of the most worthy apostle / yea / of the holy Ghoste / departed from the saith / and give hede too the spirits of error and devilish doctrine of them / which speak false thorough hypocrisye / and have their conscience marked with an hot iron / be they Popes / Cardinals / Bishops / Emperors / Kynges / Queens / Dukes or any other. Swifte dānation bring all such upon themselves / except they shortly repent.

Heretofore / we had such shepehardes / as were tender fosters of thy flock. They cheryshed and made much of thy thepe. For such as were weak / they tenderly cherisshed / the syke they healed / the broken they bound up together / the outcas • es & such as ran astraye / they lovingly brought home again / the lost they diligently sought / and res • ored them too the shepefolde. 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 Phariseys / 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 puddels of men's tradiciōs / but of the fountain of that living water / which springeth unto everlasting life. But now the shepehardes / yea / rather the wolves / which are braste into thy shepefolde / & with violence have unjustly thrust out the faithful and fatherly pastores out of their tures / are lordely / cruel / bloudthyrstye / malicious and spyteful against thy sheep. They are such wolfs as spare n • t the flock but scatter & destroy the flock. They are thieves / robbers / murtheras & soul slears. thei feed thē selves with the fattest & clothe thē selves with the fyneste wolle / but thy flock thy noryshe not the food / wherewith they pasture thy sheep / is the drowsyedreās and idle imaginacions of Antichrist. In steed of the peachyng of thy lively word / the feed thy stock with latin munblynges / with dume Images with Hethnyshe cerymonies with dayne syghtes / and such other apysh toys. In stead of the ministraciō of the holy and blessed Cōmunion the feed thy sheep with vile s • ynckyng / abhominable deulyshe / blasphemus & Idolatryous Masses. And unto thes unwholesome and pestilent and poysomfull pastures the drive thy sheep / will they nyl they. & if any of thy floche refuse to come and taste of those their pestilent poisons & poisō full pestilences / him they accite to appere before that great wolf / whose face is like unto the face of a she bear that is robbed of her young ones / whose eyes continually burn withe the vnquēcheable flames of the deadly cockatrice / whose teethe are like to the venomous tethes of the rampyng lyon / whose month is full of cursed speaking & bitterness / whose tō • speakithe extrem blasphemes against the & thy holy annoited / whose lips at full of deadly poisōne / whose throat is an open sepulcher / whose breathe fomethe & bloweth out threatenyng & slauther against the disciples of the Lord / whose heart without ceasyng imaginethe wickedness / whose hands have a delight to be embrued with the blood of the Saints / whose fete are swifte to shed blood / whose whole man both body & soul go always up & down musyng of myschyff. This wolf / o Lord / is so arrogāte / haultie and proud / seeing the government of the whole Realm is committed unto him / that he hath caste away all fear of the. He maketh bos • e off his awne wit learning & policy. His ways are alway filthy / thy judgments are far out of his sight / he defyethe all his enemies. For he saith in his heart: tushe / I shall never be caste down / their shall no harm happen unto me. He sytte the lurking like a lyon in his den / that he may prinely murder the innocent & suck his blood. Whan such / o Lord God / as will not obey their popish and deuelyshe proce dyngs / are brought before that grevous wolffe / they are miserably taūted / mocked / schorned blasphemed / as thi dearly beloved sone was in Bishope Caiaphas house / and afterward cruely committed to presō / to the tower / to the flete / to the marshalseas / to the Kynges beenche / to the Counters / to Lollards 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 lambes / even so do the resedue of that let cherous litture. He with all other of that wolfythe kind / hunger and thyrste nothing so greatly / as the devouring of the bodies / and the sucking of the blood of thy poor and innocent lambes. Ah Lord / while the ungodly have the ouerhande / the poor are moste wretchedly handled. They are prays unto the wolves. Arise therefore / o Lord God / lift up thine hand / and forget not the poor / which giveth them self over into thy hand / and committeth him unto thy defense. Break thou the arm of the ungodly and malicious / search out the wickedness / which he hath done / that he may shortly perish from the lande of the living. Suffer thy sheep no more to be thus miserably scattered / rente / torn and devoured of these mos • e cruel / grievous / and insatiable wolves. Remember this thy promise: Behold / I myself will upon the shepeherdes / and require my sheep from their hands / and make them cease frō feding of my sheep / yea / the shepehardes shall feed them selfs no more. For I will deliver my sheep out of their mouths / so that they shall not devour them after this / &c. Behold / I Behold I wille 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 aftere my sheep and gathere them together out of all lands. I will bring theme into their own lande / and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers / and in all the places of the contre. I will feed theme •• righte good pasturs / & upon the hye mountains of Israel shall their folds be. There shall there l • e in a good fold and in a fat pastur shall they feed / even upon the mountains of Israel. I will seed my shep myself & bring them to their rest / saith the Lord God. Su • he as be lost / will I seek / such as go astraye / 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 lykynge / thosse will I preserve / & feed them withe the shynge that is Lawful / &c. 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 Lande / so that they may dwelle saffely in the wilderness / & sleap 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 〈1 page duplicate〉 〈1 page duplicate〉 the wood may bring forth their fruits / & the ground hir increase. They shall be saff in the lande 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 promysses deal with thy people. So shall all men understand / that thoue art theyre Lord God and shepparde / and that they are thy people. and the sheep of thy pastur / and by this means be occasioned to mangnifie and praysethy holy nam for ener & ever.

Heretofore the preachers of thy holy vorde & the faithful ministers of the Sacraments wer had in double honor according to the doctrine of the holy scriptures. But now of all mene they are moste miserable. For besides the tomoche despite full words / wherewith the wickid Papists labor to obscure and deface / somoch as lyghethe in them • he good name of the godly minsters? Howe cruelly & against all order of Law are they thrust out of their livings / and deprived of all / that they had / insomoche that they & theyrpoore wyffes withe their young Childeren are not only brought to the state of pouerte but also unto extrem beggeri without house or harbor / without meat / drynk & clothe. Yea many of them / because they will not be defiled with the Idolatre of Antichrist / which is now receaneed again into E • glande an bow their knee unto Baal / are compelled to forsak their natyu contrie / their parētes / their friends / their livings / and to wander abroad in strange Realms / ledyng moste sorrowful & confortles lives / but that theyhaue the their good Lord & merciful father / which confortest them in all their tribulacyon / and leauyst non without socoure that put their trust in the.

Thus seist thowe (O moste merciful father) Howe miserabli the face of the chryst • common weal of England is beyond all measure defame • . Thns seist thoue / howe thygodly doctrine and most holy ordinances are utterly abolyshed / and menes traditions see up in the place of them. Thus seiste thowe / howe thy glory & honor that is due to the alone / is attributed and geueue to an Idoleof bread & to their wicked Maumets. Thus feist thowe / howe the Saluacion / which is thorough faith to be hoped & looked for onlie in the glorious passion / precius death / & triumphant Resurrecion of thy most dere so •• andour alone Savior & Lord Jesus 〈◊〉 / is now reposed in the sinful merits of • ipocrites / in the iutercession of Saints • in ceremonies / in the observances of menes idle imaginacious &c. Thus seist thow / how thy holy word is set aside and / man's doctri hath the uppermost hand. Thus seist thow how thy holy mysteries are tomoch filtheli defiled of the swynyshe Papists. Thusseist thowe / howe all things in the temples be done without edifieng. Nothyng is herad in them but boyng / bellowyng and blearing . Thus seist thowe / howe the fatherli Bish oppes and faithful pastores are vniustli 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 & abhominaciō / blind Phareseis / subtle Hypocrites / vnlea • ned asses / Romish foxes / Rawenyngwolues / Lordly Tyrantes / and such Lyke pestilences / are appointed to rule over thy flock. Thus seist thowe / howe thy poor & miserable thepe are most villy & wrechedly handled of thes pastors / Yea Idolles / thieves / Robbers / and murtherars / while they are compelled / will they / nil they / to taste of their pestelent and poisonful pastures / to eat of their phatisaicall leaven / and to drynck oftheir dirty and miry puddeles. Thus seist thowe / how the honorable Maryage of the Godly ministers is utterly cōdemnede as A thing unlawful and unmeet for the ministry of thy word and Sacraments / and a bominable whoredom freely suffered / bornewithe all / and winked at. Thus seist thow / howe the heathen are brast iuto thine heritage / have defiled thy holy temple / and mad Jerusalem an heap of stones. Ah Lord. sense the putting down of thy holy religiō in England / we that profess thy name / and would gladly serve the according to thy blessed word & not after the fāsyes of men / which we know to be abominable in thy sight / are become an open shame unto our enemies avery scorn and verision unto them / that are round about us. They that hayte us / spoil owre goods. We are eaten up like sheep. Yea so •• tim our dere friends & neighbors 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 att us. Owre soul is brought low even unto the dust / and our bely clea • eth to the grownde. For thy sake are we killed all thedaye longe / & are counted as sheep appointed to be stayue. Up Lord? why sleapest thow / awake and caste us not of forever. Whe • fore hideste • howe thy face? Wilte thowe clean forget our miseri and oppression: Arise o Lord help us & deliver us for thy mercy sake. Ah Lord howe / longe wilt thowe be angry? shall thy ielousy burn like fire forever? Pour out thine indinguacion upon theh eathen which know the not / & upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name. For they have dewoured Iacobe / and Layde wayste his dwelling place. Oh remember not our old sins but have mercy upon us and that soune / for we are come to great misery. Help us / o God our Sauioure / for the glory of thy name. O deliver us & forgive us our sins for thy names sake. Wherfor shall the heathen (The Papists) say / Where is now their God? Whereisnowe their Gosspell? Oh / let the vengeāns of thy seruautes blood that is shed / be openlie shown upon the heathen in our sight. Oh / let the sorowsull syghiuges of the presōners come before the / and according to thepowr of thine arm preserve those that are appointed to die. Steerre up thy pawre / o Lord / and come to help us. Inrne to us A gain and show us the light of thy loving counteuaūs / that we may be saved. O Lord God of hosts / howe longe wilt thowe beangrye over the prayers of thy people? How longe will • e thowe feed theme that believe in the with the bread of tears / and give them plenty of sorrows to drink? Howe longe • hal they be a laughing stock to the Papystes? Howe longe shall thy viny • rde be rootedvp of the wild bore / & be dewoured of the / veastes of the feilde? Howe longe shall • irehedges be brokene / that they which go by / may pluck up hir grapes? Howe long shall it be brent withe fire and lie vais • e? O turn the again thow God of hosts / look down from heaven / behoulde and visete thy vinyarde. Houlde not thy tongue / o God / kepenot silence / refrayn not thyself o god. For Lo / thine enemies make a murmuryng / and they that hate the / lift up their head. They imagine craftily agayuste thy people / andtake council agayns • e thy holyones. Come say they / lete 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 withe one consent / & are confederate against the & thy holyehword. They shame not to say / We will have the house of God in possessiou. We will hauemene to believe / as we list. Owre 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 goethe out of our awne mowihe / that will we do. Wewill do sacrifice and offer oblacions to the / queen of heaven / lyk as we & our forefathers / owre kings and owre heads have done inthe cities of Judah and in the stretes and feldes of Jerusalem. For the • r had we plentiusnesof vitailes. 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 hade scaccenes of all things & pery he with swerd and hunger. It is but lost labor to serve God. O Lord kep & / preserve us from this generation forever. For they are a sinful people / which are overladen withe blaspehmies / a froward generation and wicked childern. They haueforsaken the their Lord God / they have / provoked the holy one of Israel unto anger & are gone backwarde. There is no truth intheir mouths. Their throat is an open sepulckere / with their tongues thei disceaue / the poysone of adders is under their lips / there fete are swift to h • de innocent blood. They eat up and dewoure thy people as it wear bread. Distruccion and vnhappynes is in all their doings / but the way of peace theyknowe not / for there is no fear of God before there eyes. O Lord God & our moste merciful fath ere look down from thy holy hill and co • sydere our miseries. Save thy people o Lord / and bless thine heritage. Gouernetheme withe thy holy spi • ite / and lift them vpe above their enemies for euere.

Ryse vpe o Lord / and have pity on Zion / for it is time / yea it is hye time for the tohaue pity on hire. O Lord lete it be thy plea sure to deal fawarably with Zion / that the walls of Jerusalem may be duylte. Builde vpe o Lord / that spiritual house with living stones / whereof thy Son Christ is the foundaycion & head cornere stone. Be that same good Lord and merciful God to thycongregacion / that thowe haiste euere promised to be. Comforte hire / as the loving mothere cheri • hethe hire tender babes. As a natural mother cannot forgett hire young one / but that she must need • e have pity on thechilde of hire womb: Even so / o Lord / petty thowe 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 deseruethe punishment than reconcilement / anger than fawour / destruckcio •• h an preservation / yet o Lord God / we moste humbly beseech theto forgive us dw •• s •• es / and for thy names sak yea for thy dere 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 onlie owre Repentan̄s / our broken hearts andtrowbled sprites / our • ears / our • igh 〈◊〉 / & our most sorrowful supplycacion • . Thes we pour out before the merciful throne of thy divine majesty / in the name of IesusChriste our alone mediature and advocate / moste humbly besechyng the for his sake / for his dignity and innocence to have mercy on the Godly Inhabitauntes of England / and on so many as unfeignedly reverence thy holy name / and withe true heart love the coming of our Lord Jesus. Let it suffice / o Lordethat sense the death of owre most ChristenKinge Edward the sixte / thy faithful seru ante unto this day / thow haiste for our vn thankfulness and wicked lyffe taken awayefrome us the holy and glorious gosspel of thy dere son Christ / and suffered hypocritesto feed us / yea rather to choke & strangle us / withe the pestilent doctrine of menes traditions. Look upon thyn holy annoyted / and for his sake have mercy on us / bless us / and lighten thy cherful count̄ance upon us / that we Englythe men here on the earth mayeones again know thy blessed ways & thy / saving health among all nations. Let therealm of England be full of the knowleg of the Lord Jesus / even as though the water of the sea overflowed the earth. Let thy word rune swyftly thorough out all the borders of England. Let the people thereof drink no more of / the dirty and miry puddels of the swynyshe Papists & filthy Hypocrites / but let theme withe joy draw water out of the wellesof that alone Sauioure / which saithe: Iff any man thirst / let hyme come unto me and drink. I will give to hyme that is athirst of the well of water of lyffe freely. And whoso ever shall drink of the water that I shall give hyme / shall never be more a thirst / but thewater that I shall give / shall be in hyme a / well of water / springyng up unto everlasting lyffe. And that thy blessed word may have the more free passag / take away from us those Idolatrus Massmongers / those idle Latin Humblers / those shaven Midianites / those Lordly loiterers / those Wolves / those Theues / Robbers / and Murtherars / which do nothing elles than poison thy flock / whom thy moste dere Son purchased withe his moste Precious dere heart blood / and mak hawocke of thy seely simple sheep by leadyngthem away from the thorough their vain sophistry unto the Dewill & the pope / from thy holy word and blessed ordenances vntothe trifling traditions & crooked yea cankered constitucious of Hipocrites: And in the steadof them place thow godly Byshopes / learned Preachers / Christ̄ ministers / Faithful teachers / True spiritual Fathers / Louyng pastors / even such as will diligently seek vpe the 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 again unto the •• epe foulde / give thy howshoulde meat in due season / be able to erhorte withe wholesome doctrine / & also to convince and overcome them that speak age • nste it / & brēn with aferuēt & ūfaied zeal toward the setting forth thy glory and the health ofthy people.

Send us ageyn to the true ministracion off thy blessed Sacraments / that we may know what they are what they signifi & preach unto us / yea & that without the corupciō of menes tradiciōs / wherewith at this present they are most ūwortheli defiled of thes suinish & filthi papists. Take away from us the Romish latin seruis / which the sine • ed shaulīges mūble in the temples before thy people without all Edifȳg & restorūto us our acustōed cōon prayers in the English • ong that we may know what we pray / & by this meāes worship the in spryt & truth. Banyshe out of the cōgergaciō that most vile & stinking Idol the Mass / & restore unto us the holy & blesed Cōmūiō / that we eating together of one bread & drīaing of one cupe may remember the Lord's death & bethākfull / to the.

Pourge our temples of all popish abhomynacions / of Cerimōies / of Images / of allters / of copes / of vestmētes / of pixes / of croses of sensers / of holy vater bucketes / of holy bread basketes / of Chrismator •• / & above all of Idolatrus priests & ungodly ignorāte curates.

The propiciatori sacrifis of the popish Mass / the wicked opiy • n of the corporal presence of Christ in the Sacramētal bread / the receauīg of the Sacrament under on kind / the intercesiō of Saints / the doctrīe of the Iustificaciō ofworkes / the popish purgatory / the wicked tradiciōs of the Elders / with all ungodly custōes & strange doctrīes take thoue / o good Lord / away from us / & teache us vy thy holy Sprite to walk onlie in that way / that thow haste apoīted / & by no meāes to turn neither on the righte hand nor on the left / but all blind zeles and good ētents laid aside / give us grace toserue the our Lord God in such holiness & Ryghtousnes as is accepted before the / all thedayes of owre lyffe.

O heavenly father & moste merciful Lordepreserue and sāct • fie with thy holy spirit thy universal cōg • ega • iō / • anly the faithful cōgregaciō of England / that as in their baptime they have given them selves over wholly unto the / forsakyng the dewill / the world and the flesh withe all their works / pōpes / lusts & vāities / & have sworn to serve the with all that they ar able to mak / even so they thorough thy grace may answere to their professiō & live according to their promise made in their baptime / e • tāg them selves withe no new / coūterfaīcte and strange religiō / nor yet defilyng them selves withe any unrighteousness / but walking inthat only way that thowe hayst appointed.

And such as thorough the strenghe of thy Spirit abide full constāte & stedfaste in the cōfesiō of thi truth before the worldli tirātes and bel •• de hypocrites / o Lord confirm them in thy truth thorough the holy Gooste / and give theme grace to persiste and cōtinwe in it unto the ende / that thowe mayste be glorified by them / and that the truth of thy holy word may the more earnestly be receauyd / embraced and believed of the Christ̄ weaklynges. O howld thow up their goynges in thy paths / that their foot steppes slipe not. Thow haste delivered them from stinkyng Sodom / suffer them no more to look back toward it. Thow by the mighty pour &out streached arm hast brought them out of sinful Egepte / & haste fed them withe the Heuēlie mana / suffer them no more somoche 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 / cowcūbers / garleke / onyones / lekes / &c / wherewith the filthe Egepciās are fed. They have visited & seen Christ thy Sōne & our Kinge, suffer them nomor to return unto wicked Kinge Herod. They have put their hand to the ploughe / grant that they never look back again / but preserve cōtine we & go forward vntothe ende. They have escaped from the filthenes of the world thorough the knowleg of the & of our Sawyour Jesus Christ / suffer them nomor to be entāgled therein & owercoōe / lest the latter ende be worse thē the beginning. For it had been better not to have knowuethe way of righteousness / thā after they have know̄ it to turn frome the holy cōmanndemēt 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 washede to hire walowingein the mire.

The weakelīges and such as are not yet perfectly stablyshed in thy true relygeō / butlike redes waver with every wind of doctrī / o Lord confirm thow & mak them thoroughly strong in the knowledge of thy truth that they withe a cōstāte faith & lusty courage may both believe & confess the before the tyrātes of the world / that thow alou art the Lord and that there is no truth necessari unto saluaciō / but that only / which is contained in thyholy Scriptures.

To them that are in bonds for the cōfessiou of thy truth give thowe grace / o moste loving Lord / to rejoice / that they be counted worthy of thy fatherly goodness to suffer Rebuke / iufamy / epresōment / loss of goods &c / for the name of the Lord Jesus / & to be persuaded that the afflicciōs of this life are not woe • thi of the glory / which shall be shown upon the Sōnes of God in time to come / notwithstanding that their trouble / which is / short & light preparethe an exceeding andeternall waighte 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 withe Christ / they shall also live withe. Christ / and if they suffer witheChrist / they shall also reign withe Christ. And as for them that for fear of liff or loss of goods / or else for pleasyng the hy •• powresare outwardly gone from thy true relygiō / and withe their bodies serve Baal / yea and that against their own conscience / whā in their hearts they wish all Idolatrous & strange worshippings utterly to be abolyshed / thatthowe alone mightest be glorified & honored: we moste humbly beseech the to pardō their imperfecciōs / and to forgive their infirmetes / which by the prophet speaketh of thi Sōne cōcer̄ynge the weak & fearful on this manner: A br • osed Reed shall he not break / and flax that begynnthe to burn / he shall not / quench. O Lord help their vnbeleffe. Encrease their faith. Make them strōge with thy holy / Spirit / that that which they in wardly believe them ay outwardli confess & work accordyngly / though loss both off goods and lyffe do enseue. Syue theme grace always to have before their Eyes these sayenges of thy dere Son and our loving Sauyoure Christ Jesus: If any man will follow me / lete hime forsake hime self and take up his cross and follow me. For whoso euere will save his lyffe / shall loss it. And who so euere shall loose his lyffe for my sake / shall find it. What shall it proffyt a man though he should win all the whole world / if he lese his own soul? or what shall a man give to redeem / his soul again with all? Item / uerely I say unto youe / there is no man that forsake the house / or brethren or sisters / or father or mother / or wiffe or children / or lands / for my sake and the Gosspeles / which shall not receive an hondered foulde / now in this lyffe / houses and bretheren / and sisters / and mothers and childrē and lands / withe persecucions / and in theworlde to come everlasting lyffe. Ageyn / who so ever shall confess me before men hyme will I confess also before my fathere which is in heaven. But who so euere shall be ashamed of me and of my words among this aduouterous and synnfull genaracion of hyme shall the Son of man be ashamed whan he comethe in the glory of his father withe the holy Angeles.

Now as touching the enemies of thy word / whereof some sin of ignorance and for lack of knowleg / some again of obstynat malice and pretensed hate and make war against thy true relygeon / we moste humbly beseech the for Christis sake favorably 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 dere Son and persecut the Preachers of the saine. Bryng theme / O Lord / into the knowledge of their errors and blindness / that they may repent / believe and amende / which madest Saul of a wolff a lamb / of a persecutore a Preacher / and of a Tyrante an Apostele. Make theme of the enemies of thy truth / erneste lovers and fervent embrasers of thy truth. Turn their hard and stony heart in to a fleshly soft and gentle heart. Make theme uwe bottles apt to receive then 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 mene. Be merciful unto them bless theme / and lyghten thy countenauns upon theme / that they may know thy ways and thy saving health. Replynyshe theme / withe thy holy spirit and withe the graces of the same / that as they are thy creatures withe us / so they may be saved withe us.

But those / O Lord / which are thy sworn enemies and of a set purpose even ageynste their own conscience and contrary to their knowledge persecute the gloryus Gosspell of thy dearly beloved son and the true favorers of the same / and will by no meāes be reconciled / nor lean unto the truth / but go for the daily more and more to hinder the free and ioyefull passage of thy holy wored / & to withdraw so many as they can from believing / receiving and embrasyng the same 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 Earthe that they be no more stomblyng blocks to the weak Christians. Destroie thow them

O God / let them perish thorough their own imaginacions. Caste them out in the multitude of their ungodliness / for they have rebelled ageynste the. Rayne thowe snares fire / brimston / storm and tempeste / upon them / let this be their portion to drink. 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 / that imagine mischefe ageynste theme Let them be as dust before the wynd / and the Angel of the Lord scatterīg them. Let their way be dark and slippery / and let thy Angel o Lord / persecut them. Yea let sudden distruccion come upon them unawares / and the netes that they have laid preuely / cathe them selves / that they may fall into theye own myscheff. Let the sw • rdes that they draw / out go thorough their own hearts / and the howes that they have beended slay them selves

Let the arms of the ungodly be broken / & let the wicked perish and consume as the / fat of lambes / yea as smoke let them consume away. Destroye them forever / and / pluck the out of their dwelīg and root them out of the lande of the living. Break their teethe (O God) in their mouths / smyte the chawe bones of the Lions / o Lord / let them faullawaye like water that rune the apace / and whane they shout arowes / let them be rooted out / let them consume away like a snayle / and be like the vntymly fruit of a / womane / and let them not se the Sun.

Stande up o Lord God of hosts / thowe / God of Israel / to visit all heathen / and be / not merciful unto them / that offend of malicious wickedness. Pour out thine indingnacion upon them / and let thy wrathful displeasure take hold of them. Let them be / combred with shame and dishonore that seek to do thy people evil. Do thowe to them as unto the Madianets / unto Siseraand unto Jabin at the broke of Kison / which perished at Endor / & became as the dong of the earth

In fin. Let them be confounded and turnned backwarde / as many as have evil will at Siō. Let them be even as the grase growing upon the house tops / which withe rethe afore it be plucked up. But let all those that love the and thy blessed word / be joyful / merry and glade. Let them continwe / prossper / floryshe and tryumphe in the their Lord God for euere. Let their joy & mirthe be found and everlasting / even such joy & mirthe as no man shall be able to take away from them. Let stinkyng Babylon fall down / and let the new and heavenly Jerusalem be buylte up ageyn. 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. Kill Antichrist that Son off perdition withe the breathe of thy mouthe / that thow alone mayst be known to be the Lord. O moste loving Lord and owre heavenly father / whan thow shalt deliuere thy people out of captivity / then shall Jacob rejoice and Israel be right glade. Yea then shall the mowthe of the faithful be • illed / withe laughter / and their tongue withe joy. we therefore most humbly beseech the (o Lord) to turn our captivity as the rivers in the Southe / that they which sow in tears / may reap in joy. Turn the agen / o Lord at the last / & be gracious unto thy servants. O satisfy us withe thy mercy & that sone so shall we rejoice & be glad all the days of our lyffe. Comforte us agen now after the time that thow haste plagued us / and for the years wherein we have suffered aduersite

So shall we withe joyful hearts & merry voices sing continual praises to thy glorious & blessed name / which with thy only begot̄ Sōne Jesus Christ our alone Sauioure and withe the holy Ghoste that moste sweet Cōfortour lyuest & reignest one / alone / true / living / imortall and Euerlastyng God world withe out ende AMEN.