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<P><HI>A COMMEMO+RATION OF THE INES|TIMABLE GRACES AND BENEFITES OF GOD, INFVSED THROVGH THE</HI> bryght lyght of the knowlege of his holy word, in our mo&s;te dradde &s;oueraygne lorde <HI>HENRY</HI> the eyght, by the grace of god kyng of <HI>ENG|LANDE</HI> and of <HI>FRAVNCE,</HI> defender of the fayth, lorde of Irelande, and in erth the &s;upreme heed next and im|mediate vnder <HI>CHRISTE</HI> of the Churche of Englande, with hartye pray&s;e and thankes gyuyng vn to <HI>GOD</HI> for the &s;ame, com|po&s;ed vp|pon the glad prophecy and ioyefull p&s;alme of <HI>Benedictus domi|nus deus I&s;|rael. &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>ANNO. M. D. XL.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE RYGHT HONO|RABLE THOMAS LORDE CRVMVVEL knyght of the noble order of the Garther, lorde ke|per of the priuy &s;eale of our mo&s;t &s;ouerayn lord the kyng, and al&s;o vicegerent of the &s;piri|tualtie, your humble and faythfull &s;er|uaunt, Iohn Pylbarough de&s;yreth long helth and pro&s;perous per &s;euerance in honour.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_CONSIDERYNGE</HI> often ty|mes in my &s;elfe, (my &s;yngular good lorde) the ine&s;timable gra|ces and benefytes, with the whi|che god of his infinite goodnes hath mo&s;te largely indewed our mo&s;te &s;ouerayne lorde the kynges moo&s;te noble maie&s;tie, wherof his grace hath abundantly im|parted al&s;o vnto vs his moo&s;te humble and lo|uynge &s;ubiectes, by the illu&s;tration of goddis mo&s;te holy worde, and vnto what con&s;olation, ioye, and comforet, from oure longe peynefully &s;uffered thraldome, dreadefulle darkenes, and daungers of our bodies, &s;oules, and all that we had be&s;ydes forth, we be nowe mo&s;t ble&s;&s;edly de|lyuered and comme, throughe the &s;ame, I haue thought and yet a&s;&s;uredly do thynke, there is no faythfull or true engly&s;he hart, that can reteyne and kepe to hym &s;elfe the memoriall therof, and not erne&s;tly and with al diligence indeuour and apply hym &s;elfe, by all &s;uche meanes and ways,
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as his wytte power and counnynge, whiche god hath gyuen hym, wylle &s;erue hym, to vtter and &s;et forthe the &s;ame, bothe to the condigne laude and pray&s;e of god therfore, and vnto the perpe|tuall renowne and gloriou&s;e fame of our &s;ayde mo&s;te &s;oueraygne lorde, as the very mini&s;ter, in and by whome <HI>GOD</HI> hathe thus wonderfully wrought in vs, and as in whom (as Paul &s;aith) our reioy&s;ynge myght abounde and increa&s;e by <NOTE PLACE="marg">Philipp. 1.</NOTE> Ie&s;u Chri&s;te, by rea&s;on of his returne home a|gayne to his right and iu&s;te title of godly mini|&s;tration and power ouer vs, wherof he, and his mo&s;te noble progenytours, haue ben vniu&s;tely, by v&s;urpacion, longe depriued. Wherevpon for my part, in di&s;charge of my con&s;cience and due|tie towardes god &amp; his maie&s;tie in this behalfe, I haue applyed my be&s;t wyll (accordynge to my <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 25.</NOTE> litell, and not vnknowen to all men mo&s;te lea&s;t) gyfte, whiche I haue thankefully (notwith&s;tan|dynge) receyued of god amonge&s;t other, to be|&s;towe and employe to his v&s;e, to compyle this lyttell treaty&s;e, vpon the ioyfull p&s;alme, <HI>Benedi|ctus dominus deus I&s;rael. &amp;c.</HI> the glad prophecye and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. 1.</NOTE> pray&s;egyuynge vnto god by zachary, whiche by interpretation is a&s;moch to &s;ay, as remembring god, of and for the vniuer&s;all &s;pirituall vi&s;ita|tion and redemption of mankynde, by Chri&s;tis becommynge incarnate, and commendation of his cho&s;en myni&s;ter thervnto, Iohn Bapti&s;te: wherof and of who&s;e conception al&s;o he was in|opinable at the tyme of the reuelation therof, by
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rea&s;on of the very old ages of him and his wife, to thente~t the &s;ame, which I wold to god were as effectuou&s;ly &s;hewed and &s;et forth by me herin, as I haue bothe hartily and faythfully pourpo&s;ed and ment it, myght be an occa&s;ion and example for vs, bothe to laude and pray&s;e god of and for our &s;pecyal vi&s;ytation and redemption, through the lyght of goddis mo&s;t holy worde, wherof we were al&s;o inopinable and faythele&s;&s;e at the fyr&s;te pronouncynge thereof, by rea&s;on that the &s;ame was longe hydde from vs, and mannes tradi|tions and inuentions crepte betwene. And al&s;o to commende worthely our &s;ayd mo&s;t &s;ouerayne lorde, goddes holy mini&s;ter therof, in perpetuall memory, and from generation of vs into gene|ration, le&s;te we whiche as adoptiue I&s;raelytes by faythe do pre&s;ently enioye &s;o hyghe and god|ly benefytes by god and his &s;ayde myny&s;ter the kynges maie&s;tie, &s;hulde be accompted any le&s;&s;e thankefull therfore, then was zacharie, who be|ing &s;atisfied with only hope, thanked and prai|&s;ed God and his holy myny&s;ter Iohn Bapti&s;te, for the merites of Chri&s;tes incarnation, then to come. Whyche Treati&s;e mo&s;te temeraryou&s;ly I haue dedycate vnto you, whom I haue always e&s;temed, lyke the ryght vertuous and faythfull Saphan, vnto his mo&s;te godly prynce Io&s;ias, a gracious fauourer of all hone&s;t and holy pur|po&s;es, and my very &s;yngular good lorde: Tru|&s;tynge that although bothe for the gro&s;&s;e hand|lynge of &s;o fyne a matter, and al&s;o the rude and
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inornate &s;tyle and phra&s;e therof, it be nothynge worthy &s;uche preferrement in dede, yet neuer the le&s;&s;e your accu&s;tomed benignite wyl vouch&s;afe to reform the &s;ame, wherin it may &s;eme vn|to you conuenient, &amp; al&s;o accept and make it worthye, agreinge to my good wyl intended ther|in. And for my parte, I &s;hall not onely mo&s;t hartly pray&s;e and thanke god therfore, but al&s;o accordinge to my bounden duetie owe vnto your good lorde&s;hyppe my harty prayer and hum|ble &s;eruyce whyle I lyue.</P>
<CLOSER>GOD SAVE THE KYNGE</CLOSER>
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<HEAD>&para;Benedictus dominus deus I&s;rael: quia ui|&s;itauit &amp; fecit Redemptionem plebis &s;ue.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_FOR AS MOCHE AS</HI> in the Scryptures of the olde Te&s;ta|ment and the newe, it is no rare thyng, that dyuer&s;e per&s;ons ben named &s;ome before their birthes &amp; &s;ome when they haue co~tinued with one name, haue had the &s;ame cha~ged, accor+dinge &amp; for &s;uche occa&s;ions or qualities as haue ry&s;en or ben in them, or for &s;ome &s;ynguler mery|tes gyuen vnto them (whereof to make an hole reher&s;all, it were no le&s;&s;e to my capacytie impo&s;|&s;yble, than to your readyng tedious) I am and dare be bolde (without offence to any per&s;on) for the godly occa&s;ion and vertuous qualities (whi|che nowe ben apparant in vs mo&s;te chri&s;tian en|gly&s;he people) to repute and a&s;cribe worthyly to vs the name of I&s;raelites. For lyke as Iacob, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gene&s;. 25.</NOTE> whiche is as moche to &s;ay, as a &s;upplanter, was an apte name for hym, accordyng to his qualitie than, bycau&s;e he had &s;upplanted his brother E|&s;au, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gene. 27.</NOTE> both of his byrthright and fathers ble&s;&s;ing, wherfore E&s;au &s;ayd of hym, he may wel be cal|led Iacob, for he hath twy&s;e vndermynded me, and E&s;aus name was chaunged into Edom, as who &s;huld &s;ay (redde) by cau&s;e he hadde &s;olde the &s;aide byrthright for a meace of redde meate, as lyke apte a name was after for the &s;ame Iacob <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gene&s;. 32.</NOTE> (I&s;raell) whiche is interpreted, a man &s;einge
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the lorde) by cau&s;e he had &s;ene god and his won|derfull <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gene&s;.</HI> 28. <HI>P&s;al</HI> 113. <HI>Exod.</HI> 12. <HI>Exod.</HI> 13.</NOTE> heauenly &s;yghtes. Whiche I&s;raell and his generation god cha&s;e to hym a peculiar peo|ple, &amp; in them extended his holyne&s;&s;e &amp; &s;trength, and &s;aued theym in Egypte, from the greuous plague through the bloudde of the lambe. And for them Chri&s;t &s;ayd al&s;o, I came not but to cure <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Matt.</HI> 15.</NOTE> the &s;hepe of the hou&s;e of I&s;rael, that were peri|&s;hed: Euen &s;o bycau&s;e we now &s;e the lord god by his &s;criptures and by his holy worde, be &s;ancti|fyed &amp; &s;trengthed in hym, and &s;pirituallye cured through the blod of our redemer Chri&s;t, we may ryght well &amp; aptly be callyd I&s;raelites, a people &s;eing god, a people &s;anctified and &s;trengthed w^t <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>E&s;ai.</HI> 62. <HI>Et uoca|bunt eos populus &s;anctus, re dempti a domino. Titum.</HI> 2.</NOTE> goddis worde, &amp; cured with Chri&s;tis bloud. For the grace of god our &s;auyour hath appered vn|to vs, and openynge the eyes of our vnder&s;tan|dyng, hath taught vs to &s;ee and knowe Chri&s;te. Fanta&s;ies nor dremes, mens inuentions do not nowe blynde or deceyue vs any longer. For the brode bu&s;&s;hell of hypocri&s;ye, whiche ouerwhel|med the bryght candell (goddis worde) is nowe taken away, and we &s;ee all ouer the hou&s;e of our owne con&s;ciences: and we &s;e thauctour of light, and the very lyght it &s;elfe, that lyghteneth (with diuer&s;itie of graces) all re&s;onable creatures co~|mynge <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ioan.</HI> 1.</NOTE> into this worlde. And whom (although he was in the worlde) we beinge &s;educed and led blyndefulle by vanities, coulde not perceyue or knowe tylle nowe at the la&s;te, whyle we were a people wandrynge in darknes of ignorance, and
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dwellers in the &s;hadowes of dethe, which is &s;yn, accompanyed with deathe: the greate lyghte of goddis mo&s;t holy word dyd appere vnto vs, and <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>E&s;ai.</HI> 9. <HI>Roma.</HI> 13.</NOTE> our redemption was nerer tha~ we were aware. And where we were before in darknes, a people ignorant of god, we be nowe inlyghtened with <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 5.</NOTE> the bryghtnes of knowledge in our lorde god: who hath commanded the lyght to &s;hyne out of darknes, whiche hath &s;hyned in our hartes, for to gyue the lyght of the knowledge of the glorye of god in the face of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, that is in the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Matt.</HI> 16.</NOTE> faithe, whiche Peter and his felowe apo&s;tles by hym, one an&s;werynge for all, confe&s;&s;ed in Chri&s;t to be the &s;onne of the lyuynge god. &V;pon which Chri&s;t, and fayth in hym, and vpon, or in none other, our catholyke congregation immediatly is firmely &s;ettled. Lette vs therfore nowe, ha|uynge receyued this lyght of god, imprynte the memoriall therof in our hartes, with perfect be|lefe therof, &amp; magnifie god therfore, that it may fructifie in vs good workes, and make vs ble&s;|&s;ed through the &s;ame, before all nations, as was the holy virgyn Mary by Eli&s;abeth, &s;aying vn|to her, Ble&s;&s;ed arte thou amonge women, and <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luc.</HI> 1.</NOTE> ble&s;&s;ed is the fruite of thy wombe. For bycau&s;e thou ha&s;te mekely receyued the holye worde of god, and gladde tydynges by his angell: Tho&s;e &s;ame thynges &s;hall be perfourmed in the, accor|dynge as the &s;ame aungell hath &s;ayde vnto the. And al&s;o by example of Zachary, who bycau&s;e he beleued not the po&s;&s;ibilitie of goddis worde,
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whiche the aungell dydde &s;hewe vnto hym, was <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. 1.</NOTE> made &s;pecheles for a tyme, but whan he &s;aw the perfection therof, beinge &s;ory for his infidelitie, dydde receyue ageyne by goddis goodne&s;&s;e, his &s;peche, augmented with the grace and &s;pirite of prophecienge and thankes gyuynge vnto god for the &s;ame: being repentant and dete&s;tyng, that we haue ben &s;o longe mysbeleuyng of the word of god, &s;hewed and &s;et forthe vnto vs by goddis holy doctours and prechers, whom the Sathan of Rome hath dyuelli&s;hly tormented, burnt, and &s;layne, to kepe vs faithles, and make vs dumbe, that we &s;hulde not blowe out his errours and a|bu&s;es, nor kynges &amp; temporall rulers &s;hulde be lerned of their godly auctorities ouer their &s;ub|iectes (whyche the &s;ame Sathan had v&s;urped) let vs nowe, not lyke as the tenne, whiche were <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luce. 17.</NOTE> healed of their leprie, wherof one onely came a|geyn to gyue thankes to God, but holly and en|tierly togythers, euen as the thre whiche were in the forneys of fyre, lauded and glorifyed god, as <NOTE PLACE="marg">Daniel. 3.</NOTE> it had ben with one mouth, bra&s;t out like the day &s;pryng the lyght of the faythe that is in vs, and reioy&s;yng in the byrth of Iohn, that is in the ho|ly go&s;pell newe ry&s;en amonge&s;t vs by the grace of god, pray&s;e and thanke mo&s;t hartily with Za|chary our lorde god of I&s;raell, whiche hath vi|&s;yted <NOTE PLACE="marg">Benedictus dominus de us I&s;rael qui a ui&s;itauit &amp; fecit <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">edem ptionem ple bis &s;uae.</NOTE> vs, illumynyng our feble ignorant hartes with the knowlege of his mo&s;t holy word. Wher by he hath cau&s;ed the redemption of vs his pe|culyar people, from our thrall captiuitie of our
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go&s;tely ennemy the deuyll, and our both goo&s;tly and bodyly ennemye, the by&s;&s;hop of Rome, and his complyces.</P>
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<HEAD>ET erexit cornu &s;alutis nobis in domo Dauid pueri &s;ui.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ANTICHRIST</HI> of Rome hath longe di&s;|&s;imuled with vs, foodynge vs forthe with vanities: As pardons, pilgrimages, bulles, ne|uer ryght calued, &s;uper&s;ticions, counterfeite re|ligion, feyned relyques, and &s;uche other innu|merable &s;ort of tra&s;hes, haberda&s;hery ware, and all for money. For the old prouerbe, <HI>Omnia vena|lia Rome,</HI> &s;ayd by the Pagans, long before Chri&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg">Salu&s;tius.</NOTE> was incarnate, is not lefte vnpracti&s;ed by the &s;ayde Antichri&s;t our mo&s;te holy father (as they call hym) his cardinalles and by&s;hoppes. wher|of the chiefe marchaunt of my&s;chiefe is the &s;ayd holy father. I praye you, what thynge was and yet is not &s;ale kynde at Rome, &s;auinge our en|gly&s;he &s;oules: for the whiche we haue nowe of late founde a better marte? And that whiche is mo&s;t abhorred of god, the &s;ayd Antichri&s;te, and mo&s;te aduer&s;ary of Chri&s;t, had brought vs into the ge~tils wor&s;hipping of fals goddis. Oh god of I&s;rael, for thy tender mercy, into what blynd fanta&s;ies of madde my&s;chiefe were we thy &s;elye creatures brought by the hydynge and &s;hutting vp of thy holy worde from vs? And what iniu|ries dyd thy mo&s;te faythfull mini&s;ters, and yet for the mo&s;t parte do &s;u&s;teyne, to be &s;o arrogant|ly
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depriued of theyr princely regymentes vnder the, by thambycious wra&s;tyng of thy &s;ayd word to the mayntenaunce of a dyuelly&s;he power a|gayn&s;t thy ryght power? wherby the due obedi|ence of &s;ubiectes was conuerted into rebellion, and the concord of commonties di&s;&s;olued: Thou laye&s;t good god, as thou hadde&s;t ben a &s;lepe, and dyd &s;uffer vs to dreame by the, Euen as thou dydde&s;t from Adams fall, vnto the tyme thy on|ly &s;onne became incarnate, wherof zachary pro|phecied a lyttell before, &s;aying, That thou had|de&s;t ray&s;ed vp an horne for our helthe, meaning, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Et erexit cornu &s;alu|tis nobis In domo Dauid pue|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i &s;ui.</NOTE> that Chry&s;t &s;huld be borne the vniuer&s;al &s;tre~gth power and glorye of our &s;aluation, and that in the hou&s;e of kynge Dauid thy electe &s;eruaunte. But nowe through the lyght, whiche is &s;prong in vs, vpon thy holy worde, (agayn&s;t an v&s;ur|ped power and reigne of Lucifer, mo&s;te vntrue|ly counterfayte, vpon thy mo&s;t vndouted trewe worde) thou ha&s;t ray&s;ed vp to vs thy peculyas people, a godly dewe power of helthe, our natu|rall mo&s;t &s;oueraygne lorde kynge <HI>HENRY</HI> the <HI>VIII.</HI> by thy grace, which is al&s;o a true &s;trength and ryghtfull kyngedome, apperteynyng to the mo&s;te noble hou&s;e of his mo&s;te famou&s;e proge|nitours, for our great con&s;olation, tranquillite, and hol&s;ome &s;afetie, bothe of our bodyes and &s;oules to. Who&s;e maie&s;tie we recogni&s;e and be|leue throughe thy &s;ayde worde, to be thyne holy enoynted, immediate miny&s;ter, and vicar ouer <NOTE PLACE="marg">Roma. 13. 1. Petri. 2. Sapien, 6.</NOTE> vs: and vnto whom onelye thy goodnes hath
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commytted the cure charge and gouernaunce of vs, and whom we owe to obey loue and dreade, and to whom al&s;o we owe only to haue recour&s;e as vnto thy chiefe herdeman. But alas we haue <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Pet. 2.</NOTE> ben longe (yea and to longe) wandrynge frome hym, and haue &s;ought a &s;trange &s;hepherde, whi|che &s;emynge vnto vs as meke and humble as a lambe, (what by him &s;elfe and what by his whel pes) hath bene a very deuourynge wulfe of vs, and more rauenou&s;e then a wulfe. for he hath not onely con&s;umed the &s;hepe, but the flece and bones al&s;o. But nowe being retourned home a|gayne by the diligente &s;erche and labour of our <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Petri. 2.</NOTE> &s;ayde mo&s;te louynge kynde and holy pa&s;tour, let vs not erre nor &s;traye agayne from hym, for he is lothe to lo&s;e one the wor&s;te of vs, lette vs not then lo&s;e hym, but moo&s;te kyndely folowe hym, &s;tycke by him, defende hym, obeye hym, and lo|uyngely dreade and honour hym, euen for god|des &s;ake, and for con&s;cience &s;ake, bycau&s;e god|des <NOTE PLACE="marg">Roma. 13.</NOTE> holy word teacheth and byndeth vs &s;o to do.</P>
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<HEAD>&para;Sicut locutus e&s;t per os &s;anctorum: qui &agrave; &s;eculo &s;unt prophetarum eius.</HEAD>
<P><HI>CHRISTE VVAS</HI> not &s;odeynly borne, but his incarnation and commyng to be borne in the hou&s;e of Dauid, was &s;poken of god, by the mouthes of his prophetes, from the begyn|nynge of the worlde: that we &s;hulde faythfully beleue it. And therfore vndoubtedly Ieremie, Daniel, E&s;ais, Micheas, zacharie, and all the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Hiere. 23. Daniel. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE>
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re&s;idue of the prophetes ce&s;&s;ed not, to prophecye <NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;ai. 11. Miche. 5. Zacha. 6.</NOTE> and &s;hewe Chri&s;tes incarnation. And the &s;ame al&s;o dyd the dedes of Adam, Abel, Enoch, and of al other the fathers of the olde te&s;tament ma|nyfe&s;tly &s;et forth: as vndoubtedly al&s;o doth the &s;ame fathers, and prophetes, and other the re&s;i|due of the olde te&s;tament, if due application be put therunto, partely by theyr dedes, and parte|ly <NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;ai. 14. Ezec. 22. 23. 24. 34. Hiere. 29. Daniel. 12.</NOTE> by theyr prophecies, bothe &s;hewe and &s;et forth the pompous pride and v&s;urpatio~ of the by&s;hop of Rome, and the mi&s;chiefes captiuities and ab|hominations that haue en&s;ued thervpon to god des flocke. and yet the &s;ame by&s;hoppes, captay|nes of al tho&s;e my&s;chiefes, neyther haue nor &s;hal e&s;cape quyte awaye: for vtter confu&s;ion, depe falles, and perpetual damnation, both hath and &s;hall, as &s;ure as god lyueth, come vppon theyr neckes therfore. And the &s;ame fathers and pro|phetes <NOTE PLACE="marg">3. Re. 10. 3. Reg. 1. 2. Par. 29. 2. Para. 30. 2. Para. 31. 2. Para. 23.</NOTE> do lyke wy&s;e &s;hewe and &s;et forthe, that of very godly ryghte and iu&s;tice, kynges prynces and other temporall rulers, euer from the be|gynnynge of the worlde, haue and oughte to be the only gouernours orderers and rulers of and ouer theyr people, naturally broughte vp, con|gregate, <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Par. 34. Sap~. 6.</NOTE> and beinge within theyr prouynces re|almes and dominions, of what &s;o euer &s;orte de|gree <NOTE PLACE="marg">4. Re. 17.</NOTE> or condicion they be, &s;pirituall or temporal, as we cal them: And what honourable and hum <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. re. 18. 19 3. Reg. 1.</NOTE> ble obedyence the &s;ubiectes of euery kynde and &s;orte, owe to v&s;e and beare towardes theyr kyn|ges <NOTE PLACE="marg">Daniel. 4.</NOTE> and rulers, and that god was the onely &s;et|ter
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vp and putter downe of them: And that god <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Regum. 15. 16. 3. Reg. 2.</NOTE> toke, and a&s;&s;uredly wyl take, &s;ore and greuou&s;e vengeaunce vpon &s;uch, as dy&s;turbed the royall &s;eate of any kynge or prynce: And howe gracy|ou&s;ely <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Reg. 10.</NOTE> al&s;o god doth pre&s;erue kynges and prin|ces, infu&s;ynge in them &s;peciall godly gyftes a|boue other. And the &s;ayde fathers and prophe|tes <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Reg. 15.</NOTE> do warne and exhorte the &s;ubiectes, ince&s;&s;ant ly to praye for theyr kynges prynces and rulers. All which prophecies and dedes of the &s;ayd pro|phetes and fathers, Chri&s;te hym &s;elfe, after his commyng, affyrmeth, and by his owne mo&s;t ho|ly word and examples doth teache and &s;traight|ly bynde vs, to doo and folowe the &s;ame. For he beinge of two differente natures, that is bothe god and man, and beinge kynge of kynges, and the &s;upreme power, as he &s;aythe in the la&s;te cha|piter of Matth. Al power is gyuen to me in hea <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. ul|timo.</NOTE> uen and in erthe. In heauen, bycau&s;e he had it &s;o, as god, before he was incarnate: In erthe, bycau&s;e he was god and man after his incarna|tion, and refu&s;ynge and dete&s;tynge all worldly honour and kyngedome, chargynge al&s;o Peter, and all his true folowers, to do lykewy&s;e, dydde mo&s;t humbly meke hym &s;elfe, and takyng vpon <NOTE PLACE="marg">Philipp. 2.</NOTE> hym the fa&s;hion of a &s;eruaunt, was wyllyngely mo&s;te poore and moo&s;te obedient &s;ubiecte to the worldly powers. For he &s;ayth of hym &s;elfe. The <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. 9.</NOTE> foxes haue dennes, &amp; the byrdes of the ayre haue ne&s;tes, but the &s;onne of man hath not wherin to thru&s;t his heed. And his obedience was &s;o great,
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as none coulde be more. For he was obedient vn to his fathers wyll, and to worldly powers wyl, al&s;o euen vnto the mo&s;te &s;hamefull death of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luce. 23.</NOTE> cro&s;&s;e, by the iudgement of the ruler Ponce Pi|late. And to &s;ette forthe this obedience with all, Chri&s;te teacheth vs a le&s;&s;on vpon the re&s;olution of the perfydous and fraudulent que&s;tyon, de|maunded of hym by the me&s;&s;angers of the chief of the &s;cribes and phari&s;eys, whiche Luke reher <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. 20.</NOTE> &s;eth in the .xx. chapiter, Whether it be laufull to gyue tribute to Ce&s;ar or no. To whiche Chri&s;te an&s;wered thus in effect, yelde to Ce&s;ar that whi|che is Ce&s;ars, and to god that which is goddis. As who &s;ayth, bycau&s;e your temporall ruler and &s;oueraygne lorde, hath power ouer your bodyes and goodis, and is your defender and pre&s;eruer, and al&s;o charged in his &s;piritual mini&s;tery with you vnder god: yelde to hym tribute, a knowe|lege of your &s;ubiection. And bicau&s;e god gyueth you body and &s;oule, and al that ye haue be&s;ydes <NOTE PLACE="marg">Deuter. 6. Matth. 22.</NOTE> forth, and hath power ouer all, and a&s;keth no|thynge but your &s;oule for all: yelde hym that.</P>
<P>&para; And Chri&s;te an other tyme to verify his &s;ayd <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. 21.</NOTE> pouertie, and for an example of obedience, that his true folowers &s;hulde beare to the temporalle powers, he commaunded Peter, to take moneye out of a fy&s;hes mouth, bycau&s;e neyther of them <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 17.</NOTE> had any, to pay to the gatherer for theym bothe. Peter al&s;o taught of Chri&s;t to &s;et forth this obe|dience, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Petri.</HI> 2.</NOTE> gaue commandement to all the faythful, to be obedient for goddis &s;ake to the kyng, as to
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the chief hed, &amp; to other his &s;ub&s;titute rulers &amp; de|puties: And Paule co~ma~deth the &s;ame, addyng <NOTE PLACE="marg">Roma. 13.</NOTE> thervnto, that euery power is of god, &amp; is goddis mini&s;ter, &amp; not otherwi&s;e, and the re&s;i&s;ta~ce therof is damnation. And Paule wrytynge to Titus, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Titum. 3.</NOTE> byddeth hym to charge the people, to obey prin|cis, and the hygher powers. And Peter, Paule, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 3.</NOTE> and other the appo&s;tels, call them &s;elfes in holye &s;criptures but miny&s;ters, and theyr power a my|ni&s;terye. And accordyng to this, Peter was obe|dyent in myni&s;trynge at the co~mandement of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Galath. 2.</NOTE> other apo&s;telles, to goo to Samarie with Iohn. And al&s;o Peter was appoynted to be a preacher amonge the Iewes, and Iohn and Iames with hym: &amp; Paule and Barnabas with hym, among the gentyles. And Paule bo&s;teth, that Peter and Iohn gaue hym their right handes. And Paule &s;ayth al&s;o, that he blamed Peter openly, bycau&s;e he folowed not the trouthe of the go&s;pel. And in|numerable mo auctorities of &s;cripture are to be reher&s;ed hereof. But nowe, le&s;te I &s;houlde &s;eme to longe in this place, let this lyttell pretye piece, though it were moche le&s;&s;e, cut out of the ryghte large, true wrought, and mo&s;te beautyfull cloth, goddis holy &s;criptures, concerning the Iudaical Antichri&s;t of Rome, and his adherentes, whyche &s;tande be&s;t in their owne pernyciou&s;e conceytes, lyke the Iewes, who&s;e blyndnes cau&s;ed them to beleue Iohn Bapti&s;t, better then Chri&s;t, not with &s;tandyng the greate nomber of &s;ygnes and pro|phecies, whiche they had, witne&s;&s;ing that he was
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come, be &s;ufficie~t to lay before them, for a patron, to &s;tayne and vtterly &s;hame all their counterfayt clothes of fals interpretations, and coloured glo+&s;es of their feyned go&s;pel. And thanke our lorde god of I&s;rael, that he hath &s;o clered our &s;yght, y^t we haue now at the la&s;t, found a right Paul, our &s;ayd mo&s;t &s;ouerayn lord the kyng, to comptroll &amp; aboly&s;he Peters di&s;&s;imuled &s;ucce&s;&s;ours counter|fayte go&s;pell, and to auaunce, and preferre god|dis owne mo&s;t true and faythfull go&s;pell.</P>
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<HEAD>Salutem ex inimicis no&s;tris, &amp; de manu omnium qui oderunt nos.</HEAD>
<P><HI>OVR AVNCIENT</HI> enmy, who bycau&s;e he had ben &s;o high a creature, aboue other, and become from an angell of highe heauen, a deuyll <NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;ai. 14.</NOTE> in depe hell, for that that he wold haue ben equal with the highe&s;t, neuer cea&s;&s;ed after to &s;tryue a|geyn&s;t god, and his be&s;t beloued creature man|kynde. In &s;o moche, that &s;o &s;one as euer he per|ceyued the fyr&s;t parentes were formed and &s;etlyd in the plea&s;ant place of Parady&s;e, &amp; that god had bounde them to a certayne obedience, he infected <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 3.</NOTE> them with his pe&s;tilent pride of di&s;obedience a|geyn&s;t god, for the whiche they were exyled that place, and both they and theyr po&s;teritie brought to rume and captiue bondes of the &s;ame ennemy and his innumerable &s;ort of euyll angels, which contynually laye in awayte of theym, vntyll the birth of Chri&s;te, who was and is the vnyuer&s;all horne power &s;trength and glory, for the helth of
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mankynde, again&s;t the &s;ayd enemy, and his &s;ayd aungelles, whiche yet neuerthele&s;&s;e de&s;i&s;teth not day and nyght, nor neuer wyll accordynge to his olde cu&s;tome, by a thou&s;and ingyns and meanes to plant debate betwene god and man, &amp; betwene man and man, power and power, &amp; euery where cau&s;eth di&s;obedience, and rebellion of &s;ubiectes, ageyn&s;t their &s;ouerains, &amp; ledeth mankind by fan+ta&s;ies &amp; illu&s;ions from one mi&s;chiefe to an other, vntyll he brynge them to forgette god, and vnto what order they were appoynted fyr&s;t by god, as by experic~ce amonge&s;t our &s;elfes, here in Engla~d we haue cau&s;e be&s;t to perceyue. For what by oure &s;ayd enmye the deuyll, and what by our ennemy the by&s;hoppe of Rome, his traditions and fals doctrynes, his vanities and dreames, his hypo|cri&s;ie and fayned relygion, the dyuels &s;nares, we were brought in ca&s;e, that we dyd &s;et more by the~ than by god, or any part of his doctrine, ana fea|red more the by&s;&s;hop of Romes cur&s;e, than god|dis vengeaunce, whiche began to come in hande apace by the mo&s;te contagious plagues of com|motions and rebellions amo~ge&s;t our &s;elfes. But <NOTE PLACE="marg">Salutem</NOTE> that god, whiche is the inlyghtner of the harte of man, and the helthe of mans &s;oule, of his ine&s;ti|mable mercy and goodnes, ray&s;ed vp for vs his power of helth of glory and of &s;tre~gth, our godly Io&s;ias, and mo&s;te &s;oueraygne lorde the kynges maie&s;tie, to wake and con&s;yder vs his corrupt &amp; wandrynge flocke, and hauynge receyued by the handes of his ryght vertuous &s;crybe Saphan, <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Par.</HI> 34.</NOTE>
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euen the grace of god, the boke of the law of god long hid, did &s;et forth the &s;ame with al diligence, by which our ignorant darknes is become a per|fect knowlege of lyght, And we perceyue clerely, that we dyd abu&s;e our &s;elfes in di&s;obedience both ageyn&s;t god, and our &s;ayd &s;ouerayn lorde, whom god hath ordeyned oure Michaell, our Dauyd, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ex inimicis no&s;tris,</NOTE> and our only helth in erth, ageyn&s;t the pompous Lucifer, and mon&s;truous Golyath of Rome, and all our enemyes of euery &s;ort, and who is an able power and &s;trengthe by god, to defende and pre|&s;erue <NOTE PLACE="marg">Et de manu omniu~ qui oderu~t nos. P&s;al. 88.</NOTE> vs, from the handes of all theym that hate vs. For god &s;ayth of him, I haue put helpe in the power, and man of myghte, and haue auaunced, whome I haue cho&s;en among my people, I haue founde Dauid myn owne &s;eruant, whom I haue annoynted with my holye oyle. And therfore my hande &s;hall helpe hym, and myn arme &s;hall con|firme hym, his ennemye &s;hall not preuayle at all in hym, and the chyld of iniquitie &s;hall not prea&s;e to hurt hym, I &s;hal make his enmyes fall downe by heapes before his face, and &s;hall put to flyght &s;uche as hate hym, my trouth and mercy &s;hall be euer with hym, and in my name &s;hal his horne of of glory, power, and helth, be exalted. Lo, this is mo&s;t comfortable helth, con&s;olation, reioyce, and glorie of all faythfull louynge hartes, and mo&s;te terrible feare, quakynge dreade, and vtter confu|&s;ion of all vntrue, malicious, and hatefull tray|tours: whiche are goddis and our mo&s;te dete&s;ta|ble and abhorrible ennemies and haters.</P>
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<HEAD>Ad faciendam mi&s;ericordiam cum patribus no&s;tris, &amp; memorari te&s;tamenti &s;ui &s;ancti: Iusiurandum quod iurauit ad Abraham pa|trem no&s;trum daturum &s;e nobis.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ZACHARIE PRAYSETH GOD,</HI> that by the horne of power and helthe, whiche he hath ray&s;ed vp for vs in the hou&s;e of Dauid (as is before mencioned) he &s;hulde do and &s;hewe his mercy with the fathers, Abraham I&s;aac Iacob, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ad facien da~ mi&s;eri|cordia~ cu~ patribus no&s;tris.</NOTE> and all the other of the olde te&s;tamente, that they beinge deade before Chry&s;tes commynge, &s;hulde be part takers with theyr children and folowers, of the benefytes of his pa&s;&s;ion, wherin they had perfyte hope whyle they lyued. And he byndeth god thervnto in the true performance of his mo&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gene&s;. 15. Et memo rari te&s;ta|menti &s;ui &s;ancti, Ius iuran. &amp;c.</NOTE> holy couenaunt that he promy&s;ed Abraham: The moo&s;te ble&s;&s;ed vyrgine Marie beinge conceyued with Chry&s;te al&s;o (as in the &s;ame fyr&s;te chapyter of Luke is reher&s;ed) magnifieth god mo&s;t hum|bly for the &s;ame, after this maner, That all that is in her doth magnifie god, bycau&s;e he hath be|holde the mekenes of his hande mayde, whom al nations &s;hall ble&s;&s;e. For his myghte hath doone <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. 1.</NOTE> great thynges to her, and therfore his name is holy, and his mercy is infinite, for he hath not on ly &s;hewed it in her, but frome generation to gene|ration, &s;uche as feare hym. he hath taken vp his &s;eruaunt I&s;rael, beinge remembred of his holye couenante, accordyng as he promy&s;ed Abraham, and his &s;eede for euer more. Whiche Mary and zacharie bothe, enforce vs nowe al&s;o (as trewe
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I&s;raelytes and &s;eers of god) to magnyfie and pray&s;e our lorde god of I&s;rael, for his great mer|cy and holy couenant late &s;hewed and performed in vs. For lyke as it is al&s;o wrytten. That there fel an heuy &s;lepe vpon Abraham, and gret darke|nes <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gene&s;. 15.</NOTE> fell vpon hym. And the lord &s;ayde vnto him, knowe this of a &s;uertye, that thy &s;eede &s;hall be a &s;traunger in a lande that is not theyrs. And they &s;hall make bondemen of them, and intreate them euyll, foure hundred yeres, but the people, whom they &s;hall &s;erue, wyll I iudge, afterwarde they &s;hall go forthe with great &s;ub&s;taunce. Euen &s;oo was it come to pa&s;&s;e with vs, for our fathers and al&s;o we beinge &s;educed and led blynde with fan|ta&s;ies and mens inuentions, by the &s;ubtyle pra|cti&s;e of the ambicyou&s;e Romany&s;te Lucifer, and his complices, were ca&s;te into an heuy &s;lepe, and great darkenes of ignoraunce in god, and his moo&s;te holy worde, and therby al&s;o were we as &s;ubtylly and &s;lylye conueyed, and made captyue &s;traungers at Rome, bycau&s;e we had of ryghte nothynge to do in that citie or lande, and ther|fore were we euyll intreated of them, with theyr my&s;chiefes and abhominations accordyngelye, And as men v&s;e theyr bondemen, &s;oo v&s;ed they vs. For they &s;et vs be&s;yly and vylye a worke, to clyme the ladder, to brynge them word what god dyd in heauen, but the more we dydde clyme, the farther downe we wente, And then we mu&s;t &s;eke this &s;aynte, and that &s;aynte, this blocke and that &s;tocke, this toye and that toye, offer here and of|fer
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there, and ky&s;&s;e here and lycke there, tylle it was tyme to re&s;te for werynes. The Egipcian ti|rannye was neuer more laborous to our forefa|thers. And what &s;o euer we coulde get or gather together was &s;hortly after theyr owne good, and had nothing therfore but cleane remi&s;&s;io~ of thrift. And neyther wold they manumi&s;e one of vs, but take our cheuage and let vs go tyll a nother time &amp; gather more. And this co~tinued more the~ foure hundred yeres, vntyll our lorde god of I&s;raell, who&s;e ine&s;timable mercy and goodnes, who&s;e in|enarable ryghtuou&s;ene&s;&s;e and trouth excedeth al thynge that is, vouched&s;afe of late tyme to illu|myne mo&s;te graceou&s;ely our &s;ayd darkenes, with his holy word, wherby we haue perceyued Chri&s;t the auctour of our lyght, and our onely &s;auiour, to be as it were newly come and incarnate for vs: and that throughe the fayth whiche we haue in hym, we be (as Paule &s;ayth) reputed iu&s;tified as <NOTE PLACE="marg">Galath. 3. Roma. 4.</NOTE> was our father Abraham, who&s;e chyldren adop|tiue and multiplication of his &s;ede by faythe, we nowe al&s;o be. And the very partetakers with our &s;ayde forefathers Abraham I&s;aac Iacob, and al the remanaunt of the olde te&s;tamente and newe bothe, and they with vs, of the merytes of Chri|&s;tes bloud, promy&s;ed by god to Abraham and his &s;ayde &s;ede for euermore, to whom the bloudde of a lambe was a figuratiue &s;aluation in Egypte. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 12.</NOTE> And we perceyue al&s;o, by the illumination of the &s;ayde holy worde, that the by&s;hoppe of Rome, to who&s;e tyranny we were thus as is &s;ayde, thrall,
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is iudged of god, to be Chry&s;tes vtter aduer&s;ary, and the v&s;urper of the ryghtful power of kynges and prynces, goddes ryghte myni&s;ters ouer his people. And we newely adoptiue I&s;raelites from <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 12. 13. 14.</NOTE> the &s;ayde thraldome of the &s;ayd by&s;hop, through the &s;ame worde al&s;o, no le&s;&s;e wonderfully delyue|red into great welthe and ioye by our mo&s;t godly captayn the kynges highnes, then were our fore|father I&s;raelites from the captiuitie of the tyran nous Pharao into the ple&s;aunt land of promi&s;&s;i|on by theyr holy prophete and leader Moy&s;es.</P>
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<HEAD>Vt &s;ine timore de manu inimicorum no&s;tro|rum liberati &s;eruiamus illi: In &s;anctitate &amp; iu&s;ticia coram ip&s;o omnibus diebus no&s;tris.</HEAD>
<P>SITHENS through thonly ine&s;timable good+nes, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Vt &s;ine ti|more de manu ini|micorum no&s;troru~ liberati</NOTE> mercy, and loue of god towarde vs, and not by any part of our de&s;eruyng towardes him, we be thus graciou&s;ly carcle&s;&s;e and without any feare delyuered, from the handes of our before reher&s;ed ennemies, and are become the &s;eers of god, and the adoptyue chyldren of Abraham by faythe, through the illumination of his mo&s;t ho|ly worde in vs, and conuerted from the nyght in to the daye, that is from the darkenes of the ig|norant knowlege of god to the bryght knowlege <NOTE PLACE="marg">Seruiam&abus; illi.</NOTE> of hym: it behoueth vs with all our mynde with all our harte, with all our &s;oule, and with al that which is or may be in vs, to loue and dreade him, and with pure and &s;incere holynes and faythfull <NOTE PLACE="marg">In &s;ancti|tate &amp; iu|&s;ticia,</NOTE> ryghtuou&s;enes, &s;erue and honour hym, lyke as
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Paule &s;ayth, god hath not called vs to lyue im|purely, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Roma. 12.</NOTE> but to lyue holyly, not to fa&s;&s;hion our &s;el|fes vnto this worlde, but to be changed through the renewyng of our mynde. And therfore Paule <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 5.</NOTE> byddeth vs to be the folowers of god, as moo&s;te derely beloued chyldren, and to walke in loue as Chry&s;te loued vs. And puttynge vs in remem|braunce, that we were &s;ometyme darkenes, and nowe lyght in our lorde god, biddeth vs to walke as chyldren of the lyght. for the fruite of the &s;py|rite is all maner of rightuou&s;nes and trouth, and to proue what is plea&s;ynge vnto the lorde. And haue no felow&s;hyp with the vnfruitefull workes of darkenes, but rather rebuke them. And Peter al&s;o comfortyng vs in our cho&s;en generation, our <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Petri.</HI> 2.</NOTE> holy nation, and that we be a peculiar peple, wil|leth vs, that we &s;huld &s;hewe the vertues of him, whiche hath called vs frome darkenes vnto his merueylou&s;e lyght, Euen we, whiche are nowe a people of god, whiche &s;ometyme were not &s;o, and whiche nowe haue obteyned mercy, whiche &s;ome tyme we had not, and commaundeth vs to &s;ette a &s;yde all vice, that they, whiche backebyte vs for euyl doers, maye &s;e our good workes, and pray&s;e god in the day of vi&s;itacion. And he there &s;ubioy|neth dyuers rules of good workes, of the which the fyr&s;te is, that we &s;houlde &s;ubmytte our &s;elfes vnto all creatures for goddes &s;ake, whether it be vnto the kyng, as vnto the chiefe heade and mo&s;t excellent aboue other, or vnto any other his &s;ub|&s;titute rulers and deputies, which ar &s;ent by him,
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for the puni&s;hement of the euyl, and pray&s;e of the good, for &s;oo is the wyll of god. And briefely a|monge&s;t other he compileth this le&s;&s;on, Honour all men, loue brotherly felow&s;hyp, feare god, and honour the kynge. And our auctour of lyghte, Chry&s;te &s;aythe of hym &s;elfe, I am the lyght of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ioan. 8.</NOTE> world, and who that foloweth me, walketh not in darkenes, but &s;hall haue euerla&s;tynge lyfe. And what &s;hall be our common pathe &s;ayth he, but do <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 7.</NOTE> all &s;uche thynges to other men, whiche ye wolde they &s;huld do vnto you. And that we &s;huld know our tyme of workynge, he byddeth vs to worke whyle we haue light, and le&s;t we al&s;o &s;huld &s;pend our tyme of lyght vnprofytably (lyke as Paule warneth vs, that we &s;hulde not receyue grace in <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.</NOTE> vayne) he thretneth vs by example to take it from vs, and to be&s;towe it better vppon other. For he &s;ayth, A certayne &s;eruant, to whome his may&s;ter had deliuered a portio~ of money to employ, hyd y^e <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc. 19.</NOTE> money, &amp; dyd nothing therwith: &amp; therfore whan his ma&s;ter came to haue accompt of him &amp; other, &amp; founde he had made no encrea&s;e therof, he bla|med hym &s;ore, &amp; cau&s;ed it to be taken from him, &amp; deliuered vnto one of his other &s;eruantes, whom he had tried a profytable &s;eruaunt. And therfore Paule &s;aythe vnto vs, As ye haue receyued of <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Te&s;.</HI> 4.</NOTE> vs, howe ye &s;hulde walke &amp; plea&s;e god, &s;o walke that ye may encrea&s;e the more abundauntly. and as Peter &s;aythe, yf you be good louers and folo|wers <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Petri.</HI> 3.</NOTE> of Chri&s;te, who can hurte you? And yet our &s;eruyce mu&s;te be &s;uche as god alloweth holy and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Cora~ ip&s;o</NOTE>
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rightuous, orels it were better vndone. And ther fore Chri&s;t taught his electes, howe their &s;eruice <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 5.</NOTE> and workes &s;huld be accepted of god, &s;aying vn|to them, ye are the lyght of the worlde, and men v&s;e not to lyght a candell, &amp; ouerwhelme it with a bu&s;hell whan they haue done, but &s;etteth it vp|pon a candel&s;tycke, that it may light al them that be in the how&s;e, euen &s;o let your lyght &s;hyne be|fore men, that they maye &s;ee your good workes, and glorifie, whom? you? nay, but your father, whiche is in heuen. as who &s;aith, you can or &s;hall do no workes (&s;eme they neuer &s;o holy) that &s;hall be accepted of god, that are not done for goddis honour but for your owne. For &s;o dyd the hypo|crite phari&s;eis &s;et abrode the &s;kyrtes of their gar|mentes, and v&s;yd al their doinges to be &s;ene and pray&s;ed of men. But Peter byddeth vs &s;anctifie ourlorde Chri&s;t in our hartes. And Paule al&s;o <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Pet. 3. 1. Cor. 6. 1. Cor.</HI> 10.</NOTE> &s;aythe, Glorifie and beare god in your bodye. as who &s;ayth, Let al your outward good workes be inwardely for goddis &s;ake, and his glorie. But howe farre thynke ye our popy&s;&s;he monkery and fryerye, and all other di&s;guy&s;ed rables of euerye kynde of the fayned and popeholy relygion (whi|che thanked be god for his grace. are in a good towardnes to be made out of our wayes for euer more) be and haue be differynge from Zacharies before reher&s;ed holynes and rightuou&s;nes before god? &s;urely as farre as betweene zacharies ac|quayntance <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 7.</NOTE> and theirs. And therfore all though they cry in neuer &s;o great a route, and vntyl they
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be hoor&s;e, lorde lorde open for vs, and haue in ne|uer &s;o fa&s;t, yet wyll heauen gates open neuer the more. For Chri&s;te wyll an&s;were theym, I neither knowe your newe fa&s;hioned apparayle, nor you, ye be not my &s;hepe of y^e hou&s;e of I&s;rael, for whom I made my holy couenant, ye be the Idolaters, the gentyls, ye neuer receyued my go&s;pel, nor dyd my fathers will, ye imbra&s;ed Antichri&s;tes go&s;pel, &amp; were thexecutours of his wyl, euen the workes of darknes and of deth, ambition, &s;edition, vayn glorye, and &s;uche lyke abhomynations. I loued and taught aboue all thinges pouertie and obe|dience, ye made a promy&s;e, &amp; &s;ware vayne othes, <NOTE PLACE="marg">O&s;ee. 10.</NOTE> to folowe me in them, but you hated them for all that aboue all thynges. Hypocrites, ye promy&s;ed gold, but ye payd fylthy thinges, you made your &s;elfes po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ioners and lordes of the earthe, and were &s;edycious di&s;obeyours of myne ordynances and holy lawes made by myn elect myny&s;ter and right folower of the good Io&s;ias, whom you di&s;|&s;imuled <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Par.</HI> 34.</NOTE> your mo&s;te &s;oueraygne lord, bearing an v&s;urper in your corrupte bo&s;omes, that he &s;huld redre&s;&s;e your idolatrie &amp; abhomynable fa&s;hyons of vngodly lyuyng, &amp; to put to better v&s;es your trea&s;ures and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, whyche you dyd enioy withoute iu&s;te title by me. I &s;aye to you therfore yet ones ageyne, I knowe you not, get you hens <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matt. 7.</NOTE> from me into damnation with al your iniquites. And not with&s;tandynge the&s;e, yet be there other thynges, wherby our holynes and rightuou&s;nes ar lykewy&s;e to be made perfect beforegod, which
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we mu&s;t al&s;o ob&s;erue, as that there be no diuer&s;i|tie of opinions amonge&s;t vs, but as Paule &s;aith, that we drawe all one way, hauyng one loue, be|inge <NOTE PLACE="marg">Philipp. 2.</NOTE> of one accorde and of one mynde, that there be nothyng done through &s;tryfe and vaynglory, but through mekenes of mind, and in that, wher|vnto <NOTE PLACE="marg">Philipp. 3.</NOTE> we are come, let vs procede by one rule. And it is al&s;o to be ob&s;erued, that we bo&s;t not vngod|ly of our go&s;tely renewynge in the lyghte of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 4.</NOTE> knowlege of god, as who &s;aithe, it came of oure <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Cor.</HI> 10. <HI>Roma.</HI> 12.</NOTE> &s;elfes, le&s;te whyle we mea&s;ure our &s;elues by oure &s;elues, and holde onely of our &s;elfes, we vnder|&s;tande nothyng. And le&s;t perauenture, whyle we <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 10.</NOTE> &s;eme to &s;tande, we fall &s;odeynly or we be ware. It behoueth than therfore, that we e&s;teme our &s;elfes as Paule e&s;temeth hym &s;elfe, and folowe his ex|ample therin, &s;aying. It is the grace of god, that <NOTE PLACE="marg">Philipp. 3.</NOTE> I am &s;uch a one as I am, I am not al redy per|fect, but I folow, if I may co~prehende that wher|in I am comprehended of Chri&s;t Ie&s;u. Brethern <NOTE PLACE="marg">Omnibus diebus no &s;tris.</NOTE> I count not my &s;elfe yet that I haue gotten it: but one thing I &s;ay, I forget that whiche is be|hynde, and &s;tretche my &s;elfe vnto that whiche is before, and prea&s;e vnto the marke appoynted, to opteyne the rewarde of the hygh callyng of god in Chri&s;te Ie&s;u. And al&s;o our holynes and righ|tuou&s;ne&s;&s;e mu&s;te haue a durable contynuance in a ryghte perfection, and not for a tyme, or nowe good and than euyll, but all tymes good, &s;o as it may be &s;ayd, goddes word was &s;owen in a good <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luc 8. Matth. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> lande, which fruitefully abydeth to the full tyme
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of harue&s;t, and not in &s;tony grounde or amonge bu&s;&s;hes, &s;o that it may not fructifie and tary the full tyme. For what auayleth it to haue be neuer &s;o longe counted noble, wy&s;e, or counnynge, and at the la&s;te, through wylfull ignoraunce and ob|&s;tinate frowardnes (as we of late haue knowen many) to be condemned to &s;hamefull deathe, and to be noted in perpetuall memory mo&s;t wretched and mo&s;te foly&s;he? Or what auayleth a manne to haue lyued all his dayes in holynes and rightu|ou&s;nes, and at the la&s;t moment of his lyfe, to con|ceyue a my&s;chiefe, &amp; be damned for euermore? yet better it were to lyue longe euyl, &amp; dye wel, as dyd he y^t honge on the ryght hande of Chri&s;te, then to lyue longe well, and dye euyll, as dydde Iudas, who was longe good after he was called, and yet dyed mo&s;te my&s;erably. And therefore as Chri&s;te &s;aith, per&s;euer in goodnes, and thou &s;halt be &s;ure to be &s;aued by Chri&s;tis deth. Let vs then, hauing continually before the eies of our hartes the vn|&s;pekeable goodnes and mercy of god &s;hewed vn|to vs through the lyght of his mo&s;t holy worde, not onely &s;erue and honour him, our &s;elfe in per|fecte holynes and rightuou&s;ne&s;&s;e before hym all our dayes, but &s;o &s;hewe and &s;ette forthe vnto out chyldren, and &s;uche other as we haue in charge vnder god, howe great thinges god hath doone for vs newe I&s;raelites, that they al&s;o, and frome generation to generation, maye lyke wy&s;e &s;erue and honour hym for euer more.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; <HI>Et tu puer propheta alti&s;simi uocaberis: preibis enim ante facie~ domini, parare uias eius: Ad dandam &s;cientiam &s;alutis plebi e|ius, in remi&s;sionem peccatoru~ eorum: Per ui&s;cera mi&s;ericordie dei no&s;tri, in quibus ui|&s;itauit nos oriens ex alto: Illuminare his qui in tenebris &amp; in umbra mortis &s;edent ad dirigendos pedes no&s;tros in uiam pacis.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>LYKE AS ZACHARIE</HI> after that he had prophecied &amp; &s;et forthe Chri&s;tes incarnation, the mo&s;te comfortable helth &amp; &s;aluation of mans &s;oule, and lauded &amp; pray&s;ed god therfore, he dyd al&s;o prophecienge &s;et forthe the graciou&s;e quali|ties of his yonge &s;onne Iohn (for as moche as he <NOTE PLACE="marg">Et tu puer &abpro; pheta alti&s;s<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> mi uocabe|ris, Pr&ccedil;ibis en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> ante faciem domini pa|rare uias eius.</NOTE> then knewe hym by the remembraunce of the re|uelation of the angell before he was conceyued) to be a nece&s;&s;ary mini&s;ter appoynted of god. and therfore called hym the prophete of the moo&s;te hyghe&s;t god, to go before hym to make redy his ways, and to do other diuine mini&s;teries for him. It is conuenient al&s;o, that we (nowe that Chri&s;te is playnely and truely by his holy worde &s;hewed and &s;et forth vnto vs, and as he were newe borne agayne for vs) with all hartye good wyll and mynd &s;huld auance into perpetual fame our &s;aid mo&s;te &s;oueraygne lorde the kynges mo&s;te excel|lent maie&s;tie, whom (by very expert perception of mo&s;t godly commodities) we know nowe to be a nece&s;&s;ary mini&s;ter of god for our both bodely and go&s;tly helthe. And as it was &s;hewed by the aun|gell, that many &s;hulde reioy&s;e in Iohns natiui|tie,
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euen &s;o haue we great ioye (through the light of goddes holy worde) in the moo&s;te ryghtuou&s;e re&s;titution of his godlye title power and myny|&s;tery ouer vs, wherof he and his mo&s;t noble pro|genitours haue be long by v&s;urpation depriued. And beinge al&s;o replete with the grace of god, both after the interpretatio~ of the name of Iohn, and his graciou&s;e antecellent vertues, re&s;embled to Iohns, and for his ble&s;&s;ed trauayle in true &s;et|tynge forthe his lorde and mai&s;ter Chri&s;te, maye be and ought to be e&s;temed of vs an other Iohn Bapti&s;t, and holy prophete of the moo&s;te hyghe&s;t god. In who&s;e &s;yght by his godly miny&s;tration, his highnes gothe before hym to make redy and playne his wayes in the &s;oules of vs his regene|rate people of I&s;raell, commytted by hym to his charge, who&s;e hyghnes al&s;o (declarynge the true <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ad dan|da~ &s;cien|tia~ &s;alutis plebi eius.</NOTE> difference betwene the very ryght and pryncypall thynges perteynynge to our &s;aluation, and thac|cidentall laudable ceremonies and rites, not per|teynynge nece&s;&s;arylye to our &s;aluation: lyke as Iohn Bapti&s;t putteth difference betwene his ba|pti&s;me of penaunce in water onely, and Chri&s;tes bapti&s;me in the holy go&s;te, affyrmynge his bap|ti&s;me to gyue neyther remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ynne nor &s;pi|ritual grace, but Chri&s;tes bapti&s;me to gyue them bothe abundantely) dothe gyue vnto vs (by the &s;yncere preachynge and &s;ettyng forth of the mo&s;t comfortable go&s;pelle) knowlege and vnder&s;tan|dynge <NOTE PLACE="marg">In remi&s;|&s;ione~ pec+catorum eorum.</NOTE> of the helthe of our &s;aluation, whiche is Chri&s;t, the only remytter and pardoner of &s;inne,
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throughe the tendernes of goddes holy mercy to|wardes <NOTE PLACE="marg">Per ui&s;cera mi&s;ericordie dei no&s;tri, in quibus ui&s;i|tauit nos o|riens ex alto Zacha. 6. P&s;al. 77. Illuminare his qui in te|nebris &amp; in umbra mor+tis &s;edent ad dirigendos pedes no|&s;tros in uiam pacis.</NOTE> vs. And not by any other meanes or &s;a|crifice, then by the deathe of Chri&s;t, which for the nones came from aboue, lyke a &s;pryngynge light of iu&s;tice, to lyght vs whiche &s;atte and abode lo~g both in the darknes of the ignorance of god, &amp; in y^e &s;hadowe of deth, which folowid vs euery where for our &s;ynne. And to directe and leade the fete of our &s;oules from the ob&s;tinate rebelliou&s;e genera|tion of our forefathers (who&s;e hartes were not directe vnto god, nor theyr &s;piryte beleuynge in god, but rather in mennes traditions and ficti|ons, be&s;ydes Chri&s;tes go&s;pell) into the waye of go&s;tly workes of ryghtuou&s;nes before god, whi|che is peace with god, to whom be eternall glory pray&s;e and empire for his before reher&s;ed inenar|rable graces and benefytes infu&s;ed in our &s;ayde mo&s;te &s;oueraygne lorde, wherof he hath al&s;o im|parted vnto vs &s;o plentyfully that thrughe the bryght lyght of goddes mo&s;te holy worde, we be bothe borne agayne a peculiar fortunate and ble&s;+&s;ed people of god, in pure knowlege of hym, and al&s;o delyuered from the horrible &amp; captyue thral|dome of our mo&s;te cruell and tyrannous enmies the dyuell and the by&s;hoppe of Rome. De&s;yryng yet al&s;o goddes infinite goodnes, &s;o to illumyne (with his holy word) other temporal prynces and rulers, and theyr people (whiche yet &s;ytte in lyke darkenes and &s;hadowe of deathe as we dyd, by|cau&s;e god hath not &s;hewed nor opened his iuge|mentes <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 147.</NOTE> vnto them, lykewy&s;e as he hath done vn|to
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vs) that they with vs and we with theym (all v&s;urped power the only rote of di&s;corde, betwene and in all nations and of all other abhominati|ons growen therby clerely extincte) myght parti|cipate the afore&s;ayde godly ryghtuou&s;enes and peace with god. As one heuenly flocke vnder one mo&s;te chiefe herdeman (Chry&s;te) commytted by hym to the &s;ondrye charge and gouernaunce of kynges prynces and other temporall rulars vp|pon erthe: And fynally (hauynge a continual de|uoute meditation of goddes &s;ayd graces and be|nefytes) Let vs diligently in moo&s;te harty wy&s;e (according to Pauls exhortation in this behalfe) praye vnto god, for the mo&s;te ioyfull pro&s;perytie <NOTE PLACE="marg">Tim. 2.</NOTE> and longe good helthe of our &s;ayde moo&s;te &s;oue|raygne lorde the kynge: the mo&s;te gracious lady quene Anne, his mo&s;te lawfull noble wyfe, and the mo&s;te noble Prynce Edwarde his mo&s;te lau|ful &s;onne and heyre apparant, and vnto vs mo&s;t excellent preciou&s;e tewel &amp; trea&s;ure: And that god wyll vouch&s;afe bothe to adde vnto eyther of the termes of theyr lyues prefinite and appointed, as he added vnto the good Ezechias, and al&s;o grant that the &s;ayde Prince may late longe &s;uccede his <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezec. 38.</NOTE> &s;ayde mo&s;te noble father, bothe in kyngdomeand graciou&s;e vertues, with increace of chyldren to them bothe al&s;o, <HI>V&s;&abque; in con&s;ummationem &s;eculi,</HI> And after this worldely reygne, cele&s;tially to reygne with god. Amen.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDINI in aedibus Thomae Ber|theleti typis impre&s;&s;. Cum priuilegio ad imprimen|dum &s;olum.</HI></P>
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