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An Exclamation vpon the erronious and fantasticall sprite of heresy, troubling the vnitie of the Church, deceauing the simple Christian, with her vnperfect, vnprofitable and vayn wordes. |
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O Heresy, with frenesy, | |
disobedience and pride. | |
Hast lead mans mind, with fancies blind | |
headlo[n]g runnyng farre wyde, | |
5 | From the path-way, to Christ, I saye |
o fonde folish vayne guyde. | |
¶Brought many one, to perdition. | |
to play a desperate parte. | |
Made deui[s]ion, in eche Region, deuision] deuition 1553 | |
10 | a false traitour thou arte, |
To God aboue, the knotte of loue | |
to Christ Church to subuert. | |
¶The Sacramentes, our regimentes, regimentes ='rules, regulations, ordinances'; see OED s.v. regiment n6. | |
of health .vii. giftes of grace, | |
15 | When we doo fall, through synne, to call |
for them, our great solace. | |
A remedie, for eche degree, | |
Gods f[a]uour to pourchace. fauour] fouour 1553 | |
¶Babtisme is one: Confirmation: Babtisme: =baptism | |
20 | with trew Penaunce certayne: |
Wedlocke to endure: Presthod most pure: | |
Christ body to remay[n]e: | |
At our last ende, suche grace God sende. | |
Extreme Unction to attayne. | |
25 | ¶By whiche all we, membres knitte be |
to Christ, our most chiefe head. | |
In vnitie, through his Bodie. | |
which dyde for quicke and dead: dyde: =died | |
Christs Church likewise, doth Sacrifise | |
30 | the same, in fourme of bread. |
¶Uery flesh and blood, our daily food, | |
in vs to byde and dwell, | |
Bi whom we moue, liue euer through loue | |
in vertew to excell. | |
35 | The other dead be, not in this bodie, |
Shall perish, and burne in hell. | |
¶O infidell, darest thou rebell, | |
against Christes humane body: | |
Th'ymage to graue, pictures to haue, | |
40 | thou calst ydolatry. |
The laye-mans booke, theron to looke, | |
to folow their lyues by. | |
¶God doth forbed, ydoles in-dede: | |
for ydolatry playne, | |
45 | Doth signify, thynges made therby, |
not hauyng life certayne. | |
Which represent, a false entent, | |
that worke of man is vayne. | |
¶The ymage of man, is Gods worke than | |
50 | praise him in his sayntes daily: |
Their ymage to make, for vertew sake, | |
no good man can denye. | |
His sayntes liuyng, for vs praiyng, | |
to haue their memory. | |
55 | ¶Whose fame immortall, dye neuer shall: |
the Iust man lyues for euer, | |
Where the vniust, is scatred like dust. | |
consumed with the wether. | |
Whose mortall fame, dyeth with shame, | |
60 | no mention of him neuer. |
¶O Traitour vntrue, to Christ_Iesu. | |
his ymage to deface. | |
To set at nought, hym that the bought. | |
thou arte cleane voide of grace: | |
65 | Whose remembraunce, thou ought t'aduaunce |
with his sayntes in eche place. | |
¶Whose life and dayes, in penaunce alwayes | |
dyd byde Religiously. | |
In praier by night, with the world to fight, | |
70 | and wunne the victory. |
Their vow thei kepte, bi the flesh ne slept | |
most chaste Uirgens dyd dye. | |
¶Thou counterfaite. o foule disceate, | |
a false fayth to entende. | |
75 | To breake thy vowe, for thy lust nowe, |
death needes must be thy ende: | |
Dew execution, to thy confusion, | |
Christ churche for to defende. | |
¶Whose vnitie. by antiquitie. | |
80 | vniuersall is knowne, |
Continewed, from Rome the hed, | |
by trew succession, | |
By Counsels tride, the truthe out-spide, | |
of Gods sprite, longe agone. | |
85 | ¶O heresy, thou walkest a_wrye |
abrode to gadde or raunge. | |
[L]ike false brethren, deceaue children, Like] Kike 1553 | |
this Churche, nowe for to chaunge: | |
Her praier by night, to banish quight, | |
90 | with new inuentions straunge. |
¶To breake also, thy first faith to, | |
through wilfull impietie: | |
For thy debate, excommunicate, | |
from Christ spousesse holy, | |
95 | Thou canst not accord, with thi spouse and lord |
that liuest in aduoutry. | |
¶Runnyng retchlesse. from thy spousesse retchlesse: =reckless | |
Christ Churche, most Chatholike, Chatholike: =catholic | |
Whose company, God kepes truly. | |
100 | to banish the heretike, |
Her errours all, schismatical. | |
out of this churche to strike, | |
¶From her ne swerue, lest thou do sterue | |
with childer reprobate, | |
105 | Whose parentes be, iniquitie, |
gotte by the sprite debate. | |
Th'unlauful spouses, whose workes doutles, | |
as hypocrites God doth hate. | |
¶Repent and tourne, your liues refourme | |
110 | Come to Christes Church most trew. |
With humilitie, reconsilde to be, | |
to the mother of vertew, | |
Which night and day, serues God alway, | |
whose faith, her childre ensew. | |
115 | ¶And doo endure, in one pasture, |
of one folde styll together, | |
Both all and some, lest the wolfe co[m]e, | |
them for to disceuer, | |
From our Pastour, which doth succour, | |
120 | keepe, and defende vs euer. |
¶Imprinted at London in Pater_Noster_R[owe] Rowe] Reaw 1553, by Richarde_Lant. |