6o4 Tbe Examination of Will iam Thorp. William Repington acruet Perfecutor. ~~~1~g;~:~~1~~~!~~i£::::~~~~:~~g ~~~~~~~:~w;:~~r~i~]~:{r~t~t~,~~if {~~:.} fu~ly to bt burnt: and as l COt!ltdercd, tha~ the A~thbifhop Si~, all the Bifhops of this Land, with full many mher ~~~::tJ'~e~~~~~~o:~~;i~~gin°~~ ~~:.\~l~~~~t1!/~~ ~~~~cy\\~~~~d ~~~!3:ve1~~~~~~~t:r(b: ~:\\~rthy)1~ Archbilhop~et~!n:rforPrd:ttenor forPm:frofGod: And confidence in me, hncaftcr would never trufl: tome, if~~~h:~:~~cl~'~~:, ~:1 ~:~~~~ n:~f~~~~~~ ~;~~:~ ~~~~~1hca~t :ul~a~~achF:~l:~~~e;.~oa:~~~~o~i~ =~ drod of lum. But I was right heavy and forrowfull, for ly all my le::u:mng, 1 {houkl hereby tirft wound and do- that there was no audience of fa:ubr Men by; but in my file mine OWttloul, and alfo l lhould hercthrough give heart I.prayed d1e Lord God to con~fort me and flrength occafiot.l to n~:my ~en :md Wom~n of full fore hurting; meag:unfithtm thattherewneagamil the_(oothf.tfiu~ Y~ Str, aS it IS hkdy tO~t, ifl confmted to your And I fuppofc to f~k no more to d1e i\rchbt!llOpand Ius WJII, I lhOttld herdn b y mme evil example in it as Cler~ than me nttd .lxhoov«< : and all thus I pray«< God f.tr as in me were, fl(;l many folk Ghoftly , th~t I fo~ Jus goodnd.S to gJ.Ve me. then and alway gme to fpcak lh ould never deferve to hlye grace of God to the edi- wttha meek and an calie Sp1rit: and whatfoevc-r thin.g that fring of his. ~hurch , ntither of my felf, nor of any I fhould (peak, that I might thereto have tme authontitSof other Mans hie, and fhould lx undone both lxfore God the Scriptures or open rofon. Andforthat l llood dms and Man. ftill ~nd nothing ~kt, one of the AdbilhopsClerks (aid But Sir, by c-xample chiefly of feme, who(( name5 I t~;1;, tt.. ~:h ~0~ ~~~:~~~ :l;~~ ~~~~~: ? Do thou as my L<'rd ;~~~~~~:~; r~~~hf~ip ~a~·ofnJ,:~~~~n!~:~;:=l~! ~~ e:.~~ i The ordee And r« I flood ~ill and anfwertd him not : and then !hop of Lincoln, I am nuw !earned (as many more hereaf- pcrf«Ulor. ~f":u~:;";~. foonafra: theArchbtfhop (aid to me: Art~hou net yttlx- ter through Gods gncefhalllx .ltarn~d) to hate and to fire l~g vp. ~ 1fa:j~~tl~~~e~f~~~h~~r:vi:~~°F~5t:J!~a~~Ja:.~;o~~~~~~~~ ~~:it~~f~l~;~~~~~~e~:.~c~:i~~~datnd 0~~ ~~~~~Jr :~~~~fi~ whofefoulsGod havemcrcy(ifJtbclnswLII) fpentJmckle they h:we invenomed all the Church of God, for the ~~~~d~d~~~~~at~~;;: ~~~~i~:~~~~!~~~~i~~cL;.~~ ~fn~~~~J~~~~i~:!~tr~l/;~t~;i~;;;;~~e;{, · ~Mfi~ ofDifcrction, IhadnowJIItobePnell, andthereforemy people. 1\ndthc t(igning th:~tthc!e mendllfembledby ~;~~~~~~:~g ~~~~~C:,:Yw:_{~~i~;f~t :~c:n~h:!1f~~~~: ;~;~r~~!a ~:~~~~~ln~ee,~;~~~~~~~ :~J:~~~j~~~~~ ~:.Jc~ p:>fed therefore to have left the1r cbmp:ln):· And whrn they wirhvuc blame. may lx _(JX)ken and !hew~ out of the =E~:~"~;1ss :~ ~i: t~: t~~~;~~~~;~~i~~~~:rm~k~ F~[~o~~~~~;;Jtli~f:~th:v1~~~~otthe~ ~:!'fu~~1 0~~ r~: me to confent of good heart eo be a Pridl:, they fp;1ke to time, they will not now firetch fo rth their li\'ts but by me full oftentimes very grievous words, and mcnactd rr.e example each one of them as their words and their works !h~i~~! :;:~~~;f~c:~~~;~ ~~o~~:~h~~11~1I~~e~~icr~:~ ~~;['~e b~~r:~ei~ ~~~~~t:~, f~7h~~~~~nflcl~~t,~it ~ they were long time (as me thought) fuU bufie about me, purfued. ere I confented to them to be a Prietl. And tl1e Archbifhop faid ro me : Theft men, the H'ppybe But at the lafi, when. in this ma~ter they would no which thou fpeakefi of now, were Fools and Hercticks, ~11t.,\0 !~ntf~r~~~~ ~;~~~d~C::;\::·t~: f1i1t!f~,!~~~klr:~;~~:~ ~£:thcfiu~v:~o~~~~da~~if~"jkel~~~~.~~h~~~ ~~': ~~ w md. Curfe (astheyfaidJ.thenl feeingthis, prayed them that otkcrfuchdeemthcmunwift'. N_everthddS, Inever\~ifi: they w~uld give me licence to go to thtm chat were name? any that r ight faid, chat a~y wluk were invenomtd w1th wifePnefis, and of verruous converfation, to havethe1r your contagiouGtetS, chat IS, contaminated and (potted c-ounf~l, and to know of themtheofficeand the charge DOCtrin e. of Pndlhood. And hereto my Fatl~er and my Mother And lfaid to the Archb~bop: Sir, lthink.well thu confenttd full gbdly, and gave me the1r bkffin~ and good thefi: men and fuch other are now ~vife as to thiS.World : kave to go, atld alfo Mon.ey to fpend in thiS Jomney. But as their words found~ fomeume, and thett works: And fo I went to thofe Pndls whom I he:trd to be of !hewed outwardly, it \'n.S hke to move me that they had befi- name, and of mofi holy living, and bcfi kan'l«L, e:tiT I(fl of the wifdom ofGod,and that they lbould ha\·e de- ~~:~h"t~~v:~~~~c~ta;~Z ';~of~~~:~~ ~Y ~r~~.~: ~~e~;~~k~~~~~~o~~s~ ~~~;~d r~~~il:~: r:;:~~ ~~ ~':!~~d\\~r~~~~Jfcd~~~of::n:~~~~ii ~~d~h~~~~(~;; ~~tf~u~~?~~;~\!jn~~:~e~I!~P}~ef:~U:tu: i~g~ of them. tinued in their buf1t frUitful fowing of Gods Word: Wher~foreSir, bytheexampleoftheDoarineofthem, as to many~ens knowledge ~hey occupied themafca- and fpemlly for the godly and innocent works which I fon in all thar wits ; full buhly to know the pltafant percth'ed then of them, and in them, after my cunning will of God, trav elling all their Members full bulily to and power, 1have cxcrci(ed me then and in this time, to do thereafter, purely and thiefly to the praifing of ~he knowpcrfcCI:Jy Gods Laws, having a will and defirc to live moft holy name of God, and for grace of edtficat tOII ther~fttr, which wille~h that a.ll Men and Women fh0l1ld and falvation of Chrifiian prop!e. But woe w~nh falfe Wotworth ~~:rfort~~:J~!;~f.f:;~!~~~~k~r:~~~:~~ fo ~~· ir!:Cl~~o;i~f ~~~e!~:;~;~~~~~v~~~~~~~~~e~1~r~l;dn~~~~, :~c;~~~~ ~iV.~ con· ;~~~a=t~0~~:;r~~~; ~~Cl~ykt~:i~~g~~ ;;: t~~n:S nidi-hen the Archbi~ (aid unto me; 'Thou, and fuch It it ~;11 ~~i~c~l ~d0~o~hf~:fa1et~~ '(~dd~~~e~ndn~~~~;~ ~~~~:v~!t~:fi:~:y For'b;~'}~!lf~~~~~!:::r~c~: }~E.~~~ ~~ i~;n;J~:{:e~l~i~~ ~~~~=~i~~~dth~~~r!1:vem~~:i,~1e:~ f': 1~7'~s ~;:~~td·J:h~' P:!; ath~{~~!:b~r~;~~~~ ~r::Qr4 lhould C\'tr bt: herewith out of mcafurt unqmetc:d : and of this Catue, a nd I heard more oomplamtsabouthis oo'·e- pillla rlt. Sir, T k110w well, that many Mrnand Women l11ould toufi1ef s for Tithti, and ot~1ermifdomgs, than l didofall be thcrcthwugh greatly troubled and flandaed. And a;; men that were advanced Wlt~Jin my Diocefs. ~::~h~: ~~~~~ ~:tb~J:r~~: i~~~f~W ~~:a:~~ wi~~~~ ;~~~ tFortl~~~~.r~~~c! ;~:~;.:U';{e i~~:it. ': rh:~~ft~) !i~~~~ ~r:t !e~};ab~t~~;(~~11 ~ir ~if!! ~~~i~e~i~;e~:~!~1!ndv;~!~11he'lli~~~~i ~!~~£,~t:~~a·: not, but the Cur(c of God, whi'h I lbould defcrvc lxhot nor cold, and therefore he and his Fellows(~!
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=