.,-----c---::--A-:-n-::-Apologie qgainft Brownijh. j 537 . A medbythemofr, whofefubmiffion, whatwasitbutanaCI:uallprofeffionoftheir --- faith, and repentance?And fince fuch was their f>ce,whodares judge oftheir heuts? B More than this, if ever can be!hewed abfolutely neceffary in fuch a Stateof the Church to the very confritution, and repairedBeing thereof, I doe here vownever to take the Churchof Et~gl•otifor my Mother. Weknow, and grieve to fee how fcornfully your who! Sell, and amongfi the refr your refolute DoCI:or turns PV-'1 thefe gracious entrances and proceedingsofthefe ~~~1::;'• tWO. oy:tl!ancfo!effed 1\.eformm ; and whom £bou!d he finde tO r~ife his fcoffes upon,:butthatSaint-likeHifrorianM.Fo-\.i' Now (faiesM.Fox) anewfaceof thingsbegan toappeare, as it were inaSrage,new players comming in,theold thrufi out: Now (faith your DoCI:orsComment) newBi!bops came in, as players upon the old frage ofthe Popi!b Church, as ifthe Church were no whit altered, bm the A&andmonumrnts,Edia f·No ll8o, Ccumerp.u6. men: Shallwe fay, this is too much malice, orcoolittle wit,and confcience? Even in tbelord ProtcCI:ors daies,that holyman reports,thar afrer theScriptures refrored, and MafTes aboli!bed, greater things followed thefe fofter beginnings, in the refor. mation oftheChurches: Learnedand godlyDivines were called for from forreign' 1'.M.mp,P, pans, a feparation.w.smade (though not fo much willing, as wilfi.11l) of ~pen and F'!'"' '""· manifefr Adverfanes from Profefi'ors,whether true or d1tfcmbled : Comm1ffioners &,·. were appointed to vilit every fevcrall Diocefl<. Every Ben(:h ofthem had feverall godly & learned Preachers to infrrucr the people in the truth, and to difTwade them from Idolatry aad Superfririon. The PopesS"Premacy notthruft, but taught down: All wil-wor!bipwhatfoever, oppugned by publikeSermons: Jmoges deC firoyed,Pilgrimae,es.forbidden,the Sacram~nt~ injo}:ned to be reverently and ho!ily minifrred, Ecclefiafhcall perfom reformed mhfe, m DoCI:nne : Proceffions laid dewn , Prefence and attendance uponGods word commanded,theholy expending ofSabba:h daies appoi~ted, due preparatio~ toGods ta~lecalled fur, fet times of teachingmjoyned coBt!bops and otherMmtfrers,allShrmes & Monuments ofJdolauy required to be utterly taken from publike and private houfes : All this, before his Parliament: By that, all bloudy laws again(\ Gods truthwere repealed, zealous Preachers encouraged, fo as(faith that worchy Hiftorian) God was much glorified and thepeople inmany places greatly edified. Wh'~t need I goefurtber than thi; firfr yeare? Heare thisandbe aihamed, and affureyour felves, rhatnomancan ever readethofe holy MonumenrsofthcChurch,but mull needsfpet at your feparation. 0 After that fweet and hopeful! Prince, what his Renowned SifrerQueen Elizaheth did, the prefent times doe fpeak , and the future !ball fpeak, when all thefe Murmure'rs !balllleep in theduft. The publikeDifputations, zealous preachings, reSixArUdes. tH7Pa~.t l82, Col.l. 6o. ftaurations ofbaniihed Religion and meo,ExritirpationsofIdolatry, Chrifrian laws wife ond holy proceedings, and renewed covenantswithGod , are frill fre!h in rhe menooriesoffome,and in the earesofall; fo as all theWorld willjultly fay, youhave !o{\ihamewithTruth, in denying it: Yea, tofetchthematter yerfnrrher:lfthe Afuand Mo1\.eader !ball look back tothedayes oftheir puitfimt Father KingHemJ the Eighth numonr.. P'!' hecannot but acknowledge( efpecially during the timeofQyeen A,ne, and befor~ 999 '""d 1000 ' thofe fixbloody Articles)a true face ofaChurch(though over-fpred with fomeMorE phueofcorruptions) and fame commendable forwardneffcof l\eformation: for both thePopes Sopremacy wasabrogared., the trueDofrrinc ofjuftificarion commonly raughr, confidence in Saint! unraught, the vanity ofPardons declared, worihipofJmagesa~dPilgrimagesforbidden, learned and godly Miu(\ers required, their abfencesano mif-demeanors inhibited, theScriptmcs rranllared,publike!y and privately enjoyned to be read and received,theWord ofGod commanded tobe finc<'rely and carefully preached: and to all this, HolyMalier Fox addeth for my conclnfion, ft1ch avigilantcare \Vas then in theKing and hisCouncell, how by oil waies andmeanes to redrdfe Religion, to reform errors, ro correct corrupt c;uflomes, to help ignorance, and to reduce themif-leadingofChrifis Flock, drowned in blind Popery, Super!titious Cufiomes, and Idolatry, ro fomc better formeofReformation , whereuntohe providednotonely thefe Anicles,Precepts,l njunCI:ions abol'e fpetified, to informe the rude people, but alfo procured theBiihops ro help forward the A& andMcnwnents,Edit!Oilj.p. 1001. Em.againft ~J!f. Conference wtthSptri~t.-f;i. M.EJ.n'lf111,
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