The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…

And who so looketh on the one part upon the persons and government of the Queens most honourable counsellors, by the experiment of so many years proved honourable to her Majesty, and most profitable and beneficial unto our country & countrymen, & on the other part, considereth the persons, state, & conditions of the rebels them selves, the reformers, as they take upon them, of the present government, he shall find that the most rash and harebrained men, the most greatest unthrifts, that have ⟨p. 590⟩most lewdly wasted their own goods and lands, those that are over the ears in debt, and such as for their thefts, robberies, and murders, dare not in any well governed common wealth, where good laws are in force, show their faces, such as are of most lewd and wicked behaviour and life, and all such as will not, or can not live in peace, are always most ready to move rebellion, or to take part with rebels. And are not these meet men trow you, to restore the common wealth decayed, who have so spoiled and consumed all their own wealth and thrift? and very like to mend other mens manners, who have so vile vices, and abominable conditions them selves? Surely that which they falsely call reformation, is in deed not only a defacing or a deformation, but also an utter destruction of all common wealth, as would well appear, might the rebels have their wills, and doth right well and to well appear by their doing in such places of the country where rebels do route, where though they tarry but a very little while, they make such reformation, that they destroy all places, and undo all men where they come, that the child yet unborn may rue it, and shall many years hereafter curse them. Let no good and discreet subjects therefore follow the flag or banner displayed to rebellion, and borne by rebels, though it have the image of the plough painted therein, with God speed the plough, written under in great letters, knowing that none hinder the ⟨p. 593⟩plough more then rebels, who will neither go to the plough them selves, nor suffer other that would go unto it. And though some rebels bear the picture of the five wounds painted against those who put their only hope of salvation in the wounds of Christ, not those wounds which are painted in a clout by some lewd painter, but in those wounds which Christ him self bare in his precious body:

And who so looketh on the one part vppon the persons and gouernement of the Queenes most honorable counsellers, by the experiment of so manye yeres proued honorable to her Maiestie, and moste profitable and beneficial vnto our countrey & countreymen, & on the other part, considereth the persons, state, & conditions of the rebels thē selues, the refourmers, as they take vpon them, of the present gouernment, he shall fynd that the most rash and harebrayned men, the moste greatest vnthryftes, that haue