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A faithful admonition of a certain true pastor and prophet sent unto the Germans…A faithful admonition of a certeyne true pastor and prophete sent vnto the Germanes…
A faithful admonition of a certain true pastor and prophet sent unto the Germans at such a time as certain great princes went about to bring aliens into Germany, [and] to restore the papacy; the kingdom of Antichrist. [Et]c Now tra[n]slated into English for a like admonition unto all true English harts; whereby they may learn and know how to consider [and] receive the proceedings of the English magistrates and bishops. With a preface of M. Philip Melanchthon. ...A faithful admonition of a certeyne true pastor and prophete sent vnto the Germanes at such a time as certain great princes went about to bryng alienes into Germany, [and] to restore the papacy; the kingdom of Antichrist. [Et]c Now tra[n]slated into English for a like admonicion vnto all true Englyshe harts; wherby they may learn and know how to consider [and] receiue the procedinges of the English magistrates and bishops. With a preface of M. Philip Melancthon. ...
Greenwich: printed by Con, 1554Grenewych: printed by Con, 1554
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Thus much be spoken to the Nobles for their advertisement: whose insolency & supine dissoluteness without doubt hath been a great cause of this plague that is now come upon us. Notwithstanding I mean not thereby to clear and excuse the inferior or mean sort▪ as though their part were not therein ⟨image 5⟩also. How unthankful have they ben• also in receiving, & how slack in following the earnest advertisements that were daily given them. I mean not only of the blind Papists which waited and gaped daily for the restoring of their wicked Mass, and other damnable idolatry (wherewith the devil hath now filled their mouths full) thinking that all should be well, if they might once have that again. Now they may see what it hath brought, & what it is like to bring, namely the subversion of the whole state of the realm, the overrunning thereof with a strange nation and such a nation as is the most vile and godless nation upon earth, the utter destru• tion of them selves and of their posterity for ever. Let them now make much of papistry that list, they see what fruit tes it hath brought with it, and wha• it is like to bring more, if they wyl• needs have it. I mean not (I say) only of them, but even also of those which have known and professed Gods religion. That the same may well be said ⟨image 6⟩onto us all, & to the whole Realm generally, which Christ spake unto Jerusalem in the .xix. of Luke, that all these plagues are come upon us because we did not acknowledge the time of our visitation. Let us all therefore repent our former negligence. Let us all amend •ur former faults, and also let us all be true followers of the Gospel in deed, as we have long been professors thereof in word, and than doubtless God shall cease and withdraw his plague wherewith he had minded to scourge •s, he shall drive the Papists and the aliens (which they go about to bring in, to maintain their kingdom, & to make them selves strong against God) out of our country, that where they sought but one way to come in, they shall seek •en to fly out of it again. Let us not contemn such warnings and admonitions as this conceived in the treatise following.