A second admonition to the parliament

If that were said for the Bible / which is said for the book of common prayer / and which God saith in his law for his ^*&word / then were the dealing upright and and good. Now if they mean by / not repugnant that it is consonant in all and every the contents thereof with the word of God / that can they never prove. But could they prove that / §30yet they snare the church of God between that book and other books / which they obtrude with straight charge to be observed / which books do differ amongst themselves: as the book of common prayer / and the injunctions about wafers / the book of common prayer and the advertisements about the church vestures / the Canons against the pontifical / in not ordering of ministers / sine titulo, the preface of the last book ⟨p. 11⟩of homilies / and of the last new Bible against the book of Common prayer in the manner of reading of the scriptures. And in many things the bishops articles in their several dioceses differ from this book / as about the standing of the communion table / & fetching the dead to church / and such like / but the court of Faculties / that² for marrying without asking the banes / and many moe things differeth from it and all other their books / but chiefly from God his Bible: §10what say we to this case? we are neither free to follow the Bible / nor out of doubt what to do by these books / but to follow God and his word / we are so free / that we are by the Apostle forbidden to become servants ^*aof men. If this be true / as who can deny it / then is it your parts to rid our church of these shrewd encumbrances. And whereas it was meant to bridle papists / make direct laws against them.⁴ Further / whereas our church yet misseth of the right course of the scriptures in our reformation / let your learned men be driven to draw a platform out of God his book (where it is described at full) according to his will in the same revealed / and the examples of the best Churches beyond the seas / as Geneva / France / &c.