A second admonition to the parliament

And take them for better / who shall / they are none other / but a remnant of Antichrists brood / and God amend them / and forgive them / for else they bid battle to Christ and his church / and it must bid the defiance to them / all they yield. And I protest before §10the eternal God I take them so / and thereafter will I use my self in my vocation / and many moe to no doubt which be careful of God his glory / and the churches liberty / will use themselves against them / as the professed enemies of the church of Christ / if they proceed in this course / and thus persecute as they do. What talk they of their being beyond y• seas in Queen Mary's days because of the persecution / when they in Queen Elizabeth's days / are come §20home to raise a persecution. They boast they follow¹ the steps of good master Ridley the martyr: let them follow him in the good / and not in the bad. What man / Martyr or other / is to be followed in all things? why follow they not M. Hooper as well as him / who is a martyr also? or Rogers / or Bradford / who are martyrs also? They say all those good men in Queen Mars² days died for the book of common prayer / but they slander them / for they toke not so slender a §30quarrel / they dyed for god his book / and for a true faith grounded upon the same. Divers of those martyrs / would not in those days of king Edward / abide all the orders in that book / but if they had had such a time beyond the seas in the reformed churches / to have profited and increased in knowledge of a right reformation as these men had / it is not to be doubted / but that they would have done better then he promised / y• had ⟨image 23⟩rather all England were on a fishpoole / then he would be brought to matters f•r less / then now of his own accord he wilfully thrusteth him self upon. Why we they not follow the examples which they saw beyond y• seas? In which of the reformed churches saw they a Lord bishop allowed? or the Canon law to direct church orders? or will they translate the book of common prayer into Latin / and their pontifical / and use