Marginalia1555. Iuly.scattereth abrode. According to that we doe in this body, we shall receaue, be it good or bad. Marginalia2. Cor. 5. Math. 12. 1. Cor. 10.If of our words we shall be iudged to condemnation or saluation: much more then of our factes and dedes. You can not be partaker of Gods religion and Antichristes seruice, MarginaliaThe Masse is the principall seruice of Antichrist.wherof the Masse is most principall. You can not be a member of CHRISTES church, and a member of the Popes church. You must glorify God not only in soule & hart: but also in body and dede. You may not thinke that God requireth lesse of you his wife now, then your husband did of you. If both hart and body your husband would haue, shal CHRIST haue lesse (trow you) which hath so bitterly and dearely bought it?Marginalia1. Cor. 6. If your husbād could not admit an excuse how your hart is his onely if he should haue takē your body in bed wyth an other: doe you thinke that CHRIST will allow your body at Masse, although your hart consent not vnto it?

MarginaliaPsal. 125.God estemeth his children, not only of theyr hartes, but of their pure hands and workes, and therefore in Helyas time,Marginalia3. Reg. 19. he counted none to be his seruauntes and people, but such as had not bowed their knees to Baall: as now he doth not in England accompt any other to bee his dearlinges, MarginaliaAgaynst Masse Gospellers which know the truth in theyr hart, and denie it in theyr deedes.which know the truth in hart, and deny it in their deedes, as doe our Masse gospellers.

We ought to desire aboue all things, the sanctifying of Gods holy name, and the comming of his kingdom, and shall we then see his name blasphemed so horribly as it is at Masse, by making it a sacrifice propitiatory, & setting forth MarginaliaA false Christ of the priest and the bakers making.a false CHRIST of the priestes and bakers making, to be worshipped as God, & say nothing? The Iewes rent theyr clothes asunder in seing or hearing any thing blasphemously done or spoken agaynst God, and shall we yet come to church where Masse is, and be mute? Paule and Barnabas rent theyr clothes to see the people of Lycaonia to offer sacrifice vnto them, and shall we see sacrifice and Gods seruice done to an inanimate creature and be mumme? What thing helpeth more, or so much Antichristes kingdome as doth the Masse? MarginaliaThe masse destroyeth preaching and the kingdome of Christ.And what destroyeth preaching, & the kingdone of CHRIST vpon earth more then it doth? And how can we then say: let thy kingdome come, & go to Masse? How can we pray before God: thy will be done on earth, when we will do our owne will, and the will of our father or frendes? How pray we: deliuer vs from euill: which knowing the Masse to be euill, doe come to it? But what goe I about to light a candell in the noone day, that is, to tell you that we may not goe to Masse, or to the congregation where it is, except it be to reproue it, in that all men in so doing, do but dissemble both with God and man? And is dissembling now to be allowed? How long will men yet halt on both knees (sayth God)? Halting (sayth Paul) bringeth out of the way, that is to say, out of CHRIST, which is the way: so that he which is not in him, shall wyther away, and be cast into hell fire. For CHRIST will be ashamed of them before hys father, which be now ashamed of his truth before thys wicked generation.

MarginaliaHe dissuadeth her from the masse.Therfore my good mistres, take good hede: for it had bene better for you neuer to haue knowne the truth, & therethrough to haue escaped from Papisticall vnclennes, then now to returne to it, making eftsones your mēbers, being members of righteousnes, members of vnrighteousnes, as you do, if you do but go to þ^e church where Masse is. Bee pure therefore, and keepe your selfe from all filth of the spirite, and of the flesh. Abstaine not onely from all euill, but from all appearance of euill.

And so the God of peace shall be with you, the glory of God shall gouerne you, the spirit of God shall sanctify you and be with you for euer, to keepe you from all euell, and to comfort you in all your distresse and trouble, which is but short if you consider the eternitie you shall enioy in glory and felicity in the Lord: whych vndoubtedly you shall not faile but inherite for euer, if so be you, as the elect childe of God, put your trust in his mercy, call vpon his name vnfainedly, and yelde not ouer to the wicked world, but sticke still against it vnto the end. God for his holy names sake, which is properly the God of the widowes, be as your good and deare father for euer, and helpe you alwayes, as I my self wold be holpen at his handes in all things, and especially in this his owne cause, Amen, Amen.

Ihon Bradford.

MarginaliaA letter of thankes to a good benefactor of his.THe mercy of God in CHRIST peculiare to his children, be euermore felt of you, my dearly beloued in the Lord, Amen.

When I consider with my self the benefits which God hath shewed vnto me by your meanes, if I had so good and thankfull a hart as I would I had, I could not with dry eyes geue him thankes: for certainely they are very many and great. And now being yet still the Lords prisoner, I perceiue from him moe benefits by you. For the which I thinke my self so much bound to you, my good brother (although you were but the instrumēt by whom God wrought & blessed me) that I looke not to come out of your det by any pleasure or seruice that I shall euer be able to do you in this life. I shall hartely pray vnto God therfore to requite you the good you haue done to me for his sake: for I know, that which you haue done, you haue done it simply in respect of God and his word. He therefore geue you daily more and more to be confirmed in his truth and worde, and so plentifully poure vpon you the riches of his holy spirite and heauenly treasures laide vp in store for you, that your corporall & earthly riches may be vsed of you as sacraments and significations thereof: the more to desire the one, that is, the heauenly, and the lesse to esteme the other, that is, the earthly. For Sathans sollitation is, so to set before you the earthly, that therein and thereby you should not haue accesse to the consideration of the heauenly, but as one bewitched should vtterly forget them, and altogether become a louer and worshypper of the earthly Mammon, and so to fal to couetousnes, and a desire to be rich, by that meanes to bring you into many noisome & hurtfull lustes: as now a dayes I heare of MarginaliaChrist forsaken of many for the preseruing of worldly pelfe.many which haue vtterly forsaken God & all his heauenly riches, for Antichristes pleasure, & the preseruing of their worldly pelfe, which they imagine to leaue to theyr posterity: wherof they are vncertain, as they may be most certaine they leaue to them Gods wrath and vengeance, in his time to be sent by visitation, if they in time hartely repent not, and preuent not the same by earnest prayer. Wherein my good brother, if you be diligent, harty, and perseuere, I am sure God wil preserue you from euil, and from yelding your selfe to doe as the world now doth, by allowing in bodily fact in the Romish seruice, that which the inward cogitation and minde doth disalowe. But if you be cold in prayer, & come into consideration of earthly and present things simply, than shall you fal into faithles follyes and wounding of your conscience: frō which God euermore preserue you with your good wife, and your babe Leonard and all your family, to the which I with the blessing of God now & for euer, through CHRIST our Lord, Amen.

I pray you geue thankes for me to your old bedfellow, for his great frendship for your sake shewed to me when I was in the Tower.

Iohn Bradford.

MarginaliaAn other letter of Maister Bradford, disprouing auricular confession.THe merciful God, and father of our Sauiour IESVS CHRIST, which loueth vs as a most dere father, and hath put vpon him towardes vs the affection of a most tender mother towards her children, so that he cā no lesse thinke vpon vs (although of our selues we be most vnworthy, and deserue nothing lesse) then she can thinke on her onely begotten childe in his distresse, yea if she should forget her childe, as some vnnaturall mother will doe, yet will he neuer forget vs, although for a time he seeme to slepe that we might be occasioned to call loude and awake him: this good God kepe you, my deare brother *Marginalia* Note that thys Nathanaell was not his proper name, but was so called for his vnfayned simplicitie & truth. Nathanaell, and your good yokefellow, my hartely beloued syster in the Lord, in all things now and for euer, to his glory and your eternall comfort: & also of his goodnes he graūt you both the feeling of that hope, which vndoubtedly he hath laid vp in store for you both, farre passing the store and prouision, not onely which you haue made, but al the world is able to make, as I trust already he hath wrought it in you, but I besech him to encrease it more and more, and kindle in you a harty longing for the enioying of the same: the which once felt & had in deede, then the meanes by the which we come thereto, can not bee so greatly dred, as most men do dread them, because either they want this feling (I meane it of altogether) or els because the sense of this present time and things therein, are as a mist to the