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TO proue that nothing in this mortall lyfe is more diligently to be sought for, and carefully to be looked vnto than the restituti∣on of true Religion, and reformation of Gods Churche, there is no∣ted. 2. Reg. 23. 2. Chro. 17. 2. Chro. 29. 30. 31. Psalm.. 132 Math 21. Ioh. 2. In the firste place it is declared howe Iosiah after he had founde the
booke of the lawe, reformed the Churche. In the seconde place Ie∣hosaphat tooke away the high places and groues out of Iuda &c. In the 29. 30. 31. of the. 2. Chron. is described the doings of Ezechias, in repairing the temple and reforming religion. &c. In the. 132. Psalme it is declared with what care Dauid went about to build the tem∣ple of God, after that he was once established in his kingdome. In the. 12. of Math. Iesus went into the temple, and cast out all them that bought and sold in the temple. &c. The like he did in the seconde of Iohn. All this is confessed to be true and no man denieth it. And I pray God make vs thankfull for the Queenes maiestie, who hathe not bin slacke in this point, but hath like a vertuous, religious, and godly prince, in the very entring into hir raigne, notwithstanding the multitude of hir aduersaries, bothe at home and abrode, aboli∣shed all superstition, and restored the simplicitie of the Gospell. But these men alleadge these places to the discredite of this reformati∣on, and of the whole gouernmente of this Churche. How aptly and how truly, let godly, wise, and learned meniudge.
All this is passed ouer with silence, and nothing said vnto it, good or bad.