hall judge them both.

Now, to make haste and to come somewhat nigher the end. Go ye to, good
brethren and fathers, for the love of God, go ye to; and seeing we are
here assembled, let us do something whereby we may be known to be the
children of light. Let us do somewhat, lest we, which hitherto have been
judged children of the world, seem even still to be so. All men call us
prelates: then, seeing we be in council, let us so order ourselves, that
we be prelates in honour and dignity; so we may be prelates in holiness,
benevolence, diligence, and sincerity. All men know that we be here
gathered, and with most fervent desire they anheale, breathe, and gape
for the fruit of our convocation: as our acts shall be, so they shall
name us: so that now it lieth in us, whether we will be called children
of the world, or children of light.

Wherefore lift up your heads, brethren, and look about with your eyes,
spy what things are to be reformed in the church of England. Is it so
hard, is it so great a matter for you to see many abuses in the clergy,
many in the laity? What is done in the Arches? Nothing to be amended?
What do they there? Do they evermore rid the people's business and
matters, or cumber and ruffle them? Do they evermore correct vice, or
else defend it, sometime being well corrected in other places? How many
sentences be given there in time, as they ought to be? If men say truth,
how many without bribes? Or if all things be well done there, what do
men in bishops' Consistories? Shall you often see the punishments
assigned by the laws executed, or else money-redemptions used in their
stead? How think you by the ceremonies that are in England, oft times,
with no little offence of weak consciences, contemned; more oftener with
superstition so defiled, and so depraved, that you may doubt whether it
were better some of them to tarry still, or utterly to take them away?
Have not our forefathers complained of the ceremonies, of the
superstition, and estimation of them?

Do ye see nothing in our holidays? of the which very few were made at the
first, and they to set forth goodness, virtue, and honesty: but sithens,
in some places, there is neither mean nor measure in making new holidays,
as who should say, this one thing is serving of God, to make this law,
that no man may work. But what doth the people on these holidays? Do
they give themselves to godliness, or else ungodliness? See ye nothing,
brethre