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Whether it be a mortal sin to transgress civil laws which be the commandments…VVhether it be a mortall sinne to transgresse ciuil lawes which be the commaundementes…
Whether it be a mortal sin to transgress civil laws which be the commandments of civill magistrates. The judgement of Philip Melancton in his epitome of moral philosophy. The resolution of D. Hen. Bullinger, and D. Rod. Gualter, of D. Martin Bucer, and D. Peter Martyr, concerning the apparel of ministers, and other indifferent things.VVhether it be a mortall sinne to transgresse ciuil lawes which be the commaundementes of ciuill magistrates. The iudgement of Philip Melancton in his epitome of morall philosophie. The resolution of D. Hen. Bullinger, and D. Rod. Gualter, of D. Martin Bucer, and D. Peter Martyr, concernyng thapparrel of ministers, and other indifferent thinges.
Imprinted at London : In Powles Churchyarde by Richard Jugge printer to the Queens Majesty, 1570?Imprinted at London : In Powles Churchyarde by Richard Iugge printer to the Queenes Maiestie, 1570?
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Amplissimo domino & Colendissimo Symmistae Joanni à Lasco. ¶ The Lord grant unto us in these troublesome times of the Church, to begin and finish all things, that offences and dangers be not increased, Amen.
Amplissimo domino & Colendissimo Symmistae Ioanni à Lasco. ¶ The Lorde graunt vnto vs in these troublesome times of the Church, to begin and finishe al thinges, that offences and daungers be not encreased, Amen.
The more diligently I weigh & consider, both what fruit we may gather by this controversy of vestures, and also what Satan goeth about thereby to work: I would have wished before the Lord, that it never once had ben spoken of, but rather that all men of our function had agreeably & stoutly gone forward and continued in teaching true repentance, the wholesome use of all •hynges, yea in commending and putting •n the apparel of salvation. I see not in • few (alas I say) I see marvellous diligence in abolishing Amelech, concerning stones, stocks, vestures, and those things that be without us: when in their ⟨p. 82⟩deeds & whole life they most stiffly retain the whole Amelech still. I know also some that help forward this strife, so that in the mean time the chief and most necessary points are less regarded and called upon, that is: of removing sacrilegious persons from spoiling of Churches: of providing fit ministers for every parish: of the restoring of discipline again. As for my part, if I thought those ceremonies and vestures were impure of them selves, I would not take upon me in any wise the office of a Bishop, until by ordinary authority they were taken away. &c. But to the purpose. I think it not impertinent unto this matter, that we all be admonished to take heed of Satan's accustomed sleights, whereby he leadeth us away from the care of necessary things, to the carefulness of those things which may be well let pass, and from the searching out of the true doctrine of Christ, to induce to us those things, wherein few can consent a like, and finally, by the which he kindleth in divers men a zeal to purge those things which are without us, thereby to neglect our inward deformities. And seeing whatsoever we do either in word or deed, both privately and publicly, we ought to do it in the name