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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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The answer of M. Bucer to the foresaid letters.The aunswere of M. Bucer to the foresayde letters.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Concerning the former, this is my sentence, which I believe I have learned of the holy Scriptures. First, I would not impart my answers to any ministers of the English Churches, but to such as be the true & faithful dispensers of all the mysteries of God, such as do labour to deliver unto the people, with great fidelity, the whole gospel of Christ, his whole doctrine and discipline, and labour to instill it and beat it into their minds. They that be such Ministers of the Churches of England, may, as I think, we•re with Gods pleasure, those vestures which be at this day in use: and they I think ⟨p. 52⟩shall do so much the better after they hau• preached the clear doctrine of Christ our s• uiour, with the detection and detestation, a• well of the whole Antichrist of Rome, a• of any other adversary to Christ: If the• then profess by the wearing of these ga• merits, to have no purpose at all to stablish any wicked devises that Antichrist hath obtruded to the people: Nor that Priests be • them selves more holy, or more able to pacify God, then other Christian men be: No• that they present Christ to the father in th• holy communion (as they use to affirm) o• that they can apply his merit at their pleasure, by the virtue of the work it self to any man, more then he doth receive by his own proper faith, of the words and sacraments of God. So that also he professeth, that he thereby do not mean Aaronical rites to be restored again: but that he doth by his fact, perform only his obedience to the Kings Majesty, and to such whom God hath appointed to determine of these external rites of the Church, with common consent by th• word of God, to this end, that all offences of disorder, and breach of public consent, may be avoided: And also to protest that every creature of God is good to Godly men, ⟨p. 53⟩