A01279:10
A pistle to the Christen reader The revelation of Antichrist. Antithesis
A pistle to the Christen reader The revelation of Antichrist. Antithesis, wherein are compared to gather Christs acts and our holy father the Popes.A pistle to the Christen reader The revelation of Antichrist. Antithesis, wherin are compared to geder Christes actes and oure holye father the Popes.
At Malborow in the land of Hesse i.e. Antwerp : the. xij. day of July, anno. M.CCCCC.xxix. by me Hans luft i.e. Johannes Hoochstraten, 1529At Malborow in the lande of Hesse i.e. Antwerp : the. xij. day of Iulye, anno. M.CCCCC.xxix. by me Hans luft i.e. Johannes Hoochstraten, 1529
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
But god which is rich in mercy through the great love where with he loved us / even when we were dead through sin / hath quickened us with Christ / and with him hath raised us up / & with him hath made us sit in heavenly things through Jesus Christ / for to show in times to come the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness to us ward through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye made safe through faith / and that not of your selves / for it is the gift of God / and cometh not of works / lest any man should boast him self.1 But of his fullness we have all received / and favour for favour / that is to say / the father of heaven hath favoured us for his sons sake / and not for our own deservings (as when we see a man favoured and loved for an other mans sake) And hath promised unto us freely the inheritance of heaven.2 This promise must we believe with sure trust and waver not / for he that doubteth is like the waves of the see / tossed of the wind and carried with violence. Nether let that man think that he shall receive any thing of god This gospel and promise must we look after with unfeigned hope / 3wherein be cause we should nothing doubt / God hath added an oath unto his promise / to show unto the heirs of promise the stableness of his counsel / that by those two immutable things (in which it was unpossible that god should lye) we might have ⟨p. v⟩perfect consolation which have fled for to hold fast the hope that is set forth before our faces / which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both sure and steadfast. For this promise must we pray daily unto our father desiring to be loosed from this body and to be with Christ / 4for we sigh in this body desiring to be clothed with our mansion which is from heaven.5 And we know that then we shall be like him / for we shall see him as he is / and shall be the perfect children of light.6 Therefore dear brethren we ought with all mind and affection to attend unto tho things which we have hard lest we be spilt /