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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
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Likewise. Christ did put no difference in meats and days as the apostle teacheth in many places.1 Nether would he that in the use of any meat or any day there should be sin / for in the gospel the use of meat is not reproved / but only the concupiscence of ⟨p. lxvij⟩meat. But this most holy adversary of Christ / nothing regarding the concupiscence doth forbid through the authority of god and under his name / the use of flesh / Milk / eggs / butter and such other / through all the lent / and other certain days which he hath prescribed to be fasted / making and ordaining his foolish fast not in refraining the concupiscence / but in forbidding the use / 2as Paul in the .iiij. of the first epistle to Timothy did prophesy upon him saying. Forbidding to marry / and commanding to abstain from meats / which God hath created to be received with giving thanks. wherefore here also are sins made through the wicked will of this man of sin / where as of their nature they were free and with out sin. And he bindeth to these things / mens consciences / and vexeth them with foolish laws. In so much ye the rude people now a days do abhor nothing so vehemently as the transgression of these fasting days. And put their confidence so much in no thing as in this fast of the Pope / for they count it a thousand times less fault / to kill to do adultery and to steal / then for to have eaten eggs / but• re / milk or flesh in the lent season. Nether is this master of the churches / the fountain of laws and righteousness / the shepherd of the hole congregation / and head of the catholic ⟨image 69⟩church / moved any whit to mercy and compassion / by cause the faith is thus suppressed / & weak consciences thus wickedly brought in to errors / but rather rejoiceth in this destruction of souls / and corrupting of faith / ye and calleth upon them and constraineth them to it Nether will he ever forgive the transgression of one of his laws until he be well moyned.
Likewisse. Christ did put no difference in mea•tes and dayes as the apostle teacheth in many places.