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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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Nether yet only in judging doth he follow his own opinion / but also in teaching and living / behold the hole face of the church / and show me if thou canst / in what profession / sect or part / they live according to he precepts of God / do they not teach y•• ⟨p. lxxxj⟩and live / 1after chosen holiness (as the apostle calleth it) Doing such things as they think them self holy and right / as though there were no king in Israel / as it is said in the .xxj. of judicum. And the Pope doth praise and confirm all these things / 2all be it the law in the .xij.3 of the Deuteronomy doth instantly and sharply forbid those proper opinions. And in the .iiij. of Amos.4 Sacrifice you of leaven / praise / and call unto you / and show your wilful oblations / for this hath been your desire you children of Israel. And paul doth reprove the inventors and finders of new things / how be it this detestable foolish hardness of our / own mind and opinion is utterly condemned by the most godly example of Joshua / where as after the spirit had exhorted him and faithfully promised him that he should pass over Jordan / yet would he not that he should be directed and ordered by his own opinion / but by the judgement of scripture •aynge in the first chapter. Be of good comfort / and very strong that thou mayest keep and do all my law / which Moses my servant commanded thee (not thine own mind and opinion which no man hath commanded thee) Thou shalt not decline from it nether to the right hand / nether to the left hand (behold he doth clean suppress / and put out his own judgement and sense) that thou mayest perceive ⟨image 83⟩all things that thou dost (and truly they can not be known what they are if they be done after our own opinion with out the law of god / for we know not whether they please God or nay / we beat the air with our fist / and labour with out certainty / ye rather it is evident that they do not please God that are of this kind as it appeareth by his inhibition.