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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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No doubt be cause their works are evil for every man that doth evil hateth the light / nether cometh to the light / lest his works should be reproved / but he that worketh the verity / cometh to the light / that his works may be openly ⟨p. ix⟩seen because they are done of God. They pretend to keep it from you for pure love / be cause you should take no hurt of it / nether fall in to heresy / 1but they are gelyous over you amiss / ye they would clean exclude you from Christ and make you follow them. And because they would the more easily bow you to their yoke they begin be times / compelling you being very children of .xij. years to keep their fasts which they prescribe / & if you eat ij meals in these prescript days then must you to a priest & confess a great transgression / fromittinge yourselves on to him / what so ever he will enjoin unto you and call it penance necessary / for your soul health. O lord God what subtle illusions have they invented to reign in mens consciences / ye and to begin so soon with them / truly this was a far caste of belly wisdom if it were not the devil him self that imagined it.2 Paul rejoiceth in Timothy (exhorting him to stand stiffly in those things which he hath learned) that of a child he hath known the holy scripture which may instruct him unto health through the faith which is in Christ Jesus / showing the fruit and profit of it saying. All scripture which is inspired from god / is profitable to instruction / to reproving and correcting and to the bringing up / which is in righteousness / so that the man of god may ⟨image 10⟩be hole and consummate / prepared unto every good work. If it be thus profitable I marvel why they do not suffer men to have it / how be it they know very well that when a cloaked lye cometh to the light it vanisheth a way / and even so their coloured kingdom if scripture were known would soon be dispersed like vapour and most vanity. In the mean season. I will show the an evident reason that thou mayest know with out doubting which is the very Antichrist and this argument may be grounded of their furious persecution / which Paul doth confirm writing to the Galatians.3