A pistle to the Christen reader The revelation of Antichrist. Antithesis

Name: A pistle to the Christen reader The revelation of Antichrist. Antithesis
Author: John Frith

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.

John Frith 1503–1533At 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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The Pope sayeth all monks / fryers / and nuns shall vow and swear chastity be it given them or not / my priests also shall not be wedded / but as for to keep whores and ravish other mens / daughters and wives / shall be dispensed with all. I will see no such things / for my Bishops have yearly great money by it like as bawds be wont to have.

The Pope sayeth all monkes / fryers / and nonnes shall vowe and swere chastite be it geven them or not / my prestes also shall not be wedded / but as for to kepe hores and ravyssh other mennes / doughters and wyves / shalbe despensed with all. I will se no soch thinges / for my Bisshopes have yearly great monye by it like as bawdes be wont to have.

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¹lvij. Christ sayeth all meats that man taketh with thanks staineth not the soul / for all things are pure to them that are pure.

¹lvij. Christ sayeth all meates that man taketh with thankes staineth not the soule / for all thinges are pure to them that are pure.

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The Pope sayeth he that eateth / eggs / butter / or flesh in these days that I have commanded to be fasted / doth not only stain his soul with sin / but also is to be denounced an heretic. Dist. iiij. ca. Statuimus. this agreeth with christ even as the light doth with the darkness. And yet have we been thus blinded long / that we could never perceive this Antichrist till now in the

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Title as printed

Author

John Frith 1503–1533

Year

1529

Imprint

[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, 1529]][At 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]]

Size

cij, [2] leaves

Words

50,861

Catalogue

STC 11394 · ESTC S102643

Text

EEBO-TCP A01279

Passages

329

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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