A14136:162
The Obedience of a Christian Man
The obedie[n]ce of a Christen man and how Christ[n] rulers ought to govern, where in also (if thou mark diligently) thou shalt find eyes to perceive the crafty conveyance of all jugglers.The obedie[n]ce of a Christen man and how Christe[n] rulers ought to governe, where in also (if thou marke diligently) thou shalt fynde eyes to perceave the crafty conveyance of all iugglers.
At Marlborow in the lande of Hesse i.e. Antwerp : the second day of October. Anno. M.CCCCC.xxviii, by me Hans luft i.e. J. Hoochstraten, 1528At Marlborow in the lande of Hesse i.e. Antwerp : the seconde daye of October. Anno. M.CCCCC.xxviii, by me Hans luft i.e. J. Hoochstraten, 1528
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Note also how craftily he would enfeoff the Apostles of Christ with their wicked traditions and false Ceremonies which they them selves have feigned / alleging Paul. ij.1 Thessal. ij. I answer that Paul taught by mouth such things as he wrote in his pistles. And his traditions ware the Gospel of Christ and honest manners and living and such a good order as becometh the doctrine of Christ. As that a woman obey her husband / have her heed covered / keep silence and goo womanly and christianly apparelled: that children and servants be in subjection: and that the young obey their elders / that no man eat but he that laboureth and worketh / and that men make an earnest ⟨image 64⟩thing of Gods word and of his holy sacraments and to watch fast and pray and such like / as the scripture commandeth. which things he that would break were no Christen man. But we may well complain and cry to God for help / that it is not 2lawful for the Popes tyranny / to teach the people what prayer is / what fasting is and wherefore it serveth. There were also certain customs all way which were not commanded in pain of hell or everlasting damnation / as to watch all night / & to kiss one another: which as soon as the people abused them they brake them. For which cause the Bishops might break many things now in like manner. Paul also in many things which God had made free / gave pure and faithful counsel without tangling of any mans con science & without all manner commanding under 3pain of cursing / pain of excommunication / pain of heresy / pain of burning / pain of deadly sin / Payne of hell & pain of damnation. As thou mayst see .j. Corin. vij. Where he counseleth the unmarried the widows & virgins that it is good so to abide / if they have the gift of chastity. Not to win heaven thereby (for nether circumcision nether uncircumcision is any thing at all / But the keeping of the commandments is all together) But that they might be without trouble / & might also the better wait ⟨p. lxiiij⟩on Gods word and frelyer serve their brethren. And saith (as a faithful servant) that he had none