A14136:166
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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I had almost verily left out the chefest point of all.1 Rochester both abominable & shameless: ye and stark mad of pure malice / & so adased in the brains / of spite that he can not overcome the truth that he seeth not or rather careth not what he saith: ⟨image 66⟩in the end of his first destruction / I would say instruction as he calleth it / intending to prove that we are justified through holy works / allegeth half a text of Paul of the fifth to the Galatians (as his manner is to juggle and convaye craftily) fides per dilectionem operans. 2Which text he this wise englisheth: faith which is wrought by love / and maketh a verb passive of a verb deponente. Rochester will have love to goo before and faith to spring out of love. Thus Antichrist turneth the roots of the tree upward. I must first love a bitter medicine (after Rochesters doctrine) and then believe that it is wholesome. When by natural reason / I first hate a bitter medicine / until I be brought in belief of the physician that it is wholesome and that the bitterness shall heal me / and then afterward love it of that belief. Doeth the child love the father first and then believe that he is his son or heir or rather because he knoweth that he is his son or heir and beloved / therefore loveth again? John saith in the thread of his first Pistle.3 See what love the father hath showed upon us / that we should be called his sons. Because we are sons therefore love we. Now by faith are we sons as John saith in the first chapter of his Gospel. He gave them power to be the sons of God in that they believed on ⟨p. lxvj⟩his name. And Paul saith / in the thread Chapter of his Pistle to the Galatians / we are all the sons of God by the faith which is in Jesus Christ. And John in the said chapter of his Pistle saith. Here by perceive we love / that he gave his life for us. We could see no love nor cause to love again / except that we believed that he died for us and that we were saved through his death. And in the chapter following saith John. Here in is love: not that we loved God: but that he loved us and sent his son to make a grement for our since. See / God sent not his son for any love that we had to him: but of the love / that he had to us sent he his son / that we might see love and love again. Paul like wise in the .viij.