A14136:175
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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God anointed his son Jesus with the holy ghost / and therefore called him Christ / which is as much to say as anointed. Outwardly he disguised him not but made him like other men & sent him in to the world to bless us and to offer him self for us a 1sacrifice of a sweet saver / to kill the stench of our since / that God henceforth ⟨image 71⟩should smell them no more / nor think on them any more: and to make full and sufficient satisfaction or amends for all them that repent / believing the trueth of God & submitting them selves unto his ordinances both for they sin that they do / have done and shall do. For sin we through fragility never so oft / yet as soon as we repent and come in to the right way again and unto the testament which God hath made in Christs blood / our since vanish away as smoke in the wind & as darkness at the coming of light or as thou cast a little blood or milk in to the main see.2 In so much that who soever goeth about to make satisfaction for his since to God ward / saying in his heart / this much have I sinned this much will I do again / or this wise will I live to make amends with all or this will I do to get heaven with all the same is an infidel / faithless and damned in his deed doing / and hath lost his part in Christs blood: because he is disobedient unto Gods testament / and setteth up another of his own imagination / unto which he will compel God to obey. If we love God we have a commandment to love our neighbour also / as saith John in his Pistle. And if we have offended him to make him amends / 3or if we have not where with / to axe him forgiveness / and to do and suffer ⟨p. lxxj⟩all things for his sake / to win him to God and to nourish peace and unite: but to Godward Christ is an everlasting satisfaction and ever sufficient.
GOd annoynted his sonne Ihesus with the holy goost / ād therfore called him Christe / which is as moch to saye as anoynted. Outwardly he disgysed him not but made him lyke oder men & sente him in to the worlde to blesse vs and to offer hī selfe for vs a