A14136:201
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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Be learned therefore ye that judge the world lest God be angry with you & ye peresh from the right way.
Be lerned therfore ye that iudge ye worlde lest God be angry with you & ye peresh frō the ryght waye.
Woe be to you scribes & pharisees hypocrites / saith Christ / Math. xxiij. for ye 1devour widows houses under a colour of long prayer. Our hypocrites rob not the widows only: but knight / squire / lord duke king & Emperor and even the whole world under the same colour: teaching the people to trust in their prayers and not in Christ for whose sake God hath forgiven all the sin of the whole world / unto as many as repent & believe. 2They fear them with purgatory and promise to pray perpetually / lest the lands should ever return home again unto the right heirs. What hast thou bought with robbing thy heirs or with giving the hypocrites that which thou robest of other men? Perpetual prayer? Ye perpetual pain. For they appoint the no time of deliverance / their prayers are so mighty. The Pope for money can empty purgatory when he will It is verily purgatory. 3For it purgeth and maketh clean riddance: ye it is hell. For it devoureth all things. His fatherhood sendeth them to heaven with 4scala celi: that is / with a ladder / to scale the walls.5 For by the door christ / will they not let them come in. That do•re have they stopped up / and that by cause ⟨image 83⟩ye should bye ladders of them.