A14136:208
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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Woe be to you scribes and pharisees hypocrites. For ye make clean the utter side of the cup and of the platter / but within they are full of bribery and excess saith Christ. Math. xxiij. 1Is that which our hypocrites eat and drink and all their riotous excess any other thing save robbery and that which they have falsely gotten with their lying doctrine? Be learned therefore ye that judge the world and compel them to make restitution again.
Wo be to you scribes and phareses ypocrites. For ye make clene the vtter syde of the cuppe and of the platter / but within they are full of brybry and excesse saith Christ. Math. xxiij. 1Ys that which oure ypocrites eate and drinke and all their riotous excesse any other thinge save robbery and that which they have falsly goten with their lyinge doctrine? Be lerned therfore ye that iudge the worlde and compell them to make restitucion agayne.
- 1Our hypocrites live by theft.Oure ypocrites lyve by thefte.
Ye blind guides saith Christ / ye strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. Math xxiij. do not our blind guides also stumble at a straw & leap over a block / making narrow 1consciences at trifles / and at matters of weight none at all? If any of them happen to swallow his spittle or any of the water where with he washeth his mouth / ere he goo to mass / or touch the sacrament with his nose or if the ass forget to breath on him or happen to handle it with any of his fingers which are not anointed / or say Alleluia in stead of Laus tibi domine / or Ite missa est in stede of Benedicamus domino / or poure to much wine in the chalice / or read the Gospel without light / or make not his crosses a right / how trembleth he? how feareth he? what an horrible sin is committed? I cry God mercy / saith he / and you