A14136:262
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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¶ Who so ever hath ears let him hear and let him that hath eyes / see. If any man love to be blind / his blindness on his own heed and not on mine.
¶ Who so ever hath eares let him heare ād let him that hath eyes / se. Yf any man love to be blynde / his blyndnes on his awn heed and not on myne.
They allege for them selves the saying of Christ to Peter Math. xvj. what so ever thou bindest on earth / it shall be bond / and what so ever thou loosest / it shall be loosed / and so forth.1 Lo say they / what so ever we bind and what so ever we loose here is no thing excepted. And another text lay, they of Christ in the last of Matthew All power is given to me saith Christ / in heaven and in earth: goo therefore and preach &c. Preaching leaveth the Pope out and saith lo all power is given me in heaven and in earth.2 And thereupon taketh upon him temporal power above king and Emperor / and maketh laws and bindeth them. And like power taketh he over Gods laws and dispenseth with them at his lust / making no sin of that which God maketh sin and maketh sin where God maketh none: ye and wipeth out Gods laws clean and ⟨image 102⟩maketh at his pleasure / and with him is lawful what he lusteth. He bindeth where God looseth and looseth where God bindeth. He blesseth where God curseth and curseth where God blesseth. He taketh authority also to bind and loose in purgatory.3 That permit I unto him: for it is a creature of his own making. He also bindeth the angels. For we read of Popes that have commanded the angels to fetch divers out of purgatory.4 How be it I am not yet certified whether they obeyed or no.