A14136:282
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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¶Of the sacraments. › ¶Anointing.¶Of the sacramentes. › ¶Anoylynge.
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¶Anointing.
¶Anoylynge.
Last of all cometh the anointing with out promise / and therefore without the spirit and with out profit / but all together unfruitful and superstitious. The sacraments which they have imagined are all without promise / and therefore help not. For what so ever is not of faith is sin. Roman. xiiij. Now without a promise can there be no faith.1 The sacraments which Christ him self ordained / which have also promises and would save us if we knew them and believed them / them minister they in the latin tongue. So are they also become as unfruitful as the other. Ye the make us believe that the work self without the promise saveth us which doctrine they learned of Aristotle.2 And thus are we become an hundred times worse then the wicked Jews which believed that the very work of their sacrifice justified them. Against which Paul fighteth in every pistle / proving that nothing helpeth save the promises which God hath sworn in Christ.3 Ask the people what they understand by their baptism or washing. And thou shalt see that they believe / how that the very plunging ⟨image 108⟩in to the water saveth them: of the promises they know not / nor what is signified thereby. Baptism is called volowinge in many places of England / because the priest saith volo say yea.4 The child was well volowed (say they) ye and our vicar is as fair a volower as ever a priest within this twenty miles.
LAst of all cometh the anoylynge with out promyse / and therfore without the spirite and with out profitt / but all together vnfrutefull and supersticious. The sacramentes which they have imagined are all without promise / and therfore helpe not. For what so ever is not of fayth is synne. Roman. xiiij. Now without a promyse can there be no fayth.