A14136:286
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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Thou ⟨image 109⟩must believe that it is no more bred / but the very body of Christ / flesh / blood and bone / even as he went here on earth / save his cote.1 For that is here yet / I wot not in how many places. I pray the what helpeth all this? Here is no promise. The devils know that Christ dyed on a Friday and the Jews also. What are they helped thereby? We have a promise that Christ and his body and his blood and all that he did and suffered / is a sacrifice / a ransom and a full satisfaction for our since: that God for his sake will think no more on them / if we have power to repent and believe
Thou ⟨image 109⟩must beleve yt it is no moare bred / but the very body of Christe / flesh / bloude and bone / even as he went here on erth / save his cote.1 For that is here yet / I wott not in how many places. I praye the what helpeth al this? Here is no promyse. The devels know that Christ dyed on a fredaye and the Iewes also. What are they holpe therby? We have a promyse that Christ and his body and his bloude and all that he dyd and sofered / is a sacrifice / a raunsome and a full satisfaction for our synnes: that God for his sake will thinke no moare on them / yf we have power to repente and beleve
- 1In all thing they leve out the promisesIn all thynge they leve out the promyses
Holy workmen think that God rejoiceth in the dead self without any further respect. They think also that God as a cruel tyrant / rejoiceth and hath delectation in our pain taking without any further respect. And therefore many of them martyr them selves without cause / after the ensample of Baals priests which (iij. Regū. xviij) cut them selves to please their God with all and as the old heathen pagans sacrificed their children in the fire unto their Gods. The monks of the charterhouse think that the very eating of fish in it self pleaseth God and refer not the eating unto the chastening of the body. For when they have slain their bodies with cold fleme of fish eating: yet then will they eat no flesh and slay them selves