A14136:293
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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So that now if any man preach Gods word truly & show the freedom & liberty of the soul which we have in Christ / or intend to restore the kings again unto their duties and right and to the room and authority which they have of God / and of shadows to make them kings in dead / and to put the world in his order again: then the kings deliver their swords & authority unto the hypocrites to slay him So drunken are they with the wine of the whore. ¶The text that followeth in Paul will they haply lay to my charge and others.1 How shall they preach except they be sent / saith Paul in the said .x. to the Romans. We / will they say / are the Pope / Cardinals and Bishops all authority is ours. The scripture pertaineth unto us and is our possession And we have a law / that whosoever presume ⟨p. Cxij⟩to preach without the authority of the bishops is excommunicate in the dead doing. Whence therefore hast thou thine authority will they say. The old pharisees had the scripture in captivity like wise / and axed christ by what authority doest thou these things? as who should say. We are pharisees & thou art none of our order nor hast authority of us Christ axed them another question and so will I do our hypocrites. Who sent you? God? Nay he that is send of God / speaketh Gods word John. iij.2 Now speak ye not Gods word / nor any thing save your own laws made clean contrary unto Gods word Christs apostles preached Christ and not them selves. He that is of the trueth / preacheth the trueth. Now ye preach no thing but lies / and therefore are of the devil the father of all lies and of him are ye sent. And as for mine authority or who sent me. I report me unto my works as Christ John the fifth and also tenth chapter. If Gods word bear record that I say truth / why should any man doubt / but that God / the father of trueth and of light hath sent me as the father of lies and of darkness hath sent you / and that the spirit of trueth and of light is with me / as the sprite of lies and of darkness is with you? By this means thou will that every man be a preacher will they say 3Nay verily. For God ⟨image 113⟩