A14136:334
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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¶The .iiij. senses of the scripture.¶The .iiij. senses of ye scripture.
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¶The .iiij. senses of the scripture.
¶The .iiij. senses of ye scripture.
They divide the scripture in to iiij. senses / the literal / tropological / allegorical anagogical. The literal sense is become nothing at all. For ⟨image 130⟩the pope hath taken it clean away and hath made it his possession. He hath partly locked it up with the false & counterfeited keys of his traditions ceremonies & feigned lies And partly driveth men from it with violence of sword. For no man dare abide by the literal sense of the text / but under a protestation / if it shall please the pope. The tropological sense pertaineth to good manners (say they) and teacheth what we ought to do. The allegory is appropriate to faith / & the anagogical to hope and things above. Tropological & anagogical are terms of their own feigning and all together unnecessary. For they are but allegories both two of them and this word allegory comprehendeth them both and is enough. For chopologicall is but an allegory of manners and anagogical an allegory of hope. 1And allegory is as much to say as strange speaking or borrowed speech. As when we say of a wantā children / this sheep hath maggots in his tail / he must be anointed with birchen salve which speech I borrow of the shepherds ¶ Thou shalt understand therefore y• the scripture hath but one sense which is the literal sense.2 And that literal sense is the rote and ground of all & the an•re that never faileth where unto if thou cleave thou canst never err or goo out of the way. And if thou leave the literal sense thou canst not but go