A14136:345
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 greatest cause of which captivity and the decay of the faith and this blindness wherein we now are / sprang first of allegories. For Origen and the of his time ⟨p. Cxxxiij⟩drew all the scripture unto allegories. Whose ensample they that came after followed so long / till at the last they forgot the order / and process of the text / supposing that the scripture served but to feign allegories upon. In so much that twenty doctors expound one text .xx. ways / as children make descant upon plain song 1Then came our sophisters with their Anagogical and chopologicall sense and with an antetheme of half an inch / out of which some of them draw a third of .ix. days long. Ye thou shalt find enow that will preach Christ / and prove what some ever point of the faith that thou wilt / as well out of a fable of Ovid 2or any other poet / as out of saint Johns Gospel or Pauls pistels. Ye they are come unto such blindness that they not only say the literal sense profiteth not / but also that it is hurtful and noisome and killeth the soul.3 Which damnable doctrine they prove by a text of Paul. ij Corinth. iij. Where he sayeth the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life. Lo say they the literal sense killeth and the spiritual sense giveth life. We must therefore / say they / seek out some choplogicall sense.
The greatest cause of which captivite ād the decay of the fayth and this blyndnes wherein we now are / sprange fyrst of allehoryes. For Origen and the of his tyme ⟨p. Cxxxiij⟩drew al the scripture vnto allegories. Whos ensample they that came after folowed so longe / tyll at the last they forgat the order / and processe of the texte / supposinge that the scripture sarved but to fayne allegories apon. In so moch that twenty doctours expounde one texte .xx. wayes / as childern make descant apon playne songe 1Then came oure sophisters with their Anagogicall ād chopologicall sence and with an antetheme of halfe an ench / out of which some of them draw a threde of .ix. dayes longe. Yee thou shalt fynde ynow that will preach Christ / and prove what some ever poynte of the fayth that thou wilt / as well out of a fabell of Ovide