A14136:355
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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Take an ensample how they prove that widowhood & virginity exceed matrimony they brim ge this worldly similitude He that taketh most ⟨image 139⟩pain for a man deserveth most and to him a man is most bound / so like wise must it be with God and so forth: now the widow and virgin take more pain in resisting their lusts then the married wife / therefore is their state holier. First I say / that in their own sophistry a similitude is the worst and feeblest argument that can be and proveth lest and sonest deceiveth.1 Though that one son do more service for his father than another / yet is the father free and may with right reward them all a like. For though I had a thousand brethren and did more than they all / yet do I not my duty. The fathers and mothers also care most for the leest and weakest and them that can do leest: yea for the worst care they most and would spend / not their goods only: but also their blood to bring them to the right way. And even so is it of the kingdom of Christ as thou mayest well see in the similitude of the riotous son Luke. xv. More over Paul saith .j. Cor. vij. It is better to marry then to burn. For the person that burneth can not quietly serve God in as much as his mind is drawn away and the thoughts of his heart occupied with wonderful and monstrous imaginations. He can nether see / nor hear / nor read but that his wits are rapt and he clean from him self. And again / saith he / circumcision is nothing uncircumcision is no ⟨p. cxxxix⟩thing: but the keeping of the commandments is all together. Look where in thou canst best keep the commandments thither get thy self and therein abide / whether thou be widow wife or maid / and then hast thou all with God 2If we have infirmities that draw us from the laws of God / let us cure them with the remedies that God hath made. If thou burn marry For God hath promised the no chastity / as long as thou mayest use the remedy that he hath ordained: no more then he hath promised to flake thine hunger without meat
Take an ensāple how they prove yt wedowhode & virginite exceade matrimony thei brī ge this worldli similitude He yt taketh most