A14136:407
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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I uttered unto you partly the malicious blindness of the Bishop of Rochester / his juggling his conveying / his foxy wiliness / his bo•epe / his wresting / renting and shameful abusing of the scripture / his oratory and alleging of heretics and how he would make the Apostles authors of blind ceremonies without signification ⟨image 160⟩contrary to their own doctrine / & have set him for an ensample to judge all other by. What so ever thou art that readest this. I exhort the in Christ / to compare his sermon and that which I have written and the scripture together & judge. There shalt thou find of our holy fathers authority / and what it is to be great and how to know the greatest.
I vttered vnto you partly the malicious blindnes of the Bisshope of Rochester / his iuggelinge his conveyenge / his foxy wilenes / his bo•epe / his wrestynge / rentinge and shamfull abvsinge of the scripture / his oratory and alleginge of heretikes and how he wolde make the Apostles auctours of blynde cerimonies without significacion ⟨image 160⟩cōtrary to their awne doctrine / & have set him for an ensample to iudge all other by. What so ever thou art that readest this. I exorte the in Christ / to cōpare his sermō and that which I have written and the scripture together & iudge. There shalte thou fynde of oure holy fathers auctorite / ād what it is to be greate ād how to know the greatest.
Then followeth the cause why lay men can not rule temporal offices which is the falsehood of the Bishops. There shalt thou find of miracles and ceremonies without signification / of false anointing and lying signs and false names and how the spirituality are disguised in falsehood / and how they roll the people in darkness & do all thing in the latin tongue and of their petty pillage / Their polling is like a sucking consumciō where in a man complaineth of feebleness and of faintness and wotteth not whence his disease cometh: it is like a pock that fretteth inward and consumeth the very marry of the bones.