A14136:44
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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1But now do ye clean contrary. Ye drive them from Gods word and will let no man come there to / until he have bin two years master of art. First they nosell them in sophistry and in benefundatū2. And there corrupt they their judgements with apparent arguments and with alleging unto them texts of logic / of natural philautia / of metaphysic and moral philosophy and of all manner books of Aristotle and of all manner doctors which they yet never saw. More over one holdeth this another that. One is a real / another a nominal. What wonderful 3dreams have they of their predicaments / universals / second intentions / quiddities haecceities & relatives. And whether species fundata in chimera be vera species. And whether this proposition be true non ens est aliquid. Whether ens be equivo cum or univo con. Ens is a voice only say some. Ens is univocum saith another and descendeth in to ens creatum and in to ens increatum per modos intrinsecos. when they have this wise brawled ▪viij x. or .xij. or moo years and after that their judgements are utterly corrupt: then they begin their Divinity.4 Not at the scripture: but every man taketh a sundry doctor / which doctors are as sundry and as divers / the one contrary unto the other / 5as there are divers fashions and monstrous shapes / none like ⟨p. xix⟩another / among our sects of religion. Every religion / every university & all most every man hath a sundry divinity. Now what so ever opinions every man findeth with his doctor / that is his Gospel and that only is true with him and that holdeth he all his life long / and every man to maintain his doctor with all / corrupteth the scripture & factioneth it after his own imagination as a Potter doeth his clay. Of what text thou provest hell / will another prove purgatory / another limbo patrum / and another the assumption of our lady: And another shall prove of the same text that an Ape hath a tail. And of what text the grey friar proveth that our lady was without original sin / of the same shall the black friar prove that she was conceived in original sin. And all this do they with apparent reasons with false similitudes and likenesses / and with arguments and persuasions of mans wisdom.