A14136:50
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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How be it / it is no new thing unto the word of god to be railed upon / nether is this the first time that hypocrites have ascribed to Gods word the vengeance where of they themselves were ever cause.1 For the hypocrites with their false doctrine and idolatry have evermore lade the wrath and vengeance of God upon the People / so sore that God could no longer forbear nor differ his punishment. Yet God / which ⟨image 22⟩is all ways merciful / before he would take vengeance / hath •ver sent his true prophets and true preachers / to warn the people that they might repent. But the people for the most part and namely the heeds and rulers through comfort and persuading of the hypocrites / have ever waxed more hard hearted then before / and have persecuted the word of God and his prophets. Then God which is also righteous / hath always poured his plagues upon them with out delay. 2Which plagues the hypocrites ascribe unto Gods word saying: see what mischief is come upon us since this new learning come up and this new sect and this new doctrine. This seest thou Jeremiah .xliiij. Where the people cried to goo to their old idolatry again saying: since we left it / we have bin in all necessity and have bin consumed with war and hunger. But the prophet answered them / that their idolatry went unto the heart of God / so that he could no longer suffer the maliciousness of their own imaginations or inventions / and that the cause of all such mischiefs was / because they would not hear tho voice of the lord and walk in his law / ordinances and testimonies. 3The scribes and the pharisees laid also to Christs charge (Luke. xxiij.) that he moved the people to sedition. And said to Pilate / we have found ⟨p. xxij⟩this fellow perverting the people and for bidding to pay tribute to Cesar / and sayeth that he is Christ a king. And again in the same chapter / he moveth the people (said they) teaching through out all jury and began at Galilee even to this place. So like wise laid they to the Apostles charge / as thou mayest see in the Acts. Saint Cyprian also & saint Augustine & many other moe made works in defence of the word of God against such blasphemies: