A14150:39
A path way i[n]to the holy scripture
London: printed by Thomas Godfray, 1536
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A pathway into holy. &c. › PartA pathwaye into holy. &c. › Part
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
¶ Nat withstanding though the rulers which god hath set over us command us against god / or do us open wrong / & oppress us with cruel tyranny / yet because they are in God's room / we may not avenge our selves / but by the process and order of goods law / & laws of man made by the authority of God's law / which is also God's law / ever by an higher power & remitting y• vengeance unto god / & in the mean season suffer until y• hour be come.
¶ Nat withstandynge though the rulers whiche god hath set ouer vs commaunde vs against god / or do vs opē wronge / & oppresse vs with cruell tyrāny / yet bycause they are in goddes rowme / we maye nat auenge our selues / but by the proces and ordre of goods law / & lawes of man made by ye auctorite of goddes law / which is also goddes lawe / euer by an hier power & remyttīge y• vengeāce vnto god / & in the meane season suffre vntyll y• hour be come.
And on the other side to know that a man ought to love his neighbour equally & fully / as well as him self / because his neighbour (be he never so simple) is equally created of god & as full redeemed by the blood of our saviour Jesus Christ. Out of which commandment of love spring these. ⟨image 26⟩Kill not thy neighbour / defile not his wife / bear no false witness against him / & finally / not only do not these things in deed / but covet not in thine heart / his house / his wife / his manservant / maidservant / ox / ass or whatsoever is his. So that these laws pertaining unto our neighbour are not fulfilled in the sight of god save with love. He that loveth not his neighbour / keepeth not this commandment: defile not thy neighbours wife / though he never touch her or never see her / or think upon her. For the commandment is / though thy neighbours wife be never so fair / & thou have never so great opportunity given thee / and she content or haply provoke thee / as Potiphar's wife did Joseph / yet see thou love thy neighbour so well / that for very love thou can not find in thine heart to do that wickedness.