A14151:12
The practise of prelates. CompiledThe practyse of prelates. Compyled
The practise of prelates. Compiled by the faithful and godly learned man, William TyndaleThe practyse of prelates. Compyled by the faythfull and godly learned man, Wyllyam Tyndale
London: printed by Anthony Scoloker and William Seres. Dwelling without Temple bar, 1548London: printed by Anthony Scoloker and Willyam Seres. Dwellynge wythout Temple barre, 1548
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The hypocrites haply bid you take an ensample of the uplandish people of Almany which they lye that Marten Luther starred up. For first what one sentence in all the writing of Marten Luther find they that teacheth a man to resist his superior? Moreover if Marten Luther and the preachers had st•rred up the common People of Germany, how happened it that Marten Luther and other like preachers had not perished like wise with them, which •IVED Long after? Ye will ask ⟨image 6⟩me who stirred them up then? I axe yo• Who stirred up the commons of the / Jews to resist the Emperor, after that the scribes and Pharisees with the elders of the People had slain Christ and his Apostles? Verily the wrath of God. And even so here the wrath of God stirred them up / partly to destroy the enemies and persecutors of the trueth, and partly to take vengeance on those carnal beasts / which abused the Gospel of Christ to make a cloak of it to defend their fleshly liberty / and not to obey it and to save their souls thereby.
The hipocrites happely byd you take an ensample of the vplandish people of Almany which they lye that Marten Luther starred vp. For first what one sētēce in all the wryting of Marten Luther fynd they that teacheth a man to resist his superiour? Moreouer if Marten Luther ād the preachers had st•rred vp the comen People of Germanye, howe happened it that Marten Luther and other lyke preachers had not p•risshed lyke wise wyth them, whiche •IUED Longe after? Ye wyll aske ⟨image 6⟩me who sturred them vp then? I axe yo• Who sturred vp the comonnes of the / Iewes to resyst the Emperour, after that the scribes and Pharasees with the elders of the People had slayne Christe and his Apostles? Uerely the wrath of God. And euen so here the wrath of God sturred thē vp / partelye to destroye the enemyes and persecutours of the trueth, and partelye to take vengeaunce on those carnall beastes / which abused the Gospell of Chryst to make a cloke of it to defende their fleshly libertie / and not to obey it and to saue their soules therby.