A treatise of the cohabitation of the faithful with the unfaithful Whereunto is added.…A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull Whereunto is added.…

A Sermon of the true confessing of Christ / and the truth of the gospel: and of the foul denying of the same / made in the convocation of the clergy at Zurich the 28. day of January in the year of the lord 1555.

A Sermon of the true confessinge of Christe / and the truithe of the gospell: and of the foule denyinge of the same / made in the conuocacion of the clergie at Zurich the 28. daye of Ianuarie in the yeare of the lorde 1555.

By. H. B.

Our lord Jesus Christ hath foresaid that there should be persecutions / and chiefly in the later times / through which sum should be despoiled of their goods / sum also thrown out of their dwellings / and other should be shut up in prison / again that other should be fried in the fire and put to other punishments / and executed with infamous deaths / And that for the lord Christ himself / and for the doctrine / and confession of the truth of the gospel. The same lord did then also foresay / that not a few should fall from the truth known. All which things truly we have herd and seen fulfilled / not in this time only / but in times long passed. For there are sum which at this day do openly / and that without shame / curs and bid adieu to the truth of the gospel / which with demas do embrace this present world. There are other / and not a few / which do themselves also deny the truth known / and yet will they not be accounted to be forsakers of it. Thy do stain themselves with divers ⟨image 67⟩glosses and colours that they might not be known of the godly and more simple sort of men. One feigneth that he doth not go out of Egypt and Babylon / because he may win many unto Christ: when as in the mean time he doth both withdraw himself from Christ / and doth confirm many that be weaker men in the filths of babylon so, that they do not at any time think earnestly of true repentance. Other do fantasy that there is no need openly to confess religion / but that the inward belief of the hart doth suffice: And if it be of urgent necessity to confess any thing openly / yet that the confession sufficeth which is made among the brethren which are well known and companions in Religion: Neither that the confession among the adversaries is straitly required / which shall put them in danger of life. And therefore thou shalt find sum men of exercise which can cunningly dispute of papistical ceremonies and make marvellous interpretations of them / labouring by all means to prove that the godly by the partaking of them neither are defiled / nor yet that the religion of the gospel is denied. Thus witty and subtle doth that trembling fear / and great desire of this world make them.