A14354:156
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 treatise of the cohabitation of the faithful with the unfaithful Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christ and his gospel, and of the denying of the same.A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.
Strasbourg: printed by W. Rihel, 1555
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Why doth he by plain words say / as it were provoking us to martyrdom? Whosoever will 1follow me / let him forsake himself / and take up his cross / and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it. But whosoever shall lose his life for my sake / and the gospels the same shall save it. Be addeth forthwith words which do make for the contempt of those things / for which these men do think that in religion silence may be kept and dissimulation used / saying. What shall it profit a man / if he win all the world / and lose his own soul. Therewith also doth he add through what thing we do lose our souls / that is through Shame. For he saith. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words / in this adulterous and sinful generation / of him also shall the son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his father with the holy Angels. Therefore Paul that chosen vessel of Christ / and a most faithful teacher of the church / who giveth evil counsel to no man / neither leadeth he any man from the true way / it is (saith he) a true saying: for if we be dead with 2him / we shall also live with him: if we be patient / we shall also reign with him. If we deny him / he shall also deny us. The same Paul to the Bebrues / Call to remembrance (saith he) the days that are ⟨image 75⟩3passed / in the which after the had received light / ye endured a great fight of adversities / partly while all men wondered and •ased at you for the shame and tribulation that was done unto you / partly while ye became companions of them which so passed their time. For ye became partakers also of the afflictions which happened through my bonds / and toke in worth the spoiling of your goods / and that with gladness / Knowing in yourselves / how that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Caste not away therefore your confidence / which hath a great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience / that after the have done the will of God / ye might receive the promise. For yet a very little while / and he that shall come / will come / and will not tarry. But the just shall live by faith. And if he withdraw himself my soul shall have no pleasure in him. It is not we that withdraw ourselves unto damnation / but we pertain unto faith / to the winning of the soul.