A14354:26
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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Those men ⟨image 7⟩which are of a private estate and condition / dwelling or being in a place where they be not compelled to communicate with wicked superstitions. And are themselves unlearned and unable to con fesse and defend the truth / may not use familiar conversation with the unbelievers.
Those men ⟨image 7⟩which are of a priuate estate and condition / dwellinge or beinge in a place where they be not compelled to communicate with wicked supersticions. And are themselues vnlearned and vnable to con fesse ād defende the truithe / maye not vse famyliar conuersation with the vnbeleuers.
These men are not in that condition that the learned be / of whom I did speak before / for they cannot teach the unbelievers / yea they be not able to defend the gospel of christ from the blasphemy of the unbelievers / neither can they deliver them sell ues from such false snares as the unbelievers shall lay for them: Wherefore they must not have familiar conversation with them / through which they shall thus throw themselves into peril / and jeopardy: Except that they can assure themselves of such strength / that they shall not yield unto the wickedness of the unbelievers. Otherwise / if they shall happen to dwell together in one place with the unfaithful: Let them take good heed that they do live an holy life among them: And for the rest / let them so far as the necessity of life / and civil businesses and affairs shall suffer them / utterly abstain from the company of the unbelievers.
These men ar not in that condition that the lear ned be / of whom I dyd speake before / for they cannot teache the vnbeleuers / yea they be not able to defende the gospell of christe from the blasphemie of the vnbeleuers / neither can they deliuer them sel ues frō suche false snares as the vnbeleauers shall laye for thē: Wherfor they must not haue familiar conuersaciō with them / through which they shall thus throwe themselues into perill / and ieoperdie: Except that they can assure themselues of such strēghth / that they shall not yealde vnto the wickednes of the vnbeleuers. Otherwise / if they shall happen to dwell togither in one place with the vn faithfull: Lett thē take goode heede that they do ly ue an holy lyfe amonge thē: And for the rest / let thē so far as the necessitie of lyfe / and ciuile businesses and affaires shall suffer them / vtterly abstayn frō the companie of the vnbeleauers.