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The mind and exposition of that excellent learned man Martin Bucer, upon these words…The mynd and exposition of that excellente learned man Martyn Bucer, vppon these wordes…
The mind and exposition of that excellent learned man Martin Bucer, upon these words of S. Matthew: Woo be to the wordle [sic] because of offences. Math. xviij. Faithfully translated in to English, by a faithful brother, with certain objections [and] answers to the sameThe mynd and exposition of that excellente learned man Martyn Bucer, vppon these wordes of S. Mathew: Woo be to the wordle [sic] bycause of offences. Math. xviij. Faythfully translated in to Englishe, by a faythfull brother, with certayne obiections [and] answeres to the same
Emden: printed by E. van der Erve, 1566
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.
The kingdom of heaven is nether ⟨image 20⟩meat nor drink. Meat commendeth us not to god. Whatsoever entereth in to the mouth, defileth not the man. All things are clean to them that are clean. & other like places of scripture, all which they pertain to the matter or creature & substance only, not to every use, fashion, or manner of using. It is to much doltishness, not to understand all thing a right, except we will also conclude of the same places, that by gluttony, drunkenness, whoredom, disguised apparel, and such like, the law of god is not broken. garments therefore that are urged in respect of the form and use, they are not indifferent, and first of the end, which they labour so much to prove that it is changed, that those things which before were used to superstition, now are commanded for order & comeliness. No godly man doubteth, but the Queens Mayest intending an other end in commanding of those things, then the Papists used them for. But who so well considereth the nature of those things, shall plainly see, that the end which the commander propoundeth, doth not follow, but according to the diversity of them that use them, and them that judge of them, a clean contrary end ensueth, for many popish priests ⟨image 21⟩use them to the same superstitious end that they did in Popery, and greatest of all is the multitude of ignorant people, that judgeth none otherwise of them.1 All men have not knowledge, for some with conscience of the Idol, even yet do eat meat offered to Idols. So Gideon made an Ephod,2 not that the people should go a whoring after it, yet was it the destruction of him and his house forever. Secondly it can not serve for order and comeliness,3 which hath in it no necessary cause of edifying. Let all things be done for edifying. Nether can it be converted to the comeliness of the Christian Church, which is the chaste spouse of Christ, which is taken from Antichrist, and the filthy whore of Babylon. What consent hath Christ with Belial? what portion hath the faithful with the infidel? or what agreement hath the temple of God with Images? If the reason of S. Paul be examined,