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A short instruction for to arm all good Christian people against the pestiferous errors…A short instruction for to arme all good Christian people agaynst the pestiferous errours…
A short instruction for to arm all good Christian people against the pestiferous errors of the common sect of Anabaptists. Compiled by master John CalvinA short instruction for to arme all good Christian people agaynst the pestiferous errours of the common secte of Anabaptistes. Compiled by mayster Iohn Caluine
London: printed by John Daye, 1549London: printed by Ihon Daye, 1549
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Of the Anabaptists. › Article 2 › ☞ ConfutationOf the Anabaptistes. › Article 2 › ☞ Confutacion
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.
but let us reprehend the wicked desires which are the cause to the raising up of war: let us reprehend the cruelties, rapines, violences, extortions, and such other insolencies which are done there To mingle the good with the evil, to condemn altogether without discretion, is a thing without reason.
but let vs reprehend the wycked desires which are the cause to ye raisyng vp of warre: lette vs reprehende the cruelties, rapines, violences, extortions, and suche other insolencies which are done there To mingle the good wyth the euyll, to cōdemne altogithers wtout discresion, is a thyng without reason.
The fifth Article is of pastors: in which they have somewhat advised them selves. For afore time they were in that error, that it was against God that a preacher should be deputed to any certain place: but would that all they which should be in that office, should run from one place to an other, counterfeiting the Apostles as apes, and not as true followers.
The fyfte Article is of pastours: in which they haue somewhat aduised them selues. For afore tyme they were in that erroure, that it was agaynste God that a preacher shoulde be deputed to anye certayne place: but woulde that all they whyche shoulde be in that office, shoulde runne frome one place to an other, counterfaytinge the Apostles as apes, and not as true folowers.
But I think verily that they did this ⟨image 28⟩of a good mind which they had, that the ministers which did faithfully teach, should depart and leave the place empty, for them, when they came to pour out their poison every where.