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An answer to a certain godly man[n]es letters desiring his friends judgement, whether it…An answer to a certain godly man[n]es lettres desiring his frendes iudgement, whether it…
An answer to a certain godly man[n]es letters desiring his friends judgement, whether it be lawful for a christian man to be present at the popish mass, and other superstitious church service.An answer to a certain godly man[n]es lettres desiring his frendes iudgement, whether it be laufull for a christian man to be present at the popishe masse, and other supersticious churche seruice.
Strasbourg : Heirs of W. Rihel?, 1557
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Thus ye have the judgement of Saint Austen in your question that ye moved: with whom I agree and consent / because I am sure / that this doctrine doth agree in every part with the word of God.
Thus ye haue the iudgement of Saint Austen in your question that ye moued: with whom I agree and consent / bicause I am sure / that this doctrine dothe agree in euery parte with the worde of God.
And therefore onles ye think your self so sure / that ye are able to abide what so ever cross shall be laid upon you for Christs sake / tempt not God in lingering in that land of the lords wrath / but in time come out of Egypt / least with your overlong lingering and tempting of God / he pull away his grace from you / as a vessel not mete to keep it / and so leave you to your self to your final destruction and eternal undoing.
And therfore onles ye thinke your selfe so sure / that ye are hable to abyde what so euer crosse shalbe layed vpon you for Christes sake / tempre not God in lyngryng in that lande of the lordes wrathe / but in tyme come out of Egipte / least with your ouerlong lyngryng and tempting of God / he pull awaye his grace from you / as a vssel not mete to kepe it / and so leaue you to your self to your final destrucion and eternal vndoyng.
Be not careful for to morrow / make not your good your God / as they say: let your worldly substance be your servant and not your master / and put your hole trust in God.
Be not carefull for to morowe / make not your good your God / as they saye: let your worldly substaunce be your seruaunt and not your maister / and put your hole trust in God.