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A most necessary & fruitful dialogue, between [the] seditious libertine or rebel Anabaptist, &…A most necessary & frutefull dialogue, betwene [the] seditious libertin or rebel Anabaptist, &…
A most necessary & fruitful dialogue, between [the] seditious libertine or rebel Anabaptist, & the true obedient christia[n] wherein, as in a mirror or glass ye shall see [the] excellence and worthiness of a christia[n] magistrate: & again what obedience is due unto public rulers of all th[os]e [that] profess Christ yea, though [the] rulers, in extern & outward things, to their utter damnation, do otherwise then well: translated out of Latin into English, by Iho[n] Veron Senonoys.A most necessary & frutefull dialogue, betwene [the] seditious libertin or rebel Anabaptist, & the true obedient christia[n] wherin, as in a mirrour or glasse ye shal se [the] excellencte and worthynesse of a christia[n] magistrate: & again what obedience is due vnto publique rulers of all th[os]e [that] professe Christ yea, though [the] rulers, in externe & outward thinges, to their vtter dampnatyon, do otherwyse then well: translated out of Latyn into Englishe, by Iho[n] Veron Senonoys.
Worcester : Imprinted the third day of April. Anno. Do. 1551. At Worcester in the high street, by John Oswen. They be also to sell at Shrewesbury. Cum priuligio ad imprimendum solum, 1551Worcester : Imprynted the third daye of Aprill. Anno. Do. 1551. At Worceter in ye hygh strete, by Ihon Oswen. They be also to sell at Shrewesbury. Cum priuligio ad imprimendum solum, 1551
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Read the holy Bible, read Josephus, Herodotus, Justinus, Titus Livius, Sabellicus, and for the histories of England, Polydorus, Virgilius. Ye may see now that by stirring up of division, ye did bring your own natural country, into as great a peril as might be.1 For onlesse God had been a strong Bulwark, unto this most victorious Realm of England, and a most favourable father, protector, and defender unto our Virgin king, (for whose sake only though all things, yea and your own lives had been taken from you, ye ought to have suffered, and too have refrained from such devilish enterprises) it had been unpossible but the foreign nations had come upon us. Praise and land be given unto thee for ever, O merciful father, that thou diddest of thy mere mercy, without any deservings or demerits of ours, preserve ⟨image 20⟩our illustre and noble king, with all his dominions and Realms, in this most perilous time of insurrection and tumult which these children of Belial, did so ungodly stir up. For what will ye have us to call you? Good fellows? Maintainers and defenders of the common weal?2 By likelihood ye would be so called Nay, nay, I was full loth at the first (I have many to bear me record of the same) that ye should be called rebels or traitors, because I thought those names to be to heinous for you. Again, I had a good hope that ye would be won, & reclaimed by some fair and gentle means. (For who would have thought so much stubbornness in you?) Farthermore, I was afraid that your rageouse madness should rather be set on fire by such words, then assuaged. It was, I say, sore against my will, that so horrible and odious names, should be given unto you at the first: but sith now that ye did persist, and some of you do yet furiously persist in giving the occasions of such most devilish enterprise, being persuaded by no manner of reason: What may we rightly call you, but rebels ⟨image 20⟩and traitors, and most extreme enemies of the commune weal? For, all that ye go about, is to undo this noble and flourishing Realm, and most unnaturally to betray your own natural country, unto foreign nations and Princes.
Read the holy Bible, reade Iosephus, Herodotus, Iustinus, Titus Liuius, Sabellicus, and for the historyes of Englande, Polydorus, Virgilius. Ye may se nowe that by stirryng vp of diuision, ye did brynge your owne naturall countrey, into as great a paryll as myghte be.