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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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Repent for God's sake, and come to your right mind again, for if ye go on thus by unlawful means to shake of & put away the plague and scourge, that god hath sent to you, for your detestable sins, besides everlasting damnation, and utter undoing of your own natural country,1 ye shall incur a most shameful death of your bodies. Read all the histories both profane and holy, that ever were written since the beginning of the world, and ye shall your selves find, that always rebels have had a shameful end. And no marvel, for they do resist the ordinance of god. I might here repeat and rehearse the history of Corah,2 Dathan and Abyram which with their wives and children and xiiii. M, and .dcc, that held with them, did horribly perish for their rebellion,3 I might allege how Ephraim made insurrection against Jephthah, whom god had ⟨image 22⟩raised to be judge over Israel, of the which Ephraites .xlii. M. were miserably slain? What need I to bring here the horrible tragedy of Absalom,4 and of Siba, the son of Bocheri. Look ye your selves upon the books of the kings, and of Paralippomenon,5 or Chronicles, and ye shall there find, that the one being hanged up by the locks of his hairs in an oak, was thirsted thorough with .iii. spares, with whom .xx. M. of the people were slain and lost, and that the other being pursued by Joab, and besieged within Abel and Bethmaaka, was by the counsel of a wise woman beheaded & his head thrown over the wall to Joab. Did the people therefore, that rebelled with him, escape unpunished?6 Objection. No, no, The lord god hater of all rebellion & tumult, did afterwards so sore plague Israel with pestilence, that in three days, there dyed .lxx. M. But thou wilt say: This was because that David had numbered the people of Israel and Judah, Solution. & had not observed the law. Let the scripture answer for me, which saith. And again the lord was wroth against Israel, & moved David against them. Al ecclesiastical writers do agree, that this was for the sin of rebellion that is to say, because that they with Siba,