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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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But what need we strange and foreign examples?1 we may learn at home, how they speed ever, that resist the ordinance of god taking most ungodly upon them selves, the thing which belongeth only to the lord & to his anointed. Sith then ye god doth punish so grievously all rebels, here in this world, with fire from heaven, with pestilence & sword & in the other world with everlasting torments of hell: any child may see and understand how sore god doth detest and abhor all rebellion. Therefore if ye tender the health of your own souls, if ye tender the weal of your own natural country, if ye tender your bodies, & lives leave of betimes, cease from such devilish enterprises, & in this your trouble & affliction, which doubtless doth happen unto you either for your sins or else for a trial of your faith & patience) call upon the Lord with a contrite heart, and he will (be ye sure thereof ⟨image 23⟩For he hath so promised) either mollify the hearts of those tyrants, that oppress you, that they shall be very fathers unto you, or else he will shortly root them out of the earth, & put into the hearts of the powers, to shorten their arms,2 & to rule his elect people with justice & equity, Bear a while think not long, we have a most godly Prince toward, which within a short space, shall comfort us, as concerning our sorrowful trouble and affliction, he shall weed out of his Realm and dominions with the sword of equity, all those blood suckers, that now, as greedy horseleeches do suck the blood of his people, & loving subjects, in the mean season, quiet, and purify your selves, & let every man according to his vocation, labour to live truly in this world, to the maintenance of the common weal. Give no more occasion, for the tender love of god, which so loved us, that he gave his only begotten son for us, give no more occasion I say, by your unquiet behaviour to these worldlings, to blaspheme the gospel & word of god.3 Do ye not both hear and see, that all the insurrections tumults and seditions that have now chanced in our times ⟨image 23⟩are by them ascribed and laid to the word of god (which by some of them is called new learning) & the ministers thereof? Verily it had been better for you, to have been cast with millstones about your neck into the deep of the sea, & there to have been drowned, then by your seditious tumults, to have ministered such an occasion of offence: