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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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Do they not also goo about to pluck down all our holy Altars. Who having a christian heart could abide such impiety, & ungodliness? Come on therefore neighbours, better it were for us, to dye a thousand deaths, then to see this blasphemy. Let us fight for the holy church & rites thereof. We may be sure that we shall lightly overcome these rank heretics. And if we chance to have the overthrow our selves (which thing is not likely, sith that we fight in gods quarrel) & dye in the field, who would doubt ⟨image 26⟩but that we shall go straight way up to heaven?1 For Christ (whose blessed body and blood, made by the holy hands of the priest, these false heretics do tread under foot) hath said,2 that whosoever loseth his life, for his sake and the church, shall find it again in the resurrection of the dead. With such mists and jugglings of words, these clean fingered gē tlemen, do utterly subvert the minds of the simple and ignorant people, which else, if they had true pastors, and good ministers,3 would with all meekness and due obedience, receive the heavenly doctrine, ministered so fatherly unto them, by the King, and his honourable counsel. They would not mutter, nor open their lips against the kings most godly proceedings, butte would gladly with the other subjects of this realm, embrace the wholesome doctrine of their salvation, and acknowledge that they have been hitherto led in error and blindness,4 by these false Antichrists and Pseudoprophetes, whom they now accept and embrace, as gods. Too be short, these two sorts of men, I mean the Libertines and papists ⟨image 26⟩are they, that do prick the people forwards (which else of themselves, are ready enough to such things, and especially now,5 that they are so on every side, pilled and polled) too tumults and insurrections, too the utter confusion of them selves, and undoing of this honourable country, and Realm.