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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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Suffer no longer, the loving subjects of this most victorious country, which by our most sovereign Lord the king, are committed ⟨image 27⟩unto your charge, custody and protection (Verily it is you which be hear in the earth lieutenants and vicars of god,1 that should revenge the wrongs and injuries of the people) too be eaten and swallowed up, by these greedy Cormorants, which never being content till they have the devil brought to them in a sack, join house, to house, land to land (but woo be to them, saith the prophet) although they should dwell alone upon the earth,2 One of them hath a thousand mens livings in his hands and yet can he scantly suffer his poor neighbour to dwell in a poor cottage besides him. All that he hath is to little as long as he seeth any poor man, to have any thing by him. What should I say A whole shire is not enough to satisfy his covetous and unsatiable mind. And why, I pray, is all this? forsooth that he his wife, and his children, may go gay and fare daintily. If he can have that, it maketh no matter, how many thousand do go a begging or starve for hunger by him. Ah worldlings, worldlings, the hand of god is stretched forth to plague Have ye forgotten what the holy prophet ⟨image 28⟩saith?3 Because ye are from the lowest unto the hiest, given to covetousness and filthy lucre: I will give your wives, unto other, and your fields unto strangers, to possess. Hath the lord god given you riches, to confound the poor therewith, to oppress them, and to tread them under feet, and not rather to help and succour them? Ye are not the lords but the stewards and dispensators of riches. See them that ye be faithful in your stewardship, or else your stewardship shall be taken from you, and given unto an other. The Lord god hath given you, and doth daily give you warnings enow, but ye are so blinded with worldly covetousness and prosperity that ye will not see,4 ye are so puffed up with pride and haughtiness of mind, that ye think that no manner of thing in this world, can, or is able to bring you down Mark and note therefore, what the scripture of God, doth say: Their riches shall profit them nothing in the day of wrath, and he that trusteth in his worldly substance, shall have a fall. Neither their gold nor silver shall, be able too deliver them, in the day of the wrath of