A97377:8
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
¶ To the right worshipful Sir John Gates, Knight, John Veron wisheth peace, grace, & health, both of soul and body, with increase of divine knowledge and understanding, from god the father, through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
¶ To ye right worshipfull Syr Ihon Gates, Knight, Ihon Veron wissheth peace, grace, & health, both of soule and body, with increase of diuine knowledge and vnderstandynge, from god the father, throughe oure Lorde and Sauyour Iesus Christe.
Calling to remembrance right worshipful Sir, the great inconveniences & harms, that lately did chance to this most illustre & flourishing Realm by the disobedient rebellion, of certain ungodly and wicked persons, which casting god and his word behind their backs, did seek nought else, but an utter confusion of all things: I can not but lament and mourn, that yet so great blindness & ignorance doth,1 for lack of true preachers and ministers of God's word (without the which being purely & sincerely preached, no true obedience, nor duty can be learned, whatsoever the enemies of the truth do babel and prate) reign among the commons and inhabitants of this country, that they being wrapped in all kinds of error, do not ⟨image 15⟩know, nor yet understand, that to rise for any manner of cause, against the Magistrates,2 rulers & high powers, is most damnable too their souls, most perilous to their natural country, and to their bodies (for whose sake, they, like brute beasts, stir up all this hurly burly) most hurtful and dangerous. Which three things, I will here prove by the word of god, and examples of the scriptures, putting before their eyen, how sore god doth abhor and detest all rebellious insurrections and tumults: to the intent, that they being taught and instructed out of God's word, way leave of and cease from their rash and ungodly enterprises.3