B11843:139
The tragedies of tyrants Exercised upon the church of God, from the birth of…The tragedies of tyrantes Exercised vpon the church of God, from the birth of…
The tragedies of tyrants Exercised upon the church of God, from the birth of Christ unto this present year. 1572. Containing the causes of them, and the just vengeance of God upon the authors. Also some notable comforts and exhortations to patience. Written by Henry Bullinger, and now Englished.The tragedies of tyrantes Exercised vpon the church of God, from the birth of Christ vnto this present yeere. 1572. Containing the causes of them, and the iust vengeance of God vpon the authours. Also some notable comfortes and exhortations to pacience. Written by Henrie Bullinger, and now Englished.
London: printed by William How for Abraham Veale, 1575
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He despiseth the Evangelical and apostolical1 doctrine, as he doth also our holly assembles and congregations, commanding all that believe in him to be circumcised after the Jewish manner, nothing regarding our Baptism: he raveth and raileth at the sacrament ⟨p. 75⟩of the body and blood of Christ, and all the form and order of the Lords supper which was instituted and appointed by Christ: he contemneth all christian usages, and hath instituted peculiar congregations, temples, rights, and ceremonies: he commandeth the sixth day of the week, which we call Friday, to be2 kept holiday: he appointed fasting days & purging with water: he commanded them to pray five times in a day: he forbid3 to pray unto saints & creatures, but unto God only, which is trueth in deed: but he teacheth to pray unto others beside Christ. Such prayers are not acceptable unto God, because they are not made through Christ, through whom we pray unto God our father in heaven,4 whereat he mocketh. But S. John saith: Who so hath not the Sun, hath 5not the Father: He altogether profaneth holly matrimony: for unto men he giveth licence to marry as many wives as they list, and that which is injurious and dishonest, to forsake them with out cause at their pleasure, and discretion. He forbiddeth them after the Jewish ⟨image 58⟩manner to eat swines flesh, he debarreth them also from wine, howbeit the richer sort have devised certain costly kinds of drinks, whereby they become no less drunk then with wine. And this is the doctrine of the devil, whereof Paul entreateth in the first of Timothy, the. 4. chapter. And whatsoever I have said of the Mahometan faith: the same are all to be understood of the Turkish religion or superstition, which at this day is usual among the Turks. And as for these things, I have reported them very briefly, that those that know not the Turkish religion: may have a brief extract, not of the whole religion: but of the chiefest points, and opinions thereof.