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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12249	The defence of a certayne poore Christen man who els shuldhaue [sic] bene condemned by the Popes lawe. Written in the hye Allmaynes tonge by a right excellent and noble prynce, and tra[n]slated into Englishe by Myles Couerdale.	Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568.	1545 (1545)	STC 5889; ESTC S114534	31,890	79

/ seynge they them selues afterward kepte it not Neuertheles they hauynge respecte vnto the tyme / thought to avoyde the offendyng of the weake But whan the gospel was more clearlye come to light / they ceassed frō such commaundmentes as thinges not necessary the verite beyng knowne Euē out of this occasion dyd Paul circumcyse Timothy / wher as neuertheles afterward whan the Iewes wolde nedes haue had him to circumcyse Titus also / he wold not geue place vnto them one houre Euen so me thenketh shulde it he now likewise For though the cuppe of the lorde be witholden from the laye people for certeyne causes which be but trifles / yet now for asmuch as it is euydent to all such as will know it that the memoriall of Christes holy supper was institute by himselfe vnder both the fourmes of bred and wyne / let vs forsake oure owne foolishe intentes / and turne agayne to the infallyble ordynaunce of Christ yea let vs aknowlege / that Christ / who is wyser then all angels or men / dyd not fornaught or without cause ordeyne this remēbraunce vnder both fourmes of bred and wyne and that yf ther were anye daunger for the laye people to haue the vse of the chalyce as our aduersaries make a bablyng ther of he coulde haue knowne it afore well ynough howbeit in the outward vse of the sacrament without faith / consisteth but small saluaciō / as it well hath apeared in the traytour Iudas For as soone as he had receaued this sacramēt with the other disciples at the hande of Christ immediatly went he forth / xecuted his treasō / dispayred / hanged him selfe For yf the outward vse of the bred and wyne were necessary to saluacion / it shuld not go well with thē that maye not awaye with wyne Therfore the right and wholsome remembraunce of the supper of the lorde / is it that is done in faith namely / whā we beleue that the body of Christ was geuen for vs and that his bloude was shed for vs But for asmuch as Christ wolde haue the same remembraunce kepte with outward vsyng of bred an wyne / therefore must so greate a sacrament in nowise belest vnmynistred / but still obserued / acording as Christ himselfe hath ordyned it / wothout all mens inuencions But now will we speake of Purgatory The opynion of Purgatory / I suppose / is taken out of the bokes wrytinges of the Heythen / for asmuch as in the holy scripture of the olde new Testament we haue no maner of recorde for the confirmacion of anye such thing Christ and his Apostles haue taught much and euidently of the eternall saluacion of the faithfull / and damnacion of the vnfaithfull but nothing of purgatory Wherfore I thinke it not nedefull to invoke sore agaynst it / considerynge it is a thing that hath no ground / and must nedes fayl of it selfe Oure aduersary neuertheles had certeyne argumentes / but so feble / and so wyde from the purpose / that I am allmoss ashamed to repete them We rerde in the boke of the Machabeus sent to Ierusalem twelue thousande peces of syluer / to offre for the synnes of the deed / because he had a good and deuoute mynde concernyng the resurrection Now I praye the what doth that to purgatory Who saieth / that it is not a good and deuoute thing to remembre the resurrection And wher as the Authour of the boke addeth these wordes therfore is it an holy and wholso-some cogitacion to praye for the deed / that they might be delyuered from synnes the same wordes do not I so esteme / that they ought to be taken for a certeyne / for asmuch as the authour of the same boke is vnknowne / and the boke it selfe not approuide with any testimony of holy scripture Furthermore / in the gospell / where as Christ counseyleth vs to agree with oure aduersary whyle we are in the waye with him / afore we come to the iudge / left the iudge delyuer us to the officer / and the officer cast vs in presō / whēce thou shalt not come forth saieth Christ till thou hast prayed the vttemost farthing With these wordes will Christ declare / that a gentle agrement is profitable / though it be done with some losse For yf we will not agree with our aduersary by the waye / but feare a litle losse / it is to be feared / that the iudge will cast vs in person / and put vs to sharper payment yea and more intollerable / then perauenture the other was / wherwith oure aduersary wolde haue bene satisfied But the person doth oure aduersary call here purgatory / and that which is spoken cōcernyng the busynesses of this world doth he take vpon him to wrest vnto the world to come / as though a man might feyne out of the wordes of Christ what he list In like mane ralledgeth he the testimonye of S. Paul i. Corintr iij. Wher he saieth / that the fyre shal proue euery mans worke what it is And yf anye mans worke burne / he shall suffre losse but he himselfe shal be saued / neuertheles as thorow the fyre Here expoundeth he fyre to be purgatory / where as S. Paul by a symilitude doth saie / that our workes shal be tried like as gold / syluer / and other metall is tried in the fyre But who can suffre such iuglyng Let him shew vs the leest lettre in the scripture / that playnlie proueth purgatory Yf we must pourge our synnes thorow purgatory / I praye the then for what intēt dyed Christ Wherfore shed he is bloud Yf god be with vs / who will be agaynst vs Who spared not his owne onely sōne / but gaue him for vs all / how shulde he not geue vs all thinges with him Who will accuse the electe of god It is god that maketh them righteous / who will condemne them Now sewe that the faithfull are made aighteous / and shal not be condemned And who is so vngodly as to thinke / that the righteous god doth after this world punishe one vncondemned Let this litle / but trew / be sufficent / to ouerthrow the vayne inuencion of purgatory And what nede was it / with this weake feare of payne / to witdrawe symple people from the holloue of Christ / who neuertheles in this world hath promised trouble euen vnto his faithfull / to make them fele som what of the punishment of mouch synne but after death an whole / frey parfite ioye and saluacion / which we vndowtedly loke for in the blessed hope haue thrust vs downe / and therfore feyned they this horrible bogg of purgatory to the intent that we dispayring in the assured and infinite mercie of god which cometh thorow Iesus Christe / mighte renne to their churches yea to their chistes to be fre from our synnes with vnreasonable money / whose iudginent tarieth not behinde Let noman therfore be moued by those disceatfull