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A68860	A worke entytled of ye olde god [and] the newe of the olde faythe [and] the newe, of the olde doctryne and ye newe, or orygynall begynnynge of idolatrye. Reade most gentel reader, for many [and] diuers causes this moost goodly boke ...; Vom alten und neuen Gott, Glauben und Lere. English	Vadianus, Joachim, 1484-1551.; Turner, William, d. 1568.	1534 (1534)	STC 25127; ESTC S119507	75,361	274

which are those naturall masters which haue taught so greate wysedomes Arystotle is chefe and hed of al / then plato / Auerrois / Pythagoras / Ah soo then I do here that Arystotle / Auerrois / and Plato are censors Iudges / which may giue sentēce Iudgment of the holy scripture thou answerest these men do vse theym in theyr bokes thrughout the hole workes Tell me further then / these naturall masters and wyse men were they cristen men or were they panyms gētyles gentyles / graecians / arabyans Expoūde declare to me / whom doest thou call gentyles these which do not beleue in god / so as we do now beleue and as the Iewes did vnder the law of Moyses O good syr how coulde then the gentyles iudge vpon the wordes of god yf they neuer hadde knowlege of god who was theyr god The Sonne / the Mone / Iuppyter / Mars the other rable of ydolles Ah a goodly thynge in dede / and what were suche maner ydolles The famyly and householde of Sathā The cōclusion of this worke Now wil we syt downe together and seke bakwardes the olde god the olde faith doctrine ▪ what thynkest thou yf thy sathā sholde at the last be made thyn olde god Arystotle the murtherer / Auerrois / the sodomyter / Plato the traytour thyn olde faythe thyn olde doctryn wherfore this sayeng of thyn is nought / all my lyfe tyme I haue herd it thꝰ said therfore I wyll not chaūge my mynde and opynyon There is a comen prouerbe whiche goeth aboute / and it is full true Not all that glytterethe is golde what comparisō is there betwen chaffe and pure fyne whete As who shold say none at al. Herken this sentence O thou olde foole how the lord god speaketh as touchyng to this article by his ꝓphet Hieremie in the .xiij. chapitre Yf a man of Iude can chaunge his skynne or a lybarde his chaūgeable spottes as who shold say that may in no wyse be then can you also doo well when you haue learned wyckednes and syn̄e O wo wo how sore a sayeng is this Thou foole reade Hieremie thrughout and he shall shewe vnto the thy folysshenes / that he was onelye sent forth of god for cause of this artycle beynge so roially prepaired in his mothers wombe / and that it was longe before shewed to him how many old obstinate malycyous fooles sholde resyst hym with theyr olde god theyr olde fayth theyr olde doctryne / which shold pursue hym despyse hym / at the last slee hym yet sholde they not for all that ouercom hym / wold god folyshe wise men wolde dilygently reade this prophet thorough / yf there dyd remayne ony sparkle of the feare of god in theym no doubte of it they sholde tourne theym selues / acknowlege theyr errour But what shall I say the voice crye of theim is the lambe / the lambe as the wolfe did continually crye whan he was turmented vexed with hunger But I do not meruayle therat ony thyng at all / for thexperyence of all tymes doeth wytnesse that the lorde god hath ben of no man more hadde in contempte more ꝑsecuted Of men of holy ordre god is most despysed and more despytuously entreated / then of theym which haue syngular and specyall commyssion of him that they sholde shewe forth the laude and glorye of god to all men / for that hoore cladde in purple / and garnyshed with golde and precious stones / euen vntyll this day holdeth in her handes a golden cuppe / full of the blasphemyes of god / offerynge and reachynge it forthe to all her wowers and lovers / with whiche cuppe she doeth make dronken all the prynces of the earth / as she her selfe is dronken of the bloude of the saintes martyres of Iesu Chryst This harlotte shall exercyse her owne lustes and pleasures / with this potion / euen vntyll the worldes ende that she may be cast downe hedlong and slayne onely of our lorde Iesu Chryste for to hym this vyctory is reserued wherfore lette no man be offended or meruaile why they are in so high estate and prosperyte / and why all thīges do go so luckely forthwarde with theym all theyr enemies being suppressed vndone / and sometyme slayne also For so it must nedes be accordyng to the ꝓphecy of Danyell in the .viij. chapytre who so hath eares let hym heare And take you these thynges in good worthe and to the beste Yf I haue bene in ony thynge to bolde what so euer I haue done verely I haue done it for your proffet / to th ende that no man sholde come in to errour / and so by the reason therof be dāpned ꝑpetualy / where from god p̄serue vs by his high grace Amen Here endeth the boke of the olde god the newe of the olde fayth and the newe of the olde doctryne and the new or the orygynal begynnynge of Idolatrye VIVE LE ROI Imprynted at London in Fletesrete by me Iohan Byddell / dwelling at the sygne of our Lady of pite next to Flete brydge M.v. C.xxxiiij the xv day of Iune Cum priuilegio Regali Fyrste reade / and then Iudge

all thȳges by a very godly ordre of hystoryes so freely wysely so plainly that the Author him selfe of this worke who euer he be may be accompted taken as another Brute which did reskue delyuer the chrystyan lybertye beynge beseged roūde aboute by tyrannous lawes brought out of the ryght shape in to a certayn Iudaycal suꝑsticion bondage In the secōde parte of this boke for all the afore rehersed thynges are in the fyrste parte the Author dothe shewe what god is his worde that men myght come to the knowlege of thē bothe what faythe is what hope charyte are whense we sholde seche desyre our helth saluacion and in the mean season he putteth forth and sheweth merueilous goodly coūsayles by whiche the chrystē relygeon maye be suckered and holpen whiche is sore sycke and accombred with superstycyons He vttreth setteth forth before vs the trouth as it is most sȳple playne / and therfore I thought it best to vse in this my translacyon semblable maner of oration and speche not ony such which sholde set forth it selfe gayly to the sale with craft colours depely sought I haue translated it wel nere worde for worde / to th entēt that the oration sholde kepe it selfe within the dāmes of his orygynal ronnyge nothynge at all out of the bankes that I wolde neyther adde neyther put to ony peece of myne owen clothe to the naked truth / nor yet deminyshe breke away ony peece of the same Thou hast no cause therfore / reader / to be offended / thoughe some thynges here do not ryghtly fall in to theyr owne mete clauses and sentences / or though some thynges do gape wyde / and do not ioyne very closely togyder seynge that I dydde not regarde nor had respecte / how eloquently I coulde trāslate this boke but how faith fully truely I coulde do it for as moch as it is a worke so excellētly vertuous godly / and also erudyte and clerkely that neuer a one of the pyllers of the chyrche as they call them who euer he be / nede to be a shamed of it / the cōtentes wherof wolde to god that the hole worlde not onely wolde rede but also wold ī theyr myndes emprynte / and that they accordynge to the councelles of it / wolde ordre the publyk state / so that there were nothing wherof we myght repente vs gretely of this our tyme / both lerned men / yea also vnlerned persones do euery where make workes being moeued with sondry affections / but to speke of a worke / whiche dyd so wysely / so playnly and boldely / saye the trouth at large / that euen the very aduersaries are constreyned compelled to confesse graunte all thynges to be very so / and none otherwyse / I neuer sawe ony as yet hytherto The worlde is all oute of quyet / and sore brosed troubled with greate dissencyons and stryues / that a man in a manner / can not knowe / whether he maye torne hymselfe / by the reason hereof that in the steede of Idolles Christe hym selfe is restored agayn vnto vs / and in the stede of the lawe is restored grace / for the flesshe is restored the spyryte / in stede of ceremonies the true honour and worshyppynge of god / in stede of grosse carnall workes / are restored the very workes of god whiche are to beleue in hī whom the father hath sent / as it is wryten in the sixte chapitre of Iohn All which thynges we are nota / of vs able to take and perceyue ▪ and hereof are rysen so greate discordes and debates But by that tyme that thou haste ones redde this boke / thou shalte withoute doubte vnderstonde perceyue / what thou oughtest to regarde / what to beleue / whervnto to leue and truste so that it maye be plainly vtterly to the in that stede of a certayn squyre or rule / accordynge to whiche thou mayst directe thy mynde in these so grete troubles and vnquietnesse For it sheweth vnto the / christ his worde vnto the glorye and vyctorye of whome I pray god it maie turne what soo euer is wryten for all other workes / what thynge els are they but folishe vanitees and very tryfles be they neuer so eloquently and connyngely made The studie of many men whiche do wryte make workes now a dayes I do commende alowe / but the ambycyon of theym and theyr gredy desyre of glorye and prayse I do hate abhorre namely of them which do so directly fyghte agaynste the gospell / which vndoubtedli haue thrugh the grace fauour of god very valyaunte stoute capteynes as it were certayne Annyballes / wherupō the side parte of the pope fo Rome / there are many such as were in olde tyme / Sēproniꝰ Flamyniꝰ varro yea farre excedynge passynge all these sayd ꝑsones in temeryte ignoraūce / let Chryste be Iudge Fare well good reader loke wel vpō this worke for to thy profyte and behofe it is made / the .xxiiij. daye of Februarye in the yere of our lorde god A thousande fiue C. twenty and thre The preface in to the worke entytled of the olde god the new god / of the olde faythe doctryne and of the new faith doctryne The grace and fortytude or strengthe of the lorde be vnto all Chrysten men in Chryste and vnto those that are seduced adn doo erre a retourne agayne in to the right waye and vnto the blynde obstynate and harde herted pharyseys a fore-warnyng of the terryble dredful iudgement and knowlege of the vnmesurable infinyte goodnes of god in Christ Iesu Amē FOr as moche as the swerd sente downe frome heuen whereof our lorde dothe speke in the .x. chapytre of math hathe in this our tyme renewed it selfe and is nowe come forthe fre naked from the couert of the close scabert / wherin it hath ben longe hyd that is to wite from worldely wysedome / from tradicions of men / from ceremonyes / frome counterfet and dysguysed holynes but yet beynge through dust longe beynge vnoccupied / vnbright and defiled with ruste Our lorde Iesus christe pytieng this condycyon and state of that swerde whiche he had many yeres agone deliuered and betaken to Paule and to the apostles to ouercome and subdue the myghty scepters of kynges and prynces the Empyers of darkenes hathe nowe agayne cōmended and betaken the same swerde vnto his wrytē electe Captaȳes mynesters which being drawen forth and rydde oute of the seabarde forthwith at the begynnynge of the furbyshynge and scourynge out of the rustye spottes afore gathered sodeynly do breake forth and spreade theym selues abrode mystes of all maner kyndes and sortes that is to wyte of the worldly wyse men / of proude ryche men / and men of power / of couetous men / of the seruaūtes / of