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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15877	The rekenynge and declaracion of the fayth and belefe of huldrike zwyngly byshoppe of ziiryk the chefe town of Heluitia, sent to Charles .v. that nowe is Emproure of Rome: holdynge a parlement or counsayll at Ausbrough with the chefe lordes and lerned men of Germanye, the yere of our Lorde M.D.xxx. in the moneth of July.; Ad Carolum Romanorum imperatorem Germaniae comitia Augustae celebrantem, fidei Huldrychi Zuinglij ratio. English	Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484-1531.; Joye, George, d. 1553.; Holy Roman Empire. Reichstag (1530 : Augsburg, Germany)	1548 (1548)	STC 26139; ESTC S105862	32,224	70

¶ The rekenynge and declaracion of the fayth and belefe of Huldrike zwyngly byshoppe of ziiryk the chefe town of Heluetia sent to Charles .v. that nowe is Emproure of Rome Holdynge a parlement or Counsayll at Ausbrough with the chefe Lordes and lerned men of Germanye The yere of our Lorde M.D.xxx In the moneth of Iuly ¶ Come ye to me all that labour and are laden and I shall refreshe you Mathe. xi ¶ The veryte wyll haue the victory Presse ye it downe neuer so strongly ¶ Translated and Imprynted at ziiryk in Marche Anno Do. M.D.XLVIII ¶ The Preface of the translatour vnto the reader WHen I had chaūced vpon this Rekening of the fayth of this so excelently lerned godly flok feder euē the good heerdman that set his lyfe for his shepe and had seen it not yet vnto this daye to be confuted nor dampned of any christen l●rned man but as it was then openly exhybited vnto the Emprours Maieste and to his noble lerned counsell so stondeth it styll yet vntowched with any iuste contradiccion of holye scriptures I coulde not but thynke this his fayth to be christen catholyk word thy for the glory of god profyt of his churche to be translated into many tongues that many mought read it with frute Vvherfore s●th●● England as they say be many hyghly lerned Byshopes and lawers in the speculatiue but fewe in pract●k diuinite sharpe in naturall but dull in spiritual iugement me thoughte it conuenient the boke to be translated into theyr mother tongue that yet at the least the lerned in christ myght iuge therof and saye theyr myndes And for because therbe many laye men of better iugement knowlege then the speculatyue priestes and prelats for all theyr latine and greke to therfore here haste thou it Oh laye reader whiche only knowest but the Englisshe tongue that euē thy selfe myghtest also with thy Englysshe Byble frelye trye and iuge it as the apostle byddeth the proue all thynges holde y t at good is And Ihon̄ bydddeth the proue the spirit● whether they be of god But se ●hat the scriptures be euer thy towche stone and as Ag●sten teacheth fayth and loue to trye all mēnes wrytinges And beware thou beeste none of th●m vnto whom a● is sayde Psalm lxxii● all thynges stynke but onlye those which theyr selues thorowe malyce and arrogancie speake or wryte yea and that so prow●lye Many there are also amonge this saye sorte whiche be yet w●ake ignorant and in doubte what they shall beleue in y e more doubte for that they heare suche deuers●●e of preching one agaynst another such cōtr●●iccion amōge them that shuld be lerned wise They se also daylye newe articles of theyr fayth made of newe bysshops in theyr newe bokes of newe institucions they se them confyrmed with non autorite of the olde fayth olde Scriptures but violētly thrust in with autorite of newe actes swerde as thoughe hitherto the church of england had from the begynnynge erred in the fayth destituted so longe and many yeres these newe articles latelyer founde fayth whiche new inconstancye and inconstant nouite nowe makynge to morowe marryng this yere enactyng the next vnactynge this daye to be kept worke daye the next yere the same to be kept holy and ydle and such lyke of rokes hares pertriche The symple people I say s●yng this incōstācy no merueyle though they can not tell whom nor what they maye beleue Not longe a go it was heresye and treason to the scriptures to be had in Englysshe and nowe god be thanked the hole Byble is prynted oft turned redde of many lay men yea that with priuilege And yet they which made the testamēt in Englysshe once treason heresy and for hauyng and readyng it they brent and prysoned many a godly innocent soule nowe alowynge the ●ame with penne hande and mouth for godly and profytable to christes Churche neuer vnto this day haue they founde the tyme to repent them opēly of theyr open abhomynable blody murther nor yet in open pulpettes to recante theyr owne false doctryn open iniqu●te But the Lorde ●e to it be theyr iudge requiring this tyranny at theyr hādes Amen To stablishe therfore good christen reader thy faith and to setle it in peace all wauerīg set a ꝑte thou haste here the rekeninge of this godly lerned Byshopes fayth confermed with the moste meghtye olde and ferme testimonies not of mennes actes and counsels but of the euerlastyng holy scriptures that where as hitherto for the diuersite of mennes opinions and sondry prechyng and teching without gods worde many haue ben in doubte and ygnoraūce now yf thou diligently readest this lytle boke thou shalte be certifyed and taughte playnly and truly the fayth in one God and iii. persons in trinite And howe the seconde person consisteth of god and man Thou shalt se his godly and infallible prouidence the fall and restoryng of man in which the mercy and iustice of god is declared Thou shalt clerely vnderstande the incarnacion of Christ the sone of god theffect and frut therof vnto thyne vnspekeable conforte the iustificacion onely by fayth into christ goddes eleccion orygynall synne what it is how by christ onely it is done away Vvhat is to be thought of infantes dying before they be baptized Here thou hast it clerly what is the church how many sacraments there be with theffect and ryght vse of them of the supper of the Lorde what Ceremonies may stonde and whiche ought to be abolyshed Of Images of the offyce of preachynge mynisters of the worde of the offyces of Kynges and rulers of purgatory of the frutes of the gospell preached of the frute of mānes doctrine The good pastours excuse his desyre godlye exortacion to the Emprour to all princes which god engraue into theyr hartes Amen But when the Pope had seen this godly Bisshoppes fayth religion so to prospere and preuaile and his euangelyke doctrine so wyde to spreade that neither his furious drōken champion Eccius nor yet his fleckisshe slowe beaste Cocleus durste not once more penne agaynst the maiestie of zwynglie his moste eloquent Heroicall style rare erudiciō and moste excellent diuyn● lernyng then he hyered certayne Lantsknyghtes to kyll hym which smyten thorow with a morispyke said My bodye haue ye slayne but my soule sley ye can not Then his body quartered brent on the morowe his harte was founde vnperisshed in the asshes of the whiche many a learned man is rysen in whose bokes sermones and sessons zwyngly yet lyueth here in a blessed memoriall and his soule lyueth in heauē in the glorious fruicion of the blessed Trinite to whō be honour praise for euer Amen ¶ The Preface of the Bysshop to the Emperour WE whiche preache the Gospel in the Cyties townes villages of the christen congregacions desyrously loked wayted euery howre most noble Charles sacred Ceaser vnto