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Our sauiour Iesus Christ hath not ouercharged his chirche with many ceremonies
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Joye, George, d. 1553, attributed name. aut
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Our sauiour Iesus Christ hath not ouercharged his chirche with many ceremonies The Lorde shall knit vp his mynde in fewe wordes for our rightwise making eueÌ„ by faith onely to be iustified Esaye x. M.D.XLIII in Febru IT behoueth and it is necessary also That euerye Christen maÌ„ know beleue owr lord Iesus Christe not to haue ouercharged his chirche with ouer many ceremonies rites lawes and preceptes And also to knowe which be the principall lessons doctrines and preceptes all redy in nowmbre concerning the verye trwe worship of god and owr christen religion whereby the coÌ„gregacioÌ„ of christe is so perfytely and sufficieÌ„tly enstruct that we can ne oughte not to seke for or desyer anye more PAul the chosen vessel of God writing vnto his disciple Timothe prophesied that in the later dayes there shulde be men all for them selues the louers of them selues and of no man els couetuouse stoute stobborne and prowd which wil be sene to haue a glittering shewe of godlines ij Timothe .iij. but they will renownce the pithey power effecte thereof And the thing it self they vtterly denie and reiecte And therfore be they euer lerning and neuer comen to the knowlege of the trowthe And euen this same prophecie many of vs reade it but all we vnder staÌ„de it not as trwely in these owr dayes as in tyme paste to be fulfylled For the lawes concerning the welthe gouernance good order of the chirche they are nowe fermely decreed set faste and to morowe vnmade and marred agene they ar treated refracted acted vnacted then thei reason for the reformacion of the chirche and of the maner of the reformacion therof whether this maner or waye ought to be directely or vndirectely tolerable iuste or absolutely aperte playne or by colowr couertly brought to passe And it is so subtyly disputed so craftely haÌ„dled that there is no maner nor mesure non ende nor no certaynte forme nor fasshioÌ„ of their wauering lawes incoÌ„stante actes crafty counsels forewritinges afterwritinges opinions doctrines sentences myndes There were once wryteÌ„ grete and many brode bokes of their decrees decretalles Clementines addicions extrauagaÌ„tes wandering far beyend oute of the trwthe Who is able to nowmbre and recyte the bokes lawes senteÌ„ces of all them that wrote for popes and papistes pleasurs Who caÌ„ tel vs all the actes of parlementes ordinances and institucions of counsells and bisshops in their owen diocesses By the which all the people of God hath beÌ„ so combred snarled tyed and perplexed that thei strongly stoutely did lerne yea and that alweys at all tymes and yet coude they neuer come vnto the iuste knowlege of the trwthe Yea thou shalt fynde euen emoÌ„g the peple many that abhorre and deteft these sayd holy popes decrees lawes cÌ„ as roten stinking running sores And as touching the doctryne of the gospel whiles theis lawers scolemen studye these decrees and scole mater thei finde nothing in it ferme nor certayne their iugemeÌ„t is so corrupt nor obteyne thei any godly frute for their saluacion but poyson corrupcion of their owen soules of their iudgemeÌ„t But yet thei lerne stoutely theise deuillisshe antichristen decrees and lawes cÌ„ and neuer come thei vnto any good and perfit ende of any good learning so that their myndes maye be satisfied and at reste in guyette their selues neuer hauinge in any iuste nowmbre the cheife articles and principall poyntes of the trwe religioÌ„ Wherefore that it might apere eueÌ„ but to mene lerned simple wittes owr lord Iesus not to haue onered burdened and charged his chirche with any constitucions and rytes ether heuye or many or obscure derke or harde or vnable to be expressed but that tharticles of owre faythe whereby the faythefull ar made perfet be sewe sone tolde we shal laye forthe theise thinges which the lorde hathe deliuered to vs which be ower articles in brief summe where with his chirche is content fynissed But let no man thinke this mater to be longer in telling then that it maye be but in fewe wordes fynished For the treatese of the trwthe and religioÌ„ is conteÌ„t with very fewe wordes nothing regarding nor requiring any curiouse laborouse loquacite or longe babling I therfore shall endeuour my selfe syncerely so to treate this mater so profitable and necessary that not with oute great frute this wolde be read and herde That our Lorde Iesus hath not onered his chirche but subdewed it vnto a pleasaunt yoke of a swete seruitute him selfe witnesseth in Math. xi sayiÌ„g The lorde hathe not ouercharged his chirche All thingis ar delyuerd to me of my father noman knoweth the sone but the father nether any man knoweth the father but the sone and vnto whom soeuer the sone will reuele him Come ye all vnto me that labour and ar burdened and I shall ease and refresshe you Take my yoke vpon you lerne of me which am mylde meek humble hearted and ye shall fynde ease and quyetnes in your soules For my yoke is pleasaunt my burdeÌ„ light Iere. ij Firste of all he saithe himself to be the fontaine of all goodnes and euen that liuely plentuouse spring neuer to be drye drawne which will satisfie his childerne moste plentuouslye Then he addeth himselfe to be that heuenly and faithfull teacher which one onely maye trwly delyuer geue forthe the celestiall wysedom perfit doctrine Hereof he exhorteth all men to come to him how many so euer ar perplexed and intricated wyth any dowte of the trwth be afflâ—â—ted greued troubled pressed downe with to heuye burdeÌ„s For vnto all meÌ„ he promiseth counforte and quietnes present helpe remedye and saciete that is to satisfye their desier with all goodnes and to be brief euen the trewe institucion and enstruccioÌ„ in all trwthe and a iuste tranquilyte of myndes Psalm c.ij. He exhorteth also that the yoke of the world caste of meÌ„ submitte and put their neckes vnder goddes holye swete yoke For this yoke he pronownceth it to be pleasaunt light Not onely be cause ther is nothing harde to a louing willing maÌ„ but also for that this doctrine is the moste playne and simple And eueÌ„ the worde as saith the prophete which is abreuiated made shorte Where of the same prophete also prophecying of the kingdoÌ„ of Christ which is his doctrine cryeth in the persone of God sayinge Herken you that be thirsty Esay x. Esa. lv Come ye all vnto the waters euen he that hath no money Come bye and eate Come I saye bie with out money wyne and mylke yea and with oute any price Wherfore laye ye forth your money for that at fedeth not and spende ye your labour about that at fedeth not Heare heare I tell you me and eate that at good is let your soule not delight in fatnesse Bowe downe your eares and come to me Heare me I saye and your