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A16065	Of the auctorite of the word of god agaynst the bisshop of london wherein are conteyned certen disputacyons had in the parlament howse betwene the bisshops a bowt the nomber of the sacramen[n]ts and other things, very necessary to be known, made by Alexa[n]der Alane Scot and sent to the duke of Saxon.	Alesius, Alexander, 1500-1565.; Allen, Edmond, 1519?-1559.	1544 (1544)	STC 292; ESTC S108900	30,774	92

whan he gaue the scripture to be writton or els that he could not tell all things or els that he hidde certē things from us of purpose that so he myght damne and destroy us where as he had sayd before euidently that we shuld be iudged at the latter day by the word which he had spoken vnto us But thei be so blynded by the deuel that thei can not perceyue the abhominacion of this blasphemy Now to confirme all godly myndes and to call them back from their dotyng I haue gathered in order certen testimonys which do euidently proue that the wrytton word of god is the fowndacion of our christen fayth and that all the articles of our christen fayth ought to be prouyd by the holy scriptures The first is in the .iiij. of Deuterono●ye shal not adde vnto the worde which I speake vnto yow neyther mynissh from it And who dyd euer expownd this to be vnderstand of the vnwritton word before thes lying false prophetys and antichrystes And if it ought to be vnderstōd of the writton scripture only than do thei playnly agaynst gods word which Imagyne that there shuld be any vnwritton word But I am not ignorant how these mockers are wont to iest or scoff a way and to face owt this place sayng that there is one kynd of adding which minyssheth a nother which altereth a nother which maketh largyer and a nother which fulfilleth thei grant that this sayng refuseth all maner of addings sauyng the last maner wherby the scripture is made more manifest and open But to cōfute this fansy Imaginacyon the manifest scripture is suffycyēt deute the .vj. what I command that shalt thow do only vnto the lord thou shalt neyther adde nor minyssh any thing And in the last chapt of the Apoca. Who so euer addeth any thing vnto this the lord shal sēd hym the plages which be writō in this boke which place all the duns men euen duns him self granteth that it ought to be vnderstond of the whole scripture wherfore it is manifest that those synne against the commandment of god which affirme that there is any word of god vnwriton like as thei do which expownd the scripture after their own fansis or gyue iudgement of the wil of god with owt the manifest word of god For it is a deuillyssh lye to say that the scripture can not be vnderstond with owt mens commētarys or glosys because it is so darke dowtful that it may be applyed to cōfirme all maner of heresys In the .xxviij. of deuter are proffred benedyccyons of all sortys vnto them that kepe those things which are writton in the boke of the lawe And in the .xxxij. chap. of the same boke Moyses doth manifestly say thus Set and fyxe your hartes vpō all the wordes which I testyfye vnto you this day that ye may command your childern to kepe and obserue all things which are writton in the boke of this lawe for thei be not geuen and commanded vnto yow in vayne but that euery one of you should lyue after them Marke here is euerlasting life promysed vnto them which kepe those things that are writton in the scripture And Moyses doth playnly say that this is the fynal and only cause why god wold haue his word to be writton that all men in general and euery one in s●eciall of what order degre or occupacyon so euer he be shuld haue the word of god where by thei might be saued wherupō it foloweth that it is a manifest blasphemy to say that we may be saued or damned by any tradicyōs of man And here thei are conuyct to be starck idyotes which asscrybe this ignorāce neclygence vnto god as though he either could not or els wold not cōmyt all articles necessary vnto our saluacyon to be writton in the holy scripture For thei declare euydently that thei knowe not the final cause why the scripture is geuen vnto us but thei Imagyne god to be lyke some ignorant poete which hath geuen us a patched and an vnperfight worke For god wold that in the scripture his will shuld shyne as it were in a glasse and that the perfight image of hys deyte which paule calleth the prynt and seale of his substance shuld appeare therin Item s. Iohn sayth that this word doth shyne in darknes and that it is the lyght which shineth in mens hartes blynded of the deuyl thorow sinne and that christ doth open vnto us the wil of god thorow his gospel which will no mortal man did euer knowe but so farre as this word which is in the fathers bosom dyd open vnto him Wherfor we may perceyue that it is not only thorow the ignorance of man that the word of god is thus blasphemed but thorow the malyce of the deuyl For the deuel neuer ceaseth to disfigure this word namely the son of god whom he despysed before the world was made and shal fight with him euen with all his pour vntyl the day of iudgement In the .xvij. of deute The king is cōmanded to haue alweys in his handes and in his sight the boke of the lawe and to reade owt of it all the dayes of his life for this purpose that he shuld lerne to feare his lord god And for his study diligēce this promes is made him that he shuld lyue lōg and that his kingdome shuld be geuen to many of his progeny lynage And wold to god all christen kinges and princes wold think surely the reading of the holy bokes of scripture to be a part off their offyce not to reade them in latē which thei vnderstand not but so to reade it as thei may lerne the wil of god how he wil be feared by his word only and not by any popish lawes and mans tradicyons And if thei wold do thus I durst surely warāt them both that thei shuld lyue longer and also that thei shuld haue lesse tumult and sedicyon in their life tyme. For now seing thei play the tyrānes ouer the scripture and ouer the readers of it it is no meruel that god doth ponissh them for their cruelnes and that there be fewe of them but that dye some shameful and cruel death for such is the end of tirannes wont to be Ioachim king of Iuda sawe all his sonnes headed and he him self his eyes before put out was bownd and led presoner in to babylon and it was sayd openly vnto him because thow hast brent the boke of Iheremy there shal be none left of thy sede which shal sit vpon the throne of dauid and thy cark as shal be cast out in to the heate in the day time and in to the frost in the night tyme. Antiochus which cōmanded the holy bokes of scripture to be burnt perisshed miserably in desperacyon and thorow a meruelos falle Both daniel and paul do testifye that he was the figure of the last Antichrist that euer shuld be Wherfor I wil not spend my wordes in

we cal baptyme and the supper of the lord sacramentes of the gospell what we meane therby I knowe right wel that s. Ambrose and other autors calle the wasshīg of the disciples fete and other things sacramētes which I am sure yow your selues wold not suffer to be nombred among the other sacramentes This exhortacyon did the archbisshop make most soberly discretely as he is a man of a singular grauyte with such swetenes that it did my hart good to hear him And bicause I did signifye bi some token of my countnance that this admonicyō of the archbisshop did please delight me excellētly wel the lord cromwel bad me speake what I thought of this disputacyō but he told the bisshops before that I was the kings scolar and therfor he desiered them to be cōtent to heare me indifferently Than I after the rude maner of the scholes rather than after any courtly solemnyte bowing my knee for a token of curtesy and reuerence as It became me with out any preface at all begā to speake after this maner Ryght honorable noble lord and yow most reuerend fathers and prelates of the church although I come vnprepared vnto this disputacyon yet trusting in the ayde of christ which promiseth to geue both mouth and wisdom vnto vs whan we be required of our fayth I wil vtter my sētence and iudgement of this disputacyon And I think that my lord archbisshop hath geuen you a profitable exhortacion that ye shuld first agree of the significacyon of a sacramēt whether ye wil call a sacramēt a ceremony institute of christ in the gospel to signifie a special or a singular vertu of the gospel and of godlines as paul namith remissyon of sinnes to be or whether ye mene that euery ceremony generally which may be a token or a significacyon of an holy thing to be a sacramēt For after this latter significacyon I wil not stike to grant yow that there be .vij. sacramentes and more to If ye wil. But yet Paul semeth to describe a sacrament after the first significacion wheras he sayth that circūcisiō is a token and a seale of the rightwisnes of fayth This diffinycion of one particular sacrament must be vnderstōd to perteine vnto all sacramentes generally for the Iewes had but one sacrament only as all the scholastical writers do grant And he describeth baptyme after the same maner in the .v. to the Ephesians wheras he sayth that Christ doth sanctifye the church that is to say all that be baptised thorow the bath of water in the word of life For here also he addeth the word and promes of god vnto the ceremony and Christ also requireth fayth where as he saith who so euer bileueth and is baptised shal be saued And s. Austen describeth a sacramēt thus The word of god coming vnto the element maketh the sacrament and in a nother place he saith a sacrament is a thing wherin the pour of god vnder the forme of visible thinges doth work secretly saluacyon And the master of the sentences doth describe a sacrament no nother wise A sacramēt saith he is an inuysible grace and hath a visible forme and bi this inuysible grace I meane saith he remissyon of sinnes Finally s. Thomas denieth that any mā hath auctorite to institute a sacrament Now if ye agree vnto this diffinicyon of a sacramēt it is an easy thing to iudge of the nomber of those sacramentes which haue the manifest word of god and be institute bi christ to signifye vnto us the remissyon of our sinnes s. Austen saith that there be but .ij. such sacramentes in the .cxviij. pistle vnto Ianuarius His wordes be these First I wold haue the to vnderstōd the somme and effect of this disputacyō which is this that our lord Iesus Christ as he him self saith in the gospel hath ladē us but with a light and easy yock or burden Wherfore he hath glewed the felowship of his newe peple with sacramentes very fewe in nomber very easy to be kept and very excellent in signifycacyon which be baptyme and the supper of the lord and such other if there be any moo commanded in the holy scripture those except which were burdēs for the seruytute of the peple in the old lawe for the hardnes of their hartes et ce And agayne in the .iij. boke of the lerning of a Christen man he saith the scripture hath taught us but fewe signes as be the sacramēt of baptyme and the solemne celebracyon and rememberance of the body and blode of the lord et ce The bisshop of london could scarsly suffer me to speake thus moch but he brake forth and said thus vnto me where as ye affirme all right and true sacramentes to be institute of Christ or to haue the manifest scripture to proue them or that all sacramentes must haue a significacyō of remissyon of sinnes It is all false Than I answered that I wold proue all that I had sayd to be true not only by the scripture but by the old doctors and by the schole writers also But the bisshop of herforth whom the kings grace fauored highly both for his singular wisdom and lerning which was thā newe comne out of germany where he had bene Imbassytor being moued with the frowardnes of this bisshop of londō sayd vnto me brother Alexander contend not moch with him about the myndes and sayngs of the doctors and schole writers for ye knowe that thei in many places doo differ among them selfes and that thei are contrary to them selues also almost in euery article And there is no hope of any concord to be made if we must leane to their iudgementes in these maters of controuersy and we be commāded by the kings grace to dispute by the holy scripture et c. And he turned him to the bisshops and made a short and pythy oracyon Think ye not sayd he that we can by any sophistical suttiltes steale out of the world agayn the light which euery man doth see Christ hath so lightned the world at this tyme that the light of the gospel hath put to flight all misty darknes and it wil shortly haue the higher hād of all cloudes though we resist in vaine neuer so moch The lay peple do now knowe the holy scripture better than many of us And the germanes haue made the text of the Bible so playne and easy by the hebrewe and the greke tōg that now many things may be better vnderstand without any gloses at all than by all the commentarys of the doctors And more ouer thei haue so openned these controuersys by their writings that womē and childern may wonder at the blindnes falshode that hath bene hetherto Wherfor ye must consider ernestly what ye wil determyne of these controuersys that ye make not your selues to be mocked and laughed to storne of all the world and that ye bring them not to haue this opinion of yow to think euer more here after that ye haue