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A04703	The vnitie and scisme of the olde chirche; Unitie and scisme of the olde chirche.	Joye, George, d. 1553.	1543 (1543)	STC 14830; ESTC S104748	16,602	40

then at laste begane the trwe religion to be shaken in sondrye and scatred and euil men were sprongen vp which yet for their shyning hipocrysye semed somwhat pope holy whiche openly stered vp heresyes that is to saye sectes and diuisions from the holy tradicion of the lawe and in conclusion brought the people into varye and diuerse contrarye faccions scismes Omnia enim plena fiunt impij 〈◊〉 vanitas exaltatur inter filios hominū And so by their own tradicions and institucions thei derkened and oppressed the holy sacred religion of god yea by their hipocrysy and supersticion thei vtterly so deformed it that thei made it abhominable heresye as thei haue now done and new lerning to be lothed detested of all men In somiche that Iohn Bapt. and Christe himself now comen the trwe religion pure gospell and the playne doctrine of the trwthe were skant knowne for that thei were so vtterly deformed corrupted as thei be now I saye with mennis vayn tradicions This corrupte deformite and abhominable corrupcion began aboute the tyme of the Machabeis and so forth encreased the yeres folowinge For Iosephus verely writing of the Iestes of Ionathas in the .xiij. boke of his Antiquites the .viij. chap. saith that in the same tyme there were iij. sectes or heresies emōge the Iewis whiche sectary or hereticall men beleued contrary and ●●●ersly of owr iustificacion of mās state and condicion of whiche one was the Pharisaikal secte the tother the secte of the Saduceis and the thirde the Essenes For these sectes preceded the coming of Christe into flesshe not litle lesse then an .c.xlviij. yeres but in their owne opinions in their habits and almoste in all thinges thei were firste of all amonge themselues and sone aftir from the wother comē sorte most diuers and most contrary And thei drewe aftir thē to folowe the same their owne folisshe facions very many in somich that at laste euen the priests and full many of the greatest lerned descēded into their orders and instituts For we haue herdeoute of the testimony of Iohn theuangelist the Leuites and priestes to haue bene pharisais yea ond the Apostle Paul said himself to haue had ben the moste straightest folower of the pharisayes secte so that what soeuer was sene to these mē to be ordined enacted and decreed as ye see it nowe in thinges concerninge the faith and religion of god it was decreed enacted and made so fast of them that noman might saye agenst it and it was setforthe and geuen of the priests to all the peple for gods law and for his decrees and were called the decente rites of their fathers and laudable tradiciōs of their elders of which tradiciōs Paul incidently maketh menciō in the .i. chap. to the Galathiās and Mat. in the .xv. chap. These pharisais wolde be exalted and excell the more in autorite glory for that their own tradicions rytes and ceremonies aftir their own pleasure inuēted semed aftir their own corrupt iugemente to them selues and to other lyke lesse then other mens instituciōs to varye from the holy scriptures Their cōuersacion and outward lyuing semed sober abiect and as though thei wolde be litle set by geuinge themselues to no excesse nor to no dilicate superfluite nor superfluous daintyes Thei beleued althingis to be caried of fortune chaunce and destiney as thei call it but yet in the meā ceason free liberty thei toke not fro man These aknowleged the iugement of god the paynes of the euil and rewardes of the good thei confessed the immortalite of soules and the resurreccion of the bodies Some saye thei had their name of phares which signifieth to seꝑate or diuide for thei shewed thēselues in their hole habit and lyuing to be holier then the comō peple and so for their pure holynes to be diuided from them as nowe of late were yet be owr pharisais some then into cloisters and some yet into collegis wearing distinct aparel and shauen crownes from the layite Some thinke thei had their names of a nother hebrew worde whiche signifieth to explane and interprete scripturs for thei were the cheif and moste busyest prechers techers of the peple which thing I beleue the more because the story of the gospell declareth our Lorde often tyme to haue had refuted their false gloses vnwriten verites and vntrwe exposicions playn examples there ar setforth in Mat. v. and .xv. chapt Forthermore the Saduceis wold apere to kepe no nother obseruacions besyds the law of Moses these gaue nothing to fortune and destinye but to the free lybertye thei attributed althinges For thei threw althings subiecte vnder owr own power aknowleginge owr owne selues to be the autors of good workes Thei denyed to be any spirits and aungels and the resurreccion of the dead which thing Luke in the actis of the apostles sheweth and therfore were thei estiewed of the pharisais as men most vile and vnpure and thus was there perpetuall stryfe betwixte them both Wherof euen the sory miserable vnlerned peple was so wrapped and intricated in their stryffes and diuersite of their inuented dreamis that not onely thei might not vnwrap and lose themselues out of these perplex tryfles but thei were made ignorāt of the very right and trwe way of their iustificacion and of the trwe waye of their saluacion which rightwyse making onelye by faith and trwe wais of saluacion thorow Christe onely when Iohn Bapt. and chryst and his apostles wold repare declare shew them playnly and openly then thei reputed and toke them for siche haynous heretiques preching agenst them that there was neuer no kynde of doctryne so bitterly refused unpugned thrust from them and dampned of the pharisais and saduces as was christis holy trwe prechinge in this mischeif thei cōsented although thei neuer agreed emonge them selues in their doctryn For neuer had Christe owr Lorde and christis verite more ꝑnicious enymies as ye yet see it this day then the Pharisais and Saduceis And as for the Essenes who so lyste to see them in their owne lyuely colours paynted let him loke but on a Monke of the charture house or a fryer obseruāt whom Plinye paynteth very lyuely in his fyrste boke of the natural storyes ca. xvij and Iosephus in his .xviii. boke of thātiquites ca. ij and in his .ij. boke of the Iewes batail cap. vij Nowe compare the state of their tyme to owr tyme and to owr pharisais But yet christē reader that thou mightest the clearlyer by comparinge togither vnderstand this hole cause and mater of the sectis of the Iewes thowe muste know those heresyes to be very lyke the sectis and heresyes whiche in these laste dayes haue ben and yet ar sprongenvp in the chirche of christe Christe with his apostles deliuered to vs the doctryne of vnite that is to weit onely helthe saluacion to be setforth in him onely which alone is