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A01279	A pistle to the Christen reader The revelation of Antichrist. Antithesis, wherin are compared to geder Christes actes and oure holye father the Popes.	Frith, John, 1503-1533.; Luther, Martin, 1483-1546. Ad librum eximii magistri nostri magistri Ambrosii Catharini defensoris Silvestri Prieratis acerrimi responsio.; Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560.	1529 (1529)	STC 11394; ESTC S102643	102,239	210

endewrance and interpretation The Pope sayeth I am lorde of the scripture to alowe and disalowe it / for of me doth it take his full authorite ca. Si oēs And for a token of this / is the scripture of christ / layde vnder his fete when he is at masse Titum i lxvij Christes apostle sayeth / that a Bisshope ought to be so well learned / that he with the scripture / be able to overcome all them that he against the faith The Pope and Bisshopes will dispute inscripture with no man / but cast them first in preson / and proper engynes they have invented to wringe their fingers so sore / that the bloude shall braste out at their fingers endes / they pyne them / and scorge thē with infinite other tormentes payninge them / to forsake the trueth And after make thē swere on a boke that they shall tell no man of it thus cruelly do they entreate them against iustice And yf they can not subdue them to their willes / then do they committe them vnto the seculare power to burned Ioānis xix lxviij Christes accusation / and cause why he was condemned vnto death / was writen over his hed in hebrew / greke / ād laten / that all men might know the cause / this was an argument that they vsed iustice all though they condemned him vniustlye syth mē might se the offence and iudgement Ioyned togedder The Pope and Bisshopes condempne men and committe them vnto the seculare power / that they shuld exequute the sentence But this is a mischevous abominatiō / that they will not suffer the seculare power / to knowe the cause why they put men to deth worshupfull / dis divines / Master doctor / O you gentle nobilite pondre this matter indifferently Be ware how you do exequution except you knowe the cause why Thinke you the bloude shall not be requyred on you / yf for a nothers pleasure you destroye the worke of God They will saye vn to you / as the Iewes sayed vnto Pilate cōcerninge Christ / yf he were not an evill doer we wold not have delivered him vnto you Trust not their wordes / for no doute they are lyares / know the cawse youre selves And heare the matter vnfaynedly Thinke you they wold not let you know the cause iudgement Yf they did iustice and not tyrannye Be therfore no lenger boyes to thē / which ought to be youre servātes / god hath geven you his sprete / grace / and vnderstōdinge / hyde not the talente that God hath geven you / but do youre diligence to se iustes exequuted secludinge all tyrannye / for that is youre office appoynted you of God Luce. vj● lxix Christ sayeth blissed are ye when mē hate you / curse you / and excommunicate you for the rightuousnes / that is to saye / you no thinge gyltye nor worthye soch affliction The Pope and Bisshopes saye that their curse is sore to be feared / ye and that it maketh men as blake as a cole in the sight of God though they have not offended Insomoch that they must neades be dampned excepte they absoile them ageine / how be it Christ sayeth / that they are blessed / wherfore other Christ is false / or els they are most vayne lyers Luce. xiiij lxx Christ sayed when thou makest a dyner or feaste calle not thy frindes kinsmen / and negheburs that are riche / but the poore / lame and blinde / which are not able to recompence the then shalt thou be happye / for it shall be rewarded the in the resurrection of the iust The Pope and Busshopes will call none soch / for they thinke it greate shame / but they call men of greate authorite ād riches-which will receave thē with an other feast / they had lever have their belyes well stuffed in his world / then to tarye for the promisse of Christ They thinke it longe acomynge Math. v Luce. vj lxxi Christ sayeth other make the tre good his frute good also / or els make the tre naught and his frute naught also / Meaninge that the tre first shuld be good / ād thē bringe forth good frute / the frute maketh not the tre good But the tre maketh the frute good / al though we cā not know that the tre is good / but by his frute for we can iudge nothinge but by his outward operation yet god seyth the quickenes in the rote / which in the tyme that god hath apoynted him / shall bringe forth his frute And approveth the tre to be good / although he seme dead vnto 〈◊〉 ▪ The tre is faith which is the mother of all good workes / which ever worketh by charite when he seyth occasyon The pope and Bisshopes saye that the frute maketh the tre good / clene contrarye to all scripture and reason / And thus tvrne they the trees and the rootes vpwarde while they affirme that faith springeth ād is made good of workes And not the contrarye / even as a man wold saye / the frute bringeth furth and maketh good the tre / And not the contrarye O what madnes is this They wold make men beleve if they shuld longe continewe / that the mone is made of a grene chese lxxij Christ sayeth / I am the dore of the folde he that entereth not in by the dore but by some other waye is a thefe and murderare and regardeth not the shepe The Pope / yee and all the clargye for the most part enter not in by Christ / but they runne yn and are not called nor sent of Christ / One entereth by a bagge of monye / wherwith he byeth a fate benefyce A nother entereth by servīge greate mē / coryinge favell A nother / by cause he is a greate mā borne / must be made a cardinal / or els a bysshope Some have ●ysons of abbayes other places / to speake a good worde for the to that kīge or other great mē Some enter thorow their curious singinge / ād minyon dawnsinge / fewe or none for vertue and learninge lxxiij Christ sayeth I am a good shepard A good shepard geveth his lyffe for his shepe The Pope and Bisshopes saye also that they are good shepardes / how be it they pille and shere their shepe so nighe / that they leve not one loke of wolle on theyr backes And in all poyntes maye be likened vnto the shepardes that Zacharias prophesied of / which sayeth / I shall reyse vppe a sheparde in the erth / which shall not visite tho thinges that are for saken / and shal not seke that which is gone astraye / nother yet heale the discased / nor norysche and mayntayne that which stondeth / but soche a sheparde that shall norysh him silf and not the shepe and cryeth out of him sayinge O thou sheparde and idoll / thinke you that this sheparde will geve his lyffe for his

geve you a kingdome Luce. xij Yf we receave the witnes of men / the witnes of god is greatter / for this is the witnes of god / which he testified of his sonne He that beleveth on the sonne of god hath the witnes in hī silf i. Ioannis v He that beleveth not god hath made hī a lyare be cause he beleved not the record that God gave of his sonne And this is that recorde / how that God hath geven vnto vs eternall liffe / and this liffe is in his sonne / j. Pet. ij Esate liij Philip. ii which was made oure best / bearinge oure sinnes vpon his awne backe / made obedient vnto the death offeringe vpp oure iniquites as a sacrifice vn to his father / beinge oure mediator and Atonement betwixte his father and vs. i. Ioan. j ● Corin. i● Made of God for vs / wisdome / rithtewesnes / holynes / and redemption / fulfillinge the lawe for vs. So that sinne hath no power over vs nether can condemne vs / for our satisfactiō is made in Christ which died for vs that were weked / Roma ●● naturallye the childrē of wrath even as wel as the other But god which is rich in mercy thorow the great love where with he loved vs / even when we were dead thorowe sinne / hath quyckened vs with Christ / and with him hath reysed vs vppe / with him hath made vs sitte in hevenly thinges thorow Iesus Christ / for to shew in times to come the exceading riches of his grace in kindnes to vs ward thorow Christ Iesus For by grace are ye made safe thorow faith / ād that not of your selves / for it is the gifte of God / ād cometh not of workes / leste eny mā shuld boste him silf Ioannis .l. But of his fulnes we have all receaved / and favour for favour / that is to saye / the father of heuen hath favoured vs for his sonnes sake / and not for oure awne deservinges as when we se a man favoured ād loved for an other mānes sake And hath promised vnto vs frely the enheritance of heven Iacobi i. This promisse must we beleve with sure truste and waver not / for he that douteth is like the waves of the see / toste of the wind and caried with violence Nether let that mā thinke that he shall receave eny thīge of god This gospell and promise must we loke after with vnfayned hope / Hebre. vj. wherin be cause we shuld nothinge doute / God hath added an oth vnto his promes / to shew vnto the heyres of promes the stablenes of his counsayle / that by those two īmutable thīges in which it was vnpossible that god shuld lye we might have perfect consolacion which have fled for to hold fast the hope that is set forth before our faces / which hope we have as an ancre of the soule both sure and stedfast For this promes must we pray dayly vnto our father desyringe to be loosed from this bodye and to be with Christ / Philip. i. ii Corin. v. for we sigh in this bodey desyreng to be clothed with our mansion which is from heven i. Ioan. iij. Ioan. xij And we knowe that then we shal be like him / for we shall se him as he is / and shall be the perfecte children of lighe Hebreo .ij. Therfore dear brothren we ought with all minde and affection to attend vnto tho thīges which we have harde lest we be spilt / ij Petri .ij. for yf god spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them downe in to hell / and put them in chaynes of darknes there to be kept vnto iudgement And every transgression and disobedience / Hebro .ij. receaved a iuste recompence to reward / how shall we escape if we despise so great health Hebreo .iij. Take hede dere brothren / that there be in none of you an evill harte in vnbeleve / that he suld departe frō the lyvinge God / but exhorte one an other daily / left eny of you were hard harted and be deceaved with sinne Remēbre that Christ exhorted vs to walke while we have light lest that the darknes come vpon vs / Ioan .xij. for he that walketh in the darknes / Ioan .xi. knoweth not whether he goeth Yf a mā walke in the day he stombleth not / because he seith the light of this world / yf amā walke in the night he stombleth be cause there is no light in him This daye light as we have sayed before is christ which sayeth / I am come a light in to the world / Ioan. x● that wo so ever beleve on me shuld not byde in darkenes / who is this darkenes truely the Philosophers sey that yf a man knowe on of the cōtraryes he must nedes knowe the other / but the light the darkenes are cōtrary / and Christ is the light therfore it is necessarye that the cōtrarye to Christ that is to say Antichrist shuld be the darkenes And there are diverse Antichristes and adversaryes to god the father / to christ / to their sprite / Gen ● iij as the devill / the flessh / the worlde The devil was the first tempted Eve in paradise which cōsentinge to his temptatiō persuaded Adam to eate of the frute which god sorbade thē / so was he the author of the cōdēpnation of all Adams posteryte / there god cōdēpninge the devill gave a promise of oure redēption in christ fayng I will put enmyte be twē the ād the womā betwē thy sede her sede And her sede shall depresse all to breke thy hed / thou shall lye watchinge the sole of his fote To this agreeth sanct Peter saynge / ● Petri. v. youre adversary the divill as a roringe liō walketh aboute sekinge whō he may devoure / whō resiste stedfast in the faith remēbringe that ye do but sulfill the same affilictiōs which are apoynted to youre brethrē the are in the world This cōfirmeth Christ him silf saynge vnto Peter Simō simō / behold sathā hath desyred you / Luce. xx● to sifte you as it were wheate but I have prayed for the that thy faith fayle not Nether is it mervell though he do vs thus assayle / sythge presumed to t●pte chast oure lord in the wildernes ●ath .iiij. Let vs not geve place in this tēptaciō / but kepe faithfullye oure professiō for oure hyghe preste christe Iesu Hebreo iil● cānot but have cōpassiō on oure infirmites / for he was in all poyntes lyke tēpted / but yet with out sinne / let vs therfore go boldly vnto the seate of grace that we may receave mercye / find grace to helpe in tyme of nead / that we be not tangled with his fayre flateringe delicious entysemētes that bringe eternall dānaciō / but that we be strōge in faith prayesinge