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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00498	The Exposition of certain partes of Scripture, according to the mindes of the chieffe doctors ...		1567 (1567)	STC 10634.5; ESTC S2119	36,965	68

eate thinges offered vnto Idolles and boasted as these our men do in outward matters we ar free what is that to me that another abuseth the se thinges naughtely I will vse them well For as those weakened the faith of many both in that they lesse abhorred Idolles through there exāple also in that they for the most part cōmunicated with thē against there cōsciēces so no doubt do these oure lukewarme gospellers nowe adaies What is Antechrists ceremonies They know right wel that all Antechristes ceremonies that is to say all such haue ben brought in withowt gods word are not worth a-rush And because they ar owtward things wherin we haue liberty they will vse them as frely forsoth not waighing that many things ar lawful which ar not expedient and that oure libertie must serue either whome they in the meane time offend or obscure the glorie of Christ For they confirme those in there error which as yet knowe not that these thinges ar free and at liberty As for the defenders therof the professed ennemies of Christ they make them glad and bold They shut Christ owte of Dores that brare with ceremonies and finally they weaken the febles faith which had forsaken and cast them awaie Thus on God his name they prouide fairly for the weak ones yea rather they serue herin there owne bellies in that they studie to gratifie either Christes ennemies or els backsliders For no man other then these vvill earnestly contende for superstitious ceremonies This is there modestie or bearing where with they ar so farre from helping the gospel or encreasing hit that by little they displace hit Surely vve haue to thanck these men that as this day all thing is gone backvvard and turned vpside dovvne in many places vvhere the gospell hath ben long time preached wheras no example can be brought of like alteracion in those places where Christ being earnestly and purely preached ceremonies also ben reformed according to the rule of his word For as for those thinges which haue disordredly or confusely happened Christ either not at all or not sincerely preached they appertaing nothing to vs. For asmuch therefore as Christ so sore detesteth offences and crieth woe vnto the world by meanes of offences wo vnto the man by whome offence commeth we must with all diligence take hede both in these and other thinges that we be offensiue to no man but especially to the littel ones those I meane not that ar in in age only such but in faith and vnderstanding also The perfect knowledg of God and Christ is lyff euerlasting whatsoeuer therefore may by any meanes either hindre or obscure hit let hit neither be spoken ne yet don of vs but to the vttermost of oure powers let vs remoue those things away Then let vs prouoke them both by exhortations and examples that men will expresse those thinges in there lyff geuing no place herin either to oure oune affections or other mens seing that it is better to be drowned in the sea then to giue offence c. Peter Martyr vvriting vpon the .13 chapiter of Sainct Paul to the Romaines on these vvordes let euerie sovvle be subiect vnto povvers that ar set in high auctoritie IF as we haue concluded they ar to be reproued that rendre euell for euel and it is thoffice of Christian men to shew thoffice of charitie vnto them that haue deserued euel of us they ar doubtles greatly to be reproued which for good deedes restore euell deedes and shewe not vnto men that haue ben frendly vnto them as the Magistrates be honor and obedience Because thapostel is about to entreate diligently and largly of this matter that we may vnderstand the better what his meaning is we will define what is a Magistrate A Magistrate is a chosen person and that of God that he shold defend the lawes and peace and represse and hold downe vices and all thinges that ar euel with ponishmentes and his sword The efficient cause is God Th ende is the keping of the lawes and of peaces and driuyng away of vices and all hurtful thinges and thencrease of vertues The formal cause is the ordre that he apoincteth by the prouidence of God in matters that appertaine vnto men or in wordly matters The materiall cause is a mā or a person for who soeuer is chosen to be a Magistrate he is one chosen owt of Men. ' The right way and compendious manner of theaching is almost general First it is ordained that all men shal be vnder the power of the Magistrate And afterward that is proued of the cause efficient that all such powers ar of God And after hit is proued by the cōtrary that they that despice the cheeff Ruler ar ennemies to God and that to there harme And furthermore the same thing is proued by th ende or finall cause that the Ruler is made for our greate profit commoditie ¶ And vppon the same chapiter in the 604 page and xit line he vvriteth of the same thieff Rulers thus But these Ecclesiasticall Papists will say that the kinges thē selues and the common powers haue giuen ouer of there owne righte and haue willed that clarkes shold be exempted But vve ought not to loke vvhat Princes haue done in these matters but vvhat they ought to haue done For it lieth not in there power to put downe the lawes of God wherfore if this godly cōmaundemente of Paull will that euery sowle shold be subiect to the higher power in any case men must nedes obey hit For those thinges that God hathe ordained decreed cannot be called back againe by mans auctority Howe be it these wordes ar to be restrained and drawē together that we may vnderstād that we ar subiect vnto the Magistrate no further then belongeth vnto his vocation and office but if he wold go beyond those bondes and commaund any thing that is cōtrary to godlines or the lawe of God we ought rather to obey God then men Also vppon the same chapiter on these vvordes Quae sunt potestates a Deo ordinatae sunt Those povvers that ar ar ordained of God c he vvriteth thus THe matter nowe will not suffer vs to couer with silēce howe that Bonifacius in his extrauagāt which beginneth vnā sanctam abuseth the wordes of the Apostel to confirme his Pride For here vpon he wold proue that those thinges that ar of God haue some orders amōgest them selues that there dignities may be knowen one from another being distinct and separated by certaine degrees and that there vppon hit followeth that the powers that ar of God ar not all a like and that is the higher power which is exercised or occupied about the worthier matter and because the Ecclesiastical power is occupied in spirituall matters and the ciuil in bodely matters Therfore hit followith saieth he that the Ecclesiasticall power is highest and ought not to be subiect vnto the ciuill Magistrate for the Pope saieth he