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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17085	The mynd and exposition of that excellente learned man Martyn Bucer, vppon these wordes of S. Mathew: Woo be to the wordle [sic] bycause of offences. Math. xviij. Faythfully translated in to Englishe, by a faythfull brother, with certayne obiections [and] answeres to the same	Bucer, Martin, 1491-1551.	1566 (1566)	STC 3964; ESTC S112812	21,795	56

The mynd and exposition of that excellente learned man Martyn Bucer / vppon these wordes of S. Mathew Woo be to the wordle bycause of offences Math. xviij Faythfully translated in to Englishe by a faythfull brother with certayne obiections answeres to the same Mathew 15. Euerye plante that my heauenly Father hathe not planted shall be pluckt vp by the rotes ¶ Printed at Emden 1566. ¶ To the godlie Reader VNderstandinge dearly beloued in the Lord Iesus by a faithfull brother of the contention that nowe is in my natiue countrie concerninge popish apparrell and ceremonies to the greate greife sorowe of the godlie and to the reioysinge of the enemies whiche hopeth dayly for the rest of theyr father dregges I thought it mete as one wyshing good to my countrie to translate the worke of that excellent instrumente of the Lordes vinyarde Martyn Bucer entreatinge vpon the wordes of our Sauyour wrytten by S. Mathew in the .xviij chap. sayenge Woo be vnto the wordle bycause of offences wherin he declareth not only what an offence is how it is taken but also as occasione dothe serue cōcerning rites and ceremonies of the churche to the great comfort of the godlye Wylling and requyring that ye stand fast in the lybertie wherwith Christ Iesus hath made you free and wrappe not your selues in the yoke of bondage For it is not nowe tyme to slippe backe from the lybertie of the Gospell but manfully to abyde therin yea euen though it be with lyfe to confirme the same as worthie souldiars in Christes church alwaies lokinge for the comyng of our Sauyour Iesus Thus fare ye well The mynd and exposition of that excellente learned man Martin Bucer vppon thes wordes of Mathew Woo be to the world because of offences Math. xviij HEre Christ speaketh not of suche offences as the good are wonte to geue vnto the euill but of suche as the euill geue vnto the good or to those that endevour to become good godlye These offences as may be gathered by the places of scripture which make mencion therof are what thinges so euer be spoken or done geuinge any occasion of synne either because they are euyll of them selues or elles because they are not discretly done and accordinge to Christian charitie For this cause Paul in the .2 epist .6 chap. to the Corinth exhortynge vs that in nothynge we geue occasion of offence dothe declare by those thinges which he mencioneth by by after that then we geue no offence at all when we approue our selues in all thinges as the ministers of God that is to say when we so behaue our selues in all thinges which we either speake or do that they may make to edification and appeare to be done in the spirite of Christ Where vppon we may take that to be an offence the definicion of an offence what soeuer we say or do that maketh not to the furtherance of Godes glorie and the saluation of our brethren procedyng of a sound and vnfayned fayth and ordred accordinge to syncere and true loue Nowe this mynde and purpose all the wicked haue not I meane to do all thynges to the glorie of God and the cōmoditie of men and therfore not only all that they speake or do may well be called offences but they themselues also because their whole lyfe is nothinge elles but an offence are of the Lord hym self before in the .13 chap. called an offence Seynge therfore the world is nowe full of such offendors it is not without great cause that the Lord here saith It is nedfull that offences should come For seyng there be so many euill trees there muste needes be great abundance of euill fruite also Moreouer euen the verie electe because they are neuer free frō synne being alwaies compelled to say Forgeue vs oure trespasses as we forgyue them that trespasse against vs do gyue many occasions of offence when so euer they speake or do any thyng that procedeth not of faith and loue Therfore Paul exhorteth and beseche those men to beware that they receiue not the grace of God in vayne geuing occasion of offence to no man He exhorteth vs also to the same thinge as often as he willeth vs to walke circumspectlie warely folowing in all thinges the will of God For we are planted to this ende that we should beare fruite and bringe many to true righteousnes and godlines wherfore yf we committe any thinge either in word or deed which tendeth not to this ende we geue therin occasion of offence and do contrarie to our vocation and forsakinge the kyngdom of Christ we promote the kingdome of Sathan which thinge howe horrible it ys for a Christian man to do who seeth not For this cause S. Paul in the xiiij to the Rom. and in the .j. epist .viij. chap. to the Corint Vehemently detesteth euen those offences which they that vndiscretly vse the Christian libertie gyue vnto the weake by suche thinges as of themselues in dede are not euyll but yet are not done accordinge to charitie When the newe Testament was confirmed by the bloude of Christ emonges the electe wher soeuer they were and of what stocke and kynred so euer they came and that without any law of ceremonies then were all rites and ceremonies included in the precepte of loue all kyndes of meates and dayes were made then alike But yet when many of the Iewes were conuerted vnto Christe theyr faith was more weake then that they durst vse this libertie They abhorred all such meates as were forbydden by Moses lawe and specially such as were offered to ydolles And this was the infirmitie of theyr faith that they were not persuaded that to the faythfull nothyng can be vnpure Nowe those that of loue had no regard or verie litle which seeketh in all thinges the saluation of our neighboures dyd eate all kyndes of meates in the presence of all men hauyng no respecte to the infirmitie of faith in many and so they gaue vnto them a dowble offence For either they caused them through their contempt to fale to variance and discorde with them or elles they allured them to vse the like libertie but yet with an vnlike fayth so that they wold not sticke to eate all kyndes of meates indifferently althoughe theyr consciences dyd perswade them that it was synne so to do Agaynst the firste offence Paul wryteth Ro. 14. Yf saith he by occasion of meate thy brother be greued thou walkest not nowe charitablie Concernyng the second offence thus he writeth albeit he addeth somwhat also touchinge the fyrst All thinges in deed are pure but it is euyll for the man that eateth with offence it is good neither to eate flessh neither to drinck wyne nor any thinge elles wherby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or made weake Wher he saith he stumbleth I vnderstand that to be spoken of the first kynde of offence cōcerning variance and discord Where he sayth he is offended I