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A consolacyon for chrysten people to repayre agayn the lordes temple with certayne places of scrypture truely applyed to satysfye theyr myndes for ye expellyng of ydolatry, [et] to instruct the[m], of loue and obedience. Compyled by nycholas wyse
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Wyse, Nicholas.
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STC 26063; ESTC S105455
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his mercyful goodnes wtout our awn deseruyng brought agayn to his first fouÌ„dacioÌ„ wherupoÌ„ we haue fre liberte to bild Is it not a shame great rebuke to vs that we which haue receiued the name of christ to be called cristiens shulde appere to be lesse thankful to take any lesse ioy coÌ„fort in repayryng of our teÌ„ple then the Iewes had whiche lyued onely vnder Mosyes lawe to bylde agayn their teÌ„ple of stone wheÌ„ the peple were delyuered froÌ„ their captyuyte which Nabuchodonosor had led vnto Babylon It was he that mought put to his handes for the buyldyng of the temple agayne And when the buylders were layenge the foundacyon therof the people gaue thankes and prayses vnto the lorde And lauded hym with Symballes trompettes â—â—â—d iii. And many of the auncyent fathers preestes whiche had sene the house in his foundacyon before wepte and cryed for Ioy so that the noyes gaue a great sounde ¶ This temple was but a temple of stone made by mennes handes to the honoure of god And where the arke of promyse and couenaunt that the Lorde made with their fathers was put in yet note howe they reioyced to se it set vp agayne Nowe ye that be of Chryst ii co vi ye are as saynt Paule sayth the temple of god Why reioyce ye not in the repayryng of your temple agayne ye haue a sure substancyall foundacyon to buylde vpon whiche is layde alredy vnto youre handes i. Cor. iiâ— Chryst hym selfe is youre foundacyon and though your aduersaryes haue attempted to plucke downe some small stones therof yet is ther a corner stone mat exi i. Eph. ii which ioyneth the walles togyther agaynst whom they had no power i. Pe. ii It is a stoÌ„blyng stone for all them the stryue agaynst it They haue stryued so long agaynst this stone that they haue hurte them selues your foundacyon and corner stone is bothe one thyng It is christ which wolde haue his temple restored to his prestyne dignite And now through his mercyful goodnes hath euery man fre lybertye to put thervnto his helpyng hande accordyng to the gyfte and knowledge that is gyuen hym But there hath ben a frowarde and crafty sorte of people that haue hyndered the buyldyng of the lordes temple a great whyle as ther were some that hyndered the buyldyng of the Cyte and teÌ„ple of Ierusalem Ther were a certayn of the hethen people whiche wrote theyr letters vnto the kyng of persia named artaxerses whiche ar that tyme had the Empyre in his dominion i. â—â—d iiii sayeng yf this Cytye be buylded and the walles made vp agayne Then shall not they gyue trybute toll and yerely costome And it shal apere in Cronycles that this Cytye is sedycyous and noysome vnto kynges regyoÌ„s And that they caused other also to rebel of old with these suche other thynges they mouyd the kyng to sende his coÌ„mauÌ„dement that the worke shuld go no further forth and then seaced the worke of the house of god at Ierusalem and contynued so vnto the .ii. yere of Darius kyng of persia And hathe not likewyse the bysshops of Rome theyr adherentes long tyme fearing the decaye of theyr kyngedome perswadyd kynges and prynces to beleue that suche a lyke matter shulde happen vnto them and that it shuld be a cause of sedycyon yf the temple of god shulde be renued and exalted agayne whiche is yf that the people shuld haue the worde of god in theyr maternall tonge they sayde it is to hye a matter for them to medle with all they muste receaue it at our handes And as we do expounde it vnto them For well they knewe yf that matter came to passe that then theyr crafte and falsehode wolde be spyed they knewe that many of theyr constitucions and the true worde of god coulde not agre in one mynd togythers And nowe when some of our holy prelates perceyued that God wolde no longer suffre his Gospell to gyue place to theyr wycked purposes but that it shulde come forthe in spyte of theyr beardes Then beganne they to cloke the matter and as though they were innocent of all maner of harmes when they sawe no remedy sayd they were contented that it shulde come forthe in Englysshe so that it mought be truly translated They put great dowtes in the true translacyon therof But howe many of them dyd there put to theyr helpyng handes for the translatyng of it I thynke verely yf other men had not taken more payn therin then they dyd it wold not yet haue come to that poynt that it is nowe come vnto And how they wrested peruerted the scryptures when they had them in theyr awne handes and that all meÌ„ were forbydden to medle therwith but them selues It is euydent ynough to euery man that hath ony zele vnto the trueth He is very symply lerned that doth not ê‘ceyue how wrongfully they haue applyed this sayeng of Christe to Peter Tu es Petrê° et dabo tibi claues mat xvi luce vii c. And of the lepers that were clensed whome Christ bad to go and shew theÌ„ selues to the preestes leui â—â—â—â— whiche that famous clerke and doctour Erasmus in his paraphrases vpon the gospell dothe otherwyse expounde it than I haue herde dyuers bothe preestes freres whiche with that texte wolde bolster vp theyr auriculer confessyon And an huÌ„dred suche places wrested they in scrypture to make for theyr purpose I wyll not moche treate of that matter for suche as be well lerned whoÌ„ god hath raysed vp to set forth the trueth of his glory to repayre agayne his teÌ„ple haue both wrytten spoken of theyr false peruertyng of the scryptures moche better then I can do But truely I thynke in my conscience that they shal rendre a strayte rekenyng for the people of god whoÌ„ they haue dysceyued with the scryptures so vntruely applyed taught vnto them I pray god to graunt theÌ„ his mercye for the thynge is not so lyght as euery man thynkes it to be â–ª It dothe appere in the fyrst boke of Esdras i. Esd i after that god had styred vp the spyryte of Cyrus kynge of persia to haue the house of god buylded agayn at IerusaleÌ„ in Iuda and that he had gyuen fre lyberty to all them that were of his people ii Para. xxxvi and had byn captyue long tyme in babylon to go home into theyr owne lande agayne to buylde the house of the lorde ther were a certayne of the hethen people as ye haue red before that letted the goynge forthe of the worke after it was begon so that it stode in a stay vntyll kynge Daryus tyme whiche afterward reygned ouer the persiaÌ„s Thys Darius founde out in the lybrary house of kyng Cyrus his predycessour that he had gyuen in commaundement to buylde the house of the lord at IerusaleÌ„ â— â—â—â— vi Wherfore he mouyd with the same