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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14354	A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.	Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562.; Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575. aut; Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567, attributed name.	1555 (1555)	STC 24673.5; ESTC S118516	95,107	174

Man maye be deceyued but no man cādeceyne Godd And also we are commaunde to render vnto God his glorie franckly before men But I do not see how thow haste glorified Godd before men when thow dost so temper thy confession that it sumwhat sauerith indeede of the truithe of the gospell and yet they which be superstitius shall not see their supersticions vtterly reiected nor their errors condemned by thy confession but maye iudge that thou dost yet holde on their syde Agayn many do confes Christe in wordes and his gospell frely and openly inoughe but euē they themselues do forthwith defile and ouerthrow this Christiā and gospellike cōfession with vngospellike deedes I do speake nothing heere of thos synnes and wickednesses by which they do vnhallow the doctrine of our Sauiour but of thos supersticius ceremonies and wicked cōgregacions with which they do cōmunicate by which communiō or partakinge indeede they do denye that which they did cōfes before For he which doth cōfes by mouthe that they which do depart out of this lyfe in true faithedo not throughe the mediacion of Christe comme into Iudgment but do strayte waye passe from the bodily deathe vnto lyfe euerlasting euen as the doctrine of the gospell doth enstruct vs and we do playnly confes in the articles of the apostles Crede this namely that we do beleaue the forgyuenes of synnes the rising again of the fleshe and lyfe euerlasting And yet so sone as ony of their elders or familiars do depart out of this worlde they go strait to sacrificing prestes and do demāde of them churche assemblees supplicacions dirges weake myndes trētalles to be short yearemynds ād prayers and sacrifices expiatorie for the deade to whom he doth ioyne hymself and doth obserue thos rites hath he not playnly denyed in deede that which he hadd confessed in worde He that doth confes that Christe was ons only offered for the synnes of the whole world ād that he is not therfore to be offerred any moore And that the holy Supper is a rememberaūce of this only and euerlasting sacrifice and not the sacrifice it self and yet neuertheles doth go vnto ther gods seruice which do stoutly asseuere that they do offer vp Christ in substaūce for the synnes of the lyuing ād the deade doth he not by goīg to and cōmunicatinge with this seruice denye that which by speaking and professing he hadd cōfessed Theis truly are wayes of denyinge which they do not fully vnderstonde which are almost persuaded th●… Religiō is but a playe and as it were a slipper fitte for euery foote Theis mē do knowe how to rule all religiōs vnder a certayn colour of holy concord but indeede for earthly cōmoditie that among whō so euer they do lyue like vnto a Cameleon they do take vnto themselues their coloure and ceremonies being mutch more changeable then Protheus of whom it is but folly to beleaue that they do passe for ony religiō at all But let vs passe ouer theis vnstable chāgelinges and establishe our mynds that they be not lewse nor waueringe but being knytte vpp and cōfirmed in the lorde they maye haue sum suretie and stablenes of the sure and stable worde of Godde which we may both in mowthe and deedes confes and in which we may finally reste That maruailus and heauenly and therwith thōderinge prophet Helias howe longe saithe he halte ye betwene two opinions Ifthe lorde be Godd folowe hym but if Baal be he then go after hym Euen so truly our lorde hymself doth saye in the ●…gospell that no man can serue two masters Let vs therfor forsake all other Godds and religions and cleaue only to our Godde which is the father of our lorde Iesus Christ and let vs sticke faste in the only Christen religiō which is delyuered vnto vs in the holy scriptures For it is euerlasting and most certayne But if it be sufficient to confes Christe and his gospell amonge our felows and brethern in religion wherto I praye you will theis our men refer thos wordes which do go before this place of confession in the gospell Behold I send you forthe as shepe amōge wolues rc They shall delyuer yow vp to the cowncelles and shall scourge yow for me rc But whēthey delyuer yow vpp take ye no thought how or what ye shall answer for it shalbe gyuē yow euē in that same houre what ye shall speake c. Feare ye not thē which kyll the bodye but are not able to kyll the soule He which doth denye that all theis sayinges must be vnderstond of persequutors he saithe that darcknes is lighte Yea and in Marc he doth playnly saye Whosoeuer therfor shalbe ashamed of me and of my wordes in this aduoutrus and synefull generacion of hym also shall the sonne of man be ashamed He requirith therfor a confession of the truithe not only in the companye of the godly but also in the companye of the vngodly and persequutours howsoeuer it be ioyned with the ieoperdie of lyfe and of all the substaunce The lord speaking in the boke of the reuelacion with the church of pergamos I knowe saith he where thow dwellest euē where Sathans seate is and thow keapest my name and haste not denyed my faythe And in thos dayes in which Antipas was a faythfull witnes of myn which was slayne amōge yow where Sathā dwellithe In which wordes truly the confession made in persequution is allowed made I saye in that place wher Sathan did beare rule wher euen very then Antypas that notable Martir of Christe was slayn for confessinge of religion Otherwise when all thinges are quiet it is not so harde a thing to confes the name of Godde For if so be that the lord will not haue vs be ī ieoperdie of bodie goodes and lyfe if it seme to be euill and a synne for a man as it wer to procure deathe to hymself by the confessinge of truithe wherfor dothe the lorde I praye yow exhorte thos his disciples that they shuld not feare them which do kill the bodie and can not kill the soule Whidoth he by playne wordes saye as it wer prouoking vs to martirdome Whosoeuer will folow me let hym forsake hymselfe and take vp his crosse and folowe me For whosoeuer will saue his lyfe shal lose it But whosoeuer shall lose his lyfe for my sake and the gospelles the same shall saue it Be addith forthwithe wordes which do make for the contempt of thos thinges for which theis men do thincke that in religion silence maye be kept and dissimulacion vsed sainge What shall it profite a mā yfhe wynne al the worlde and lose his own sowle Therwith also doth he adde through what thinge we do lose our soules that is through Shame For he saithe Whosoeuer therfor shalbe ashamed of me and of my wordes in this aduowtrus and synefull generacion of hym also shall the sonne of man be ashamed when he commithe in the glorie of his father