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A11327
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A treatyse concerni[n]ge the power of the clergye and the lawes of the realme. Cu[m] priuilegio regali.
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Saint German, Christopher, 1460?-1540.
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1535
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STC 21588; ESTC S108136
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but that all power was in Christ / in heuen in erthe / both of bodyes soules / laÌ„des and goodes / lyfe deth But it is as lytell a dout but that Christ neuer gaue al that power to his apostels nor discyples / ne yet he gaue nat to theÌ„ all the power that was in him concernynge the ministracyon of the sacramentes / wherof he commytted a right high power vnto them as to minister any of the sacrameÌ„tes but in due mater / as in water / bred / and wyne or such other / as he might haue done him selfe Ne yet he neuer graunted power vnto theym to doo myracles by their own power / as he him selfe dyd And syth he grauÌ„ted nat to them power to mynyster the sacramentes but in due matter / which if he had done / it had nat dymynisshed the perfeccyon of theire ministracyon / but gretly enlarged it It is nat to thinke that he wolde gyue them power ouer such thiÌ„ges / wherby they shulde be the more vnapte and vnable to vse the spiritual ministracyon to the people that he had gyuen vnto them as is the medelynge with temporall matters temporall busynes And howe great perell and daunger hath comen therby / as well to the hurte of their owne soules as of the soules of many other / no man knoweth but god alone And for as moch as it is verye lyke that spyrituall mynysters wyll nat frely remoue them selfe fro such Temporall power and Temporall busynesse All christen princes are bounde in conscyence aswell for the helth of the soules of all spirytuall mynysters as of all other people that they haue taken charge of / to remoue the occasyons that haue caused theym to set theymselfe so fully to the medelynge of Temporall thynges as many of theym haue done in tyme paste The .xi. reason OVr master Christ sayd to his lxxii discyplê Luc. x. He that he rech you / hereth me And vpoÌ„ these wordes this reason hath ben made / that for as moche as our lorde speke the seid wordes generally to his disciples / to whom all prestes be successours and shewed nat what tyme / ne wherin they shulde be herde / that hys wordes muste therfore be taken to be of this effecte / that he wolde that his disciples their sucessours shulde be herde and obeyed as well in thinges spyrituall as temporall / wherof it muste nedes folowe that they haue both powers / That is to saye spyrituall and temporall An answer to this .xi. reason ¶ It is to be vnderstande / that the same tyme that oure lorde speke the feyd wordes to his discyples / he seÌ„te them forth to preach in to euery cyte and place where he shuld come and at that sendynge forth he sayde to theym on this maner The heruest is great the workmen be few pray ye the lorde of the heruest that he seÌ„de workmen in to his heruest Go ye forth Lo / I sende you as lambes in the myddes of wolues / Bere neither secke / scryppe / nor shoes / and salute no man by the way In what house so euer ye eÌ„ter fyrst say / peace be to this house / and if the sonne of peace be there / your peace shall rest vpon him / and els it shall retourne agayne vnto your selfe In the same house abyde ye / eatyng drinkyng such as they haue Truly the work man is worthy his hyre / go nat fro house to house And into what cyte soeuer ye enter they receyue you / eate that is set before you / and cure the sycke folkes that be in it / saye vnto theym / the kyngdome of god shall drawe nere vnto you And iÌ„ to what cyte soeuer ye entre / they receyue you nat / ye shal go iÌ„to the stretes and saye Lo / the duste that cleueth to vs of your cyte we cast vpoÌ„ you Neuertheles knowe this / that the kyngdom of god draweth nere And thaÌ„ after certayne wordes that he speke to them concernynge suche cyties as wolde nat receyue theÌ„ / he sayd the wordê before rehersed / He that hereth you / hereth me / wherby it appereth that his meanynge was to haue the people here hys discyples whan they preached such thinges as he commaunded them to do / that is to saye That the kyngdom of god drewe nere / as if he hadde sayde Whan ye preache that I commaunded you to preache / and as I my selfe do preache of the kyngdome of heuen / and vse youre selfe as lambes amonge the people / than he that hereth you / hereth me / for ye speke in me / and I in you And thaÌ„ also all they that heare you and folowe your teachynge shall haue as moch rewarde as if they had herde me parsonally and folowed my teachynge Furthermore it is nat lyke that the meanynge of our lorde was by those wordes that his discyples shulde haue both powers spirituall and temporall for if he had entended so he wolde nat haue sent them forth so poorely as he dyd withoute secke / scryppe / or shoes / and bydde them lyue of their prechynge The effecte therfore of the seyde wordes is this That whaÌ„ preachers preche the gospell truely vnto the people declare vnder what maner the kiÌ„gdoÌ„ of heueÌ„ may coÌ„e vnto theÌ„ / that they be thaÌ„ reuereÌ„tly deuoutly herd But if they pretende to haue by that text or any other more worldly honour power / or rychesse / than our master Christ lefte vnto them / than the people ar nat bounde to obey theym in that pretence ¶ Of abusions and defautes in the clergye / concernynge the lawes of the realme The .xix. chapiter FYrst / it hathe ben a great defaute in dyuers of the clergye that they haue reported affermed in tyme paste / that the statute made in the .xlv. yere of kinge Edwarde the thirde / concernynge the tythiÌ„ge of wood that is coÌ„menly called the statute of Silua cedua / is agaynst the lawe of god And that yet nowe that some questyon hath of late ben moued thervpon / none of them endeuoreth him selfe to proue it is so / ne yet to haue the matter sette in a good cleare waye but as it semeth force lyttell / though the matter rest styll in varyaunce as it hathe done before yf it be so suffered to contynue / great varyaunce wyll folow thervpoÌ„ for the one lawe wyll that the tyth wode be payed / the other lawe clerely prohibyteth it ¶ Also it hathe ben a great defaute in many of the clergy / for that they haue made pretence in tyme paste / as wel in open sermons as in other places / that it is agaynste the lawe of god / that prestê shulde be araygned before laye men / and that yet they haue nat endeuored theÌ„selfe to shew any suffyciente auctorite to proue that it is so / clerely to stable the realme in that behalfe / but rather shew theÌ„self content