Selected quad for the lemma: death_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A01767
|
Of the Christian Sabboth a godlye treatise of Mayster Iulius of Milayne / translated out of Italian into English, by Thomas Langley.
|
Julius, of Milan.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581.
|
1552
(1552)
|
STC 11903; ESTC S2707
|
16,368
|
72
|
in and as it were pinneth vs vp then dothe the obedience to god nether can there be anye greater scourge ouer our heade then that is due for disobeying the Lorde For it behoueth that all our neades all our perillous daungers al our profitable commodities geue place and rowme to the obedience of god for that we alwayes obeye to God it is neadfull but to continue styll in thys lyfe mortall standeth not in such necessitye The other lawes that is Ecclesiasticall lawes be dispeÌ„sed with ecclesiasticall and ciuyll albeit they be ordeyned of god yet be not so holye and reuerente but that they may in causes of necessytye not only be broken but also altogether dysanulled as though they neuer had bene And for profe herof let vs peruse the ecclesiasticall lawes of the Iewes Those lawes were to be kepte and done so longe as the outward gouernmeÌ„te of the Iewes endured vntill that Christ was dead and rysen agayne they were ordeyned of God by the handes of Moyses for the people of Israell to the ende that the name of God should be praysed and the promises made in Christ myghte be taught and true religion preserued nether was circumcision the sabbothe the sacrifices all that solemne and ceremoniall seruice and leuiticall obsequies aboute the tabernacle of the Iewes ordeyned and instituted for any other purpose theÌ„ is afore sayde Notwithstandinge for so muche as these lawes were onlye geuen to the people of the Iewes to none other nation therfore the gentiles and foreyne people were not burdened nor charged with the kepinge of those statutes nether did they offend in not kepynge them for that they were not driuen to liue vnder those constitutions although they had forsaken Idolatry and acknowledged one very God by beleuyng the promyses of Iesu Christ We reade ExaÌ„ple that the people of Niniue repented at the preachynge of Ionas pleased Iones iij. and appeared God therby Niniue yet reade we not that they were circumcysed nor that they obserued other ecclesiastical lawes of the Iewes Daniel iij Daniel wytnesseth Babilon that the king of Babilon confessed opeÌ„ly the very true god of Israel commaunded by proclamation that no man should blaspheme him neuerthelesse it is not reade that the king of Babilon was therfore bownden to the ceremonies of Moyses No the Iewes them selues were not so bounden to these ecclesiasticall lawes but that they myghte omitte them in tyme of neade ether for anye coÌ„moditie or for anye matter of honestye Many of the Israelites after theyr deliuerye out of Egypt while they were in the wildernes were vncircuÌ„cised as it appeareth in Iosue Ioâ—ue v. And very likely it is that manye Iewes died in the deserte wythoute circumcision foreskin whiche by faith passinge from death vnto life were not daÌ„ned for hauynge theyr foreskin King Dauid fleinge the persecution of Kynge Saul i. Re. xvij lest he should dye for hunger Shewe bread did eat both he and his company of the table of the lord the holy bread that was dedicated appoynted onely for the vse of the priestes and yet sinned he not in so doing By thys example of Dauid oure maister proueth to the Iewes that in neadfull affayres and busynes Math. xij the sonne of man that is euery man is Lorde of the sabboth Nether did oure sauiour Iesus Christe by these wordes meane that the Sabboth should not or oughte not to be kept at that time when as yet he was not deade be shewed therby on what maner the ceremonies of Moyses bounde that nation to the obseruynge of them For the Iewishe ceremonies at that tyme were to be reuerenced by the generall commaundemente of God Dispensations notwythstanding if ether nede or the profite of any neighbour constrained a Iew to breake them he was not in suche case bownde to kepe them because that cause standing the Iewes was lord of the Sabboth and offended not in breakynge and omyttynge them Therfore our sauiour Christ synned not when he healed sicke and diseased persons on the sabboth day because that necessity neyghbourly charitye caused him to haue small respect to the outward Sabboth which was a shadowe figur of the christian sabboth So sone as christ was deade and risen agayne all the ceremonies of the Iewes were vtterly disanulled and repelled wherfore the Christian man was vnburdened of the heauines of them only trusted to be saued by the grace of God shewed in Iesu Christe For this cause we christians ought not to make any difference of dayes nor thynke that one daye is holyer then another Wherfore S. Paul wold not that a christian Rom. â—â—â—â— iudge think any diuersity betwene day day Col. â—â— nor that any man shoulde accuse vs for any fastiual day or new mone or sabboth day and feared lest he had trauayled in vayne in the churche of the Galathians Gal. iiij because they were obseruers of dayes willyng to do vs to vnderstand the to count one day holier then that other was a thing that parteyneth to a Iewe not to Christen men That whych we haue spoken of ceremonies Mosaicall Ceremonies of the new Testament namely that in neade other behoues they bound not anye Iewe we may lykewise saye and affirme of the ecclesiasticall lawes of Christendome wherof some be autorised by Iesu Christ and some by the father elders of our religion that the christen fayth myght be preached and taughte in good order And albeit the ordinances of our auncestours be not to be compared to those that god the lord appointeth yet are they to be obserued ought to be reuerently vsed because that god wold that in the churche thynges shuld be ordered in comly maner and wyth due reuerence But for so much as these our lawes ceremoniall are made for oure commodity not to our losse therfore the lord would that they should yeld geue place to oure necessityes Necessitie is a dispensation There be many christen men vnder the Turke in vylanowse slauery which can not vse the Sacrament of the Lordes supper yet shall they not be condemned therefore so that they haue the fayth of Iesu Christ Many other be entangled chaltered in the snares of Antichristes hypocrisy whych can not here the sincere preaching of the Gospell yet shal not for that cause be condemned if in the meane while they do beleue trust in Iesu Christ al such do not sin because necessity excuseth theÌ„ Lyke processe might be made of the Iuditial lawes but I wyll not at thys tyme make any treatise vpon them The Phariseis therfore moued of an hatefull hypocrisye blamed our maister as a wycked breaker of the sabboth yet vnderstode not for what purpose God had ordeyned the Sabboth The Lord had an higher respecte then to the bodely rest when he coÌ„maunde the sabboth in the law saying to the Iewes Remembre that