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A10579	A lytle treatise after the maner of an epystle wryten by the famous clerk Doctor Vrbanus Regius, vnto a specyall frynde of hys wherin he declareth the cause of the great co[n]trouersy that hath bene [and] is yet at this day in the chrysten relygyon and also the dyuersyte betwene the ryght worshyppyng [and] seruice of God and the ceremonis inuented by mannis institucion, very fruteful and profytable.	Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541.; Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, artist.	1548 (1548)	STC 20849; ESTC S115824	20,519	56

the worlde that she can not se the great and abhomynable abuse The worde of God dyscloseth thys abhomynacyon for it teachet one onely sacrifyce or oblacion ones offered and neuer to be reiterated which is of perfect strength power for euer so that this sacryfyce for synne muste nowe onelye be receyued in faith through the worde and the sacramente and we must geue thankes for the same with a faithfull harte knoweledgynge wyth the mouth in laudinge and praysynge his holy name we must also geue thankes with the dedes that we lyfe soberly ryghteously and godly in this lyfe willyngly and gladly followynge Christ which bought vs with such a great price of his most holy sacrifyce vpon the crosse purifyed vs for his owne people to him selfe that from hencefurth we shoulde lyue innocently as the chyldren of God For God saith Leui. 19. I am holy therfore be ye holy also Leui. xix Nowe haue they of the Lordes supper The supper of the Lorde not only made a newe daily sinne offrīg for to make dayly satisfaction therby for synne and to appease goddes ire and indignation But haue also wholy chaunged and alterated the testamēt of Christ or his supper for they haue forbidden the laye people to receyue the one parte and they constrayne and compell the worlde to receyue the one parte onely which is manyfestly against the worde and ordynaunce of God For he instytuted both kyndes to be receiued of his Christians Sainct Paule taught and ordayned it so to the Corinthiās 1. Cor. 11. The primatiue church did vse it so the holy Bysshoppes Cyprian Augustine c. kept it so Therfore must the pope nedes be in a wrong way seynge he hath no commissyon nor commanndement to alter nor to diminishe goddes worde as also Gerson writeth Nowe do I aske you on your consciēces whether of these is moost sure in his conscience There are two Christiās the one receyueth the sacrament accordinge as Christe hym selfe dyd institute and cōmaunde it to be vsed vntyll the last day and as the Apostles the true prymatiue churche Augustine Cypriane and suche lyke haue vsed the same and geueth glorye vnto Christe that he certaynely hath not erred from his institucion for nomā coulde better institute it thā Christ nowe this man hath on his syde Christe the worde of God the Apostles the whole christianitie which at that tyme was coniected by the Apostles and he hath also on his syde the moost holyest and best learned fathers The other Christiās wyll receyue the sacramente after the Popes wyll he careth not whether God do so require it or not this man hath on his syde Pope innocente the thyrde which at Rome in the laterane churche with his counsayll dyd forbydde the holy communyon to be geuen to the children and commaunded the layte to receyue but the one parte therof in the yere of oure Lorde a thousande two hundreth .xv. Nowe tell me I praye you which of these two Christians shall at the last daye stande in better case before God concerninge the sacrament The one maye saye I haue done as Gods worde did teache me then must the other nedes saye that he hath done after the institution of a mā Nowe God hath not geuen his worde in vayne but he wyll that we shall followe the same Is it not than great pitye that the pope wil compell the poore christianitie to receyue the one part of the communion onely without Gods worde yea contrary to the expresse cōmaundement of god And shal men yet holde their peace saye nothinge to it No Sainct Paule doth curse the Angels if they should preache any other gospell thē that which he had preached Galat. 1. 1. Cor. 15. Galat. 1. Howe come we thā to this that we shall suffre the pope to burden oure conscyences whyche doth peruerie goddes worde and ordynaunce and besydes that curseth and destroyeth all thē that kepe goddes ordinaunce Marke well Item yf the faith in Chryste doth onely iustyfye and if the fayth of the gospel doth loke for saluacion of the mere grace and mercy of God wythout oure deseruynges but by the workes and merytes of Chryste and yf we do iustely confesse that we can not deserue the same because we are borne synners and although we kept all the commaundementes that yet we are vnprofytable seruauntes Luce. 17. Luce .xvij. But yf we beleue that Chryste dyed for vs and deserued for vs remyssyon of synnes and euerlastinge lyfe as we haue playnely and euydently in Ro. 4.5 Gala. 3. Ephe. 2. 1. Tim. 2 Hebr. 9. 1. Pet. 2. Saynt Paules Epystles to the Romaynes Galathians and Ephesians c. that good workes are done of vs of duetie for the profyte of oure neyghbour and to the glory of God So must it nedes folowe that all such doctrines are false as teache vs to do our workes to this intent that through the same we maye extynguysshe synne and become good and ryghteous For these two cannot stande together to be iustifyed by grace through fayth and to be iustyfyed by the merytes and deseruinges of oure workes Yf it be grace then is it not oure deseruing If it be deseruing then is it not grace And as Paule saith Gal. 2. Galat. ij If the ryghteousnes come by the lawe that is if mem be made good and ryghteous by the lawe or by workes then dyed Chryste in vayne But yf he dyed not in vayne Rom. 4. but for the remyssyn of oure synnes Roma iiij Then must it followe necessarely 1. Cor. 15 whan the death of Chryste doth onely make satisfaction for synnes and the fayth in Christe doth onely saue and purefye that the worlde hath ben deceyued by the doctrine of workes as foundinge and instituting of monasteries orders pilgrimages al relygions and goddes seruices inuented by man For by all these thinges haue men intended to satysfye for synne to deserue grace and to be made good and ryghteous notwithstandinge that the honour of iustifycation pertaineth to nomā but onely to the precious death of Christ and the shedinge of his bloude I would fayne se his face that durste be so bolde as to denye this truthe But if this truth standeth and abydeth then must nedes fall down to the grounde whatsoeuer hytherto hath ben kept and taught to thintent that men thereby shoulde be saued and come to God Hebr. 5.6.8.9 Item the worthy priesthode of Christ wherin consysteth all our conforte is by the Popes doctrine defaced and disanulled Gen. 22 Psa 101. Hebr. 7. For the scripture teacheth vs that the father by the conuenaūt of an othe hath consecrated and made his sonne an euerlasting pryeste which not onely ones by the sacryfyce of his body hath sanctifyed his electe Ioh. 17. Roma 3 1. Tim. 2 1. Ioh. 2. but also apeareth yet in the sight of God for vs as a perfecte mediatour and aduocate a faythfull and mercyfull bisshop in

those thinges which we haue to do before God in whose name we must call and praye to God and than God hath promised to heare vs. Hebr. 5.6.7.8.9 All this teacheth vs the Epistle to the Hebrewes and other scriptures and they do not shewe vs any other mediatour nor aduocate before God Of this it followeth that it is an vnsure false and erronious doctryne which the pope and his adherentes teache namely that they make Christ fearfull as though we must haue other mediatours in heauen to bringe vs fyrst to Christ Where is here the truste and confydence in Christ Nowe iudge your selues I pray you Do ye thinke yet that we striue for nought with the Papacye Is not the matter waighty ynough It toucheth our saluacion which is god him selfe what thing is there greater Yf we suffre oure selues to be brought to this beleue that we must and maye by oure owne workes satisfaction put out synnes deserue the grace of God be iustifyed and saued then haue we therby denyed the power of the death of Christe and his precious bloude Tell me then nowe where to wyll ye vse the death bloude of Christ yf it shoulde not wasshe awaye synnes puryfye and yustyfye vs Therfore let euery man pondre wyth hym selfe in his conscience and waye the whole matter for it is not so lyght as men thinke Yf we fall from our doctrine of faith then fall we from Christe then haue we no redemer then haue we no sacryfyce for our synnes than lyeth synne death and perpetuall damnation styll vpon vs than is God yet angry and not appeased there is no grace but mere wrath indignacion Hebr. x. and a fearfull lokynge for the iudgement Hebr. x. For noman nedeth to loke for any grace at Goddes hāde without Christ our onely mercy seate Thus is Christe with his merites obscured and darkened yea taken awaye from vs by the popystycall doctryne and oure trust and confydence tourned to oure owne workes Howe can we abyde this Yea saye they but the hier powers wyll not suffer this doctrine Answere I can not tell Marke well I suppose that they woulde suffre it well ynough yf it were exactely opened and declared vnto them And although they woulde not abyde it yet may here euery Christē man thinke that it is expedient for him to take holde on God and the trueth without contēpt of the hyer powers and in this case not to follow the wordly cōmaundemēt Act. 4.5 This doth also the spirituall or ecclesiastical law admytte for it is written .x. Distinc x. non lycet It becōmeth not the Emperour to pretende any thynge contrary to the lawe of God nor to do any thinge that is contrary to the rulers of the Euangelycall Prophetical or Apostolical truth Item agayne .xi. q. iii. Si dominus Yf it be euyll which the Emperour cōmaundeth than answere Act. 4.5 we must obeye God rather then men but in suche thinges as are not contrary to the commaundemēt of God we must obeye More ouer .x. q. iij. Qui resistit Whan the Emperour commaundeth oun thinge God another What doth the christen mā iudge There is God whiche is of greater power O Emperour pardon vs here ye treathen captiuitie god treateneth hel Ephe. 6. 2 Cor. 10 Sapi. 5. Here must ye take youre faith as a shelde by the whiche ye maye quenche all the fyery dartes of your enemies Marke well Yet saye they further The popisshe doctrin is olde yf she were not true thā must the churche erre Answere Yf ye be a christen man then beleue ye Christe stedfastely in his wordes of the gospell and ye do al so take the same worde for the very true doctryne of God Nowe if she be ryght and true then must it nedes be false and erronious whatsoeuer is contrary to the same what nede men to care much for the lenght of tyme The lēght of tyme cānot make a false thinge true Yf the scripture therfore be the true waye then must he nedes erre that forsaketh the same waye and walketh an other way whether he be great or small many or fewe holy or synners Yet saye they moreouer That these are the last dayes in the whiche we ought to beware of false Prophetes What yf the luterians for so do they call vs were the same false Prophetes Answer Serche the scripture Iohn 5. and iudge hardely whō ye hitte let him be hitted The scripture sayth 1. Tim. 4 2. Tim. 3 2. Pet. 3 Iudi. 1. 2. Tess 2 that the false Prophetes of the later dayes shall forbydde matrymonye and meates whyche God hath created they shall denye Christe that bought them that is they shall denye the same beinge they shall haue a shyne or a colloer of godlynes but they shall denye the power therof Marke well Yf ye fynde these tokens in the Lutherians as ye call thē then take them for false Propetes But if ye fynde them not by them than loke aboute you and ye shall soone perceyue who erreth Wherfore do the Lutheriās as ye call them suffre so muche sclaunderinge and persecution Euen for this cause 1. Cor. 7. Hebr. 13. that they wil haue matrimony fre and at lybertie euen as it is fre for euery man in the worde of God They wyll that for meates sake no mans conscience shall be burdened so that they geue the honoure onely to Christ that he through his passion hath bought vs out of euerlastinge death and that he puryfyeth vs all frō synne by his bloude Therfore do they reiecte the massynge sacrifyce whatsoeuer is done to that intent that therby mē wyll be deliuered from sinne and death They are also reuyled because they leade a commune simple lyfe in the state of wedloke as an honest laye man without any shyne of a pryuate holines with out shauen crounes graye amyses surplices stoles and such lyke abillemētes for the whiche thinges sake the estate of priesthode hither to in the worlde hath bē counted as holy contrary wyse the common state of layemen as vnholye and prophane For the spirituall fathers haue drawē to them selues appropriated to them selues the Christian offyces wherby their estate hath ben counted the State of perfection and holynes and the State of the laytie hath ben counted heathen and prophane for they woulde offer alone to God as the priestes in the olde testamēt offered for the people They haue estemed their prayer of greater valoure a great deale then the prayer of the leaye men And yet it is but bought solde and compelled gere which for the moost parte is done wythout faith and earnest zeale without spirite and trueth for moneys and legacyes sake For yf there were neyther money nor substaunce the monasteryes chauntryes and churches shoulde sone be styll without prayenge syngynge and massynge They haue kept the whole sacrament to them selues and geuen vs the one halfe And of these their manyfolde

the and thou shalt prayse me this is the thyrde commaundement Where soeuer this fayth is there is the holy goost which powreth loue in the harte loue is the fullfyllynge of the lawe Roma .xiij. 1. Cor. 13. Rom. 13. For loue honoureth father mother and she is obedient to the hyer powers This is the fourth commaundement Loue kepeth her selfe from anger she is meke and gentyll towardes all men kylleth not neyther can beare any malyce in the harte In the .v. commaundement Loue hath not in her harte to put her neyghbour to dishonestie or wronge concerning wyfe and children 1. Co. 13. in the .vi. commaundement Loue stealeth not but she geueth and helpeth wher soeuer she can and maye in the .vii. commaundement Loue bereth no false witnes but assysteth the truthe she helpeth to saue her neyghbours honestye to couer and defende his faultes in the .viij. commaundement Loue coueteth not her neyghbours goodes wyfe nor chylde but rather helpeth him to kepe the same in the .ix. and .x. commaundement Thus do we see that faith which worketh by loue is the fountayne of al good workes Yf the worke shal be good than must it flowe out of such a faith endued with loue Faith must be there before the workes that it may make the person faith full and good Nowe when the personne hath faith and loue then doth he fyrst good workes and no rather Do what soeuer ye wyll yf ye haue not this faith your harte is not cleane youre workes are not good But this faith kepeth the ten cōmaundementes for it can setman to behaue him selfe vpryghtly towardes God and his neighbour Nowe whan we prayse and magnyfye this faith as the onely true ryghteousnes before God that is the worlde angry and supposeth that we do it of contempt and contumacye can not vnderstāde that we there with fyrst of all do teache and set vp the true good workes Whan we teache this faith because there is no worke good without this faith thē do we fyrst plante the tree 1. Cor. 7. after that do we plante the frute that is the true naturall ordinaunce For so hath Christe done lykewyse and the Apostles Marke well Nowe are there many thinges in the Christianite for a longe tyme season vsed and taken for good for goddes seruice whiche are cleane contrarye to this wholsome doctrine to this faith wherfore the same are iustely reiected and condemned And therfore rageth the worlde and can not vnderstande that it is done of a good zeale by the commaundement of God For the worlde can not vnderstāde the righteousnes of God the true faith in Christe the frutes therof She vnderstādeth onely the righteousnes of workes worshippinges of god or goddes seruices inuēted by mans owne brayne Out of this doth cheifely ryse al the cōtrouersie in the worlde Forasmuch nowe as out of the gospell of S Iohn 1. Rom. 4. Gala. 3. Ioh. S. Paules epistles to the Romaines Galathiās out of the true groūde of the lawe the Prophetes it is cleare euidently concluded that there is none other righteousnes of valour before god than the faith of the Gospell in Christe And forasmuche as there is none other waye to obtaine pardon remissiō of sinnes to be made good and righteous to be saued than the same faith in Christ whiche Christe was geuen vs of the father to thyntent that he onely by hys owne workes shoulde make vs good be him selfe our euerlastinge ryghteousnes lyfe and saluacion yf we beleue in him It followeth then without any contradiction of the same that in many poyntes from certaine hondreth yeres vnto this daye we haue grossely erred and that all other meanes and wayes which haue ben set vp for to obtayne by them remyssyon of synnes and grace or to be made good and ryghteous and to obtayne saluacion are nothing elles but Erronious by pathes and not the true Goddes seruice Nowe wyll I in a summe recyte the pryncypall Artycles and pointes of the false worshyppynge of God and false Goddes seruyce To thintēt that ye mayse that the controuersye of these dayes is not without great and vrgent causes Marke well Rom. 5. i. Pet. 3. He. 9.10 1. Ioh. 2. Thys faith in Christe doth surely affyrme and establyshe that Christe alone by hys onely oblacion vpon the crosse ones made for all hath made perfect satisfaction for all the synnes of the vnyuersall worlde so that nowe there is no newe sacryfyce or oblacion more for our synnes in the Christianite nor can be But onely an offeringe of geuinge ouer of oure selues a cōtryte penitēt harte and the prayse of God these are no synne offerynges but thanke offeringes This teacheth Paule throught out the whole Epystle to the hebreues But Christe hath left ordeined vnto his churche a dayly memoryal or remēbraunce of the same onely sacrifice Marke well The supper of the Lorde which is his supper wherin he fedeth and nourissheth the Christians spyrytually with his very body and bloude vnto euerlasting lyfe and the Chrystians receyue the Sacrament of the body and bloude of Christe with thankes and praise for this benefyte that Christe offered his bodye for vs and shed his bloude for the remission of our synnes and geue them selues ouer wyllyngly to dye concerninge synne to mortyfye the olde man and offer sacryfyces of thankesgeuinge and sacryfyces of prayse for al the mercys which God so wonderfully hath shewed vs through his sonne and one Christian loueth another in dede and trueth this is the true worshippinge seruice of God Wherfore it followeth of this Of the Masse that it is an errour and a false goddes seruice that men yet wyll vndertake to make a dayly newe massyng sacryfyce or oblacion for the synnes of the quicke and deade For this perfect satisfaction and reconcylyacyon cometh by the onely sacrifyce and oblacion made vpō the crosse where as Christe gaue ouer his body bare our sinnes shed his owne bloude for the remyssyon of our synnes Wherfore the masse can in no wyse be such a sacryfyce For it is an horrible errour that men wyll obtayne and purchace the satisfaction for synnes and the reconciliation of God any other waye than by the death of Iesus Chryste Yf synnes be releassed by offerynge of masses than died Christe in vayne There is more abhominacion hydden vnder this errour than can be thought expressed Forasmuche as the death and passyon of Christe is our cōforte by the which by nothing elles we be deliuered frō synne death let euery good christian iudge in his harte what a doctrine this is which so lytell regardeth the death of Christe that she maketh oure workes equall with the death of Christe yea obscureth and denyeth in a maner all the frutes of the bytter death and passyon of Christe The great holy appearaūce of the masse and the outwarde syghte pompe blyndeth