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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17186	An holsome antidotus or counter-poysen, agaynst the pestylent heresye and secte of the Anabaptistes newly translated out of lati[n] into Englysh by Iohn Veron, Senonoys	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Véron, John, d. 1563.	1548 (1548)	STC 4059; ESTC S104813	56,402	234

¶ AN HOLSOME Antidotus or counterpoysen agaynst the pestylent heresye and secte of the Anabaptistes newly translated out of latī into Englysh by Iohn Veron Senonoys Prīcipiis obsta sero medicina para tur Cū mala per lōgas inualuere moras Vidiego quod fuerat primo sana bile vulnus Dilatum longae damna tu●●sse mora ▪ TO THE MOST REDOVBTED prynce Edwarde by the grace of god Duke of Somer●et Lorde Protector of all the Kynges maiestes realmes subiectes and dominions and gouernor of his most totall persō health prosperite ēcrease of honor heauenly knowleg frome god y ● father through out lorde and sauiour Iesu Christ So bett THE blesed aposttle saynte Paule in y ● xx chapiter of the actys callynge together all the senyours or prestes at a place and towne called Myletum dyd speake vnto thē after this maner Take ye hede to your selfs to a● the flock ouer the which the holly gost hath put you ouer seers to feade the congregation of god which he purchasyd with his owne blood for I know this wel that after my departynge shall enter in greuous wolfes a monge you which shall not spare the flock And euen of your selfes shall a ryse mē speakyng peruerse thin ges to drawe dyscyples after them etc. Here most myghtye prynce dyd that chosē elected vessell of god describe most liuely the wicked and peruerse nature of false seditious herytyckes that studye for nowght elles but to deuid and seperate the churche to gette vnto them disciples to scater dissipate the flocke of y ● most bountuous sheaperde Iesu christe to sowe discorde teach peruerse thinges etc. Which thynge truely dyd chaunce in the primatyue churche euen in the tymes of y ● a postelles to the great hynderance and let of the gosspell of Christe for where so euer the apostells and dysciples of oure sauyour had preachyd y ● kyngdome of god and with greate peane and labour had brough the people from theyr superstytious and vngodly wayes in to the waye of the truthe there dyd breake in certayne false prophetes and false a postelles also with there peruerse and hypocriticall doctryne subuertynge the myndes of them that w t ioyfull hartes had receyued the glade tidynges of saluatin̄ delyueraunce These ar they y ● for their bealies sake dyd as a stormy wyndy tēpest trouble y ● peace vnite of y ● church sekīg their owne glori and promotiō imagynyng alwaies myscheffe in their hartes how thei coulde gette vnto them selfs by theyr pestiferous blandiloquēce and venymed flatterynge tonges moste shamefully and vntruly preferryng them selfs vnto the true a postlles and discyples of our lorde a perpetuall name memorye Agaynst them dyd y ● apostelles and speacially saynt Paule whome we maye right well call the standard bearer of our Chrysten religion wrytte very ernestly callyng them antichristes false prophetes and pseudoapostills callyng them euell workmen enemyes of the crosse and passion of christ as it appereth more euydently in the actys and in the epystylls that they haue wrytten and sent to sondrye and many churches to arme and fense y ● flock of christ agaynst such rauenyng wolfs Yet not w tstondynge after the departyng of the a postells that is to saye after y ● god had done hys blessed wyll w t them accordynge to the commen course of nature these false prophetes dyd so preualle agaynst the true doctryne of christ y ● in a maner these xii hunderd yeares fewe or none durst speake the truthe For as soone as any man by y ● inspiration and gyft of the holy gost dyd begyne in those dayes to preache the gosspell purely sincerely to the great glorye of god and edyfyeng of the church defending with the swerd of the spiritee that libertee and fryedome that christ with hys precyous bloode hath purchassyd vnto vs dyd not these hypocrites bryng all the world in to thraldome puttyng vpō christē menes neckes heauear ●urdēs of humayne traditious and ceremoniall dreames thā euer dyd the Iues beare whiche as saynt Augustyne sayth though they knew not the tyme of liber tye yet not w tstandyng war lodid and burdoned not with mēs presumptions but with y e burdens of the law onely by and by was he as a false heriticke or as he that hath kyllyd bothe father and mother most cruely put to death In so muche that the yearthly prynces whome with theyr abhomynabyll dysscimulation they had gotten on theyr sede blyndynge and poyseynynge them most subtillye craftely with the golden cuppe of y e purplyd hore of Babylone thought that they dyd a greate sacryfyce vnto god whan with all the tirannye that coulde be for these belys sake murthered and persequuted them whome god had chosē and sent to shewe vnto them the waye of truthe saluation But blessed be that bontuous lorde which hath not suffered the prynces whome by hys diuine prouidence he hath made ordoned to be supreme gouernors of hys church immedyatly vnder hym though by y ● tyrannicall power of those false prophetes antichristes they ware put by that superyorytye a greate whyle to erre and bee deceued any lōger but dyd most mercyfull opē their eyes to loke vpon that comfortable sonne of ryghtuosnes and lyght of the truthe y ● they myghte in these thyk darkenessys of thys wretched worlde be gydes vnto hys people to bryng them out of the egypte of ignorannycye and so leade them through y ● parylous desertes into y ● land of promiscion For the which thynges we are all greatly bounde to gyue dayly and hourley immortall thāckes vnto god and specially that of hys bountuous mere goodnes he hath gyuen vnto vs such of noble coragious prince which now in his tender years is so delegentli brought vp ī all godlynes vertuous learning that he hereafter as a nobyll Salomon shall w t all prudence and godly wysdome not onely shed the blode of them that dyd shede the innocent bloode but also buylde vp myghtely the temple of the liuing god Which thyng as dauyd in y ● olde lawe so nowe oure moste vyctoryus prynce Henrye the eyghte the father of this oure sofuerayne lorde kyng Edwarde the syxte wolde had done if god had not dysposed otherwyse with hym But thanckes be to god that he hath so well prepared all thynges before hys death and that he hath w t y ● tow edgged sworde of the spiritee cutted a waye alredy the bushes thornes and brembles that shuld had letted the buyldyng of the temple makyng the ground euen by abbatynge the pryde of these false a posteles and puttyng awaye by litell and litell the rubbyshe of vngodly traditions and vayne ceremonis Which thyng wyl be no smal spurre vnto our most sofuerayne lord kyng Edward the syxt to performe and bryng to prosperous and ioyfull ende that which hys louyng father hath begonne so godly And I doubte not but now god wyllynge who