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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

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were wyse ynough of her self in godly matters to what ende then shulde God haue sent Christe the Apostles What nede shuld we haue of the holy scriptures Naye whosoeuer wyll neyther fayle nor erre must nedes loke on Goddes worde euen there no where elles shall he fynde the right truthe and the ryght waye We reade that Christ is the lyght Iohn ● to illumyne the worlde wherof it must nedes followe that she is darke ignoraūt in godly matters And Iohn .xiiij. Ioh. 14. sayth Christ I am the waye the truthe and the lyfe no man cometh vnto the father but by me But what maner of light waye he is and howe a mā may obtayne hym for his owne must be learned onely out of the gospell And Paule saith .ij. 2. Tim. 3 Tim. iij. That the scripture is able to instructe vs vnto saluation Is not this cleare plain ynough that whosoeuer wil knowe the truthe how he shal be saued must learne it out of the scrypture He saith not that he shall folowe hys owne mynde and good intencion Moreouer Moises writeth Deu. xij Deu. 12. that nomā shall do what semeth hī good whiche is as much to say he that will do well be good righteous serue God must learne it of God in his worde and not of his owne wysdome or of menne And Christ sayth Mat. 15 that God is worshypped in vayne wyth mennes preceptes this is spoken playne ynough Yf ye will serue God truely than do it not wyth mennes tradicions for it is in vayne But do it accordinge to the worde of God and than can ye not erre nor do amysse For asmuche nowe as no man by his owne inuented wayes mannes institutions can truely serue God be delyuered from his synnes and be made righteous but muste before all thinges haue Christe to the same We wyll shewe and declare howe and after what sorte the same is done whereby euerye man shal easely perceiue what an Erronious doctryne hath ben preached a great whyle in the Christianitie Therfore note that a man maye be made good and ryghteous after two sortes Marke well First before the worlde euē as a scole-maister kepeth a boye in awe and constrayneth hym weth the rodde and feare of correction to walke regularely and to hurte noman or euen as a magistrate correcteth the euyll doers so strayghtly that the many mē outwardely leade an honeste lyfe for feare of punisshemēt they steale not they kyll nomē they paye theyr debtes they are not ouerous to their neyghbours neyther concernynge his body wyfe nor chylde so that it may be saide they are good honest men suche behaueour and honest conuersacion is good and God doth also require it Therfore hath he in the worlde ordeyned the sworde to the temporall powers Sapi. 6. Rom. 13. 1. Petr. 2 Titu 3. Pro. 20. and. 24. and chastysement of children to thintent that the people maye leade an honest good and stil lyfe not after their owne lustes but that they maye be compelled so to walke that the neighbour maye perceyue it that good peace and outwardely and honest conuersacion maye continue amonge men But yet this is nothynge elles but worke holynes cyuyle policye and wordely ryghteousnes whiche also may be founde well ynough amonge the infydelles which through the lawe of nature in their opinion iudge it good righteous that a man leade an honenest lyfe and conuersacion committe none adultery do no murther steale not lye not and deceaue no man c. to saye for there is no thefe hanged for his thoughtes because he mindeth or intendeth to steale as longe as he doth not accomplysshe the dede But all this is not suffycient before God for he seeth in the harte and wyll that men shall behaue them selues godly in truthe and from the botome of the harte so that the harte mouth and hāde be good ryghteous When is that done Whan ye haue a luste in youre harte to be honeste sober chaste frendlye towardes all men And whan ye haue a lothsomnes and prkesomnes to euil as dronkenes vnclenlynes thefte maliciousnes murther and suche lyke But this is nature not able to do of her selfe Iob. 4.15.25 Psa 14.53 143 Rom. 3. Psal 51. because that the lust of euyll cleaueth so fast vnto vs frō our original natiuite powred into our nature through the fyrste synne in so moch that the scripture doth openly call vs euill peruerse euen from our mothers wōbe Therfore must the harte fyrst be clensed from such vnclenlynes gette pure thoughtes lustes and affections afterwardes may a mā do right good workes than is a man made right good righteous both inwardely and outwardely Nowe teacheth the scrypture that our hart is purifyed by none other thynge but by the true faith in Christe Actu xv Faith commeth by the workinge and illuminatiō of the holy goost Actu 15. by the hearynge of the gospell Rom. x. Rom. 10 Wherfor he that wyll truely be made righteous must purely and syncerely heare and receyue the gospell of Christe or elles he cōtinueth a natural man without grace What is the gospell Marke well It is a predication of Christe what he is and what he doth Math. 9 and .15 Luc. 19. Ioh. 3.12 Roma 5 1. tim 1.2 1. Ioh. 4 Gene. 2. Rom. 6. and .5 as that he was sent from the father of mere loue and fauoure to helpe the synner But howe doth he helpe The synner stycketh faste in synne which he can not amende or put out him selfe he stycketh in death for death is the rewarde of synne Whosoeuer committeth sinne hath after the righteous iudgement of God deserued to dye both temporally and perpetually and to be the deuils owne vnto damnaciō out of which captiuitie noman is able to escape by hys owne power or strēght Man is in such myserable and pyteous case because of his fyrst birth of Adam 1 Co. 15. that he is a synner borne condemned to death and damnation captiue vnder the power of the deuyll in the kingdome of darkenes with body and soule to euerlastinge payne Nowe yf there shulde come a man and paye for the sinne which is deathes stinge and make vs cleane ryghteous destroye the fearfull death make that we myght lyue for euer in body and soule ouercome the deuill make vs fre from his power so that neyther synne deuyll nor death might hurte vs animore were not this well holpen Nowe are not we able to do the same neyther any angell but onely God can do it wyll also do it wherfore he hath sent his onely begotten sonne to become man euen as we a very man in all pointes onely synne excepte which dyed for oure synnes and hath by the onely sacryfyce of his body vpon the crosse and the shedinge of his bloude made amendes for oure sinnes made a perfect satisfaction reconsiled vs to
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