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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14354	A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.	Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562.; Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575. aut; Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567, attributed name.	1555 (1555)	STC 24673.5; ESTC S118516	95,107	174

withe the holy Angelles Therfor Paule that chosen vesell of Christe and a most faithfull teacher of the churche who gyueth euell councell to no mā neither leadith he ony man from the true waye it is saith he a true sayinge for if we be deade with hym we shall also lyue with hym if we be pacient we shal also raigne with hym If we denye hym he shall also denye vs. The same Paul to the Bebrues Call to remēberaunce saithe he the dayes that are passed in the which after ye hadd receyued light ye endured a great fighte of aduersities partely while all men wondered and ●…ased at yowe for the shame and tribulacion that was done vnto yow partely while ye became companions of them which so passed theyr tyme. For ye became partakers also of the afflictions which happened thorow my bondes ād toke in worthe the spoyling of your goodes and that with gladnes Knowing in yourselues how that ye haue in heauē a better ād an enduring substaunce Caste not awaye therfor your confidence which hath a greate recompense of rewarde For ye haue neade of pacience that after ye haue doone the will of God ye might receyue the promise For yet a very litill while and he that shall comme will comme and wyll not tarye But the iuste shall lyue by faithe And if he withdrawe hymself my soule shall haue no pleasure in hym It is not we that withdrawe oúrselues vnto damnaciō but we partayne vnto fayth to the wynning of the soule This truly is a sownde and wholsome doctrine to cleane faste vnto this is to pleas Godd and to glorifie hym adde also to promote the saluacion of the brethern Therfor whils theise men do replie what shuld come to the encreace of glorie of Godd or what commoditie shuld comme to Christe of thos my labors and daungers which I shuld sustayne for religion wittingly and willingly they do disproue the doctrine of the apostle which doth playnly witnes not in theis places only which we haue alledged but in many others also that both Godd is glorified by our sufferinges ād calamities which we do sustayne for religions sake and also that the weake brethern are therby edified of whom it is certayne that by dissemblinge and denyinge of Religion they be offended confirmed in ther errours and indeede destroyed For that most excellent prophete Dauid Righte deere saithe he in the sighte of the lorde is the dathe of his sainctes And sainct Peter saithe Dearly beloued maruayle not that ye are proued by fyre which thynge is to trye yow as though sum stran̄ge thinge happened vnto yow but reioyce in as mutch as ye are partakers of Christes passions that when his glorie appearith ye maye be mery and gladd If ye be rayled vpon for the name of Christe happie are ye for the glorie and the sprite of Godd restith vpon you On ther parte he is euill spoken of but on your parte he is glorified and so furthe And sainct Paule dothe pronounce that it is a most greuus synne if ony mā do offend the weake by his euell example Thy brother doth perish saithe he for whom Christe died When ye synne so against the brethern and wounde their weake conscience ye synne againste Christ. Again we are saied in the scriptures to haue saued hym whom we haue by sounde doctrine and our goode example either reteyned in the waye of the lorde or haue brought hym backe that wēt astraye But if a greater regarde is to be had of wife childrē and houshold then of pure religion so that for that regard religion seeme either to be dissembled or denyed Yfit be euill for religions sake to dissente from them that be of kindred and alliaunce yea and for religion to depart from a lawfull wyfe and in sum for faithe to disagree with all frēdes and familiars shall we saye that the lorde did teache euill which sayed in the gospell Thincke not that I am come to sende peace into the earthe I came not to send peace but a swearde For I am come to sett a man at variance against his father and the doughter against her mother and the doughter in lawe against her mother in lawe And a mānes foes shalbe they that are of his own housholde For frō hence forthe ther shalbe fyue in one howse deuyded thre against two and two against thre The father shalbe deuided against the sonne and the sonne against the father This is not spokē as though that dissension in it self did pleas Godd the autor of all peace but bicause he will haue that peace which stondithe vppon euell and wicked thinges broken and haue vs all conioyned in that which is holy and goode And therfor we do not allowe whē mariages frēdshippes and leagues are broken without necessitie and vnder an vntrue pretence of religion Agayn we do dissalowe thos which are kept againste the cōmaundement of Godd with playne hurte of true religion and open denyinge of the faithe All persons must bende themselues to peace and concorde so far as they maye with retayninge of sowndnes in religiō But whē it can not be retayned let none thincke that to keape peace with them 〈◊〉 he must cōmitt Idolatrie And therfor the Apostle of Christ saith If any brother haue a wyfe whiche beleauith not if she be contēt to dwell with hym let hym not putt her awaye rc But if the vnbeleauinge do departe let hym depart A brother or a Syster is not in subiectiō to such But Godd hathe called vs in peace Euen so truly it is an vnnatural thinge not to norishe the children or to neglect the aged parētes or to forsake frendes and familiars Godds worde doth euery wheare commaūde that we shuld do reuerence and dutie to them to whom by the lawe of Godd and man we owe it In which sense we do willingly admitte that sayinge of the Apostle That he which doth not prouide for them which be of his howshold both denieth the faith and is wors thē an infidele We do acknowledg that they are deuels and not men whosoeuer they be which do wickedly disturbe wel ordered policies ād howsholdes But yet in all theis we do also acknowledge this ād we se it taughte in the whole scripture as for an vndoubted truithe that the lord Godd is better thē all theise that the couenant and bonde of religiō doth excede all other bondes in the world And that the lord doth both so will and cōmaūde that we shuld esteame him aboue all thīges ād loue hym aboue al thinges and that when he speakith we all shuld holde our peace that there we shuld not thincke at all of coloured expositions and excuses but only of symple and playne obedience such as we reade that Abraham shewed vnto Godd whō Godd commaunding hym did go out of his countrie into a straunge lande and when he did not refuse to sacrifice vnto the lorde his only Sōne without