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A10772	An exposition in the epistell of Iude the apostel of Christ wherein he setteth playnly before euery mans eyes false apostels, and theyr craftes, by ye which they haue longe receyued symple christian people.	Ridley, Lancelot, d. 1576.	1538 (1538)	STC 21042; ESTC S104543	43,103	150

many clerkes gyuyng to themselues vnder lead annuyte and exempcyon in so muche that it is not lawfull for Lyuyll offycers to meddell with a relygyouse mā or to correcte any fault of a religyouse man suche be their proude wordes of vanyte whiche they speake They haue men in greate reuerence because of auauntage These pseudapostels prayseth and laudeth men aboue the mone of whome they loke to haue lucre and vauntage be they neuerso euel neuer so wycked them they wyll prayse and laude them they wyll flatter sayenge good to be euell and euell good swet to be bytter and bytter swet darknes to be lyght and lyght to be darknes iustyfyenge the euell for money to whome the prophet Esay doth thret wo euerlastynge Esaie v. sayenge wo be to theym that sayth good is euell euell good swet to be sower and sowerswet darknes to be lyght and lyght darknes iustifyenge the euell for money these be flatterers whiche speake not those thynges whiche the Gospell teacheth but they speake flattery and those thynges that pleseth them of whome they hope to haue lucre vauntage or hye promotion or dignite Erasmus in his translacyon hath a meruaylouse worde he sayth they maruayle at or they haue persons in admiracion for a vauntage as who shulde saye they laude they praise they extol persons ye they make them halfe a god and all for lucre sake ye or equall with God and far aboue all men hath not the Popes decrees made the Pope aboue men and as he were a god loke in the decrees and ye shall fynde it Do not they make the pope as a god whiche geue authoryte to the bisshop of Rome to interpret holy scrypture after his pleasure and as he interpreteth scrypture that it muste nedes be taken and so vnderstande and that it is not laufull to discent frō his interpretacyon do not they make the pope as a god which sayth that he hath authorytie to bynde loose what he wyll in Heauen and in earth and at hys pleasure when the Bysshoppe of Rome or any other Bysshoppe can not bynde or lowse but after the wyll and pleasure of god do not they make the pope as a GOD which gyue lyke authoryte to the decrees of the pope as to goddes worde goddes commaundment these men I suppose deserueth a bysshoppryche or a cardynallshyp for their flattering for their lyes suche be they of whome Iude here speaketh whiche haue men in admyracyon for aduauntage But ye dearly beloued / remember the wordes which were spoken before of the Apostelles of our Lorde Iesus Christe / ho we that they tolde yo we / that there shulde be begylers in the laste tyme whiche shulde walke after their vngodly lustes Iude intendynge to make an ende of his pistell exhorteth them to whome he wrote to remember the wordes of the apostelles of oure Lorde Iesus Christe whiche sayde that there shulde come begylers and deceauers ye mockers skorners and despysers of Goddes worde whiche do despyse and set at nought the worde of god preferring mannes doctryne aboue the preceptes of God or at the leest makynge mannes worde equall with goddes worde to auoyde and fle these men and their false doctryne Iude here exhorteth thē and also when there shulde come suche men that wolde despyse and scorne goddes worde that they shuld knowe that to be the laste tyme and that these thinges were fulfylled whiche the Apostelles of oure Lorde dyd speake before these false prophetes dyd come that men monysshed of them before shulde better knowe them and auoyd them and be ware of theym and they re doctryne Here the apostell byddeth vs remēbre the wordes of the apostels of our lorde he byddeth vs not remembre this decre or that decre of the byshop of Rome to remembre this religyon or that religyon this custome or that custome this sayinge or that sayinge of the fathers but he byddeth vs to remembre the wordes of the apostels of our lorde and after these wordes to warke and lyue all our lyfe tyme. He byddeth not vs here loke what this coūcell or that coūcel haue decreed what the churche of Rome haue ordeyned what the religion of man hath inuented but what the apostels of our lorde Iesus Chryst hath cōmaūded vs in their writinges to be kepte and to be fled eschewed these thynges as necessary to be done other thynges as charitie of thy chrysten brother requireth Some there be that thynke this pystel was not written of the apostell of Iesus Chryst for these wordes that he exhorteth theym here to call to remembraunce the wordes of the apostels of Iesus Chryste To this may this answere be made that it may well stande togyther the author of this pystell to be an apostell of Iesus Christ and also that he exhorteth them to call to remembraunce the wordes of the apostelles of our lorde Iesus Christ and that for dyuers causes Fyrst that he dyd the same thynge here that the apostels of Iesus Chryst dyd as shulde appere by theyr wrytynges wordes Secondly to teache all other to confyrme theyr doctryne by the doctryne of Christ and his apostelles Thyrdely to confute the false doctryne of the pseudapostels whiche coulde not be proued by the wordes of Chryste and his apostelles his owne name or hym selfe he dyd not expresse because of humylitie In the laste tyme there shulde come begilers which shuld walke after theyr vngodly lustes He sayth begylers shulde come in the last dayes spoken of before of the apostelles of Iesus Chryst that men monysshed of theym shulde the better be ware of theym and of theyr doctryne But who be they whome the apostell monyssheth here them to take hede of and to be ware of Fyrst they be these that contempneth despyseth and maketh a scoffe of the teachynges of holy scripture and coūteth them as folyshnes and vanite mocketh and scorneth the sayinges of holy scripture and maketh holy scripture the professors of it theyr mockyng stocke at tauerne or alehouse at their ryot feastyng byddeth men sticke to their olde traditions of fathers saying all the olde shall come agayne I suppose they wold say the bysshop of Rome with all his traditions shall come agayn yf they durst say so but this thynge is to be coniectured they meane so saying Secondly these whiche lyue not after the wyll of god shewed in scripture but after their carnall desyre and lust doth lyue in ydelnes welth and pleasure nothynge regardyng the lyfe of the soule Thyrdly these whiche separate them selues from god and brynge in a newe secte denyeng the lord whiche hath bought theym of whome it is spoken ii Petri ii Fourthely these that be beastly men not vnderstādyng those thynges whiche are of god but whiche are of flesshe not beleuynge the great resurrection of all that be deed not beleuyng the iudgemēt of that great day not beleuyng any lyfe to be after this lyfe hauynge no faythe to holy scripture but beynge as horses and mules