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The Ordenarye for all faythfull Chrystiãs to leade a vertuous and Godly lyfe here in this vale of miserie / translated out of Doutche into Inglysh by Anthony Scoloker. A Right goodly rule howe all faithfull Christians shall occupie and exercise them selves in their daily prayers
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Scoloker, Anthony, fl. 1548.
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STC 5199.7; ESTC S3070
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The ordenaRye for all faythfull ChrystiaÌs to leade a vertuous and Godly lyfe here in this vale of miserie ¶ Translated out of Doutche into Inglysh by Anthony Scoloker ¶ i. Cor. vij ¶ Let euerie one abyde in the calling wherin he is called IMPRINTED at Ippeswych / by Anthony Scoloker Dwellyng in S. Nycholas Parryshe Anno. 1548. ¶ Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum ¶ To the christen Reader PAule good Christen reader the fyrst to Timothe the seconde chapter / speaking of our great graundmother Eue / who after that she was deceaued and subdued vnto the transgressyon / brought forth death vppon all her posterite declareth / that to heale so great a wounde / and to appeare beautifully in the eyes of the mightie Lorde whose dere sonne Iesus Christ sayde 2. Timo. 2. Iohn 27. Father those that thou hast geuen vnto me I will that where I am they be also with me / that they maye see my glorie After the first rudiment of a Chrstian the which is faith iij waytyng virgins / ought to be attendaunt ande seruiceable vnto him / that in this vale of miserie inteÌdeth to leade a parfect life / Loue holines and discretion Vnder the which discretion as it maye be gathered by the properte of the Greke terme iÌ that place are comprised chastite / temperaunce / modesté and deceÌt shame fastnes / because all these vertues are alwayes coherent ande Ioined to gether sophroline And holines / like as she requireth to flie froÌ all vice / so doth she require the exercise of all vertuous workes and doinges that procede effectually froÌ faith / thorowe loue That the name of him maye be sanctified who sayde vnto his father I haue declared vnto theÌ / thy name And will declare it / that the loue wherwith thou hast loued me / maye be in them and I in them Ioan. 15. Wherfore that by loue / the duetie of all men from the lowest to the highest maye be knowen from the one to the other / reade ouer this lytle booke / that walkinge in the daungerous patthes of this exile thou mayest knowe howe to be trained vnto the mansyon place / prepared vnto the rightuous that neuer shall haue ende Howe the spirituall Prelates ought to vse theÌ selues towardes the Comune People BEholde / I sende you forth as shepe amonge wolues Math. 10. b Go ye your waye ande teach all nations and baptyse them in the name of the father / and of the sonne / aÌd of the holighoost Math. 27. c And teache them to kepe all thinges / what soeuer I haue commaunded you Iohn 15. b. Col. 1. a. Yea haue not chosen me / but I haue chosen you / and ordeined you / that ye go / and bringe forth frute Iohn 25. c. Act. 1 â and 2. â And ye shall beare me witnes / not onelie at IerusaleÌ / but also through oute the lande of Iury / and Samaria / and to the vttermust coastes of the earth Ioan. 20. c. Receyue the holyghoost Whose synnes soeuer ye remit / they are remitted vnto them ande whose synnes soeuer ye retaine / they are retained Mat. 18. b. Math. 16. c. Verely I saye vnto you what soeuer ye shall binde vppon earth / shal be bounde also in heauen / and what soeuer ye lowse vppon earth / shal be lowsed also in heaueÌ Act. 20. d. Take hede vnto your selues / and to all the flocke / amonge the whiche the holyghoost hath set you to be Bysshoppes / to fede the congregation of God / whiche he hath purchased with his owne bloude Ephes 4. a. Iesus christ which came downe from heauen / ande is gone vp againe aboue all heauens to fulfyll all / hath set some to be Apostles / some to be Prophetes / some to 1. Cor. 12. c. be Euangelistes / some to be shepheardes and teachers / wherby the saintes might be coupled together / thorowe comeÌ seruice to the edefying of the body of Christ A Bisshoppe must be blamelesse 1. Tim. 3. a. Leuit. 21. b. Ezec. 44. d. Tet. 3. b. The husband of one wife sober / discrete / manerlie / harberous / apte to teache / not geueÌ to moche wine / no fyghter / not geuen to fylthy lucre / but gentle abhorring stryfe / abhorring conuetuousnes / and one that ruleth his owne house honestlie / hauing obedieÌt children with all honestie For yf he can not rule his owne house / howe shall he care for the congregation of God The seruaunt of the lorde ought not to striue / but to be gentle vnto euerye maÌ / apte to teache / one that can forbeare the euell / one that can with mekenes enforme them that resyst / if God at any tyme wyll giue them repentaunce for to knowe the trueth / and to turne againe from the snare of the deuell / which are holden in pryson of hym / at his wyll 2. Tim. 2. c. Gal. 6. a Preach the woorde / be feruent be yt in 2. Tim. 4. a season or oute of seasoÌ / Improue / rebuke / exhorte wyth all longe sufferynge aÌd doctrine For the tyme wyll come / whan they shall not suffere wholsome doctrine / but after theyr owne lustes shall they whose eares ytche get theÌ an heape of teachers / and shall turne theyr eares from the trueth / and shal be geuen vnto fables But watch thou in all thinges / suffer aduersytie / do the worke of a preacher of the Gospell / fullfyll thyne offyce vnto the vttermust Pro. 27. c. Ioh. 10. a See that thou knowe the nombre of thy cattell / and loke well to thy flokes Tito 1. b A Bysshoppe must cleaue faste vnto the true woorde of doctrine / that he maye be able to exhorte with wholsome learning / and to improue them that saye against it 1. Pet. 5. c. Act. 5. c. Act. 20. d. The Elders which are among you I exhorte / whiche am also an Elder / ande a witnes of the affliction in Christe / ande partaker of the glory that shal be opened Fede Christes flocke which is amoÌg you / ande take the ouersyght of them / not as though ye were coÌpelled therto / but willinglie / not for the desyre of fylthy sucre / but of a good minde / not as though ye were lordes ouer the parysshens / but that ye Tit. 2. a. be an ensample to the flocke Who soeuer wil be great amonge you / let hym be your minister / and who soeuer wil be chefe let hi be your seruaunt Mat. 20. a. Euen like as the sonne of man came / not to be serued but to do seruice / and to gyue hys life to a redemption for many Mat. 10. a. Go and preache the Gospell / sayinge The kingdom of heaueÌ is at hande Heale the sycke / clense the lepers raise the deade / cast out the deuelles Frelie ye haue receiued / frely giue againe