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A18644	VVhether Christian faith maye be kepte secret in the heart, without confession thereof openly to the worlde as occasion shal serue Also what hurt co[m]meth by the[m] that hath receiued the Gospell, to be prese[n]t at Masse vnto the simple and vnleatned [sic].	Hooper, John, d. 1555.; Horne, Robert, 1519?-1580, attributed name.; Łaski, Jan, 1499-1560, attributed name.; Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564, attributed name.	1553 (1553)	STC 5160.3; ESTC S107292	4,678	14

¶ VVHETHER CHRIstian faith maye be kepte secret in the heart without confession therof openly to the worlde as occasion shal serue Also what hurt cōmeth by thē that hath receiued the Gospell to be presēt at Masse vnto the simple and vnlearned iii. Regum xviii Howe long halte ye on bothe the sides If the Lord be God thē walk after him but if Baal be he thē folow him Mathew vi chapter No man can serue two masters for ether he shal hate the one and loue the other or els he shal leane to the one and dispise the other Luke xvi chapi That which is high among men is an abhominatiō before god ¶ From Roane Anno. M.D.Liii the .iii. of October ii Cor. vi chap i. ¶ Bear not a straunge yoke with the vnbeleuers For what feloship hath righteousnes with vnrighteousnes what company hath light with darknes How agreeth Christ with Belial Or what part hath the beleuer with the infidel How accordeth the temple of God with images Ye are the temple of the liuing god as saith god I wil dwel in them and walke in them wyl be their God and thei shalbe my people wherefore come from amonge theim and seperate youre selues saith the Lorde and touch no vnclene thing so will I receiue you be your father and ye shall be my sonnes and daughters saith the almightie Lord. SAint Paule in the .x. to the Romaynes annexeth the faith of Christ in the hert wyth Confession of the mouth so that the one it semeth bi him cā be no more without the other then fire can be without heat saing these wordes the hearte beleueth to iustice the confession of the mouth is to saluatiō wherī he declareth that euē as the cause of our acceptiō through Christ is the confidence and faith of the heart in the promises of god so is the confessiō outwardly of the same faith by mouth the fruite that al christian faithful heartes bringe fourth throughe the same gifte of god And wher as this effect of cōfession is not there wanteth also the cause of confession whiche is true faith For as the tre is knowen bi hir fruites so is faith bi hir effectes And as the want of fruite is a demonstration that the tree is vnprofitable so the want of true cōfession of faith is a token that the faith is dead the ende of the vnprofitable tre is cutting down and casting into the fyre The ende of the fruitles faith is death and casting to eternal damnation wherfore S. Peter requiteth vs to make answer to euery man that demandeth of vs of such hope as is in vs with gentlenes reuerence which is a very testimony that we sanctify god in our hartes as it is before in the same chap. For the greatest honour that man can geue to god is to confesse and answer in the time of trouble truly and faithfully to his holy word and faith wherfore it is the dutie of euery christian to prai studie to haue a through knoledge of his faith in Christ and that as the glory of god shall require and his religiō attempt to be redy to make answer for the same whatsoeuer the world feare displeasure frendshippe or other lettes should saie to the contrary vpon paine saith Christ that i will denie him before mi father which is in heauen But how hard a thing it is to confesse Christ in the daies of trouble not onely the Scripture but also daily experience in good men women doth declare True confession is enuironed on euerye side with mani daungers on the right hand on the left hand nowe with faire meanes then with foul thretnīgs fearful dāgerous as it is said by Christ thei shal betraye you to the iudges and of theim ye shalbe beaten iudged to death On thother side shal pul vs backe the loue of wife children brother sister kīred frinds lāds the loue vnto our selues but he that is ouer come bi any of these meanes hath this iudgement He is not mete for me saith Christ. These thinges are vnpossible vnto men yet to christian men in Christ possible so necessary that christianitie and true religion cannot be in him that is afraide to confesse Christe and hys gospel in the time of persecution The wysdome of the world doth say although i do accomplish the desire of my frindes and to the sight of the world am presēt at the masse and with my body do as other men do or as i mai do yet my heart is clene contrary to their belefe and I do detest such idolatry and beleue that the thīg that i am present at is mere idolatri and abhomination Here be fair wordes for an euill purpose and a pretensed excuse for a iust cōdēnaciō before god For if it be true ye know the thīg ye resort vnto to be y ● dishonour of god why do ye honour it with your presence If ye know it to be euil why refrain ye not frō it If your conscience say it is idolatry why serueth your bodi such thinges as your faith abhorreth If in your heart ye knowe but one God whi with your external presence serue ye the thynge that ye know is not god If your faith see idolatri whi doth your silence cōfes profes the same Two mē in one god loueth not If the inward man know the truth whi doth the outward man confesse a falshod If the spirit be ꝑswaded that the masse is idolatri whi doth the corporal presēce vse it as god in doīg godly honour to it Do ye not perceiue what is writen in Esaie and s. Mathew This people honoure me with the mouth but their hartes be far from me The cause whi God was offended with this people was that outwardly thei confessed him but their heartes were farre from him inwardly wherof ye may se what it is to beare ii faces in one hode outwardly to serue god and inwardly to serue the deuil Now marke of this place If it bee so horrible and damnable a thinge to be false in the hert which none knoeth but God is worthi also of damnatiō what is to be iudged of the outward manifest vse of idolatry whiche not onely God but also eueri good man knoeth and abhorreth Ther is no coulered nor clooked hipocrisie that god can awaie with If the hearte thinke not as the tonge speaketh or elce the tonge speke otherwise then the heart thinketh bothe be abhominable beefore god Reade the .iii. and .vi. cha of the first Epi of s. Paul to the Corin. wher as S. Paul saith know ye not y ● your bodies be y e tēples of the holy gost if your bodies be the tēples of y e holi gost what agrement hath it with throughe thi knoledge shall that weake brother perishe for whom Christ died When ye sinne so against the brethren and wound their weake cōscience ye sinne

against Christ. This iudgement of s. Paull is more to be folowed then al our owne fained and wrested defences that woulde seme to do wel when we halt on both sides which god abhorreth Paull hath a profound and a deepe consideration of that mans fact that hath knoledge ād perceiueth his dissimulation to be dāgerus perilous to all ꝑsōs that he dwelleth withal First al such as be of a right staied iudgement will not prostrate their bodyes to an idol doth he cōdemne Secōdly by their such dissimulatiō the very idolaters them selues haue aconfirmatiō and defence of their abhomination by the ptesence of him that the Christen congregation knoeth to haue knolege Thirdly the weake sort that wold gladly take the best waye by a dissemblers halting and plaieng on both handes embraceth both in bodye and in soule the euil that he abhorreth in his heart that hath knowledge yet with presence honoreth it as other dooe that haue no knoledge If S. Paul said that the weke brother doth perish for whō Christ died ī him that abused knoledge in meates and drinkes that of themselues be indifferent how much more in the knoledge of him that vseth manifest idolatry forbidden of god as a thing not indifferent Take hede therfore what s. Paul meaneth what he wolde proue against this manne that had knoledge that nether the idol nor the meates dedicated to Idolles were anye thinge Forsoth this he wold proue that a poore mā that wanted knoledge by the example of him that hath knoledge dothe auēture to do euil which he wold not do in case he saw not those of whom he hath good opiniō go before him as author of the euil And in dede when the ignorant people or those that be halfe perswaded in a truth yea or else throwly perswaded what is euil yet whē thei haue anye notable men or wemen for an example to followe Thei thinke in following of theim thei be excused yea although peraduenture thei do it against their conscience as ye may se by the example of Peter how mani good men began to dissemble yea Barnabas himselfe Thapostle of the Gentiles But howe great offence this is before God so to make a doubtful and relucting conscience to do any thing that is not godly let the iudgement of men passe and measure it by gods word Christ saith it were better a milstone were hanged about such an offenders neck and caste into the sea And doubtles the pain must be the greater because we geue offence wittinglie against our owne consciences and this before God is a wicked knoledge that causeth another to perish wo be to him that is learned to bring his brother to destructiō Doth a christian manne know the truth to bring his brother to a lye for those weaklinges that we make to stumble Christ died for as S. Paule saith God defende that we should confirme any mans conscience in euil Let euery man of God weie with himselfe the Doctrine of s. Paule that commaundeth vs to flie from idolatrye And marke what s. Paule in that place calleth idolatry It is to bee sene plainly that he speaketh not of such idolatri as men that lack knoledge in their hearts what God is what is not god For in the .viii. chap. before he saithe that menne knowe that the idols wer no gods that althoughe by name the Gentyles had mani gods yet thei knew ther was but one God Therfor he meaneth nothinge by this commaundement flie idolatry but to auoyd such rites ceremonies vsages as outwardly were vsed in the honor reuerence of the idols that wer not god And weiing the right vse of the Lordes Supper and the dignitie therof with the maner vse of the gentiles toward their gods would bring the church of the Corinthians to vnderstand how that as the deuine and sacred rites ceremonies and vse of the blessed sacrament of Christes body bloud did sacrate sanctify and declare him that vseth it to be the seruāt and childe of god so did the rites and sacramentes of the Gentiles define and declare the vses therof to be the seruauntes children of the idolles notwithstandinge in their hert thei knew wel inough the idoll was nothing God bi his sacramētes doth couple vs to him selfe Let vs praye to him that we pollute not our selues with any rites ceremonies or vsages not instituted by god In this case a faythful man to be at the Masse is to be considered with what mind those that there he accompanieth himself withal commeth thither and what the ende is of the work that the priest doth The people come to honour the bread and wyne for god and the prist purposeth to cōsecrate both god and man and so to offer Christ to the father for remission of sinne Nowe doe those that adioyne thēselues vnto these people professe and declare a sosietie and felowship of the same impietie as s. Paul laid to the Corinthians charge S. Paull was not offended with the Corinthians because thei lacked knoledge of the true God but because contrary to their knoledge thei associated thēselues with idolatores For this is true ▪ that in all rites sacramentes and honoringes whether thei be of God or of the Deuill there is a profession of the communion so that anye man protesteth to be of the same religion that the rest bee of that be partakers with him I do knowe there bee manye inuasions made by men that teach a manne with safegard of his conscience to be at Masse but forasmuch as Master Caluin Master Bullenger and others haue throughly answered theim suche as bee in doubt may rede their bookes This is a true confession and consonant to goddes holy worde Deu. vii mat viii i. Corin iii. vi Leniti xxvi ezechie xxxvii esai lii Rom. x. Pe. iii Mark viii Luke ix·xii Mat. x Luke xiii esay xxix ezechi xxxiii Mat. xv Math. xv Esay xix Ese xx ●ii i. Corint iii. .vi. Gala. ii mat xviii ii Cor. vi