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Our sauiour Iesus Christ hath not ouercharged his chirche with many ceremonies
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Joye, George, d. 1553, attributed name. aut
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had delyuered this doctryne concerning the christeÌ„ religioÌ„ and the discipline of the sacramentes priuatly to his disciples and openly to all men dispersed thorowe Galyle and Iewrye and also after that he had purged by his innocent dethe on the crosse the sinnes of the hole world What thinges were delyuered vnto the chirche by the holye goste was bureyd the third daye he ryseth from dethe and by .xl. dayes he apered to his disciples and leste thei shuld haue douted of his resurreccion he shewed himself vnto them by many euident profes himselfe verelye to haue had rysen from dethe in the mean tyme geuing also precepts vnto the apostles of the chirche or coÌ„gregacions to be called togither and constituted thorowe out all the worlde and thus all thingis finisshed he is asceÌ„ded into heuen and sitteth in glorye at the right hande of the father And the precepts which he gaue vnto his were of this maner That thei shuld go forth into all the rownd world and preche his gospell that is repeÌ„taÌ„ce and remissioÌ„ of sinnes in the name of christe and that thei shuld also baptyse the beleuers therof teaching them to kepe all thingis which himself had commauÌ„ded them By the which thing verely he signified the moste ê‘fit kynde of techinge to be delyuered to them For that at he addeth Thei shuld abyde and wait for the coming of the holy goste pertayneth to that purpose vnto the which many meÌ„ violently pluk it as thoughe this holye goste shuld haue delyuered to them a nother news and more large doctryne theÌ„ Christe had before taught them For euen himselfe openly sayd in his gospell He shall not speke out of him self but all thingis what soeuer he hath herde shall he speke agene IoaÌ„ xvi He shall receyue it out of my precepts and doctrine and so shall he shewe it vnto you Agene That same counforter and techer euen the holy spirit whom the father shall sende in my name he shall teche you all thingis and shall laye vpon your hertis impriÌ„ted theryn faste all those things what soeuer I haue tolde taught you Lo he sayth he shall teche you all thingis and because thei shuld not vnderstonde it of any new doctrine or thinke that Chryst perchaunce had not taught them all thingis necessary for theirs and owr saluacion but had left out some vnwriten verites He addeth for a more declaracioÌ„ And shal all those thingis prynte in your hertis the which I my self tolde and spake vnto you Wheresoit folowthe that owr Lorde Christe taughte them all thiÌ„gis but by the reason of their infirmite and weaknes those all thingis or els many of them thei had foregoten so that it was necessarye for them those lessons by the holy spirit to be called agene and beaten faster into their myndes and memory there depelyer to be infastened euery thing fullyer at large to be explicated declared But now lest any man shuld doute of these thingis we wyll gladlye also gather agene togither into a some what thingis the apostles aftir thei receyued the holy gost gaue deliuerd to the chirchis to be obserued What the apostles delyuered vnto the chirche And that we might begyn this demonstracioÌ„ eueÌ„ of S. Peter Ye shall see that he was called forth on a tyme vnto Cornelye the capitayn of the Italyk legioÌ„ For the angell of the lorde had told him that he shuld sende men vnto Ioppen called now porte Iaph and call SymoÌ„ peter Actu x. For he shall tell the what thou muste do Which when he was called now comen and shuld tell him what he shuld do he prescribed him no nother thynge els then that he muste beleue in Iesus Christe For he prechid not els to him but chryst eueÌ„ to be crucified for vs buryed and the thirde daye to haue had rysen from deth yea and himself in the same his preching witnesseth himselfe not to haue had receiued any thing els of the Lorde to be preched saying The Lorde commaunded vs to preache to the people and to testyfye that it is he which is constituted of god to be iuge of the quyk dede Vnto this maÌ„ all the prophetes bere witnesse that who so beleue he shall receiue remission of his sinnes thorow his name Who here of I praye you vnderstaÌ„de the apostles not to haue had delyuered anye wother thingis to the peple dispersed thorow out the worlde then the same which thei receiued delyuered to them of the lorde Who seeth not thissame tradicion and doctryne delyuered to be sufficient vnto saluacioÌ„ to be obtayned and vnto the perfitfull religion of christe For the angell tolde him clerely that Peter shuld shew him what he muste do And Luke added by by what he shewed and prescribed him euen nothing els then that at is expowned and layd forth in these fewe wordis And a non he baptised him with his familye Peter thrusted in nothing into Cornelius of any auriculare confessioÌ„ nor of any puate absolucioÌ„ he taught him nothinge of cases reserued to the Pope He forgote satisfaccion indulgeÌ„cis pardons and popisshe penaunce to be enioyned him He deliuered him nothing of merites and celebracion of mysses or of vowes of chastite to be payd and kept Nothtng of inuocacion of sayntes nor worshiping of images he coÌ„maunded him nothing concerning pilgrimages to Rome or to Hierusalem no mencion of matens eueÌ„song ladypsalters sensing candies processions nor yet of holy brede nor holy water nor asshes but he preched him Christe playnly and in him onely he shewed him all thiÌ„gis And eueÌ„ the same Peter the most constant and feruent affirmer and defender of the simplicite and playnesse of the faith doctryne of christe in the counsel holden at Hierusalem in the which this question was treated Whether onely faith iustifieth and whether the workes of the lawe called good werks shuld be ioyned to faith vnto the ê‘feccioÌ„ of a christeÌ„ man he riseth vp with great grauite pronounceth into these wordes Ye men and brethern ye knowe that of the olde tyme god chose out among vs that throrow my mouthe the gentyles shuld here the worde of the gospell beleue it Acts. xv And god which knowth mens hartis hath testifyed vnto theÌ„ geuing them the holy goste as well as vnto vs no difference putting betwixt vs and theÌ„ when by faith he hath purifyed the hertis of them Nowe therefore wherefore tempte ye god that anye yoke shulde be layd vpon the neckis of the disciples which nether owr fathers nor we haue ben able to beare But by the grace of owr Lorde Iesu christe we beleue to be salued euen as thei beleued and were saued Hitherto haue we recyted the wordis of saynt Peter Here he saith there is but one and that is a sewer and certayne waye vnto saluacion but one that the moste full and perfit forme of iustifying euen by the grace
hath not the sone hath not life Vnto the which saingis iustely agreeth eueÌ„ the same that s. Paul ê“powned with a meruelous euidence vnto the Ephesiens God to haue rehersed and as in brief some brought it and in Christe concluded so that nowe oute of this same only Christ as it were oute of the barne of all goodnes men myght fetche the thynge which before as it were by pece mele was fetched out of many sondry partes of scripture yea and euen the Lorde Iesus himselfe in Mathew dampneth and techeth vs to auoid and abhor these men who soeuer thei be which deuyde the myndes of the faithfull and induce them vnto many and dyuerse thinges as necessary or profitable vnto thobteyning of saluacioÌ„ For if any maÌ„ saith he tell you Lo here is Christ or there is he beleue him not For ther shall aryse false anoynted and false prophetes shall shewe forth tokens prodygiouse wonders so that if it were possible euen the very elect might be brought in to erroure Math. xxiiij Take heed sayth Christe for I haue now told it you before If therfor they tel you Lo he is in the deserte solitary places of religioÌ„ go not once forth or say see he is in the secrete places as in the pÌ„uey pixe and secrete ciborye beleue it not What theÌ„ shall the faithfull soule do He shall depende of the mouthe and grace of the onlye Lorde which hath coÌ„maunded his chosen tobe ware and auoide these maner abhominable deceytes of men sondrelye knittinge smytinge and diuidyng into many opinioÌ„s the hertes of the faithfull with this wyked scysme and hath set forth before vs himself onely the teacher of the trwth and in fewe wordes thexpiacion of synnes purging from the same euen the mercy seat of grace and forgiuenes in euery necessite to be sought and to flye vnto him For this is eueÌ„ he that same master geuen vnto all the worlde whych also hath dyed for vs yea and euen he that is rysen agene vnto life and sitteth on the ryght hande of god there makinge continuall intercession for vs being that onely all alone perpetuall preist with onelye one sacrifyce for euer finisshing and perfet making them which ar sanctified Euery man I suppose clerely vnderstondith and perceyueth it wel that in and for Christe the father hath geuen vs all thinges All men see what maner teching was the doctrine of the Lorde coÌ„cerning owr saluacion wherby we be iustified and who is the life of the faithfull a doctrine I saye which is short and brief but yet clare manifest full and perfet in euery parte Hitherto perteynith also his tradicion of the benefittes good will to be geueÌ„ forth of the prayers of the faithfull and of fasting and chastysing of the bodye eueÌ„ siche doctrine as is bothe brief and cleare as ye may see in Mat. vi cap. hauing nether any difficultye nor burden Which tradicion and doctrine of christe notwithstoÌ„ding yet apereth intolerable vnable to be expressed vnderstaÌ„deÌ„ of the laye peple if thou estemest it of the disputacioÌ„s of sophisters take it at the subtile setting forth of the scolastical scolders Here folowe all the Sacraments that Christe delyuered to his chirche Now as towching the sacraments very fewe they were which the Lorde commytted vnto his chirche euen onely these tweyne baptisme and the signe or remembraunce of his body and blode For as for Iohn his baptisme he dyspiced it not but with the sâ—â—e himselfe was sanctified And eftesone after he sending his disciples into all the worlde to preache his gospell and to declare it vnto all nacioÌ„s and gentyles sayd See that ye be going to teache all the gentyles or nacions who soeuer thei be baptising them in to the name of the father the sone the holy gost In which institucion thou shalt neuer fynde any thing ether harde or heuye or not playnly spoken and expressed And as for himself whiles he lyued vpoÌ„ the erth and layd forth the holsome preching of the gospell baptysed noman but his disciples he commanded to baptise For the worde of god is more beter and more preciouse then the sacrmentes yea and faith its elfe is more noble then the sacrameÌ„tes Hebre. xi For with oute faith it is vnpossible for eny man to please god And with out faith sacramentes may be ministred but ê“fit shall thei not Furthermore the souper the Lorde himselfe did firste institute and celebrate it in no costely aparell nor in any 〈◊〉 〈…〉 as thei saye ornoweriÌ„g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his table with any ryche iewelle 〈◊〉 chalesses images candle stikis 〈◊〉 cÌ„ There were no glitering golden noâ— syluer sewtes nor preciouse vessels no 〈◊〉 made onerouse charcheable nor harde for any man but all was playne simple easy to be had moderate sobre deceÌ„t and honest For Christe in that sober souper with brede and wyne bothe testifyed and preched vnto vs the mysterye and benefit of owr redempcion and commended and lefte vnto his peple the remembrance of his deth and the coÌ„corde and mutual amyte vnuiolable and perpetuall amongst vs to endewre Nether did he here spinosely that is to saye thornisshely sherpely perplexly with confusion and accombrance of owr wittis and playne vnderstanding subtily and magistrally as the dunre men speke bring in these dede dreames of thys holy sacrament which were and ar woÌ„te now a days to be disputed in scholis vnyuersites and freerly in doctorissh popissh pulpittis As whether there be the very reall â— substanciall body of Christe really naturally substancially corporally as longe as brode as thyke as heuey I can not tell what nor howe as he haÌ„ged on the crosse And agene what into what thing is coÌ„uerted whether brede is turned into nothinge or in to Christus body what substance abideth still and remayneth what substance is loste or ceasseth to be and in so ceassing from his owne substance whether it be nothing at all the accidents that is to saye whightnes lightnes heuynes taste breking baking cÌ„ whether thei there abide still with out substance and whether he be whol with all his membres in the wholl sacrameÌ„t or brede and wholl in euery peese broken whether one bodye may be in heuen and erth and in a thousande places at once And howe so grete a bodye may be wholl in so lytle a crome of breade And whether there be his gloriouse immortal impassible bodye or his body mortall and passible as it was in his souper sittynge with his disciples But Christe at his souper taughte theÌ„ playnely the ferme faith in and to beleue in god he disputed of brotherlye loue clerely and treated of the remission of synnes of pacience and constancye in aduersite and preched them of the adsewered certayn hope of that blessed lyfe to come For these thynges ar holsome and aperteyning to owr saluacioÌ„ to the knowlege of god these thingis requyreth he of his peple WheÌ„ owr Lorde Christe