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prince_n	ordinance_n	power_n	resist_v	2,543	5	10.0817	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00888	The Christian manuell, or of the life and maners of true Christians. A treatise, wherein is plentifully declared, how needefull it is for the seruaunts of God to manifest and declare to the world: their faith by their deedes, their words by their works, and their profession by their conuersation. VVritten by Ihon VVoolton minister of the Gospel, in the Cathedral church of Excetor.	Woolton, John, 1535?-1594.	1576 (1576)	STC 25976; Interim Tract Supplement Guide G.1999[2]	81,916	210

sober and watche because your aduersarie the Deuil walketh vp down like a roaring Lyon seeking whome he maie deuowre The fornycatour and adulterour or he that is spotted with any lyke cryme heareth That neither fornicatours nor adulterers neither softlings shall haue the inheritaunce of the kingdome of God. And againe For you knowe this no whoremonger nor vncleane person nor couetous man nor he that is a worshipper of Images shall haue any inherytaunce in the kingdome of God and Christ And Marriage is honourable amongst all men and the bed vndefiled but as for fornycatours and adulterers God wyll iudge them Those that neglect the workes of charitie heare Depart from mee you cursed into eternall fyre which is prepared for the Deuil and for his Angels For I was hungerie and you fedde mee not I was thyrstie and you refreshed mee not I was a straunger and you lodged mee not I was naked and you cloathed mee not I was sicke and you visited mee not To be short we repeate and vrge earnestlye that of the holy Apostle VVee shall all appeare before the Tribunall seate of Christ that euerie one maie receiue as he hath done in his bodie either good or euill Moreouer we admonishe and call vppon euery vocation for the fruites and vertues appertayning to theyr estate The Prince and Magistrate heareth You carie nor the sworde in vaine for the Magistrate is Gods mynister to punishe the euyll and to cheerishe the good And Princes are not a terrour to those that doo well but to those that doo euyll The subiecte heareth There is no power but it is of God whosoeuer therefore resisteth power resisteth Gods ordynaunce and wee ought not to obeye for feare onelye but also for conscience And againe Paie trybute to whome trybute belongeth The Husbande heareth You Husbandes loue your wyues and bee not bytter vnto them and so men ought to loue their wyues as theyr owne boddies The Wyfe heareth You VVyues be subiecte to your husbandes as vnto the Lorde because the Man is the vvomans headde and as the Churche is subiecte to Christ so ought vviues to bee subiect to their husbandes in all thinges The Parentes heareth Prouoke not your Chyldren to wrath but bringe them vppe in the dyscipline of the Lord. Chyldren heare Obeye your Parents in the Lorde The Seruauntes heare Obeye those that are your Maisters according to the fleshe vvith feare and tremblinge vvith symplycitie of your hartes as it vvere to Christe And Maisters heare You Maisters vse your seruaunts with curtesie and gentlenesse knowing that you haue a Maister in heauen The Preacher readeth Feede the flocke of Christe as muche as in you lyeth not takynge care thereof by coaction but vvyllynglye not desyrous of fylthie lucre but vvith a readye minde The Publycane heareth Requyre no more then that vvhiche is appoynted for you The Souldyour heareth Stryke no manne neyther speake euyll of any man but bee content vvith your stypendes These and many sutche textes of the same sorte wée repeate and inculcate moste earnestlye and with all our dilligence exhort the people to vertue and godlynesse whiche doo playnelye proue and argue that wée are free from those crymes which our aduersaryes moste vntruelye chardge vs with all There are some kynde of workes in déede that wée wryghte and speake againste because they can not bée accoumpted amongst the number of good workes and to the ende our dealinges herein may be more euident It shal not be from my purpose to dystinguyshe betwéene the diuerse orders of men bringing foorth good works and betwéene workes them selues whereby the processe of my matter wyll be more facill and easy and touching the persons workinge they maye bee reduced to thrée sortes Of the firste kynde are Myscreantes and vnbeléeuers not receyued in to Christs Church with any sacraments In whome the dignitye of naturall reason is not so dymly obscured but that most commonlye with great indeuour they conuert thinges externall honest and detest things dyshonest preferring with graue iudgement vertue to vyce as is most conuenyent Whereof the Apostle speaketh saying that the Gentils by nature doo those things whiche apperteyne vnto the lawe Wherefore albeit the workes of Heathen men are not to be compared wyth the good workes of faythfull men ingraffed in the Church of Christ yet for many causes and pryncipally for that without all controuersie all good gyfts and indewments euen in the Paynymes are Gods good gyfts they haue the tyttle and name of good workes in some respectes geuen vnto them Of the seconde sorte those are whoo haue receyued the Sacraments and are written as it wéere in the Regester booke of the Churche of God amongst whome there is also some dyfference for some are verye Atheysts and with theyr abhominable lyfe denye him in their déedes whome they confesse with theyr mouth and are in name onelye Christyans others are Hyppocrites making a shewe of good workes and couerynge the wyckednesse of theyr hartes wyth outwarde glosses not respecting Gods honor and glorye but that them selues maye bée séene and gloryfyed of men And fynally others doo good woorkes wyth a pure and syncéere harte procéedinge of fayth and feare of God hauing theyr eyes fyxed vppon Gods glorye and the profyte of theyr neighbour and in these the spyrite of God whiche they haue already receyued in Iustifycation and regeneration is fruitefull and effectuall Now let vs viewe these mennes workes that are in the fellowshippe and Communion of Christes church for of the workes of Infidels and Gentyles I wyl speake somewhat afterwarde Fyrst the Atheistes who thinke in theyr harte that there is no God doo loose the raygnes of lybertye to all fylthye luste and beastlye pleasure contempne all honest and godlye actions and with the Sicophants plainly grant VVee knowe no other God but our bellyes vnto vvhome vvee vvvll offer sacryfices Oxen Sheepe and all other delycious thinges Of the whiche Epecurysme the holye Prophete Dauid complayneth The foolyshe boddie hath sayde in his harte there is no God And afterwarde accuseth and bewayleth the pyttyfull corruption of humayne nature carying about daylye eyther ygnoraunce not knowing GOD or securytie neglectyng GOD or dystruste runnynge awaye from God of these mennes workes I shall not néede to speake any thing in this my exhortations to good workes séeing they bende them selues only to worke wickednesse Hyppochrites albeit nowe and then they shewe somme workes of mercye and pytie and obserue the commaundementes accordinge to the outwarde letter yet most commonly their whole studdye is occupyed about supersticious ceremonyes rytes and externall exercyses wherein they thinke that a Christyan mannes lyfe doeth chieflye consyst Of the which sorte are to goe in Pylgrimage barefooted hanging Iewelles vppon stockes and stones offering of incense and waxe Candles inuocation of Saintes and many other lyke toyes conioyned eyther with great impietye and Idolatrye or with great lyghtnesse