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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11430	A letter to the trew professors of Christes Gospell, inhabitinge in the parishe off Allhallowis, in Bredstrete in London, made by Thomas Sampson, sometyme their pastore	Sampson, Thomas, 1517?-1589.	1554 (1554)	STC 21683; ESTC S116470	12,610	27

blast of bourning heate / but they abide in Godes truthe / serchinge and learninge thesame in hys holy scriptures / and that with suche faithfull diligence and constante obedience / that if an aungell from heauen shal preache an other Gospel / they holde hym accursed Galat. 1. Yea / and thoughe there be many counterfaicie Christians / that fall awaye frome the Lordes truthe / yet abide they with Christe and saye Ioan. 6. Heare and kepe the vvorde off god Thou hafte the wordes of euerlasting lyfe Consider my deare brethren / that not too heare alone / but to kepe Christes woorde maketh a man happie And in kepinge the principall parte is too perseuer in the doctrine off truthe / thys maketh Christes disciples / this maketh you free / yea / thys is it / that maketh a man safe / for he that perseuereth too the ende / shal be saued Matth. 10 Thys also haue I written too exorte you / to kepe your selfes vndefiled frome all Popishe leauen / Note and bevvare yf ye do fall from the Gospell / and embrace Poperie / ye fall frome truthe to lyes / frome the woorde of lighte and lyfe / to darkenes and death / frome saluacion to dampnacion / from God too the deuell Luce. 11. Ye are then they / into whome the euell sprete reentreth with seuē worse then hym selfe / ye are then the folishe buylders whiche suffer the vnrecouerable ruin And as then with that filth that is in Popery / ye be defyled with it so of the dampnacion whiche is due to suche abhominacion / ye shall be partakers of it Christes death the Popish Masse can not agre together But if ye thinke that ye can bothe embrace Popery and the Gospel / ye do disceaue your selfes / for you can not bothe holde the taste off Christes deathe in your consciences / and alowe also that masse / whiche is the defacer of Christes deathe / you can not embrace the righte vse of the Lordes supper / and also vse and partake the horrible prophanacion of thesame Ye can not by faythe apprehende free iustificacion / and yet seke by your righteousnes and merites too be saued you can not accepte Godes written woorde / as the sufficient doctrine of saluacion and alsoo take mans doctrine and tradicions / as necessarie to thesame / and so forthe of the rest This can ye not do bothe / they are so contrarie Serue God accordinge to his vvorde But if ye coulde do it / yet may ye not do it / for God will none of your māgeled seruice / for as there is no cōueniēce betwene Christe and Beliall / so men must not halte on both sydes in Godes seruice / but eyther say that God is God / or els that Baal is god 2. Cor. 6. 3. Reg. 18 God neuer allowed that seruice of the Samaritaines / whiche both serued their Idols / and worshipped the lyuing God But if ye be turned to the Lord / then all straunge Gods muste ye cleane forsake The Lorde is God alone / alone therfore according to hys worde will he be serued Exod. 20 God is ouer mā a gelious God / wherefore he will haue whole man wholy to be hys alone / as our fyrst commādement teacheth vs. Agayne / if you thinke that in your hartes ye will serue the Lord / but yet ye will be and may be present in parson at their Idolatrie Fleshlij pollecie For your hart shal be in heauē This is but a fleshly policie / which fayleth as many as trust vnto it The masse is an vvhorish thefe How can you / too whome Christes deathe is deere abyde to se that whorish thefe / that stealeth from Christe the glory of his death Howe can ye / which haue ben and are ready to receaue with thankefulnes the Lordes supper according to Christes institucion / abide to se the horrible prophanacion thereof Harte and mouth must go together in matters of God And so forth of the rest But if your consciēce were suche that ye coulde thus do / yet knowe ye thys / that it is againste your Christian profession Rom. 10. For we are taughte / that too beleue with the hart / to confesse with the mouth maketh a man safe Bothe hartes belefe / mouthes confessiō must go together / whiche dothe not so in you / when inwardly ye are Gospelers / outwardly dessemblers with papistes Ye are bought with a pryce sayeth Paule glorify now God in your body and in your sprite / whiche are Gods 1. Cor. 6. Seinge both body an sprite are Goddes / not onelye by creacion / but bought also by redempciō / euen in the price of Christes bloude / ye can not with a dissembling pretēce / couple your bodies with papistes / for then ye do not glorifie God in your bodies We rede not that any chylde of God / vsed euer iustlye anye suche dissimulacion Examples of constanci in goddes vvorde dan. 6.14 Dan. 3. Daniel vsed none such and therfore was he sone accused of not adoring the kyng / Bel and the Dragon The thre chyldren / whether they came by cōpulsion / or came of their owne mynde / where the Idol was / dissembled not / for forth with they were accused as transgressors of the kynges commaundement Eleazarus wold not dissemble / eating euen of lawful fleshe 2. mach 6 These men glorified God in body sprite / these men beleued in hart / confessed with the mouth / so must you do / without any other muysinge / yf ye will do the office off Christians Of offence geuinge Note vvel And this to do not onely the profession of Christianitie enforceth / but Christian cheritie also Our doinges must be without offence geuinge But by thys dissembling a double stomble blocke is geuē whiche euen in thinges indifferent is to be auoyded For what though a Christian may eate frely of meates offered vnto Idols / yet if thereby an Idolater / whose conscience in hys supersticion / shoulde be confirmed therby / it were better neuer to eate fleshe And what though al thinges be clean to the clean to be eaten on all dayes with thankes geuing / yet better it is not to eate flesh / nor to drinke wyne Rom. 14 1. Cor. 8 then too offende thereby thy weake brother Note ye dissemblinge gospelers If this be to be obserued in thinges indifferente / howe muche more in thinges which are absolutely euell / must ye take heede that neither ye geue occasion off concerninge the conscience of an Idolatrie / nor yet of offending the weke to draw them to the leeke euell with you bothe whiche ye do / when bothe a papist and a weke brother seeth you as mingrels myngling your selfs with the Papistes in their Idolatrie As muche might I speake / howe that all thynges that ye do in the congregacion muste be done to edifyeng 1. Cor. 14 But of this to haue full instruccion Caluine I referre you to the mynde off mayster Caluine / lately trāslated printed in English Thus now I ende wishing you all well in the Lorde Godly exhortations Abide in hys truthe / kepe your selfes vndefiled Offer youre selfes hūbly to suffer all violence of blouddye lawes for the truthes sake / kepe safe your consciēces / thoughe the sworde taketh your lyues from you / suffer beare withal humblenes and quiet obedience Humble your selfes in vnfayned repentaunce before the Lorde / in the horrible plague of Popery / that of hys mercy he maye be moued to ende these dayes of delusion / and let your prayers alwayes ascend vp before the Lord / begginge of hym suche thynges as ye nede In which I besech you to praye also for me Youre louinge frend and orator Thomas Sampson The grace of our LORD Iesus Christ be with you all AMEN