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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05400	A treatise of the right way fro[m] danger of sinne & vengeance in this wicked world, vnto godly wealth and saluation in Christe. Made by Th. Leuer, and now newly augmented. Seene and allowed, according to the order appointed.	Lever, Thomas, 1521-1577.	1575 (1575)	STC 15552; ESTC S106915	50,750	138

yoke of the law to force men thoroughe feare to fall into Desperation which should by the libertie of the Gospell be allured of loue to walke in the way of saluation And it is a perillous presumption of man with gréeuous offence against God and a great blemishing of the gospell to renue the same or deuise any other such like sacrifices or Ceremonies as God hathe now once abolished by the light of the gospel And finally there can be nothing more contrary vnto the truth of god the comfort of man than to imagin any bodily presence of Christ vpon earth with men vnto whome he sayde it was expedient that he shuld depart from them for else the holy Ghost the comforter should not come vnto them But if I depart sayth Christ I will send him and he when he commeth shal reproue the worlde of sinne of righteousnesse and of iudgement but he shall comforte you and hée shall remayne with you For beholde through his power and presence you preaching the Gospell haue me alwayes wyth you in all tymes and places euen vnto the ende of the worlde Thus therefore it is euident howe that al other things did serue in other times and places so that now remaineth vnto vs only the Gospell of Christe with suche spiriall presence of Christe as is the power of God vnto the saluatiō of all that do beléeue For all that do beleeue the Gospel be made children of God to enherite his heauenlye kingdome membres of Christes mysticall body to be liuely stones of an holy churche and temple garnished not with golde siluer copper or colour in caruings or paintinges to please the eyes of men but with holynesse and righteousenesse acceptable afore god The goodly costly ornamentes deckings of the tabernacle of Moses of the temple of Salomon curiously wrought by the hands of cunning workmen serued but for a season coulde no longer continue either to please God or profit man But faith which worketh by charitie is in hearing of the gospel wrought in the harts minds of men by the inspiration of the holy gost with beautiful frutes of charitable works shall alwayes shyne and set forth the glory of God in the church of Christe for Christes churche is the elect kinred the Kingly Priesthood the holie assemblie and the peculiar people which God hath called oute of darknesse vnto his maruellous light for to shewe and set forth his vertues They be surely built vpon the foundation of the Prophetes and the Apostles fast framed vnto the heade corner Christe in faithe euer working and fashioning them by charitie so conformably vnto the example and doctrine of Christe set forth by the Prophets Apostles and Euangelists that al diuelish deceytfulnesse in the world can neither blynde nor bring them to mistake and forsake their Lord and sauiour Christ ▪ and his holy Catholike Church for they in Faith doe euer sée the face of Christe and the forme and fashion of Christes churche in holy Scriptures euen so as God by his worde dothe sufficiently shewe to be séene knowne and reuerenced of all men at all tymes and in all places But suche men as care not for the scriptures can not cléerely sée or knowe any thing that is good and godly but boldly and blyndely in all thinges misiudge mystake and mislike Christ and his holye Churche according vnto the common custome and mannes fonde imagination For when as they will not learne to vnderstand know the truthe by the worde of God then they do deserue to be deceiued with lyes by the crafte of the Diuell in learning suche sayings as lacketh all knowledge and vnderstanding What knowledge or vnderstanding gette they which learne to saye that they doe beléeue as the Churche teacheth and bée taught to say and confesse their beléefe in a straunge Language When as they say I doe beléeue as the Churche teacheth and the Churche teacheth them that vnderstand no Latine to say Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem c. Surely in suche sayings they learne to vnderstand and perceiue nothing but take what soeuer commeth by the craft of the deuill into their imagination so highly that they wil neuer hūble themselues to be taught of gods spirite by gods word truly For there is no lesson that lyketh and pleseth them so wel as the lesson of that Doctor which sayth Say that thou beléeuest as the Church doth and my soule for thyne O what auayleth it a man to say wordes the whiche he doth nothyng perceyue in mynde nor declare in déeds or who is able in heauen or earth to paye the price or guage the pledge of mannes soule but onely Christ the sonne of God Take héede for the falling of their Doctor or teacher into the Dungeon of damnation is no excuse for them that wylfullye folowe a blinde guide They are wilfull and blynd which refuse the gospell of God and folow the Doctrine of men They deserue to bee damned for folowing a blinde guide which will not be taughte the Christian Beléefe but in suche a tongue as they can vnderstand neuer a worde which wil not be persuaded to beleue the holy catholike church but in such sort as they shal neither beléeue nor know the Gospell of christ For they which learn by the Gospel to know Christ and beléeue in him haue a lyuely Faythe working by charitie not of selfe loue séeking by their owne merites to saue themselues or to haue vainglorie but knowing and beléeuing that they be saued wholly by Christes merites onely of a pure loue towardes God and their neighbour without any truste or looking vnto the worthynesse of their owne déeds they be earnestly bent vnto good woorkes to the glorie of God and the profite of all men Thou that lackest the light of the gospel maist say that thou beléeuest as the church doth and yet thinke in thy heart that thou by thy good déedes maist be saued yea that thou wouldest not do good deedes but that thou beleeuest by them to win heauen And so trusting to winne Heauen by thy good workes which the truth of the gospel teacheth can not be purchased but by Christes bloud and doing all thy workes for loue of thy selfe without pure loue of God and thy neighboure albeit thou say vnto men that thou beléeuest as the Church doth yet afore God thy heart and mynde is voyd of Christen faith and godly charitie and far from any true loue of Christ and his Gospell CHAP. VI. Certayne differences of chaste loue and of corrupte loue of Christianitie and of Idolatrie of Christes Churche and of Antichristes kingdome of the Masse and of the Communion THere is a greate difference betwixte the pure loue of honeste matrimonie and the filthy loue of vile harlotrie If the harlot knowe she shall not be forsaken then will she set light to offend hir paramour in daliance with other the more assured that an honest matrone is of hir husbandes loue the more diligent will