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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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i;o XVI. WILLIAM TFNDALE.vn<strong>to</strong> his doctrine or vn<strong>to</strong> his miracles / without recorde <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> scripture. When Paul preached / Actes .xvij. <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r 95sherched f/ie scriptures dayly / whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>y were as healleged <strong>the</strong>w. Why shal not I lyke-wise se / whe<strong>the</strong>r it be<strong>the</strong> scripture //lat thou allegest ? yee, why shall I not se <strong>the</strong>>cripture and <strong>the</strong> circumsta;/ces and what goeth before andafter / that I maye know whe<strong>the</strong>r thyne interpretaciow be loc<strong>the</strong> right sence / or whe<strong>the</strong>r thou iuglest and drawest <strong>the</strong>scripture violently vn<strong>to</strong> thy carnall and fleshly purpose ? orwhe<strong>the</strong>r thou be aboute <strong>to</strong> teach me or <strong>to</strong> disceave me ?Christ saith, ' that <strong>the</strong>re shall come false prophetes in hisname and saye that <strong>the</strong>y <strong>the</strong>m-selves are Christe' / that ys / lO;<strong>the</strong>y shall so preach Christe, that men must beleve in <strong>the</strong>m,in <strong>the</strong>ir holines and thinges <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir imaginacion, without(jods worde :yee, and that agenst-Christ, or Antichriste, thatshall come, is no thinge but soch false prophetes that shalliuggle with <strong>the</strong> scripture, and begile <strong>the</strong> people with false ncinterpretacions, as all <strong>the</strong> false prophetes / scribes a«d pharisesdid in //le olde testame/zte. How shal I knowe whe<strong>the</strong>r\e are that agenste-christe, or false prophetes, or no / seingeAtfe«st-Christye will not let me se how ye alleo-e <strong>the</strong> scriptures ?. ,is knowen by Chrlst salth'.his deades.J n r'By <strong>the</strong>ir deades ye shall know 1 1<strong>the</strong>m/ Now when we loke on youre deades /we se that ye are all sworne <strong>to</strong>-ge<strong>the</strong>r and have separatedA yourcsclves <strong>from</strong>.evcreii ki«g<strong>the</strong>laye people / & have a seuwcs.^wha7" verall kiwgdome amo;zge youre-selves and severallfre7y!<strong>the</strong>pope l^^^cs <strong>of</strong> yourc awuc makynge / where-with ye 12cEe^il'kgayne violcutly byude <strong>the</strong> laye people, that never conformoney.scutcd vn<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> uiakyugc <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m. A thowsandethynges forbydde ye which christ made free / and dispe^zseA wlth ihcm agayuc forsecret counmoucy.Ne<strong>the</strong>r is <strong>the</strong>r any^"""excepcio;/ at all / but lacke <strong>of</strong> money. Ye have i -'.1 secret councell by youre-selves. All o<strong>the</strong>r me;/s councels

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