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

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XVI. THE OBEDIENCE OF A CHRISTIAN MAN. J/Iand secretes knowe ye and no ma« yours, ye seke buthonoure* / ryches / promociow / auc<strong>to</strong>rite, and <strong>to</strong> regne overall / and will obeye no ma«. Yf <strong>the</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>r geve you ought130 <strong>of</strong> curtesie / ye will compell <strong>the</strong> sonne <strong>to</strong> geve it violently,whe<strong>the</strong>r he will or not, by craft <strong>of</strong> youre awne lawes.deades are agenst-Christ.IT When an hole parysh <strong>of</strong> vsThesehyre a scolemaster <strong>to</strong> teachoure childerne / what reason is it that we shulde be com-135 pelled <strong>to</strong> paye this scolemaster his wages / a«d he shuldehave iycens <strong>to</strong> goo where he wyll, and <strong>to</strong> dwell in a-no<strong>the</strong>rcentre, and <strong>to</strong> leve oure childerne on-taught ?Doeth not <strong>the</strong>Pope so ? Have we not geven vp oure ty<strong>the</strong>s, <strong>of</strong> curtesy,vn<strong>to</strong> one, for <strong>to</strong> teach vs Gods worde? And cometh not140 <strong>the</strong> Pope and compelleth vs <strong>to</strong> paye it violently <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>m thatnever teach ?Maketh he not one person whichcometh never at vs ? yee, one shall have .v. or .vj.Person.or as many as he can get, and wotteth <strong>of</strong>tentymes wherenever one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m s<strong>to</strong>ndeth. A-no<strong>the</strong>r is made145 vicare / <strong>to</strong> whome he geveth a dispensacion <strong>to</strong>Vicar., 1 -ngoo where he will,1and <strong>to</strong>• -1 Parish-prest.set m a pansh-prestewhich can but mynister a sorte <strong>of</strong> dome cerimonies. Andhe, because he hath most laboure and leest pr<strong>of</strong>it,polleth onhis parte, and fetteth here a masse-peny, <strong>the</strong>re a trentall /150 yonder dirige-money, and for his beyderoule, with a confession-peny,and soch lyke.And thus are we never taughte,and are yet never<strong>the</strong>less3 compelled : ye, compelled ^ <strong>to</strong> hyremany costly scolemasters. Thes deades are veryly agenst-Christ. Shall we <strong>the</strong>rfore iudge you by youre deades / as155 Christe co;;miau;/deth .? Soare ye false prophetes a;/d thQdisciples <strong>of</strong> Antichriste or <strong>of</strong> agewst-Christe.The sermons which thou readist in <strong>the</strong> Actes <strong>of</strong> tho^ Printed ' compolde.'

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