A godly medytacyon of the christen sowle, concerninge a loue towardes God and hys ChristeMarguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre
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A godly medytacyon of the christen sowle, concerninge a loue towardes God and hys Christe
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre
Devotional literature; Meditations -- Early works to 1800
Your first written clauses in .iiij. speches latyne, frenche & Italyane,
out of the xiij. Psalme of noble Dauid, mēcyoneth that the vnfaythfull
reckeneth folyshly in their hartes, there is no God. Wherupō so corrupt
they are in their vayne coniectures, and so abhomynable in their dayly
doynges, that not one of their generacyō is godly. By thys do your grace
vnto vs sygnyfye, that the baren doctryne & good workes without fayth
of the hypocrytes, whych in their vncōmaunded latyne ceremonyes serue
their bellyes & not Christ, in gredyly deuourynge the patrymony of poor
wydowes & orphanes, are both execrable in themselues, and abhomynable
afore God for though those paynted sepulchres haue the name of the lorde
in their mouthes, & greatly boast the good workes of the lawe, yet knowe
they not what belongeth to hys true honoure, but hate in their wycked
hartes both hys gloryouse name and worde. The true doctryne of faythe,
and the feare of God, wyll that wycked sort (whome thys psalme wryngeth)
not heare, but styll tormēt the conscyences of myserable wretched ydyotes
for aduauntage of Masses and momblynges. Happy are they of thys latter
age, that in the Gospell haue receyued the sauynge helth out of Syon (as
your grace hath done) beynge clere from the stynge of those vyperouse
wormes. Blessed be those faythfull tuters & teachers whych by their most
godly instruccyons haue thus fashyoned your tender youth into the ryght
ymage of Christ and not Antichrist. Yea most blessed be those godly
gouernours and magistrates, whych haue traueled and yet laboryously
trauayle with worthy Moses, to brynge Gods people clerely out of their
most wretched captyuyte.
[Sidenote: The latter clause.]
Your latter clause in the Greke, incyteth vs to the ryght worshyppynges
of God in sprete and veryte Ioā. 4. to honouringe of our parētes in the
semely offyces of naturall chyldren. Ephe. vj. and to the reuerent vsynge
of our christen equalles in the due mynystracyons of loue. 1. Pet.
[Sidenote: Monachi.]
[Sidenote: Lōbardus.]
[Sidenote: Robert Kylwarby.]
[Sidenote: A change.]
[Sidenote: The boke.]
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