A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull.: Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.Vermigli, Pietro Martire
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A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull.: Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.
Vermigli, Pietro Martire
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800
Of which the firste ys this / that they do teache thos
vnbeleuers with whom they do liue and are familiarlie
conuersaunte / and do instructe them in the truithe / trulye
teachinge them and earnestlie callinge them / vnto the knowledge
of the truithe / and faythe in Christe. And this they muste not
leaue of to do so longe as they be dwellinge and familiar with
them. To the end also that they maye do this the better / yt ys
not vnlawfull / but moste conuenient for them to shewe them
selues frendlie / gẽtill / and louinge unto the vnbeleauers
withe whõ they are familiarlie conuersaunte / and dwellinge / So
that theise maye perceyue that the faythfull do loue thẽ: els ys
yt to be feared that they shall do no good withe them. for that
doctrine ys moste redylie receyued of the hearer / which cõmeth
from him / of whom the hearer ys persuaded / that he ys hys
frende / and that he louithe hym indeede.
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The second thinge that the faythfull must take heede of / ãd
Rule which they must obserue ys this: That they do lyue an holy
lyfe / and that amonge the vnbeleauers their conuersacion be so
godly / graue / comely / and agreing with their profession /
that in no wise they do gyue any offence through the wickednes
of their lyfe: for yf by their lyfe the vnfaythfull shuld be
offendid / then shuld their mynistery be vnprofitable to the
vnbeleuers / for that by their euell doings they shuld
ouerthrowe what soeuer they labored to builde vpp in wordes.
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The thred thinge that theise men must take heede of / and Rule
which they must obserue is. That they do not communicate / with
the vnfaythfull in their supersticiõs and idolatries / nor iet
do so mutch as outwardly to seame to allowe them. Thys ys not to
be doone in ony wise / no not in hope therby to wynne the
vnbeleauer from hys supersticion / and Idolatrie:
[[Ro. 3]]
For this Rule of the holy ghoste doth euer remain certain /
Euell things ar not to be doone / that goode maye comme therof.
This vnchaungeable rule must not be broken.
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