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
He that hath sayde / Thow shalt not committ adulterie / the same
hath sayde / Thow shalt not kill. As if he shuld saye / he is no
les contraried in any one of theise commaundemẽtes / then in an
other. And therfor (to adde this by the waye) let them wel
consider what they do which do profes to receyue the gospell /
and yet they do refuse ecclesiasticall disciplyne: Wheras the
lorde / which hath reuealede and opened the gospell vnto vs by
Christe / doth appoint discipline to be a parte therof. Theise
men do synne against the whole lawe. The papistes do also synne
herin / which do preache their parted righteousnes / as
meritorius of congruitie. But to returne / this is also
manifest / that he that synnith in one / is therfore giltie in
all / for that as now by lust and tentacion / he is caried into
sum one transgression / and so dothe synne / euen in like manier
shuld he offend in an other euill / if he wer assaulted in the
same sorte / and whith that same violence of tentacion. And
Augustine in the place before alledged. doth saye. That therfore
he is made giltie of all / bicause he synneth against charitie /
vppon which the obseruacion of the whole lawe is grownded. To be
short therfor / when we do thus fall into synne / we must not
lightly tryfle it of and excuse it / sayinge that it is but
light / and small: for synne is not to be considered of the
matier / and manier of the action only / but of the force
poure / and dignitie of Godds worde which doth forbidd it. And
yet les I shuld seeme to be to rigorus and strayte in this
matier of massehauntinge / let ther be hadd a consideracion / or
difference of the matier / and doinge.
And truly I can not see / how this kinde of synne and doinge cã
be iudged to be light / or small / seing that it is a
transgressiõ committed against the furst table of the lawe / in
which the worship due vntto Godd is cõmaũded which worshipp
being sownde and safe in a mã other vices and synnes ar the more
easily corrected: And agayn this being corrupted / all other
actes are most vnacceptable vnto Godd. Whordõ by Godds lawe is
to be punyshed by deathe / yet is it a synne but against the
.ii. table. And what shal we thincke then of spirituall
whordome? how seuerely doth Godd iudge it? how sharply ought it
to be punished? If therfor thow dost consider the commandement
which thou breakest / it is of God: If the matier / it is
aganist the furst table and therfore thys synne is the more
heynus and weightie. Besids this / our men do counte this Masse
hauntinge a fault to be either contemned / or not so depely to
be considered in theim bicause they do not synne with mynde will
and affection / but as it wer compelled and of necessite. But I
aske them / what manier a violence and compulsion this is
throughe which that necessite commithe of which they make their
excuse? Truly they can not saye that it is ony other / then
bicause they wolde not ronne into the daunger of the losse of
their Goodes / their estimacion and lyfe.
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