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
Religion
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
I knowe (saith he) where thow dwellest / euẽ where Sathans seate
is / and thow keapest my name / and haste not denyed my faythe:
And in thos dayes in which Antipas was a faythfull witnes of
myn / which was slayne amõge yow where Sathã dwellithe. In which
wordes truly the confession made in persequution is allowed /
made I saye in that place / wher Sathan did beare rule / wher
euen very then Antypas thaty notable Martir of Christe was slayn
for confessinge of religion. Otherwise when all thinges are
quiet it is not so harde a thing to confes the name of Godde.
For if so be that the lord will not haue vs be ĩ ieoperdie of
bodie goodes and lyfe / if it seme to be euill and a synne for a
man / as it wer to procure deathe to hymself by the confessinge
of truithe / wherfor dothe the lorde (I praye yow) exhorte thos
his disciples / that they shuld not feare them which do kill the
bodie / and can not kill the soule? Whi doth he by playne wordes
saye / as it wer prouoking vs to martirdome?
[[Marc. 8.]]
Whosoeuer will folow me / let hym forsake hymselfe / and take vp
his crosse / and folowe me. For whosoeuer will saue his lyfe
shal lose it. But whosoeuer shall lose his lyfe for my sake /
and the gospelles the same shall saue it. He addith forthwithe
wordes which do make for the contempt of thos thinges / for
which theis men do thincke that in religion silence maye be kept
and dissimulacion vsed / sainge. What shall it profite a mã / yf
he wynne al the worlde / and lose his owne sowle. Therwith also
doth he adde through what thinge we do lose our soules / that is
through Shame. For he saithe. Whosoeuer therfor shalbe ashamed
of me and of my wordes / in this aduowtrus and synefull
generacion / of hym also shall the sonne of man be ashamed when
he commithe in the glorie of his father withe the holy Angelles.
Therfor Paule that chosen vesell of Christe / and a most
faithfull teacher of the churche / who gyueth euell councell to
no mã / neither leadith he ony man from the true waye / it is
(saith he) a true sayinge:
[[2. Tim. 2.]]
for if we be deade with hym / we shall also lyue with hym: if we
be pacient / we shal also raigne with hym. If we denye hym / he
shall also denye vs. The same Paul to the Hebrues /
[[Heb. 10.]]
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