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 doth not grant vnto euery mans will thys libertie / and
fredom / but vnto a goode and a right will he gyuith libertie to
go. For yf a man wold go thether to drincke droncken /
glotonusly to fill the belly / or to gyue the tongue to filthie
and vncomly talke / without doubt that man shuld syn / euen for
the wickednes of hys will / and for hys corrupt entent and
purpose. Euen so / yf a man dowbted hys own strenghth /
and dyd certaynly perceyue that he could not profite them that
shuld be there / and yet wold go thether / vndowbtedly with a
safe cõscience and with a goode will he could not take that
thing in hãde / for he can not direct hys doing to the glorie of
godd / as he ys cõmaunded to do. Wherefor though Paul expressely
doth not adde that rule / yt folowith not therfor / that yt is
not to be added: yea that yt ys to be added I will proue by
other places of the Scripture. And to thend that we do not herin
depart from Paul / the same thing / and doctrine of will /
[[1. Cor. 7.]]
he teachith in the .7. chapter of the same epistle: wher he
entreating of gyuyng or not gyuinge a virgine to mariage
saithe / That he doth well which keapith his virgin / ãd that
purposith it surely in his harte / (addinge this condiciõ)
hauing no neade / but that he poure ouer his own will: for if he
shuld do otherwise then his daughter either wolde / or then her
necessitie required / then shuld he neither will / nor do well.
Thus to do a goode worcke / or to make an acte prefect / yt
sufficithe not to take heede that it be not euell of nature / or
repugnant vnto gods worde / but vnto this ys also required /
that we do go about the same with an vpright and perfect mynde
and will. S. Paul / therfor / doth not simply permitt this
going / but with certayn circumstances. Which ar / to go with a
goode will to enstruct the vnfaythfull: Agayn to go with an
assured purpose / not to be, ãd taste of such strẽghthe / that
he shall not be ouerthrown. And thus this proposicion remaynith
true / that the man whiche ys weak and vnlearned / must separate
himself frõ the company and famyliar conuersacion of the
vnbeleauers / so mutch as cyuile and naturall businesses and
affaires will suffer / and as the necessitie of lyfe shall
require (as I saide before). Lykewise all houshold duties and
offices appointed in gods worde must be obserued / els shall he
offend / for as Paule saithe:
[[1. Timo. 5.]]
He that prouidith not for hys / and especially for them of hys
own howshold / the same hath denied the faithe / and ys wors
then an Infidell. And to proue farther / that this vnlearned and
weake man must abstayn from the familiar companie of the
vnbeleauers / yea thoughe they be most deere vnto hym / that
Rule doth serue / which Christe our Sauiour gyuithe sayinge.
[[Matt. 5. 18.]]
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