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A68860	A worke entytled of ye olde god [and] the newe of the olde faythe [and] the newe, of the olde doctryne and ye newe, or orygynall begynnynge of idolatrye. Reade most gentel reader, for many [and] diuers causes this moost goodly boke ...; Vom alten und neuen Gott, Glauben und Lere. English	Vadianus, Joachim, 1484-1551.; Turner, William, d. 1568.	1534 (1534)	STC 25127; ESTC S119507	75,361	274

asmoche as his herte is taken awaye that he doo wrest and sygh for desyre to come vnto that thynge wherunto it is drawen / and wherupon it is stedfastly set that is to were to our lorde Iesu Christ onely Luke the fyrst Now yf a man doeth lyue in god / he is made one with god Iohn̄ the .xvij. Famyliarite with god And whan he is thus made one with god he hath also famylyaryte with god god with hym which in these dayes is nothyng elles but the knowlege of god of his wyl and desyre psal xxxv after which succedeth also that help of the deuyne grace that we maye be more more lyghtened in the wyll of the lorde And the amyte and frendshyp whiche god hath with man and man with god is knytte and made one in the dyuyne seale / which is the holy scripture Ro. xv for the scrypture is closed vp sealed rounde aboute to al the myghty men / to all the wise / and the learned men / of the worlde / that they can not vnderstonde it neyther shall they vnderstonde it whyles the worlde stondeth luke xvj ye more ouer they are the more blynded more obstynately made harde herted / by the obiectyng layeng of the scrypture against theym Iohn̄ the .xix. wherfore it shold not force the value of a straw whether one be a doctor of dyuynyte or not / whether he be a bysshop or pope / or els a swynherd / or ony other abiecte and vyle person For god hym selfe hath reserued to his owne selfe the election and yate whom he lyst to fauor / and whome to hate / to whome he lyst gyue moche of his grace to whome lytell Exodi xxxiij And although there were no scripture in the world at all / neyther ony other vnderstondynge / then this rule yet neuertheles all men ought to rayse vp theym selues / and to lyfte vp theyr heddes vnto god / saynge in this wyse / Lorde I am a wretched syn̄er / haue pytye and compassyō vpon my desolation and mysery But the wise men the greate doctours maysters the olde mynysters of the temple haue no nede of these thīges / there is weightyer maters to do they wryte them selues to be the enemyes of suche maner folyshe and vnwyse men in Chryste Beware you subtyle wyse men least that yrene rynge of Senacherib be not fastened in to your nosethrylles / that your owne propre worldly wysedome do sclaunder you gyue you a fal perpetually accordyng to the worde of god .j. Coryntheo .iij. wherto serueth your power without the feare of god / and the knowlege of holye scrypture but onely that poore men may be sore vexed seduced / and that we may thrust downe the hueye burthen of pharao dayely more and more most cruelly vpō the neckes of our innocent subiectes albeit that they are fre from it / haue ben delyuerd by chryste Iesu our lorde / paule wytnessyth that our synnes haue soo greatly prouoked the indignation wrath of god that he hathe set ouer vs for prices rulers feminine heddes Curlues / kyghtes / goshawkes / gripes / we do dayly receiue mo The xjx There can not a more excellent or a more noble treasure be foūd in this world then a true rightuous preacher of the worde of god in the pulpet A good preacher Mathue .xiij. who so euer is of honest of chast and of chrysten lyfe vpon suche one the comynalte ought not to spare for ony cost / for as the pipe goeth so do the gestes that are bydden daunce Yf the preacher be true and well skylled in the scryptures no doubte of it god speaketh by his mouth but yf he be vntrue and gylefull god is farre from hym Belsebub speaketh by his mouthe Mathue the .xiij. And where shall the people learne to knowe god but by the open sermons if then the preacher doeth set forth before his eares the pure wheate graines wtout ony chafe then the gestes whiche do syt at the table A symylytude of the worde of god doo eate pure and fyne whyte breade / whiche after that it is dysgested doeth gendre pure subtyle and naturall blode this blode causeth good complexyon which good complexyon gyueth sure and stable healthe / and this good healthe causeth good operacyons of which ꝓcedeth laude and honour So the worde of god is that pure breade set forth afore the people by the preacher / the gestes that is to wete the people which heareth the worde yf they do take it with dilygence they do disgest it in contemplation consyderation what was spoken / how it was spoken / why it was spoken / wherof is gendred good and subtyle blode that is to saye yf they do learne to vnderstond and knowe what god is / what is the true honour of hym / what is the true fayth / which be the very right and good workes / O man cōsydre what man is / that is to wete vtterly nothyng / and which is able to do no good as of hȳ selfe c. This vnderstōdynge knowlege doeth engendre and cause a quyet conscyence whiche elles is troubled and disquyeted with peuyshe questions and with dyffydence dystruste Now a conscyence hauynge this vnderstondyng beynge hole quyet doeth make a man constāt in all aduersytyes that he may vnderprop hym selfe with god the scripture as vpō a rock Suche good stronge establyshed helth bryngeth the very ryght maner and forme of thinges to be done to be left vndone wherof fyrst doo aryse good workes acceptable vnto god For a worke how so euer greate it be or may be yf it haue not a pure wyll entente and also good and godly cyrcumstaunces verely it is nothynge worthe / but who shall tell and shewe so hygh thynges to the simple comē people saue onely a well learned preacher and which feareth god when the people heare none other thynge then the pure scrypture then also doeth none other vnderstondynge and perceiuyng chaunce to the sayd people concernynge god and his wyll / then which is right and true Note and marke well you bysshops as that god is trouthe god is eternall lyfe hereof ensueth good peace compassyon among the people whiche the worde of god doeth cause and brynge forthe / what thynge is better in this worlde then peace to haue compassion among our selues eche with other of our mysery where vndoubtedly god him selfe doech dwel with good fortune welth The .xx. There can no more noysome nor more strōge nor more pestiferous poyson eyther be deuysed or be found vpon the earthe then a false and gylefull preacher Mathue the xxiiij Turne the symylytude of the breade which was giuen not longe here to fore and thou shalt perceyue this to be true Paule in the .x. chapitre to the Romanes saith thus who so euer shall call vpon the name of the lord shall

A worke entytled of the olde god the newe of the olde faythe the newe of the olde doctryne and the newe / or orygynall begynnynge of Idolatrye REade most gentel reader for many diuers causes this moost goodly boke excellent and notable in doctrine lernynge that thou mayst knowe wherūto thou oughtest to torne the / what to beholde what to beleue in this so greate dyssencion of all chrystendome and in this so vnquiet troblous estate of comen weales / Fare well in our lorde LOke how peuysshe a foole I am mooste gentil reader but what cā I be els but a fole I do am bycyously set my name before the boke vnto which the author hym selfe and maker of it through humilite and mekenes dyd not put his name for if I were the very father of this boke as I am but only the instructour and teacher to hit in as moche as I haue taught it to speke latyne lorde with howe goodly and glorious titles so gredy of glory and renoume am I wold I garnysshe it and set it forthe entitlinge it either The goldē cheyne or elles the myne of heuen or elles the floure of floures or elles the rose of roses of the moost cunnynge mā Hartmānꝰ dulichiꝰ maysted of the seuen lyberall sciences and an excellent doctour of diuinite then to shewe myn hublenes lowlynes I wolde adde these wordes though vnworthy But to take this busines and labour of translatynge this worke into latyne I was moued because of the excedinge greate goodnes and vtilite of the boke it selfe to th entent that it being taught to speke latyne myght in what soe euer places it shuld walke abrod in the worlde be so moche the better welcome and myght the soner wynde it selfe in to the familiarite and fauour of all men For there are some men whiche haue more delyte and pleasure in latyne workes and as for the workes made in the vulgare tong they do litle sette by as thynges beinge of lesse weight and value And this I dare be bolde to say that scantly hathe there ben any better boke then this put forthe sent abrode in these troblous tymes in this greate vnquietnes of comen weales whiche is no doubte moste worthy to be redde of all men And to th entēt that it may in the fronte and begynnynge appere what is conteyned in the innermoste partes of the same I wille couche within a narowe rowme thys large and longe treasure which lyeth hydde and as it were buryde in this boke The summe effecte of this worke is this The sūme and effecte of this worke It declareth that the begynnynge of Idolatrye did springe and ryse of the philosophiers whiche through manyfolde dissensions haue couered the scriptures through the fraudes of Sathā haue brought forthe newe goddes It sheweth in the meane season the ruyne decay of the florishinge Empier of the romaynes and howe the Cytye of Rome the ladye and maystres ouer all the world was made a praye to all natiōs And howe at the laste by Iustiniane it was restored from ruyne and decay from whense cam also the ryches of the Chirche at the cōmygne of whiche Ryches forth with the boke of the gospel was closed and shute vp And the bisshops of Rome in stede of euangelicall pouertye begane to put forthe theyr hedes garnyshed with thre crownes After that it folowith forth with by what beginnynges the primacy and preeminence of the pope of Rome came first vp and howe by his power myght the noble empyre of the worlde was brought frome the Romaynes to the frenshe men / last of all how and after what maner by the craftye and subtile meanes of a certaine pope beyng of the famylye and kinred of the most noble dukes of Saxonye it was translated from the frenshe men to the Germaynes / where beganne fyrst the forme maner of electynge of the kynge of Romaynes by the seuen Prynces of Germanye whiche are called the Electours Then after the Rome had wtdrawen their neckes from vnder the yoke domynion of the Emꝑour whiche the popes dyd feare forthwith the popes beynge instruted wel armed and made myghtye stronge with the ryches of the Chryche dyd breke in violētly in to the kyndomes of the worlde takynke in to bothe their handes the materyall swerde the sheder of blode in stede of the spirytuall swerde wherof cometh the cursed natyuite byrthe of the lawe called canonycall whiche Oh good lorde how lytel canonicall that is to saye how vnrulie is it what nedeth me to make manye wordes thou shalt here perceiue very playnly the begynnyng the ꝓgresse ēcrease the dominiō of that strumpet clad in purple which holdeth in her handes euē yet stylle a golden bowle full of blasphemies agaynst almyghty god with the whiche she maketh all men drōken Thou shalte se also howe vndre the tytle name of holy fathers those religiouse ꝑsones haue goten occupyed the tyrāny of the worlde whome with grete iniury wronge doubtles we do call Monachos eyther because they are not in the worlde Monachi solitari religioꝰ men whan in very dede the worlde that is to wyte Enuie Couetousnes suche other monstruouse vyces are in no place more vyolent and strong than in Monasteries and the houses of religeouse ꝑsones eyther elles because they be solitarie whā in very dede thei haue so mightely strongly woūde in them selues as it were pestylēt and myscheuous vaynes ī to all the mēbres lȳmes of the worlde that they are dreed feared both of all Emꝑours Prynces yea and also of the pope of Rome beynge yet more myghtye than all the sayd Emperours Princes which sayd pope hathe set roūde aboute hym selfe a garde of these stoute chaumpyons to th entent that he wolde be taken of vs euē for Chryst hym selfe Thou shalt also fynde here ꝑceyue the cursed vngracyous craftes of relygyous ꝑsones theyr monstrous habytes also fro whens came so many thousandes of names / whatte is mente by Thomasys dooue by domynykes starre by Fraūces woūdes the dyuersites and vices of ordres are here dispraysed and rebuked / there is aso set forthe here the offyces of Bysshopps and of abbotes / and the pompes the maners and the abuses of preestes namely of greate prebendaries canones Besydes this the ceremonies are here iudged and sette forthe and the hurte that is in them is pyked oute / and what good is in thē here it is shewed Briefly religious and this our christen lyf are here so tried that thou mayst perceyue the deceyte clokede vnder them Here I do wittingly passe ouer many thynges lest I shuld make suche a prologue where by some might fynde the defaulte that hit were lenger then is the hole worke for as moche as in this worke the hole narration is meruelous compendious beyng deryued oute of the veray owne propre fountaynes deducynge