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Our sauiour Iesus Christ hath not ouercharged his chirche with many ceremonies
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Joye, George, d. 1553, attributed name. aut
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STC 14556; ESTC S120429
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soule shall liue I shall smyte vp an euerlasting couenaunt with you euen the faithefull mercies promised to Dauid Behold I haue geuen him to testifye of me to the gentyls to be a leader master to the populouse heithen By these wordes owre benigne and trwe god prouoketh all mortal men to come to him onely he excludeth none at all For he calleth theÌ„ not vnto certayne heuey burdeÌ„s to be borne for he foreseing these heuey infinite dampnable burdens of mens ceremonies rites and tradicions institucions inuencions actes articles and I can not tell what commaunded non to be so hardy as to beare a tankerde of water thorowe Solomons temple By water fetched at muddy pyttes as Ieremy expowneth it meaning the heuey vnsauerye and vnprofitable ceremonies rytes cÌ„ inveÌ„ted of men He calleth vs not therfore to beare these intollerable burdens vnto which to ease vs the makers of them wyll not once put to their leiste fynger but he calleth vs vnto celestiall pleasaunt riches to be pertakers of etrnall life Math. xxiij Ephe. iiij He rebuketh also our folisshnes which ar caried aboute and diuersly vexed with varye dyuerse contrarye and moste harde kyndes of sondrye doctryne of whiche there cometh no profite but greate hyndraunce and vndoyng to oure housholdes and goodes Come therfore to me saith he heare me me I saye and your soules shall liue For he offereth to these obayers comers to him a greate gyfte in couenaunt promisyng vs eueÌ„ Christe him selfe in whoÌ„ onely he promiseth hymselfe to geue vs all thinges Let vs nowe therfore see how God hathe performed thys couenaunt and promise and what thynges the father hath geuen vs in christe eueÌ„ christe hymselfe to witnes When the onely begoten sonne of God which is in the bosome of the father descended from heueÌ„ vnto vs and being very god and man Iesus Christe shuld preche the heuenly wysedom euen the gospell vnto the hole worlde and shuld enstructe institute his chirche in the trwe religion The doctrine deliuerd of chryst to his chirche he wrapped not nor combred nor clogged not the myndes and soules of his peple with diuerse and manyfolde tradicioÌ„s nether disputed he nor reasoned he with them any loÌ„ge tyme ether obscurelye or sharpelye of the trwe saluacion and iustificacion snarling their consciences inuoluing the christeÌ„ religion in any subtily and harde questions but often tymes in one lytle shorte sermone he gaue vs all thinge what so euer is necessary ê‘teyning vnto owr very saluacioÌ„ which thinge we shall nowe clerely setforth in playne examples In Iohn the .iij. the Lorde receyuing Nicodemus vnto him fully and perfytlye to be taught in all that same lesson and in his institucion he dothe nothing els teche him but that this master of Israel might vnderstaÌ„de and knowe that who so euer will aspire vnto life euerlasting he muste be borne agene from aboue euen of the holye goste that is to saye these same owr owne strengthe enforcementes innated and ingrauen in to vs from owr firste birth to haue nothing at all no disposicion of owre selues no inclinacion promptnes nor redâ—â—es vnto our right wysenes soule helthe to 〈◊〉 obteyned but that from aboue thorowe thâ— diuine and fre grace is the holye goste geâ—en vs which muste traÌ„smute change and illumyn the hertis of men that anon thei might see the depraued nature and corrupt disposicon and inclinacion of maÌ„nis nature and so dispaering of their owne strengthe power thei might flye vnto the mercie of god whose mercie deliuered his sone vnto dethe that euery one that beleueth in him be not loste but maye haue lyfe eternall And also that man nowe takeÌ„ vp to him from oute of the derkenes of errours and synnes he might ê‘fitlye walke in the lyghte of trwthe and puernes What coude haue beÌ„ spokeÌ„ I praye you in so grete waighty a mater more briefly or coude haue ben sayd playnelier and more fullye ê‘fetly I thinke there can nomaÌ„ this taught in this heueÌ„ly philosophie require any more Nether any other wyse or by other meanes did he instructe the woman of Samarye at the well but that he semeth there to haue vsed a more compeÌ„diouse briefnes IoaÌ„ iiij In the scole at Caperne wheÌ„ he was desyered of some men and asked what thei shuld do that they might worke the workes of god IoaÌ„ vi he answerde them with one worde This is the worke of god euen to beleue in him whom he hath sent albeit by and by he added a lytle leÌ„ger exposicioÌ„ of the same how that him selfe being the breade of lyfe was comen in to the world howe and by what wayes he shulde prepare his owne flesshe and his bloude in to the meate and drynke which geueth life to the soule And agene vnder what maner he wolde be eaten and dronkeÌ„ euen spiritually thorowe faith But yet is that same exposicion so playnly and so briefly wound vp that vnto noman it can apere to be onerouse and heuey euen as thexposicion of the lawe in Mathew is a lytle largelyer drawen at length but a non after it is briefly knit vp gadered agene into this one senteÌ„ce Mat. v. vi vij Wherfore all thynges what souer ye wolde men shuld do to you euen so and the same do you vnto them For into this ende teÌ„de the lawe and prophets Vnto this agreeth also that at the lorde on this maner saith in Iohn IoaÌ„ xiij and .xv. This is my precept that ye loue one a nother euen as I haue loued you euen the same that is red in Paul owe ye nothing to any maÌ„ but this onely eueÌ„ one to loue a nother â—o xiij For he that loueth a nother hath fulfylled the lawe Who can saye that these lessons be to longe or confusely inuolued or to derke and obscure In that same his laste souper when nowe he shuld opeÌ„ to his disciples the greatest and hyghest mysteries and secretes of owr faith shuld powerforth all his hole godly breste vnto sauit Thomas wheÌ„ he asked him Master we knowe not whother thou goist and how might we knowe the waye With one sentence he expowning and shewing them whother he went wherfore he muste dye which is the sewerest most certayne waye vnto heueÌ„ sayd I am the waye the trowth and the lyfe There cometh noman to the father but by me In which wordes he expressed the cause and frute of his deth shewed them the waye vnto heueÌ„ yea and that moste playnely he shewed it them And besydes thys all wother wayes ordened or inuented by meÌ„ besides this waye he plucked them vp he destroied casted down and staÌ„ped theÌ„ vnder his feet for naught eueÌ„ wroÌ„g wayes dampnable and vngodly Whereof verely Iohn boldened said in hys canonik pistell God hath geuen vs eternall life and this life is in hys sone and whoso haue the sone hath life and he that