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A16065	Of the auctorite of the word of god agaynst the bisshop of london wherein are conteyned certen disputacyons had in the parlament howse betwene the bisshops a bowt the nomber of the sacramen[n]ts and other things, very necessary to be known, made by Alexa[n]der Alane Scot and sent to the duke of Saxon.	Alesius, Alexander, 1500-1565.; Allen, Edmond, 1519?-1559.	1544 (1544)	STC 292; ESTC S108900	30,774	92

vayne vnto these most damnable Antichristes but I wryte only for the cōfort of the faithful and for them which sinne thorow ignorance if it shal please god to put in to their hartes to knowlege the veryte and to repent and come out of the deuyls snare at whose wil and pleasure thei are now led captyue prysoners And because it were a long work to serch all the aucthorytes thorowt the scripture I wyl alledge but one place more out of the lawe and then wil I come to the prophetes and to the gospel In the .xxx. of deutero it is writton thus The cōmandment which I gyue vnto the is not aboue thy pour neyther is it farre from the it is not set in heauē that thou canst laufully say which of us all can clyme vp in to heauen to bryng it down vnto us that we may heare what it is and fulfyll it Neyther is it set beyond the see that thou canst laufully say which of us all is able to swymme ouer the see and to fetch it vnto us that we may heare what it is and fulfill that which is cōmanded vnto us therin But the word is nygh yea very nygh vnto the in thy mouth and in thy hart These wordes be spoken vnto the glotēs and belly goddes of this last tyme which for all the gret pretēce and outward shewe that thei make of holines and say that thei murder men for the preseruacyō of the true fayth and of the autorycte of the church yet thei declare euydently inough that thei denye the vertu of holinesse seing thei be spotted and shamefully defiled with blode murder whordome disceyte and with all kyndes of filthinesse and of wickednesse so that it may manyfestly appeare that thei be fully persuaded that god taketh no care at all for mankynde yea that there is no god at all which will ponish these abhomynacyons Leo the .x. called a cowncel to determine whether the soule of man were īmortal or no and whan he had heard euery mans sentence and mynd he sayd that the matter was more diffycult than that he could determine or iudge which part had strongar reasons for it but whether the soule were mortal or īmortal he said he wold not defraude his sowle of the cōmodytes delycyosnes and pleasures which were present and if there were any life after this he wold be contēt to make good chere with other there also if he shuld see that thei wold be as good felows there as thei were here This was the voyce of the high and supreme bisshop after whose sentence all men must determine of the word of god and vp on whose arbytermēt our fayth and saluacyon must depend This I say is the iudgement of the holy see wherunto men must sayle out of Aphryca Asya and europe Denmarke Inglād and Irland and out of all other landes euen in to Italy vnto this vicar of christ and vnto his .xij. Carnals the postys of the church which succeded the apostels to these must thei come to aske councel of the wil of god of the vnderstonding of the scripture which in their owne nacyons and in the councels of their own contrys thei can in nowyse vnderstād But moyses drawyth us from this deuelissh sentence where as he sayth The word is very nygh vnto the euen in thy mouth and in thy hart before thy eyes marke sayth he remember that I haue set it before thy eyes that thou maist reade in that boke yea and vnderstond it also For els in dede it had bene but a very madnes to haue writtō such thīgs as no man could vnderstond It had bene moch more worship for god to haue wryton nothing at all than so to haue mocked man kynd where as he sayd he had set before hym good and euyl life and death blessyng and curse etc. He ment not good and euel after the meaning of the serpent persuading Adam that he thorow trangressyon of gods commandmēt in eating of the forbiddyn frute that he shuld haue the knoulege of good and euel that is euerlasting dānacyon for so ment the deuel But god wil not be honored after the doctrine of the serpent nor after the doctryne of the deuel nor yet he wil not be feared after the cōmandmētes tradiciōs and doctrines of men cōtrary to his word or other wise than his word appoynteth He forbiddeth all maner of honor and condēnyth all maner of worship and seruyce done vnto him which he hath not ordeyned or commāded For these things must be lerned out of the word of god and the wil of god both what pleaseth him and what pleaseth him noti ● known only by the holy writtō scripture And if we byleue not this euen heauen and erth at the latter day shal witnes against us that we folow obey the serpent which is now waxen a gret Antichrist euen wetyngly of a sett purpose and obstynacy contrary to the exhortatiō and monicion of Moyses For he saith I take and call to witnes heauen and erth that I haue set before the in thy sight life death blessing curse not that curse that the puppy bloweth out vnder the name of almighty god the holy saintes Peter Paul but euen this curse which if we regard or obey the pope we shal heare of christ go your way ye cursed in to euerlasting fire which is prepared for the deuel his messengers For christ geueth us warning there as Moises did of the belly goddes of the last time of the fals lying prophetes of the fals christes which shuld imagyne a newe word and a newe Christ bownd to certen appointed places dayes meates othes vowes bandes to absteyne from the lauful creatures and ordinances of god which shuld driue christ out of the comp●ny of men and out of the ordinary comon life in to the w●ldernes againe and shu●d shutte him vp in deanes klosters or presons rather among the captiue presoners he saith also that thei shal byld cōfirme their preaching doctryne lawes not by the word of god or by the holy wordes of the old Prophecyes that is to say by the scripture but by false signes lying miracles that thei shal so myghtily blinde and deceyue the vnfaithful such as haue not receyued the truth of gods word but haue suffred thē selues to be ledde a way from it to be seduced thorow miracles that euē the elect if it were possible might be deceyued And he monissheth us of these thīgs so ernestly that he calleth vpon heauē erth to beare him witnes that he did premonissh and declare these things vnto us before of the Antichristes that shuld come wherby he declareth what sorow and care he taketh for us how sore he lamenteth that we shuld perissh be damned thorow such blasphemy of Antichrist And euen after this same maner with like wordes doth the prophete Esay thonder for the defence of gods word