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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15874	A briefe rehersal of the death resurrectio[n], [and] ascension of Christ gathered together oute of ye foure euangelistes and actes of the apostles by the most godly and great learned man Huldriche Zuinglius, written first in Latin, and now tra[n]slated into Englishe, that such as vnderstande not the Latin tongue should not wante the vse of so worthy and profitable a treatise. Perused and allowed according to the order appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.	Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484-1531.	1561 (1561)	STC 26135; ESTC S106617	105,568	216

For let him which standeth saith Paule take heede that he fall not There is nothyng safe from chaunce nothyng is of all partes blessed when as suche a great disciple of Christ doth fal who can hēceforth trust to him selfe Let vs beware of hipocrisy that we be not wolues amongest the shepe of Christ and false brethren in the felowship of the godly Nothing is more contrary to god than hipocrisy and vnpurenesse Nothing doth more alienate vs from God than doth the couetous desire of things Let vs not therfore faynte from the grace of God lette vs not slip away from so greate dignitie as to be the sonnes of God Let vs not refuse the gatheryng together of vs for what a foule thing shall it be for to depart from the lyuyng God from suche a most louing father to fall awaye from so great a benefactor and to ioin himself to be a souldiour of the Diuell and to flee vnto the enemy of Christ Ah how great an vnthankfulnesse is it for them which be washed wyth the bloud of Christe and sanctified with the spirite of God for to ioyne themselues in fellowship which the vngodly wicked ones and to be made of the sonnes of God the seruauntes of Sathan In that they come with weapons it is a figure of those whiche fighte agaynste the truthe by violence and not by the truthe ¶ Then they came and layed handes vpon Iesus toke him whē thei which were aboute him sawe what would follow they sayd vnto hym Lord shal we smite with the sword And Iesus answered and sayd suffer them hytherto and beholde Simon Peter one of them which wer with hym stretchyng out his hande drewe out his sworde and strikyng the seruaunt of the high priest cut of his right eare the seruaūts name was Malchus Then said Iesus to Peter put vp thy sword in the sheth wilt thou not that I shall drinke of the cuppe which my father hath geuen me Put vp therfore the sword in his place For all that take the sworde shal perish with the sword Either thinkest thou that I cannot now desyre my father and he wyll geue me moe than twelue legions of Aungels How then shoulde the scriptures be fulfylled whiche saye that it muste so bee done and when Iesus had touched his eare he healed it THe flesh is wonte in aduersitie not to rū vnto God but to his own weapons and this doth Christ reprehende in Peter as though he would saye we must not fighte now with weapons but with sufferaunce and mekenes It is no time now to strike the enemy with the sworde but to obey the wil of God If I haue nede of weapons armies of souldiours I coulde sodenly haue of my father a great and infinite number of souldiors redy to helpe me I am not also here neither came I hither to the intent I shoulde fight with the sword but that I mighte redeme you by my death and leaue with you an example of patience By these wordes Christ doth teache vs patience that we should not reuenge our selues if that any man haue done vs any displeasure in priuate things but that we should patiently and quietly beare the iniuries whiche he dothe vnto vs he doth not for all that take away the sworde from the magistrate which beareth it according to the lawes for the defence of the good and the destruction of the euell Rom. xiii Math. xv for he sayeth he which taketh the sword vnderstād beyng moued therunto of his own pleasure rashly and of a wicked affection as for the magistrate he taketh it not after that sorte but receiueth it God deliuering and cōmitting it vnto him and taketh it that he may vse it iustly and according to the will of God that he may with the same punish the hurtful as often as nede shall require that is as often as the glory of God and helth of the godly requireth it Rom. xiii The magistrate as long as he vseth the sword laufully he himselfe doth not strike but God by him For god vseth the magistrate as his minister all things haue their tyme to sondrye men are certaine offices appointed so that it is not euery mans parte to take vnto hym the sword and to stryke neyther must it be done at all tymes That was the tyme wherin Christ would shew his most great loue towardes mankinde wherein he woulde declare himselfe to bee the sauiour of the worlde and would put forth himself to all euils and not the tyme wherin he would vse his power and most iust iudgemente Christe therfore restraineth kepeth vnder the zeale of Peter which was f●ruen●e in dede but it was not directed to gods will and he declareth that he came not to hurt or to worke displeasure but to saue and obey the will of the father in all thynges Iesus is taken that we might be deliuered he is boūd that we might be losed from the bondes of sinnes he is solde to vngodly ones that we being solde vnder sight be broughte into the libertye of the sonnes of God Let thys exaumple of Christe be sette alwayes before oure eyes let it be depelye imprynted in oure hartes that we maye learne to put oure stubborne and obstinate stiffe necke vnder the yoke of Christ Let vs not put awaye the bondes of gods law let vs willingly serue God and our neighbor let vs not be full of ianglyng stiffenecked stubborn and desirous of reuengemente but let vs goe forward in humilitie obediēce and lowlines of mynde as shepe appointed to be slayne and kylled ¶ The same houre sayde Iesus to the multitude and to them which came vnto him from the high priests and magistrate of the temple and elders ye be come out as it were agaynste a thiefe with swordes and clubbes to take me I sate daily teaching in the temple amongest you ye toke me not but this is your howre and the power of darknesse but all this is done that the Scriptures of the prophets myght be fulfilled Then al his disciples forsoke him and fled and there followed hym a certaine young man clothed in linnen vpon his bare bodye and the young men caughte him but he lefte his linnen cloth and fled from them naked CHrist as he is redye to suffer all thynges which these men deuised to work against him so also he ceaseth not to reuoke them from their malice which they hadde taken in hande neither doth he allow their entent although he suffer it quietly declaring also vnto thē that thei could haue had no power against him if he him selfe had would As though he would say and do ye not vnderstande that ye can do nothing against me when as I beyng dayly conuersaunt amongest you ▪ and yet ye could not take me although ye assayed it diuers tymes Now ye haue chosen the nighte for this purpose and that not vnaptly for ye be crafty varlettes and children of darkenesse the prince of