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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

of concupiscence do not only reygn in city and court but also there be very few which set them selues a brasen wal agaynst them and mend agayne the breach of the hedge Ieremy 1 Ezechiel 22 Let these men remember what loue they beare to Chryst and also consider how great a treasor is committed to their keaping namely a flock gotten by the bloud of Christ Math. 24. Let them diligentlye weigh with what punishment the Lord wyl punysh the vnfaith full ministers when he retourneth to take accompt he wil cut him in twayne saith Christ and put his parte with hipocrites Verely verely I say vnto the whē thou wast young thou girdest thy self diddest walke whither thou wouldest but when thou art olde thou shalt stretche forth thi hādes an other shal gird the lead thee whither thou wouldst not And this he spake signifing by what death he should glorifye God when he had spoken this he sayd vnto hī folow me Peter turned about saw that disciple whō Iesus loued following who also leaned on his brest at supper had said lord which is he that betrayeth thee when Peter therfore saw him he said to Iesus lord what shal this man do Iesus said vnto him If I wil haue him tary til I come what is that to thee Folow thou me Then went this saieng abrode amōg the brethern that that disciple shuld not dy yet Iesus said not to hī he shal not die but if I wil that he tary til I cōe what is that to thee The disciple is he which beareth witnes to these things wrote these things we know that his witnes is tru Ther ar also many other things which Iesus did the which if they should be writtē euery one I suppose the world could not conteyne the bokes that should be written THat which is spoken by christ to Peter let vs thinke the same to be spoken vnto vs al namely that we should follow christ vnseperably cleaue vnto him keepinge our selues safe frō straunge things Let euery man be vigilant in his own office and not curiouslye searche and enquire out other mens sayings and doyngs And let not affection be of more force with vs thē the gouernmēt of god Let Gods wil be the rule of our life wherof to aske a reason of God is moste wicked And althoughe these thinges are spoken vnto all men yet chieflye they pertayn to the ministers the word that they shuld earnestly follow Christ wtout any tarying setting al other thīgs apart beīg redy for his glory not ōly to lose their goods but also their life The seruāt is not greater thē his lord there can be no greater glory then to suffer death for Christs sake And the eleuē disciples departed to Galiley to a mountaine where Iesus had appointed thē And when thei saw him they worshipped him but some of them doubted whose vnbelief after he had rebuked he saide These are the woordes which I spake vnto you while I was yet with you that al things must nedes be fulfylled whiche were written of me in the law of Moyses in the prophetes in the psalmes Then opened he their mind that thei might vnderstād the scriptures he saied vnto them Thus is it written thus it behoued Christ to suffer to rise again frō the ded the iii. day and that repentance and remissiō of synnes shoulde be preached in his name amōg al natiōs begīning first at Ierusalem And ye are witnesses of these thinges and behold I sende the promise of my father vpon you But tary ye in the city of Ierusalē vntill ye be endewed with powre from aboue THe shepherd being strikē the shepe were scattered as saith the prophet but afttr that I am risen againe saith Christ I wil goe before you into Galile Marh 26. zach 13. the angel rehersynge these words sayth Go tel the disciples that the Lorde is risen agayne and will goe before you into Galile This to be nowe accōplished the Euāgelist Mathew testifieth we haue declared before what it is to preach repentance forgeuenes of sins through the name of Christ Math. 26. And the beginninge was made at Ierusalem first amonge the Iewes for whose sake Iesus came Esay 2. ●om 11. yet in the mean time Let vs reioyse that we also are called vnto thesame lot let vs be thāful lest we be cut of again It behoued that Christ should suffer that he might be made a sacrifyce to pacify god for our sins by the which sacrifice gods iustice myght be satisfyed It behoued hym to arise againe from the dead to make vs beinge raysed from the death of sinnes righteous vnto God the father and partakers of the life to come ☞ And Iesus came spake vnto hys Disciples saying Al power is geuē to me in heauen and in earth As my father sente me so sende I you also when he had spoken these things he breathed vpon them and said vn-them Receaue the holy ghost whose sinnes so euer ye shall forgeue they are forgeuē them and whose so euer synnes ye shall retayne they are retayned Go ye therefore teache al nations baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost teaching them to obserue all thinges what so euer I haue commaunded you And behold I am with you alwayes euen to the end of the world Goe ye into al the world and Preache the Gospell to all creatures He that beleueth and is baptised shal be saued but he that beleueth not shal be dāpned Moreouer these are the signes that shal followe them which shal beleue In my name they shall cast out deuils they shall speake with newe tonges they shall driue away serpentes if they drinke any deadly drinke it shall not hurt them Thei shal lay their hands on the sicke and they shal recouer AFter Christ had manifestly proued to his Disciples hys Resurrection he sheweth thē what great glory he shall be exalted vnto that they also might abide vnder the crosse knowing that eternal glory is prepared for thē with Christ He sayth that all power is geuen him as well of heauē as of earth to make vs to vnderstand how great a lord we haue in whose hands all things are put And no man hath in his hands the dominion ouer all thinges but he must nedes be god also For god geueth not his glory to an other Esay 42. as witnesseth Esay Let vs not therefore be affeard if vile men threatē vs and conspyre agaynste vs But let vs flye vnto the Lord vnder whose tuition we shal be safe Luk. xix Psalm ii And although there be some which do say we wil not haue him to reigne ouer vs let vs caste away theyr bondes from our neckes neither will yet acknowledge such and so great a Sauiour and king but go aboute to cut of his kingdome such rebelles neuerthelesse shall

but his owne yea and thē whē as most ernest matters are in hād Christ teacheth them to submit themselues to others to loue one another to helpe one an other by charitie and yet in the meane tyme they are not ashamed to reason who shoulde be greatest and this moued them to this question bicause Christ declared vnto them his deathe but Christ putteth down with great grauitie the hautenesse of mind exhorteth thē to submit thēselues shewing thē who is the greatest in the church namely he which submitteth him self to al mē is seruāt to al mē But bicause thei were elected to preach the word he therfore withdraweth their myndes from his hautenes with the which the princes of the world are almost puffed vp The princes of the gentils Prophane Princes it is a kinde of speaking for the Princes of the nations not they onely which gouerne the gentiles or infidels as the chief capitains of the Anabaptists do expound when as they go about to proue by the wordes of Christe that a christian man ought not to be a Magistrate but Christ by these woordes dothe not helpe their opinion but rather subuerte it of the which we will speake in his place Christ doth fortifie before the minds of his disciples whom he had elected to preache the gospel against the hurtfull affections of the fleshe amongest the which the study for honour disease of ambition hathe no small power the which if they once creepe into the heartes of prelates of religion they bring with them innumerable hurts Neither is there any other pestilence more hurtful to the church than the desire of ambition pride and confidence in it selfe For he is no true godly mā that trusteth to him selfe and the apostels were sick of this disease the Lorde permittyng the same that they might learne by this so muche the more to acknowledge hūble thēselues Therfore he saith O ye my disciples ye ar not of the nūber of them which are pr●nces magistrates in the world you haue an other office apointed you Princes obtayne their names according to their doynges and haue in the meane time some dominion ouer those which are committed to their charge That affection of dominion and principalitie ought not to bee in other kynges and princes but rather they do gette thē names to be called gracious in deseruing well of their subiectes as Euergetes and the father of the countrey Abimilech c. And it is more often sene that they do more oppresse their subiects than ease them of their burthēs and although this be euil yet neuerthelesse it must be suffred in them which haue dominiō in the world but not in the kingdome of heauen For when they take armour and dryue away the enemy and punnishe the euill they serue also Christ with their sworde when as neuerthelesse they are somewhat defiled and haue some thing common with the busines of the world so that they cannot be wholly with out dregges and be alwayes bent to heauenly thinges But for you which are the lighte of the world being lightened of me which am the true light a greater integritie is mete a greater purenesse ye must shine aboue other in the light of faith and charitie not in worde only but in example of life let not your hartes haue a regard to earthly thinges but beyng purged from the contagiousnesse of al earthly dregges let them be caried vpward as it wer like fyre vnto heauenly thinges Be ye therfore far from ambition from the desire of money and frō all those things which may wrap your mindes in earthly thinges Se that you seke not gredily for glory rule in the world for I haue preferred you to the kingdome of heauen that is to the preachyng of grace and truth Be ye not therfore bent to other things which might withdraw you from your office let other men seke to be lordes haue ye onely a care to serue others that shall extoll you to the eternall ioy and shall make you mightye in dede Looke vppon me whiche came not to rule or to be greate but I am rather conuersaunt amōgest you ministring vnto you as a most abiect seruant and washing your feete I haue lefte heauen and descended vnto you takyng vpon me for your sakes all pouerty affliction why should you then be ashamed to serue others for my sake It is a smal matter that ye haue abiden with me hitherto that ye haue cleaued vnto me which neuerthelesse was not of your owne power for ye haue not elected me but I descending from my fathers seat haue called and chosen you what good soeuer therfore ye haue you muste not ascribe it vnto your selues but altogether vnto me lift vp your mindes to thinges that are to come you shall not lose your labor if you abide with me I will reward it to the vttermost euē as you haue bene partakers of my afflictions so shall you also be companions of my ioy so that ye be constant in that which I send you about and apply not your mindes to other thinges For it is not sufficient that ye haue abiden with me hitherto after a sorte for they were but skirmishes sleight battails but now there be greater troubles at hand The time is now present that Sathan turneth al his force and all hys armour against me and you Ye know that ye wāted nothing when I sent you wtout thinges necessary for your iourney also vnarmed be ye therfore constant and stande ye firmely for such a multitude of wicked personnes shall come vpon vs that it shall seeme that we haue nede of swords For those thinges which are written of me must needes be performed and go ye forwarde without feare in preaching of the truth I will neuer be absent from you as I haue before defended you I will prouide for you and minister vnto you all such thinges as ye wante By these wordes the lorde plucketh out of the hartes of the disciples the affection of the flesh wherewyth they were touched and also he prepareth and encourageth them to battayles whiche were to come For they should suffer greater thinges after his departure when as they should stir vp by the preching of the truth the displeasure of all mē against them Of the which euils he hath presētly shewed an exāple by himself declaring vnto thē to all the godly what they must suffer in this worlde for the truthe and that there is a wonderfull great reward prepared for them which continue vnto the end But in that he sayeth let him sell his coate bye a sworde it is a phrase of speache by the which is signified a most great daunger to be at hand as though Christ would say If they rage so against me they will not spare you be ye therfore stronge and constante for they shall so spoyle and kill you that it shall seeme that ye haue nede of swordes yet he biddeth not

or by our own w sdome 〈…〉 that we might acknowledge the 〈…〉 benefite of God the opera●●● of 〈…〉 Moreouer from hence may argumēts be takē for the confyrmation of our Christian fayth If any man woulde doubt of the Christian fayth or woulde affyrme it to be but a deceite a collusion as dyd Porphyrius and Symmachus most wicked blasphemers of Christian Religion For if the doctrine of Christ had bene but a guyle then Iudas would neuer haue repented him of his betraying he woulde nothing haue bene ashamed to haue returned to the reaste of the Apostles he had nothing neded to haue restored the money and to saye I haue sinned against Innocente bloude For thieues suche as be wicked although they fall out somtimes among them selues yet are they sone agreed agayne and they renewe theyr frendship But Iudas dareth not retourne agayne to the Apostles but being in despayre hāgeth him selfe And what nede had Peter to haue wept so bitterly neyther would he also haue retourned to the Apostles if his conscience had accused hym of any guile But he was desirous of the truth and a louer of righteousnesse and Thomas followed that which is iust good and righte how so euer he wauered In that Peter therfore is vexed in that Thomas seketh earnestlye requireth greater tokens it is a most stronge argument that the doctrine and religiō of Christ is true and cleaueth to the truth not to coullours or guile The truth which thei see find in Christ draweth them to laboure so diligently to come into his fauour againe The nature condition of a glorified bodye suffreth not to be touched or to be felte but the Sauiour and louer of soules succoureth suche as are weake in fayth He offreth him selfe therfore to be hādled and felte of them to confyrme in them the fayth of his resurrection Thomas is not vtterly vnfaythful but onely doubteth of the resurrection Christ therfore sheweth vnto them the printes and skarres of his woundes that thei might see it was the same body which was crucified on the crosse and to declare vnto thē that he was truly risē frō the dead to a new life and that with the same bodye As though he would say beholde and knowe that euen I I say which suffered and was crucified for you am truly risen againe frō that dead that ye might beleue also that your bodies shal arise agayne This doth Paule vrge when he saith If thou shalt confesse the Lorde Iesus with thy mouth and shalt beleue in thy harte Rom. x. that God raysed hī vp frō the dead thē shalt thou be saued And againe if the spirit which hath raised vp Iesus from the dead do dwell in you F then he whiche hath raised Christ frō the dead wil quickē also your mortall bodies thorough his spirite inhabiting in you Let vs learne also of our head to receaue norish paciently to beare with the weake ones in fayth My lord my god This is the confession of a perfecte true fayth As though he would say Now I know that thou art god in dede whē as thou hast risen agayne frō the dead thou at the last oughtest to be my God forgeue me my incredulitie c. Blessed are they which haue not sene yet beleue namely that doe not see me corporally presēt As though he wold say I wil not alwaies offer my self to be hādled of euery body I wil take away this carnal presence I muste be handled touched by fayth Blessed therfore are they which although they see not my body to haue risē agayne as thou doest which doe not handle it but yet beleue in the meane time that I am verely risē For Christ speaketh of the present occasiō ▪ continueth his argument of his resurrection otherwise what so euer a mā saw not beleued should be faith This I speake bycause of those which wreste the words of Christ to the sacrament of the holy supper will proue by these words that theyr fayth is better whiche beleue that the bodye of Christ is in the bread thē theirs is which saye that the bread is but a signe of the body They marke not that Christ speaketh not here of the holy supper but to fortifie the faith of the resurrettion He that beleueth that Christ was crucified that he also arose againe this man is blessed although he see it not with his corporal eyes as Thomas dyd Otherwise there should be two wayes to saluatiō One to beleue that Christ suffred for vs rose agayne an other to beleue that the body of Christ is in the bread But there is none whiche vnderstandeth not how great an absurditie this is not agreable to fayth Here is also to be noted that in these wordes bicause thou hast sene me thou also beleuest this word beleue is here takē not proprely but improprely Heb. 11. For that which a mā seeth the same he beleueth not For Paule saith that fayth is the substance certeinty of an inuisible thing Fayth therefore is here takē for experience to beleue For to try And many other signes did Iesus c. As though Iohn would saye I haue diligently set forth and writtē the actes of Christ although not al for who cā do that Neuerthelesse those thinges whiche are writtē are sufficient for oure saluation namely such thinges as pertaine to the Godhed humaine nature of Christ to his doctrine miracles finally what so euer pertayneth to the true fayth whereby we are saued and also to obtaine euerlasting life He which beleueth not these things which are left neither woulde he beleue other things if they shoulde be written These things therfore suffice the beleuers neither seeke they for any more thinges For the which cause suche thinges as the Euangeliste testifieth to be writtē for our saluatiō must bee red and marked of vs with greate reuerence earnest studye Let vs daye night be conuersaunt in these things meditating of thē that our fayth may be supported that our hope may be established charitie may be kindled paciēce exercised obedience modestie all other good spirituall giftes aduaunced But they be fooles yea and vngodly whiche go aboute to proue by these wordes that it is lawful for these Popes to deuise and imagen certayne other thynges of their owne heade to fill vp the place of such thinges as are here lefte oute For Iohn the Euaungeliste hath in briefe comprehended the whole some of Christian Religion namelye that Christe is the true Sonne of GOD which for our saluatiō came downe from heauen and was dead and rose agayne and prepared for vs eternall life what can they adde to these thynges ¶ Afterward did Iesus shewe him selfe againe at the sea of Tiberias and on this wise shewed he him felfe There were together Simō Peter Thomas whiche is called Didimus and Nathanaell of Cana in Galile and the