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A10772	An exposition in the epistell of Iude the apostel of Christ wherein he setteth playnly before euery mans eyes false apostels, and theyr craftes, by ye which they haue longe receyued symple christian people.	Ridley, Lancelot, d. 1576.	1538 (1538)	STC 21042; ESTC S104543	43,103	150

these thynges for which they curse speke euyll that is to say that they do not vnderstande a iust cause of their cursyng And not only men Iude sayth they curse but also other thyngꝭ which they do not knowe that they curse and speke euyll of as of doctryne wrytyngꝭ whiche they neuer red nor herd ye of suche doctrine as agreeth with Christis doctryne lernyng of the apostils but these pseudapostils speke euil of it whiche they knowe not nor yet can gyue iudgemēt of it for as moche as they neuer red it nor herd it red Amongꝭ these men there be some so ignorant of gods doctryne that they haue wyshed desyred hartely of god saynt Paules pistels yea the newe testamēt to be brent saying all errours heresies to come out of saīt Paules pistels the newe testament suche shamefull wordes detestable hath some doctors spoken whiche wolde haue ben counted for lerned men doctors in their sciences but as blynde as betils in gods lawe and ignorant in goddes worde and yet they were benefyced men rulers ordynaryes and heades of other ye of a hole coūtrey O mercyful lorde what were the membres when suche blynde beyardes were heades ordynaryes howe was the people of god fedde with goddes worde when the heade wolde haue had goddes worde brente Nothynge is more to the hurt and destruction of many soules in this realme then is to haue one to be officiall comysarye and ordynarye vnder the bysshop that is ignorant in gods lawe and goddes worde howe wyll he preache and teache hym selfe what example wyll he gyue to other what persons what viccars wyll he make of Trewly suche as he is hym selfe ignorant in goddes lawe and suche as be lerned he wyll hate and despise and they that wolde teache their flocke and feade with the holsome worde of god these he wyll call heretykes and accuse them of heresye and impryson them Examples to many we haue in this realme I praye god amende it when his plesure is Suche shamefull wordes hath doctors in their facultye as they call it spoken desyrynge to haue had Sayncte Paules pystels ye the newe testament brente Of theyr sayinges they haue ben nothing ashamed nor yet of theyr ignoraunce nor blyndenes but taken for ryght worshypfull men postes and pyllers of Christis churche these ignoraunt and blynde heades rulers of other howe coulde they preache goddes worde beynge thus affected howe coulde they fauour those that preached gods worde trewly and syncerely Trewly they coulde not this is the cause that trew preachcers of goddes worde in this realme be so euyll spoken on as they be because they exhorte al beneficed men to do theyr dewtye to preache goddes worde to feade theyr flocke with the doctryne of god that they myght saue theyr soules in the daye of the lorde But a great part of beneficed men no thyng regarde theyr dewty cōmaūded them of god nor the exhortation of the preachers that is to feade theyr flocke with goddes worde but neglygently despyseth that office and wyll neyther feade his flocke hym selfe nor yet se or prouyde that they be fedde by other that can do it yea they wyll speke euyll of suche as preache goddes worde purely and sincerely make them to be endited of heresye whiche preache goddes worde purely which do feade the people of god trewly with gods worde suche is the affections of many persons vi●ars and curates suche is theyr ignorāce suche is their blyndnes god send them the lyght of his worde that they may se it and vse it to the helth of them and theyr flocke Many there be that peraduenture thynketh it is ynough they do the cōmaūdement of theyr ordynary so that they neuer preche nor fede their flocke with gods worde whiche men deceyueth them selues yf they so thynke for this wyll not excuse theym before the hye iudge at the day of iudgement as is euident Ezech. iii. xxxiiii xxxiii pri Corinth ix Wo be to me sayth saynct Paule yf I preache not Iude here speaketh in the neutre gendre sayinge that they dyd speke euyll of these thynges whiche they dyd not knowe by the whiche he vnderstandethe many thynges Here we may se what euyll it is to curse those thynges that men do not knowe or that they haue neyther herde nor redde To suche men saynt Ierome gyueth a good counsell in a pystell before Esaie the prophete He willeth that men shuld fyrst reade and then despyse least they maye he thought not of a trewe iudgemente or knowlege but of a presumption of hatred to condempne those thynges they knowe not yf men wolde folowe here saincte Hieromes counsell they wolde not be so redy to condempne as they be whiche as beestes without reason they corrupte them selues Iude here sayth they corrupte them selues naturally as brute beestes with oute reason as who shulde saye they lyue in welth and pleasure and in satisfyenge the desyre of their fleshe they passe brute beestes whiche be without reason whiche lyue after their nature but these in the fylthynes of their flesh they kepe not her measure nor meane all together giuen vnto pleasure of eatinge and drinkynge and to satisfy the other pleasures of the body wherfore they be worse then brute bestes which lyue after their nature wo be vnto them / for they haue folowed the way of Cayne Here Iude no●eth these pseudeapostels to be full of enuy as Cayne was towardes his brother Abell whome he kylled Cayn enuyed his brother abell because his brothers sacrifyce was better or more iust then his Genesis iiii and therfore he dyd kyll him So there be many that foloweth the waye of Cain whiche can not beare that other men and other mennes workes shulde be preferred before theym or they re workes Here is to be noted fyrst Cayn an euell man to haue enuyed his brother Abel a good man Secondly Cayne of enuy to haue persecuted his brother be cause his brother was better then he and his brothers workes preferred before hys Thyrdely that it greueth euell men other man or other mennes workes or oblacyons to be preferred before theym Fourthely that two brethren of one man and of one woman the one to haue bene good and the other euell Fyftely one brother to haue kylled an other of malice enuy and hatred Syxtely learne enuy and hatred to bryng murdoure and man slaughter at the ende Seuently learne that euell men allwayes enuyeth good men persecuteth theym with mortall hatred without a cause and at the laste kylleth theym And that this thynge is no newe thynge here you maye see of Cayn and Abell Many there is that entre the way of Cayn and foloweth his foote steppes in his enuy and malyce drowned and these be called Caynys Many there be nowe a dayes Caynys that enuyeth the true preachers of the Gospell but these shall haue a rewarde with Cayn to whom the apostell doth threate wo that is to saye euerlastynge woo and