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A10769 A commentary in Englyshe vpon Sayncte Paules Epystle to the Ephesyans for the instruccyon of them that be vnlerned in tonges, gathered out of the holy scriptures and of the olde catholyke doctours of the churche, and of the beste authors that nowe a dayes do wryte. Anno. D. 1540 Per Lancelotum Ridleum Cantabrigensem.; Commentary in Englyshe upon Sayncte Paules Epystle to the Ephesyans. Ridley, Lancelot, d. 1576. 1540 (1540) STC 21038; ESTC S104539 108,684 266

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the studye and knowledge of mannes lawe to knowe the wyll of man and howe they shulde come to ryches and goodes in the worlde / but to knowe the wyll of god / and his lawe they be nothyng diligent / ye nor desyrous of yt / it is well yf they be nat aduersaries to Goddes worde / but all suche shewe them selues what they be / perauenture wyse men to the worlde but fooles before god / men that loue more this presente lyfe thē the lyfe to come This place shulde moue al lawyers and iudges to be deligēt to knowe goddes lawe / least in there iudgementes they do iudge other wayes then goddes lawe wyll / by the whiche al mannes lawe shulde be ruled / yf goddes lawe shulde be the rule of mannes lawe as it is in dede howe shall they rule well mannes lawe that be ignoraunce in Goddes lawe Surely after my mynde there is nothynge more to the hynderaunce of Goddes worde or more to the destructyon of men soules in this realme thē that the nobilite and lawers and other that haue rule ouer the people both in the spiritualtye in the temporalty be ignoraunte in goddes lawe / in the whiche it becommeth thē most cheifely to be lerned / that they might ordre all causes and matters accordynge to Goddes lawe / geltylmen and a greate parte of lawyers be ignoraunt in Goddes lawe And therefore seldome they do loue goddes worde / or the true teachers of yt / and the laye people folowe the gentylmen or rulers As touchynge the spyrytualtye vnder the Byshoppes / rulers be lawyers brought vp in the Byshop of Romes law and for the most parte suche men that be ignoraunt in goddes worde be Chauncellours / Comysaries / Officials / which oftymes do hate Goddes worde and the true preachers of it / and fauoureth as muche as they darre the byshop of Romes lawes and his waies It is a very seldome thing to haue a lawyer a Chancellour / a Commyssary / a Preacher of Goddes worde / a setter forth of it / howe by thē that be ignoraunte it hathe ben hyndered and letted we haue experience enoughe I pray God that all Byshoppes with al there offycers vnder them may be true fauourers of goddes worde / and ernestly set forwardes and moue and exhorte al men to goddes word and to lyue after yt that God may more more be glorified of al men Amen ❧ AND be nat dronken with wyne wherin is excesse but be ful of the spyryte / and talke amonge youre selfes of Psalmes and Himnes and spyrytuall songes / syngynge and makynge melodye vnto the Lorde in youre hartes / gyuynge thankes alwaye / for all thynges / vnto God the father in the name of our Lorde Iesꝰ Christ submyttynge your selfes one to another in the fear of god ⚹ The Apostle here forbiddeth dronkēnes as a cause of fornication or adultry / he monysheth to ware of drinkyng wyne whiche prouoketh to adultery or fornication In these wordes he forbyddeth also al excesse and ryot in eatyng and drynkyng or other bankettynge of the whiche cōmeth many incoueniences and greate diseases bothe to the body and soule / of vnreasonable drynkynge or riotynge we se daylye greate syckenes to come to the bodye / as the goute / dropsy / palsey / other diseases many of the body Also dronkennes / adultry / fornication / chydynge / fyghtyng mā slaughter dothe come of greate drynkyn-whiche be destructyon and deathe of the soule The Apostle here nat onely forbyddeth synne and vyce / but also he forbyddeth the occasion and causes of them 2 Dronkennes oughte to be eschewed for many causes that commeth of it / that bryngeth men to deathe oftymes bothe of the body and of the soule it depriueth men of wytte wisdome and reason and maketh them worse then a brute beaste / yee then aswyne that walters ouer and ouer in the myre Drokennes it causeth many deseases in the body / it bringeth with it idelnes chydynge / braulynge / fyghtyng / murder / ye what myscheife doth it nat bryng with it / death both to body soule It is therfore to be aborred of all men 3 He nat onely reproueth vyce but he sheweth vertue to be taken in the place of vyce / as here he reproueth dronkennes / wylleth me not be fulfylled with the holy ghoste and to synge in their hertes spiritual Psalmes and Hymnes / gyuyng thākes to god alwayes for his benefytꝭ / these spirituall Psalmes and Hymnes he setteth for the fruytes of dronkennes And in this me thinke the Apostle willeth that lay men and lay women shulde synge spyritual Pslames and Hymnes as preestes and spirituall men / and gyue thankes to god for all his benefites gyuen to thē and and in this he sheweth playnely that it is lawefull for laye men and laye women to reade the holy scriptures / to haue them by harte / that they may talke of them / speke of them to theyr edyfieng / and synge spyrituall Psalmes and Hymnes gyuynge thankes to the Lorde / howe shulde they synge spirituall Psalmes and Hympnes excepte that they knewe them before / and had redde them or lerned them This place euidently sheweth that it is lawfull for laymen and lay womē to rede the scriptures of god / to talke of them to goddes glorye and to theyr edyfienge The Apostle dothe nat heare speake onelye to mynysters in the Churche / but to all men / to whome he forbyddeth dronkennes and hꝭ fruites / and for them the holy gooste and his fruytes to be receyued with spirituall thankes Psalmes and Hymnes gloryfyenge god alwaye 4. He wylleth that euery man shall be obediēt one to another in his state and degree and that in the feare of God / that none shulde contemne another thynkyng hym selfe better then other / but euery one humyle him vnder other / and thynke hym selfe worse in his owne syght / and in this he reproueth proude hartes and stomakes and moueth euerye one to mekenes and lowlynes in them selfe ¶ Let the women submytte them selfes vnto their husbandes as vnto the Lorde / for the husbande is the wyues heade euen as Christe also is the heade of the congregacion / and he is the sauyoure of his bodye Therfore as the congregacion is in subiection to Christe / lykewyse let the wyues be in subieccion to thei husbandes in all thinges ¶ Before the Apostle hathe vniuersally taught euery man Nowe he commeth to perticular persons as to the wyfe and the husbande he sheweth ther duetye on to the other But before I wyll shewe of their dewties I thynke it expedient som thīge so entreate of matrymonye by the whiche the man and the wyfe be ioyned togyther and the one boūde to the other by the law of god / and that with suche knottes as cā nat be lowsed with out the breakynge of goddes law and displeasure of god / except it be for suche causes as by the scriptures may lowse the bounde of
nat be angrye at all / but yf to be it that we be angry / as we be men obiecte to the infirmities of the flesshe / he moueth vs to pacyfie and put awaye this angrye / least it brust out in chidyngꝭ / hraulynges / contenciousnes / fyghtyngꝭ in hat bytynge / or detraction of other / or lest by angry nat pacyfyed / it bryng to wordes / from wordes multiplyed to fyghtynge / so to murdre as oftymes we do se to come to passe Therfore the Apostle wolde that we shulde pacify the ire / put away anger sterred vp by occasion or infirmite of the flesshe clere awaye from our myndes / that no parte of yre or wrathe shulde remayne in herte or mynde or at the leaste it shulde nat remayne tyll sonne set / or go downe Therfore he sayeth / let nat the sonne go downe vpon your wrath / that is pacyfy put away anger and wrath as sone as cā be / by the helpe of God and be reconcyled in loue with hym / with whome you were angry / and desyre of hym no vengeaunce but leue all vengeaunce to God that wyll punyshe al malefactours that wyl nat repente s. gyue no place to the backebyter He sheweth why we shulde pacify that yre anger of mynde / leaste the deuyl seyng yre and anger remaynge in mynde or harte / shulde styrte vp men to auenge them felfes or moue men to chydyng / brawlyng fyghtynge and so to murdre / for the deuyl doth nat ceasse / but he goeth besylye about as a rampyng lyon searchynge whom he may deuoure and kyll / he ceasseth nat / but he diligently labours to brynge men to eternall deathe / and to death both of body and soule / therfore pacifye yre or wrath / leaste yt bruste vp and brynge mo euyls To be angry some tymes it is lawfull / as with synne and euyll doers that they maye resyst from euyll doynge / repent and amēde ye nat to be anry with synne is vnlawefull / and oftymes cheresheth euyl doers in theyr noughty doynge and maketh them more bolde to contynewe in euilnesse / and so wynkyng at mēnes fautes is as it were approuynge of euyll doynge 7 He that hath stolen / let hym steale no more He mouyth men to fle thefte or taken away other mennes goodes agaynst the wyll of the mayster Theues be they nat onely that steale / and robbe openly by hye wayes / or other where taken away other mennes goodes / but also al they whiche by crafte / falsed / vsury / myght / power maystershyppe take awaye other mennes goodes / the maysters of these goodes nat knowynge or elles / nat wyllynge / and although all these be nat counted for theues before the worlde / nor be nat punyshed of the worlde for theues / yet before god they be theues / and shal be punysshed and hanged in hell if they do nat repent amende There be other that be theues before god all they that be idle and wyll nat laboure in their callynge / but take the profyte and pleasure in idylnes fyllynge their belyes / whiche god wyl punyshe as theues if they do nat repent and amende / for they be theues before god / although they be counted nat theues of the worlde but honeste men or Goddes feruantes alwaye occupyed in goddes seruice / when god perauēture neyther knoweth them to be his seruantes / nor yet their seruice / to be his seruyce / to his honoure and glorye Many suche bely beastes hath this realme founde and cherysshed / and yet dothe And theues of this sorte be in euery contrey / in euery state of men which take the profyte dewe to them and do nat theyr deutye agayne to them to whome they shulde Therfore let euery one amende / and be no more theues before god / that they may scape punishment due for theues / and the wrath of god 8 Let euery man laboure in his callyng that he may haue to gyue to them that nedeth Here is shewed one cause why we shuld labour / that we might haue so helpe them that haue nede But he sheweth nat howe we shulde laboure / in what workes after what facion / he wylleth euery one to worke in his callynge accordynge to hys gyftes giuen him of god Some to labour with hande / some with mynde and studye or counsel or any other way occupie them selfes to the glorye of God and to the profyte of theyr negyhbours / all suche do laboure There is some that thynke no man doth labour but they that do occupy hādycraftes or workes / but these do nat thynke well of workers / for they be called labourers that do worke to the glory of God / to the profyte of other whether it be by hāde fote / tonge / mynde / studye / counsell / or any other wayes in their callynge / for their is diuers membres in the body / and to euery one is gyuen his gyfte of god to the / profit of other / and to Goddes glorye wherfore me thynke it is nat agaynste goddes lawe that prestes shulde laboure with hāde / specially such as cā nat preche goddes worde or if they coulde preache / it is nat agaynst goddes commaundement to laboure with hande after the example of Paule whiche laboured with his handes to get necessaries for hym selfe for other / least he shuld be paynful to other / or be slaunder to the gospell lest any shulde thynke be preached for lucre sake / or for to get him a lyuynge rather then to wynne and brynge men to Christ / and also that he wolde gyue other example to laboure and nat to be idle / for these causes other Paule laboured with his hande and dyd get his lyuynge for hī selfe and for other / when he myght iustely haue taken it of them to whome he preached / but of his gentylnes and for other causes aboue shewed he remytted his deutye due to him / although a preest / ye a precher of goddes worde maye laboure with his hande and remytte his deuty dewe to him / yet the specialll labour of preestes shulde be to be exercised in the study of the scripture of god / whiche requireth al a mannes labour and diligence that they may haue lernyng / wherby they maye profyte other shewe to the people on the sabboth day The study of the scripture is requered of prestes 1. Timo. 4. rather then sayeng or mūblynge vp of a popyshe payre of Mattyns or Euynsonge without edyfyeng 9 We muste laboure that we may haue to gyue to them that haue nede / and nat onely to gette necessaries for our selfes / or to get vs a quyet or a pleasante lyfe This place maketh agaynst them that say they wolde neuer labour if they might get their lyuynge other wayes / and agaynst all thē that forsake laboure and giue them selfe to ydlenes / wyl nat labour when they may labour to the glory of god to