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de by his boke & to dispute / which
he might well doo / sith he had his safe
conducte that he shuld haue
no bodyly harme. T. o mercifull god / how fome
ye out youre awne shame? ye can not dispute excepte ye haue
a man in youre awne daunger to doo him bodyly harme / to
diote him aftir youre facion / to tormente him and to
murther him. Yf ye might haue had him at youre pleasure /
ye wold haue disputed wyth him: first wyth sophistrie
and corruptynge the scripture: then with
offerynge him promocions : then with the swerde. So that ye
wold haue bene sure / to haue ouercome him with one argument
or other.
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sith] sithens 1573
fome] come 1573
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M. He wold agre on no Iudges. T. What iudges
offered ye him /
saue blynde bisshopes & cardenales /
enimies of all trouth / whose
promocions and dignites they feare to be
plucked from them / if the trouth came to light / or soch
Iudases as they had corrupte with money to mayntene their
secte? The appostles might haue admitted as well the hethen
bisshopes of Idoles to haue bene their iudges as he them.
But he offered you autenticke scripture and the hertes of the whole worlde. Whych .ij. iudges / iff ye had good consciences and trust in god / ye wold not haue refused.
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Iudges] 1573, Iugdes [1531]
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iiij.
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iiij.] The iiij. Chapter.
1573
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The fourth chapter is not the first poetrie that he hath
fayned.
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V.
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In the ende of the fifte he vntrulye reporteth / that Marten
saith /
no man is bound to kepe any vowe. Lawfull
promises are to be kepte
and vnlawfull broken.
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are] 1573, arte [1531]
vnlawfull] 1573, vnlawfulll 1531; broken] to be broken 1573
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vj.
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vj.] The vj. Chapter. 1573
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In the beginnenge of the . vj. he
discrybeth marten aftir the
ensample of his awne nature / as in other
places he discribeth god
aftir the complexion of popes cardenals and
worldly tirantes.
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awne] ed., a awne 1531, own 1573
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M. Marten will abyde but by the scripture only.
T. and ye will
come at no scripture only: And as for the old
doctours ye wyll heare
as litle / saue where it pleaseth you / for all youre
crienge / old holy fathers. For tel me this / whi haue ye in
englonde condemned the
vnion of doctours but because ye wold not haue
youre falshed disclosed by the doctrine of them.
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M. they saye / that a christen man is
discharged of al lawes spirituall
and temperall saue the gospell. T. ye iugle /
we saye that no christen man ought to bynde his brother
violently / vn to any lawe wher
of he coude not geue a reason out of christes
doctrine and out of the lawe of loue. And on the other syde
we saye / that a christen man is called to sofre wronge and
tiranny (though no man ought to bynde him) vntill god rid
vs therof: so fer yet as the tiranny is not directly agenst
the law of god and faith of Christe / and no further.
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M. marten was the cause of the destruccion of
the vplondish people
of germanie. T. that is false for then he coude
not haue escaped him selfe. Marten was as moch the cause of
their confusion / as
Christ of the destruccion of Ierusalem. The
duke elector of saxon cam from the warre of those vplondish
people and other dukes with him / in to Wittenberge where
Marten is / with .xv. hundred men
of armes / so that Marten if he had bene gyltie
/ coude not
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destruccion] ed., destrucciou 1531, destruction 1573
haue] 1573, hahaue 1531
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haue gonne quite. And therto all the dukes and lordes that
cleaue vn to the worde of god thys daye / were no lesse
combred with their comen people then other men.
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Then after the lowdest maner he setteth out the cruelnesse
of the emproures soudioures whych they vsed at Rome: but he
maketh no mencion of the treason which holy church wrought
secretly / were with the men off warre were so set on
fire.
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viij.
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viij.] The viij. Chapter. 1573
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M. what good dede will he do / that beleueth
marten / how that
we haue no frewill to do any good with the
helpe of grace? T. O poete with out shame.
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M. what harme shal he care to forbere / that
beleueth luther / how
god alone / with out oure will worketh all the
misheue that they
doo. T. O naturall sonne of the father of all
lies.
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M. what shall he care / how longe he liue in
synne that beleueth luther / that he shall after thys life /
fele nether good ner evell in
bodye ner soule vntyll the daye of dome? T.
Christ and hys appostles taught no nother / but warned to
loke for christes cominge agayne euery houre. Which cominge
agayne / because ye beleue will neuer be therfore haue ye
fained that other marchaundice.
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M. Martens bokes be open / if ye will not
beleue vs. T. Naye / ye
haue shutt them vpp and therfore be bold to
saie what ye liste.
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M. they liue as they teach and teach as they
liue. T. but nether
teach ner liue as other lye on them.
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ix.
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ix.] The ix. Chapter. 1573
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M. though the turke offer pleasures vn to the
receauers and deeth vn to the refusers of his
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