Confutation of Unwritten Verities, Chapter 1
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YE shal put nothyng to the word / which I commaunde you / neyther take aughte therefrō:Deu. 4. that ye maye kepe the commaundementes of the Lorde your god / whiche I commaunde you.
You shall not doe any thynge / thatDeu. 12. we do here this daye / eueryevery mā what semeth him good in his own eyes.
What soeuer I commaunde you / that take …eade you doe onelye to the Lorde / and put nothynge thereto / nor take aughte therefrom.Ibid… in fine.
The Prophet / which shall presume to speake a worde in my name / which I hauehave not cōmaūded him to speake / or that speakth in the name of straūge gods / that prophete shall dye.Deu. 18.
Al the wordes of god are pure and cleane:Pro. 30. for he is a … vntounto all them / that putte these truste in him. Putte thou nothyng vntounto hys wordes / leaste he reproue the and thou bee found a lyar.
Heare not the wordes of the Proph…tes / that preache vntounto you and beleaue you:lere. 23. for they speake the me… nyng of their own hartes / and not oute of the mouth of the lorde.
Whosoeuer teacheth and kepeth the same (speaking of his commaun dementes) shall be called greate in the kyngdom of heauen.Math. 5.
Whosoeuer heareth these my wordes / Math. 7.and doth the same / shalbee likened vntounto a wise man / that buildeth hys house vponupon a rocke: and aboundaūce of raine fel / the fluddes came / the wīde blew / and bet vponupon the same house / and it fel not / because it was groūded an the suer rocke.
This people draweth nye vntounto me with their mouth and honoureth me with lyppes / howbeit their harts be farre from me / but in vayne do thei serue me / teachyng the doctrynes and preceptes of men.Math. 15.
Goe ye / and teachē all … / baptysing them / in the name of … &c:Math. 28 teachyng them to … what so euer I hauehave ….
Goe ye into all the … / and preache my gospell to all creatures.Mark. 16.
He that heareth mi word / & beleueth in him that sent me / hath euerlasting lyfe / and shal not come into damnacion: but is escaped from death to life.Iohn. 5.
Searche the scriptures / for in them ye thinke ye hauehave eternal life / and thei art they / which testifie of me.Iohn. 5.
These are written / that you might beleue / that Iesus is Christ the sonne of god / and that (in beleuing) ye might hauehave life thorow hys name.Iohn. 20.
I hauehave spared no labor / but I hauehave shewed al the counsell of god.Actes. 20.
I hauehave obtained helpe of God / and continew vntounto this day / witnessynge both to the small and to the great / sayinge none other thynges / then those which the prophetes and Moses did say should come.Acte. 26.
Fayth commeth by hearynge / hearynge commeth by the worde of god.Rom. 10.
What soeuer is not of fayth / the same is sinne.Rom. 14.
We be not lordes ouer your fayth:2. Cor. 1. but helpers of your ioye.
Though we our selues / or an aungell from heauen / preache any other gospell vntounto you / then that whyche we hauehave preached / let him be accursed.Gala. 1.
Continewe thou in the thynges / 2. Tim. 3.whyche thou hast learned / whiche also were committed vntounto the / knowīg of whō thou hast learned them / and for as muche also as thou haste knowen the holy scriptures of a chylde / which are able to make the learned vntounto saluacion / throughe the fayth / which is in Chryste Iesu. For al scripture / geuen by inspiracion of God / is profitable to teache / to improue / to amende / to instructe in righteousnesse / that the man of god may be perfecte / & prepared to all good workes.
If any man speake / let hym speake as the wordes of god.1. Pete. 4.
If any man come vntounto you / and bryng not thys learning / receaue hym not into your house / neither bid him God spede.2. Iohn epistle. For he / that byddeth hym God spede / is partaker of hys euyll dedes.
If any man shall adde vntounto these thynges / god shall adde vntounto hym the plages / that are wrytten in this booke.Apo. 22. And if any man shall minishe of the wordes of thys prophesye / God shall take awaye his part out of the boke of lyfe / and out of the holy citie / and frō those thynges / whiche are written in thys boke.