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two persons, deuysyd
and set forthe in the la-
tê tonge, by the noble
and famose clarke.
Desiderius Erasmus
intituled ye pyl-
gremage of
pure de-
uoty-
on.
Newly trãslatyd into
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Mongest the writinges of all men,dearly belouyd reder, not onely of the diuersyte of tongues, butalso the noble drawghts of so artificyall paynted figures, whichehaue so lyuely expressed to ye quycke ymage, the nature,ordre, & proporcyon of all states, as concernynge thegouernaunce of a Christen comêwealthe, that ther is (as Isuppose) no parte of the scripture, which is not so enpowndyde,furnysshed, and set forthe, but that euery Christen man, therby maylerne his dewty to god, hys prynce, and hys nebure, and soconsequently passe thourough the strayte pathe of the whichescripture doth testyfye vpõ, very fewe can fyndeye entrye, wherby thorough faythe in the redêptyonof the worlde thorowe ye bloode of Christe the sone ofgod, to rayne | with the father andthe holy goste eternally, accordynge to the promyse of Christe,sayinge. In my fathers hawse ther be many placys to dwell in, wewyll come to hym and make a mansyon place with hym and I haue andshall open thy name vnto them, that the same loue with the whichethou louydest me, may be in theym, and I in thê, and thys isthe kyngdome of god so often mouyd to vs in holy scripture, whicheall faythfull shall possesse and inheret for euermore: where asye vnfaythfull, vnryghtswye, and synner shall not entrein to the kyngdome of god, bycause, of chaûgynge the glory ofgode immortall in to the ymage of a corruptyble man, and therforeto incentiously he hathe suffrede them to wandre in theyr clowdesof ygnoraunce, preferrynge the lyes and corrupte iij. iudgmentes of man the veryte and the trutheof god, rather seruynge the creature then the creator, amongest allthe parties of the whiche (as was spoken at the begynnyng) thysalwaye not alonely in the newe law, but also in the olde Testamentwas as a thynge moost abhomynable and displesant in the sight ofgode prohybyte and forbyden: but our nature whiche hath in hym, thedampnable repugnaûce of synne agaynst the omnypotêtpower of gode, lest euyn frome owre fyrst father Adam, is soenclyned to vyces, amongest the whiche it hath not gyuen the leastparte to thys desperate synne of ydolatrye, agaynst the immaculate,and fearefull command