rfect and
consummate ende of sacrificing for synne: where then is their
enuented satisfaction for synne? Yea who doth not see / that this
theyr doctryne doth withdrawe from Christ / the fulness of that
his satisfaction with which he satisficed for vs? when they do
saye that it is not sufficient / except we do adde ours also.
And this theyr wicked errour they go about to colour / because
the olde fathers vsed often times this worde / satisfaction. But
they will not see / that the fathers ment therby / to satisfice
the churche / when they were receyued publiquely to
repentaunce / and not to satisfice to Godd. Except thow wilt
saye that to satisfice is nothing els / but when one doth make
himself approued vnto an other man. For euen so are we saide to
satisfice to Godd / when as after our conuercion and turning to
his grace / we do lyue godly for his pleasure / to aproue our
selues vnto hym / as his children. Thus satisfactions / are
signes of the forgyuenes of synnes and of true repentaunce. But
(as I sayde) theise men do both thincke / and teache otherwyse /
and do defende obstinatly theyr error / they will not be
satisficed by the word of God / wherfor they are heretikes.
They do teache furthermore / that it is lawfull in the
congregacion to do the holy seruice / in a tongue that is not
vnderstonded. And this they do indeede / and defende theyr
misdoinge / neither being admonished will they amende it.
[[1. Cor. 14]]
Paule doth forbidde the christians the vse of those tongues in
the congregacions / which euen by miracle were bestowed vpon
them / except they did interpretate and expounde that which they
shuld speake in them. And all Paules reasons are grounded vpon
the edifying of the congregacion / whiche aboue all thinges we
ought to seeke in the holy meetinges and congregacions. But there
shalbe no edificacion at all / when that thing which is spoken /
is not vnderstonded of the people. Paule saith. My brethren yf I
do come vnto you speaking with tongues / what shall I profite
you / excepte I speake to you / eyther by reuelacion / or by
knowledge / or by prophecying / or by doctryne. But these
sacrificers / lyke men that can do mutch more then Paule / they
do come with a straunge tong / which the congregacion
vnderstondeth not / and yet neuertheles they bragge that they do
muche profite the congregacion. Paule will rather speake fyue
wordes / to the enformacion of others / then ten thousand wordes
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