ommitted vnto
them maye be propmoted more then by the ministerie of other /
and aptelie / and as profitable. They maie be restored to their
place / and degree. The order of which matter is lefte vnto the
iudgement of the churche of God. But if they remayne obstinate
in their euill / and do continue peruerters of the godlye
doinges of the magistrates / and pestilent corruptors of the
people: Then the magistrates maie / and owghte to vse the sworde
againste them: for he bearith the sworde to take vengeaunce on
them that do euill / and therto is he minister of God.

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A Sermon of the true confessinge
of Christe / and the truithe of the gospell:
and of the foule denyinge of the same / made
in the conuocacion of the clergie at Zurich
the 28. daye of Ianuarie in the
yeare of the lorde
1555.

By H.B.

Our lorde Iesus Christ hath forsayed that ther shuld be
persequutions / and cheifly in the later tymes / through which
sum shuld be despolied of their goodes / sum also thrown out of
their dwellinges / and other shuld be shut vpp in prison / agayn
that other shuld be fried in the fire and put to other
punishmentes / and executed with infamus deathes / And that for
the lord Christe himself / and for the doctrine / and confession
of the truith of the gospell. The same lord did then also
forsaye / that not a few shuld fall from the truithe known. All
which thinges truly we haue herd and seene fulfilled / not in
this tyme only / but in tymes long passed. For ther are sum
which at this daye do openly / and that without shame / curs and
bydd adew to the truith of the gospell / which with demas do
embrace this present worlde. There are other / and not afew /
which do themselues also denie the truith known / and yet wyll
not be accompted to be forsakers of it. Thy do stayne themselues
with dyuers glosses and colours that they might not be known of
the godly and more simple sorte of men. One faynith that he doth
not go out of Egipt and Babilon / bicause he may wynne many vnto
Christe: when as in the meane tyume he doth both withdrawe
himself from Christ / and doth confirme manye that be weaker men
in the filthes of babilon so that they do not at ony tyme
thincke ernestly of true repentaunce. Other do fantisie that
ther is no neade openly to confes religion / but that the inward
beleif of the har