close in their brestes
that it breaketh not forthe into wordes and dedes? As This true
christian zeale / and their dissemblinge can not be together in
oone man / euen so true and lyuely faith can not lurcke in such
a dissemblinge breste. ffurthermore / there are two kindes of
worshippe due vnto god / an inwarde / and an outwarde
worshippe / The inwarde worshippe is of the mynde / that is when
we beleue goddes truithe / and do thinke of god true and worthye
thinges / The owtwarde worshippe is of the bodye / which is
declared by those owtwarde signes that do belonge to the true
worshippe of god / In lyke maner there are two kindes of
Idolatries / one is inwarde / which is the Idolatrie of the
mynde / that is when a man dothe not thinke well / nor beleue
trulye on the true lyuing godd / but dothe fayne vnto him selfe
throughe false doctrine / either a straunge god in his owne
mynde / or straunge worshippinge of god: An other is outwarde
wich is Idolatrie of the bodie / and that is when we do bestowe
the worshippe wich is only due vnto god vppon creatures / And
when we do owtwardlye worshippe god other wise then he wilbe
worshipped.
Truly Theise dissemblers do not giue to god this worshipp of
mynde and bodie which is due vnto him / but the Idolatrie of
mynd and bodie they do commytt / bothe because they owtwardlie
do ioyne with papistes in their Idolatrie / and because in their
mynde they do persuade them selues that it is lawfull for them
so to do. We thinke / (saye they) as you thinke / and in our
hartes we do reteyne the truithe / and so our mynde is pure. But
your bodyes ye do giue ouer to the deuill and to Idolls.
[[1. Cor. 6.]]
Thy bodye / sayeth Paule / is a membre of Christe / why doest
thow make yt the membre of an harlot? here they will saye
againste me / that Paule spake this of whordome / I graunte
that: But the prophettes do teache vs that the moste vile and
horrible whordome is Idolatrie. Hieremie / Ezechiel / and the
other prophettes do speake so against the Iues and their
Churche / that they name it to be euen like an harlot which
hathe opened her legges vnd[er] euerye tree that hade any
bowghes to Idolls and vngodlye Idolatries. Wherfore if thow maye
not make thy bodye the membre of an harlot, thow muste not make
yt the membre of an Idoll. This collation betuene whordome and
Idolatrie is playne and true / taughte by the prophettes and
Paule. Morouer howe vayne this ther excuse is / that sayinge
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