vnfaithfull.

Wherunto is added.

A Sermon made of the confessing of
Christe and his gospell / and of the
denyinge of the same.

Anno M.D.LV.

Apocal. 18.

Come awaye from her my poeple / that ye be
not partakers of her synnes / that ye
receyue not of her plagues.

In this furst treatise theys
thinges ar contayned.

1. The question of Cohabitacion.

2. Christians maye not be present at popishe masses and
supersticions.

3. The masse is a prophanacion of the lordes supper.

4. The dutie of princes is to mayntain pure Religion amonge ther
subiectes / and what inferior Rulars must do when they be
commaunded contrarie by their superiors.

5. A confutacion of the reasons which ar made to proue the
Cohabitacion lawfull.

6. How the Iues ar to be handeled of christians.

7. The papistes ar heretikes.

Whether the dwellinge together
and familiar conuersacion of the
godly withe the godles / the faithfull withe the
faythles / the professor of Christes
gospell withe the papiste be
lawfull or no.

[[Reasons prouing that it is lawfull.]]

The reasons bi whiche many do persuade them selues / and others
also / that yt ys lawfull / for the faythfull to haue famylier
conuersation / and to dwell together withe the vnfaythfull, are
theise.

[[1]]

Christe Iesus dyd go vnto the feastes and dyners of publicans
and synners / and was there accompanyed and famyliarlie
conuersaunte with them. In lyke maner beinge bydden of the
phariseis to dyners / he went.

[[2]]
[[1. Cor. 7.]]

Also S. Paule dothe byd / that the faythful whiche is ioyned in
mariage withe the vnbeleuer sholde not be separated / yf the
vnbeleuer will dwell withe the faythfull.

[[3]]
[[1. Cor. 10.]]

Againe he teacheth / if any of them whiche beleue not byd you to
a feaste / and if ye will go / what soeuer ys sett before you /
that eate / &c. In an other place he likwise sayethe:

[[1. Cor. 5.]]

I wrote vnto you in an epistle / that ye sholde not companie
withe fornicatours. And I meant not at all of the fornicatours
of this worlde / or of the couetous / or of extorsioners / or of
the Idolatrors / for then muste ye neades haue gone owt of the
worlde. But nowe I haue written unto you / that ye companye not
together. If any that is called a brother / be a fornicatour /
or couetous / or a worshipper of Images / or a rayler / or a
drunkard / or an extorsioner / with hi