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After hys baptyme Christ was Gods sonne declared
By the fathers voyce as ye before have hearde;
Whych sygnyfyeth to us that we, ones baptysed,
Are the sonnes of God by hys gift and rewarde.
And bycause that we shuld have Christ in regarde,
He gave unto hym the myghtye autoryte
Of hys heavenlye worde our only teacher to be.
By the fathers voyce as ye before have hearde;
Whych sygnyfyeth to us that we, ones baptysed,
Are the sonnes of God by hys gift and rewarde.
And bycause that we shuld have Christ in regarde,
He gave unto hym the myghtye autoryte
Of hys heavenlye worde our only teacher to be.
Now is he gone fourth into the desart place,
With the holy Ghost, hys offyce to begynne;
Where Sathan the devyll with hys assaultes apace,
With colours of craft, and manye a subtyle gynne,
Wyll undermynde hym: yet nothynge shall he wynne
But shame and rebuke in the conclusyon fynall.
Thys tokenneth our rayse and hys unrecurable fall.
With the holy Ghost, hys offyce to begynne;
Where Sathan the devyll with hys assaultes apace,
With colours of craft, and manye a subtyle gynne,
Wyll undermynde hym: yet nothynge shall he wynne
But shame and rebuke in the conclusyon fynall.
Thys tokenneth our rayse and hys unrecurable fall.
Lerne first in thys acte that we whom Christ doth call
Ought not to folowe the fantasyes of Man,
But the holy Ghost, as our gyde specyall;
Whych to defende us is he that wyll and can.
To persecucyon lete us prepare us than,
For that wyll folowe in them that seke the truth:
Marke in thys processe what troubles to Christ ensuth.
Ought not to folowe the fantasyes of Man,
But the holy Ghost, as our gyde specyall;
Whych to defende us is he that wyll and can.
To persecucyon lete us prepare us than,
For that wyll folowe in them that seke the truth:
Marke in thys processe what troubles to Christ ensuth.
Sathan assaulteth hym with many a subtyle dryft,
So wyll he do us if we take Christes part;
And whan that helpeth not he seketh an other shyft,
The rulers amonge, to put Christ unto smart,
With so manye els as beare hym their good hart.
Be ye sure of thys, as ye are of dayly meate,
If ye folowe Christ with hym ye must be beate.
So wyll he do us if we take Christes part;
And whan that helpeth not he seketh an other shyft,
The rulers amonge, to put Christ unto smart,
With so manye els as beare hym their good hart.
Be ye sure of thys, as ye are of dayly meate,
If ye folowe Christ with hym ye must be beate.
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For assaultes of Sathan lerne here the remedye;
Take the worde of God, lete that be your defence.
So wyll Christ teache yow in our next comedye;
Ernestly prent it in your quyck intellygence;
Resyst not the worlde but with meke pacyence,
If ye be of Christ. Of thys herafter ye shall
Perceyve more at large by the story as it fall.
Take the worde of God, lete that be your defence.
So wyll Christ teache yow in our next comedye;
Ernestly prent it in your quyck intellygence;
Resyst not the worlde but with meke pacyence,
If ye be of Christ. Of thys herafter ye shall
Perceyve more at large by the story as it fall.
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