A very Christian, learned, and briefe discourse, concerning the true, ancient, and Catholicke faith, against all wicked vp-start heresies seruing very profitably for a preseruatiue against the profane nouelties of papists, Anabaptists, Arrians, Brownists, and all other sectaries. First composed by Vincentius Lirinensis in Latine, about twelue hundreth yeares ago. And now faithfully translated into English, and illustrated with certaine marginall notes. By Thomas Tuke.
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A very Christian, learned, and briefe discourse, concerning the true, ancient, and Catholicke faith, against all wicked vp-start heresies seruing very profitably for a preseruatiue against the profane nouelties of papists, Anabaptists, Arrians, Brownists, and all other sectaries. First composed by Vincentius Lirinensis in Latine, about twelue hundreth yeares ago. And now faithfully translated into English, and illustrated with certaine marginall notes. By Thomas Tuke.
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Vincent, of Lérins, Saint, d. ca. 450.
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Imprinted at London :: for Leonard Becket, and are to be sold at his shop in the Inner Temple,
1611.
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Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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"A very Christian, learned, and briefe discourse, concerning the true, ancient, and Catholicke faith, against all wicked vp-start heresies seruing very profitably for a preseruatiue against the profane nouelties of papists, Anabaptists, Arrians, Brownists, and all other sectaries. First composed by Vincentius Lirinensis in Latine, about twelue hundreth yeares ago. And now faithfully translated into English, and illustrated with certaine marginall notes. By Thomas Tuke." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14435.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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CHAP. 13.
BVt hee spake, it may bee, * 1.1 these things without due regard, and vttered them in an humane passion rather, thē decreed them with Diuine reason. Farre bee it from him, for hee goes on, and presseth * 1.2 this same point with a very ear∣nest repetition: As wee haue* 1.3said before, quoth he, so say I now againe, If any preach vnto you otherwise, then that yee haue receiued, let him be accursed. He said not: If any preach vnto you besides that which ye haue receiued, let him bee blessed, praised and entertained: but let him be, quoth he, accursed, that
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is separated, put from the flock and excluded, least the cursed contagion of one Sheep should corrupt the harmelesse flocke of Christ, by a * 1.4 venemous mix∣ture with them. Yea, but per∣haps these precepts belong on∣ly to the Galatians. Then these * 1.5 things also are commanded to * 1.6 the Galatians onely, which are mentioned in the same Epistle after: such as are these; If wee liue in the Spirit, let vs also walk in the Spirit, let vs not be desirous of* 1.7vaine glory, prouoking one another, enuying one another: and the rest. Which if it bee against sense, and if they be commanded vn∣to all alike, it standeth with good reason that, as these com∣mandements concerning man∣ners, so those also concerning faith should equally belong to all.