The original [and] sprynge of all sectes [and] orders by whome, wha or were they beganne. Translated out of hye Dutch in Englysh.
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The original [and] sprynge of all sectes [and] orders by whome, wha or were they beganne. Translated out of hye Dutch in Englysh.
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[Printed in Southwarke :: By me James Nicolson for Jhon Gough],
1537.
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Monasticism and religious orders -- Early works to 1800.
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"The original [and] sprynge of all sectes [and] orders by whome, wha or were they beganne. Translated out of hye Dutch in Englysh." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68520.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.
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xiii. The order of Waldenses or Picardes.
THe Picardes (that were seduced by Waldus the heretike) area seuerall kynde of Christen people in Beme. These leade a very Christen and blamlesse lyfe, they call vpon no sayntes or creatures but only God. They sweare not atall, coun¦tynge it to be vncomly for a Christen man so to do. They haue no image at all, they knele not afore them nor pray to thē. They say ye sacramēt ought not be worshipped, but Christ at ye ryghthād of hys father, & God in sprete & truth. They haue no begger amōge thē, & helpe & coūsel ech other brotherly. Yet are they diuided in two, or as some saye, in thre partes: namely, ye greate, ye lesse & ye leest of all. They hold greatly wt ye Anabaptistes they haue all thynges cōmune, they Christē no chyldrē, they graūt not Christes body to be in ye sacramēt: neuertheles ye great heape beleue in ye sacramēt. They psue ech other, whereby
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they vtter theyr sprete, though they shyne neuer so fayre. They are alwaye at ye least. lxxx. thousande. They set nought by the B. of Romes fayth orders, spiritualty, fastyng, holydayes, masse, prayenge, syngynge, rea∣dynge. &c. I passe ouer here the Taborytes, which also haue a seuerall fayth.
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