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A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…
A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all penitent sinners, newly prepared by Theodore Basil.A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all penitent synners, newly prepared by Theodore Basille.
printed for Joha, 1542printed for Ioha, 1542
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
PHIL. The spearing of the church door signifieth, that heaven gates were speared 1against us for the sin of our first father Adam, in whom all we have offended, so that no man could once enter by his own virtue, power, merits & good deeds into heaven, 2as Christ witnesseth, no man goeth up into heaven, but he that came down from heaven. That is to say, no man by his own strength & virtue ascendeth into heaven, but Christ, which descended from heaven, & toke flesh of the most glorious 3& pure virgin Marye. Therefore every one that goeth up into heaven, goeth up by Christ, as he himself witnesseth, I am y• way, 4the trueth & the life, no man cometh unto the father, but by me. ⟨image 73⟩Therefore to declare that our ingress & entering into heaven, come meth only by Christ & by Christs death, therefore the priest openeth the door with the cross. For ye know right well, that none of all the holy Patriarchs, Prophets, Kings, and other godly fathers of the old Testament did enter into the glory of heaven, until Christ had suffered & payed our ransom by his most precious blood
PHIL. The spearynge of the chyrch dore signifyeth, that heauē gates were speared 1agaynst vs for the synne of our fyrst father Adam, in whom all we haue offended, so that no mā could once enter by his owne vertue, power, merites & good dedes into heuen, 2as Christ witnesseth, no man goeth vp into heauen, but he that came downe from heauen. That is to say, no man by his owne strēgth & vertue ascendeth into heauē, but Christ, whiche descended from heauen, & toke flesh of the moost glorious 3& pure virgyn Marye. Therfore euery one that goethe vp into heauen, goeth vp by Christe, as he hymselfe witnesseth, I am y waye,