A14133:131
An exposition upon the v.vi.vii. chapters of Matthew which three chapters are the key…An exposycyon vpon the v.vi.vii. chapters of Mathewe which thre chapters are the keye…
An exposition upon the v.vi.vii. chapters of Matthew which three chapters are the key and the door of the scripture, and the restoring again of Moses law corrupt by the scribes and pharisees. And the exposition is the restoring again of Christs law corrupt by the Papists. Item before the book, thou hast a prologue very necessary, containing the whole sum of the covenant made between God and us, upon which we be baptised to keep it. And after thou haste a table that leadeth the by the notes in the margents, unto all that is entreated of in the book.An exposycyon vpon the v.vi.vii. chapters of Mathewe which thre chapters are the keye and the dore of the scrypture, and the restoring agayne of Moses lawe corrupt by ye scrybes and pharyses. And the exposycyon is the restorynge agayne of Chrystes lawe corrupte by the Papystes. Item before the boke, thou hast a prologe very necessary, conteynynge the whole sum of the couenaunt made betwene God and vs, vpon whiche we be baptysed to kepe it. And after thou haste a table that ledeth the by the notes in the margentes, vnto al that is intreated of in the booke.
London? : R. Redman, 1536?
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And when God's word is altered with false glosses, it is no more Gods word. As when God saith, love thy neighbour and thou puttest to thy leave and sayest, if my neighbour ⟨image 43⟩do me no hurt nor say me any. I am bound• to love him, but not to give him at his nead• my goods which I have gotten with my sore labour. Now is this thy law and not Goddes. God's law is pure and single, love thy neighbour whether he be good or bad.1 And by love God meaneth, to help at need. Now when God biddeth the to get thy living and some what over to help him that can not, or at a time hath not wherewith to help him self, if thou and .xxx. or .xl. with the get you to wilderness / and not only help not your neighbours but also rob a great number of two or three thousand pound verily, how love ye your neighbours? Such men help the world with prayer, thou wilt say to me. Thou were better to say, they rob the world with their hypocrisy, say I to thee▪ and it is truth in deed, that they so do. For if I stick up to the middle in the mire like to perish with out present help, and thou stand by and wilt not succour me, but knellest down and prayest, will God here the prayers of such an hypocrite? God biddeth the so to love me that thou put thy self in jeopardy to help me. and that thine hart• while the body laboureth do pray and trust• in God, that he will assist thee. and through th• to save me. An hypocrite that will put neither body nor goddes in peril for to help me […] my need, loveth me not nether hath compassion on me, and therefore his heart can not pray though he wag his lips never so much. ⟨p. xxxiii⟩It is written, Johan. ix. If a man be a worshipper of God and do his will (which is the true worship) him God hereth, Now the will of God is / that we love one another to help at need. And such lovers he hereth and not subtle hypocrites.2