A14133:152
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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Wherefore if thy right eye offend the pluck it out and caste it from thee. For it is better for the that one of thy members perish / then that thy hole body should be caste into hell. And even so if thy right hand offend the / cut it of / and caste it from thee. For it is better for the / that one of thy members perish / then that thy hole body should be caste into hell.
Wherfore if thy ryght eye offende the plucke it out and caste it from the. For it is better for the that one of thy membres peryshe / then that thy hole bodye shulde be caste into hell. And euen so if thy ryght hande offende the / cut it of / and caste it from the. For it is better for the / that one of thy members peryshe / then that thy hole bodye shulde be caste into hell.
This is not meant of the outward members For then we must cut of nose, ears, hand and ⟨image 52⟩foot / yea we must procure to destroy the saying herring, smelling, tasting and feeling, and so every man kill him self. But it is a phrase or speech of the Hebrew tongue / and will that we cut of occasions / dancing / kissing / riotous eating / 1and drinking / and the lust of the hart and filthy imaginations that move a man to concupiscence. Let every man have his wife think her the fairest and the best conditioned and every woman her husband so to. For god hath blessed thy wife and made her without sin to the / 2which ought to seem a beautiful fairness, And all that ye suffer together / yea one with the other / is blessed also and made the very Cross of Christ and pleasant in the sight of God / why should she then be loth some to the because of a little suffering, that thou shouldest lust after another / that should defile thy soul and flee thy conscience and make the suffer everlastingly?