A14133:240
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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Lead us not into temptation.
Leade vs nat into temptacyon.
That is. Let us not slip out of thy leaf, but hold us fast, give us not up nor cease to govern us, nor take thy spirit from us. For as an hound can not but follow his game when he seeth it before him if he be loose, so can we not but fall into sin when occasion is given us, if thou withdraw thine hand from us. Lead us not into temptation. Let no temptation fall upon us, greater then thine help in us. But be thou stronger in us than the temptation thou sendest or lettest come upon us. Lead us not into temptations. Father though we be negligent, yea and unthankful, and disobedient to thy true prophets / yet let not the devil loose upon us to deceive us with his ⟨p. lxx⟩false prophets and to harden us in the way, in which we gladly walk, as thou diddest Pharaoh with the false miracles of his sorcerers, as thine Apostle Paul threateneth us. 2. The. 2. A little third holdeth a strong man where he gladly is. A little pulling draweth a man whether he gladly goeth. A light wind driveth a great ship with the stream. A light persuasion is enough to make a lecherous man believe that fornication is no sin. And an angry man that it is lawful to avenge him self, and so forth by all the corrupt nature of man. A little miracle is able to confirm and harden a man in that opinion and faith which his blind reason believeth all ready. A few false miracles were enough to persuade the covetousness of Pharaoh and his greediness to hold the children of Israel in bondage for their service, that thy true miracles showed by Moses for their deliverance / were not of thee. But of the same kind and done by the same craft / as were the miracles of his sorcerers, and so to harden his heart.