A14133:254
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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This is then the some of all together works are the outward righteousness before the world,1 and may be called the righteousness of the members and spring of inward love.2 Love is the righteousness of the hart, and springeth of faith. Faith is the trust in Christs blood,3 and is the gift of God. Ephe. 2. where unto a man is drawn of the goodness of God, and driven through true knowledge of the law and of beholding his deeds in the light of the law and with comparing the lust and desire of the members unto the request of the law, and with seeing his own damnation in the glass of the law. For if a man saw his own damnation in the law, he should immediately hate God and all his works and utterly despair, except that God offered him Christ, and forgave all that were paste, & made him his son & toke the damnation of the law away, and promised that if he would submit him self to learn and to do his best, that he should be accept as well as an angel in heaven, and thereto if he fell of frailty and not of malice and stubbornness, it should be forgiven upon a mendment, and that ⟨image 87⟩God would ever take him for his son, and only chastise him at home when he did a miss, after the most fatherlyest manner and as easily as his diseases would suffer, but never bring him forth to be judged after the rigorousness of the law And as thou couldest not see leaven though thou brakest up a lose, except thou smellest or tastedest the sourness, even so couldest thou never see true faith or love, except thou sawest works / and also sawest the entente & meaning of the worker, leest hypocrisy deceive thee.
This is then the somme of all together workes are the outwarde ryghtuousnes before the worlde,1 and may be called the ryghtuousnes of the mēbers and spryng of inwarde loue.2 Loue is the ryghtwysnes of the hart, and spryngethe of fayth. Faythe is the trust in Christes bloude,