A14133:26
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?
Title page typeset from the transcription.
To the reader: Unto the reader.To the reader: Vnto the reader.
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And for their sakes also,1 he hath ordained rulers both spiritual and temporal to teach them and exhort them, to warn them and to keep ⟨image 7⟩occasions from them, that with custom of syn• they fall not from their possession.
And for theyr sakes also,1 he hathe ordyned rulers bothe spirituall and temporall to teache them and exorte them, to warne thē and to kepe ⟨image 7⟩occasyons from them, that with custome of syn• they fall not from theyr possessyon.
- 1Rulers why they were or. dayned.
Now when they that take upon them to be the elder brethren, are become hypocrites, and turned to wily foxes and cruel wolves and fierce lions,1 and the officers be waxen evil and servants to Mammon, ministering their office• for their own lucre only, and not for the profit of their brethren, but favouring all uyce• whereby they may have advantage. Then i• God compelled of his fatherly pity to scourge his weak him self, with poverty, oppressy on wrong, loss, danger, and with a thousand• manner of diseases, to bring them again y• they be fallen, and to keep their hearts fast to their profession, So that Diligentibus deuz on usa co operantur in bonum. Roma. viii. They that love God, that is to say, the law of God (for that is to love God) unto them God turneth all to the best, and scourgeth them with the lusts of their own weakness to their own salvation