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The prophet Jonah with an introduccio[n] before teaching to understo[n]de him and the right…The prophete Ionas with an introduccio[n] before teachinge to vndersto[n]de him and the right…
The prophet Jonah with an introduccio[n] before teaching to understo[n]de him and the right use also of all the scripture, and why it was written, and what is therein to be sought, and showing wherewith the scripture is locked up that he which readeth it, can not understo[n]de it, though he study therein never so much: and again with what keys it is so opened, that the reader can be stopped out with no sotilte or false doctrine of man, from the true sense and uderstondynge thereof.The prophete Ionas with an introduccio[n] before teachinge to vndersto[n]de him and the right vse also of all the scripture, and why it was written, and what is therin to be sought, and shewenge wherewith the scripture is locked vpp that he which readeth it, can not vndersto[n]de it, though he studie therin never so moch: and agayne with what keyes it is so opened, that the reader can be stopped out with no sotilte or false doctrine of man, from the true sense and vderstondynge therof.
Antwerp : M. de Keyser, 1531?
Title page typeset from the transcription.
W. T. unto the Christen reader.W. T. vn to the Christen reader.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
ON this manner to read y• scripture is y• right use thereof & why y• holy ghost caused it to be written. That is that thou first seek out y• law / what god will have the to do / interpreting it spiritually with cut gloss or covering the brightness of Moses face / so that thou feel in thine heart / how that it is damnable sin before god / not to love they neighbour that is thine enemy / as purely as Christ loved thee / and y• not to love thy neighbour in thine heart / is to have committed all ready all sin against him. And therefore until that love become / thou must knowledge unfeignedly that there is sin in the best deed thou doest. And it must earnestly grieve thine heart and thou must wash all thy good deeds in christs blood / yet they can be pure and an acceptable sacrifice unto God / and must desire ⟨image 18⟩god y• father for his sake / to take thy deeds a worth & to pardon y• imperfectness of them / & to give the power to do them better and with more fervent love.
ON thys maner to read y• scripture is y• right vse therof & why y• holy gost caused it to be writtē. That is yt thou first seke out y• law / what god will haue the to doo / interpretinge it spiritually with cut glose or coueringe the brightnesse of Moses face / so yt thou fele in thyne hert / how that it is damnable synne before god / not to loue they neyboure that is thyne enimie / as puerly as Christ loued the / and y• not to loue thy neyboure in thyne herte / is to haue cōmitted all ready all synne agenst him. And therfore vn tyll that loue become / thou must knowlege vnfaynedly that there is synne in the best dede thou doest. And it must ernestly greue thyne hert and thou must washe all thy good dedes in christes bloude / yet they can be pure and an acceptable sacrifice vn to God / and must desire ⟨image 18⟩