A16576:130
An exhortation to the carrying of Christs cross with a true and brief confutation…An exhortacion to the carienge of Chrystes crosse wyth a true and brefe confutacion…
An exhortation to the carrying of Christs cross with a true and brief confutation of false and papistical doctrine.An exhortacion to the carienge of Chrystes crosse wyth a true and brefe confutacion of false and papisticall doctryne.
Wesel? : H. Singleton?, 1555?
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
How gods word teacheth of Christs sacrifice, and the popes blasphemy therein revealed.
How gods worde teacheth of Chrystes sacryfyce, and the popes blasphemye therein reueled.
[…]rind and faith, […]s behalf, is as in […]her: that is, accor[…] to gods holy word: namely, y• Jesus Christ, the son of god and second Adam, by whom we receive righteousness unto life, as by y• first Adam we received sin unto death: our faith is (I say) that this Christ in our flesh, which he toke of the substance of the virgin Mary, but pure and with out sin, for the satisfying of gods ••st displeasure, deserved by and in our flesh, did in the same suffer unjustly all kinds of misery and […] ring up himself unto his eternal father, with a most willing, obedient hart and ready mind, when he was crucified upon the cross. And thereby as he satisfied ⟨p. 86⟩gods justice, so he merited and procured his mercy, peace, favour for all them, which either before that time were dead, either were at that time present, either should afterward come and believe. By and in that offering, done for them and their since. So that god the eternal father (I say) would be in this their Christ, their god and father, and not lay their sins committed to their charge to condemnation.
〈…〉ryne and faith, 〈…〉s behalfe, is as in 〈…〉her: that is, accor〈…〉 to gods holiword: namely, y• Iesus Christ, the sonne of god and seconde Adam, by whom we receaue rightuousnes vnto lyfe, as by y• firste Adam we receaued synne vnto death: our fayth is (I saye) that thys Chryst in our fleshe, whych he toke of the substaunce of the virgin Mary, but pure and with out synne, for the satisfyinge of gods st displeasure, deserued by and in our fleshe, dyd in the same suffer vniustly all kyndes of miserye and ryng vp hymselfe vnto hys eternal father, wyth a most willing, obedyent hart and ready mynd, whan he was crucyfyed vpō the crosse. And therbi as he satisfied