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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?
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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.
And so shall we be sure to 1save it: as if we seek to save it we can not but lose it. And it being lost, what profit can we have, if we wan the whole world? Oh set thou always before our eyes not (as reason doth) this life, or the pleasures of the same, death of the body and prisonment &c. But everlasting life, and those unspeakable joys, which undoubtedly they shall have, that take up their cross, and follow thee.
And so shall we bee sure to 1saue it: as if we seke to saue it we can not but lose it. And it beyng lost, what profyt can we haue, if we wanne the whole world? Oh set thou alwaies before our eies not (as reason doth) thys lyfe, or the pleasures of the same, death of the body and prysonment &c. But euerlastyng lyfe, and those vnspeakable ioyes, whyche vndoubtedlye they shall haue, that take vp their crosse, and folowe the.
- 1Math. 16.
Set ever before us also the eternal fire, and perpetual destruction of soul and body, that they must needs at length leap into, which are afraid of the ⟨p. 153⟩hoar frost of adversity, that man or the devil stirreth up, to stop and hinder us from going forward in our journey to heavens bliss: to the which, O Lord, do thou bring us for thy name sake. Amen.
Set euer before vs also the eternall fyer, and perpetuall destruccion of soule and body, that they must nedes at length leape into, whyche are afrayed of the ⟨p. 153⟩hore froste of aduersitie, that man or the deuyll stereth vp, to stoppe and hynder vs frō going forwarde in oure iourney to heauens blysse: to the whyche, O Lorde, doe thou brynge vs for thy name sake. Amen.