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A fruitful treatise and full of heavenly consolation against the fear of death Whereunto…A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto…
A fruitful treatise and full of heavenly consolation against the fear of death Whereunto are annexed certain sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life everlasting, and of the blessed state & felicity of the same. Gathered by that holy martyr of God, John Bradford.A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto are annexed certeine sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life euerlasting, and of the blessed state & felicitie of the same. Gathered by that holy marter of God, Iohn Bradford.
London : Perused corrected & augmented according to the original, & imprinted in Fletestrete near to saint Dunstons Churche by William Powell, ca. 1564London : Perused corrected & augmented according to the originall, & imprinted in Fletestrete neere to saint Dunstons Churche by William Powell, ca. 1564
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¶ A short introduction to the understanding of the Scriptures, containing the sum of all the Divinity necessary for a Christian conscience.
¶ A short introduction to the vnderstanding of the Scriptures, conteininge the summe of all the Diuitie necessarie for a Christian conscience.
By John Bradford.
By Iohn Bradford.
A Man that is regenerate and borne of God (the which thing that every one of us do believe, our baptism the Sacrament of regeneration doth require under pain of damnation, and therefore let every one of us with the virgin Mary say, be it unto me O Lord according to ⟨image 44⟩thy word, according to thy sacrament of baptism, wherein thou hast declared our adoption: and let us lament the doubting hereof in us, striving against it as we shall be made able of the Lord) a man I say, that is regenerate, consisteth of two men (as a man may say) namely of the old man and of the new man. The old man is like to a mighty Giant, such a one as was Goliath, for his birth is now perfect. But the new man is like unto a little child, such a one as was David, for his birth is not yet perfect until the day of his general resurrection.
A Man that is regenerate and borne of God (the whiche thinge yt euery one of vs do beeleue, oure baptisme the Sacramēt of regeneration doth require vnder paine of dampnation, and therfore let euery one of vs with the virgin Mary say, be it vnto me O Lorde according to