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The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made
The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made by John Bradford in the year 1553. Now published with two prefaces relating the life of the author, and the excellency of the work.The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made by John Bradford in the yeare 1553. Now published with two prefaces relating the life of the author, and the excellencey of the worke.
London: printed by Leon. Lichfield, 1652
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 it is to be noted, that God, doth cast in their teeth, even the sin of their first Father, least they should think that yet, perchance, for the righteousness and goodness of their good Fathers, their sins might be the sooner pardoned, and so God accept their works.
And it is to be noted, that God, doth cast in their teeth, even the sinne of their first Father, least they should think that yet, perchance, for the righteousnesse and goodnesse of their good Fathers, their sinnes might be the sooner pardoned, and so God accept their works.
If they had taken satisfaction, for that which is done to the Congregation publicly, by some notable punishment, as in the Primitive Church was used to open offenders, shadows whereof, and some pore Traces yet remain, when such as have sinned in Adultery, go about the Church with a Taper in their shirts; Or if they had taken satisfaction for restitution to Man ward, of such goods as wrongfully are gotten, the which true repentance cannot be without: or if by satisfaction, they ⟨p. 15⟩had meant a new life, to make (as it were) amends to the Congregation thereby, as by their evil life, they did offend the Congregation; in which sense the Apostle seemeth to take that which he writeth in 2 Cor. 7. where the old interpreter calleth Apologian, satisfaction, which rather signifies a defence or answering again. If I say, they had taken satisfaction any of these ways, then they had done well, so that the satisfaction to God had been left all only to Christ.
If they had taken satisfaction, for that which is done to the Congregation publikely, by some notable punishment, as in the Primitive Church was used to open offendors, shadowes whereof, and some pore Traces yet remaine, when such as have sinned in Adultery, go about the Church with a Taper in their shirts; Or if they had taken satisfaction for restitution to Man ward, of such goods as wrongfully are gotten, the which true repentance cannot be without: or if by satisfaction, they