A68831:1071
The whole works of W. Tyndall, John Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs,…The vvhole workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs,…
The whole works of W. Tyndall, John Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs, and principal teachers of this Church of England collected and compiled in one tome together, being before scattered, [and] now in print here exhibited to the Church. To the praise of God, and profit of all good Christian readers.The vvhole workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs, and principall teachers of this Churche of England collected and compiled in one tome togither, beyng before scattered, [and] now in print here exhibited to the Church. To the prayse of God, and profite of all good Christian readers.
London: printed by John Daye, 1573London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1573
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 for their sakes also, he hath ordained 1rulers both spiritual and temporal, to teach them and exhort them, to warn them and to keep occasions from them, that with custom of sin they fall not from their profession.
And for their sakes also, he hath ordeyned 1rulers both spirituall and temporall, to teach them and exhorte them, to warne them and to keepe occasions from them, that with custome of synne they fall not from their profession.
- 1Rulers why they were ordained.Rulers why they were ordayned.
Now when they that take upon them to be the elder brethren, are become hypocrites, 1and turned to wily Foxes and cruel wolves and fierce Lyons, and the officers be waxen evil and servants to Mammon, ministering their offices for their own lucre only, and not for the profit of their brethren, but favouring all vices whereby they may have a vantage. Then is God compelled of his fatherly pity to scourge his weak him self, with poverty, oppression, wrong, loss, danger, and with a thousand manner of diseases, to bring them again if they be fallen, and to keep their hearts fast to their profession. So that diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum. Roma. viij. They that love God, that is to say, the law of God (for that is to love God) unto them god turneth all to the best, and scourgeth them with the lusts of their own weakness to their own salvation.
Now when they that take vpon them to be the elder brethren, are become hypocrites, 1