A68831:1072
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.
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, 1and turned to wily Foxes and cruell wolues and fierce Lyons, and the officers be waxen euill and seruauntes to Mammon, ministryng their offices for their owne lucre onely, and not for the profite of their brethren, but fauouryng all vices whereby they may haue a vauntage. Then is God compelled of his fatherly pitie to scourge his weake hym selfe, with pouertie, oppression, wrong, losse, daunger, and with a thousand maner of diseases, to bryng them agayne if they be fallen, and to kepe their hartes fast to their profession. So that diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum. Roma. viij. They that loue God, that is to say, the law of God (for that is to loue God) vnto them god turneth all to the best, and scourgeth them with the lustes of their owne weakenes to theyr owne saluation.
- 1Why God scourgeth his.Why God scourgeth hys.
An other conclusion is this: God receiveth both perfect and weak in like grace for Christs sake, as a father receiveth all his children both small and great in like love. He receiveth them to be his sons and maketh