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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 the office of love is to pour out again 1the same goodness that she hath received of God, upon her neighbour, and to be to him as she feeleth Christ to her self. The office of love only is to have compassion and to bear with her neighbour the burden of his infirmities. And as it is written. 1. Pet. 4. Operit multitudinem peccatorum, covereth the multitude of sins. That is to say: considereth the infirmities and interpreteth all to the best, and taketh for no sin at all, a thousand things of which the least were enough (if a man loved not to go to law for, & to trouble & unquiet an whole town, and sometime an whole realm or two.
And the office of loue is to powre out agayne 1the same goodnes that she hath receaued of God, vppon her neighbour, and to be to hym as she feleth Christ to her selfe. The office of loue onely is to haue compassion and to beare with her neighbour the burthen of his infirmities. And as it is writtē. 1. Pet. 4. Operit multitudinem peccatorum, couereth the multitude of sinnes. That is to say: considereth the infirmities and enterpreteth all to the best, and taketh for no sinne at all, a thousand thinges of which the least were inough (if a man loued not to go to law for, & to trouble & vnquiet an whole towne, and sometyme an whole realme or two.
- 1The office of love.The office of loue.
And the office of hope is to comfort in adversity 1and make patient, that we faint not and fall down under the cross, or cast it o• our backs. And thus ye see that these three inseparable in this life have yet separable and sundry offices and effects, as heat & drith being inseparable in the fire, have yet their separable operations. For the drith only expelleth the moistness of all that is consumed by fire, and heat only destroyeth the coldness. For drith and cold may stand together, and so may heat and moistness. It is not all one to say the dryth only, and the dryth that is alone: nor all one to say, faith only and faith that is alone.