A68831:1129
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.
It followeth then that thou mayst be pure hearted and therewith do all that God hath commanded or not forbidden. Thou mayst be pure hearted and have a wife and get children, be a judge and condemn to death them that have deserved it, hang or behead evil doers, after they be by a just process condemned. Thou mayst be pure hearted, & do all the drudge in the world. Lot was pure hearted among the Sodomites. Nicodemus being in the council among them that conspired the death of Christ was pure hearted & consented not with them to the death of that innocent.
It foloweth then that thou mayst be pure harted and therewith do all that God hath commaunded or not forbidden. Thou mayst be pure harted and haue a wife and get childrē, be a iudge and condemne to death them that haue deserued it, hang or behead euil doers, after they be by a iust processe condēpned. Thou mayst be pure harted, & do all the drudge in the world. Lot was pure harted amōg the Sodomites. Nicodem•s beyng in the councell among them that conspired the death of Christ was pure harted & consented not with them to the death of that innocent.
If the law be written in thine hart 1it will drive thee to Christ, which is the end of the law to justify all that believe Rom. x. And Christ will show thee his father. For no man seeth the father but the Son, and he to whom the Son will show him Luke. x. If thou believe in Christ, that he is thy Saviour: that faith will lead thee in immediately, and show thee God with a lovely & amiable countenance, and make thee feel, and see how that he is thy father, all together merciful to thee, & at one with thee, and thou his son and highly in his favour and grace, & sure that thou pleasest him, when thou doest an hundred things which some holy people would suppose them selves defiled, if they should but think on them. And to see God is the blessing of a pure hart.