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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
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Moreover comfort thy self with the hope of the blessing of the inheritance 1of heaven, there to be glorified with Christ, if thou here suffer with him. For if we be like Christ here in his passions, and bear his image in soul and body, & fight manfully, that Satan blot it not out, & suffer with Christ for bearing record to righteousness: then shall we be like him in glory. S. John. iij. of his Epistle: yet appeareth not what we shall be. But we know, that when he appeareth, we shall be like him. And Paul Phil. iij. our conversation is in heaven, whence we look for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ which shall change our vile bodies and make them like his glorious body.
Moreouer comfort thy selfe with the hope of the blessing of the inheritaunce 1of heauen, there to be glorified with Christ, if yu here suffer with hym. For if we be like Christ here in his passiōs, and beare his image in soule and body, & fight manfully, that Sathan blot it not out, & suffer with Christ for bearyng recorde to righteousnes: thē shall we be like him in glory. S. Iohn. iij. of hys Epistle: yet appeareth not what we shalbe. But we know, that whē he appeareth, we shalbe like hym. And Paule Phil. iij. our conuersation is in heauen, whence we looke for a Sauiour, the Lord Iesus Christ which shall chaunge our vile bodyes and make thē like his glorious body.
- 1To suffer with Christ in this world, is to be glorified with him in the world to come.To suffer with Christ in this worlde, is to be glorified wyth him in the worlde to come.
It is an happy thing to suffer for righteousness sake, but not for unrighteousness. For what praise is it (sayeth Peter in the second of his first epistle) though ye suffer, when ye be buffeted for your offences. Wherefore in the fourth of the same he saith, see that none of you suffer as a murderer or a these, or an evil doer, or a busy body in other mens matters. Such suffering glorifieth not God, nor thou art thereby heir of heaven. Beware therefore that thou deserve not that thou sufferest. But if thou do: then beware much more of them that would bear thee in hand, bow that such suffering should be satisfaction of thy sins and a deserving