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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.
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 1of heaven. No, suffering for righteousness (though heaven be promised thereto) yet doth it not deserve heaven, nor yet make satisfaction for the foresinnes: Christ doth both twain. But and if thou repent and believe in Christ for the remission of sin, and then confess, not only before God, but also open before all that see thee suffer, how that thou hast deserved that thou sufferest, for breaking the good and righteous law of thy father, and then takest to• ⟨p. 195⟩punishment patiently, as an wholesome medicine to heal thy flesh that it sin no more, and to fear thy brethren that they fall not into like offence, as Moses teacheth every where: then as thy patience in suffering is pleasant in the sight of thy brethren which behold thee, pity thee, and suffer with thee in their harts, even so is it in the sight of God, and it is to thee a sure token that thou hast true faith and true repentance.
It is an happy thing to suffer for righteousnes sake, but not for vnrighteousnes. For what prayse is it (sayeth Peter in the second of his first epistle) though ye suffer, when ye be buffeted for your offences. Wherfore in ye fourth of the same he sayth, see that none of you suffer as a murtherer or a thefe, or an euill doer, or a busy body in other mens matters. Such suffering glorifieth not God, nor thou art therby heire of heauen. Beware therefore that thou deserue not that thou sufferest. But if thou do: then beware much more of them that would beare thee in hand, bow that such suffering should be satisfaction of thy sinnes and a deseruing 1of heauen. No, suffering for righteousnes (though heauen be promised therto) yet doth it not deserue heauen, nor yet make satisfactiō for the foresinnes: Christ doth both twaine. But and if thou repent and beleue in Christ for the remission of sinne, and then cōfesse, not onely before God, but also open before all that see thee suffer, how that thou hast deserued that thou suffrest, for breaking the good and righteous law of thy father, and then takest to