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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.
The Popes pardons must be rebuked, the abuse of the Mass, of the Sacraments, and of all the ceremonies must be rebuked and salted. And selling of merits and of prayers must be salted. The abuse of fasting, and of pilgrimage must be salted. All idolatry & false faith must be rebuked. And those Fryers that teach men to believe in S. Francis coat, how that they shall never come in hell or purgatory, if they be buried therein, may not be passed over with silence.
The Popes pardons must be rebuked, the abuse of the Masse, of the Sacramentes, and of all the ceremonyes must be rebuked and salted. And selling of merites and of prayers must be salted. The abuse of fastyng, and of pilgrimage must be salted. All idolatry & false faith must be rebuked. And those Fryers that teach men to beleue in S. Fraunces coate, how that they shall neuer come in hell or purgatory, if they be buryed therein, may not be passed ouer with silence.
The pain & grief of salting made 1Monks flee to their cloister. Nay (say they) we went thither of pure devotion to pray for the people. Yea but for all that the more ye increase, and the more ye multiply your prayers, the worse the world is. That is not our fault (say they) but theirs, that they dispose not themselves but continue in sin, and so are unapt to receive the influence of our prayers. O hypocrites, if ye we true salt and had good harts and loved your neighbours (if dead men be neighbours to them that are alive) and would come out of your dens and take pain to salt and season them, ye should make a great many of them so apt, that your prayers might take effect. But now seeing as ye say, they be so unsavoury that your prayers be to them improfitable, though ⟨p. 197⟩their goods be to you profitable, and yet ye have no compassion to come out and •alt them, it is manifest that ye love not them, but theirs, and that ye pray not for them, but under the colour of praying mock them and rob them.