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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.
Some man will haply say: the Scribes and Pharisees had no other law then Moses & the Prophets nor any other Scripture: and grounded their sayings thereon. That is truth: how then preached they their own doctrine? ⟨p. 201⟩verily it followeth in the said seventh of John. He that seeketh the glory of 1him that sent him, the same is true and there is no unrighteousness in him: that is to say, he will do his masters message truly, and not alter it. Where contrariwise he that seeketh his own glory, will be false (when he is sent) and will alter his masters message, to turn his masters glory unto his own self. Even so did the Scribes and Pharisees alter the word of God for their own profit & glory. And when Gods 2word is altered with false glosses, it is no more Gods word. As when God saith, love thy neighbour, & thou puttest to thy leaven and sayest: if my neighbour do me no hurt nor say me any, I am bound to love him, but not to give him at his need my goods which I have gotten with my sore labour. Now this is thy law and not Gods. Gods law is pure and single: love thy neighbour, whether he be good or bad. And by love god meaneth, to help at need. 3Now when God biddeth thee to get thy living and somewhat over to help him that cannot, or at a time hath not wherewith to help him self: if thou & xxx. or. xl. with thee get you to wilderness, 4& not only help not your neighbours, but also rob a great number of two or three thousand pound yearly, how love ye your neighbours? Such men help the world with prayer, thou wilt say to me. Thou were better to say, they rob y• world with their hypocrisy, say I to thee: and it is truth in deed, that they so do. For if I stick up to the middle in the mire like to perish without present help, and thou stand by and wilt not succour me, but knellest down and prayest, will God hear the prayers of such an hypocrite? God biddeth thee so to love me, that thou put thy self in jeopardy to help me, and that thine hart while thy body laboureth, do pray and trust in God, that he will assist thee, & through thee to save me. An hypocrite that will put neither body nor goods in peril for to help me at my need, loveth me not neither hath compassion on me, & therefore his hart can not pray, though he wag his lips never so much. It is written,