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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.
Wherefore if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is better for thee that one of thy members perish, than that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And even so if thy right hand offend thee, cut it of and cast it from thee. For it is better for thee that one of thy members perish, then that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Wherefore if thy right eye offende thee, plucke it out, and cast it frō thee: for it is better for thee that one of thy mēbers perish, thē that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And euen so if thy right hand offende thee, cut it of and cast it frō thee. For it is better for thee that one of thy members perishe, then that thy whole bodye should be cast into hell.
This is not meant of the outward members, For then we must cut of nose, ears, hand and •ote: yea we must procure to destroy the seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and tealing, and so every man kill himself. But it is a phrase or speech of the Hebrew tongue, and will that we cut of occasions, dancing, kissing, riotous cating, and drinking, & the lust of the hart and filthy imaginations that move a man to concupiscence. Let every man have his wife, and think her the fairest and the best 1conditioned, and every woman her husband so to. For God hath blessed 2thy wife and made her without sin 3to thee, which ought to seem a beautiful ⟨p. 206⟩fairness. And all y• ye suffer together the one with the other, is blessed also, and made the very cross of Christ and pleasant in the sight of God. Why should she then be loathsome to thee, because of a little suffering, that thou shouldest just after an other, that should defile thy soul & lea thy conscience, and make thee suffer everlastingly?