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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.
1Thou wilt say the text forbiddeth me to go to law: for it saith, •a man will law with thee and take thy coat, thou must let him have gown and all. If I must suffer my self to be robbed by the law, wilt thou say, by what right can I with law recover mine own? I answer: Behold the text diligently. For by no right of law can a man take thy coat from thee: For the law was ordained ⟨p. 213⟩of God, to maintain thee in thy right and to forbid that wrong should be done thee. Wherefore the text meaneth thus, that where the law is unjustly ministered, and the governors and judges corrupt, and take bribes and be partial, there be patient & ready to suffer ever as much more, what soever unright be done thee, rather 2them of impatience, thou shouldest avenge thy self on thy neighbour or rail or make insurrection against the superiors which God hath set over thee. For to rise against them is to rebel against God and against thy father when he scourgeth thee for thine offence, and a thousand times more sin then to avenge thee on thy neighbour. And to rail on them is to rail on God, as though thou wouldest blasp• him, if he made the sick, poor or […] •ow degree or otherwise than thou wouldest be made thy self.
1Thou wilt say the text forbiddeth me to go to law: for it sayth, •a man will law with thee and take thy coate, thou must let him haue gowne and all. If I must suffer my selfe to be robbed by ye law, wilt thou say, by what right can I with law recouer myne own? I aunswere: Behold the text diligently. For by no right of law can a man take thy coate frō thee: For ye law was ordeyned ⟨p. 213⟩of God, to mainteine thee in thy right and to forbydde that wrong should be done thee. Wherfore the text meaneth thus, that where the law is vniustly ministred, and the gouerners and iudges corrupt, and take brybes and be parciall, there be pacient & ready to suffer euer as much more, what soeuer vnright be done thee, rather