A68831:1289
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.
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive our trespassers.
Forgeue vs our trespasses, as we forgeue our trespassers.
Because he knoweth that our nature is so weak that we cannot but sin daily: therefore he teacheth us daily to repent and to reconcile our selves together, and daily to ask God forgiveness. Seeing he commandeth us to ask, we may behold so to do, and to believe that he will forgive us. No man ⟨p. 223⟩therefore needeth to despair that can repent and ask forgiveness, how ever so deep he hath sinned. And me thinketh, if we looked somewhat nearer to this text, we needed not to make the Pope so great a God for his pardons. For Christ (which is a man to be believed) showeth us here a more sure 1way, yea and that a sensible way, by which we may feel that we be pardoned and our sins forgiven. We can have no experience of the popes things whether they be so, or no. He can with all his pardons deliver no man of any Purgatory that God putteth us unto in this world. He can not bless, or heal any man so much as of a poor ague, or toothache, which diseases yet (by his own confession) God putteth on us to purge us from sin. But where we cannot see, feel, or have any experience at all, that it so is, there is he mighty. If I were come whom out of a land where never man was before, and were sure never man should come, I might tell as many wonders as Master More doth of Utopia, and no man could rebuke me.
Because he knoweth that our nature is so weake that we cannot but sinne dayly: therefore he teacheth vs dayly to repēt and to reconcile our selues together, and dayly to aske God forgeuenesse. Seing he cōmaundeth vs to aske, we may behold so to do, and to beleue that he will forgeue vs. No mā ⟨p. 223⟩therfore nedeth to dispayre that can repent and aske forgeuenesse, how euer so deepe he hath sinned. And me thinketh, if we looked somewhat nerer to this text, we neded not to make the Pope so great a God for his pardons. For Christ (which is a man to be beleued) sheweth vs here a more sure