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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
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This is then the sum of altogetheri works are the outward righteousness 1before y• world, & may be called the righteousness of the members, & spring 2of inward love. Love is the righteousness of the hart, and springeth of faith. 3Faith is the trust in Christs blood, & is the gift of God. Ephes. ij. whereunto a man is drawn of the goodness of God, and driven through true knowledge of the law, and of beholding his decdes in the lust and desire of the members unto the request of the law, and with seeing his own damnation in the glass of the law. For if a man saw his own damnation in yt law, he should immediately hate God & his works, and utterly despair, except God offered him Christ, and forgave all that were past, and made him his son, and took the damnation of the law away, and promised that if he would submit himself to learn and to do his best, that he should be accept as well as an Angel in heaven, and thereto if he fell of frailty, and not of malice and stubbornness, it should be forgiven upon amendment, and that God would ever take him for his son, and only chastise him at home when he did amiss, after the most fatherlyest manner, and as easily as his disease would suffer, but never bring him forth to be judged after the rigorousness of yt law. 4And as thou couldest not see Leaven though thou brakest up a loaf, except thou smelledst or tastedst the sourness, even so couldest thou never see true faith or love, except thou sawest works: & also sawest the intent & meaning of the worker, least hypocrisy deceive thee.
This is then the summe of altogetheri workes are the outward righteousnes 1before y• world, & may be called the righteousnes of ye mēbers, & spring 2of inward loue. Loue is the righteousnes of the hart, and springeth of faith.