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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.
O a merciful God and a most loving father, how careth he for us: first above all and beside all his other benefits, to give us his own Son Jesus, and with him to give us himself and all: and not content therewith, but to give us so many sacraments, or visible signs to provoke us & to help our weak faith, & to keep his mercy in mind: as baptism, the sacrament of his body and blood, and as many other sacraments as they will have, if they put significations to them (for we destroy none, but they destroy which have put out the significations or feigned some without) as wedlock to signify that Christ is the husband and we his wife and partakers with him, as the wife with her husband of all his riches. &c. And beyond all those visible sacraments, to give us yet more sensible and surer sacraments & suraunces of his goodness, even in our own selves: as if we love and give alms to our neighbour, if we have compassion and pray for him, if we be merciful and forgive him, if we deny ourselves, and fast, and withdraw all pleasures from the flesh for love of the life to come: and to keep the commandments of God. For when such things being before impossible, and now are easy and natural, we feel, and are sure that we be altered and of a new creature shapen in righteousness after the image of Christ and God our father, seeing his laws of righteousness are written in our hearts.
O a mercifull God and a most louing father, how careth he for vs: first aboue all and beside all his other benefites, to geue vs hys owne sonne Iesus, and with him to geue vs hymselfe and all: and not contēt therewith, but to geue vs so many sacraments, or visible signes to prouoke vs & to helpe our weake fayth, & to keepe hys mercy in mynde: as baptime, the sacramēt of his body and bloud, and as many other sacramentes as they will haue, if they put significations to them (for we destroy none, but they destroy which haue put out the significations or fayned some without) as wedlocke to signifie that Christ is the husband and we his wife and partakers wyth hym, as the wife with her husband of all his riches. &c. And beyond all those visible sacramentes, to geue vs yet more sensible and surer sacramentes & suraunces of his goodnes, euen in our owne selues: as if we loue and geue almose to our neighbour, if we haue compassion and pray for him, if we be mercifull and forgeue him, if we deny ourselues, and fast, and withdraw all pleasures from the flesh for loue of the life to come: and to keepe the cōmaundemētes of God. For whē such things beyng before impossible, and now are easie and naturall, we feele, and are sure that we be altered and of a new creature shapen in righteousnesse after the image of Christ and God our father, seing his lawes of righteousnes are written in our hartes.