A68831:1327
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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Finally covetousness maketh many (whom the truth pleaseth at the beginning) to cast it up again and to be afterward the most cruel enemies thereof, after the ensample of Simon Magus. Act. 8. Yea and after the ensample of Sir Thomas More K. which knew the truth, and for covetousness 1forsook it again, and conspired first with the Cardinal to deceive the king, and to lead him in darkness. And afterward when the light was sprung upon them, and had driven them clean out of the scripture, and had delivered it out of their tyranny, and had expelled ⟨p. 231⟩the dark stinking mist of their devilish glosses: and had wiped away the cobwebs which those poisoned spiders had spread upon the face of the clear text, so that the spirituality (as they call themselves) were ashamed of their part, as shameless as they be: yet for all that, covetousness blinded the eyes of that glering Fox, more & 2more, and hardened his hart against the truth, with the confidence of his painted Poetry, babbling eloquence, and juggling arguments of subtle sophistry, grounded on his unwritten verities, as true and as authentic as his story of Utopia. Paul therefore biddeth Timothy to charge the rich to believe in the living god, and not in their uncertain riches, for it is impossible for a covetous Idolater or Image server, that trusteth in the dead God of his riches, to put his trust in the living God.
Finally couetousnes maketh many (whom the truth pleaseth at the beginning) to cast it vp againe and to be afterward the most cruell enemies therof, after the ensample of Symon Magus. Act. 8. Yea and after the ensample of Sir Thomas More K. which knew the truth, and for couetousnes 1forsooke it agayne, and conspired first with the Cardinall to deceaue ye kyng, and to leade hym in darcknes. And afterwarde when the light was sprong vpon them, and had driuen thē cleane out of the scripture, and had deliuered it out of their tyranny, and had expelled ⟨p. 231⟩