A68831:1384
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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Now then if God must ever keep it for thee, and thou must daily receive it of his hand (as a poor man doth receive his alms of an other man) thou art in no more surety of thy daily bread: no though thou were a Cardinal, then the poorest is. Wherefore howsoever rich thou be, yet must thou ever cry to God for thy daily bread. So now it is a commandment to pray and that continually, short, thick, and oft, as the Psalms be, and all the prayers of the Bible.
Now then if God must euer keepe it for thee, and thou must dayly receaue it of his hand (as a poore man doth receaue his almose of an other man) thou art in no more suertie of thy dayly bread: no though thou were a Cardinall, then the poorest is. Wherfore howsoeuer rich thou be, yet must thou euer cry to God for thy dayly bread. So now it is a commaundemēt to pray and that continually, short, thicke, and oft, as the Psalmes be, and all the prayers of the Bible.
Finally the third is that we be commanded 1to pray with faith and trust, and that we believe in the Lord our God, and doubt not in his promises, unto which Christ induceth us with an apt similitude, saying: If ye being evil can yet give good things unto your children, how much more shall God fulfil his promises of mercy unto his children if they cry unto him? he ⟨p. 240⟩is better and more merciful then all men. Wherefore seeing God commandeth thee to pray, and for as much as thou hast so great necessity so to do, & because he is merciful and hath promised and is true and cannot deny his own words: Therefore pray, and when thou prayest, look not on thine unworthiness, but on his commandment, mercy, & goodness, & on his truth and faithfulness, & believe steadfastly in him. Moreover whatsoever thou hast done, yet if thou repent and wilt amend, he promiseth that he will not think on 2thy sins. And though he differ thee, think it not long, nor faint not in thy faith, or be slack in thy prayer. For he will surely come and give thee more then thou desirest, though he differ for thy profit, or change thy request into a better thing.