A68831:1398
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.
They have robbed Christ of all his merits and clothed themselves therewith. They have robbed the soul of man of the bread of her life, the faith and trust in Christs blood: and have fed her with the shells and cods of the hope in their merits, and confidence in their good works.
They haue robbed Christ of all hys merites and clothed themselues therewith. They haue robbed the soule of man of the bread of her life, the fayth and trust in Christes bloud: and haue fedde her with the shales and coddes of the hope in their merites, and confidence in their good workes.
They have robbed the works commanded by God of the intent & purpose that they were ordained for. And with their obedience they have drawn themselves from under the obedience of all Princes and temporal laws. with their poverty, they have robbed all nations and kingdoms, and so with their wilful poverty have enriched themselves, and have made the commons poor, with their chastity they have filled all the world full of whores and sodomites, thinking to 1please God more highly with keeping of an whore then an honest chaste wife. If they say it is not truth, then all the world knoweth they lye, for if a priest marry an honest wife, they punish him immediately, and say, he is an heinous heretic, as though matrimony were abominable. But if he keep a whore, then is he a good chaste child of their holy father the Pope, whose ensample they follow, and I warrant him sing Mass on the next day after, as well as he did before, without either persecution or excommunication, such are the laws of their unchaste, I would say their own chaste father.
They haue robbed the workes cō maunded by God of the entent & purpose that they were ordeined for. And with their obedience they haue drawen themselues from vnder the obedience of all Princes and temporall lawes. with their pouertie, they haue robbed all nations and kyngdomes, and so with their wilfull pouertie haue enriched themselues, and haue made the commons poore, with their chastitie they haue filled all the worlde full of whores and sodomites, thinking to