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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.
And this same it is that Paul saith 1. Corinth. 1ij. how that the natural man that is not borne again and created a new with the spirit of God, be he never so great a Philosopher, never so well seen in the law, never so sore studied in the Scripture, as we have examples in the Pharisees, yet he cannot understand the things of the spirit of God: but 2saith he, the spiritual judgeth all things and his spir•e searcheth the deep secretes of God, so that what soever God commandeth him to do, he never leaveth searching till he come at the bottom, the pith, the quick, the ly•e, the s•, the m••ow & very cause why, and judgeth all thing. Take an example, in the great commandment, love God with all thine hart, yt spiritual searcheth the cause 3and looketh on the benefits of God and so conceiveth love in his hart. And when he is 4commanded to obey the powers and rulers of the world, he looketh on the benefits which God showeth the world through them and therefore doth it gladly. And when he▪ 5is commanded to love his neighbour as him self, he searcheth that his neighbour is created of God and bought with Christs blood and so forth, and therefore he loveth him out 6of his hart, and if he be evil forbeareth him and with all love and patience draweth him to good: as elder brethren wait on the younger and serve them and suffer them, & when they will not come they speak fair, & flatter, and give some gay thing and promise fair and so draw them and •te them not, but if they may in no wise be helped, refer the punishment to the father and mother and so forth. And by these judgeth he all other laws of God and understandeth the true use and meaning of them. And by these understandeth he in the laws of man, which are