A68831:1497
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.
¶ How a Christen man can not err, and how he may yet err.
¶ How a Christen man can not erre, and how he may yet erre.
And as they sin not, so they err not. And on the other side as they sin, so they err: but never unto death and damnation. For they never sin of purpose nor hold any error maliciously, sinning against the holy ghost, but of weakness & infirmity. As good obedient children, though they love their fathers commandments, yet break them oft, by the reason of their weakness. And as they can not yield them selves bond unto sin, to 1serve it: even so they can not err in any thing that should be against the promises which are in Christ. And in other things their errors be not unto damnation, though they be never so great, because they hold them not maliciously. As now, if some when they read in the new Testament of Christs brethren, would think that they were our Ladies children after the birth of Christ, because they know not the use of speaking of the Scripture or of the Hebrews, how that •ye kinsmen be called brethren, or haply they might be Josephs children, by some first wife, neither can have any to teach him for tyranny that is so great, yet could it not hurt him, though he dyed therein, because it hurteth not the redemption that is in Christs blood. For though she had none but Christ, I am therefore never the more saved, neither yet the less, though she had had. And in such like 2an hundred that pluck not a mans faith from Christ, they might err, and yet be nevertheless saved no though the contrary were written in the Gospel. For as in other sins, as soon as they be rebuked, they repent: even so here, as soon as they were better taught, they should immediately knowledge their error and not resist.