A68831:1522
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.
¶ The arguments wherewith the Pope would prove himself the church, are solved.
¶ The argumentes wherewith the Pope woulde proue hymselfe the church, are solued.
Notwithstanding because as they be all shaven they be all shameless to affirm that they be the right church and can not err, though all the world seeth that not one of them is in the right way, and that they have with utter defiance forsaken both the doctrine and living of Christ & of all his Apostles, let us see the sophistry wherewith they would persuade it. One of their high reasons is this. The Church say they, was before y• heretics, & y• heretics 1came ever out of the church and left it. And they were before all them which they now call heretics and Lutherans, and the Lutherans came out of them. &c. Wherefore they be the right church, and the other heretics in deed as they be called. Well, I will likewise dispute. First the right church 2was under Moses and Aaron and so forth, in whose rooms sat the Scribes Pharisees and high priests in the time of Christ. And they were before Christ. And Christ and his Apostles 3came out of them, and departed from them and left them. Wherefore the Scribes, Pharisees, and high priests were the right Church, and Christ and his Apostles and disciples heretics and a damnable sect. And so the Jews are yet in the right way and we in error. And of truth if their blind reason be good, then is this argument so to. For they be like, & are both one thing.