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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.
A Prologue into the third book of Moses called Leviticus.
A Prologue into the thirde booke of Moses called Leuiticus.
The ceremonies which are described in yt book following, were chiefly ordained of God, (as I said in the end of the 1prologue upon Exod.) to occupy the minds of that people the Israelites, and to keep them from serving of God, after the imagination of their blind zeal, and good intent: that their consciences might be stablished, ⟨p. 12⟩and they sure that they pleased God therein, which were impossible, if a man did of his own head that which was not commanded of god, nor depended of any appointment made between him and God. Such ceremonies 2were unto them as an A, B, C, to learn to spell and read, and as a nurse to feed them with milk and pap, & to speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lisp the words unto them according as the babes and children of that age might sound them again. For all that were before Christ, were in the infancy and childhood of the world, and saw that sun which we see openly, but through a cloud, and had but feeble, and weak imaginations of Christ, as children have of mens deeds (a few prophets except) which 3yet described him unto other in sacrifices and ceremonies, likenesses, riddles proverbs, and dark and strange speaking, until the full age were come, that god would show him openly unto the whole world, and deliver them from their shadows and cloudelight, & the heathen out of their dead sleep, of stark blind ignorance. And as the shadow vanisheth away at the coming of the light, even so do the ceremonies and sacrifices at the coming of Christ, and are henceforth no more necessary, then a token left in remembrance of a bargain, is necessary when the bargain is fulfilled. And though they seem plain childish, yet they be not altogether fruitless: as the puppets & xx. manner of trifles, which mothers permit unto their young children, be not all in vain. For albeit that such fantasies be permitted