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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 if a man allege Christ, John in the, iij. Chapter saying: Except a man be borne again of water, and the holy Ghost he can not see the kingdom of GOD, and will therefore that the holy ghost be present in the water, and therefore the very deed, or work doth put 1away sin: then I will send him unto Paul which asketh his Galatians, whether they received the holy ghost by the deed of the law, or by preaching of faith, and there concludeth that the holy ghost accompanieth the preaching of faith, and with the word of faith, entereth the hart and purgeth it, which thou mayest also understand by Saint Pauls saying: Ye are borne a new out of the water through the word. So now if Baptism preach me the washing in Christs blood, so doth the holy ghost accompany it, and that deed of preaching through faith doth put away my sins. For the holy Ghost is no dome God, nor no God that goeth a mumming. If a man say of the Sacrament of Christs body and blood, that it is a sacrifice as well for the dead as for the quick, and therefore the very deed it self justifieth and putteth away sin: I answer that a sacrifice is the slaying of the body of a beast, or a 2man: wherefore if it be a sacrifice, then is Christs body there slain and his blood there shed: but that is not so. And therefore it is properly no sacrifice but a Sacrament, and a memorial of that everlasting sacrifice once for all, which he offered upon cross now upon a xv. hundred years ago, & preacheth only unto them that are aly•e. And as for them that be dead, it is as profitable unto them as is a candle in a Lantern without light unto them that 3walk by the way in dark night, and as the Gospel song in Latin is unto them that understand none at all, and as a Sermon preached to him that is dead, and heareth it not. It preacheth unto them that are a live only, for they that be dead, if they dyed in the faith which that Sacrament preacheth, they be safe, and are past all jeopardy. For when they were alive their hearts loved the law of GOD, and therefore sinned not, and were sorry that their members sinned, and ever 4moved to sin, and therefore thorough faith it was forgiven them. And now their sinful members be dead, so that they can now sin no more, wherefore it is unto them that be dead neither Sacrament nor sacrifice: