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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.
But under the pretence of their soul health it is a servant unto our spiritualities holy 1covetousness, and an extortioner, and a builder of Abbeys, Colleges, Chantries and Cathedral Churches with false gotten good, a pickpurse, a polar, and a bottomless bag.2
But vnder the pretence of their soule health it is a seruaūt vnto our spiritualties holy 1coueteousnesse, and an extorcioner, and a builder of Abbayes, Colledges, Chauntryes and Cathedral Churches with false gotten good, a pickepurse, a polar, and a bottomlesse bagge.2
- 1Sacraments abused up y• Clergy.Sacramentes abused vp y• Clergy.
- 2The Papists have had no small friend and good helper of the massThe Papistes haue had no smal frend and good helper of the masse
Some man would haply say, that the prayers of the Mass help much: not the living only, but also the dead. Of the hot fire of their fervent prayer which consumeth faster then all the world is able to bring sacrifice, I have 1said sufficiently in other places. How be it it is not possible to bring me in belief, that the prayer which helpeth her own master unto no virtue, should purchase me the forgiveness of sins. If I saw that their prayers had obtained them grace to live such a life, as Gods word did not rebuke, the could I soon be borne in hand that what so ever they asked GOD, their prayers