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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.
The second Chapter.
1In the second chapter, besides that it is untrue this use to have been ever since the time of the Apostles, he maketh many sophistical reasons about worshipping of saints, relics, and Images, & yet declareth not with what manner worship, but juggleth with the term in commune, as he doth with this word church, and this word faith, when the words have divers significations: for all faiths are not one manner faith and so forth, and therefore he beguileth a mans understanding. As if a man said, the boys will was good 2to have given his father a blow, and an other would infer, that a good ⟨p. 280⟩will could be no sin, and conclude that a man might lawfully smite his father. Now is good will taken in one sense in the major and in an other in y• minor, to use scholars terms, & therefore the conclusion doth mock a mans wit. Then disputeth he, the servant is honoured for the masters sake, and what is done to the poor is done to Christ (as the popish shall once feel for their so robbing them). And the xii. Apostles shall have their seats & sit and judge with Christ (as shall all that here preach him truly as they did) and Mary that poured the ointment on Christs head before his passion, hath her memorial, and therefore we ought to set candles before Images. First I ask him by what rule his argument holdeth. And secondarily I answer that the true worshipping of 3Saints is their memorial: to follow them as they did Christ. And that honour we give them, and so do not ye papists, but follow the steppes of your father the Pope, as he doth the steppes of his father the devil. And as for sticking up of candles, I answer that God is a spirit, and in the spirit must be worshipped only. Faith to his promises,