A68831:1784
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
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An answer unto Master Mores third book.
An aunswere vnto Master Mores third booke.
IN his third book he proceedeth forth as before to prove that the opinions which the Popish teach without Scripture are of equal authority with the Scripture. He asketh what if there had never been Scripture written? I answer, 1God careth for his elect & therefore hath provided them of Scripture, to try all things and to defend them from all false Prophets. And I say moreover that if there had ben no scripture written, that God for his mercy & fatherly love and care toward his elect must have provided, that there should never have been heresies or against all times when sects should arise, have stirred up preachers to confound the he resies with miracles. Take this example, the Greeks have the Scripture & 2serve God therein much more diligently than we. Now let us give that there were no Scripture, but that we received all our faith by the authority of our elders, & the Greeks by the authority of 3their elders. When I shall dispute with a Greek about the articles of the faith which my elders taught me and his elders deny, as ear confession, the holy pardons of the Pope and all his power that he hath above other Bishops & many other things beside the Scripture which we hold for articles of our faith & they deny. If there be no other proof of either part, then to say, my elders which can not err so affirm, & that he should answer, his Elders which can not not err so deny, what reason is it, that I should leave the authority of my elders and go & believe his, or that he should leave the authority of his elders and come and believe mine? none at all verily. But the one party must show a miracle or else we must refer our causes unto authentic scripture received in old time, & confirmed with miracles, and therewith try the controversy of our Elders.