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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.
IN the second and third book they received the law. And in this fourth, they begin to work, & to practise. Of which practising ye see many good examples of unbelief, and what 1freewill doth, when she taketh in hand to keep yt law of her own power, with out help of faith in yt promises of god: how she leaveth her masters carcasses by the way in the wilderness, and bringeth them not into the land of rest. Why could they not enter in? Because of their unbelief, Hebrew. 3. For had they believed, so had they been under grace, and their old sins had ben forgiven them, and power should have been given them to have fulfilled the law thenceforth, and they should have been kept from all temptations that had been to strong for them. For it is written, John. 1. He gave them power to be the sons of God, through believing 2in his name. Now to be yt son of God, is to love God and his commandments, and to walk in his way after the ensample of his son Christ. But these people took upon them to work without faith, as thou seest in the 14. of this book, where they would fight and also did, without the word of promise: even when they were warned that they should not. And in the 16. again, they would please God with their holy faithless works (for where Gods word is not, there can be no faith) but the fire of God consumed their holy works, as it did Nadab and Abihu Levit. 10. And from these unbelievers turn thine eyes unto the Pharisees which before the coming of Christ in his flesh, had laid the foundation of freewill, after the same ensample. Whereon they built holy works after their own imagination without faith of yt word,