A68831:1852
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 therefore I say still, that the Apostles meaning was that he should 1have a wi•e, if haply his age were not the greater, and that by one wi•e he excludeth them that had two, and them that were defamed with other save their own wives, and would have them to be such as were known of virtuous ⟨p. 313⟩living, for to do reverence & honour unto the doctrine of Christ. As it appeareth by the widows which he excludeth before lx. years, for fear of 2unchastity, and admitteth yet none of that age, except she were well known of chaste, honest and godly behaviour, and that to honour Gods word withal, than which the Pope hath nothing more vile. And when M. More to mock, bringeth forth the text of the widow, that she must be the wife of one man. I answer, for all his jesting, that Paul excludeth not her that had x. husbands one after an other, but her that had ij. husbands at once. And when More laugheth at it, as though it had never 3been the guise. I would to god for his mercy that it were not the guise at this day, and then I am sure his wrath would not be so great as it is. Paul meaneth only that he would have no defamed woman chosen widow for dishonouring the word of God and the congregation of Christ, and therefore excludeth common women, and such as were defamed besides their husbands, and haply that divorced thereto. And that I prove by the same doctrine of Paul, that the kingdom of God is no such business but the keeping of Gods commandments only, & to love one an other. Now look on yt thing and on the office of the widow. It was but to wait on the sick and poor people, and to wash strangers feet. Now the widows of ten husbands must have be found of the cost of the congregation, if they were destitute of friends, as all other poor were, though in time passed they have been defamed persons.
And therfore I say still, that the Apostles meaning was that he shoulde 1haue a wie, if haply his age were not the greater, and that by one wie he excludeth them that had two, and them that were defamed with other saue their owne wiues, and woulde haue thē to be such as were knowen of vertuous