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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.
For when they once believed that they were purged from their sins, and made righteous thorough their own holy works, what room was there left for the righteousness that is 1in Christs bloudshedyng? And therefore when they be fallen into this blindness, they can not but hate and persecute the light. And the more clear and evidently their deeds be rebuked, the furiousser and maliciousser blind are they, until they break out into open blasphemy, and sinning against the holy ghost, which is the malicious persecuting of the clear truth so manifestly proved, that they can not once hiss against it: as the Pharisees persecuted Christ, because he rebuked their holy deeds. And when he proved his doctrine with the Scripture and miracles, yet though they could not 2improve him, nor reason against him, they taught y• the scripture must have some other meaning, because his inter pretation undermined their foundation and plucked up by the roots the sects which they had planted, and they ascribed also his miracles to the devil. And in like manner though our hypocrites can not deny but this is the scripture, yet because there can be no other sense gathered thereof, but that overthroweth their buildings, therefore they ever think that it hath some other meaning then as the words sound, and that no man understandeth it, or understood it since the time of the Apostles. Or if they think that some that wrote upon it since the Apostles understood it: they yet think that w• like manner as we understand not the text it self, so we understand not the meaning of the words of that Doctor. ⟨p. 18⟩For when thou layest the justifying of holy works and deniest the justifying of faith, how canst thou understand S. Paul, Peter, John and 3the Acts of the Apostles or any Scripture at all, seeing the justifying of faith is almost all that they intend to prove?
For when they once beleued that they were purged frō their sinnes, and made righteous thoroughe theyr owne holy workes, what rowme was there left for the righteousnes that is