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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 scripture containeth iij. things in it: First, the law to condemn all 1flesh: Secondarily, the Gospel, that is to say, promises of mercy for all that repent and knowledge their sins, at ⟨p. 24⟩the preaching of the law, and consent in their hearts that the law is good, and submit themselves to be scholars to learn to keep the law, and to learn to believe the mercy that is promised them: and thirdly, the stories & lives of those scholars, both what chances fortuned them, & also by what means their schoolmaster taught them, and made them perfect, and how he tried the true from the false.
The scripture conteineth iij. thinges in it: First, the lawe to condemne all 1flesh: Secondarily, the Gospel, that is to say, promises of mercy for al that repente and knowledge theyr sinnes, at ⟨p. 24⟩the preachyng of the lawe, and consent in their hartes that the lawe is good, and submit themselues to bee scholers to learne to kepe the law, and to learn to beleue the mercye that is promised them: and thirdly, the stories & lyues of those scholers, both what chaunces fortuned them, & also by what meanes their scholemaister taughte them, and made them perfect, and how he tried ye true from the false.
- 1The scripture containeth iij. things.The scripture contayneth iij. thinges.
When the hypocrites come to the 1law, they put glosses to, and make no more of it, than of a worldly law which is satisfied with the outward work, and which a Turk may also fulfil. When yet Gods law never ceaseth to condemn a man, until it be written in his heart, and until he keep it naturally without compulsion, and all other respect, save only of pure love to God, and his neighbour, as he naturally eateth when he is an hungered, without compulsion, and all other respect, save to slake his hunger only. And when they come to the Gospel,