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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
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The heathen shipmen astonied at 1the sight of the miracle, feared GOD, prayed to him, offered sacrifice and vowed vows. And I doubt not, but that some of them, or haply all came thereby unto the true knowledge, and true worshipping of GOD, and were won to GOD in their souls. And thus God which is infinite merciful in all his ways, wrought their souls health out of the infirmity of Jonah, even of his good will and purpose, and love wherewith he loved them, before the world was made & not of chance, as it appeareth unto the eyes of the ignorant.
The heathen shypmen astonyed at 1the sight of the miracle, feared GOD, prayed to him, offered sacrifice and vowed vowes. And I doubte not, but that some of them, or happely all came thereby vnto the true knowledge, and true worshipping of GOD, and were wonne to GOD in their soules. And thus God which is infinite mercifull in all his wayes, wrought their soules health out of the infirmitie of Ionas, euen of his good wil and purpose, and loue wherewith he loued them, before the world was made & not of chaunce, as it appeareth vnto the eyes of the ignoraunt.
- 1Miracle moveth the heathen to know god, and to call upon him.Miracle moueth the heathen to know god, and to call vpon him.
And that Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of his 1fish: we can not thereby prove unto the Jews, and infidels or unto any man, that Christ must therefore dye, and be buried and rise again. But we use the ensample and likeness to strength the faith of the weak. For he that believeth the one, can not doubt in the other: in as much as the hand of GOD was no less mighty in preserving Jonah alive against all natural possibility, and in delivering him safe out of this fish, then in raising up Christ again, out of his sepulchre. And we may describe the power and virtue of the resurrection thereby, as Christ him self borroweth the similitude thereto. Math. xij. saying unto the Jews that came