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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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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 2about him, and desired a sign or a won der from heaven, to certify them that he was Christ: this evil and wedlock breaking nation (which break the wedlock of faith, wherewith they be married unto God, and believe in their false works) seek a sign, but there ⟨p. 28⟩shall no sign be given them save the sign of the Prophet Jonah. For as Jonah, was three days and three nights in the belly of the Whale, even so shall the son of man be three days, & three nights in the hart of the earth. Which was a watch word (as we say) and a sharp threatening unto the Jews, and as much to say as thus, ye hard hearted Jews seek a sign: lo this shall be your sign, as Jonah was raised out of the sepulchre of his fish, and then sent unto the Ninevites to preach that they should perish, even so shall I rise again out of my sepulchre, and come and preach repentance unto you. See therefore, when ye see the sign that ye repent, or else ye shall surely perish and not escape. For though the infirmities which ye now see in my flesh, be a let unto your fathers, ye shall then be without excuse, when ye see so great a miracle and so great power of God shed out upon you. And so 3Christ came again after the resurrection in his spirit, and preached repentance unto them, by the mouth of his Apostles and Disciples, and with miracles of the holy Ghost. And all that repented not, perished shortly after, & the rest carried away captive into all quarters of the world for an example, as ye see unto this day.