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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.
Why? For the Jews had leavened the spiritual law of God, & with their glosses had made it altogether earthly 1and fleshly, and so had set a veil or covering on Moses face, to shadow and darken the glorious brightness of his countenance. It was sin to steal: but to rob widows houses under a colour of long praying, and to poll in the name of offerings, and to snare yt people with intolerable constitutions against all love, to catch their money out of their purses, was no sin at all.
Why? For the Iewes had leuened the spirituall law of God, & with their gloses had made it altogether earthly 1and fleshly, and so had set a vaile or coueryng on Moses face, to shadow and darken the glorious brightnes of hys countenaunce. It was sinne to steale: but to robbe widowes houses vnder a colour of long praying, and to polle in the name of offerynges, and to snare yt people with intollerable constitutions agaynst all loue, to catche theyr money out of theyr purses, was no synne at all.
- 1The doctrine of the Pharisees and the Papists make sin of that is no sin.The doctrine of the Phariseis and the Papists make sinne of that is no sinne.
To smite father and mother was 1sin: But to withdraw help from them at their need, for blind zeal of offering, unto the profit of the holy pharisees, was then as meritorious as it is now, to let all thy kin choose whether they will sink or swim, while thou buildest and makest goodly foundations for holy people, which thou hast chosen to be thy Christ, for to supple thy soul with yt oil of their sweet blessings, and to be thy Jesus for to 2