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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.
¶ Repentance.
¶ Repentaunce.
Concerning this word repentance, 1or (as they used) penance, the Hebrew hath in the old Testament generally (Sob) turn, or be converted. For which the translation that we take for S. Jeromes, hath most part (Conuerti) to turn, to be converted, and sometime (Agere poenitentiam) And the Greek in the new Testament hath perpetually (Metanoeo) to turn in the hart, and 2mind, and to come to the right knowledge, and to a mans right wit again. For which (Metanoeo) s. Jeromes translation 3hath sometime (Ago poenitentiam) I do repent: sometime (Poeniteo) I repent, sometime (Poeniteor) I am repentant: sometime (Habeo poenitentiam) I have repentance: sometime (Poenitet me) it repenteth me. And Erasmus useth much this word (Resipisco) I come to my self, or to my right mind again. And the very sense and signification both of the Hebrew, & also of the Greek word is: to be converted and to turn to God with all the hart, to know his will, & to live according to his laws, and to be cured of our corrupt nature with the oil of his spirit, and wine of obedience to his doctrine. Which conversion or turning if it be unfeigned, these four do accompany it, and are included therein. Confession, not in the Priests ear, for that is but mans invention, but to God in the hart, and 4before all the congregation of GOD, how that we be sinners and sinful, and that our whole nature is corrupt, and inclined to sin and all unrighteousness, and therefore evil, wicked, and damnable, and his law holy and just, by which our sinful nature is rebuked. And also to our neighbours, if we have offended any person particularly. Then contrition, sorrowfulness that we be such damnable sinners, and not only have sinned, but are wholly inclined to sin still.