A68831:457
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 first place in the vj. Chapter, will no more then that they which know the truth, and yet willingly refuse the light, and choose rather to dwell in darkness, and refuse Christ, & make ⟨p. 57⟩a mock of him (as y• Pharisees, which when they were overcome with Scripture & miracles, y• Christ was the very Messiah, yet had they such lust in iniquity that they forsook him, persecuted him, slew him, and did all the shame that could be imagined to him) can not be renewed ([Greek or Hebrew]) saith the Greek, to be converted: that is to say, such malicious unkindness, which is none other, then the blaspheming of the holy Ghost, deserveth that the spirit shall never come more at them to convert them, which I believe to be as true, as any other text in all the Scripture.
The first place in the vj. Chapiter, will no more then that they whiche know the truth, and yet willingly refuse the light, and chuse rather to dwell in darkenes, and refuse Christ, & make ⟨p. 57⟩a mocke of him (as y• Pharisies, which whē they were ouercome with Scripture & miracles, y• Christ was the very Messias, yet had they such lust in iniquitie that they forsoke him, persecuted him, slewe him, and did all the shame that could be imagined to him) can not bee renued (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) sayth the Greeke, to be conuerted: that is to say, such malicious vnkyndnesse, which is none other, then the blasphemyng of the holy Ghost, deserueth that the spirite shall neuer come more at them to conuerte them, whiche I beleue to be as true, as any other text in all the Scripture.
And what is meant by that place in the tenth Chapter, where he saith, if we sin willingly after we have received yt knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice, for sin is declared immediately after. For he maketh a comparison between Moses and Christ, saying: if he which despised Moses law dyed without mercy, how much worse punishment is he worthy of, that treadeth the son of God underfoot, and counteth the blood of the covenant, by which blood he was sanctified, as an unholy thing, & blasphemeth the spirit of grace? By which words it is manifest that he meaneth none other by the fore words, then the sin of blasphemy of the spirit.