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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.
If thou give me a thousand pound to pray for thee, I am no more bound then I was before. Mans imagination 1can make the commandment of God neither greater nor smaller, neither can to the law of God, either add or minish. Gods commandment is as great as himself. I am bound to love the Turk with all my might and power, yea, and above my power, even from the ground of my hart, after the ensample that Christ loved me, neither to spare goods, body, or life, to win him to Christ. And what can I do more for thee, if thou gavest me all the world? Where I see need, there can I not but pray, if Gods spirit be in me.
If thou geue me a thousand pound to pray for thee, I am no more bound then I was before. Mans imagination 1can make the commaundement of God neither greater nor smaller, neither can to the lawe of God, eyther adde or minishe. Gods commaundement is as great as himselfe. I am bounde to loue the Turke with all my might and power, yea, and aboue my power, euen from the ground of my hart, after the ensample that Christ loued me, neither to spare goods, body, or life, to winne him to Christ. And what can I doe more for thee, if thou gauest me all the world? Where I see neede, there can I not but pray, if Gods spirite be in me.
- 1Mans Imagination cannot alter the law of god, neither make it more or less.Mans Imaginatiō cannot alter the law of god, neither make it more or lesse.
Alms is a greek word, and signifieth 1mercy. One Christian is debtor to an other at his need, of all that he is able to do for him, until his need be sufficed. Every Christian man ought to have Christ always before his eyes, as an ensample to counterfeit and follow, and to do to his neighbour as Christ hath done to him, as Paul teacheth in all his epistles, and Peter in his first, and John in his first also. This order useth Paul in all his