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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.
That thou mayst perceive how that y• scripture 1ought to be in the mother tongue: and that the reasons which our sprites make for the contrary, are but sophistry and false wiles to fear thee from the light, that thou mightest follow them blindfold, and be their captive to honour their ceremonies, and to offer to their belly.
THat thou mayst perceyue how that y• scripture 1ought to be in the mother tounge: and that the reasons which our sprites make for the contrary, are but sophistry and false wiles to feare thee from the light, that thou mightest follow them blindfolde, and be theyr captiue to honor theyr ceremonies, and to offer to theyr belly.
- 1That the Scripture ought to be in the English tongue.That the Scripture ought to bee in the English toung.
First God gave the children of Israel a law by the hand of Moses, in their mother tongue, and all the prophets wrote in their mother tongue, and all the Psalms were in the mother tongue. And there was Christ but figured, and described in ceremonies, in riddles, in parables, and in dark prophecies. What is the cause that we may not have the old Testament, with the new also, which is the light of the old, and wherein is openly declared before the eyes, that there was darkly prophesied? I can imagine no cause verily, except it be that we should not see the work of Antichrist, & juggling of hypocrites: what should be the cause, that we which walk in the broad day, should not see, as well as they that walked in the night, or that we should not see as well at noon, as they did in y• twilight? Came Christ to make the world more blind? By this means, Christ is the darkness of the world, and no the light, as he saith him self,