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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 the Scripture were in the mother tongue, they will say, then would the lay people understand it, every man after his own ways. Wherefore serveth the Curate, but to teach him the right way? Wherefore were the holy days made, but that the people should 1come and learn? Are ye not abominable schoolmasters, in that ye take so great wages 2if ye will not teach? If ye would teach, how could ye do it so well, and with so great profit, as when the lay people have the scripture before them in their mother tongue? for then should they see by the order of the text, whether thou juggledest or not: and then would they believe it, because it is y• scripture of god, though thy living be never so abominable. 3Where now, because your living, & your preaching are so contrary, and because they grope out in every sermon your open, and manifest lies, and smell your unsatiable covetousness, ⟨p. 102⟩they believe you not when you preach truth. But alas, the Curates them selves (for the 4most part) wot no more what the new or old Testament meaneth, then do the Turks: neither know they of any more then that they read at mass, matins, and evensong, which yet they understand not: neither care they, but even to mumble up so much every day (as the Pie and Poymgay speak, they wot not what) to sill up their bellies withal. If they will not let the lay man have the word of God in his mother tongue, yet let the priests have it, which for a great part of them do understand 5no latin at all: but sing, and say, and patter all day with the lips only, that which the hart understandeth not.
If the Scripture were in the mother tongue, they will say, then would the lay people vnderstande it, euery man after his owne wayes. Wherfore serueth the Curate, but to teach him the right way? Wherfore were the holy dayes made, but that the people shoulde