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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
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But now do ye clean contrary, ye drive them from Gods word, and will let no man come thereto, until he have ben two years master of art. First they nosel them in sophistry, and in benefundatum. And there corrupt they their judgements with apparent arguments, and with alleging unto them texts of Logic, ⟨p. 104⟩of natural P•ia. of metaphysic, and moral Philosophy, & of all manner books of Aristotle, and of all manner Doctors which they yet never saw. Moreover one holdeth this, an other that. One is real, an other nominal. What wonderful dreams have they 1of their Predicaments, universals, second intentions, Quiddities, Haecceities. and Relatives? And whether Species sundata in chimerae, be •aspecies. And whether this proposition be true, […] eus est aliquid. Whether eus be •quivocum, or […]. •ns is a voice only say some. Ens is […] saith an other, and descendeth into ens crea• ▪ and into e•s increatum per mod•s in•s•os. when they have this wise brawled viij. x. or xij. or moo years, and after that their judgements are utterly corrupt: then they begin their divinity. Not at the scripture: 2but every man taketh a sundry Doctor, which Doctors are as sundry, and as divers, the one contrary unto the other, as there 3are divers fashions and monstrous shapes, none like an other, among our sects of religion. Every religion, every university, and almost every man hath a sundry divinity. Now what soever opinions every man findeth with his Doctor, that is his Gospel, and that only is true with him, and that holdeth he all his life long, and every man to maintain his Doctor with all, corrupteth the Scripture & fashioneth it after his own imagination, as a Potter doth his clay. Of what text thou provest hell, will an other prove purgatory, an other Limbo ptrum, and an other the assumption of our Lady: And an other shall prove of the same text that an Ape hath a tail. And of what text the Grey Fryer proveth that our Lady was without original sin, of the same shall the black Fryer prove that she was conceived in original sin. And all this do they with apparent reasons, with false similitudes, and likenesses, and with arguments and persuasions of mans wisdom. Now there is no other division or heresy in the world save mans