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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.
Evil rulers then are a sign that 1God is angry and wroth with us. Is it not a great wrath and vengeance that the father and mother should hate their children, even their flesh and their blood? or that an husband should be unkind unto his wife or a master unto the servant that waiteth on his profit, or the Lords and Kings should be tyrants unto their subjects and tenants which pay them tribute, tolle, custome and rent, labouring and toiling to find them in honour, and to maintain them in their estate? is not this a fearful judgement of God and a cruel wrath that the very Prelates and shepherds of our souls which were wont to feed Christs flock with Christs doctrine, and to walk before them in living there after, and to give their lives for them, to their ensample and edifying, and to strengthen their weak faiths, are now so sore changed that if they smell that one of their flock (as they now call them and no longer Christs) do but once long or desire for the true knowledge of Christ, they will slay him, burning him with fire most cruelly? What is the cause of this, and that 2they also teach false doctrine confirming it with lies? verily it is the hand of God to avenge the wickedness of them that have no love nor lust unto the truth of God, when it is preached, but rejoice in unrighteousness. As thou mayest see in the second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians: Where he speaketh of the coming of Antichrist. Whose coming shall be (saith he) by the working of Satan with all miracles signs and wonders which are ⟨p. 119⟩but lies, and in all deceivable unrighteousness among them that perish, because they received not any love to the 3truth to have been saved. Therefore shall God send them strong delusion, to believe lies. Mark how God to avenge his truth, sendeth to the unthankful false doctrine and false miracles to confirm them, and to harden their harts in the false way, that afterward it shall not be possible for them to admit the truth. As thou seest in Exod. vij. and viij. how God suffered false miracles to be showed in yt sight of Pharaoh to harden his hart, that he should not believe the truth, in as much as his sorcerers turned their rods into Serpents, and turned water into blood, and made frogs by their enchantment: so thought he that Moses did all his miracles by the same craft and not by the power of GOD.