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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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I had almost verily left out the 1chiefest point of all. Rochester both abominable and shameless, yea & stark mad with pure malice, and so adased in the brains with spite, that he can not overcome the truth that he seeth not, or rather careth not what he saith: in the end of his first destruction, I would ⟨p. 130⟩say instruction as he calleth it, intending to prove that we are justified thorough holy works, allegeth half a text of Paul of the fifth to the Galatians (as his manner is to juggle and conuey craftely) fides per dilectionem operans. Which 2text he this wise Englisheth: faith which is wrought by love, and maketh a verb passive of a verb deponent. Rochester will have love to go before and faith to spring out of love. Thus Antichrist turneth the roots of the tree upward. I must first love a bitter medicine (after Rochesters doctrine) and then believe that it is wholesome. When by natural reason, I first hate a bitter medicine, until I be brought in belief of the physician, that it is wholesome, & that the bitterness shall heal me, and then afterward love it of that belief. Doth the child love the father first, & then believe that he is his son or heir, or rather because he knoweth that he is his son or heir and beloved, therefore loveth again? John saith in the 3third of his first epistle. See what love the father hath showed upon us, that we should be called his sons. Because we are sons therefore love we. Now by faith are we sons as John saith in the first chapter of his Gospel. He gave them power to be the sons of God, in that they believed on his name. And Paul saith, in the third chapter of his Epistle to the Galatians, we are all the sons of God by the faith which is in Jesus Christ. And John in the said chapter of his epistle saith. Hereby perceive we love, that he gave his life for us. We could see no love nor cause to love again, except that we believed that he dyed for us, and that we were saved thorough his death. And in the chapter following saith John. Herein is love: not that we loved God: but that he loved us, and sent his son to make agreement for our sins. So God sent not his son for any love that we had to him: but of the love, that he had to us, sent he his son, that we might so love & love again. Paul likewise in the 8.