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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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How faith justifieth before God in the hart, & how love springeth of faith, and compelleth us to work, and how the works justify before the world, & testify what we are, & certify us that our faith is unfeigned, and that the right spirit of God is in us, see in my book of the justifying of faith, and there shalt thou see all thing abundantly. Also of the controversy between Paul and 1James see there. Never the later, when Rochester saith, if faith only justified, then both the devils and also sinners that lie still in sin should be saved, his argument is not worth a straw. For neither the devils nor yet sinners that continue in sin of purpose & delectation, 2have any such faith as Paul speaketh of. For Pauls faith is to believe Gods promises. Faith (saith he) Rom. x. cometh by hearing, and hearing cometh by the word of God. And how shall they hear without a preacher, and how shall they preach except they be sent? As it is written (saith he) how beautiful are the feet that bring glade tidings of peace, and bring tidings of good things. Now when sent God any messengers unto the devils to preach them peace, or any good thing: The devil hath no promise: he is therefore excluded from Pauls faith. The devil believeth that 3Christ dyed, but not that he dyed for his sins. Neither doth any that consenteth in the hart to continue in sin, believe that Christ dyed for him. For to believe that Christ dyed for us, is to see ⟨p. 131⟩our horrible damnation, and how we 4were appointed unto eternal pains, and to feel, and to be sure that we are delivered therefrom thorough Christ: in that we have power to hate our sins, and to love Gods commandments. All such repent and have their hearts loosed out of captivity and bondage of sin, and are therefore justified thorough faith in Christ. Wicked sinners have no faith, but imaginations and opinions about Christ, as our school men have in their principles, about which they brawl so fast one with another. It is an other thing to believe y• the king is rich, & that he is rich unto me, and that my part is therein: and that he will not spare a penny of his riches at my need, when I believe that the king is rich I am not moved. But when I believe that he is rich for me, & that he will never fail me at my need, then love I, and of love am ready to work unto the uttermost of my power: