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,…

Be learned therefore ye that ¹judge y• world lest God be angry with you, and ye perish from the right way.

Be learned therefore ye that ¹iudge y• world lest God be angry with you, and ye perish from the right way.

1. 1Be learned ye that judge the earth.Be learned ye that iudge the earth.

Woe be to you scribes, and pharisees hypocrites, saith Christ, Math. xriij. for ¹ye devour widows houses under a colour of long prayer. Our hypocrites rob not the widows only: but Knight, Squire, Lord, Duke, King, and Emperor, and even the whole world under the same colour: teaching the people to trust in their prayers, and not in Christ, for whose sake God hath forgiven all the sin of the whole world, unto as many as repent and believe. They fear them with purgatory, and promise to pray perpetually, ²least the lands should ever return home again unto the right heirs. What hast thou bought with robbing thy heirs, or with giving the hypocrites that which thou robbest of other men? Perpetual prayer? Yea perpetual pain. For they appoint thee no time of deliverance, their prayers are so mighty. The Pope for money can ³empty purgatory when he will. It is verily purgatory. For it purgeth and maketh clean riddance: yea it is hell. For it devoureth all things. His fatherhood sendeth them to heaven with scala coeli: that is, with a ladder to scale