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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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Be learned lest the hypocrites bring 1the wrath of God upon your heads & compel you to shed innocent blood: as they have compelled your predecessors to slay the Prophets, to kill Christ & his Apostles and all the righteous ⟨p. 142⟩y• sense were slain. Gods word 2pertaineth unto all men: as it pertaineth unto all servants to know their masters will and pleasure: and to all subjects to know the laws of their Prince. Let not the hypocrites do all thing secretly. What reason is it that 3mine enemy should put me in prison at his pleasure and their diet me, and handle me, as he lusteth, and judge me him self and that secretly, and condemn me by a law of his own making, and then deliver me to Pilate to murder me? Let Gods word try every 4mans doctrine, and whom so ever Gods word proveth unclean let him be taken for a leper. One Scripture 5will help to declare an other. And the circumstances, that is to say, the places that go before and after, will give light unto the middle text. And the open and manifest Scriptures will ever improve the false and wrong exposition of the darker sentences. Let the temporal power to whom God hath given the sword to take vengeance, look or ever that they leap, & see what they do. Let the causes be disputed before them, and let him that is accused have room to answer for him self. The 6powers to whom God hath committed the sword shall give accounts for every drop of blood that is shed on the earth. Then shall their ignorance not excuse them, nor the saying of the hypocrites help them, my soul for yours, your grace shall do a meritorious deed, your grace ought not to hear them, it is an old heresy condemned by the Church. The king ought to look in the Scripture, and see whether it were truly condemned or no, if he will punish it. If the king or his officer for him, will slay me, so ought the king or his officer to judge me. The king can not, but unto his damnation, lend his sword to kill whom he judgeth not by his own laws. Let him that is accused stand on the one side and the accuser on the other side, and let the kings judge sit and judge the cause, if the king will kill and not be a murderer before God.