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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.
Of wedlock.
Of wedlocke.
Matrimony or wedlock is a state or a degree ordained of God, and an office wherein the husband serveth the wife, and the wife the husband. It was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world, and for the man to help the woman, and the woman the man with all love and kindness, and not to signify any promise that ever I heard or read of in y• scripture. Therefore 1ought it not to be called a Sacrament. It hath a promise that we sin not in that state, if a man receive his wise as a gift given to him of God, & the wife her husband likewise: as all manner meats and drinks have a promise that we sin not, if we use them measurably with thanks giving. If they call matrimony a Sacrament because the scripture useth the similitude of matrimony, to express the marriage or wedlock that is between us and Christ. (For as a woman though she be never so poor, yet when she is married, is as rich as her husband: even so we when we repent and believe the promises of God in Christ, though we be never so poor sinners, yet are as rich as Christ, all his merits are ours with all that he hath). If for that cause they call it a sacrament: so will I mustard seed, leaven, a net, keys, bread, water, and a thousand other things which Christ and the Prophets, and all the scripture use, to express the kingdom of heaven and Gods word withal. They praise wedlock with their 2mouth, and say it is an holy thing, as it is verily: but had lever be sanctified with an whore, then to come within the sanctuary.
MAtrimony or wedlocke is a state or a degree ordeined of God, and an office wherein the husband serueth the wife, and the wife the husband. It was ordeined for a remedy and to encrease the worlde, and for the man to helpe the woman, and the woman the man with all loue and kyndnes, and not to signifie any promise that euer I heard or redde of in y scripture. Therfore