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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.
Thou must 1believe that it is no more bread, but the very body of Christ, flesh, blood, and bone, even as he went here on earth, save his coat. For that is here yet, I wot not in how many places. I pray thee what helpeth all this? Here is no promise. The devils know that Christ dyed on a Friday, and the Jews also. What are they helped thereby? We have a promise that Christ and his body and his blood, and all that he did and suffered, is a sacrifice, a ransom, and a full satisfaction for our sins: that God for his sake will think no more on them, if they have power to repent and believe.
Thou must 1beleue that it is no more bread, but the very body of Christ, flesh, bloud, and bone, euen as he went here on earth, saue his coate. For that is here yet, I wot not in how many places. I pray thee what helpeth all this? Here is no promise. The deuils know that Christ dyed on a Fryday, and the Iewes also. What are they holpe thereby? We haue a promise that Christ and his body and his bloud, and all that he did and suffered, is a sacrifice, a raunsome, and a full satisfaction for our sinnes: that God for his sake wyll thinke no more on them, if they haue power to repent and beleue.
- 1In all thing they leave ou• the promises.In all thing they leaue ou• the promises.
Holy work men think that God rejoiceth in the deed self, without any further respect. They think also that God as a cruel tyrant, rejoiceth and hath delectation in our pain taking without any further respect. And therefore many of them martyr themselves without cause, after the ensample of Baals Priests which (iij. Reg. xviij. cut themselves to please their God with all, and as the old heathen pagans sacrificed their children in the fire unto their Gods. The Monks of the Charterhouse think that y very eating of fish in it self pleaseth God, and refer not the eating unto the chastening of the body. For when they have slain their bodies with cold fleme of fish-eating: yet then will they eat no flesh, and slay themselves before their days. We also when we offer our sons or daughters, and compel or persuade them to vow & profess chastity, think that y very pain and that rage and burning which they suffer in abstaining from a make, pleaseth God, and so refer not our chastity unto our neighbours profit. For when we see thousands fall to innumerable diseases thereby, and to die before their days: yea though we see them break the commandments of God daily, and also of very impatience work abominations against nature, to shameful to be spoken of: yet will we not let them marry, but compel them to continue still with violence. And thus teach our divines as it appeareth by their arguments. He that taketh most pain, say they, is greatest and so forth.