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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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Prayer.
OF Prayer and good deeds, and of the order of love or charity I have abundantly written in my book of the justifying of faith. Never the later that thou mayest see, what the prayers and good works of our monks and friars and of other ghostly people are worth, I will speak a word or two, and make an end. Paul saith Gal. 3. All ye are the sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ: for all ye that are 1baptized have put Christ on you. that is, ye are become Christ himself. There is no Jew (saith he) neither Greek, neither bond nor free, neither man nor woman, but ye are all one thing in Christ Jesus. In Christ there is neither french nor english, but the frenchman is the Englishman's own self, and the english the Frenchman's own self. In Christ there is neither father nor son neither master nor servant, neither husband nor wife, neither king nor subject: but the father is the sons self, and the son the fathers own self: and the king is the subjects own self, and the subject is the kings own self, and so fourth. I am thou •hy self, and thou art I my self, and can be no nearer of kin. We are all the sons of God, all Christs servants bought with his blood, and every man to other Christ his own self. And Col. 3, ⟨p. 163⟩Ye have put on the new man which is tenned in the knowledge of God after the image of him that made him (that is to say, Christ) where is (saith he) neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarous or Scythian. bond or free: but Christ is all in all things. I love thee not now because 2thou art my father, and hast done so much for me, or my mother, and hast borne me, and given me suck of thy breasts (for so do Jews and saracens) but because of the great love that Christ hath showed me. I serve thee not because thou art my master, or my king, for hope of reward, or fear of pain, but for the love of Christ: for the children of faith are under no law (as thou seest in the Epistles to the Romans,