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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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For the holy Apostle Paul saith, ye Corinthians are our Epistle, which is understand and read of all men, in that ye are known how that ye are the Epistle of Christ ministered by us and written: not with ink (as Moses law) but with the spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone (as the ten commandments) but in the fleshy tables of the hart, as who should say, we writ not a dead law with ink and in parchment, nor grave that which damned you in tables of stone: but preach you that which bringeth the spirit of life unto your breasts, which spirit writeth and graveth the law of love in your hearts and giveth you lust to do the will of God. And furthermore, saith he our ablenes cometh of God which hath made us able to minister the new Testament, not of the letter (it is to say not of the law) but of the spirit. For the letter (that is ⟨p. 169⟩to say the law) killeth: but the spirit giveth life (that is to say the spirit of God) which entereth your hearts when ye believe the glad tidings that are preached you in Christ, quickeneth your hearts and giveth you life & lust and maketh you to do of love and of your own accord without compulsion, that which the law compelled you to do and damned you, because ye could not do with love, and lust, and naturally. Thus seest thou that the letter signifieth not the literal sense and the spirit the spiritual sense. And Rom. ij. Paul useth this term Littera for the law. And Rom. vij. where he setteth it so plain, that it the great wrath of God had not blinded them they could never have stumbled at it.
For the holy Apostle Paule sayth, ye Corinthians are our Epistle, which is vnderstand and read of all men, in that ye are knowen how that ye are the Epistle of Christ ministred by vs and written: not with ynke (as Moyses law) but with the spirite of the lyuing God: not in tables of stone (as the ten commaundementes) but in the fleshy tables of the hart, as who shuld say, we writ not a dead law with inke and in parchemen•, nor graue that which damned you in tables of stone: but preache you that which bringeth the spirite of lyfe vnto your brestes, which spirite writeth and graueth the law of loue in your hartes and geueth you lust to do the will of God. And furthermore, sayth he our ablenes cō meth of God which hath made vs able to minister the new Testamēt, not of the letter (yt is to say not of the law) but of the spirite. For the letter (that is ⟨p. 169⟩