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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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Also this binding and loosing is 1one power, and as he bindeth so louseth he: yea and bindeth first ere he can louse. For who can louse that is not bound. Now what soever Peter bindeth or his successor (as he will be called and is not, but in dead yt very successor of Satan) is not so to be understood, that Peter or the Pope hath power to command a man to be in deadly sin or to be damned or to go into hell saying: be thou in deadly sin, be thou damned, go thou to hell, go thou to Purgatory. For that exposition is contrary to the everlasting Testament that God hath made unto us in Christ. He sent his son Christ to louse us from sin and damnation and hell, and that to testify unto the world sent he his Disciples Acts. i. Paul also hath no power to destroy, but to edify. ij. Cor. x. and. xiij. How can Christ give his Disciples power against him self and against his everlasting Testament? Can he send them to preach salvation & give them power to damn whom they lust? What mercy and profit have we in Christs death and in his Gospel, if the Pope which passeth all men in wickedness hath power to send whom he will to hell, and to damn whom he lusteth? we had then no cause, to call him Jesus, 2y• is to say saviour: but might of right call him destroyer. Wherefore then this binding is to be understood as Christ interpreteth it in the places above rehearsed, 3& as the Apostles practised it and is nothing but to rebuke men of their sins by preaching the law. A man must first sin against Gods law ere the Pope can bind him: yea and a man must first sin against Gods law ere he need to fear the Popes curse. For cursing and binding are both one, & nothing saving to rebuke 4a man of his sins by Gods law. It followeth also then that the loosing is of like manner, and is nothing but forgiving of sin to them that repent 5through preaching of the promises which God hath made in Christ in whom only we have all forgiveness of sins, as Christ interpreteth it, and as the Apostles and Prophets practised it. So is it a false power that the Pope taketh on him to louse Gods laws, as to give a man licence to put away his wife to whom God hath bound him, and to bind them to chastity which God commandeth to marry, that is to wite, them that burn and can not live chaste.