A68940:1373
The New Testament diligently corrected and compared with the GreekThe Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke
The New Testament diligently corrected and compared with the Greek by William Tyndale, and finished in the year of our Lord God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the month of November.The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.
Antwerp: printed by Marten Emperowr, 1534Anwerp: printed by Marten Emperowr, 1534
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Wherefore then before all good works as ⟨p. ccvii⟩good fruits / there must needs be faith in the heart whence they spring. And before all bad deeds as bad fruits / there must needs be unbelief in the heart as in the rote / fountain / pith & strength of all sin. Which unbelief & ignorance is called the heed of the serpent & of the old dragon / which the woman's seed Christ / must tread under foot / as it was promised unto Adam.
Wherfore then before all good workes as ⟨p. ccvii⟩good frutes / there must nedes be fayth in the herte whence they spring. And before all bad dedes as bad frutes / there must nedes be vnbelefe in the hert as in the rote / foūtayne / pith & strēght of all synne. Which vnbelefe & ignoraūce is called the heed of the serpēt & of the olde dragon / which the womans seed Christ / must treade vnder fote / as it was promysed vnto Adam.
Grace & gift have this difference. Grace properly1 is God's favour / benevolence or kind mind / which of his own self / with out deserving of us / he beareth to us / whereby he was moved & inclined to give Christ unto us / with all his other gifts of grace. Gift is the holy ghost & his working whom he poureth in to the hearts of them / on whom he hath mercy / and whom he favoureth. Though the gifts of the sprite increase in us daily / & have not yet their full perfection: yea & though there remain in us yet evil lusts & sin which fight against the sprite / as he saith here in the .vij. Chapter / & in the v. to the Galatians / & as it was spoken before in the third Chapter of Genesis of the debate between the woman's seed & the seed of the serpent: yet nevertheless God's favour is so great / & so strong over us for christs sake / that we are counted for full hole & perfect before God. For God's favour toward us / divideth not her self / increasing a little & a little / as do the gifts / but receiveth us hole & all together in full love for Christs sake our intercessor & mediator / & because that the gifts of the sprite & the battle between the sprite and evil lusts / are begun in us all ready.