A68940:1401
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.
As when I desire vengeance / & fear also the inconvenience that is like to follow if fear be greater / I abstainer if the appetite that desireth vengeance be greater / I cannot but prosecute the deed / as we see by experience in many murderers and thieves / which though they be brought in to never so great peril of death / yet after they have escaped / do even / the same again. And common women prosecute their lusts because fear & shame are away / when other which have the same appetites in their hearts / abstain at the leest way outwardly or work secretly being overcome of fear & of shame & so likewise is it of all other appetites.
As when I desyre vengeaunce / & feare also the inconuenience that is lyke to folowe yf feare be greatter / I abstayner yf the appetite that desyreth vengeaūce be gretter / I cānot but prosecute the dede / as we se by experience in many murtherars and theues / which though they be brought in to neuer so great perell of deeth / yet after they haue escaped / do euen / the same agayne. And cōmen wemen prosecute their lustes because feare & shame are awaye / whē other which haue the same appetites in their hertes / abstayne at the leest waye vtwardly or worke secretly beynge ouercome of feare & of shame & so lykewyse is it of all other appetites.
Further more he declareth / how the sprite &1 the flesh fight together in one man / and maketh an ensample of him self / that we might learn to know that work a right / I mean to ⟨p. ccxv⟩kill sin in our selves. He calleth both the sprite and also the flesh a law / because that like as the nature of God's law is to drive / to compel / and to crave even so the flesh driveth / compelleth / craveth and rageth / against the sprite / and will have her lusts satisfied. On the other side driveth the sprite / crieth and fighteth against the flesh / and will have his lust satisfied. And this strife dureth in us / as long as we live: in some more and in some self as the sprite or the flesh is stronger and the very man his own self is both the sprite and the flesh / which fighteth with his own self until sin be utterly slain and he all together spiritual.