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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.
¶ Repentance.
¶ Repentaunce.
Concerning this word repentance or (as they used) penance / the hebrew hath in the old testament generally (Sob) turn or be converted. For which the translation that we take for saint Jeromes hath most part (conuerti) to turn or be converted / & some time yet (agere penitenciā) And the greek in the new testament hath perpetually (Metanoeo) to turn in the heart & mind / & to come to the right knowledge / & to a mans right wit again. For which (Metanoeo) S. Jeromes translation hath: sometime (ago penetenciā) I do repent: sometime (peniteo) I repent: sometime (penitror) I am repentant: sometime (habeo penitenciā) I have repentance: some time (penitet me) it repenteth me. And Erasmus useth much this word (resipisco) I come to my self or to my right mind again. And the very sense and signification both of the hebrew & also of the greek word / is / to be converted & to turn to God with all the heart / to know his will & to live according to his laws / & to be cured of our corrupt nature with the oil of his spirit & wine of obedience to his doctrine. Which conversion or turning if it be unfeigned / these four do accompany it & are included therein: Confession / not in the priests ear / for that is but mans invention / but to God in the heart & before ⟨image 9⟩all the congregation of God / how that we be sinners & sinful / & that our hole nature is corrupt & inclined to sin & all unrighteousness / and therefore evil / wicked & damnable / & his law holy & Just / by which our sinful nature is rebuked: & also to our neighbours / if we have offended any person particularly. Then contrition / sorrowfulness that we be such / damnable sinners / & not only have sinned but are holy inclined to sine still. Thirdly faith (of which our old doctor have made no mention at all in the description of their penance) that God for christ sake doth forgive us & receive us to mercy / & is at one with us & will heal our corrupt nature. And fourthly satisfaction or amends making / not to god with holy works / but to my neighbour whom I have hurt / & the congregation of God whom I have offended (if any open crime be found in me) & submitting of a mans self unto the congregation or church of christ / & to the officers of the same / to have his life corrected & governed hence forth of them / according to the true doctrine of the church of christ. And note this: