Co[m]mon places of Scripture ordrely and after a co[m]pendious forme of teachyng set forth with no litle labour, to the gret profit and help of all such studentes in Gods worde as haue not had longe exercyse in the same, by the ryghte excellent clerke Eras. Sarcerius ; translated in to Englysh by Rychard Tauerner.
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Co[m]mon places of Scripture ordrely and after a co[m]pendious forme of teachyng set forth with no litle labour, to the gret profit and help of all such studentes in Gods worde as haue not had longe exercyse in the same, by the ryghte excellent clerke Eras. Sarcerius ; translated in to Englysh by Rychard Tauerner.
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Sarcerius, Erasmus, 1501-1559.
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Imprinted at London :: By John Byddell dwellyng in Fletestrete at the sygne of the Sonne ouer agaynst the Cundyte,
in the yere of our Lorde God M.CCCCC.xxxviii [1538]
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Theology, Doctrinal.
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"Co[m]mon places of Scripture ordrely and after a co[m]pendious forme of teachyng set forth with no litle labour, to the gret profit and help of all such studentes in Gods worde as haue not had longe exercyse in the same, by the ryghte excellent clerke Eras. Sarcerius ; translated in to Englysh by Rychard Tauerner." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11502.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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descriptionPage lxxxi
¶A brefe treatyse of faith, takē forth of
the fathers & approued doctours,
which cōferme y• aforesayd
doctryne of faythe,
¶The diffinicyon,
FAyth, sayth, s. Augustyn, is to thynke
with an assent suche thinges as per¦teyn
to the chrystē relygiō. Here thou se∣est
that vnto faith not only y• knowlege
of the historye is requyred, but an assēt.
Nowe to the chrystē relygyō▪ {per}teyn che∣fly
the {pro}myses of Chryst, which beleued
make the chrystē relygyō. The same s,
Augustyn also sayth, what is fayth but
to beleue that thou seest not? But the {pro}myses
of Chryst be such thynges as be
not sene but conceiued by fayth. Also in
his boke de fide ad Petrum. Faith, saith
he, is y• begynnyng of mānes saluacyon
without which no man can come to the
nombre of the chyldren of god, without
which also al the loboure of mā is vain
Lo this place opēly testyfyeth of what
fayth Austyn speaketh, of that no dout
which maketh vs the chyldren of god.
& that is, which conceyueth the {pro}myses
of Chryst, & is assured to please god for
Chryst. If Austyn had ment onely of a
knowledge it sholde folow that al such
were forth wt y• chyldrē of god as know
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the hystory of Chryst although they be
led with no inwarde mocyō of mynde.