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.

Frith.

Why looke you so sowerly good brethren? why do you not rather giue hym great thankes? syth he hathe ope∣ned

vnto you suche a proper distincti∣on, by the whiche you may escape the scholasticall snares and mases, he on∣ly deserueth the name of a mid dea∣ler, which being God, became man to make men Gods. And who cā by right be called a mid dealer betwéene God and man, but he that is both God and man, therefore sithe we haue suche a mid dealer, which in all poyntes hath proued our infirmitie (sauing only in sinne) which is exalted aboue the hea∣uens, and sitteth on the right hande of God, and hath in all thyngs obtayned the nexte power vnto him, of whose Emperie all things depende, lette vs come wyth sure confidence vnto the throne of grace. Heb. 4. All other be calleth peticioners whyche receyue grace, but are not able to empresse & power therof into any other man, for that dothe only God distribute wyth hys finger (that is to say, the spirite of God) thorowe Christe, I maruell that you are angrye with him that hathe done you such a great pleasure, howe be it I doe ascribe this condemnation rather vnto the canonistes than vnto deuines. For the godly deuines wold neuer dote so farre, as to condemne so proper sayings, but peraduenture this myght moue theyr pacience, that he will distribute no portion of hys goodes, for that entent that anye man should say or doe for the weale of hys soule, are you so sore afraide of youre market? Be not afraid, ye haue salues inoughe to souple that sore, ye knowe that he is not bounde vnder payne of dampnation to distribute his goodes on that fashion, for then those holy fa∣thers were in shreud cause, which cō∣tinuing in long penurie, scant lefte at theyr departing, a halfe pennie. Thou wilt peraduenture say, that they shall suffer the gréenous paines of purga∣torie, be it so, yet may they be quēched both with lesse cost & labor, the popes pardon is ready at hand, where bothe the crime and the paine are remytted at once, and verily there is such plen∣tie of them in all places, that I canne scantly beléeue that there liueth anye man that is worth an halfe peny, but that he is sure of some pardones in store, And as for thys man he had in∣numerable. Notwithstanding this di∣stribution is not of necessitie (for vn∣to him that is dampned, it profiteth nothing, and he that is not dampned, is sure of saluation) why are ye so hot against thys man? are not hys goodes in his owne power? he shall giue a reckoning of them vnto God, and not vnto you, héere you maye sée of howe light iudgement you haue condemp∣ned these things, nowe let vs ponder the residue.