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.

¶ Repentaunce.

COncernynge this worde repētaunce or (as they vsed) penaūce / y^e hebrue hath in y^e olde testamēt generally (Sob) tur∣ne or be cōuerted. For which y^e trāslacion that we take for saynt Ieromes hath most parte (cōuerti) to turne or be cōuerted / & some tyme yet (agere penitenciā) And y^e greke in the new testamēt hath perpetually (Metanoeo) to tur¦ne in the heart & mynde / & to come to y^e ryght knowledge / & to a mannes ryght wyt agayne. For which (Metanoeo) S. Ieromes trāslaciō hath: sometyme (ago penetēciā) I do repēt: so¦metyme (peniteo) I repēt: somtyme (penitror) I am repētaunt: somtyme (habeo penitenciā) I have repētaunce: some tyme (penitet me) it repēteth me. And Erasmus vseth moche this worde (resipisco) I come to my selfe or to my ryght mynde agayne. And the verye sens and significaciō both of the hebrue & also of y^e gre¦ke worde / is / to be cōuerted & to tourne to God with all the hert / to knowe his will & to lyue accordynge to his lawes / & to be cured of oure corrupt nature w^t the oyle of his spirite & wy¦ne of obedyēce to his doctryne. Which cōuer∣sion or turnynge if it be vnfayned / these foure do accompanye it & are included therin: Con∣fession / not in the prestes eare / for that is but mānes invēcion / but to God in y^e hert & before

all the cōgregacion of God / how y^t we be syn∣ners & synfull / & y^t oure hole nature is corrupt & inclyned to synne & all vnryghteousnes / and therfore euell / wycked & damnable / & his lawe holy & Iust / by which oure synfull nature is rebuked: & also to oure neyboures / if we have offended anye person perticularlye. Then con¦tricion / sorowfullnes that we be soche / damnable synners / & not onlye have synned but are holye inclyned to syne still. Thirdlye fayth (of which oure olde doctoure have ma¦de no mēcion at all in y^e descripciō of their pe∣naūce) y^t God for christe sake doth forgeue vs & receave vs to mercie / & is at one w^t vs & will heale oure corrupte nature. And fourthlye sa∣tisfaciō or amend{is} makynge / not to god w^t ho¦lye workes / but to my neyboure whome I ha∣ue hurt / & the congregaciō of God whome I have offended (yf anye open cryme be foūde in me) & submyttynge of a mās selfe vnto y^e con¦gregacion or church of christ / & to y^e offycers of the same / to have his lyfe corrected & gover∣ned hence forth of thē / accordynge to the true doctryne of y^e church of christ. And note this: that as satisfaction or amendes makynge is co¦unted ryghteousnes before y^e worlde & a pur∣gynge of the synne: so y^t the worlde when I ha¦ue made a full amend{is} / hath no further to cō∣playne. Even so fayth in christes bloude is co¦unted ryghteousnes and a purgynge of all sin¦ne before God.

Morouer / he y^t synneth agaynst his brother synneth also agaynst his father allmyghtie

God. And as y^e synne cōmytted agaynst his brother / is pourged before y^e world w^t makyn∣ge amend{is} or axynge forgeuenes / euen so is y^e synne commytted agaynst God / pourged tho∣row fayth in christes bloude onlye. For christ sayth. Io. viii. except ye beleue that I am he / ye shall dye in youre synnes. That is to saye / if ye thīke y^t there is anye other sacrifice or satis¦facciō to godwarde / then me / ye remayne euer in synne before God / how soeuer ryghteous ye apere before y^e world. Wherfore now / whether ye call this Metonoia / repentaunce / cōuersyon or turnynge agayne to God / ether amendynge &ce. or whether ye saye repēt / be cōuerted / tour¦ne to god / amende youre lyuynge or what ye lust / I am content so ye vnderstonde what is meant therby / as I have now declared.