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My lytle children (of whom I trauaile in birth againe, vntil Christ be fashioned in you) I would I wer with you now and could change my voyce, for I stande in a doubt of you.
The seconde tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testament conteynyng the epistles of S. Paul, and other the Apostles : wherunto is added a paraphrase vpon the reuelacion of S. John.
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- The seconde tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testament conteynyng the epistles of S. Paul, and other the Apostles : wherunto is added a paraphrase vpon the reuelacion of S. John.
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- Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.
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- [London] :: Impriented at London in Fletestrete at the signe of the Sunne by Edwarde Whitchurche,
- the xvi. daye of August, 1549 [16 Aug. 1549]
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"The seconde tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testament conteynyng the epistles of S. Paul, and other the Apostles : wherunto is added a paraphrase vpon the reuelacion of S. John." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68942.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.
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Would God ye could with your iyen se the secrete partes of my heart, there should ye clearely perceiue, with how great griefe I write this. O my litle children, once begotte I you to Christ, not without my great trauaile and paine, and now after your swaruyng from Christ labor I to beare you againe, vntyl that Christ in you be throughly fashioned.
I had sowed good seede, wherof it was me••te that perfite christians should haue growen, but by enchauntment (I wote not how) ye are tur∣ned into Iewes, and chaunged into an other kynde. Christ is heauenly and spiritual, and will ye be carnal & yearthly? But this epistle expresseth not sufficiently the vehemencie of my minde. Would God I might be now presently among you, with liuely wordes to sette out that I after a sorte signifie by letters, the vehemencie of whom would partely with my countenaunce, partely with my teares, and partely with my voice be en∣creased. To bring you againe to Christ, I would chaunge my selfe into all sortes, and sometymes speake faire, and sometimes require, and some∣times chide. And accordyng to the varieties of your natures, & necessitie of the matter, would I better apply and temper my wordes. And would assaye euery medicine, vntyll the tyme I had brought all you to health. But now forasmuche as I see some of you fallen to Iewishenes, some o∣ther in ieopardie of fallyng, and some (I trust) cōstant in my doctrine, my minde is in muche care and feare, vncertaine, with what kynde of letters to reamedie this great harme.
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I would I wer with you now •• co•••••• chaunge my voyce.