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A13862	The testament of master Wylliam Tracie esquier, expounded both by Willism Tindall and Iho[n] Frith. Wherin thou shalt perceyue with what charitie y[e] chaunceler of Worcester burned whan he toke vp the deek carkas and made asshes of hit after hit was buried	Frith, John, 1503-1533.; Tyndale, William, d. 1536.	1535 (1535)	STC 24167; ESTC S114878	16,876	37

lyuynge how shulde he haue geuen them but to hyre theyr prayers of pure mystrust in Christes bloude yf robbinge of wydowes howses vnder preten●e of longe prayers be damnable Matthe xxiij Then is it damnable also for wydows to suffer them selues to be robbed by the longe patterynge of hypocrites thorow mystrust in Christes bloude ye is it not damnable to mayntene soch abhominacion Now whan this damnation is spred ouer al how cā we geue them that haue ynoughe alredye or how can ●●ey th●● 〈◊〉 ynowghe alredye to ●e mo●●e vnder 〈◊〉 name of prayenge and not harden the people moare in this damnable damnacion And concerning the burienge of his bodye he allegeth sainct Austen nether is there any man thynke I so mad to affirme that the outwarde pompe of the bodye shuld healp the soule More ouer what greatter sygne of infidelytie is there then to care at the tyme of deth with what pompe the carkas shalbe caried to the graue He denyeth not but that a Christen man shuld be honorably buryed namely for the honoure and hope of the resurrection and therfore cōmmytted that care to his deare executours his sonne ● his wyfe whiche he wyst woolde in that parte do sufficient and leue nothinge of the vse of the contre ●ndone but the abuse And that bestowenge of a greate parte of his goddes whyle he yet lyued apon the pore to be thanckfull for the mercye receued without byynge and sellynge with God that is without byndinge those p●●e vnto any other appoynted prayers than god hath bownde vs alredy one to praye for a nother one to help a nother as he hath helped vs but pacientlye ●●bydinge for the blessynges that God hath appointed vnto all manner good workes trustinge faithfully to his promes thankinge as ye may se by his woordes the bloude of Christ for the rewarde promysed to his woorkis and not the goodnes of the woorkis as thowhh he had done mo●re then his dutye or all that And assygned by wrytinge vnto whom a nother part shulde be distributed and geuinge the rest to his executours that no stryfe shulde be which executours were by right the heyres of all that was lefte to them Thise thinges I saye are signes euident not onely of a good Christen man but alsoo of a perfect Christen man of suche a one as neded not to be ●gast and desperaet for feare of the paynfull paynes of purgatorye which who so fearith as they fayne hit cannot but vtterlye abhorre deeth seynge that Crist is there no longer thy Lorde after he hath browght the thither but art excluded from his satisfaction ād must satisfye for thy selfe alone and that with sufferinge payne onely or ellys taryenge the satisfienge of them that shall neuer satisfie ynought for them selues or gapinge for the Popes pardons which haue so greate dowtes and dangers what in the mynde ● entent of the graunter ād what in the purchesar yet they can be treuly ob●eyned with all due circumstances and much le● certitude that they haue any authoritie at all Paule thristed to be dissolued and to ●e with Christ Steuen desyred Christ to take his spirite the prophetes also desyred god to take their soules from them and all the saynctes went with a lustye courage to deeth nether fearynge or teachinge vs to feare any suche crudelitie Where hath the churche then gotten authoritie to bynde vs from beynge so perfite frome hauynge any suche faith in the goodnes of God oure Father and Lorde Christ and to make suche per●yt●es and faith of all heresies the greatest ▪ Salomon saith in the .xxx. of his Prouer●es iij. 〈◊〉 insatiable and the fourth s●●th neuer It is ynough But there is a fyft called d●●●e auarice with as greadye a 〈◊〉 as meltynge a mawe as wyde a throte as gapynge a mouth and with as ●●●ening teeth as the best which the moare she eateth the hōgryer she is An vnquiet euyll neuer at rest a blynde monstre and a surmysynge beest fearynge at the fall of euery leafe Quid non mortalia p●ciora cogis auri sacra fames What doth not that holy honger compell them that loue this worlde inordinatly to committe myght that deuyls belye be once full trueth shuld haue audience and woordes he construed a right and taken in the same sence as they be ment Thowgh hit seme not impossible haplye that there myght be a place where the soules myght be kept for a space to be taught and instruct yet that ther shuld be such a Iayle as they Iangle and soch facyons as they fayne is playne impossible and repugnaunt to the scripture for when a man is translated vtterly out of the kyngdome of Sathan and so confyrmed in grace that he can not synne so burnynge in loue that his lust cannot be plucked from goddes will and beynge partaker withe vs of all the promyses of God and vnder the commaundementes what coude be deuyed hym in that depe innocencie of his moost kynde father that hath leaft no mercye vnpromysed a●inge hit therto in the name of his sonne Iesus the childe of his hertys lust which is oure lorde ād hath left no mercye vndeserued for vs ▪ namely whan god hath sworne that he wyll put of rightwisnes and be to vs a father and that of all mercye and hath slayne ●hys most deere sonne Iesus to confyr●● 〈◊〉 othe Fynally seynge that Christes loue takethe all to the best and nothynge i● here that maye not be well vnderstanded the circumstances declaringe in what sence all was ment they ought to haue interpreted hir charitably if ought had bene founde dowtefull or semynge to sounde a mysse Moreouer yf any thinge had bene therin that coude not haue be taken well yet their partye had bene to haue interprete i● as spoken of ydelnes of th● heede by the reason off syckenesse for as muche as the man was vertuous● wise and well lernyd and of good fame and reporte and founde in the faith whyle he was a lyue but yf they saye he was suspect whan he was a lyue then is their doynge so moche the woorsse to be thowght that they feared his doctrine whan he was a a lyue and mystrusted their awne parte theyr consciences testifyenge to them● that he held no nother doctryne then that was true seynge they then neither spake nerwrote against him ner brought him to any examinac●on Besyde that some mery felowes will thinke that they owght first to haue sent to him to wytt whether he wold haue reuoked yer they had so dispytefully burnt the deed bodye that coude not answere for it sealffe nor interprete ●his woordys how he ment them namely the man beynge of so worshipfull and auncient a bloude But here will I make an ende desyringe the ●eader to loke on this thīge w t indifferent eyys and iuge whether I haue expounded y e woordes of this Testamēt as they shuld seame to sygnyfye or not Iuge also whether the maker therof

bare oure synnes in his Bodye and by whose stripes we are made hole By whom we haue redempciō thorowe his bloude euen the forgeuenes of oure synnes Colloss i. and Ephes i. And Rom. iiij He was delyuered for oure synnes and rose agayne for oure iustifyenge And concerninge the resurrection it is an article of our faith and proued there sufficientlye and that hit shalbe by the power of Christ is also the open scripture Ihon. vi This is the wyll of my father wich sent me that I lose nothinge of all that he hath geuen me but that I rayse hit vp againe in the last daye and againe I am the resurrec●ion Ihon. xi That thys liue faith is sufficient to iustification with owte addynge to of any more helpe is this wyse proued the promyser is God of whome Paule faith Roma viij Yf God be on oure syde what matter maketh hit who be ageynst vs he is therto all good all mercyfull all true and all myghtye wherfore sufficient to be beleued by his othe more ouer Christ in whom the promes is made hath receaued all power in heuen and in erth Mat. the last He hath also a perpetuall presthode and therfore able perpetually to saue Heb. vij And that ther is but one mediator Christ is Paule i. ad Timoth. ij And by that woorde vnderstonde an attonemaker a peace maker and brynger in to grace and fauoure hauynge full power so to do And that Christ is so is proued at the full Hit is wryten Ihon iij. The Father loueth the sonne and hath geuen all in to his hande And he that beleueth the sonne hath euerlastinge lyfe and he that beleueth not the sonne shall not see lyfe but the wrath of God bydeth apon hym All thinges ar geuen me of my father Luke x. And all who so euer call on the name of the Lorde shalbe saued Actes ij Of his fulnes haue we all receaued Ihon. j. Ther is no nother man geuen to man in whiche we must be saued Actes iiij And againe vnto his name beare all the prophetes record that by his name shall all that beleue in him receaue remission Actes x. In him dwelleth all the fulnes of god bodely Colloss ij All what soeuer my father hath are myne Ihon. xvj Whatsoeuer ye axe in my name that wil I do for you Ihon. xiiij One Lorde one faith one baptyme one God and father of all which is aboue all thorow all and in yow all Ephes iiij Ther is but one whose seruant I am to do his wyll But one that shall paye me my wages ther is but one to whom I am bounde ergo but one that hath power ouer me to damne or saue me I will adde to this Paules Argument Galat. iij. God sware vnto Abraham cccc yere before the lawe was geuen that we shulde be saued by Christ Ergo the law geuen cccc yeres after can not dysanull that couenaunt So dispute I Christ whan he had soffered hys passion and was rysen againe and entred in to his glorye w●s sufficient for his apostles withoute any other meane or helpe ergo the holynes of no sainct sence hath dimynisshed owght of that his power But that he is as full sufficient now for the promes is as deaply made to vs as them Moreouer the treasure of his mercye was layde vp in Christ for all that shulde beleue yer the worlde was made ergo nothinge that hath happened sence hath chawnged the purpose of the in vnuariable god Moreouer to exclude the blynde imagination falslye called faith of them that geue them sealues to vice with owt resistence affirminge that they haue no power to do otherwyse but that God hath so made them and therfore must saue them they not entendinge or purposynge to mende their lyuynge but synnynge with hole consent and full lust he declareth what faith he meaneth .ij. maner of wayse First by that he saith who so euer beleueth and is baptized shalbe saued By which wordis he declareth euydently that he meanith that faith that is in the promes made apō the apoyntment betwene god and vs that we shulde keape his lawe to the vttermost of our power that is he that beleueth in Christ for the remission of synne and is baptized to do the wyll of Christ and to kepe his lawe of loue and to mortifie the fleshe that man shalbe saued and so is the imaginacion of thise swyne that wylnot leaue wallowynge thez sealues in euery myre and podell cleane excluded for God neuer made promes but apon an appoyntment or couenaūt vnder which who so euer wyll not come can be no partaker of the promes True faith in Christ geueth power to loue the lawe of god for it is written Ihō the first he gaue them power to be the sonnes of god in that thei beleue in his name Now to be y ● sonne of God is to loue rightwisnes and hate vnrightwisnes and so to be lyke thy father Hast thou than no power to loue the lawe so hast thou no faith in Christis bloude And Rom. iij. we set vp or maynteyne the lawe thorowe faith why so ▪ for the preachynge of faith ministreth the spirite Galat. iij. .ij. Corinth iij. and the spirite loweseth the bandes of Sathan and geuethe power to loue the lawe and also to do hit For saith Paule Rom. viij yf the spirite of hī that reased vp Iesus dwell in yow then will he that reased vp Iesus quycken your mortall bodies by the meanes of his spirite dwellinge in yow A well wilt thou saye yf I must professe the lawe and woorke ergo faith alone saueth me not Be not deceaued with sophistrie but withdrawe thyne eares from wordes and cōsyder the thinge in thyne hert Faith iustifieth the that is bryngeth remission of all synnes and seattethe the in the state of grace before all workes and getteth the power to worke yer thou coudest woorke but yf thow wilt not go backe agayne but continewe in grace and come to that saluacion and gloriouse resurrection of Christ thow muste woorke and ioyne woorkis to thy faith in wyll and dede to if thou haue tyme and leasure and as oft as thow fallest set the on thy faith agayne withowt he ●lpe of woorkes And all thowghe when thou art reconcyled and restored to grace woorkes be required yet is not that reconsilynge and grace the benefite of the workes that folow but cleane contrarye that forgeuenes of thy synnes and restoringe to fauour deserue the workes that folow Thowgh when the kyng after that sentence of deeth is geuen apon a murtherar hath pardoned hym at the request of some of his frendes woorkes be required of him that he henceforth kepe the kynges lawes yf he wyll continewe in his graces fauour in which he now standeth yet y ● benefyte of his lyfe procedeth not of the deseruinge of the woorkes that folowe but of the kynges goodnes and fauoure of his frendes ye and that benyfyte and gyft of his