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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

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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