and not all faythes one faith / as master More iugleth. We
read in the
workes of S. Cipriane / that there were marters
that sofred marterdom for the name of christ al the yere
longe / and were tormented
and healed agayne and then brought forth
afreshe. Which marters
beleued / as ye doo / that the payne of their
marterdome shuld be a deseruinge and merite ynough / not
only to deserue heuen for them selues / but to make
satisfaccion for the synnes of other men therto / and gaue
pardons of their merites after the ensample of the popis
doctrine and forgaue the synnes of other men which had openly denyed christe / and wrote vn to Cipriane / that he shuld receaue
those men that had denied christe in to the congregacion
agayne / at the satisfaccion of their merites. For which
pride Cipriane wrote to them & called them the deuels
marters and not Gods. Those marters
had a faith without faith. For had they beleued
that all mercy is geuen for christes bloudeshedynge / they
whold haue sent other men thither / and wold haue sofered
their awne marterdom for loue of their neyboures only / to
sarue them and to testifie the trueth of god in oure
sauioure Iesu / vnto the worlde / to saue at the least waye
some / that is to wete / the electe / for whose sake Paule sofereth al
thinge and not to winne heuen. Yf I worke for a worldely
purpose / I get no rewarde in heuen: euen so if I worke for
heuen or an hier place in heuen I gett there no rewarde. But
I must doo my worke for the loue of my neyboure / because
he is my brother and the price of Christes bloude and
because christe hath deserued it and dysyreth it of me /
and then my rewarde is greate in heuen.
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EPHESIANS: 1.7: 21/26–27, 113/33–34, 172/31–32, 201/1–2
1 CORINTHIANS: 9.22: 201/5–6
1 CORINTHIANS: 9.19: 201/6–7
2 CORINTHIANS: 1.6–7: 201/6–7
1 CORINTHIANS: 9.24–25: 201/7
1 CORINTHIANS: 8.11:125/26, 201/10–11
Matt. 5.12, Luke 6.23:
201/12
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