OF THE

ENGLISH REFORMERS:

Uilliam Tyndale,

AND

John Frith.

EDITED BY

THOMAS RUSSELL, A.M.

' 'Ανθρώπους παραδεδωκόσι τας ψυχάς αυτών υπέρ του ονόματος του

κυρίου ημών Ιησού Χριστού.-Act. Apost. Χν. 26.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,

Dorset-street, Fleet-street.

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CONTENTS.

Page

The Testament of William Tracy expounded....

1

The Supper of the Lord. After the true meaning of the vi of

John and the ix of the First Epistle to the Corinthians.

And incidentally in the Supper is confuted the Letter of

Master More against John Frith ...

19

The Story, Life, and Martyrdom of John Frith......... 73

A Disputation of Purgatory, which is divided into three

Books : The Preface.....

83

The Prologue shewing the occasion and cause of this Book.. 93

The First Book, which is an Answer to Rastell's Dialogue 95

The Second Book, which is an Answer unto Sir Thomas More 146

The Third Book, which answereth unto my Lord of Rochester,

and declareth the mind of the old Doctors...

184

Another Book against Rastell, named the Subsidy, or Bulwark,

to his First Book....

205

The Prologue.

208

The Preface....

211

Answer to Rastell's Prologue....

.. 213

First Chapter....

215

Second Chapter.

221

Third Chapter

228

Page

His Judgment upon Tracy's Testament...

243

A Letter unto the faithful Followers of Christ's Gospel writ-

ten while he was prisoner in the Tower of London for the

Word of God

257

A Mirror, or Glass to know thyself..

261

Preface ..

263

The First Chapter. That all goodness cometh of God, and
all evil of ourselves

265

The Second Chapter. For what intent God giveth us these

gifts, and that they are rather a charge and a careful

burthen, than any pleasure to rejoice at...

268

The Third Chapter. The conclusion of this Treatise, that no

flesh should rejoice, but fear and tremble in all the Gifts

that he receiveth

276

A Mirror, or Looking-Glass, wherein you may behold the

Sacrament of Baptism described

281

Antithesis, wherein are compared together Christ's Acts and

the Popes', unnexed unto the Revelation of Antichrist .. 297

An Answer unto Sir T. More's Letter, which he wrote against

the first little Treatise that Frith made concerning the

Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ...

319

Preface.....

321

Answer to Sir T. More's Letter.

324

The Mind and Exposition of the Old Doctors upon the words

of Christ's Maundy..

360

The Paschal Lamb and our Sacrament compared together.... 424

An Epitome and Short Rehearsal of this Book, shewing in what

points Frith dissenteth from the Prelates..

439

The Conclusion....

445

The Articles for which he died.....

450

The Epistle to the Christian Reader, prefired to the Revela-

tion of Antichrist

457

THE TESTAMENT

OF

MASTER WILLIAM TRACY, ESQUIRE,

EX POUNDED BY

WILLIAM TYNDALE;

WHEREIN THOU SHALT PERCEIVE WITH WHAT CHARITY

THE CHANCELLOR OF WORCESTER BURNED, WHEN HE
TOOK UP THE DEAD CARCASS, AND MADE ASHES OF IT
AFTER IT WAS BURIED, 1535.

TO THE READER.

THOU shalt understand, most dear reader, that

after William Tyndale was so Judasly betrayed by an Englishman, a scholar of Louvain, whose name is Phillips, there were certain things of his doing found, which he had intended to have put forth to the furtherance of God's word, among which was this Testament of M. Tracy, expounded by himself, whereunto was annexed the exposition of the same of John Frith's doing and own hand-writing, which I have caused to be put in print, to the intent that all the world should see how earnestly the Canonists and spiritual lawyers (which be the chief rulers under Bishops in