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The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
This word church has diverse significations.
An answer unto sir Thomas More's dialogue (1531)
In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
He threatened me grievously, and reviled me.
Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.
Selected Writings (2003)
Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted.
Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be merciful unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
I defie the Pope and all his lawes. If God spare my life, ere many yeares I wyl cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture, than he doust.
It is impossible to preach Christ, except you preach against antichrist; that is to say, them which with their false doctrine and violence of sword enforce to quench the true doctrine of Christ.
In him we live, move and have our being.
He will not work until all be past remedy, and brought unto such a case, that men may see, how that his hand, his power, his mercy, his goodness and truth, hath wrought altogether.
The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God...
I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me.
Whether it be so or no, I report me to experience.
The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
Understand therefore, that one thing in the scripture representeth divers things. A serpent figureth Christ in one place, and the devil in another; and a lion doth likewise.
The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in any thing, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.
The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)
Lord, open the King of England’s eyes!
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and yet had no love I were even as the sounding brass or as a tinkling cymbal.
By grace I understand the favor of God, and also the gifts and working of his Spirit in us; as love, kindness, patience, obedience, mercifulness, despising of worldly things, peace, concord, and such like.
The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)