The Fathers Of The English Church Or A Selection From The Writings Of The Reformers And Early Protestant Divines Of The Church Of England Volume 2 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Fathers of the English Church, or a Selection From the Writings of the Reformers and Early Protestant Divines, of the Church of England, Vol. 2: Containing Various Tracts and Extracts From the Works of Lancelot Ridley and Hugh Latimer; Also the Catechism of King Edward Vi The second cause, that moved me to this, was to discharge my conscience, knowing the gifts of God given to be divers, given to every man not to be idle, but to exercise himself in his talents given, to the glory of God, and to the profit of others. In this my talent given of God, although I know it is the least of all, it is my duty not to be idle, but to exercise my talent in all manner of ways, to promote and set forth God's word, to edify others: to do this thing, I thought no way more to God's glory, and to the edifying of others, than to set forth an exposition of some part of holy Scripture, to bring men unlearned to the love and desire of holy Scripture, which is the true word of the Spirit of God, to the which thing the unlearned shall be brought, when they shall see and clearly perceive, so much wholesome doctrine, so many godly virtues, shewed in one little Epistle of St. Paul, what godly lessons and Spiritual teachings should they have in the whole Bible, if it were in like manner declared unto them since there is so much heavenly teaching in one little Epistle of St. Paul. The third cause was to exhort others that be much better Iearned than I, that can do much better to set forth some part of the holy Scripture in English or in Latin, to shew the goodness of God to us Englishmen, to shew that God is the God of England as well as of France, Italy, Germany, or other coun tries and that he hath shewed his truth as well in England, as in those countries. For God is not the accepter of persons, or of countries. In England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.