T. Matthew [1549], The Byble, that is to say all the holy Scripture: In whych are c&obar;tayned the Olde and New Testamente, truely ∧ purely tr&abar;slated into English, ∧ nowe lately with greate industry ∧ dilig&ebar;ce recognised. [Edited by Edmund Becke.] (Imprinted by... Ihon Daye [etc.] and William Seres [etc.], London) [word count] [B05000].
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The .iij. Chapter.
¶ He prayseth the preachynge of the Gospell aboue
the preachynge of the lawe.
A We begynne to prayse oure selues
agayne. Nede we as some
other, of Epistles, of recomm&ebar;dacion
vnto you? or letters of
recommendacyon from you?
Ye are oure Epistle wrytten in oure hertes,
which is vnderstande and read of, all men, in
that ye are knowen, howe that ye are the Epistle
of Christe, ministred by vs and writen,
not wyth ynke, but wyth the spirite of the lyuyng
God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly
tables of the herte.
&cross2; Suche truste haue we throughe Christe to
Godwarde not that we are suffyciente of our
selues to thynke any thynge as it were of our
selues, but our ablenes cometh of God, which
hath made vs able to minister the new testament,
not of the letter, but of the spirite. For
the05Q1462 letter killeth, but the spirite geueth lyfe.
B Yf the mynystracyon of death throughe þe;
letters fygured in stones was gloryous, note so
that the chyldren of Israell coulde not behold
the face of Moyses for the glory of hys countenaunce
(whiche glory neuerthelesse is done
awaye) why shall not the ministracion of the
spiryte be muche more gloryous? For yf the
ministrynge of condempnacyon be glorious,
muche more doeth the ministracyon of ryghtuousnes
excede in glorye. &cross3; For no doubte
that which was there glorifyed is not once
gloryfyed in respecte of thys excedynge glorye.
Then yf that whih is destroyed was gloryous
muche more shall that whiche remayneth,
be gloryous.
C Seynge then that we haue suche trust, we
vse great boldnes, and do not as Moyses,
whiche put a vayle ouer hys face that þe; children
of Israell shoulde not se, for what purpose
that serued whiche is put awaye. But
theyr myndes were blynded. For vntil thys
daye remayneth the same couerynge vntaken
awaye in the olde testament when they reade
it, whiche in Christe is put awaye. But euen
vnto thys daye when Moyses is reade, the
vayle hangeth before theyr hertes. Neuerthelesse
when they turne to the Lorde, the vayle
shalbe taken awaye.
The Lorde no doubte is a spiryte. And where
the spiryte of the Lorde is, there is libertye. note
But we all beholde the glorye of the Lorde
with hys face open, and chaunged vnto the
same similitude, from glorye to glory, euen of
the spirite of the Lorde.
T. Matthew [1549], The Byble, that is to say all the holy Scripture: In whych are c&obar;tayned the Olde and New Testamente, truely ∧ purely tr&abar;slated into English, ∧ nowe lately with greate industry ∧ dilig&ebar;ce recognised. [Edited by Edmund Becke.] (Imprinted by... Ihon Daye [etc.] and William Seres [etc.], London) [word count] [B05000].
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