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Memoirs of the life and martyrdom of John Bradford
Memoirs of the life and martyrdom of John Bradford Author:John Bradford Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: pardon. 'I'liu, make ] an end, imputing t, the hastiness of this in i nyvi all blame which yuu may lay uDto me. From the temple, this Sunday, immediately afte... more »r Mr. Lalimer's famous sermon, which this bringer, as he saith did hear. By your poorest friend, JOHN BRADFORD. It shall not be long, God willing,, but yon shall both have and hear from me. Keep with you Melancthon's Common Places, for I have another. No. 2. To SIR THOMAS HALL and FATHER TRAVERS OF BLACKLY. The grace of God, our most merciful Father, keep your mind and Mini in Christ Jesus, who alone is our full sufficient Saviour, for in him we be complete; being made, through his death, and one only oblation made and offered by himself upon the cross, the children of God, and fellow heirs with him of the celestial kingdom which is the free gift of God; and cometh not of merits, but of the mere grace of God, given to none that pnttcth any manner of hope or trust in any other thing visible or invisible, than in that oblation of sweet savour which Christ himself did offer upon Good Friday, (as we call it); which oblation is always recent and new in the sight of God the Father, and maketh intercession for us; us I mean, who think the loving sacrifice then offered to be sufficient, as it is, hath been, and ever shall be, for all the faithful; by the which sacrifice, if we believe, we have free pardon of all our sins. To him, therefore, who was both the offerer and offering, be all honour and praise, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, blessed for ever. Amen. Fox, iii. 3.56. Sir Thomas, the occasion of this my long silence, my old friend John Travers shall declare unto you, upon the knowledge whereof I doubt not of your pardon. I have sent unto you an English and Latin Testament, both in one print and ...« less