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Obedience of a Christian Man
If you put any trust in your own deeds, or in the deeds of any other man, even of a saint, then you diminish the truth, mercy, and goodness of God. For if God looks to your works, or to the works of any other man, or to the goodness of the saint, then he does not do all things of pure mercy and of his goodness, and for the truth’s sake which he has sworn in Christ. Now Paul says, it is “not for the righteous deeds we did, but by his mercy he saved us.”
William Tyndale • 16th Century • Baptism, Church Customs, Communion, Confessions, Confirmation, Episcopal polity, Governance, Hierarchy, Idolatry, Sacraments
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Apology of the Church of England, Part 2
We believe, that this our self-same flesh wherein we live, although it die, and come to dust, yet at the last day it shall return again to life, by the means of Christ’s Spirit which dwelleth in us: and that then verily, whatsoever we suffer here in the meanwhile for His sake, Christ will wipe away all tears and lamentation from our eyes: and that we through Him shall enjoy everlasting life, and shall for ever be with Him in glory.
John Jewel • 16th Century • From Apology of the Church of England • Church of England, Confessions, The Reformation