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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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In the .viij. he saith / the saintes
be moare charitable now then when they liued. I answere /
Abraham was while he liued as charitable as the best. And
yet deed / he answered him / that prayed
him / they haue Moses and the prophetes / lett
them heare them. And so haue we / not Moses and the
prophetes only / but a moare clere light / euen Christ and
the appostles / vn to whych if we herken we be saintes all
ready.
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And to proue that they in heuen be better then we in erth /
he allegeth a texte of oure sauioure Luke .vij. that the
worst in heuen is
better then Ihon Baptist. Now the texte is / he
that is lesse in the kingdome of god is gretter then he. We
that beleue are gods kingedome. And he that is lest (in
doenge seruice vn to his brythern)
is euer the grettest aftir the doctrine of
Christe. Now Christ was
lesse then Ihon for he did more seruice then
Iohan / and therfore greater then he. And by their awne
doctrine there was no sainte in heuen before the
resurreccion of Christe / but what care they what they saye
/ blinded with their awne sophistrie.
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164/29. ensample of the
hethen. Cf. CWM 6/1.312/1–7.
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Morouer cursed is he that trusteth in ought saue god saith
the
texte and therfore the saintes wold haue no man
to trust in them whyle they were a liue. As Paul saith .1.
Corin. iij. what is Paul saue
youre saruante to preach Christe. Did Paul die
for you? were ye baptised in the name of Paul? Did I not
marie you to Christ / to put youre trust in him? And againe
let noman reioyce or trust in man / saith he. For all are
youres whether Paul / or Appollo or Cephas: whether the
world / life / deeth / present thynges or thynges to come:
all are youres & ye are Christes /
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165/8–9
saint Micael weyenge the soules. Late
medieval English churches were frequently decorated with paintings of
the Archangel Michael holding the scale of
justice with devils in one pan and souls in the other. The latter are
helped by Mary, who adds her rosary beads for good measure. Tyndale
would probably
object to this image for depicting
justification by works and the intercession of the saints. Cf. Duffy 319 and Plate 122 and Brigden 21n73. In
Duffy Plate 121, a devil pulls on one pan while Mary weighs down the
other.
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