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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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and christ is gods. If my faith be stedfast in the promises
that I haue in Christes bloud / I nede but to praye mi
father in Christes name and he shall send me a legion of
angels to helpe me: so that my faith is lorde ouer the angels
and ouer all creatures to turne them vn to my
soules health and my fathers honoure / and maye be subiecte
vn to no creature / but vn to gods worde in oure sauioure
Christe only. I may haue no trust therfore in the saintes.
If ye saye / ye put no trust in them / but only put them in
remembraunce of their dutie / as a man desyreth his neyboure to praye for him / remembring him of his dutie /and as when we desyre our brethern to helpe vs at oure nede. That is
false / for ye put trust in all youre ceremonies and all
youre holy dedes and in
whosoeuer disgyseth him selfe and altereth his
cote from the comune facion / ye and euen in the cotes of
them that be not yet saintes / aftir youre doctrine.
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MATTHEW: 26.53: 116/15–16
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Yf a prest said masse in his gowne / wold ye not
rise agenst him and slee him / and that for the false faith
that ye haue in the other
garmentes. For what honoure can those other
garmentes doo to god moare then his gowne or profit vn to
youre soules / seinge ye vnderstonde nought ther by? And
therto in the collectes of saintes ye saye / saue me God
and geue me euerlastinge life for the merites of
this or that saint / euery man aftir his
phantasie chosynge him some one sainte singularly to be
saued by. With which collectes I praye you shew me how
stondeth the deeth of Christe? Paul wold saye that Christ
died in vayne if that doctrine were true.
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And therto in as moch as ye saye / the saintes
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ACTS: 20.9–12: 117/5–6, 146/2–3
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