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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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More. Christ rebuked not the Phareses for
garnishinge the sepulchres of the prophetes but for that
they folowed the condicions of them that slew them.
Tindale. Yes & for their false trust in soch werkes as
we doo you. And ye Sir thynke that ye deserue heuen in
worshepynge the saintes bones / and be as redy to sle them that beleue
/ teach and liue as the saintes did / as youre fathers
were to sle them: besydes that ye worshepe saintes that
folowed Christ aftir the
ensample of youre holy cardenall / of whom I doute not but
that ye wil make a god in processe of tyme also.
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Then repeteth he for forgettynge / how Eliseus bones reysed
vpp
a deed body. That was to confirme his
preachinge only. For the Israelites / as weked as they were
/ nether prayed to him / nether kissed his bones / ner
offered ner steked vpp candels before him. Which thynge if
they had done in the kingdome of the Iewes / I doute not but
that some good kynge wold haue burnt his bones to asshes /
as wel as the brasen serpent / that was as greate a relique as
deed bones. And Christ shewed miracles at the
findynge of the crosse. That was to stablish the faith of
Christes deeth & that it shuld be a memory of his deeth
/ and not that we shuld trust in the wod
as we doo. For whych false abuse / the hole
lande where Christ did
his miracles / is destroyed.
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a deed body] ed., a deed 1531,
a dead body 1573
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Then he allegeth the woman that was healed /
thorow twitchinge
of Christes cote / because we shuld worshepe it.
When Christ said hir faith hath made hir hole / not in the
cote / but in Christe.
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