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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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answere / true miracles that confunded the false / gaue
auctorite vn to the true scripture. And therby haue
we euer sens iudged al other bokes and doctrine.
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184/16–17
people . . .
imageseruinge. Exod. 32.1–24.
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And by that we know that youre legendes be corrupte with
lyes.
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As Erasmus hath improued many false bokes whych ye haue fayned
& put forth in the name of S. Hierom /
Augustine / Ciprian / Deonise
and of other / partly with auctentick stories and
partely by the stile and latine and like euident tokens.
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184/20–21
putteth . . .
soule. Cf. 1 Cor. 8.9–11.
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And when Master More sayth vn to them that beleue nought but the scripture / he wyll proue with the scripture / that we be
bound to beleue the church in thynges where fore they haue no
scripture.
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Because god hath promised in the scripture / that the holy gost
shall teach his church all trouth. Naye / that texte will not
proue it. For the first church taught nought but they confirmed
it with miracles which coude not be done but of god / tyll the
scripture was autentickly receaued. And the church folowynge
teacheth nought that they will haue beleued as an article of
the faith / but that whych the scripture proueth and
maynteneth. As S. Augustine protesteth of his workes that men
shuld compare them vn to the scripture and therby iudge them
and cast awaye whatsoeuer the scripture dyd not alowe.
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And therfore they that wilbe beleued with out scripture are false
ypocrites and not Christes church. For though I know
that that mesinger whych Christe sendeth / can not lye / yet in
a companye where many lyars be / I can not know whych is he /
with out a token of scripture or of miracle.
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185/2–3
empire . . .
fraunce. In the 8c when a weakened Byzantium could
not send military aid, popes appealed to Frankish rulers for assistance
against Lombard kings. In Tyndale's opinion, this era marks the
definitive fall of the church "eight hundred years ago."
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