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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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And when he saith / the scripture selfe
maketh vs not to beleue the scripture but the church teacheth vs
to know the scripture
: for a man might reade it and not beleue it. And so
I saye / that a man might heare you preach and yet beleue you
not also. And I saye therto / that youre church teacheth not to
know the scripture: but hideth it in the latine from the comen
people. And from them
that vnderstond latine they hide the true sence
with a thousand false
gloses.
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selfe] it selfe 1573
hide] hid 1573
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And I saye morouer that the scripture is the cause why men
beleue the scripture / as well as a preacher is the cause why
men beleue his
preachinge. For as he that first told in Englonde
that the Rodes was taken / was the cause whi some beleued it /
euen so might writynge
sent from those parties be the cause that some men
which red it beleued
it. Master More wyll saye / that letter had his
auctorite of the
man that sent it / and so hath the scripture his
auctorite of the
church. Naye / the scripture hath hir auctorite of
him that sent it /
that is to wete of god / which thynge the miracles
did testifie / and not of the man that brought it. He wyll saye
/ thou knowest the
scripture by their shewenge. I graunt at the
begynnynge I doo.
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men] 1573, me [1531]
his] her 1573
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Then wyll he saye / why shuld ye not beleue them /
in all their other doctrine besydes the scripture and in all
their exposicions of the scripture / as well as ye beleue them
/ when they tell you that soch and soch bokes ar the scripture.
May they not shew you a false boke? yes / and therfore at the
begynnynge I beleue all a like. Euery lye that they tell out of
their awne braynes we
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