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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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bloud of Christ they wrote / and it is expressed what is
signified by them. And also all the ceremonies and sacramentes
that were from Adam to Christ had significacions /
and all that are made mencion of in the new testament. Wherfore
in as moch as the sacramentes of the olde testament haue
significacions / and in as moch as the sacramentes of the new
testament (of which mencion is made that they were deliuered vn
to vs by the verye appostles at Christes commaundement) haue
also significacions / and in as moch as the office of an
appostle is to edifie in Christe / and in as moch as a dumme
ceremonie edifieth not / but hurteth all to gether (for iff it
preach not vn to me / then I can not but put confidence therin / that the dede it selfe iustifieth me / which is the denyenge of
Christes bloude) & in as moch as no mencion is made of them
/ as well as of other / ner is knowen what is ment by them:
therfore it appereth
that the appostles taught them not / but that they
be the false marchaundice of wilye ypocrites. And therto
presthode was in the tyme of the appostles an office which if
they wold do truely / it wold
moare profitt then all the sacramentes in the
worlde. And agayne gods holinesses striue not one agenst a
nother ner defile one a nother. Their sacramentes defile one a
nother. For wedlocke defileth
presthode moare then horedom / thefte / murther or
any sinne agenst nature.
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27/7–8
sacramentes . . .
significacions. For Tyndale's theology of sacrament as sign
only, cf. Obedience M1— M2v, and More's critique
: Supplication of Souls, 1529 (CWM
7.162/1–4), Confutation, 1532.—33 (CWM
8/1.302/15–17), Answer to a Poisoned Book,
December 1533 (CWM 11.xxx—xxxi). Unio
Dissidentium (1.S2)
quotes Augustine's praise of Baptism and the
Eucharist as intelligible signs in Christian Doctrine (AD c396–97) 3.9.13 (CCL 32.86; 1NPNF
2.560).
27/7–9
all . . .
testament. Repeated at CWM 8/1.302/24–26.
27/20–21
false
marchaundice. 2 Pet. 2.3.
27/9–21
Wherfore . . .
ypocrites. Repeated at CWM 8/1.304/2— 13.
27/21–23
And therto . . .
worlde. CWM 8/1.305/20–22. Tyndale agrees with Luther's
position that Orders is not a sacrament in Contra
Henricum Regem Angliae, 1522 (cf. CWM 8/1.220/10–12; WA
10/2.220–21; not in LW).
27/23–27
And agayne . . .
nature. CWM 8/1.306/6–9.
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They wyll happly demaunde where it is written that wemen shuld
baptise. Verely in this commaundement loue thy
neyboure as thyselfe it is written / that they maye and ought
to ministre not only baptim / but all other in time of neade /
iff they be so necessarie as they preach them.
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27/28–32
They . . .
them. Cf. CWM 8/1.260/2–6.
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