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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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And finally though we were sure that god
him selfe had
geuen vs a sacrament / what soeuer it were / yet if the
significacion were once lost we must of necessite / ether seke
vpp the significacion
or put some other significacion of gods word therto
/ what we
ought to doo or beleue therby / or else put it
downe. For.it is impossible to obserue a sacrament with out
significacion / but vnto oure damnacion. If we kepe the faith
purely and the law of loue vndefiled / whych are the
significacions of all ceremonies there is no ieoperdy to alter
or chaunge the facion of the ceremonye or to put it doune / if
nede requyre.
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28/1–4
yet . . . downe.
Cf. CWM 8/1.83/7–10.
28/4–6
For . . .
damnacion. Cf. CWM 8/1.309/17.
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¶Whether the church can erre
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28/10
¶ Whether the church
can erre. Here Tyndale answers the church's claim of inerrancy
on essential matters of belief as set forth in Dialogue, Bk. 1, Ch. 18–21 (CWM 6/1.101–21).
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There is a nother question whether the church maye erre. Which
if ye vnderstonde of the pope and his generacion / it is
verely as hard
a question as to axe / whether he which hath both his
eyes out be blynd or no / or whether it be possible for him
that hath one legge
shorter then a nother / to halt. But I said that
Christes electe church
is the hole multitude of all repentynge synners that
beleue in Christ and put all their trust and confidence in the
mercye of god / felynge in their hertes / that god for Christes
sake loueth them and wilbe or rather is mercifull vn to them
and forgeueth them their synnes of which they repent / and that
he forgeueth them also all the mocions vn to synne of which
they feare lest they shuld therby be drawen in
to synne agayne. And this faith they haue with out
all respecte of their awne deseruynges / yee and for no nother
cause then that the mercifull trueth of god the father which
can not lye / hath so promised and so sworne.
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28/10–15
¶ Whether . . .
halt. Cf. CWM 8/1.387/3–9. This is the first reference from Confutation, Part II, 1533. With regrettable
fulness , More devotes three out of nine books of Confutation to attacking a third of
Answer's introductory essay.
28/15–25
I said . . .
sworne. Cf. CWM 8/1.391/9–18. Here Tyndale uses the narrow
definition of "church," in which the specific mark of its members is
living trust in God's merciful promises. Cf. 12/26–29, 112/26–30,
142/30–143/2. (JW)
28/22–25
this faith . . .
sworne. Paraphrased at CWM 8/1.400/ 30–32.
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