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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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as sone as they be rebuked / they repent: even so here / assone
as they were better taught / they shuld immediatly knowlege
their erroure and not resiste.
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But they which maliciously maynetene opinions agenst the
scripture / or that that can not be proued by the scripture /
or soch as
make no mater vn to the scripture and saluacion that
is in christ whether they be true or noo / and for the blinde
zele of them make sectes / breakinge the vnite of christes
church / for whose sake they ought to suffre all thynge / and
rise agenst their neyboures / whom
they ought to loue as them selues / to slee them /
soch men I saye
are fallen from christe and make an Idole of their
opinions. For except they put trust in soch opinions and thought
them necessarie vn to saluacion / or with a cankred conscience
went about to disceaue / for some filthie purpose / they wold
never breake the vnite of faith
or yet slee their brethern. Now is this a playne
conclusion / that both
they that trust in their awne workes / and they also
that put confidence in their awne opinions / be fallen from
Christe and erre from the waye of faith that is in christes
bloude / and therfore are none of christes church / because they
be not bilt vppon the rocke of faith.
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80/30–31
yet . . .
only. Cf. 2 Cor. 12.14.
81/1
The deuel . . .
god. Cf. Lev. 20.2–5.
81/5
wenisdaye . . . S.
katerine. Some fasted on Wednesdays in honor of
John the Baptist, Catherine of Alexandria, Christopher, or Margaret of Antioch for the grace to receive the last
sacraments before they died. See Here begynneth a
lytel treatyse that sheweth how every mon & woman ought to fast
and absteyne them from flesshe on the Wednesday (1500), STC
24224 (Duffy 319–20 and n48).
81/6
fast sayntes
euens. Medieval Christians were required to fast on the day
before the following feasts: Christmas, Pentecost, Birth of John the
Baptist, Laurence, Assumption, All Saints; also on the vigils of the
Apostles except Philip and James in the Easter season and John the Evangelist during Christmas week (Duffy 41).
Tyndale mocks this heavy discipline by extending it to the
vigils of lesser saints: Anthony the Hermit, Patrick, and Brendan (
Matthew
15).
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¶Faith is ever assayled and fought with all.
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