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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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This wise reason is their shoteancre and
al their hold / their
refuge to flight and chefe stone in their fundacion
/ wheron they
haue bilt all their lies and all their mischeue
that they haue wrought this .viij. hundred yeres. And this
reason do the Iewes laye vn to
oure charge this daye / and this reason doeth chefely
blynd them and
hold them still in obstinacie. Oure spirites first
falsifie the scripture to stablish their lyes. And when the
scripture cometh to light and is
restored vn to the true vnderstondinge and their
iuglinge spied / and
they like to sofre shippwracke / then they cast out
this ancre / they be the church and can not erre / their
auctorite is greater then the
scripture / and the scripture is not true / but
because they saye so
and admitte it. And therfore what soeuer they
affirme / is of as greate auctorite as the scripture.
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refuge to flight and] ed., refuge / to flight and 1531, refuge, to flye vnto 1573
their mischeue] the
mischief 1573
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Notwithstondinge / as I saide / the kingdome of
heuen stondeth not in wordes of mans wisdome / but in power and
spirite. And therfore loke vn to the ensamples of the scripture
and so shalt thou vnderstonde. And of an hundred ensamples
betwene Moses and Christe / where the Israelites fell from god
and were euer restored by one prophete or other / let vs take
one: even Ihon the Baptiste. Ihon went before Christ to prepare
his waye / that is / to brynge men vn to the knowlege of their
sinnes and vn to repentaunce /
thorow true expoundynge of the lawe / which is the
only waye vn to Christe. For excepte a man knowlege his sinnes
and repent of
them / he can haue no parte in Christe / of Ihon
Christ saith Matt. xvij. that he was Elias that shuld come and
restore all thynge. That is / he shuld restore the scripture vn
to the right sens agayne / which
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kingdome] ed., kingdone 1531, kyngdome 1573
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