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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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But of a felynge faith it is written. Ihon
.vj. They shalbe all taught of God. That is / God shall write
it in their hertes with his
holy spirite. And Paul also testifieth Romano. viij.
the spirite beareth recorde vn to oure spirite / that we be the
sonnes off God. And this faith is none opinion / but a sure
felynge / and therfore euer
frutefull. Neyther hangeth it of the honestie of the
preacher but of
the power of God and of the spirite / and therfore
iff all the preachers of the world wold goo a boute to persuade
the contrary / it wold
not preuayle / no moare then though they wold make
me beleue the fire were cold / aftir that I had put my fingre
therin.
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98/20–24
And when . . .
made. Cf. CWM 8/1.345/9–13.
98/20
he that heareth you
heareth me. Cf. Luke 10.16.
98/20–21
he that . . .
hethen. Cf. CWM 6/1.165/2–4. if . . . hethen. Cf.
Matt. 18.17.
98/23
figure. More
describes his syllogism as arranged in the first figure, the third mode
(CWM 8/1.346/19–20, 8/3.1578–80n).
98/24–28
Christes disciples
. . . miracles. Cf. CWM 8/1.346/27–31.
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Of this ye haue an ensample Ihon .iiij. of the Samaritanish wife
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which left hir pitcher and went in to the citie and
said / come and se
a man that hath told me all that euer I did / is not
he Christe and many of the Samaritanes beleued because of the
sayenge of the woman / how that he had told hir all that euer
she did / and went out vn to him and desyred him to come in /
which faith was but an
opinion and no faith that coude haue lasted or haue
brought out frute / but when they had herd Christ / the spirite
wrought and
made them fele. Whervppon they came vn to the woman
and saide:
we beleue not now because of thy sayenge / but
because we haue harde our selues and know that he is christ the
sauioure of the worlde. For christes preachinge was with power
and spirite that maketh a man feale and knowe and worke to / and
not as the scribes and phareses preached and as oures make a man
ready to cast his gorge
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98/30–99/1
In . . .
writer. Cf. CWM 8/1.331/36–38.
98/30–31
christ . . .
teach. Cf. CWM 6/1.178/23–29. holy gost . . .
teach. Cf. John 14.26.
99/1–4
I . . . write.
CWM 8/1.333/17–19.
99/3
goo and teach all
nacions. Among More's brethren who cited Matt. 28.19, and
underscored that Jesus did not mandate writing, was Johann Eck in his
Enchiridion, Ch. 1, "On the Church and Her
Authority" (Fraenkel 26; Battles 12). (JW)
99/4–15
I answere . . . the
soule. Cf. CWM 8/1.334/2–13. Where More appeals to teaching by
means other than writing, both by the Holy Spirit and by the apostles,
Tyndale responds that the more fundamental commandment of love prompted
the apostles to leave a clear and definite expression of the faith that
would stand against heresies unto the end of time. (JW)
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