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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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ne rules and principles of them by which we were moued and had an
occasion to seke further / but out of the old auctours. Even so
we seke vpp old antiquities out of which we lerne and not of
oure church / though we receaved many principles of oure church
/ at the beginninge / but moare falshed
amonge then trueth.
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It hath pleased God of his exceadynge loue where with he loued
vs in christ (as Paul saith) before the world was made and
when wee were deed in synne and his enemies in that we did
consent to synne and to liue evell / to write with his spirite
.ij. conclusions in oure hertes / by which we vnderstond all
thynge: that is to wete / the
faith of Christ and the loue of oure neyboures. For
whosoeuer feleth the iust damnacion of synne and the
forgeuenesse and mercie that is in christes bloud for all that
repent and forsake it and come and beleue in that mercie / the
same only knoweth how God is to behonoured and worsheped and
can iudge betwene true seruinge of God in the spirite and false
imageseruinge of God with workes. And the
same knoweth that sacramentes / signes ceremonies
and bodyly thynges can be no seruice to God in his person but
memorials vnto
men and a remembraunce of the testament wherewith god
is serued in the spirite. And he that feleth not that / is
blynd in his soule and of oure holy fathers generacion &
maketh god an image and a creature
and worshepith him with bodyly seruice. And on the
other syde he that loueth his neyboure as him selfe
vnderstondeth all lawes
and can iudge betwene good and evell right and
wronge / godly and vngodly in all conuersacion / dedes / lawes
/ bargens /
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103/18–19
paynt a blocke
& call it Iob. A popular cult of Saint Job flourished in
late medieval Europe, with Job serving as patron and helper of
syphilitics. Cf. Lawrence L. Bessermann, The Legend of
Job in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1979) 2, 64,
131. (JW)
103/26–28
And as for . . .
wayte. Cf. Mark 7.10–13.
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