111/30–31
if . . .
therby. Cf. CWM 6/1.200/29–34.
112/1–2
as . . . god.
Cf. 1 John 4.10.
112/4–5
christ . . . vnto
them. Cf. Matt. 28.19, Mark 16.15, Luke 24.47.
112/5–7
storyes . . .
declare. For God's mercy to Adam and Eve after the
Fall, cf. Gen. 3.9–24. For the liberation of a remnant from the
Babylonian captivity, cf. Ezek. 34.11. For the extension of Yahweh 's favor to the Gentiles, cf. the three foreign women in the
genealogy of Jesus: the Canaanite Rahab, cf. Josh. 2.1–21;
the Moabite Ruth, cf. Ruth 1.4; the Hittite Bathsheba, cf. 2 Sam. 11.3.
God's quest for the lost soul is depicted in the parables of the lost
sheep and the lost coin, cf. Luke 15.4–6, 8–9.
112/8–9
he neuer . . .
life. Cf. CWM 6/1.201/21–22.
112/12
sir Thomas
hitton. To counter Dialogue's claim that
reformers would not die for their beliefs (cf. CWM
6/1.201/20–22), Tyndale asserts Hitton's perseverance unto death (Prelates K6). Confutation
calls Hitton "the dyuyls stynkyng martyr" (CWM 8/1.17/1), and Apology opposes Hitton's execution near
Canterbury to Becket's martyrdom in Canterbury (CWM 9.355).
Foxe briefly summarizes Hitton's imprisonment and death at Maidstone in 1530 (4.619) and his interrogations by Warham and Fisher
(8.712–15). Cf. nn to 114/17–18, 148/6–7, 215/17–19.
112/13
caunterbury.
William Warham (c1456–1532) was Lord Chancellor (1504–15)
until he was replaced by Wolsey, and Archbishop of Canterbury (1503–32)
until his death. On 15 May 1532, the higher clergy of the Archdiocese of
Canterbury accepted the king's authority to license the legislative acts
of the English Church, and the next day, Warham as Primate presented the
document of submission to Henry. Later the same day, More
resigned from the Chancellorship (NCE 14.811; OER 4.257–58). In the Obedience, Tyndale accuses Warham of wanting to
keep the NT as the secret of priests and a mystery to layfolk (K2v).
Here, Tyndale condemns Warham and Fisher for their part in burning
Thomas Hitton alive for importing a Tyndale NT in 1529. (JB)
112/14
in braband. A
reference to the vigorous imperial prosecution of Lutherans in. the
Spanish Netherlands. The first victims were two Antwerp Augustinian
friars, Heinrich Voes and Johann van Esch, who were burned in the Great
Square of Brussels on 1 July 1523. Luther was deeply moved by news of
their deaths and composed both an open letter of
encouragement to the surviving reformers in the Low
Countries, Ein Brief an die Christen im Niederland
(WA 12.77–80; not in LW), and a ballad (WA 35.411–15; not in LW).
(JW)
Erasmus comments on this event in Ep. 1384, To Huldrych Zwingli, Basel,
31 August [1523] (Allen 5.327/4–6; CWE
10.81/5–7). He refers to the execution of these two friars and of Louis
de Berquin in April 1529 in Ep. 2188, To Charles Utenhove, Freiburg, 1
July 1529 (Allen 8.210/11–211/31; not yet in CWE).
112/14
at colen. The
Cologne faculty of theology had condemned numerous propositions found in
Luther's works even before the papal bull Exsurge
Domine. In 1529 a quickly conducted heresy trial resulted in
the burning of the Lutherans Adolph Clarenbach and Peter Fliesteden.
(JW)
112/14–15
in all . . .
douchlonde. Ten Germans were executed between the
Brussels and Cologne burnings. Heinrich von Zütphen , the
first Lutheran preacher in Bremen, was executed at Heide in December
1524, and Wolfgang Schuch and six others died in Alsace in 1526 and
1527. The Bavarian authorities executed Georg Wagner at
Munich and Leonhard Kaiser at Schärding in 1527. Cf. "Märtyrer," Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, ed. Hans
Frhr. v. Campenhausen et al., 3d ed., 7 vols. including Index (Tübingen:
Mohr/Siebeck, 1957–65) 4.590. (JW)