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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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wother wise thynke then that they were ordeyned to iustifie and
that I shuld be holy therby / acordynge to
the popis doctrine / as though god were better
pleased when I sprinkle my selfe with water or sett vpp a
candle before a blocke / then iff I fedde or clothed or holpe
at his nede him / whom he so tenderly
loueth that he gaue his awne sonne vn to the deeth for him / and
commaunded me to loue him as my selfe?
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And when the people beganne to runne that waye / the prelates were glad & holpe to heue aftir with sotle allegories &
falsifienge the scripture / & went & halowed the
ceremonies / to make them moare worshepful / that the laye
people shuld haue them in greater estimacion
& honoure / & be afrayde to twich them for
reuerence vn to the holy charme that was saide ouer them / &
affirmed also that christes deeth had purchased soch grace vn to
the ceremonies to forgeue
sinne & to iustifye. O monstre / Christes deeth
purchased grace for mans soule / to repent of euell & to
beleue in Christ for remission of synne / & to loue the
lawe of god and his neyboure as him selfe /
which is the true worshepynge of god in the spirite
/ & he died not to purchesse soch honoure vn to vnsensible
thynges / that man to his dishonoure / shuld doo them
honourable seruice & receaue his saluacion of them.
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be] to be 1573
purchased] 1573, purechased [1531]
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This I haue declared vn to you / that ye mighte se
& fele euery thinge sensibly. For I entend not to leade you
in darkenesse. Nether though twise .ij. cranes make not .iiij.
wild gees / wold I therfore
that ye shuld beleue that twise .ij. made not
.iiij. Nether entend I to
proue vn to you that Paules steple is the cause whi
temes is broke in
about Erith / or that teynterden steple is the
cause of the decaye of sandwich hauen as Master Mo
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