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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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oure synnes in Christes bloude / and of other rightwysnesse knowe we not before god. And contrari wise youre rightwysnesse or iustifienge which stondeth / as youre faith doeth / with
all wekednesse / springeth out of youre holy workes which
yee doo to no man frely saue vn to paynted postes.
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And when he allegeth the sacrifices of the old
law / I saye they were sacramentes and preached vn to the
people (as no dout / oure candels once were) and were no
holy werkes to be referred vn to gods person to obtayne his
favoure / and to iustifie the people / and
that the people shuld doo them for the werkes
selues. And when the people had lost the significacions and
loked on the holynesse of the dedes / to be iustified
therby / they were imageseruice and hatefull
to god and rebuked of the prophetes / as it is
to se thorow out all the old testament.
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Then he iugleth with a texte of S. Paule Rom. xiiij. let
eueriman for his parte abounde / one in this Idolatrie and
a nother in that: when the sens of the texte is / let euery
man be sure of his awne
conscience / that he doo no thinge / excepte he
know well and his conscience sarue him that it maye be
lawfully done. But what care they to abuse gods worde and
to wrest it vn to the contrary?
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And in the last end / to vtter his excellent blindnesse /
he saith /
the wiseman Luther thinketh that if the gold
were taken from the
reliques / it wold be geuen vnto the pore
immediatly / when he seith the contrary / that they which
haue their purses full will geue the pore (if they geue
ought) ether an halfe peny or in his contre the .iiij.
parte of a ferthynge. Now I axe master
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