|
|
KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
|
|
iij.
|
|
|
In the thrid chapter and in the chapter folowynge / he
vttereth how fleshly minded he is / and how beestly he
imageneth of God /
as Paule saith .1. corin. 2. the naturall man
can not vnderstond the thinges of the spirite of God. He
thinketh of God / as he doeth of
his cardenall / that he is a monstre / pleased
when men flater him /
and if of whatsoeuer frailte it be / men breake
his commaundementes / he is then raginge mad as the pope is
and seketh to be venged. Naye / God is euer fatherly minded
toward the electe membres of his church. He loued them yer
the world beganne / in Christ.
Ephe. 1. He loueth them / while they be yet
evell and his enimies in their hertes / yer they be come vn
to the knowlege of his sone christe / and yer his law be
written in their hertes: as a father loueth his younge sonne
/ whyle he is yet euell and yer it know the fathers law to
consent therto.
|
159/29
parlamentes.
Henry VIII summoned nine parliaments
during his reign. As Lord Chancellor, Archbishop Warham
successfully persuaded the Commons in 1512 to grant Henry 127,000 pounds for the invasion of France.
His successor Cardinal Wolsey asked the
Commons in 1523 for 800,000 pounds for the invasion of Scotland and France
but settled for 136,256 pounds. More as Speaker of the House assisted in
the bargaining process and received
a bonus of 100 pounds from a grateful Wolsey.
More himself served as Lord Chancellor during the first three
sessions of the Reformation Parliament, furthering much secular business
but remaining aloof from the king's marital problems. Cf.
Jennifer Loach, Parliament under the Tudors (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991) x,
58–61. In Supplication of Souls (1529), More
complains that the king intimidates both Lords and Commons (CWM
7.140/6–141/21 and nn).
A member of the king's council since 1531, and as rising minister from
1532, Thomas Cromwell (c1485–1540) drafted
bills and lobbied Parliament to approve major legislation
affecting the church in England, e.g.: Act for
the Conditional Restraint of Annates, March 1532, 23 Henry VIII, Ch. 20 (Statutes
3.385–88); Act in Restraint of Appeals to Rome, April 1533,
24 Henry VIII, Ch. 12 (Statutes 3.42 7–29); Act
Confirming the Submission of the Clergy, March 1534, 25 Henry VIII, Ch.
19 (Statutes 3.460–61); Act Restraining the Payment of Annates, March 1534, 25 Henry VIII, Ch. 20 (Statutes 3.462–64); Act of Succession, March
1534, 25 Henry VIII, Ch. 22 (Statutes 3.471–74);
Act of Supremacy, November 1534, 26 Henry VIII, Ch. 1 (Statutes 3.492); Oath of Succession denying papal primacy,
November 1534, 26 Henry VIII, Ch. 2 (Statutes
3.492–93). For the early history of annates in England, cf. 138/7n.
Cromwell was not named vicegerent for spiritual affairs until cJanuary
1535. See G.R. Elton, Reform and Reformation: England
, 1509–1558 (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1977).
Regarding the Act of Succession of March 1534, which rejected papal
validation of Henry's marriage to Catherine,
More explains that he came to believe that papal primacy was instituted
by God after reading the king's Assertio. Cf. Ep.
199, To Thomas Cromwell, Chelsea, 5 March <1534> (More, Correspondence 498/200–499/247).
Tyndale disapproved of Wolsey's successful efforts in 1523 to move
Parliament to levy high taxes (cf. Obedience E7).
As an opponent of Antichrist, he must have applauded the acts severing
financial and legal ties with the papacy. Tyndale was guilty of treason,
however, for rejecting Henry's marriage with Anne Boleyn, until it was
annulled on 17 May 1536, two days before her execution; cf.
MacCulloch
, Cranmer 158–59.
160/1–2
conceaue . . .
child. Cf. Jas. 1.15.
|
|
And aftir they be once actually of his church and the law
of God
and faith of christ written in their hertes /
their hertes neuer synne
any moare / though as Paule saith .Roman. vij.
the flesh doeth in them that the spirite wold not. And when
they synne of frailte / God ceaseth not to loue them styll
/ though he be angrie / to put a crosse of tribulacions
vppon their backes / to purge them and to subdue
the flesh vn to the spirite or to al to breake
their consciences with threateninge of the lawe and to
feare them with hell. As a father when his sonne offendeth
him feareth him with the rod / but hateth him not.
|
|
|
God did not hate paul / when he
persecuted but had layd vpp mercy for him in store / though
he was angre wyth hym to scorge
hym and to teach him better. Nether were those
thynges layd on his backe which he after sofered / to make
satisfaccion for his foresinnes
/ but only to serue hys brethern and to kepe
the flesh vnder. Nether did god hate Dauid when he had
synned / though he was angre with him. Nether did he after
sofre to make satisfaccyon to god for hys olde synnes / but
to kepe his flesh vnder and to kepe
hym in mekenesse and to be an ensample for oure
lernynge.
|
160/22
syluer
sylogismoses. Good alliteration but not a figure of logic.
|
|
iiij.
|
|
|
In the fourth saith he if the church were an vnknowen
companie /
how shuld the infydeles / yf they longed for
the faith / come therby?
|
|
|
O whother wandereth a fleshly minde / as though we first
sought out god. Nay / God knoweth his and seketh them out
and sendeth his mesingers vnto them and geueth them an hert
to vnderstonde. Dyd the hethen or any nacyon seke chryste?
Nay / christ sought them and sent hys appostles vnto them.
As thou seyst in the storyes from the begynnynge of the
worlde and as the parables and similitudes of the gospell
declare.
|
|
|
And when he saith / he neuer founde ner herd of any of vs /
but that he wold forswere to saue his life. Answere / the
moare wrath of god will light on them / that so cruelly
delite to torment them
and so craftely to begyle the weake. Neuer
thelesse yet it is vntrue. For he hath hearde of sir Thomas
hitton whom the bisshopes of Rochester and caunterbury slew
at maydstone and of many that sofered in braband holland
and atcolen and in all
|
|