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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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we him to heare the worde ernistly / rather then to write it
in his herte. For whosoeuer hath no nother fealynge of the
law of god that it is good / then because of miracles / the
same shall beleue in Christe / as did Simon Magus and Iudas: and as they that came out of Egipte with Moses / and fell awaye
at euery temptacion / & shall haue good werkes like vn
to our popes / bisshopes and cardenales. And therfore when
the scripture is fully receaued / there is no nede of
miracles. In so moch that they which
wyll not beleue Moses and the prophetes when the
scripture is receaved / the same wilbe no true beleuers by
the reason of miracles /
though one arose from deeth to life to preach vn
to them by the testimonie
of Christe.
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180/18
howseled ...
dyenge. Cf. CWM 6/1.354/19–20. Tyndale wastes no energy on
More's erroneous charge that reformers reserve communion to
one's deathbed. In 1521, the king had made the same charge in Ch. 5, his
defense of giving communion to the laity only in the form of bread (Assertio, CC 43.137). The idea was lifted out of
context from Luther's conclusion to Babylonian
Captivity , 1520, where he spoke of Baptism as a new
birth and the Lord's Supper as both the memorial of Christ's death and
the assimilation of communicants to that death (WA
6.572/23–34; LW 36.124f). Luther said, however, that one exercises both
aspects of the Eucharist throughout life and earlier had given good
reasons for regular communion (ibid., WA 6.526/23–33; LW 36.57).
(JW)
180/20
not spare to twich
it. Cf. CWM 6/1.354/22–23.
180/21
perelous . . .
oyled them. Cf. CWM 8/1.117/12–13.
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And agayne / how doeth S. Hierom / Augustine /
Bede and many other old doctoures that were before the pope
was cropt vpp in to the consciences of men and had sent
forth his damnable sectes / to preach him vnder the name of
christe / as christ prophisied it shuld
be / expounde this texte / thou arte Peter and
vppon this rocke I wyll
byld my church / and this texte / Peter fede my
shepe / and all power
is geuen me in heuen & in erth / and
innumerable soch textes cleane contrary vnto al those new
old holy doctours that haue made the pope a god? They knew
of no power that man shuld haue in the
kyngdome of Christ / then to preach Christ
truly. They knew of no power that the pope shuld haue to
send to purgatory or to deliuer thence / nether of any
pardons ner of any soch confession as they
preach & teach / nether were many that are articles with
you / articles of their faith. They al preached forgeuenesse
of synnes thorow repentaunce towar
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180/22
Christ . . .
spirite. Cf. 2 Cor. 1.21–22.
180/22–23
with his
bloude. 1 Pet. 1.2.
180/27–30
Aboute . . .
starch. Cf. CWM 8/1.117/14–16. In pondering how long
flour preserves its nature, Aquinas takes no firm stand: "And because
starch comes of corrupted wheat, it does not seem as if the body of
Christ could be made of the bread therefrom , although some
hold the contrary" (Summa III, Q. 74, Art. 3,
Reply to Obj. 4). According to Tyndale, Oxford theologians were still
debating the topic.
180/31
sacrament shuld not
be worsheped. Cf. CWM 6/1.354/ 23–25.
180/31–181/11
It is . . .
wyll folow. Cf. CWM 8/1.117/27–118/3.
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