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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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as good case as they can be & haue all the delectacion
they can haue / & therefore to wish them in better case
or to studie to doo them more pleasure then they haue / is
fleyshly minded popishnesse. The pleasure of them that be
in heuen is / that we herken to God and kepe his commaundementes / which when we doo / they haue all the pleasure that they
can haue in vs. If in this life / I sofre hell
gladly / to winne my brother
to folow god / how moch moare if I were in heuen
shuld I reioyce that he so did? If in this world when I
haue nede of my neyboure / by the reason of mine infirmites
/ yet I seke nought of him / saue his wealth only / whate
other thynge shuld I seke of him / if I were in heuen /
where he can do me no seruice ner I vse any pleasure that he can do me?
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They that are in heauen do chiefly desire that we harken to God
& do hys wyll.[1573]
yet . . .
only. Cf. 2 Cor. 12.14.
2 Corinthians 12.14
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The deuel desyred to haue his imaginacions worsheped as god /
& his popish childern desyre the same / and compell
men so to honoure
them / and of their deuelish nature describe
they both God and his saintes. And therfore I saye / al soch
fleshly imaginacions / as to fast the wenisdaye in the
worshepe of S. Ihon or of S. katerine or
what saynt it be / or to fast sayntes euens or
to goo a pilgremage vnto their images or to offer to them /
to doo them pleasure /
thinkynge therby to obteyne their fauoure and to
make speciall aduocates of them / as a man wold winne the
fauoure of a nother with presentes and giftes / and
thinkynge that if we did it not / they wold
be angrie / are playne Idolatrye and
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The deuel . . .
god. Cf. Lev. 20.2–5.
Leviticus 20.2–5
All popishe imaginations are Idolatry.[1573]
wenisdaye . . . S.
katerine. Some fasted on Wednesdays in honor of
John the Baptist,
Catherine of Alexandria,
Christopher, or Margaret of Antioch for the grace to receive the last
sacraments before they died. See Here begynneth a
lytel treatyse that sheweth how every mon & woman ought to fast
and absteyne them from flesshe on the Wednesday (1500), STC
24224 (Duffy 319–20 and n48).
euens] eues [1573]
fast sayntes
euens. Medieval Christians were required to fast on the day
before the following feasts: Christmas, Pentecost, Birth of John the
Baptist, Laurence, Assumption, All Saints; also on the vigils of the
Apostles except Philip and James in the Easter season and
John the Evangelist during Christmas week (Duffy 41).
Tyndale mocks this heavy discipline by extending it to the
vigils of lesser saints: Anthony the Hermit, Patrick, and Brendan
(Matthew
15).
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