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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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tewysse / and with those fathers
shall he geue the childern egles eyes to spie out
Christ & his rightewysnesse
and to forsake their awne and so to become
perfecte.
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And aftir the same maner / though oure popish ypocrites succede
Christ and his appostles and haue their scripture / yet
they befallen from the faith and liuinge of them and are
heretikes and had nede of a Ihon Baptist to conuerte them. And
we departe from them vn to the true scripture and vnto the
faith and liuynge theirof / and rebuke them in like maner. And
as they which departe from the faith of the true church are
heretikes / even so they that departe from the church of
heretikes and false fayned faith of ypocrites / are the true church / which thou shalt all waye know by their faith examined by the
scripture and by their profession and consent to liue acordynge
vn to the lawes of god.
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we departe . . .
rebuke them. Cf. CWM 8/2.651/ 28–29.
rebuke them in
like maner. CWM 8/2.652/26.
And as . . .
church. CWM 8/2.654/9–11, 660/23–25.
they that departe
. . . church. Cf. CWM 8/2.667/5–7, 817/8–11, repeated almost
verbatim at 667/23–25 and 668/3–5. Augustine addresses the issue of the
unity of the church in the third of his ten Homilies
on the First Epistle of John (AD 406–7), quoted in Unio Dissidentium (2.Q6v). More would agree with
the first part of the passage, "Certainly all who go out from the
Church, and are cut off from the unity of the Church, are antichrists
Par. 7 (PL 35.2000–2001; 1NPNF 7.478). Tyndale might
counter with the second part, "[W]hosoever in his deeds denies Christ,
is an antichrist," Par. 8 (PL 35.2002; 1NPNF 7.479).
Though . . .
god. Cf. CWM 8/2.648/5–39. With minor variations Confutation repeats parts of this long passage;
cf. [commentary notes on D2, “we departe . . . church].
And aftir . . .
god. The commentary on CWM 8/1.143 /15–17 quotes this passage
verbatim (CWM 8/3.1512) and refers to 1 John
(A7r—v) for further accusations that the medieval church corrupted the
Scripture with heresies.
which . . .
god. Cf. CWM 8/2.663/5–7.
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¶A nother argument
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Another like blynd reason they haue where in is all
their trust. As we come out of them & they not of vs / so
we receaue the scripture of them & they not of vs. How know
we that it is the scripture of
god and true but because they teach vs so? How can
we that beleue /
excepte we first beleue that they be the church and
can not erre in any thynge that perteyneth vn to oure soules
health. For if a man tell
me of a marvelouse thynge / wherof I can haue no
nother knowlege then by his mouth only / how shuld I geue
credence excepte I beleued that the man were so honest that he
coude not lye or wold not lye. Wherefore we must beleue that
they be the right church that can not erre or else we can
beleue nought at all.
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