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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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But of a felynge faith it is written. Ihon
.vj. They shalbe all taught of God.
That is / God shall write
it in their hertes with his
holy spirite. And Paul also testifieth Romano. viij.
the spirite beareth recorde vn to oure spirite / that we be the
sonnes off God. And this faith is none opinion / but a sure
felynge / and therfore euer
frutefull. Neyther hangeth it of the honestie of the
preacher but of
the power of God and of the spirite / and therfore
iff all the preachers of the world wold goo a boute to persuade
the contrary / it wold
not preuayle / no moare then though they wold make
me beleue the fire were cold / aftir that I had put my fingre
therin.
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They ... of
God. John 6.45 quoting Isa. 54.13.
the spirite . . .
God. Rom. 8.16.
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Of this ye haue an ensample Ihon .iiij. of the Samaritanish wife
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which left hir pitcher and went in to the citie and
said / come and se
a man that hath told me all that euer I did / is not
he Christe and many of the Samaritanes beleued because of the
sayenge of the woman / how that he had told hir all that euer
she did / and went out vn to him and desyred him to come in /
which faith was but an
opinion and no faith that coude haue lasted or haue
brought out frute / but when they had herd Christ / the spirite
wrought and
made them fele. Whervppon they came vn to the woman
and saide:
we beleue not now because of thy sayenge / but
because we haue harde our selues and know that he is christ the
sauioure of the worlde. For christes preachinge was with power
and spirite that maketh a man feale and knowe and worke to / and
not as the scribes and phareses preached and as oures make a man
ready to cast his gorge
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Samaritanish . . .
come in. Cf. John 4.28–29, 39–40.
the woman . . .
worlde. Cf. John 4.42.
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