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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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Then they went further in the imagination
of their blynd reason sayenge / in as moch as god accepteth
these holy workes / that we be made righteous therby / then it
foloweth that he whyche offereth most / is most rightewesse and
the best man: ye and it is better to offer an oxe then a shepe
/ because it is more costly. And
so they stroue who might offer most / and the
prestes were well
apayde. Then went they further in their fleshly
wisdome sayenge: if I be good for the offeringe of a doue and
better for a shepe and yet better for an oxe / and so euer the
better thynge I offer / the better I am / Oh how accepted shuld
I be if I offered a man / and namelye him that I most loued? And
vppon that imaginacion / they offered their awne children and
burnt them to asshes before images that they had imagined.
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oxe . . . shepe.
Cf. Exod. 20.24.
doue. Cf. Lev.
12.8, Luke 2.24. The poor may substitute a pair of doves for a lamb.
they offered . . .
images. Cf., e.g., Lev. 18.21, Deut. 18.10.
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And to confirme their blyndnesse they layde for them
(nodoute) the ensample of Abraham which offered his sonne Isaac
and was so accepted / that god had promised him / how that in
his seed / all the
world shuld be blessed. Herof ye se vn to what
abhominacion blynd reason bryngeth a man / when she is
destitute of gods worde.
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Abraham . . .
blessed. Cf. Gen. 22.9–18.
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And to speake of the sabbath / which was ordeyned to
be their
saruaunte & to preach & be a signe vn to
them / that god thorow his holy spirite & worde did
sanctifie them / in that they obeyed his
commaundementes & beleued and trusted in his
promises (& therfore were charged to leaue workynge and to
come on the holy daye
& heare the worde of god by which they were
sanctified) vn to it
also they became captiue and bonde to sarue it /
sayenge that they were iustified by absteynynge from bodyly
laboure (as oures thinke al so) in so moch that though they
bestowed not the
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sabbath. Cf.
Exod. 31.12–17. The sidenote links sabbath observance to
justification by faith (Mombert 258–59; TOT 131).
holy daye . . .
sanctified. For listening to preaching as the purpose of the
sabbath, cf. CWM 8/1.76/1–2.
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