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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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¶An answere to Master Mores
seconde boke
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In the first chapter ye may not trie the doctrine of the
spiritualtie by the scripture: But what they saye / that beleue
vndoutedly and by that trie the scripture. And if thou finde the
playne contrary in the scripture / thou maist not beleue the
scripture / but seke a glose
and an allegorie to make them agre. As when the pope
saith / ye be iustified by the workes of the ceremonies and
sacramentes and so forth / and the scripture saith / that we be
iustified at the repentaunce
of the hert thorow Christes bloude. The first is
true playne / as the pope saith it and as it stondeth in his
texte / but the second is false as it appereth vn to thine
vnderstandinge and the literall sens that kylleth . Thou must
therfore beleue the pope and for Christes doctrine seke an
allegorie and a misticall sens: that is / thou must leaue the
clere light and walke in the miste. And yet Christ
and his appostles
for all their miracles required not to be beleued
with out scripture / as thou maist se Ihon .v. and Actes .xvij.
and bi their diligent alleginge of scripture thorow out all the
new testament.
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The Pope will not be tryed by scripture but the scripture must be
iudged by hym.[1573]
In . . . agre.
Cf. Dialogue where in Bk. 2, Ch. 1 (CWM
6/1.187/19–29), the Messenger recapitulates the arguments of Bk. 1, Ch.
28, on the teaching authority of the church, a section on which Tyndale
did not comment, cf. [H4, “xxvij” and commentary note].
we . . .
bloude. Cf. Rom. 5.9.
Romans 5.9
thou . . .
miste. Cf. John 3.20. Tyndale makes a pun on "misticall sens"
of Scripture and "miste." For a pun on "Mystical Body of Christ," cf:
[I6v, “misticall body . . . mist” and commentary note].
John 3.20
[Hand] [1531]
required . . .
scripture. Cf. John 5.39 and Acts 17.11.
John 5.39
Acts 17.11
Ioan .5. [1531]
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And in the ende he saith for his pleasure / that we knowlege /
that
noman may ministre sacraments but he that is
deriuede out of the pope. How be it this we knowlege / that
noman coude ministre sacramentes
with out significacion which are no sacramentes saue
soch
as are of the popis generacion.
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sacraments] ed., sacrament [1531], Sacraments [1573]
we . . .
pope. Cf. CWM 6/1.192/20–23. Tyndale here makes no comment on
the theme of Dialogue Bk. 2, Ch. 2, the departure
of the reformers from the Church of Rome. He discusses
this topic in the Foundational Essay ([C8, “The church . . . be called”]) and again under Bk. 2, Ch.
5 ([I6v, “And agayne . . . Iohn Baptiste”]).
None can minister the Sacramentes supersticiously but the Popes
generation.[1573]
generacion] ed., geueracion [1531], generation [1573]
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