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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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God did not hate paul / when he
persecuted but had layd vpp mercy for him in store / though
he was angre wyth hym to scorge
hym and to teach him better. Nether were those
thynges layd on his backe which he after sofered / to make
satisfaccion for his foresinnes
/ but only to serue hys brethern and to kepe
the flesh vnder. Nether did god hate Dauid when he had
synned / though he was angre with him. Nether did he after
sofre to make satisfaccyon to god for hys olde synnes / but
to kepe his flesh vnder and to kepe
hym in mekenesse and to be an ensample for oure
lernynge.
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The new life doeth tame the flesh and serue hyr neyboure. [1531]
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iiij.
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In the fourth saith he if the church were an vnknowen
companie /
how shuld the infydeles / yf they longed for
the faith / come therby?
O whother wandereth a fleshly minde / as though we first
sought out god. Nay / God knoweth his and seketh them out
and sendeth his mesingers vnto them and geueth them an hert
to vnderstonde. Dyd the hethen or any nacyon seke chryste?
Nay / christ sought them and sent hys appostles vnto them.
As thou seyst in the storyes from the begynnynge of the
worlde and as the parables and similitudes of the gospell
declare.
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God seketh vs and we not hym. [1531]
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And when he saith / he neuer founde ner herd of any of vs /
but that he wold forswere to saue his life. Answere / the
moare wrath of god will light on them / that so cruelly
delite to torment them
and so craftely to begyle the weake. Neuer
thelesse yet it is vntrue. For he hath hearde of sir Thomas
hitton whom the bisshopes of Rochester and caunterbury slew
at maydstone and of many that sofered in braband holland
and at colen and in all
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More a lying papist.[1573]
Sir Thomas hitton [1531]
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