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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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de by his boke & to dispute / which
he might well doo / sith he had his safe
conducte that he shuld haue
no bodyly harme. T. o mercifull god / how fome
ye out youre awne shame? ye can not dispute excepte ye haue
a man in youre awne daunger to doo him bodyly harme / to
diote him aftir youre facion / to tormente him and to
murther him. Yf ye might haue had him at youre pleasure /
ye wold haue disputed wyth him: first wyth sophistrie
and corruptynge the scripture: then with
offerynge him promocions : then with the swerde. So that ye
wold haue bene sure / to haue ouercome him with one argument
or other.
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Tindale [1531]
[Hand] [1531]
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M. He wold agre on no Iudges. T. What iudges
offered ye him /
saue blynde bisshopes & cardenales /
enimies of all trouth / whose
promocions and dignites they feare to be
plucked from them / if the trouth came to light / or soch
Iudases as they had corrupte with money to mayntene their
secte? The appostles might haue admitted as well the hethen
bisshopes of Idoles to haue bene their iudges as he them.
But he offered you autenticke scripture and the hertes of the whole worlde. Whych .ij. iudges / iff ye had good consciences and trust in god / ye wold not haue refused.
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More [1531]
Marten [1531]
Tindale [1531]
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iiij.
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The fourth chapter is not the first poetrie that he hath
fayned.
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V.
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In the ende of the fifte he vntrulye reporteth / that Marten
saith /
no man is bound to kepe any vowe. Lawfull
promises are to be kepte
and vnlawfull broken.
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