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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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.vj. or seuen yeres olde / their elders brought them vnto the
preest or deacon in euery parish / which officer
taught the children what their baptim ment &
what they had
professed therin: that is to wete / the law of god
& their dutie vn to all degrees / and the faith of oure
sauioure. And then because it shuld
not be neglecte or lefte vndone / an hier officer
as the archdeacon
(for it hath not bene I suppose in the bisshopes
handes all waye as now / nether were it mete) came aboute from
parish to parish / at
tymes conuenient. And the prestes brought the
children vn to him at .xj. or .xij. yere olde / before they
were admitted to receaue the sacrament of Christes body haply.
And he apposed them of the law of god & faith of Christe /
and axed them / whether they thought that law good / and
whether their hertes were to folow it. And they answered
ye.
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taught] [1573], taughr [1531]
officer] [1573], officerr [1531]
bene] bene as [1573]
The maner of confirming of children.[1573]
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And he apposed them in the articles of oure faith / and axed
them / whether they put their hope and trust in Christ / to be
saued thorow his deeth and merites. And they answered ye. Then
confirmed he their baptim sayenge: I confirme you / that is / I
denunce and declare / by the auctorite of gods worde and
doctrine of Christ / that ye be truely baptised within in youre
hertes and in youre spirites /
thorow professynge the lawe of god and the faith of
oure sauioure
Iesu / which youre outwarde baptim doeth signifie / and thervppon
I put this crosse in youre forehedes that ye goo and fight
agenst the deuell / the world and the flesh / vnder the
standarde of oure sauioure / in the name of the father / the
sonne / and the holy gost. Amen. Which maner I wold to god for
his tender mercie were in vse this daye.
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This is a right confirmation.[1573]
the deuell / the
world and the flesh. Patristic and medieval exegetes paired the
three temptations of Christ (bread into stones, kingdoms of the earth,
pinnacle of the Temple in Luke 4 and Paradise Regained) with concupiscientia carnis, et
concupiscientia oculorum, et superbia vitae of the Vulgate (1
John 2.16). Cf. Gregory's homily on Matt.
4.1–11 against gluttony, avarice and vainglory (PL 76.1136); the three
winds of the World, the Flesh, and the Fiend which buffet the Tree of
Charity in Piers Plowman (Passus XVI, line 48).
See Patrick Cullen, Infernal Triad: The Flesh, the
World, and the Devil in Spenser and
Milton (Princeton UP, 1974).
In his 1516 NT, Erasmus renders he epithumia tes
sarkos, kai he epithumia ton ophthalmon, kai he alazoneia
tou biou as concupiscentia carnis . . .,
& concupiscentia oculorum, fastus facultatum [pride of
resources]. Following Erasmus' Latin, Tyndale translates the Greek as
"the lust of the flesshe, the lust of the eyes, and the pryde of goodes"
(Wallis 488/23–24; TNT 339C), cf. [P7v, “flesh . . . worlde . . . fendes” and commentary note].
] Matthew
] Luke
] 1 John
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