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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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dayne / not to put trust in the water or to praye in that
place / but to wonder at the power of god and to come and
beleue / as he also did. And that his bones / when he was deed / reysed vpp a deed man / was not done that men shuld pray to
him: for that was not lawfull then / by their awne
doctrine / nether to put
trust in his bones. For god to avoyd all soch
Idolatrie / had poluted all deed bones / so that whosoeuer
twitched a deed bone / was vncleane and all that came in
his companye / vntyll he had washed him selfe: in so moch
that if a place were abvsed with offeringe vn to Idoles /
there was no beter remedie then to scater deed bones there
/ to driue the people thence / for beinge defiled and poluted. But his bones did that miracle / to testifie that he was a true
prophete and to moue men vn to the faith of his
doctrine.
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Eliseus . . .
Iordayne. Cf. 2 Kings 5:10, 14.
] 2 Kings
bones ... a deed
man. Cf. 2 Kings 13.21.
] 2 Kings
trust] theyr trust [1573]
Dead bones may not be worshypped.[1573]
whosoeuer . . .
him selfe. Cf. Num. 19.16–19.
] Numbers
place . . .
poluted. Cf. 2 Kings 23.14, 16, 20.
] 2 Kings
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And even so miracles done at the holy crosse / were done / to
moue men vn to the faith of him that died
theron / and not that we shuld beleue in the wodde.
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miracles done at the
holy crosse. When Helena, mother of Constantine, discovered
three crosses under the temple of Venus built by Hadrian in Jerusalem, the cross of
Christ was identified by miracles. Socrates Scholasticus (c380—c450)
(NCE 13.408–9) relates that the Bishop of Jerusalem cured a dying woman with a piece of the true
cross. Cf. his Ecclesiastical History [on AD
305–439], 1.17 (PG 67.117–22; 2NPNF 2.21–22). Sozomen (c400–c450) (NCE 13.489) repeats this story and
briefly alludes to the raising of a dead youth. Cf. his parallel Ecclesiastical History [on AD 323–425], 2.1 (PG
67.929–34; 2NPNF 2.258–59). The Golden Legend
gives both incidents but greatly enlarges the latter with details
taken from Luke 7.11 on the son of the widow
of Nain (GL 1.280–82).
] Luke
the faith] fayth [1573]
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He saith that pilgrimes put no trust in the
place / as necromancers
doo in their circles / and saieth he wotteth
not what / to mocke out the texte of our sauioure of
prayenge in the spirite. And in the ende
he confoundeth him selfe sayenge /. we reken
oure prayers moare pleasaunt in one place then in a nother.
And that must be by the reason of the place / for god is as
good in one place as in a nother and also the man. Morouer
where a man pleaseth god best / thither is he most bounde
to goo. And so that imaginacyon bindeth a man to the place
with a false faith / as nicromancers trust in their circles.
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no] not [1573]
Pilgrimages [1531]
pilgrimes . . .
circles. Cf. CWM 6/1.55/21–23.
prayenge in the
spirite. Cf. John 4.24 and CWM
6/1.58/ 12–15.
] John
we ... a nother.
Cf. CWM 6/1.59/30–31.
More reasoneth vntowardly.[1573]
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