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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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Dead bones may not be worshypped.[1573]
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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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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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Pilgrimages [1531]
More reasoneth vntowardly.[1573]
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