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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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moch as we be ouerladen with our awne / I se no cause why we
shuld become
Iewes / to obserue their ceremonies to.
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And when he saith holy straunge gestures. I
answere / for the holynesse I wyll not swere: but the
straungenesse I dare well avowe. For euery prest maketh them
of a sundrie maner and many moare madly then the gestures
of Iackanapes. And when he saith that they were left from
hand to hand sens the appostles tyme / it is vntrue. For the
appostles vsed the sacrament as Christ did / as thou maist se .1. Corin .xj. Morouer the appostles left vs in the light and taught
vs all the counsell of God / as Paule
wittenesseth Actes .xx. and hid nothinge in straunge holy
gestures and apes playe the significacions wherof noman
might vnderstonde.
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Holy straunge gestures [1531]O
1. Co. 11. [1531]
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And a Christen man is moare moued to pitie saith
he / at the sight of the crosse / then with out it. If he
take pitie as English men doo /
for compassion / I saye / that a Christen man is
moued to pitie when he seith his brother beare the crosse.
And at the sight of the crosse /
he that is lerned in god / wepith not Christe
with ignoraunt wemen /
as a man doeth his father when he is deed: but
morneth for his synnes / and att the sight of the crosse
comforteth his soule with the consolacion of him that died
theron. But their is no sight whether
of the crosse or ought else / that can moue you
to leue youre wekednesse / for the testament of god is not
written in youre hertes.
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Pitie [1531]
The true beholdyng of the signe of the crosse.[1573]
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And when he speaketh of prayenge at church who
denyeth him that men might not praye at church or that the
church shuld not be a place of prayar? But that a man coude
not praye sa
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The Church is a place of prayer.[1573]
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