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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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all that is promised me and christ hath purchased for me /
and geue not a straw for them all.
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v.
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In the .v. chapter he falleth from al that he
hath so longe swette to
proue & beleueth not by the reason of the
miracles / but by the comen consent of the church and that
many so beleue. This man is of a ferre other complexion then
was the prophete Elias. For he beleued a lone as he thought
/ agenst the consent by all likelyhod / of .
ix. or .x. hundred thousand beleuers. And yet M.
Mores church is in no nother condicion vnder the pope /
then was that church agenst
whose consent Elias beleued a lone vnder the
kinges of Samary.
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Our fayth may be grounded vpon men.[1573]
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vj.
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In the .vj. chapter & vnto the .xviij. he
proueth all most nought saue that which neuer man denied
him / that miracles haue bene done. But how to know the
true miracles from the false were good
to be knowen which we shal this wise do if as
we take those for true sacramentes and ceremonies which
preach vs gods worde / euen so we count them true miracles
only which moue vs to herken therto.
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Al true miracles prouoke vs to fayth and trust in God.[1573]
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xvj.
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Concerninge his .xvj. chapter of the mayde of
Ipswich / I answere
/ that Moses warned hys Israelites that false
miracles shuld be done to proue them / whether their hertes
were fast in the lorde.
And euen so christ and the apostles shewed vs
before that lienge miracles shuld come / to peruerte the
very electe / if it were possyble.
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The mayde of Ipswich [1531]
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And therfore we must haue a rule to know the true miracles
from the false / or else it were impossible that any man
shuld scape vndisceaued
and continue in the true
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