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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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xxvij.
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xxvij. Tyndale
makes no comment here on Dialogue Bk. 1, Ch. 26,
with its message, "In all doubtes beleue the church" (CWM 6/1.162/2–3
Gloss). In the Foundational Essay, however, he deals with this topic
under "Another Argument against the Pope" (([D2, “¶ A nother argument . . . D2v-6v . . . in the worlde”]),
cf. [D2v, “their auctorite is greater then the scripture”; D4v-5, “I had not beleued . . . the church had moved me”, and commentary notes].
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In the .xxvij. he bringeth Paul
exhortynge to agre & to tell al one tale in the faith
which can not be saith Master More / excepte
one beleue by the reason of a nother. Yes
verelye we al beleue that the fyre is hotte and yet not by
the reason of a nother and that with
a moch surer knowlege then if we beleued it the
one by the tellynge of a nother. And euen so they that haue
the law of god written in their hertes and are taught of
the spirite to know synne and to abhorre it / and to fele
the power of the resurreccion of christ / beleue moch surer
then they that haue no nother certente of their faith /
then the popis preachynge confirmed with so godly liuinge.
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Paul ... a
nother. Cf. CWM 6/1.163/34–164/3 citing 1 Cor. 1.10.
power of the
resurreccion of christ. Cf. Phil. 3.10. Tyndale's NT has "the
vertue of his resurreccion" (Wallis 414/22; TNT 291C); KJV has
"power."
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And it is not vnknowne to M. More that the churches of late
dayes and the churches now beinge haue determined thinges
in one case the one contrarye to the other / in soch wyse
that he can not denye
but the one hath or doth erre: the which case I
coulde shewe him if I so were minded. The olde popes /
cardinalles and busshopes sayed yee to the thinge that I
meane / where vnto these that now raigne saye naye. Now sir
if you gather a generall counsell for the matter / the
churches of fraunce and Italye will not beleue the churches of spayne & douchlonde because they so saye: but will aske
how they proue it. Neyther will Louayne beleue Parise /
because they saye that they can not erre / but will heare
first their probacion. Also how shal we know that the old
pope & his prelates erred / because these that
are now so saye? When the old pope liued we were
as moch bound
to beleue that he coude not erre / as we be now
that this can not: wherfore you must graunt me / that god
must shew a miracle for the tone parte / or else they must
brynge autenticke scripture.
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generall
counsell. Louis XII of France (king,
1498–1515) and Maximilian I (emperor, 1493–1519) convened the Council of
Pisa (1511–12), attended mostly by French prelates. Julius II (pope,
1503–13) condemned this potentially schismatic council and convoked his own, Lateran V (1512–17). Dominated by Julius,
the first five sessions repudiated conciliarism, the
theory that a council is superior to the pope. The later sessions under
Leo X (pope, 1513–21) approved minor reforms of canon law, the Curia,
the episcopacy and the religious orders. Historians note that this
ineffectual council ended in March 1517, seven months before
Luther circulated his 95 Theses (NCE 8.409; OER 2.397–99). Cf. Richard Marius,
Martin Luther: The Christian between God
and Death, Belknap (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999) 137–39. For
Luther's appeal to a general council, cf. [P3v, “Marten . . . nexte generall counsell” and commentary note].
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