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nother in the waye of christ. And god they serue in the
spirite only / in loue / hope faith and dreade.
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But . . .
dreade. The role ascribed to the law sharply distinguishes
Tyndale's account of justification from that of Luther, for whom saving
faith is exclusively focused on God's redemptive mercy in
Christ toward those whom the law has prepared by convicting
them of sin. In justification, for Luther, God relates to a believer who
has been carried beyond the demands of the law. [This note refers to text which also appears on I2 and I2v.]
And he . . .
dreade. Compare Luther's account of the believer's willing
service of others without thought of recompense : "to serve,
help, and deal with the neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has
dealt with him and still deals with him," Freedom of a
Christian, 1520 (WA 7.35/25–27; LW 31.366).
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When the greate multitude that be called and not
chosen / Caim / Ismael / Esau and carnall Israel that serue
God night and daye with bodyly seruice and holy workes soch
as they were wont to serue their Idoles with all / behold
litle flocke that they come not forth in the seruice of god
/ they rore out / where art thou? whi comest thou
not forth & takest holy watere? wherfore
saith litle flocke. To put awaye thy sinnes. Nay brethern /
God forbid that ye shuld so thinke / Christes bloud only
washeth awaye the synnes of all that
repent and beleue. Fire / salt / water / bred /
oyle be bodyly
thynges / geuen vn to man for his necessite and
to helpe his brother with / & god that is a spirite can
not be serued therwith. Nether can soch thinges enter in to
the soule to purge hir. For gods worde only is hir
purgacion. No saye they / are not soch thinges halowed. And
saye we not in the halowenge of them that
whosoeuer is sprinkled
with the water or eateth of the bred / shall
receaue health of soule and body? Sir the blessynges
promised vnto Abraham for all nacions are in christ / and
out of his bloud we must fett them / and his word is the
breed / salt and water of oure soules. God hath geuen you no power to geue thorow youre charmes soch vertue vn to vnsensible creatures / which he hath halowed him selfe and made them
all
cleane (for the bodyly vse of them that beleue)
thorow his worde of promese and permission and oure thankes
geuinge. God saith / if thou beleue saynt Ihons Gospell /
thou shalt be saued / and not for the beringe of it aboute
the with so many crosses /
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A pretye Antithesis betwen the Popes Churche & Christes
litle flocke.[1573]
greate . . .
chosen. Cf. Matt. 22.14.
] Matthew
] Jeremiah
litle] the little [1573]
] Jeremiah
[Hand] [1531]
bred /] bread, & [1573]
Fire/salt/water/bred/oyle. Little Flock opposes the multitude
's claim that objects have spiritual potency by appealing
to the sole saving power of Christ's blood laid hold of by faith in his
word. The beliefs of the multitude rest on the church's myriad prayers
of blessing over objects, which are studied panoramically in A. Franz,
Die kirchlichen Benediktionen im Mittlealter,
2 vol. (Freiburg: Herder, 1909).
god ...
therwith. Cf. John 4.24.
] John
The Popish church aunswereth.[1573]
The litle flocke.[1573]
blessynges . . .
nacions. Cf. Gen. 18.18, Gal. 3.16.
] Genesis
] Galatians
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