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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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and holy church.
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the faith . . .
holy church. Tyndale expresses Luther's doctrine of the primacy
of the word of promise and of faith in sacraments. But specific themes
of Luther's sacramental instruction of 1519–24 are missing,
such as the testamentary character of the promise in the Lord's Supper,
the content as forgiveness of sins, and the addressee as the troubled
and terrified conscience, cf. 63/31n. (JW)
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M. He teacheth that fayth sufficeth vn to
saluacion with out good
werkes. T. the scripture sayth / that assone as
a man repenteth of
evel and beleueth in Christes bloude / he
obteyneth mercye imediatly / because he shuld loue god and
of that loue doo good werkes /
& that he tarieth not in synne styll tyll
he haue done good werkes / & then is first forgeuen for
his werkessake / as the pope beareth his
in hande / excludynge the vertue of christes bloude. For a
man must be first reconsyled vn to god by Christ and in gods
fauoure / yer his werkes can be good & pleasaunt in the
sight of god. But we saye not as some damnablye lye on vs /
that we shuld doo euell to be iustified
by fayth / as thou maist se in the third of the
romanes how they said of the appostles for like
preachinge.
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More [1531]
He teacheth . .
. werkes. Cf. CWM 6/1.352/27–28 and Rom. 3.28. Cf. CWM 6/2.700
for references to Luther's sources.
] Romans
Fayth [1531]
Tindale [1531]
assone . . .
imediatly. Cf. Rom. 3.23–25.
] Romans
good] [1573], god [1531]
For . . . god.
Cf. CWM 8/1.326/14–16, 402/12–14. Tyndale refers to Bk. 4,
not Bk. 3 as More mistakenly says.
174/1–3 The Papistes are slaundrers of the Gospell.[1573]
But ... by
fayth. Cf. Rom. 3.8.
] Romans
in the third of the
romanes] Rom. iij. [1573]
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M. He calleth it sacrilege to please god with
good werkes. T. to
refer the werke vn to the person of god to by
out thy synne therwith
/ is to make an Idole of god or a creature. But
if thou referre thy werke vn to thy neyboures profitt or
tamynge of thine awne flesh / then thou pleasest god
therwith.
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He calleth . .
.werkes. Cf. CWM 6/1.352/28–29.
More [1531]
Workes [1531]
Tindale [1531]
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M. Item that a man can doo no good werke. T. it
is false. But he
sayth a man can doo no good werke tyll he
beleue that his synnes be forgeuen him in Christe and tyll
he loue gods law and haue obtayned grace to worke with. And
then saith he that we can not doo oure werkes so perfectely
/ by the reason of our corrupte flesh but that there is
some imperfectenesse therin / as in the werkes of them that
be not their craftes master. Whych is yet not rekened / because they doo their good willes and be scolars and
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no good werke.
Cf. CWM 6/1.352/30.
More [1531]
Tindale [1531]
174/15–19 We can do no good worke except we beleue that our sinnes are
forgeuen in Christ.[1573]
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