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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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fleshly eatynge and drinkynge of Christes body and bloud
profit not / as his carnall presens profited not / by the reason of his presens only as ye se by Iudas and the phareses and
the sowdiours that twiched him / and how his bodyly presens
did lett the disciples to vnderstonde spiritually. But to
eate and drinke in the spirite / that is / to herken vn to
his wordes and with a repentynge hert to beleue in his deeth
/ bryngeth vs all that Christ can doo for vs.
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how . . .
spiritually. Cf. John 16.7,
12–13.
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M. Item that the masse auayleth no man but the
preest. T. if ye
speake of the prayars / his prayars helpe vs as
moch as oures him. If
ye speake of the sacrament / it helpeth as many
as be present as moch as him / if moued therby they beleue
in Christes deeth as well as he. If they be absent / the
sacrament profiteth them as moch as a sermon made in the
church helpeth them that be in the feldes. And how profiteth it the soules of the deed tell me vn to whom it is no signe?
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the masse . . .
preest. Cf. CWM 6/1.354/14–15 and CWM 8/1.317/19–20.
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If ye meane the carnall eatynge and drinkynge / then it
profiteth the prest only / for he eateth and drinketh vpp
all allone and geueth no man parte with him.
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M. Item that a man shuld not be howseled tyll he
laye a dyenge.
T. That is to shamelesse a lye.
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howseled ...
dyenge. Cf. CWM 6/1.354/19–20. Tyndale wastes no energy on
More's erroneous charge that reformers reserve communion to
one's deathbed. In 1521, the king had made the same charge in Ch. 5, his
defense of giving communion to the laity only in the form of bread (Assertio, CC 43.137). The idea was lifted out of
context from Luther's conclusion to Babylonian
Captivity , 1520, where he spoke of Baptism as a new
birth and the Lord's Supper as both the memorial of Christ's death and
the assimilation of communicants to that death (WA
6.572/23–34; LW 36.124f). Luther said, however, that one exercises both
aspects of the Eucharist throughout life and earlier had given good
reasons for regular communion (ibid., WA 6.526/23–33; LW 36.57).
(JW)
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M. Item that men and wemen shuld not spare to
twich it. T. a
perelous case. Why? because the pope hath not
oyled them. Neverthelesse
Christ hath annoynted them with his spirite
& with his bloude. But wot ye why? The pope thynketh if
they shuld be to busy in handelynge it / they wold beleue
that there were bred /and for that cause to strength their
feythes / he hath imagened lytle prety thinne manchetes
that shynne
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not spare to twich
it. Cf. CWM 6/1.354/22–23.
perelous . . .
oyled them. Cf. CWM 8/1.117/12–13.
Christ . . .
spirite. Cf. 2 Cor. 1.21–22.
with his
bloude. 1 Pet. 1.2.
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