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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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cions of any terme / but runneth forth confusedly in vnknowen
wordes and general termes. And were one worde hath many
significacions he maketh a man some time beleue that manye
thinges are but one thynge / and some time he leadeth from one
significacion vn to a nother and mocketh a mans wittes. As
he iugleth with thys terme church / makynge vs in the
begynnynge vnderstonde all that beleue and in the
conclusyon the prestes only. He telleth not the office of
the lawe / he describeth not his penaunce ner the vertue
therof or vse / he declareth no sacrament / ner what they
meane ner the vse ner wherin the frute off confession stondeth / ner whence the power of the absolucion cometh / ner wherein it
resteth / ner what iustifienge meaneth / ner the ordir ner
sheweth any diuersite of faithes / as though all faithes
were one faith and one thinge.
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195/11–13 M. More is a iuggler with termes.[1573]
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Marke therfore / the waye towarde iustifienge or
forgeuenesse of sinne / is the lawe. God causeth the lawe
to be preached vn to vs and wryteth yt in oure hertes and
maketh vs by good reasons fele that
the lawe is good and ought to be kept and that
they which kepe it not are worthy to be damned. And on the
other syde I fele that there ys no power in me / to kepe
the lawe where vppon it wold shortly folow that I shud
dyspeare / if I were not shortly holpe.
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The order of
iustifienge [1531]
the lawe.
Tyndale makes the law of God an intrinsic factor in justification, cf.
nn to 38/18–19, 106/19–107/23, and 134/7–8. The law is not just
preparatory, as in Luther, for whom the law brings a salutary despair
over ever fulfilling God's precepts with the love he requires. Tyndale
sees the law preceding the announcement of Jesus, but the latter effects
loving submission to the law
(195/21–196/12), closely linked with trust in
God's mercy (196/ 19–22). This emphasis in Tyndale may well derive from
the understanding of Scripture itself as the communication of
"Goddis lawe" as this was emphatically stated in the General Prologue (1395) of the Wycliffite vernacular Bible.
Translation into English is to serve the instruction of every person in
this saving law in an accurate and understandable form, cf.
Deansley 255f. (JW)
God ... vn to
vs. Cf. Rom. 10.14–17.
] Romans
] Jeremiah
kept] [1573], kepe [1531]
I fele . . .
lawe. Cf. Rom. 7.18.
] Romans
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But God which hath begon to cure me and hath layde that
corosy vn to my sores / goeth forth in hys cure / and
setteth hys sonne Iesus before me and all hys passyons and
deeth / and saith to me: thys is my dere sonne / and he
hath prayed for the and hath sofred all thys for the / and
for hys sake I wil forgeue the al that thou hast done
agenst thys good lawe / and I wyll heale
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195/21–22 A lyuely description of our iustification.[1573]
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