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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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scribe me what he meaneth by the seconde iustifienge. I know
no moare to doo / then when I haue receaued all mercy and
all forgeuenesse of Christ frely / to goo and powre out the
same vppon my neyghboure.
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first
iustifienge ... seconde iustifienge. Cf. CWM 6/1.391/20–27.
More agrees that humans cannot merit the grace of Baptism but asserts
that after Baptism they must perform good works. Tyndale rejects the
logic of this second step, for what can supplement the one gift of God's
mercy and forgiveness? (JB)
However, More anticipates the position of Richard Hooker (?1554–1600),
who distinguishes between the righteousness of justification
and the righteousness of sanctification, cf. PS 3.203n1. Cf. "A Learned
Discourse of Justification," in The Folger Library
Edition of
the Works of Richard
Hooker
5, gen. ed. W. Speed
Hill, Belknap (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990) 113/16–114/4.
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M. Dauid lost not his faith / when he committed
adultery. T. No /
and therfore he coude not continue in synne /
but repented assone
as his faulte was told him. But was he not
reconsyled by fayth only / and not by dedes? sayd he not
haue mercy on me lorde for thy greate
mercye and for the multitude of thy mercies put
awaye my synne.
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More [1531]
David [1531]
Dauid . . . repented. Cf. 2 Sam.
11–12.1–25. In a passage not found in Unio
Dissidentium, Augustine contrasts David's single lapse into
adultery with Solomon's continued submission to his idolatrous wives.
Cf. Christian Doctrine (AD C396–97) 3.21.31 (CCL
32.96; 1NPNF 2.565).
] 2 Samuel
Tindale [1531]
] Psalms
Psal. 51. [1531]
O
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And agayne / make me heare ioye & gladnesse / that the
bones which thou hast broken maye reioyse. That is latt me
heare thy voyce that my synne is forgeuen and then I am
saffe and wyll reioyse . And afterward he knowlegeth that
god delyteth not in sacrifices for synnes / but that a
troubled spirite and a broken herte is that whych god
requireth. And when the peace was made / he prayeth boldly
and familiarly to god / that he wold be good to Sion and Ierusalem / and sayth that then last of all when god hath forgeuen vs
of mercy / and hath done vs good for our euell / we
shall offer sacrifice of thankes to him agayne. So that our
dedes are but thankesgeuynge. When we haue sinned / we goo
with a repentynge herte vn to Christes bloude / and there
wash it of thorow faith. And oure dedes are but thankes
geuenge to god to helpe oure neyboures at their
nede / for which oure neyboures and ech of them owe vs as
moch
agayne at oure nede. So that the testament of
forgeuenesse of
synnes / is bylt vppon faith in christes bloude
and not on workes.
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] Psalms
] Psalms
] Psalms
204/24–30 When we haue offended God we must returne quickly by
repentaunce and call vpon God to heare vs for Christ our Sauiours
sake.[1573]
] Psalms
sinned . . .
wash it of. Cf. Rev. 1.5.
] Revelation
testament of] Testament or
[1573]
] Romans
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Master More wyll runne to the pope for forgeuenesse a pena
& culpa.
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