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178 XVI. WILLIAM TYNDALE.clivideth, and maketh sectes / while <strong>the</strong> wisdome <strong>of</strong> oneis that a white Cote is best <strong>to</strong> sarve GodMans wisdomeheresy.jj^ / ^j^^^ a-nothcF saith, a blacke / a-no<strong>the</strong>r, a^°'""grey / [ajno<strong>the</strong>r, a blew :Andwhile one saith 3-that God will heare youre prayer in this place / a-no<strong>the</strong>rsaith in thai place :^ And while -one saith thisPlace.place is holier / and a-no<strong>the</strong>r that place isho^feMhen'"^ hoHcr / and this religion is holyer <strong>the</strong>n that /and this saynte is greater with God <strong>the</strong>n that / 3(and an hundred thousande lyke thinges. INIans v/isdomeMans wisdomeisydoiatry.^^ plavnc ydolatry / ne<strong>the</strong>r is <strong>the</strong>re any o<strong>the</strong>rydolatry <strong>the</strong>n <strong>to</strong> imagen <strong>of</strong> God after mans wisdome.God is not mans imaginacion / but that only whichWhat God ys.he saith <strong>of</strong> hvm-selfe. God is no thino^e but ^i' °his law and his promyses / that is <strong>to</strong> saye /that which he biddeth <strong>the</strong> doo, and that which he biddeth<strong>the</strong> beleve and hope. God is but his worde : as Christ saith,John .viij. ' I am that I saye vn<strong>to</strong> you' / that is <strong>to</strong> saye / thatwhich I preach am I. 'INIy wordes are spirite and lyfe.' 3;God is that only which he testifieth <strong>of</strong> hym-selfe and <strong>to</strong>imagen any o<strong>the</strong>r thinge <strong>of</strong> God <strong>the</strong>n that / is damnableydolatry. Therfore saith <strong>the</strong> .ex viij. Psalme, ' happy are<strong>the</strong>y which sherch <strong>the</strong> testimonies <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> lorde' / that is <strong>to</strong>saye / that which God testifieth and witteneseth vn<strong>to</strong> vs. 37But how shall I that doo, when ye will not let me have histestimonies or wittenesses in a <strong>to</strong>nge which I vnders<strong>to</strong>nde .?Will ye resist god } Will ye forbidde hym <strong>to</strong> geve hisspirite vn<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> laye as well as vn<strong>to</strong> you Hath he not.?made <strong>the</strong> english <strong>to</strong>nge Why forbidde ye hym <strong>to</strong> speake 38.^in <strong>the</strong> english ^ <strong>to</strong>nge <strong>the</strong>n / as well as in <strong>the</strong> latyne 1Fynally, that this thretenynge and forbiddynge <strong>the</strong> laye^ Printed • enhlish.'

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