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I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.

William Tyndale

Boys, Scripture, Causes

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The Law and the Gospel are two keys. The Law is the key that shutteth up all men under condemnation, and the Gospel is the key which opens the door and lets them out.

William Tyndale

Bible, Religious, Men

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Christ is with us until the world's end. Let his little flock be bold therefore.

William Tyndale

World, Littles, Christ

William Tyndale (1848). “Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures”, p.135

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Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.

William Tyndale

Children, Father, Eagles

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We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scripture, and read it for himself, taking God for his teacher.

William Tyndale

Teacher, Teaching, Men

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God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.

William Tyndale

Spring, Roots, Goodness

William Tyndale (1848). “Doctrinal treatises and introductions to different portions of the Holy Scriptures”, p.296

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We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.” To which Tyndale passionately responded: “I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!

William Tyndale

Boys, Years, Law

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The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.

William Tyndale

Church, Christianity, Institutions

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To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

William Tyndale

Trust, God, Faith

William Tyndale, John Frith (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith”, p.317

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I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

William Tyndale

Mother, Truth, Eye

William Tyndale (1848). “Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures”, p.20

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There is no work better than another to please God: to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a souter [cobbler], or an apostle, all is one; to wash dishes and to preach is all one, as touching tho deed, to please God.

William Tyndale

Water, Touching, Cobblers

"Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures".

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For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?

William Tyndale

What Matters, Names, Bishops

William Tyndale (1848). “Doctrinal treatises and introductions to different portions of the Holy Scriptures”, p.135

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Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.

William Tyndale

Heart, Men, Joy

William Tyndale, John Frith, Thomas Russell (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ”, p.490

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I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me.

William Tyndale

Jesus, Honor, Records

"Foxe's Book of Martyrs". Book by John Foxe, March 20, 1563.

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Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into all languages, of all Christian people, and that they might be read and known.

William Tyndale

Christian, People, Desire

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It is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist.

William Tyndale

Impossible, Christ, Antichrist

William Tyndale, John Frith (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith”, p.220

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All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.

William Tyndale

Suffering, Rewards, Way

William Tyndale, John Frith (1831). “The works of Tyndale”, p.43

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The Scriptures sprang out of God.

William Tyndale

Scripture

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Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.

William Tyndale

Kindness, Men, World

William Tyndale (1848). “Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures”, p.254

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Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.

William Tyndale

Wise, Jesus, Men

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Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.

William Tyndale

Men, Crafts, Occupation

William Tyndale (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith”, p.138

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And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.

William Tyndale

Heart, Blood, Baptized In

William Tyndale, John Frith, Thomas Russell (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ”, p.517

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For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.

William Tyndale

Son, And Love, Might

William Tyndale, John Frith, Thomas Russell (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: The works of Tyndale, (continued:) An answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue ; An exposition upon the 5th, 6th, and 7th chapters of Matthew ; An exposition upon the 1st epistle of St. John ; A pathway into the Holy Scripture ; The sacrament of baptism, and the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Jesus Christ”, p.204

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they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.

William Tyndale

Men, Causes, Scripture

William Tyndale (1850). “An Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue: The Supper of the Lord After the True Meaning of John VI. and 1 Cor. XI. And Wm. Tracy's Testament Expounded”, p.191

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My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

William Tyndale

Dark, Lamps, Sitting

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Died: October 6, 1536
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