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Here is a shorte sentence and a false erronyouse iudgement gyuen by Tyndale, vppon all crystē people that haue ben aneyled synnys crystēdome fyrst began. And he is ledde therto by two specyall motyues / the tone foly, the tother falsshed. For of hys foly he rekeneth hym selfe sure euery thyng to be false that is not euydently wryten in holy scrypture / whyche one thynge is the tone halfe of all the fals fundacyon wheruppon Luther and Tyndale haue bylded all theyr heresyes. For vppon thys Tyndale sayth there is not any promyse of thys sacrament wryten in scrypture: erg[…] there was no promyse made by god. whyche argument is so good, that euery boye in scolys laugheth it to scorne & well they may / for all the worlde can neuer make it good.

Hys other motyue is falsede, whyche is the antecedent of the same argument / that is to wyt that thys sacrament hath no promyse in scrypture. For it hath an expresse promyse in the […]pystle of saynt Iamys / where he byddeth that yf any be syk,¹ he shall induce the preestes to come and praye for hym and anoynte hym wyth oyle, & the prayour of […]ayth shall hele the syk man / and yf he be in synne they shall be forgyuen hym. Nay sayth Tyndale here we maye se that the aneylynge doth nothynge / for saynt Iamys sayth that the prayour of fayth shall hele the man. Thys is a sure argument. Lo, bycause saynt Iamys geueth the great effecte to the faythfull prayour: therfore the oyle doth nothynge at all. If it do nothynge at all towarde the remyssyon of synnes: why wolde saynt Iamys haue it there, that myght sauyng for the sacramēt as well be thens as there / except that Tyndale wene that saynt Iamys were so wyse in naturall thynges, that he thought oyle a mete medycyne for euery sore.

Thys place in saynt Iamis dyd so preace vppō Luther / that he was fayne to say that the epystle was neuer of saynt Iamys makynge, nor nothynge had in it of any apostolycall spyryt / but he that so sayd was full of an apostatycall spyryte.

Of the sacrament of penauns.

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1. Iacobi.5 ↩