He said to Sir Thomas More, " Grant that the Word
of God, I mean the text of Scripture, may go abroad in
our English tongue ; and my brother, William Tyndale,
and I have done, and will promise you to write no more."

This was the spirit of both men. It was not for glosses
or comments they contended, and such men never
attempted to form a party, and died without forming one.
There were Lutherans and Oalvinists, but the term " Tyn-
daliau " occurs only once in the letter of an enemy, and it
never was adopted.
Tyndale next directed his labouis to the Old Testament,
learning Hebrew under the Jewish Eabbis of Germany,



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fn the herteSo that a man bringefh forth good

tcorkcs of his atcne scord tcithout ccmpulGo

of the la»e,ccithout fcare of threatchinges or

curfinges.yc c and with out all manclr rdpefle

or loue pnto anj temporal plcariire,Butof the

eery potxicr of rhe fprcte rcccaccd thoron? fai*

th,A$ thoirreadcft.Iosni. Hcgaue ihcm po»

tt>cr to be the lonn'cs of God in that the^i bcle»

ucd on his name. And ftfthat potper they trot

fccfo that he trhich hath the fprttc of chrift is

row no moare a childe : he nether Icameth ot

hjorkfth note an^ longer for pa^ncoftherod*

de or for feare of bcoggcs br plcafurcof ap»

ples,But doth althingcs of his atcne courage

As chrift f3)ieth.Ioah.Di).He that bclcueih ort

me fhall hauc riucrs of lyuinge water flotcingc

out of his belye.That iSjAlTgobd ieorkes ad

all giftes of grace fpringe out of him natural*

lye and b)/ their atcne accorde. Thou neadefl

not to icrcft good trorkes outof him as a mS

icold trringe vcriuce out of aabbes.Nay thei

foto naturally out of him as fpringes out off

Fiilles or rockes.
