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Here is a shorte sentence and a false erronyouse iudge∣ment gyuen by Tyndale, vppon all crystē people that haue [ B] 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 scryp¦ture / whyche one thynge is the tone halfe of all the fals fun¦dacyon 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 [ C] hath no promyse in scrypture. For it hath an expresse pro∣myse in the ••pystle of saynt Iamys / where he byddeth that yf any be syk,* 1.1 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 for¦gyuen 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 argu∣ment. 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 syn∣nes: why wolde saynt Iamys haue it there, that myght sa∣uyng for the sacramēt as well be thens as there / except that Tyndale wene that saynt Iamys were so wyse in naturall