An exposycyon vpon the v.vi.vii. chapters of Mathewe which thre chapters are the keye and the dore of the scrypture, and the restoring agayne of Moses lawe corrupt by ye scrybes and pharyses. And the exposycyon is the restorynge agayne of Chrystes lawe corrupte by the Papystes. Item before the boke, thou hast a prologe very necessary, conteynynge the whole sum of the couenaunt made betwene God and vs, vpon whiche we be baptysed to kepe it. And after thou haste a table that ledeth the by the notes in the margentes, vnto al that is intreated of in the booke.

Tyndale, William, d. 1536.

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Nat all that say to me, lord lorde shall entre in to the kyngdome of heuen, but he that fulfylleth the wyll of my father whiche is in he∣uen. Many wyll say vnto me at that daye, lorde lorde dyd we not prophelye in thy name? and in thy name cast out deuelles? and dyd we not in thy name many myra∣cles? Then wyll I confesse vnto them. I neuer knewe you, departe from me ye workers of iniquite.

This doublynge of lorde hath vehemensy & betokeneth that they whiche shalbe excluded are suche as thynke them selues better & per∣fitter then other men, & to deserue heuen with theyr holy workes, nat for them selues onely but also for other. And by that they prophe∣syed, by whiche thou mayst vnderstande the en∣terpretynge of scripture, and by that they cast out deuelles / and dyd myracles in Christes Page [unnumbered] name (and for all that they are yet workers of wykednesse, and do nat the wyll of the father which is ī heuen) it is playne that they be false prophetes, and euen the same of which Christe warned before. ❧ / ❀ / ❀ / ❧

*❀ And nowe for as muche as Christe and his apostles warne vs that suche shall come, and descrybe vs the fassiōs of their vysures (Christ{is} name, holy churche, holy fathers and fyftene hundred yeres, with scripture and myracles) and cōmaunde vs to turne our eyes from their visures, and consider their frutes, and cut them vp and loke within whether they be sounde in the corē and kernell or no, and gyue vs a rule to trye them by, is it excuse good ynough to say. God wyl nat let so great a multitude erre. I wyll folowe the most parte and beleue as my fathers dyd / and as the preachers teache / and wyll nat busy my selfe / chose them / the faute is theirs and nat oures / God shal nat laye it to our charge yf we erre. ☜ / ❀ / ☞

*❀ where suche wordes be / there are the false prophetes all redy / for where no loue to the truthe is, there are the false prophetes / and where suche wordes be, there to be no loue to the truthe is playne, Ergo where suche wordes be, there be the false prophetes in theyr full swynge by Paules rule .2. Thessa. 2. Another cōclusion where no loue to the truthe is, the be false prophetes. The greatest of y^e worlde haue least loue to the truth. Ergo the false pro¦phetes be the chapelanes of the greatest which Page cvii may with the swerde compell the rest. As the kynges of Israell compelled to worshype the golden calues. And by false prophetes vnder stande false teachers, as Peter calleth them & wycked expounders of the scripture.

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