A14135:78
A brief declaration of the sacraments expressing the first original how they came up,…A briefe declaration of the sacraments expressing the fyrst oryginall how they came vp,…
A brief declaration of the sacraments expressing the first original how they came up, a[n]d were institute with the true and most sincere meaning and understanding of the same very necessary for all men, that will not err in the true use and receiving thereof. Compiled by the godly learned man William Tyndall.A briefe declaration of the sacraments expressing the fyrst oryginall how they came vp, a[n]d were institute with the true and mooste syncere meaning and vnderstandyng of the same very necessarye for all men, that wyl not erre in the true vse and receauing therof. Compyled by the godly learned man Wyllyam Tyndall.
London: printed by Robert Stoughton. Dwelling within Ludgate, 1548London: printed by Robert Stoughton. Dwellynge within Ludgate, 1548
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Item .i. Reg. vij. Samuel pitched a stone on an end: and called the help stone / Because GOD had there holpen them▪ and given them victory of the philistines.
Item .i. Reg. vij. Samuell pytched a stone on an ende: and called the helpe stone / Because GOD had there holpen them▪ and geuen them vyctory of the philystyans.
Item the last of the .3. of the kings Sedechias came to Ahab with a couple of horns on his head: saying. With these horns shalt thou slay the Assyrians he meant not that Ahab should take these horns & gore at the assyrians. But would that he should believe only that as a beast scattered a cock of hey with his horns so should Ahab scatter the host of the Assyrians with his host.
Item the last of the .3. of the kyngs Sedechias came to Achab with a cople of hornes on hys head: sayinge. Wythe these hornes shalt thou sle the Assyriās he meant not that Achab shuld take these hornes & gore at the assyryans. But wolde that he shuld beleue only that as a beaste scathered a cock of hey with his hornes so shuld Achab scather the hoste of the Assyryans with hys hoste.
Item Num. vi. He that voweth abstinence must let his here grow / to keep ⟨image 35⟩his abstinence in mind And his abstinence is out. He is commanded to shave the head of his abstinence / and to offer such offerings as are there appointed after that he hath shaven of his abstinence. Lo there the here is called his abstinence, and is yet but a memory of his abstinence.