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Expositions of Scripture

Practice of Prelates

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Expositions and Notes

Sundry Portions

The Holy Scriptures

Together With

The Peactice of Prelates

WILLIAM TYNDALE,

Martyr, 1586

Edited For

RECTOR OF HASILBURY BRYAN, DORSET ;

FORMERLY FELLOW OF ST JOHn’s COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND PROFESSOR OF NATURAL

Philosophy in the East India Company’s College at Haileybury

Printed At

The University Press

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Prologue to Exposition of St Matthew’s Gospel 3

Exposition of Chaps, v. vi. and vii. of St Matthew’s Gospel 16

Introductory notice to exposition of first Epistle of St John 133

Prologue to the same 136

Exposition of the first Epistle of St John 145

Mai’ginal notes on first twenty-one chapti”s of St Matthew’s Gospel 227

Introductory notice to Practice of Prelates 237

Preface to the Practice of Prelates 240

The Practice of Prelates 249

Exposition

Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Chapters

[tyndale, II.]

[Introductory Notice

In the adyertisement prefixed to the first Tolume of this reprint of the writmgs of Tyndale, the editor announced the intention of arranging them in three classes, Iz. doctrinal and hortatory treatises; helps to a right understanding of the scriptures, consisting of introductory prefaces, expositions, and notes upon the sacred text; and lastly his replies, and exposures of the adversaries of the Reformation.

The first volume has accordingly comprehended the whole of the first class, and of the introductory prefaces, or prologues, as Tyndale styled them. Proceeding, therefore, to the expositions, the present volume will commence with Tyndale’s exposition of the Sermon on the mount, as coming first in the order of the scriptures, though not published till 1532, and consequently some months later than his exposition of the first epistle of St John^. For the following reprint, that of Day in 1573, the peculiar readings of which will be marked D., has been collated with a copy of the exposition in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth, numbered 401 in Dr Maitland’s account of rare books in that library, and of which he has said that it may be a specimen of the first edition. The readings of the Lambeth edition will be distinguished by the letter L. ; and the marginal notes found in it will have the initials W. T. attached to them, to mark that Tyndale is to be held responsible for them alone, the other marginal notes being probably composed by Foxe, as editor for Day.]

[) See Anderson’s Annals, VoL i. 8 and 9; and Biogr. Notice of Tyndale, pp. li. and lii.]

HAN EXPOSITION UPPON THE V. VI. VII. CHAPTERS OF MATHEW,