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Introducing Tyndale

by John Piper, Robert Sheehan, William Tyndale

Among the many memorials to the ‘great and the good’ in London’s Westminster Abbey, there is one made of black marble and inscribed with letters of gold which reads: ‘This tablet was placed here … in thankful commemoration of William Tyndale, B:1490 D:1536, translator of the Holy Scriptures into the language of the

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A copy in the collection, so you can check your own against it.

Introducing Tyndale — Interior page
Interior page

Publication

Date published
Apr 7, 2017
Print status
In print

The Physical Book

Binding
Paperback
Dust jacket
No
Total pages
110 pages
ISBN-13
9781848717558

Reference

E-book / audio
ePub, Mobi
Publisher page
View at publisher

Contents

  • Introduction: ‘Always Singing One Note’—A Vernacular Bible: Why William Tyndale Lived and Died, by John Piper
  • An Extract from Tyndale’s An Answer to Sir Thomas
  • More’s Dialogue
  • What the church is
  • Why Tyndale used this word congregation, rather than church, in the translation of the New Testament
  • Why he useth this word elder, and not priest
  • Why he useth love, rather than charity
  • Why favour, and not grace
  • Why knowledge, and not confession; repentance, and not penance
  • Whether the church were before the gospel, or the gospel before the church
  • Whether the apostles left aught unwritten, that is of necessity to be believed
  • Whether the church can err
  • How a true member of Christ’s church sinneth not; and how he is yet a sinner
  • How a Christian man cannot err, and how he may yet err
  • Faith is ever assailed and fought withal
  • The manner and order of our election
  • Whether the pope and his sect be Christ’s church or no
  • The arguments wherewith the pope would prove himself the church are solved
  • Another argument
  • Epilogue: William Tyndale’s Legacy, by Robert J. Sheehan