 | Young people - 1875 - 690 pages
...This roused the righteous anger of Tyndale, and he replied, " I defy the Pope and all his laws, and if God spare my life ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth a plough to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost." No sooner was this spread abroad than persecution... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1876 - 298 pages
...the pope. Tynda'c replied in these memorable words : WILLIAM TTNDALE. BonN 1477 ; MABTYEED 153C. '' I defy the pope and all his laws : if God spare my life, ere many years, I will eause boys that drive the plough to know more of the Scripture thanthou docst." His life henceforward... | |
 | James Austin Bastow - 1876 - 764 pages
...edition, he nobly redeemed his bold pledge given to the priest in Gloucestershire many years before, "If God spare my life, ere many years, I will cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scriptures than you do." He also put headings to the chapters. The following is... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...himself ill-read in his Latin Bible, said, " If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause that a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost." He went to London in 1523 ; failed to obtain a place in the household of Cuthbert Tunstal, then... | |
 | 1883 - 304 pages
...yet into English. So Tyndale resolved to translate the New Testament into English, and he said : ' I defy the pope and all his laws. If God spare my...cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of tho Scripture than learned men and priests did.' All this made his enemies more and more spiteful.... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1877 - 802 pages
...the Pope's.' Master Tyndale hearing that answered him, ' I defy the Pope and all his laws;' and said, 'If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause...shall know more of the Scripture than thou doest.' " It is very interesting to mark the dawn of Tyndalo'a great purpose of translating the Scriptures... | |
 | 1877 - 848 pages
...replied, "I defy the Pope and all his laws;" and then he added the now memorable words, "If God gpare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than you do." These words he made good. He was an excellent scholar.... | |
 | Will Converse Wood - Church and state - 1877 - 404 pages
...had affirmed, "We were better to be without God's laws than the pope's," he said, " If God spare rriy life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scriptures than he."1 Tyndale's version appeared in 1526. Since Wycliffe's day,... | |
 | William Maxwell Blackburn - Christianity - 1879 - 752 pages
...Testament." One learned man said to him, "We were better be without God's laws than the pope's." He replied, "I defy the pope and all his laws. ... If God spare...ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scripture than thou dost." Here, then, was his motive. He would translate... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 720 pages
...the diocese of Worcester, and warned. In dispute afterwards with a Worcestersliire divine, he said, " If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause...boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scriptures than thou dost." Afterward going to London, he was received into the house of Humphrey Monmouth,... | |
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If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou doest. 
