 | Henry Paterson Cameron - Bible - 1885 - 204 pages
...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...boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scriptures than thou doest.' " These words last quoted seem to have been suggested by a remarkable... | |
 | Robert Demaus - Bible - 1886 - 506 pages
...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 a boy that 1 Preface to the Pentateuch : Works, Vol. I. p. 393. There is no doubt that in his reference to " sophistry,"... | |
 | George Park Fisher - Church history - 1887 - 778 pages
...Bible in their own tongue. " If God spare my life," he said to a polemical divine, " I will cause a boj that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost." He lived long enough to fulfil his purpose. Another young man, John Frith, having taken his... | |
 | Andrew Edgar - Bible - 1889 - 424 pages
...Pope's laws, Tyndale said in the heat of his temper : — " I defy the Pope and all his laws : and if God spare my life, ere many years I will cause...boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scriptures than thou doest." And the motives that led Tyndale to cherish this high and grand design,... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1889 - 954 pages
...moment one thought was at his heart. " If God spare my life," he said to a learned controversialist, " ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the scripture than thou dost." But he was a man of forty before his dream became fact. Drawn from his retirement in .Gloucestershire... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1889 - 944 pages
...moment one thought was at his heart. " If God spare my life," he said to a learned controversialist, " ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the scripture than thou dost." But he was a man of forty before his dream became fact. Drawn from his retirement in Gloucestershire... | |
 | Universalism - 1890 - 540 pages
...done, from the Latin, but from the original tongues. In 1520 he made a boast to a Catholic priest, " 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. " The earliest edition of his complete work was printed... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1891 - 382 pages
...the Diocese of Worcester, and warned. In dispute afterwards with a Worcestershire 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." About 1523 — when Luther had returned to Wittenberg and published a too... | |
 | Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus - European fiction - 1891 - 378 pages
...which William Tyndale was to see. " If God will spare my life," said he to a learned ecclesiastic, " I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of Scripture than thou dost." These books of unsparing wit and liveliest humor had not been read at all,... | |
 | Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond - Books - 1892 - 462 pages
...in argument with an opponent that he was tempted to exclaim, "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 shall know more of the Scripture than thou knowest," words that led to his falling under suspicion... | |
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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. 
