Myles Coverdale on the Pope’s fear of scripture in the mother tongue

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Forsomuch now as the word of God is the only truth that driveth away all lies, and discloseth all joggling and deceit, therefore is our Baalam of Rome so loath that the scripture should be known in the mother, tongue; lest, if kings and princes, specially above all other, were exercised therein, they should reclaim and challenge again their due authority, which he falsely hath usurped so many years, and so to tie him shorter; and lest the people, being taught by the word of God, should fall from the false feigned obedience of him and his disguised apostles into the true obedience commanded by God’s own mouth; as namely, to obey their prince, to obey father and mother, &c., and not to step over father and mother’s belly to enter into his painted religions, as his hypocrites teach. For he knoweth well enough, that if the clear sun of God’s word come once to the heat of the day, it shall drive away all the foul mist of his devilish doctrines. Therefore were it more to the maintenance of antichrist’s kingdom, that the world were still in ignorance and blindness, and that the scripture should never come to light.

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