The Other Story That Changed The World!

Chartridge Mission Church

The Other Story That Changed The World! #WilliamTyndale #Story #Sacrifice #Exile #SecretAgents #Betrayal #Martyrdom #500th #Anniversary #Faith #Scriptures #Adventure #TheTyndaleSociety #BrianEdwards #KenSmythe #Bible #Translation #Teaching #Christian #Christianity #Jesus  #ChartridgeMissionChurch #Chesham  Author Brian Edwards brings his book on William Tyndale to life—a story of sacrifice, exile, secret agents, betrayal and martyrdom. With lots of illustrations, this adventure is both educational and entertaining. 2026 marks the 500th Anniversary of Tyndale's New Testament Translation into English. Brian Edwards, a prolific author and representative for The Tyndale Society, gave this talk at the historic Chartridge Mission Church in England, UK.   Brian Edwards Books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Brian-H-Edwards/author/B0H4XB37D5?sr=8-4&shoppingPortalEnabled=true  Ken Smythe's YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLtfVhcCUFsHo6mxlPChSfzACF5LaKY2  Chartridge Mission Church, a beacon of faith, was founded in 1844 and remains in the village of Chartridge, just outside Chesham, in the picturesque Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, England, UK.  We are a warm and welcoming fellowship and would be delighted to have you visit us in person. Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm, followed by refreshments.   Our Church is fully accessible, with wheelchair ramps and an accessible toilet, ensuring everyone can participate in our services.     Chartridge Mission Church, Chapel Lane, Chartridge, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, HP5 2TH  The village Church with an international audience.  Support our work at Chartridge Mission Church:  Donations via Stewardship.org.uk:    https://www.stewardship.org.uk/partners/20005300    Please make cheques payable to Chartridge Mission Church and send them to the address above, for the attention of Pastor Barry Kempson.   Recorded on Sunday, 18th October 2026.     Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm.  www.Chartridge.UK   The Friendliest Fellowship.

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00:00Glow forth and tell, O Church of God arise,

00:06Sorrow in the strength, which by storm all supplies,

00:12Go till all nations his great name adore,

00:18And serve him more than heeth for evermore.

00:25Well, good evening, everyone.

00:27Good evening, everyone. It's wonderful to be able to gather in the name of the Lord here in Charteridge,

00:32especially with Brian Edwards coming to share with what he has to tell us this evening.

00:36But it is a privilege not only to be here in Charteridge,

00:39but also to be in the presence of the Lord as we believe that we are.

00:43For Christ and God the Father, he tells us, dwells in us.

00:47He's not far away. He isn't lost or hidden or busy somewhere, but he is with us always.

00:542 Timothy 3, verse 10.

00:58But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering,

01:04love, perseverance, persecutions, afflictions which happened to me

01:08at Antioch, at Arsonium, at Lystra.

01:12What persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me.

01:16Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

01:21But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

01:27But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of,

01:31knowing from whom you have learned them,

01:34and that from childhood you have known the holy scriptures,

01:37which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

01:43All scripture is given by inspiration of God,

01:46and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof,

01:50for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

01:53that the man of God may be complete and thoroughly equipped for every good work.

02:00Amen.

02:01And to that end, we are meeting tonight,

02:03and Brian is going to share what he has to share from the Tyndale Bible and the Tyndale Foundation.

02:09I thought it would be helpful this evening if we take a reading from Tyndale's New Testament,

02:14and on the screen I hope you can see it.

02:16We do know approximately how people spoke then.

02:20I can answer that in Q&A if you want to later as to how we know,

02:23but I'm not going to try and copy the words from there.

02:27It's sufficient to say, basically, there was no spelling then,

02:32so as you spoke, so you wrote.

02:35So if there are vowels and consonants in the word on the screen,

02:39they would almost always be pronounced.

02:42So watch the screen.

02:46Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels,

02:50and yet had no love,

02:51I were even as sounding brass,

02:54and as a tinkling cymbal,

02:56and though I could prophesy,

02:58and understood all secretes,

03:00and all knowledge,

03:02yea, if I had all faith,

03:04so that I could move mountains out of their places,

03:08and yet had no love,

03:10I were nothing.

03:11And though I bestowed all my goodness to feed the poor,

03:16and though I gave my body even that I burned,

03:19and yet I had no love,

03:21it profiteth me nothing.

03:24Love suffereth long,

03:26and is courteous.

03:28Love envieth not,

03:30love doth not,

03:31frowardly swelleth not,

03:33dealeth not dishonestly,

03:34seeketh not her owen,

03:36it is not provoked to anger,

03:39thinketh not evil,

03:40reoiceth not in iniquity,

03:42but reoiceth in the truth,

03:45suffereth all fingers,

03:47believeth all fingers,

03:49hopeth all fingers,

03:51endureth in all fingers,

03:53though that prophesying fail,

03:55other tongues shall cease,

03:58and knowledge vanish away,

04:01yet love faileth never away,

04:03for our knowledge is unparfeet,

04:07and our prophesying is unparfeet,

04:10but when that which is perfect is come,

04:13then that which is unparfeet shall be done away.

04:17When I was a child,

04:19a speck as a child,

04:21I understood as a child,

04:24I imagined as a child,

04:26but as soon I was a man,

04:28I put away a childishness.

04:31Now we see in a glass,

04:33even a dead expear king,

04:35but then shall we see face to face,

04:38now I know unparfeet,

04:41and then shall I know,

04:43even as I am no one,

04:45now abides faith,

04:47hope,

04:47and love,

04:49even these three,

04:50but the chief of all these

04:52is love.

04:54Early in the 16th century,

04:57Europe was changing,

04:59and it was changing rapidly.

05:01It was the age of the Enlightenment

05:04when men were thinking more freely.

05:07The French called it the Renaissance,

05:09meaning new birth.

05:11New ideas were bursting out

05:13in art and literature,

05:15architecture and politics.

05:17Leonardo da Vinci,

05:18Raphael,

05:19Michelangelo,

05:20Machiavelli,

05:20they were all contemporaries

05:22of William Tyndale.

05:24In 1516,

05:26Thomas More had published

05:27Utopia.

05:28It was an instant bestseller

05:30in his utopian

05:32make-believe perfect society

05:33there would be

05:34freedom of religion,

05:38freedom from class distinction,

05:40which was very interesting

05:42from the most bitter enemy

05:44of the evangelicals

05:45who vowed

05:45if he could,

05:47he would put all evangelicals

05:48into the frying pan

05:49if he could get hold of them.

05:51And when he did,

05:52he did.

05:54But that was his real world,

05:56not Utopia.

05:58Men believed that by knowledge

06:00they could vastly improve their lot,

06:02and Utopia was a kind

06:04of Christian humanism,

06:05some call it even

06:06a communism.

06:07It had an immense effect

06:09on the minds of scholars.

06:11It was also the age

06:12of discovery.

06:14Great mariners

06:15were opening up

06:15the continents.

06:16Christopher Columbus

06:17discovered the West Indies

06:18and America.

06:19The crew of Ferdinand Magallan

06:21reached the Philippines

06:22to complete the first

06:23round-the-world voyage,

06:24and Vasco da Gama

06:26was the first to sail

06:27directly from Europe

06:29to India.

06:30But, from our point of view,

06:32more importantly,

06:33it was the age

06:34of invention.

06:36The power of the watermill,

06:38mechanical clocks,

06:40and above all,

06:42the printing press.

06:43There were scores

06:43on the continent,

06:4540 in one street

06:46in Antwerp alone.

06:47Caxton was here

06:48in Fleet Street

06:49in London

06:49in 1476.

06:51A world of reading

06:53was opening up.

06:55From the 1520s,

06:57the English language

06:58was changing.

07:00Middle English

07:01was changing

07:04into modern English.

07:06And the Bible

07:07of John Wycliffe

07:08and his team

07:08just 100 years earlier

07:10was becoming unreadable.

07:12Recent research

07:13shows that possibly,

07:14believe it or not,

07:15half the population

07:16could read

07:17up to a point.

07:18Many people could read

07:19even though

07:20they couldn't write.

07:21That was not uncommon.

07:23The printing press

07:24made it easier

07:26to read than handwriting

07:27and the printed Bible

07:28would be a huge incentive

07:31for learning to read.

07:32And here in England,

07:34religion

07:35was in a turmoil.

07:38On the death

07:39of his brother Arthur,

07:40Henry VIII

07:41came to the throne

07:41in 1509,

07:43a young,

07:44handsome,

07:45ambitious young man.

07:47He married

07:48his brother's widow,

07:49Catherine,

07:50but after many

07:51miscarriages,

07:52she could only

07:53produce a girl,

07:54the future Mary I,

07:55and Henry

07:56wanted a boy.

07:58So he wanted

07:59to divorce

08:00and marry Anne Boleyn.

08:02But the Pope,

08:04Clement VII,

08:05wouldn't play ball

08:06and Henry's Chancellor,

08:08Cardinal Wolsey,

08:08failed to persuade him.

08:10Thomas More

08:10took up his place

08:12and he was

08:13no more successful.

08:15And in all this,

08:17the Church of Rome

08:18could not remain

08:19unchallenged.

08:20It's a matter

08:21of history

08:22that the

08:2416th century

08:25Roman Catholic Church

08:26here and across Europe

08:28was unbelievably corrupt.

08:31Many popes,

08:33priests,

08:33monks

08:33lived immoral

08:35and worldly lives.

08:37Many priests

08:38were totally ignorant

08:39of biblical truth

08:40and they preyed

08:41on the superstitious people.

08:43That magnificent edifice,

08:46the building of

08:47St. Peter's

08:47in Rome,

08:48began in 1506

08:50and the beautiful structure

08:52took a hundred years

08:53to complete.

08:54To fund it,

08:56Pope Julius

08:56introduced indulgences,

08:59free time

09:00of purgatory

09:02for a price

09:05at exorbitant prices.

09:07His successor,

09:08Leo X,

09:09simply ramped up

09:10the sales.

09:12It was also

09:13the age of relics.

09:14The castle church

09:15in Wittenberg

09:16boasted over

09:175,000 relics,

09:19each one offering

09:19a hundred days

09:20of purgatory.

09:21It included

09:22a rock

09:23spattered

09:23with Jesus' blood,

09:25some hair

09:26of Christ

09:26and part

09:27of his purple robe,

09:28also pieces

09:29of his gown,

09:31veil and girdle

09:32of Mary

09:33and even some milk

09:34from her breasts.

09:36Oh,

09:36there were 35 pieces

09:37of the cross,

09:39which isn't surprising

09:40because according

09:41to Erasmus,

09:42their great theologian,

09:43there were sufficient

09:44pieces of the cross

09:46to float a battleship.

09:49Erasmus,

09:50since we mention him,

09:52the Church of Rome's

09:53greatest theologian

09:54and scholar of the day

09:55was disgusted

09:56when in Canterbury

09:57he was expected

09:58to kiss the skulls

09:59and jawbones,

10:00arms and legs

10:01of the saints.

10:03He wrote,

10:04no word of Christ

10:05is heard in the pulpits.

10:07I doubt

10:08whether in the whole

10:10history of Christianity

10:11the heads of the Church

10:13have been so grossly worldly

10:14as at the present moment.

10:17Pious Dean Collet

10:19of St Paul's in London

10:20went further,

10:22O priests,

10:23O priesthood,

10:24O the detestable impiety

10:26of those miserable priests

10:28of whom this age of ours

10:29contains a great multitude,

10:31who fear not to rush

10:33from the bosom

10:33of some foul harlot

10:35into the temple

10:35of the Church,

10:36to the altar of Christ,

10:38to the mysteries of God,

10:39abandoned creatures

10:41on whom the vengeance

10:42of God

10:43will one day

10:44fall the heavier

10:45the more shamelessly

10:46they have intruded

10:48themselves

10:48on the divine office.

10:51They were,

10:52unfortunately,

10:53ineffective.

10:54They weren't

10:55the only voices

10:56crying out

10:56against the state

10:57of the Church.

10:58But they were ineffective

11:00for two reasons.

11:01First,

11:02they didn't go

11:02to the cause

11:03of the problem,

11:03which was a total

11:04ignorance of God's word

11:06and the gospel.

11:07And second,

11:08a fear of the consequences.

11:10Erasmus once said,

11:12I follow the Pope

11:13and the Emperor

11:13when they do well

11:15because it is pious

11:16to do so.

11:17I fear their bad decisions

11:19because it is safe

11:21to do so.

11:23There was no Bible

11:25in English.

11:27Many priests

11:28couldn't read Latin

11:29and they were not

11:29interested in the Bible

11:31even if they could.

11:32Any bits of translation

11:34so far

11:35had been translated

11:36from the 4th century

11:37Latin by Jerome

11:39known as the Vulgate.

11:41There was almost nothing

11:43until John Wycliffe

11:44and his team

11:45provided an English Bible

11:46around 1380.

11:48But this was handwritten

11:49and therefore copies

11:51were large volumes.

11:53Nevertheless,

11:54it had a huge influence

11:55as the Lollards,

11:57his followers,

11:58preached across the country.

11:59But it was a translation

12:01into Middle English

12:03and as we said,

12:05it came from a Latin translation

12:06and Anglo-Saxon

12:08or Old English

12:09had changed

12:10into Middle English

12:11and was now changing again.

12:14Conversation was changing

12:15into Modern English,

12:18our English.

12:19So Wycliffe's Middle English Bible

12:21was frankly becoming unreadable.

12:24Most countries in Europe

12:26by now had a translation

12:27of the Bible

12:28in their own language.

12:29but in England

12:30things were very different.

12:34By the constitutions of Oxford

12:371408-1409

12:39it was forbidden

12:40on pain of death

12:41and excommunication

12:43for anyone

12:44to read the Bible in English

12:46without a bishop's license.

12:48Anyway,

12:49why would they need it?

12:50French

12:51was the language

12:52of royal court

12:53and society.

12:54Henry claimed

12:55to be king of England

12:56and France

12:57and Latin

12:59was the language

12:59of the church

13:00and law.

13:02English was left

13:03to the commoners

13:05and the church claimed

13:06they wouldn't understand

13:07the Bible

13:07even if they had it.

13:09The church told them

13:10what to believe.

13:11There was no need

13:13for a Bible.

13:14And to reinforce

13:16the constitutions

13:18of Oxford

13:18on the 4th of April

13:201519

13:21a woman and six men

13:23were burnt to death

13:24in Coventry

13:25for teaching their children

13:26the Lord's Prayer

13:28the Ten Commandments

13:29and the Apostles' Creed

13:31in English.

13:34That

13:34was all about to change.

13:37In May 1453

13:39Constantinople

13:40Istanbul

13:41as we know it today

13:42the bastion of Christianity

13:43in the East

13:44fell to the armies

13:45of Islam

13:46and vital documents

13:47were brought to the West

13:48by fleeing scholars

13:49including

13:50manuscripts

13:51of the

13:53New Greek

13:54New Testament.

13:56Erasmus

13:57the great scholar

13:58and theologian

13:59of the Catholic Church

14:00and we've already met

14:01arrived in Cambridge

14:02in 1511

14:03to lecture in Greek

14:04and five years later

14:06he published

14:06the first complete

14:07New Testament

14:08in the original

14:09Greek text.

14:11But who

14:12could read

14:12Greek?

14:15Tindale was born

14:16around 1491

14:18coincidentally

14:20the same year

14:21as King Henry

14:22in Gloucestershire

14:23and went up to

14:24Oxford

14:25in 1507

14:27transferring to Cambridge

14:28around 1519.

14:31By 1516

14:33many young men

14:34in Cambridge

14:34were now

14:35enthusiastically

14:36reading and discussing

14:37the New Testament

14:38in the original language.

14:40Reformation theology

14:42was beginning

14:43to form

14:44in their minds.

14:45Ad fontes

14:46go back

14:47to the source

14:48and

14:49sola scriptura

14:50scripture

14:51alone.

14:53And so

14:53the decisive

14:54trio

14:55sola gratia

14:56sola fide

14:57sola scriptura

14:58by grace alone

14:59through faith

15:00alone

15:01scripture

15:02was taken up

15:03by scores

15:04of young scholars

15:05not least

15:06at Cardinal

15:06Wolsey's

15:07Pride and Joy

15:08Cardinal College

15:09now Christchurch

15:10Oxford.

15:11Wolsey himself

15:12however

15:13was vehemently

15:14violently

15:15opposed

15:16to reform.

15:18Men like

15:19Gardner

15:20Ridley

15:20Bilney

15:21Latimer

15:22Cramer

15:22Barnes

15:22Coverdell

15:23Fifth

15:23Parker

15:24Grindle

15:24and of course

15:25William Tyndale

15:25himself

15:26names

15:26some of which

15:27you will be

15:27familiar with

15:28were all there

15:30at Cambridge

15:30though not at the

15:31same time.

15:33Nine out of those

15:34met a martyr's death

15:35where they were

15:37discussing the doctrines

15:38of the Reformation

15:39from their Greek

15:40New Testament.

15:42And it was this

15:43conviction that was

15:44driving Tyndale

15:45to study and

15:46translate the Bible.

15:49In 1521

15:50William arrived

15:51at the manor house

15:52of Little Sodbury

15:53close to his

15:54birthplace in

15:55Gloucestershire.

15:55He arrived there

15:57to tutor the two

15:57young sons of

15:58Sir John and

15:59Lady Walsh.

16:01The Walsh family

16:02were quietly

16:03open to reform

16:04and in his

16:06little garret

16:07room in

16:08Little Sodbury

16:08Manor

16:09overlooking the

16:09Gloucestershire

16:10countryside

16:11William Tyndale

16:12began his

16:13life's work

16:13in translating

16:14the Bible

16:15and it was

16:15here

16:16at the

16:17manor in

16:17Little Sodbury

16:18that the

16:18young tutor

16:19found himself

16:20crossing verbal

16:21swords with

16:22a wandering

16:23friar

16:23who in

16:24desperation at

16:25the constant

16:26use of

16:26scripture by

16:27his opponent

16:28declared

16:28we were

16:29better be

16:30without God's

16:31laws than

16:32without the

16:32Pope's.

16:33Tindale

16:34responded

16:35I defy the

16:36Pope and

16:37all his

16:38laws

16:38if God

16:39spare my

16:40life ere

16:41many years

16:42I will

16:43cause a

16:43boy that

16:44driveth a

16:44plough

16:45shall know

16:45more of

16:46the scriptures

16:46than thou

16:47dost.

16:50Eleven miles

16:51from Little

16:51Sodbury was

16:52Bristol

16:53a city of

16:54six thousand

16:55and one of

16:56the top five

16:57with London

16:58York

16:59Coventry

16:59and Warwick

17:00on St.

17:01Austin's

17:02Green

17:02outside the

17:02Abbey

17:03Church of

17:03St.

17:03Augustine

17:04now the

17:05Cathedral

17:05Church

17:06he would

17:07preach the

17:07Evangelical

17:08Gospel

17:08that was

17:09stirring in

17:09his heart

17:10and mind

17:11Tindale

17:12doubtless

17:13preached

17:13as he

17:14later wrote

17:15if thou

17:17repent

17:17and believe

17:18the promises

17:19then God's

17:20truth

17:20justifieth

17:21thee

17:22that is

17:22forgiveth

17:23thee thy

17:24sins

17:24and sealeth

17:26thee with

17:26his Holy

17:27Spirit

17:27and maketh

17:28thee

17:29heir of

17:29everlasting

17:30life

17:30through

17:31Christ's

17:31deservings

17:32or in

17:33the vivid

17:34words of

17:34his later

17:35influential

17:35book

17:36The

17:36Obedience

17:36of the

17:37Christian

17:37Man

17:37God sent

17:39Christ

17:39into the

17:40world

17:40to bless

17:41us

17:41and to

17:42offer

17:43himself

17:43for us

17:45a sacrifice

17:46of a

17:46sweet

17:47savour

17:47to kill

17:48the stench

17:49of our

17:50sins

17:50that God

17:51henceforth

17:52would smell

17:52them no

17:53more

17:53nor think

17:54on them

17:55anymore

17:57now after

17:58this kind

17:58of preaching

17:58outside

17:59Bristol

17:59Abbey

18:00Church

18:00Tyndale

18:01was hauled

18:01in by the

18:02Chancellor

18:02of the

18:03Bishop of

18:03Worcester

18:03for an

18:04inquisition

18:05and a

18:05warning

18:06he realised

18:07it would be

18:07unfair to

18:08stay much

18:09longer

18:09with the

18:10Walsh

18:10family

18:10he must

18:12move on

18:13in

18:14in 1523

18:15the young

18:16graduate

18:16from

18:17Cambridge

18:17arrived

18:18in the

18:18noisy

18:18dirty

18:19fast

18:19growing

18:20city

18:20of

18:20London

18:21London

18:22could

18:22number

18:23its

18:23population

18:23by the

18:24thousands

18:24its

18:25religious

18:26houses

18:26by the

18:27scores

18:27there were

18:28more

18:29churches

18:29in London

18:30126

18:31than in

18:32any other

18:32city

18:33in Europe

18:33to move

18:35them out

18:35anywhere

18:36you pass

18:36those great

18:37religious

18:37houses

18:38that swallowed

18:39the nation's

18:39resources

18:40and held

18:41it in

18:42superstition

18:42ignorance

18:43and fear

18:44when Tyndale

18:46arrived in

18:46the city

18:47in 1523

18:48he carried

18:49letters of

18:49introduction

18:50from Sir

18:51John Walsh

18:51and he hoped

18:52these would

18:53determine his

18:53future course

18:54they did

18:55but in a

18:56very unexpected

18:57way

18:59he stayed

19:00first with

19:00Humphrey

19:01Monmouth

19:01a merchant

19:03who traded

19:03with the

19:04German

19:04Lutherans

19:05at the

19:06Steelyard

19:06or the

19:07Stapelhof

19:08on the

19:09Thames

19:09embankment

19:10where

19:10Cannon

19:10Street

19:11station

19:11now

19:12stands

19:12Monmouth

19:13like

19:14Tyndale

19:15was a

19:15scripture

19:16man

19:16Luther

19:17had

19:17completed

19:18his

19:18German

19:18translation

19:19of the

19:19New

19:19Testament

19:20in 1522

19:21and very

19:22soon

19:22copies

19:23were being

19:23smuggled

19:24into

19:24England

19:26Monmouth

19:26was a

19:27member

19:27of

19:28St.

19:28Dunstan's

19:29in Fleet

19:29Street

19:30which was

19:30we are

19:31told

19:31a nest

19:32of

19:32reformers

19:33Tyndale

19:34was invited

19:35to preach

19:35and in

19:36the home

19:37of Humphrey

19:38and Jane

19:38Monmouth

19:38Tyndale

19:39began

19:40working

19:40on his

19:41translation

19:42he hoped

19:43that Bishop

19:44Tunstall of

19:45London

19:45might offer

19:46him a place

19:46on his

19:47staff to

19:47continue

19:47his

19:48translation

19:49but there

19:50was no

19:50chance

19:51of that

19:51so

19:52realising

19:53that in

19:53the light

19:54of those

19:54constitutions

19:55of Oxford

19:56which forbade

19:57even a sentence

19:58of scripture

19:58in English

19:59he couldn't

20:00continue his

20:01work in

20:02England

20:02in 1524

20:04without the

20:05king's

20:06permission

20:06William Tyndale

20:08slipped across

20:08to the

20:09continent

20:09never to

20:10see his

20:11homeland

20:11again

20:13where did

20:14he go

20:15likely to

20:16Hamburg

20:17first

20:17and with

20:18good reason

20:19we believe

20:20he moved

20:20on to

20:21Wittenberg

20:21Luther

20:22city

20:22though there's

20:23no evidence

20:23he ever met

20:24with Luther

20:25and thus

20:26began 11

20:26years

20:27of hide

20:28and seek

20:29by April

20:311525

20:32he was

20:33back in

20:33Hamburg

20:33and then

20:34Cologne

20:35late in

20:361527

20:37a quarter

20:38edition

20:39of his

20:39New Testament

20:40began to

20:40come off

20:41the press

20:41of Peter

20:42Quentel

20:42speed

20:43was essential

20:45Cologne

20:46as we've

20:47indicated

20:47was the

20:48centre for

20:48printing

20:49on the

20:49continent

20:49Tyndale

20:51was halfway

20:51through

20:51Mark's

20:52Gospel

20:52when the

20:53work

20:53was

20:54discovered

20:54he was

20:56warned

20:56just in

20:57time

20:57and he

20:58gathered a

20:59few sheets

20:59of the

20:59printed

21:00work

21:00and fled

21:01up the

21:01Rhine

21:01by night

21:02to Worms

21:03and here

21:04as much

21:05as he

21:05could rescue

21:06was bound

21:06and in

21:07the spring

21:07of 1525

21:09his prologue

21:10and the

21:11first 22

21:12chapters

21:12of Matthew

21:13were on

21:15the printing

21:15press

21:16and arrived

21:16in England

21:17this was

21:18the first

21:19text

21:19of the

21:20New Testament

21:21translated

21:22from the

21:23Greek

21:23and printed

21:24it's known

21:25as the

21:25Cologne

21:26fragment

21:28Tindale

21:29now revised

21:30and improved

21:31his translation

21:32and the

21:33following year

21:331526

21:34the new

21:35and complete

21:36edition of

21:36the firm's

21:37New Testament

21:38was arriving

21:39among those

21:39German merchants

21:40in London

21:41and secretly

21:42carried across

21:43the country

21:44so let's

21:46pause and ask

21:47the question

21:47what kind

21:48of book

21:48was it

21:49well here's

21:51part of the

21:52epistle to the

21:53reader

21:53in modern

21:54English

21:56give

21:56diligence

21:57dear

21:57reader

21:58I

21:58exhort

21:58thee

21:58that

22:00thou

22:00come

22:00with

22:00a

22:01pure

22:01mind

22:02and

22:02as

22:02the

22:03scripture

22:03saith with

22:03a single

22:04eye

22:04unto the

22:05words of

22:06health

22:06and of

22:07eternal

22:08life

22:08by the

22:09which

22:09if we

22:10repent

22:10and believe

22:11them

22:11we are

22:12born

22:12anew

22:13created

22:13afresh

22:14and enjoy

22:15the fruits

22:16of the

22:16blood

22:17of Christ

22:17wisely

22:18Tindale urged

22:19his readers

22:20to notice

22:20the plain

22:21and clear

22:21parts of

22:22scripture

22:22and

22:24to be

22:24careful

22:25in hard

22:25places

22:25not to

22:26add

22:26anything

22:27to that

22:28which is

22:28plain

22:28notice also

22:30he continued

22:31the difference

22:32between the

22:32law

22:33and the

22:33gospel

22:34the one

22:35asks

22:35and requires

22:36the other

22:37pardons

22:38and forgives

22:41Tindale

22:41was well

22:42qualified to

22:43translate

22:43a contemporary

22:44tells us

22:45that he was

22:46proficient in

22:46Hebrew

22:47Greek

22:48Latin

22:48Italian

22:49Spanish

22:50French

22:50and German

22:51and whichever

22:53one he spoke

22:54it was as if

22:55it was his

22:56native tongue

22:57this was the

22:58first English

22:59translation from

23:00the original

23:01Greek

23:01and the first

23:03to use the

23:03printing press

23:04he had

23:05Erasmus'

23:06Greek text

23:07of 1516

23:08he had a

23:09Latin

23:09Vulgate

23:10and Luther's

23:11German

23:11New Testament

23:12there is no

23:13evidence

23:14that Tindale

23:15ever possessed

23:16a Wycliffe

23:16Bible

23:18Tindale made

23:19some crucial

23:20word changes

23:21from the

23:22common use

23:23to avoid

23:23the Roman

23:24Catholic

23:24meaning

23:25penance

23:26became

23:27repentance

23:27charity

23:28became love

23:30what a tragedy

23:31the King James

23:32authorised version

23:32went back

23:33to charity

23:34it meant

23:35something very

23:36different

23:36at that time

23:38confession

23:39became

23:39acknowledgement

23:40grace

23:41became favour

23:42priest

23:43became senior

23:44or in 1534

23:45he moved it

23:46to elder

23:46and church

23:47became congregation

23:49with no

23:50formal spelling

23:51until Dr Johnson

23:52in the 18th century

23:53Tindale has

23:55three ways

23:55of spelling

23:56the word

23:56imperfect

23:57in the same

23:58paragraph

23:58and I've

23:59discovered

24:00at least

24:00eight ways

24:01of spelling

24:02the word

24:02it

24:02for in

24:04Matthew 5

24:0534 and 35

24:06alone

24:06you can check

24:07it out

24:08for yourself

24:09the value

24:10of Tindale's

24:11translation

24:12is not to be

24:12measured

24:13simply by

24:14the reliance

24:15of it

24:15by the

24:16King James

24:17version

24:17that's

24:19as David

24:19Crystal's

24:20brilliant

24:20and detailed

24:21research

24:21is shown

24:22is a slippery

24:23fish

24:23it all depends

24:25how you count

24:26exactness

24:27and influence

24:28his contribution

24:29must be seen

24:30against the

24:30background

24:31of two

24:31major obstacles

24:33he had to face

24:34first

24:35English

24:35was seen

24:36as unfit

24:37for intellectual

24:37and literary

24:38expression

24:39it was considered

24:40dull

24:41and base

24:42Latin

24:43and French

24:44were considered

24:45more elegant

24:46and second

24:47the church

24:48and its bishops

24:49considered that

24:50the common people

24:50didn't need the Bible

24:51in their own tongue

24:53since the church

24:54told them what to believe

24:55and they wouldn't

24:56understand it anyway

24:57hence those

24:58constitutions of Oxford

25:01Tindale profoundly

25:02disagreed with both

25:03he maintained

25:05and on good reason

25:06that both Hebrew

25:08and Greek

25:08agreed in form

25:09with English

25:10better than with Latin

25:11and the common people

25:13anyway

25:13must have the Bible

25:14in their own tongue

25:15so that they can test

25:17the beliefs

25:17and the behaviour

25:18of the church

25:21Tindale's influence

25:22on the English language

25:24was massive

25:24and here we're

25:26indebted to

25:27David Crystal's

25:28superb

25:29recent work

25:29on this

25:31822

25:32of his words

25:33are the first

25:35recorded use

25:36in the English language

25:37of which

25:40479

25:40are still

25:41in common use

25:42now that's only

25:44part of the story

25:45because his

25:46usage

25:47led to

25:48later innovations

25:49I need to give you

25:50a few examples

25:51because it's not

25:52that he invented

25:52the words

25:53but he did invent

25:55words

25:56as we'll see

25:56but he invented

25:57the use

25:58of words

25:59he made

26:01compound nouns

26:02for example

26:03seashore

26:04is his

26:05putting the two

26:05words together

26:06starlight

26:07stumbling block

26:08like-minded

26:10necklace

26:11blindfold

26:12which he used

26:13as an adverb

26:14as well

26:15nouns of action

26:17like betrayer

26:18counterfeater

26:19disposer

26:20men-pleaser

26:21phrases

26:23like breakthrough

26:24set forth

26:25stoop down

26:26turned back

26:26full house

26:27good luck

26:28luck meant

26:29providence

26:30in those days

26:31not what you're

26:32thinking of

26:32bedlam

26:33stiff neck

26:34they were all

26:35his words

26:36his putting

26:38together words

26:39and we use

26:40them constantly

26:40but he did invent

26:41some bible words

26:42like birthright

26:43busy body

26:45cast away

26:46jehovah

26:47mercy seat

26:48passover

26:48sabbath

26:49scapegoat

26:50thanksgiving

26:50in fact even the

26:52word

26:52transubstantiation

26:53is his

26:54he invented

26:56some lovely

26:57words

26:57my favourite

26:58is

26:58mumpsimus

27:00someone who

27:01obstinately

27:02clings to

27:03old ways

27:04so if

27:06someone calls

27:07you a

27:07mumpsimus

27:08you'll know

27:08what you are

27:09his style

27:11was rich

27:12varied

27:14easy for the

27:16ploughboy to

27:16understand

27:17and it read

27:18well aloud

27:19do remember

27:20the bible

27:21old testament

27:22hebrew

27:22new testament

27:23greek

27:23was always

27:24originally intended

27:25to be read

27:26aloud

27:27nobody had a

27:28stack of

27:28hebrew scrolls

27:29in their back

27:30cupboard

27:30nobody in the

27:31early churches

27:32had a lovely

27:33bound volume

27:35of all the

27:35new testament

27:36letters

27:37they went to

27:38the synagogue

27:38or the meeting

27:39house of the

27:40christians to

27:40hear it read

27:43he claimed

27:44that he

27:45had no one

27:46to help

27:47him

27:48no evidence

27:49as they say

27:49that he had

27:50Wycliffe's

27:50bible

27:51and he

27:52didn't follow

27:53Wycliffe in

27:53many areas

27:54anyway

27:56he used

27:57phrases that

27:58you've become

27:58familiar with

27:59things like

28:00powers that be

28:01our law unto

28:02themselves

28:02born the heat

28:03and burden

28:04of the day

28:04take thine

28:05ease

28:05eat drink

28:05and be merry

28:06for him we

28:07live and move

28:07and have our

28:08being

28:08work out your

28:09own salvation

28:10with fear

28:11and trembling

28:12at last

28:13the english

28:14ploughboy could

28:15hear the new

28:16testament in

28:17his native

28:18tongue

28:19he would be

28:20able to

28:20discover for

28:21himself

28:21that nowhere

28:23in the bible

28:23would he find

28:24penance

28:25or purgatory

28:26or payment

28:27for pardons

28:28indulgences

28:29praying to

28:30mary or the

28:31saints and the

28:31adoration of

28:32their bones

28:33and other

28:33relics

28:34confession to

28:35a priest

28:35or a belief

28:36in the immaculate

28:37conception of

28:38mary or the

28:39infallible

28:40authority of

28:40the pope

28:41or the

28:41idea

28:42that the

28:42wine and

28:43bread of

28:43the lord's

28:44supper

28:44miraculously

28:45changes into

28:45the physical

28:46blood and

28:46body of

28:47jesus

28:47and a

28:48whole lot

28:49more

28:50however

28:52the new

28:53testament

28:53in english

28:55was precisely

28:56what the

28:57bishops

28:57did not

28:58want

28:59on the

29:0024th of

29:00october

29:011526

29:02bishop

29:03tunstall

29:04wrote to

29:04his

29:04archdeacons

29:05complaining

29:06of the

29:06holy

29:06gospel

29:07of god

29:07in the

29:08common

29:08tongue

29:08which

29:09was

29:09intermingled

29:10with

29:11certain

29:12certain

29:12articles

29:12of

29:13heretical

29:13depravity

29:14and

29:14pernicious

29:15erroneous

29:15opinions

29:16pestilent

29:17scandalous

29:17and seductive

29:18of simple

29:19minds

29:19of which

29:21translation

29:21many books

29:22containing the

29:23pestilent and

29:24pernicious poison

29:25in the vulgar

29:26tongue

29:26have been

29:27dispensed in

29:28great numbers

29:28throughout our

29:29diocese

29:30which

29:30unless it be

29:32speedily

29:32foreseen

29:33will without

29:34doubt

29:34infect and

29:35contaminate the

29:36flock committed

29:36to us

29:37with the

29:37pestilent

29:38poison and the

29:39deadly disease

29:40of heretical

29:40depravity

29:42at which

29:43point I think

29:44he ran out

29:44of expletives

29:45but that

29:47my friends

29:47is your

29:48new testament

29:50all copies

29:51were to be

29:51handed in

29:52within 30

29:53days

29:53or face

29:55excommunication

29:55and the

29:56charge of

29:56heresy

29:59in May

30:001527

30:01Archbishop

30:02Wareham

30:02requested his

30:03bishops to

30:03help share the

30:04cost of buying

30:05up all the

30:05copies they

30:06could get

30:06their hands

30:06on and

30:07they burned

30:08them publicly

30:08outside

30:09St Paul's

30:10Cathedral

30:10the place

30:11is marked

30:12to this

30:12day

30:14by November

30:15the 21st

30:16Cardinal

30:17Campegio

30:17had heard

30:18in Rome

30:18of the

30:19sacred

30:20codex

30:21of the

30:21Bible

30:21perverted

30:22in the

30:22vernacular

30:23tongue

30:23and brought

30:23into the

30:24realms

30:24by perfidious

30:26followers

30:26of the

30:27abominable

30:28Lutheran

30:28sect

30:30in February

30:31of the

30:31following year

30:32King Henry

30:34stirred himself

30:35to declare

30:36we

30:37with the

30:38deliberate

30:38advice of

30:39Thomas

30:40Lord

30:40Cardinal

30:41and other

30:41reverend

30:42fathers

30:42of the

30:43spirituality

30:43have

30:45determined

30:45the

30:45said

30:46and

30:46untrue

30:46translations

30:47to be

30:47burned

30:48with further

30:49sharp

30:50correction

30:50and punishment

30:51against the

30:52keepers

30:52and readers

30:53of the

30:53same

30:54in

30:55short

30:55both

30:56God

30:57and

30:57we

30:58forbade

30:59it

31:01but the

31:01printed

31:02New

31:02Testament

31:02in

31:03English

31:03was

31:03unstoppable

31:04there

31:05was a

31:06huge

31:06hunger

31:06for

31:06God's

31:07word

31:07in

31:07English

31:07and

31:08more

31:08was

31:08smuggled

31:09in

31:09by

31:09the

31:09German

31:10merchants

31:10Thomas

31:11Garrett

31:12Kewitt

31:12of

31:12All Hallows

31:13Cheapside

31:14carried

31:15350

31:15books

31:16to

31:16Oxford

31:17in

31:17a few

31:17months

31:17before

31:18his

31:18arrest

31:18and

31:19it

31:19was

31:19impossible

31:20to

31:20recall

31:21those

31:21books

31:21that

31:22had

31:22already

31:22dispersed

31:23throughout

31:23England

31:23even

31:24St.

31:24Andrews

31:25in

31:25Edinburgh

31:25in

31:26Scotland

31:26had

31:27received

31:27at least

31:28one

31:28consignment

31:29of

31:29the

31:29New

31:29Testament

31:30by

31:30the

31:30close

31:31of

31:311526

31:34William

31:34Tyndale

31:35was

31:35now

31:36in

31:36Antwerp

31:37why

31:38Antwerp

31:38well

31:40the city

31:40had

31:40taken

31:41over

31:41from

31:42Bruges

31:42as

31:43the

31:43leading

31:43trade

31:44and

31:44art

31:44market

31:45in

31:45Europe

31:46English

31:47merchants

31:47were

31:48on

31:48the

31:48water

31:48front

31:48dealing

31:49with

31:49those

31:50German

31:50traders

31:50by

31:51the

31:51Thames

31:51in

31:52London

31:52and

31:53many

31:53on

31:53both

31:53sides

31:54of

31:54the

31:54Channel

31:54were

31:55open

31:55to

31:56reform

31:56and

31:58now

31:58the

31:59hunt

31:59was

31:59on

32:00at

32:01various

32:01times

32:02five

32:03or

32:03six

32:04agents

32:04were

32:05hunting

32:05for

32:05Tyndale

32:06across

32:06the

32:06Low

32:06countries

32:07Belgium

32:08the

32:08Netherlands

32:09and

32:09Luxembourg

32:10Ambassador

32:12John

32:12Hackett

32:12Cologne

32:13Senator

32:14Herman

32:15Rink

32:15Sir

32:16Thomas

32:16Elliot

32:17and

32:17two

32:18friars

32:18in

32:19civilian

32:19dress

32:20in

32:211532

32:21Henry

32:22even

32:23sent

32:23Stephen

32:23Vaughan

32:24to

32:24invite

32:25him

32:25to

32:25return

32:26Tyndale

32:27meanwhile

32:27was

32:27improving

32:28his

32:28New

32:28Testament

32:29translation

32:29working

32:30on

32:30the

32:31Hebrew

32:31of

32:31the

32:31Old

32:31Testament

32:32and

32:32writing

32:33tracts

32:33we

32:33would

32:34call

32:34them

32:34books

32:34for

32:35the

32:35home

32:35market

32:36in

32:371528

32:38the

32:39obedience

32:39of the

32:39Christian

32:40man

32:40came

32:40out

32:41in

32:41which

32:42he

32:42stressed

32:42that

32:43the

32:43reformers

32:44were

32:44not

32:44rebels

32:45against

32:45authority

32:46but

32:46peaceably

32:47submissive

32:48to

32:48all

32:49authority

32:49describing

32:51the

32:51state

32:51of

32:51the

32:52church

32:52he

32:52commented

32:53that

32:53with

32:53the

32:53cost

32:54of

32:54absolution

32:55and

32:55penance

32:56sin

32:56had

32:57become

32:57the

32:58most

32:59profitable

32:59merchandise

33:00in the

33:00world

33:01in

33:021530

33:03the

33:03practice

33:04of

33:04prelates

33:04came

33:05forward

33:06into

33:06the

33:06country

33:06and

33:07it

33:07was

33:07a

33:07fierce

33:08attack

33:08upon

33:08the

33:09clergy

33:09by

33:101530

33:11the

33:12Pentateuch

33:12Genesis

33:13to

33:13Deuteronomy

33:14and the

33:15little

33:15book

33:15of

33:15Jonah

33:15arrived

33:16in

33:16England

33:17translated

33:17from

33:18the

33:18Hebrew

33:18so

33:19Tyndale

33:21had been

33:21learning

33:21Hebrew

33:22translating

33:23the

33:23Old

33:24Testament

33:24revising

33:25the

33:26New

33:26Testament

33:26writing

33:27long

33:28letters

33:28or books

33:29home

33:29while

33:30constantly

33:31alert for the presence

33:32of the agents

33:33from the king and bishops

33:34back in England

33:35persecution

33:36persecution

33:37was increasing

33:38in 1531

33:40in England

33:40in August

33:41Thomas

33:42Bilney

33:42was burnt

33:43at Norwich

33:43in December

33:44Richard

33:45Bayfield

33:45and a

33:46leather

33:46worker

33:46Tewksbury

33:47were burnt

33:48at Smithfield

33:49in London

33:50in 1529

33:52Thomas

33:53Moore

33:53the greatest

33:54literary man

33:55in England

33:55and author

33:56remember

33:57of the best

33:57selling

33:58utopia

33:58and with a

33:59hatred

34:00of all

34:00evangelicals

34:01began a dialogue

34:03touching the

34:04pestilent sect

34:05of Luther

34:05and Tyndale

34:06eight books

34:08and a million

34:09words

34:10it was really

34:12a restatement

34:13of orthodox

34:13Roman Catholic

34:14doctrine

34:15and a tirade

34:16against Tyndale

34:17and Luther

34:17Tyndale responded

34:19in which he

34:20restated clear

34:21reformed theology

34:22and presented

34:24several questions

34:25to the Chancellor

34:26in 1534

34:29Tyndale was staying

34:31at the home

34:31of one of the

34:32English merchants

34:32in Antwerp

34:33named Thomas

34:34Points

34:34a relative

34:35as it happens

34:36of Lady Anne

34:37Walsh

34:38in Little

34:38Sobry Manor

34:39for the first

34:40time in almost

34:41ten years

34:42Tyndale had

34:43some security

34:44and a little

34:45allowance

34:46to support

34:46his work

34:48his revision

34:49of the New

34:49Testament

34:50was printed

34:51and arrived

34:51in England

34:52this year

34:521534

34:53the very year

34:55that interestingly

34:56Parliament

34:56passed the

34:57Act of

34:58Supremacy

34:58declaring Henry

35:00VIII

35:00the supreme

35:01head on earth

35:02of the Church

35:03in England

35:04a beautiful

35:05coincidence

35:07Tyndale was

35:08not only a

35:09great scholar

35:09but he was

35:11a humble

35:11Christian

35:12even his

35:13most bitter

35:14enemy

35:14Thomas More

35:15admitted that

35:16Tyndale was

35:17quote

35:17a man of

35:19sober and

35:20honest living

35:20who lived

35:22and preached

35:23holily

35:24Humphrey Monmouth

35:25in whose home

35:26Tyndale stayed

35:27while in London

35:27declared that

35:29Tyndale lived

35:29like a good

35:30priest

35:31he studied

35:32most part

35:33of the day

35:33and of the

35:34night

35:35at his

35:35book

35:36but Monmouth

35:37was careful

35:38not to say

35:39what his

35:39book was

35:40you know

35:43there was

35:44nothing ever

35:44extravagant

35:45about him

35:46said Points

35:46Points

35:48later wrote

35:49that he was

35:49without spot

35:51or blemish

35:52notice that

35:53no rancour

35:54or malice

35:55full of

35:56mercy and

35:56compassion

35:57so that

35:58no man

35:59living was

36:00able to

36:00reprove him

36:01of any

36:01sin or

36:02crime

36:02Tyndale

36:04allowed himself

36:05two days of

36:05break each

36:06week and

36:06he spent

36:07Monday

36:07visiting the

36:08English

36:08exiles to

36:09encourage them

36:09and Saturday

36:10caring for

36:11the poor

36:12in the

36:12city

36:13after his

36:14arrest

36:15Tyndale's

36:15jailer

36:16his daughter

36:17and other

36:18members of

36:18his household

36:19were converted

36:21by quote

36:22the power

36:22of his

36:23doctrine

36:23and the

36:24sincerity

36:25of his

36:25life

36:26many others

36:27confirmed that

36:28if Tyndale

36:29wasn't a good

36:29Christian man

36:30they didn't

36:31know who

36:31they could

36:32trust

36:33but above

36:34his scholarship

36:35he was a

36:36pastor

36:36and an

36:37evangelist

36:38that comes

36:39through again

36:40and again

36:41in his

36:41writings

36:42by 1533

36:44Tyndale

36:44as we say

36:45was staying

36:45at the

36:46English house

36:47with Thomas

36:47and Anna

36:48Points

36:48the English

36:49merchant

36:50and strong

36:50supporter

36:51of reform

36:51he was the

36:53contact for

36:54legal and

36:55illegal trade

36:56with the

36:57German merchants

36:58in London

36:59early in

37:011535

37:02Henry Phillips

37:03arrived among

37:04the English

37:05merchants in

37:06Antwerp

37:06he was easy

37:08going

37:08personable

37:10threw himself

37:11into their

37:12company

37:12and by his

37:13silver tongue

37:14and golden

37:15hand he won

37:15the confidence

37:16of everyone

37:17except

37:18Thomas Points

37:19he was a

37:21despicable

37:22character

37:22Phillips had

37:23stolen from

37:24his father

37:25desperately

37:25in need

37:26of money

37:26he was the

37:27latest agent

37:28from England

37:30Phillips waited

37:31until Thomas

37:32Points was

37:33away and then

37:33on the 21st

37:34of May

37:351535

37:36he invited

37:36Tyndale

37:37to lunch

37:38he had

37:39pre-arranged

37:39an ambush

37:40William Tyndale

37:42was taken

37:42to the

37:43grim

37:43castle

37:44of

37:44Villevaude

37:44six miles

37:45north of

37:46Brussels

37:46where he

37:47was imprisoned

37:47for one

37:48year and

37:49135 days

37:50at a cost

37:52of £407

37:53nine shillings

37:54and sixpence

37:55it's all on

37:56record

37:57to his

37:58eternal

37:59credit

37:59Thomas Points

38:00worked tirelessly

38:02to get

38:02Tyndale

38:03released

38:04and for

38:05his pains

38:06he himself

38:07was imprisoned

38:07escaped to

38:08England

38:09lost his

38:10business

38:10and lived

38:11for many

38:11years in

38:12poverty

38:13in the

38:14church in

38:15Essex

38:15where his

38:16brother owned

38:16estates

38:17there's a

38:17beautiful

38:17epitaph

38:18to points

38:19for his

38:19quote

38:20faithful service

38:21to his

38:22prince

38:22and his

38:23ardent

38:24profession

38:24of

38:25evangelical

38:26truth

38:27end quote

38:29meanwhile

38:29Tyndale

38:31prepared his

38:31defence

38:32he drew up

38:33a statement

38:34of justification

38:35by faith

38:36alone

38:36he always

38:37wanted

38:38readers

38:39to enjoy

38:39a free

38:40salvation

38:41by the

38:42sin-bearing

38:42death

38:43of Christ

38:43alone

38:44without any

38:45payment

38:45or good

38:46works

38:46that we

38:47or any

38:47church

38:48might be

38:48able to

38:49add

38:49he also

38:50believed

38:50in the

38:51complete

38:51authority

38:52of the

38:52bible

38:52above

38:53popes

38:54and church

38:55tradition

38:56faith alone

38:57scripture

38:58alone

38:59that

39:00is why

39:00Tyndale

39:01was martyred

39:02not for

39:03translating

39:04the bible

39:04but for

39:06believing

39:06scripture

39:07alone

39:08faith

39:08in

39:09christ

39:09alone

39:11there is

39:12just

39:12one

39:13letter

39:13on record

39:14from the

39:14hand of

39:15Tyndale

39:15it was

39:16written in

39:17latin

39:17to the

39:18governor

39:18of the

39:18prison

39:19the

39:19marcus

39:20of

39:20bergen

39:20there's

39:22no

39:22grovelling

39:22only a

39:24request

39:24to be

39:24allowed

39:25the books

39:26to continue

39:26his work

39:27and a candle

39:28at night

39:29it closes

39:30with a

39:31prayer for

39:31the governor's

39:32eternal

39:32welfare

39:33i think

39:34it's so

39:34beautiful

39:35i want it

39:36to speak

39:36for itself

39:37here it

39:38is

39:38in english

39:39on the

39:40screen

39:41in latin

39:43i believe

39:44right

39:44worshipful

39:45that you

39:46are not

39:46unaware

39:47of what

39:47may have

39:48been

39:48determined

39:48concerning

39:49me

39:50wherefore i

39:50beg your

39:51lordship

39:51and that

39:52by the

39:52lord jesus

39:53that if

39:54i'm to

39:54remain here

39:55throughout

39:56the winter

39:56you will

39:57request the

39:58commissary

39:58to have

39:59the kindness

39:59to send

40:00me from

40:00the goods

40:00of mine

40:01which he

40:01has

40:01a warmer

40:02cap

40:03for i suffer

40:04greatly from

40:05cold in the

40:05head and

40:06am afflicted

40:07by a perpetual

40:08catar which is

40:09much increased

40:09in this cell

40:10a warmer coat

40:12also for this

40:13which i have

40:14is very thin

40:15a piece of

40:16cloth too

40:17to patch

40:17my leggings

40:18my overcoat

40:19is worn out

40:20my shirts

40:21are also

40:21worn out

40:22he has a

40:23woolen shirt

40:24if he would

40:24be good enough

40:25to send it

40:26i also have

40:27with him

40:27leggings of

40:28thicker cloth

40:29to put on

40:30above

40:30he also

40:31has warmer

40:32nightcaps

40:33and i ask

40:34to be allowed

40:35to have a

40:35lamp in the

40:36evenings

40:36it is indeed

40:38wearisome

40:38sitting alone

40:39in the dark

40:40but most of

40:41all

40:42i beg and

40:43beseech your

40:43clemency

40:44to be urgent

40:45with the

40:46commissary

40:46that he will

40:47kindly permit

40:48me to have

40:48the hebrew bible

40:49hebrew grammar

40:50and hebrew

40:51dictionary

40:52that i may

40:53pass the time

40:54in that study

40:55in return

40:56may you

40:57obtain

40:57what you

40:58most desire

40:59so only

41:01that it is

41:01for the

41:02salvation

41:02of your

41:03soul

41:04but if

41:05any other

41:05decision

41:06has been

41:06taken

41:06concerning

41:07me

41:07to be

41:07carried

41:08out

41:08before

41:08winter

41:09i will

41:10be

41:10patient

41:11abiding

41:11the will

41:12of god

41:12to the

41:12glory

41:13of the

41:13grace

41:13of my

41:14lord

41:14jesus

41:14christ

41:15whose

41:16spirit

41:16i pray

41:17may ever

41:18direct

41:19your

41:19heart

41:20amen

41:21william

41:22tindalus

41:26in september

41:271536

41:28william tinder

41:29was taken

41:30to the

41:30market square

41:31in vilvaude

41:32where he

41:33was chained

41:34to a stake

41:34strangled

41:36and his

41:36body burned

41:37history records

41:39that his

41:39final prayer

41:40before the

41:41executioner

41:41tightened

41:42the news

41:42at his

41:42throat

41:43was lord

41:44open the

41:45king of

41:45england's

41:46eyes

41:48even before

41:50tindal's

41:50death

41:51his colleague

41:52myles

41:52coverdale

41:52was compiling

41:53a complete

41:54bible

41:54using all

41:55of tindal's

41:561534

41:57new testament

41:58and the

41:58pentateuch

41:59and the

41:59historical

42:00books up

42:01to the

42:01end of

42:01chronicles

42:02the rest

42:04tindal

42:05hadn't

42:05time to

42:05finish

42:06and coverdale

42:07translated from

42:08the latin

42:08because he

42:09didn't have

42:09hebrew

42:09it was

42:11presented to

42:11henry for

42:12his royal

42:13opinion

42:13assured that

42:15there were

42:15no errors

42:15in it

42:16he declared

42:16if there

42:18be no

42:18heresies

42:19in god's

42:20name let

42:21it go abroad

42:21among the

42:22people

42:23the year

42:24following

42:25tindal's

42:25death

42:26in 1536

42:27matthew's

42:28bible

42:29compiled by

42:29john rogers

42:30the converted

42:31chaplain at

42:31the english

42:32house in

42:32antrep

42:33also presented

42:35to the

42:35king

42:35a bible

42:36it was

42:37titled

42:38matthew's

42:39bible

42:39it included

42:41tindal's

42:411534

42:42new testament

42:43entirely

42:44all that it

42:44accomplished

42:45from the

42:45old testament

42:46and what

42:47rogers had

42:48been able to

42:48translate the

42:49rest of it

42:50from hebrew

42:50henry looked

42:52over the

42:52bible

42:53prefaced

42:53the bible

42:54truly and

42:55purely translated

42:56into english

42:57by thomas

42:58matthew

42:58there was

43:00no thomas

43:00matthew

43:01but rogers

43:02could hardly

43:02put tindal's

43:03name on

43:04it and

43:04he didn't

43:05want his

43:05own to

43:06be on

43:06it

43:06the king

43:07gave it

43:08his authority

43:10matthew's

43:10bible was

43:11the first

43:12complete english

43:13bible to

43:13contain the

43:14words

43:14set forth

43:16with the

43:16king's

43:17most gracious

43:18license

43:20in september

43:211538

43:22henry ordered

43:23that one

43:23book of the

43:24whole bible

43:24of the largest

43:25volume in

43:26england was

43:26to be displayed

43:27in every

43:28parish church

43:29the cost of

43:30which would

43:30be shared

43:31between the

43:32local rector

43:32and his

43:33parishioners

43:34this was

43:35the great

43:36bible

43:36largely

43:37coverdale

43:38which of

43:39course

43:39was mostly

43:40tindale

43:42however

43:43having lost

43:45the battle

43:45for the bible

43:46the church

43:47authorities

43:48were alarmed

43:49at its

43:49popularity

43:50and its

43:50spread

43:51by may

43:521543

43:53henry was

43:55persuaded

43:55to order

43:56the act

43:57for the

43:57advancement

43:58of true

43:59religion

43:59among other

44:01issues

44:02this act

44:02prohibited

44:03the lower

44:04classes

44:04from reading

44:05the bible

44:06especially

44:07tindale's

44:08only

44:09noblemen

44:10and gentry

44:11and the

44:12higher social

44:13classes

44:13could read

44:14it

44:14and women

44:15of gentry

44:16rank

44:17were allowed

44:17to read

44:18it

44:18but only

44:19in private

44:20the purpose

44:21was to

44:22stop

44:22heresy

44:23and increase

44:24in protestant

44:25theology

44:25hen was

44:27still

44:27and died

44:28a roman

44:29catholic

44:30this was a

44:31significant

44:32cause

44:32if you know

44:33the name

44:34of the trial

44:34and martyrdom

44:35of an askew

44:36in june

44:371546

44:39henry died

44:40in january

44:411547

44:42and in

44:43november

44:43that act

44:44was repealed

44:45under henry

44:46the sixth

44:47from there

44:47on

44:47anyone

44:49could read

44:50the bible

44:50anywhere

44:52in england

44:54even the

44:55geneva bible

44:56published in

44:571560

44:58by the

44:58english

44:59exiles

44:59in switzerland

45:00fleeing the

45:01violent

45:01cruelty

45:02of queen

45:02mary

45:03was heavily

45:04influenced

45:04by tyndale

45:06and for

45:07140 years

45:08the geneva

45:09bible

45:09became the

45:10bible

45:10of virtually

45:11all the

45:11puritans

45:12the pilgrim

45:13fathers took

45:14it to the

45:14new world

45:15shakespeare

45:16quoted from

45:17it in his

45:17plays

45:18john knox

45:20preached from

45:20it in

45:21scotland

45:21milton

45:22bunyan

45:22dun

45:23all read

45:24it for

45:25their poems

45:25and books

45:26and oliver

45:27cromwell

45:27sent sections

45:28from it

45:29into battle

45:30in the pack

45:30of his

45:31soldiers

45:31and this

45:32was reissued

45:33to the

45:33federal

45:34regiments

45:34in america

45:35in the

45:35mid 1860s

45:36in their

45:36civil war

45:38within a

45:39few decades

45:40of his

45:40death

45:40every family

45:42that could

45:42afford it

45:43would own

45:44a bible

45:44in english

45:45it unquestionably

45:47moulded the

45:48english language

45:48our progress

45:50in education

45:51and literacy

45:51and therefore

45:52the moral

45:53character

45:53of our

45:54society

45:55britain

45:55became a

45:56people of

45:56the book

45:57the bible

46:00today

46:02tyndale's

46:02statue stands

46:03between white

46:04hall and the

46:05seat of government

46:06and the

46:07thames embankment

46:08where appropriately

46:10the new testament

46:11was first

46:11smuggled into the

46:12country

46:12his right hand

46:14rests on an

46:15open bible

46:16on top of a

46:17printing press

46:19but the story

46:20of the bible

46:21doesn't end

46:21there

46:22the bible

46:23is the most

46:24translated book

46:26ever

46:28reliable statistics

46:29show that

46:30around 100

46:31million copies

46:32of the bible

46:33are printed

46:34every year

46:35there are

46:37almost 7400

46:38known languages

46:39in the world

46:40and of these

46:41780 have a

46:42complete bible

46:43and 1800

46:44a new testament

46:46however another

46:471400 have

46:49parts of the

46:50bible and

46:50translation is

46:51progressing in

46:52almost 4500

46:54languages

46:55currently

46:57according to the

46:58Wycliffe bible

46:58translators

46:59one bible or

47:01new testament

47:02is completed

47:03every three

47:04days

47:05that makes

47:06the bible

47:07a unique

47:08book

47:09there is

47:10no other

47:10like it

47:12but the

47:13freedom to

47:13translate the

47:14bible into

47:15english

47:15can unquestionably

47:17be traced back

47:18to William

47:19Tyndale

47:19and those

47:20around him

47:21our loss

47:23today

47:23is the

47:24neglect

47:25of his

47:26legacy

47:26we can

47:27honour

47:27Tyndale's

47:28memory

47:28in no

47:29greater way

47:29than by

47:30taking

47:31those same

47:32scriptures

47:32as our

47:33guide

47:33into

47:34the truth

47:34of God's

47:35way

47:35of life

47:35and salvation

47:36and that

47:38will honour

47:39Tyndale's

47:39God

47:40which is

47:41all

47:41that he

47:42ever

47:43wanted

47:51said

48:09go forth

48:12and tell

48:13God's love and praises all

48:16He will embrace

48:19Response to all who fall

48:22How shall they call

48:25If they have never had

48:28The gracious invitation

48:31Of His word

48:35Go and fall and tell

48:38Men still do this lie

48:41He will for once

48:44He simply live and die

48:47Give us a lot of concern

48:51Of heart and mind

48:54Alone like yours

48:56Which cares for all mankind

49:01Go forth and tell

49:03The doors are open wide

49:07Shag off to give

49:09Let no one be denied

49:13Live out your life

49:15As Christ your Lord

49:17Shall choose

49:19Your rest and heart

49:21Is so glorious

49:26Go forth and tell

49:28On the church of God

49:30Arise

49:32So in the strength

49:34Which Christ your Lord

49:36Supplies

49:38Go till all nations

49:40His great name

49:43Adore

49:44And serve Him more

49:46And keep forevermore

49:50An adores

49:50Yang

49:50God's day

49:50Say

49:50And

49:52Que God's day

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