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William Tyndale on the trade of the clergy

William Tyndale © 2013 Simon Peter Sutherland

William Tyndale
© 2013 Simon Peter Sutherland

“What a trade is that of the priests. They want money for every thing: money for baptism, money for churchings, for weddings, for buryings, for images, brotherhoods, penances, soul-masses, bells, organs, chalices, copes, surplices, ewers, censors, and all manner of ornaments. Poor sheep! The parson shears, the vicar shaves, the parish priest polls, the friar scrapes, the indulgence seller pares ….. all that you want is a butcher to flay you and take away your skin”

William Tyndale
(Obedience of a Christian Man)

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