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those who teach them, and if you could, you

would burn the Scriptures themselves.”—

D'Aubigne, History of the Reformation of the

Sixteenth Century, b. 18, ch. 4.

Tyndale's preaching excited great interest;

many accepted the truth. But the priests were

on the alert, and no sooner had he left the

field than they by their threats and

misrepresentations endeavored to destroy

his work. Too often they succeeded. “What is

to be done?” he exclaimed. “While I am

sowing in one place, the enemy ravages the

field I have just left. I cannot be everywhere.

Oh! if Christians possessed the Holy

Scriptures in their own tongue, they could of

themselves withstand these sophists.

Without the Bible it is impossible to establish

the laity in the truth.”—Ibid., b. 18, ch. 4.