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God's laws than the pope's.” Tyndale replied:

“I defy the pope and all his laws; and if God

spare my life, ere many years I will cause a

boy that driveth the plow to know more of

the Scripture than you do.”—Anderson,

Annals of the English Bible, page 19.

The purpose which he had begun to cherish,

of giving to the people the New Testament

Scriptures in their own language, was now

confirmed, and he immediately applied

himself to the work. Driven from his home by

persecution, he went to London, and there for

a time pursued his labors undisturbed. But

again the violence of the papists forced him

to flee. All England seemed closed against

him, and he resolved to seek shelter in

Germany. Here he began the printing of the

English New Testament. Twice the work was

stopped; but when forbidden to print in one