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Tyndale found Christ through reading _____________ Greek New Testament at
_______________________.

As a student, he learned of the corruption of the Church: -

i. A succession of corrupt ____________________.

ii. Many of the clergy were ____________ and __________________.

iii. Extortion in the form of ______________________ was widespread.

iv. The whole church was riddled with superstitions, particularly the worship of
_____________________________.

v. Priests owned numerous ________________________.

vi. The Church was above the _______________________.

But nothing was done! Tyndale became very critical of the failings of the clergy (similar to
Ezekiel 34:1-9). He became convinced that the only way to cure the ills of the Church was to
give English people the Scriptures in English, even if it meant opposing the Pope.

He once said to an ignorant priest, “I defy the ___________and all his ___________.

If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a _____________________ that

driveth the plough to know more of the ___________________ than thou dost.”

By his death (1536), Tyndale had translated two-thirds of the Bible. The King James version

has 90% of Tyndale’s words.
He lived the last eleven years of his life as a fugitive. Before his death, he prayed, “Lord, open
_________________________________________________________.”

By 1939, Henry VIII had ordered every parish in England to have access to an English Bible.

Tyndale’s legacy: -

vii. He caused the English Bible to be readily available.

viii. His books spread many Reformed ideas in England.
ix. He wrote theology in the language of ordinary people.

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