The Obedience of a Christian Man (Digireads.com Classic)

Every word he wrote is worth reading many times. I love his style and his theology is as godly as it gets. This is a book for Christians serious about their spiritual life and learning to live for the glory of God.William Tyndale's New Testament and Old Testament are the best Bibles I've ever read. He translated the Word of God into modern English for the first time and his work caused the Roman Church to burn him at the stake. But God used him to create a beautiful Bible for the world to enjoy. The man who gave his life to make the Bible easy for common people to read wrote and secretly published this book and it was hunted down and burnt also. Today you can read it and learn without fear. Read it while you can. Others died for owning it.

Those who read this e-book should realize that William Tyndale set forth this work in 1528. Although the truths found in Scripture endure forever (Psalm 119:89; Isaiah 40:8; Matthew 24:35; 1 Peter 1:24-25), man's traditions are unreliable and change over time (Matthew 15:1-9; Mark 7:6-9; Colossians 2:8). Such observations should be kept in mind as you work through this entry. Quotes from this entry include:"O how sore differeth the doctrine of Christ and his apostles from the doctrine of the pope and his apostles!""God requireth the law to be kept by all men, let them keep it for whatever purpose they will. Will they not keep the law? So vouchsafeth he not that they enjoy this temporal life.""...mark this: the root of all evil, the great damnation and most terrible wrath and vengeance of God that we are in, is natural blindness. We are all out of the right way, every man his ways: one judgeth this best, and another that to be best. Now is worldly wit nothing else but craft and subtlety, to obtain that which we judge falsely to be best. As I err in my wit, so err I in my will. When I judge that to be evil which indeed is good, then hate I that which is good. And when I suppose that good which is evil indeed, then love I evil.""Let us receive all things of God, whether it be good or bad: let us humble ourselves under his mighty hand, and submit ourselves unto his nurture and chastising, and not withdraw ourselves from his correction.""Compare the pope's doctrine unto the word of God, and thou shalt find that there hath been, and yet is, a great going out of the way; and that evil men and deceivers (as Paul prophesied in 2 Timothy 3) have prevailed, and waxed worse and worse, beguiling others as they are beguiled themselves.""Now must a sacrament be an outward sign that may be seen, to signify, to represent, and to put a man in remembrance of some spiritual promise, which cannot be seen except by faith only.""Antichrist turneth the roots of the trees upward. He maketh the goodness of God the branches, and our goodness the roots. We must be first good, after antichrist's doctrine, and move God, and compel him to be good again for our goodness' sake: so must God's goodness spring out of our goodness. Nay, verily, God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springeth out of his goodness."

Very old school thinking - fascinating to see where the dominate thinking has taken us - especially regarding marriage and parenting. Then of course, Tyndale pulled no punches when it came to tearing down the hypocrisy of church and state leadership...sad he was hanged for it. I've been destroyed for less, so it doesn't surprise me. What an educated, brilliant thinker, and God honoring, devoted to his faith and the Kingdom of God man.

"Straight from the horses mouth" my dad would say when he wanted you to know what he was telling you was not hearsay. And when you read this book by William Tyndall, martyred for translating the New Testament into English, you will understand the necessity of the Reformation.Tyndall was a priest in the church who came to understand that salvation comes through faith in Christ alone when in his graduate studies he came in contact with the Scriptures. Convinced that England's great need was to have the Bible in her mother tongue, he left England and lived abroad undercover to accomplish the task.This book was written after he had translated the New Testament. It details how Christians in different roles in life owe their obedience to those in authority. However obedience cannot be given when told to do what God in Scripture forbids, says Tyndall. Much of the book is given to how the church had abused its authority and denied the common people the means to know what was right by denying them the Bible.It is interesting to note that King Henry VIII was said to have been given a copy of this book by Ann Boleyn. In "Obedience" Tyndall recommends that kings take back lands that the church had wrongly, he believed, taken. We know from history that Henry VIII did just that.

Astounding work by this pioneer, architect, and visionary of our English language. Tyndale had a great ear, and this is perhaps his best and most exemplary non-translation text. I was tempted to give it a four star rating but only because of slight formatting issues with Kindle. However, these issues were negligible considering the treasure this work was, is, and remains.Tyndale here is very readable, accessible, and is worth the inquiry particularly for anyone interested in the Christian life as told by this brilliant and dedicated scholar. The text was modernized, which is commendable. OCM was written in the first tumultuous wave of the Protestant Reformation, so Tyndale can be somewhat ruthless with the Roman Catholic church and the papacy (that eventually had him burned at the stake). But Tyndale is much more than an English Luther. You would not find a Shakespeare in Luther. That honor goes to the Englishman. His English sustains both simplicity and grandeur, economy and splendor. As scholars still maintain, "no Tyndale, no Shakespeare."I recommend this book certainly, but I commend you to William Tyndale himself, particularly if you love the English language. [Protestant Reformation, Tudor England, English language]

Through his translation of the Bible, Tyndale has reached more people than Shakespeare. The quality of his prose is such that the majority of his work has been kept and survived the passage of time (no doubt with God's providence). If you read the Bible in English, there is a high chance that you are reading and reciting Tyndale without realising it. He was clearly a very knowledgeable and intelligent man. His work is scholarly. In this book, we see the effect of someone who immersed his life in the literary work of the Bible - the fusion of God's word with his own speech, so much so that they can't be easily separated. The editor says that they reference them but they cannot reference them all.The depth of his knowledge of the Bible is the first challenge of this book to me. The book speaks the mind of a translator who meditated upon God's word deeply beyond the simple mapping of words across different languages in translation . His translation reflects a deep understanding of the Word.I believe it was this conviction, the love of the Truth that drove him to focus on this endeavour which cost his life in the end.The second challenge to me is his interpretation of a Christian's obedience to the authority, the kings and the rulers, even if they are evil. The obedience described by Tyndale is quite absolute. While he did give his reasons in the book,the concept is counter-cultural and probably requires some realignment. Knowing his life, though, I know he meant what he said as he lived it.The relationship he describes with our parents is also challenging: "And as he made thee through them, so hath he cast thee under the power and authority of them, to obey and serve them in his stead saying: honour thy father and mother (Exodus 20). Which is not to be understood in bowing the knees and putting off the cap only, but that thou love them with all thine heart and fear and dread them and wait on their commandments and seek their worship, pleasure, will and profit in all things, and give they life for them counting them worthy of all honour,, remembering that thou art their good and possession, and that thou owest unto them thine own self and all that thou art able, yea and more than thou art able to do. Understand also that whatsoever thou doest unto them (be it good or bad) thou doest unto God." (p.31) Do you need to revisit your relationship with your parents after reading this? I do.The bulk of the book is to expose numerous flaws of the Papacy. It is a very thorough treatment. I wonder how one could remain a Catholic if he or she has read this book. Scarily, Tyndale points out that it is our hardened hearts which are not interested in the truth, so God gives us up to falsehood. "Verily it is the hand of God to avenge the wickedness of them and have no love nor lust unto the truth of God, when it is preached, but rejoice in unrighteousness... Mark how God to avenge his truth sendeth to the unthankful false doctrine and false miracles to confirm them and to harden their hearts in the false way, that afterward it shall not be possible for them to admit the truth." (p. 56) He cited Pharaoh in Exodus 7 and 8 as an example.His account gives reader an insight into the operation of the Catholic Church. Remember he was a priest first, so he was an insider. Some practice we might have suspected but Tyndale gave the confirmation. For example, is confession confidential? "Nay, say they, thy salvation is in our faithful ear. That is their hold, thereby know they all secrets, thereby mock they all men and all men's wives and beguile knight and squire, lord and king, and betray all realms. The bishops with the Pope have a certain conspiration and secret treason against the whole world. And by confession know they what kings and emperors think. If ought be against them, do they never so evil, then move they their captives to war and fight and give them pardons to slay whom they will have taken out of the way. They have with falsehood taken from all kings and emperors their right and duties, which now they call their freedoms liberties and privileges and have perverted the ordinances that God left in the world, and have made every king swear to defend their falsehood against their own selves." (p/135) Also, "And through confessions know they all secrets, so that no man may open his mouth to rebuke whatsoever they do, but that he shall be shortly made an heretic." (p.52) The book is full of this kind of insight of the time and the relationship between states and the Church.And yet he was obedient to the authority that God had ordained for the time. While I was reading it, I recalled how David treated King Saul. When we think about it, Christ was also obedient to the point of death to a an evil, unjust regime, was he not?When pointing out the falsehood, the truth is expounded to contrast. The only thing that I am left a little dissatisfied with this book is that Tyndale raises some concepts which you really would like him to dwell into a bit more. But he never does. The focus is on telling us what is wrong. This is necessarily at the expense of the details he can give on what is right. For example, he talks about the oneness of Christ's Church, "the commonwealth" and even prayer, without dwelling deep. That is, while the book is dismantling the Catholic Church, it does not leave us with a clear vision of what the true Church should look like. Granted this perhaps is not the focus of the book.Tyndale has no reservation in calling the Pope Antichrist. The impact of reading this book is to see how important it is to be acquainted with the truth so that we can judge in alignment with God's will. Nothing will illuminate our confused world and what we should do better than the Bible. We never need this less..

William Tyndale did a good job of exposing the selfserving attitude of the Catholic church and there attempts to keep people in the dark about the Bible and there refusal to allow it in the language of the common people.A quote from the book is that he says the Pope turned Christ into Darkness and the only thing missing was the Butcher to pull the skin off the people.Its an eye-opener for those who love Truth.Ian

Good book to read, there were a few mistakes on the kindle edition but was still very readable. Would reccomend anyone who is interested in William Tyndale.

This book is formidable. It will open your eyes in many ways and prepare you to your life journey.I am very grateful to all the Tyndale crew for putting together this incredible piece of work.

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