The Obedience of a Christian Man
William Tyndale1528
Tyndale’s treatise of 1528 on the duty of subjects to rulers. Its preface argues at length that Scripture ought to be in the mother tongue.
William Tyndale published the book two years after his New Testament had been forbidden in the diocese of London. Foxe describes it as instructing all men in the duty of Christian obedience. The long preface to the reader argues that Scripture ought to be in the mother tongue: God gave the law to Israel in its own language, the prophets and psalmists wrote in theirs, the apostles preached in the language of their hearers, and Jerome translated the Bible into his.
It is Tyndale’s own defence of his work and a partisan one. Foxe lists it among the books forbidden in England together with his New Testament.
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- 1526, firm date