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Your last words to us in this conference on the topic: How should a shepherd die?They are clear when you consider his life and his writings. I will let you speak in your own words from your book The Obedience of a Christian Man:
- If God promises riches.
- The way is poverty; he who loves.
- Punishes.
- Exalts.
- Tears down.
- Who saves.
- First curses.
- Does not take anyone to heaven.
- If he does not send him to hell first.
- Life.
- Before killing.
- When it builds.
- Before it falls.
- It is not restorative.
- It cannot build on the foundations of another man.
- He will not work until everyone has taken the medication and reached these extreme states.
- So that men may see how their hand Power.
- Mercy.
- Goodness.
- And truth have done everything.
- He will not allow anyone to participate with him in his praise and glory.
So let us be very careful where they call us, so that we do not make mistakes, we are called, not to argue as the Pope’s disciples, but to die with Christ to live and suffer with him so that we can rule with him. [60]
Because if God is by our side, everything that is against us, be it bishops, cardinals, popes or others [61].
May Tyndale’s last word be the last word he sent to his best friend, John Frith, in a letter before he was burned alive for believing and telling the truth of the scriptures:
Is your cause the gospel of Christ, a light that must be sustained by the blood of faith?If, when we are beaten to do good, we suffer patiently and persevere, God pleases; that’s what we’re called for. For Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that we must follow in his footsteps that have not committed sin. For this reason, we make love: he gave his life for us; so should we be able to give our lives for our brothers and sisters?Don’t let your body collapse. If the pain exceeds your strength, remember, “Everything you ask in my name, I will give it to you. “And pray to our Father in the name of Jesus, and will he ease his pain or shorten him?Amen.
59 Tyndale, Obedience of a Christian Man, p. 6
60 Ibid. , P. 8.
61 Ibid. , 6.