William Tyndale
William Tyndale Martyr
(From the Engraving in
Heröologia, 1620, the earliest known Portrait.)
‘I
perceived by experience how that it was impossible to establish the
lay people in any truth, except the Scripture were plainly laid
before their eyes in their mother-tongue, that they might see the
process, order, and meaning of the text.’
‘I call God to record against the day we
shall appear before our Lord Jesus, to give a reckoning of our
doings, that I never altered one syllable of God’s Word against my
conscience, nor would this day, if all that is in the earth, whether
it be pleasure, honour, or riches, might be given me.’
William Tindale
A Biography
Being a Contribution to the Early History
of the English Bible
By Robert Demaus, M.A.
Author of ‘Hugh
Latimer: A Biography’
Popular Edition, Revised
By Richard Lovett, M.A.
The Religious Tract Society
4 Bouverie Street;
65 St. Paul’s Churchyard, E.C.
1904
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION. (66k) pdf (87k) docx (23k)
CHAPTER I. (224k) Early Life. A.D. 1484-1521. pdf (176k) docx (58k)
CHAPTER II. (161k) Tindale’s Life at Little Sodbury. A.D. 1521-1523. pdf (164k) docx (44k)
CHAPTER III. (137k) Tindale’s Life in London, A.D. 1523-1524. pdf (87k) docx (38k)
CHAPTER IV. (172k) From Tindale’s Arrival in Hamburg to the Printing of the First English New Testament. A.D. 1524-1526. pdf (98k) docx (45k)
CHAPTER V. (148k) Tindale’s First New Testament: Description of the Book in its Two Forms: Tindale’s Qualifications as a Translator: Specimens of his Work. pdf (71k) docx (39k)
CHAPTER VI. (178k) Tindale’s Life at Worms : Reception of the New Testament in England: Literary Labours: Hostility of Wolsey, A.D. 1525-1527. pdf (95k) docx (47k)
CHAPTER VII. (219k) Tindale at Marburg: Publishes ‘The Wicked Mammon’ and ‘The Obedience of a Christian Man.’ A.D. 1528. pdf (174k) docx (67k)
CHAPTER VIII. (252k) Marburg: Antwerp: Hamburg: Publication of the ‘Pentateuch’ and ‘The Practice of Prelates.’ A.D. 1529-1530. pdf (152k) docx (65k)
CHAPTER IX. (176k) Controversy with Sir Thomas More. pdf (89k) docx (45k)
CHAPTER X. (262k) Tindale at Antwerp: Negotiations to induce him to return to England: Interview with Vaughan: His Continued Literary Labours, A.D. 1531. pdf (176k) docx (75k)
CHAPTER XI. (221k) Attempts to seize Tindale: His Renewed Wanderings: Continued Literary Labours: Frith arrested and martyred in England: Tindale’s Letter to Frith: His Final Removal to Antwerp, A.D. 1532-1533. pdf (126k) docx (59k)
CHAPTER XII. (224k) Tindale’s Life at Antwerp: Revision of the New Testament: Controversy with George Joye: Tindale seized, A.D. 1533-1535. pdf (116k) docx (54k)
CHAPTER XIII. (350k) Arrest of Tindale: His Imprisonment, Trial, and Martyrdom, A.D. 1535-1536. pdf (238k) docx (85k)