Covenant Reformed Baptist Church
Sunday School
Great Christian Biographies with John Piper: William Tyndale 3
1. Tyndale accomplished much (secondly) because, unlike Erasmus, he was deeply passionate about the gospel, including the doctrinal truths of ______________ grace.
2. John Wyclif and his followers, in the late 1300s, were called “__________.”
3. James Bainham, in April of 1532, stood up during the mass at St. Augustine’s Church in London and lifted a copy of Tyndale’s New Testament and pleaded with the people to _____ rather than deny the word of God. He was burned alive.
4. Tyndale translated presbuteros as _________ instead of priest.
5. Daniell comments, “He cannot possibly have been unaware that those words [(elder, congregation, repent, acknowledge, love)] in particular undercut the entire _____________ structure of the thousand year church . . . . It was the Greek New Testament that was doing the undercutting.”
6. While in prison, Tyndale wrote a “book” in prison to defend his chief doctrinal standard: Sola fides justificat apud Deum—Faith Alone Justifies Before God. This was the _______ issue in the end.
7. Tyndale asked that “most of all,” above warmer clothes and a lamp, that he be given a ______________ Bible.
8. On October 6, he was tied to the stake and then strangled by the executioner, then afterward consumed in the fire. His last words were, “Lord! ________ the King of England’s eyes!”
9. Tyndale: “We are called, not to dispute as the pope’s disciples do, but to ______ with Christ that we may live with him, and to suffer with him that we may reign with him.”
10. Tyndale: “If the pain be above your strength, remember: “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, I will give it you” (John 14:13). And pray to our Father in that name, and he will ease your pain, or __________ it.”
1. sovereign
2. Lollards
3. die
4. elder
5. sacramental
6. key
7. Hebrew
8. open
9. die
10. shorten
