As the envious Philistines stopped the wells of Abraham and filled them up with earth, to put the memorial out of mind, to the intent that they might challenge the ground: even so the fleshy minded hyprocrites stop up the veins of life which are in scripture, with the earth of their traditions, false similitudes, and lying allegories: and that of like zeal, to make scripture their own possession and merchandises; and so shut up the kingdom of heaven, which is God’s word, neither entering in themselves nor suffering them that would.
William Tyndale, “Prologue to the Prophet Jonas”
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