“He that hath,” he thus expounds. “Where the Word of God is understood, there it multiplieth and maketh the people better; where it is not understood, there it decreaseth and maketh the people worse.” These notes, as we shall see, were subsequently omitted, but it is easy to see that they were calculated to give serious offence to the Romish authorities. CHAPTER VI. _HATED BY THE CARDINAL, BUT WORKING FOR GOD._ “Many are the sayings of the wise, Extolling patience as the truest fortitude, But with the afflicted in his pangs their sound Little prevails, ... unless he feel within Some source of consolation from above, Secret refreshings that repair his strength, And fainting spirits uphold.” --MILTON. “When such men use great plainness of speech we must not complain much, since they purchase it at a high price--THEIR LIFE-BLOOD.”--DAVIES. LEAVES WORMS FOR MARBURG--FARTHER FROM ROME, YET NEARER TO THE TRUTH--“THE WICKED MAMMON,” AND “THE OBEDIENCE OF A CHRISTIAN MAN”--READ BY KING HENRY--“THE PRACTICE OF PRELATES”--NOTES ON THE PENTATEUCH. Tyndale, it is supposed, reached Worms after his hurried flight to Cologne about October 1525, and there he remained for two years. Until the following April or May, he would be fully occupied with the labour which the issuing of the three thousand octavo and the three thousand quarto Testaments from the press involved. Immediately that this was accomplished, he parted cheerfully from his troublesome friend William Roye. It has also been supposed that during his residence in Worms, Tyndale gave himself to the study of Hebrew, as a qualification for his work of translation. In the year 1528 he left Worms for Marburg, which, under the rule of Landgrave Philip, was one of the most eminent of the Protestant cities of Germany. Here the work of the Reformation had been more thorough than in any other part of the Empire, as the Landgrave himself was a believer in Zwingle’s doctrine. Here Tyndale was both in safety, and yet in the society of learned men, who were able to assist him in his arduous enterprise. For the Landgrave had done his very utmost to attract men of piety and letters to his capital, and the reformed flocked to it as to a second metropolis of religion, and as next to Wittemberg. Here Tyndale met with the heroic Patrick Hamilton and other young men from Scotland, and here, also, he conversed with Barnes, who was then a fugitive from the Papal persecution which still raged in England. Sir Thomas More declared that Barnes then induced Tyndale to abandon the Lutheran view of the Sacrament, and his testimony is probably correct. In his Confutation he says:--