America in Prophecy by Ellen White [Original Edition]

“What is to be done?” he exclaimed. “While I am sowing in
in their own tongue, they could of themselves withstand these
sophists. Without the Bible it is impossible to establish the laity
in the truth.” –Ibid., b. 18, ch. 4.
A new purpose now took possession of his mind. “It
was in the language of Israel,” said he, “that the psalms were
sung in the temple of Jehovah; and shall not the gospel speak
have less light at noonday than at the dawn? … Christians must
contradicts the other. How then can we distinguish him who
says right from him who says wrong? … How? … Verily by
God’s word.” –Ibid., b. 18, ch. 4.
It was not long after that a learned Catholic doctor,
engaging in controversy with him, exclaimed: “We were
better to be without God’s laws than the pope’s.” Tyndale
replied, “I defy the pope and all his laws; and if God
spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth
the plow to know more of the Scriptures than you do.”
–Anderson, Annals of the English Bible, p. 19.
The purpose which he had begun to cherish, of giving
himself to the work. Driven from his home by persecution,
he went to London, and there for a time pursued his labors
undisturbed. But again the violence of the papists forced
he resolved to seek shelter in Germany. Here he began the
stopped; but when forbidden to print in one city, he went to
another. At last he made his way to Worms, where, a few years
before, Luther had defended the gospel before the Diet. In
that ancient city were many friends of the Reformation, and