William Tyndale on Continuation of spiritual gifts
No, they ceased with the apostolic age
as long as true miracles endured, and until the scripture was authentically received, [they] were done to confirm the preaching that such saints had preached
THE POSITION
Miracles confirmed the apostles' preaching until Scripture was received, and after that Scripture tests miracles rather than the reverse. Against More's appeal to miracles at saints' tombs he argues that true miracles had their season, that the false ones are proved false by Scripture, and that "we bring God's testament, confirmed with miracles" and owe no more. That leans cessationist, but the question he is answering is whether a miracle can authorise doctrine, not whether tongues, prophecy or healing continue, so the state is a lean.
24 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE
English translator of the New Testament from Greek and of the Pentateuch from Hebrew, working in exile in the Low Countries, whose wording runs through the King James Version. He was strangled and burned at Vilvoorde in 1536. He was also the first English Protestant theologian of weight, defending justification by faith, the authority of Scripture over the church, and the obedience owed to kings. This entry rests on the Obedience of a Christian Man, the Answer to Sir Thomas More, the Brief Declaration of the Sacraments, the exposition of 1 John and his biblical prologues, all in the Parker Society edition (1848–1850).
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"William Tyndale on Continuation of spiritual gifts", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/tyndale/spiritual-gifts (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/tyndale/spiritual-gifts).